Although the immigration work was completed, Jiang Ye had been paying attention to the situation on Planet Har, occasionally chatting with the High Priest on the phone.
The High Priest had little money left, around five hundred billion. The investment interest from this money was enough to maintain the space city until Planet Har settled down and became a habitable planet, serving as the initial seed capital for the planet's construction. With the passage of time, this day would eventually come, and Planet Har would once again become a prosperous planet with a population of tens of billions.
Jiang Ye called her mainly out of concern that she might be bored and lonely.
So far, the High Priest's mental state was quite good, but her eyes already held a calmness that came from weathering great storms. Jiang Ye had only seen this kind of calmness in the eyes of some elderly people, disabled individuals, and officers who had served in battles. The High Priest planned to have two more children with her husband, and she had also bought twenty thousand new books, intending to study during her free time and grow into a more experienced planet administrator.
The geological activity on Planet Har reached its peak one year later.
On average, 12 volcanoes erupted daily, with 6 tsunamis and 7 earthquakes.
Many cities were repeatedly hit by disasters, and most buildings collapsed. The land was covered with glittering rubble, resembling a war-torn zone after a major bombing. However, some tall buildings, battered and broken, still stood firm, like soldiers who refused to fall after being hit, presenting a scene of remarkable resilience and tenacity.
The remaining robots had dwindled to less than a thousand. Some individual robots began applying for repair permissions online, intending to try and fix the robots salvaged from the ruins and modify them appropriately to start clearing the cities ahead of time.
Those small household robots were quite weak; clearing a single concrete slab might take them several days. To clear all the ruins on the entire planet, it would likely require them to work for three to four thousand years. However, these robots possessed the spirit of Yú Gōng moving mountains; they got to work immediately.
Moreover, much of the building materials and traces of human presence didn't actually need to be cleared by them. They would naturally disappear with the passage of time. For instance, special steel bars in construction materials, exposed to rain for ten years, would decompose into black debris in the soil.
Upon learning of the situation, Jiang Ye suggested to the High Priest that they air-drop some robot factories to allow these robots to self-produce and reproduce like animals, thereby accelerating the pace of clearing the ruins. He even speculated that they might establish a robot kingdom. The High Priest adopted this suggestion and planned to implement it after the peak of the natural disasters had passed.
During the period when Planet Har was gradually falling into ruin, Cen Yemeng had been studying frantically.
She became a complete bookworm, waking up at five in the morning to memorize books and complete practice problems, studying until eleven-thirty at night with almost no breaks.
Her dedication, reminiscent of a top scorer in the college entrance examination, made Jiang Ye feel ashamed. To be honest, with life already so prosperous, if Jiang Ye were to maintain such a high-pressure, desperate study state, he wouldn't be able to last more than a few days. Most people wouldn't even last a single day.
Jiang Ye had a vague premonition that perhaps many years later, Cen Yemeng would indeed become an extremely successful leader, ruling multiple planets, far surpassing her husband.
This thought expanded in Jiang Ye's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more anxious he became.
So, he also started studying, diligently memorizing textbooks.
Memorizing made his head ache, but he had no choice but to buckle down.
He had to work hard!
He just had to work hard!
Jiang Senlin had already been released from prison. He returned to teach at the Jiang Senlin Art Academy and, at the same time, began attending elementary school.
The Jiang Senlin Art Academy had also opened on Planet Birong, making Jiang Senlin a busy man. He taught at the school on Planet Jiang Ye in odd-numbered months and at the school on Planet Birong in even-numbered months. Both schools were filled with a large number of students who were aspiring artists.
Jiang Senlin's teaching hours were in the evening, from six to nine o'clock, occasionally extending to ten o'clock.
During the day, he attended elementary school.
Of course, it wasn't an ordinary elementary school. Given his status, attending a regular elementary school would be inappropriate. Jiang Ye worried that the principal would fawn over him, further fueling the boy's arrogance.
The elementary school Jiang Senlin attended was in a military family district, where almost all the students were children of military personnel.
A characteristic of schools in military family districts was that all students were treated equally. A class might have students whose fathers were ordinary privates and students whose mothers were division commanders. The military ranks of the parents varied greatly, but the students often blended seamlessly. There was no situation where the higher rank of the parent led to arrogance in the child.
This positive atmosphere in the school was a carryover from the military on Planet Jiang Ye.
Jiang Ye had vigorously addressed the relationships between superiors and subordinates in the military. He required officers to return salutes when soldiers saluted, strictly prohibiting senior officers from acting condescendingly. Officers were required to eat at the same tables as their subordinates and consume the same food.
Jiang Ye conducted random inspections of some barracks every month. When he visited, he maintained a low profile, wearing ordinary military T-shirts and without any entourage, strolling around and chatting with soldiers in the corridors.
Many new recruits didn't recognize him. After chatting, they would realize they had just been bragging to the top commander, which made them feel as if they were dreaming.
Some veteran soldiers, while chatting with Jiang Ye, would casually remark, "Brother, you have a very distinguished appearance, very much like our planet's chief commander." Jiang Ye would just smile and say, "Indeed, we look very much alike."
Currently, the respect between superiors and subordinates in the military was quite good. On one occasion, Jiang Ye conducted a surprise visit to a small military base in a remote, frigid region. Next to the base was a hot spring where many idle officers and soldiers would go to bathe.
Jiang Ye also stripped down and entered the water. He saw someone on the edge of the hot spring giving another person a back rub. Upon inquiry, he learned that the person giving the back rub was a newly transferred division commander, and the person receiving it was a local old squad leader. It was their second meeting. The division commander said that he had worked in a bathhouse when he was young and insisted on giving the squad leader a good scrub, so he proceeded to do so without regard for onlookers.
After attending school for a year, Jiang Senlin's character had significantly improved. He began to pay attention to the equal relationships between people. His arrogant and overbearing nature, along with his chilling pride, started to recede, and he became quieter and more childlike. Sometimes, he would even go to his classmates' homes to play. His best friend was the son of a certain company commander. They were both disciplined for jointly raiding a bird's nest in a school tree. The principal even called Cen Yemeng, as she was the student's parent.
Both Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng were greatly relieved. Although Jiang Senlin still had many bad habits, he was at least slowly becoming like a normal child.
As Jiang Senlin gradually improved, Cen Yemeng devoted even more energy to her studies.
Soon, she passed all her examinations and qualified to become the planetary governor of the third planet.
To hone her abilities, Jiang Ye entrusted her with the management of a new city with a population of three million on Planet Birong. After all, knowledge from books was pale; the ability to apply it was the true measure of skill.
However, Cen Yemeng's training did not last long.
Just one month after she obtained her qualification, Jiang Ye received an opportunity to conquer a new planet.