Chapter 62: Buying a slave
The waste recycling station in Times Square is developing at an alarming speed, it is not an exaggeration to call it a day, with sufficient food and clean drinking water, the body of lions and others quickly returned to normal, the body is better, and the work efficiency has soared, these people are not afraid of hardship, not afraid of sweat, and even not afraid of bloodshed, for these hard-won food, everyone has exerted twelve points of strength.
Since the third day, Zhao Kangcheng's equipment and personnel have arrived one after another, renovating the site, installing equipment, and training personnel...... Times Square, inside and out, is in full swing.
Soon, some of the simple equipment has been put into use, and on the evening of the fourth day, the first batch of decomposed scrap iron was transported, but because the scrap car could not pass the side of the wall, it had to be transferred in the middle, which delayed the time, and only pulled twice in one night.
Almost on the sixth day, all the equipment was basically put into use, and the personnel who had undergone simple training had also been put on duty, and Times Square was like a long-dormant machine, suddenly filled with gasoline, and began to rumble and run, and since the beginning of the evening, the hairy monkey has not rested, and has been in a state of delivery.
On the seventh day, five other scrapped cars purchased by Wu Tianhua arrived, including a large trailer with twelve wheels, each car was filled with food, and after the five cars drove to Times Square, the whole square was boiling. Many people have never seen so much food and water in their lives, and it is enough for bathing.
It was also on this day that the last batch of equipment was assembled and put into use, Zhao Kangcheng's men and horses were withdrawn overnight, and let them stay in the slave camp for a week, which was enough to embarrass them, especially two of them, if Zhao Kangcheng did not give five times the salary, they would definitely not want to come, and the only estimate that could bear it was that the lions respected these people very much, and they were almost treated as bodhisattvas. Let them get a little satisfaction in their hearts.
Since the eighth day, Times Square has officially recruited people, as soon as the news came out, nearby slaves flocked to it, and there was already news that Times Square had been helped by nobles, and had access to endless food and a large amount of drinking water.
On the first day, recruit a hundred, all send them to dig garbage, a copper plate of 100 catties, more work and more rewards, and the 100 people who successfully applied for the job heard a copper plate of 100 catties, and almost went crazy, rushed to the garbage mountain and began to work, without rest. Some lucky people found scrapped cars or motorcycles, and dug out five or six hundred catties in a few hours, and an energy pipe was in hand, such an event quickly stimulated others, especially after a slave dug up a container and exchanged it for two steamed buns at once, no one can calm down.
Steamed buns, steamed buns with white flowers.
That night, five large trucks and a large trailer rumbled out of Times Square and drove in the direction of Commercial Street. Seeing so many copper plates, more than a hundred big men, including lions, cried, they had never seen so much money in their lives, and it was just one night's income. However, they also know that this is the inventory dug up in the past seven or eight years, and at the current rate of shipments, the inventory will be used up in a week at most, and at that time, there will definitely be a significant decline in income. However, even so, everyone was very satisfied.
If it was before, even if you sold all the inventory, you might not get 1% of the money. One by one, they were very grateful to Liu Wei'an.
In the end, it was the lion who recovered from the excitement first, because he thought of the investment in these equipment, and the ten million copper plates, all of which were cushioned out by Liu Wei'an, and a heavy sense of responsibility pressed on his shoulders.
The next day, 200 people were recruited, because there were many people coming, and the conditions for recruiting people were much stricter, basically picking those who had a better reputation, and it didn't matter if the body was almost there, there was a lesson from Shar Pei, and the lion was very strict in recruiting people.
Yesterday's 100 people, by the time it gets dark at night, basically all earned about 10 copper plates, for these slaves who have no income, 10 copper plates is already a high price, and everyone is proud to work in Times Square. In fact, honor is secondary, the key is income, people like them, no one outside to collect, no factory inside, can only wait for death, now finally there is a Times Square, the more the news spreads, the more people come here, today is not selected to wait for tomorrow, as long as Times Square will still recruit people, they will not give up.
On the third day, 300 people were recruited, and then the pace slowed down, and their security team was only more than 100 people, and there were too many workers, so it would not be good to make trouble. After some rigorous scrutiny, the lion recruited about fifty people into the security team, bringing the number of security teams to about two hundred.
That is, on this night, a force more than 50 kilometers away came to attack in the middle of the night, but I didn't expect that the lion 200 security teams had already prepared, each armed with a crossbow arrow, and a few shotguns, before launching a round of impact, the people who were shot turned over on their backs, most of the dead and wounded, the rest of the people were killed in the escape I don't know how much, in the dark night, there were many people who were injured by mistake by their companions, and when they ran back, the team of more than 300 people was less than 40 people, and there were more than a dozen wounded. With such a small number of people, naturally they couldn't hold the garbage mountain, and within a few days, they were wiped out by other forces.
This battle made the nearby garbage mountain see the strength of the lion and others, and originally gave birth to some careful thoughts, but now it has also been suppressed, and the people who are also quiet, as well as the people who are waiting for the job nearby, have not been selected for several days, so they are naturally resentful, and after seeing the corpses all over the ground, the resentment disappeared in an instant.
Times Square has entered the fast lane of development, with hundreds of thousands of copper plates of income every day, thriving, however, there are many hidden problems, at first everyone did not think, but with the increase in the number of people, some small problems have been expanded. Housing problems, health problems, discipline problems, these are all under the high pressure of the lion, have been solved, although the speed is relatively slow, but they are easy to solve, now there are two most important problems, one is the lack of managers, and the other is the lack of finance.
It's good that slaves can eat well, and there is no need to think about going to school, and it is rare that a few people know a few words, and being able to write their names is already considered talented, and it is better to let these people do the bills, it is better to let them dig up garbage. Zhao Xin, who has been studying for less than two months, is better than them.
But there is a lot of money, and it is not good to manage it, three or five hundred copper plates are good to say, and the number of them is out, and now the copper plates have exceeded one million, such a huge amount of money, if it is not handled well, it will be a big mess, the lion reported this problem to Liu Wei'an, however, Liu Wei'an has no good way. There's no way he's going to manage his finances, and he doesn't have the time. And so it dragged on.
On this day, Liu Wei'an got up early in the morning, the food at home had been eaten, he was going to buy a batch of food back, just walked to the commercial street, he heard a commotion in the square, dozens of buses stopped there, it turned out that another group of slaves were transported. This kind of thing happens every once in a while, it is commonplace, Liu Wei'an was about to turn around and leave, but at the moment of turning around, he paused, and his eyes caught a glimpse of a familiar face.
It was a girl, her long hair was messy, she hadn't combed for I don't know how long, her body was thin, her face was thin because she hadn't eaten for an unknown amount of time, her eye sockets were deep, her nose was very straight, her skin was white, and there was a hint of blue, only a pair of eyes were still bright, different from the fearful, panicked, fearful, and blank eyes around her, these eyes were full of monstrous hatred.
However, what Liu Wei'an noticed was not these eyes, but this face, which was very similar to a female classmate he had when he was in the Earth Orphanage, both in terms of face shape and body shape, especially the eyes and nose, which were at least eight points alike. This is Liu Wei'an's only good partner in the orphanage, and there may still be some inexplicable feelings in it, but at that time, I was young and didn't understand these things.
Soon, Liu Wei'an shook his head in disappointment, like an image, not after all. One is Earth, the other is Mars, and it can't be so coincidental, after thinking about it, he still walked up to the girl, regardless of the girl's surprise, and said, "Say a reason, let me buy you." ”
Slaves had no human rights and could be purchased at will, but only from the state, and it was illegal to buy and sell them privately, and all slaves were recorded in the state archives. There were so many slaves in the slave areas, who seemed to have no owners, but in fact they were all the property of the state.
If you want to get a slave, you have to buy it, and all other methods are illegal. The state generally doesn't care, but if something happens and the state gets angry, a small matter like a slave can become a big problem. Ordinary people don't care about this, especially nobles, they have titles, but Liu Wei'an is not, he is just a commoner who has just obtained his ID card now, and it is more reassuring to pay for unnecessary trouble in the future.
"I have an IQ of 180, is that enough?" The girl was surprisingly calm, her eyes did not change at all, and she was neither excited nor uneasy.
"You have such a high IQ, how could you-" Liu Wei'an didn't continue.
"Didn't Copernicus also burn to death?" The girl said lightly and heavily.
"Okay, you're mine." Liu Wei'an smiled, his temper was not small. Walked up to a strong man with a meaty face, who was wearing a prison guard's costume, "How much does this person cost?" ”
The prison guard turned his head to look, and immediately, a thick breath of bad breath spurted out: "That girl's Lao Tzu is not simple, but she is a little uninteresting, cheap for you, 10 silver coins." ”
Liu Wei'an knew at a glance that the prison guards regarded themselves as fat sheep, and any slave who was pulled to this area was basically picked aside layer by layer, and the rest were crooked melons and cracked dates that no one wanted, and the difference between ten or so copper plates was one, and if it was good-looking, it was only seventy or eighty copper plates, and there were only one hundred copper plates in the sky. However, he did not bargain and threw 10 copper plates out.
The prison guard was overjoyed, he was originally a little worried that the price was high and scared Liu Wei'an away, but he didn't expect it to be really a fat sheep, so he found out the girl's deed of sale as quickly as possible, stamped an official seal, and asked Liu Wei'an to sign his name, in duplicate, and the transaction was completed.
Liu Wei'an glanced at it and saw the girl's name: Fang Xiaoyuan, it's really fate, and the name of the little friend in the orphanage is the same, but the surname is different.