Chapter 2445 Hari Seldon Reform (Part 1)
Chapter 2445 Hari-Seldon Reform (Part 1)
2447, Hari-Seldon Reform (Part 1)
The next day, Tang Xiao convened the highest-level military meeting of the Kingdom of Dawn. The meeting focused on the next stage of the war plan. During this meeting, after discussion, Tang Xiao decided on several very important decisions.
The first is to continue to expand war production, increase war taxes on the planets under its jurisdiction and continue to issue war bonds.
Then expand the army, recruit 100 million army and 20 million navy.
Third, continue the transformation of civilian enterprises to military production and reduce the types of domestic consumer goods.
Finally, encourage major enterprises and planets to form their own private armed fleets, and the military will open sales channels for some retired second-line warships.
This confirms that the Kingdom of Dawn will continue to burn its own war potential and vow to continue this war until it is a life-and-death struggle with the Galactic Empire.
According to the current military deployment of the Galactic Empire, this meeting also initially formulated a combat plan, which was named "Combat Plan No. 1".
Operation Plan No. 1 includes three parts: annihilating the Death Squadron, annihilating the Empire's Northern Fleet, and annihilating the Empire's 12th Army in the East. Unlike Operation Plan No. 0, which aims to achieve success in one battle, Operation Plan No. 1 will focus on destroying the Galactic Empire's living forces.
This plan is not in a hurry to win as soon as possible, but to tighten the Empire's neck step by step, so that the Empire will erupt into more serious civil unrest under the high-pressure war environment.
The operation plan was handed over to Marshal Matt Horner for refinement and formulation. Before that, all fronts of the Kingdom of Dawn were fully switched to a defensive posture.
Afterwards, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Dawn, Daphne Clement, proposed an economic reform plan, which was named after the person who formulated it, and was the Hari Seldon Reform.
That's right, this economic reform was proposed by Hari Seldon, Secretary General of the Prime Minister's Office.
Because the domestic economy of the Kingdom of Dawn is on the verge of collapse, the industrial system is tending to be deformed, the working hours of workers are increasing, and the labor remuneration is decreasing. In addition, the immigration plan to the planet Rendili, which is still ongoing at this time, has led to a surge in unemployment.
According to the latest statistics, the unemployment rate in the Kingdom of Dawn has reached 13%, and a large number of immigrants cannot get jobs, so they can only find their own way. This not only leads to chaos in immigration work, but also makes many unemployed immigrants become very unstable factors.
So the Dawn Kingdom Immigration Bureau had to throw many immigrants to the developer star field, give them some basic living supplies, and let them cultivate the fertile land left by Mongal-Mongal. But there is a big hidden danger in doing so, that is, after these people gradually complete the reclamation, establish settlements and planetary administrative centers, liberal ideas will naturally spread among them.
And due to the pensions for retired soldiers, wounded soldiers, and fallen soldiers, it has also caused a very serious fiscal deficit. The infrastructure of many planets has almost stagnated, the government procurement price has been continuously lowered, and the enthusiasm of industrial and agricultural production personnel has declined.
Even if it is a large amount of food produced in the developer star field, many farmers are dissatisfied with the government procurement price and refuse to sell their own crops. They have conflicts with officials who come to purchase, and even directly burn the food they grow.
What is more serious is that the increasingly high-pressure wartime economic policy has led to many planets rejecting war, demanding neutrality and autonomy, and even erupting in uprisings.
These uprisings have established all-round connections with the rebels on the side of the Galactic Empire in many aspects, making it difficult to extinguish the flames of the uprising. The rebels attacked the various logistics and production departments of the planets, killed kingdom officials, robbed transport fleets, and some people simply turned into interstellar pirates, pointing their guns at everyone including other civilians, which made the situation worse.
In this case, if the decision of this meeting is followed to further expand the intensity of war production and wartime economy, there is no doubt that the Kingdom of Dawn will face a more serious internal crisis.
Therefore, Hari Seldon proposed an economic reform, and the most important point of it was currency reform.
In the past, the economic system of the Kingdom of Dawn was linked to the economic system of the Galactic Republic. Because at that time, the Kingdom of Dawn, which had just begun to develop, did not have a complete economic ecology at all and had to rely heavily on the Galactic Republic. Therefore, even during the Clone Wars, the economic systems of both sides were actually on the same track.
The currency system of the Galactic Republic is basically a dual-track system, with credit currency on one hand and standard currency on the other. In other words, there are two ways to pay for the credit points of the Galactic Republic. One is electronic currency issued based on credit, and the other is credit ingots cast with rare alloys, that is, cash.
The currency No. 4 issued by the Kingdom of Dawn is actually a currency issued on the basis of the purchase and hoarding of rare alloys by the central bank. This currency is interoperable with the Republic's credit points, but the exchange rate is different.
However, with the outbreak of the war, this system basically collapsed, and credit currency was printed in large quantities and almost became waste paper, so most places only recognized credit ingots, not credit points. This led to the poor circulation of currency, and economic payments also became mainly barter to a large extent.
Later, with the split of the Interstellar Banking Association, the economies of the Kingdom of Dawn and the Galactic Republic gradually became independent. However, the basic operating methods remain the same, so the two sides still have a lot of exchanges in private trade.
However, now, the economy of the Galactic Empire has basically collapsed, and the economy of the Kingdom of Dawn is almost the same.
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The most important point of the economic reform proposed by Hari Seldon is to redefine the currency of the Kingdom of Dawn. And the key to establishing this economic system is the material decompressor that was put into operation before!
The material decompressor of the Kingdom of Dawn can already be built on neutron stars to mine huge amounts of minerals. Among the mined resources, a considerable part is a material that can only be formed under the ultra-high pressure environment of neutron stars. This type of material is collectively called neutron material.
Moreover, this type of material is difficult to obtain under ordinary mining methods. For example, the Galactic Empire is not unable to mine materials on neutron stars, but the means are basically violent, using super-strong lasers for cutting or simply bombing with turbolaser cannons.
The materials on the neutron star mined in this way basically underwent a physical reaction during the bombing process, thus becoming ordinary resources.
The neutron star materials used by the Galactic Empire, such as the neutron material armor installed on the Cheering Class Assault Landing Ship, are not directly mined, but artificially synthesized.
However, the minerals mined by the material decompressor are different. These minerals are created by a pressure pump to create a huge pressure difference, so that the materials on the neutron star are actively ejected toward the other side of the pressure pump. Therefore, those extremely rare materials that can only be formed under ultra-high pressure environments can be preserved if they can be processed at the first time.
And these things will become the basis of the new generation of the currency system of the Kingdom of Dawn!