Throughout the history of human development, all development is inseparable from two key elements, human resources and land resources.
The most important thing for the former is people, whether they are talented people with outstanding talents or ordinary people with ordinary lives, military politicians, nobles and civilians are the foundation of this huge world. Without enough people, no kingship or hegemony will be possible. It's just a floating cloud, and even the commander-in-chief has no interest in being in front of it.
The latter is a very critical and important hard resource. To establish a political power, there must be territory. Just having people but no territory is just a castle in the air, so illusory and fleeting.
For example, today's interstellar humans started from a planet station, expanded to the surrounding circle, and then to the outer circle, and finally took over the entire Alpha Universe step by step. Until now, the territory of Alpha Universe is still slowly expanding to the outer galaxies.
However, in the face of such a huge number of planets, the number of humans at that time was far behind, and many planets were difficult to develop due to their unique geographical environment and ecosystems.
There are countless planets on the side of the interstellar world, and they simply cannot develop them in the early stage. However, these territories cannot be left to rot slowly. If they are reoccupied by interstellar beasts crawling through the interstellar wormholes, it will be a waste of time, so order management must be established.
It’s just that the military and political personnel are really limited in the early stage. Even if one person is responsible for taking charge of thousands of planets, it may not be enough. The gap in numbers is too big. And it may not be possible to manage it well. The development cost is too high, so the best way is to open up the permissions and set aside a part for private management.
But what is the virtue of human beings? Just too smart. Back when they were all crowded into the same home star, they fought to the death, and there were several world wars. Now that the territory has expanded to include the entire universe, it might be possible to fight like this. Therefore, the right to develop the planet cannot be too open, otherwise the human race itself will be divided before they can stabilize the rear.
It’s just that as the human race’s territory continues to expand, the problem of desolation on some planets has become bigger and bigger. Finally, after lengthy discussions between the military and the political circles, a bill was passed allowing individuals to own and develop planets. However, the conventional mineral resources and rare biological resources mined during personal development of the planet need to be shared with the empire in accordance with regulations. And after the planet completes its initial development and is registered for management, it must unconditionally accept people from the military as assistants.
Of course, this "individual" who can apply to develop the planet is more spiritual. It's not true that anyone can develop the planet. To be honest, it requires the ability and financial resources.
And once you accept this kind of planet development contract, you must transfer talents to the military at a fixed point and in a certain amount. Occasionally, you need to transfer freedom to the political circles, which can be regarded as a transfer of interests to a certain extent.
However, if you can obtain the exclusive development rights of some resource-rich planets, the cost of this idea will naturally become insignificant. So for a long period of time in the future, the military, government and civilians worked together to open up this huge starry sky, and many prosperous private planets were born as a result, and the government effortlessly received a large share of the resources.
In the past few star eras, both the military and the political circles have been working hard to collect the ownership of the planet. After all, the granting of development rights was a temporary measure, and they never expected that the human race would develop to this point today. .
When this policy was first introduced, it was the early stage of the development of the human race. Naturally, it was eclectic and did not overly consider the consequences, such as how to end it. Therefore, there are indeed a lot of private planets nowadays, and there are many people with ulterior motives who use their blind spots to do illegal things and hide evil. For the sake of the empire's stability, the officials spent a long time sorting out these scattered individuals after the situation was settled, and slowly took a long-term view in the hope that one day they could hold in their hands this large number of planets that were not under the control of the empire.
It's okay for some scattered planet owners. As long as they can provide enough resources and benefits, it is relatively easy to recover. As for those who are unwilling to sell out, there is no need to worry. Conquering private planets is not a short-term plan. As long as they wait for a few generations, there will always be unscrupulous descendants. There is no need to take action and just turn a few hands to return. empire.
But some planets developed by the noble family are not so easy to take back
It was originally an exchange of interests, but the rights that were divided out of desperation have long been refined by the noble families of various generations. If they want to take back part of their foundation and even the pillar industry at this time, it will cost their lives. How can they achieve their wish?
What's more, most of these aristocratic families have close ties with the military and political circles. If you insist on attacking them, you will damage your own foundation. If it really gets bigger, you don't know who will benefit. Therefore, the upper echelons of the empire could only turn a blind eye and acquiesced to the decentralization of this part of power.
It’s just that everyone in the interstellar world knows that the era of chaotic wars where it was easy to make achievements has passed, and it is time to return to order. The attitude of the upper management is also very clear. They are very strict about the ownership of planets. Unless individuals have made great contributions to the empire, they will not be able to own private planets easily. There has been no new planet master in these years.
Families do occasionally trade with each other, but there is a lot of exchange, very little and almost no outflow.
But this balance will be broken today.
Not long ago, Jiang Hui's encounter on the planet Atlantis caused quite a stir in the western defense line, and a group of rebel traitors were implicated. These traitors are not low-level, and they even have high positions of authority. Otherwise, how could they steal so much frontline intelligence and create opportunities for the rebels to lead the front?
There are also several figures from big families with profound foundations. It has to be said that they were also stupid this time. They blatantly interfered with the rebels' actions and were stolen. They can be found in this chaos, so naturally they cannot escape the liquidation.
Their fall not only triggered a period of turmoil in the military and political administrations, but also vacated a large number of ownerless resources. The outflow of these resources has had a considerable impact on the capital sector, and all forces are making every effort to absorb it. It's just that there are too many resources flowing out and they are too scattered. No matter how powerful the official power is, there are always areas that cannot be taken care of. Some resources are still scattered on the open market. The most eye-catching one is a group of private planets. Oh no, it's already. There is no owner of the planet anymore.
This batch of private planets does not account for a large number of the total number of planets leaked this time. There are hundreds of large and small, less than one percent, all of which the official is temporarily unable or too late to collect due to various reasons. But they also don’t want to see them scattered again, which is why they are now on the auction list.
Hundreds of private planets, more or less, are now being auctioned by Sihai Trading Company, and everyone has the opportunity to bid to get them. This is the first time since the empire tightened its policies related to the development of private planets——
No one wants to miss it.
(End of this chapter)