Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 174

174. Chapter 174, Population Production and Trade

Gu Hang nodded frequently while listening to Osena’s report.

Gu Hang cares a lot about the increase in population.

According to the information she gave and the documents in his hand, the total population directly ruled by the New Alliance has reached 2.4 million.

Among them, the core ruling area is the Fuxing Twin Cities.

The population of Weixing City has reached 550,000, and the main industries are heavy industry and military industry.

A series of industries based on alloy plastic steel refine a large amount of raw materials into alloy metals, and then further process them into various industrial parts; Wu Jiarong’s research institute constantly creates new industrial lines (through black boxes) and then sends them to the Feidong Industrial Zone to build new factories or expand the scale of existing factories.

The immigrants who enter the short-term high-intensity training courses organized by various factories and enterprises become unemployed workers after short-term training. As long as the corresponding production lines are in place, new workers will be filled in immediately and production will start immediately.

Fuxing City now has 930,000 people, and urban construction is still continuing. The main industries are various light industries and the production of consumer goods to supply population needs. Textiles, food industry, various electrical appliances, furniture, construction industry… are the main production industries.

In addition, Fuxing City is also an administrative and trade center, with a large population engaged in clerical work.

The higher population size has also spawned a relatively developed service industry. There are still few cultural and entertainment industries, but there are already many catering industries.

This is different from Weixing City. In order to solve the problem of eating, Weixing City mainly relies on corporate canteens to distribute food according to job levels, in addition to cooking at home.

Fuxing City does not have large, centralized factories like Weixing City, so the catering industry will become a supplementary solution to the problem of eating.

Here we have to mention a new policy that Ossena has implemented to stimulate economic vitality.

In order to avoid the development of relatively fixed industries after the job level-position binding, and to avoid the corresponding economic activities only when the Ministry of Industry issues orders to build factories, shops, and urban construction, and to encourage ordinary people to use their own wisdom, Ossena has implemented a policy to encourage entrepreneurship.

It is not about doing big entrepreneurship, those big things can be done by state-owned factories.

And you can open a small restaurant, a small convenience store, or even just a roadside stall; if you have a special idea, you can open a small factory, set up a private engineering team, or a logistics team to help various construction sites, factories, and stores transport goods… In short, anything is possible.

The specific incentive measures are that people with corresponding job levels can use their own job levels as collateral to apply for a start-up fund, submit relevant start-up reports, and after approval, they can open the business.

The higher the job level, the more support funds you can get.

If the business fails, the job level will be demoted; if it succeeds, the job level will be increased accordingly according to the identity of the manager of the new industry.

But in the same way, this industry, whether it is a restaurant, a small convenience store, or a factory, its ownership belongs to the state, but it will issue a certain amount of dividends.

To put it bluntly, it is like thinking that there is a project that can be carried out in a large enterprise, and then submitting a project report to the boss and the management, and starting work if it is approved. If you win, you will get a promotion and salary increase, and you will also get options. If you lose, the company will lose money, and you will be held responsible and demoted.

Moreover, if you just want to set up a stall, you don’t need a particularly high level to do it. If you fail, the penalty will not be very big, just deduct the allowance.

In addition, Ossena also opened another loophole: you can use your own funds to start a business, so there is no need for guarantees. If you fail, you will not be demoted or lose your own money; if you succeed, your job level will be promoted and the money you make will belong to you.

This is equivalent to opening a loophole for private economy outside the main public and planned economy to increase economic vitality.

At present, since it is encouraged, the conditions for job level guarantees and applying for start-up funds are relatively loose. Those with low job levels who have good ideas or are in line with the industrial development direction formulated by the Ministry of Production can easily obtain start-up capital. If you lose, the degree of demotion will not be too large, and generally under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry, most people will not lose money.

Opening a small restaurant or even a heating stall for synthetic starch blocks next to a factory or construction site is generally not a loss.

In the future, when we feel that the development in a certain direction is enough, or even overheated, or the losses are relatively large… In short, when there is a problem, we will tighten the application loopholes, raise the threshold, and increase the guarantee penalty. In short, there is a means of regulation.

In general, in Shuangcheng, the collective state-owned economy is still the absolute main body, supplemented by the private economy to increase vitality and employment.

At present, according to the statistics of “tax coins”, the monthly total output value of Shuangcheng can reach about 80,000 tax coins. This is the absolute core area of the new alliance.

The other areas, together, can add up to about 5,000 to 6,000 tax coins.

In addition to Shuangcheng, the other areas of the Central Bank Province, the Central North Province, and the High Tower Province that are currently planned, those small settlements that are retained, including the garbage town, are also transforming towards the system of Shuangcheng, and the main production capacity is also on consumer goods to ensure the basic needs of the population.

But the production efficiency of those small settlements cannot be guaranteed at all.

These places have a total population of more than one million, which may be similar to that of Shuangcheng, but the total output value may be only about 7% of that of Shuangcheng.

In this regard, Ossena’s subsequent plan is to continue to migrate people from these places to Weixing City and expand the industrial population.

In addition, various types of production machines will be put into some means of production factories in Weixing City and Fuxing City. For example, the agricultural machinery, engineering machinery, trucks, textile machinery, food processing machinery… a series of gadgets produced will be able to improve the production efficiency of these small settlements.

There will be a lot of room for growth here.

Gu Hang listened to her overall report and nodded with satisfaction.

He thought that Ossena did a pretty good job.

He knew a lot of things here earlier. Especially some major directions, that is, he simply gave Ossena relevant instructions before he boarded the starship, and Ossena formulated and implemented policies in the corresponding directions.

It is not easy to think of a suitable policy; it is even more difficult to implement the policy.

But it seems that Ossena has done a good job in both aspects. It is not as simple as not living up to his expectations, and it even exceeds expectations.

This can also be seen from the character card.

When in the starry sky, Gu Hang saw changes in Ossena’s character card from the character interface.

First, she was upgraded to level 3; her ‘rarity’ rose from level N to level R; [Excellent Political Officer] was upgraded to [Outstanding Political Officer], with a little more political attributes; and an additional talent called [Overall Planning].

[Overall Planning: She has some experience in long-term planning of overall production and construction, which makes her even better in this aspect. Politics +1]

The superposition of these characteristics has brought her most important political attribute to 15 points.

Such an Ossena has become a very outstanding political official, and Gu Hang can be very relieved.

In this regard, Gu Hang was also generous in praising: “I think Comrade Ossena has done a very good job.”

After saying that, he also applauded.

Under his leadership, everyone also gave face and applauded.

Ossena’s role is very important. She is currently the first person on the political side. The four major departments of civil affairs, commerce, finance, and production are all under her, and her power and responsibilities are extremely heavy.

Although she is still called a minister, in fact, the work she undertakes is very similar to that of the prime minister of the government. Most of the political work is on her.

Even the military has to please her. After all, the production of the military factory in Weixing City also needs her support to prosper. The military logistics equipment department headed by Thadius must always communicate with her subordinates to ensure that the equipment, ammunition, and military rations are sufficient.

Ossena, who was praised, was a little shy. She waved her hand and said quickly, “There is also a report on business and trade. Mr. Bradford will give it. He has performed very well in this month’s work.”

Bradford stood up a little nervously, especially when Gu Hang looked at him, the nervousness was even stronger.

He still remembered that when he was captured by the governor’s soldiers a few months ago, he was completely desperate; later, the conversation with the governor almost broke his mentality.

But he still survived through his “intelligence” and became a consultant to the New Alliance’s Ministry of Commerce.

After Ossena took on several positions and actually took on the work of the Prime Minister of the Alliance, she was very busy. In addition, there is a serious shortage of civil servants and administrative workers in the New Alliance, especially a lack of talents who can stand on their own. People like Bradford naturally took advantage of the situation.

He has the ability, experience, and connections, plus he is proactive in doing things and never makes money for himself – even if he has that intention, at least he didn’t dare to do it in the early stage of his career – he naturally stood out from the crowd.

Although he was still a consultant, he actually began to exercise the power of the head of the Union Commerce Department. Even within her authority, Ossena raised Bradford’s rank from E6 to D6.

This was still just a lower-middle level, but he had enough food and clothing, plus he could get a good subsidy.

What’s more, after all, he was in the position of the head of the Commerce Department. Bradford was a smart man, and he didn’t worry about not having room for development in the future.

And he never failed Ossena’s trust.

Before, he mobilized his own connections and management experience in commercial activities to organize caravans, restore blood supply to capillaries, and alleviate the food crisis in Shuangcheng; then, he resumed food trade with Ximo, which further resolved the food crisis.

As for another major artery for food imports, that is, the Qinggu area in the south, there was no improvement. But that was not his responsibility. The main reason was that the Qinggu area was now in war, and there were major problems in food production, which could not be solved by trade.

In fact, the food problem is still very tense for the Western Desert, especially after the expansion strategy began. The areas around Fuxing City also fell into war, especially with two million people becoming hostile, and the capillaries were affected.

This is also the reason why Gu Hang insisted that Yan Fangxu speed up the action and quickly invest more troops to solve this problem: if it is delayed for a longer time, famine will occur.

However, in order to solve this problem, Bradford personally went to the Western Desert and just came back recently.

He brought back a new large order, and the scale of food trade between the Western Desert and Fuxing City can be doubled.

The price that Fuxing City has to pay for this is a large number of consumer goods. Fuxing City’s additional output is enough to cover this part.

In addition, there is another big business, that is, Bradford has found a large order for Weixing City’s automobile industry.

The Iron Bull RN-100 truck has been favored by a large number of caravans. Good load-carrying capacity, good off-road performance, durable, and can consume all kinds of fuel… This kind of truck is very popular in the wasteland.

Bradford sold 500 Iron Bull trucks to Western Desert merchants in one go, paying with grain.

According to interstellar standards, the total value of this batch of subsequent grain orders to be delivered is more than 20,000 tax coins, which can basically meet the current annual needs of the New Alliance’s 2.4 million population; and 500 Iron Bull trucks are about Weixing City’s monthly production. If you pay taxes, the total value is only about 5,000 tax coins-the Imperial Tax Department may not necessarily want trucks of this technological level.

Although they made four times the profit, the Western Desert merchants were still ecstatic.

This truck sells much cheaper than the freight vehicles produced by Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west.

This deal is a win-win situation: the alliance found a market for the automobile industry and bought back a large amount of food; the Western Desert merchants who got the trucks would use the trucks to transport food to the alliance, and the transportation efficiency would become higher. If

this is not a win-win situation, what is it?

Winning twice, it’s a win.

Of course, this deal was not done in one go.

There is so much food in the Western Desert, but it is not possible to transport it all in one go. It takes time to collect it from various planting bases and it takes time to run thousands of kilometers.

And the delivery of the Iron Bull trucks cannot be taken out immediately. Although Weixing City can produce 500 trucks in a month, the transportation logistics of Fuxing City also needs Iron Bulls; the logistics transportation of the military also needs Iron Bulls; and the motorization of the army also needs Iron Bulls.

Even if the production capacity of 500 vehicles is not enough, the subsequent production department may focus on the Iron Bull truck in the next step of the production capacity, and strive to increase the monthly production of this important transport truck to 1,000 vehicles.

In addition to food trade, Bradford has recently solved another big problem: the import of industrial raw materials.

In terms of raw materials, the ore production capacity of the waste cave mine has long been unable to keep up.

Due to the suspension of the war, the garbage town has just recently resumed the excavation of the ruins mine, and the output has not yet come up.

The gap in raw materials has restricted the production of the industrial zone.

However, related trade work is gradually expanding, and the source of raw materials is not limited to the surrounding areas.

The area of about 6,000 kilometers east of the ruins of the tower to the sea is the main urban agglomeration area before the war of the Angry Owl Star. Super cities like the ruins of the tower are widely distributed in the eastern region.

But in this vast area, the living population may be only about 5 million. They are scattered among the ruins, struggling to survive in the mutant monsters and waste energy storms. There is no industry, and they mainly rely on picking up garbage, and then exchanging it for food, daily necessities and the like from the caravan.

In other words, the former urban agglomeration area of 6,000 kilometers from east to west and 3,000 kilometers from north to south is an oversized and extremely scattered garbage town.

But no matter what the ecology of that place is like, at least now the new alliance has opened up trade links with the eastern provinces.

Various consumer goods and food resale are traditional items for the raw material trade between Fuxing City and the eastern provinces, and now, there are more industrial products dumping.

Among them, the two most important products are the Iron Bull Truck and the arms.

The eastern provinces are like an oversized garbage town, not just talk, but also very similar in overall ecology. The food production capacity is very low, mainly relying on imports from the Qinggu area; the main output is raw materials obtained by digging up pre-war ruins and picking up garbage, as well as some primary processing and basic industries. The main

force of “garbage picking” is naturally many adventurers.

The individual equipment of the G9 series is much stronger than those earthen guns.

And it happens that the current G9 production line has a lot of surplus production capacity, so it is just right to sell them to them.

As for whether these guns will become an obstacle to the expansion of the new alliance to the eastern provinces in the future…

I have to admit that there is this possibility.

But the obstacle is not big.

If it is a large-scale battle, the value of individual equipment is not that great. Tanks, artillery, and land aviation, these firepower are more critical.

When it comes to arms trade, G9 individual equipment is not only sold to the east, but also to the Qinggu area in the south.

On the one hand, although the Qinggu area suffered from war and its food production capacity was severely reduced, there was still some.

On the other hand, the reason why arms were exchanged for food was mainly due to the situation in the Qinggu area.

Disasters such as the mutant monster tide had almost subsided by this time of year in the Qinggu area with relatively good natural conditions, but this year it has become more and more serious.

The tragedy of Osena’s family being destroyed and killed is no longer a rare case in the Qinggu area.

Even the manor owners and plantation owners can’t stand it, let alone ordinary civilians.

Selling weapons and equipment to the Qinggu area is to help them better resist the monster tide.

In fact, it is not just selling arms.

When he was in the sky, Gu Hang heard reports about the Qinggu area, and he was also worried about the situation in the Qinggu area.

The situation of the mutant monster tide raging wildly is definitely intolerable.

The Qinggu region has a population of 10 million. It is a huge peninsula region, spanning more than 2,000 kilometers from east to west and more than 5,000 kilometers from north to south. It narrows as it goes south. The overall terrain is a bit like the Indian Peninsula in the world before Gu Hang traveled through. The natural environment and geographical environment may even be better.

Vast fertile land, sufficient population… This is a rare elite place on the Angry Owl Star.

Gu Hang cannot tolerate the destruction of this land, and he also cannot tolerate the excessive loss of the 10 million population in this disaster.

At present, the alliance does not have enough power to send enough troops to such a large Qinggu region to help them solve the mutant monster problem there.

But this does not prevent early layout.

Arms/food exchange, or even directly sending military experts and diplomats to the Qinggu region.

Diplomats are helping the displaced survivors to gather; let those plantations that are still struggling to resist set up mutual assistance organizations; persuade those plantations that have not yet been hit by the disaster to understand the principle of lips and teeth, so that they can contribute money, labor and people, and help each other with other neighbors.

The military commissioners set out with the traded arms to assist the local teams in resisting the monster tide and building their army.

The local situation cannot be explained in just a few words, and the problems in Qinggu are not just the conflicts between humans and monsters.

But let’s not talk about the more complicated situation for now. At least for now, Gu Hang hopes that the personnel sent out can minimize the damage to the Qinggu area. One more person alive is one more, and one more grain is one more.

When he is free and can mobilize a real large force to go to the Qinggu area to recover the lost land, it will be good if there is more vitality there.

…

There are relatively few important things in the subsequent reports.

Patel talked about the industrial situation in Weixing City;

Lambert talked about the legal system construction in the Shuangcheng area. The formulation of relevant legal provisions, the construction of courts, the construction of law enforcement teams, the establishment of intelligence systems, and anti-corruption issues…

He has been appointed to the position of Chief Justice of the Alliance. Under his management, there are three major committees: the Legislative Committee, the Executive Committee, and the Disciplinary Committee. There are

the least legislators, and legal provisions can be established according to the Governor’s wishes; execution mainly includes public security issues; discipline is mainly anti-corruption.

Gu Hang attaches particular importance to the work of the Disciplinary Committee.

He knew very well that under the current highly centralized and planned economic system of the New Alliance, it was the best to concentrate efforts on major tasks, and to do things that would bring little short-term benefits but huge long-term benefits. However, the two problems of institutional rigidity and corruption had a fatal impact on the New Alliance system. Regarding

institutional rigidity, Gu Hang had already seen that Ossena was looking for a solution, encouraging some private, market-oriented economies as the main approach.

As for the issue of corruption, there were no signs of it yet. After all, the new regime was theoretically only three or four months old, so there wouldn’t be any major problems.

But this matter had to be nipped in the bud. Waiting until corruption became a large-scale, systemic problem before solving it would no longer be a painful thing.

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Six thousand words.

Yesterday’s promise was fulfilled.

(End of this chapter)