The waste recycling station in Times Square is developing at an alarming rate. It is not an exaggeration to say that everything is done every day. With sufficient food and clean drinking water, the bodies of the lion and others quickly returned to normal and their health improved. Work efficiency soared. These people were not afraid of hardship, sweat, or even blood. Everyone worked hard for these hard-won food.
Starting from the third day, Zhao Kangcheng's equipment and personnel arrived one after another, renovating the venue, installing equipment, training personnel... Times Square was in full swing inside and outside.
Soon, some simple equipment was put into use. On the evening of the fourth day, the first batch of decomposed scrap iron was transported out. It was just because the scrap truck could not go to the other side of the wall and had to change trains in the middle, which delayed the time. One night It only took two trips.
On almost the sixth day, all the equipment was basically put into use, and the personnel who had undergone simple training were already on duty. Times Square was like a machine that had been silent for a long time. It was suddenly injected with gasoline and began to rumble. At night, Mao Zedong The monkey never rested and was always in delivery mode.
On the seventh day, five other scrapped cars that Wu Tianhua purchased on his behalf arrived, including a large trailer with twelve wheels. Each car was filled with food. After the five cars drove to Times Square, the entire square was filled with food. Boiling. Many people have never seen so much food and water in their lives, enough for bathing.
It was also on this day that the last batch of equipment was assembled and put into use. Zhao Kangcheng's men evacuated overnight, leaving them to stay in the slave camp for a week, which was enough to embarrass them, especially when there were two women among them. , if Zhao Kangcheng hadn't offered five times the salary, they would definitely not be willing to come. The only thing they could endure is that the lions respect these people, almost treating them like Bodhisattvas. Let them get a little satisfaction in their hearts.
Beginning on the eighth day, Times Square officially started recruiting people. As soon as the news came out, nearby slaves swarmed in. There had long been news that Times Square had received help from noble people and received endless food and a large amount of drinking water. They were already jealous, just because the incident of the lion destroying the Shar-Pei made them afraid, otherwise they would have rushed in long ago.
One hundred people were recruited on the first day, and they were all sent to dig out garbage. They were given a copper coin per 100 kilograms. The more work they did, the more reward they got. The 100 people who successfully applied almost went crazy when they heard that a copper coin was paid per 100 kilograms. They rushed to the garbage mountain and started working. Live without rest. Some lucky people found scrapped cars or motorcycles, dug out five to six hundred kilograms in a few hours, and obtained an energy tube. Such an incident quickly stimulated others, especially a slave who dug out a container. After switching to two steamed buns at once, no one could calm down anymore.
Steamed buns, white steamed buns.
That night, five large trucks and a large trailer rumbled out of Times Square and headed towards the commercial street. When they came back, Maohou, whose car had been replaced by a large trailer, had more than fifty extra dollars. Thousands of coins. Seeing so many copper coins, more than a hundred big men, including the lion, cried. They had never seen so much money in their lives, and this was just one night's income. However, they also know that this is inventory dug up in the past seven or eight years. At the current shipping rate, the inventory will be used up in a week at most. By then, there will definitely be a significant drop in income. However, even so, everyone was very satisfied.
If it were in the past, even if all the inventory was sold, you might not be able to get even 1% of the money. Everyone was extremely grateful to Liu Wei'an.
In the end, the lion recovered from the excitement first, because he thought that the investment in these equipment, 10 million copper coins, was all provided by Liu Wei'an, and a heavy sense of responsibility pressed on his shoulders.
Two hundred people were recruited the next day. Because there were so many people, the recruitment conditions were much stricter. Basically, we were selecting those with better reputations. It didn’t matter if they were in poor health. I once learned a lesson from a Shar-Pei dog. We are very strict in recruiting people.
Yesterday's 100 people had basically earned about 10 copper coins by the time it got dark. For these slaves who had no income, 10 copper coins was already a high price. Everyone was proud to work in Times Square. In fact, honor is secondary, and the key is income. People like them have no one to accept outside, and there are no factories inside. They can only wait for death. Now, with great difficulty, a Times Square has appeared. The wider the news spreads, the more people will come. At this point, if they are not selected today, they will wait for tomorrow. As long as Times Square can still recruit people, they will not give up.
On the third day, 300 people were recruited, and then the pace slowed down. Their security team only had more than 100 people, and there were too many workers, so it would be bad if they caused trouble. After a strict review, Lion absorbed almost fifty people into the security team, bringing the number of security teams to about two hundred.
That is to say, on this night, a force from more than fifty kilometers away came to attack in the middle of the night. However, they did not expect that the Lion's two hundred security teams had been prepared. They had a crossbow and several shotguns before launching an attack. The people who were shot were overturned, most of them were killed or injured, and an unknown number of the remaining people were killed while escaping. In the dark night, many were accidentally injured by their companions. When I ran back, I saw that the team of more than 300 people was no longer there. There were forty people, and a dozen were injured. Naturally, such a small number of people could not defend the garbage mountain. Within a few days, they were wiped out by other forces.
This battle allowed the nearby Garbage Mountain to see the strength of the lion and others. They had some small thoughts, but now they have been suppressed. Also quiet are the people waiting for the job nearby, who have not been selected for several days in a row. , naturally felt resentful. After seeing the corpses on the ground, the resentment disappeared instantly.
Times Square has entered the fast lane of development, with an income of hundreds of thousands of copper coins every day, and is prosperous. However, there are many hidden problems. At first, everyone did not realize it, but as the number of people increased, some small problems were magnified. Housing problems, sanitation problems, and discipline problems have all been solved under the high pressure of the lion. Although the speed is relatively slow, they are all easy to solve. There are two most important problems now, one is the lack of management personnel, and the other is the lack of management personnel. Just no finances.
It's good if the slaves can have enough to eat, and they don't have to think about going to school. It's rare for a few people to know a few words, and they are considered talented if they can write their own names. Let these people do the bills, it is better to let them dig garbage. . Zhao Xin, who had studied for less than two months, was better than them.
But if you have too much money, it won’t work if you don’t manage it. It’s okay to say three to five hundred copper coins. If you can count it, the copper coins today have exceeded one million. Such a huge amount of money will lead to big troubles if it is not handled properly. The lion will take care of this. Report the problem to Liu Wei'an, but Liu Wei'an has no good solution. It's impossible to let him manage finances, and he doesn't have the time. Things dragged on like this.
On this day, Liu Wei'an got up early. He had finished eating the food at home. He was going to buy a batch of food and came back. As soon as he walked to the commercial street, he heard a noise coming from the square. Dozens of buses were parked there. It turned out that another batch of slaves had been transported. This kind of thing happens every once in a while, it is commonplace. Liu Wei'an was about to turn around and leave, but when he turned around, he paused and caught a glimpse of a familiar face.
It was a girl with messy long hair that hadn’t been combed for an unknown amount of time. Her figure was thin, and her face had become thinner because she hadn’t eaten for an unknown amount of time. Her eye sockets were sunken, her nose was straight, her skin was white, and she had... Only a pair of eyes were a trace of blue, still bright. Different from the fear, panic, fear, and blank gazes around him, these eyes were full of monstrous hatred.
However, what Liu Wei'an noticed was not the eyes, but the face, which looked very similar to a female classmate he had when he was in the orphanage on Earth. Both the face shape and body shape were very similar, especially the eyes and nose, at least There are eight points. This was Liu Wei'an's only good friend in the orphanage. There might be some unexplainable feelings in it, but at that time, he was young and didn't understand these things.
Soon, Liu Wei'an shook his head in disappointment, it seemed like it, but it wasn't after all. One was the Earth and the other was Mars. It couldn't be such a coincidence. After thinking about it, he walked up to the girl and ignored the girl's surprise and said, "Give me a reason and let me buy you."
Slaves have no human rights and can be purchased at will. However, the purchaser can only be from the state. It is illegal to buy and sell privately. All slaves are recorded in the state's archives. There were so many slaves in the slave quarters, they seemed ownerless, but in fact they were all the property of the state.
If you want to obtain a slave, you must buy it, any other method is illegal. The state generally doesn't care, but if something happens and the state becomes angry, a small matter like slaves can become a big problem. Most people don't care about this, especially nobles. They have titles, but Liu Wei'an doesn't. He is just a civilian who has just obtained his ID card. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble in the future, it is safer to pay for it.
"My IQ is 180, is this reason enough?" The girl was surprisingly calm, her eyes did not change at all, and there was no excitement or anxiety at all.
"You have such a high IQ, how could you-" Liu Wei'an stopped talking.
"Didn't Copernicus also get burned to death?" the girl said, neither lightly nor harshly.
"Okay, you are mine." Liu Wei'an smiled, his temper was not small. He walked up to a strong man with a sinewy face, who was wearing the uniform of a prison guard, and asked, "How much does this man cost?"
The prison guard turned around and looked, and a strong bad breath spurted out from his mouth: "That girl's father is not simple, but he is a bit ignorant. I gave you an advantage, 10 silver coins."
Liu Wei'an knew at a glance that the prison guards regarded him as a fat sheep. Any slave who was pulled into this area was basically picked on one side, and the rest were crooked melons and jujubes that no one wanted and were sold at different prices. Ten or more copper coins each, a good one costs seventy or eighty copper coins, and a top-notch one costs only one hundred copper coins. However, he didn't counter-offer and just threw away 10 copper coins.
The prison guard was overjoyed. He was a little worried at first. The high price scared Liu Wei'an away. Unexpectedly, he was really a fat sheep. He found the girl's sale deed as quickly as possible, stamped it with an official seal, and asked Liu Wei'an to Ann signed her name in duplicate, and the transaction was considered complete.
Liu Wei'an glanced at it and saw the girl's name: Fang Xiaoyuan. It was fate. She had the same name as her friends in the orphanage, but they had different surnames.
