Chapter 240: A Super International Metropolis
More than two years later, Haijing has also attracted the entry of riches, enterprises and merchants from all over the world and various countries, because everyone who comes to Haijing, whether it is a Tang Dynasty or a foreigner, whether rich or poor, is conquered by the charm of this new, magical and prosperous modern city, everything in this city is so novel, so magical, so neat, so spectacular, so prosperous, so charming, and everyone who comes to this beautiful metropolis is deeply in love.
In just over two years, Haijing, a super world metropolis, has opened a dazzling variety of shops on both sides of the wide road: silk shops, tea shops, leather shops, ceramics shops, medicinal herb shops, jewelry stores, clothing stores, grain and oil stores, food stores, aquatic product stores, furniture stores, cosmetics stores, gourmet shops, spice shops, glass shops, non-staple food shops, calligraphy and painting shops, souvenir shops, daily necessities stores, hotels, tea houses, hotels, pawn shops, money houses, shopping malls, hospitals, etc., with many shops, brilliant lights, high-rise buildings, busy traffic, The population has far exceeded the more than 2 million people in Chang'an, reaching more than 5 million people, while Constantinople had about 300,000 people in the same period, Rome only 50,000, and Paris only 25,000. Xia Xue knew that this number would continue to rise in the future, and Haijing was really precious now.
After all, Haijing is built as a super international metropolis, and there are no restrictions on the traditional entertainment industry Xia Xue, which is popular in major cities around the world, such as Fengyue venues, red light districts, green buildings, nightclubs, and even casinos and gambling houses, as long as these enterprises are legally operated and taxed according to law, Xia Xue is still allowed and protected, but there are certain restrictions on the age of people entering and leaving such special entertainment venues, and minors under the age of 16 are not allowed to enter, nor are minors allowed to engage in related activities. There are also corresponding legal protections for practitioners, such as not allowing forced abuse of female practitioners. For Qinglou and other buildings, more attention is paid to health and disease transmission control, and special and targeted regulations and measures.
Xia Xue from later generations has never made decisions purely from their own likes and dislikes, but from a scientific point of view for rational thinking, she knows that people have primitive instincts, primitive desires, and some inferior roots, and a celebrity said: "It is not the will that rules the world, but the desire." ”
These primitive human instincts and desires do not matter whether they are good or bad, it is an objective existence, that is, an ordinary thing that everyone is born with in their genes, just like a wolf eats sheep and a sheep eats grass, it is a natural phenomenon. There is no need to see these primitive human desires like a flood of beasts. For these primitive instincts and desires of human beings, Xia Xue adopts a scientific and rational method of "it should be sparse and not blocked", just like for the floods of large rivers, and is good at using human primitive instincts and desires to make a lot of money.
If you can't find traditional industries such as Qinglou gambling houses in the big city of Haijing, let them vent their primitive desires, relieve stress, and carry out public relations and entertainment activities, then the city will not attract businessmen from all over the world for a long time, and it is not in line with the status of a super international metropolis. What's more, these traditional industries such as Qinglou gambling houses and gambling houses, as the tertiary industry, have also contributed a lot of taxes to Haijing.
Xia Xue also developed related products, such as anti-yun drugs, condoms, drugs for the treatment of disease X, etc., which were very popular as soon as they were launched, adding a new money-making project to the angel company.
Xia Xue knows that a country, city, and company want to operate normally, but spending money every day is like flowing water, and everything is empty talk without money, so she has to find ways to make more money and find ways to increase the financial income of the country, city, and company.
Of course, in Haijing, these special industries are strictly controlled, and they cannot be opened casually, but only enterprises that need strong funds, good management and good reputation are qualified to open them. For casinos and casinos, in addition to requiring enterprises to have strong funds and good reputation, Xia Xue also asked casinos to ensure that the qualifications of gambling participants are reviewed to prevent illegal and criminal incidents. Compared with Qinglou and other Fengyue places, casino gambling houses are more likely to breed crime, Xia Xue asked gambling houses to set up enterprises and police departments to work closely with the police to strictly prevent those gamblers who like to go to extremes to break the law and commit crimes.
Datang generally does not open prisons for long-term detention of criminals, because taking the people's tax money and the limited funds of the state treasury to feed a large group of criminals in vain, the Tang monarchs and the people feel that it is a waste of money. Therefore, if a criminal who has not defected to the death penalty is in good health, he or she will be sent to a mine or other place for unpaid labor until the end of his sentence before he can be released. Those who are not in good health will be exiled to remote places, usually large state-owned pastures, where sheep and cattle are grazing, and female criminals will be sent to state-owned textile factories, garment factories and other factories suitable for women to work for labor. In Datang, there is no mental illness in the future generations that can be exempted from crime, as long as you break the law and commit a crime, you will be punished, that is, mental illness murder, and you will be sentenced to death for murder as usual. Since all gambling participants must be recorded with their real names, when there are many illegal and criminal incidents of gamblers in a certain gambling house and casino, the city hall will punish the owners of these casino casinos and even revoke their qualifications, so these casino casinos will also carry out some control, restraint and persuasion on those gamblers to prevent them from losing their minds and gambling indiscriminately.
Because she was well aware of the dangers of usury, Xia Xue asked the Haijing Police Department to severely crack down on the behavior of usury in casinos and other places, and once discovered, immediately arrest and severely punish the people who issued usury, and in addition to being punished for ruining their families, they also had to serve long-term hard labor in the mines. Therefore, in Haijing, there are very few people who dare to blatantly lend usury.
Xia Xue knows that the charm of freedom is very great, in order to attract rich businessmen from all over the world to invest in Haijing, Xia Xue has been working hard to make Haijing the freest city in the world, as long as you don't do things that endanger the safety of Datang, as long as you don't do things that damage Haijing's business environment, you can do whatever you want in Haijing.
In Haijing, Xia Xue has no restrictions on traditional industries such as Qinglou Gambling House, no restrictions on ZJ beliefs, no restrictions on ethnic customs, and no restrictions on the form of marriage, for example, in Haijing, whether you are monogamous, you are polygamous, you are polyandry, you are a same-sex couple, anyway, as long as both parties are willing, they are all allowed and protected by law.
"The sea is inclusive, and tolerance is great". Xia Xue wants to build Haijing into the most free, modern, fun, inclusive, broad, prosperous, advanced, safe, and veritable international trade metropolis. Haijing is like a huge melting pot that brings together all kinds of people and cultures; Haijing is like the sea, with the broad embrace of all rivers, so that people from all over the world who come to Haijing feel comfortable, free, satisfied, and safe.
Xia Xue knows that only in this way can Haijing attract more merchants to settle in Haijing, maintain the world's No. 1 super popularity for a long time, attract more wealth and capital inflows, maintain eternal attractiveness, and maintain prosperity forever.
Anyone who comes to Haijing is eye-opening, all kinds of goods are dazzling, all kinds of food are feasting, all kinds of services and entertainment are colorful, they all unanimously find that in Haijing, there is nothing you can't buy. And Haijing is so free, prosperous, and safe. Haijing is really like a paradise on earth, so that people who come to Haijing will not want to return and fall in love with this super international metropolis. As a result, more wealthy businessmen around the world have bought real estate and opened stores in Haijing, and the price of land in Haijing has soared, and it has really become a valuable land. The size of Haijing's city is also expanding, from the main urban area to the surrounding suburbs, and the population of Haijing is also rising.
A sense of security is a necessary guarantee to ensure the long-term prosperity of a big city, in order to build Haijing into the safest and most prosperous metropolis in the world, Xia Xue set up a police station in Haijing, select young men and women with good conduct, strong body, and loyalty, and form a police patrol team, 24 hours a day, there are police patrols in all districts of Haijing, Xia Xue believes that the police must patrol the block, not sitting in the office to ensure deterrence, in order to protect the safety of people's lives and property, in order to prevent illegal and criminal incidents in time, in order to ensure that criminals are caught in a timely manner. Therefore, all the policemen in Haijing work on the streets, on the streets, in squares and parks, in residential communities, and other places, and only a special police team of more than 100 people will be dispatched to deal with criminals who are more dangerous, difficult, urgent, serious, and difficult to arrest.
The equipment of the Haijing patrol police, Xia Xue specially designed a pistol for them, because the pistol is short and lightweight, it can be carried around, the structure is simple, the operation is convenient, the use is safe, and the effective killing distance is about 50 meters. Because the lethality of pistols is smaller than that of rifles, and the bullets do not easily penetrate the human body, it is very suitable for law enforcement and crackdown on criminals in densely populated places like cities. Each police officer has also been assigned a police post, and in the event of a police emergency, the police can be sounded to summon nearby police to come to support and assist. In addition, batons and handcuffs were also distributed, because for ordinary lawbreakers, it is impossible to go up and shoot, and batons and handcuffs will be used to subdue them first. These patrolling policemen will take turns on duty on the streets every day, and in their free time, they will conduct combat training such as fighting and grappling, and all of them are extraordinary, so even if they are empty-handed, these policemen can basically deal with ordinary criminals.
The equipment of the special police is better than that of the police, in addition to the pistols, handcuffs, and police posts that are issued to each person, they are also equipped with a full-automatic rifle with a longer firing range and can shoot continuously. However, the Angel military machine gun can compensate for the lack of firepower of semi-automatic rifles. Since SWAT officers enforce the law in densely populated Haegyung-ri, they cannot use machine guns that are too lethal, and fully automatic rifles are enough to suppress all criminals. The effective range is less than 800 meters, which is enough to shoot all criminals from a long distance. The SWAT team consists of a team of 10 snipers with rifles equipped with scopes that can shoot targeted criminals from a distance. Since the SWAT team is generally dispatched to see blood, the SWAT is not equipped with batons, but with rifle bayonets, which can be loaded with bayonets when needed, and smoke bombs are also equipped to deal with criminals hiding in the house.
Xia Xue also suggested that Li Shimin appoint the honest and honest Xu Yougong as the mayor of Haijing, so the social order of the entire Haijing was very good, the social atmosphere was very harmonious, and even reached a stable situation of "leaving no road unturned and never closing the door at night" for a time, and the people who lived and worked in Haijing City felt extremely safe and happy. A good public security environment and an efficient and honest government environment have in turn promoted more merchants to enter Haijing, and Haijing has become more and more prosperous.