Great Power Reclamation

According to Ye Mei's idea, they were originally planning to sail the boat directly to the capital, but the old lady refused to let them do so and insisted on going ashore to make up for the lessons as soon as they entered the Kingdom of Suo.

Ye Mei naturally knew what her grandmother meant. She wanted to see the real situation here.

After all, the first stop is the small town that Yang San had occupied a long time ago, and the construction here is in full swing.

Originally, after Ye Mei became the queen, this place had lost its meaning since it was, after all, a small border town.

However, Ye Rou and Ye Mei discussed and decided to use this place as a trading port. After all, the throughput of the Marseille port is limited, so this would greatly alleviate the tense transportation situation.

Although Ye Mei has been spending money and trying to change the situation in Suo Kingdom since he ascended the throne, how can this be changed overnight?

In addition, the common people were accustomed to the previous life and had no ambition at all. As long as they had food to eat today, they would not think about tomorrow at all. Therefore, life was still extremely poor.

After several studies, Ye Mei and Yang San decided to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction, that is, to attract foreign investment and rebuild all urban housing and infrastructure.

  Originally, such a method is not suitable for the country of Somalia. After all, the country is weak and where would the money be for these things?

But this time, after Ye Mei recruited investors in Marseille, she gave her a surprise.

Today, Marseille is a developed country in this area, and such a country is most likely to attract foreign capital, such as Western financial groups and Chinese businessmen.

Once a country matures, there will be fewer investment opportunities unless the country opens its doors and relaxes regulatory measures.

However, few future generations can bear such consequences. You must know that capital is blood-sucking. People like Soros will even attack your currency. They even dare to attack developed countries like Britain. Just imagine how these small countries in Africa can bear it?

At least in the early days of the founding of the country, Lighter hired Ye Yujie and others, who perfectly avoided this risk when formulating policies.

However, Ye Mei is much crazier than her aunt and adopts a completely liberal policy. Therefore, even though the country of Suo is still in ruins, once the capital pours in, there will naturally be earth-shaking changes.

Meihua and her friends are not businessmen, they are just ordinary builders. They have grown up in the construction all their lives.

So, from the moment they stepped into Brother City, their eyes were fixed on how to plan this place.

This is especially true for the older comrades, who have been building houses since they were young and no one is more knowledgeable about construction than them.

When Marseille was first built, a large number of Chinese construction companies were invited to bid.

But Yang San didn't care about it, and only invited construction companies from nearby countries, so the progress was slow. Liu Qinghua and others frowned when they saw it.

It takes three people to transport sand, one to load, one to push, and one to pour. The key point is that the loading and unloading tasks are all done by men, while the one who uses his head to push the sand is a woman.

  How can we work like this? It takes at least two years to build a building.

Liu Qinghua couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he took the frame from the woman and handed it to the man who was holding the sand:

"You carry it yourself!"

  The man understood Liu Qinghua's meaning through the translator and shook his head to refuse:

"I am a skilled worker. Carrying sand is a job that only women can do. They can't pretend!"

Liu Qinghua grabbed the shovel and handed it to the woman:

"You load the sand and ask him to carry it!"

The woman was very obedient. She took the shovel and quickly filled it with sand.

Looking at the group of old comrades who were eyeing him eagerly, the man had no choice but to carry the basket and walk about ten meters to the man who was unloading the sand.

The man was about to take it when Liu Qinghua shouted, "Let him do it himself!"

The man had to stop, and the man carrying the sand bent down and poured the sand into the sand pile, then walked back.

Liu Qinghua handed another basket to the man unloading the sand:

"You carry it too, both of you, women's clothes!"

The man had no choice but to carry the basket and walk over. Then one woman loaded it and two men carried it, and their speed soon increased by more than twice.

The site supervisor looked at all this in amazement. Is it possible to do this? So he wanted to follow suit, but he had just started to make arrangements. A group of men had already resigned. They didn't want to do it anymore.

The reason is that they are skilled workers, and if they do manual labor their wages will be much lower, which is unreasonable, so they quit.

The supervisor looked miserable, not knowing how to solve the problem. Although he didn't know the origins of these Chinese people, he naturally understood that he couldn't afford to offend the Prime Minister and the Queen standing behind them.

Ye Mei was furious and roared, "Stop right there!"

The workers then realized that it was Her Majesty the Queen who had arrived, and they all knelt down to greet her.

"Why not? How can you have food if you don't do it? Give me a reason, or I'll let you starve to death!"

Ye Mei has always had a bad temper, and her temper flared up all of a sudden. Her words were like an imperial decree, and if she said she would starve you to death, she could.

A group of people quickly explained: "Your Majesty, we only make 180 shillings a day, but the laborers only get 100 shillings. We have to support our wives and children!"

Ye Wancheng pointed at the baskets and asked, "How many baskets do you carry every day?"

The men looked at each other, none of them knew.

But the women who were carrying sand could remember: "About a hundred baskets, sometimes more, sometimes less, but about this number."

Ye Mei did a simple calculation: one hundred baskets in eight hours, and one basket cost 1.8 shillings. Anyone can solve such a simple math problem.

The key point is that these 100 baskets were completed by three people, that is, each person had 33 baskets, two men each had 180 shillings per day, and the woman had 100 shillings, which added up to 460 shillings.

  This works out to 4.6 shillings per basket. Ye Mei frowned and asked Liu Qinghua:

"What do you think is suitable for Grandpa Liu?"

  Before he could answer, Ma Quanyi spoke:

"Your father taught us this when we were a few years old: the more you work, the more you get."

"Isn't it 4.6 shillings a basket? You do your own thing, the more you work, the more you earn!"

  The supervisor was a little confused. He calculated for a long time with his calculator, and finally nodded, then asked blankly:

“Will this not affect the construction progress?”

Meihua was so disappointed that she took out a stack of money and said, "Come, I'll settle today's wages. Go to work. I'll pay you for each basket you work."

  Seeing the money, people are motivated. 4.6 shillings per basket, 46 baskets is 460 shillings, baskets is shillings. What else can I say?

This is a five-story shopping mall, and because there is no construction equipment, it is all done by manpower, which is the method used in China in the 1970s and 1980s.

It is manual construction and building materials are all thrown upwards, so the speed is limited not by the bricklayer but by the transportation of raw materials.

As the saying goes, there is always a brave man under a big reward. When the first person receives the money, the rest will have no reason to hesitate.

So within an hour, the sand, which was originally transported the slowest, piled up into a mountain.

Then the piece price of cement, steel bars, bricks and other materials is calculated, and finally the piece price of the bricklayer. The bricklayer here is a master. Sometimes he doesn't even listen to the supervisor on the construction site. He smokes and drinks coffee while working. You can eat five meals a day.

So it is very difficult to pay them by piecework. As soon as Ma Quanyi said it, before the price was revealed, several craftsmen went on strike and went out to drink coffee.

Ma Quan pointed at someone's nose and started scolding him out of righteousness, but it was useless because the other person couldn't understand him anyway. He would stop when he got tired of scolding.

As a result, Ma Quanyi rolled up his sleeves, picked up a tile knife and started to work. The old comrades also climbed up the ladder. The wall was built very straight and even less cement was used.

  The bricklayers were dumbfounded. They didn't expect these old men to be so capable. Bricklayers have the highest salary. If they are really fired, how can they support their families?

So they came over dumbfounded, but didn't know what to do because all the tools were occupied by the old comrades.

Ma Quanyi saw that the group of people had become obedient, so he returned the tools to them. He taught them:

"Work hard, and you'll earn more than before, but if you don't work hard, you won't get paid."

A group of people nodded in agreement, took the tools and went to work. Although they wasted two hours here, the construction site was much faster.

Ye Mei's eyes lit up. If construction sites across the country were done in this way, the project progress would be much faster.

So they hurriedly made arrangements. After all, the labor force were all Somali citizens. Even if people came from other companies, most of them were technical personnel. If the entire construction team came, the cost would be very high.

If this set of theories is summarized, not only the common people will benefit from it, but also the construction companies will benefit.

Ye Mei suddenly felt that these grandfathers were truly a treasure. They had solved a big problem as soon as they got off the boat.

She has lived in the United States for a long time, and that place is actually not a very efficient place. It can't compare with the speed of military reclamation.

Therefore, she decided to set up an organization to specifically deal with this issue. In fact, like other African countries, the most serious problem facing Somalia is its low production efficiency.

With the same amount of labor and time, the work done is only one-tenth of that of others. This seriously restricts economic development.

There are only two ways to solve this situation: one is to add modern equipment, and the other is to improve efficiency.

  Nowadays, these old comrades are obviously experts in this field. Wouldn’t it be a crime if we don’t make use of such talents?

Then, Ye Mei, who was still angry just now, smiled and said to Liu Qinghua and Ma Quanyi:

"Grandpa Liu, Grandpa Ma, I would like to hire you as consultants for the Infrastructure Department of the Soso State, specifically responsible for infrastructure. What salary do you think is appropriate?"

Liu Qinghua and Ma Quanyi shook their heads together: "Girl, don't mention money. It will become awkward if you mention money."

At this time, Xi Dehe and Carpenter Li and his gang were unhappy:

"Why do you only hire two of them? We are no worse than them!"

Ye Mei quickly explained: "Please all. For the national infrastructure project, I think you don't have enough people. I will discuss the salary with Grandpa Liu and Grandpa Ma first."

"No! We won't work if you pay us!"

Xi Dehe, who has always been a money-grubber, was the first to raise his hand to refuse.

Everyone nodded in agreement. Ye Mei looked embarrassed and said, "If you don't want a penny, I won't be able to hire you!"

Ma Quanyi smiled and said, "Girl, all of your grandfathers have an annual salary of over one million. Your small country is so poor, and you still want to pay us a salary? Anyway, we have nothing to do, so we can just use our remaining energy."

A bunch of old comrades laughed together, which made Ye Mei blush.

She really didn't have much money. Her mother's property meant nothing to her, so the only thing she had was pocket money from her father every month.

My eldest brother would give me money every month, but it was only enough to ensure that I had enough food and clothing. As for the national treasury, I could only say “haha”.

The staff's salaries have been delayed for who knows how long, how can there be any surplus? Since you are the queen, you have to figure out your own way.

Now, Ye Mei’s idea is to sell the land and develop it together, and then collect part of the profits.

In fact, she asked her elder brother Ye Feng for help, but Ye Feng obviously had no interest in this small country. She made a fuss for a long time before he agreed to come and take a look after a while.

In fact, Ye Feng was also angry about his sister marrying Yang San, otherwise, as a crazy doting sister-loving man, he would never be so cold.

Ye Wancheng also chimed in: "Forget about the salary. We don't need your little money. How much can you give? Just think of it as us helping you."

Ye Wancheng's words were somewhat emotional, and Ye Mei's eyes couldn't help but become moist:

"Okay, thank you grandpas then, I will definitely ask someone to take good care of you."

Meihua also smiled and said, "And grandmas, don't forget that the largest textile company in So Country was built by us."

Ye Mei opened her eyes wide: "Grandma, are you saying that we should build a textile factory too?"

Meihua nodded: "Not only will we build a textile factory, but we will also build a garment factory, and then all of these will be given to you as your dowry."

Meihua was really sad. Her most beloved granddaughter was actually married to such a place. The queen was so poor that she probably couldn't even afford jewelry.

The old ladies chattered, "Meihua, you can't spend this money by yourself, you have to count us in too."

Meihua scolded angrily: "I'm giving this as a dowry to my granddaughter. What does it have to do with you?"

Liu Sannu glared at her and said, "You're talking as if she's not our granddaughter. What's wrong? Who wouldn't want to give a dowry of 1.8 million yuan each?"

Ye Mei was unable to utter a word and regretted her behavior on the boat just now. These were her relatives.

After deciding these things, they set off again. At this moment, a large number of businessmen from Marseille had also arrived in the capital, and many things needed to be handled by Yang San and Ye Mei.

This time they set out on a hurried journey, but Ye Mei and the others took the old aunts with them.

The old comrades strolled around with the security personnel to check along the way, and gave instructions whenever they saw a construction site.

Because there were too many people and it would be a big fuss no matter where we went, Ye Wancheng discussed with everyone and decided to go separately.

So they spread out the map and studied it, and decided to divide into 20 groups, spread out to various towns, and make some plans.

After all, this is a large-scale infrastructure project, which requires a comprehensive planning map to avoid a rush to start it and then low utilization rate.

They inspected not only the infrastructure, but also some factory plans. After all, with so many businessmen coming, they also had to investigate how big the market was in this country. (End of this chapter)