Chapter 266 The most primitive transaction (seeking the moon
"Mr. Yu, I don't understand what you mean? Xiao Lu also kindly reminded them!" Chef Wang Guangyong said aggrievedly.
"What was the request before? The wastewater and leftovers generated from each meal should be poured into the pit and buried in time!
How did you do it?”
"us……"
“You think this place is 40 to 50 meters away from the camp and it won’t affect the camp, right?
Have you ever thought that if you don’t bury it in time, the mosquitoes and flies that breed here will just go to the camp, suck your blood, and then spread diseases!”
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yu! We made a mistake. We must pay attention to it in the future and bury it one at a time!"
"This is a warning. Next time you find yourself dumping leftover food waste and not burying it in time, I will deduct a month's bonus from you!" Yu Qingyang scolded you sternly.
It is the first time for everyone to come to the African continent, and everything here is very unfamiliar. All understanding is through other people's narratives and biographies.
Be careful and you won’t make a big mistake!
After handling the matters outside, Yu Qingyang returned to the camp.
Everyone is still packing up, and a lot of furniture is still piled outside. Yesterday, we just packed up a few offices and rooms that everyone needs for overnight accommodation.
Others have not been sorted out yet.
Look up at the sky, it’s so blue!
Not even a cloud.
It was only after eight o'clock, but before nine o'clock, the temperature was already almost thirty-five or six degrees.
Looking at this, the temperature can reach around 40 degrees by noon.
The employees were all sweating profusely.
All these office furniture and living furniture are purchased locally.
Absolutely conscientious furniture, very heavy and heavy.
Yu Qingyang did not return to the conference room, but looked around the camp, talking and joking with the employees from time to time.
It is the job of project manager Zhao Xinlei to assign tasks during meetings.
Since Yu Qingyang has arranged a project manager, he must give him rights.
If he does everything himself, Zhao Xinlei, the project manager, will become a decoration. When will he be able to take charge of his own role?
Therefore, after Yu Qingyang explained in the conference room why he built roads first and then built houses, he left the conference room with an excuse.
He was just afraid that his presence would affect Zhao Xinlei's performance.
Yu Qingyang defines himself as a mascot in Africa.
Give everyone some encouragement and encouragement.
Give Zhao Xinlei a platform.
At other times, he just pretends to be on vacation in Africa.
Of course, if there is a suitable opportunity, you can also invest.
At ten o'clock, the first meeting of the Ajigeria Project Department finally ended.
Zhao Xinlei and other project department leadership team walked out of the conference room.
"Mr. Yu..." Zhao Xinlei came over and wanted to report the contents of the meeting to Yu Qingyang.
"Old Zhao, there is no need to report! Just give me a copy of the meeting minutes later!
I still say the same thing, I will not interfere in your management!
It's up to you what to do!
If you have any problems that cannot be solved, come to me again!" Yu Qingyang smiled and patted Zhao Xinlei on the shoulder.
"Okay, Mr. Yu!
Thank you, Mr. Yu, for your cultivation!" Zhao Xinlei said excitedly.
"Haha! I have no choice, I want to be lazy, so I can only work hard to cultivate a backbone like you!" Yu Qingyang laughed.
After the meeting ended, the camp suddenly started to move rapidly like a clockwork.
Some people were left to continue cleaning up the camp. The technicians and construction workers, led by the director of the construction department and the director of the technical department, drove out of the camp in pickup trucks.
The pickup truck is a domestic Great Wall pickup truck.
Support domestic products.
The excavator also started up and rumbled out of the camp.
The excavator is going to clean up the Pingzheng production base and dig drainage ditches to prepare for the construction of the production base.
Technicians and construction workers went to the planned No. 1 Road to measure and lay out the wiring.
There were two teams, each team was accompanied by four armed security guards.
Yu Qingyang told Zhao Xinlei what had just happened at the gate of the camp, so that he could be fully aware of it.
"I think starting from tonight, we need to strengthen language training!
Otherwise, it will be really difficult for us to move forward on the land of Africa!"
"Mr. Yu is right, I will arrange it later and have the translator teach everyone Arabic!" Zhao Xinlei nodded in agreement.
While he was talking, a motorcade came outside.
The car stopped at the door and a few white men in suits and ties got out of the car.
These people were officials of the Butita government.
Don’t think that Africa is a black world. In fact, there are many more white people than black people in Africa.
It may be difficult for Chinese people to understand that in such hot weather, these people are still wearing suits and ties.
This is Western etiquette.
Africa has been enslaved by Western countries for hundreds of years.
In addition to religious beliefs, many habits have very obvious Western characteristics.
Yu Qingyang tidied his clothes and went up to him with Zhao Xinlei.
They all wear uniforms customized by the company.
A light blue long-sleeved shirt and overalls, and even the shoes are uniformly issued Double Star dark high-top sneakers.
Because it was work clothes and we were in a construction site camp, there was nothing rude about it.
If you are wearing work clothes in an urban area, it will be considered disrespectful to others.
Yu Qingyang smiled and stretched out his hand, "hello, good morning!"
"Good morning! How you do!" One of the big, middle-aged white men stretched out his hand to shake Yu Qingyang's hand and say hello.
“ithe general managerchina huayu second engineering construction group,nameyu qingyang!(I am the general managerchina huayu second engineering construction group,nameyu qingyang!)
thismr. zhao xinlei, project manager the construction assistance project 10,000 people's munitybutetan city, ajihe leah.
and Zhao Xinlei introduced him to each other.
Fortunately, Yu Qingyang's English is not bad. Although he has some difficulties in simple conversations, he can still express his meaning clearly.
The other party also introduced himself.
They are officials from Butita City Government and can be regarded as representatives of the owners.
Although it is a construction aid project, Butitatan City still has to send representatives to be responsible for communicating and coordinating some matters.
Of course, there is a supervision company to supervise the work, so they don't need to take care of this.
Overseas, this distinction is very clear, and the owner decides not to go on-site to supervise the quality of your project.
This is the responsibility of the supervision company.
The owner is responsible for project approval, finding construction contractors, etc. in the early stage.
For a project like this, the owner is responsible for communicating with China in the early stage and obtaining China's consent to assist in the construction.
Others provide land for production and living bases.
Then it is to monitor whether you have any illegal behavior during the construction process.
Is the construction progress of the project carried out in accordance with the contract?
Of course, when it comes to this project, it is not that strict because it is free assistance.
Therefore, many things are not so strict. As long as you do not commit any obvious illegal behavior or violate Ajigerian religious beliefs, we will not interfere with you too much.
They came here today because they knew that Chinese companies had entered the market, so they came to take a look and express their condolences in Chinese terms.
Yu Qingyang invited them into the reception room and asked people to invite the translator and Mr. Lu.
Yu Qingyang can barely communicate in English, but Zhao Xinlei cannot.
We can't let him work as a translator for Zhao Xinlei!
Yu Qingyang’s tea art finally has a place to show off.
In a very pretentious manner, I demonstrated the Chinese tea art to four Ajiji Liabtan officials.
The four Ajijiliab Titan officials were shocked and kept shouting, "
very good!”
"magic china!"
Libyans also drink tea, and in Libya tea is a high-end drink for entertaining guests.
At noon, Yu Qingyang hosted four Butan officials for a Chinese meal at the camp.
The four people eating said, "very good!"
However, Ajigeria is an Arab country and believes in Christianity.
Moreover, after Kasifi came to power, he issued an order to abstain from drinking.
There is a nationwide alcohol abstinence and drinking in public places is strictly prohibited.
Therefore, there are only delicious dishes at noon, but no fine wine.
Ajigerian officials are similar to domestic officials.
………
Yu Qingyang somewhat underestimated the appeal of food and water to Ajigerians.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Qingyang was stunned.
After seeing off the four Bu Taitan officials at around two o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Qingyang returned to the dormitory and took a nap.
Until he was woken up by Sun Jian.
When I walked to the entrance of the camp, I saw thousands of people walking towards the camp from all directions in the distance.
Taking the telescope handed over by Sun Jian, Yu Qingyang discovered that these were black people living nearby.
You know, although there are more than a dozen villages around here, the nearest village to the camp is dozens of kilometers away, and the farther one is even more than a hundred kilometers away.
Now that so many people are heading towards the camp, it is estimated that many villages have mobilized collectively.
From the telescope, we can see that the people arriving include men and women, old and young.
Some people are carrying things on their backs, and some are carrying things on their heads.
There was also a child of three or four years old, holding a stone in his arms and walking hard behind the adults.
Of course, there are also those who drive donkey carts with relatively better living conditions.
He was holding a camel, and the camel was carrying something that looked like a stone.
There is a camel in this place. It must belong to a very wealthy family.
As expected, people die for wealth and birds die for food.
Under the temptation of food and water, the Ajigerians and their entire families joined the battle and engaged in a mass sea tactic.
"Go and call all the translators who are at home, and have the people from the material procurement department get ready!" Yu Qingyang ordered the people around him.
No matter what they brought, it was definitely in exchange for food and water.
Yu Qingyang was secretly glad that five loads of water had just been delivered at noon today.
Otherwise, I really wouldn’t be able to cope with it.
It seems that we need to continue delivering water here tomorrow.
The translators and people from the purchasing department came together to the open space that will be used as the production base in the future.
Workers and masters from China helped carry the grain to the open space.
Yu Qingyang directly asked someone to drive a water truck over to prepare it.
As soon as the preparations were made here, the Ajigerians arrived.
Under the guidance, we came to the open space of the production base.
"Line up and come one by one. We have plenty of food and water, but we also need a lot, a lot of stone, wood and sand!
Please don't crowd! Line up!" Translator Xiao Li shouted loudly to maintain order.
Yu Qingyang stood nearby, watching Xiao Li shouting at the top of his lungs, thinking that he should be equipped with a small speaker for collecting waste.
Other translators were also shouting to maintain order.
"Everyone, line up and come one by one! When you line up, when do you start trading!"
Several old men who were obviously the leaders were also helping to maintain order.
It is said that they are the leaders because they can be seen through their clothes. Among so many people, only these few are wearing robes and headscarves.
Obviously different from others.
Soon all the Ajigeria quieted down and lined up quietly waiting for the exchange.
It was because they really had no strength, so they carried dozens of kilograms of stones and drove such a long way.
I can’t even stand still, so I still have the energy to make a fuss.
After the team was lined up, the problem came up again. Most of these people came here holding or carrying a stone.
No matter how strong a person is, how much can he carry?
Not to mention one side, not even an inch.
Also, these Ajigerians are not literate at all and do not know how many squares there are.
I only know that stones can be exchanged for food and water.
Yu Qingyang didn't say anything, just stood aside and watched how the director of the Procurement Department solved this problem.
I saw Chen Xiang, the director of the Procurement Department, calling a buyer and muttering a few words to him, and the buyer ran back to the camp.
After a while, he ran back with a stack of stainless steel bowls and several empty mineral water bottles.
There was an excavator behind him.
Yu Qingyang looked at it curiously.
I saw Chen Xiang first filling ten bowls with flour, and then filling ten mineral water bottles with water.
"Fill this thing and you can exchange it for these grains and water!" Translator Xiao Li shouted loudly to the Ajigerians.
What a talent!
Yu Qingyang couldn't help laughing.
Ten stainless steel bowls can hold about ten pounds of flour.
Ajigeria only produces flour, so the price is not high. A pound of flour only costs 50 or 60 cents.
Calculated at sixty cents, ten kilograms is six yuan.
A mineral water bottle can hold 500 milliliters of water, and it costs about 80 yuan to transport a bottle of water here.
One square meter of water is equal to one thousand liters, which can hold two thousand bottles of mineral water like this.
A bottle of water is equal to four cents.
Ten bottles equal to 40 cents.
Six dollars plus four cents, six dollars and four, converted into dirhams, although it is less than one thousand, it is almost less.
The bucket of the excavator is three inches square.
Because there are gaps in the stone, it is appropriate to convert three inches per square into one square inch.
It seems that no one suffers at all.
It must be said here that there is strength in numbers.
Although the stone that one person can carry is small, it cannot withstand many people.
Polygamy is practiced in Ajigeria.
It is normal for a family to have seven or eight people.
There can even be more than ten or twenty people.
The current exchange is based on family units, and the family steps forward to put the stones into the excavator bucket.
Chen Xiang decided how much food and water to give them based on how full it was.
The first company only filled the excavator half full.
"You only have half the stone, so I can only give you these!" The translator translated Chen Xiang's words to the other party.
In fact, the other party understood without the need for translation, because Chen Xiang pushed the five bowls of flour and five bottles of mineral water forward.
It means to give these.
Although it is not much, the Ajigerians are already very satisfied.
His family is small, only ten people.
This flour and water is enough for them to eat for one day.
If it is delivered twice a day, the whole family can be guaranteed to have enough to eat.
When the transaction is completed, the excavator driver rotates the body, dumps the stone to one side, and then rotates it back.
Continue to the next transaction.
Although it is not fast, it is still orderly.
One after another they came forward to trade.
Then receive every thank you.
Speaking of which, the Ajigerians are quite kind.
Halfway through the transaction, the village chief, wearing a robe and a headscarf, came to Yu Qingyang with his people.
After saying a lot, the glory of Allah is always there, thank Allah, and the blessings of Allah, I sent a sheep.
Thanks to Yu Qingyang for helping them.
Sheep are a valuable asset to the Ajigerians, especially those who are still in a semi-nomadic state.
To put it bluntly, in Ajigeria, a sheep can marry a wife.
This is a great gift.
Yu Qingyang accepted the village chief's kindness and gave him two five-liter barrels of pure water as a gift.