After deciding to make a fortune on a resource planet, Li Yi signed a planet development agreement and memorandum with the Watson family.

According to the agreement, within 30 days, Li Yi will complete the relevant cognitive learning and preliminary material personnel preparations, after which the development rights of Planet 13 of the Watson System will be officially handed over to Li Yi, and the relevant industrial income will also be officially transferred to his personal account.

As the Watson family, which owns 30% of the equity, it will also provide Li Yi with 3 billion star coins of start-up capital and 300 billion loans for free in the early stage, and the amount can be increased according to the situation in the future, of course, these funds must be used for planetary development and cannot be misappropriated elsewhere.

To put it simply, the resource planet is nominally Li Yi's, but in fact there is only the right to develop and its output income, and the Watson family nominally gives Li Yi support and financial support, but in fact it is still an investment in its own resource planet, unless Li Yi drives the planet away in the future, otherwise these investments cannot be taken away, and they are still working for the Watson family in disguise.

Li Yi didn't care about this, he was not ambitious, and he was content and happy, even if he was a temporary landlord, it was actually very bad, to be precise, he was the "star lord", the biggest landlord in the old time and space was the emperor, and it was just a bigger land, he was now the big landlord of a whole planet, what else was there to complain about?

Subsequently, the North Wharton Supreme Command issued a document appointing him as the defense officer and prison warden of Planet 13 in the Watson system, with full responsibility for the defense of Planet 13 and the management of space prisons.

In view of Li Yi's status as a duke, the North Wharton High Command allowed the defense forces under its jurisdiction to have a maximum of one division-level space fleet, one mecha regiment, and one infantry division.

However, in fact, the military department only provided Li Yi with a quota of basic materials and equipment for a squadron space fleet, a mecha company and an infantry company for free, and the corresponding personnel and the rest of the materials had to be solved by the defense officers themselves.

This is the case with the family joint system of the country, the state only provides some necessary basic support in name, and the real big head has to rely on the family itself to contribute money and efforts, but this is also the driving force behind the stable development of the family joint system of the country, because in line with the principle of who invests and who benefits, the final harvest of the benefits is of course also at the disposal of the family, and the state only relies on collecting various taxes to maintain daily operations.

This situation is not very obvious in the army units, after all, it is a war between the north and the south, and it is difficult to support it by just one or two families, so it is necessary to confront the whole country, but correspondingly, there is a mechanical and rigid military merit system, and the expenditure consumption in all aspects has been greatly restricted, and it is difficult to give full play to the subjective initiative of the army units.

But in space, due to the wide range, abundant resources, high risk and return on risk, and the great demand for high-level talents, the military merit system is no longer very applicable, the best way is to disperse the attack with the family as a unit to expand the scope of power control as much as possible, but also to prevent the family from taking the money of the state taxpayers to strengthen themselves, and all rights and interests must be obtained by their own hard work.

According to the introduction in the "World Encyclopedia", more than 90% of all countries in human society are countries with this kind of family joint system, and countries with many families are family parliamentary systems, and countries with fewer large families like North Wharton are family joint systems.

For example, if a large family controls a country, there is still a similar joint family council within the family, so it can still only be regarded as a family state, not a monarchical empire.

The formation of this family-style state system, if we trace back to its origins, is actually caused by business knowledge.

A human with high knowledge and intelligence has great ability and potential, and during the explosive development of interstellar civilization, he may be just an explorer at first, and after continuous exploration, struggle and development, he will form a family after settling on a certain planet.

The descendants of this family are also highly educated elites, and after the whole family continues to grow and grow to a certain level of strength, they begin to gradually seek political rights and status in their own country, and then form a vassal state, or emigrate to a distant planet with other large families who have the same aspirations to establish a new country.

With the development of history and the progress of the times, these new countries gradually became suzerain, and the elite human beings of the country went to more distant places to establish new families and countries, so that human power gradually expanded to a wider universe in this way, forming countless family states.

Like those constitutional monarchies, republics, and federal states in the old time and space, they only exist in the human interstellar circle, that is, the original human suzerains, out of the human interstellar circle, such as the chaotic star field sea, the slightly more decent countries are basically all family countries, those that are not decent...... It can only be regarded as a pirate force, so don't mention it.

Of course, this is also because the human sphere of influence is expanding too fast, the universe is too large, and the resources are endless, so that those suzerains will not be able to form strong control over the periphery of the human interstellar circle for a while and a half.

From the history of the changes and development of human families and countries, we can know that today's Li Yi is equivalent to a human elite who goes out to work independently, if this human elite can survive the disaster and develop well, a family with him as the patriarch will be born, and then evolve into a country.

However, these may be very distant things, and Li Yi has no intention of establishing his own family here in North Wharton for a while, and more importantly, he does not dare to give birth to the next generation here at present, otherwise he will definitely ask for trouble.

As a "star master", to manage a resource planet well, it is by no means something that can be achieved simply by a few simple introductions by Flora, which is very complicated to say, which not only involves the common sense and technical cognition related to the development of the resource planet, but also involves the professional cognition in various fields.

Therefore, it is not enough to absorb a level 1-4 "Introduction to Resource Planet Development" memory chip, it is just to know an outline, and specifically to learn a series of disciplines related to physics, chemistry, atmosphere, astronomy, geology, surveying, engineering, management, etc., as well as various disciplines in the military.

These are all first-level disciplines, and there are countless related second-level disciplines and third-level disciplines under them.

All the secondary disciplines of science, such as planetary physics, planetary chemistry, planetary atmosphere, planetary geology, and planetary surveying, are you going to have to learn, right?

If you don't learn this, you won't even know the basic physical and chemical properties and climatic and geological conditions of Watson-13, so how can you develop it?

Now that you have figured out the situation of the planet, you have to design and customize the corresponding industrial equipment, right?

It's impossible to mine in a normal mining ship, right?

If you dare to do that, just mining those concentrated sulfuric acid clouds, even if it is a strong corrosion-resistant titanium alloy hull, it is difficult to ensure a big problem if it is soaked in it for a long time, if it is a land mining, the surface temperature of Watson-13 planet is as high as more than 400 degrees, if you do not use special titanium alloys and various high-temperature resistant component materials, large-scale mining equipment will become a pile of waste ore.

Even if these problems are solved, and the planet can be safely mined, what about the safety of space?

Could it be that the AI forces are honest and obedient good boys, just watching a whole bunch of mining ships easily mine here without harassing them?

To fend off the AI fleet, you have to have your own space fleet, right?

Not to mention the skills related to military combat and command, they are required to be learned.

What is big is that the military department only provides a quota of basic materials and equipment for one squadron, and the rest has to be invested in advance!

There are only 42 starships in a squadron, and according to the establishment ratio of the space fleet, the flagship is only two frigates, the main combat starships in the middle are 14 assault ships, and the rest are small gunboats, supply ships, reconnaissance ships and other junk goods, and they are all standard!

Can such a raged fleet fight?

If the AI is ruthless, such a starship can be eaten casually, so do you have to change your outfit? Do you have to expand it? At least all of them have to be improved, right?

These are all problems that can only be solved with money, and for Lao Li, the problems that can be solved with money are generally not big problems.

What is really a headache is that all military personnel have to recruit on their own!

Mechs and infantry are easy to say, I believe that Gabriel and Bernie will also sell some face and provide some help, but where does the star ship captain come from? Someone has to drive a starship, right?

Even if all these problems are solved, do we still need to learn management to improve business efficiency?

In addition to these, once you start to run the planet in the future, you must go to space in person, once you encounter foreign human forces, such as pirates or something, or artificial intelligence equipped with quantum jammers, you can't cope with the virtual Star Wars of the real system alone, so shouldn't your skills in Star Wars also be strengthened and improved?

In short, the independent management of a resource planet is definitely a huge system engineering, not only to master a large number of professional cognition and skills, but also to have sufficient self-protection ability and strong economic strength, which is far more difficult and complex than mining, salvage, and brushing people on land.

Therefore, a resource planet is not given to you, you can sit back and make money, and it depends on whether you have the ability to develop it.

Although the Watson family sent a resource planet to Li Yi, and knew that the resources of this Watson-13 planet were extremely rich, it was also because the entire family was developing more than a dozen resource planets at the same time, and they really didn't have the energy and manpower to develop this planet again.

If Li Yizhen can develop this planet, the Watson family will enjoy an extra income, and if necessary, they can take it back to pick peaches, if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter, anyway, the favor is sold, and in the future, it can sow a few seeds and breed some high-level business offspring is the same as earning!

Of course, Lao Li didn't know that the Watson family had this kind of intention at first, and after completing the formalities, he plunged into the convalescent warehouse and began to retreat and cultivate.

However, after absorbing more and more comprehensive knowledge about the development of resource planets, he began to gradually realize that this is a fucking mountain of gold, and it is obviously a big pit!

But even if it was a pit, he still decided to jump down, because becoming an all-rounder who absorbs all the cognitions of memory chips was originally one of the goals that had already been set, and these cognitions and skills had to be learned sooner or later, and the two were not in conflict.

Of course, then again, being cheated is always unpleasant, and Li Yi had secretly decided during the retreat that if he developed this resource planet in the future, he would either find a way to take it away, or dig it up and leave, or simply ...... Blow it up, in short, you can't cheapen these natives who dug a hole for him!