[Due to the large number of refugees received this time, transportation to your planet will be carried out in four batches]
[The first batch of 20,000 people will arrive in three days]
Jiang Ye immediately sent messages to all the military police, preparing them for the reception of refugees in three days.
After finishing, he walked to the small bed and fell asleep.
For the next half month, Jiang Ye was busy until midnight every day, with dark circles under his eyes like a panda.
Perhaps it was because winter was ending, or perhaps it was related to the tight front-line battles, a large number of company resumes flew in like snowflakes, piling up in Jiang Ye's investment attraction mailbox.
All legitimate companies were approved to set up operations in Petroleum City.
At the same time, Jiang Ye's daily income was transferred to Xu Yan as project funds for the construction of new residential communities in Petroleum City.
The first batch of 20,000 people arrived quickly, filling all the vacant houses in Petroleum City.
Jiang Ye had to borrow from Xu Yan, taking out a loan of ten billion yuan to build new districts in Petroleum City and a giant underground air-raid shelter.
The city's area expanded several times. Originally, there were only two wide main roads encircling the city, known as the Zero Ring Road and the First Ring Road. After the expansion, the urban area increased significantly, and the Second Ring Road appeared. To facilitate city-wide transportation, two subway lines were built underground, one connecting the east and west urban areas, and the other connecting the north and south urban areas.
Xu Yan told Jiang Ye that the subway in Petroleum City could be extended across the sea to connect with the urban subway lines of the First Continent. The original transportation between the two continents took at least over an hour, but with the subway in operation, it would only take about ten minutes.
Jiang Ye was initially very interested, but as soon as he heard that the cross-sea subway would cost over ten billion yuan, he lost all interest.
He was already burdened with nearly ten billion yuan in debt, and he couldn't afford it even if he sold his underwear!
He had already sold everything he had to expand Petroleum City, and now he had nothing left to sell!
Twenty kilometers outside Petroleum City, a brand-new Electric Light Mouse power plant was built.
The so-called Electric Light Mouse power plant, as the name suggests, uses Electric Light Mice for large-scale power generation. This is the research result of the Electric Light Mouse Research Institute in recent times.
The power plant's appearance was quite spectacular, with a transparent glass greenhouse area of 10 square kilometers. Each greenhouse was circular and fully automated. From a high-altitude perspective, the vast white circular reflections of sunlight were embedded in the dark soil, resembling a planet occupied by some giant alien fungi.
Over 10,000 Electric Light Mice were raised in the glass greenhouses. These mice would continuously reproduce, becoming millions within a year, and their power generation capacity would increase a hundredfold.
The power plant supplied electricity to Petroleum City through underground transmission lines. Currently, this single power plant could meet the daily electricity needs of about 100,000 people, and the electricity supply in Petroleum City was absolutely sufficient in the short term.
Once the Electric Light Mice reproduced and the power plant was expanded several times, the generated electricity would be enough to supply a super-large city with a population of tens of millions!
Jiang Ye estimated that it would be difficult for his territory to have so many people in the short term.
Within half a month, all the refugees had arrived and were housed in Petroleum City.
Petroleum City instantly became incredibly prosperous, with over 200 new enterprises and over 80,000 new citizens, bringing the total population to over 100,000!
Numerous entertainment venues opened, with some arcades, pubs, cinemas, and nightclubs operating until three or four in the morning. At one o'clock in the morning, street vendors were still selling snacks from their carts, giving it the semblance of a city that never slept.
Jiang Ye's daily income also surged.
For a consecutive week, his daily income was between six and seven hundred million yuan.
Nearly half of the accumulated debt was repaid.
The most significant increase was in the development index, which soared to 7800 points!
The territory was also continuously expanding. The troops operating separately were highly efficient, and the second continent was basically fully occupied. Several small, worthless mines were discovered successively, along with two saltwater lakes and four large rivers, none of which had much value.
Jiang Ye directly signed an agreement with Xu Yan, transferring the mining rights of the small, worthless mines to her, with a final 40/60 split.
Several small teams had already ventured across the sea, tens of kilometers away, to the third continent, establishing safe zones on the beaches of the new continent.
Jiang Ye had planned to inspect the third continent and deploy the development work for the new continent.
However, on a weekend evening, he received the following message:
[Admission Notice]
[Dear student Jiang Ye:
Our school has decided to admit you to study in the "Junior General" program. Please pack your belongings within 24 hours and await the school's spaceship to pick you up for enrollment. This semester will last approximately 2 weeks, including 12 days of lectures and 2 days of exams. Upon successful completion, you will graduate and receive a learning reward.]
[Colonial University Yongye Star Branch]
Jiang Ye read the admission notice several times and immediately contacted Li Nannan.
Jiang Ye: "Chief, I received an admission notice stating that it's from the Yongye Star Branch of Colonial University, and they're taking me to school the day after tomorrow!"
Li Nannan: "Congratulations! Study hard when you get there, and don't be a fool and fail the exam, forcing you to retake it. If the teacher asks you who your supervisor is, absolutely do not say it's Li Nannan. Just make up a name like Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, or Zhao Liu to fool them. I can't afford to lose face."
Jiang Ye: "No, what's going on? I didn't even apply! Why were they so rough in admitting me?"
Li Nannan: "Once your city's population exceeds 100,000, you will be automatically admitted."
Jiang Ye: "I haven't reported to any place. How did the school know that my city's population exceeded 100,000?"
Li Nannan: "You idiot, with big data analysis, they know. For many consecutive days, they monitored a place with 100,000 accounts trading. Isn't that a city with 100,000 people? The Galactic Empire's headquarters has a clear understanding of the situation in your area. They don't even need to send people to inspect to know your capabilities, management level, and whether there's corruption. The Galactic Empire is a divine-level existence!"
Jiang Ye scratched his head repeatedly, feeling uncomfortable as if his home had been filled with cameras.
Indeed, in this era, without cash, whether it's paying salaries or buying breakfast, everything is done through transfers. The Galactic Empire can calculate how many people are in a place and how its economy is developing by analyzing financial data.
Of course, the calculation volume must be astonishingly large, but for their technical level, it might be as difficult as calculating one plus one.
Jiang Ye: "Chief, this study program should be on Yongye Star. Where is Yongye Star? Why not go to a nodal star?"
Li Nannan: "Yongye Star is very far from your location, but the school's spaceship is a warp spaceship, so the journey won't take long. The star near that planet is gone, so there's no sunlight, and it's dark all day. However, the cities are very prosperous, with a population of over ten billion on the entire planet. The lights are as bright as daytime. You should be able to adapt when you get there."
Jiang Ye: "I don't want to go to university on Yongye Star. Can I go to the branch campus on a nodal star? I want to transfer!"
Li Nannan: "Dream on! If you go to a nodal star, would you still study? Wouldn't you skip classes every day to roll around in bed with your girlfriend? Give up that idea. There's no Colonial University on the nodal star. The nearest school is the Yongye Star Branch."