After entering the city, making friends, purchasing, and buying maids, the next step was to build a warehouse. Zhou Qingfeng seemed to have forgotten about the 'Inspection Office' and 'Imasca', and was focused on playing the role of a foreign lord.
The afternoon sun was warm, making the homeless people on the street corners a little more energetic. They huddled together with unkempt hair, talking boring words, hoping that the gentlemen passing by would be kind.
But there is no kindness. The passing carriages ignore the potholes in the ground and the bumps in the carriage, and they all rush along with their whips raised. It is just because this street is the dividing line between the craftsman district and the aristocratic district. One side is dirty and filled with water, and the other side is slightly cleaner.
The refugees leaned against the craftsman's area and looked mutteringly at a shanty town that had just been demolished. The poor people living in it had no time to clean up the rags of their homes, so they were driven away ruthlessly.
Calling it a 'shanty' is a compliment to the poor's residence. It's just a triangle built with a few strong wooden sticks, covered with leaves and thatch. But this dark, damp space that can't withstand the wind and rain is a home.
.
If the soldiers in the city come up and kick it, such a 'home' will collapse. The poor people living there can only drag their children and daughters away in fear, like a nest of cockroaches being discovered.
The soldiers indeed treated the poor ghosts like cockroaches, scolding, beating, and driving them away, hoping that they would all die. The poor ghosts in distress could only plead, but they did not even know what was happening.
The homeless people nearby have nothing to do with themselves and are just watching the fun.
The good thing about Lafabro's involvement is that he has a great reputation in Cold Wind City. Rubio uses the name of 'Chief Alchemist' to do things, and there is basically no hindrance. Without too much public relations, anyone in the city will give it to him.
Save some face.
Zhou Qingfeng promised that as long as he established a foothold in Hanfeng City, he would give Fabbro a hand-centrifuge. This 'promise' was like a carrot hanging in front of the donkey's head, which made Fabbro extremely angry but had to give up.
The beginning.
As a cover, Zhou Qingfeng's skill of 'spending money' to recruit people for infrastructure construction was fully implemented. He transferred a group of key villagers from Harmony Village, surrounded two acres of land in the city's craftsman area, and prepared to build a two-story building.
warehouse.
This will be a warehouse that integrates storage, transshipment, accommodation, commerce, and communications. Rubio carefully hired more than 300 laborers, and with the help of Wilson's network, he recruited more than 20 craftsmen to start construction.
With the experience of building a harmonious village, Rubio's ability is no longer limited to being a profiteer. He knows how to plan the work carefully, how to arrange manpower in an orderly manner, and how to ensure the efficient use of funds.
Fabbro has a manor outside Cold Wind City. The female slaves and coolies he recruited are not in a hurry to work. They are sent to the manor for a few days to eat well and learn some honorifics. This allows them to understand the commands and know how to be concise and quick.
to express the situation you encounter.
‘A sharpened sword never misses the woodcutter’.
Harmony Village relied on this simple and effective training method to twist more than 1,500 villagers into a rope, greatly improving labor efficiency. Now this training method has been moved to Hanfeng City.
For coolies who can't even tell the difference between left and right, basic training is very necessary. On the first day, the mistakes they made made the residents of the manor laugh. On the second day, the queue training was like headless flies. On the third day
...
On the third day, it was still the same as before, no miracle happened, and those who should be stupid were still stupid. But on the third day, there were one-third fewer coolies being trained. Those who were really stupid and couldn't be driven, Zhou Qingfeng was not interested in teaching anymore
Okay, blast away.
At most, three days of food money will be wasted, but the waste will not drag down the overall efficiency.
I don’t know whether it was the three days of full meals that gave me some brain growth, or the three days of simple training that had an effect. Anyway, when one-third of the workforce was laid off, the remaining useless coolies received a few whips, and they all became enlightened.
In three days, Zhou Qingfeng also transported a large number of iron tools from Harmony Village to himself. More than two hundred hoes, shovels, hammers, and crowbars. Because the steel mouth is good, the materials used are sufficient, and the forging and quenching skills are exquisite, he received
Tool coolies are all praised.
With good tools and coolies with basically online IQs, the warehouses in the city started construction immediately. The shacks on two acres of land were bulldozed, solid and dotted lines were drawn on the ground, and the foundations were excavated.
In other houses, when the rich and powerful build a house, the coolies are lazy and need whip-wielding overseers to watch eagerly. But when Zhou Qingfeng built a house, the coolies were all agile, sweating and hardworking.
Other dignitaries drive coolies, and it's good if they can give them food. The wages are very small, and they even recruit corvees without giving them a penny. Zhou Qingfeng drives coolies, and they can have enough to eat during training, and they are paid every week, plus they have physical strength.
Enough medicine.
"The fire-breathing pepper from the abyss is really a good thing. It grows in volcanic craters with harsh environments and is naturally rich in energy. The physical potion prepared with it is low-priced and effective. One sip can make people energetic and last all day long.
Not sleepy."
Zhou Qingfeng did not forget to sell his genius invention to Fabbro. But after hearing that this thing contained materials from the abyss, the 'Chief Alchemist' thanked him.
"Spicy flavor can boost the spirit, promote digestion, enhance physical fitness, and improve sleep. In addition to the staple food, it can be combined with physical strength medicine for coolies to provide reasonable nutrition and a balanced diet. It is really a good product for construction and a must-have for home travel."
Zhou Qingfeng was still talking nonsense, but no matter what he said, no one recognized his spicy stamina potion.
Fabbro considered giving it to his own slaves, but after asking the price, he learned that a bottle cost five silver coins. He shook his head, showing no interest.
"Only you, Victor Hugo, can give such an expensive potion to a group of coolies." Fabbro said critically: "We would rather drink a potion with a traditional flavor of ten gold coins a bottle than drink a potion like yours."
With added ingredients.”
"My price is cheap enough. The coolies who drank the potion work so hard. I don't dare to say that one is worth ten, but at least three are worth it."
Building a house and digging the foundation is strenuous physical labor, and even a strong person cannot persist for a long time. But the coolie recruited by Zhou Qingfeng took a sip of the potion and cursed, "Who put the chili pepper in?" and then worked sweating like rain for more than half an hour.
After resting for ten minutes and taking another sip of the 'spicy drink', the coolies continued working. More than two hundred coolies worked in shifts 24 hours a day, and they had to work at night even when it was dark. They exerted the workload of four to five hundred people, and every hour on the construction site
It's changing every moment.
"There are so many slaves, why waste money?" Fabro admitted that Zhou Qingfeng did come up with some interesting cheap potions, but he was still not interested.
Only Zhou Qingfeng can use this kind of organizational management and strengthening medicine that benefits the bottom of society. The rich and powerful are not interested at all. Because his ideas are different from others...
"If slaves are transformed into free people, they will be more motivated."
"If slaves have sufficient physical strength, the mortality rate will be greatly reduced. They will grow into skilled workers."
"With enough skilled workers, we can carry out social division of labor and cooperate, develop more advanced industries, and have stronger strength!"
"With stronger strength, I can gain a better foothold in Cold Wind City."
Regarding Zhou Qingfeng's explanation, Fabbro responded with one sentence - a noble wizard does not need this.