Chapter 418: New Immigrants (3)
Sunset.
The migrant cruise ship also slowly docked in the artificial lake of the Gobi City.
Hulu, who was called up by a friend, was on the deck, watching the Grand Canal cross the Nile.
From the deck, the Nile River floats above the land like a turquoise ribbon.
The Grand Canal is like a sea-blue arrow, piercing straight below the Nile.
"It's huge!" The mouth of the severed finger is slightly open.
The Kaud-Ombo Canal Junction project is indeed huge, and the two overhead locks, together with the other two upper and lower locks that connect the Nile to the Southern Canal, give a sense of insignificance.
Although the construction of the overhead bridge has not yet been completed, the construction workers walking on it can feel how huge the project is.
Humans walk on it like ants in a big villa.
After the ship anchored, about 1,400 migrants, led by the local human resources department, left the ship one after another.
At this time, there were about 3,000 people left on the ship.
At the same time, the cruise ship also received various supplies in the Gobi City, including fresh vegetables and fruits, beef and mutton.
"Alu, would you like to go down and have a walk?" Severed Finger asked eagerly.
"Go down? It's good. Hu Lu nodded, he also missed the thick feeling of land, these ten days of boat riding, so that he walked with both feet as if he was stepping on cotton, there was always a feeling of lightness.
After applying to the captain of the squad they were in, the two were allowed to disembark.
With a few dozen dollars, the two of them got off the boat.
There was not much traffic in the port area, so they directly swiped an electric motorcycle with an employee card, and the two drove the electric motorcycle from the port area into the commercial area.
Ten minutes later, they came to the business district.
The two of them didn't go to the restaurant, because it happened to be the rush hour after work, and many people would eat here, and the restaurant must be full now.
They weren't hungry, so there was no need to squeeze.
And the two of them don't know what the consumption level is here, if it's too expensive, then they will choose to go back to the boat to eat the free meal.
On the streets, the proportion of locals is not small, but there are also many immigrants.
As for how to judge the natives and immigrants, it is actually very simple, thinking that the racial characteristics are easy to judge, especially the East Asian race with soft facial features, and the obvious West Asian race in the local area, which can be seen at a glance.
Passing by several street restaurants, Severed Finger was a little curious: "It's strange, why is the rice here more popular than flatbread?" ”
Hulu also noticed this phenomenon: "It is indeed quite strange, I remember that during the training, the instructor said that the main food of the Egyptians was flatbread and noodles. ”
However, the situation that the two of them saw was somewhat different from the Egypt described by the instructor.
In fact, their instructor was not wrong, in the city of Kaude Ombu, not far from the Gobi City, the staple food there is flatbread and noodles.
They only think that the Gobi City is a traditional Egyptian region that they have this illusion.
In fact, on the Kaudombo side, the proportion of ordinary people eating flatbread and noodles is also decreasing.
The reason is very simple - economic interests determine the form of consumption.
Rice production is now increasing throughout Egypt, and Homo sapiens brought with them the eating habits of Eastern, Southeast and South Asian countries through migration.
Many farmers and ranchers who had previously cultivated wheat in the Nile Valley Plain found it more profitable to make cash crops and switched to cash crops on a large scale.
Many people choose to grow vegetables and fruits by cultivating the land with water, and then buy cheap flour and sea rice.
After all, the production cost of local natural wheat flour is significantly higher than that of prepared flour and sea rice, and ordinary people with low incomes can vote with their feet.
Not used to eating rice?
Can't learn? Homo sapiens' internet company has a dedicated food app and a large number of cooking instructional videos.
Even if you don't know how to make claypot rice, egg fried rice, pilaf, etc., curry rice and white rice will always be there!
What's more, there are also a large number of private restaurants that will take the initiative to learn.
Yes, there was a private sector in Egypt, which was mainly focused on services and handicrafts, which was also the reason why Homo sapiens modified the previous annexation scheme and changed to gradual encroachment.
Many of the more traditional middle-aged and elderly Egyptians are the main force of these private enterprises.
Egyptian young people are rarely engaged in this area.
The reason is also very simple, it is difficult for the elderly to change their attitudes, and they still want to maintain their previous way of life.
However, young people are different, the labor intensity of the traditional catering and service industries is too high, and the output value is very low.
Many of the heirs of small restaurants do not want to do it, and it is now difficult for small restaurants to hire ordinary employees, which leads them to use family members as employees.
Anyone who has worked in the catering industry knows that the work is also very troublesome, such as procurement, food preparation, cleaning, service, etc., which is tedious and difficult to replace with machines.
And all kinds of benefits cannot be said to be none, but they are almost none.
Compared to the welfare of Homo sapiens, young people simply do not stay in the traditional private sector.
As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Egyptian private companies to recruit employees, and they can only rely on the older generation of middle-aged and elderly people to work hard.
However, the tide of the times will not compromise on this, let alone have compassion for this, and these private enterprises will sooner or later be wiped out by Homo sapiens.
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Hulu was on the street, looking at the people coming and going, and although he could see the difference between people, many people used a variety of languages in the process of conversation.
This condition is prevalent within Homo sapiens.
Arabic, Mandarin, Thai, English, Hindi are mixed, and even Hulu occasionally hears Annam.
However, this seemingly chaotic language does not seem to affect communication and social stability, and everything is in order here.
If Hu Lu understands those languages, he can find that the speech and conversation within Homo sapiens appear to be a bit unscrupulous, and all kinds of topics can be discussed.
This is because new humans do not need to suppress many of their thoughts, and only by saying everything can they understand each other in communication.
The hottest topic now is, of course, the proposal to the demand department, and many people have put forward a variety of strange needs and proposals.
Everyone's proposals and needs are different, but when the base is enlarged to 1 billion, there will be many of the same situations.
As a new immigrant, Hulu has not yet fully integrated into the social system of Homo sapiens, and feels unbelievable about many things.
Some time ago, when the instructor asked them to fill in their personal needs, he didn't pay much attention to it and filled it out casually.
However, the demand department sent someone to check, and when he heard that the demand he proposed was likely to be included in the production plan, Hu Lu quickly revised part of the demand.
In the past, his needs were very strange, and many of them were obviously unrealistic, but the inspectors of the requirements department did not allow it, but just asked him to transfer those unrealistic ideas to the future vision.
This incident made Hu Lu feel incredible, but the clothes, shoes and hats that he carefully wrote were indeed delivered to him by the company according to his conditions, before departure.
For an ordinary person who has not been taken seriously, suddenly receiving such attention has a very obvious positive effect on the change of his mentality.
When it comes to buying people's hearts, Homo sapiens is a very professional company.
Why do many people come to live with Homo sapiens for a year or two, and they feel that they can't do without Homo sapiens.
It is because of this that they feel like a human being, not a mechanical part, let alone the organs and blood bags of the rich.