Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Chapter 468: May Reports (3)

As Xiaoyun arrived back into the office, a young woman was already sitting down in his seat.

She quickly stood back up and left the office as Xiaoyun turned his attention over to Yuqi.

"Got it done. You read all the documents already?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he sat back down in his seat.

"Not yet. Just on the fourth one."

As Xiaoyun resumed reading the agricultural report, he was a little surprised by step three.

It was advocating for a full nationalization of the agricultural industry, removing the whole private run completely.

The proposal was to flat-out turn the entirety of the agricultural industry into a state-owned enterprise.

"Yuqi, what do you think of turning all agricultural land into state-run?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he felt the plan was a little too drastic.

"I don't know anything about it. Do I look like someone who has experience in this field?"

Seeing Yuqi not interested in dealing with this issue, Xiaoyun turned his attention back to the paper.

Inside his mind, he was a little turned between the two options.

On the one hand, collectivizing allows for much greater control and more efficient processes in food production.

Conversely, the risks of stagnation and lower competition could slow down agricultural output, especially with State-owned enterprises.

Based on his history classes, he knew the 'logical' trend was to let natural collectivization take place.

But his 'farmer' class consisted mostly of urban citizens who had barely any experience.

Considering that the people he had rescued in the rural area were either way too old or had turned into zombies, he had no other choice.

The report found that even at private corporation levels, they were still clearly ineffective in pooling and managing their resources.

It was clear his soldiers just wanted to centralize everything so it would be easier for them to help them in a single unified way.

After sitting there for almost ten minutes, Xiaoyun eventually gave the green light for collectivization.

However, he added a single condition, with the biggest one being they had to get the farmers and corporations on board.

With a draft made on the laptop, Xiaoyun turned his attention to the last proposal on the agricultural report.

"Permit wider use of pesticide to boost food production... Rejected."

After reading all four proposals, he put away the agricultural reports before picking up the next one.

Just as expected, it was a massive stack of files next to each other, almost a third of the box alone.

"Oh boy..."

Xiaoyun quickly skimmed through most of the documents, only checking the ones that were important statistics.

The first one was population, with the number of people registered as citizens already two-thirds of the way to 2 million.

According to the prediction, he would reach the 2 million mark by the end of July, no later than August.

It was clear people all over the country were heading towards Guangdong in the hopes of escaping the harsh apocalypse.

"A lot more people... Maybe it's time to start expanding the government more."

The more Xiaoyun thought of the idea, the more tempting it became.

It was especially true considering how overburdened the departments were based on the ratio of citizens to government workers.

1 to 200, with the total number of government workers being 6000 people, was way less than what a normal healthy amount would be.

Of course, this did not include police and state-owned enterprises, which would make up 30% of the population.

If he included the soldiers, it would be a total of 80% employment based solely on the government.

"Yuqi, do you think we should expand the civilian government?"

"I thought you would never suggest that... Is your mind too hungry today or something?"

As Yuqi stood up and looked around Xiaoyun's hair, he quickly pushed her back to her seat.

"I'm serious, okay? If I raised the civilian budget by a third, do you think it would alleviate some of the management issues?"

"What do you think? The fact that office workers in Guangzhou need to leave their office to help the refugees themselves.

You better double it, or else I'm going to riot and protest against you. And I'm serious, too."

With Yuqi punching his chest in protest, Xiaoyun eventually caved into the two-fold budget.

"Finally. Something for the civilian budget instead of pouring into that endless monster."

As Yuqi had already begun to make a draft for the upcoming budget, Xiaoyun turned his attention to the last document in the box.

"The department of labor..."

Taking it out, he could feel the heaviness inside despite the file being smaller than the statistics report.

The first thing he immediately saw was the amount of photos attached to each of the pages inside the file documentation.

All of them were various workers' complaints with real photos to back them up, with a note right below saying resolved.

Hundreds of cases were resolved, ranging from unsafe workplaces with exposed wires to food safety when handling food.

The total amount added to almost a thousand violations resolved, with hundreds more in the way.

Some of them are even part of government jobs, from construction crew to police departments.

He now faced a choice as the labor department only listed the violations and did not take any action on them.

Most of them weren't minor violations, either, ranging from workplace harassment to even assaults from people of power.

Even at the highest department level, there were violations, with the biggest offender being the person next to him.

"Yuqi, how often do you call for overtime?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he put down the paper.

"Like once every few days... What? Why are you looking at me weird?"

"Never mind."

As Xiaoyun picked up the paper again, he chose not to deal with the overworked issue within Yuqi's head department.

He quickly began to type on his laptop, making a draft to enforce and investigate all the violators.

From the basic overtime without pay to the assault, Xiaoyun did not comprise a single bit besides leaving Yuqi's department out.

All he could hope was that the budget raise would be enough or at least compensate those workers.

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After working for three hours for the entire morning, it was finally lunchtime.

The two put down their work as they headed downstairs before going towards the government cafeteria.

"Xiaoyun, what have you been working on for that long?" Yuqi curiously asked as they crossed the street.

"Just responding to the labor department complaints. You finished making that budget?"

"Yeah... You know, this is the first time I actually have enough money to go around rather than being so stingy?"

"If you never ask me, how else am I supposed to know? You know I'm always busy——"

"Yes, yes, busy with the military. Maybe you should actually do your job as the governor."

"Well, you're my secretary."

Yuqi rolled her eyes as she turned around to grab a tray and walked down the aisles, picking several dishes onto her plate.

After the two finished grabbing their food, they headed towards a quiet corner that had no one sitting nearby.

Chapter Your:

"So much more food variety than before," Xiaoyun murmured as he thought back to how little option it had in the past.

"Well, yeah, why do you think so many people are dying for this job? It got the best benefits that no one else can have."

As the two began eating their food, Xiaoyun suddenly noticed Yueyue and Nami sitting across the other side.

The two were seemingly chatting about something, with several office workers sitting alongside them.

"Yuqi, turn around."

As Yuqi turned around, she quickly noticed Yueyue and Nami sitting together as well.

"Why are they having lunch together? Do they even have the same lunch break hour?"

Yuqi murmured as she got a little curious about what the two were chatting in the distance.

"We probably shouldn't disrupt them. Let's just eat and get back to work."

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After lunch, the two headed straight to their office before working on their drafts.

As the sun got lower and lower on the horizon, they were both done with all their administrative work for the day.

Now, all they had to do was double-check for errors before rolling out their decisions to the prospective government department.

"Yuqi, are you sure you want me to sign all the papers? I didn't even write these."

Xiaoyun asked as he agreed with the budget allocation, but he was a little surprised to see her asking him to sign it.

"You signing this will give everyone a boost, thinking you actually care about civilian government.

But if I signed this, they would think I had turned you into a puppet or something. Come on, just sign it."

After a short consideration, Xiaoyun signed the paper with his signature, approving the budget.

"Finally, I could tell the financial department to suck it... Ahem, I'll go print this paper out."

As Yuqi left the office with the paper, Xiaoyun sat back down in his seat to read over his papers.

He was still a little hesitant, not showing the paper to Yuqi yet, as he was afraid she would complain that the enforcement was overreaching.