Chapter 404: Relief for Work
In June 1933, You Zhengbin was unable to resolve the economic crisis for more than two years. He apologized to the Emperor of the Zhonglong Empire, and at the same time, Tao Chengzhang, the second auxiliary assistant of the imperial cabinet, was also at this time.
At this time, the people strongly called on the empire to find a cabinet chief who can lead the people out of the dilemma of economic crisis. Xia Jun said on TV that he would follow the public's wishes and form a strong cabinet to cope with the current difficulties faced by the empire.
"Our country is a country with lack of capital experience, and the US economy continues to be in a downturn at this time. We have no experience to borrow. But I believe that the downturn will not last. As long as we are willing to let go of reform, the economy will definitely be able to recover." Xia Jun said in a TV speech: "This economic crisis is a challenge and an opportunity. We will definitely be able to survive it first."
Xia Jun's speech greatly boosted the morale of the people.
The list of new cabinets was soon announced, with Yan Xishan taking office as the chief minister of the cabinet, and Ma Yinchu taking office as the second assistant of the cabinet, and the two taking office as the chief economic policy.
This new cabinet was later called the "Yanma Cabinet".
After Yan Xishan and Ma Yinchu came to power, they immediately called on the people to support the cabinet in carrying out bold reforms and bold experiments to get out of the dilemma of the economic crisis.
Yanma Cabinet first introduced the policy of "work-for-relief".
"After the implementation of this policy, the empire will increase the number of engineering constructions in large quantities, and gradually reduce the supply of basic living materials. After the project is fully started, the supply of basic living materials for most unemployed people will be stopped—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
As soon as this policy was introduced, it caused some commotion, but not much. Although the empire stopped supplying basic living supplies, it introduced a policy of labor-for-relief. As long as you work on the construction site, you can not only ensure food and clothing, but also earn a certain amount of wages.
People who are used to unemployment assistance policies
It is a bit difficult to adapt to for a while, but not everyone needs this basic supply guarantee.
Only those who have suffered heavy losses in the economic collapse but the government has come up with a policy of labor-for-relief.
This labor-for-relief policy was quickly adopted by the member states of the Third World Alliance, and they all launched the labor-for-relief policy.
Zhongdou Empire, Zhongdou, quickly launched a series of labor-for-relief projects, which are mainly based on infrastructure construction.
and mining construction as the main focus.
In a very short period of time, nearly 3,000 labor-for-relief projects of varying sizes were opened, spread across provinces and regions across the country.
At the same time, Yanma's cabinet decided to depreciate the Asian dollar, and this policy immediately received support from the people who were troubled by debt.
Because mainstream classics say that when the currency depreciates, national income will increase, thereby reducing national debts.
But in fact, devaluation of Asian dollar is a new policy of the government to strengthen the monopoly of state-owned enterprises. Because the devaluation of Asian dollar means printing of money.
Who will print too much money for?
Of course, it is for the state to use it, which means paying money directly from the pockets of all citizens to build labor-for-relief projects.
The Asian Federal Reserve's money printing machine was powered up again, and rolls of new bills were printed out like this.
Then they are invested in government construction projects, most of which are handled by East China Group.
A large number of unfinished projects have been restarted by the government and then continued to be built.
At the same time, domestic mines have entered a state of comprehensive construction. Although these mining areas have been built, they are not for economic considerations, but for war. Therefore, after these mining areas have been built, they are not mined immediately.
At the same time, the empire strengthened the construction of transportation facilities in the western region—especially to Russia
Russia and other third world member states have also implemented the "work-for-relief" policy, and Russia has also launched many work-for-relief projects very strangely.
The work-to-paper project is implemented at an unprecedented speed. Russia's work-to-relief project was carried out by the Zhonglong Empire.
The Zhonglong Empire wanted to build Russia into a raw material supply base, so it naturally had to build mining areas and mining areas railways - so the Zhonglong Empire had already completely planned the project to be built during the Economic Qing Dynasty.
Russia's basic daily necessities supply was soon completely cut off. The Russians who had no food to eat were desperate and had to go to the construction site to work. The salary level was extremely low, but they would have no food to eat if they didn't work.
The recovery speed of Russia's economy is much slower than that of the Central Dowager Empire, because many Russians cannot do it. Light industry is a shortcoming, and heavy industry is not necessarily good at it. Therefore, many things need to be imported from the Central Dowager Empire - and banks do not relax the austerity policy for Russia. Therefore, it is not so easy for the Russians to recover their economy. Therefore, more and more people will go to work-for-relief engineering sites to build mines and railways.
The same is true for the five countries of North Korea, Jiaozhi, Rashid, Arabia, and Poland. They are like Russia. It takes a certain amount of time for economic recovery. The hungry people can only join the labor-for-relief site to be coolies.
The Kokang County and the Nanyang Republic enjoy the same economic recovery policy as the Central Dohua Empire.
In addition to the Kokang County and the Nanyang Republic, the total population of other senior member states reached nearly 25, with so many people. A large number of them began to use labor for relief. How fast would such construction be?
Moreover, the construction project belongs to the Zhonglong Empire.
Most of the raw materials required for project construction are imported from the Zhonglang Empire, because these projects were carried out by the Zhonglang Empire, so naturally they buy whoever they want.
The import of raw materials for these projects is zero US tax, which is part of the labor-for-relief policy.
Therefore, these labor-for-relief projects cannot restore the economies of these member states, but only prevent the people of these member states from starving to death.
This policy solves many problems.
First of all, the Zhonglong Empire has provided free assistance to food and clothing for so many years, so the Zhonglong Empire government claimed that the losses were serious and that it was necessary to provide assistance to other countries in another way, so it would adopt a labor-for-relief approach.
There are many benefits to the method of labor-for-relief. First of all, the Zhonghu Empire can get rid of the losses, and at the same time, workers can get wages. Although not very high, they are always higher than the original price of basic living supplies.
There is no loss for the rulers of member states, and the Zhonglong Empire has also built many projects for them. Although these projects belong to the Zhonglong Empire, these projects are not entirely military war projects, and there are also civilian projects. This can improve the quality of their people's life and production in the future. Why not do it?
Nicholas II was happy. Devaluation of Asian dollar means he could get more money because he had shares in the Asian Federal Reserve. Once the Asian Federal Reserve issued more banknotes, he could get the money, which belongs to the royal private sector.
When the rulers of member states are satisfied, this labor-for-relief policy is implemented smoothly within the territory of each member state.
Since it is labor-for-relief, the wages are not high with the word "relief".
Since the wages are not high, the cost of engineering construction is very low. The raw material science production of engineering construction is controlled by East China Group. After the economic depression, a large number of building materials manufacturers went bankrupt, and East China Group once again gained a monopoly position in the building materials manufacturing industry.
Work-for-relief is also done by the state, so the state naturally purchases raw materials from the East China government.
After the economic depression, social labor costs were greatly reduced, workers' wages dropped, and raw material production costs were also reduced.
As the cost of engineering decreases again and again.
But the currency was issued again, and the Asian Federal Reserve printed a new bill for the country. After the bank's austerity policy, the bank's bill also had a lot of bills.
Under such circumstances, the country seems to have infinite financial resources.
Various projects appeared like cow hair in the Central Dogwa Empire and the member states of the Third World Alliance.
Among them, the Zhongdu Empire had the largest number of projects—the Zhongduan had Zhongduan’s projects—and local and local projects.
First of all, in terms of railways, the empire now has 360,000 kilometers of railways, and the empire plans to build another 150,000 kilometers of railways to reach a total length of 510,000 kilometers.
The 150,000-kilometer railway is mainly concentrated in the west, extending all the way to Western Europe and to Poland. This is for the purpose of logistical supply considerations for future wars.
For the sake of war logistical considerations, the empire will build two more dual-track railways, plus one of them was three, all of which extended to Poland, that is, there are six lines, which are responsible for transporting Russian raw materials back to China, and then transporting Chinese arms and other combat materials to Russia and Poland.
The three dual-track railways are not concentrated in one place, but each has a certain distance. At the same time, they extend many railway branches. The railway branches are railways in mining areas, which continuously transport raw materials to China through railways.
In terms of roads, the Zhonglong Empire continued to improve the highway system. If any highways in the local area are not built, all local horses will be built.
This is a comprehensive finishing. Any places where cement and asphalt roads have not been built are entered without any commercial returns.
Just like forest areas and other areas, a small road is also used to facilitate forest logging.
Next, for example, water conservancy projects, local governments also carry out finalization, flood control projects are first improved, and those whose urban drainage systems are incomplete will be improved. Then improve the irrigation system and strengthen agricultural reforms.
In terms of electricity, the Zhonghu Empire also made great efforts to plan a hydropower station cluster in the southwest region, and a large number of medium-sized hydropower stations were included in the construction plan.
This is a comprehensive finishing. After this finishing, the infrastructure of the Zhonglong Empire was very complete, and the country was completely reborn.
As for how much these projects cost, this is not considered.
If you don’t have enough money, you can issue additional paper money and print it crazy, and increase taxes to a certain extent.
Chapter completed!