Homo sapiens

"No. 605, Building 204..."

"arrive!"

Stepping out of the elevator, Liu Meizhu found that this house was quite unique. She asked curiously: "Jingcai, are all the houses here like this?"

"It's all like this. All newly built houses have this design." Zhao Jingcai nodded.

The reason why Liu Meizhu was very surprised was because the housing here was indeed unique and very different from that on Da Yuan Island.

In other words, the design concept of residential buildings of Homo Sapiens Company is hugely different from traditional commercial housing.

Chen Yanxiu and his family discovered this difference when they stepped out of the elevator.

The first thing that catches the eye is that the house does not look like a high-rise residence, but like a villa, because the houses on this floor do not share walls in the front, back, left, and right.

Pass through a 4-meter-wide corridor and arrive at gate No. 605.

There is a 1-meter-wide small alleyway between the left and right sides of the house and the neighbor's house. Liu Meizhu did not go in first, but walked along the left-hand alleyway.

After passing through the alley, it suddenly became clear.

The second half of the house in front of you is also the balcony area facing outside. The neighbor happened to be having a barbecue on the balcony.

The neighbor's hostess saw her and greeted her in Thai with a smile: "Sawadika..."

"Ah...Sawadika." Liu Meizhu also knows this Thai sentence.

The neighbor also seemed to notice that Liu Meizhu did not understand Thai. He pointed at the back door of his balcony and made a few gestures, and said a few words in halting Chinese:

"Hello...are you new here?...The door at the back is over here...come visit me when you have time..."

But the husband of the female neighbor laughed and said in fluent Mandarin: "Hello, you are the new resident of No. 605. The back door of our house is on the other side. You can go around it from here."

"Thank you, are you Chinese?" Liu Meizhu breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the familiar Chinese.

But the male neighbor shook his head: "I am from Chiang Mai."

"Your Mandarin is so good that you can't even recognize the accent. Thank you for reminding me. I won't disturb you anymore."

"It doesn't matter."

After bidding farewell to her neighbors, Liu Meizhu carried her little daughter around to the back. She discovered that there was also a corridor behind the balcony, but this corridor was about 1.5 meters wide.

On one side is the low wall of the balcony, on the other side is a huge window. Below the window is a hollow stainless steel grid with a height of 1 meter. There is also a layer of gauze on the grid. The top is also made of stainless steel grid and gauze. In the middle is It is a single glass window with a height of 2 meters, and the overall height of the three parts is 4 meters.

Liu Meizhu also found that the floors of the buildings here were very high.

After standing in the back corridor for a while, I could overlook the lush small park not far away.

She walked in from the alleyway on the other side and saw the side and back door of her house, which could be opened directly.

"You didn't lock the door?"

After entering, it is a large balcony. The wall on the side of the balcony facing the neighbor we just met is 2 meters high. It is obviously specially designed to block the view.

On the other two sides, there are 1-meter-high low walls, but they are also equipped with 1-meter-high foldable bamboo fences. The fences are covered with gauze to also block the view.

Since she is a family of four, her family has a living area of ​​120 square meters based on internal housing standards of 30 square meters per person.

However, the 100-square-meter balcony at the back of the residence is not included in the residential area. Other front and rear corridors, left and right side lanes, elevator shafts, stairwells, oil fume wells, garbage wells, and cable wells are not included in the residential area.

In other words, the Homo sapiens company's requirement of 30 square meters per employee is the actual indoor area of ​​30 square meters per employee.

The balcony area was still empty at this time, just an open space within the wall.

Through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, she could see the living room and open kitchen in the house, while her husband Chen Yanxiu was packing things.

Open the back door on the side of the floor-to-ceiling windows and you can enter the living room by yourself.

Liu Meizhu put her little daughter on the sofa: "This house is so big, but it must have been newly renovated, right? Is there formaldehyde or something like that?"

"Don't worry about this. These walls are all made of environmentally friendly and safe coral diatom mud. The furniture is made of iron bamboo, stainless steel, and aluminum alloy. No chemical glue is used. Once the decoration is completed, it will meet the occupancy standards." Zhao Jingcai patted the sofa.

Liu Meizhu walked around the room.

This 120-square-meter house has four bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen and one storage.

The master bedroom is 16 square meters, the three secondary bedrooms total 36 square meters, the entrance hall is 8 square meters, the back hall is 20 square meters, the open kitchen is 16 square meters, the two bathrooms are 16 square meters, and the storage room is 4 square meters. , central axis walkway 4 square meters.

Plus a 100 square meter balcony behind the house.

Since the open kitchen, rear hall, and balcony have no visual obstruction, this 136-square-meter area looks very spacious.

"Husband, I feel like this house is so high that you can even have a small second floor."

Chen Yanxiu looked at the ceiling of the living room. It was indeed very high.

But Zhao Jingcai reminded: "The height of this floor is 4 meters, which is indeed higher than ordinary commercial housing. However, I do not recommend that you add a second floor. If there are too many people, you can apply for replacement housing. There is no need for internal partitions."

"And if you do this, the housing management company will not approve it. Don't change the layout of the walls inside the house casually. These walls are specially designed to resist earthquakes. If you change the structure casually, it will destroy the earthquake-resistant structure of the entire building. , once discovered by the housing management company, heavy fines will be imposed.”

Hearing that he would be punished, Liu Meizhu immediately gave up the idea of ​​rebuilding.

Since the residential buildings of Homo Sapiens Company are only for rent and not for sale, the property rights of these properties belong to the company, and employees only have the right to use them, so they do not have the right to modify them privately.

Even if you want to renovate, you can only contact the Coral Decoration Group, a subsidiary of the head office. There are very few parts that can be modified by private individuals.

Zhao Jingcai continued to remind: "You should pay attention to the maintenance of furniture and electrical appliances. There is a maintenance fee and update fee for these things, which are calculated based on their useful life."

"How much does this cost?" Chen Yanxiu asked quickly.

"Furniture usually has a loss-free period of 10 to 15 years, and home appliances have a loss-free period of 5 to 10 years. The so-called loss-free period means that within this period, the company will not replace it with a new one; after this period, if it deteriorates , malfunction, you can replace the same item by trading it in.”

Chen Yanxiu touched his chin: "In other words, if there is damage during the non-damage period, you will have to pay maintenance and update fees?"

Zhao Jingcai nodded: "Yes."

Liu Meizhu turned on the TV, pressed the remote control, and asked with a smile: "Can these electrical appliances be used for 5 to 10 years?"

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. These electrical appliances are produced by the company itself. As long as they are not used violently in violation of regulations, their service life is more than 12 years."

Chen Yanxiu was very surprised: "Will the company not implement the scrap plan?"

"There is no need." Zhao Jingcai smiled and shook his head: "The company does not pursue profits for the products sold by internal employees, so naturally it does not engage in such tricks."

As Zhao Jingcai said, the "profit" that internal employees can provide to Homo sapiens companies is actually their labor.

In this case, it means that the more durable the products sold to internal employees, the lower the company's operating costs will be.

Otherwise, a TV will break down after less than three or four years. If employees continue to buy new TVs, does that mean that the company will have to squeeze out some resources for the production of new TVs?

The scrapping of free market plans is an inevitable choice for companies to maintain product production and profits.

Although planned obsolescence will cause a lot of resources to be wasted repeatedly, this is the survival status of the free market.

Homo sapiens companies don't have that need.

Wouldn’t it be nice to invest these resources into technological research and development?

Therefore, the products supplied internally by Homo sapiens companies are often durable versions.

…

Liu Meizhu watched the TV program and subconsciously pressed the remote control to change the channel.

"Huh? Why are they all in Chinese? I remember that among the official languages ​​of the Homo sapiens company, there are Burmese, English, Thai, Malay and Javanese, right?"

Zhao Jingcai was stunned for a moment and thought for a moment: "Nanyang Screening Company should have automatically set Chinese as the first language for you."

Chen Yanxiu, who was making milk powder for his little daughter, glanced at the TV: "This kind of old TV is quite rare nowadays."

The TV in the living room does look a bit like an old TV from the past, but it is actually the latest technology. It uses the Homo Sapiens company's unique nanostructured light screen, which not only consumes very little energy, but also has a softer image.

The reason why the design is relatively old-school is because this TV is not designed for young people to use, but for the elderly.

This is also the TV standard determined by the Social Research Office of Homo sapiens Corporation after careful discussion.

Many motor manufacturers today blindly pursue so-called innovation, without considering the user's feelings at all, and have a lot of fancy functions.

The elderly don't know how to use it, and young people rarely watch TV. As a result, the use of electric motors in the home is very embarrassing.

The Social Research Office of Homo sapiens has seen this problem. After entering the 2020s, with the popularity of smartphones, laptops, and tablets, only middle-aged and elderly people are left with TV sets.

However, TV manufacturers intend to regain the market of young people by adding functions.

There is nothing wrong with this idea in itself, the problem is that their operation is very stupid.

Consumers who embrace the young group have forgotten that the largest user group of TVs, middle-aged and elderly people, have made the functions fancy and even designed many functions that are very difficult to use.

The balance of needs between the young group and the middle-aged and old groups has been handled very poorly, resulting in displeasure for both parties.

The Homo sapiens company learned this lesson and re-adjusted the functions of the TV station.

As soon as Liu Meizhu turned on the TV, the system automatically entered fool mode and directly displayed the first Chinese channel of Homo sapiens. She could only change channels through the remote control instead of selecting various functions.

"This remote control is actually for the elderly. If you want to use other functions, here..." Zhao Jingcai said as he opened the drawer of the TV cabinet and took out a small box from it.

After opening the box, there is a smart remote control, a wireless mechanical keyboard, a wireless mouse, and a sound-controlled remote control.

After making the milk, Chen Yanxiu handed the bottle to his wife, and then played with the keyboard and smart remote control.

"With these accessories, this TV becomes a computer."

Zhao Jingcai said with a smile: "The production line of this kind of TV is originally shared with the computer production line. In addition, this sound-controlled remote control is also for the convenience of the elderly and children."

He picked up a voice-controlled remote control similar to a karaoke microphone and pressed the red record button: "I want to see real happiness."

After speaking, he released the record button.

Suddenly a floating window popped up on the TV page.

[Searching...]

[Retrieval completed, the first episode of "True Happiness" is being played for you...]

Soon the TV screen entered the first episode of "True Happiness".

Then Zhao Jingcai pressed the record button again: "Episode 5."

Then the system automatically jumped to the fifth episode.

"It's a good function. It's very friendly to illiterate old people and children, but can this thing recognize dialects?" Chen Yanxiu asked curiously.

Zhao Jingcai nodded: "Yes, as long as the TV is connected to the Internet, the data analysis center can analyze thousands of common dialects. Even if you speak Hokkien, the system can recognize it."

"It seems that the company's technology in translation and artificial intelligence far surpasses Google!"

"Of course, Google only has a few employees. Its three network technology subsidiaries, Yemai, Zhiyun, and Magnetic Spectrum, are giants with 870,000 employees."

Chen Yanxiu was not surprised by the size of employees in various subsidiaries of Homo sapiens.

After all, the company's current total number of employees has reached 800 million. Excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, the average age of the company's employees is very young, with at least 600 million young and middle-aged employees.

As a result, the number of employees in each subsidiary is unprecedentedly large.

Among the major subsidiaries of Homo sapiens, the three major construction engineering groups have the largest number of employees, totaling about 83 million.

This is one of the reasons why Homo sapiens can quickly promote a large number of infrastructure projects. For example, the Hongsawady branch is one of the first full-power branches to be established. Various supporting facilities are already very complete.

Johor, which was previously part of Malaysia, only has relatively complete subway facilities, while other supporting facilities are still being improved.

The supporting facilities in Kampong City are better because the electronics industry is given priority here.

As the proportion of new human employees further increases, the talent advantage of Homo sapiens companies in various industries is further amplified.

For example, Chen Yanxiu is concerned about the dialect translation problem. As long as dozens of new human employees cooperate and find some new human beings who can speak this dialect, it will take less than a month or two to complete the construction of a dialect's speech translation database.

This kind of human investment is difficult for Google to achieve.

Of course, arrogant European and American companies will not set up a translation project team specifically for a small language.

But Homo sapiens companies can and must do this.

For example, in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the Internet subsidiaries of Homo sapiens can now suppress Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Must Die.

The core competitiveness of the Homo sapiens company lies in its deep cultivation of small languages ​​​​and dialects.

As long as Homo sapiens' Internet subsidiary enters a region, they will quickly create a localized version based on the local language.

At the same time, a professional docking department will be set up to serve users of small languages.

No matter how powerful English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German are, they are only the mainstream languages ​​in Europe and the United States.

In the vast Asia, Africa and Latin America, there are many people who speak various dialects.

For example, Tianzhu, which has 1,652 languages ​​and dialects, has more than 22 official languages.

No matter how powerful Google is, there is no way to build a special database for 1,652 languages ​​​​and dialects, but the Homo sapiens company can do it.

Therefore, in small-language areas, European and American Internet companies cannot compete with Homo sapiens companies.

The high-quality professional talents that both sides can invest in it are not at the same level at all.

This is also the core method by which Homo sapiens can now set off a wave of public opinion in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and fight cognitive war, cultural war, and public opinion war with Europe and the United States.

By being able to use the local language, local people's resistance to Homo sapiens companies will be much reduced. This advantage has a huge bonus effect in guiding public opinion.

In fact, the emphasis on minority languages ​​is also to further consolidate employee loyalty within the Homo sapiens company.

The reason why the natural employees of Homo sapiens companies are also very loyal to the company is that they feel that they are valued and respected in their work and life.

If those natural workers are forced to use a certain language all of a sudden, they will definitely feel uncomfortable.

However, the Homo sapiens company, which has 150 million new human beings, can fully take care of natural workers who speak small languages, reducing communication barriers.

Therefore, in the daily work within Homo sapiens companies, you can often see supervisors, team leaders, factory directors, managers, etc., speaking several languages ​​proficiently.

This also makes many natural employees more convinced of their bosses. After all, they can speak several languages ​​and look like they are no ordinary people.

…

While watching TV, Chen Yanxiu asked: "Jingcai, do you speak Malay here in Johor?"

"Huh?" Zhao Jingcai scratched his head, recalling the experience of the past month or so. He suddenly discovered that these days, he rarely encountered language communication barriers.

"How should I put it? I all speak Chinese here, and many of my colleagues around me can speak Chinese. However, some employees can also speak English or Thai, but there are always a few people in each department who can speak multiple languages, so there is no need to worry. Communication issues.”

"So that's the case, then I'm relieved." Chen Yanxiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Meizhu wiped her daughter's mouth: "There should be many people here who can speak Chinese. I just met my next-door neighbor, and her husband can speak Chinese."

"This is better. You don't have to worry about communication problems in the future, and your life will be very convenient." Chen Yanxiu looked at the time and found that it was already three-thirty in the afternoon.

He turned around and asked, "Jingcai, would you like to have dinner together tonight?"

"No, you must be busy cleaning the house tonight. I will treat you to dinner next week." Zhao Jingcai shook his head.

Chen Yanxiu also felt a little tired, so he walked down the slope and said, "Then we will make an appointment next week. By the way, leave a number and email address..."

The two left each other's mobile phone number, leaf number, and email address.

After sending Zhao Jingcai away, Chen Yanxiu quickly cleaned up the house.

After opening the closet in the master bedroom, he found that there were brand new bedding, sheets and pillows inside. He hung up his daily clothes, took off the dust cover covering the furniture, and spread out the sheets, quilts and pillows.

It took me an hour and a half to tidy up the house.

Chen Yanxiu, who was physically and mentally exhausted, came to the large bathtub in the bathroom to take a bath.

Liu Meizhu, who was looking after the child, took a few small benches from the storage room, and the mother and son rested on the balcony.

Liu Meizhu looked at her mobile phone. In the employee account of her mobile phone, she had her salary and comprehensive subsidy for this month, totaling 650 gold yuan.

The salary payment of Homo sapiens company is divided into two parts.

Part of it is the basic salary and comprehensive subsidies, which are paid on the first of every month.

The other part is overtime pay, performance pay, and bonuses, which are paid at the end of each month.

Liu Meizhu applied for a job as a manicurist and received a D-4 salary when she first joined the job.

Chen Yanxiu is a chip tape-out inspector, and he gets C4 treatment as soon as he joins the job.

Looking at the joint family property line on the employee's account, the couple currently has a total balance of 3,800 gold dollars.

Liu Meizhu is a budget-conscious woman. She used to manage the money at home. Now that she has come to live in Kampong City, she needs to make a new income and expenditure plan.

There is a ledger function on the employee account. After opening it, she started to list various expenses.

While listing the expenses, ask the system wizard some information.

Housing rent: 120/month

Utility bills (100 cubic meters of water per month, 1000 kWh): 30/month

Gas fee (1000 cubic meters per month): 10/month

Communication fee (two mobile phones): 20/month

Wired network (including landline): 5/month

These are fixed expenses, totaling 185 gold dollars.

Of course, if you feel that the fixed package of water, electricity and gas is not cost-effective, you can also choose pay-as-you-go.

Usually tap water is 0.07 per cubic meter, residential electricity is 0.03 per kilowatt hour, and gas is 0.02 per cubic meter.

This pay-as-you-go billing is more cost-effective for those who don’t often cook, bathe, or live at home.

Liu Meizhu feels that she must cook a lot at home, so it would be more cost-effective to choose a fixed set meal.

As for other transportation expenses, food expenses, daily necessities, cosmetics, clothes, milk powder and diapers, she also carefully calculated the local prices.

Even if she chooses better food and daily necessities, the total monthly expenditure for a family of four still remains at about 670 gold yuan.

In other words, the family's monthly balance is still about 3,130 gold yuan.

"The prices are really extremely cheap. It seems that we can increase some other expenses." Liu Meizhu feels that the balance is still relatively large and she can consider other things.

"Buying a car? Isn't it necessary? You can rent a car here, and there are also subways, buses and taxis."

"House? Uh... there are no commercial houses for sale here, eh..."

Although Liu Meizhu did not find a commercial house, she did find a fine decoration service that could customize various furniture and appliances, as well as specially design a balcony. She looked at the bare balcony and suddenly felt a little moved.

But she needs to discuss the decoration with her husband.

Then Liu Meizhu continued planning. With sufficient income balance, fitness and beauty, travel and entertainment, hobbies, etc. can be considered.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Meizhu found that having too many choices was also a worry, but she never tired of this happy worry.

Looking at the setting sun outside the window, Liu Meizhu stretched, and then sighed:

"It's so great! This is what I want to live!"

Chen Yanxiu, who had just finished taking a shower, looked at his excited wife with a surprised look on his face: "Why are you so happy?"

"I'm thinking about a better life in the future!"

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