Chapter 96, The governor can’t come in vain, can he?

Author: red heart cloth

Chapter 96, The governor can’t come in vain, can he?

The reason why Oceana was asked to do the city-wide screening was not because the girl was asked to investigate the case.

The professionalism is not correct either.

In fact, Gu Hang hoped that she could do this while distributing food throughout the city and ensuring people's livelihood.

But Gu Hang didn't have particularly high hopes for this city-wide screening, it was just a matter of course.

The main reason is that there is no particularly easy-to-use screening method.

A cultist won't admit it directly if you ask him.

He also told Oceana that this matter was done casually and that the main task was to ensure people's livelihood.

The army that followed Gu Hang into the city had already taken control of multiple grain warehouses.

But at this very moment, bad news came:

The city's food reserves are not large enough.

If we look at the regular consumption of the city's one million people, there is only about fifteen days' worth of stock.

This level of food reserves is too dangerous for a city that mainly relies on foreign trade food imports. It is as if the previous coalition government did not understand the importance of food security at all.

But if you think about it from another angle, it seems to make sense.

After Oceana took over the granary, she also calculated the consumption of the poor people in the outer city according to the per capita standards in the governor's camp and the Wasted Cave Society; but before that, the alliance authorities may have never calculated in this way. They may only count the internal consumption.

The 100,000 people in the city should be treated as serious people, but the poor people in the outer city should think of their own solutions.

Of course, in fact, the food supply for the residents in the outer cities must come from these grain depots. Otherwise, how would the people in the outer cities survive? Eight or nine hundred thousand people would not be able to survive by chewing tree bark.

However, the residents of the outer city do not eat as much as the standard population consumption calculated by Oceana. With a population of 800,000 to 900,000, they may only consume 300,000 to 500,000 people per day per food consumption.

On average, you can only eat one-third to half of the food every day. Malnutrition is normal. And this is an average here, which means that some people from outside the city can eat and drink enough, and some may not be able to eat for two days in a row.

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This situation is also consistent with the actual situation in the outer city of Fuxing City. Oceana has survived in the outer city for several months, and she understands very clearly that the life of the residents in the outer city is really like this.

According to this standard, fifteen days' worth of food can be turned into thirty or forty days' reserves.

But Oceana decided not to think so.

She will provide standard portions of food to the population outside Fuxing City.

Otherwise, we won’t have enough to eat before the governor comes; and we still won’t have enough to eat after the governor comes… Then isn’t the governor here in vain?

At the current stage, increasing the ration to ensure that everyone has enough to eat is an important step in establishing prestige for the Governor.

Are inner city residents indifferent to the arriving governor?

Then go ahead and be indifferent. Do you really think this is the old days of the alliance? Only people from the inner city are considered human beings?

During the long period of communication between Gu Hang and Oceana, they both made it clear that the greatest wealth of Fuxing City is the hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city. As long as they wholeheartedly support the governor, nothing else will matter.

Everything is a paper tiger.

The powerful can be overthrown and all means of production confiscated. Gu Hang does not need their support to complete his rule;

Inner-city residents who live a relatively comfortable life, no matter whether you feel resentful or not, just do things honestly and you will have your own way of managing things if you dare to mess around;

In the outer city, a large number of poor people will have their living conditions improved. They will live a better life under the mercy of the Governor, and then quickly return to the factory and work, shining for the cause of the Governor.

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Of course, just distributing food is not enough. In other words, distributing food is the basis for solidifying the governor's rule and the price to be paid. On top of the price, how to get the harvest stably is the more challenging thing for Oceana.

Oceana knew clearly that just opening a granary and stocking grain did not count as her own ability.

It seems like no one can do it yet.

While paying for the food, she had to make it clear to the residents that this was a favor from the governor. Only in this way could the value of the food be fully realized.

At the same time, she has to anchor one principle from the beginning: she cannot feed people for free.

She does not intend to define this batch of food as simple relief or welfare.

Whether Fuxing City is poor or rich depends on how you judge it. When you say rich, you only treat the people in the inner city as human beings. They are indeed quite rich, at least according to the standards of this wasteland. Their wealth

, is based on the exploitation of the hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city as if they were not human beings.

But now, Oceana wants to treat all the eight or nine million people in the outer city as human beings, which suddenly adds such a huge burden.

By such standards, it is impossible to be considered rich.

Fuxing City’s current reserves cannot support high welfare.

Oceana will give the residents of the outer city a life like normal people, but all she can give are opportunities and a platform. If they want to truly live a decent life, they still have to rely on the hard work of their own hands.

This is definitely not as great a favor as directly distributing food, but Oceana would rather lose some of the benefits of giving favors to others to ensure that Fuxing City's finances are on a relatively healthy road.

Moreover, the residents of the outer city must not lack the willingness to work hard. Oceana, who has lived in the outer city, completely believes this.

In this regard, Oceana probably developed a temporary system.

She will distribute food to residents outside the city indiscriminately, but only for a few days, and only one-third of the rations. This can ensure that people do not starve to death.

Want more, need to buy.

The government grain sales window opened will sell grain at a fair price and purchase it in limited quantities according to the per capita rationing system. We will severely crack down on the behavior of gangsters using other people's quotas to purchase grain and hoard it.

In the next long period of time, the grain industry will become a government-run industry, and the governor-general government will make every effort to ensure the stability of grain prices. Private parties are not allowed to intervene in this industry for the time being.

As long as they can get affordable and stable food purchasing channels, the basic life of residents in outer cities can be guaranteed.

Of course, there are also a considerable number of residents in outer cities who have no savings. Recently, because of the war, they have no jobs and have stopped talking.

Oceana also has supporting means.

Next, all factories, handicrafts, and shops that have been regained control will absorb the employed population after reopening. 'Food stamps' will be settled every day, which can be directly exchanged for food.

Oceana thought about the work point system and decided not to promote it in Fuxing City for the time being.

The administrative team she has now has only a dozen or so clerks, and it really cannot promote the implementation of work points and replace the existing currency system.

The turbulence will be huge, and stronger administrative capabilities and grassroots control will be needed to do this.

In fact, even if it is just about distributing food and promoting the resumption of work and production, she and her dozen or so people cannot handle it.

But fortunately, the army will come to help her.

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