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Chapter 2445 Hari Seldon Reform (Part )

2447. Hari Seldon Reform (Part )

The next day, Tang Xiao convened the highest-level military meeting of the Kingdom of Dawn. The meeting focused on discussing the next phase of the war plan. During this meeting, after discussion, Tang Xiao made several very important decisions.

The first thing is to continue to expand war production, increase war taxes on the planets under its jurisdiction and continue to issue war bonds.

Then came the expansion of the military, recruiting 1 million soldiers for the army and 2000 million for the navy.

Third, continue the transformation of civilian enterprises towards military production and reduce the types of domestic consumer goods.

Finally, major companies and planets are encouraged to form their own private armed fleets, and the military will open sales channels for some retired second-line warships.

This confirmed that the Kingdom of Dawn would continue to burn its war potential and vowed to continue the war until it was a life-and-death battle with the Galactic Empire.

According to the current military deployment of the Galactic Empire, this meeting also initially formulated an operational plan, which was named "Operation Plan No. 1".

Operation Plan No. 12 includes three parts: annihilating the Death Squadron, annihilating the Empire's Northern Fleet, and annihilating the Empire's th Army in the East. Unlike Operation Plan No. , which aims to achieve success in one battle, Operation Plan No. will focus on destroying the Galactic Empire's living forces.

This plan was not about achieving victory as quickly as possible, but about tightening the empire's neck step by step, causing the empire to erupt into more serious civil unrest under the high-pressure war environment.

The battle plan was handed over to Marshal Matt Horner for refinement and formulation. Before that, all fronts of the Kingdom of Dawn went into a defensive posture.

Afterwards, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Dawn, Daphne Clement, proposed an economic reform plan, which was named after its creator - 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 becoming deformed, workers' working hours are increasing, and labor remuneration is decreasing. In addition, the immigration plan to the planet Rendili is still ongoing, which 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 the immigration work, but also makes many unemployed immigrants become a very unstable factor.

Therefore, the Dawn Kingdom Immigration Bureau had to send many immigrants to the developer star field, give them some basic living supplies, and let them cultivate the fertile land left by Mnggal-Mnggal. But there is a big hidden danger in doing so, that is, after these people gradually complete the reclamation of wasteland, establish settlements and planetary administrative centers, liberal ideas will naturally spread among them.

In addition, the pensions for retired soldiers, wounded soldiers, and fallen soldiers also caused a serious fiscal deficit. The infrastructure of many planets was almost stagnant, government procurement prices were constantly lowered, and the enthusiasm of industrial and agricultural production personnel declined.

Even though the developer star region produced a lot of food, many farmers refused to sell their own crops because they were dissatisfied with the government's purchase price, clashed with the purchasing officials, and even burned their own crops. What's more serious is that the increasingly high-pressure wartime economic policy has led to calls for refusing war, demanding neutrality and autonomy on many planets, and even uprisings have broken out.

These uprisings have established connections with the rebels in the Galactic Empire in many ways, making it difficult to extinguish the flames of the uprising. The rebels attacked the 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.

Under such circumstances, if the decision of this meeting is followed to further expand war production and the intensity of the 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, the most important of which was monetary reform.

In the past, the economic system of the Kingdom of Dawn was linked to that of the Galactic Republic. Because at that time, the Kingdom of Dawn, which had just begun to develop, did not have a complete economic ecosystem 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 No. 4 currency issued by the Kingdom of Dawn is actually a currency issued based on the rare alloys purchased and hoarded by the central bank. This currency is interchangeable with the Republic's credit points, but the exchange rate is different.

However, with the outbreak of the war, this system basically collapsed. Credit currency was printed in large quantities and almost became waste paper. As a result, most places only recognized credit ingots, not credit points. This led to poor currency circulation, 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 remained the same, so the two sides still had a lot of exchanges in private trade.

But now, the economy of the Galactic Empire has basically collapsed, and the economy of the Kingdom of Dawn is almost the same.

The most important point of the economic reform proposed by Hari Seldon was to redefine the currency of the Kingdom of Dawn. The key to establishing this economic system was the material decompressor that had been put into operation before!

The matter decompressor of the Kingdom of Dawn can already be built on neutron stars to mine huge amounts of minerals. Among the resources mined, a considerable portion is material that can only be formed under the ultra-high pressure environment of neutron stars. This type of material is collectively called neutron matter.

Moreover, this kind of material is difficult to obtain by ordinary mining methods. For example, the Galactic Empire can mine materials on neutron stars, but the methods are basically violent, using super-strong lasers to cut or simply bombarding with turbolaser cannons.

The materials on the neutron star mined in this way basically undergo a physical reaction during the bombing process and become ordinary resources.

The neutron star material used by the Galactic Empire, such as the neutron star armor installed on the Cheering-class assault landing ships, is not actually directly mined, but artificially synthesized.

However, the minerals mined by the matter decompressor are different. These minerals are mined by pressure pumps that create a huge pressure difference, allowing the matter on the neutron star to actively eject toward the other side of the pressure pump. Therefore, those extremely rare substances that can only be formed under ultra-high pressure environments can be preserved if they can be processed as soon as possible.

And these things will become the foundation of the Kingdom of Dawn's new generation of monetary system!