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Chapter 294 Shoes

Washing away the dirt is not only a metaphor, but also a scene in reality.

The time for the new alliance to liberate Banda City was at the beginning of this year, and it has been nearly half a year now. It took almost half a year for the new alliance to build the Kelin District.

Klin District is just a district of Fiso Port, with a population of 10,000+, while Banda City is much larger, with a total population of 120 million, but the speed of transformation of Banda City is not slower than that of Klin District. .

Because building Klin District is a new start, everyone has little experience, but now more than 8000 trained cadres have been transferred from Port Fiso, and everyone has personally experienced and participated in the entire process of transforming Port Fiso. They are all proficient.

Reconstruction of order, including economic, administrative, and military systems, needless to say.There are also several key tasks in terms of people's livelihood, such as farmland water conservancy construction, spring plowing production, and urban environmental renovation.

People's lifestyle and living environment can directly affect the mental outlook, which is a very intuitive change that anyone can see.When Kelin District was first built, Kelin means clean, and everyone can understand it.In the past few months, in Banda City, a "Love Home Sanitation Campaign" has also been launched.

The roads in the city were re-planned and rebuilt, the sewage system was built, and the road surface was hardened as much as possible under the existing conditions. Some buildings in messy and low-lying areas were also demolished, and the residents were resettled so that the sewage would no longer flow when the rainy season came...

After suppressing the gangster forces entrenched in various neighborhoods, and prohibiting illegal businesses controlled by gangsters such as pornography, gambling, drugs, and guns, and breaking the long-standing division of neighborhoods, many measures can be implemented.

Another job is to build public toilets and garbage stations. This is not a trivial matter, but a key project of the new alliance. It took a lot of effort and the measures were quite strict.It is forbidden to urinate and defecate anywhere, and it is forbidden to dump all kinds of garbage and dirt anywhere. Sanitation departments and urban patrol teams have been established, and by the way, many employed people have been trained and absorbed.

These all require huge investment, and for Banda City, it is an unprecedented huge amount of money.

If we talk about funds, it can be said to come from Cambisting, Huazhenhang, and the new alliance through a series of transaction relationships.If you "research" carefully, it seems that they all come from Old Man Yang, because the current Chunrong Pills are all made by Old Man Yang himself.And old man Yang didn't seem to care about his business, he just set up a nine-turn purple gold furnace to refine a batch of Chunrong Pills.

The new alliance is not only investing money, it is useless to just spend money to transform this place, it has mobilized huge manpower, material resources and production capacity...

Spending money to buy things is actually just an appearance. It represents the labor reserve and production results. If the production capacity cannot keep up, where can I buy things?

With the money in the hands of Hua Zhenxing, he can import various materials and invite the Dongguo team to build various projects.However, if all the daily necessities of the residents of Banda City need to be imported, the price and cost will be too high, which is equivalent to only input but no output. The local area first needs to establish an internal economic cycle.

Jili currency is no longer used in the jurisdiction of the new alliance. It is either Dongguo currency or shopping coupons issued by the supply and marketing cooperative.Shopping coupons can be used to buy various daily necessities and common production tools, most of which are locally produced, mainly from various economic units under Huanxiang Industry.

If it weren't for the fact that Fiso Port already had a certain production capacity, it would be impossible for the New Alliance to take such a big move to transform Banda City, converting nearly half of the city's adult population into labor, paying them salaries, and mobilizing A large amount of material supply allows them to buy what they need with labor remuneration.

Due to various reasons, the quality of the population is quite low, so the labor efficiency is also very low. There is no way to do this for the time being. Even if you want to change it, it will take a long-term process.

Nevertheless, according to Mo Shangtong’s calculations, after the simple and large-scale construction of farmland water conservancy and new land reclamation plans at the beginning of the year, after the end of this year’s rainy season, the output of agricultural and non-staple food in Banda City alone can feed at least 500 million people .

The so-called support refers to ensuring that 500 million people can live on the basis of the existing standard of living.But people can’t just wear rags and eat cassava every day. The new alliance’s transformation of Jiliguo is to let people live a better life.

But the current achievements are quite remarkable, laying a solid foundation for the new alliance to liberate Wago City and the entire territory of Jili Kingdom in the next step. At least it can guarantee that after the liberation of Jili Kingdom, there will be no famine during the period of comprehensive consolidation.

Banda City is an important town in the north of the Jili Kingdom, and the base camp of the former guard front. Its basic conditions are much better than that of Port Fiso. If calculated according to the level of previous years, its gross product value is about five times that of Port Fiso. .

Its pillar industries are agriculture and animal husbandry, handicrafts, tourism and a small amount of light industry.There are also some heavy industries, such as minerals, which are basically controlled by foreign mining capital groups.The fairly modern power and communication industries are very weak, and were originally controlled by the Guardian Front.

There are three rivers and many tributaries in its territory. Although the climate is also divided into a heavy rainy season and a small rainy season, the agricultural and animal husbandry conditions are much better than those of Fiso Port.

It took Huazhenhang a lot of effort to build a Beiluo River Basin in Feisuo Port, and as long as it undergoes relatively simple construction and transformation, it can build a modern agricultural production base equivalent to ten Feisuo Port agricultural reclamation areas.

A large part of the new land reclamation plan was originally located in the national park, which was a traditional camping area for tourist groups.The new alliance has re-planned and transformed it into the current farming and animal husbandry reclamation area. This move has also aroused protests from several international environmental protection organizations.

Originally, Banda City did not engage in agricultural and animal husbandry development in the most suitable places because it was profitable.A huge national park has been designated, which can receive donations from overseas charities.As long as the local government sends people to maintain and protect the national park, they will get money every year, so the Guardian Front is also happy to do so.

The new alliance issued a report specifically for this purpose, stating that the new land reclamation plan will not affect the ecological environment and wildlife habitat.And with the output of farming and animal husbandry, the local people can have a guarantee of survival, and the hunting behavior for the purpose of survival can be fundamentally eliminated.

The local government also rezoned a larger and more reasonable area, which was incorporated into the national park.This new place was originally a hunting area next to the national park. Overseas tourists can go hunting accompanied by local armed bodyguards as long as they purchase a hunting license. Now it is also included in the protection scope of the national park.

This report didn't help, and the environmental protection assistance from overseas organizations stopped. Banda City lost several million dollars in foreign exchange income every year, and the indirect loss from tourism may be even more.The new alliance also did not change its original intention, and implemented the new land reclamation plan as usual.

What Shi Shuangcheng came to was a Banda City, a little messy but not chaotic, a little busy but full of vigor.

In the past, during the heavy rainy season every year, many people did not work, and there was no work to do.Local people sow seeds in the fields at the beginning of the rainy season, which is similar to wild seeds, and they can harvest crops after the rainy season is over.It can also come again during the small rainy season, and it can be harvested again in winter, but the yield is lower, and the main crops can generally be harvested twice a year.

Most of the time during the rainy season is basically drinking, singing and dancing.A few people may work in factories or workshops, go to the river shoals to pan for gold, exchange some money and return to continue to drink, gamble, and smoke leaves.Thanks to the local climate conditions, it is not too cold when it rains. As long as the house has a roof to sleep on, it will not freeze, and if it can find food, it will be able to survive.

However, the situation this year is different. Many people are still working during the rainy season. Residents go out of their homes to participate in various organized activities. Activists can also participate in various community training classes organized by the New Alliance. Pass the assessment, get the diploma of the cram school, and then enter the internship.

After the transformation, the city was washed clean by the rain, and patrols maintaining order walked by from time to time on the streets, wearing orange or blue armbands, and they all wore shoes.

Not straw sandals, which are not suitable for wearing in the rainy season, but sandals remade from waste tires.The outer tire is used as the sole, and the inner tube is used as a shoe tripper, which not only protects the soles of the feet from being stabbed, but also prevents various parasitic infections.

All cadres of the new alliance had to wear shoes, which was a disciplinary requirement, and a new trend soon formed.For the locals employed by the New Alliance and Huanxiang Industry, the shoes are distributed free of charge, which is considered part of the work remuneration.

Such sandals are also sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the price is not expensive. Of course, there are better shoes in the supply and marketing cooperatives.During this period, there were many shoe snatching incidents in Banda City. It is hard for outsiders to imagine that sandals made of waste tires would be robbed.

But many locals used to have this temper. When they saw someone wearing new shoes but they didn't have them, they would force the other person to take them off and give them to themselves because of the large crowd or the weapon in hand.

Although the new alliance has suppressed gangs in various neighborhoods, many people still retain their original behavior habits, and the municipal department has also organized special rectification activities for this purpose.This surprised the local aborigines. The law enforcement department would actually take care of this kind of thing. Some community street workers even went door-to-door to investigate and visit...

Charles originally had ten speeches, but recently added one specially.The title of the No. 11 speech is "Protecting Everyone's Shoes". This speech was not written by Shen Si, but Shire's own play, which is specifically aimed at the situation encountered in reality.

According to Shire, if the new alliance can't even protect the shoes on the feet of the masses, how can it talk about protecting the lives and property of the masses, and protecting people's rights to survival and development?
When Shi Shuangcheng was visiting Banda City, he saw many mass gatherings. He set up a simple platform and awning on the open space, performed dramas and broadcast Charles' speeches, and often held mass criticism meetings. Love watching in the rain.

Shi Shuangcheng was very curious and surprised when he saw this kind of gathering for the first time, and stopped and watched among the crowd for a long time.There were five people who were charged in public, bearing the signs of remnants of gangsters.

These five people were originally members of the meat market gang, not the core backbone, so they were neither suppressed nor sent to the water conservancy construction site to undergo labor reform. After being criticized and educated, they were released.

As a result, these five people formed a small gang to snatch sandals in secluded places. They didn't wear them for themselves, but after they snatched up a batch, they sold them in the neighborhood.

Someone who was robbed reported to the joint law enforcement agency, and the group was punished.But they found the whistleblower they suspected in private. In fact, they found the wrong person, but they stabbed the other person with a knife and eventually died.

This kind of thing was very common in the original Banda City. There were too many conflicts and revenge incidents between gang members, and the reasons were often because of trivial matters, but in today’s Banda City, it is considered a big case. It was supervised by the new alliance.

A lot of people came to the criticism meeting, and the community workers also organized a group of neighbors to come on stage to expose how these people used to do evil by relying on the power of the gangsters, and they still refused to repent after being reformed by the new alliance.

In short, the on-site criticism is not only about their criminal behavior today, but also about the badness of the old era. There are also community cadres who preached on the spot, telling people that they must resolutely fight against the bad remnants of the old era.

Before these five people were criticized by the assembly, they were actually sentenced, and they were taken away for execution after the assembly.Then another group of people came up, admitting their mistakes one by one, apologizing to the public present, and expressing that they must maintain the new order and be a new citizen with good behavior in the future.

In fact, these dozens of people didn't do anything serious. They were all caught by the patrol because they defecated in the street. This kind of thing was left unattended before, but now it is prohibited.

When Shi Shuangcheng was watching from the audience, he asked casually: "Those people have committed crimes and have been caught by law enforcement agencies. They can be punished directly. If they should be fined, they should be fined, they should be imprisoned, and they should be shot. Why should they How about pulling it to the stage for the masses to gather and criticize?"

Manman explained: "It is to educate the masses! When everyone knows what kind of punishment they have been punished and why they were punished, this is done to expand the influence of propaganda. This is not only law-enhancing propaganda, but also policy propaganda, telling everyone It's different now, why is it different..."

Hua Zhenxing smiled wryly and said: "Among the top management of Huanxiang Industrial, Lawyer Dong, who is in charge of the legal department, once asked the same questions as you. He thought that doing so was insulting. But Mr. Ke said, first of all, there must be social consensus, To form a sound personality...Later, Lawyer Dong also changed his view."

When the five criminals were taken away and more than a dozen people came on the stage to apologize to the public, Shi Shuangcheng couldn't help but asked again: "Why don't you even let the girls go? This is too shameful..."

Because of defecating in the street, there are several women who were dragged onto the stage and criticized by the crowd. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, in Shi Shuangcheng's eyes, they are not girls!Because this kind of thing is apologized to so many people, and it is really shameful to be pointed out and discussed by everyone, it is simply a humiliation.

Hua Zhenxing sighed and said, "Then let them know what shame is..."

He went out of his way to explain.Many local people actually don’t have a sense of shame, and most of the time they don’t care about other people’s feelings, but they have inexplicably strong self-esteem. They claim that the other party has offended them when something is a little out of place, and they have a thick skin when they make mistakes. If you don't admit it, you will turn your back on those who accused them.

Therefore, it is actually very difficult to deal with such people and such things. Based on the experience in Port Fiso, the New Alliance had to use this trick, which is to mobilize the masses to criticize and make them publicly admit their mistakes and apologize to the society.Accumulating enough batches to pull them on stage regularly has achieved remarkable results, and now this kind of behavior has become less and less common.

Guangren obviously saw more things, he also sighed and said: "A seemingly simple method, in fact, must have a very powerful and unified executive department behind it; a seemingly simple thing is To change customs and customs, the focus is on the beginning of enlightenment."

(End of this chapter)