Chapter 947 Ideals are beautiful, but reality is harsh

  Chapter 947 Ideals are beautiful, but reality is harsh.

  In the village next to the industrial zone, the young man, tanned by the sun, returned to his tent and sat on the bench angrily.

  This anger was not only directed at the Willant people, but also at the Alliance people who prevented them from taking revenge, and even part of it was directed at himself for not living up to his expectations.

  He was the bravest young man in the village. He should have led the villagers to argue with reason, but his shoulders were still shaking uncontrollably.

  He hated himself for being a coward, although he didn’t know how to make himself less cowardly.

  Looking at his grandson, the wrinkled old man sighed and said in a slow voice.

  ”Bosaka, you are too impulsive.”

  Bosaka turned around and glared at him, vomiting out the anger and complaints in his chest.

  ”I don’t understand, what exactly do they want to do? Aren’t the Willant people their enemies? We can solve their enemies for them, and we don’t ask for much!”

  The old man shook his head.

  ”There is a clear distinction between enemies and friends in the desert, but there are more than just enemies and friends outside the desert. Your method works in the Great Desert, but it doesn’t work outside the Great Desert… There is a man named Laxi in the province of Boro. Someone wrote an autobiography for him. I bought it from a merchant in Yongye Port and put it on your bedside table. You have never read it. In my opinion, you should learn more from him and see how he did it in the same situation.” Bosaka

  ’s eyes were blank.

  Laxi?

  The world outside the Great Desert?

  What does this have to do with his confusion?

  He did see the book on the bedside table, but he didn’t know a few words, and it was too troublesome to learn.

  Looking at the child who was still not enlightened, the old man gave a serious exhortation.

  ”Anyway, the Alliance is the master here now. If you really don’t know what to do, then keep a low profile and follow the people you think are powerful.”

  Bosaka said with a face full of resentment.

  ”Then work for the Alliance? What’s the difference between that and before they came here?”

  ”The difference is that before, if you talked back to the Weylants, they would whip you, tie you to a pillar and torture you until your last breath, but now no one will do that… Although I think you have never been afraid of the Weylants’ whips, otherwise you wouldn’t have provoked them again and again.”

  The old man glanced at the roof of the tent, tapped the pipe in his hand on the sole, and suddenly sighed.

  ”In fact, you don’t have to hate them so much. Before the Weylants came here, did you think the Ravenka River was a fairy tale paradise? Don’t be so naive. The most fertile land has never been in our hands, but in the hands of mutants and aliens.”

  Looking at the old man at home, Bosaka sneered.

  ”You old thing actually spoke for the Weylants. Have you lived enough?”

  The old man shook his head.

  ”I’ve lived enough. I just don’t want to see my only child miss the chance to become a good person and turn back into a beast.”

  ”I don’t want to be a good person. A weak person will only be bullied and become a poor guy who follows others to pick up garbage to eat… But you are right. I should follow the strong. Even if I can’t get meat to eat, I can still have some soup.”

  Bosaka clenched his fists, looked outside the tent, and grumbled.

  ”I don’t know when the alliance will pay the wages.”

  The old man reminded.

  ”I hope you remember what you said and follow the strong. Also, don’t skip work anymore. The tobacco at home is almost used up.”

  Looking at this old guy, Bosaka said impatiently.

  ”I know. I’ll get some money back. I sound lazy.”

  …

  With the arrival of engineers, orders and funds from the alliance, and the 100th and 101st divisions of the enterprise taking over several mines and power stations from the Southern Corps, the Ravenka Industrial Zone finally showed signs of recovery after restoring its former order.

  It was December.

  Under the coordination of Director Fang, the Ravenka Autonomous Committee started with property rights and issued the first plan for “capacity transformation” – the “December Act”.

  According to the bill, in order to raise funds for the Ravenka Development Fund, the Ravenka Autonomous Committee will sell 172 facilities in the industrial zone.

  These facilities are mainly some backward production capacity that needs to be eliminated, and there are more or less some problems, such as steel mills that produce steel billets, aluminum mills that process aluminum, clothing factories that produce military uniforms, stamping workshops that produce shells, and fuel power stations.

  After research by the Alliance’s engineers, if the Alliance funds the renovation of these 172 facilities, it will not only waste a huge amount of taxpayers’ money, but it is also likely to be a thankless task. It is better to let the people figure out how to turn these wastes into treasures.

  These factories will be entrusted to the Dawn City Stock Exchange and the five major banks of the Alliance for auction.

  The auction will be open to the public.

  Any qualified individual or organization can raise a sign at the branch of the entrusted party.

  Dawn City, Golden Gallon Port, Silver Moon Bay, Settlement No. 1, French Fries Port, South China Sea Alliance North Island, Ring Island, Coral City and even Ideal City far away on the east coast all have branches of the Dawn City Stock Exchange, so it is easy to participate in the transaction.

  At the same time, Baiyue Company and Niuma Group, which are involved in the ownership reform of the Ravenka Industrial Zone, will not participate in the first round of auctions, but will only raise signs for unsold items.

  This is done for fairness and to prevent the loss of wealth of the citizens of the Alliance.

  After all, if Baiyue Company ends up with the wealth of the citizens of the Alliance, the citizens of the Alliance will not be able to play.

  In this way, 172 facilities were quickly auctioned off. Although these assets had some problems, they were still snatched up by industry owners.

  In addition to players and alliance citizens, the buyers also included some wealthy people from Kingalen Port and the South Sea Alliance, and even the boss of Ideal City.

  Some of them saw the dividends of the post-war reconstruction of the Batoy Province, and some aimed at the space elevator in the southern sea.

  Although Ideal City itself has a large number of factories, considering the exchange rate and local labor costs, the factories in the Ravenka Industrial Zone have their own advantages.

  They only need to bring some of the technology of Ideal City.

  In any case, thanks to these people running into the market with funds and technology, the Alliance did not spend a penny to allow the Ravenka Industrial Zone of the Southern Legion to be incorporated into its supply chain.

  In this process, the Ravenka Industrial Zone raised a huge amount of funds of nearly 1.5 billion silver coins!

  When Baiyue Company entered Kingalen Port, it did not get so much money.

  With this huge sum of money, the Autonomous Committee has more confidence and confidence in the reform. President Antoine even patted his chest and told Fang Chang that he would definitely make the Ravenka Industrial Zone into the pearl of the Great Desert and the Golden Gallon Port on the west coast of the entire Zhongzhou Continent!

  This tone is not small.

  This guy has jumped out of the Great Desert and started to benchmark Yavent City and Triumph City.

  However, Fang Chang did not think he was bragging, and even thought he was probably conservative.

  With a bomb in hand plus the outlet of post-war reconstruction and space elevators, he couldn’t think of any reason not to take off.

  In this big wave of “capacity transformation”, everyone is ready to do a big job.

  Whether it is the director and manager of the Willant who changed their owners, or the new owners who came from the alliance.

  For example, Lasov from Golden Gallon Port is one of them.

  In his early years, he made his first fortune by doing demolition with Axin. Later, like most of the passionate rat people, he took the money and rushed into the real industry. With the idea of ​​industrial salvation, he set up a factory to produce natural gas cylinders and gas cylinders.

  Although this industry looks inconspicuous, it is quite profitable and in high demand.

  Although the electrification level of the alliance is very high, the provinces of Borneo and Baiyue are completely different. Even in Jinjialun Port and French Fries Port, there are many restaurants that rely on natural gas cylinders to make fire. As for

  the lands divided by warlords, not to mention, many warlords even bought the gas cylinders he produced as munitions reserves. When the gas cylinders in the fire room were burned out, they were directly stuffed with explosives and dragged to the front line as firecrackers.

  In other words, his customers are not only small vendors who run restaurants, but also officers who lead troops to fight.

  Due to the strong demand for products, he has always had the idea of ​​opening a new factory. He even selected a piece of land near Jiaotou Bay next to Jinjialun Port, and the only thing left is to pay for it.

  However, at this time, the news that the Alliance liberated the Ravenka Industrial Zone and the Autonomous Committee had opened a tender spread through the streets and alleys through the “Survivor Daily”.

  Seeing this cake falling from the sky, Lasov’s heart suddenly became hot, and he immediately fell in love with a steel plant that supplies steel for the Conqueror No. 10 tank in the auction!

  Although the Alliance looked down on this steel plant and even labeled it as “backward production capacity”, he did not think it was backward, and even looked at it as if he saw a divine artifact.

  This thing supplies the tank factory!

  With this thing, the output of his gas tank factory will not rise sharply? !

  This surprise is no less than the Alliance’s “Legendary Steel Tycoon” Boss Sun, who used 2 million silver coins to buy the “Infinite Power” Steel Plant from Fred, an entrepreneur in Boulder City.

  And Lasov is not only interested in the profits that this steel plant can bring to him, but also the technology that this factory has, which is exactly what the Boro Province does not have!

  If he could bring the Legion’s armored steel production technology back to his hometown, it would be a wonderful thing!

  Although Abusek was not a good person, the country of Boro was not Abusek’s country after all, and he still hoped to make his hometown better.

  With this idea in mind, he did not hesitate to pay a huge sum of nearly 10 million silver coins and snatched the bid from his competitors. After obtaining the ownership of the factory, he rushed to the banks of the Ravenka River, less than 100 kilometers away from the front line, and met the factory director who had just been released from the Alliance prisoner-of-war camp.

  The factory director was a Willant named Glenkin. He held the rank of a thousand-man commander in the Logistics Department of the General Affairs Department of the Southern Legion and worked under District Chief Antoine.

  Perhaps because he was defeated by the Alliance, this guy did not put on any Willant airs in front of him. After the meeting, he began to arrange for the resumption of production.

  Hearing that “Glenkin’s factory” had resumed production, a group of local native guys also cooperated and flocked to the recruitment point at the factory gate.

  Looking at the young and strong guys lined up in a long queue, Lasov’s face was full of bright smiles.

  He seemed to have seen the boiling molten steel jumping in the boiler, being cast into ingots, and then pressed into regular steel plates under high temperature, and finally sent to the cutting and stamping workshops through assembly lines to become the shapes required by customers!

  Just like what he saw in the newspaper, this will become the largest industrial base in the entire Western Sea!

  Maybe he should consider buying a few houses nearby…

  He made his first pot of gold from houses, and if conditions permit, he certainly wouldn’t mind making a few more pots.

  However, just when Lasov was dreaming of getting rich, the quarrel in front of the recruitment point interrupted his dream.

  I saw a young man with a slightly darker complexion stretched out his hand to the staff at the recruitment registration point and said confidently.

  ”I have registered, when are you going to pay me?”

  Rasov was dumbfounded, having never seen such a strange request.

  The employee from Golden Gallon Port was obviously stunned.

  He was not a person who liked to think for the boss. He worked for Rasov for the money, but it was too much for this guy to ask for money right after he started working. Even

  the crazy people in the workers’ union were not so radical.

  After holding it in for a long time, he finally said something.

  ”… You just started working and haven’t worked yet, why should we pay you?”

  Upon hearing this, the native guy immediately got angry and said angrily.

  ”What are you talking about? If you don’t pay us, how can we eat? We have to eat! Do you want us to work for you on an empty stomach? Are you still human?”

  Hearing this, the natives who were queuing behind him also became angry and shouted noisily.

  The Brahman employee sitting on the registration list at the recruitment point couldn’t resist for a while and looked at the boss for help.

  He had seen guys who stole concepts and made unreasonable demands, but this was the first time he met an opponent in the field he was best at.

  Seeing the scene was in turmoil, Lasov hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over, shouting to the employees who had signed up.

  ”Everyone, we know that you are in a difficult situation, and we understand you very much! In fact, we are the same as you. We, the Boro people, were also enslaved by the Weyland people… Let’s put it this way, since we are all survivors, we will solve your problem! We will set up an employee cafeteria in the factory, and all employees can eat for free!”

  The Boro employee was shocked when he heard this.

  When did this guy become so generous? !

  At least his boss’s factory in Kinggallon Port did not have such a thing as an employee cafeteria.

  However, he did not know that this was Lasov’s choice after weighing the pros and cons.

  The local labor cost is much lower than that in Kinggallon Port, and the food is also cheap. Even if all employees are invited to dinner, it will not cost much.

  However, the young man did not buy it and continued to shout aggressively.

  ”Staff canteen? We have elderly people at home, and I have three younger brothers and two younger sisters. Can they also eat in the canteen?”

  Looking at the righteous young man, Lasov’s eyebrows twitched, but in order to win people’s hearts, he finally gritted his teeth.

  ”Okay! Let them come, I will treat them to a month’s meal! But only for one month! When you get your salary, this benefit will end, and you will be the only one who has it!”

  The young man suddenly didn’t seem to expect that he would agree. He stared at him blankly, and then left without saying a word.

  Lasov breathed a sigh of relief, and was proud of his intelligence, but he didn’t expect that after a while, the young man actually brought dozens of people over.

  The oldest of these dozens of people was an old man in his fifties or sixties, his legs and feet were not smooth, and he was leaning on a cane. The youngest was still in his mother’s cradle, babbling, and he hadn’t even learned to speak yet. I

  ’m afraid this guy not only called all the aunts and uncles, but also all the aunts and uncles from the neighbors.

  Without waiting for Lasov to speak, the young man took the initiative to introduce himself. He talked a lot and made all the people he brought his relatives.

  And it was not just this young man who did this. Several other natives who registered for employment also called a large group of people as if they had made an appointment.

  The crowd in front of the factory more than doubled, and there were more people who came to eat than the labor force who applied for the job.

  Seeing this scene, Lasov almost knelt down to these guys.

  He was really straightforward when he paid for the factory. He paid 10 million silver coins without blinking an eye.

  However, it was the bank’s money after all. He borrowed it with the factory in Jingalon Port as collateral!

  If this newly bought factory fails, he will have to pay the bank for his pants!

  Seeing that Lasov was about to cry, Director Glenkin, who was standing by and smoking, looked as if he was used to it.

  Finally, he finished his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, walked to Lasov’s side and said.

  ”The natives here are like this. They have to be paid before they work. Otherwise, they will slack off on the machines or break them. It’s useless to whip them… The relatives they called over are not really here to eat for free. You just pay them and treat what you said before as farts.”

  Lasov stared at him blankly, and it took a long time to say a word.

  ”Is it the same when you were in charge here?”

  Director Glenkin had an intriguing smile on his face.

  ”Do you know why we are going to the Borneo Province? When our people saw that the workers in Xifan Port would rather die of exhaustion on the dock than cause us any trouble, the officers in the entire Avent City went crazy. We were drooling with envy and jealousy, and we only regretted that we didn’t discover the gold mine under our noses earlier.”

  Although they had bought slaves from Wu Tuo before, and bought them at Jingalon Port, the loss of transportation was too high, and they didn’t think that the skinny slaves could be of any use in the factory.

  In fact, most of the Poros transported to the Ravenka Industrial Zone were assimilated into the locals… After all, they were originally of the same origin and race. It

  was not until the civil servants of Triumph City went to Xifan Port to open a factory that the masters of the Southern Legion suddenly realized that this was the correct way to use Poros. The

  Xifan Port tragedy was inevitable.

  If you want to blame someone, blame the civil servant group for being too weak and unable to keep such a large fortune…

  The boss was stunned for a long time, feeling hateful, angry and helpless, and sighed.

  ”Forget it, I admit it… Pay them their wages.”

  Director Glenkin nodded, with a slightly sarcastic smile.

  ”A wise choice.”

  Just as the Willant factory director said, these native guys really dismissed the relatives they called after receiving the money.

  Both sides took a step back.

  Lasov took back the promise of the employee cafeteria, but promised that he could get the money first and then work in the future.

  Although the native guys cursed him for being a miser, they did not take any further action.

  Gradually, Lasov felt that he had mastered the trick of dealing with the locals.

  However, something happened that confused him. The young men who took the money suddenly scattered and disappeared one by one.

  Looking at the deserted recruitment point, Lasov’s face turned red with anger and his fists clenched tightly.

  ”Too much!”

  Director Glenkin, who had already started smoking his second cigarette, smiled faintly and said comfortingly.

  ”It’s like this.”

  Looking at this Willant man who was not surprised at all, Lasov couldn’t help complaining.

  ”Are you here to do charity? Are you just going to spoil them like this?”

  ”Spoil them?” Glenkin narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled intriguingly, “If you had seen how we treat them, you wouldn’t say such things… But the fact is that even if we hang them on pillars, whip their buttocks with whips soaked in salt water, and catch the laziest ones to kill the chickens and kill the monkeys, they will still be the same the next day.”

  Lasov looked at him incomprehensibly, unable to understand why the Willant people would be defeated by this group of people, nor why the locals were so lazy.

  Seeing the confusion in his eyes, Glenkin said lightly.

  ”They are not lazy, they are animalistic. You will understand it after dealing with them for a long time.”

  After a pause, he said again.

  ”You don’t have to be too depressed. When they have spent all their money, they will naturally come back to work… Don’t worry, it won’t take long. They have never had the habit of saving money. And they already owe you money, so there is no reason to ask you for an advance on their wages.”

  ”Then the debt will be your rope. You can use the debt to control them, whether it is whipping their buttocks, or asking prestigious people in their village to go to their homes to collect debts, or sleeping with their girls in front of them… As long as you can accept that most of them don’t have the habit of brushing their teeth. Of course, I recommend hiring some locals or mutants to do this job, or simply sell this right to their neighbors.”

  Lasov looked at him with a frown.

  ”I’m here to make money, not to pimp.”

  Glenkin smiled.

  ”Aren’t I teaching you how to make money? If you don’t learn to adapt to the local customs, they will unite to deal with you. Moreover, in addition to the last one, I also provide other options.”

  He felt that he was still quite kind and passed on all the “core secrets” of the Southern Legion to this Brahman.

  They were able to conquer such a large territory and make this barren land useful, not just by wielding sticks and whips.

  Debt is the core of their exploitation, and everything else is just a means.

  The locals would tie the rope of debt around their necks, automatically turning themselves from wild animals into domestic animals, and this was the only thing that made them better than the Poros.

  Although the Poros were easy to manage, they loved saving money too much. They would save a few cents even if they had to tighten their belts, and they would never pay for this rope, so neither the Southern Legion nor the Civilian Group dared to give them too many dinars. It was

  actually not possible to exploit them by shaving off that little bit of wages. No captain of ten thousand men was short of those two gold coins. The main purpose was to keep them in a state of poverty.

  The Southern Legion ruled Xifan Port for too short a time, and the smart minds of Yavent City had not yet thought of a way to tie the rope of debt on the Poros. They could only continue the strategy of the Civilian Group and use poverty to make them obedient.

  And it turned out that their method was effective. As long as they were given twenty years, the Lion State would surely develop into an industrial center larger than the Ravenka Industrial Zone.

  But at this point, this kind of thing could only happen in imagination…

  Looking at the boss who was still worried, Glenkin continued.

  ”Also, if I were you, I could buy some scissors, lighters and nail clippers.”

  Lasov was stunned.

  ”What are you buying those things for?”

  Glenkin smiled and gave him advice.

  ”The locals like to buy some useless but cheap gadgets. Didn’t I tell you? They will naturally come back to work after spending their money. You also want them to come back quickly, right?”

  Unfortunately, the light industry of the Southern Legion is not very developed, and the gadgets they use to coax these guys cost a lot of dinars.

  However, Glenkin heard that the supply chain of the Alliance seems to have no shortage of these things, and one silver coin can wholesale a lot of nail clippers.

  In fact, in his opinion, this is also one of the reasons why silver coins can become hard currency in the wasteland.

  The Alliance has not only established a stable supply chain in the wasteland, but also provided unimaginably rich light industrial products to most of the chaotic areas in the wasteland.

  Just like the “scarcity” of Cr, the person who issued the silver coin knows very well where his advantages are and how to expand his advantages.

  As for the dinar, although it also has its own advantages, its purchasing power can only be reflected when buying slaves and tanks, and most people don’t use these things in their daily lives.

  Perhaps getting rid of the dinar system and issuing sovereign currency can help Yavent City last longer. Precious metal currency is too heavy, and the Triumphant City that controls it has too many historical burdens…

  This is Glenkin’s reflection on the reasons for the failure of the Southern Legion from a technical perspective from the perspective of an industrial owner.

  Lasov was silent for a while, pressing his index finger on his forehead, and said a little tiredly.

  ”I know the owner of a bicycle factory in Jingalon Port. I can get a batch of bicycles here…”

  Selling nail clippers will take forever.

  Glenkin’s eyes lit up, and he looked at the boss who had already got it, and gave a thumbs up in appreciation.

  ”That’s a good idea! It can also save them some time on the way to work.”

  Lasov looked at him blankly.

  ”Wait…you mean, they were often late before?”

  Glenkin laughed.

  ”Late? Often? Let me think about which question I should start with.”

  (End of this chapter)