Chapter 118 Cornerstone
February 24, 2020.
In the village of Macaron, west of the town of Malagondon.
The team led by Wang Muyi and Julie, who were assigned to conduct random inspections, are already in the village.
Macaron Village is not a natural village, but a new village that was forcibly merged. This small village had a population of only 1,200 before, but now has 5,377 people.
Carter, the president of the local cooperative, is a meticulous middle-aged man with a slicked-back hair. A young man in Wang Muyi's supervision team smiled and nodded to him.
In fact, both of them knew each other's identity very well. The soldiers did not need to communicate verbally. They could judge each other's identity just by the pheromone smell on each other.
"President Carter, please take us to the staff dormitory area!" Wang Muyi said directly.
Carter nodded: "OK, please follow me!"
Macaron Village can basically be divided into three areas: one is the old village area, one is the dormitory area, and the other is the work area.
Cement roads have been paved in the village, and with the influx of a large number of people from other villages, it has become a community similar to a small town.
A young female supervisor asked quietly, "Is this the merger of villages and towns that the company is promoting?"
Julie nodded: "Yes, this is to reduce resource waste and improve the utilization rate of infrastructure."
Currently, cooperatives across the country are merging villages and towns. A standard cooperative has a starting population of more than 5,000.
On the one hand, it is to concentrate resources and improve the utilization rate of infrastructure.
On the other hand, it avoids the emergence of a large number of small villages, wasting the management manpower of the cooperative, and at the same time it destroys the clan circles and enhances the company's influence in rural areas.
The cooperative's structure has been continuously adjusted and currently forms a three-core model consisting of president, manager and finance.
The president is usually a soldier, who is responsible for liaising with superiors, managing some personnel, training employees, managing the security team, supervising production and operations, and sometimes also serving as a technician.
The manager is responsible for economic and production work, while the finance department is responsible for wages, subsidies, accounting, and fund management.
In fact, the president is the real core, after all, he controls the security team.
According to the internal regulations of the cooperative, the security team usually consists of 20 to 50 people, equipped with armored off-road vehicles, assault rifles, grenades, etc.
Naturally, this kind of core position can only be held by soldiers, and the company does not trust anyone else.
As they walked, everyone observed their surroundings.
Entering the employee dormitory area surrounded by a wall, a row of 10-story buildings appeared in front of everyone.
“There are 50 buildings planned here with a total of 2,000 houses. Currently, 20 buildings have been completed and the occupancy rate is 100%.”
Wang Muyi could only laugh dryly at this. These staff dormitories were indeed very well built.
The problem is that the company only rents and does not sell. Although the rent is not high, only about 1 peso per square meter per month, it is ultimately the company's property.
Of course, the company is not unkind. As long as you can work for the company for 25 consecutive years, the company will sell you a house of no more than 200 square meters at about 30% of the market price.
This kind of commitment spanning decades seemed a little unreliable to Wang Muyi.
If the company goes bankrupt in the future, who will the employees turn to to fulfill their contracts?
However, there is no other way around this at the moment. After all, employees cannot come up with large sums of cash all at once, and can only live in low-rent housing provided by the company.
Julie pointed at a random building and said, "President Carter, this one, 302."
"No problem." Carter took them to Room 302 of the building. After opening the door, they found that the room had been decorated.
The floor is made of wood-grain tiles, the walls are painted white, and the counters are all cast in one piece with bamboo reinforced concrete, then covered with wood-grain tiles. There are no ceiling panels on the ceiling, and it is a simple style painted white.
The furniture is also very simple, just the iron, bamboo and wooden chairs, iron and bamboo composite tables and beds given by the company.
Wang Muyi is very clear about these things. In order to achieve one goal, he reduces costs as much as possible and uses products produced by his own company.
Considering the excessive formaldehyde content and maintenance issues of plywood, Coral Construction Company does not use materials such as plywood at all.
"Team Leader Julie, let's start the investigation and sampling!" Wang Muyi said.
Julie nodded: "Okay, let's get started!"
Since Luzon is a plate fusion zone, there are many volcanic earthquakes, and it has a tropical monsoon climate and typhoons often occur.
Therefore, the houses here have certain requirements in terms of earthquake resistance, fire resistance, typhoon resistance, and lightning protection.
Coral Construction Company saved money in other areas, but did not save money on disaster prevention design. Instead, it added a lot of money.
For example, in order to resist earthquakes, the underground of this community is integrated, with underground composite beams connected together using composite bamboo reinforcement and steel bars and cast concrete.
However, the house is completely separated from the foundation, and there is no connecting component between the two.
As for the houses on the ground, they all adopt the design of four connected square fortresses, which enhances the overall stability of the house and avoids the appearance of overly slender buildings.
These are designed to be shockproof.
Once an earthquake occurs nearby, the propagation of seismic waves in solids will definitely affect the foundation or even tear the foundation apart. However, the integrated ground house will only tilt or collapse due to its separate design from the foundation, without the interior of the building collapsing. Only a portion of the house's walls will be cracked.
This design can withstand earthquakes of up to magnitude 8, and can still maintain the overall structural integrity of ground buildings in a magnitude 9 earthquake.
Wang Muyi's team is responsible for testing the earthquake resistance of the house. In this regard, they mainly use physical flaw detection equipment to test the integrity, density, approximate material composition, material distribution and thickness of the wall columns.
Julie's team first tested fire protection, noise, formaldehyde, electrical wires and pipes.
They are very serious about these inspections, after all, it is related to their own income. In addition, the company will send other supervision teams to conduct random re-inspections later. To be perfunctory is to play with their own future.
After a busy afternoon, I watched the sun set outside the window.
Julie closed the window and patted her sore neck again: "This is the end of the test today."
"Well, should we go back to Maragondong tonight? Or should we just stay here?" Wang Muyi sat on the hard chair.
"Here! Let President Carter arrange a few rooms."
Wang Muyi picked up his phone and sent Carter his ideas through the internal communication software, and Carter quickly arranged it for them.
After all, the cooperative’s office building has a reception room, and next door is the cooperative’s large canteen, so eating and drinking are not a problem.
Wang Muyi and others have also become accustomed to this kind of life of running around.
Strolling in the warm sunset .
Outside the dormitory area, there were many villagers walking on the village road, and not far away were fields of rice that had just been harvested.
Carter was in a cucumber field, repairing the spray pipe with a few technicians. As soldiers in charge of the countryside, they were actually all-rounders.
Relying on the knowledge stored in the biochips, these soldiers will not only be able to farm scientifically, but will also be able to use soil and fertilizers, engage in scientific breeding, mix feed, prevent and control poultry and livestock diseases, repair agricultural machinery, and carry out deep processing of agricultural products. Finally, they will also be able to fight.
These soldiers are the cornerstone of the Sapiens company.
Carter was able to win the support of the people in the Macaron Village Cooperative because of his hard power. Even as a manager, he could only regain a little presence in business.
In addition, the benefits of merging villages and towns also strengthened Carter's management effectiveness.
After all, the villagers are not from the same village, so it is not easy to get together.
In addition, the employee contracts of the cooperative are very binding, which gives the president enormous power. If it were not for a soldier in charge of this position, the company would not dare to delegate power to this extent.
Carter saw Julie and others passing by, and just nodded, then continued to concentrate on his maintenance work.
Wang Muyi has also gotten used to those maverick employees in the company, like Carter, who basically don't give face to anyone they meet.
According to rumors leaked from the company's top echelons, these people were called "cornerstones" by Chairman Zhang Jieke.
Therefore, people like Carter are usually called the cornerstone faction, and together with the family faction and the Chinese faction, they form the three factions within the current Sapiens company.
