Chapter 1094: The Three Heroes of Great Xia

Azik Alliance, Jun Tian Spirit Treasure Eye Thirteenth Sub-eye Base.

Early morning.

Zhuang Jun woke up from the bed at 6:30 on the dot, just like always.

He turned his head to glance at the sleeping figure beside him, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

This was his Azik girlfriend, Gena.

The first time he hosted the Spirit Treasure Eye, it happened to coincide with Gena running into a life-or-death crisis, and he decisively took action to save his girlfriend a few hundred kilometers away.

From then on, it was as if Gena suddenly figured things out and gave up fighting the Carmenians to the death in the Azik military.

In her original words: “Our squad captain offended the higher-ups, and the entire squad got thrown by them into the most dangerous place.

“I’ve been fighting life and death for the Azik Alliance, and yet I almost got killed by my own people. I don’t want to sell my life for this sand-coin country anymore.”

Gena had once worked hard on Great Xia Language for her boyfriend; words like “I, your old lady” and “sand coin” in that sentence were enunciated standard and clear, giving them a special sort of flavor.

She directly applied to join Great Xia Kingdom’s nationality, and since she was a Superpower User, her application was approved the very same day.

Zhuang Jun then submitted another report upward, saying he wanted to have children with his girlfriend and hoped she could be transferred to the Spirit Treasure Eye base.

Right now, having children was the top priority in Great Xia; nobody dared stand in the way of him having kids.

Even when the police came for room checks and ran into couples in the middle of enthusiastic “sowing,” they’d politely say, “Sorry to disturb you, please go on with what you’re doing.”

The two of them had gone wild for a long time last night, sowing over and over again, and at this moment Gena was still sound asleep.

Zhuang Jun didn’t disturb her; instead, he picked up the phone by his pillow and quietly started browsing today’s headlines.

The front-page headline was news related to Spirit Crow Lord: “Mr. Spirit Crows has officially signed the document ‘Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a New Intelligent Medical System and Vigorously Promoting the New Xia Medical.'”

Zhuang Jun understood that this kind of programmatic document involving the country’s overall development direction was originally supposed to be signed by Gongsun Minghe.

But that big shot was in the middle of gradually handing over power, so Mr. Spirit Crows had started appearing more and more in various current affairs headlines.

According to the grapevine, Gongsun Minghe had originally planned to fully step down two years later, but something changed.

The Ghost Lord suddenly came up with a Twenty-four Solar Terms Palace, and with this godlike move, he instantly suppressed a large number of opposing voices in the shadows.

Then, under the strong push of the Ghost Lord, the Jiuzhou Legion and Blood Banner Legion were split into eight major legions, and the discourse power of Superpower Users within the official apparatus grew heavier and heavier.

On top of that, the Ghost Lord already possessed extremely high prestige; the other Governors simply couldn’t compete with him, so his ascent to the top became a matter of course.

Precisely because the handover went more smoothly than expected, Gongsun Minghe decisively chose to retreat while ahead and was expected to fully retire next year.

At this moment.

Zhuang Jun opened the document and quickly skimmed through it, more or less grasping its core message—the medical system had to undergo drastic reform.

The wording in the document was quite sharp: “Now Great Xia’s industry has fully entered the intelligent era, with intelligent robots completely replacing human labor on the front line of production.

“Yet the application of intelligence in the medical sector clearly lags behind the times; it remains in a state of fragmented fiefdoms fighting their own battles, without maximizing efficiency and lowering patients’ medical costs.”

The document specifically mentioned a company: “Celestial Star Medical Technology Company has successfully developed the Tianxing Intelligent Health Model, codenamed ‘Bian Que,’ and built an intelligent medical system with it as the core.

“Compared with the traditional medical system, Tianxing Hospital’s medical efficiency has tripled, patient visits to the hospital have dropped by forty percent, and medical costs have fallen sharply by seventy percent.”

The document also spelled out concrete implementation plans: “The state will fund the acquisition of part of Bian Que’s equity, and on this basis, establish a nationwide intelligent medical platform.

“All medical institutions are required to connect to the Bian Que platform, with a two-year grace period. For institutions that have not connected to Bian Que, the medical insurance center will only provide 50% support after one year, and cease medical insurance support after two years.

“Government personnel and employees of state-owned enterprises are strongly encouraged to seek treatment at hospitals connected to the Bian Que platform, and they will be given higher reimbursement ratios.”

At a glance, Zhuang Jun could tell that Tianxing Medical would be the biggest winner in this major medical-sector upheaval.

Currently, government personnel and state-owned enterprise employees in Great Xia add up to over 300 million; this was equivalent to stuffing a huge piece of cake directly into Tianxing Medical’s pocket.

But no one could object to this decision, since Tianxing Medical’s costs were seventy percent lower than the industry average, which would greatly save on medical insurance expenditures.

On the other hand.

The state would be acquiring part of Bian Que’s shares, most likely 51%, since a national-level medical platform was not suitable to be completely controlled by a private company.

But Tianxing Medical would still retain 49% of the shares, which was a tremendous advantage; Tianxing Medical would gain access to more core data.

Other medical institutions connecting to Bian Que couldn’t possibly do so for free; they would inevitably have to pay an annual fee, making their costs higher than Tianxing Medical’s.

All in all, this was the state’s way of rewarding Tianxing Medical for driving industry-wide reform.

It was entirely foreseeable that the domestic medical industry was about to undergo a comprehensive reshuffle.

At least half of all medical institutions would likely go out of business one after another over the next year, while Tianxing Medical would expand at breakneck speed and become a super-giant in the medical sector.