119 New Area Development
Soon, Li Dafu answered the question in Xuanyuan's heart: "To be honest, if it weren't for her brother signing up to become a development volunteer in that area, we would almost have considered it and refused directly." ”
In a word, let Xuanyuan understand instantly.
The so-called development volunteers are those who have signed a treaty and voluntarily become residents of the new development area and devote themselves to the development of the new area.
When he came to this world, Xuan Yuan had already learned that this was a place about the size of Eurasia. Beyond that, there is an ocean.
Later, Xuanyuan learned from Yuliuzi that in addition to the inland, there was also an outer island. It's just that the sea is dangerous, with giant beasts, tsunamis, and natural mazes...... Except for the "Jidao boat", which docks on the east coast every five years, there is basically no other way to travel to and from the inland of the outer islands.
Even the Federation has no other way to do this. Behemoths are easy to say, but tsunamis and natural mazes, in the face of either situation, are not something that the current level of science and technology of the Federation can crack.
In other words, the development of the Commonwealth is trapped in the interior. With the development of the times and science and technology, inland resources are being consumed more and more, and the storage of various mineral deposits and energy is greatly reduced.
Therefore, even if today's resources can still support the development of the Federation for another few decades, in order to plan ahead, the Federation has already begun to work on the [Resettlement Development Project for Inland Marginal Areas and Islands] more than 20 years ago - just the islands in the inland fringe areas.
It has to be said that the federal harvest is remarkable.
A total of 63 islands have been built on the northern coast, which was the first to be developed and constructed. Among them, 37 islands were built with full official investment by the federal government, 21 islands participated in partial construction, and five islands were built entirely with unofficial investment.
Of the sixty-three islands, there are almost three million permanent inhabitants in total.
Not only did this alleviate the population pressure on the North End, but most importantly, through them, the Federation had a stable channel to feed back the scarce resources of the 63 islands back to the interior – which was the purpose of the development project in the first place.
Of course, behind this great success, the Federation has also made great efforts.
Not to mention anything else, just because those islands are on the edge of the inland, their spiritual power is much more active than that of the inland. Correspondingly, its "supernatural events" are also much higher than those in the interior.
During the development of the first island, many workers who participated in the construction of the first island encountered the [ghost incident], and they were all frightened to varying degrees, which once caused a lot of turmoil.
Fortunately, the development of the first island was just an attempt, because the island was small, so the construction team was only a few hundred people, and when the first "paranormal event" occurred, the Federation immediately reacted. So, the Federation succeeded in suppressing the matter and immediately blocked the news.
Subsequently, the Federation spent a lot of money and invited a large number of monks and Taoist priests to rush to the northern district. Then, the sixty-three islands were turned into sixty-three tasks, and those who were invited were assigned to the task of eliminating some strange events on the islands. Eventually, it was not until the special presence of each of the islands had been taken in or cleared that the development of the new area was reopened.
In this incident, the Federation suffered a great loss in inviting foreign aid because it did not train enough special talents to explore the strange environment and supernatural events existing in the sixty-three islands, and I don't know how many valuable resources it paid.
Therefore, it was from that time that the Federation began to send a large number of people to the Xuanmen, Buddhist temples, and even many left-handed schools in the Southern District, including even the Yin-Yang family.
It seems that they want to prevent such incidents from happening again, or for other more reasons.
When he heard such news from the mouth of the Ge family, Xuanyuan was hard to believe. It is very difficult to accept that you want to teach your own method to a stranger, and the person you have not chosen is not your own.
However, unexpectedly, there were not a few who agreed to the federal request.
According to statistics, there are two Taoist sects, both of which are located on islands on the edge of the interior, sixteen Buddhist monasteries, most of which are located in the center, and a few of which are located in the Tianqian jungle at the junction of the southeast, and four schools of the southern district, including the Yin-Yang family.
Fortunately, Buddhism is not an ordinary relationship with the Federation after all, but Daomen, who wants to pay attention to this trouble! Even if they don't care about Daomen, what about the unruly group of leftist monks in the southern district? They even gladly agreed.
Especially the Yin and Yang Family, as a school that split from the Daomen, their temperament is not something that anyone can grasp.
However, no matter how Xuan Yuan guessed, in a short period of time, he couldn't get an answer.
Back to the question at hand.
As Wang Xiaoli said, because the development zone is located on the islands on the edge of the inland, there is no shortage of fierce beasts, and sometimes there are one or two new varieties of poisonous weeds and poisonous flowers.
Therefore, unless life is already very difficult, or to seize the opportunity to start a new life, most people are still reluctant to move to the development zone that is under construction.
Unless, as in the case of the sixty-three islands of the North Side, which have been fully constructed and most of the dangers removed, it is absolutely impossible to have more than a million people who have immigrated to the Union for decades and settled there to the size they are today.
Therefore, Xuan Yuan was a little puzzled by this situation: "Since your life is not bad, why don't you stop your younger brother from taking risks in the new area that is being developed? You know, once you sign a volunteer contract, if you want to break the contract, it will cost a lot of money." ”
Speaking of this, Wang Xiaoli showed a wry smile: "If you want to know what new district volunteer development he will participate in, I will definitely stop it." The problem is, I had a falling out with him at the time. ”
"Because he is the only seedling in our family, he is more spoiled. I've developed a lot of bad habits since I was a child, and I'm a sister, so I'll naturally make some suggestions. Then, unsurprisingly, he had a big fight with me. ”
"To be honest, I'm too lazy to care about him. Who knew that it coincided with the recruitment of residents for the development of the new district, and as soon as he was angry, he signed a volunteer treaty behind our back. If he hadn't asked someone to bring me a letter two months ago, I would have thought he was still fooling around somewhere!"
"I guess he must have agreed to the treaty without even thinking about seeing that there was a free housing supply, what a brainless impulsive!"
As a development volunteer, you will inevitably encounter some dangers during the development phase, but once the construction is complete, you will enjoy far more benefits and privileges as a development volunteer than anyone else – one of which is to receive a federally funded residence.