Chapter 545 Take the people as your own responsibility

First of all, doing so can easily activate a place's economy.

Because it is tax-free, merchants will instinctively follow the trajectory of this merchant ship, striving to maximize their own interests and minimize costs.

This kind of reasonable tax avoidance is rare elsewhere.

What's more, there will definitely be a lot of opportunities on such a merchant ship - whether it is a business to serve the rich, or a business to do business with the rich, this is all connections and channels.

The food, clothing, shelter and consumption of the people living on the ship require a large amount of goods and trade to sustain themselves.

They need to be supplied directly on the spot.

That is to say, it only needs to dock itself next to any very primitive island, and the merchants, the workers hired by the merchants, the people who are looking for work on the ship, will naturally empty everything on the island, absorb the people on the island, and then turn the island into a deeply exploited industrial island.

People on this island may be able to find work directly on the local area, while others may get tired of life on a boat and get off the boat to live locally, and a large proportion of the locals may be absorbed into the boat.

Because people's yearning for a better life is a matter of course, otherwise South Americans would not have to cross thousands of hardships, be hunted, chased and blocked, physically walled, and invisibly discriminated against, but still have to go to North America to find jobs and opportunities.

Even in New Oriental back then, there were not a large group of people who gave up the motherland of giving birth to themselves, raising themselves, and low learning costs because of material life and material conditions, and turned to the arms of North America, which has high material and high costs.

This is the commonality of human beings, but it is precisely because of this that there is such a thing as family and country feelings, national dignity, national shame, and national self-confidence.

Only then can some of the big bulls who have completed their studies and have a good reputation all over the world give up their achievements and status, return to their hometowns with nothing, and build their own motherland from scratch.

With the kind of person in the front, it can be seen that the person in the back is rare and great.

And after the ship absorbs people from those poor areas, there is almost an endless source of cheap labor, which will keep the entire ship's service industry at a very low level.

Because the level of wages is low, the capitalists make money, don't they?

Even in big cities, first-, second-, and third-tier cities can't get along, there are always cheap houses and cheap education to ensure that workers and their descendants have pensions, medical care, and education.

And this ship doesn't seem to have such a buffer zone and a policy of guaranteeing the bottom line for migrant workers? But Leo had already thought about it: every island the ship went to? A country makes an exchange, it looks like it's going to be developing, it's going to be going to be people? Population absorption.

But do you actually need people for local development? Need a variety of people? Someone who endures to the limit on a ship, someone who has seen the world? Well-educated people, after entering the local area? Not only do they have a guaranteed livelihood, but they are also able to use their knowledge and insight to help the local development area.

After the merchants got to know this island, this island is no longer a ghost island that "does not appear on the map", but an island that is real, the products and outputs on it are open and transparent to the merchants with value.

So naturally, there will be some businessmen who are not strong enough to stay in the local area to invest? development, trade exchanges.

Until then? Will the whole island be completely opened? And the quality of life of these ordinary people who have retired from the ship will be further enhanced under trade.

This is the Revolutionary Army's version of the Rural Buffer Guarantee Plan.

Governance? It is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions.

Merchants on the first floor? One can only see the view of the prosperity of this ship, the enticing trade and profits.

The big merchants were on the second floor, and they could see the swallowing up of the local natural and human resources as the ship passed.

The revolutionaries were on the third floor, and they could foresee the development of the local area where the ship walked? It has caused earth-shaking impact and change in the lives of ordinary people.

And Leo is in the atmosphere, and he has even found a way out and a buffer zone for those who have been eliminated by this megacity.

This is the revolutionary army, this is his way of doing things.

"That ......" the president of the East China Sea Trade Chamber couldn't help but raise his hand, theoretically he shouldn't have spoken rashly on such an occasion.

Because then it is likely to offend a person he cannot afford to offend.

But there was no way to hide his curiosity.

While everyone was falling into the illusion of a better future, he couldn't help but raise his hand and ask, "I can take the liberty of asking, why do you want to do this for them?" ”

That's right, why?

The five businessmen came back to their senses one after another.

If you want to maximize the benefits, a round-trip cruise in the capital of the seven waters, the Chambord Islands, and the island of Gaya is enough.

The ship's own warehouses alone were enough to pile up the wealth of the revolutionary army.

But why did Leo have to put so much effort, so much effort, and so much trouble to do?

You must know that with the size of this ship, if you want to enter the four seas through the great route, I am afraid that you will either have to dismantle part of the Red Earth Continent, or you will have to clear the sea kings in the windless zone.

Although this kind of thing is not simple for the current revolutionary army, it is something that can be done with a little effort.

But is it really necessary for the revolutionary army to get to the point where it is now for the sake of the exploitation of the resources on those islands?

For the revolutionary army, the cost and benefit of such an investment are not at all proportional.

Is it really necessary for them to get to this point?

Leo laughed: "This is actually a grand strategy of the revolutionary army. ”

"In five to 10 years' time, we will completely lift the majority of people out of poverty, help them enter a modern life, help them get rid of the threat of the beast, and help them enter a normal, healthy and upward life."

"This is what our revolutionary army will do, and it is also what the revolutionary army will continue to do in the future, and we will do whatever it takes to accomplish this."

"Not to mention that we do have a lot of money, manpower, material resources, and friends who are willing to help us,"

"The right time, the right people, and the right people are on our side, so why shouldn't we do it?"

Leo asked, spreading his hands.

Everyone was stunned by Leo's grandeur, and for a moment none of the five merchants could speak.

They are actually starting to be ashamed of their little profit calculations!

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PS: Some of the theories in this one come from Wen Tiejun, an expert on rural issues in China.