Chapter 271: The Problem of Water (Asking for a Monthly Pass!)
"The friendship between China and Argentina goes back to ancient ......," Mufta said in a cloudy voice.
He can still understand it in the front, but he really can't understand what the other party is talking about in his level 4 English in the back.
I can only smile and nod in response.
In the end, Yu Qingyang finally figured out what the other party meant with the help of a translator.
It turns out that there is a big chase, and the central meaning is one, temporary camps, living quarters, and production bases can be chosen at will, but no wells can be drilled to get water.
This requirement made Yu Qingyang a little dumbfounded, his production and life here are inseparable from water, and if he doesn't dig wells to get water, he relies on cars to transport water, so the price will be great.
Although Yu Qingyang understood the other party's mood and was worried that Yu Qingyang would dig wells and produce oil again, he really couldn't agree to this.
"Mr. Mufuta, this matter is not for me to decide, I need to think about the New Year's report!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
"Mr. Yu, in fact, there is still water in the mountains!
You may consider bringing water out of the mountains!" Jasler chimed in.
"Mr. Jasler, if the water in the mountains is so easy to lead!
There won't be so many residents of your country outside who come to me to change the water!" Yu Qingyang directly rejected Justler's suggestion.
There may be water in the mountains, but it's never so easy to get.
As Yu Qingyang said, if it were easy, there wouldn't be so many Berbers outside who traveled hundreds of miles to change water here.
Jasler was stunned by Yu Qingyang's words and didn't know how to answer.
Mufta took over, "Mr. Yu, there is indeed water in the mountains, but the mountain roads are difficult to walk, and ordinary people have to risk their lives when they go there!"
You're different, you have big machinery and you can build roads into it and bring water out!"
"Hehe! Mr. Mufta, this is not something that can be decided in a sentence or two!
If the country agrees, it still needs to shoot the designer to come over and design and determine the water diversion plan!" Yu Qingyang laughed softly.
To put it lightly, build a road into the mountains, and then bring the water out, if the amount of work is small, the nearby residents would have dried up a long time ago.
Moreover, how to store the water is also a problem.
Seeing Yu Qingyang say this, it was not easy for Mufta to say anything else.
They built towns and roads, they traded resources for them.
This increase in the amount of work is naturally not something that a few of them can decide.
just asked Yu Qingyang not to dig a well for the time being, so he said goodbye and left.
The government officials of the Butitan, who came and went in a hurry, quickly left the camp without asking a word of the long line of Berbers outside.
Seeing off Mufta and his party of Butitan city officials, Zhao Xinlei asked with some concern: "Mr. Yu, what should we do?"
"Wait for the domestic notice! Mr. Lu, please report this matter to the country!
This truckload of water, transported from Bu Titan, costs more than eighty yuan on one side!
We can afford short-term domestic water, but we can't afford to use water for production in the future!" Yu Qingyang looked at Mr. Lu and said in a deep voice.
"I understand, I will report this matter to China, and your company will also come up with a written report material!" Mr. Lu nodded understandingly.
Mr. Lu has assisted construction in Africa for so many years and has served as the chief engineer of several construction sites.
This is the first time I've encountered such a situation.
There is oil in the ground, and the local government does not allow wells to be drilled for water, so if you listen to the conversation between Mufta and Yu Qingyang at the nearest water intake point, you will know that the cost is not half a point.
The state-aided construction project is basically the total price, and there will be no visa and other costs.
Unless there is a significant change.
Now it is not a major change, but the production water is also a major event that directly affects the construction of the project.
"Mr. Yu, then do we still collect stones?" Zhao Xinlei was a little undecided.
"Collect, keep collecting! In the end, this project will continue!
It's just that there will be ...... inside" Yu Qingyang paused halfway through his words before continuing: "We don't have to worry about those things!"
Let's just do our own thing!"
"Got it, Mr. Yu!"
How to coordinate and how to deal with it is a matter at the national level.
It's not that they can sway.
What they can do is to do the project well.
The purpose of this kind of construction assistance task is to make the Ajigerian side satisfied with the project and not raise any objections.
"Hello Chinese friends!" a somewhat strange voice came from behind them.
Yu Qingyang and the others looked back and saw a black man wearing the work clothes of Huayu No. 2 Construction Group, standing behind them and grinning at them.
Seeing Yu Qingyang and them turn around, the black man was even more happy, "Hello! Have you eaten?"
"Hello, we haven't eaten yet, have you eaten?" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
"I didn't eat either!
You...... Mr. Yu, I ...... Stone ......" The black man pointed at Yu Qingyang, shouted Mr. Yu, patted his chest again, and said a word of stone.
It means that it is called a stone by itself.
"Hello Stone!"
"Mr. Yu, hello!"
The stone scratched his head with his hand and asked if it was intact, not knowing what to say next.
Won't say it.
And he learned these words.
He could only grin at Yu Qingyang.
It's a pity that Yu Qingyang's Arabic is worse than the Chinese word called Stone in front of him.
Can only be like a black man, smile.
Laughter knows no borders.
Fortunately, at this time, the translator Xiao Li ran over and relieved them.
"Mr. Yu, Mr. Zhao, Mr. Lu!"
"What's going on?" Yu Qingyang asked, pointing to the black stone, with a smile.
"Mr. Yu, Xiao Li is looking for me, this stone is now working as a temporary worker in our company!
Help Xiao Li to make everyone Arabic!
There are also a few black friends hired by one!" Zhao Xinlei explained busily on the side.
"I'm asking, what's going on? When you gave out your clothes, you didn't think about handing out a pair of shoes?" Yu Qingyang pointed to the black man's stone feet.
Huayu No. 2 Construction Group's workwear comes in three colors, namely blue-gray, azure blue and navy blue.
Among them, the company's management is blue-gray overalls, the general technician and construction staff are blue, and the workers (workers of the construction team) are navy blue.
The stone was wearing the navy blue overalls of Huayu Second Construction Group, but he was still barefoot, which looked very incongruous.
Translator Xiao Li said to the stone, and the stone also chattered, not gesturing with his hands.
After asking, Xiao Li explained to Yu Qingyang: "Mr. Yu, Mr. Zhao, the stone said that this is the first time he has shoes when he is so big, and he is afraid that they will be dirty!
For those who have not experienced it, it is really hard to believe that Shi is also in his twenties, and he has never worn shoes.
Such a situation occurred in China only in the old society before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
As for whether it's true, no one has seen it, but I've heard the old man talk about it, or I've seen it in TV dramas.
"You tell him that if the shoes are worn out, you'll send them new ones!
But you have to wear shoes, this is the company's rule!" Yu Qingyang insisted resolutely.
This is not out of sympathy, but a safe dress code for construction works.
It is foreseeable that in the future, as the project is fully carried out, more blacks will enter the construction site.
Wearing shoes is one of the basic safety precautions.
Translator Xiao Li looked at the black stone and muttered again, and the black man bowed to Yu Qingyang and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yu!"
Then he took out his shoes from his waist and put them on in front of Yu Qingyang.
Looking down at the shoes on his feet, he grinned and his eyes glistened with tears.
Shi raised his foot, pointed to the shoes on his feet, and with a happy smile in the tears in his eyes, he gave Yu Qingyang a thumbs up, "Chinese friend, Mr. Yu, thank you!"
Yu Qingyang smiled and nodded at the stone, and encouraged, "Work hard, in the future, not only will you have tender and good food, clothes and shoes to wear, but also a new house to live in!"
The stone left with a thousand thanks.
Walk cautiously, for fear of getting dirty, damaging your shoes, and looking a little awkward.
Looking at the direction in which the stone went, it was going to his own people, probably to show off his new shoes.
"Xiao Li, this stone, I remember that you introduced it to me last time, isn't it called Abu?
Why is it called a stone again, and its name has been changed?"
"Mr. Yu, Abu is a transliteration, and the stone is his Chinese name, which he took himself!
Berbers are very arbitrary! In fact, the whole of Africans are quite arbitrary!
It's called anything!
It's a bit similar to the rural naming we used to make, what you saw or impressed you when you were born, you name your child!
Of the newly recruited Berbers, there are five called stones!
It's just that the stone was occupied first, and the others are called big stones, small stones, green stones, and black stones!" Xiao Li smiled and told Yu Qingyang and them the jokes about the black people's names.
"Hehe!" Yu Qingyang laughed twice.
patted Xiao Li on the shoulder, "Good job!"
"Thank you, Mr. Yu, for the compliment!" Xiao Li smiled happily.
"Lao Zhao, have you arranged for someone to smash the stone?"
"Find a hundred Berbers to throw stones, and they'll come to work tomorrow!
Eat and live every day, 300 dirhams a day!"
"Hmm!" Yu Qingyang nodded.
300 dirhams, equivalent to two yuan in RMB.
In China, you will definitely be scolded as a black-hearted boss, but in Africa, you can manage three meals a day and give 300 dirhams, and there are definitely countless people who want this job.
At this time, there was no minimum wage in Aggigia.
Therefore, the government will not care how much you pay, even if you pay the salary, as long as someone does it.
Of course, the government doesn't care, but the industry has its own rules, and you can't break the rules.
It can't be much higher than the wages of other construction sites, otherwise it will be a violation of the rules and will be resisted by the industry.
Back in the office, the person in charge of the well-drilling company came over, "Mr. Yu, just now Mr. Zhao informed me that there is no need to drill wells!"
"Yes, there is no need to drill a well for the time being!"
"So, can you settle the fee?"
"What cost?" Yu Qingyang asked with a smile.
"The cost of digging a well!"
"Sir, take out the contract and take a look!
I didn't claim compensation from you, so I already gave you a lot of face!" Yu Qingyang leaned back in his chair and looked at the person in charge of drilling the well and sneered.
"Mr. Yu, this is not our fault......
"Is that our fault?
According to the contract, the well will produce water, and can guarantee a certain amount of water output, we will pay you!
Now the location of the well is determined by you!
But in the end, it was the oil, not the great underground water that you had promised!
Because of the delayed time and the lost work, should I claim compensation from your company?" Yu Qingyang asked with a glare.
"Mr. Yu, there is no water here, we can continue to drill the well in another place until the water comes out!"
Now, however, it is you who unilaterally demand the termination of the contract.
So, you're going to pay us the fees!"
"Do you know that if you change the location, you will be able to drill water, not oil?"
"This ......," muttered the head of the well-drilling company.
He really can't guarantee it.
According to the depth of the drilling rig, it is exactly the depth of the large underground water veins marked in the map of the underground water system of Aggie and Lia.
But it's oil, not water.
So does it mean that the water veins marked in the original drawings are all oil veins?
"Today, the Deputy Mayor of the Butitan Municipality, Muftah, and the Mineral Resources Authority, Romas, have made it clear that we must not continue to drill wells for water at this location!
Sir, tell me where I can get water around?
What if it's still oil?" Yu Qingyang stood up and pointed to the cloth titan map on the wall.
"Mr. Yu, the water veins are underground, and we can only speculate according to various geological conditions, according to the mineral resource distribution map provided by Ajigeria!
Something underground, who would dare to say 100%?
It's normal to speculate that there is a deviation!"
"Nope!
Speculation is forgivable, but water turns into oil, and this is not a deviation that can be explained!
Sir, your company was introduced by Motoki Trading Company!
Therefore, for the sake of the face of Yuanmu D Company, I will not hold you responsible!
Let's terminate the contract peacefully!"
"I can't be the master, I need to report this to the company!" The on-site person in charge of the drilling company stared at Yu Qingyang for a while, and finally compromised.
"Okay, I'm waiting for your company's decision!
Hope it's a happy news!" Yu Qingyang smiled.
The person in charge of the site of the drilling company had no choice but to leave Yu Qingyang's office.
Originally, he touched a nose of ash at Zhao Xinlei, and he wanted justice to find Yu Qingyang.
The result was, of course, disappointment.
Let you dig a well for water, you pumped oil for me, and you still want money?
There are no doors!
Of course, if they dare to pack a ticket and say that the next well will definitely not produce oil, and water will be guaranteed.
And signed the contract, Yu Qingyang didn't mind letting him try.
After all, if they can really get water, it will be equivalent to solving their big trouble.
No need to report to the country anymore.
……
Early the next morning, two security guards drove out of the camp with Zhao Xinlei and Mr. Lu.
They went to the Geographical Glass of Aggegia's capital and reported the situation to the country through the embassy.