Chapter 1457: Chapter 572 Huge Expenses_2

During the war between Dream Island and The United States of America, facing the immense military pressure from The United States of America, a large number of Dream Island employees chose to resign, eager to disassociate themselves from Dream Island, causing a significant decline in the number of Dream Island employees. However, after the war ended, with Lu Pingping’s efforts, the number of Dream Island employees quickly rebounded.

The employees who left Dream Island at the critical moment were mostly those who had no loyalty to Dream Island. These turncoats left Dream Island, and those who were left behind were all loyal and faithful to Dream Island. They understood the concept of gratitude, and Yan Fei did not mistreat them, significantly improving their welfare and benefits.

To fill the vacancies on Dream Island, a large-scale recruitment of new employees was initiated. During the recruitment of these new employees, all of them underwent Lie Detector testing, which filtered out anyone disloyal or with ulterior motives towards Dream Island from the very beginning, ensuring the purity of the employee team.

Thanks to the high salary and welfare benefits on Dream Island, the missing employees were quickly filled. Compared to the low standards during the first batch of employee recruitment, where some employees were just making up the numbers, the recruitment of this new batch was based on merit, and all were highly talented individuals.

Those former employees who had resigned due to fear of the military threat from The United States of America, realizing that Dream Island was safe and had even defeated The United States of America, were once again interested and wanted to return to work on Dream Island. However, at this point, the gates of Dream Island were closed to them, no matter how much they protested or pleaded; Dream Island could not possibly accept them again.

For a time, the recruitment of employees on Dream Island attracted worldwide attention because the treatment on Dream Island was so good that it drew applicants from all over the world. However, Dream Island only recruited personnel domestically within China and would absolutely not accept individuals of other races to work on Dream Island. Moreover, among these new employees, fanatical religious followers and extremists were strictly prohibited.

Yan Fei’s ultimate goal was to build a team on Dream Island and Dreamland Cave World that maintained the pure bloodline and culture of China, hence the exclusion of those disordered ethnicities and cultural beliefs. Once other races and beliefs entered Dream Island, after many years of development, there would be inevitable disputes over race and beliefs, a scenario Yan Fei did not wish to see.

After making up for the shortfall in employee numbers, to further increase the population on Dream Island, Lu Pingping opened many factories on Dream Island. To ensure these factories could recruit plenty of workers, Lu Pingping even gave up on profit pursuit, suppressing the promotion and use of automation equipment on Dream Island to create more job positions for workers.

Only the production of some products and parts that required strict confidentiality would be carried out in mini-production workshops or by the fully automated smart production workshops controlled by the Artificial Intelligence “Dream.”

After implementing Yan Fei’s plan to increase the population on Dream Island, within just a few months, a large number of factories appeared on Dream Island, and the number of Dream Island employees reached as many as two million. Along with these employees bringing their families to live on Dream Island, the total number of people related to Dream Island exceeded five million.

In addition to Dream Island’s own employees, there were also many people who came to Dream Island for business and service activities. It was because of their presence that the normal living needs of the several million employees on Dream Island were ensured. Under the statistics of Artificial Intelligence “Dream,” Yan Fei found that the number of these personnel also exceeded one million.

Besides them, there were also many people who came to Dream Island for shopping, sightseeing, and tourism. Particularly after the opening of Dream Island Casino and the red-light district, the number of visitors to Dream Island surged like a flood. With these people plus the employees and their families, as well as the business and service personnel, the population living on Dream Island nearly reached ten million. Judging just by the population size, Dream Island had already become a famous super-metropolis internationally.

After reaching two million employees on Dream Island, the annual salary expenses alone exceeded 400 billion Dream Coin. Along with other welfare benefits and various taxes and fees, Dream Island’s annual human resources expenditure reached 500 billion Dream Coin, equivalent to 334 billion US Dollars. This level of human resources expenses was higher than the annual public treasury income of many countries in the world…

Apart from the massive human resources costs, Dream Island also had many other financial expenditures. For instance, the weapons and ammunition Yan Fei used during the war with The United States of America, although produced by Drone mini-production workshops, required a large amount of raw materials. The war period, where Yan Fei bombarded The United States of America vehemently, might have seemed thrilling, but the actual cost of the consumed raw materials was extremely high.

Similarly, for the construction of its Satellite Network, Dream Island produced numerous satellites and conducted multiple rocket launches, all of which required substantial resource investments. The equipment for the Dream Island Guard’s armored forces and the deployment of powerful weapons underground on Dream Island also required vast resources, and Dream Island invested a large sum of money in them.