Chapter 284: The King's Kingdom

Residents of Goryeo, who have never had a car before, have the best mindset to welcome the world's first driverless bus, and it is not easy to train drivers on the Korean Peninsula, but it is much easier to recruit a conductor. Most North Koreans still think that cars are not driven by people.

The Korean Peninsula is so backward that it is still using the silver two system, which has been abolished by the Qing Dynasty and Japan. Governor Lin discussed with Morgan, a financial assistant at Downing, and learned that the payment bracelet industry of the Bank of Zurich was mature enough to support the electronic payment reform of the entire country of Goryeo, that is, to issue a payment bracelet to every citizen.

As a result, Governor Lin decided to establish the world's first magical country to enter electronic payment beyond banknotes on the impoverished and backward Korean Peninsula. It is also the first time that the Bank of Zurich has used liquid crystal display technology on the bracelet, allowing users to see the balance.

In order to allow the power of the bracelet to be generated by itself without relying on hydrogen fuel, the energy design of this bracelet is very special, it is wind-wound, and the wind-up can make the bracelet LCD screen display 100 times, 10 seconds each time. This is a design for the poor, if there is a "smart desktop" at home, it will be easy to do, you can throw the bracelet on the desktop, it will automatically charge, each charge can make the LCD screen display 1000 times.

Most North Koreans don't even know Arabic numerals, so each person is given a bilingual instruction manual in Chinese and Korean that tells them what the numbers mean. It's interesting to popularize electronic payments in such a siloed and backward place.

There is no doubt that the transportation sector is the pioneer of electronic payments, so much so that North Koreans believe that cars must be driven in this way. Speaking of the buses on the "King's Highway", it is really powerful, it is actually operating 24 hours a day.

Of course, at night, even the conductor is gone, only customers with bracelets to pay can get on the bus, if there are extra customers on the bus, there is a program to determine the number of people with sound wave scanning in the car, if there are passengers who want to rub the car, the smart bus will not move, and will use the horn to remind passengers who do not have electronic payment to get off the bus. All customers with wristbands are volunteer attendants on the unmanned night bus.

In addition to the king's highway in the city, the most important thing is to connect the major cities, these long-distance buses and the city bus system is exactly the same, want to get on and down, if a line for some reason suddenly full, spare buses immediately do not delay for a second to open.

In order to avoid this situation, all bus stop signs have a button to call the bus with a bracelet, and the bus arrival time will be displayed on the stop board. Buses on these routes stop running at night, but at any given moment, whenever a passenger is called, the bus system will turn on for you, and that's the magic of driverless.

The most ironic thing is that the Korean people take all this for granted.

Korea is responsible for the issuance of electronic money by the newly established "Central Bank of Korea", but it contracted the business to the Bank of Zurich and signed a ten-year contract, so the "Korea Branch" of the Bank of Zurich is actually the Central Bank of Korea.

In a similar way, Korea also contracted out other core state-level departments. The Korea State Power Company was contracted to his own family, Faraday Power Company. Since the drinking water produced by the integrated hydropower plant is currently the most cost-effective water resource, Faraday Power also undertakes the construction and management of water resources.

What's more interesting is that in the practice of major cities, it is found that the integrated water and electricity equipment is still the best fire-fighting tool, the airship used for high-altitude water has a steady stream of water, and a little transformation is the best water spray gun, plus it moves in the air, and can rush to the fire scene at the first time, so the clear-eyed municipal planners like to plan at least one large-scale hydropower integrated equipment for their own city as the core of the fire-fighting equipment. It can be said that Faraday Power also contracted the work of the fire department.

If that's not enough, ...... The construction of the network is also related to the power grid, because the last mile of the Internet is now connected to the power grid, which is equivalent to the integration of water, electricity and the network. Korea was also the first country to have no telecommunications company, because the telegraph and telephone were already integrated, and only IBM needed to save it.

The North Korean people are too poor to afford it? It doesn't matter, you can go to the "Computer Mansion" to make calls and send telegrams, which is also Governor Lin's private property! Of course, it is necessary to introduce Master Tang's industry "convenience store OL", and the communication industry in the poor country of Goryeo will be even more perfect.

The contractor of the Korea National Post Company is Wind Bird Express, which is ideally suited to build a nationwide efficient postal network thanks to the development of the Smart Door Number System and Wind Bird Messenger Bikes.

The Governor's Office of Goryeo has a unique ministry-level unit, the "Ministry of Food", which is not the manager of the primary industry like the Ministry of Agriculture in other countries, and the Ministry of Food is a social security department that specializes in solving the problem of eating for the people, and provides free food for the extremely poor.

The contractor for the food department is Linfield's Suiyuan Hotel, who will build a large-scale mechanically automated "central kitchen" in the center of the city, using leftovers and leftovers from the restaurant's normal business hours to make low-cost dishes. Note that Suiyuan Hotel is a high-end hotel, and its leftover leftovers are also good, and they are not difficult to swallow.

In order to reduce costs as much as possible, free cooking requires at least one day of reservation time so that the central kitchen can prepare kimchi bento calmly. In fact, with sour and spicy kimchi, no matter how unpalatable the meal is, it will become "good".

Water, electricity, internet, public transportation, long-distance passenger transport, and postal services are all completed by electronic payment, and there are quite few residents who are free from electronic payment, so the Ministry of Food can easily obtain information about whether the customer is a low-income person from a large number of jù, and there is no mistake. The moment Governor Lim laid out the working methods of the Ministry of Food, we said goodbye to the "famine" forever. It's a historic moment, you know?

Electronic payment has been elevated to such a strategic position by the Governor General that IBM has made a near-field communication module specifically for Korea, that is, it can be paid with a bracelet. Since electronic payments always need to be connected to the Internet, will it cause a nationwide payment disruption when the network is disconnected?

In order to solve this problem, IBM's plan is highly disaster-tolerant, and the computer responsible for recharging the bracelet has an electronic serial number, and they all have radio communication functions, even if the cable and optical cable fail, you can also use radio communication, but it is slower. If radio is not available, customers can at least use their electronic payment in the town or city where the charge is made, because the computers in the city store their electronic serial numbers.

The only possible payment failure will occur when you are in a foreign country and the network is completely disconnected from the foreign country, and there is no radio. These are things that the North Korean people will not know, and they will know how to use them anyway.

Since the Windsor Consortium and the Kobayashi Consortium control almost all of the most important infrastructure, Kobayashi intends to implement the world's first full tax exemption scheme for citizens in Goryeo. The state is financed by companies in which the government invests public resources in private consortia.

For example, the King Highway and Bus Company, where the government takes 25% of the shares in free land; National Post, 10% of which is owned by the government; State Power, 5% of which is owned by the government; IBM Korea Branch, the government invested 10% in supporting network construction; The government has a 5% stake in the computer office, so that it has the spare capacity to give every Korean citizen a quota of one three-minute toll-free call per day.

The computer hall will even take on the responsibility of the national primary school students' graduation examination, and the "Internet café" is no longer a place for special playthings. Tsinghua University was the first university in the world to be fully computerized, and Governor Lin's radical strategy was to start with computers, and the exams for primary schools were conducted in Internet cafes. As for the usual learning, all primary schools have computer courses, and if you can't afford to buy your own school, you can go to the local computer mansion to charter classes, and Boss Lin has a discount.

The dolls are amazing, they may learn to use faster than they learn to write, because there is interaction, because it is fun, for the dolls, fun is a qiē motivation.

Blatantly tax-free is very boring, and I am afraid that there will be variables in the future, so I can't publicize "we are a tax-free country" in a big way, and the face is a disguised tax-free. For example, for merchants, they were originally subject to tax, but if you buy IBM's electronic payment system, you can be tax-free for three years. (http://)。

The Governor also wants to try to see what will happen to this country after three years of tax exemption, and if it doesn't work, he will collect taxes after three years. In the same way, citizens who identify with the new country and apply for an identity card from the Governor's Office are exempt from agricultural taxes for three years. With a new ID card, it is logical to apply for a payment bracelet again.

With the three-year tax exemption, there is no need to fight at all, all the residents will enthusiastically integrate into the new country, and those old diehards who miss the old feudal era can't stop them.

Governor Lim defended himself by saying, "Our king is the protector of the interests of every citizen of Goryeo, and it is his duty to establish a fair trade system, and everything is based on freedom and voluntariness. Therefore, the king is not an old-fashioned king, so don't worry about it, Lord Lee. ”

Even British politicians and economists have called the freak of Goryeo "corporate monopoly capitalism." Fortunately, they think that the Korean Peninsula is relatively small, and if the United States is turned into such a country, it will cause an international uproar.