Lingnan Province.

A small town in Puning.

Luo Xuan, who had just returned to his hometown from Yangcheng, looked at the familiar scenery of his hometown, and he had a feeling of homesickness.

In Lingnan in November, the weather is still a little hot.

Luo Xuan wore a mask and did not have contact with people, and he soon walked along the familiar streets and alleys to the door of a two-story bungalow.

The door of the two-story bungalow in the narrow alleyway was closed, and he took out the key to open the iron door.

The rusty iron door crunched with a tooth-sore sound.

Turning on the light switch casually, the dim small living room suddenly brightened a lot, and he glanced at the plastic lid on the dining table, and there were some leftover braised pork and fried green beans.

After changing his slippers, he went to his small room on the second floor.

There wasn't much dust in the room, and the old-fashioned desktop computer was also covered with lace gauze, and after he turned it back on, the computer was still usable, but the configuration was a little old.

Plug the network cable into the laptop.

Luo Xuan began to check his email again, in fact, he can also operate it with his mobile phone, but the mobile phone screen is too small, which is inconvenient to read and retouch pictures.

This time he came back to his hometown because he felt that living in the Pearl River Delta was not cost-effective.

As an external employee of Mengguo Company, his basic salary at this time is Ding 4 level, that is, 500 gold yuan, plus a comprehensive subsidy of 150 gold yuan.

In the past few months, he has not only created the comic "Mirror Country", but also used his free time to illustrate the company's network.

This month, he earned 1,132 gold yuan, and after deducting the handling fee, 1,132 gold yuan was exchanged for 17,130 Chinese yuan in the Bank of China, with an indirect exchange rate of 15.2.

As for the previous 420 Chinese dollars per gram of gold, it has soared to 7,600 Chinese dollars a gram at this time, and there are not many people in the market who are willing to sell gold at all.

The reason why it has soared so much is that on the one hand, a large part of Homo sapiens products and services are irreplaceable.

For example, services in the Strait of Malacca, Kra Canal, and Lombok.

Whether it is the Far East or West Asia, as long as the two sides want to trade, they cannot avoid Southeast Asia as a transit point.

If you want to bypass Southeast Asia, you can only pass through the sea between the Malay Archipelago and Australia, and the distance will increase by about 10,000 kilometers.

Those shipping companies are crazy and will choose to bypass the shipping companies in Southeast Asia, especially in the Far East.

Therefore, Homo sapiens' shipping services have become indispensable.

In terms of products, it goes without saying that drugs, whether it is Langfu Honing antibiotics, or Meisheng preventive drugs, or artificial corneas for the treatment of vision problems, are in short supply all over the world.

To this is added food and food in the near future.

Even optoelectronic chips, new methane carriers, and gas-fired vehicles, which are not necessities, are highly competitive.

The gold dollar bundles gold with precious metals and rare metals, and this special rule forces the global gold and precious metals to rise.

No, no, if you don't increase the price.

Taking the Far East as an example, if the price does not rise, the 420 Chinese yuan per gram of gold will be quickly emptied of the private gold reserves by Homo sapiens with the help of private channels.

According to the statistics of the Precious Metals Bank, in the past three months, 243 tons of gold have been poured into the Far East by the private sector to Homo sapiens, and if the 200 tons of gold sold by BOCI are added, the total inflow has reached 443 tons.

In this case, Huayuan must depreciate the gold sharply to ensure that the internal gold does not accelerate the loss.

Dongying, South Goryeo, Cheonzhu, Xiba, and Annam are all in a similar situation, and the foreign exchange reserves of gold dollars are insufficient, so they can only use precious metals to buy gold dollars.

And their internal reserves of precious metals are very limited, and the rise in gold prices is an inevitable result.

If the price does not rise, then there will definitely be people in the private sector who will take risks.

Therefore, now Luo Xuan's 1,132 gold yuan can be exchanged for 17,000 Chinese yuan, and if you go to the black market, it can even reach about 18,000.

This income can only be regarded as a medium level in the Pearl River Delta region at this time.

Of course, that was the middle level before the outbreak of the global economic crisis, and now under the impact of the global economic crisis, the foreign trade of the Pearl River Delta region has been greatly affected.

But Luo Xuan still chose to go back to his hometown, after all, his work does not need a fixed office location, and he can do the same at home.

At home, he doesn't have to pay rent and high second-hand utility bills, and he can eat with his parents, so he can save thousands of yuan.

With a monthly income of 17,000 yuan, in the small town of Puning, it is definitely a high-income group.

Luo Xuan, who was revising the illustration, suddenly his mobile phone rang, and he saw that it was his colleague.

"Hey, Xuanzi, have you arrived in Puning?"

"I'm here, I'm at home."

"That's good, I'll invite you to dinner in the evening, and a few colleagues here will also come, and I'll send the address to share the location later."

"Brother Huang broke the bank."

"What's polite, it's all your own people."

Hanging up the phone, although Luo Xuan was a little afraid of society, he still planned to go to the party.

The employees of Homo sapiens' overseas branches are not left alone, but will establish a group and carry out unified management in the name of the employee mutual aid association.

Similar to Luo Xuan, he belongs to the Homo Sapiens - Far East Region - Lingnan Region - Puning Branch.

The work of the employee mutual aid association is to connect feelings, help employees, distribute benefits, organize training, and so on.

Brother Huang, who was on the phone with Luo Xuan just now, is the person in charge of the Puning branch.

When Luo Xuan decided to come back to Puning, the Yangcheng branch took the initiative to contact him and asked him to transfer to the Puning branch to facilitate the management of the mutual aid association in the future.

He didn't have too many bad opinions about the employee mutual aid association, because the Yangcheng branch did give him a lot of help before.

In fact, I don't know that the branch leaders in each region are all new humans carefully selected by Homo sapiens, and their work ability and professional ethics are good.

After all, in order to develop and grow in other regions, the employees of Homo sapiens must be warm together, and at the same time, the regional leaders are required to be relatively capable and loyal to the company.

The new humans are the best choice.

Luo Xuan looked at the time, and buried himself in his work again, while revising the illustrations, he was dissatisfied with the communication with the author.

This kind of work is usually priced by the order, an order is 10 illustrations, and the company gives 20 gold yuan which is equivalent to making extra money.

Because the illustration AI can also be directly generated, there may be problems with the details, and at this time, a professional like Luo Xuan is needed to help modify it.

This work is mainly troublesome to communicate with the author, if you encounter a more demanding Party A, it may take a few days to produce a picture.

Of course, Luo Xuan has now learned to get off work on time, he works 5~6 hours a day, and the rest of the time he does what he likes.

Modifying illustrations to make extra money is actually counted in working hours.

Luo Xuan is already relatively hard-working among the script editors, and some people don't accept illustration orders at all, and only do comic plot design.

The drawings are all handed over to the AI, they only provide the plot, inspiration and modifications, and the work is very easy, especially for those editors who are serializing popular comics, they can't afford the 20 gold yuan of the illustration list.

Luo Xuan wanted to buy a house, so he worked a little harder.

Before you know it, the sun is setting outside the window.

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