Chapter 563: 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 in the office.
After Pansy Jian heard Xia Xiu’s affirmative answer, she obviously had no more objections. She understood the director's decision, and although she still had concerns, she knew there was little point in discussing it now.
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 say to Xia Xiu with a serious expression:
"The damage report of Whispering Square [Adam] has been calculated."
She opened the folder and showed it to Xia Xiu.
"The overall structural and functional damage to Whispering Square is estimated at 47%. This includes damage to important infrastructure, commercial facilities, residential areas and public service facilities."
Xia Xiu continued She passed the document and began reading, while she continued to detail the damage in key areas:
“In terms of infrastructure, roads, bridges and public transportation systems were severely damaged, with approximately 55% of transportation infrastructure requiring reconstruction or major damage. Large-scale restoration. This will be one of the focuses of our reconstruction work to ensure the efficiency of the city’s operations and the daily circulation of the population; the situation in the commercial district is also not optimistic. The main commercial district has been damaged by 40%, and many shops, markets and businesses The facility needs to be rebuilt. This is critical to the recovery of the local economy and we need to act quickly to reduce the economic damage.”
"The damage in residential areas is equally severe, 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%, the rapid repair of these facilities is the basis for restoring the normal operation of society."
Listening to the fluctuating numbers, Xia Xiu subconsciously stretched out his left hand that was not holding the document and touched himself guiltily. bridge of nose.
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 the comet impact when he appeared on the stage, all brought huge damage to the square.
"How many resources are needed to repair the square now?" Xia Xiu repaired the dense damage list report and chose to ask directly.
“Based on [Adam’s] preliminary assessment of the post-disaster damage to Whispering Plaza, the total budget requirement for the reconstruction plan is approximately 200 million [basic assets], which at the exchange rate of the Federation’s current root savings pool would be approximately 96,758,58.73 ounces [extraordinary assets]. "
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, follow the Due to Terra's current inflation situation and the federation's fundamental savings pool exchange rate, we can offset 50 million with Terra currency (Terran banknotes) through the means of individuals and government agencies. This 50 million is also guaranteed by the financial institutions of each country. It is completed when 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 according to the exchange rate, and then said:
"7256894.05 ounces [extraordinary assets]. I remember that the Authority's extraordinary savings 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 trade relies on extraordinary savings linked to the root savings pool. "
The Secretary-General regretfully reported this very painful thing to the fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven who has never been poor since his debut. The fourth sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven may not be a poor person, but the administration under his jurisdiction is now a poor person.
"This is the core reality issue that the comprehensive secularization of the Kingdom of Heaven has to face in addition to ideologicalism." Xia Xiu said with some distress while rubbing his brows.
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 transcendent text issues, 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 the Kingdom of Heaven.
The angels did what Eden said - each according to his ability and allocate according to his needs.
Theoretically, 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 class system.
However, because of the individual differences among individual power holders, and it is these powers that maintain the genealogical structure of the Kingdom of Heaven, the class system is strictly divided without any taboos or 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. Instead, the Thirteen Resolutioners were born under this background.
These organizational factions will manage public affairs and resource allocation based on democratic participation and collective decision-making.
And 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 interface for external exchanges for basic currency. Some of the basic benefits of angels also come from the interface. get.
Even if Xia Xiu didn't invest in the early days, he could still travel around with 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.
Earlier, 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 with the value of another currency (such as the Western dollar, the central currency, etc.) or the value of a currency basket. association. This is a monetary policy tool used to maintain the stability of the 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 capitalizes the extraordinary and forcibly links it with the monetary system and financial activities of this world. It affects the entire Terra through the root savings pool and forcibly binds everyone together. Play in the pool.
In Terra, the Kingdom of Heaven has emptied out the [Financial Street], and the [Utopianism] faction stated that if given the opportunity, they must kill the [Financial Street] and eliminate currency and market mechanisms in accordance with utopian concepts.
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 loving son becomes filial.
The Daevite Empire directly and hard decoupled. Even if the empire is in economic difficulty or its foreign exchange reserves are depleted, or even if it cannot maintain a fixed exchange rate, they will not play with the federation.
The Oletin Empire and the Daeva Empire are brothers in the same pants, but the purple-robed emperor obviously knows how to govern the country and care for the people better than the Hanged King of Daeva who has 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, the time and space existing between city-states are infinitely compressed by natural disasters. In the case of partition, if the monetary 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 are too aggressive. [Kievan Rus City] openly resisted the sacred rule of [Constantinople] under the interference of the Convention Organization.
After the furious purple-robed emperor purged the Imperial Senate, he did not hesitate to dispatch [Tyrant Caesar] to the Kievan Rus region to purge the rebellion.
The Miracle City State [Caesar] went on an expedition to Kievan Rus. Of course, the Convention Organization will not sit idly by. They have long been dissatisfied with Oletin's westward expansion. Now they can fix the main battlefield in Kievan Rus to fight a proxy war. , they will naturally not let go of the opportunity.
The two sides started the war in Kievan Rus with a tacit understanding.
After the Seventy-Two Hours of Crisis incident, the [Oaxaca Region], which serves as the buffer between the east and west sides, 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 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 over a perfect test for his selection as a decision-maker. Answer sheet.
“There was a lunchtime meeting with the Prime Minister from the New Alliance Economic Adjustment Committee. 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 office window, looking at the busy city scene outside, thinking about the future reconstruction and development of Whispering Square. His mind wandered between plans and possibilities until Secretary General Pansy Jane's words brought him back to reality.
When the blond young man heard this, he looked away from the window and turned to Pansy.
"When?"
Pansy flipped through the documents in his hand and replied: "2:30 pm. 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 We encountered something related to non-violent non-cooperation.
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02:30PM.
In the heart of the New World, the new Federal Reserve Bank of York 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 appear solemn. And grand.
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.
While pedestrians are passing by in a hurry on the street, the busy rhythm of the city seems to have relaxed slightly here.
Sashasha——
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 are patients with [Practical Hoof Disease].
These patients held banners high, which clearly read in large letters: "Not exhibits, but dignity - fight for the rights of people infected with strange hoof disease!"
Xia Xiu observed these The demonstrators, their faces and the signs in their hands expressed their challenge to social prejudices 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.
The protesters were particularly prominent in the busy financial district. Busy pedestrians also slowed down at this moment, some were watching, and some were discussing in low voices.