Chapter 16 Adults don’t go to work, students don’t go to school, and the whole country is burning paper!

outside world.

Driven by various departments, the production lines for printing ghost money have increased exponentially.

Every factory, every place, and every person took action for this matter.

Everyone has an orderly division of labor and performs their duties.

According to the data statistics of President Lin.

After just a few days, the number of production lines across the country had reached more than 300,000.

And this number is still growing wildly.

Because the latest production line does not require too much manpower, more people are freed up to move into new positions.

But even so, there are still many factories that are offering high salaries and recruiting people crazily.

An industrial area in Jiangnan.

In the director's office of a factory, the secretary is reporting the latest progress.

"Boss, we have produced a lot of ghost money, but no one comes to burn it."

"How about we raise the price a little bit?"

The factory director has been extremely busy during this period.

If so, he only needed to stay in his office, enjoy the air conditioning, eat snacks, and deal with some important matters from time to time.

But during this period of time, he worked on the front line.

Of course, it is not produced on the production line.

Instead, they are responsible for burning paper money.

At this time, his face was covered with dust and his body was covered with sweat.

There was soot all over his body and hair.

He was sitting on the sofa, drinking water, with a fan blowing hard towards him.

Listening to the secretary's report, the factory director did not respond immediately. Instead, he leaned his hands on the table and breathed heavily.

After a long while, the factory director finally raised his eyes and looked at the secretary.

"Then raise the salary a little bit."

"If one times is not enough, we will double it. If two times is not enough, we will triple it."

“There’s a shortage of people all over the country right now.”

"This is the only way!"

"And you, don't wear this outfit anymore, go change and come with me."

"Yes." The secretary nodded quickly.

The secretary once again increased the salary listed in the recruitment information several times.

Then he followed the factory director without stopping and came to a wasteland outside the factory.

As soon as you get here, you can feel waves of heat coming towards you.

The light was distorted by the burning flames.

The smoke filled the sky, carried away into the distance by the rising hot air.

At this time, there were still quite a few people here, throwing paper money into the fire frantically.

This is the place designated for burning paper money in this area.

Because the amount of paper money that needs to be burned now is really too huge.

If fire prevention measures are not taken, it is likely to cause some disasters.

But even if you have found a place that is open enough.

But the ashes left over from previous burnings are still piled up like mountains.

There are even extra-large trucks to transport the ashes to other places.

Here, every worker who was burning ash had his face burned red, but they never stopped for a moment.

At this time, except for the printing of ghost money, other industrial chains in the country were forcibly stopped.

At first, many unemployed people were dissatisfied with this, but when they saw the recruitment information that offered several times the usual salary, they put their dissatisfaction behind them and devoted themselves to the cause of burning paper money.

The workers who originally worked in the printing industry never imagined that their profession would one day become so popular.

There are actually factories that offer several times or even dozens of times the salary to hire them.

This incident not only affected the society, but also the school.

The students who were still attending classes cheered when they learned that they no longer had to attend classes.

"Great, great."

"Finally, I don't have to go to class anymore."

"If I don't have to go to class, does that mean I don't have to do homework?"

"Great, I haven't wanted to go to class for a long time. Long live no class."

However, they did not feel happy for long as their class teacher informed them of another piece of news.

"Don't be too happy too soon. Although you are not allowed to attend classes now, there are still other things for you to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, a student below immediately responded.

"It doesn't matter. As long as I'm not in class, I can do anything."

"Of course, if it's about defending our country, that would be even better."

After hearing this, the head teacher was speechless and didn't know what to say to this student.

You might say he is a good student, but when he heard that he didn't have to attend classes, he got extremely excited.

Even though he is a bad student, he knows how to defend his country.

“It’s actually very simple.”

“I believe you have seen it on the Internet.”

"Currently, all factories and various commercial activities across the country have been stopped."

"What you are asked to do now is to burn paper money for a person named Zhang Yuan."

As soon as the teacher finished speaking, the boys sitting in the last row immediately stood up.

"I know about this."

"My parents originally worked in a factory."

"But all the assembly lines in their factory have been changed to print paper money. My parents' wages have increased several times during this period."

“I didn’t expect that I would be a part of this, it’s great.”

A female student suddenly frowned and asked, "But why should we burn it for him?"

"Is he a great hero of our country? Is this to commemorate him?"

At this moment, the teacher who used to be able to answer any questions she asked, now frowned even more tightly than she did.

"I can't answer this question for you."

“I can only tell you that the whole country is doing the same thing now.”

"That means this matter is very important and we must take it seriously, understand?"

After he finished speaking, the students below answered in unison.

"understand!"

Soon after, teachers and students across the country also joined in the activity of burning paper money for the dead.

For a time, raging fires could be seen everywhere across the country.

As long as you look up, you can see black smoke rising into the sky in the distance.

According to the environmental department, the air quality has dropped significantly during this period, while the average temperature has risen by several degrees.

If it were in the past, it would definitely attract widespread attention.

But no one is paying attention to this now, and Lin Zhenguo doesn’t have the time to care about whether doing so will affect the environment.

After all, if we don’t work hard now, when terror comes, it will not only be an environmental problem, but a problem of national destruction.

And Zhang Yuan took advantage of the exchange to get tired.

I opened my phone and saw the video posted on the Internet.

This was taken from a high altitude drone.

In the video, everywhere you look, you can see flames shooting up into the sky and thick smoke rising.

And the people busy burning paper money.

Zhang Yuan was overwhelmed with emotion as he watched.

“The power of the people across the country united is truly astounding!”

In his eyes, these flames were more than just flames.

But it is the light of hope in fighting against the terrifying creatures three months later.

(End of this chapter)