Chapter 480 Allies (please vote for this big chapter)
"Husband, come and get it for me."
Elsa excitedly opened the door holding two huge supermarket bags.
"I'm coming."
Jack, who was playing with the mechanical model, put down the model in his hand and ran towards the door quickly.
"Mom, what did you buy? Is there anything delicious?"
The little girl with two cute braids followed her father and stuck her head out. She held a golden toy doll in her arms, her face full of anticipation.
“Everything is delicious.”
Jack took the shopping bag with two large pockets from his wife's hand, helped his wife close the door, and said to his daughter with a smile.
It has been almost a year since their family left Chenxi City for Kaya City.
With the help of the boy who was looking for clues about his parents' death, they escaped from the surveillance of Avis Electric Energy Group and came to this industrial city near Chenxi City.
"Yeah, yeah!"
The little girl hugged the doll excitedly and followed her father.
Jack reached out and touched his daughter's head, then placed the shopping bag brought back by his wife on the table.
Kaya City is far less prosperous than Chenxi City. There are no bright and beautiful neon lights, and there is no lavish nightlife.
There are not even that many employers recruiting.
When he first came here, he was even prepared for his life to get worse.
But the actual development was completely opposite to what he expected.
Life in Kaya City was indeed not very good at first, but with the series of reforms implemented by Mr. Vian, the city has undergone earth-shaking changes.
New projects were started one after another, new factories were built one after another, and the roar of machines echoed all night long.
Accompanying these is a better and better life.
Although neither he nor his wife's salary has increased, the rent of the apartment has been reduced, the tuition fees for the children's school and living expenses have also been reduced, and the wife has also found a formal job in a supermarket owned by the Nolanka Group.
A few months ago, the insurance company under Nolanka Group launched an affordable medical insurance, and the group purchased this insurance for all employees.
The reimbursement ratio of this insurance is much higher than that of the previous medical insurance. When Jack went to see a doctor once before, he originally had to pay a bill of more than 200 federal dollars, but now he only had to pay less than 50 federal dollars.
The reduction in living expenses allows Jack and Elsa to have more money to buy things that they could only stand in the store window and stare at quietly for a while, and their daughter can also have toys that she could not even imagine before.
"What is this? A new brand of synthetic steak?"
Jack opened the shopping bag and took out the largest amount of merchandise.
"It seems to be a new product from the meat products company under the group," Aisha took off her work shoes at the door, rubbed her ankles wrapped in flesh-colored stockings, and put on the foam slippers at home.
"Today there was a big sale on new products. The supermarket replenished the goods two or three times and they were all sold out quickly. If I hadn't been working next to the container, I wouldn't have been able to grab them."
"Is this selling so well?"
Jack turned over the steak box in his hand with some curiosity, then picked up the steaks, walked to the refrigerator, opened the door of the freezer compartment, and suddenly a refrigerator full of various frozen products appeared in front of him.
"Isn't it good to sell it?" Aisha walked over slowly, "It is said that Mr. Wei An invested a lot of money in these grain companies and has been losing money. Even if there is no discount, these things are all being rushed to buy. Although
I don’t know what Mr. Wei An wants to do, but we should do our best to help.”
"yes,"
Jack nodded slightly and opened a drawer. Quick-frozen bacon, roast chicken, and pizza appeared densely in his field of vision. "It seems that there is no room for it in here. I said before that the refrigerator in this apartment is too big."
"Why can't I let go?"
Aisha pushed her husband away and took the steaks from his hand.
Then Jack saw his wife constantly taking out things and putting them back in. As if by magic, she stuffed all the big handfuls of steaks into the refrigerator.
"Aren't you going to let it go now?"
Aisha turned back to look at her stunned husband and blinked slyly.
Then her gaze shifted slightly and fell behind Jack.
At this moment, a small figure was lying on the edge of the dining table, carefully taking out two small cakes from the open shopping bag.
Then a slightly calloused hand placed on her small shoulder, "I can only eat one small cake a day."
Hearing these words, the little girl's body stiffened. She turned back and glanced at Aisha behind her. Then under her mother's stern gaze, she reluctantly glanced at the small cakes in her hand and carefully put them away.
Went back.
Jack watched his wife coax his daughter for a few words, and then sent her into the room to do her homework. It took a while before she came out of the room.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Aisha looked doubtfully at her husband, who had been looking at her.
Jack smiled, took out a small white box from behind his back, opened it gently, revealing the silver bracelet inside, "Happy birthday."
"You...I...when..." Aisha looked at her husband blankly, "I even forgot."
Then she moved her eyes to the bracelet in the box, "Is this the last time I saw it in the mall?... It's too expensive."
She stretched out her hand to hold down the box and slowly closed the lid, "This is too expensive..."
"Last time you made an appointment with the doctor for me, you traveled so many times and waited in line for so long," Jack gently put his hand on his wife's. "I just got a bonus, and we can afford this now."
Something.”
Aisha stared blankly at her husband, her eyes filled with sparkles, as if they were filled with clear springs.
Jack slowly stretched out his hand and hugged his wife, "The days will get better and better in the future."
"You said the same thing when we first got married, you're a big liar."
Elsa put her head on her husband's shoulder, and the tip of her nose twitched.
"If you don't believe me, you have to believe Mr. Wei An, right?"
"Mr. Wei An didn't let you spend money randomly."
The smooth windows reflected the two figures embracing each other, and the bright white moon slowly rose along the tips of their hair.
The moonlight shines on the bright lights of every house.
——
In the conference room filled with gentle light, He Ao looked away from the bright moon outside the window and looked at the beauty in professional attire beside him with an incredible expression on his face.
"You..." Lina looked at He Ao's cheek in surprise, "Are you really Wei An?"
"Duh, 36.8 degrees," the robot controlled by Eve took back the thermometer in its hand and said seriously, "It's alive."
Although Eve was indeed answering Lina's question seriously, the current scene was inevitably a bit funny.
The words that Lina was originally suppressing in her heart were temporarily distracted by this behavior, and she forgot to say anything.
"Are you worried?"
He Ao looked at her with a smile.
"No..." Lina stared at He Ao blankly. Finally, she hesitated and said slowly, "I heard that some evil gods will come to the dead corpses, but... you have body temperature.
Yeah...I'm just a little worried..."
Worried that this is just a false dream.
"everything will get better."
He Ao looked into her eyes and said softly.
Lina looked at this man's deep eyes, which seemed to have a strange magic power, making her nervous and anxious heart slowly calm down.
Standing next to him, she could always feel at ease. She had this wonderful feeling from the first time she came into contact with 'Vian'.
At this moment, she finally reunited the person in front of her with the figure in her memory. This person was Wei An, the "Vian, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nolanka Group" that she was familiar with.
She finally let go of her tightly hung heart. She knew that Wei An's 'resurrection from the dead' might really be related to a certain evil god or a great being, but these were not important, as long as it was the same person who came back.
Already.
At this moment, the door to the conference room was slowly pushed open, and the old housekeeper entered the conference room energetically holding a stack of information.
"Master Wei'an, the recent progress data of the group's major projects are here."
Lina looked up at the old man. This was the most energetic day she had seen the old housekeeper in the past six months.
"Can you give me an overview?"
He Ao picked up the top document and asked slowly.
Although he had already seen most of the information in the data report Eve sent him, he still wanted to hear Danilo's own opinions.
As the actual controller of the Nolanka Group after Vian's "sleep", Danilo must have a deeper understanding of the group's current situation than Eve.
After all, some files that have passed through Danilo's personal life are not necessarily under Eve's surveillance. Eve cannot understand many of Danilo's analytical thinking.
“At present, the progress of the group’s major projects is relatively smooth..."
Danilo opened the electronic screen in the conference room, put some documents on the screen, and began to introduce.
The progress of the various projects introduced by Danilo was similar to the data Eve sent to He Ao, but when introducing the current predicament, it was much more detailed than Eve, and he brought a lot of the old housekeeper's own analysis and insights.
In general, the main problem facing Nolanka Group now is the same as He Ao initially predicted, which is the 'money problem'.
The price reduction of education and apartment prices in Kaya City are all done in the form of subsidies, and subsidies are real money spent.
However, after estimation and coordination by the actuaries within the group, this part of the funds can still be covered by profits.
The biggest problem still lies in the investment in new projects, new grain factories, and new military factories.
Especially in the food and military industry, because the Nolanka Group's technology is too old, except for the weakened version of the Adam-type armor and the 'Cain'-type mecha, the production technology of many of the group's weapons is far inferior to those of the leading military industries in the Federation.
consortium.
Even the mercenary group under the group only ordered a batch of 'Cain' type micro mechas, and other weapons were purchased from Ivis Space Systems Company.
To develop advanced equipment and processes, continued large-scale investment is required.
Unlike the military industry, which has at least one leading product, the food industry Nolanka Group has almost no leading technology, and the quality and output of various grains, synthetic starches, synthetic meat products, etc. produced are not as good as those of the federal consortium.
Fortunately, the products developed by the current grain project series companies can still be sold within Kaya City, which can help the entire project draw back some funds to support the continued operation of the project.
This is an issue of expenditure, and in addition to the issue of expenditure, there is also the issue of 'income'.
At present, the entire group has experienced product accumulation.
As the group invested heavily in building factories and hiring workers, the investment was spent, but many of the products produced were backlogged and could not be sold smoothly.
Although as the number of workers increases, consumption within Kaya City has also increased, but people who were once poor before are still afraid to consume boldly. The city's economic recovery is slow, and these new productions cannot be fully consumed internally.
The product.
The markets in several cities where the Nolanka Group originally traded have become saturated and even show signs of recession, which prevents these 'overproduced' goods from being fully digested.
The core of Nolanka Group's current financial crisis is that the increase in revenue cannot match the increase in expenses, resulting in inability to make ends meet, and more and more cash flow is being invested.
The idea to solve this problem is very simple. It is impossible to reduce expenditure. Once investment and production stop, a large number of people will be unemployed immediately.
Judging from the current situation, there is a lot of room for growth in consumption within Kaya City. By rationally adjusting the industrial structure and extending the timeline, the goods produced by the factory can be digested internally.
So the problem that needs to be solved now is the short-term financial problem.
If cutting expenditures is not enough, the only option is to increase revenue.
There are two methods for open source, one is to find ways to generate a large amount of cash flow, and the other is to find ways to sell all the backlog of goods. If the current market cannot digest it, then open up new markets.
But now the entire federation and major cities have been basically divided up by major consortiums. If you want to gain new markets, you have to conflict with some consortiums.
In fact, Nolanka Group has a new market.
That's Rock City.
After the collapse of the mining consortium, the Nolanka Group successfully entered the Roque City market and won bids for a large number of urban reconstruction projects.
However, due to decades of unsustainable efforts by the mining consortium, the vast majority of people in Rock City are so poor that they cannot even afford to eat, let alone consume.
Although Rock City's economy is also continuing to recover with the advancement of a series of policies implemented by new mayor Wright, that is the market of the future after all.
What Nolanka Group needs to solve is the immediate difficulties.
Of course, money is the main problem, but it's not the only problem.
There are also some problems that money cannot solve.
Such as medical issues.
The advancement of medical projects can almost be said to be difficult.
First of all, it is difficult for hospitals in the Nolanka Group to recruit enough doctors. Most of the federal doctors are trained by medical consortiums. These doctors are bound to their positions by high salaries and high liquidated damages, and cannot easily change jobs.
And top doctors are basically unable to recruit them.
Even though the Nolanka Group paid a high price to recruit a group of doctors, these doctors are almost a drop in the bucket for the entire Nolanka Group's medical projects.
More importantly, after realizing that Nolanka Group wanted to reform the medical industry, the alliance of medical consortiums headed by Qunxing Pharmaceutical united to deal with Nolanka Group.
They will poach the doctors poached by Nolanka Group back at higher prices, and try their best to prevent doctors from switching jobs to Nolanka Group.
Without qualified and experienced senior doctors as teachers, the previously conceived civilian medical college could not be started.
And after the Nolanka Group launched a new type of medical insurance, these medical consortiums joined together to raise prices and increase the expenditures of the insurance companies under the Nolanka Group. So far, the insurance companies responsible for medical insurance have shown signs of losses.
These overpayments have flowed into the pockets of the medical consortium.
And because it does not have its own doctors and medical schools, the Nolanka Group has no bargaining power over medical prices and can only allow them to increase prices.
He Ao knew very well that this was a threat from the medical consortium alliance to make him give up the idea of changing the medical industry system.
Any change will face great resistance, which He Ao already figured out when he proposed these plans.
So he is not surprised by the difficulties Nolanka Group is facing now.
According to Danilo's character, if he cannot overcome this obstacle, he will most likely choose to retreat in order to preserve the Nolanka Group, and then slowly move forward.
But if you retreat now, it may be difficult to take a step forward in the future.
He Ao sorted out the information in his mind. He needed an ally, an ally that was strong enough and had the same interests as the current Nolanka Group.
He raised his head and looked at Danilo, "What is the new mayor of Dawn City doing recently?"
It's been more than half a year since Christos took office. He should have secured his position and started trying some things.
I encountered something today and was delayed for a long time. It may not happen until tomorrow.
