Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 649 Little Walton
Each of the four satellite cities has its own industry.

Liaocheng: Cement, agricultural machinery, and health products.

Heze City: Meat and poultry, spices, and down clothing.

Puyang: Nuclear energy, electronics, e-commerce.

Jishui: stone carving, aquaculture, and light-weight textiles.

Shiliying is just a subdistrict, equivalent to a township, and within its organizational structure, it has no jurisdiction over the four prefecture-level satellite cities.

Therefore, Shiliying has never interfered with the development of the satellite city, and Yu Yang is also unaware of whether Jishui has any major plans after realizing the digital city.

However, factors such as being backed by a collective, comparing with each other, being a society ruled by men, and living standards should be taken into account.

It seems that Jishui doesn't have any major plans.

It simply hopes that the people in its jurisdiction are doing better than those outside, thereby preventing people from comparing themselves to the collective and creating a huge sense of disparity, which could then lead to them angrily criticizing the management.

Yu Yang led his superiors to visit several family glove workshops, family carbon workshops, and family bedding workshops, and then came to Jiaxian No. 1 Middle School.

Although the schools and colleges in the four satellite cities have long since joined the Hundred Schools Alliance and fully adopted the integrated teaching and learning system, they still offer regular classes to accommodate students whose aspirations are not in the mainstream, such as those planning to study abroad, learn a foreign language, or obtain a diploma from the education system.

Visiting Chiayi County No. 1 High School and inspecting the affiliated classes of the Hundred Schools Alliance is of little practical significance.

After all, they are all targeted training students. They are exposed to the three industries from junior high school. In high school, they split into two paths: one to become a technician and the other to study theory. Then they go to university for further studies. The former become technicians and the latter become researchers. Those who are eliminated switch to service.

Therefore, everyone was assigned to a regular class.

Compared to the AR teaching, VR teaching, 3D holographic projection teaching, class database, class management model, class AI tutoring terminal, intelligent mechanical desk, paperless handwritten black and white screen (equivalent to exercise book) adopted by the affiliated classes of the Hundred Schools Alliance, ordinary classes can be considered the 'mainstream of the times'.

A traditional blackboard, individual square wooden desks, stacks of paper textbooks, and a large group of boys and girls wearing glasses, heads bowed in deep study…

It happened to be Chinese class, and the Chinese teacher of Class 1, Grade 12 (General) was explaining last year's college entrance examination essay.

Last year's college entrance examination essay topic was "Hometown". It required students to write about 1800 words on the theme of "Hometown" based on their personal experiences or social phenomena, and the subject matter was not limited.

Yu Yang had some recollection of this, and had even casually flipped through a few articles at the time.

Some describe nostalgia, some describe the development of their hometown, and some describe what their hometown looks like...

The essay we discussed in class was written by our school's top scorer in the college entrance examination, and its title is "My Parents".

The general meaning of the full text is:

His parents were ordinary workers in Chiayi County; one repaired machinery, and the other worked as a warping worker in an old textile factory.

When I was a child, my parents were busy with work. They would get up around six in the morning and get off work around eight or nine in the evening, so the three of us rarely saw each other every day.

After the wave of layoffs, his parents were re-employed by the county government, continuing in their old trades: one repaired machinery, and the other worked as a warping worker in a textile factory. However, their commuting times improved considerably.

Just like her father, she gets up at 7:30 every morning, then rides her bicycle and leisurely rides to the intersection 300 meters away to eat a meal of fried buns. Before 8:30, she leisurely rides to the machinery factory 500 meters away to clock in for work.

I take a one-hour lunch break, finish get off work at 5 pm to buy groceries, get home at 6 pm, and cook with my husband.

In the evenings, the father would study his mechanical equipment, while the mother would watch TV dramas and chat with relatives and friends.

As for the family in Yamaguchi, why don't they eat breakfast together...?

His mother provided meals at her factory, and he had to go to school at 6 a.m. for early morning classes.

This way of life can be seen everywhere in the small county of Chiayi.

This is thanks to the "Agriculture 3.0 - Urban Management Pilot System" introduced by Jishui from Shiliying in 01, which enabled people in the area who completed registration through industries such as Sanyuan Pharmacy to achieve the overall redistribution of human resources, and also enabled every household to live and work in peace and contentment.

So thank you to the Party, thank you to the country, thank you to Jishui Institute, thank you to the Third Department and Chiayi County.

This is my hometown.

"The content described in this essay is not only based on reality, but also very cleverly presents the life of the people in my hometown through the past and present."

"The reason I didn't get a perfect score was mainly because I got to the point too late, and the opening paragraph was too drawn out..."

Yu Yang and his superiors stood outside the window, having read the high-scoring essays and listened to the Chinese language teacher's explanations, before arriving at the teaching and research office.

As Yu Yang browsed through the piles of lesson plans, he began to speak:

"In my view, regular classes belong to exam-oriented education, and the focus of exam-oriented education is 'exams,' and the source of 'exams' is the teaching and research group, the question-setting group, and the question setters."

"Therefore, whether a school teaches well or can produce top scorers in the college entrance examination has little to do with so-called 'educational resources'."

"If a high school can select 200 test setters and form test setter groups for each subject, 90% of the students in that high school can score 700 points."

"Of course, that's unrealistic, since the question setters come from different regions and schools."

"Therefore, in the past, the best way to get high scores was to do a lot of practice questions. You had to do all the test papers from different regions and schools to figure out the habits of the test setters in each region. If a student had a good memory and a good brain, he would definitely get high scores."

"Therefore, in the past, if a teacher was very familiar with, or even knew by heart, 'which regions and schools are likely to produce test setters' and 'what kind of test setters have these test setters', then that teacher must be a 'famous college entrance examination teacher'."

"However, things are different now. Big data can record all the questions that teachers have set, big models can classify and analyze 'similar questions,' and AI can predict and evaluate 'question setters.' Then, by combining all of the above, we can make predictions about the questions. Students in regular classes can then keep doing these 'predictions' to make up for any probability errors and achieve high scores in the college entrance examination."

"With the support of this unique algorithm, I can guarantee that this year's college entrance examination, as long as the rules remain unchanged, will allow everyone in the regular classes to score above 700 points."

"If any off-campus trading institution uses widespread AI to master these 'rules,' under the exam-oriented education system, students from non-three-system regions will be able to get high scores by having money to enter off-campus training classes."

"Therefore, leaders, times have truly changed."

"This change is not about AI serving our lives, nor about AI creating economic benefits. Rather, AI can completely overturn the past in every aspect, even in places we can't imagine, creating a series of bugs and unfairness while accelerating development."

"Just like before 01, who could have imagined that by hiding a listening device smaller than a mung bean in one's ear, one could communicate with the outside world during the exam and obtain high-scoring answers?"

The superior nodded seriously, "So starting last year, we decided to align the education system with the factory's education system."

"The problem is that the industries outside the factory are not integrated with the three departments. We have trained so many talents in the three departments, but what will happen to the extra people when the factory's employment positions are saturated?"

"We are already discussing the issue of expanding the scale of the three industries."

"Sir, I don't want the three industries to become the only one in the East. This is not conducive to future development... Or rather, what will we do if the three industries collapse?"

"The three systems cannot collapse, nor can they possibly collapse."

"We need to be prepared for both possibilities. Besides, I've brought in so much foreign investment and forced them to establish businesses in the East. We should make good use of it."

"what do you mean?"

“Western technology isn’t entirely undesirable. We can integrate the technologies and resources of non-core industries, have a State-Owned Resources Management Committee in charge, and then entrust them to international management organizations for safekeeping and operation, creating a new generation of trusts similar to BlackRock. Then, we can establish a series of technical colleges and undergraduate universities to cultivate the talent needed by these trust companies.” “Trusts are capitalist monopolies…”

"The three major oil companies, the three major telecommunications companies..."

"···"

“With three industrial chains watching over us from the sidelines, these trusts are more obedient than large state-owned enterprises. After all, Beijing is Beijing, and the local area is the local area. The management committee of Beijing may not be able to manage the large state-owned enterprises in Shenzhen.”

After Yu Yang finished speaking, without waiting for a response from his superiors, he stood in the corridor and looked around at the small county town in the distance. "If we can achieve this, the Third Department can help the higher authorities build 6 to 8 super-centralized cities similar to Tokyo and New York, and then drive the overall economic development of the East."

"Or we could adopt a 'divide and conquer' approach, distributing non-third-tier industries to fourth- and fifth-tier cities, and sending technicians and intellectuals to the countryside to pursue rural revitalization."

"At this stage, after decentralization, the three systems can help the higher authorities create 20,000 to 30,000 of the current top 100 towns and 1000 of the current top 100 counties."

Without hesitation, the superior replied, "The latter is definitely the better choice."

"But you are now taking the former path."

"···"

"However, leaders, it's not too late. We can use digital systems to correct the current development."

"Comrade Yu Yang, it's not about correcting mistakes, it's about making changes."

"It's about correcting mistakes."

"It's not about correcting mistakes."

"Yes!"

"No! Why are you copying Huang Ganchen too?"

"Ha, let's eat."

...

Evening
Oriental News conducted an exclusive interview with the Jishui Digital City Management System.

on the screen.

When a glove order from Europe flows into Jishui, the system will allocate it instantly.

Who is in charge of the general contracting? Who is in charge of the subcontracting? What is the subcontractor's production capacity and quality?

Who is responsible for procuring resources? Who is responsible for transportation? Where should the resources be stored that are closest to the subcontractor?

Who is responsible for subcontractor acceptance? Who is responsible for general contractor acceptance? Who is responsible for packaging and customs declaration?

Who is responsible for the European pick-up and who is responsible for collecting the final payment...

Subcontracted production capacity → Number of subcontracted employees → Subcontracted employee compensation.

Subcontracting energy consumption → Power supply → Power security.

Power system → Should power generation be adjusted…?

Each piece of data, no matter how small, was meticulously integrated to ultimately form the production task for this European glove order.

If it becomes even more complex, it will involve purchasing equipment, expanding production, recruiting workers, and so on, and then extending outwards to countless supporting points, which are handed over to different institutions to ensure that the order can be delivered within a specific time.

There are hundreds of thousands of similar orders and transactions in Jishui.

Because it ranges from mega-corporations like Sun Paper, Ruyi Textile, and Santui Industrial, to small family workshops,
From the Jishui Compound, the Jiaxian Compound, various streets and towns, and then to the grid-based communities,

From road, rail, high-speed rail, sea and air transportation, to workshop transshipment and manual handling,
This model is used in all of them.

"Nowadays, with the help of the digital city management system, Jishui has successively built a tourist express line, a suburban light rail, a high-speed rail in the city, and a subway in the city, and has become the first prefecture-level city in the entire East to have a ring road."

"Based on the results of this pilot program, the higher authorities have decided to extend the 'Digital City Management System Pilot Version' to 110 prefecture-level administrative regions along the coast, accounting for about one-third of the total."

"Once completed, with the support of the Far East Trading Company, these regions are expected to resolve their financial difficulties within two years and reach the level of the current top 100 counties within five years."

"It is worth noting that this decision is linked to the World Expo, and the second batch of digital cities is very likely to welcome a large number of familiar yet unfamiliar foreign companies."

···
Two days later.

After experiencing the Jishui Digital City, the superiors returned to Shiliying to continue their visit to the World Expo.

Yu Yang then went to Taibai Tower to meet Little Walton, who had arrived the night before.

At this moment.

Inside the retro-style building, young Walton is wearing AR glasses to learn about Agriculture 4.0.

Detailed subtitles are projected onto the lens using nanometer-level spotlights:

Agriculture 4.0 is based on Agriculture 3.0 and relies on industrial technology, biotechnology, information technology, and agricultural production to form a comprehensive three-system ecological chain of intelligence, urbanization, and liberalization.

Within this ecosystem, you can experience a range of unprecedented features through three types of wearable micro-devices and various terminals.

For example, by wearing AR glasses and purchasing clothing, appliances, furniture, etc. through the Sanxi online shopping platform, you can select the corresponding product, and the AR creation will appear in front of you, allowing you to experience it in advance through virtual reality...
When Little Walton arrived in Jishui, his every move was basically under the control of the three systems.

Yu Yang stepped directly into the room, and the latter immediately took off his AR glasses.

"Chairman Yu."

"Tell me, what offers can you make that will satisfy me?"

"Chairman Yu, Southern Republic's total investment in the East, converted into RMB, is about 2.5 trillion. Wall Street's total investment in the East is at least 3 trillion. The projects provided by the three groups to both parties, that is, the three groups' industries that were transferred, if valued, are at least 5 trillion. The total of the three parties combined is about 10 trillion."

"Yes, these are the investment details for 05 and 06."

“Our international Jewish community can allocate an equivalent amount of funds to help the three systems realize the Eastern Revival Plan.”

"Your promises are hard to believe."

“Chairman Yu, you should know our current situation best. If we weren’t desperate, I would never have offered so much capital in exchange for your food aid.”

"The problem is, you're desperate, which is exactly what I want to see. Besides, my cooperation with Old Brooks and Old Smith is already the greatest tolerance I can show towards capital. It's impossible for me to accept another, even more greedy, capital entering the East."

"Chairman Yu, please name your terms. We really need food."

(End of this chapter)