[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-563":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Zombie Apocalypse: Creation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1887519,2510,"Chapter 563: Tackling Unemployment","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-563",563,"\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun stepped out of Yuqi’s office, his mind was already thinking of solutions to tackle the unemployment problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he does anything, he decides to head over to the Department of Census, which is just a floor below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello, Governor.\" One of the staff waved after noticing him exiting the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello. Do you know by any chance where the unemployment data is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um, I think it’s still being collected. This month’s report is supposed to come out today or tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about last month’s report? Can I have a look at it again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The work didn’t question his request, bringing him over to a nearby cubicle before turning on a computer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a few clicks of a button, an entire report filled with data popped up all at once, before a much simpler one appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a report of employment back in April. Is there anything else I need to do, sir?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing over the simple report, Xiaoyun shook his head before another idea popped up in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, can you teach me how to use this program? I just want to look at the different data myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staff hesitated, remaining silent as if they weren’t sure if they were allowed to until a senior worker happened to walk by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, Governor. What brought you here?\" A middle-aged woman curiously asked as she approached the cubicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just trying to check out some data... You’re the head of Census, right?\" Xiaoyun guessed as he tried to think back to his last meeting with all department heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for remembering me... Little Zhang, make sure you help the Governor with whatever request he makes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, madam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, I have to go meet the deadline for Mrs.Yuqi. We can talk later if you want, Governor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need. Zheng here is enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the middle-aged woman headed back inside her office, Xiaoyun quickly shifted his attention back to the computer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Governor, do you know how to use a computer?\" Zheng asked, inputting some sort of password to bypass some of the locks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course I do. Just help me with this, and you can be on your merry way...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Governor, do you get how to use this fully now?\" Zheng asked as he handed the mouse over to Xiaoyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think so... You can go back to work now. Thank you for your help.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem, Governor... You can ask someone nearby if you find something you don’t understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay. Now I’m all alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Zheng gone, Xiaoyun started exploring the census’s special program interface as several large headings popped up all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on the label, it was ten different general categories from public inventory all the way to specific personal information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of curiosity, he decided to click on the personal information, only to see a bunch of names pop up on the screen in a long list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single basic information he could think of was being collected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the person’s single status to even their dominant hand. They were fully visible right next to the person’s name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I probably shouldn’t look at this...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite saying this to himself, he couldn’t help but put his name into the search list. To no one’s surprise, it popped up right at the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was zero information available. Everything was empty except the name, indicating that the person exists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he clicked on it, a warning screen suddenly popped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Access denied. Please input a higher access key before trying to access it again... Huh, they really kept my information safer than I thought.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his curiosity fulfilled, he quickly closed all the pages before going back to the original interface at the very start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What was I looking for... Right, the unemployment data.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After typing several keywords into the search engine in the center, several raw data points of the unemployment statistics popped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Geez, this is a lot more forward than I had imagined...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to read the raw data sheets, Xiaoyun clicked on the filter and selected only curated files that were already processed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here it is... Now this is the gold mine I was looking for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the first-hand report from the individual cities rather than as a whole, he could instantly notice the drastic differences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guangzhou was suffering from skyrocketing unemployment, with almost 1 in every 4 people being unemployed compared to Foshan’s 1 in 8.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lowest unemployment rate was surprisingly not in Luoping. Rather, it was Qingyuan, with only 1 in 1000 people being unemployed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, Luoping has 1 in 20. A much higher number than Xiaoyun had imagined, as the streets every day didn’t have any beggars or people looking for work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moving onto the next page, he was a little surprised to see a little note that stated a new formula had been specially applied to Luoping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It excluded families and spouses of soldiers, drastically lowering the unemployment rate compared to before, to 1 in 50 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scrolling down, the new formula is applied to other cities as well. Most cities had only very minimal decreases in unemployment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guangzhou changed from 1 in 5 to 1 in 6 people, with Foshan and Qingyuan remaining the same as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did they apply this formula... Does the soldier really earn that much to offset family members needing to work?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going to the third page, he could finally see that the reasoning behind the change matched exactly what he had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldier’s salary was more than a family needed to survive and even live in relative luxury, even for a family of five with an elderly person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, oddly enough, even if the wife or the husband were fully capable of working and didn’t have a kid, they would rather stay home than work for extra money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading all the notes only raised more questions in Xiaoyun’s mind as she couldn’t understand why the new formula was so effective in Luoping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curious, he quickly switched back to the front interface, going all the way to the search engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Spouses and Families of soldiers... Here it is. And just filter out the ones that have a job.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After putting everything in place, a bunch of files that contained raw data popped up, all showing lists of personal information of people close to the soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there not a single one that is curated... Here it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finding a file that was compiled back in April, he was a little surprised to see the topic and legends chart all matching exactly what he was looking for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first chart showed the number of soldiers’ family members living in different cities under their control. Overwhelmingly, around 85% of them live in Luoping, with 15% in Guangzhou and 4% in Foshan, leaving Qingyuan with less than 1%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next chart just so happens to be a survey of a sample of five thousand people, all separated into different categories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all asked a single question: why did they stop working, or choose not to work when given the chance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of them were in the expected answer of simply not wanting to work. They simply had more money than they could spend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other half was the sticky issue, where their education and work experience don’t match the available job market at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From marine biology to anthropology to Literature, he could already imagine them saying they are unwilling to work for low wages or work in a blue-collar setting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second survey, asking soldiers’ families who actually have a job, reinforced his theory, as all of their jobs are either civil engineering or white collar jobs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time to note this down... Wait a moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun created a notebook and pen, he suddenly realized the research he was doing was completely off focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real systemic unemployment wasn’t soldiers’ spouses or their family members. But rather the general population that doesn’t have a soldier’s income to support themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did I look at this? Am I stupid?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After only noting a few things down, he quickly returned to the main interface, looking for surveys conducted that were related to unemployment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of them instantly popped up once again. But the majority of them were either small sample sizes or raw data that had been discarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Digging through all the different filters and picking for later time-frames, Xiaoyun soon finally found the perfect survey he had been looking for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unemployment question between March and April in Guangzhou... What a perfect survey topic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening the survey file, he was a little surprised to see a hyperlink right above ten different citations in the top-right corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Survey conducted at Deputy Governor’s Request... No wonder it perfectly matched with the thing I’m looking for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he clicked on the link, he was instantly brought into a detailed plan, an unemployment strategy made by none other than Yuqi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time to see what she had done so far.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1501,"2026-06-10T06:59:52.732Z",1,"novelbin.me","91bf906367a9147618d742aa9f91bc79574e77b4c45c12b458e4d8146317b141","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-564","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-562",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]