486: Chapter 486 Chamber of Commerce Reorganization Plan

"That's right! Let's go back and have a good talk with them!" Suo Tonghua echoed.

Afterward, a 1-on-17 debate lasted for more than ten hours, and finally, everyone was tired, and the matter was basically clarified.

"Then let's do this. The business of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce will be directly managed by the Council, with various departments collaborating. In view of Councilor Jiao's special contribution to the nationalization of the Chamber of Commerce, he will be given the position of Honorary Vice President," Baili Ji concluded.

This great debate over the management rights of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce ended with co-management. Jiao Zizhuo racked his brains for a long time, only to end up with an empty title of Honorary Vice President.

After the matter was settled, the meeting continued for another day, with the topic being the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce.

The meeting unanimously passed the following resolutions:

1. Announced that the Huatong Chamber of Commerce officially became an enterprise directly under the Council.

2. Announced the unbundling of the Mercenary Guild's business. Based on the original personnel, local Security Departments, Legal Departments, Supervisory Departments, Security Departments, etc., would be established, each under the jurisdiction of its corresponding General Department. The profitable businesses within the Guild would be transferred to the Huatong Chamber of Commerce, and a new institution, Huatong Military Industry, would be established.

Huatong Military Industry, due to its involvement in the sale and leasing of weapons and equipment, would be transferred to the Military Political Department for management.

3. Announced that all Settlements would continue to implement regional autonomy.

4. All outstanding debts of the original Settlements would continue to be repaid.

5. Since the underground bases established by each Settlement already possessed food production capacity, the state would suspend the distribution of relief food.

6. The Finance Department would lead the establishment of a new department: Huatong Bank, which would begin issuing official currency based on the Chamber of Commerce points of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce.

This was something that private organizations could never achieve.

7. The Land Administration Department would lead the establishment of two new departments: Huatong Communications and Huatong Transportation.

Among them, Huatong Communications, based on the communication technology provided by the Mercenary Guild, would achieve network and mobile communication. Oriental Chen had also wanted to do this at the time, but various Settlements resisted to varying degrees, preventing its full implementation.

Huatong Transportation would continue to carry out logistics and transportation business, relying on the air transport logistics network established by the Huatong Chamber of Commerce.

8. The Agriculture Department would lead the establishment of a new department: Huatong Agriculture, which would fully manage the agricultural production warehouses and food processing production warehouses in various underground bases.

Through this method of refinement and unbundling, basically every department got a piece of the pie.

This is the difference between official and private operations; without nationalizing the Chamber of Commerce, it would have been impossible to reach this point.

As soon as the announcement was released, some rejoiced and some worried.

Especially the grassroots employees of the Chamber of Commerce and the mercenaries of the Mercenary Guild, they were the happiest.

Because from this moment on, they would transform into national civil servants.

Why didn't the Council activate the original public servants?

That was because after the outbreak of the virus, especially after the establishment of the Settlements, in order to achieve efficient office work, various departments were streamlined and merged. Therefore, the staff in the temporary Command HQ of the Settlement now were the original civil servants from various positions.

And in order to ensure the stability of the Chamber of Commerce and Mercenary Guild's operations as much as possible, the Council tried to avoid major personnel adjustments.

The most worried were the actual Person in charge of the various underground bases.

After the Chamber of Commerce was nationalized, the Council had effectively seized their lifelines. In the future, if they wanted to be local emperors, they would likely have many reservations.

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The Australian continent has now become a world of animals.

There are no living people on the entire continent; various types of animals and mutated animals have formed a vast and complex ecosystem.

The temperature here is still around 20 degrees Celsius, which is the golden season for reproduction.

Yulara, in the arid central region of Australia.

A war between animals is underway.

Tens of thousands of kangaroos are galloping across the vast Gobi Desert.

They run towards the northwest for a while, then collectively turn around and head northeast.

Are they avoiding something?

As the "aborigines" of the Australian continent, they originally had no natural predators.

But now the situation is different; an invasive species is slaughtering them en masse.

This invasive species is the miniature controllable Ants that Oriental Chen released.

They have now reproduced into a very large colony, spreading throughout the entire Australian continent.

Logically, Antss cannot catch up with kangaroos, let alone hunt them.

And that is indeed the case.

In the beginning, Antss could only survive by relying on other animals for food.

What kind of animals would provide them with food?

It was another creature released by Oriental Chen: controllable rats.

Controllable rats and controllable Antss formed a symbiotic relationship; the food dropped from the rats' mouths was enough for the Antss to feast on for several meals.

Under the promotion of this symbiotic relationship, the scale of the Antss began to increase rapidly.

In contrast, the reproduction rate of rats was much slower.

When the number of Antss increased to a certain extent, they could no longer rely entirely on rats for food.

Afterward, the symbiotic relationship reversed at this time, and the huge Ants colonies began to hunt. They relied on the power of the group to hunt large animals, thereby providing food for the rats.

Under natural conditions, Antss would certainly not do this. But these are controllable Antss, so the situation is different.