Resentment began to grow, starting with a protest from the Vegetable Garden Club at a routine Senate meeting---- who slammed the enormous cost of Operation Changfeng.

In particular, with regard to the transportation costs paid to various forces, and of course, the expenses of various resettlement and development, especially the expenses on grain and agricultural production tools, and the construction costs on Zixia Island and Wanshan Island.

Many people feel that the money is spent lavishly, although the Ministry of Finance has sent financial personnel, but supervision is one thing, and the efficiency of the use of silver is another.

During the period when Zhu Beiguo Xu Zhi was training the crew of the proud sister ship at the Red Wharf, he attended a seminar of the Fire Pond Club, which was attended by members of the Vegetable Garden Club for the first time, and the core content of their discussion was how to efficiently implement the financial budget of Operation Changfeng, spend the money where it should be spent, and try not to produce waste.

At this discussion meeting, Zhu Beiguo Xu Zhi took out a telegram from Zixia Island, the governor of Zixia Island, Li Junming, who was at the center of the whirlpool of problems, and promptly put forward his own views on the complaints that occurred in the federal Senate, and it was obvious that Li and Zhu Xu had been discussing these issues for a long time through telegrams.

Li, Zhu, and Xu Ge are good friends and are also recognized by everyone as a "political and economic think tank." Zhu Beiguo took out the telegram and read the full text to everyone, and its contents immediately aroused everyone's attention and interest.

Li Junming raised a question in the telegram: Historically, large-scale relief, land reclamation, and resettlement organized by the government @ government have a common problem -- low efficiency, staggering waste, and a high probability of injustice, and such relief operations not only require a lot of investment, but are also protracted.

In a word, it is often time-consuming and laborious, and it is not pleasing to complain.

Li Junming went on to say that he and Zhu Xu had recently discussed and studied many examples of immigration and reclamation in the history of the Old World, and they found that no matter how idealistic the original intentions of the emperors and kings were, the resettlement and reclamation carried out by executive order turned into a feast of corruption for officials at the grassroots level.

Therefore, in the end, if the people are not provoked, the so-called immigration and similar so-called great engineering projects will eventually become a farce of chicken feathers.

In fact, if it only ends in a farce of chicken feathers and waste money and money, it will have a good ending - it is not uncommon in history that many so-called big projects led by the government eventually lead to the collapse of a regime.

Li Junming concluded: We should learn the lessons of history, and although the normal wind action will certainly not cause any situation that threatens our rule, we must find a way to avoid the inefficiency and costly situation that is usually associated with such activities led by the government.

Conclusion: We should come up with an institutional solution to these problems.

Li Junming's telegram came to an abrupt end here, and everyone suddenly felt a little unfinished, and they all talked disturbedly, how could Brother Li become a eunuch halfway through his speech?

At this time, Zhu Beiguo smiled and took out another stack of paper, on which were densely written, he raised the paper in his hand and said, I have a preliminary plan here to solve this problem.

After hearing this, everyone immediately listened quietly, and Zhu Beiguo paused and said:

After research, we found that there was a fairly successful large-scale resettlement operation in the history of the Old World - its population migration scale was tens of millions, and it lasted for more than ten years, however, in this process, the government @ government actually did not spend any money!

Everyone was very interested and asked what was going on, and Zhu Beiguo said with a smile: That was the "Western Gold Rush" of the old United States.

After listening to the thoughts, some nodded their heads, and some of them suddenly realized, seeing that everyone was about to gossip eagerly, Xu Zhi quickly clapped his hands and focused everyone's attention on his side and responded:

Although the so-called gold rush was now a gimmick, the key factor was the great release of the enthusiasm of the immigrants to open up the new world spontaneously.

As for the federal and state and county governments in the United States at that time, they only played the role of protectors and arbiters in this wave of immigration, in other words, the federal government did not interfere too much with the spontaneous enthusiasm of the people, and it did not spend much taxpayers' money, but the effect was surprisingly good.

In fact, the Western Expansion Movement was a real gold hole, and the economic prosperity brought by the cowboys of the West turned the otherwise inhospitable hinterland and beaches into bustling towns - and all this was achieved by not relying on the investment of the federal government@---- but on the original motivation of people to make a fortune and start a new life in the new world.

Of course, we don't have the strength of the U.S. federal government @ government at present, and our immigrants do not have the material and political conditions when Americans moved westward with their families, so we should play a lot more "roles" in the process of immigration and reclamation than the U.S. federal government, so we can't copy the homework of our predecessors as it was.

However, there is a major lesson, or rather a more appropriate principle, that is, the most efficient and fair way to operate the resettlement and reclamation undertaking is to use market-oriented and commercial means and forms.

The form of "commercial loan" proposed by Zhu, Li and Xu is a concrete method for implementing this principle.

"Every normal person is a rational economic person" is the theoretical basis for the resettlement and reclamation strategy of the Federal Relief Act that was later jointly developed by Zhu, Li and Xu with a "high degree of openness and freedom".

Later, in the course of the Senate's interpretation and discussion of the "Federal Relief Act", Xu Zhi said a passage that was later recorded in the "Zhu Beiguo Diary" and secretly circulated to future generations, and the following is a summary of Xu Zhi's speech:

"Senators, I must point out here ----that while the purely commercial approach to immigration is not the dominant model in this new world, it is the most suitable model for us.

I can be very blunt about the reasons for this – we don't want to be thankless, and we don't want to waste it.

Because resettlement is our long-term strategy, relying on federal agencies to use administrative intervention and huge investments is not sustainable.

It is also because this protracted long-term strategy requires us not only to take things in stride, but also to achieve our strategic goals in a fair, efficient and sustainable manner.

Then, it is an inevitable choice to adopt a business model that encourages the spontaneity of the people and has the benefits of the commercial market, and it is the only reasonable choice.

I also hope that everyone will be clear - immigration and reclamation is indeed a cause for the benefit of the country and the people, however, the purpose of our undertaking is not to universalize the emperor's favor and be favored by the world, nor is it for the so-called social stability to alleviate social contradictions, let alone to make any political achievements and leave a name in history - these motives often arise in the minds of emperors and kings and dictators of all kinds.

Our goal is simple – to gain population, increase productivity, and thus strengthen the nation, while cultivating people who share our ideals and create a vibrant, thriving market, and a free nation where the spirit of commerce is respected, so that we can stand and thrive in the new world.

Because in essence, we are not aristocrats, we are merchants! And it is a businessman who follows the spirit of business, so, what is the spirit of business?

Equality and voluntariness are the core concepts of the business spirit!

One sentence summary: We are not some immortal emperor savior, so we are not and should not give anything to the public, not to mention that as long as we are people with independent personality, we don't need the gifts of others!

So, when facing our citizens, we just need to do things under the concept of business spirit.

So, in most cases, we only have an abacus in our hands, and in certain cases, we hold an abacus in one hand and a rifle in the other—and when we pick up a rifle, the only reason is when our commercial spirit and our idea of freedom are threatened from outside......"

Xu Zhi's speech won warm applause from the senators......