Luo Xuan, who had just returned to his hometown from Yangcheng, looked at the familiar scenery of his hometown and felt a sense of home away from home.
In November in Lingnan, the weather is still a bit hot.
Luo Xuan wore a mask and did not come into contact with anyone. He quickly walked along the familiar streets and alleys and came to the door of a two-story bungalow.
The door to the two-story bungalow located in a narrow alley was closed. He took out the key and opened the iron door.
The rusty iron door made a tooth-aching creaking sound.
Turning on the light switch, the dark little living room suddenly became a lot brighter. He glanced at the plastic cover on the dining table and saw 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. After he restarted it, the computer could still be used, but the configuration was a bit old.
Plug the network cable into the laptop.
Luo Xuan started checking his email again. In fact, he could also use his mobile phone to do it, but the screen of his mobile phone was too small, making it inconvenient to view and edit pictures.
This time he came back to his hometown because he felt that living in the Pearl River Delta was not worthwhile.
As an external employee of Mengguo Company, his basic salary at this time is level D4, which is 500 gold yuan, plus a comprehensive subsidy of 150 gold yuan.
In the past few months of work, he not only created the comic "Mirror Country", but also used his free time to illustrate the company's online novels.
This month he earned 1,132 gold dollars. After deducting handling fees, 1,132 gold dollars were exchanged for 17,130 Chinese dollars at Bank of China, with an indirect exchange rate of 15.2.
As for gold that previously cost 420 Chinese yuan per gram, it has now soared to 7,600 Chinese yuan per gram, and not many people are willing to sell gold on the market.
The reason why it has soared so sharply is that, on the one hand, Homo sapiens companies have a large number of products and services that are irreplaceable.
For example, services in the Strait of Malacca, Kra Canal, and Lombok Strait.
Whether it is the Far East or West Asia, as long as the two sides want to conduct trade, they cannot avoid Southeast Asia as a transit point.
If we want to bypass Southeast Asia, we can only pass through the sea between the Malay Archipelago and Australia, which will increase the distance by about 10,000 kilometers.
Those shipping companies are crazy and would choose to bypass shipping companies in Southeast Asia, especially the Far East.
Therefore, Homo sapiens' shipping services have become indispensable.
In terms of products, it goes without saying that drugs are in short supply all over the world, whether they are antibiotics such as Lavender antibiotics, prophylactic drugs like Mesotherapy, or artificial corneas for treating vision problems.
In addition to this, grain and food will be added in the near future.
Even if it is optoelectronic chips, new methane transport ships, gas vehicles, etc. that are not necessary, Homo sapiens company is still extremely competitive.
The gold dollar bundles gold with precious metals and rare metals. This special rule forces the global price of gold and precious metals to rise.
It won’t work without a price increase.
Take the Far East as an example. If the price does not increase, gold worth 420 Chinese yuan per gram will be used by Homo sapiens companies through private channels, and private gold reserves will soon be emptied.
According to statistics from the Precious Metals Bank, in the past three months, 243 tons of gold have flowed into the Homo sapiens company from the private sector in the Far East. If the 200 tons of gold sold by Bank of China International are included, the total inflow has reached 443 tons.
In this case, Huayuan must depreciate gold significantly to ensure that the internal gold does not accelerate the loss.
Regions such as Japan, South Korea, Tianzhu, Xiba and Annan all have similar situations. They have insufficient gold dollar foreign exchange reserves and can only use precious metals to purchase gold dollars.
And their internal reserves of precious metals are very limited, so rising gold prices are an inevitable result.
If prices are not raised, some people will definitely take risks.
Therefore, Luo Xuan's 1,132 gold yuan can now be exchanged for 17,000 Chinese yuan. If he goes to the black market, it can even reach about 18,000 yuan.
This income can only be considered a medium level in the Pearl River Delta region at this time.
Of course, that was the mid-range level before the outbreak of the global economic crisis. Now under the impact of the global economic crisis, the foreign trade in the Pearl River Delta region has been greatly affected.
But Luo Xuan still chose to return to his hometown. After all, his work does not require a fixed office location and can be done at home.
At home, he does not have to pay rent and high second-hand utility bills, and can eat with his parents. In this way, he can save thousands of dollars.
A monthly income of 17,000 Chinese yuan is definitely a high-income group in the small town of Puning.
Luo Xuan was revising his illustrations when his cell phone suddenly rang. He saw it was his colleague.
"Hey, Xuanzi, have you arrived in Puning?"
"We're here. We're at home."
"That's good. I'll treat you to dinner tonight, and a few of my colleagues here will also come. I'll share the address later."
"Brother Huang spent money."
"No matter how polite you are, we are all our own people."
After hanging up the phone, Luo Xuan was a little afraid of society, but he still decided to go to the party.
The employees of Homo sapiens' overseas branches will not just leave them alone, but will establish groups one by one and conduct unified management in the name of the employee mutual aid association.
Similar to Luo Xuan, he is affiliated to the Homo Sapiens Company - Far East Region - Lingnan Region - Puning Branch.
The job of the employee mutual aid association is to connect with each other, help employees, distribute benefits, organize training, etc.
Brother Huang, who just had a phone call with Luo Xuan, 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 doesn't have 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 heads of branches in each region are all new human beings carefully selected by the Homo sapiens company, and they have good work ability and professional ethics.
After all, in order to develop and expand in other regions, the employees of Homo Sapiens Company must stick together for warmth. At the same time, the regional leaders must be relatively capable and loyal to the company.
New humanity is the best choice.
Luo Xuan looked at the time and then immersed himself in his work. While revising the illustrations, he communicated with the author of the novel whether he was satisfied or not.
This kind of work is usually priced on a per-unit basis. One order is for 10 illustrations, and the company pays 20 gold dollars, which is equivalent to making extra money.
Because the novel illustrations can also be generated directly by AI, there may be problems with the details. At this time, professionals like Luo Xuan are needed to help modify them.
This job is mainly because it is troublesome to communicate with the novel author. If you encounter a more demanding Party A, it may take several days to produce the picture.
Of course, Luo Xuan has now learned to get off work on time. He works 5 to 6 hours a day and spends the rest of the time doing what he likes.
Earning extra money by modifying illustrations is actually counted in working time.
Among the script editors, Luo Xuan is already relatively hard-working. Some people do not accept illustration orders at all and only do comic plot design.
The drawings are all handed over to AI. They only provide plots, inspirations and modifications. The work is very easy, especially those editors who are serializing popular comics. They don't like the 20 gold dollars for illustrations.
Luo Xuan worked a little harder because he wanted to buy a house.
Before I knew it, the sun was setting outside the window.
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