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Chapter 264 - Chapter 264 Chapter 264 Making a Fortune

Chapter 264: Chapter 264: Making a Fortune Chapter 264: Chapter 264: Making a Fortune The negotiation process itself need not be detailed, with its myriad of contacts and alternative thinking patterns continuously honing the work experience of the members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Contacts between civilizations should naturally be such that communication difficulties are the norm. It’s just like when Earth Civilization holds global conferences, and various countries probe, bicker, and denounce each other over trivial matters for who knows how long.

Between civilizations, the issues are even more pronounced, as reaching an agreement that satisfies everyone has never been an easy task…

Moreover, the Glizerians’ rest and activity habits differ from humans, as they only hold meetings every month or two. To the Glizerians, the current efficiency of their work is outrageously high!

These intermittent meetings are frustrating and painfully difficult to endure.

In the offices of the diplomatic corps, comments about the Gliese Civilization could often be heard.

“Alas, even the elite of a civilization have degenerated to this state, let alone the common folk?”

“I think heretics are far more detestable than infidels. Gor City, which retains a small amount of traditional culture, is undoubtedly a heresy of civilization. If such heretics were to appear in our new civilization, they would surely be loathed…”

These polyarchs have been in power for far too long, and the so-called “Happiness Element” has corroded the will of all people, leaving them with no drive to resist the upper classes.

Power comes too easily, as though it just naturally falls from the sky, which makes various political struggles seem incredibly naive.

Luckily, humanity really doesn’t have the time or enough interest to destroy them, as the most important thing for people is to maintain their own rapid development, not to create additional variables.

In any case, to continue on at this snail’s pace of negotiations is also considered an acceptable outcome.

And so, a year and a half flew by quickly, and the first phase of the preliminary trade was finally established. The two sides agreed that an exchange of knowledge, technology, and entertainment culture would be conducted remotely via electromagnetic waves.

In other words, what was initially thought to be a tough and potentially fruitless negotiation turned out to be a huge windfall for the human side.

At least, that’s what many people thought!

As for cultural exchange, humans most needed specific historical information from the other side to perfect the New Civilization History and to surmise the ideologies of interstellar civilizations!

As for the rest of the miscellaneous and inferior cultural dregs, they wouldn’t even glance at them!

What humans gave in return were some entertainment products accumulated by Earth Civilization, including music, novels, movies, and a large number of VR electronic games…

In the words of the Gliese Civilization, they’d first have to see if these entertainment products were to their taste. If they liked them, a second round of trade could be possible.

When this exchange was finally concluded, a massive cheer erupted throughout the office.

Zhang Yuan excitedly said, “The key is, we feel these things don’t really count as a cost. Maybe… the other side also thinks they’ve made a killing? They need these products themselves, and no matter how much entertainment is in the Universal Factory, it’s finite, right?”

“And it’s getting harder and harder for them to produce quality culture, let alone quality entertainment culture… Do they really think drugs can bring creativity?”

Beyond cultural exchange, there was a more extensive exchange in academic areas, but these conversations were only one-sided with Gor City.

For Zhang Yuan and others, the Awakened of Gor City were actually the toughest group of folks to deal with.

Their leaders were somewhat more normal and wouldn’t give up their interests due to diplomatic tactics, especially concerning the Universal Factory and Constant Star Level spaceships!

This crucial trade still had significant disagreements between both parties…

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On this day, all the staff were working overtime, diligently reviewing the cultural materials exchanged between the two sides.

Zhang Yuan was also in this large office, organizing the related documents.

He was now responsible for two major tasks: external cultural exchange and internal strict control over the technology of “Consciousness Upload.”

There were satisfactory results in the area of external exchange, having at least entered a formal phase, and as the experience of the members of the office grew, he didn’t need to worry too much.

But the potential black technology of “Consciousness Upload” was the most headache-inducing issue!

No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t come up with a particularly good way to restrain this technology.

This kind of restraint had to be comprehensive–from the system to human nature and technology–and needed to be enforced for thousands, even tens of thousands of years into the future, rather than just moral constraints.

Morality was the least reliable thing. It wasn’t like some leader who didn’t want to die could suddenly make a grand declaration, “If I become a true Immortal, I will eternally lead the advancement of civilization…” and then Consciousness Upload would be released like floodgates, available for casual use.

Absolutely not!

Such promises were 99% empty and hollow words born out of personal desire, with a 99.9% chance of leading civilization into a severe decline!

Zhang Yuan would never allow such a thing to happen, not now, not in a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years!

So, how to properly control this technology became the biggest problem…

“How can we create a natural and spontaneously restraining system to ensure the safety of things ten thousand years from now?”

He was very worried, especially as the technology was progressively decrypted, feeling an extreme tension about the self-destruction of civilization, causing tendrils of hair to fall out every time he scratched the back of his head. Even if Lin Xuanyuan cooked him delicious food every day, it couldn’t stop the hair loss caused by the immense pressure.

On the other side of the office, Captain Zhao, Li Zhendong, Wang Junpeng, and others were also seriously reviewing the various transaction materials of the other side, constantly discussing.

Zhang Yuan looked worried and sighed heavily, while these guys seemed to be happily enjoying the fruits of victory, as if they were heartless.

“The Glizerians from Gor City want to come aboard the spaceship for an inspection again,” said Wang Junpeng from the foreign affairs department. “They contacted me just now, only they have such high enthusiasm, like a normal civilization.”

Captain Zhao smiled, “No problem, now that our industry is gradually moving to the surface, it’s not a big issue to let them come up… As an opponent, I actually have the utmost respect for the Governor of that city.”

Li Zhendong chimed in, “You’re right, the difficulties encountered by this civilization are incredibly large, beyond belief…”

“The only way I can think of is to start with educating a group of children who have never been exposed to the outside world, using a kind of physical isolation to keep them away from this chaos, creating an entirely new civilization.”

“But as long as they stay on this planet, they will be intrinsically linked to the original civilization, and under various ideological influences, it’s impossible to carry out this plan.”

Yes, this was the solution thought up by Ganyador and other leaders of Gor City. Though difficult, this approach had high feasibility.

That’s why they thought of purchasing a Constant Star Level spaceship from humans…

A very strange, yet somehow logical proposal.

Captain Zhao agreed, “Indeed, this solution is slightly better than the compulsion of war. In war… Once it starts, you never know which direction it will take. The notion that things must be destroyed to create anew, isn’t it much easier to just give up?”