The dark car drove through the street, and the city was reflected outside the window.
Dilapidated and crude shacks were erected on the downstairs of the bustling city. People with unkempt hair and ragged clothes hid in the cold wind in winter and stared confusedly at the traffic passing by on the streets.
There are not many luxury cars in Kaya City. At least in the short time that He Ao looked out the window, seven or eight luxury cars worth more than one million federal dollars passed in front of him.
He Ao withdrew his gaze and lay down on the sofa in the back row,
"Danny, what is Kaya City's food self-sufficiency rate?"
"Kaya City is an industrial city. The agricultural companies under the group supply about 35% of the city's food, and other small agricultural companies supply about 15% of the food."
The old butler sitting in the passenger seat slowly replied, "The remaining 50% of the grain is purchased from Moshanto Grain Industry Group. They will transport the grain from nearby grain-producing cities."
“Is the self-sufficiency rate only half that?”
He Ao lowered his head and thought.
In fact, the food self-sufficiency rate of Kaya City is relatively high among the federal non-grain cities. Some relatively strong financial and commercial cities, such as Chenxi City, may have a food self-sufficiency rate of less than 30%.
"Master Wei An, you seem to like that girl just now?"
While He Ao was thinking, Danny suddenly asked.
"Um?"
He Ao was stunned for a moment before he realized that the old housekeeper was talking about Lina. He nodded gently, "She has a very good talent for publicity."
Then he looked at Danny with some confusion. Under normal circumstances, the old housekeeper would not take the initiative to ask questions, "Is there anything wrong with her?"
"Master Wei'an, the old master was already married to his wife at your age."
Danny said slowly.
"Pfft, cough cough cough,"
He Ao almost choked on his own saliva, covered his mouth and coughed twice, then glanced out the window and said slowly, "I'm not in a hurry, who is in charge of the group's fixed assets?"
"Jamie, his father is on the board of directors."
The old housekeeper said softly and did not mention what happened just now.
"Find some trustworthy people," He Ao took out the pistol engraved with the emblem of the City of Stars from his arms, "form an investigation team. Someone is secretly selling the group's fixed assets."
"yes."
The old housekeeper nodded slightly.
"Well," He Ao thought for a moment and then asked, "Does the group have an intelligence department?"
"The Ministry of Industrial Development has a department that specializes in 'learning' from competitors' products, and the group's mercenary corps has a specialized wilderness reconnaissance agency,"
The old housekeeper slowly shook his head, "But there is no special intelligence department."
"so···"
He Ao pondered for a moment, "Select some more reliable and smart people from the mercenary corps, hire a few intelligence teachers for them, and form a separate intelligence investigation team."
The federation will not protect logistics in the wilderness. If major consortiums want to sell their products to other places, they can only hire people to escort them and protect their goods from damage in the wilderness.
From this, a huge mercenary organization active in the wilderness was born.
In the beginning, the consortium hired well-known mercenary organizations to escort them.
However, some mercenary organizations cooperate internally and externally and secretly swallow the consortium's goods, which forces the consortium to form its own mercenary organization.
Nowadays, the top conglomerates in the federation have their own mercenary corps.
These large mercenary groups are generally stationed outside high walls and are not allowed to enter the city on a large scale. The entry and exit of a small number of mercenaries also need to undergo strict inspections and cannot carry any high-risk weapons.
However, these mercenary groups will not gather on a large scale. Most of the time, the mercenary groups of the consortium are scattered in various places to deliver goods, and it is difficult to gather them in a short time.
After giving these instructions, He Ao leaned on the sofa and slowly closed his eyes.
——
It was already dark, and the tired man slowly opened the door.
"dad!"
A cute little girl ran towards me with her hands open.
"Hey," Jack said with a smile on his face, lifted his daughter up, held him in his arms, and closed the door with his hand, "Are you a good girl today?"
"Aini is so good! Mom even praised Aini today!"
The little girl held a candy in her hand and nodded hummingly.
"came back?"
His wife Aisha looked tired and put the soup and bread on the table, "Come and eat."
"How was Ani's school search today?"
Jack sat at the dining table and put his daughter on the small bench beside him.
"I went to check all the kindergartens nearby, and there were five in total,"
Aisha sighed, "The cheapest one, the tuition, living expenses, and custody fees add up to about 127 federal dollars per week."
"Um."
Jack responded softly and lowered his head to eat the bread.
Jack's weekly salary, after deducting Medicare and Social Security, is 540 federal dollars per week.
Aisha's salary as a waitress is not stable, but judging from her colleagues, her weekly salary should remain between 370 and 420 per week.
She does not have medical insurance, so she has to buy the cheapest medical insurance on her own, which costs 45 federal dollars per week, which means her actual weekly salary is between 325 and 375.
The combined weekly salary of the couple is barely around 900 federal dollars. Although this seems good, of the 900 federal dollars, 470 federal dollars are used to pay the rent and management fees of the couple's apartment.
The remaining 430 federal dollars, after deducting the fixed weekly water and electricity consumption, food and public transportation expenses, is actually very little left.
It is difficult to spare 127 federal dollars to send my daughter to school.
Aini looked at her parents with wide eyes. She still couldn't understand why her parents were distressed.
"If it really doesn't work, I can stop my medical insurance first,"
Aisha looked down at the thick soup in the bowl, "My colleagues basically don't buy medical insurance. We are still young and in good health. When we buy insurance, we also give money to the insurance company."
"Is there a kindergarten owned by Nolanka Group nearby?"
Jack asked suddenly.
"Yeah," Aisha nodded slightly, "That company charges 135 federal coins per week."
"Today I heard from the workshop supervisor that regular employees of the Nolanka Group can enjoy a 30% discount when going to the group's kindergartens, but the places are limited."
Jack said slowly.
"This kind of limited quota is usually reserved for the children of group managers. How can it be our turn?"
Elsa sighed.
Jack did not discuss this topic, but instead asked, "How much of the savings we brought from Dawn City are left?"
"There are three thousand seven left."
Elsa replied.
"Take five hundred...seven hundred, take seven hundred and come out. I will go to the workshop supervisor tomorrow." Jack took a bite of bread. "There will always be a way."
Aini shook her head, looked at her father, and then at her mother. She knew that this was not the time to act like a baby, so she lowered her head and sipped the soup in small sips.
——
The night wind blew Lina's cheek.
She seemed to be in a much better state of mind than before, and her messy chestnut short hair was smooth and neatly taken care of. She looked smart and capable, just like an urban white-collar beauty.
She went back and took a shower at noon, then took a nap and didn't wake up until not long ago.
Although she dreamed of the tragic scene of Jet's death many times in her sleep, she was too tired to react to these horrific scenes.
Holding the cold business card in her hand, she wandered aimlessly in the night.
As an excellent media person, she naturally knows what the title "Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nolanka Group" means.
He was the true ruler of the city, who combined the wealth of the entire city into one person and could be called the uncrowned king.
Contact with such beings often means opportunities for rapid advancement.
Logically speaking, she should be happy, but she only felt a little melancholy in her heart.
If this Mr. Vian is an ordinary playboy, then she doesn't mind having something happen with him.
Maybe she can also take the opportunity to get in touch with the upper class circles.
But it is obvious that this Mr. Vian is not a playboy.
Judging from his devilishly bewitching words and keen emotional insight, this is a leader with courage and wisdom.
He is a man of action.
If you follow such a doer, you can really accomplish something and achieve a certain status.
But on the other hand, you also have to bear more risks.
In this world, benefits and risks always coexist.
A very simple truth. As the chairman of the board of directors of Nolanka Group, all the outstanding talents in Kaya City gather around him. Will Wei An not be able to find anyone with more ability than Lina?
This is almost impossible.
Therefore, the most likely possibility that Wei An found Lina is that the environment he is in is not good now, and he cannot fully trust those who were originally around him.
So he wanted to find someone who was born at the bottom, had no support, and had certain talents, and promoted him to the center of power to check and balance the original factions.
Because this person does not belong to any force or has any background, all power comes from the gift of Wei An, so only by being firmly bound to him and standing firmly on the same line with him can we survive in the chaos.
to survive in the center of power.
Similarly, according to the rules of power operation, once something goes wrong, this person will be thrown out as soon as possible to calm public anger.
Therefore, if you follow him, you may be abandoned at any time and die at any time.
Lina stopped and looked up at the magnificent gate of the villa area in front of her.
This is her first time coming to a villa in a wealthy area.
When the vast majority of people in this city are crowded into high-rise buildings that look like stacked urns.
Some people can enjoy the sunshine, the courtyard, and the wide sky.
She walked and came here.
In the end, she was bewitched by that man, and she wanted to change the world, this twisted and terrible world.
Even if you die.
She grasped a silver chain across her collarbone and lifted it up.
It was a silver pendant. On the front of the pendant, there was a reduced version of a black and white weird smiling face mask, and on the back of the pendant, there was a silver letter.
