Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 671 - 404: Blood Donation by the Entire Population_2

"Participating in voluntary blood donations can reduce taxes or one can opt for financial rewards. Currently, the state provides a subsidy of one dollar per milliliter of blood. Based on the current price of blood, a single donation of 400 milliliters equates to 400 US dollars,"

"What, donating blood can reduce taxes and be exchanged for money?"

Lin Lingling was dumbfounded when she heard this; it turned out there was such a strategy involved.

"It's more than that. Donating blood can accumulate points. The more points you have, the more conveniences and privileges you can enjoy in many aspects, such as school admissions, civil service exams, loans, buying houses and cars, and discounted fares on airplanes and trains, among others."

"I didn't come here just for the money, but rather to qualify for a position at Jieke Group. I heard that donating blood helps in securing a job at Jieke Group, offering priority in hiring,"

The boy chuckled, scratching his head somewhat embarrassedly.

The positions at Jieke Group are very well-compensated, offering higher salaries compared to those giant tech companies, with full benefits and an easier workload of working four days and resting three, more appealing to the youth than civil service exams.

Or rather, for the people of Southeast Asia, the existence of Jieke Group itself holds more authority than the country itself.

Lin Lingling was shocked; she never imagined that donating blood was tied to so many things. She had only heard about buying homes in school districts to tie into a child's educational resources. Jieke Group took it a step further, tying donations to numerous privileges—was this an intent to engage the whole nation in donating blood?

To verify her guess, Lin Lingling continued to query other blood donors.

"I am here to apply for a position at Jieke Group. Everyone is donating blood; if I didn't, I might be disqualified for not donating, and that would be a huge loss for me."

"I'm planning to take out a loan for business soon, and donating blood reduces the interest significantly, so here I am."

"My child wants to get into a good school, but his scores are a bit low. Parents donating blood can earn extra points, and I can't let my child fall behind right at the start. Of course, I had to donate."

"To reduce taxes—I've been pained by how much tax I pay every year. Finally, there's a way to reduce it, just by donating my own blood. It's totally worth it."

"No other reason, I just got a girlfriend recently and spending has surged. Selling blood can make a few hundred dollars—that's almost my monthly salary. Why wouldn't I come?"

Everyone had their reasons for donating blood, but Lin Lingling noticed that most people were motivated by the immediate cash offer from Jieke Group.

This was the simplest and most direct temptation. The average salary in Siam is around two thousand Hua Yuan, and donating blood once is equivalent to earning a month's salary. Most people would come; after all, donating 400 milliliters does not harm the body.

When Lin Lingling got to the blood donation van, she saw firsthand that people who completed their donations were directly given cash equivalent to 400 US dollars, along with free gifts of grains, oils, rice, nutritional supplements, and a raffle ticket. Prizes ranged from various inexpensive handicrafts to electronics like phones and computers, with the grand prize being a car.

Each win caused a stir; even those who didn't win big prizes walked away smiling with loads of grain supplements and cash, looking more spirited than before the donation.

By the time Lin Lingling left the plaza, the size of the crowd lining up to donate had multiplied. The scene of people competing to donate blood was indeed unexpected.

Lin Lingling couldn't help but remark that Jieke Group's incentives were truly effective, making everyone eager to donate blood, as if picking up free money in a scramble.

After meeting up with her advisor Xu Changming, they shared their research findings.

Upon hearing all the graduate students' reports, Xu Changming expressed astonishment: "Jieke Group's actions, I don't know if they are researching some pharmaceutical products or something related to genetics. If the whole of Southeast Asia adopts this method of voluntary blood donation, the volume of collected blood would be vast, with significant investment."

In Southeast Asia's population of 250 million, excluding minors and the elderly or infirm, over 150 million are eligible to donate. With each person donating at least twice a year, the outlay is 800 US dollars. Moreover, there are definitely people who donate more than twice. If you include the salaries of medical personnel, the cost of medical equipment, blood preservation, and various incentives for taxes, loans, buying cars and houses, the associated costs are enormous. The minimum annual expenditure is estimated to be 150 billion US dollars, and that's a conservative figure,"

"An investment of 150 billion US dollars per year."

Lin Lingling and the others, who had no exact understanding before, all inhaled sharply when they heard this number.

How exaggerated was this number? It was more than the total annual research investment of the top ten global technology giants combined, comparable to the annual military spending of Hua Country.

"My goodness, Jieke Group is so rich, to dare such an investment."

"No wonder they say Jieke Group is mercilessly extravagant. They really make a fortune selling medicine. Forbes magazine had done a summary, didn't it? Tianyuan Slimming Pills, Tianyuan Myopia Pill, Tianyuan Hair Growth Liquid – these three products alone brought in four to five hundred billion US dollars for Jieke Group annually. To match Jieke Group's net profit, you'd need the combined efforts of five or six companies like Apple."

"Su Jie is originally from our Hua Country, the ability to start from scratch like this is just unbelievable."

For a moment, the graduate students were shocked by this huge asset. They were all sociology top students and clearly understood how massive such an expenditure was.

"Jieke Group has money. The money they spend on buying blood circulates in the society, increasing the public wealth and societal happiness. This also invisibly boosts Jieke Group's popularity in Southeast Asia; such audacity is beyond imagination."

Xu Changming spoke up with great interest, addressing Lin Lingling and the other graduate students, "Let's set our research topic on Jieke Group to this blood donation campaign, and see what kind of impact such a massive blood donation plan will have on the whole Southeast Asia."

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As the blood collection medical staff got trained and prepared, blood donation vehicles started driving on the streets, blood donation stations opened their doors for business, fully promoting the blood donation policy. The activity swept through Southeast Asia like a tidal wave.

Tax cuts and cash rewards, like two big axes, split open people's defenses against blood donation.

Various preferential treatments from blood donation linked to schooling, civil service exams, cars, housing, loans, etc. fully safeguarded the enthusiasm of the donors. When everyone donated blood, a form of internal competition inadvertently arose, making those who didn't donate a minority.

Especially in the poor areas, the blood donation campaign reached its climax, with people queuing up every day in huge numbers, almost overturning the blood donation vehicles.

In the backward and impoverished areas of Southeast Asia, people's average monthly salary was even just over a hundred US dollars, and these impoverished populations were significantly large.

Now, donating blood once was equivalent to their three months' salary, one could imagine how crazy it was.

Fear of poverty made them disregard any potential harm from donating blood, wishing they could sell thousands of milliliters at once, fearing such a good opportunity might disappear at any time.

Through donating blood, they also indirectly received benefits and welfare from Jieke Group, tying them even closer to Jieke Group.

As blood donations continued, vehicles that had finished collecting blood would take the fresh blood back to the blood banks for preservation, and then transport it to Chan Country Mand City, making the traffic of refrigerated blood storage vehicles back and forth relentless.

Meanwhile, Jieke Group's large-scale blood collection naturally also attracted a lot of controversy.

"Breaking news, after dominating the hegemony in Southeast Asia, Jieke Group finally reveals its evil fangs, brutally enslaving and oppressing the people of Southeast Asia, forcing public blood donations, a vampire state is rising in Southeast Asia."

"Jieke Group is secretly injecting the public with an experimental stage genetic virus through blood donations, turning hundreds of millions of people into guinea pigs for genetic weapon research."

"Be vigilant of Jieke Group's genetic experimentation. This action poses a threat to global security. Jieke Group must provide a detailed explanation immediately."

Various media from Europe and America demonized Jieke Group's blood policy, pairing blood donation videos with sinister filters and linking them to genetic experiments, never missing a chance to slander Jieke Group.

Fortunately, Jieke Group was used to it, not expecting those Western media mouthpieces to speak well of them, continuing as usual. The massive amount of blood collected from donations kept flowing into Chan Country Mande City.