Ding Yun, as the largest shareholder, naturally had access to these figures. In just one month, their company's total revenue had exceeded ten billion. Even after deducting material costs, employee salaries, and various taxes, the net profit was still two billion. Proportionally, Ding Yun could expect to receive at least one billion.
However, considering the exorbitant taxes on such a large dividend, they decided after some discussion to postpone the distribution. All living expenses and necessities would be covered by the company's accounts, and remaining funds could be reinvested. They would proceed with profit-sharing and dividend distribution only when a significant need for cash or other specific purposes arose.
With her事业 stabilizing, Ding Yun specifically contacted Dai Na and Dai An. During a video call, she sheepishly stated her request:
"Sister Na, Brother An, this is a bit embarrassing to say, but I hope you can agree. You know my family situation. I have one hundred and ninety-eight younger siblings. A few days ago, my adoptive mother was diagnosed as pregnant again, this time with sixteen fetuses. If all goes well, they will all be born. While with my current assets, supporting them is not an issue, I worry about them becoming spoiled if I keep supporting them indefinitely. Their reproductive capacity is truly terrifying. This number is already the result of my adoptive parents’ extreme restraint. If they didn’t restrain themselves, and the subsequent children started having offspring after they grew up, I can’t even imagine how many there would be in a hundred years. I can't possibly support them forever.
Therefore, my idea is to use company funds to build a factory in our Beastmen Planet, here where I live. I want to hire my adoptive parents and some of the older younger siblings to work there. Everything should follow normal procedures. No special treatment is needed. Additionally, I want to invest in setting up a school, using an online teaching model. This would be a charitable endeavor, sending all my underage siblings to study and learn. We can also enroll some local children who can't afford school. Free education will be provided."
Fearing that Dai Na and Dai An might think she was trying to take advantage, she quickly added:
"Oh, and you can keep track of the specific investment amount in your personal accounts. Consider it as using my dividends to fund these two projects, just processed through the company's accounts. My shareholding in the company will remain unchanged. However, my share of the dividends can be appropriately reduced. As long as these two projects continue, the dividend ratio will be maintained at the reduced level. Please don't be polite with me on this. Let's stick to the rules, not favors. Favors diminish with use; even brothers need to settle accounts clearly. You can prepare a specific investment proposal and tell me the amount. What do you think, is this acceptable?"
Well, Ding Yun had thought of everything. What could Dai Na and Dai An object to? The calculations were clear and transparent, and it was the most suitable arrangement. After a few polite exchanges and initial hesitations, they readily agreed.
Ding Yun then explained the general situation to her adoptive parents and began arranging pre-job skills training for them. She also instructed her siblings who were working elsewhere to resign and return for skills training, preparing them for direct employment. As for the remaining siblings who were too young to work and were essentially illiterate, each was given an identity wristband to bind their information and enrolled in a pre-school program to start learning.
Meanwhile, Dai Na and Dai An swiftly carried out Ding Yun's instructions. To save time, they didn't hire workers for construction. Instead, they purchased universal building templates. The construction team, with the templates, took only three days to complete and furnish the factory and school, making them ready for operation and commencement.
Next, of course, was the matter of settling the family. Those working would reside in employee dormitories, and those studying would be in student dormitories. Both the factory and school also hired and enrolled locals to avoid making it too obvious that only Ding Yun's family was involved. Hiring more workers and students would also help meet production quotas and enrollment targets, and allow her family members to interact more with outsiders.
Once everything was arranged, Ding Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief. She bought a new house, moved in, and began contemplating her next steps: how to gain more power, higher status, and increase her influence. While the sale of panda merchandise had brought her considerable funds and influence, it was not enough to shake the foundations of the entire star domain, nor even the core of the Beastmen Planet.
To achieve this, after settling into her new home, Ding Yun promptly began investigating and collecting historical data of the Beastmen Planet over the past few hundred years. She also researched the influential families, the individuals holding key positions, and the aspirations of ordinary beastmen. Knowing your enemy and yourself, you can fight a hundred battles without defeat. To rise to power, one must defeat others and compete. Without thoroughly investigating the backgrounds of certain powers, it would be reckless overconfidence.
After a few days, Ding Yun felt more at ease. The power structures on the Beastmen Planet were not as complex as she initially feared and were far from the entrenched influence of some families on the Imperial Star. A significant portion of the powers there were essentially representatives propped up by influential Imperial Star families with abundant resources. Currently, the dominant forces could be broadly categorized into three groups.
The first group was the Beastmen Alliance Council, comprised of beastmen with bloodlines of giant beasts and raptors like tigers, leopards, bears, elephants, eagles, vultures, and falcons. This organization was the oldest, with roots tracing back to when beastmen were first ostracized. At that time, they were known as the Bloodline Human Alliance. Over time, others began calling them beastmen, and they eventually accepted their identity, gradually evolving into the Beastmen Rights Alliance. However, at that time, they were merely a civilian organization with some influence, but not much, mostly able to advocate for beastmen's rights and prevent discrimination.
Their transformation into a council occurred only after they were forced to migrate to the Beastmen Planet. Under their leadership, all beastmen developed the planet, and during this development process, the council gradually took shape, becoming the ruling class upon the completion of the development. They essentially became independent from humanity, self-governing and self-reliant, with no recourse to external aid. This independence was permitted by the Human Alliance Council, as they were disinclined to manage the Beastmen Planet, which consumed over ninety percent of its resources, or the numerous beastmen lacking skills and intelligence. The Human Alliance Council had long wished to divest themselves of this burden.
For many years, the Human Alliance Council maintained a semblance of fairness by providing equal welfare benefits, especially the basic subsistence level. All individuals earning below the average or minimum income were entitled to a certain degree of subsistence welfare. However, some beastmen races were known for their prolific breeding and laziness, and over eighty percent of the funds allocated annually for this welfare were claimed by beastmen. The unrestrained reproduction of beastmen continuously strained these benefits, necessitating ever-increasing allocations and even leading to deficits.
Furthermore, free education and free healthcare also gradually became depleted due to the excessive reproduction of beastmen. Attempts to limit their birth rates were met with protests, claiming discrimination. It could be said that the Human Alliance Council no longer wished to manage the beastmen, viewing them as a burden. If not for historical reasons and the past contributions of their ancestors, which made it difficult for the Human Alliance Council to appear ungrateful and maintain some semblance of dignity, they might have already released specialized genetic viruses to eliminate them.
It was not until they discovered new life planets that they saw hope in shedding the burden of the beastmen. Once the beastmen had all relocated and settled on the new life planets, the Human Alliance Council, eager to be free from their welfare obligations, readily, almost jubilantly, permitted the original Beastmen Rights Alliance to become independent. After all, the most advanced weaponry was in their hands. Granting them independence would only be beneficial, and they posed no threat of rebellion. This was the origin of the Beastmen Alliance Council and the reason for their independence.
However, due to their inability to sustain the previous welfare programs, they began canceling various benefits shortly after their establishment, causing widespread outrage. Many enforcers were even killed on the spot. Even after they managed to stabilize the situation with their weaponry, their authority was limited. Their actual jurisdiction only covered the central continent, and tax collection was a constant struggle, only effective in major cities. Smaller regions were largely unmanaged, or the tax revenue was insufficient to cover the travel expenses. Most regions were essentially self-governing. As long as local officials had the approval of the majority of the populace, they could easily hold office. This was a highly extreme form of human governance.
These constituted the first category of powers on the Beastmen Planet. The second and third categories could be considered together, as they represented the factions of Genetic Humans and Espers. When the resources of the Beastmen Planet were first divided, the genetic humans and espers had not yet split. They had collaborated to manipulate the beastmen and lent them money to develop the planet. Ultimately, genetic humans secured fifty percent of the Beastmen Planet's resources, while espers obtained forty percent. They each established factories and corporations on the Beastmen Planet to develop resources and manufacture products, which were then shipped back to various cities on the Imperial Star for sale.
As the beastmen possessed very few resources themselves, their only commodity was labor. Moreover, beastmen were incapable of producing many advanced or high-tech products and had to purchase them from the Imperial Star. Thus, it was no exaggeration to say that eighty to ninety percent of the beastmen on the entire planet depended on these factory corporations for their livelihood. These factory corporations then formed alliances among themselves, coordinating their narratives and acting with more influence than local officials. They could easily mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of beastmen to their aid, a situation that could accurately be described as a form of colonial exploitation.
Fortunately, the genetic humans and espers later fell out, leading to severe conflict between them. If they had remained united, the Beastmen Alliance Council would have had no voice. Both these factions, while seemingly dispersed individually, possessed the ability to quickly unite during significant events and mobilize considerable power.
The aspirations of the beastmen were simple: to have enough to eat and wear. Ideally, they wished for a comfortable life. If they could govern themselves and escape the exploitation by genetic humans and espers, that would be even better. From a macroscopic perspective, the various powers were not overly complex, and gaining the support of the beastmen was not particularly difficult.
Currently, the biggest issue was that over ninety percent of the planet's mineral resources and arable land did not belong to the beastmen. Any attempt to make significant progress was heavily constrained by the existing environment. To break through these limitations, one might have to look towards areas with harsher conditions, which were disdained by the genetic humans and espers at the time. These areas still belonged to the Beastmen Planet itself, and the local administrative bodies had the authority to manage them.