"Why do you think that kid can hire a bunch of people and make the rich people in the town flock to him like crazy to invest in the 'sugar company' he has set up?"
Kaisa frowned and asked.
There were several young people sitting next to him, including the little dirty-haired Geer who had stopped Li Yinguang that day and asked him to hand over the Soul-Calling Flag.
"Because sugar companies make money, I don't know when, 'sugar water' became crazy and became popular in the town of Manbach. The raw material for brewing sugar water is red cube sugar, and now red cube sugar only controls
It's in the hands of the sugar company owned by the Castle!" Geer said helplessly.
Jealousy, who wouldn’t be jealous of this kind of independent business?
Kaisa said: "The price of a cup of sugar water is not high. It's cheap on the street. It only costs ten copper bull coins, which means that the price of raw materials like red cube sugar will not be that high."
He raised his head and looked at several young people: "The sugar company's stocks have been sold at sky-high prices. How long will it take to make money back just by relying on the profits generated by 'brown sugar water'?"
After a slight pause, he shook his head and said, "But those wealthy people in Manbach Town cannot be all short-sighted fools."
"Miss, this matter is actually not difficult to consider. Think about it. Now that 'sugar water' is popular in the town, the only company that may produce brown sugar is 'Castle Sugar'. This kind of monopoly business is most likely to be
Take a look!" said a girl with freckles on her face who was about the same age as Kaisa.
"Solo business? Can't others do it?"
Listening to Kaisa's thoughtful question, everyone was stunned for a moment.
Geer, who had dreadlocks all over his head, scratched his head and said with a dry smile: "No way, the problem is that we don't know how to make red sugar cubes!"
Kaisa said: "We can't make brown sugar, but we can dig sweet grass vines!"
“Digging sweetgrass vines?”
"Yes, the raw material for making brown sugar is the rhizome of 'Sweet Grass Vine'. This thing grows in the wild. Castle Sugar Company can dig it, why can't we dig it?"
Everyone reacted quickly and immediately understood what their eldest lady meant.
'Making brown sugar' requires skills, but you only need to have the skills to dig out sweet grass vines outside the town. Although the frozen soil outside the town is very thick and it is not easy to dig out, it is not difficult to dig it out as long as you have the cooperation of excavation machinery. And
The people at Castle Sugar Company can dig it, why can't they?
“Miss, what are we going to do with the ‘Sweet Grass Vine’ we dug out?”
Kaisa stood up and raised her hand to hit her on the head: "You idiot, we are of no use, but Gubao Sugar Company can make brown sugar, we can sell it to them!"
"Walk!"
After saying that, he led the people and walked outside.
The size of the Explosives hunting group is not small, and Kaisa has a pragmatic character and will not delay or hesitate in making decisions.
Excavating machinery can be bought as long as you have money. The problem of manpower is even simpler. However, there are tens of thousands of refugees in the slums and tens of thousands of poor people. As long as they are in charge of food, they still don’t have enough manpower, right?
Isn’t that how the Castle Sugar Company recruited indentured coolies?
Again, if the sugar company can do this, they can do it too.
"Is there anyone willing to dig sweetgrass vines outside the town? We will give out cotton-padded clothes and provide enough food. For the time being, we only need two hundred people to recruit!" Geer parked the armored tank in the slum, a few steps away from the Manbach Town tabloid office and the Black Heart Grocery Store.
Not far away, someone picked up a loudspeaker and started shouting.
"Are you from the Castle Sugar Company?"
Soon a group of people gathered around and asked.
The Castle Sugar Company recruited three to four thousand refugee indentured coolies, and coupled with the influence of the Manbach Town newspaper in the slums, everyone now 'recognizes' this company!
Geer frowned, with displeasure on his face, and snorted coldly: "No, we are members of the Exploder hunting group. Don't talk so much nonsense. We will take care of your food and housing and give you warm clothes to save you from starving to death and freezing to death."
, Where can I find such a good thing? Do you want to do it? It only takes two hundred people!"
"Dry!"
"I'll do it too!"
The refugees, who were so hungry that their eyes were flashing with stars, and who might freeze to death at some point, did not have much room to think.
Either work as hard labor or freeze to death and starve to death. Their fate is no longer in their hands, so what choice do they have!
At this time, Li Yinguang happened to be in the small newspaper office of Manbach Town. He heard someone said that a new company had appeared outside and was recruiting people, so he curiously walked out to take a look.
"So fast?"
Li Yinguang muttered that he had expected the competitor to appear last night, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. He thought it could be delayed for another three to five days!
"How about driving them away?" Sophia asked in a low voice with a cold face.
Li Yinguang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's useless. There are so many people in the slums. It's easy to recruit hundreds of coolies. Forget it, don't worry about them."
After saying that, he turned around and entered the small newspaper office in Manbach Town. It was too cold outside, the temperature had dropped to more than 30 degrees. In fact, someone recruited these refugees, which can be regarded as a good deed. After all, it is impossible to rely on the sugar company to
Hundreds of thousands of poor refugees were recruited.
Even if twenty large pots are used to cook porridge continuously, people in the slums will still freeze to death and starve to death.
It didn't take long for Geer to recruit two hundred indentured coolies and leave with his men toward the outskirts of the town.
"Miss, I just saw that little bastard."
After seeing Kaisa, Geer, who had dreadlocks on his head, said with anger in his eyes.
Kaisa was slightly surprised: "Bruce is in the slums?"
"He seems to have opened a newspaper in the slum called the 'Manbach Town Newspaper'!"
Kaisa nodded: "Don't worry about him for now, organize people to search for sweet grass vines outside the town, and remember to try not to conflict with people from the sugar company in the short term!"
"We, the Exploder hunting group, are afraid of them?" This statement aroused Gal's dissatisfaction.
Kaisa rolled her eyes at him angrily and cursed in a low voice: "Are you brainless? The sugar company's shareholders are all over Manbach Town, and the Lord's Palace and the Law Enforcement Bureau both have shares in the company, so I don't want to conflict with them.
It’s because there is no profit yet, and we still hope to sell the sweet grass vines we dug up to sugar companies!”
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the town.
Looking at Kaisa's back, Geer scratched his head and laughed twice.
Cui Li, who had freckles on her face, muttered softly as she passed behind him: "You're stupid, you can't speak with your brains!"
"Stop looking for trouble, or I'll leave you outside the town at night!" Geer deliberately frightened her.
Cuili made a face at him: "How dare you?" Then she swung her arms, twisted her hips and chased after the eldest lady Kaisa in front.
Geer stared at Cuili and swallowed. He didn't dare to think anything wrong about his eldest lady, but he had already been tempted by this big-assed girl.
It's just that everyone has been playmates since they were young, so they are too embarrassed to take action, and they don't seem to have that kind of interest in him.