After the meeting, Zhang Yuan specially called over Ye Kaifu, the Chief Mineral Engineer from the Ministry of Industry, and cheerfully made him a cup of tea.
"The scientific achievements of the past two years have been quite impressive, haven't they? If we stayed at Gliese 581, where would we have achieved this? Ah, war really is a good channel for progress. We've merely plundered a small portion of a third-level civilization's achievements, and we've developed so well, saving who knows how much time."
Ye Kaifu unceremoniously took a sip of water. "So, you want to rob even more powerful civilizations? You must be tired of being a captain, huh?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Don't assume that higher civilizations are necessarily more powerful than us. Take the Badeit Civilization for instance, if they exhaust their racial potential after a few million years and fail to establish a better system, they might regress or even collapse..."
