Chapter 266: The Most Primitive Transaction (Asking for a Monthly Pass!)
"Mr. Yu, I don't understand what you mean, Xiao Lu is also kind enough to remind them!" said head chef Wang Guangyong aggrievedly.
"What did you ask for before? The waste water and leftovers from each meal are poured into the pit and buried in time!
How do you do that?"
"We ......"
"You think it's forty or fifty meters away from the camp, it won't affect the camp, right?
Have you ever thought that if you don't bury it in time, the mosquitoes and flies that breed here will just go to the camp, suck your blood, and then spread diseases!"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yu! We were wrong, we must pay attention in the future, and bury it one at a time!"
"This time it's a warning, next time you find that you don't bury the leftovers in time after dumping the leftovers, I'll deduct your bonus for one month!" Yu Qingyang reprimanded very harshly.
Everyone is new to the African continent, and everything here is very unfamiliar, and all the knowledge is through other people's accounts and biographies.
Be careful!
After dealing with the outside affairs, Yu Qingyang returned to the camp.
Everyone is still packing up, a lot of furniture is still piled up outside, yesterday just cleaned up a few offices and the rooms that everyone needs to stay in for the night.
Nothing else has been packed yet.
Look up at the sky, it's blue!
Not even a single cloud.
It was only past eight o'clock, and before nine o'clock, the temperature was already almost 356 degrees.
Look at this, by noon the temperature can reach about 40 degrees.
The employees were sweating hot.
All of this office furniture and living furniture are procured locally.
Absolute conscience furniture, dead and heavy.
Yu Qingyang did not go back to the conference room, but looked around the camp, talking to the staff from time to time and joking.
The meeting was held to assign tasks, which was the job of project manager Zhao Xinlei.
Since Yu Qingyang has arranged a project manager, he must give him the right.
If he does everything himself, Zhao Xinlei, the project manager, has become an ornament, when will he be able to take charge on his own?
Therefore, after Yu Qingyang explained in the conference room why he built the road first and then built the house, he left the conference room under the pretext of excuse.
is afraid that he will affect Zhao Xinlei's performance.
Yu Qingyang's definition of himself in Africa is a mascot.
Cheer everyone up and cheer them up.
Give Zhao Xinlei a platform to stand on.
The rest of the time, he's on vacation in Africa.
Of course, if there is a suitable opportunity, you can also invest in it.
At ten o'clock, the first meeting of the Ajigeria project department finally ended.
Zhao Xinlei and other leaders of the project department walked out of the conference room.
"Mr. Yu......" Zhao Xinlei came over and wanted to report the content of the meeting to Yu Qingyang.
"Lao Zhao, don't report it! Just go back and give me a copy of the meeting minutes!
I'm still the same, I won't interfere with your management!
It's up to you what to do!
If there is a problem that can't be solved, come to me again!" Yu Qingyang smiled and patted Zhao Xinlei on the shoulder.
"Okay, Mr. Yu!
Thank you Mr. Yu for cultivating!" Zhao Xinlei said excitedly.
"No way, I want to be lazy, so I can only cultivate a backbone like you!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
At the end of the meeting, the camp was suddenly running like a clockwork clock.
Leaving some people to continue to clean up the camp, technicians and construction workers, under the leadership of the director of the construction department and the director of the technical department, drove out of the camp in pickup trucks.
The pickup truck is a domestically produced Great Wall pickup truck.
Support domestic products.
The excavator also started and roared out of the camp.
The excavator is to go to the side to sort out the production base, dig drainage ditches, and prepare for the construction of the production base.
The technicians and constructors went to the planned No. 1 road to measure and pay-off.
There were two teams of men, each accompanied by four heavily armed security guards.
Yu Qingyang told Zhao Xinlei what happened at the gate of the camp just now, so that he could know it in his heart.
"I think from tonight onwards, language training will be strengthened!
Otherwise, we really won't be able to move an inch on the land of Africa!"
"Mr. Yu is right, I'll arrange it when I go back, and let the translator hand over Arabic to everyone!" Zhao Xinlei nodded and agreed.
While he was talking, a convoy came outside.
The car pulled up to the door, and several white men in suits and ties got out of the car.
These people were officials of the Butitan government.
Don't think that Africa is the world of blacks, in fact, there are many more whites than blacks in Africa.
It may be difficult for Chinese to understand that in such a hot weather, these people are still wearing suits and ties.
This is Western etiquette.
Africa has been enslaved by Western countries for hundreds of years.
In addition to religious beliefs, many habits have very distinctly Western characteristics.
Yu Qingyang tidied up his clothes and greeted Zhao Xinlei.
They are wearing the company's uniform customized tooling.
A light blue long-sleeved shirt and cargo pants, and even the shoes are two-star dark high-top sneakers.
Because it is a tooling and it is in the construction site camp, there is no such thing as etiquette.
If you are in the city and you still wear work clothes, it will be considered disrespectful to others.
Yu Qingyang smiled and stretched out his hand, "Hello, Good morning!"
“Good morning! How do you do!” One of the big middle-aged white men stretched out his hand to shake hands with Yu Qingyang and say hello.
"I am the general manager of China Huayu Second Engineering Construction Group, my name is Yu Qingyang!
This is Mr. Zhao Xinlei, Project Manager of the Construction Assistance Project of 10,000 People's Community in Butetan City, Ajihe Leah. Yu Qingyang introduced himself and Zhao Xinlei to each other.
Fortunately, Yu Qingyang's English is okay, although the simple conversation is a little stumbling, but it can still express the meaning clearly.
The other party also introduced himself.
They are officials of the city government of Butitan and can be regarded as the role of the owner's representative.
Although it is an aid project, Butitan City still has to send representatives to be responsible for communicating and coordinating some things.
Of course, the overseers have a supervision company, and they don't need to take care of this.
The distinction between this part is very clear in foreign countries, and the owner decides that it will not go to the site to supervise the quality of your project.
This is the responsibility of the supervising company.
The owner is responsible for the project approval in the early stage, looking for contractors and so on.
For example, in this project, the owner is responsible for communicating with the Chinese side in the early stage and obtaining China's consent to assist in the construction.
Others, provide land for production and living bases.
Then it is to supervise you for any illegal acts during the construction process.
Whether the construction progress of the project is carried out in accordance with the contract.
Of course, when it comes to this project, it is not so strict, because it is a gratuitous aid.
So a lot of things are not so strict, as long as you don't have obvious violations of the law, violations of the Aggia's religious beliefs, it won't interfere with you too much.
Today, they came here because they knew that Chinese companies had entered the market, so they came to have a look and come to express their condolences in Chinese.
Yu Qingyang invited them to the reception room, and asked people to invite the translator and Mr. Lu over.
Yu Qingyang can barely communicate in English, but Zhao Xinlei cannot.
You can't let him be a translator for Zhao Xinlei!
Yu Qingyang's tea art finally has a place to show.
I pretended to be forced to demonstrate the Chinese tea art to the four Aji and Liaibu Titan officials.
The four Aji and Lia Titan officials were shocked, and they shouted vigorously, "
Very good!”
“Magic China!”
Libya also drinks tea, where tea is a high-end drink to entertain guests.
At noon, Yu Qingyang entertained four Butitan officials at the camp and enjoyed a Chinese meal.
The four people who ate shouted, "Verygood!"
However, Ajigeria is an Arab country and believes in *** religion.
And after Cassifi came to power, he issued an alcohol abstinence order.
Alcohol abstinence nationwide, and drinking alcohol in public is strictly prohibited.
So, at noon there are only delicious dishes and no fine wine.
Officials in Ajigeria are about the same as those in the country.
………
Yu Qingyang somewhat underestimated the appeal of food and water to Ajigerians.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Qingyang was directly stunned.
After sending off the four Buttitan officials at two o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Qingyang returned to the dormitory and took a nap.
until he was woken up by Sun Jian.
When I walked to the gate of the camp, I saw thousands of people coming to the camp from all directions in the distance.
Taking the telescope handed over by Sun Jian, Yu Qingyang found that these were all black people living nearby.
You must know that although there are more than a dozen villages around here, the nearest villages to the camp are also dozens of kilometers, and even more than 100 kilometers away.
Now that so many people are coming in the direction of the camp, it is estimated that many villages have been dispatched en masse.
From the binoculars, you can see that the crowd of people who rushed to the city were men and women, old and young.
Someone carries something on their backs, someone carries something on their heads.
There was also a three- or four-year-old child, holding a stone in his arms, and walking with difficulty behind the adult.
Of course, there are also people with relatively good living conditions, driving donkey carts.
Leading the camel, the camel is holding an object in the shape of a stone or something.
In this place, there is a camel, probably a very wealthy family.
Sure enough, people die for money, and birds die for food.
Under the temptation of food and water, the Aggegitrians, the whole family, went into battle and started a crowd tactic.
"Go and call all the translators at home, and get the people in the material procurement office ready too!" Yu Qingyang instructed the people around him.
Whatever they were transporting, it was definitely in exchange for food and water.
Yu Qingyang secretly rejoiced in his heart, thanks to the five truckloads of water that had just been delivered at noon today.
Otherwise, I really can't handle it.
It seems that we will need to continue to deliver water here tomorrow.
Together, the translators and the people from the purchasing department came to the vacant lot that would be used as a production base in the future.
Workers and masters from home helped carry the grain to the open field.
Yu Qingyang directly asked people to drive a water truck to prepare it.
As soon as the side was ready, the Aggialians arrived.
Under the guidance, we came to the open space of the production base.
"Lined up, one by one, we had plenty of food and water, and also needed a very, very much stone, wood and sand!
Please don't crowd!Get in line!" Interpreter Xiao Li shouted loudly, maintaining order.
Yu Qingyang stood next to him, watching Xiao Li shouting hoarsely, and said in his heart that he should be equipped with a small horn for collecting waste products.
Other interpreters were also shouting to keep order.
"Everybody line up, come one by one! When will you line up, when will you start trading!"
A few old men who were obviously leaders were also helping to maintain order.
It is said that it is the leader, and it can be seen by the clothes, among so many people, only these few are wearing robes and turbans.
Obviously different from others.
Soon all the Ajigeria quieted down, lined up and waited quietly for the exchange.
It's also that they really don't have the strength anymore, so they have to hold dozens of catties of stones and drive such a long way.
I can't stand still, and I still have the energy to make a fuss.
The line was lined up, and the problem came out again, most of these people came with their arms or carrying a stone on their backs.
No matter how strong a person is, how much can he carry?
Not to mention one side, not an inch.
Also, these Aghicians are simply illiterate and don't understand what one side is.
It is only known that stones can be exchanged for food and water.
Yu Qingyang didn't speak, just stood by and watched how the director of the procurement department solved this problem.
I saw Chen Xiang, the director of the procurement department, call a buyer and muttered a few words to him, and the purchaser ran back to the camp.
After a while, he ran back with a stack of stainless steel bowls and a few empty mineral water bottles.
He was followed by an excavator.
Yu Qingyang looked at it curiously.
I saw Chen Xiang first fill ten bowls with flour, and then fill ten mineral water bottles with water.
"Fill this thing up for this food and water!" the interpreter Xiao Li shouted loudly to the Ajigerians.
Talent!
Yu Qingyang couldn't help laughing.
Ten stainless steel bowls can hold about ten pounds of flour.
Aggie and Lia produce flour, so the price is not high, a pound of flour is only five or six cents.
According to six cents, ten catties is six yuan.
A mineral water bottle can hold 500 milliliters of water, and it costs almost 80 yuan to transport a piece of water here.
One side of water is equal to 1,000 liters, which can hold 2,000 bottles of such mineral water.
A bottle of water is equal to four cents.
Ten bottles equals four cents.
Six dollars plus four cents, six dollars four, converted into dirhams, although less than a thousand, is almost less.
And the bucket of the excavator is a three-inch bucket.
Because there are gaps in the stone, it is also appropriate to convert three inches into one side.
Count it up, everyone doesn't suffer.
Here we have to say that there is great power in numbers.
Although the stones that can be carried by one person are small, they cannot withstand many people.
Polygamy is practiced in Ajigeria.
It's normal to have seven or eight people in a family.
There are even more than ten or twenty people
The current exchange has been changed to a family unit, and the family stepped forward to put the stone into the excavator bucket.
Chen Xiang decided how much food and water to give them according to the level of filling.
The first one, only half full of excavators.
"You only have half of your stones, so I can only give you these!" the interpreter translated Chen Xiang's words to the other party.
In fact, there is no need for translation, and the other party understands, because Chen Xiang pushed five bowls of flour and five bottles of mineral water forward.
Meaning to give these.
It's not much, but the Aghitians are satisfied.
His family is small, only 10 people.
This flour and water are enough for them to eat for a day.
If you send two trips a day, you can ensure that the whole family is fed.
When the deal is complete, the excavator driver spins the body, dumps the stone to the side, and turns it back again.
Proceed to the next trade.
It's not fast, but it's orderly.
One by one, they are traded.
And then reap a share of gratitude.
Speaking of which, the Aggegians are still very kind.
Halfway through the transaction, the village chief, wearing a robe and a turban, came to Yu Qingyang with people.
Saying a great deal, the light of Allah is ever, thank Allah, Allah's blessings, send a sheep.
Thank you Yu Qingyang for helping them.
Sheep are a valuable asset to the Aghicilians, especially the semi-nomadic.
To put it mildly, in Ajigeria, a sheep can marry a daughter-in-law.
That's a big gift.
Yu Qingyang accepted the kindness of the village chief and gave back two buckets of five liters of pure water.