Chapter 69: A few things about [Financial Street].
In the office, the sunlight shines on the two people through the large glass. The hustle and bustle outside is in sharp contrast with the silence inside the office.
After Pansy Jian heard Xia Xiu's affirmative answer, she obviously had no more objections. She understood the director's decision. Although she still had concerns in her heart, she knew that there was no point in discussing it now.
Right now, the focus of work is still on the construction of the administration and the control of the new hub. The administration still has a lot to do, and it needs to be done slowly one by one.
The secretary-general raised the folder in his hand and continued to Xia Xiu with a serious expression:
"The damage report for Whispering Square [Adam] has been tallied."
She opened the folder and showed it to Xia Xiu.
"The overall structural and functional damage to Whisper Square is estimated at 47%. This includes damage to critical infrastructure, commercial facilities, residential areas and public services."
Xia Xiu took the document and began to read, while she continued to detail the damage in key areas:
"In terms of infrastructure, roads, bridges and public transportation systems have been severely damaged. About 55% of transportation infrastructure needs to be reconstructed or repaired on a large scale. This will be one of the focuses of our reconstruction work to ensure the operating efficiency of the city and the safety of the population.
Daily traffic; the situation in the commercial district is not optimistic either. The main commercial district was 40% damaged, and many shops, markets and corporate facilities need to be rebuilt. This is crucial to the recovery of the local economy, and we need to act as soon as possible to reduce economic losses.
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"The damage to residential areas is equally serious, with about 50% of residential buildings requiring extensive repair work to restore living conditions. This is an important part of people's livelihood and requires our special attention. As for public facilities, such as hospitals and government buildings, the damage is approximately
At 35%, rapid repair of these facilities is fundamental to restoring normal functioning of society."
Listening to the flurry of numbers, Xia Xiu subconsciously stretched out his left hand that was not holding the document, and touched the bridge of his nose guiltily.
Fighting is fun for a while, but you regret it later.
Destruction is always easier than construction. The Authority's blitzkrieg and suicidal scorched earth, as well as the indiscriminate expansion of the crown and comet impact when he appeared on the stage, all brought huge damage to the square.
"About how many resources are needed to repair the square now?" Xia Xiu compiled a dense list of damage reports and chose to ask directly.
“Based on [Adam’s] preliminary assessment of the post-disaster damage to Whispering Square, the total budget requirement for the reconstruction plan is approximately 200 million [basic assets], which based on the exchange rate of the Federation’s current root savings pool would be approximately 96,758,58.73 ounces [extraordinary assets].
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Pansy Jian looked at the financial report in her hand and answered Xia Xiu's question, and continued to report on the current problem:
"For large-scale engineering projects involving extraordinary deeds, according to Terra's current inflation situation and the Federation's fundamental savings pool exchange rate, we can use Terra currency (Terran banknotes) to offset five thousand through the means of individuals and government agencies.
Ten thousand, this fifty million was achieved with the joint efforts of financial institutions in various countries to ensure that the national currency is fully linked to the fundamental savings pool."
"That is to say, all the remaining 150 million [basic assets] must be converted into [extraordinary assets] for mortgage."
Xia Xiu quickly converted it in his mind based on the exchange rate, and then said:
"7256894.05 ounces [extraordinary assets]. I remember that the extraordinary savings of the Authority do not have that many resources, and the Authority has not officially connected with New Alliance to complete related listing operations such as financial linkage and extraordinary capital."
"Yes, I'm sorry to tell you that most of the capital flows currently owned by the Administration are based on the basic currencies of various countries, but - food, clothing, housing, transportation and small extraordinary transactions can rely on [basic assets], but large extraordinary trade or designated
Contract trading relies on extraordinary savings tied to the root savings pool."
The secretary-general regretfully reported this very painful incident to the fourth sword holder in the kingdom of heaven who has never been poor since his debut. The fourth sword holder in the kingdom of heaven may not be poor, but the administration under his jurisdiction is now
Just poor.
"This is the core reality issue that the comprehensive secularization of the Kingdom of Heaven has to face besides ideologicalism." Xia Xiu rubbed his brows and said with some distress.
His mind involuntarily began to wander to the Kingdom of Heaven, Terra and Financial Street, which were closely related to this matter.
In addition to conceptual issues and transcendental issues in this article, the difficulties in secularizing the Kingdom of Heaven also include a series of practical issues.
Another difference between the genealogy of the Kingdom of Heaven and the genealogy of the country lies in the distribution system and class system - all the basic means of production in the Kingdom of Heaven are public, the productivity is highly developed, and the needs of angels can be widely satisfied by Eden.
In this case, there is no monetary system in heaven.
The angels did what Eden said - each according to his ability and allocate according to his need.
Theoretically speaking, the Kingdom of Heaven will become a classless, stateless social state in which angelic self-management reaches a high level of development, eliminating the need for government in the traditional sense and also eliminating the class system.
However, because of the individual differences among individual powerful holders, and it is these powerful powers that maintain the genealogical structure of the Kingdom of Heaven, the class system is strictly divided without any taboo and without discrimination.
Angels should not be ashamed of their superhuman posture and power, nor do they need to prove anything to themselves. In complete pedigree communism, the traditional national government structure will be replaced by self-managed angel internal faction organizations and public associations, Resolution 13
It was against this background that the author was born.
These organizational factions will manage public affairs and resource allocation based on democratic participation and collective decision-making.
Moreover, the high-ranking angels in heaven are not necessarily the pinnacle of individual power, just like the ethics committee.
After all, the kingdom of heaven belongs to the human category, so while it remains closed internally, it also maintains an external interface for exchanging basic currency. Some of the basic benefits of angels are also obtained from the interface.
Even if Xia Xiu didn't invest in the early days, he could still wander around relying on Eden's monthly resource rations.
There is an external interface and it belongs to human society - this is the fundamental reason why [Financial Street] can grow in the Kingdom of Heaven but is ignored.
In the early days, the external interface of the Kingdom of Heaven was the Knights led by the [Thirteen Heroes].
Now Heaven has another external interface, which is completely open, and this interface is naturally the current Honkai Administration Bureau.
The reason why Xia Xiu said that the problem of the secularization of the Kingdom of Heaven lies in this. Currency peg means that the currency value of a country or region is fixed and related to the value of another currency (such as the Western dollar, the central currency, etc.) or the currency basket. This is a
Monetary policy tools are used to maintain the stability of a country's currency and reduce economic uncertainty caused by exchange rate fluctuations.
Under a currency peg, a country's central bank sets a fixed exchange rate between its currency and a target currency.
In Terra, the Edici Federation pioneered the creation of an unprecedented miracle - [Financial Street].
The Federation has capitalized the extraordinary and forcibly linked it to the currency system and financial activities of this world, affecting the entire Terra through the root savings pool, forcing everyone to play in one pool.
In Terra, the Kingdom of Heaven has emptied out the [Financial Street], and the [Utopianist] faction stated that if there is a chance, they must kill the [Financial Street] and eliminate the currency and market mechanism in accordance with the utopian concept.
The relationship between the Central Alliance and the Federation is similar to the conjugation of father and son, but who is like whom is a question left over from history.
The central currency and the American dollar have jointly maintained the basic link between the real currency and the extraordinary side of the root reserve pool. They have complete extraordinary reserves and a solid family background in the root reserve pool. The [Olive Branch Pact] has made them even more fatherly.
A kind son becomes filial.
The Daevite Empire is directly decoupling hard. Even if the empire is in economic difficulty or its foreign exchange reserves are depleted, and even if it cannot maintain a fixed exchange rate, they will not play with the federation.
The Oletin Empire and the Daeva Empire were brothers in the same pants, but the purple-robed emperor obviously knew how to govern the country and sympathize with the people better than the Hanged King of Daeva who had not been seen in the world for a long time.
Oletin chose a soft decoupling route.
The root storage pool is very important to the Oletin Empire. In a country like Oletin with many city-states and feudal rule, when the time and space existing between city-states are infinitely compressed and divided by natural disasters, the currency
If the system does not rely on the absolute hard currency linkage of the root savings pool, then the stability and rule of the empire will become a mess.
And if it relies entirely on the root savings pool, the Oletin Empire may become an economic colony of the Federation overseas. This kind of lifeline being choked is absolutely not allowed by the purple-robed emperor, so he gradually implemented it through a series of
Policies and measures to gradually adjust economic and trade relations and reduce dependence on a single major country, thereby enhancing the country's strategic autonomy.
It's just that the Federation and the Convention Organization were too aggressive, and [Kievan Rus' City] openly resisted the sacred rule of [Constantinople] under the interference of the Convention Organization.
After purging the Imperial Senate, the furious purple-robed emperor did not hesitate to dispatch [Tyrant Caesar] to the Kievan Rus region to eliminate the rebellion.
The Miracle City State [Caesar] went on an expedition to Kievan Rus. Of course, the Convention Organization would not just sit idly by. They had long been dissatisfied with Oletin's westward expansion. Now that they can fix the main battlefield in Kievan Rus and fight a proxy war, they naturally would not let it go.
Pass the chance.
The two sides started the war in Kievan Rus with full tacit understanding.
After the Seventy-Two Hours of Crisis incident, the [Oaxaca Region], which serves as the buffer boundary between the East and the West, also entered a stage of complete loss of control. Terra, including the Knights of Heaven, were all involved in the hot war in the [Oaxaca Region]
middle.
Now, the east side of Terra has fallen into the quagmire of war between various countries, while the Ivy War between the west side of Terra and the outside world is still in the preheating stage.
What Xia Xiu is thinking about now is how to get [Correction Value], how to get more assets, how to achieve results for the sixth core organization of the Kingdom of Heaven, and hand in a perfect answer sheet for his exam to be selected as a decision maker.
“There was a lunch meeting with the prime minister from the New Alliance Economic Adjustment Committee, and the meeting was about matters related to the establishment of a root savings pool linkage between the Authority and New Alliance.”
Xia Xiu stood in front of the window of his office, looking at the busy city scene outside, thinking about the future reconstruction and development of Whisper Square. His thoughts wandered between various plans and possibilities, until Secretary-General Pansy Jane's
The words brought him back to reality.
When the blond young man heard this, he looked away from the window and turned to look at Pansy.
"when?"
Pansy flipped through the documents in his hand and replied: "2:30 in the afternoon. The location is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
Xia Xiu nodded, his expression revealing the importance he attached to the upcoming meeting:
"Okay, I understand."
Xia Xiu gently put down the document in his hand and began to plan in his mind how to effectively express the authority's position and needs in the meeting. The authority's biggest capital now is violent capital, and the New Alliance Economic Adjustment Committee needs cooperation at this time. It is estimated that
I encountered something related to non-violent non-cooperation.
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02:30 P
In the heart of the New World, the new York Federal Reserve Bank stands majestically.
This building is a symbol of financial power. Its appearance is displayed in the classic neoclassical style. Its magnificent facade is made of solid granite and decorated with fine classic columns and decorative reliefs, making it both solemn and majestic.
The inscriptions "New York State Reserve Bank" are engraved above the door of the building, which is majestic and formal.
The afternoon sun shines on the steps of this financial fortress, and the flag in front of the door sways gently in the breeze.
As pedestrians pass by in a hurry on the street, the busy city rhythm seems to have relaxed slightly here.
Salsasa——
A typical black official car slowly drove in and stopped in front of the main entrance of the building.
The moment the car door opened, a blond man with golden eyes wearing a formal suit and a top hat walked out of the car. He held a silver cane in his hand. The blond hair under the top hat was slightly shiny in the sun, and his pair of
The golden eyes exude a calm and gentle light, just like the person he is.
After Xia Xiu got off the car, he stopped moving forward.
Outside the main entrance, a group of people dressed in bright clothing gathered together. They were patients with [Practical Hoof Disease].
These patients held up banners, which clearly read in large letters: "Not an exhibit, but dignity - fight for the rights of people infected with strange hoof disease!"
Xia Xiu observed these demonstrators. Their faces and the signs in their hands expressed their challenge to social prejudice and their desire for fair treatment.
Many of them wear special shoes to fit their unique foot shapes, and some even use assistive devices to help them walk, and Xia Xiu has discovered that most of these patients have deformities similar to those associated with horses.
Chapter completed!