"Actually, before becoming a planetary leader, I lived an ideal life and did an ideal job," Cen Yemeng said with a smile. "I have a passion for reading, so I opened a bookstore on a nexus star. Tens of thousands of wonderful books sat on beautiful shelves, pristine and new, waiting for me to read them. I could spend my entire life sitting on the wooden floor, quietly reading novels all day long."
Isabelle rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment. "I'm rather lazy. If I could, I'd prefer to do no work at all, just lie in bed and have anything I want instantly. For example, if I shouted 'I want food,' the ceiling of my bedroom would open with a snap, and a full banquet would fall down. If I shouted 'I want money,' the ceiling would open, and a whirlwind of cash and a rain of diamonds and gold coins would pour in. If I shouted 'I want a boyfriend,' the ceiling would open, and a pile of handsome men would fall down, all of them obedient to me."
"Of course, that's impossible. That situation I described is actually the life of a super-rich heiress," Isabelle chuckled. "If I could choose my profession freely, I'd like a job that involves short, high-intensity gambles to earn a lot of money, allowing me to sleep most of the time at home. When a business opportunity arises, I'd work through several all-nighters to earn enough for decades. In other words, I have a personality that enjoys commercial warfare."
After the two young women finished speaking, they both turned to look at Jiang Ye.
Jiang Ye tilted his head back and looked at the sky, his expression thoughtful. After a long silence, he said, "Your question has suddenly made me realize that my ideal profession is the complete opposite of my current one." He smiled.
"I dislike professions with too much responsibility and pressure, like a warship maintenance technician. When I was inspecting an alien planet, I visited a warship factory and chatted with a maintenance technician. The job of a warship maintenance technician is such that any oversight, such as failing to identify a faulty component or eliminate a hidden danger, could mean the loss of thousands of lives in a battle. Therefore, maintenance technicians check warship components repeatedly, almost like they're going crazy."
"When I was talking to the maintenance technician, I felt that job was quite awful. If I had to do that job, I'd probably have nightmares every night. Living in constant fear, my heart would surely fail from exhaustion."
"But my current job carries responsibility and pressure a hundred times greater than that of a warship maintenance technician. The orders I issue can affect hundreds of millions of people. Years ago, when making some major decisions, I would even go to the restroom to vomit. The pressure was so immense that I needed medication to overcome it. And I'm not even the worst case; an alien head of state I know, whose name I won't mention, eats printer paper when he's anxious about making major decisions. He sits in his office, gnawing on paper while thinking, consuming forty to fifty sheets in a morning. Many planetary leaders have similar anxieties; immense responsibility means unbearable pressure."
"I prefer leisure, which is somewhat similar to my wife. She can sit on the floor and read for a day, and so can I. I can curl up somewhere and lazily watch movies, play games, or even just space out and sleep all day. I detest any job that requires more than eight hours of work a day or necessitates overtime late into the night; the thought alone brings an insurmountable sense of fatigue."
"But my current job is basically full-time. I wake up at six or seven in the morning and start working. When I'm on an official visit, I'm still handling official business in the car, thinking about problems while showering or using the restroom. I work more than twelve hours a day, and sometimes it reaches sixteen hours. In the past two years, sleeping at one in the morning was considered early for me," Jiang Ye said with a smile. "The two ladies next to me are the same. Sometimes at two in the morning, they'll message me asking what I'm doing, and I'll reply, 'Of course, I'm working at this hour.'"
"But now, I really like my job. The sense of accomplishment I get from improving the entire planet through my hard work is unparalleled," Jiang Ye smiled. "If I had to choose a job again, I don't know what I would pick, but I believe I would eventually come to love it. Most people fall in love with what they do; I do what I love. I'm adaptable."
"As everyone knows, I am an ancient person. After waking up from a long period of cryogenic sleep, I found myself in a completely new era. I had nothing and understood nothing. At that time, all I wanted was to survive, so I responded to the military's call and became a colonial governor, which was essentially pioneering. I never initially thought I would become a planetary leader; I just wanted to survive, have a stable little home, save some money, and I didn't even think about getting married."
"So, my life experience is that no matter what job you do, if you do it diligently, time and fate will reward you handsomely," Jiang Ye said. "Of course, some people detest their jobs, and if they have the choice, they can change. But I never had that option; I could only work diligently."
Jiang Ye switched off the microphone.
There was a few seconds of silence on the stage, followed by a storm of applause.
The audience could feel Jiang Ye's sincerity. Regardless of the answer, sincerity always touches people.
Jiang Ye, Cen Yemeng, and Isabelle stood up, smiled, and waved to the entire audience, bowing in different directions. The program concluded successfully.
...
After the program ended, Jiang Ye did not linger. He quickly returned to the warship on the spiral orbital track.
The mass cultivation of photosynthetic bacteria was complete. A total of one hundred tons of photosynthetic bacteria were divided into tens of thousands of portions and airdropped into different regions of Spiral Star.
Simultaneously, at each airdrop point for the photosynthetic bacteria, a communication device and a smart bacteria tank were placed, serving as forward command posts to personally monitor the evolutionary progress of the photosynthetic bacteria.
[The sowing of photosynthetic bacteria is complete. A more perilous environment and a vaster world await their exploration.]
[Due to the large number of photosynthetic bacteria groups, we have decided to display only information on key evolutions from now on. Minor details such as small-scale life and death will no longer be displayed.]
[We request the deployment of one warship and a regiment of mechanical soldiers to rapidly resupply the photosynthetic bacteria in various locations and extract samples.]
Jiang Ye frowned upon seeing the smart bacteria's message.
A warship?
And a regiment of mechanical soldiers?
Was it appropriate to directly give troops to a group of smart bacteria?
After careful consideration, Jiang Ye arranged for five human officers to liaively with the smart bacteria on a rotating basis.
If the smart bacteria required mechanical soldiers for any task, they were to first send a message to the human officers, who would then issue orders to the mechanical soldiers.
At the same time, a meeting was held with the mechanical soldiers to remind them that their direct superior was the entire army, Jiang Ye, not the smart bacteria.
Furthermore, the mechanical soldiers assigned to the smart bacteria had their weapons disarmed, and they were only allowed to use basic tools.
This was a measure of multiple safeguards.