Chapter 15 Newborns and Vouchers

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The calendar went to Tuesday, December 20, 1620, and it snowed heavily.

Heavy snowfall for several days has brought various projects in the Brooklyn Industrial Zone to a standstill. Today, people throughout the Manhattan community are in a strange state of silence, and at this moment, in a special room in a community hospital, a pregnant woman is waiting to give birth.

The pregnant woman miraculously survived the catastrophe and became the first Manhattan resident to give birth to her next child.

The word "offspring" is a topic of hope and future in any era. The 498 people who have experienced a great disaster have been tirelessly running for survival for several months, and now that they have settled down a little, many things that they once left behind are slowly emerging.

Whether it is the increasing expression of "autonomous behavior" among some young people, led by Yan Xiaosong, or the gradual demand for vacation rights and labor remuneration by former dock workers. People have already begun to think about the future normally after the crisis.

Economically, in life, even ideologically, and so on.

The community committee also discussed this on and off a few times, but each time it was not resolved at the most critical time. The question is whether to liberalize the integrated and compulsory management of all now and implement institutionalized and free management.

It's a daunting topic. Even Su Zining, who extremely understands and agrees with Yan Xiaosong, has nothing to say at this time.

After people are alive, safe and clothed, what remains is the pursuit of ideals and the release of humanity. Even if he is a grassroots fart, he has an acre and a third of land that he cares about ideologically.

What kind of life you want to live, what kind of life you can get. This is a thought that even the gods can't stop.

The imminent birth of a newborn baby has finally unearthed a sharper reality - the imbalance between men and women. Among the 73 women, excluding 38 "other wives" with families and 8 underage girls, only 27 were unmarried, and more than 300 singles were "waiting to be fed".

A "sunset red" like Liu Lao naturally won't use his power to grab food with everyone in this regard, but what about those young people? Especially the former dock workers, who suffered from all kinds of objective inequalities in wealth and education, will they still accept that fate in this new world?

This hidden danger is no longer something that can be explained by the social ethics of "not suffering from widowhood but suffering from unevenness". It's a powder keg!

What about Native American women? Liu Lanxi, the committee's new community security commissioner, apprehensively proposed a plan, but was unanimously shaken by the male committee members, including Liu Lao.

Let's not talk about whether Li Xiang's outlier is the first spark of this powder keg, at least his current Indian appearance is good-looking, with clear eyebrows and a good figure. Others, judging by the strange expressions on the faces of most of the dock workers in the face of those Indian women, do not have any sexual fantasies.

Well, in the end, the question was left to some self-styled social psychologist to ponder. At this stage, an issue related to the education of minors in settlements is also imminent, which is also an entry point for creating a normal social life order. What's more, Su Zining had long put forward the relevant idea of "de-Indianization" for minors from nearby Indian tribes.

There are also a few teachers who cross the crowd, from preschool education to middle school, it is not important whether the subject meets the overall requirements, the key is the inheritance of Chinese tradition and modern social ideological values.

This time, it will be almost unanimous, with a female commissioner in charge, and will establish a kindergarten, a primary school and a secondary school in the shortest possible time. For this reason, Li Xiang, the "Indian Goodwill Ambassador", will be given a new mission, which is to try to fool the minors and even young people of the Indian tribe to come to school.

Finally, there is the issue of the economy.

To put it bluntly, the Manhattan community is not much better than the nearby Indian tribes. A system of planned distribution under the management of a complete collective commune. This system may not be a problem for Liu Lao and others, but for the younger generation of committee members, including Zheng Quan, they have a deep understanding.

Under the mode of temporary compulsory planning and regulated social production, everyone's social wealth is virtualized, and dispatch and distribution become the source of injustice, and whoever presides over this justice will intensify everyone's dissatisfaction with the remuneration of their labor. After all, it is not possible to manage such a group of modern people who are still working hard for a long time with a wartime system.

According to Shi Wenbo, a former master of finance and a bank executive, the community committee will set up a new subordinate body, called the Ministry of Economic Management, referred to as the Ministry of Economic Management, and all production departments of the community will become the management enterprises of this economic management department.

As a result, the entire Manhattan community's production sector will become a special large state-owned enterprise, with 51 percent of the shares vacant and later submitted to a more formal state-owned agency to manage the holdings, and each of the 498 full-scale residents will hold the remaining shares equally and choose jobs on a voluntary basis.

The members of the management committee will calculate an approximate value based on internal production, circulation and consumption, and the remuneration of all employees will be paid in the form of vouchers to the workers of each department.

Those who do not participate in the work, or who are unable to work, enjoy several levels of basic living security according to the specific situation.

Vouchers are not real money, it can only be used as a fixed digital unit to quantify the value that a commodity should have in the production, circulation and consumption links, note that it is a certain commodity, but does not mean that all commodities can be exchanged for vouchers, because some of the rare materials in the hands of the community committee must be independent of the financial value system at this stage.

Therefore, such vouchers will not fulfill their full monetary function.

At first glance, it seems to be feasible. However, there is a hidden danger that someone who understands that this plan is the question of who determines the value of the voucher and the object of the redemption. Otherwise, this thing that is worse than paper money will not even have a chance to depreciate overnight.

But for the time being, until the future system of government is established, only such a rudimentary means can be used to solve the problem of the remuneration of the people who cross the country. The issuance of vouchers will be entrusted by the Community Committee to the Ministry of Management, but the Department of Management itself does not have the right to issue them.

Since all means of production and stockpiles are now nominally owned by community committees, the Ministry of Import and Export Trade, which will soon be formed, will also belong to community committees. Therefore, every time the community committee issues a batch of vouchers, it must also supply the relatively equivalent materials to the enterprises in these sectors.

In turn, the community council will inject the vouchers or materials obtained into each production sector in the form of state grants, and then use the means of taxation to obtain financial revenues from the operating accounts of the enterprises and can purchase any goods or raw materials of enterprises in various sectors.

This unique economic model is the easiest to implement and manage for a Manhattan community of 498 people, and it also prevents the community council from issuing vouchers "on its own".

In addition, the community council will issue real money to recover vouchers in due course, and in the future allow full residents to purchase and transfer shares in any business or start their own business.

Hidden dangers and problems are objective and rigid, but after pondering a series of complicated rules, the community committee reluctantly agrees to implement them, and retains the power to adjust policies under special emergency situations in the form of administrative endorsements.

Whether they are worried or happy, even the members of the community committee themselves are beginning to think about how to make good use of their shares.

When a series of policies were introduced on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1620, the residents of Manhattan suddenly found themselves living as if they had begun to move closer to what they had been.

Regardless of how the young people despise it, the **silk who are accustomed to this Western calendar festival still carried out their own celebrations in the dock area and community streets, and 27 unmarried young women were the biggest collective pursuit since the Great Tribulation Day.

At least on the surface, people are quite harmonious.

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