"Mr. Yu, actually we can add ice cubes to the mung bean water so that the mung bean water won't go bad so quickly!" Chen Xiang raised his hand and said.
"This method is good! Lao Chen's brain is brilliant!" Yu Qingyang praised.
"Hey! I also learned this from the zoo! In order to cool down the animals at the Beijing Zoo, they add ice cubes to the mung bean water..." Chen Xiang scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Hahaha! It doesn't matter who you learned it from! As long as it works!" Yu Qingyang laughed and said: "Old Wang, you should learn from it, other people's zoos care more about raising animals than you do! They know how to think of something better than you!"
"I understand, Mr. Yu!" Lao Wang lowered his head and said hesitantly: "Actually... we... have also thought of some ways to prevent the brothers from having heatstroke and cooling down!
It’s similar to Director Chen’s method!
We plan to freeze the mung bean water into ice cubes, then put them into bags separately, and then put them in insulated boxes... In this way, brothers can eat refreshing ice at any time on the construction site
Block, it can not only cool down, but also replenish electrolytes!"
"Well! Isn't this great? As long as you are willing to use your brain, there are always more solutions than difficulties!" Yu Qingyang smiled and nodded.
"Today's incident is a lesson, and everyone must keep this lesson in mind! This is not a country. We are not accustomed to the local climate and it is easy to get sick. We must pay more attention to food hygiene!
Lao Wang, your responsibility is very heavy!
This time I’ll keep it in mind for you! If such a problem occurs again, it won’t be that simple?
When the time comes, I will dig a hole on the spot and bury you!" Yu Qingyang pointed at Lao Wang and scolded.
"I got it, Mr. Yu! I promise that this kind of problem will never happen again! If a problem happens again, I will dig a hole and bury myself!" Lao Wang hurriedly patted his chest and promised.
After the meeting, the next day, Yu Qingyang went to see the poisoned employee and expressed condolences before returning to the office.
She took out her satellite phone and called Xue Qin, "Aunt Xue, how is our water plant doing now? Has it been put into operation?"
"Commissioned! The first batch of water has been sent through Yuanmu Company!"
"Oh! There was a food poisoning incident at the construction site yesterday..." Yu Qingyang told Xue Qin what happened yesterday.
"Ah! Is it serious?"
"It's quite serious, but fortunately no fatal accidents occurred! The most serious workers are also out of danger!"
"That's good! You must pay attention to safety over there!"
"Understood, I will explain to them every day!
Aunt Xue, I called you because I was wondering if our water plant can produce drinking water that can replenish electrolytes!"
"Drinking water to replenish electrolytes?"
"Yes! The weather here is hot. If you stand outside and don't work, you will be covered in sweat. Workers sweat more when working. Pure pure water or mineral water cannot replenish electrolytes! Dehydration is easy to occur!
Also, if you open a large bottle of mineral water, the water will go bad within a few hours! Africans will be fine if they drink it, but our workers will have diarrhea if they drink it!
Therefore, one is to produce water that can replenish electrolytes, but to produce small bottles of water! Those small bottles of water with 300 ml or 250 ml can be drank in one go! "
"There's nothing wrong with the small bottle of water! I really don't know about water that replenishes electrolytes. I'll ask an expert!"
"Okay! Aunt Xue, we need to hurry up on this matter! In fact, not only our construction site needs it, but also the entire Africa needs this kind of water! The market is very big! It is several times or even ten times bigger than the cement market!" Yu Qingyang added
Emphasized again.
"Don't worry! I will catch this matter myself!" Xue Qin promised with a smile.
There must be nothing trivial that Yu Qingyang can call back from Africa to explain.
Xue Qin will naturally take notice. Now she regards Yu Qingyang as her son-in-law.
The son-in-law is the son-in-law. Xue Qin has no son, so he treats Yu Qingyang as his biological son.
Although food poisoning is serious, it is just an episode on the construction site. After it passes, everyone will continue to work as they should.
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Another week passed, and the factory areas in Butitanic City had all cleared their schedules. The Butitatan City Government finally made a decision and agreed to the plan proposed by Yu Qingyang.
The signing ceremony was very grand, and many reporters from home and abroad were invited.
Witnessed by officials from the Chinese Embassy in Algeria and officials from Algeria’s National L.F.I.B (Algeria Foreign Investment Bureau), Yu Qingyang and the city of Butitain officially signed the investment agreement.
The agreement stipulates that China Huaihai Investment Group Co., Ltd., represented by Yu Qingyang, will build an artificial lake for Butitai City free of charge, including supporting facilities and a hydropower station!
In return, Butitan City exempted Huaihai Investment Company from local taxes on all investment projects in Butitan City.
After signing, officials from the embassy and L.F.I.B., as well as Mayor Ronald and Yu Qingyang of Butitanic City, delivered speeches respectively.
The audience was naturally ablaze with flashing lights.
At the subsequent press conference, Yu Qingyang became the protagonist.
"Hello, Mr. Yu! I am a reporter from the China News Service in Afghanistan. My name is Chen Mei. What prompted you to make this investment?"
“First, China-Arab friendship, China and Arab countries have had extensive cooperation in various fields since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1978...
Second, as a large enterprise, we have the social responsibility and conscience of a large enterprise! Since I came to Algeria, I have deeply felt the troubles that the Algerian people have suffered due to drinking water problems...
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Therefore, our company has decided to provide some help to the people of Ageria within the scope of our ability!" Answering the reporter's question, Yu Qingyang finally understood why diplomatic spokespersons and press spokespersons spoke so slowly.
Although every question has been thought over and over, I am still afraid of saying the wrong thing, because in such a situation, if I say the wrong thing, it will not be my own face.
"Mr. Yu, what is the political purpose behind your huge investment in building an artificial lake in Ajigeria?" This is an American reporter.
"Political purpose? Haha! We are just a company, and investing in the construction of artificial lakes is entirely a corporate behavior. It has always been for commercial purposes. There is no such thing as a political purpose!
Or are you saying that when your American companies invest abroad, they all have political purposes endowed by the state?" Naturally, Yu Qingyang would not be polite to such provocations and would directly attack them.
"Enterprises in our country are all private enterprises and naturally do not have political purposes, but your company is different! According to our understanding, your company is a state-owned enterprise!"
"What's the difference? Isn't the purpose of a company's existence all to create value?
Do your American companies have other purposes?
The reason why I built an artificial lake for Ajigeria free of charge is different from your American corporate donations that are tax-free?" Yu Qingyang asked rhetorically.
After saying that, Yu Qingyang ignored him, and the host immediately asked the next reporter to ask questions.
Ajigeria has never had a good impression of Americans.
Seeing Yu Qingyang criticize the American reporter, I was secretly happy, and naturally I would not give the American reporter a chance to refute.
Although American reporters are full of words, they can only hold it in.
As for what he writes when he gets back, that's his business. Even if he is given a chance to continue speaking, he probably won't write anything nice.
Everything is determined by interests. What kind of reports readers like, these reporters will do what they like and report them in a biased manner.
Because you say nice things about Chinese people, not many people like to read it.
Just like why Lao Maozi's "Sorghum" won international awards?
In addition to the really good shooting, the main reason is that "Sorghum" reflects the ugly side of China's old society.
Otherwise, if there are so many wonderful movies and TV series made in China, why don’t they win awards?
That's too far.
Yu Qingyang answered a few more questions, and the host announced the end of the press conference.
Yu Qingyang broke out in a sweat and felt that answering reporters' questions was more tiring than working on a construction site for a day.
"Xiao Yu did a good job, thank you for bringing glory to the country!
If you encounter any difficulties in Ajigeria, be sure to contact us in time!
The mission of our embassy is to solve your problems!" The embassy official held Yu Qingyang's watch and praised him.
"Thank you, Deputy Ambassador Yan, for your concern! If there are any problems, we will report them to the leaders of the embassy in a timely manner!"
The agreement has been signed, and now everything is in place. All we need is Dongfeng.
Construction can begin only after the design institute comes up with construction drawings and submits them to Butita City Government for review and approval.
The domestic Huaihai Engineering Corporation has selected personnel to perform construction tasks in Ajigeria.
And they started language training, and they would rush to Ajigeria just waiting for Yu Qingyang's order.
The second batch of personnel from the Second Construction Group Company has also arrived at the construction site.
Yu Qingyang purchased twenty excavators, five bulldozers, and fifty dump trucks through Yuanmu Company.
Construction on five roads is now underway at the same time.
Including the artificial lake project, although the people from Huaihai Engineering Corporation have not yet arrived and the construction drawings have not yet been released, the construction of the project has actually begun.
Of course, this construction is only to clear the river channel for quarrying.
Thirty excavators, six excavators were placed on Road No. 1, four excavators each were placed on Road No. 2, Road 3, Road 4 and Road 5, six excavators were placed in the small valley, and two more excavators were placed on the road.
An excavator digs sand in the Gobi Desert.
The main reason is that the amount of gravel used now is too large. The amount of gravel used in the five planned roads alone exceeds 700,000 cubic meters.
Even if the river is dug directly to load the trucks, an excavator running day and night can only load about 180 trucks, which is only more than 2,000 square meters of stone.
Six excavators add up to only 12,000 square meters of stone per day.
But this data is theoretical data.
There are many rivers in the small valley, but they cannot support the continuous digging and transportation day and night.
More often, an excavator is needed for oil hammer crushing.
Although Yu Qingyang arranged for the security team to blast, the rocks produced by the blast were very large and the oil hammer needed to be reduced before they could be loaded and transported.
On the stone carving machine side, stones that are too big cannot be carved, and the stone must be made smaller.
The real situation is that five thousand square meters of stone can be transported back in one day.
To build the road, 700,000 stones will be used. Six excavators will work day and night, and it will take 120 days to meet the demand.
This does not include the sand and gravel required for concrete construction in the community.
Counting that, even one million square meters cannot stop it.
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In the reception room of the geographical glass and wood Tianhua International Hotel.
"Mr. Richard, these are my requirements! I hope your company can find the talents I need as soon as possible!" Yu Qingyang asked the white man in front of him.
This white man is a senior account manager at the American Heidrick & Struggles headhunting company.
After the small town project and the artificial lake project were carried out normally, Yu Qingyang focused his energy on the cement plant project.
In comparison, cement plants are much more complicated.
Yu Qingyang uses headhunting companies to recruit managers and technical workers for cement plants.
Neither Huayu Investment nor the newly established Huaihai Investment has ever been engaged in the operation of cement plants.
Belong to everything from scratch.
Machinery and equipment are easy to handle, as long as you have money.
But a cement plant cannot just have mechanical equipment; it also needs managers and workers to work.
Ordinary workers are easy to handle, and there are plenty of people in Ajigeria.
Yu Qingyang looked at Ajigeria as poor, but in fact Ajigeria is one of the richest countries in Africa.
There are many refugees from neighboring countries in Butitai City.
They are all very good labor force.
As for whether hiring refugees to work will violate Ajigeria's labor laws, don't worry. Ajigeria has a payroll tax, and it is not low, especially for refugees and workers from abroad.
High taxes will be levied.
What kind of labor tax, what kind of jihad tax, what kind of consumption tax, anyway, about one-third of a month's income has to be used to pay taxes.
What is hard to find are skilled workers and managers.
As for the managers and technical workers of the cement plant, Yu Qingyang has no plans to recruit people from China.
He directly entrusted foreign headhunting companies to recruit people from the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries.
It doesn't matter if the salary is high.
Anyway, he doesn't intend to hold this cement factory for a long time. He will sell it after working for seven or eight years.
The factory employs Americans and British people. When he sells the factory in the future, he does not have to worry about Chinese workers or managers losing their jobs because he sells the factory.
Moreover, hiring Americans and British people will help him sell it at a higher price in the future.
However, like other companies under Huayu Investment, finance must be controlled by the head office.
The finance team will be sent from China.
Of course, in addition to finance, there will also be a group of college students coming to study with us.
"Okay, Mr. Yu, we will definitely help you find enough talents as soon as possible!
Please believe in the strength of our company!" Heidrick & Struggles' senior account manager assured confidently.
Although Yu Qingyang does not require any high-end talents, the quantity he requires is huge, which can be considered a big deal.
"Haha, I naturally believe in the strength of Heidrick and Struggles!
Otherwise I wouldn’t want to cooperate with you!
This is the first time we have cooperated. If your company can show your strength this time, we will have many opportunities to cooperate in the future!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
As for why, Yu Qingyang had just finished confronting American reporters and then went on to seek cooperation with American companies.
This is business, don't be emotional.
To paraphrase a line from Latent, "If you can't kill me with one shot, I will still do business with you, as long as the price is reasonable."
Business is business, there are no national boundaries, let alone think about problems with the thinking of an angry youth.