Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child

Having determined his future plans, Lin Ze began to take action.

First was the implementation of the Gates to Heavens Mall's internal currency system.

Achieving this was simple. Currently, the total number of survivors in the entire world, plus the Gates to Heavens Mall employees Lin Ze brought over, was just over two thousand.

With such a small market size, unifying prices was easy.

Lin Ze first mobilized numerous robots as labor to renovate a residential area in East River City, not far from the factory. They cleaned up the traces of wind and frost damage and reinforced the community's surrounding walls with reinforced concrete.

Dense surveillance cameras and Drones were deployed to ensure security.

This place was designated as the new base of the Gates to Heavens Mall in this world, named Hope Community.

Afterward, Lin Ze began to set up supermarkets, restaurants, cinemas, clothing stores, cafes, internet cafes, sports centers, furniture stores, schools, hospitals, Silicone Products Stores, and all other supporting unmanned intelligent living and entertainment facilities in the community.

Having done all this, Lin Ze began to allocate housing to all Gates to Heavens Mall employees on a family basis, along with a basic 10,000 Value Points per person for living expenses.

From now on, there would be no more unified dining arrangements. They could cook for themselves or dine in restaurants, consuming the corresponding Value Points.

The uniformly distributed housing was not luxuriously decorated, even somewhat simple. The food prepared by the restaurant's intelligent robot chefs was nothing surprising, but living in this community, people felt satisfied.

Because here was the most lacking thing in the apocalypse: safety!

People lived in Hope Community, experiencing a new life, shopping, decorating new homes, and stocking up on food and clothing.

Then, they encountered a problem: they didn't have enough Value Points.

These survivors were all wealthy before the apocalypse and had never lacked money. After the apocalypse, everything was self-reliant, and they had no concept of money.

But now, wanting to buy things, they found that they didn't have enough Value Points.

So they began to realize that this was a currency, and they needed to find a way to obtain it.

At this time, Lin Ze timely introduced some jobs that could earn Value Points.

The first type of job was to go out and collect resources, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, discarded electronic components, and everything else, or to work in the factory tightening screws.

Although Lin Ze's intelligent industry could automatically complete these material collection and production tasks, having people participate in this initial stage could effectively increase the speed of snowballing productivity.

So these jobs were valuable.

Because the entire world theoretically belonged to Lin Ze's property, the only property that these Gates to Heavens Mall employees could control was their own lives.

Therefore, their work income was calculated by time, with an income of 20 Value Points per hour, plus a certain amount of performance pay.

In general, it was selling their labor, with a monthly income of 5,000 to 6,000 Value Points based on an eight-hour workday.

The second type of job was positions within Hope Community.

Currently, only chefs and Enlightenment Teachers were needed. Intelligent industry could barely handle these two positions, but it would do a very poor job, so it was more appropriate for people to do them.

According to the current population size, these two jobs were easy and decent, but there were only five job positions in total, each of which could earn 10,000 to 20,000 Value Points per month based on performance.

The third type of job was soldier.

They would undergo eight hours of military skills training every day, including the use of various Firearms, the practice of Martial Arts, or other training programs in the future.

Other times can be freely allocated, and adults can participate.

Based on performance, the monthly salary is set at 10,000 to 15,000 Value Points. After becoming a senior combat personnel, the salary level will be improved, but when encountering battles, they need to go to the battlefield, which may be life-threatening.

Compared to the previous jobs, it is not so stable.

The fourth type of job is a scholar.

As a scholar, as long as you participate in learning, you can get corresponding income.

For example, for the Twelve-Year Compulsory Education Curriculum, each class taken and passed the corresponding exam can get Value Points rewards, equivalent to an hourly wage of 30 Value Points.

After completing the compulsory education curriculum and studying university content, each class passed and the corresponding exam can get a reward equivalent to 50 points per hour, followed by graduate, doctoral, and professor levels.

You can get 100, 200, and 500 points per hour, respectively.

Becoming a professor basically allows you to catch up with the cutting-edge research progress of the discipline. At this time, you can get the treatment of a Level 2 employee of the Gates to Heavens Mall, receiving at least 500,000 Value Points per month, after creating corresponding scientific research results.

Not only can you get a large amount of monetary rewards, but you can also accumulate professional title experience. After years of growth, you can be promoted to Level 3 or higher-level employees.

Before officially starting to learn, everyone must first take a level test to determine their current level.

Then, a large sum of Value Points corresponding to the level of education will be directly distributed in one lump sum.

Artificial intelligence is still very powerful. These are not very complicated things, and they can all be processed according to the rules set by Lin Ze.

All the Gates to Heavens Mall employees living in Hope Community, how could they not see Lin Ze's thoughts from these job positions he issued?

If you don't want to work hard, go out and sell your labor to pick up garbage.

If you have a skill, you can get a relatively decent job, but if you want to get rich and live a comfortable life, then go to study and become a scholar.

The survivors of World No. 3, those who were able to survive the turmoil of the apocalypse, still have a certain level of education.

Their first reaction, of course, was to challenge themselves to see if they could become scholars. This is not only for a higher standard of living, but also for immortality.

They have recently been wandering around the community browsing various facilities, but they clearly saw a project called Aging Treatment in the hospital.

According to the introduction, this is the Immortality Technology obtained from Chu Ge. After making outstanding contributions to the development of the Gates to Heavens Mall, you can enjoy this Immortality Technology.

Since Lin Ze's inclination is to hope that they become scholars, then if they want to make contributions and gain immortality, they naturally have to work hard in this direction.

Of course, the fact proves that not everyone has the talent to become a scholar.

Many people either learn extremely slowly, or feel uncomfortable as soon as they learn, and cannot concentrate.

A typical example is the guards Lin Ze recruited from World No. 2. Helpless, they had to do their job as soldiers and take the time to learn more.

Some others who don't want to be soldiers try to learn a skill so that they can find a suitable employment direction.

There are no people going out to pick up garbage. This kind of slacker may appear in the future, but definitely not for the time being.

After experiencing the struggle of the apocalypse, they can understand how wonderful it is to be able to study peacefully.

Lin Ze's requirement for these employees is to make them all become useful elites. In addition, it is to cultivate their discipline and their recognition of the Gates to Heavens Mall organization.

Therefore, in addition to teaching professional skills, the school also conducts education on outlook on life, values, and world view, so that they can become talents who can contribute to the development and growth of the Gates to Heavens Mall.

As time passed, the lives of the people in Hope Community gradually stabilized.

Every day, they spent eight hours doing their jobs, such as studying, undergoing military training, or working as chefs.

Lin Ze observed the changes in the entire Hope Community, and a smile appeared on his face as he looked at this community full of a learning atmosphere and an active and upward spirit.

In the future, this will be his reserve talent base. As time passes, it will eventually produce enough loyal employees with strong personal abilities.

In the future, if there is anyone he likes, he can just throw them into this community full of a learning atmosphere and let them receive training.

On the other side, intelligent industry is also continuing to grow. The construction of the industrial system is progressing rapidly. It can be said that from this moment on, the development of Lin Ze's Gates to Heavens Mall has initially entered a normal state.

Over the next period, while continuing to study the technical data left by Chu Ge, Lin Ze gradually began to shift his attention back to World No. 1 and World No. 2.

At this time, it was already August.

In the past few months, Lin Ze had focused most of his attention on World No. 03, which had become a brand new base camp.

But this does not mean that he has not paid attention to World No. 1 and World No. 2.

On the World No. 1 side, the catering group, the foreign trade group, the Gold Mine in the Golden Continent, the Copper Coins Factory, and the shipping company are all continuing to make profits. Lin Ze occasionally goes back to accompany his girlfriend's family, but there are no other major moves.

On the World No. 2 side, the textile industry that Lin Ze cooperated with Ji Kan on, the railway industry that he cooperated with Ji Qingyan on, and the fertilizer plant are all operating steadily. In addition, the restaurant industry that he cooperated with the Longevity Palace on has also begun to operate on a large scale.

Lin Ze has indeed done a lot of noteworthy things here.

The first is to use the Copper Coins produced in World No. 1 to acquire gold and Silver in World No. 2. Before, it was just a small-scale affair, and he could only collect about two thousand taels of gold per day.

But now Lin Ze is directly cooperating with the Great Zhou Dynasty, the largest official force in World No. 2, and the Longevity Palace, the largest secret organization in the dark, which has increased the gold and Silver that can be collected to the limit.

Basically, how many Copper Coins he produces in the Main World can be exchanged for an equal amount of gold and Silver.

Since April, in order to seize more benefits, Lin Ze directly expanded the production capacity of the Copper Coins Factory tenfold. Anyway, there is a lot of electricity available near Yulin City, where large-scale infrastructure construction is underway.

In addition, the cooperation with the Longevity Palace to produce Fierce Strength Pill, which was agreed upon before, is now on the right track. Lin Ze used the aphrodisiac and kidney-tonifying drugs from World No. 2 to establish a pharmaceutical company in World No. 1.

Currently, this drug is applying for a patent in the Main World, undergoing clinical trials, and stockpiling on a large scale.

Once it is launched on the market, it can make a lot of money.

In summary, Lin Ze's current monthly income has reached an extremely exaggerated level.

World No. 2, the newly built Fufeng Princess Manor in Fufeng County.

Lin Ze pressed Ji Qingyan's head, who was receiving Spare the rod, spoil the child, signaling her to be serious and absorb the essence honestly, otherwise she would not be able to achieve full progress in her personal abilities.

In his mind, he began to summarize the data of his industries.

"In six months, Delicious Forest Group has an average monthly income of 1.5 billion net profit after deducting costs, taxes, and dividends, which is 9 billion in income. The foreign trade group has an average monthly income of 8 billion net profit after deducting various taxes and costs from the vest company and the main company, which is 48 billion."

"The shipping company is still in the expansion stage and has not yet made a profit. Next is the Gold Mine in the Golden Continent, which has earned 2 billion in half a year after deducting costs."

"Next is the Other World. The fertilizer plant earns about 3 million taels per month, and 18 million taels in six months. Then there is the recently expanded fertilizer production capacity, which has cost a lot of money, but the expanded production capacity basically covers the costs, but has not yet generated revenue."

"The Coal Factory has generated a profit of about 2 million taels of Silver. The textile industry has earned 4 million taels of Silver, which Ji Kan has already paid in full."

"Then there is Qing Yan's side, which is still in the investment recovery period and has not made much money yet, so it can be temporarily ignored. Then there are the Longevity Palace's restaurants and Fierce Strength Pill, which can also be temporarily ignored."

"Finally, there is the big source of money, the gold and Silver trade. In the past six months, 60 billion Copper Coins have been borrowed or given away, but my Copper Coins Factory has produced a total of 150 billion coins, and all 90 billion of these coins have been exchanged for gold in World No. 2."

"This is nine million taels of gold, and adding the silver I earned before, which has also been converted into gold, the total is 2.4 million taels of gold, which means I've earned a total of 11.4 million taels of gold in half a year."

"At the current gold price, this gold is worth a total of 256.5 billion."

"Adding the 50 billion earned in the Main World and my original net worth of 112.5 billion, my total wealth, not counting fixed assets and assets in World No. 03, is already 419 billion."

"This is truly terrifying."

Lin Ze clicked his tongue as he calculated.

This speed of making money is too fast, even faster than sending out a large army to rob.

"What are you thinking about?"

Ji Qingyan lay in Lin Ze's arms, looking at Lin Ze, who had entered a sage-like state of contemplation, and asked.

"Thinking about how to spend money."

Lin Ze answered truthfully.

More than 400 billion in assets is a huge number, but this money is meaningless if held in hand.

So next, Lin Ze plans to spend this money, buying various raw materials needed for industrial production in the Main World, and recruiting labor in World No. 2 to help him build World No. 03, which serves as his base of operations, faster and better.

In addition to scattering all the money in his hands to exchange for tangible resources, Lin Ze also wants to collect and use the gold collected by the previous human society in World No. 03, and scatter it all to exchange for tangible resources to send back to World No. 03.

Then, he will convert these resources into tangible Combat Power that he can use in World No. 03.

The original plan required more than three years to rebuild the industrial system, but with these raw materials obtained from World No. 1 and the labor force obtained from World No. 2, unnecessary productivity expenditures for collection and smelting by intelligent industries can be saved, which can indirectly accelerate the development of intelligent industries.

Perhaps, the time it takes for Lin Ze to obtain a complete industrial system can be directly compressed to within a year or two.