Chapter 27, The Chancellor's Troubles
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It took more than a year to manufacture a keel, and the design of the "Xingchen" is a giant super battleship of thousands of kilometers, and 12 keels are needed alone, and at such a construction speed, it will take more than ten years to lay this keel!
Of course, this is also the reason why the empire did not do its best to build, after all, the construction of the first Qijin keel is a bit of an experiment, and the empire will definitely send more people over in the later stage, and I believe that the construction progress will be greatly improved. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The already laid keel was quietly suspended in the void like a pillar of optimism, and because of the large mass, its surface actually generated gravity!
That's right, the keel with a length of thousands of kilometers and a diameter of more than ten kilometers is all made of Qijin, and the main material of Qijin is iron, and you don't need to calculate it to know how massive this keel is, and it is not strange that it generates gravity by itself, although its gravity is very small, people can get rid of its shackles with a light jump when standing on it.
The keel had been built in place by several large spaceships, and many scientists piloted the mechs to land on the surface of the keel to examine it.
"Tsk! I have to say that the material created from the atomic point of view feels different! ”
An engineer piloted a mecha dozens of meters high, and the mecha was very humane and touched the surface of the keel with a huge iron palm, and the engineer inside enjoyed saying such words very much.
"I'm speechless to you, and you don't touch it with your own hands, it's still textured!"
Immediately, some companions were speechless about his performance, and the technology of the mecha was not yet strong enough to make people feel as if they were touching the palm of their own hand through the palm of the mecha.
"You don't understand this, do you? You can learn from me, close your eyes, feel it, and you can also feel that the texture of this atomic material is really completely different from ordinary materials! ”
"I'm not going to be as bored as you are, work, work!"
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In fact, this keel is completely fine from its shape alone, if it is not made from an atomic point of view, it is impossible to maintain its current shape when the mass is so large, and the balance of gravity will make it an iron ball.
However, after all, this keel is one of the main keels used on the "Xingchen", and the "Xingchen" shoulders the mission of the times whether the empire can beat aliens, so naturally it cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness, and any place on it must be carefully examined.
Countless engineers and scientists drove mechas, with special inspection equipment, carefully inspected every place of the keel, and from a distance, it looked like countless ants were walking around on a huge stick, as if they were looking for something.
"Perfect, it was so perfect! It is not a revolutionary innovation technology in the field of materials science, and there is no difference between this atomic material technology to create such a huge keel! ”
After the inspection, the scientists exclaimed incredible, and sighed at the power of atomic material technology, creating materials from the perspective of atoms, flawless, and unable to find the slightest problem.
"Just kidding! Don't look at who researched these technologies, this is my people from the Academy of Materials Sciences, this is a revolutionary technology! "The people in the School of Materials Science are now very bullish and coaxing with the outside world!
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Compared with the excitement of scientists and engineers, Hu Huirong, the finance minister in charge of the empire's finances, was bitter at this time, the reason was very simple, the cost of this keel had consumed one percent of the empire's budget, and one-tenth of the resources originally reserved had also been consumed.
Don't look at the cost of one percent of the empire's budget for a keel, it doesn't seem to be much, but you must know that the empire needs to spend a lot of money, especially in the cost of children, public welfare, plus other expenses, the empire's finances actually don't save much every year.
One percent of the budget was spent at once, and it can be said that a large part of the annual balance of the empire was spent, coupled with the consumption of resources, the chancellor of the exchequer, who has always been known for being stingy, naturally had a very unsightly face, and kept sighing in his heart: "This housekeeper is too difficult to be!" ”
The finances of the empire are different from those of the countries on earth, and the government has to live on fiscal deficits every year, and through the fiscal deficits to stimulate economic development, the government debt has been high and grown!
In the United States, for example, the U.S. government has to add hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal deficits every year, and the total fiscal deficit has reached $40 trillion in 2015!
What does $40 trillion mean? The population of the United States is just over 300 million, which means that every American is burdened with a debt of more than 100,000 dollars!
But everyone knows that Americans live very happily, the government owes tens of trillions of dollars in debt, and the annual interest repayment alone is enough for the US government to have a headache, but Americans live very happily, why is this?
Because the dollar is the world currency, Americans can rely on the status of the dollar as the world currency, constantly printing money, printing money, and letting people all over the world pay for the Americans, which is the reason why Americans can live a good life, otherwise relying on American industry alone is simply not enough for Americans to live such a luxurious life.
Americans can use the dollar to pass on their domestic problems and make the world pay for them, but the rest of the world can't do that!
The government can stimulate the development of the economy and stimulate huge domestic demand through fiscal deficits, because the reason is very simple, if you make money and do not spend it, you can only become more and more worthless, and fools will always be in the bank, so that the money continues to depreciate, so everyone is keen on consumption, domestic demand will rise, and the economy will be stimulated!
But have you noticed that there is a problem here, that is, the waste of resources!
Because money is depreciating every year, everyone is keen to consume, the money is really their own, not spent will only become more and more worthless, the demand of the society is stimulated, and there will be a large waste of resources when consumption! It can even be said to be a serious waste!
You don't see that every woman's wardrobe, bag, and shoes can open a store, but how many times do they really use these things? Many times I don't wear it a few times and I find that I don't like it, and then I throw it away.
There are more and more obese people in society, and China's obese people are about to catch up with the United States, which shows that too much food is wasted, and then these obese people have to waste more social resources to lose weight and maintain good health.
You may say that the two examples you gave above can only show that social development has been achieved, and everyone's living standards have been higher, how can it be said that it is related to the national fiscal deficit? And how can the policy of the state be blamed?
It is undeniable that the fiscal deficit does have a great stimulating effect on the economy, but we should consider it from a long-term perspective, once this resource is wasted, many resources are non-renewable resources, and the fiscal deficit is not a good thing for ordinary people.
Especially for a nation like our Chinese nation, the ancients liked to be diligent and thrifty, and now ordinary people like to save money, especially farmers!
Then everyone understands that the money deposited in the bank is becoming less and less valuable, and the wealth created by the people at the bottom is becoming less and less invisibly, and all of it is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the wealth of society is becoming more and more concentrated!
The Han Science and Technology Empire implements a constant value energy monetary system, the value of one Han Yuan is always the same, and the currency issued every year is accurately estimated according to the actual situation of the economy, and it will not be too far apart.
So it is simply impossible for the empire to learn from the countries of the planet and stimulate the development of the economy through fiscal deficits, a means that we do not bother to use!
The empire is based on science and technology, and if you want to stimulate economic development, you can, work hard to improve the technology of scientists, liberate the productive forces, and fundamentally create more social wealth, which is fundamental!
At the same time, the monetary and fiscal policies implemented by the empire also play a very important role in the distribution of social wealth, and wherever the money of ordinary people is placed, it will never depreciate, and the few people who hold state power will not be able to exploit ordinary people through currency depreciation and fiscal deficits.
Coupled with the welfare policy of the empire, the gap between the rich and the poor in the empire can be said to be very small, what if you have money? It's not like ordinary people live in the same villa, drive the same flying machine, and go to the same school.
In this way, the society will neither have any hatred for the rich, nor will there be any envy of the rich mentality, such a thing as disliking the poor and loving the rich is impossible here in the empire, and the trend of money worship does not have any market here in the empire, and the empire will rarely have any ugly old era phenomena such as small ~ three, two ~ milk!
The citizens of the empire are more in pursuit of their own values, the pursuit of their own dreams, and everyone doesn't care much about wealth, and the older generation of people who come from the earth still have a bit of an old atmosphere, but the younger generation of the empire can basically say that they don't have that kind of mentality at all.
Good education, a healthy humanistic and social environment, the young generation of the empire are all working hard to pursue their dreams, and this dream must have nothing to do with wealth, and the imperial nobles without any privileges are what everyone desires, which is an honor! The Empire gives an honor to citizens who have made outstanding contributions!
This is the powerful influence brought by a good system and a good humanistic and social environment, which has changed countless ugly phenomena in human history for thousands of years!
But for the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Empire, this butler is really difficult to be! (To be continued.) )