0321 Expansion
Entering the city, making friends, purchasing, buying maids, and then building a warehouse. Zhou Qingfeng seemed to have forgotten about the "Inspectorate Office" and "Imaska", and he was devoted to acting as an alien lord.
The sun was warm in the afternoon, and the refugees on the street corners were a little more energetic. They squeezed together with disheveled hair and said boring words, hoping that the passing master would be kind.
But kindness is not available. The passing carriages, regardless of the potholes on the ground and bumpy bodies, all whips and move quickly. It is just because this street is the dividing line between the craftsman area and the noble area. On one side, it is dirty and messy, and on the other side, it is a little cleaner.
The refugees leaned against the craftsman area and looked at a newly demolished shanty town. The poor people living there were ruthlessly driven away before they could clean up the little bit of their own rags.
It is said that "slums" are considered to be homes for the poor. It is just a few strong wooden sticks to build triangles and cover them with leaves and thatch. But this dark and humid space that cannot withstand wind and rain is a home.
If the soldiers in the city come up and kick it, such a "home" will collapse. The poor living inside can only escape with their children and their daughters, just like a nest of cockroaches found.
The soldiers did treat the poor like cockroaches, shouting, beating, and driving them away, wishing they could all die. The poor people who were suffering would only beg, but they didn't even know what happened.
The nearby refugees have nothing to do with them, they just watch the fun.
The advantage of Rafabro's launch is that he is famous in Hanfeng City. Rubio uses the signature of "Alchemy Chief" to do business, and there is basically no obstacle. Without too many public relations methods, anyone in the city must give him some face.
Zhou Qingfeng promised that as long as he gained a foothold in Hanfeng City, he would give a hand-cranking centrifuge Fabro. This "promise" was like a carrot hanging in front of the donkey's head, which made Fabro very angry but had to stand up for it.
There is a pretext that Zhou Qingfeng is good at "spreading coins" and recruiting people to carry out infrastructure. He transferred a group of key villagers from Harmony Village, and surrounded two acres of land in the craftsman area in the city, preparing to build a two-story warehouse.
This will be a warehouse integrating storage, transportation, accommodation, commerce and communication. Rubio carefully selected and hired more than 300 laborers, and with the help of Wilson's access, he recruited more than 20 craftsmen to start construction.
With the experience of building a harmonious village, Rubio's ability is no longer limited to being a profiteer. He knows how to do his work in detail in planning, how to arrange manpower in an orderly manner, and how to ensure efficient use of funds.
Fabro has a manor outside the cold wind city. The female slaves and coolies recruited were not in a hurry to work, so they first sent them to the manor for a few days to have a full meal and learn some respects so that they could understand the orders and express their situation concisely and quickly.
‘Sharpening a knife will not delay chopping wood’.
Harmonious Village relies on this simple and effective training method to unite more than 1,500 villagers, greatly improving labor efficiency. Now this training method has been moved to Hanfeng City.
For coolies who don’t even know the left and right, basic training is too necessary. On the first day, the mistake they made made the manor residents laugh. On the second day, the queue training was like a headless fly ramming around. On the third day...
On the third day, it was still the same, and no miracle happened. Those who should be stupid were still stupid. But on the third day, the less than one-third of the coolies trained. Zhou Qingfeng was not interested in teaching those who were really stupid and drove them away.
At most, three days of food will be wasted, but the waste will not drag down the overall efficiency.
I don’t know if it was because I had eaten for three days and had some brains or if three days of simple training had worked. Anyway, one-third of the employees were laid off, and the remaining waste coolie was whipped a few times, and they all became a lot more aware.
In three days, Zhou Qingfeng also transported himself a large number of iron tools from Harmony Village, with more than 200 hoes, shovels, hammers, and crowbars. Because of the good steel mouth, sufficient materials, and exquisite forging and quenching technology, the coolies who received the tools praised them.
With good tools and basic IQ, coolies in the city started construction immediately. The two-acre shack was flattened, solid and dotted lines were drawn on the ground, and the foundation was excavated.
When other powerful people build houses, coolies are lazy and need whip supervisors to stare at them. However, when Zhou Qingfeng builds the house, coolies are all quick-handed, sweating profusely, and working hard.
Other powerful people drive coolies, and it’s good to be able to give you some food. The wages are very small, and even corvee labor is recruited, without any son. Zhou Qingfeng drives coolies, and can eat a full meal during training, pay a weekly salary, plus enough physical strength and medicine.
"The fire-breathing pepper from the abyss is really a good thing. It grows in craters with harsh environments and is naturally rich in energy. The physical potion used to prepare it is low in price and good in effect. Taking a sip can make people energetic and not sleepy all day long."
Zhou Qingfeng did not forget to sell his genius invention to Fabro. He just heard that this thing had added materials from the abyss, and the "Alchemy Chief" respected Xie Bumin.
"Spicy flavor can boost your spirit, promote digestion, enhance physical fitness, and improve sleep. In addition to the staple food, it is a good product for construction and traveling at home."
Zhou Qingfeng was still nonsense, but no matter what he said, no one recognized his spicy physical potion.
Fabro had considered giving it to his slaves, but after asking for a price, he learned that a bottle was priced at five silver coins. He shook his head directly, without any interest.
"Only you, Victor and Hugo, can do such expensive potions for a group of coolies." Fabrow said critically: "We would rather drink traditional flavor potions of ten gold coins per bottle, and we will never drink the ingredients you add."
"My price is cheap enough. How hard does coolies who have drunk the potion work. I dare not say that one should be worth ten, but at least three."
Building a house and digging foundation is a heavy physical labor, and even those with strong bodies cannot persist for a long time. However, the coolie recruited by Zhou Qingfeng took a sip of the potion and scolded "Who put the peppers?" and then drank it in sweat for more than half an hour.
After resting for ten minutes, taking another sip of the "spicy drink", the coolies continued to work. More than 200 coolies took 24-hour shifts, and they had to work at night when it was dark. They played out the workload of four or five hundred people, and the construction site was changing every moment.
"There are so many slaves, why waste money?" Fabrow admitted that Zhou Qingfeng did produce some interesting cheap potions, but he was still not interested.
Only Zhou Qingfeng can use this kind of organizational management and strengthening agent that benefits the bottom of society. The powerful are not interested at all. Because his idea is that it is different from others...
"They will be more motivated by turning slaves into free people."
"Let slaves have sufficient physical strength and the mortality rate be greatly reduced. They will grow into skilled workers."
"Only with enough skilled workers can we carry out social division of labor and cooperation, develop more advanced industries, and have stronger strength!"
"Only with stronger strength can I gain a better foothold in Hanfeng City."
Chapter completed!