During the test run of the steam turbine for the new locomotive, Wang Qinian stayed in the workshop until the end of the test run. Because he stayed up for three days and three nights in a row, the factory gave him 2 days off to let him rest well.

Wang Qinian rode his permanent bicycle along the boulevard in the living area, and after a few years, the small trees that had been planted had grown to five or six meters high.

There are construction sites on both sides of the road, and Wang Qinian knows that houses are being built here, and now the scale of the company is about to expand, and it is said that the number of employees will increase several times. The original houses in the living area were not enough, and construction began in the first half of this year.

Wang Qinian parked his bicycle on the side of the road, ready to watch for a while before leaving, anyway, there is a holiday now, and he is not in a hurry. From here, it can be seen that there are dozens of tower cranes working on the construction site, and there is an endless stream of cars and ox carts transporting materials.

At this time, there were already several onlookers on the side of the road, and only one middle-aged man said: "...... Good guys, fifteen floors. If only a few years ago, I wouldn't have believed that there was such a tall building......"

"Lao Yan, no, it's seventeen floors, and there are two floors underground...... "A young man next to him corrected.

The middle-aged man retorted: "The two underground floors are not inhabited, they are all garages, water supply, power distribution and so on......"

"The ground floor is not a residence, I heard that there are shops, restaurants, teahouses, entertainment venues and so on......"

Wang Qinian listened to everyone's discussion for a while, and looked at the construction site not far away, because he knew that there was one set of his in these houses. There are a total of 48 residential buildings in this batch, all of which are rare fifteen-storey buildings in this era, and they are equipped with elevators, water and electricity tees. There are several types of residential buildings in this batch, and the smallest one has an area of 14o square meters, with four bedrooms, two living rooms, and a kitchen and bathroom.

According to the company's regulations, these new houses are to consider old employees like Wang Qinian first, replace them first, and then only need to make up the difference. And the old houses they exchanged were distributed to the new workers. No matter what the collective, seniority is a very important indicator, and the practice of "employing people is like piling up salaries, and new people suppress old people" is difficult to clean up people's hearts.

At this time, Wang Qinian heard someone next to him saying, "...... Sugarcane is good now, with an average of 17o kilograms of sugar produced from a ton of sugarcane, and the highest can reach 22o kilograms. An acre of land can produce at least 1. 7 tons of sugar. According to expert estimates, China's sugar output can reach 4oo tons this year, which is still the reason why many places do not use new varieties and fertilizer is not enough......"

Wang Qinian looked like a young man with glasses, and judging from the clothes on his body, he should be an engineer of the Sichuan United Sugar Group Company.

Someone asked, "Tut, so much? Can you sell the Sichuan sugar?" Behind this person's uniform, the boss's four Wei tablet characters "Xingfei Technology" show that he is an employee of Xingke Flight Technology Company.

"Hahaha, dude, you don't know. Nowadays, sugar is not sold at all, and many sugar cane plantations in South America, Southeast Asia and India have switched to growing rubber. This year, the world's sugar production has decreased by at least one-third, and now not only rubber is desperately rising, compared to O8, now the price of rubber has risen tenfold, so even the price of white sugar is rising, of course, not as much as rubber. Hehe, isn't that cheap us?"

"Why is rubber going up so crazy?" asked the bystander, puzzled.

"There is not enough rubber, now a lot of things need rubber, plus foreign profiteers take the opportunity to speculate, can this price not rise?"

With the exhibition of the automobile industry, the demand for rubber has increased dramatically. At the same time, rubber has also become an emerging material for many industrial products, which is very popular. Nowadays, not only automobiles need rubber tires, but almost all horse-drawn carriages, ox carts, tricycles, and rickshaws are also replaced with rubber tires. At that time, many residents liked to put on a pair of rubber shoes outside the cloth shoes and leather shoes, called "galoshes", and then put on a rubber raincoat, and they could go out as usual in rainy days, and there were countless other rubber products.

In 19o8, Britain imported rubber totaling $50,000, which increased to $140,000 the following year. The United States is even more exaggerated, importing rubber in 1908 was 6ooo dollars, which increased to 8ooo dollars the following year. China is second only to the United States, importing rubber in 1909 reached 550,000 US dollars.

Restricted by factors such as growth cycle, climate, and soil, the production scale of rubber cannot be expanded in the short term, which is destined to continue to rise in a certain period of time. The price of rubber in the London market, which was 2 shillings per pound in 19o8, soared to 1o shillings per pound at the end of 19o9, and reached 22 shillings per pound in November 191o. London's rubber stocks also rose. A new rubber company's £1oo million shares were snapped up in half an hour, while another company's shares, initially £1o per share, rose to £22o per share soon after.

Wang Qinian also thought that in the past two years, the price of those sealing rings, rubber tubes and other original components used in the machine has also tripled. And during this time, he also learned some relevant news from the newspapers and radio, it is said that the rubber stocks and rubber futures in Shanghai are rising wildly, very hot, and he also heard that the old man in his hometown has invested all his family wealth, and there is a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

However, this has little to do with Wang Qinian, although his life is much better than before, but he has not invested spare money in stock futures, on the one hand, he doesn't understand, and he always feels that that thing is not very reliable. On the other hand, it was the secretary who repeatedly reminded everyone in the political study class, saying that this phenomenon was abnormal, and asked everyone not to be fooled. He has always listened to the secretary's words, and since he said that the thing was not good, of course Wang Qinian would not go.

After listening for a while, Wang Qinian remembered that his wife was about to get off work, so he hurriedly got on his bicycle and ran back.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the community, he saw several commuter cars from Xianhe Pharmaceutical driving over, and he immediately stopped at the door. This is a few Jinlong brand buses, is the kind of double-decker articulated bus that connects the two carriages with a hinged frame, each can take more than 1oo people, plus the station ticket, and then double is not a problem. This is also because the traffic conditions in Neijiang Industrial Zone are excellent, the roads are wide and flat, there are few curves and there are no sharp bends, so many units of commuter vehicles are using this kind of double-decker articulated buses with high requirements for the road and very exaggerated and eye-catching shapes. And this kind of bunker bus, which is almost tailor-made for Xingke Group, is also a major landscape in the industrial area.

The commuter bus stopped at the bus station next to the community in turn, and the employee 6 who lived in the district continued to get off. Wang Qinian stood on tiptoe and looked hard, and finally found his target in the crowd.

"Stars, stars!" Wang Qinian shouted and waved vigorously.

The starry girl who had just gotten out of the car was chatting with a few girlfriends, and after hearing Wang Qinian's shout, her little face turned red all of a sudden.

"Hey, Xingxing, you're coming to pick you up, see you tomorrow......"

"Xingxing, your husband is so nice, he comes to pick you up every day......"

The girlfriends immediately teased a few words, then pushed Mantianxing out and said goodbye.

"Husband......" Mantianxing walked over and called out shyly.

"Stars, let's go, let's go home......" Wang Qinian put the stars in the back seat and rode home.

As soon as he returned home and closed the door, Wang Qinian couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, and ran to the bedroom as soon as he picked up the stars.

Mantianxing didn't know what he meant, and immediately shyly coquettish: "Husband, it's still daytime......"

Wang Qinian smiled evilly: "Hehe, what's this? A few days ago, we were busy with work, and our plan to create people has been suspended for three days...... I'm having a holiday tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, star, let's come a few more times today to make up for the previous days......"

"Haven't cooked yet......"

"What else to eat, I'll eat you first......"

"Ah......h......h

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Three hours later, Wang Qinian walked out of the bedroom with his pants on, with a smug smile on his face, and said to himself: "This little three-whip wine is really powerful, hahahahaha, I can come a few more times tonight......"

As soon as he thought that the cowardly Mantianxing had been killed by himself, and now that he had started the bed, he couldn't help but get up. "Cookcake this guy brags about Kogoro all night, I'm at least seven Jiro, waka kaka......"

It didn't take long for him to feel that he was hungry, and although he was powerful just now, he was also alive. Wang Qinian's smile froze, and he shouted: "Oops, it took too long just now, and the meal hasn't been cooked yet!"

He looked at the bedroom and thought, "The stars can't get up now, forget it, I have to go to the small restaurant downstairs to order takeout......

After a while, he returned with a basket of hot meals. Xingke's residential community is completely designed in accordance with the community of later generations, with facilities such as shops, restaurants, teahouses, and kiosks, so you can eat even if you miss the meal.

The starry girl was so ashamed that she didn't dare to get up, and continued to lie on the bed, Wang Qinian brought the meal to the bedside and served his wife for dinner. After dinner, Wang Qinian threw the dishes into the sink and went to turn on the radio to listen to the program. Wang Qinian doesn't do this kind of thing.

Wang Qinian's radio is a "panda brand" high-end model, although the radios on the market are all Xingke things, but it is still divided into three brands "Hongsheng", "Desheng" and "Panda", the first two are for the general public, "Hongsheng" is popular, mainly for low-end users, "Desheng" series is a strengthened version and high-end version, belonging to the high-end brand. The "Panda" series is a local tyrant version model, which belongs to luxury goods. It's normal for their prices to be one or two hundred times different from each other.

Not only radios, but all civilian products of Xingke are like this, the same type of products must be divided into several brands, from the hanging silk version to the local tyrant version, and the money is made up and down. This is with the help of marketing methods of later generations, and the powerful often do not care about spending hundreds of times more money on the same type of goods, but they care about forcing the price. They can use the same type of products as **silk, but they can't stand the same brand as the fart.

Although Wang Qinian's "Panda brand" is only a high-end model, it is not the staggering sky-high local tyrant version. But for his income, this price is still very touching, a full 15o yuan, this is still an internal preferential price, at least 2oo yuan on the market. With Wang Qinian's current income, he will not be able to buy it for half a year without eating or drinking. But he didn't spend a penny on the radio, which he received after being named an "Advanced Producer" last year.

Although the price is touching, but the high-end model is the high-end model, this product not only has the function of a radio, but also the function of a record player, but also equipped with a stereo speaker, the workmanship is quite exquisite, the shape is atmospheric and beautiful, and it looks very tall at home.

Wang Qinian raised his wrist and looked at his watch, this Seagull brand watch is also a prize. It's almost 9 o'clock on the watch, and the news program is about to begin. He hurriedly took out a towel, carefully wiped the radio, and then skillfully turned on the power and switch, and tuned the channel to the central radio station.

There was a burst of three-dimensional music in the speaker, and the melodious singing voice floated up, and Wang Qinian listened with his eyes half-closed. After a few minutes, the song show ended and the news began.

“...... Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Central People's Radio, and now we are broadcasting today's news......"

“...... The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Mr. Lim Vu Duc, the special envoy of the Kingdom of Siam, arrived in Wuhan today for a three-day goodwill visit to China. This afternoon, President Boon Duc Si met with Mr. Special Envoy at the Presidential Palace, and the two sides had a cordial and friendly exchange. President Wen talked about the traditional friendship between the Chinese and Siamese peoples, saying that the two countries are countries with historical friendships, and the friendship between the two countries has a long history, and the blood of the two peoples is thicker than water, and they are old friends and relatives...... Special Envoy Lin said that he fully agreed with President Moon's views. At the same time, he explained that his current visit to China was precisely on the orders of the king to establish formal diplomatic relations with our country......"

“...... According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the first national census of the Republic will be officially conducted in December. According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the census is a national event and plays a vital role in policymaking. All Chinese citizens and their children, as well as foreigners resident in our country, are obliged to cooperate with the census......"

“...... China Railway Group came with good news that the Longhai Railway completed the final test at 12 noon today and officially opened to traffic. The Longhai Railway is the main railway line from Lanzhou (Long) in Gansu Province to Lianyungang (Hai) in Jiangsu Province in China, with a total length of 1,759 kilometers. Construction began in 19o5, and after more than five years of sectional construction, the whole line was completed in August 191o, and today the whole line is open to traffic...... At noon today, the first train from Lianyungang to Lanzhou has left Lianyungang and is expected to arrive in Lanzhou in 3 days...... Academician Zhan Tianyou, chief engineer of China Railway Group, was interviewed by this reporter......"

“...... The latest news: Comrade Liu Yang, chairman of the China Federation of Finance and Finance and governor of the People's Bank of China, was interviewed by this reporter today on several issues in the current stock and futures markets. He said that the current surge in rubber stocks and futures is abnormal, and this phenomenon violates the laws of the economy, and he advises the majority of stock and futures participants to pay attention to risk avoidance......"

Wang Qinian opened his eyes suddenly and smiled: "Hehe, what the secretary said is really right......

As for the advice of the announcer in the back that "the rubber stock market is extremely risky, it is better to leave the market early", he didn't listen to it much. Because he didn't participate, but he thought that the rich man Wang, who used to bully him before, had already invested his whole wealth in it. "Hehe, I hope that Wang Laocai will not listen to persuasion and lose all his old capital! Who told that guy to exploit me hard before, and give him a year of hard work, and he still owes him 8 yuan, it is really unreasonable!" he thought gloatingly.

At this time, another piece of news suddenly came from the speaker.

“...... We have just received an update from Japan. Hirobumi Ito, a well-known political figure in the Japanese Empire and governor of Korea, was assassinated by unknown armed men in Ginza at 6:30 p.m. Tokyo time today. It is reported that the assassins used machine guns and grenades, and Ito was shot more than ten times in the body and died instantly...... The Assassin has taken advantage of the chaos and is currently on the hunt. We will continue to track and inform you as soon as there is new news......"

"A little Japan is dead, it deserves it!" Wang Qinian took a sip.

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