[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-675":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},1887454,2510,"Chapter 675: Bandits and Health of Economy","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-675",675,"\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, you okay? You looked a little tired today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan curiously asked as Xiaoyun came back from the garage doors, sitting down on the sofa before falling flat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m fine. Just didn’t sleep that well yesterday... Would you mind waking me up when it’s dinner time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure... Come on, let’s not bother your daddy taking a nap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Leyan gathered the kids away from the living room, Xiaoyun finally couldn’t resist the drowsiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a noise woke him up again, two hours had already gone by, and the sun outside the window had already set on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honey, wakie-wakie, everyone is home already. It’s time to eat dinner now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly sitting back up from the sofa, he could see everyone already seated at the dining table, waiting for him to come over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Geez, Xiaoyun, what did you do to be this sleepy? I had never seen you take afternoon naps like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi curiously asked, with everyone looking towards Xiaoyun with curiosity, except for Tianci, who didn’t dare to look back at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just couldn’t sleep that well last night. I’m fine now though... Leyan, can you give me a pair of chopsticks?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Leyan handed him a bowl of rice and chopsticks, everyone else could finally start eating the food on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We didn’t bother with your sleep, though. How could you have had a bad rest yesterday? You look fine in the morning, too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nami’s comment exposed right through Xiaoyun’s reasoning, but he wasn’t about to confess what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just got tired in the afternoon to the point that I felt like I needed a little nap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing wrong with him napping. Anyway, Anna, Kate, I thought you two were going to be late. How come you guys came home so early?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan asked, turning everyone’s attention over to the two of them, who had been mostly silent the whole time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t even want to talk about it... You wouldn’t believe what we encountered on the way to Qingyuan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Anna’s face getting a little angry, everyone’s attention was turned towards the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did you two encounter?\" Yueyue curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bandits. Road bandits. Ten bandits armed with muskets. Those flint-lock muskets straight out of a museum.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kate answered this time as she didn’t look angry at all. Rather, she looked a little amused as she said it out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Musket? Who in their right mind thinks they can be road-side bandits with muskets? Robbing a gun manufacturer of all things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli questions in disbelief, with everyone holding the urge to laugh as the story just sounded way too ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s what I thought too when they tried to pull us over. When I first saw their guns, I thought it was just a joke...\" Kate answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until they told us to step out and hand over the car,\" Anna murmured, her face still looking a little grumpy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did you guys do after?\" Lily curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We didn’t even need to do anything. One of our employees pulled out a gun, and they ran away like flies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s good,\" Leyan murmured, looking a little relieved as no blood was spilled in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait a moment, how did they even get their musket? And did you guys not call the police?\" Yuqi questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was in the middle of the highway, and the reception was not the greatest there. And they just flee into the woods.\" Kate explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not going to be safe... Let me call Li Zhen. This can’t be allowed to happen under my settlements.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yuqi quickly got up from the dining table and walked away to make a phone call, Shuli turned her attention over to Xiaoyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seems like the deputy governor cares more about security than the governor himself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, I was about to call if it wasn’t for Yuqi taking the opportunity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kate, where was the road located exactly?\" Yuqi asked out loud as she yelled across the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Between Qingyuan and Foshan, near the Qingcheng District.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eating for a few minutes, Yuqi finally came back to the dining table as she put her phone back into her pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, Li Zhen told me he had put it down for investigation... Anna, what’s wrong? Why do you look so unhappy still?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know. I just feel unhappy today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her not wanting to elaborate further, no one pressured her to speak up again as everyone’s attention soon shifted back to the food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As nighttime approached, everyone had already taken a shower as they sat right before the TV, which was displaying today’s news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was called ’news,’ it almost felt like they were watching a job search, as a third of the news segment was just employers advertising their company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only interesting thing they found was near the end of the news segment, as the news anchor began to talk about financial news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today, we invited a financial expert to join us. The head of the central bank, Mr.Liu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Liuqian stepped into the camera, both Xiaoyun and Yuqi were a little surprised as they never expected to see him on the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nice to meet you, Mr.Wu,\" Liuqian murmured as the two of them shook hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nice to meet you too. Mr.Liu, let’s get right to our first topic. I’m sure you have seen that the stock market has reached a new high recently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the biggest driving factors is the newly created Qingyuan Steel and Qingyuan Mineral, both breaking 10 million market caps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone in front of the TV is dying to know, is it still safe for them to invest their money in the stock market right now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Investing always has risks and rewards. To be clear, I’m not a financial advisor. I can’t tell you if you’ll make a return on your investment or not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liuqian paused for a second, then continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I can tell you this, Mr.Wu, your bank account and everyone’s bank account are secure, regardless of how the stock market performs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just like the stock market before the outbreak. There’s always going to be winners and losers, so invest with that in mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is definitely true. Investment always has risks... Now, Mr.Liu, have you heard of the Governor’s interview from yesterday?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One thing the governor had promised was to lower inflation. Can I ask what exactly the policy will be in tackling inflation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As the governor had mentioned before, we have heavily subsidized our manufacturing sector across all of our settlements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Be it in QIngyuan or in Foshan or in Guangzhou. Every city has this problem implemented to help incentivize job creation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, it will lower the inputs cost for many of these companies so they can set their goods at a lower price in the market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But consumers had mostly reported that the price of goods continued to go up while their wages had remained stagnant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liuqian fell into silence for a second, but he quickly spoke up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As most of you know, the economy has recently been reforming towards a market competition rather than a restricted planned economy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prices of goods, I would say, are fluctuating, not inflating.. Here, as a better example, the price of a shirt at the end of June was reported to be 10 NRC on average.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now in August, it costs 8 NRC... Next week, we might see the shirt cost 12 NRC. This fluctuation of prices should be more stabilized as stores buy more inventory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So in simpler terms, it’s just temporary price hikes?\" The news anchor curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You could think it like that. Over time, though, the overall price of goods should drop as more factories find more efficient ways with better technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a certain point, the subsidy the government is currently offering wouldn’t be needed when these new startup companies reach a more stable situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With less money in the market chasing more goods, then the price of goods will begin to drop drastically back to its normal average cost.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see... Let’s move on to the next topic, economic prosperity. Mr.Liu, have you seen the labor report the government released for last month?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I did.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For those who haven’t seen it, the labor statistic has shown an unemployment drop to historical lows of under 15% across all cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Mr.Liu, how was this achieved? How likely is this trend of lowering unemployment going to continue?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, Mr.Wu, as we mentioned earlier, the subsidy has helped many companies in hiring more workers, especially in the manufacturing sector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, we had expanded the hiring for both agricultural sectors and construction, with the aforementioned mining and steel making.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It alone has the potential to cut our unemployment even further to the goal of 7%... And we have no plans to cut the subsidy any time soon either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for answering the question... Now, one last question, one of our own economists had raised concerns about the harm of subsidies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1516,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","81438ce598239476e35094c112da15a23fe51298c978dc457abd408e3a5296cf","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-823","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-630",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]