The next day, September 12th.
Monday.
The first day of formal classes.
Tang Qing left an hour early this time, barely avoiding being late.
After dropping off Lin Jiaxue at her classroom, Tang Qing turned to go to his own classroom. College life was truly starting from today, but it was different from his past life. This time, it could be called campus life.
In his past life.
That was surviving on campus, and quite a tangled survival at that. After experiencing such a tragic incident, losing loved ones and a love interest, he spent his days in a daze. Had it not been for Wang Yan occasionally nagging and encouraging him, his personality would have certainly developed into one of introversion.
He quickly arrived at the classroom.
The first lesson was financial English.
By the time Tang Qing arrived at the classroom, the teacher and his classmates were basically all there. There were still two minutes before class started. As expected, there were no seats at the back of the class, so Tang Qing had no choice but to sit in the front row.
He had originally asked Zhong Liang to save him a seat, preferably at the back. That was a habit formed in his past life, or rather, an instinct for most college students. But looking at the girl next to Zhong Liang, Tang Qing understood and shook his head.
This friend who prioritized girls over friendship.
Zhong Liang could only give Tang Qing an apologetic expression. When the girls in the class crowded around, sweetly asking if they could sit next to him, Zhong Liang couldn’t drive them away. Most importantly, the girl was a beauty, which was the key point.
Sitting in the front row.
Tang Qing took out his book and began flipping through the pages.
Preview?
No chance of that. As soon as the book was opened, it was time to get down to business.
"Ding, ding, ding..." The bell rang.
Class started.
Introduction.
Roll call.
Very traditional, but still warm. Student life, although a bit boring, was not dull for those who weren’t airheads. Sitting there doing nothing, you wouldn’t feel bored, as there were always countless things on your mind.
The teacher lectured at the front of the room while Tang Qing read his book beneath. During the first class, Tang Qing couldn’t just disregard the teacher. Every once in a while, he would raise his head, nod a few times, showing that he was indeed present.
Quickly.
Tang Qing finished reading the book.
Resting his chin on his hand.
His mind began to wander, thinking about the major projects in his territories: training new recruits, building infrastructure, conducting population census, confiscating foreign currency, maintaining order, developing the economy, improving people’s livelihoods...
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Myanmar.
In the territory.
After an afternoon and a night of adaptation, the people of the territory had already accepted this reality. They worked calmly and steadily. Some were even worried. If so many people were incorporated into the territory’s management, would there be a reduction in job opportunities?
This was a practical concern.
Consequently, many people worked even harder in silence.
However.
They were overthinking.
The new territories were very weak in all aspects. They had virtually nothing. Once more and more factories were established and the service industry began to rise, they would need a lot of people. It was still a question of whether the current population would be enough.
The industrial layout planned by Tang Qing was not small by any means. Having a population of two million was not really much. They might even need to introduce a large number of outsiders.
With the development of technology,
Human needs are constantly evolving from simply requiring manual labor to needing intellectual labor. Many jobs have been replaced by machines. This is the trend of the times.
Therefore, one of the main tasks of the territory in the future is to transform labor. Literacy promotion is the next important task. Different wage levels will be set according to different literacy rates. Within a certain age range, if you have no knowledge, your wages won’t increase.
This is a long-term task. Even if some people are not satisfied initially, they must persist.
Knowledge is always the most cost-effective investment.
Tang Qing aims to turn his territory into a modern, technology-oriented product, moving at the forefront of the times.
Instead of creating sweatshops, those low-tech, labor-intensive enterprises, Tang Qing plans to outsource them in the future. For example, he could outsource them to Huaxia, letting the domestic scenario earn some money.
Now, the territory borders Huaxia.
In the future, there will surely be more economic exchanges.
Previously, there was a distance with Huaxia and Ling being a small minion of Myanmar, but in the future, a lot of interaction with the territory will involve state-level powers. Huaxia is the fastest-growing market, so cooperation will indeed become the main theme.
With the "fence sitters’" areas being taken over.
Following the previous plan.
All aboveground and underground immovable property is pooled under the Myanmar Bank Group for management and development.
In the future.
Even if administrative structures are born in the territory.
They would be coordinating institutions and would not have ownership or decision-making powers over the property. Tang Qing wants to walk a path no one has walked before. Some people rely on military means, some on politics, and he wants to build a power in Myanmar entirely relying on banking.
This is a bold attempt.
Failure isn’t a big deal, given his vast family business.
But if it succeeds.
It could create a giant power group where a company is a country, a real currency trust alliance. The road may be arduous, but Tang Qing would try his best. Whether he succeeds or not, he can’t lose either way.
Tang Qing is somewhat genuinely grateful for the creator of the banking system. It’s like sending a pillow when one is sleepy, providing so many auxiliary functions.
If it were merely a banking institution for loans.
You can imagine.
His life would be much more mundane.
Loans, debt collection, wealth management, deposits, discounting, bill business, and having to constantly monitor exchange rates of various countries, USD, Euro, reserve ratio, whether the Federal Reserve is going to loosen monetary policy again.
Such a life would be dull indeed.
Now he has the Asia Dollar.
He can become a person who influences the situation, a player, not a pawn.
There is a good saying: All below the central bank are pawns.
In other words.
Banks that cannot control the issuance of money can never escape the fate of being a pawn. It’s determined by their innate conditions.
Just as the Federal Reserve holds the purse strings of the world, a single monetary policy makes every major stock market, exchange rate, futures, bonds, bulk commodities, oil, bank interest rate need to tread carefully.
If the bank is a pawn.
Then those who play the game of speculating on exchange rates, stocks, futures, etc., are gamblers. Winning or losing all depends on the actions of the player, guessing his moves, because one decision could lead to a complete loss for the gambler.
Now he has the Asia Dollar.
With the resources of the territory as the foundation, soldiers as guarantees, and technology to knock on the door to the top of the world, a banker like that has the qualification to be a player.
After yesterday’s selection and registration.
The number of people participating in the new soldier training has been counted.
A total of 32,561 people. These people will undergo three months of new soldier training. Eliminating illiteracy and instilling discipline are the two main tasks. Even combat skills are secondary, as they won’t be used in the short term.
To learn combat skills, it’s not too late to study after being assigned.
In the end.
Tang Qing will only keep between twenty-three and twenty-five thousand soldiers. The rest will be assigned to the security forces. With such a large territory and so many inhabitants, there are many trivial matters to deal with.
The rest will be screened again. Even including Su Yu’s group, the number of regular soldiers in the territory must be kept to a maximum of fifty thousand.
Having more.
Is just a waste.
Because in future plans, these people are merely to defend the territory and won’t have any external combat missions.
Even if there are.
It will be up to the warriors.
These ordinary people are not suitable for participation, because even with training, they aren’t as cooperative as the warriors.
It’s better to put them into production and construction. As for Myanmar? It’s not even considered an opponent anymore, but merely... prey. They have no idea what’s going to happen next.
PS: Transition Chapter, casual chat. Thank you, reader ’Saint of Suffering’, for the reward.