Since the withdrawal of US troops on the island, the economic environment on the island has indeed been affected somewhat.

For those locals with household registration, the impact is not too great, after all, Lin Zhicheng and the island's leadership team have anticipated this situation in advance, and in order to compensate the residents for their losses, they have taken a number of measures, including temporarily improving the living welfare of the residents.

On average, the quality of life of the residents has not deteriorated much, and this level of disparity does not make them want to emigrate to settle elsewhere.

However, the situation is different for those who do not have a hukou and are just working on the island.

Since I am a part-time worker, the purpose is of course to earn money. When the economic situation is bad and they find that they may not be able to earn money in the future, of course, the migrant workers will leave and seek new opportunities elsewhere.

In other words, since the withdrawal of American troops, there has been a gradual shortage of manpower on the island.

The service industry is the most affected.

For example, the situation reflected by Li Ruizhen is a typical example. It was because of the departure of the migrant workers that the travel service company was understaffed, and then the company had to reduce the scope of its original business, and the situation of "the environment is good, but no one can provide snorkeling services".

This must change, or there will be more problems in the future. If you do nothing and expect the 'Las Vegas Project' to attract a new group of people, then there is a good chance that the tourists will already have a reputation and leave an indelible bad impression on the Nalan Islands before the Las Vegas Project even begins.

If that happens, it's going to be very difficult. You know, it's never easy to reverse a negative impression.

Moreover, the main body of the 'casino plan' is the gambling industry, and this industry is easy to give people the impression of 'chaos and danger'. Combined with the bad impression that has been left before, perhaps, the 'casino plan' itself will also be affected.

To put it bluntly, if the current small problems are not dealt with well, then there is a high risk that there will be a bad situation in the end, where 'good things will become bad things'.

Sensing the urgency of the situation, the next day, Lin Zhicheng came to the government building again and convened a meeting of the heads of various departments.

"Yesterday I overheard something ....... "Because there was no advance notice before, the big guys all put down the work at hand and rushed over, in order not to delay their normal work, Lin Zhicheng explained the topic as soon as he came up.

"Ladies and gentlemen, has there been a similar situation within your jurisdiction?" After that, Lin Zhicheng didn't forget to ask one more question - perhaps, what he encountered was just an example, but the actual situation was not so urgent?

"Let me say a few words. "The first person to raise his hand to speak was Police Chief Alexander.

The place is small, the population is not large, and there are not many criminal cases on the island, so, while serving as the chief of police, Alexander also doubles as the head of transportation. To put it simply, the Ministry of Transportation is a subordinate agency under the police department, and in our way, it can be seen that the traffic police brigade is managing all traffic-related affairs.

What Alexander is talking about now has to do with traffic: "As far as I know, the number of taxi drivers on the island has decreased by about 30 percent, and there is a tendency to reduce it further. In addition, the number of people who come to apply for the ship driving test has also been reduced by about half ...... compared to before. ”

"The situation is most acute in the service sector, especially restaurants and hotels. The two restaurants I frequented were understaffed. I asked the boss, and the reason is the same, it's all because the number of customers who dine at home has decreased, and the tips received by the waiters have also decreased, and they will leave because they feel that they can't make any money. Lawrence of the Civil Affairs Department also said some of the situation he knew.

In addition to taxi drivers and waiters in restaurants and hotels, there are several other industries that have experienced significant attrition, such as the tourism industry, as well as retail and transportation.

In short, except for a few units that are directly funded and maintained by the government, such as hospitals and fire stations, there are some personnel losses and shortages in all walks of life on the island.

"It seems that our immediate priority is to recruit workers as soon as possible and maintain the normal operation of various industries. After sorting out the information provided by the big guys, Lin Zhicheng frowned: "Everyone, do you have any good suggestions?"

"Raise the basic wages of migrant workers?" "The most direct way to attract workers is to increase their remuneration for their work.

"I don't think it's a good idea. Carter, who is in charge of finance, objected: "If we only raise the basic salary of migrant workers, but do not provide the same level of benefits to residents with local hukou, then the residents are likely to feel dissatisfied and feel that the rules we have formulated are a betrayal of them, and then they will question the government." All in all, a bowl of water should be flat. But unfortunately, our current financial resources are not enough to do this. ”

"Why don't you lower the tax a little bit?"

"Isn't that what it looks like? Besides, migrant workers are too mobile, and there are already a lot of tax issues related to them, so if you introduce new regulations, it will only make the workload more and things more troublesome. ”

"I have an idea that I can make a little concession on the right to settle, such as changing the original clause of 'you need to work for more than seven years to qualify for permanent settlement' to a five-year period. ”

"It's not appropriate, isn't it? The problems we are encountering now are only temporary, and when the casino plan is successfully launched, there will inevitably be many people who want to settle down with us. If the conditions are relaxed now, what will happen at that time? Change it back? People will say that we don't have an accurate number to change it every day. Sooner or later, the population of the island will be overloaded. ”

From time to time, new suggestions were made, and from time to time there were rebuttals to them, and the conference room was filled with the sound of people talking, and for a while, the scene was very lively, like a wholesale vegetable market before dawn.

The slightly chaotic discussion went on for a while, and the noise was a little loud. Perhaps wanting to keep their train of thought in the midst of this chaos, many people took out the cigarette cases they carried with them and began to smoke and talk.

Lin Zhicheng himself doesn't smoke, and he usually doesn't resist smoke, but now, at this moment, he really can't stand it anymore - there are too many big smoking guns, and they are all smoked one after another, and before long, the house is already full of smoke, as if the chimney is blocked during a fire.

Everyone is discussing carefully, and the work attitude is very serious, Lin Zhicheng, as a boss, really feels that he should not destroy their enthusiasm.

However, there was so much smoke that he choked so hard that he was about to lose his breath.

Quietly stood up, while pretending to pour water for himself, he made a gesture of 'you continue to discuss' to the people who turned their eyes, and then, Lin Zhicheng naturally came to the window and opened a window with his hand.

The conference room was not on the first floor, and passers-by could only see the smoke wafting out of the windows when they looked up, but not what was going on in the room.

"Ringling~~~~~~~~~!"

Everyone who was discussing it suddenly heard an extremely sharp alarm bell in their ears. The voice was too sudden, and it was also because the big guys were very concentrated, so because of this alarm bell, several people were taken aback.

"What the hell~. "It's the closest, and it's the loudest heard. One didn't pay attention, and Lawrence scared off all the cigarette butts caught in his fingers.

Today, I took a turn off, and when I came to the meeting, I didn't wear formal clothes like I usually did when I went to work. A casual dress and a pair of sandals are what Lawrence is wearing now. As a result, the cigarette butt in his hand fell off, and it happened to fall into the gap between his sandals.

"Ah~~~!Burn me~~!" The hot cigarette butt burned on the instep of his foot, and Lawrence jumped up like a grasshopper.

It's funny, it's funny, it's funny, and at this moment, Lawrence doesn't have the style of a minister at all, but it's a bit like those characters in a comedy movie, which makes people laugh.

And what made everyone laugh and cry even more was still behind - not long after the alarm bell rang, the door of the conference room was suddenly slammed open from the outside, and immediately after, several guys with buckets rushed in.

"What are you trying to do?!" I don't know why these guys rushed in suddenly, and I don't understand why they have buckets in their hands. Well, in fact, you can understand it with a little thought, but Lawrence's attention has not been withdrawn from the instep of his foot at this time, and he has not reacted, and it is not incomprehensible.

"That, that ....... I didn't know that Lawrence's tone was so fierce because he was burning his instep, and I thought he was blaming himself. The young man who took the lead in rushing through the door had a worried expression on his face, and he unconsciously took a small step back.

"We're here to put out the fire. The other guy on the side was not so nervous, and stood up and pointed to the window that Lin Zhicheng had opened before: "Well, it's that window, there is a lot of smoke floating out of it, and when you look at it outside, it feels like it's on fire." ”

"We just smoked a few more, as for it?" understood and understood, but after all, he still felt very speechless, Lin Zhicheng shrugged his shoulders with a smile: "Okay, no matter what, you all mean well." So, who first discovered, allow me to express my gratitude. ”