Xia calendar, year 5973.
Lin Jiang’s documentary won an award without him using his influence. He first released it online, resonating with many people before winning. However, Lin Jiang chose not to accept the award.
The documentary became popular and shattered Ahu’s dream of becoming a gang boss. He failed to overthrow the leader of the Black Tiger gang, ending up back in prison.
The street vendors who went abroad experienced a sudden surge in business, though it didn’t last long. Those days were extremely busy, giving them a taste of the benefits of popularity.
Lin Jiang became a small celebrity in the old city area, with many people hoping he could help boost their popularity and perhaps become internet sensations.
More and more people appeared in Lin Jiang’s camera lens, including beggars, street vendors, and taxi drivers, keeping him busy all day long.
And Lin Jiang’s documentary became more and more popular. Gradually, there were people following suit and even real documentary directors were affected. Many ordinary people also started sharing their lives on the internet, filming the lives of those at the bottom of society.
Then something happened – too many people saw the miserable lives of those at the bottom. A workers’ movement started again, and they even suggested Lin Jiang to lead a certain workers’ organization because they felt he was very compassionate.
Lin Jiang just rolled his eyes at them. He was now the biggest capitalist in the Huaxia Federation. How could he go against himself?
So by the end of the year 73, Lin Jiang slipped away. He ended his life as a documentary director. It was too much trouble to stay any longer.Back at his mansion, Lin Jiang issued a command to his subordinates in the conglomerate. He instructed them to compromise in this workers’ movement, improve the workers’ conditions appropriately. This applied not only to the factories and businesses under Lin Jiang’s control, but also to their entire supply chain. If they didn’t comply with labor laws, cooperation would be terminated.
This was Lin Jiang’s way of doing what he could.
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In the year 5975 of the Xia calendar, after many years of satellite launches, the global positioning system was finally perfected. With the push of some mysterious force, this system was called the Skynet.
The development of aviation technology was not very rapid. The world lacked a driving force. There was no Cold War, no two equally matched superpowers. The three strongest countries had been friendly for thousands of years, incapable of going to war with each other. As for the former Allied countries, they were now controlled by three countries, suppressing them severely. Other regions couldn’t compare at all, most were still at an agricultural level.
In the year 5978 of the Xia calendar, with the secret push from Lin Jiang, the space station plan officially began, starting construction of the space station with a plan to complete it in five years.
Furthermore, Lin Jiang made great efforts in advancing space technology, exploring the benefits in space, such as experiments conducted in a vacuum environment, which were completely different from those on the ground, in order to boost industry development.
The following year, in the Xia calendar year 5979, the era of smart machines finally arrived. Lin Jiang didn’t actively promote this, but it naturally happened as a result of some achievements based on the major construction projects of the Huaxia Federation.
Of course, Lin Jiang’s influence was not absent here. Due to the massive funds required for the construction projects of the Huaxia Federation, and the benefits it brought, many related companies under his control were involved in promoting them.
Together with the launch of smart machines, Lin Jiang also had shares in phone companies, and quite a few at that.
Once smart machines hit the market, they immediately became popular. The production of a million units per week was simply not enough, as these smart machines were sold globally, leading to long queues at smart machine stores in Haigang City.
Before the products were released to the public, Lin Jiang had already obtained a customized version for himself, made of pure gold with embedded diamonds, showing a strong nouveau riche style.
The impact brought by smart machines was groundbreaking. The internet began to reach households everywhere, making information dissemination more convenient, and welcoming the new era of information explosion.
As technology rapidly developed, a large number of related companies also emerged quickly. The era of internet dividends had arrived, and following the normal historical trend, the wealth of these internet giants would soon surpass that of the older generation of wealthy individuals.
After all, compared to the internet, it’s much slower to accumulate wealth in real life, they can’t be compared. However, in terms of various powers, they still need many years to be in the limelight.
In the year 5982 of the Xia calendar, e-commerce started to become very popular. E-commerce had been developing for many years, but in this year, it started to grow rapidly. This was because by this year, there were already dozens of smart device brands, and smart devices had become widely used. Young people enthusiastically embraced this shopping trend.
Five online shopping platforms quickly emerged from hundreds of platforms, with three of them controlled by Lin Jiang. They were unaware of each other and continued to burn money on subsidies in a frenzy, trying to defeat each other. Even when Lin Jiang found out, he didn’t intervene.
"Roll on, roll on, only through internal competition can an excellent company emerge, monopoly will lose its ambition."
Lin Jiang said this, he was starting to dislike monopolies. Monopolies truly obstruct technological progress the most, because they can just sit back and make money, what need is there for ambition?
But standing in Lin Jiang’s shoes, if technology doesn’t progress, how can he control this world?
The internet is developing too fast, Lin Jiang is also overwhelmed, and his innate advantages are almost used up here. However, in terms of intelligence and knowledge reserves, he is not smarter than others, but rather the elites who have fought their way out of adversity are the real cream of the crop.
But Lin Jiang seized the opportunity, having countless wealth as a backing that others couldn’t possess.
In the Xia calendar year 5985, the last person of Lin Jiang’s first group of top managers passed away peacefully at the age of 125, and he was not a skilled Martial Arts Master.
This gave Lin Jiang a new idea, and Lin Jiang quickly had someone bring in data related to this era and lifespan.
"Sir, according to official statistics, the country with the longest average lifespan in the world is our Huaxia Federation, with an average lifespan of 85 years. The Green Cloud Republic and Zhou Liao United States follow closely with around 82 years. Some developing countries have around 60-70 years, while in conflict areas, it has dropped below 60 years."
"The current publicly known oldest man is 128 years old, and the oldest woman is 130 years old…"
"Some areas are known as longevity villages or cities, with excellent environments and a large number of centenarians…"
The secretary read out the data, while Lin Jiang closed his eyes to digest this information.
The average lifespan in this world is much better than Blue Star, with many people living over 100 years old. However, Lin Jiang also noted that the incidence of cancer is increasing.
This is related to technological development, which has brought side effects such as air pollution, pesticide residues, and the era of population explosion in the past few decades. The population of the Huaxia Federation has long exceeded two billion, and the global population exceeded ten billion years ago.
To feed such a large population, one must rely on technology and work hard, otherwise severe famine will occur, leading to wars. No one wants to go to war now.
"You need to come up with a plan to increase investment in biology and medicine. Research and development funds need to double this year and increase fivefold within three years."
"In five years, I want my advanced medical hospital and biological research institute to have the ability to cure 80% of cancers effectively and prolong life…"
Lin Jiang expressed, "In this era, cancer is no longer a big issue for the wealthy. Even if it can’t be completely cured, life can be greatly extended to ensure quality of life."
Among some public figures, many had cancer, but over the years, their cancer either mysteriously went away or remained under control, allowing them to stay healthy and active in front of the camera.
Regular people may not understand, but Lin Jiang knew quite a bit, like how wealthy individuals have expensive check-ups that cost tens or hundreds of thousands, not just a few hundred bucks.
Their food, needless to say, must be pure and natural green foods. For example, a pound of rice costing tens to hundreds is not something those earning a few hundred or a couple thousand bucks can afford.
Even if they truly had cancer, the treatment the wealthy receive is incomparable to what regular people get, like targeted gene therapy, which is different for the affluent.
Of course, Lin Jiang never undergoes medical check-ups, firstly because it’s unnecessary and secondly to prevent his secrets from being revealed, at least not until spiritual energy recovery is completed.
Lin Jiang heavily supports biotech and pharmaceuticals now, aiming to promote longevity or even immortality to drive certain causes like resource integration and further advancements in aerospace technology, who knows, maybe one day Lin Jiang could really pilot a space fighter to battle aliens.