2447. Hari Seldon's Reform (Part 1)
The next day, Tang Xiao held a Kingdom of Dawn highest-level military meeting. The meeting focused on the next phase of the war plan. During this meeting, after discussion, Tang Xiao made several very important decisions.
The first is to continue to expand war production, increase war taxes on all planets and continue to issue war bonds.
Then there was the expansion of the army, recruiting 100 million people for the army and 20 million people for the navy.
Third, continue the transformation of civilian enterprises into military production and reduce the types of domestic consumer goods.
Finally, major companies and planets are encouraged to form their own private armed fleets, and the military will open sales channels for some retired second-line warships.
This confirms that Kingdom of Dawn will continue to burn its own war potential and vows to continue this war until it is a life-or-death battle with the Galactic Empire.
Based on the current military deployment of the Galactic Empire, this meeting also preliminarily formulated a combat plan, which was named 'Operation One'.
Operation One includes a three-part combat plan to annihilate Death Squadron, annihilate the Empire Northern Fleet, and annihilate the Empire's 12th Army located at Eastern Territory. Unlike Operation Zero, who accomplished all his tasks in one battle, Operation One will focus on eliminating Galactic Empire's active forces.
This plan is not eager to win as soon as possible, but to tighten the Empire's neck step by step, allowing the Empire to erupt into more serious civil strife in a high-pressure war environment.
The combat plan was handed over to Matt-Marshal Horner for refinement and formulation. Prior to this, all fronts of Kingdom of Dawn were fully transferred to a defensive posture.
Afterwards, Prime Minister Kingdom of Dawn Daphne-Clement proposed an economic reform plan. This plan was named after the framer and was called Hari Seldon Reform.
Yes, this economic reform was proposed by Secretary-General Prime Minister's Office, Hari Seldon.
Because Kingdom of Dawn's domestic economy is currently on the verge of collapse, the industrial system is becoming deformed, workers' working hours are increasing, and labor remuneration is declining. Coupled with the Rendili Planet immigration plan that was still in progress at this time, the unemployment rate began to surge.
According to the latest statistics, Kingdom of Dawn The domestic unemployment rate has reached 13%, and a large number of immigrants cannot get job arrangements, leaving them to figure out their own solutions. This not only leads to chaos in immigration work, but also makes many immigrants without jobs a very unstable factor.
So Kingdom of Dawn Immigration Bureau had to throw many immigrants to the developer star field, give them some of the most basic living materials, and let them reclaim the fertile land left by Mongolian Gal-Mongolian Gal. But there is a big hidden danger in doing so. After these people gradually complete the reclamation and establish settlements and Planetary Administrative Center, liberal ideas will naturally spread among them.
And due to the pensions for retired soldiers, wounded soldiers, and fallen soldiers, it also caused an extremely serious financial deficit. Xu Draon Planet's infrastructure construction has almost stagnated, government procurement prices have been continuously depressed, and the enthusiasm of industrial and agricultural production personnel has declined.
Even with the large amount of grain produced by Developer Sector, many farmers refused to sell the crops they produced because they were dissatisfied with the government procurement prices, clashed with officials who came to purchase, and even burned the grain they grew.
What's more serious is that the increasingly high-pressure wartime economic policy has caused many Draon Planet to reject the war, demand neutrality and autonomy, and even an uprising broke out.
These uprisings are connected to the Rebel Alliance on the Galactic Empire side in many ways, making it difficult to extinguish the flames of the uprising. The rebels attacked various logistics and production departments of the planet, killed kingdom officials, and robbed the transport fleet. Some people simply turned into interstellar pirates and pointed their robberies at everyone, including other civilians, which made the situation even worse.
Under such circumstances, if the intensity of war production and wartime economy is further expanded in accordance with the decisions of this meeting, there is no doubt that Kingdom of Dawn will face a more serious internal crisis.
Therefore, Hari Seldon proposed an economic reform, the most important of which was currency reform.
In the past, the economic system of Kingdom of Dawn was linked to the economic system of Galactic Republic. Because at that time, Kingdom of Dawn, which had just begun to develop, did not have a complete economic ecology at all and had to rely heavily on Galactic Republic. Therefore, even during the Clone Wars period, the economic systems of both parties were actually on the same track.
The monetary system of Galactic Republic is basically a dual-track system, with credit currency on the one hand and standard currency on the other. In other words, Galaxy Republic credits has two payment methods, one is electronic currency issued based on credit, and the other is credit ingots cast from rare alloys, which is cash.
The Currency Number Four issued by Kingdom of Dawn is actually a currency issued based on the central bank's purchase and accumulation of rare alloys. This currency is interoperable with Republic credits, but the exchange ratio is different.
However, with the outbreak of the war, this system basically collapsed. Credit currency was printed in large quantities and almost became waste paper. Therefore, most places only recognized credit ingots and not credit points. This has led to poor currency circulation, and economic payments have largely become based on barter.
Later, with the split of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, the economies of Kingdom of Dawn and Galactic Republic gradually became independent. However, the basic operation method remains the same, so the two sides still have many contacts in private trade.
But now, Galactic Empire's economy has basically collapsed, and Kingdom of Dawn's economy is almost there.
The most important point of the economic reforms proposed by Hari Seldon is to redefine the Kingdom of Dawn currency. The key to establishing this economic system is the Matter Unloader that was put into operation before!
Kingdom of Dawn and Matter Unloader can already be built on neutron stars to mine huge amounts of mineral deposits. A considerable part of the resources being mined are materials that can only be formed in the ultra-high pressure environment of neutron stars. This type of material is collectively referred to as neutron matter.
Moreover, this type of substance is difficult to obtain through ordinary mining methods. Just like Galactic Empire, they are not unable to mine materials on neutron stars, but the methods are basically violent, cutting with super powerful lasers or simply bombing with Turbolaser cannons.
The materials on the neutron star mined in this way basically undergo a physical reaction during the bombing process and become ordinary resources.
The neutron star material used by the Galactic Empire, such as the neutron material armor installed on Acclamator-class assault ship, is not directly mined, but artificially synthesized.
But the minerals mined by Matter Unloader are different. Because these minerals use a pressure pump to create a huge pressure difference, the materials on the neutron star actively eject toward the other side of the pressure pump. Therefore, those extremely rare materials that can only be formed in an ultra-high pressure environment can be preserved if they can be processed at the first time.
And these things will become the foundation of Kingdom of Dawn's new generation monetary system!