Chapter 1855 The grace of God is like the sea, the power of God is like a prison
The Aurora Legion treats everyone in its territory equally, but not everyone understands this costly and bottomless spending policy. For example, the mayor of San Antonio, Sherlock, doesn't understand it very much.
"Why? Why on earth is this?" Sherlock looked at the planning diagram of the communication base station construction network in his hand, and his head almost exploded. "Communication base stations are built in cities with a large population, and base stations are also built in rural areas with a small population. Even
Base stations are also being built along the highways and everywhere.”
How much will this cost?
In Sherlock's view, this incident exudes a sense of great success, extremely wasteful, regardless of returns, and completely devoid of economic concepts. "This kind of situation is absolutely impossible to happen in the United States. The investment is too big, the returns are too small, and there is no
A bank would finance such a project."
No, absolutely not.
But this happened unexpectedly in the wasteland of North America. With an order from Uncle Zhou, the Communications Department of the Aurora Legion began to recruit troops to form a state-owned communications company and began to develop a civilian communications network.
The communication network and the monitoring network were built together, and even the databases of the two were connected together. Hundreds of thousands of workers were recruited to work, and base stations were installed in computer rooms everywhere. The cost was naturally huge.
"The Legion is really rich. If I could control this money..." Shylock thought about it with his Jewish perspective, "I wouldn't spend it like this."
According to Jewish thinking, investment must be based on returns, and you cannot do anything that is not beneficial. Moreover, projects with too long return period must be carefully considered. As for projects with too low returns or even no returns at all, they must be resolutely axed.
If Sherlock comes to build this communication network, he guarantees that he can seize the project with the gimmick of "saving half the money", then use a quarter of the money to find a rabbit company to work on it, and use the remaining quarter to figure it out.
In your own pocket.
This is a market economy.
As for how to solve the problem of insufficient project funds, it is natural to ensure the key point and ignore the secondary ones - the communication network must cover cities and main traffic roads. In remote villages, local governments can spend some money themselves. Don't waste efforts in inaccessible places.
Already.
"It's a pity that the Legion does not allow local governments to intervene in these national projects, not even subcontracting, otherwise I will definitely make a lot of money." Sherlock scratched his head and reluctantly put down the planning diagram of the communication network in his hand.
In fact, the Aurora Legion's wealth is not only reflected in the communication network, but also the gun ban that has been causing a lot of noise. The Legion spent almost 10 billion Aurora coins to redeem and recycle weapons, but after recycling, most of those weapons were thrown away.
Enter the electrolytic furnace and turn into molten iron.
Ten billion Aurora coins are just gone...
Pure consumption, pure consumption with no visible benefit.
These 10 billion Aurora Coins are equivalent to a free amount of money given to everyone in society. You must know that not everyone is willing to accept this money. Many white people took the money and cursed Victor. Hugo destroyed
Due to America's gun-carrying tradition, some people even openly clamored to assassinate him.
But the money really just kept going like this.
This courage to issue money is so amazing, because it puts a heavy financial burden on the Aurora Legion, but at the same time it activates the circulation of Aurora coins in the market. And...
"It bought a social peace." Sherlock was deeply impressed by the distribution of this money. "It also bought a financial order. Ten billion Aurora coins are well spent."
When the Enclave and the Baath Party ruled the southwestern region of the United States, their contribution to the development of the local economy was almost zero. Apart from getting some "rags" to exchange for money from the Aurora Legion, they did not create much wealth for the bottom class of society.
And after the Aurora Legion came..., they borrowed the 'gun ban' order and gave them money directly!
Even the poorest person can get a broken gun in exchange for some money. In the wasteland, one hundred Aurora coins provide 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. But while the Aurora Legion is enforcing the "gun ban", it also ships a huge amount of goods, including consumer goods for food, drink, and entertainment.
By selling these goods, the Legion has activated the business system. Once people's desire to buy is turned on, it is difficult to stop, and then they want more daily necessities. What should I do if I run out of money? Find a job and make money!
Those who have perseverance have perseverance, and social stability requires hard-working people. The Aurora Corps launched a large number of jobs in a timely manner. The shale oil industry in Texas and New Mexico alone has absorbed more than 100,000 workers. Huge
More crude oil is extracted and exchanged for more commodities.
Shylock was the happiest about this. The first thing he did after establishing the city government was not to set up a police station, but to set up a tax bureau himself. The emergence of commercial trade made it possible to collect taxes, and the government has power only when it has money.
The legion's move is clearly to spend money to buy everyone in the society. No matter whether someone in the society likes it or not, is happy or not, as long as they want to work and consume, they have to fall into the Aurora Legion's economic system.
Once a person enters the social division of labor, he is a small screw in the huge machine of the Legion. Even if this person is an opponent of the Legion, he will still be pushed by the social tide to obey the advancement of the Legion. If he does not obey...
Hum hum, this kind of outliers can be easily identified and eliminated.
“This government-driven economic revival plan is comparable to the ‘Roosevelt New Deal’ of that year, which used active monetary policy to drive economic development and created a large number of jobs through public investment in exchange for social stability.”
Sherlock sincerely admired the Legion's efforts in this regard. The only thing he didn't understand was how a huge amount of cheap goods and an almost unlimited market were created. For this, he could only attribute it to the wise development of Legion Commander Victor Hugo.
markets in the Far East and Africa.
"On the one hand, he is an idiot who invests in public infrastructure at all costs and does not follow economic laws; on the other hand, he is a genius who activates the internal economic and financial system. The two seem too contradictory, but they are at the same time within the legion.
Appeared."
Based on Sherlock's past knowledge, he was completely unable to understand the Legion's preference for handling social affairs in an all-round way. He once communicated this issue with Old Dave, the Legion's Attorney General, and it turned out that Old Dave looked at it from another angle.
explained the problem.
"Sherlock, do you know how many people our Attorney General's Office has prosecuted in the past two months since we took control of the southwestern United States?" Old Dave asked during the radio contact between the two.
Where can Sherlock answer such a question?
"have no idea."
"More than half a million."
"so much?"
Arresting and prosecuting more than 500,000 people in two months is an exaggeration. Sherlock knew that the Legion had been secretly carrying out purges and arresting people who had done bad things in the past. But he did not expect that so many people would be arrested.
.
"It is no exaggeration at all. After the Legion created a police force of five million, it immediately began to clean up the society. The police were cleaned up internally and externally, and concentration camps for suspects and prisoners were built secretly.
More than a hundred."
"But I didn't feel anything about it. I thought that at most 10,000 or 20,000 people were arrested."
"Because our legion has spent enough money to allow the residents' experience of happiness to completely outweigh the negative news of arrests. Our legion commander is not only willing to spend huge sums of money to improve social life, but he is also ruthless in setting up death camps.
At least half of the 500,000 people captured must have died. Do you think those who are unruly and unruly behind the scenes will be left alone? Victor Hugo is a real leader, and he will do anything to maintain stability.
"
Sherlock felt chills all over after hearing this... It turned out that in his eyes, Victor Hugo was both an idiot rich man who spent money recklessly and a genius macroeconomic manipulator. But now he
I found that the face of the legion commander had become obscure, blurry, cold, ruthless, and hard to see through.
The saying "God's grace is like the sea and God's power is like prison" is nothing more than this.