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Even so, it’s foreseeable that when the Alliance turns those manor farmers into agricultural workers and then provides them with varying ranks of E5-E7, will they really be able to receive the corresponding benefits? Won’t the benefits they’re entitled to be embezzled by the manor owners, who now wield administrative power?
But those are solvable problems.
Fighting corruption, persistent propaganda to the lower classes, giving them opportunities for advancement. They will know what they ought to receive at E5 or whatever other rank, and if the manor owners don’t provide it, they can report it.
That said, it’s easier said than done. Many people have never left the manor in their entire lives; where would they go to report? Could the reporting channels also be controlled by those with vested interests?
There are many issues.
But essentially, all this is making way for another practical factor—the Alliance simply doesn’t have the capacity to appoint enough officials to handle this matter.
Cleaning up the system sounds easy, but where will the Alliance find so many suitable officials to take on this part of the work?
Administration isn’t something you can just get right by pulling in any person off the street.
Letting these natives take on the work may lead to various problems, but at the very least, the operations in Beiqing Valley Province can be maintained in the early stages.
In fact, the strategy of the Alliance in the Central Province, Central-North Province, and Gaota Province is consistent,
Just start working on it.
The Discipline Committee of the Alliance will play their role.
And later, as more students from Loyal Heir Academy and Grammar Academy graduate, these issues will be alleviated.
It won’t take too long.
The Alliance’s Education Department currently has high investment, teachers can easily be promoted, and school buildings are a priority…
As for the education system, minors attend school properly; meanwhile, there are crash courses for adults.
However, this so-called crash course is different from the worker education conducted in Weixing City. Even rapid courses cannot produce administrative officials as quickly and easily as factory workers.
But overall, the Alliance’s educational endeavors have been underway for some time, and soon enough, suitable students will graduate.
At that time, if those manor owners and the old officials in the three central provinces are not doing well enough, they will be replaced; the Discipline Committee will also conduct a thorough screening then, both to purify the atmosphere and to make room for the relatively more ideologically correct new officials.
However, dealing with the existing operational plantations is relatively easy.
But the large number of homeless refugees present a bit more of a problem.
The Twin Cities cannot absorb two million people all at once; that’s unrealistic. Even if the Twin Cities metropolitan area is going to expand further in the future, that’s not now. Urban expansion always requires time. A massive influx of population can’t keep up with the expansion of production lines; they’d be out of work even if they moved there.
Of course, relocating residents is still a normalized task, a constant work in progress. For the surplus population, they can first go to adult schools, night schools, to learn some industrial technology, literacy—that also requires time.
Once they are trained and initially qualified as an industry workforce, and the corresponding production lines have expanded, they can then better integrate seamlessly.
As for the remaining population, they also have their uses.
They are generally assigned to the E3-E4 level.
The lowest few levels really need to be discussed.
In the Alliance, reaching E1 means you have citizenship rights. But at that level, there are no benefits; the Alliance only acknowledges you as a citizen.
E2 will receive half of the minimum living standard, which is generally given to children and those completely incapable of work due to disability, as a government subsidy.
E3 entails benefits of a minimum standard of living, from food allocation to necessary medical assistance.
E4 begins to provide a stipend, but not much; it is regarded as a trainee level.
It is not until E5 that most adult members of the Alliance with jobs are classified. This ensures that beyond securing food and warmth, they may even save some money for improving their lives and can afford some entertainment. A couple at E5 can support three to five children and both sets of parents, although that would make life quite tight.
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Although the refugees were mostly classified as E3 or E4, this still filled them with joy and excitement.
And by taking these people in, considering them as members of the Alliance, it had taken on a great burden. As a civil officer of the Alliance, and the actual person in charge of governmental affairs in the Beiqing Valley Province, he had to get these people moving.
They needed to work to find their own value; the Alliance also needed them to work hard to make back the high investments, to quickly turn the burden into positive profits.
Fortunately, what the Green Valley Region did not lack was land.
The high-yield seeds acquired from interstellar trade had also been sent by the Alliance Headquarters. It was now autumn, an opportune time to build one plantation after another, to settle these refugees. By the time construction was completed, it would be about time to sow the seeds.
Additionally, a considerable number of people were dispatched to the military to accompany the troops in their operations.
The Central Group Army needed a large number of accompanying workers, with the Wind-Extinguishing Brigade under Perbov being the most urgent.
His troops had already entered the jungle areas and had requested 30,000 young workers from him, the logistics steward.
Morgan had supplied them accordingly.
They were sent into the jungles to participate in clearing the vegetation.
Then, Jason Morgan began to busy himself with his own affairs.
Even though he was putting all his effort into maintaining the Mutual Aid Society system, the introduction of Alliance systems locally still left Jason Morgan overwhelmed.
There were endless tasks for the workers to do. In the beginning, he could hardly spare a moment away, but after some time, he managed to find time to head to the edge of the jungle.
He really wanted to see what Perbov referred to as a secret weapon.
And then, he personally witnessed a large tract of the jungle disappearing.
The armored vehicles were equipped with a device similar to a flamethrower, but the purple-red flames that shot out didn’t bring about high temperature or combustion.
The trees and vegetation burned by the purple flames withered and dehydrated rapidly.
This was much faster than actually setting fire to them.
After the armored vehicles finished spraying, after a short wait, the walking soldiers and conscripted laborers began to advance.
The work they had to do was also simple.
The low shrubs that quickly dried up could be reduced to debris with a few pokes of a stick, providing the soil with nutrients; the tall trees became brittle. A strong man could kick them down with a few kicks.
Once the tall trees fell thunderously, they were dragged in batches to the vehicles behind.
These materials should not go to waste.
The dehydrated timber could be used as construction material. While it wasn’t particularly excellent, not being as good as wood cut down and processed with the appropriate industrial technology, it was a material that could be obtained quickly when necessary.
Conveniently, a large number of new plantations in the rear needed to be built. Houses, fences… all required these construction materials.
Of course, not all of it could be used up. At the very least, a synthetic starch factory could be built nearby, and these timbers could still be used as raw material for synthetic starch production.
This would generate a significant economic value, something Jason Morgan, as an administrative officer, could see.
But what he could see even more, was the pathway to completely solving the Green Valley problem.
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Ever since he arrived in the Green Valley Region, he had been considering this issue, but he had never imagined that the realization would be the complete eradication of the “jungle” itself!
If someone had told him this in the past, he would have thought it was a pipe dream.
But now, all of this became a reality before his eyes.