Chapter 3, the beginning of the bloody collapse
Admittedly, the current Cadet Corps is only an insignificant small group.
But in Douglas's plan, sooner or later, the group would need to expand and develop a more complete management system.
At that time, it will be impossible to leave all the chores of maintaining the normal operation of the organization as it is now, and all the tasks will be entrusted to the teenager himself.
Specifically, he intended to put Hagrid in charge of the martial arts department for the maintenance of order and the fight against the outside world.
Let Wright be in charge of the outreach department for surveying and mapping technology and the coordination of the relationship between the units.
In the various functions where Douglas intends to build the team, there have been no suitable candidates for the positions related to intelligence processing and personnel scheduling.
Unexpectedly, he took the time to train Lily's fruit ability today, but he seemed to have inadvertently solved this problem.
Douglas decided that he would personally teach the girl some basic information processing and archiving methods for the next period of time, and tried to hand over some of the information management of the Cadet Corps to her.
If this clever girl could really take on the heavy responsibilities as he expected, it would be of great help in his future work.
Of course, this is a process that will take quite a long time to perfect... After all, as the head of intelligence, the optical club's book processing is far from enough, and if conditions allow, there are many, many things that Douglas has to teach her.
However, before that, the Osiris family finally announced the reward for Douglas.
- It is a pity that the teenager did not get the post of foreign comprador.
After careful consideration by the upper echelons of the family, it was decided to take advantage of his many years of walking in the West End, and ordered him to take the place of the Hale brothers, manage the slum-related business, and pay taxes to the family regularly.
Yes, even if Douglas foiled Hale's "plot" and saved the eldest lady from fire and water, the family's final reward for him was only to manage this slum that had been ravaged by the fire.
There is no start-up funding, and this year's taxes will not be less... This is more of a problem than a reward.
"Is this the legendary self-inflicted..."
As the mastermind behind everything, Douglas himself couldn't help frowning, and felt a headache for no reason.
But after all, he did not dwell on regrets, complaints, and other emotions that did not have any practical benefit. Instead, they immediately began to look for a solution to the problem in a desperate situation.
Given the extent of the damage to the fishing grounds today, it is a fool's dream to resume production this year and rely on similar methods to make up the tax in a similar way as in previous years.
What's more, the houses and materials have been destroyed, and the food and living of thousands of people have become an urgent need.
As for the workaround...
At the turn of spring and summer, if we promote modern fisheries, abandon the original offshore fishing methods, and carry out marine and freshwater aquaculture and industrial aquaculture, the harvest and efficiency will be greatly improved compared with before, and the tax should be collected before the end of the year.
However, this approach requires a sum of money as an upfront investment, and the effect cycle is long, which cannot solve the existing supply gap. Douglas quickly vetoed it.
Or, following the model of the economically backward areas of the previous life, they will send labor to other advanced regions, and develop the original fishermen into migrant workers.
In this way, it can solve the problem of food and clothing for a large number of poor people, but the paradox is that Douglas currently has limited access to information and cannot help fishermen introduce so many jobs in one go.
What's more, from the perspective of the Osiris family, this kind of population loss is certainly not something that the mafia is happy to see for the capitation tax mafia. Therefore, this strategy is also not possible to be carried out alone.
… Since the primary and secondary industries are limited, after weighing the pros and cons, Douglas finally chose the road out of poverty is to move closer to the tertiary industry (service industry)!
In the process of collecting information before, Douglas also inadvertently noticed that there are indeed many tourism resources with pleasant scenery and certain landscape development value in the coastal area of the western area of Crescent Island.
Compared to building a modern fish farming plant out of thin air, the initial development of these natural landscapes is obviously much less expensive.
These men who are sturdy and brave the hardships of the sea, and it is obvious that they are not afraid to carve out a few fun routes on the islands and reefs and dangerous peaks near the sea.
At the same time, borrowing the original fishing boats and fishing equipment, Douglas also plans to recruit some excellent fishermen and sailors to develop an eco-friendly tourist fishery, so as to further expand the amusement program and fun.
Of course, on the most important question of customer sources, Douglas also has a plan.
Taking advantage of the nearly one-month gap in the early stages of the project's development, he himself would apply to visit other nearby islands with more mobile populations and affluent populations.
By working part-time at a travel company, he attracts tourists to the island.
He knew that this kind of thing sounded a bit fanciful, but with the special ability of "intelligence gathering", as well as his own expertise in observing words and feelings, and dealing with people, it didn't seem too difficult to open the situation.
On the other hand, taking this opportunity, Douglas can also get in touch with more people with special talents, in addition to learning more knowledge through "intelligence acquisition", he also considers absorbing some of them as reserve talents in the Junior Army, and further expanding his power.
Thinking of this, Douglas began to complete the details of the whole plan in his mind, and at the same time, he took the pen that Miss Freila had given him personally, and began to speak to the throbbing girl.
- "To Miss Freira, your most faithful Douglas"
- "The vicissitudes of life, but love is immortal, standing for thousands of years until the end of the world; If anyone can prove that I am overly speaking, then even if I have never written poetry, and the world has never loved..." )
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Time flies, in a blink of an eye, three years of time like a white horse, hurrying by.
After handing over all the slums of the West End to Douglas, the Osiris family never had the slightest concern about taxes in the past three years.
A teenager who went out to open up the market alone started as an ordinary receptionist and set up his own travel company in just three years.
Under his guidance, the West End has been transformed into a new one, with aesthetically pleasing infrastructure and additional activities such as slalom, sea fishing, stalactite cave exploration, reef diving, and more, which attract visitors every day.
People who once lived in poverty sincerely thanked this miraculous young man, and after he took power, the Western District changed from the dilapidated and backward state of abject poverty, and even strode towards a well-off life.
However, from Douglas's point of view, these superficial projects are only a small part of his plan.