Chapter 96, The Governor can’t come for nothing, right?
The reason why Ossena was asked to conduct a city-wide screening was not to ask the girl to investigate the case.
The major is not suitable either.
In fact, Gu Hang hoped that she could do this while distributing food throughout the city and ensuring people's livelihood.
But Gu Hang didn't have high hopes for this city-wide screening; he just did it as a side job.
The main reason is that there are no particularly effective screening methods.
A cultist will not admit it just because you ask him.
He also told Ossena that this was just a matter of convenience and the main task was to ensure people's livelihood.
The army that followed Gu Hang into the city has already taken control of several grain warehouses.
But at this time, a piece of bad news came:
The city’s food reserves are not enough.
If we consider the normal consumption of the city's population of one million, there is only about fifteen days of supply.
This level of food reserves is too dangerous for a city that relies mainly on foreign trade for food imports. It seems that the previous coalition government did not understand the importance of food security at all.
But if you think about it from another angle, it seems to make sense.
After Ossena took over the granary, she also calculated the consumption of the poor in the outer city according to the per capita standard of the Governor's Camp and the Abandoned Cave Society; but before that, the Alliance authorities may have never calculated it that way. They may only regard the 100,000 people in the inner city as serious people. The poor in the outer city? You have to figure it out yourself.
Of course, the food supply for the residents of the outer city must come from these granaries, otherwise how can the people of the outer city survive? Eighty or ninety thousand people can't survive by just eating tree bark.
However, the residents of the outer city do not eat as much as the standard population consumption calculated by Ossena. With a population of 800,000 to 900,000, the food consumption may only be 300,000 to 500,000 people/day/.
On average, they can only eat one-third to one-half of their daily food intake, so malnutrition is normal. And this is an average, which means that some people from other cities can eat and drink enough, while others may not have food for two consecutive days.
This situation is consistent with the actual situation of the outer city of Fuxing City. Ossena has survived in the outer city for several months and knows very well that the life of the residents in the outer city is really like this.
According to this standard, fifteen days of food can be turned into about thirty to forty days of reserves.
But Ossena decided that couldn't be the case.
She will provide standard amounts of food to the population of the outer city of Fuxing City.
Otherwise, before the governor came, we were not full; after the governor came, we still were not full... then wouldn't the governor's visit have been in vain?
At the current stage, increasing rations to ensure that everyone has enough to eat is an important step in establishing the Governor's prestige.
The people in the inner city are indifferent to the incoming governor?
Then you can be indifferent. Do you really think it's the old days of the alliance? Only the people in the inner city are considered human beings?
During the long communication between Gu Hang and Ossena, they both made it clear that the greatest wealth of Fuxing City lies in the hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city. As long as they wholeheartedly support the governor, everything else is just a paper tiger.
The rich and powerful can be overthrown, and all means of production can be confiscated. Gu Hang does not need their support to complete his rule;
For the relatively well-off inner-city residents, no matter if you have grievances or not, just do your job honestly. If you dare to mess up, we have ways to deal with it.
In the outer city, a large number of poor people will have their living conditions improved. They will live a better life under the kindness of the Governor, and then quickly return to the factories and jobs to contribute to the Governor's cause.
Of course, just distributing food is not enough. In other words, distributing food is the basis for solidifying the governor's rule and the price to be paid. Beyond the price, how to get a stable harvest is the more challenging part for Ossena.
Ossena knew clearly that just opening the warehouse and releasing the grain was not a sign of her ability.
As if no one can do it.
She had to let the residents know clearly that this was a favor from the Governor while paying for the food. Only in this way could the value of releasing the food be realized.
At the same time, she had to stick to one principle from the very beginning: you can't feed people for free.
She does not intend to define this batch of food as simple relief or welfare.
Whether Fuxing City is poor or rich depends on how you judge it. To say it is rich is to only treat the people in the inner city as human beings. It is indeed quite rich, at least by the standards of this wasteland. Their wealth is based on the exploitation of the hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city as if they were not human beings.
But now, Ossena wants to treat all the 800,000 or 900,000 people in the outer city as human beings, which adds such a huge burden.
By such standards, it is impossible to be considered rich.
The current reserves of Fuxing City cannot support high welfare.
Ossena will give the residents of the outer city a normal life, but what she can give is only opportunities and platforms. If they want to live a decent life, they still have to rely on their own hard work.
This is certainly not as beneficial as directly distributing food, but Ossena would rather lose a little of the profit from doing good to others than to ensure that the finances of Renaissance City remain relatively healthy.
Furthermore, the residents of the outer city must have the willingness to work hard. Ossena, who had lived in the outer city, fully believed this.
In this regard, Ossena roughly established a temporary system.
She would distribute food to residents outside the city indiscriminately, but only for a few days and only one-third of the ration, to ensure that people would not starve to death.
If you want more, you need to buy it.
The government food sales windows opened will sell food at a fair price, and purchases will be limited based on the per capita rationing system. Severe crackdowns will be imposed on gangsters who use other people's quotas to buy food and hoard it.
For a long time to come, the grain industry will become a government-run industry, and the Governor-General's government will do its utmost to ensure the stability of grain prices. Private individuals are temporarily prohibited from getting involved in this industry.
As long as there are affordable and stable channels for purchasing food, the basic lives of residents in the outer cities will be guaranteed.
Of course, there are also a considerable number of out-of-town residents who have no savings, and recently because of the war, they are out of work and have no means of survival.
Ossena also has supporting means.
Next, all the factories, handicraft factories, and shops that have been re-controlled will absorb the employed population after reopening. The "food coupons" will be settled every day and can be directly exchanged for food.
Ossena gave the work point system some thought and decided not to promote it in Fuxing City for the time being.
The administrative team she currently has consists of only a dozen or so clerks, and it is impossible for them to implement the work points system and replace the existing monetary system.
There will be great turmoil, and we will need stronger administrative capabilities and grassroots control to accomplish this.
In fact, even the work of distributing food and promoting the resumption of work and production was beyond the capability of her and the dozen or so people under her.
But fortunately, the army will come to help her.
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