Knowing oneself and the enemy, and having already formed some ideas, Ding Yun quickly spent another two days thoroughly documenting her thoughts on paper, meticulously designing all aspects and details before proceeding with execution.
For instance, purchasing wasteland and hiring people to cultivate and plant it.
For instance, constructing large-scale infrastructure, factories, and schools.
To gain the support of the beastmen, she had to find ways to benefit them. Without any benefits, and only suffering losses, who would support her? Even peasant uprisings required distributing land, and without land, who would bother to pay attention to them.
However, Ding Yun was currently unable to directly confront the gene humans and ability users to redistribute their land and resources on the beastman planet, as she couldn't defeat them.
Therefore, she could only help the beastmen through the aforementioned methods.
Allowing them to gain some benefits.
This would give her a chance in the next election, wouldn't it?
However, given her weak foundation, the development in many areas remained relatively restrained. For example, after reclaiming wasteland, she only planted ordinary crops suitable for cultivation in those areas, not any spirit rice or spirit roots.
Infrastructure, factories, and schools.
These were also constructed under the pretense of facilitating enterprise production, cultivating future successors for the enterprises, and supporting research and development.
The purpose was to avoid attracting the attention of the three major mainstream factions on the beastman planet, allowing her to develop stealthily. Once she gained complete control of the local governance, she could then proceed to establish armed forces and weapon factories.
In short, everything had to be done slowly.
Step by step, she needed to proceed with caution.
...
In Qihe Town, by the town center bulletin board, hundreds of people gathered, listening to someone read the new announcements posted there.
Among them were Ding Yun's recruitment and enrollment announcements.
And the job postings for wasteland cultivation and planting.
Besides recruiting miners, they rarely had other job openings. And for miners, they required strong and healthy individuals, which many did not qualify for. Therefore, upon the release of these recruitment notices, many people excitedly began discussing their reliability.
"The Canghai family has truly prospered. I never imagined the child they took in back then would be so accomplished now.
Not only repaying her adoptive parents but also contributing to the local community by building factories and the like!"
"The Canghai family, is that the one with so many children that they could eat half a year's worth of our rations in one meal? I haven't seen their children out looking for food lately. So, it turns out someone in the family has become successful and is making money.
But even if they are successful.
Raising so many is still quite a challenge, isn't it..."
"Your information is too outdated. Haven't you heard about the popular panda merchandise that's been circulating recently? That merchandise was created based on the child their family adopted. Just the patent fees alone could be substantial. And it's rumored that she didn't just license the appearance patent but also partnered for shares. Her assets must be over a hundred million now. Raising a hundred or so children should be a piece of cake!"
"Wait, that adorable creature is Cang Yun?"
"I've seen her. She doesn't look like that, does she? I've always seen her looking dull and dusty.
Could it be that she's been disguising herself all this time?"
"Not necessarily. I heard she used to work two or three jobs a day, and they were all heavy manual labor. You know what miners look like when they come out of the mines. No matter how good-looking a beastman is, they'll come out looking dusty."
"That makes sense..."
"In this world, you really can't look down on anyone. You never know when they might soar to success!"
"Oh, can you guys stop talking about irrelevant things? Let's discuss whether the content on the announcements is reliable, whether we should apply, if we'll get paid, and so on. What does it have to do with us if their family has gotten rich and is enjoying life? Can we benefit from it without doing anything?"
"Exactly, exactly. We should focus on the important matters!"
"No, what's there to discuss? If they're recruiting, we just go. We're all locals, and we're not afraid they'll run away without paying us. I'm not wasting any more time with you all. I'm going to sign up first. You guys can continue your discussion!"
"Not bad for someone with peacock blood, truly cunning..."
"Bah, who are you calling names? Is a peacock a chicken?"
"Aren't they both birds!"
As the news spread, most of the locals soon rushed to the designated location mentioned in Ding Yun's announcement to register. Ding Yun then sent people to conduct an assessment and selection, choosing one-third of the applicants based on their suitability to sign employment contracts.
The rest were not entirely dismissed; instead, a special skills training course was organized, allowing them to learn for free.
After learning, they might even be useful.
Whether they were willing or not was not forced.
Ding Yun could at most offer them an opportunity; she couldn't force them to study or do anything.
If people are not ambitious and do not seek progress, trying to force them will likely not earn gratitude, but rather resentment. Even if a few individuals succeed and eventually realize their mistake, turning to gratitude, that would be an exception. There's no need to go to such lengths. There are plenty of people, and finding those who are ambitious and willing to work hard is not difficult.
With Ding Yun's diligent assistance and investment.
The area where she was located underwent visible and rapid changes. Wasteland was gradually reclaimed into vegetable gardens and farmland, and mountainsides were planted with economic fruit trees or medicinal herbs.
Lakes were used for aquaculture, and ditches were deepened for irrigation.
The primary agricultural products generated in these areas were then transported to the factories built by Ding Yun for processing.
They were sold to other places. Although the profits were certainly far from those of high-tech or high value-added products, it was enough to sustain the factories and schools.
It didn't require constant investment from Ding Yun.
At the same time, all participants earned money.
Everyone's daily living conditions, travel convenience, and other aspects had significantly improved compared to before. It could be said that Ding Yun's actions had directly revitalized the local economy, leading to rapid development, and everyone gradually surpassed the subsistence level.
Many beastman children, after receiving education.
Their intelligence significantly improved. They could learn and integrate simple skills and knowledge.
Their overall intelligence was not as poor as rumored online.
The so-called low intelligence was likely due to a combination of congenital factors and, more importantly, a lack of education. Before the beastmen became independent, they could still receive, or rather, enjoy compulsory education provided by the Human Alliance Council. At that time, fewer people called beastmen unintelligent or stupid.
After becoming independent, all welfare benefits disappeared, as did compulsory education. Many beastmen directly became illiterate.
It was normal for them to be called unintelligent and stupid, as there were very few research scholars among the entire beastman population nowadays.
Therefore, Ding Yun never dared to relax in terms of education.
It was her greatest concern and received the largest investment.
In addition to these young beastmen being the future of the entire beastman race, her established factories and enterprises could not remain at the stage of processing primary agricultural products; industrial upgrading was inevitable in the future.
And industrial upgrading would inevitably require talent.
This was another significant factor.
While talent could be recruited, it had to be from one's own race. Recruiting gene humans and ability users could easily lead to trouble, and they might not necessarily obey her, a beastman boss.
So, it was better to cultivate talent herself.
It might be slower, but it didn't matter. She wasn't in a hurry.