"Yang Xiao, Feng Ming majors in civil engineering. If Savage City is built, he should be asked to come over and plan the urban design, including residential buildings, communities, drainage, market areas, etc."
Chi Lin suggested.
When Yang Xiao heard this, he smiled and said,
"If you don't tell me, I forgot. Okay, I will send Feng Ming over later. In short, you can chat more with Grandpa Savage Wang in the Savage Valley. Understand the situation first. If you encounter anything, discuss it with Grandpa. Don't be anxious. ,take it easy."
Chi Lin and Du Hai were very happy. Coming to Savage Valley was almost like coming to a paradise. Compared to underground mining, it was more than a hundred times more comfortable.
Yang Xiao chatted with the two for a while. Qin Lu's spaceship had returned to the Savage Valley, so he took the spaceship with the remaining dozens of savages and left.
At the base of the mine, most people are cutting down large trees nearby, and then transporting the huge tree trunks to an open space around the mine, preparing to build houses and fences.
Because there is currently no orange defensive light curtain from the gene store that can resist the monster's attack, safety depends entirely on these savages.
Fortunately, among the more than 200 savage miners, there are more than 60 emperor-level evolvers, and the rest are king-level evolvers.
Such a team is more than enough to deal with daily monster invasions.
The Savage King specially sent Qingmu here, so that Qingmu and Abao could manage these savages well and prevent them from disobeying Yang Xiao's orders.
Yang Xiao and others spent three days building several simple wooden houses out of wood and surrounding a thousands-square-meter fence with large logs.
These fences cannot block the attacks of large monsters, but can only block the invasion of some small monsters. The real defense still relies on the Savage Guards.
Aoki and Abao each brought a team of twenty emperor-level evolvers as defensive guards, patrolling in turns day and night, 24 hours a day.
During the process of building the wooden house, everyone encountered several waves of monster attacks.
Fortunately, everyone was very powerful and quickly destroyed the invading monsters.
Three days later, Du Tianxing, Gu Beifeng and others began to lead everyone to mine.
Although these veins have extended to the surface, in order to facilitate future mining, everyone still has to dig a large circular pit with a diameter of about four meters around the veins.
This circular pit surrounds the mineral vein, goes deep into the ground, and constantly travels through it, just like an underground tunnel.
Seven veins of minerals unfolded at the same time, and more than a hundred people spread out, with about twenty people in each mine.
As expected of a civil engineering major, Feng Ming asked everyone to transport the excavated slag to the wooden fence and build it along the wooden fence. As the slag and gravel piled up, they slowly formed a line with a height of 1.5 meters. , a three-meter-wide slag gravel wall.
Qin Lu praised greatly:
"Okay, once this gravel wall is built, it will be safer here."
Ziyuan crystals began to be dug out one after another, and Zhao Benling was specially arranged to lead people to collect the crystals and take care of them.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
The seven mines produce about two to three hundred kilograms of crystals every day. After half a month, the mine has accumulated nearly five thousand kilograms of crystals.
Qin Lu told Yang Xiao that according to the current purchase price of the Dalong Empire, one kilogram of crystals would cost 100,000 crystal coins, and five thousand kilograms of crystals would be worth 500 million crystal coins.
In one month, approximately 1 billion crystal coins worth of ore can be produced.
Yang Xiao settled the accounts and said to Qin Lu:
"Didn't you expect that the mine would be so profitable?"
Qin Lu smiled and said:
"These 1 billion crystal coins do not belong to you. For example, in my father's private mine, 1 billion crystal coins must first pay 50% tax, which is 500 million crystal coins.
In addition, the wages of miners are very high. You used to mine at David's base, and your monthly salary was one million crystal coins, right? "
Yang Xiao nodded.
"You are still just miner slaves, so you need to pay one million crystal coins per month for revenge. If it is my father's mine, those workers are hired from the market, and the general price is more than three million crystal coins.
In our mine, excluding security guards, there are about 200 workers directly involved in mining. 1 million per person is 200 million crystal coins.
There are also forty security guards, one million each is 40 million, which costs 140 million crystal coins. If their salary is doubled, it will be 280 million.
If you add another million, that's 420 million.
The normal market price cost is 420 million. After deducting labor expenses, we still have less than 600 million left.
Assuming that the 600 million needs to be paid 50% tax, there will only be 300 million crystal coins left. Of the 300 million, according to the share sharing, our Qin family can only get about 60 million for 20% of the shares.
This does not include the amortization of other expenses. For example, our exploration expenses cost 200 million crystal coins.
If all are taken into account, we are still losing money. "
Yang Xiao listened and nodded.
He has never been exposed to the operation of a mine before, and this is the first time he has been exposed to the overall operation of a mine base.
"Brother Qin, do you have any good suggestions?"
"It's actually very simple. Expand production, improve efficiency, and share basic expenses."
"However, the current personnel is still a problem. The more than 100 people mobilized by Savage Valley are already the limit. Savage Valley itself also needs to leave a group of experts to guard the valley and defend against monster attacks."
"Didn't you say that there are four to five thousand savages in the entire primeval forest?"
"There are indeed four to five thousand, but they are all scattered in various small tribes. To call them all together, the conditions are not yet mature yet."
Qin Lu nodded and asked again:
"How do you plan to pay the savages' wages? Do you really plan to only pay 10,000 crystal coins per person per month? It's feasible in the short term, but not in the long term."
"Why?"
Yang Xiao was stunned and looked at Qin Lu.
"The reason is very simple. The entire Wu Star and Ziyuan Star are pursuing genetic evolution. For ordinary people, if they do not pursue genetic evolution, ten thousand crystal coins per month can completely meet their basic living needs.
However, once you need to purchase gene potions, it will cost hundreds of thousands or millions of crystal coins.
For example, from Stationmaster Dai's salary plus the annual base reward dividend, he can get about 200 million crystal coins. However, he cannot save this money at all. Most of the crystal coins he will use to buy gene potions. Improve genetic evolution,
Although at this stage of his cultivation, spending hundreds of millions does not make much sense anymore, but as long as he still lives on this planet, he must continue to spend money to improve his cultivation. Otherwise, if he does not improve, his competitors will will defeat him,
Even if he decides not to improve his genetic evolution, he still wants to spend the money on future generations of the family to help his family improve their genetic evolution.
Otherwise, once he and his family stop genetic evolution, they will be slowly eliminated by society.
Genetic evolution is like an endless river, and each of us is like a boat against the current, marching hard from the bottom to the top. Anyone who does not work hard and cannot keep up with the pace of evolution will be eliminated, and no one dares slack,
The same goes for the savages. They usually rely on hunting mutant monsters and eating their flesh and blood to improve their evolution. Now they have abandoned their jobs and come to your mine to mine. You only give them 10,000 crystal coins. Do you really think they are? Silly?
After they buy the dresses, pots and pans, and some magic weapons you provided, they will find that they get too little from working here, and they will go on strike. "
Yang Xiao nodded. He had always thought that Qin Lu was just a rich second-generation playboy. Now it seems that Qin Lu is actually a talent. He has a profound insight into many things, but he doesn't show it easily at ordinary times.
"Brother Qin, what do you think?"
"Significantly increase wages, directly to 3 million crystal coins per month. Only in this way can you retain workers and attract savages from other tribes."
"But the savages have no place to spend the crystal coins they have. We don't have a gene store, and we don't have gene potions to sell to them."
"So, we must introduce a gene store. Only by opening the gene store in the Savage Valley can the savages get a large amount of crystal coins to buy gene potions. At this time, you can unite all the savages around you and work for you. Work hard."
Qin Lu's words were like a revelation to Yang Xiao.
In fact, Yang Xiao has also considered this matter, but not in such an urgent manner. It seems that the problem of the gene store must be solved immediately. As long as the gene store settles in the Savage Valley, the rest of the problems will naturally be solved.
Yang Xiao pondered for a moment, patted his head, and remembered that when he left the earth, Gu Bo once gave him a jade token, saying that if he encounters difficulties, he can go to any gene store and show his jade token to get help.
"Okay, it's time to use this jade token."
(Update 6 is finished. I originally thought I could write 2 more updates, but I found that update 6 is the limit. My brain is exhausted. After relaxing, I slumped on the bed and didn’t want to move. It’s just the next day. I will continue to work hard. Please support me.
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