Chapter 010: Exploring the Island
As soon as he got out of the dock, he had a casual meal, and before he had time to rest for a while, Li Le couldn't wait to inspect the Yueban Market. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Under the leadership of Feng Lao, Li Le and his entourage first inspected the transport depot near the wharf.
As soon as he arrived at the door, Li Le saw a huge five-star red flag and Cuban flag planted at the door, because it was the busy agricultural season, some truck drivers and freight personnel had been transferred to the plantations in the suburbs and the marble mines in the south to deliver goods, and only one team leader, Ovega, was left in the entire depot to repair an old-fashioned Jiefang car.
This four-ton CA10 Jiefang brand car, even participated in China's 1956 National Day military parade, is China's earliest production of a batch of transport trucks, based on the Soviet Union Giss 150 manufacturing, equipped with 90 horsepower, four-stroke six-cylinder engine, exported to Cuba decades ago, these years, these have long disappeared in the motherland of the "old antiques", after the continuous transformation and repair of the Cuban people, become the "iron baby" on Treasure Island to promote the transportation of materials.
Under the introduction of Ovega, Li Le learned that at present, there are four CA10 transport trucks and eight transport personnel in the entire transportation factory, and their main responsibilities are handling, transportation, repair, etc., and the main problem is that the transportation capacity is tight, and a number of new transport trucks need to be purchased to meet the growing transportation needs of the island.
Bidding farewell to the team captain Oviga and the transport depot factory, the second stop of Li Le's inspection trip was the construction factory not far away.
After all, it is a building, and from the outside, the whole factory is much more atmospheric and tidy than the transportation factory not far away, and the whole factory consists of a two-story office building and three storage warehouses, which store mountains of wood, red bricks, marble, in addition to a lot of lime, cement, and steel bars purchased from the island of Cuba.
Ricardo, the captain of the construction team, said that there are currently 10 construction workers in the entire construction factory, and their main responsibility is to build and maintain the roads and buildings on the island, and there is no immediate problem at present, but if a large number of immigrants come to the island in the future, the construction factory will not only need to expand its recruitment, but also buy some new cement mixers.
The most interesting thing for Li Le was the third stop of the inspection trip - Treasure Island Middle School.
Although it was the long vacation before the school's final exams, there were still many elementary school students living nearby who were playing football in the football field of the campus. Feng Lao, who was on the side, said that there are currently 40 primary school students, 30 middle school students, and five teachers on the island, and thanks to the free education currently implemented in Cuba, these teachers not only do not need to bear the expenses of Li Le, but can also receive a part of the education subsidy every month.
After leaving middle school, Li Le's next stop was the hospital.
If there's anything Cuba is more famous for than rum and cigars, it's their doctors, who have an average of 1 doctor for every 102 people, which is also the highest in the world. Most of the houses are two- to three-story wooden houses and brick houses, and the only "high" five-story building is the Yueban Hospital, which has a complete range of departments and six doctors serving the people of the city, but due to the lack of funds, there are still many medical equipment that have not been purchased.
In addition to the above important inspection sites, Li Le and his entourage also visited local shops, police stations and welfare canteens. The shops on the island are still nothing, and many ordinary small things are not available on the island, which is a huge business opportunity for Li Le.
The police in Yueban City may be the loneliest profession on the island, thanks to the good law and order environment, there is only one policeman named Costa in the entire Yueban City, when Li Le and his party first visited him, this burly, bearded, curly-haired middle-aged man was shirtless, smoking a big cigar, planting sweet potatoes in the open space next to the police station......
Compared with the desertion of the police station, the welfare canteen is much more lively, many retired and unemployed citizens can receive three meals a day here for free every day, although the food is not delicious, but it can also be eaten full, and received a banana rice mixed with bananas and rice, for Li Le, the taste is not unpalatable, but he is used to eating polished rice, and then eating this Cuban rice, he always feels weird, if it is not for the lubrication of bananas, this rice is not easy to swallow, Feng Lao on the side introduced, Cuba does not produce rice locally, and most of this rice comes from war-ready rice, which we usually call old rice, which is sold at low prices on the international market.
After spending a whole day researching, Li Le finally has a general understanding of the Yueban market.
The population of the entire city is about 500 people, but nearly 200 of them are retirees over 60 years old, and most of them are aspiring young people from the pioneering movement decades ago.
In addition to these retirees and children who are studying, most of the laborers are ordinary farmers and fishermen, thanks to Cuba's good education for all, most of them have good literacy skills and simple scientific knowledge, but the lack of agricultural knowledge and agricultural technology makes them can only grow sugarcane, corn, bananas for a living, their income is extremely unstable, and many times they have to rely on agricultural subsidies to survive.
Although the moon and a half are small, they have all kinds of organs. Hospitals, shops, schools, and all kinds of public service departments are all carried out in an orderly manner under the management of Feng Lao.
After finishing the inspection in the welfare canteen, Li Le and his party were escorted by a classic car back to a beach villa not far from the city center, which used to be the residence and office of his uncle Li Bofu's family.
Yelena and Luisa were frolicking on the beach not far away, while Li Le was lying on a comfortable beach chair, thinking about his business plan: "Old Feng, let's buy a few better transport trucks first, and we don't need to be too good, what Mercedes-Benz, BMW, let's make do with it first, didn't the construction factory say that it will recruit people in the future?" Invite a hundred young strong men directly from the island of Cuba, and turn the houses and toilets on the island into villas and bungalows, which are beautiful and bright, and when the time comes, we will definitely attract many settlers to work with us, and the welfare canteen will also have more delicious food, lobsters, beef, and supply from time to time, all of which are enough, hehehe. Li Le chewed the big sugarcane while pointing at the country, "Old Feng, do you see these things?" What more? ”
"It's good, it's good." Feng Lao nodded and said with a smile.
"Okay, then let's do it, you can just spend it from my uncle's remaining bank account, money, it's not a problem at all~" Li Lele said he, like a rich man, in this life, spending money has never been so casual.
"It's just ......," Old Feng smiled embarrassedly, "Young Master...... Money is probably really an issue......"
"What's wrong? Short of money? Li Le spit out the sugarcane in his mouth.
"Not only is there a lack of money, but there is still no money, and we still owe a million dollars to the bank."
"Nani ?!!!!!!"
"Plop~", Li Le fell off the beach chair again.