Today, there are dozens of commodity trading markets in the city, large and small, which vary in size, with different sources of capital and different ways of doing business. Together, they form a fast-growing commodity market in the parliamentary occupation area.

Among them, there are super-large markets operated by pure official capital such as Dubai Mall, which sell necessities at affordable prices on behalf of the council and the municipal government, and stabilize the basic supply chain of the Dìng market.

There are also semi-official and purely private capital markets, which sell all kinds of high-demand commodities for the purpose of profit, and promote the continuous expansion and improvement of the market scale.

Due to the different targets, the goods sold in the emerging private market can be said to be diverse. There are more types than in Dubai malls, and there are all kinds of goods that have something to do with food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Among them, the larger markets are engaged in food, furniture, electrical appliances, automobiles, oilseeds, weapons, and building materials...... And so on and so forth.

Some private markets are large indoor trading venues similar to the Dubai Supermarket run by the Parliament, while more are small, open-air markets.

Several large private markets in the urban area are operated by chambers of commerce, mainly engaged in the sale of agricultural products, automobiles and furniture, which are currently the most scarce things in the urban area.

The Chamber of Commerce is organized spontaneously by businessmen who have accumulated enough money or credit, and who have more money and credibility in their hands, so that they can rent the building from the city government through loans or other means.

These large private markets are quite formal, and they need to apply for various business licenses, provide fire protection plans, and pay various taxes and fees from the municipal government.

In return, the municipality will provide them with tax rebates, tax reductions, and access to supply to help these new organised trading institutions survive in an unstable market environment. Shen Chao has a lot of places to use them in the future......

Because of these policy support from the municipal government, large private markets usually have two sets of supply channels, one of which is set up by the municipal government. Supplies bought from the Parliament. The other set is the goods provided by the private supply channel.

Only a small fraction of the supplies provided by the municipality come from the Council's strategic material reserve warehouse, and many more come from the long-distance material collection operations that the municipality regularly organizes for citizens.

Similar collection activities have been going on for almost half a year. It hasn't stopped since the Dubai Safe Zone was established. The scope of the material collection team is about to expand to Eastern Europe.

A typical collection operation usually looks like this, with hundreds or thousands of citizens conscripted for the operation, and then organized by the city government, they gather at the airport with weapons and various tools.

Subsequently. The citizens involved in the operation entered the cabin of the cargo ship under the protection and organization of a small number of troops, and then they were transported by the cargo ship to various small occupation zones or semi-safe zones (areas where there were no mutants within a certain distance) thousands of kilometers away.

Upon reaching remote destinations, the army would distribute maps, communication tools (and often their own communications equipment) to citizens, and provide some locally collected transport vehicles.

Citizens then form a transport convoy on a voluntary basis. Pick one of the warehouses marked on the map and collect valuable supplies during the day.

Due to the different abilities and warehouses selected, the citizens participating in the operation will collect different types and quantities of materials, among which the main ones are food.

Then, within a set time (usually before dark), people return to the ship's location with the collected supplies, unload the cargo and follow the ship home.

After returning to the safe zone of Dubai. All kinds of materials collected by citizens will be inspected and counted by city officials. After the materials are stored, the citizens who participate in the operation will receive corresponding rewards according to the amount and value of the materials collected.

At this point, a successful material collection operation was completed. It not only allowed the citizens who participated in the operation to earn money through their labor, but also brought back the materials needed by the city. Kill more than one stone.

Because such actions have a significant role in pulling the industrial chain, the municipal government has organized such material collection actions very frequently before. At least 10 times a week. The amount of supplies collected each time is also huge.

Until then, this kind of material collection has been the mainstream supply channel for large shopping malls. But in the past month, the focus of parliament has completely shifted from building a safe zone in Dubai to military expansion abroad.

The cargo ships that used to be used for material collection operations have now become military supplies, and are only used to transport materials and personnel to the front line, and the transportation of goods and other goods needed by Dubai City cannot rely on this channel.

However, the population of Dubai City has doubled during this period, and the demand for various goods in the market has also increased exponentially. Therefore, the main supply channels in the major markets have become private supply channels.

In order to meet the needs of the market, a large number of caravans have sprung up, collecting unowned goods from outside Dubai and sending them back to the city for sale, thus promoting the development of small markets.

At present, there are many small markets in the city, and the scale is generally only equivalent to the flea market or vegetable market on the main plane, occupying the streets near the residential area.

These small markets are usually hubs for small traders in urban areas, who usually travel to nearby cities on their own or in convoys to collect valuable ownerless "goods" and ship them back to sell.

Cash-strapped citizens like to buy in these nascent markets, where the quality of the goods varies but they are cheaper than those in the Dubai supermarkets run by the city government.

Many of these small markets specialize in electronics, such as smartphones or computers that were produced before the crisis. The citizens of Dubai are now in high demand for such goods, and almost everyone needs them.

The reason why there is such a great demand is because the city's financial system is built on credit points issued by the Council Bank. In all the markets in the city, goods are traded through credits issued by the Guò Council.

In the market, people usually use devices such as mobile phones or tablets to make online money transfers. Therefore, if you want to trade smoothly or view your account information, you must have a similar information terminal connected to the network.

In addition to the above-mentioned parts, some caravans also formed large convoys to trade in the development belt of the two river valleys, where the first agricultural products were ripe and the caravans took the goods to trade back and forth.

In this way, the market in Dubai has progressed step by step, and has completely formed its own system, without too much intervention from the council.

Of course, Shen Chao didn't have much energy to meddle now, he was now checking the latest space-time gate network. In the huge main docking area of the Space Station Zero, two huge space-time gates and their stable devices stand quietly in the wide docking area.

The two huge space-time gates are 30 meters in diameter, and together with their dìng, they are equivalent to the height of a 10 to 12-story building, and the slight humming of the huge ring-shaped dìng can be heard when you get closer. That's the sound of the refrigeration equipment inside when it's working.

At this time, there were dozens of technicians busy in front of the two huge space-time gates, and a few people stood in a row in the distance, as if they were supervising the work.

The engineers and technicians under construction are wearing uniform with the parliamentary logo on it, and it is clear that they are all technical personnel within the organization.

At this time, these technicians were using indoor hoisting equipment and engineering mechs to send some heavy large prefabricated parts to the doors of the two space-time doors to install the combination.

These prefabricated pieces are very heavy metal prefabricated parts, which together resemble an ultra-short 8-lane bridge for vehicular traffic. It was evident that they were working on two transport bridges that led to the other side of the two space-time gates.

After the assembly of the pedals and the steel bridge section was completed, a "supervisor" in the distance spoke. "You can't be wrong this time, right?" Shen Chao turned his head and asked.

Standing next to him was Hargrave, who had been in the same place many times, and the previous ones had all had big and small accidents.

For example, in the built space-time gate network, a space-time gate stabilizer suddenly fails, causing the entire real yàn to start all over again. The real yàn was discovered by a large institution in a certain plane and was forced to suspend the real yàn......

In order to cope with these circumstances, they have adjusted the connection methods and security regulations of the space-time gate network several times, and there are now a total of 46 planes connected to the "online", almost all of which are low-tech planes, and several are even ancient planes.

"This is the fourth long-term implementation, and this time the network has been running continuously for 3 months, the space-time gate stabilizers of each link plane are operating normally, and the time flow rate of the central control computers in each sub-base is also normal, and the disconnection is also progressing smoothly...... Overall, this is a reliable space-time portal network. ”

Hargrave said, putting down his pipe. He put a lot of effort into the construction of this network, and now Yiqiē has finally paid off.

"Then let's test it on the spot, let's sleep peacefully......" Kastetti yì, who was standing on the other side, said that they would go through the current space-time gate network together and go back and forth.

His opinion was agreed by the others, and after clearing the field, Shen Chao walked with several key members of the expedition team to the large space-time gate marked with A-0-1 characters on the top.

They walked on the wide pedal like a bridge deck, and the "bridge deck" with safety lights on both sides of the guò was passed, and then everyone was in a relaxed mood to pass through the time and space gate in turn.

On the one hand, the reason why they are relaxed is their trust in the safety of the space-time gate, and more importantly, they have all passed through this space-time gate many times. As soon as they pass through this space-time gate, they first return to the Plane of Legends...... (To be continued.) )