Chapter 1855: Divine grace is like the sea, divine power is like prison

The Aurora Corps treats everyone in the territory with equal treatment, but not everyone understands this costly and super-bottomless pit spending policy. For example, the mayor of San Antonio, Sherlock, was very, very incomprehensible.
"Why? Why is this?" Sherlock looked at the plan of the communication base station construction network at hand, and his head was about to explode. Base stations are also being built along the highway, everywhere. "
How much does it cost?
From Sherlock's point of view, this matter is a great joy, extremely wasteful, disregarding the benefits, and completely absurd and ignorant of economic concepts. "This situation is absolutely impossible in the United States. The investment is too large and the return is too small. No bank will finance such a project."
No, absolutely not.
But it happened in North America in waste land. With the order of Uncle Zhou, the Communications Department of the Aurora Corps began to recruit soldiers and horses to form a state-owned communications company and began to develop a civilian communications network.
The communication network and the monitoring network are developed together, and even the databases of the two are combined. Hundreds of thousands of workers were recruited to work and turn on the room to install base stations, and the cost was naturally huge.
"The Legion is really rich, if this money can be controlled by me ..." Sherlock thought for himself, "I wouldn't spend it that way."
According to the Jewish thought, investment must depend on returns, and no good can not be done. In addition, the investment return period is too long to be carefully considered. As for projects with low returns or even no returns, they must be resolutely cut off.
If Sherlock comes to the communication network, he promises that he can grab the project with a "save half the money" as a gimmick, and then use a quarter of the funds to find a rabbit company to work, and the remaining quarter will be saved. In your own pocket.
This is the market economy.
As for how to solve the problem of insufficient funding for the project, it is naturally the focus to ensure that it is less important-the communication network must cover the city and the main roads of transportation. Remote villages can let the locals pay for themselves. Already.
"Unfortunately, the Legion did not allow local governments to intervene in these national projects, and even subcontracting was not allowed, otherwise I would definitely make a lot of money." Sherlock scratched his head, reluctantly putting down the plan for the communication network at hand.
In fact, the richness of the Aurora Corps is not only manifested on the communication network, but even the ban on guns that has been making a lot of noise has been costly. The Legion spent almost 10 billion Aurora coins to redeem the recovered weapons, but after the recovery, most of those weapons were thrown into the electrolytic furnace into molten iron.
Ten billion Aurora coins are gone ...
Pure consumption, pure consumption that is invisible to any income.
This 10 billion Aurora coins is equivalent to sending a sum of money to everyone in the society. You know, not everyone is willing to accept this money. Many white people took the money and cursed Victor. Hugo broke the American tradition of holding guns, and some even publicly clamored to assassinate him.
But this money really went on like this.
This courage to send money is too amazing, because it puts the Aurora Army on a heavy financial burden, but at the same time activates the circulation of Aurora coins in the market. and…….
"Buy a society for peace." Sherlock was deeply impressed by the money. "I also bought a financial order. The value of 10 billion Aurora coins was extraordinary."
When Enclave and the Baath Party ruled the southwestern part of the United States, they contributed almost zero to the development of the local economy. Except for getting some 'tatters' to exchange money from the Aurora Corps, they did not create much wealth for the bottom of society.
And after the Aurora Corps came ..., borrow the "gun ban" to give money directly!
Even the poorest people can get a broken gun for some money. In waste land, one hundred aurora coins is equivalent to providing an opportunity to escape the abyss of suffering, which can often change a person.
If you have money but you can't buy anything, the money is nothing more than waste paper. However, while the Aurora Corps was carrying out the ban on guns, it shipped a huge amount of goods, including consumer goods for eating, drinking, and fun.
By selling these goods, the Legion activated the business system. People's desire to buy is difficult to close once opened, and they want more necessities. What should I do if I run out of money? Find work and earn money!
Those with constant production have perseverance, and social stability requires people who work hard one by one. 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 amounts of crude oil have been mined in exchange for more commodities.
Sherlock was most pleased with this. The first thing he did after setting up the city government was not to set up a police station, but to set up the tax office himself. The emergence of commercial trade made it possible to collect taxes, and the government had the power to have the right.
The Legion's move is clearly to spend money to buy everyone in society. No matter if someone in the society likes it or not, Gao is not happy, as long as they want to work and consume, they must fall into the economic system of the Aurora Corps.
Once a person enters the division of labor, it is a small screw on the huge machine of the Legion. Even if this person is an opponent of the Legion, he will be pushed by the tide of society to follow the advance of the Legion. If he doesn't obey ...
Hum, this kind of alien can be easily identified and eliminated.
"This government-driven economic recovery plan is comparable to the 'Roosevelt New Deal' of that year, driving economic development with a proactive monetary policy and creating a large number of jobs with public investment in exchange for social stability."
Sherlock's sincere admiration for the Legion's work in this regard, the only thing he didn't understand was how huge quantities of cheap goods and almost unlimited markets were generated. In this regard, he can only be attributed to the head of the army Victor Hugo wisely opened up the Far East and African markets.
"On the one hand, it is an idiot who invests in public infrastructure at any cost and does not follow the economic laws; on the other hand, it genius activates the internal economic and financial system. The two seem to be too contradictory, but they are in the army at the same time. Appeared."
Based on Sherlock's past knowledge, he could not understand the preference of the Army to deal with social affairs ~ EbookFREE.me ~ He once passed this issue with the old Dave Ditch who was the Attorney General of the Army, and it turned out to be old Dave explained the problem from another angle.
"Sherlock, do you know how many people we have prosecuted in the General Prosecutor's Office for the past two months we have controlled the southwestern United States?" Old Dave asked during the radio contact between the two.
Where can Sherlock answer this question?
"do not know."
"More than half a million."
"so much?"
It is an exaggeration to arrest and prosecute more than 500,000 people for two months. Sherlock knew that the Legion had been secretly purging and arresting people who had been inferior in the past. But he didn't expect to catch so much.
"It's no exaggeration. After the army formed a five million police force, it immediately started to clean up the society. The police cleaned up both inside and outside, and the concentration camps used to hold suspects and prisoners were secretly built. More than a hundred. "
"But I didn't feel it at all. I thought there were at most 20,000 people arrested."
"Because our legion has spent enough money to make the residents' experience of happiness completely overwhelm the negative news of various arrests. Our legion chief is willing to spend huge sums of money to improve social life, and he can devote himself to death concentration camps.
At least half of the half a million people arrested would have died. Do you think those who are unruly in their backs will be left alone? Victor Hugo is the real boss, he can do everything to maintain stability. "
Sherlock suddenly felt cold ... It turned out that in his eyes, Victor Hugo was both an idiot and a genius macroeconomic manipulator. But now he found that the commander's face became obscure, vague, cold, and ruthless, so that people could not see through.
The so-called "Divine grace is like the sea, and divine power is like the prison", but this is the case.