The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

"Anna seems to be from the Yi ethnic group."

"Yes~"

"There are too many old, young, remote and poor areas. Let's start quickly."

"Count me in. We have some experience in poverty alleviation."

"So you're a poverty alleviation cadre? I'm so sorry."

"No, I just help with some minor tasks."

The group of veteran players has grown to 5,000 people, and has gathered talents from all walks of life. It is no exaggeration to say that if the players gather together for retirement at this time, not to mention the growth of the local mayor, even the military commander will have nightmares every day.

Imagine how terrifying it would be if 5,000 people with the same strength as Captain America and the same skills as an eighth-level technician gathered together. As long as you give them time, they can even make a nuclear bomb for you.

At this time, Liu Qi sent a message in the group.

"We have an invitation from the Xinhua government to hold a unified military parade in Xilan Jingzhou. Do you want to go?"

"The unified military parade! We must go!"

"I think I can just watch from below. The real heroes are the revolutionary pioneers."

"That makes sense. We won't send anyone to the parade. Let our revolutionary predecessors go."

"The new motherland needs my help, and I must focus my energy on poverty alleviation!"

"Agree!"

Soon, the players reached a consensus that they would not send anyone out and would just be spectators, while helping to build Xijing. After all, if the players were not allowed to help with the urban layout of Lanzhou, the construction period would take ten years.

After receiving feedback from the Volunteer Army, the older generation of revolutionaries expressed their admiration for the Volunteer Army's selflessness in giving them such a glorious opportunity. It was obvious that the Volunteer Army was the first to rush into battle and sacrifice, which showed their great character.

"See? This is a true internationalist fighter, a star of the human world!"

After the Red Army commanders and fighters learned that the Volunteer Army would not participate in the unified military parade and would only be spectators, various units sent representatives, hoping that the Volunteer Army would reconsider. However, the representatives of the Volunteer Army made it clear that the Red Army comrades had made great sacrifices on the road to national reunification and deserved this honor. The Volunteer Army was willing to continue to maintain this rare friendship with Xinhua and work hand in hand into a new era.

"This is the true, noble soul, the selfless soul, the soul with faith!"

Therefore, the central government decided to reserve a place for the volunteers in the reviewing stand area of ​​the newly built Xijing Capital Square. No matter what large-scale events are held here in the future, this place will only be reserved for the volunteers, their families and representatives. In the distance at the central axis of the reviewing stand, a Monument to the People's Heroes stands proudly.

The monument is 194.0124 meters high, representing the unification of New China on January 24, 1940. It has exquisite reliefs of people's heroes, whose faces range from ancient times to 1940. In front of it are eight large red characters - the people's heroes will live forever.

The Xijing construction project was started together with the Monument to the People's Heroes. The players planned a huge capital with a battlefield area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers, and directly formed a three-dimensional spatial structure from underground to above ground. The scale of the project was so huge that the Red Party was stunned. Minister Chen almost fainted when he did the math.

According to Xinhua’s total economic output at that time, the construction cost of Xijing was 30 times the GDP of New China.

30 times of the national GDP was used to build a capital city. Even the chairman wouldn't dare to do that. Compared with him, Mobutu can be considered an honest leader and a benevolent king in Africa.

However, the volunteer army said that they could pay for the construction of Xinhua's capital, but the teacher firmly refused.

"Without the Volunteer Army, the founding of New China in 1940 would have been impossible. It was the Volunteer Army's help that greatly accelerated the liberation of the Chinese people. You have helped us a lot, and even brothers have to settle accounts. If we still want you to sell everything you have to help us, it is neither reasonable nor justifiable. Xinhua cannot always rely on its big brother to support us."

Well, congratulations to the players for winning the title of “Big Brother”. It’s a cause for celebration. 7-Up (read with applause).

This name is not very auspicious (dog head).

However, the players naturally could not accept the outsider setting of "I was not here when New China was built, and I was away when New China developed", so after a heated discussion, Xinhua accepted the low-interest loan from the Volunteer Army.

This is something the teacher himself specifically emphasized. The interest rate must be low, and no interest rate is not acceptable, because this is tantamount to letting the volunteer army bear the losses and cheating its own big brother. Xinhua will not do such a wicked thing.

Compare this to Britain and France, who tried hard to default on their debts to the United States after World War I. Tsk tsk tsk tsk.

Of course, it also depends on who this big brother is. If it is the Soviet revisionists, there will be no psychological pressure to cheat them.

Xinhua could also take this opportunity to establish a nationwide planned economic system. Although it was only the most basic one and still needed various assistances from the volunteer army, it was still much better than the poor and blank state in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in history.

The high-level talents from the Volunteer Army are more important than the financial assistance provided by the Volunteer Army.

Today's players have an average knowledge level above college level and an eighth-level technician operation level.

Putting aside the diploma mentioned above, the skill level mentioned above would be considered a national treasure in 2028, not to mention in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China when being able to read and write was considered highly educated.

Therefore, wherever the volunteers were, a magical scene would appear: a master was followed by a large group of apprentices, and the scene was very spectacular.

But sometimes, having too many disciples is not a good thing. For example, Mo Yu, who treats patients in Tibet, takes a bunch of students to treat patients. The scene is like saying goodbye to a body. It looks like the patients have some incurable disease.

At first, Mo Yu didn't realize the problem until one time she took her students to see a pneumonia patient, and the patient was scared to death and fainted. Then she understood why the patients in the hospital were easily nervous when she was on duty.

As the most central and famous northwest city in China, Lanzhou is not small at all.

By 2024, Lanzhou's total area will have reached more than 13,000 square kilometers. Of course, this includes a large part of the suburbs. The core area is the population concentration area, with a total population of more than 4.43 million, less than 5 million.

Connecting the four regions and encompassing thousands of miles, this is the Pearl of the Yellow River.

But that was Lanzhou after 2024. The Xi (Lan) Jing (Zhou) in the parallel world is not so prosperous.

In 1940, Xilan Jingzhou was rustic, or had a very ancient charm, but its overall construction plan was seriously behind the times. If the Northeast at that time was the representative of industrialization, Nanjing was the forefront of the times, and Tibet was the backward slavery, then Xilan Jingzhou was the portrayal of the Western Regions hundreds of years ago.

It is almost the same here as it was then.

Although some Western-style buildings, houses and cars can be seen, the overall feeling is still old and dilapidated.

So the first thing players do when they get here is to build a new city.

The old city is too old and there is no value in renovating it. Moreover, historical experience tells us that if the old city is moved right away, the relocation cost will be very high, so it is better to build a more comfortable and warm new city next to it, and leave the old city there. Then spread some rumors that only those who hold official positions can live in the new city, and the old city will be destroyed in the future, to increase panic. When the new city is built, arrest a few guys who were corrupt during the construction process and sacrifice them to the gods (there must be such people), and then say that the Red Party cares about the people and will never allow such things to happen. The people in the old city can move to the new city with better living conditions free of charge.

There is no need to do anything else next. When you pull others to live in, they will definitely ask why. But if you block them at first and then give them the opportunity, the locals will immediately flock in for fear of missing out on the opportunity and will abandon the old and dilapidated city in a matter of minutes. No one will make a fuss about demolition at all.

Even if some elderly people don't want to leave, they will eventually leave with their children considering their children's future lives. After clearing the old city, how to change it next depends on how big the player's imagination is at the time.

In fact, if it were not for the conflicts of interest among various parties, the cost of building a new urban area would be much lower than that of renovating an old urban area. At that time, new policies could be directly implemented to attract the population of the old urban area and clear out the people. When people in the old urban area have to walk several miles to buy fruit, they will soon give up on their own initiative. The price of land in a city has never depended on whether it is prosperous, but on whether the local area can absorb more labor, and then these labor forces will bring prosperity.

Those cities that have become rich by sucking people and mining, and then look down on their poor brothers, please reflect on their arrogance. For the sake of compatriots, this account can be resolved through negotiation. Don't put yourself in opposition to the people of the whole country.

There were many wealthy big cities in history, but after they forgot their local areas and sucked blood from the whole country, the ones who educated them in the troubled times were either Huang Chao, the King of the Great West, or even the butchers of the Qing Dynasty.

After all, the world is so chaotic, and you are the richest. Who else should we rob if not you?

Otherwise, why is it said that common prosperity is the biggest conspiracy? When everyone is almost the same, there is no motivation to rob.

The saying "Do not lock your door at night, and do not pick up lost items on the road" can mean that everyone is rich or that everyone is poor.

If you don't want your poor friends to become rich, then redistributing the property is also an effective way to solve the problem.

Rich man, you don’t want the next person who comes to negotiate with you to put a knife to your neck.

Therefore, when players build new cities, they basically put resources into the former third-tier cities. As long as these places can develop, the effect of accumulated strength will definitely be much stronger than relying solely on the siphon effect of coastal cities. Maybe the data on paper is not so dramatic, but at least it is fairer.

Historically, Xinhua had no choice. It was too poor in the early days of its founding and could only concentrate its efforts on developing areas that were easy to develop. However, the players are not short of money, so they can use more gentle methods to allow the entire country to develop more fairly and spread prosperity and strength to every piece of land belonging to the Chinese.

In this way, the largest national transportation system construction and innovation project in the history of New China, which was also the core plan of the first five-year plan, began to spread across the country with Xijing as the center.

Chapter 149: Fairness Will Not Fall from the Sky

(Update: After three full days, our overtime meeting to discuss how to avoid overtime ended with overtime. Damn it!)

New China was in a state of disrepair and we were extremely poor at that time.

This sentence is certainly familiar to everyone. The first paragraph describing the founding of the People's Republic of China in textbooks basically begins with a similar beginning. But few people truly understand the sadness and pain behind this sentence.

Apart from the Nanjing Industrial Zone where players are cheating, the Northeast Industrial Zone which has a certain industrial base due to the Japanese colonial construction, and the Northwest Industrial Zone which is under construction, the industries in other regions of New China can only be described as extremely poor.

Due to the inhumane behavior of a certain chairman, during the entire eight-year war of resistance, the steel production in the Kuomintang-controlled areas was only enough to produce 4.5 iron pots.

You read it right and you heard it right, it’s 4.5 iron pots.

Let's give the Chairman some face here and make the calculation based on the largest iron pot used in rural areas, which is the amount of steel used in a battleship, and that's ignoring the quality of the steel.

At that time, New China could make tables, chairs, and benches, and could even grind wheat into flour. But to make airplanes and tanks, haha, we first needed to learn how to mold the northwest wind into iron sheets.

We can't even get enough of the light bulbs used in those cities that look so bright and bustling.

Fortunately, with the help of the volunteer army, the industrial system of New China after its founding was relatively complete and could quickly support national construction.

But, um, yes, these are two very unpleasant words, but we have to say but.

An obvious fact is that the national construction structure from agriculture to industry is a huge pyramid shape.

The basis of the existence of this pyramid is agriculture.

After all, humans at that time had not yet mastered the ability to process carbon dioxide in the air into food, so agriculture still depended on the weather.

Don't think that an industrialized city can operate automatically just by preparing the supporting industrial equipment. Not to mention the issue of skilled talent reserves, just to support such a city requires a huge food reserve. After all, the industrial population does not participate in agricultural production, and you can't expect food to grow by itself from supermarket shelves.

So we got the following development model: cities are surrounded by large rural areas or towns, which provide labor and food output for urban development. Agricultural products can also be used to exchange for industrial products. Fertilizers and farm tools produced in factories can be fed back to the countryside, forming a positive cycle.

But please note that the above are all based on an ideal social model, just like the rational person assumption in the market can only be a mathematical model. In the real social operation model, only the most easily encountered problems such as local protectionism, collusion between officials and businessmen, and product transportation can turn this exchange process into an abstract power transaction and personal connection.

Even without considering these unconventional tactics, when industrial products are limited but everyone wants them, how do you solve the problem of inequality rather than scarcity?

Apart from anything else, it took New China a lot of effort just to popularize thermos. Don't think that this thing is not worth mentioning now. At that time, it was a real industrial product that could only be produced in factories, and it also needed to be equipped with hot water stations. In the whole process, it required not only a country's industrial strength, but also organizational and management capabilities.

Do you think a hot water station is nothing?

NONONO, just the right to decide who can get hot water first can make a family run rampant in the village. If you are also in charge of equipment maintenance and procurement, you can become a millionaire in the village with a little brainpower.

These problems are bound to exist during the policy implementation process, and the central government cannot keep a close eye on every detail of local work at all times. The phrase "mass supervision" is not a way to pass the buck, but there is really no other way.

What's more, fairness and justice are not things that are taken for granted. If you don't fight for yourself and just keep saying things like "I am insignificant and my words don't matter, it will be a waste of time, and I might be retaliated against", then you will be destined to be a tenant before liberation. Modern society has much stronger supervision over the bureaucratic system than in the past. It is really hard to imagine that those who are unwilling to fight as the times progress, mustered up the courage to die together with the Japanese invaders after the Japanese invasion.

"Now everyone understands, right? Not arguing, not fighting, not speaking out, is simply silently accepting injustice. This is why ordinary people suffered in the past. Don't be silent lambs, be courageous rebels. Otherwise, those vested interests will only become more aggressive. They'll be greedy for a little money today, and they'll dare to eat people tomorrow! We all came from the hard times of the old society. Back then, landlords and government officials were all dog coins, and everyone celebrated in their hearts!"

Gengwu was standing on the podium with a loudspeaker, shouting loudly to the villagers below. Behind him were three tied-up village cadres.

The cause of the incident was very simple. Gengwu and Ziwu lines accidentally passed by this village and found that the hot water station in the village was broken and the villagers could not drink hot water, so they volunteered to help, but were unexpectedly obstructed in the process.

Looking at the villagers who looked ferocious and obviously not like good people, the two immediately realized that there was something wrong.

How could I possibly tolerate this? I just got enhanced into Captain America!

So the two of them demonstrated on the spot what it meant to say "I don't eat beef" and used physics to carry out a martial arts-like persuasion.

When the other side saw Meridian directly lift up the water tank that could hold 2 tons of water and prepare to reduce their dimension, these guys peed their pants on the spot, knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and confessed all the bad things they knew.

What happened next was smooth sailing.

The village chief and his family monopolized the management of hot water, illegally bought and sold industrial equipment, and appropriated the materials distributed from above for themselves. They were severely punished according to law and the entire family was taken directly to Siberia to build a railway.

Oh, it is now called Anbei Province, with Chita as its capital. The current total population is less than 80,000, which is the population of the entire province.

It’s a good place to exercise, hehe.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gengwu conducted legal education for the villagers. The content was very simple, which was to let the villagers stand up to defend their own rights and interests and protect public property, because these wealth are the breakwaters of the entire village and can help the entire village overcome difficulties in times of crisis, rather than testing the subjective initiative of idealism.

If you have the ability, don't use modern fertilizers and modern seeds. Try to increase my yield by using your subjective initiative.

According to this theory, the self-cultivating farmers of all dynasties were definitely the owners of the most advanced means of production with the highest output. After all, they personally participated in the labor, and the harvest was their own in normal years. They were the most motivated and should have produced 10,000 kilograms per mu.

The educational achievements of Gengwu were very significant, and the villagers shouted "honest and upright Lord".

"..."

The ellipsis above represents Gengwu’s mood at this moment.

However, the hot water station started working again, the broken parts were repaired, and the villagers were able to enjoy the warmth of modern industry again. They bowed to the two men when drawing water.

In the evening, Gengwu and Ziwu lines went offline and returned to reality.

Since becoming contract players of Fenghuo Company, the lives of the two have changed completely. Having achieved financial freedom, they began to travel around the world. Their enhanced bodies allow them to easily ignore any extreme environment. Others have to seriously consider whether their bodies can withstand it before traveling to Qinghai-Tibet, but these two only need to think about how to have fun.

There was no place they were afraid to go. The worst-case scenario was that they would have to carry the RV a hundred kilometers back through an uninhabited area. Once they were on the highway, they could call for help. If there was no one else around, they could just push it to the maintenance station.

Anyway, unless you see it with your own eyes, no one would think that the two men carried the car back from the uninhabited area.

On the sparsely populated Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Gengwu and Ziwu saw many landscapes that belonged directly to them. It was a wonderful feeling as if the whole world was just them and the people around them.

In such an atmosphere, the two of them worked hard day and night, day and night, every day and night, and discussed in depth the "maintenance of exaggerated pectoral muscles", "the correct posture of mixed doubles", "whether controllable voice can increase attack speed during exercise" and other profound knowledge covering mathematics, physics and chemistry, contributing their insignificant strength to the development of mankind.

But no matter what it is, if you do it too much, it will waste your time. What's more, if the two of them want to vent their energy, there are plenty of targets and enemies in the game world on the other side, so the two of them are in a very peaceful state, even more peaceful than the Indians that Ai Dajin imagined.

Under the starry night, two figures snuggled together, discussing what happened in the village today.

"Gengwu, do you think those people are too disappointing?"

“That was the case at first, but I don’t think so now.”

"Oh why?"

"Because defending one's own interests comes at a price. Faced with the possibility of compromise and the huge price that will inevitably be paid, people will calculate the benefits and ultimately choose to swallow their anger. In fact, don't we also have to compromise here?"

Gengwu knows too well how crazy he is as a player, because he only has one life, so he can do whatever he wants, and the enemy will definitely pay the price in the end. But in the real world where he only has one life, he must be careful. He has people he loves and family he cherishes, and these are the reasons why he cannot act recklessly.

"Not bad, you've grown up. Come, sister will give you a kiss."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gengwu was kissed deeply by Ziwuxian, to which he had long been accustomed.