Chapter 1855 God's Grace Is Like a Sea, God's Power Is Like a Prison

The Aurora Legion treats everyone in the territory equally, but not everyone understands this costly, super bottomless spending policy. For example, Shylock, the mayor of San Antonio, is very, very incomprehensible.

"Why? Why is this?" Sherlock looked at the planning map of the communication base station construction network in hand, and his head was about to explode. "Communication base stations are built in cities with large populations, and base stations are also built in villages with small populations. Base stations are also built along the highway, everywhere.”

How much will it cost?

From Sherlock's point of view, this matter is full of great success, extremely wasteful, regardless of benefits, and completely devoid of the absurdity and ignorance of economic concepts. "This kind of situation is absolutely impossible in the United States. The investment is too large and the income is too small. No bank will finance this kind of project."

No, absolutely not.

But this happened in North America in the wasteland. With Uncle Zhou's order, 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 are built together, and even the databases of the two are still connected. Hundreds of thousands of workers were recruited to work, and base stations were installed in the start-up rooms everywhere. The cost was naturally huge.

"The legion is really rich. If I can control this money..." Sherlock thought about it with his own Jewish concept, "I wouldn't spend it like this."

According to the Jewish way of thinking, investment must depend on the income, and you can't do things that are not beneficial. In addition, the investment return period is too long to be carefully considered. As for the projects with too low yield or no income at all, they must be resolutely cut off.

If Sherlock comes to build this communication network, he promises that he can grab the project with the gimmick of 'saving half the cost', and then use a quarter of the cost to find a rabbit company to work for, and keep the remaining quarter. In my pocket.

This is the market economy.

As for how to solve the problem of insufficient project funds, it is naturally the key point of guarantee, and the secondary one is ignored-the communication network must cover the city and the main traffic roads, and remote villages can let the localities pay some money themselves, and places that are inaccessible should not waste effort up.

"It's a pity that the Legion does not allow local governments to intervene in these national projects, even subcontracting, otherwise I will definitely make a lot of money." Sherlock scratched his head and put down the planning map of the communication network in hand helplessly.

In fact, the wealth and wealth of the Aurora Legion is not only reflected in the communication network, but even the gun ban that has been making a lot of noise is also costly. The legion spent almost 10 billion aurora coins to redeem the recovered weapons, but after recycling, most of the weapons were thrown into the electrolytic furnace and turned into molten iron.

10 billion Aurora coins are gone just like that...

Pure consumption, a pure consumption that cannot be seen at all.

These 10 billion Aurora coins are equivalent to sending a sum of money to everyone in the society in vain. You must know that not everyone is willing to accept the money. Many white people took the money and cursed Victor Hugo for destroying the American tradition of holding guns. Some even publicly clamored to assassinate him.

But the money really went on like this.

The courage of this money distribution is too amazing, because it puts a heavy financial burden on the Aurora Legion, but at the same time activates the circulation of Aurora Coins in the market. and…….

"Bought a safe society." For the money, Sherlock was deeply impressed. "It also bought a financial order. Ten billion Aurora coins are very worthwhile."

When the Enclave and the Baath Party ruled the Southwest of the United States, their contribution to the development of the local economy was almost zero. Except for getting some 'trash' to exchange money from the Aurora Legion, they didn't create much wealth for the bottom of society.

And after the Aurora Legion came..., borrow money directly from the 'ban on guns'!

Even the poorest person can get a broken gun for some money. In the wasteland, one hundred aurora coins is equivalent to providing an opportunity to escape from the abyss of suffering, and it can often change a person.

If you have money but can't buy things, money is nothing but waste paper. However, the Aurora Legion shipped in a huge amount of goods while carrying out the "gun ban",

Consumer goods for eating, drinking and entertainment are available.

By selling these commodities, the legion activated the commercial system. Once people's desire to buy is opened, it is difficult to close, and then they want more necessities of life. What if the money runs out? Find a job and earn money!

Those who have permanent property 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 amounts of crude oil were extracted and exchanged for more commodities.

Sherlock 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 has 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. Regardless of whether someone in society likes it or not, Gao Gao is not happy, as long as they want to work and consume, they have to fall into the economic system of the Aurora Legion.

Once a person enters the social division of labor, he is a small screw on 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 progress of the legion. If he disobeys....

Hmph, this kind of heterogeneity can be easily identified and eliminated.

"This kind of economic revival plan promoted by the government is comparable to the "Roosevelt New Deal" back then. It used a positive monetary policy to drive economic development, and created a large number of jobs with public investment in exchange for social stability."

Sherlock admired the legion's handiwork in this aspect from the bottom of his heart. The only thing he didn't understand was how a huge amount of cheap goods and an almost unlimited market came into being. For this, he can only attribute it to the head of the legion, Victor Hugo, who wisely opened up the Far East and African markets.

"On the one hand, it is an idiot who does not hesitate to invest in public infrastructure at any cost and does not follow the economic laws; on the other hand, it is a genius that activates the internal economic and financial system. These two seem to be too contradictory, but they are in the legion at the same time. Appeared."

Based on Sherlock's past knowledge, he can't understand the legion's preference for handling social affairs in a big way. He once communicated this issue with the old Dave who was the chief attorney general of the legion, and it turned out that the old Dave explained the issue from another angle.

"Sherlock, do you know how many people have been prosecuted by our Attorney General's office in the past two months when we have controlled the Southwest of America?" 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?"

Arresting and prosecuting more than half a million people in two months is too exaggerated. Sherlock knows that the legion has been secretly purge, arresting people with bad deeds everywhere. But he didn't expect to catch so many.

"It's not an exaggeration at all. After the Legion created a police force of five million people, it immediately began to clean up the society. The police were 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 that at all. I thought at most 10,000 to 20,000 people were arrested."

"Because our legion has spent enough money, the residents' experience of happiness has completely overwhelmed the negative news of various arrests. Our legion leader is willing to spend huge sums of money to improve social life, and he is also ruthless in setting up death camps.

At least half of the 500,000 people arrested will die. Do you think those who are secretly rebellious will be left alone? Victor Hugo is the real superior, he can do anything to maintain stability. "

Sherlock suddenly felt chills all over... It turned out that in his eyes, Victor Hugo was not only an idiotic rich man who spent money recklessly, but also a genius macroeconomic manipulator. But now he found that the face of the regiment commander had become obscure, blurry, cold, ruthless, and hard to see through.

The so-called "God's grace is like the sea, and God's power is like a prison" is nothing more than that.