Chapter 171: Eating and taking cards is exquisite

It is also necessary to pay attention to eating and taking cards, and it is not to directly withhold the project money, and this kind of blatant corruption will arouse the hatred of hostile forces.

Yang Jilao's internal is not iron-clad, they have to take care of the overall situation.

What does it mean to take the overall situation into account?

That is, if the project is subcontracted with multiple hands, it is reasonable to deduct 5% to 10% of the handling fee for each subcontract, right?

Then let the local forces, state government forces, federal government forces, and major consortia participate in the process of subcontracting.

According to the size and influence of the force, it will affect how much "oil and water" this force can suck out in multiple subcontracts.

This means of dividing national taxes is not limited to medical construction funds.

For example, highway construction, railway construction, school construction, etc., can be used as a means to reduce the project cost from large to small, from small to nothing.

In this way, after the Yankees' vigorous national cholera medical plan was drawn several times by local forces,

The project money that could barely build a bungalow ended up with only a few tent areas and a few large centralized crematoriums.

In view of this atmosphere of administrative efficiency and corruption, the top brass of the old Yankee consortium even fantasized about surpassing Great Britain within 10 years and becoming the world's number one within 50 years.

It's ridiculous.

What is even more ridiculous is that without the participation of Tom Smith, such a country with supreme interests would have surpassed Great Britain and become the world's largest power in the near future.

There is no way, it can only be said that Europe is more greedy, more pedantic, and more arrogant.

It's just even more ridiculous that just these tents and a few centralized crematoriums have satisfied nearly 10 million employees in the old Yankee area.

Something is better than nothing.

Hundreds of sick Yang Ki Lao were kicked out of the work shed by the factory owners after they fell ill, and they had no choice but to ask the Yang Kee elders to build a "free hospital" using the old war tents used during the Civil War.

In addition to building a makeshift hospital in tattered tents, Young's "selfless" cholera manual was used to find a way to control cholera – to isolate and block the movement of people within a city.

Based on Tom Smith's original two-page letter to Silves about cholera, a Cholera Handbook circulated in the American Staff Federation, which specifically noted that cholera was transmitted by the patient's excrement and the air.

So, is it possible to centralize the management of patients and isolate the management of suspected patients, so that the sick can be quickly identified, so that cholera can be completely solved?

The idea of the old Yankee government locking down the city and isolating the masses to block cholera is good,

But even Tom Smith uses universal health care, not lockdown, because Tom Smith didn't think of using lockdowns to limit cholera?

Let's take a look at whether Yang Ki Lao's centralized treatment and city lockdown methods are really feasible for cholera.

As more and more Yankee employees moved into the makeshift tent area, the old Yankee government's finances became more and more untenable.

Even if the tent area only provides the sick employees with crystal clear rice porridge, "clear water" that is more turbid than rice porridge,

Thanks to the corruption problem of the old Yankee medical system,

The tent area also spends more than the staff needs to eat and drink.

Layer by layer, layer by layer of false reports,

The above is enough for all patients to eat tomahawk steak every day,

The following report is also that all patients eat Wagyu essence every day,

Eventually, sick employees ate a pile of garbage.

Even so, because the old Yankee employees are still grateful to the old Yankee government.

The patients here breathe a sigh of relief, but what about the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class in the lockdown city?

Because they are the few beneficiaries of the Yankee Lao's interest system, a few days before the Yankee Lao announced the blockade of traffic to control cholera, all the urban petty bourgeoisie and the middle class actively cooperated.

They ate the low-priced canned Heroine food they had bought to save face, and stayed at home every day, waiting for the cholera epidemic to pass.

The lockdown that began on March 15 did curb the spread of cholera in the first place.

With the special personnel appointed by Yang Jilao in the city to clean up the excrement and domestic garbage, the increase in cholera in many places in Yangji Lao has plummeted.

Even in a few cities where the old Yankee government was heavily controlled, the number of new cholera cases per day has slipped to less than 1,000 per day.

You know, before the lockdown, at least three to five thousand people in any city in Yankee were cholera patients every day.

But did the Yankee elders really succeed in controlling the city for a long time?

If so, why are there still dozens of new cholera patients in cities every day in April?

Why is that?

Because the city controls and doesn't really lock everyone at home,

In order to maintain the basic operation of the city, even if there is a complete lockdown in a city, someone must be responsible for transporting food, someone must be responsible for cleaning up household garbage and excrement, and someone must provide drinking water, etc.

However, according to the regulations, only those who have recovered from cholera can do it.

Theoretically, these people would not spread cholera either.

If only everything was as good as it was in theory.

You must know that the dilapidated hospital provided by Elder Yang to his employees is a place that only unemployed and bankrupt factory employees go, and the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class think that they will become factory owners and capitalists.

Would such a person willingly go to that kind of shabby hospital?

They also know that with enough water and food, they can survive cholera.

Then, whether for the sake of face or for the sake of their own "dignity", these urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class will choose to spend more money to buy more food and water from the people responsible for delivering food and water, so as to cure themselves from cholera at home.

The price will rise if there is anything lacking, and the people responsible for transporting food and drinking water are not great good people, and they will of course take advantage of their positions to extort a wave of these urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class.

With the convenience of controlling food and drinking water, of course, these people have to squeeze these surplus classes.

What three dollars a potato, exchanging a twenty-year-old single mother for a few pounds of cabbage and a few canned food overnight, happened frequently in the old city of Yankee.

Thanks to the absence of the Internet in the nineteenth century, no one has ever seen this kind of thing except those who have witnessed it.

Tom is going to believe it,

Because even in the era of the Internet in the future, there are those who dare to do such things in this period.