Chapter 017: Transparent Man
What He Xiao said to Diana was not entirely a fool.
Building Hawk Island is exactly what he's been doing lately.
Of course, it is impossible to become fat in one bite, you have to take it step by step.
He didn't intend to rely entirely on the system to accomplish this goal, it was unnecessary, and it was too much of a waste of energy and time.
As long as strategic technical resources are provided to Hawk Island, and then the framework is set up, with the ability of Andre and his wife and others, Hawk Island can be completely built.
He didn't need to build it brick by brick.
After Ambrera Coconut Water Company "developed" the "coconut water raw squeezing technology", the coconut water beverage production plant built in advance has begun to put into operation, and 40 workers have been recruited in the first phase, and the wages have been greatly increased to 800 pounds per month compared to before, which is double that of a year ago.
This is not that He Xiao or Roger Andre deliberately scattered coins to distribute benefits, but after the recent infrastructure of Hawk Island, bars and restaurants and other service industries have developed, and many of the original unemployed have found jobs.
The quality requirements of the workers in the coconut water factory are still relatively high, at least they have to be Chinese, young and healthy, so the wages are definitely not good.
Mia Akagi and Nico now earn 1,200 pounds a month.
On the way off work, they chatted and said, or they would simply quit their jobs and go directly to work in the factory.
Of course, it is also said that working in the Duke's Mansion is much easier than in the factory, and the benefits are very good, and all kinds of strange things from all over the world will be the first to come into contact with.
Hawk Island is a closed island, and there was a serious lack of foreign exchange before, so many goods that are very common abroad are difficult to transport here, plus resources such as food and fuel are the priority to import goods, and the number of other non-essential goods and luxury goods imported is very small, and only the people of the Duke's Palace and the Executive Hall can get it relatively easily.
The reason why they were willing to work as maids in the Duke's Mansion was not only because there was really no other suitable job to do, but also because they could get the most in-demand and fashionable goods here, which would make them stars on the island, not to mention more face in front of the little sisters.
Although ordinary commodities have become less scarce since the discovery of oil on Hawk Island, there are still many more novelties in the Duke's Mansion.
For example, they are one of the first people in the whole Hawk Island to use hundreds of megabytes of fiber and WIFI signals, and like those in developed countries, they don't have to worry about traffic to watch videos directly on their mobile phones, which can envy their little sisters.
In the past, the mobile phone signal of Hawk Island was borrowed from the country of Salia next door, the signal was very weak, and the traffic fee was amazingly high, there was once a little sister who had more traffic, and was forced to pay 320 ordinary pounds, and she would never be able to access the Internet after not paying.
Not long ago, under the guidance of Mr. Yang of CNOOC Company, a communications company in Dongguo helped Hawk Island lay and connect submarine optical cables and set up a 4G signal station covering the whole island.
Mia Akagi plans to go to the department store to get a new Dong-made mobile phone, which costs only 800 pounds and has 128G memory, so you can watch videos as much as you want, and you can also play many popular games in developed countries.
It is better to find a boyfriend from abroad so that she can immigrate to a developed country.
Although Hawk Island is developing, the gap between it and developed countries is still too big.
In fact, when the population of Hawker Island was at its largest, there were 1,200 people, and then they continued to migrate to the suzerainty of Tulip or the former suzerain, or to work in neighboring countries with larger economies and more employment opportunities, and the number of people left behind was only 800.
It's too far away, too far from the world's most important economies, to share in the dividends of globalization, and even if oil is discovered, it's hard to change that.
The example of the Nau country next door has not been many years ago.
Although the people in the Executive Hall and Mr. Andre have been promoting the idea of making Hawk Island a little star recently, Mia Akagi, Nico, and their little sisters are not particularly convinced.
However, it is still much better than before.
At least, wages have risen, there are entertainment venues, and every day after work, go to the bar for a drink, or go to the department store to shop, and buy a cup of coffee and fried chicken, this is the life that modern people should have.
If only you could use your fingers at home like Dongkook, and deliver any product and food directly to your door.
However, it seems that it will never be possible to develop such a strong logistics express industry without a large enough economy and dense population.
Not to mention that Hawk Island is not good, but also not many developed countries with low population density.
Some conditions are congenital and cannot be changed at all.
"Hawk Island is too small, there are too few people, and there is no future." Mia Akagi said with emotion.
"You can reclaim the sea, do you know that the land can be reclaimed? I read on the Internet that Xingpo and Dongguo have implemented it, we can fill up the surrounding sea and turn it into an island ten times a hundred times larger, and then we will build a lot of houses, distribute them for free, and we will accept them as long as they are not black. Nico said as she ate fried chicken.
"The cost is too high, there is no cost performance, it is impossible to implement, and the Xingpo country and the eastern country are only small-scale implementation." Mia Akagi is obviously more common sense than Nico.
"Why do you want to do so much, it's not good now." Nico didn't care, and continued to happily eat fried chicken and drink Coke.
Before He Xiao asked her to learn to cut videos with Akagi Meiya, Akagi Meiya learned well, and she fished after two days of studying.
How comfortable it is to lie flat, why do you have to work so hard.
"Haha, that's right." Mia Akagi didn't argue with her either, and then whispered, "By the way, Niko, you're so beautiful, have you ever thought about being an Internet celebrity?" Diana is on fire now, you can rub her on the heat, if you are popular, you can make a lot of money. ”
In fact, they had thought about becoming Internet celebrities to change their fate before, but at that time, the network conditions on Hawk Island did not allow them to broadcast live or make videos or upload videos.
"Hmph, she's just a star face, what's so great, she doesn't have any fashion taste at all, I don't want to be her follower." Niko clearly didn't like Diana.
"Do you know how much Madame André pays her for a live broadcast now?" Mia Akagi asked in a low voice.
"How much?"
Mia Akagi made five fingers.
"Five hundred pounds?" Niko asked, a little surprised.
That's half a month's worth of their salary.
"No, no, no, it's five thousand pounds! At least! Mia Akagi said.
"Let's go, let's go find her now, I think I'm suitable to be her sidekick!" Nico got up instantly, her eyes lit up: "It's a little strange to say, she has been coming to Hawk Island since she was a child, but it feels like she has no sense of existence, and I basically can't remember anything about her when I was a child, and I always feel that she came out of nowhere." ”
"I don't have much of an impression, maybe it's because she's withdrawn and hasn't played with us much." Mia Akagi said.
"You're right, she used to be a little transparent, if it weren't for Gadot who starred in Strange Woman, who would have noticed her!" Niko laughed and said that she had straightened out the logic herself.