After the banquet, Chu Guang received a lot of gifts.
Although most of the survivors' settlements gave him gifts personally, Chu Guang still accepted them in the name of the alliance.
"... This sword is my eldest brother's sword. The previous king gave it to him when he was one month old, and he has been carrying it with him since he can remember. He asked me to tell you that the Honey Badger Kingdom is willing to serve as the sharp blade of the alliance, and the enemies of the alliance are our enemies."
Handing the sword in her hand to Chu Guang, Avni looked at him intently, and then handed over a shield with the royal emblem of the Honey Badger family.
"This shield is a gift from my second brother. He asked me to convey his original words to you. The Honey Badger Kingdom is willing to serve as the shield of the alliance. We will watch for the threat from the west for you, and our friendship will be as strong as steel."
Take the shield from her hand and put it aside, Chu Guang said solemnly.
"Thank you for your gift. The friendship between the Alliance and the Honey Badger Kingdom will be as strong as steel. In addition, I sincerely hope that your two brothers can have a harmonious relationship, properly handle internal affairs, and do not disappoint the trust of your residents in you."
The Honey Badger Royal Family is loved by local residents.
Otherwise, after the Legion came, there would not be so many people who rebelled, and even followed Yade to exile to the Lion Kingdom to form a restoration army.
Chu Guang did not intend to interfere in their affairs, but the premise was that it would not turn into a bloody conflict.
I believe Yade and Summer should have known this in their hearts.
"I will keep your teachings in mind and persuade them at the appropriate time."
Avni bowed slightly.
After a pause, she turned around and took out the red silk under the sword and shield. It was not until then that Chu Guang realized that it was a cloak and couldn't help but teasing.
"You are the only force that has given us three different gifts. We will cherish this friendship."
"This is my gift." Avni blinked, nodded slightly and said, "Thank you for teaching me knowledge and taking care of me all the time."
"You're welcome. Your colleagues have a high opinion of you. We can't say that we are taking care of you."
Looking at the pile of gifts behind him, Chu Guang's heart moved slightly, and he smiled and said, "I plan to build a museum in Dawn City and put all the gifts in it as a testimony of our friendship for residents from all over the world to see."
After that, he also plans to build a zoo to house the alien species captured by players, including death claws and monsters.
Not only can it be used for scientific research, but it can also be used to popularize science for new players and residents who have never traveled far, and show the strength of the alliance's combat effectiveness.
"That's great."
Personally, Avni felt quite regretful, but after thinking about it, a happy smile soon appeared on her face.
This might be a good idea...
In addition to the gifts from the Honey Badger Kingdom, the Lion Kingdom gave the Alliance 100 tall and mighty war horses. This thing can't be placed in a museum, so it can only be placed in the zoo after it is planned.
Since the Alliance does not have a traditional cavalry unit, Chu Guang selected 60 horses from them and planned to send them to the guards of Dawn City, Dawn City, and Fallen Leaf City respectively.
In the wild with poor road conditions, horses are faster than bicycles and can form enough deterrence, but they won't scare people like the Death Claw.
The Golden Lizard Kingdom gave Chu Guang a 1:1 restored golden bust. It is said that the gold used was melted from the Legion's dinars. Although they are vassals of the Academy, they are also optimistic about the market in the Valley Province.
The Camel Kingdom gave the Alliance a mechanical clock inlaid with blood diamonds to thank the Alliance for its immediate assistance in the Lost Valley military operation, while showing its wealth and the excellent skills of its skilled craftsmen.
Compared with the royal families who have their own thoughts, the gifts from enterprises are more practical.
On behalf of the board of directors, Wu Changnian gave Chu Guang a nearly three-meter-high four-wheel off-road vehicle.
The huge tires support the chassis. The structural material of the vehicle body is lightweight special steel, and the glass is special bulletproof glass, which is said to be able to block the shooting of light Gauss weapons.
"I see that you wear power armor all day, so you should like this muscular big guy more," Wu Changnian patted the hood of the off-road vehicle in front of the auditorium door and said with a smile, "This is a product of a subsidiary of Changge Group, V-100 'Tiger' off-road vehicle, you can use it as a wheeled armored vehicle."
There is one sentence he didn't say.
If you think it is useful, it is no problem to purchase more. This is different from large aircraft and is not on the list of technical sensitivity.
Chu Guang looked at the big guy with appreciation, and then looked at Wu Changnian and asked.
"Can this car fly?"
Fang Chang and Mole said that the cars in Ideal City can fly in the sky.
He is more interested in that technology.
Wu Changnian coughed lightly.
"You don't have a maglev roadbed here...so we didn't install the maglev device. But even if you have it, I don't recommend flying this thing in the sky. The steel structure car is still a bit heavy."
But it is precisely because of this that you can sit in it even if you are wearing power armor.
It can even seat four people.
Staring at this off-road vehicle, Chu Guang suddenly said with emotion.
"I just said that I'm going to build a museum and put all the gifts from the representatives in it."
"We are pragmatists. If a product is not used by anyone, it will be a pity. You can put a car key first, and then put the whole car in when it is worn out. I think this will be more meaningful and can better prove our friendship," Wu Changnian shook Chu Guang's hand and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to cooperate with you this time. I hope it will be the same in the future. We can work together to explore a better future."
Chu Guang shook his hand back and said with a smile.
"Definitely!"
He plans to allocate this car to the Guards Corps later.
If it is useful, he will consider importing a few more from Changge Group and allocate them to departments and corps in need. Of course, if the reverse work of the Academy's "Reindeer" tracked vehicle in the Liming City Industrial Zone goes smoothly, this foreign exchange expenditure can be saved.
The large-scale war has ended, and the research and development progress of heavy equipment such as tanks and artillery can be slowed down a bit. According to Chu Guang's plan for the Alliance Army Command, the next stage of equipment research and development will focus on miniaturization and special operations.
That is, to improve the details that were previously omitted or simply skipped.
In short, not only the alliance's allies and partners, but also the Boulder City, the Garbage City, the Red River Alliance, and even the Dam City, which Chu Guang heard of for the first time, have sent a generous gift to the alliance.
However, what makes Chu Guang most happy is not the gifts from other survivors' settlements, but the "gift" brought to him by Xiaoyu who came back from Camp 101...
...
"Xiaoyu and Pa Yin also have a special gift for Brother Chu... although it's not a precious thing."
Shelter 404, browsing room on the B4 floor.
Xiaoyu's face was flushed, and she said shyly with an embarrassed smile.
And Pa Yin, who was standing next to her, couldn't wait to hand over the thumb-sized hard drive in his hand, and said with a proud smile.
"The things you want are already done, feel free to use them! By the way, you can use the holographic computer I gave you to check it out. Just tell me if there is anything that needs improvement!"
That expression.
It was almost as if he had written "Hurry up and praise me" on his face.
"Great!" Chu Guang took the hard drive from her with a smile on his face, and readily fulfilled her wish, "Thank you, you guys are a great help."
Hearing this, Xiaoyu's face bloomed with a happy smile, but soon as if she realized something, she looked at Pa Yin beside her in surprise and asked in a low voice.
"Wait... didn't you say you wanted to give Brother Chu a surprise? How did it become that Brother Chu asked us to do it."
The smug expression froze on his face, and Pa Yin subtly moved his eyes away, muttering awkwardly.
"I feel like this will make you more motivated..."
Even the speed of learning things has become faster.
Xiaoyu stared at her and raised his eyebrows, and that expression seemed to be really angry.
"You lied!"
During the time at Camp 101, she had always regarded Pa Yin as her good friend, but Pa Yin lied to her for so long!
"Wuwu... I'm sorry! I won't dare to do it again next time!"
Unable to bear the serious expression of her best friend, Pa Yin looked at Chu Guang for help, hoping that he could help her.
However, Chu Guang's attention at this moment was completely attracted by the azure light projected by the holographic computer pen, and he dragged the screen with his index finger with interest.
Long before the war started, he asked Camp 101 to help develop a set of bond credit contracts and supporting trading systems suitable for the current economic rules of the alliance.
At that time, this system was prepared for the issuance of war bonds, with the purpose of "making social resources more efficiently allocated to the war machine of the alliance."
It was just because Boulder City lent him a large loan, and the company gave him loans and subsidies, which delayed him from using this tool to cut leeks.
If he can achieve his goal by injuring others, Chu Guang will definitely not injure his own people. Only by uniting his own people can he unite more people.
Now he has brought out this set of tools again, on the one hand, to let more residents of the alliance share the dividends of economic development, and on the other hand, to further fleece the neighbors.
The alliance will issue two sets of bonds.
One set is domestic debt paid in local currency, which is used to recover the excess liquidity generated by large-scale infrastructure investment, and at the same time, through interest, part of the social wealth generated by infrastructure is distributed from the direct beneficiaries to the majority of general survivors who cannot participate.
The other set is foreign debt paid in foreign currency. The foreign currency raised is used to purchase commodities in the market where the currency is located, to suppress inflation in the local market of the alliance, and to export excess liquidity in the local market.
It's like two barrels of beer.
As the person who "distributes the beer", Chu Guang can decide to a certain extent which barrel to put the real beer in and where to put the foam from the beer.
Although such financial instruments have appeared in the history of the Human Union, the current situation is different from the past after all, and mechanical application is obviously not feasible.
Xiaoyu worked as the president of the Alliance Bank for a period of time.
Although her daily work is just a silver coin cashier, she has to deal with grassroots personnel from all walks of life, including players, every day.
Coupled with her sensitivity to numbers and mathematical talent, she has the most intuitive feeling about the economic operation model of the Alliance, but she lacks the relevant knowledge to match it.
The purpose of Chu Guang sending her to Camp 101 to study abroad is not only to make up for her lack of professional knowledge, but also to hope that she can combine the actual situation of the Alliance and cooperate with the researchers of Camp 101 to better complete this work.
Later, probably because the technical content of the project was too low, Professor Ivan gave this job to his student Pa Yin.
On the one hand, Pa Yin has a high level of attainments in programming, electronics and mechanics, and on the other hand, she has a good relationship with Xiaoyu.
The efficiency of their cooperation was just as Ivan expected, and they did achieve good results.
"... Not bad! Basically there are not many things to change. I will let Xiaoqi manage the maintenance and update of the trading system. Thank you for your hard work!"
A light stroke of the index finger.
Chu Guang turned off the holographic screen and looked at the two people sitting opposite the sofa. He saw Xiaoyu staring at Pa Yin and sulking. He was stunned.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Well... I was wrong," Pa Yin looked at Chu Guang with a guilty look, took the initiative to admit his mistake and said, "I told Xiaoyu before that I would give it to you as a gift when you come back from the front line. I didn't tell her that it was actually you who asked me to do it."
Hearing her explanation, Xiaoyu's brows knitted tighter.
"Isn't the point that you lied to me for half a year!"
"Woo woo..." Unexpectedly, his apology had the opposite effect. Pa Yin shrank back and became smaller.
Looking at Pa Yin's timid appearance, Chu Guang couldn't help laughing. Although he knew it was not good to gloat over someone else's misfortune at this time, it was probably the first time for him to mediate such a simple conflict after being in the wasteland for so long.
Of course, this was not a trivial matter that could be perfunctorily dealt with.
Xiaoyu's personality was very similar to that of her second brother Yu Hu. To put it in a nice way, she was simple and serious, but to put it in a bad way, she was stubborn and stubborn. Sometimes she was as stubborn as a donkey, and she couldn't be pulled back.
With such a personality, she was easy to trust others, but she would be hurt once she was deceived, even if it was just a white lie.
"Pai Yin."
"Hmm?" Hearing Chu Guang calling her name, Pa Yin, who didn't know what to do, looked up at him carefully.
"You are a very smart girl. Although you are not a resident of the shelter, your talent is not inferior to anyone here, and even better. Otherwise, Dr. Method would not call you a genius and give you the precious chip. If I were to evaluate, your talent would be enough to make people in any settlement look at you with new eyes."
Looking at Pa Yin, who was apprehensive but couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth proudly, Chu Guang took a deep breath and continued patiently.
"But I don't think you did the right thing."
"Why..." Pa Yin's mouth fell, and he whispered with a wronged look, "I just... I saw that she was so eager to become a great person, so I wanted to help her. Don't you hope that she can help you as soon as possible?"
Chu Guang looked at her seriously.
"I believe you value Xiaoyu very much, care about her friendship, and want to stimulate her potential, but we can't completely ignore the means to achieve the goal just because the result is correct and the original intention is good... In fact, you can communicate with her better than making up a non-existent fact, right? If you treat her as a friend, not a follower or an accessory."
Geniuses certainly have the capital to be proud, but if you don't pay attention, pride can easily turn into arrogance. Most of the difficulties encountered by the shelter are not due to lack of adequate preparation, but arrogantly believing that everything will be fine as long as those stupid people listen to themselves.
If Pa Yin is more mature, he will tell her more specific experiences on behalf of Dr. Method.
For example, selectively retaining part of the truth is always more euphemistic than lying, even if you have to lie, you must add some promises that can be fulfilled.
But these experiences are too early for her.
"I didn't! I never considered Xiaoyu as my accessory!"
Finally realizing where his problem was, Pa Yin looked at Xiaoyu, lowered his head and said sincerely, "I was wrong, sorry... I shouldn't have kept it from you."
This time, Xiaoyu's brows finally relaxed a little.
Although her personality was a bit stubborn, she was not the kind of person who would not let go even if she was right.
She could feel that Pa Yin was not deceiving her with malicious intent.
In fact, she also regretted getting so angry just now. At least the other party was thinking about her, and perhaps she should express her unhappiness in a more gentle way.
Chu Guang looked at Xiaoyu and said gently.
"Can you forgive her? She has apologized sincerely."
"Yes, but... don't lie to me next time." Speaking softly, Xiaoyu walked down the steps given by Chu Guang and moved her aggressive gaze away from Pa Yin's face.
"Yes, I promise!" Pa Yin immediately raised her little hand and nodded vigorously.
Meeting his partner's sincere gaze, Xiaoyu's face flushed slightly, and he nodded gently.
"Then... I forgive you."
Looking at the two people who had reconciled, Chu Guang couldn't help but smile.
Sitting on the desk, Xiao Qi covered his mouth and chuckled twice, and whispered in his ear through the headset.
"As expected of the master, you are quite good at coaxing people!"
Chu Guang smiled and boasted in Mandarin.
"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but before I graduated, I actually wanted to be a teacher."
Although he was not a teacher, he was good at science and worked as a tutor part-time. Both students and parents liked him very much. One girl even vowed to apply for his school, although the score line of Jiangcheng University was too high that year and unfortunately she didn't get in.
Before graduation, he thought about taking a teaching qualification exam and becoming a math teacher or physics teacher in the future.
Xiao Qi paused for a while and looked at him in surprise.
"Eh...? But didn't you say, Master, that you were a salesperson before?"
"Yes," Chu Guang smiled faintly, "So you see, what you want to do and what you are doing are actually two completely different things. Humans are such contradictory animals, and it is difficult to understand with a programmatic mindset."
Xiao Qi tilted his head.
"I don't think it's difficult to understand."
"Really? Maybe you know me best."
After a casual reply, Chu Guang looked at the hard drive in his hand, and a smile gradually rose at the corner of his mouth.
The last building block has been put up.
It depends on how the other party takes it.
Xiao Qi blinked and looked at Chu Guang intently.
Although it didn't know what the master was going to do, its intuition told it that many people might be in big trouble...
...
On the first day of the celebration, the most lively place in Shuguang City, apart from the road from North Street to Triumph Square, was probably the Resident Registration Office of the Guard.
On the second day of the celebration, the Resident Registration Office of the Alliance Guard submitted a report to Chu Guang through the office system.
As of the end of the working day, the Resident Registration Office had registered a total of 2,711 new residents.
This is probably the highest peak in recent times!
Among them, 1,201 people applied for settlement as refugees.
Most of them have no money and no special skills. Some of them are attracted by the prosperity of the Alliance, some are attracted by the culture of the Alliance, and some simply decide to end their wandering life and make this place the last stop in the wasteland.
According to the Alliance's usual practice, residents who settle as refugees will first obtain the status of "supervised persons", enjoy limited resident rights, and accept resettlement in the refugee home. The refugee home will provide them with free dormitories and food, require them to participate in labor and study arranged courses, and convert their status to ordinary residents within a maximum of six months.
For them, the refugee home is more like a school.
The remaining 1,510 people are mainly residents of Boulder City. Some of them are engineers, and some are ordinary workers. Because of work, they have lived in the alliance for a long time. They have savings and work skills, but they have been dragging their feet and not going through the formalities.
The reason that prompted them to make up their minds to go through the formalities was largely because of Chu Guang's speech in the Triumph Square.
There was no way.
He gave too much.
It was not easy to survive in the wasteland, and people usually didn't ask for much. They didn't care who was right among the legions, enterprises, and colleges. They were willing to regard whoever could keep them from being hungry and cold as a god or savior.
No one had ever been willing to stand in the shoes of ordinary survivors like that man and consider them from their own perspective.
And there were so many considerations.
Especially Chu Guang mentioned that many benefits of the alliance in the future would be linked to the identity of residents, and only residents of the alliance could hold real estate as individuals. Since they had decided to settle here, it would be better to get the certificate early.
What Chu Guang didn't expect the most - and even surprised him - was that several residents of Ideal City also applied for resident status!
It is obviously not the welfare of the Alliance that attracts them. After all, no matter how good the welfare here is, it can't be compared with the ideal city, and it can even be said to be far worse.
However, the Resident Registration Office did not issue them resident certificates.
Although the threshold for obtaining resident status in the Alliance is very low, it does not mean that there is no threshold.
According to the current regulations, anyone can apply for resident status, but to pass the application, they need to work in a company or unit with relevant qualifications for more than six months, or work in an officially operated non-profit organization for six months.
The investment settlement plan will be more stringent, with specific requirements for the number of employees, business scale, industry type and business time. It is better to open a company to obtain relevant qualifications and then employ, or accept resettlement as refugees.
They obviously do not meet these conditions when they come to the Alliance for the first time.
However, two of the young men did not give up.
According to the report of the head of the Resident Registration Office, they became more excited after being rejected, and said that they planned to apply for a teacher's job in the refugee home to teach the wastelanders there to read and count, and to use actions to prove that they are not joking.
To be honest, whether it was the person in charge of the Resident Registration Office who reported the incident or Chu Guang who listened to the report, they all felt that the two guys were joking, and they might get tired of life in the wasteland in two days.
But it is not ruled out that there is a one in a thousand possibility that they may really be moved by the story of the Pioneer, inspired by the speeches in the Triumph Square and the social ideas of the Alliance, and want to help the people here.
In any case, this is a good start.
The holiday for the celebration is a total of three days, but that is for ordinary residents.
Chu Guang spent almost the entire second day in busy affairs and piled up reports, and was severely complained by Boss Xia for this.
But Chu Guang didn't care.
Being a little tired now is also to relax in the future.
Some things are like the road in "Cities Skylines". If you don't plan it well at the beginning, it will only become more and more troublesome in the future.
The third day of the celebration.
Chu Guang convened a working meeting with senior officials from various departments, focusing on reviewing the industrial transformation plan submitted by the Ministry of Industry and a series of policy budget proposals.
The core theme of the entire meeting was to transfer part of the heavy industry and military production capacity to light industry.
Especially in the past, the alliance did not have time to develop itself because of the war, so the industry that was handed over to Giant Stone City to do had to be slowly developed now.
It would be best to pick the ready-made fruits from the neighbor's house.
As early as in the previous closed-door meeting, Chu Guang had hinted to the financial department that the alliance's economic policy would impact the mainstream currency status of chips.
Then all the assets held by the alliance that were priced in chips, whether fixed assets or non-fixed assets, must be treated as potential non-performing assets and cleaned up in a planned manner.
Otherwise, his plan to cut leeks would become a seven-injury punch, which would knock people half to death with one punch, and he would only have one breath left.
That would be harmful to others and not beneficial to himself.
The entire meeting lasted from morning to afternoon, and even lunch was ordered by Chu Guang out of his own pocket for the participants.
Perhaps because the lunch boxes he ordered were more fragrant, the ministers and deputy ministers at the conference table put their greatest enthusiasm into their work, and finally came up with a basically reliable implementation plan before dusk.
Starting tomorrow, the alliance will fully implement the new work system, and factories that actively cooperate will be given certain subsidies.
Although finance is the lubricant of industry, Chu Guang knows very well that lubricants alone are not enough to empty the family assets of neighbors.
Not only must he let the survivors who choose the alliance at least live in corn buildings, but he must also ensure that there are enough industries to absorb the continuous influx of population.
Cutting leeks is just one of the means to accelerate development.
In the final analysis, "self-reliance" is the best way to solve all problems.
After the meeting.
Chu Guang was just thinking about whether to take a stroll on the street at the end of the celebration to relax and appreciate the results of his and the little players' joint efforts, when suddenly good news came from Liszt.
On the phone, his voice was full of pride.
"Dear administrator, the matter you asked me to do has been completed!"