Kingfisher Security.
Its predecessor was the Kingfisher Office. Clotier, the first mixed-race smuggled to the penal colony from the main world, established the office in Green and worked as a labor agency for a long time.
Labor agencies also have security needs, especially among those overseas who are completely illiterate. Language is really not as easy to use as fists. In addition, there are also issues related to splitting accounts with overseas agencies that also require security support.
In short, driven by demand, Kingfisher Agency began to actively contact and absorb hybrids who escaped from the main world, and established Kingfisher Security.
These mixed-race people were originally members of the self-help society. Although they may not necessarily know each other, their similar growth experiences gave them a greater sense of identity when they came together.
Kingfisher's main business is still a labor agency, but its direction has changed.
As the process of floating islands advances, domestic and overseas transportation capacity is restricted, and the gap in skilled labor becomes smaller, but there is a greater need for human transportation and construction work.
Kingfisher Office is responsible for the arrangement of domestic personnel, while the Security Department is responsible for the overseas interests of workers. In fact, it is also to protect their own wallets.
Recently, because Erte relented on the issue of naturalization, Kingfisher Security was able to establish a branch in Erte, eliminating the need to temporarily stay in a hotel.
In the early part of the month, something suddenly fell from the sky and I was officially notified to participate in the bidding meeting.
In the so-called bidding, there are only four security companies participating in the bidding, and two of them will be selected. Kingfisher Security are all people who have been street rats in the main world. They are well aware of the hardships of the people at the bottom, so the management plan they submitted was no surprise and was selected. Operate salt business.
Salt is not something that ordinary people can touch in the main world... In fact, it is the same in the exile, but the Phoenix Kingdom is particularly weird.
Fatel's sea salt is delivered to Pang Xun by the big orc merchant, and then distributed. There is only one thing that limits the distribution price, which is when Wengji's sea salt ship will arrive. Wengji's salt merchant is not a good person, but his shipping capacity is poor and his sales are limited. The proportion is smaller.
Large salt merchants bear the risk of water transportation, while distributors need to bear the risk of land transportation being robbed. If they are lucky enough not to be discovered, everything will be fine. If they are robbed, the cost of the salt will be passed on to the next batch of goods.
The difference of the Phoenix Kingdom is that it not only controls the territory, but also suppresses bandits all the way to the Luna River, so the transportation risk is very low. In addition, the kingdom does not restrict operations, which greatly reduces the risk cost of buying and selling salt.
In short, salt is a big business in everyone's eyes, and the bidding instructions also know that the two security companies that won the bid this time will share 40% of the total selling price in the first stage, which is indeed a lot of money, especially for Cui. Niao Anbao is an intermediary and can only earn twenty yuan from one customer, which is a huge amount of money.
According to the decision of the meeting after the bidding meeting, the two security agencies first sent together dozens of magic personnel to settle in some simple houses on Yandao, and the family began to recruit people.
In the first phase of simple housing, a single-bed room with an officially designated area of more than five square meters is subsidized by 20 yuan per room. For multi-bed housing, the per capita area is required to be no less than four square meters, with a subsidy of 5 yuan per bed.
Negotiating prices was ineffective. The officials deliberately asked the two security guards to build mainly single rooms, while multi-bed residences were mainly used to accommodate the type of people who might work for a few days but then no longer want to work.
Clotier personally led the team to Salt Island and relaxed a little.
The salt islands rising from the sea have a deep layer of silt, and some of the higher water levels have been hardened.
The dry seabed silt is very salinized and can be seen with the naked eye mixed with gray-white color, but it can be easily changed into clay using magic. The method is very simple. Directly use the three-ring ice sealing technique to freeze the sludge with high water content, and the salt will precipitate.
Repeat the operation several times to accumulate enough desalted soil, and then transport some long hay, which can be used as raw materials for a simple house. You can use magic later or just let the salt workers build it yourself.
The two groups landed in the hardened area near the lagoon closest to the coast, quickly divided their respective territories, and started tossing around raw materials.
The first stage is the reserve stage of the Kingdom's official treasury. The money at this stage is equivalent to free money, because not only are there subsidies for building simple houses, but there are also subsidies for building simple airports, and applying for flights is completely free.
Two groups of people built a saline-alkali land airport directly between the two camps. The saline-alkali land is not suitable for houses, but it is very suitable for aircraft takeoff and landing. It is hard enough and has a certain degree of cushioning, as long as it is flat.
It took half a month to prepare the materials and build the security personnel's residences and sentry posts.
Next comes the arrangement of food and water.
In terms of food, another company was introduced, which is a supply company jointly owned by the company that operates Xiaoqiang Ranch and the company that operates Glasshouse Farm. It is mainly involved in food price guarantees to ensure that local food will not be higher than the price in Phoenix.
It seems outrageous that it is not higher than Phoenix City, so why bother coming here to suffer?
After asking carefully, I found out that they would not make less money.
In the first stage, the supply company can receive a 10% subsidy for food shipped to the island.
A subsidy of 1,000 yuan for 10,000 yuan of food is very small, but it is not a burden to the company itself. They just transported it an extra 20 kilometers to the airport, and then sent a few people to live on the island to sell it. The shipping in between for free.
People can't actually eat much if they simply eat dry food. The meat shipped here will be made into dried meat, plus soybean meal, flour, fat, and vegetable oil. No matter how hard a person does physical work, he can only eat 1.5 kilograms a day. It's over.
It's only 1.5 tons per 1,000 people. Even if it's three or four tons, it's only one sortie a day.
Water, the illumination of the sea surface is greater than that of land at the same latitude, and in addition to the heavy physical labor required, each person must have at least two to three liters of water to drink every day.
It is not impossible to transport it by air, but residents have developed certain bathing habits under the kingdom's water supply system, so it would be quite stressful to transport it by air, so it is better to solve it on site.
There was no need for several companies to bother, the official made arrangements.
We transported glass and stainless steel plates and buckets for more than a dozen flights and taught them how to make simple distilled water.
There is no need for fire at all. Seawater is brought down below. After evaporation, dewdrops form on the upper glass plate. They flow along the inclined glass plate into the water collection container and become drinking water.
The water will be relatively hard and have a slight sea smell, but it is indeed drinkable and is certainly not bad for bathing. If you still dislike it, build something similar yourself and repeat the distillation a few times. It’s just that the conversion rate of this simple device is extremely low. It’s good to have half of it left in a bucket of water distilled.
The security posts, accommodation materials, food, and water are all ready, and we can finally start transporting salt workers to Salt Island.
This step is very important and is also a key point for the two teams to successfully bid.
Salt Island is a piece of land raised from the sea. It is not a real salt farm. There is still a lot of work to be done to really use it for drying salt. At least it cannot be done by people working on it, and it will sink while doing it.
In the lagoon and the area near the lagoon, there is silt that is several meters or even more than ten meters thick. It is very swamp-like in nature. People can lie on it or move on all fours, but if they stand up and take a few steps, they will encounter a place that can sink them.
The bidding instructions also gave some concepts, saying that it is a special soil liquefaction phenomenon caused by the interaction of internal gas and water.
Not everyone may understand the concept, but the two companies realize the key points and must work hard on building the salt farm.
