Chapter 9 Preparations in Progress (5)
In the next six months, the Preparatory Committee reviewed and admitted new members at a rate of one batch per month, and the structure of each department had initially taken shape. Under Schneider's operation, secret funds were continuously imported from overseas, and material procurement was carried out. It is also proceeding in an orderly manner. With the situation looking great, the first general meeting of the Cross-Travel Group was secretly held in Guangzhou in early December.
Of course, even if we say it’s all members, there are still quite a few members who are unable to attend and can only participate through online access to watch the live video. But this is democratic enough. At least every member does not have to worry about being "represented" due to absence.
There were a total of 376 members participating in this meeting, and they were basically all people who had passed repeated reviews by the organizing committee and had decided to participate in the final time travel. Many of them were activists who were "politically reliable and at the forefront of action." They had long since sold out their wealth and moved directly to Guangzhou to devote themselves to the crossing project.
The content of the meeting is mainly to pass several important issues, and adopt the method of unanimous voting. Each member who is over 18 years old has one vote. If more than two-thirds of the people agree, it will be passed, otherwise it will be rejected. Menghe also specially set up an online remote voting section on the forum, so that members who can only watch the live broadcast at home can also participate in the voting process in real time.
The first big issue is the decision on the organizational structure of the cross-country group. In the short term, this matter determines the power ownership and administrative structure of the Time Travel Group. In the long term, it will affect the future distribution of interests of the Time Travel Group in another time and space and even the establishment of a long-term political power. This is absolutely important to all members. They are all first-class events. According to the arrangement of the Preparatory Committee, this topic was put on the forum for discussion by members as early as two months ago. After three votes, the vast majority of unreliable proposals or proposals with few responses were eliminated. There are still three organizational structure methods left for members to make final voting choices at today's meeting.
When hundreds of people come together to work, it is extremely difficult to unify their thoughts. Moreover, the members participating in this plan generally have an above-average education level, and each has their own ideas and intentions. It is extremely difficult to carry out large-scale operations on so many people. Brainwashing is not an easy task either. Instead of trying to unify the different ideas of the left, middle and right, it is better to first bring everyone under the same administrative framework, first use the political system to ensure that everyone can play their role in this collective, and then Slowly unifying thoughts and understandings through the gradual expansion after time travel is what the organizing committee wants to achieve.
Three alternatives were immediately answered after a round of voting. Both the right-leaning Yuan-style aristocratic parliament and the left-leaning direct democracy that advocated universal participation in decision-making were defeated. In the end, a representative system in the form of indirect democracy was adopted, in which members elect representatives to form representative bodies to exercise collective power. Of course, given the current team size and cultural background, it seems inappropriate to call this power organ either the Parliament or the National People's Congress. After a short debate and a new round of voting, the name was finally determined - the Supreme Executive Committee of the Cross-Travel Group , referred to as the Executive Committee. For a long time to come, the Executive Committee will exist as the highest authority of the Transcendence Sect until the time is right for the Transcendence Sect to establish its own political power.
Members of the Executive Committee are elected by a vote at the general meeting. Each term of four years can be re-elected through election. However, in view of the current special situation, the first election will not be held until one year after the time travel. The current interim Executive Committee It will be composed of current members of the Preparatory Committee who will be automatically promoted. Regarding the selection of executive committee members, a special motion proposed by Bai Kesi was also passed. In view of Tao Donglai's special contribution to the time travel plan, he will receive the honor of being a lifelong member of the executive committee. Of course, this qualification cannot be hereditary or transferable, and it is also There is no leadership position such as a veto.
The second topic that follows is also closely related to every member, and that is the profit distribution plan for the future in the new time and space. First of all, every time-traveling member, regardless of age or gender, will automatically receive 10,000 original shares as dividend capital. It does not matter whether it is Tao Donglai who contributed the most money or the child who did not contribute any money at all. This dividend share cannot be sold or Transfer can be legally inherited, but it is not linked to voting rights. It is still one adult, one vote. In addition to annual share dividends, members' income will mainly come from job salaries, major project bonuses, and job allowances. Of course, specific income arrangements still require heads of various departments to discuss with Schneider and others in charge of economics before making a decision.
The establishment of shares makes the management system of the entire Chuanchuan Group closer to a joint-stock enterprise. In this way, the preparatory groups for industry, agriculture, construction, military and police, internal affairs, commerce, and logistics under the executive committee look more like the same organization. Different functional departments in the company, and the executive committee becomes the executive board of the entire company. Of course, the more important point of this system is to allow the time-travelers to gain equal economic status in the new time and space. In this way, at least in the early stages, there will not be too many complaints about the excessive income differences, and members will also be able to comment on the future of the group. There are greater expectations for development.
After the two main topics, the executive committee will announce the next plan and arrangements. According to the plans previously submitted by various departments, there are multiple training plans that need to be carried out in the short time remaining, and the complex deployment of human resources will become the first thing that the interim members of the Executive Committee will face after taking office. A tough job.
Large-scale popular training mainly includes the following: construction site construction and forest felling training by the Ministry of Construction; military skills and wilderness survival skills training for all reserve personnel by the Military and Police Department; crew technical positions and basic navigation skills training by the Maritime Transport Department; and medical department first aid skills training; grain farming training from the Ministry of Agriculture, etc. There are also some small-scale training projects, such as administrative system training for managers of various departments, historical knowledge training for diplomatic and commercial departments, etc. Many of these training contents have been carried out in phases. However, due to the shortage of manpower, the same person often has to participate in several training courses. During this period, he also has to participate in normal material preparation work, which inevitably attracts some complaints. In addition, the Executive Committee issued to all members a list of items recommended for individuals to carry during the crossing operation, mainly daily necessities and outdoor supplies. The permitted carrying weight per person is 100 kilograms. Taking into account women’s physiological needs, women can carry On the basis of this weight, float another 20 kilograms. This standard immediately aroused strong opposition from the few female members - let alone my mother's clothes, the weight of cosmetics and shoes is almost reaching the upper limit, right?
After a fierce debate, the General Assembly had to propose a temporary special motion for consideration. In the end, the upper limit of the weight of items carried per person was increased by 100 kilograms, while the female standard was increased by 40 kilograms on the basis of 200 kilograms. Kilogram, this time the dispute was finally settled.
After such a dispute, everyone discovered that the current male-female ratio is actually still seriously imbalanced. There are only 57 women among the 376 people, of which 23 are unmarried, and three of them are with their parents. Minors who are devoted to the great cause of time travel. The number of unmarried male members is as high as more than 200, which means that the ratio of unmarried men to women is more than ten to one!
Facing the excited bachelors, the gossip committee members had no choice but to use their original rhetoric to comfort everyone, and promised that the focus of foreign trade after establishing a foothold in the new time and space would be to introduce marriageable women. Of course, for some people's special requests to experience growing up as a lolita, the executive committee could only vaguely say in front of many female members that they would consider it based on the actual situation. You must know that although there are not many female members now, members full of feminist awareness have set up the flag of the Women's Federation within the team. These old guys on the executive committee don't want to offend them for some guys with excess hormones.
After finally settling down the members who were complaining, the executive committee quickly moved on to the next step, reporting on the progress of the preparatory work. This is probably the work that the Executive Committee is most proud of so far. All preparations have been carried out smoothly with the guarantee of sufficient funds.
The Ministry of Shipping, under the auspices of Sun Changmi and Yue Zhiyun, has ordered a 7,500-ton ro-ro ship from the second-hand ship market, with a cargo capacity of more than 6,000 tons. The hull has a side loading and unloading springboard, and there are Two booms have certain self-unloading capabilities. This large ship, purchased with a purchase price of 15 million, will be used as the main ship for transporting materials across the group after undergoing a certain scale of transformation and maintenance. Of course, the materials consumed for daily maintenance and use of such a large ship are also very objective. Therefore, after the ship docks at Yulin Port, it will probably be difficult for it to move again. It is even more likely that it will It is used as a fixed defense facility on the seaside. However, even though the future of the main ship is very dark, the executive committee still named it "New World". After all, this ship is also the most expensive item in the entire preparatory plan. Some people have already proposed to build it in the future. When the time comes, the ship will be transformed into a historical museum that will travel across the world.
In view of the current shortage of professional manpower, the Ministry of Shipping purchased another 2,000-horsepower tugboat and four thousand-ton unpowered offshore deck barges, as well as a decommissioned landing craft that the Ministry of Shipping had specifically mentioned, plus four A 100-ton iron-hulled fishing boat made up the rest of the fleet.
Most of the Ministry of Industry's order list has been completed, but some customized equipment and machinery will still need to wait for some time before they can be picked up from the manufacturer. The preparation work of the Ministry of Agriculture is more troublesome. Quite a few improved crop varieties must wait until before the time-travel operation before they can be transplanted to the ship. The same is true for poultry and livestock. Mr. Yuan Ruoxiu has rented a small farm in Yingzhou, east of Sanya, to temporarily house these agricultural materials that cannot be shipped too far in advance. When the barge fleet purchased from Zhanjiang moves south along the east coast of South Island, it will be loaded and shipped directly to Yulin. port.
As for arms procurement, which is a key project in material preparation, the North American branch in charge sent a progress report. So far, North America has purchased a total of 300 Type 56 semi-automatics for foreign trade exports, tens of thousands of rounds of bullets, and a large number of various military supplies that cannot be purchased domestically in accordance with the requirements of the Military and Police Department of the Executive Committee. For safety reasons, these guns will only be issued with one magazine of ammunition and will be managed uniformly. In addition, the Executive Committee does not plan to issue pistols to all members. The negative consequences of universal gun ownership have been vividly demonstrated to the world by the large and small shootings that have occurred in the United States over the past few years. In the executive committee's vision, only personnel who go out to perform tasks in dangerous areas will be issued self-defense weapons such as pistols.
The original procurement plan of the Military and Police Department needs to make small adjustments, because Schneider recently introduced one of his former customers in Europe to the Military and Police Department. It is said that this customer has channels to obtain military-style guns such as FNscar and HK416. , not even some heavy weapons. The person in charge of the North American branch could not resist such temptation and had flown to Eastern Europe to have direct contact with the other party. It is expected that the results would be available in a week. The weapons, ammunition and military supplies that have been purchased will be shipped in containers from the west coast of the United States across the Pacific Ocean to the Hong Kong transit terminal by a professional smuggling company that has been contacted, and then immediately and non-stop transferred to the "New World" that is already docked here.
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