Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 355 Rooted Development
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A loud ship horn sounded over the dock as a large transport ship slowly approached. The workers, who had been prepared, immediately began unloading the containers from the ship.

Watching this scene from afar, Ou Yang couldn't help but ask, "Building materials again?"

"Probably." Zhu Yiming grabbed a blade of grass and put it in his mouth, then his expression suddenly changed, and he spat it out repeatedly.

"What's wrong?" Ou Yang asked.

"It's bitter!" Zhu Yiming spat out again. "There's no way around it, this is going to be a war of attrition!"

Ou Yang was lost in thought and didn't know what to say.

He originally thought that the authorities had simply temporarily placed the evacuees who had nowhere else to go on Saint-Va Island, which was called a settlement in a nice way, but a refugee camp in a harsh way.

Whatever it is, we'll give up once we find a way to defeat the phantom lung bacteria, and everyone will go back to their own homes and do whatever they need to do.

But Ouyang soon realized something was wrong.

After the initial resettlement was completed, the island no longer erected temporary buildings, but instead transported a large amount of building materials and began constructing various permanent buildings.

Furthermore, a public announcement was released, revealing the construction plan for a new city covering an area of ​​160 square kilometers.

Saint-Va Island has a total area of ​​less than 600 square kilometers, but the new town already occupies a quarter of the island's area!

The plan includes not only residential areas, but also commercial areas, warehousing areas, agricultural areas, industrial areas, and most importantly, shelters.

No one knows whether phantom lung disease will spread to the island, so we must plan ahead and build enough shelters to ensure that every compatriot who comes to the island has a place when disaster strikes.

Therefore, all residential areas in the new city are located on the edge of the city and are separated from each other by moats, walls and other means. In the event of an accident, all residential areas can be separated into independent small blocks in the shortest possible time to prevent the further spread of the epidemic.

Also due to its small size, Saint-Va Island has few resources to develop and lacks the foundation for industrial development. However, basic infrastructure such as hydropower is essential. Therefore, the planned industrial zone will focus on wind and solar power generation.

The plan immediately attracted a lot of attention and caused an uproar – it seems like people are planning to settle down on the island!
As a result, a large number of construction projects were launched, and a large number of idle people were transferred to construction sites to lay bricks and move walls. The number of people who still received rations decreased rapidly, and more and more people received wages.

The source of income changed the economic structure. In the second month after arriving on the island, the first government-run store officially opened, mainly selling necessities such as food, clothing, and shoes.

The business is located at the dock, and various goods are piled directly on the ship.

Subsequently, the fishing company was formally established, absorbing some of the idle personnel to go out to sea to fish.

The most interesting thing is the fishing company. Because there are many boats and many people, they catch a lot of seafood. They can only consume a portion of it themselves. They originally wanted to sell the rest to the locals, but since the locals have plenty of seafood, no one wanted it.

In the end, having no other choice, they had to send the excess seafood to the aquaculture farm to feed the pigs.

Then, plantations, farms, transport teams... all kinds of state-owned enterprises sprang up like mushrooms after rain, and a large number of idle people were transformed from refugees into workers.

The number of compatriots who went to the island was as high as 100,000, including many prominent social elites. However, at this time, regardless of their knowledge or abilities, they could only bow to reality.

While making every effort to resettle the evacuees, the government is also strongly encouraging the development of self-employed businesses.

Human nature is too complex. Even when people fall from a great height, some can immediately stand up, bend down, lower their heads, grit their teeth, and start all over again.

However, some people are the opposite; they cannot accept the difference in status and position, and from then on, they never recover.

But that's okay. Since we can't accept the arrangements from above, we can just rely on ourselves. The higher-ups will also encourage and support us.

No capital? No problem, a bank will be opened on the island immediately.

No collateral?

It's easy, just use the assets in the US as collateral.

Everyone was bewildered by the above actions. The internal situation in the US was becoming more and more chaotic. The assets in the US had long become an inescapable burden, and exchanging them for start-up capital was a good option.

Many people receive IRS collection notices even after arriving on the island, which is truly baffling.

Of course, assets are not the same thing.

Without a doubt, assets within the occupied territories are the least valuable, those in areas about to fall are slightly better, and only assets outside the occupied territories are slightly better.

But only some.

Ouyang gradually realized that this was simply treating Saint Václav Island as his own territory.
Building a completely new city on the other side of the world, far from home, and there are probably similar situations elsewhere... This seems to be a very big game being played!

The new city has more than enough to accommodate over 100,000 people, but the problem is that it's not so easy to properly settle everyone.

The authorities tried every possible method and managed to resettle half of the population, while the other half continued to receive rations.

Ouyang felt that they had already developed almost all the industries they could, and it would be very difficult to make any further arrangements.

However, the world is never short of smart people.

A young man surnamed Qi heard that a large number of locals lived on the other side of St. Vary Island. He immediately had a bright idea. He collected a batch of canned goods from acquaintances, made a small boat, transported them to the local towns, and sold them, earning his first pot of gold.

From then on, it was unstoppable, gradually growing from small-scale operations to a much larger scale.

Although it's just reselling various canned and packaged foods, these items are all transported from China, and are considered extremely scarce and rare resources by the locals.

The locals on Saint-Va were not fools either; they became middlemen, delivering packaged food from the new city... no, from the other side of the world to the main island.

The main island has no shortage of wealthy people, but it lacks supplies, and these foods quickly ended up on the tables of the wealthy.

As a result, the scale of trade grew like a snowball, and more and more people saw the opportunity and wanted a piece of the pie. Some even started to lower prices to compete for the market.

Qi Rui proactively applied to the management committee to establish a trading company and proposed to promote trade development in an orderly manner, believing that continued disorderly development would ultimately harm the overall interests of the new city!
The management committee made special arrangements and quickly approved the establishment of the trading company, and implemented appropriate controls on trade between the new town and the locals to prevent vicious competition.

Although it was just transporting goods from the east to the west of Sanva Island, the trade with the locals was essentially an import and export activity.

When you first arrive, it's fine to do things on a small scale, but once you start to expand, you have to regulate it!

The new city has not yet established a tax agency, and in order to encourage development, there are policies to reduce or even exempt taxes, thus creating a virtuous cycle.

The management committee even gave the green light to trading companies, helping them contact domestic sources of goods and allocating valuable transportation capacity to Sanva Island.

Ouyang couldn't help but wonder, if it continues to develop, will Saint-Va Island become a trade hub radiating throughout the Midlands?

It seems there's great potential!

(End of this chapter)