Facts have proved that no matter how bad life is at the moment, human beings still cherish the illusion of a better life all the time.
Whether in modern society or in the apocalyptic wasteland.
People who pursue the future will always make up the majority.
Before all the first batch of immigrants from Linglong territory had boarded the train, outside the suburban train station, a dense crowd of people, at least two to three thousand in number, suddenly poured in from nowhere.
They stood far away, not daring to get close, and just watched the immigrants disappear into the carriage one by one.
"Brother Gong, do you want to promote?"
A member of the Propaganda Department came over with a leaflet, looking eager to try.
"No need, since they don't dare to come, it means that they are not yet determined yet." Gong Liang stared at it for a while, and finally shook his head: "Just wait, they are also waiting, wait until these first batch of immigrants spread
News back”
Yes.
These five hundred people are not many.
But they have three thousand, five thousand, or even more eyes on them.
As the first people to eat crabs, all discerning people know that the news they receive is good news.
So what major changes will take place in the wasteland next.
Not long after, the train finally started slowly in a silent atmosphere, humming along the railway track and heading straight towards Baoyu County.
Sitting in the carriage.
At first, many immigrants looked out the window with nostalgia, watching the Spirit Dragon territory gradually disappear from sight.
But after a while, novelty and excitement took over.
Each of the five hundred immigrants received a copy of the "Treasure Fish Guide", which was more than thirty pages thick.
"For those who are new to our Baoyu County, please keep this guide, because it will open a new chapter in your life."
"Now please follow me to the first page. From here on, you will learn the new Baoyu standards."
Standing in the first carriage, Gong Liang sang loudly with a loudspeaker.
For a while, the sound of reading came and went.
All the immigrants followed the instructions and opened the guide, looking at the text on the first page with excitement.
"First of all, we have to learn the rules. Without rules, there is no circle. Our Tianyuan Territory is one of the few super-large territories in the entire New World, and we are the only one among the super-large territories with a population of less than one million."
"In Baoyu County, you must learn to forget the rules of the past and become familiar with the new standards set by our manager Su Youzong."
"Article 1, Public Security Management"
Starting from the most important issue of public security, Gong Liang recited the terms fluently.
When questions came from below from time to time, he patiently stopped and explained without being impatient at all.
Gradually, in the enrichment of study, the travel time began to pass.
It was not until just after 7 p.m. that the train finally began to slow down and stop at its destination.
Baoyu Station!
"We've arrived at the station, we've arrived at the station, take your luggage and belongings with you"
"After getting off the bus, please go straight out of the station and follow the signs to the designated area. A staff member will contact you."
One day, after learning the complete process.
Five hundred immigrants are much more efficient.
As soon as Gong Liang's shouting sounded, they had already prepared their luggage and started to get off the bus in an orderly manner.
"Wow, when did the station in Baoyu County become like this? I remember that there were only two rows of bungalows when I came here last time."
"If you didn't say this is Baoyu County, I would have thought I was back on Earth. So, so rich."
"Holy shit, something smells so good. Oh my god, the station here actually sells sausages!"
"It is indeed a large territory. The station here is more luxurious than the government building in the center of our county."
"Come on, it's getting late. If it's night, I'll be really confused. This is Tianyuan territory, how can there be any bad guys passing by?"
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A month ago, there were only two rows of pitiful bungalows in Baoyu Station, which was extremely poor.
But in the past twenty days or so, three large factories including Baoyu Heavy Industry have been working together to produce and assemble it at all costs.
The modular steel frame design, coupled with the new waterproof curtain, has completely transformed the station.
The current Baoyu Station is more than ten times the size of the previous one.
The station as a whole is like a bowl turned upside down on the ground. High-wattage lighting lights are hung on the elevated shelves inside the bowl. Even at seven o'clock in the night, it looks like daylight.
The smooth and tidy floor is paved with light white floor tiles, glowing with sparkling white light, and it is incredibly clean.
Buildings of independent shops are set up horizontally and vertically inside according to the plan.
Although most of the shops inside were still under construction, it was such a prosperous development scene that made all the immigrants feel reassured and walked straight out of the station with determination.
Depending on the nature of the work, signs will divert the flow of people to exits in different directions.
At present, most of the five hundred immigrants from Linglong Territory are experts in basic development industries.
They went to Gate D with a group of people smoothly, and lined up one by one to exit Baoyu Station.
"Dear new friends, please don't wander around. Go straight along the passage. Next you will enter the basic industrial park."
"Here, you will be assigned specific trends according to your work ability."
The big bowl has just come out, and the front of the passage is connected to the next small bowl.
Hearing the word "movement allocation" from the staff, the immigrants who looked around curiously were stunned, and then quickly quickened their pace.
Leaving their homeland to join a large and unfamiliar territory, they knew the purpose of their trip.
Find a good job, work hard, make good money, and strive to live a more fulfilling life.
And a good job will definitely have a limit on the number of people you can get, so you will be late.
Thinking this way, the immigrants just walked a little faster at first, but in the end some people simply picked up their luggage and started running.
They couldn't wait to rush into the small bowl marked 'Basic Industrial Park' and looked around.
When they saw this, they were stunned.
"Go ahead, look for a job quickly, everyone will be robbed in a while."
The people in front did not move, and the line became slightly crowded.
However.
As more and more people crowded into this basic industrial park, without exception, they all stood dumbly at the door!
I didn't see the scene of only three or five recruiting companies as I imagined.
In this small bowl, at first glance, there are over a hundred tables!
There is a colorful signboard in front of the table, which lists the name of the company recruiting workers, as well as specific requirements and benefits.
Behind the table, uniformed staff were sitting neatly, looking at them enthusiastically.
His gaze was a little hot, as if he was seeing a treasure, which made people a little bit unprepared.
And what shocked everyone even more was.
The wages on those dozens of signboards!
It is not the territory's own currency in the traditional sense, nor is it a hard currency trading point for the entire New World.
There are some strange things clearly marked on these posters.
Identity: Tianyuan Territory-Baoyu County-Household Status (1440 working hours)
Residence: Baoyu County - Juhuo District - 15 square meters single room (168 working hours); Baoyu County - Juhuo District - 30 square meters one room (320 working hours); Baoyu County - Juhuo District - 60 square meters two rooms (720 working hours)
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Food: Meal vouchers for public canteens in Baoyu County (2 working hours); Meal vouchers for one-star stores in Baoyu County (2.5 working hours); Meal vouchers for two-star stores in Baoyu County (3 working hours).
The brand-new wage system completely abandons all previous systems and regulations, and more intuitively quantifies the purchasing power of workload.
Ordinary residents will not be able to obtain any trading points and yuan coins, and can only have Baoyu County's unique working hours and wages.
With working hours, you can spend money anywhere in Baoyu County and buy what you want.
But outside Baoyu County, it will become a piece of waste paper again.
Outrageous?
At that time, almost everyone who saw Somo proposing this system bluntly said that it was absolutely impossible to succeed and that it was simply outrageous.
Even they find it difficult to tolerate the value of their efforts being linked to the safety of their territory, turning them into grasshoppers on a rope.
Not to mention these ordinary people who just came here.
But after it actually happened, the fact was revealed in front of everyone's eyes.
These ordinary people are crazy!
"If we want to mobilize the enthusiasm of ordinary people and make them become our loyal citizens in a very short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to do it with just a salary that is similar to or even less than that of other large territories. Human beings have ideas.
, if they are rational, they will clearly calculate their efforts and gains, and they will also clearly know the goods that their labor can buy back."
"If you fool them, they will fool you."
Standing on the second floor of the Basic Industrial Park, I looked at the suddenly bustling interview venue below.
Sumo smiled lightly and felt deeply.
Behind him were twenty or thirty people, basically the entire leadership team of Baoyu County.
But at this time, these people were obviously silent.
"There is no circulation at all in the apocalypse. Ordinary people have no ability to sell their own goods, and there is no way to bring the points earned in a large territory to spend in a small territory. The trading point is a deformed system used for downward exploitation."
"From now on, no one in Baoyu County has to worry about rising food prices or rising commodity prices. Because I used the manager's credit and the entire Tianyuan territory to endorse my promise. Even if food prices rise to the sky, as long as
If you work two hours a day, you can get a meal that is enough to survive.”
"From now on, I will completely hand over my daily working hours to them. Whether I choose to die drunk on the street like the gangsters before, or choose to use my own hands to create a new future and wealth, I have the initiative in all this.
It’s all up to them, the more they do, the more they get.”
"But as for the expenses that will be incurred in the process, we simply don't have so much funds to guarantee it. Food prices and commodity prices outside are rising. If we don't follow the rise, how can we keep the price unchanged forever?" said a person who has just been promoted.
The deputy director of the Investment Promotion Department who came up retorted in a low voice, causing the director Hu Yuanyong to change his expression and wink a few times.
It's just that they, the old guys, know how to protect themselves, and they are not afraid of the few new employees who have been recently promoted from the bottom.
Immediately, the head of the purchasing department, who had just been established for more than a week, also said: "Mr. Su, some materials are cheap and we can make a profit from them, but the price difference is not enough to make up for the shortfall. According to the normal price
Said, they have to work for at least six hours before they can have a meal, but now"
"Minister Liu, you are wrong."
Suddenly, a voice sounded from behind, interrupting everyone's meditation.
When he turned around, he saw that Gong Liang, who had just completed his propaganda mission, was rushing over.
"Oh? What's wrong with me?" Liu Zhongguang frowned when he realized that Somo was still looking down with a smile on his face and didn't care at all about what he just said.
"Have you not been out of our Tianyuan territory for a long time?"
"Yeah." Liu Zhongguang didn't hide it and nodded directly: "I have never been out since I joined the territory in the third year of the last calendar year."
"That's right!" Gong Liang said with an expected look on his face: "According to the current food prices, with ten contribution points we can buy more than three kilograms of food in our Baoyu County, but
At the same price, we can buy eight kilograms of grain in the Qingguo territory that County Magistrate Su previously owned!"
"What, how is this possible? Their food prices in the surrounding small territories are higher than ours." Liu Zhongguang was surprised at first, and then reacted suddenly: "Demand?"
Located near a large territory, a small territory can easily exchange food and labor for cheap bulk advanced commodities to upgrade the territory's infrastructure.
This makes it difficult to save the food in their hands, and most people can't help but replace it with things that improve their lives as soon as they have "money".
But in places where small territories are clustered together, the amount of food in their hands is exactly in direct and inverse proportion.
The prices of large quantities of advanced goods transported from the large territories were no longer cheap due to freight charges, and they were forced to restrain their desire to consume.
Domestic demand is suppressed, but production capacity is greatly excess.
Those grains that cannot be circulated will squeeze the market and prevent grain prices from rising.
"Yes, the territories where prices have increased are either territories that are not suitable for food production, or the previous reserves have been exchanged for other things, or even useless trading points."
"Winter is coming soon, and now the small territories on the financial line are in urgent need of a batch of winter supplies. We are now integrating the needs of everyone in Baoyu County, and integrating everyone's productivity."
"You only need a channel to take these things out, sell them, and bring them back in exchange for food. The trading point is the real waste paper."
"But the shipping fee." After thinking through the most important logic, Liu Zhongguang immediately reacted.
The reason why bulk commodities are expensive to bring to small territories is because the shipping costs are too exaggerated.
Even if you take the train, you have to pay a lot of maintenance fees for the railway. This is an obvious problem. How to solve it?
"Oh, Minister Liu hasn't responded yet?"
"We can take the water route!"
Gong Liang simply took out a map from his body and slowly spread it out in the air.
There are two red lines on that map.
One goes all the way down the Changlong Fairy River and leads directly to the lower left corner of the New World.
One loops along the coastline, all the way from the lower left corner back to the coastline of Tianyuan territory.
"In the past, the Changlong Fairy River was impassable because the river passed through too many large territories, and these territories chose to close off their own areas, including us, which made it difficult to apply it."
"But now, from our position in Baoyu County downwards, almost all are small and medium-sized territories. Who can be short-sighted and dare to block our way?"
"When you come back, as long as you follow the coastline and safely return to the coastline of our Tianyuan territory and go inland, you can earn enough food to feed everyone in Baoyu County for a year with just one outing for trade!
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Wow!
After Gong Liang's words fell, the expressions of many people who had just turned the corner changed dramatically.
If it is true, as he said, that waterways can be connected, Baoyu County's status will probably rank first among all counties and towns in the entire territory.
Even Zhang Min and Zhang Da, who had known the inside story for a long time, all looked at him in surprise at this time.
Gong Liang is just an ordinary person, how can he
"Our Tianyuan Territory has been closed for many years, and those of you who stay in the territory have also been blocked for many years."
"Gong Liang has been to too many territories in order to attract investment. In terms of vision, he is much better than you."
Finally, Somo, who had been looking down, turned his head.
"However, he was only half right."
"The reason why no one wants to go to the Changlong Fairy River is partly because of the blockade of the territory. The problems of undercurrents, rocks, water bandits, and anchoring ports are the most troublesome things."
"Then we" Everyone who had just come to their senses was confused again.
A small territory does not have the funds to build a port, and large cargo ships cannot dock and unload cargo.
Turbulent undercurrents and treacherous rocks. A single touch can cause the hull of the ship to be injured, or the ship to be destroyed and people to die.
There are also the water bandits roaming the water. How can these problems be solved by Baoyu County alone?
"We?" Sumo suddenly smiled wildly: "Yes, so we need a big enough benefit to complete all this."
"Baoyu County is a part of Tianyuan Territory. We came here a year ago from the wasteland. We have an independent coastline. We were influenced by Su Shen and established a navy within a year. We have one of the best maritime forces in the New World."
"Starting from Changlong Xianjiang, we want all territories to know that Tianyuan Territory is back."
"Starting from this water trade road, we will smoothen this road and build the largest water checkpoint in Baoyu County so that all ships that want to pass through in the future will pay the toll and have a unique monopoly business!"
"As for after the rise, will Baoyu County still lack food for its residents?"
Sumo's words were very plain, but the content was full of passion, making everyone freeze in place and unable to say another word.
Painting cakes is a craft.
Now he only made it clear the benefits of the Pingshui Road, letting everyone see the bright future.
As for how to make the trip and what to bring, this was the key point that he had been considering for many days.
Fortunately.
"When the Crimson Storm comes, the flow speed and danger level of the Changlong Fairy River will inevitably drop to a lower level. This is an excellent opportunity."
"We only need to build a waterway linking the coastline to Baoyu County in the territory, and then spread the tributaries of Changlong Xianjiang River to all counties and towns in the territory."
"Why worry that the plan will fail?"
Every time I come to the system, I will always be criticized repeatedly. Let’s take a look and cherish it. Maybe we will change it in the future. (face covering)
