Chapter 1855 The grace of God is like the sea, the power of God is like a prison
The Aurora Legion treats everyone in the territory equally, but not everyone understands this huge cost and super bottomless money-spending policy. For example, the mayor of San Antonio Sherlock is very, very unresolved.
"Why? Why is this?" Sherlock looked at the planning map of the communication base station construction network in hand, and his mind was almost blown up. "Build communication base stations in cities with a large population, and builds base stations in villages with a small population. Even base stations along the highway, and builds everywhere."
How much does it cost?
In Sherlock's view, this incident was filled with a sense of great joy, extremely wasteful, regardless of returns, and no economic concept. "This situation is absolutely impossible in America. The investment is too large and the returns are too small, and no bank will raise funds for such projects."
No, absolutely nothing.
But this happened in the wasteland North America. At the command of Mr. Zhou, the Communications Department of the Aurora Legion began to recruit soldiers and build state-owned communications companies and start to build civilian communications networks.
Communication networks and monitoring networks are made together, and even the databases of the two are together. Hundreds of thousands of workers are recruited to work and open computer rooms and install base stations everywhere. The cost is naturally extremely huge.
"The Legion is really rich. If this money is controlled by me..." Sherlock thought about it with his Jewish concept, "I wouldn't spend it like this."
According to the Jewish idea, investment must depend on returns, and things that are not good cannot be done. Moreover, things that have too long investment return period must be carefully considered. As for projects with too low yields or even no returns at all, they must be resolutely cut off.
If Sherlock came to build this communication network, he would guarantee that he could use "saving half of the funds" as a gimmick to grab the project, and then use a quarter of the funds to find a rabbit company to work, and the remaining quarter would be in his pocket.
This is the market economy.
As for how to solve the problem of insufficient project funds, it is naturally the key point. If you ignore the secondary, the communication network must cover cities and main transportation roads. Remote villages can allow places to pay some money by themselves. Don’t waste your energy when there are few people.
"It's a pity that the Legion does not allow local governments to interfere in these national projects, and they don't even allow subcontracting, otherwise I will definitely make a lot of money." Sherlock scratched his head and reluctantly put down the planning map for the communication network at hand.
In fact, the wealth of the Aurora Legion is not only reflected in the communication network, but also the gun ban that has been causing a lot of trouble. The Legion spent about 10 billion Aurora coins to redeem weapons, but after recycling, it threw most of the weapons into an electrolytic furnace and turned into molten iron.
One hundred billion aurora coins are gone...
Pure consumption, pure consumption that cannot be seen with a little profit.
This 10 billion aurora coins is equivalent to giving money to everyone in society. You should know that not everyone is willing to accept the money. Many white people took the money and cursed Victor. Hugo destroyed the American tradition of gun control, and some even publicly clamored to assassinate him.
But the money was really paid.
This courage to pay money is amazing because it puts the Aurora Legion on a heavy financial burden, but it also activates the circulation of Aurora coins on the market. And...
"Buy a social peace." Sherlock was deeply impressed by the money given, "and bought a financial order. The 10 billion aurora coins are worth the money."
When Incredrey and the Baath Party ruled southwestern America, their contribution to the development of the local economy was almost zero. Apart from making some "dirty" to exchange money from the Aurora Legion, they did not create much wealth for the bottom of society.
After the Aurora Legion came..., I borrowed the "Gun Ban Order" to pay the money directly!
Even the most poor people can get a broken gun for some money. In the wasteland, a hundred aurora coins are equivalent to providing an opportunity to escape from the abyss of suffering, which can often change a person.
If you have money but can't buy anything, money is just waste paper. However, while the Aurora Legion was carrying out a huge amount of goods, including consumer goods for food, drink, and entertainment.
By selling these goods, the Legion activates the trade system. Once people's desire to buy is opened, it is difficult to close. Next, they want more necessities of life. What should I do if I spend all my money? Just find a job and earn it!
Those with constant property have perseverance, and social stability requires hard work. The Aurora Legion launched a large number of jobs in time, and the shale oil industry in Texas and New Mexico alone absorbed more than 100,000 workers. A huge amount of crude oil was mined and exchanged for more commodities.
Sherlock was most happy with this matter. After establishing the city government, the first thing he did was not to set up a police station, but to personally establish a tax bureau. The emergence of commercial trade made it possible to collect taxes, and the government had money to have power.
The Legion's move is clearly to spend money to buy everyone in society. Regardless of whether someone in society likes it or is happy or not, as long as he wants to work and consume, he has to fall into the economic system of the Aurora Legion.
Once a person enters the social division of labor, it is the small screw on the huge machine of the Legion. Even if this person is an opponent of the Legion, he will also be pushed by the social tide to obey the Legion's progress. If he does not obey...
Humph, this kind of alien is easily identified and removed.
"This government-driven economic rejuvenation plan is comparable to the 'Roosevelt New Deal' of that year. It drives economic development with active monetary policies and uses public investment to create a large number of jobs in exchange for social stability."
Sherlock sincerely admired the Legion's work. The only thing he didn't understand was how the huge amount of cheap goods and almost unlimited markets were produced. In this regard, he could only belong to the Legion Commander Victor. Hugo wisely opened up the Far East and Africa markets.
"On the one hand, it is idiots who are not willing to invest in public infrastructure according to economic laws, and on the other hand, it is genius to activate the internal economic and financial system. These two seem too contradictory, but they appear in the legion at the same time."
Based on Sherlock's past understanding, he could not understand the Legion's preference for taking on social affairs. He once communicated with Old Dave, the attorney general of the Legion, and Old Dave explained this issue from another perspective.
"Sherlock, do you know how many people our Attorney General's Office has prosecuted in the past two months since we controlled Southwest America?" asked Old Dave during the radio contact between the two.
Where can Sherlock answer such a question?
"have no idea."
"More than half a million."
"so much?"
It was too exaggerated to arrest and prosecute more than 500,000 people in two months. Sherlock knew that the legion had been secretly pursuing and arresting people with bad records in the past. But he didn't expect that he would have arrested so many.
"It's not an exaggeration at all. After the Legion formed a five-million police force, it immediately began to clean up the society. The police cleaned up both inside and outside, and more than 100 concentration camps used to detain suspects and prisoners were secretly built."
"But I don't feel anything about this at all. I think at most 10,000 or 20,000 people were arrested."
"Because our legion spent enough money, the residents' experience of happiness completely overwhelmed the negative news of various arrests. Our legion commander was willing to spend huge sums of money to improve social life, and he was also cruel to set up death concentration camps.
At least half of the 500,000 people arrested will die. Do you think those unruly people will be left alone? Victor Hugo is the real superior, and he can do anything to maintain stability."
Sherlock suddenly felt cold all over when he heard it. It turned out that in his eyes, Victor Hugo was both an idiot who spent money randomly and a genius macroeconomic manipulator. But now he found that the face of the Legion Commander had become obscure, blurry, cold, and ruthless, making people unable to see through it.
Chapter completed!