Chapter 356: The Prototype of the Economic Foundation
Once this personal information is obtained, the registered survivors are given a "World Bank" account from the administrative officials and told that they will receive a certain amount of electronic money on a regular basis in the newly acquired account.
The World Bank is the latest subordinate body concocted by several senior members of the Space-Time Council, and is responsible for the construction of the world's financial system. The first step, of course, is to establish a currency circulation system.
The electronic money they send to survivors through guò is not just a number on a screen. Survivors who own these electronic currencies can use them as if they were any pre-crisis currency.
With these electronic money, survivors can go to the open area of the Dubai mall to exchange for various necessities, such as food, drinks, appliances and furniture.
Of course, the amount of materials that can be exchanged for this subsidy alone is very limited, and it can only be used to buy the most basic living materials.
One might ask, did the house the survivors get when they arrive without these appliances and furniture? No one can take the furniture with you when the crisis erupts.
So shouldn't every house that is allocated have these supporting things? Why do you need survivors to buy it? The answer to this question is very clear, of course not! Or not all.
In order to establish the electronic trading system they needed as soon as possible to control the future economic lifeline of the world, the council had given the survivors all the things they had given to them.
In the case of houses, the council used to resettle the survivors by allocating each or family a house with no construction problems, and providing free water and electricity.
But sadly, these houses often do not have supporting appliances and furniture, this one has no bed, that one does not have a refrigerator is very, very common.
This means that the survivors have to find their own way to get these necessities when they move in. Otherwise, you will still have to live a crippled modern life.
Of course. They can live without these necessities, after all, they have survived a lot of hard times in the past two years, and the safe life in front of them seems to be very good. Right. That's what you think, right?
But in reality, the answer is the opposite of what many people think. For those survivors who have already moved here, this shortage of appliances is actually very difficult to accept, because they are now returning to civilization.
In the past, they were able to convince themselves when they fled in exile and fought against mutants. Say that this is due to the environment, and the hardships of life will pass as soon as you endure it.
But now there is everything in the city, and pre-war supplies are readily available. Water and electricity are also free. It seems that as long as you work hard. You can live a comfortable life before the crisis, or even better.
No one can resist such a temptation, especially for the survivors who have been living a hard life for more than two years. The difficult experiences of the past two years have taught them all how to cherish the good times in front of them.
So after spending some time figuring out the new monetary system and market and job opportunities, they immediately plunged into the construction work initiated by various reconstruction committees, as Shen Chao expected.
Now, every morning, newcomers gather in front of several large screens in the plaza outside the Burj Khalifa to check out job vacancies posted by the Redevelopment Committee. Then, when the administrative officials are present, they sign up to participate in various jobs.
Shen Chao and the others made another no-capital transaction, using the things that were originally moved out of these non-allocated houses to lure the new survivors who moved in. Out of thin air, there is a market for demand and labor!
And since the value of the currency is directly tied to the supply of necessities. Therefore, although the number of survivors under their rule is still very small, the entire new monetary system is still stable, and there are no financial bugs in the current trial operation stage.
At present, most of the material transactions in the city rely on this electronic money as an intermediary. So although the whole system is still fragile, the credit base of the new electronic money has been established.
Speaking of which, some people may have doubts. That's why the council needs to hire workers, and doesn't the council have a lot of people who specialize in doing work?
At this stage, they did not have a grain-producing area, and it was impossible to fully restore social production, and there was almost no demand for skilled workers. What kind of work must be done by survivors? Wouldn't it be okay to hand it over to the machines?
In fact, the answer is very simple, because people are much smarter than machines, and the survivors are not hired to do too much work, just to find something for them to do.
After all, the main supply of goods in the city depends on the council's material reserves, and the survivors can live on their subsidies at this stage. There is no need to go out to work to get supplies.
But if there is no work to be done for a long time, people will slowly become lazy and end up not wanting to do anything. This is also human nature. Shen Chao has seen many practical examples.
So he knew that if they maintained the current policy towards the survivors for a long time, then after their army cleared the grain belt, the survivors might be lazy and reluctant to move in and build a new life.
So, in order not to make the survivors too inert, they need to find something to do for the survivors who have nothing to do, and the best way to do it is undoubtedly to create demand and jobs.
Once the survivors are guided to establish the basic industrial chain, their future work will be much easier, and it can also accelerate the integration of the resources of this plane in the later stage. Therefore, creating a market and working is a necessary means of control.
At this stage, the main task of recruiting survivors is to clean up the ruins of the city, and clean up the ruins and debris in various urban areas in Dubai that have not been taken care of before.
Don't underestimate the difficulty of this work, when they occupied the urban area of Dubai before, although they sent a large number of people to clean up the ruins and debris in the city, it was only very reluctant to clear about one-twentieth of the city.
This is where the survivors live today. It will take a lot of manpower and time to completely clean up this city, which once had a population of more than 10 million.
By the time the survivors have completely cleared the ruins of several nearby cities, the council estimates that they will have at least one high-yield grain belt.
Naturally, new jobs will be given to them, and the survivors who will come out will be fully adapted to the economic system they have built and help them continue to do so......
So you see, it's a combination punch. As long as every step is carried out well, within two years, the world will be able to restore its primary agricultural productivity, not to mention the prospects of other industries when they have a large number of industrial talents.
If they are even hopeful, they can even hope to build a new high-tech industrial system in this world within a few years, and it is not too far away to build a shipyard for starships in this world.
The outlook is optimistic, and progress looks good, but as the old saying goes, you have to eat one bite at a time. If they want to drive a warship across all planes, they still have a lot of way to go, a lot of construction work to do. One bite is definitely not fat.
While establishing the financial system, Shen Chao did not let go of the construction of other infrastructure, the most important of which may be the construction of the network system.
Previously, they had focused on building their reconnaissance and command networks in this plane. That is, their military network in this plane.
But for the sake of future development, the world also needs civilian networks. And the network conditions before this world are just too bad, typical of the level of the early 21st century of human beings. Low bandwidth, poor security, and few functions do not meet the needs of their development.
Therefore, the parliament rejected the proposal to rebuild the original Internet of this world without any suspense, and simply built its own civilian network here, with technical standards and equipment from the civilian network of the Mass Effect world.
In accordance with the method of building a military network, they laid a batch of civilian communications satellites purchased in advance into the earth's orbit and used them as network nodes, thus achieving global coverage of the signals of the primary communications network.
Then they bound the newly built private network here with an information channeling VI, so that the maintenance of the network environment will be much easier. There is no longer a need for a large number of technicians to maintain the network environment 24 hours a day.
But even so, there are still very few people who have the means to access their network. Because the computers of this world cannot directly receive their satellite signals.
Only the ground base station with the guò second level can convert the faster-than-light signal into a conventional high-frequency electromagnetic wave signal, and only in this way can the world's computers be connected to their network.
Such a secondary base station is currently only available in Dubai, so only people in the occupied territories who already have computers will be able to connect to their network.
The newly built civilian network is much more rudimentary than the military network they have already built, with only a few dozen websites. And among these sites, apart from the Reconstruction Committee's official website, which has updated information in real time, the other sites are more like online libraries or Wikipedias.
Although there are a lot of various materials and mirror texts, there is no entertainment function at all, and there is no need to think about the small movie. Despite its rudimentary nature, the number of logins to this newly established network is impressive.
Because the real-time information released on the official website of the Reconstruction Committee here is of great concern to every survivor, various new work and battle reports released by the Reconstruction Committee will be posted on the homepage of this place as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )
PS: Okay, the second chapter is updated tonight, so if you have a ticket, give me some encouragement, and I'll continue to work hard tomorrow......