Chapter 74 Changes (I)
Kailai Company's investment in a fertilizer production base in Luzon is not a bluff; this project really exists.
Currently, the Homo Sapiens Company has controlled the Fernando family, the Lopez family, the Duterte family, and the Tusun family, and is the uncrowned king of Luzon.
In fact, a small number of middle and lower-level members of the remaining three major families have been infiltrated.
Therefore, the Homo Sapiens Company seemed to be somewhat unscrupulous in doing things within Luzon.
For example, the provinces controlled by the Fernando family, which were the earliest bases, completed the initial transformation into giant enterprises at this time.
Southern Luzon Island.
Around South Lima.
More and more farmers were forced to join agricultural cooperatives or go bankrupt and become urban workers, while land was rapidly concentrated in the hands of sea-faring agriculture.
At this time in the urban area of Limanan, a large number of construction workers were working hard, like a group of tireless worker ants.
The large-scale infrastructure in southern Luzon has resulted in construction sites everywhere. A large number of bankrupt farmers, small handicraftsmen, and small business operators have not become impoverished due to bankruptcy. Instead, they feel that their lives have improved a lot.
Ball, who used to be a fisherman in a small fishing village, wiped the sweat off his face and used a shovel to throw the dirt in the tunnel to both sides.
He feels lucky. Although the half-acre fish pond in his family has been sold, compared to the days when he worked hard but did not make much money, he now earns about 4,000 pesos ( equivalent to 660 Chinese yuan) a month.
If it were just this, life wouldn't improve much.
However, as an employee of the Homo Sapiens system, there are many hidden benefits, such as performance points, employee dormitories, employee canteens, internal discounts, children's education, medical insurance, etc. These are benefits that ordinary small businesses cannot afford.
At least Ball does not need to worry about the education of his two children. In addition, his wife works as a picker in a supermarket. This kind of two-income family is also one of the better-off families in the local area.
"Ball, it's time for lunch break."
Hearing his co-worker calling him not far away , Ball quickly climbed up with a shovel.
"Wow! It's too hot." The worker complained while wringing out the towel he used to wipe his sweat.
Bauer licked his dry lips: "What's for lunch?"
"How about going to Dongxing Restaurant?" suggested a co-worker.
"Dongxing? We are in the South City District. Is it necessary to go so far?" Ball asked, scratching his head.
The worker was angry: "Those idiots in the Barkol restaurant, I want to beat them up when I see them, do they think they are the boss? I have already written a bad review to the supervision department, I will let them know how powerful I am next month."
"Are you trying to kill yourself?" Ball said worriedly.
But the worker sneered: "Ball, you need to learn more from me. This is the power given to us by the head office. All employees are equal. Those idiots think they are in the employee cafeteria and dare to act arrogantly and bully us. I am going to complain about them."
Bauer certainly knew that this was one of the powers granted to all employees by the head office.
There are a total of 8 designated employee restaurants in the entire South City of Lima, all of which are managed by the House of Plenty.
Employees are free to choose which employee restaurant to eat in. As for the service attitude and food of the employee restaurants, the managers of each employee restaurant are responsible.
Although other employees have no way to order the restaurant around, it does not mean the restaurant can act on its own, because employees can choose to eat at other restaurants and can complain about bad restaurants.
All complaint investigations and handling are not the responsibility of the subsidiaries themselves, but of the head office’s supervisory department.
Once a staff restaurant receives a large number of complaints or performs very poorly in terms of profitability, the Supervisory Department will inevitably intervene in the investigation.
Employees of restaurants that are found to have problems will either go to jail, be sent to work as ordinary workers in mines or farms, or be directly fired.
But Bauer didn't believe that the Supervision Department would pay attention to such a small matter, not to mention that the manager of the employee restaurant was a member of Fernando's family, so he asked his workers not to bring trouble upon themselves.
It’s a pity that he didn’t know that his co-worker was a soldier hidden in the grassroots of the company and was receiving a salary from the internal affairs department.
The soldier's task is very simple, to supervise the middle and lower levels of the subsidiaries and to guide the grassroots employees.
Complaining about the employee restaurant with bad service attitude is one of the soldier's guidance tasks. The purpose is to make grassroots employees understand that the company's regulations cannot be violated, the supervision department is fair and strict, and the boss is the one who really cares about them.
Ball didn't quite believe it at this time, but still chose to go to the East Star Restaurant with this good friend.
There were six or seven other construction workers going with them.
Arrived at the bus stop.
After a while, a King Long bus appeared not far away.
Ball and others used their employee cards to get on the bus at half price. There were quite a few passengers on the bus, and they just found a seat to sit down. The air conditioning in the bus was plenty cold.
"It's cool. This bus is much better than the old one and it doesn't emit black smoke." Ball complained.
Other passengers felt the same way.
Previously, the buses in Lima's South City were not only tattered, but their aging diesel engines spewed out black smoke when started. Moreover, the buses were drafty on all sides and had no air conditioning at all.
Hearing Bauer's complaints, the bus driver smiled bitterly and said, "You think I don't want to turn on the air conditioner, but the old buses don't have air conditioners at all. These new buses are better and more comfortable to drive."
"Old Muke, this car is not cheap, right?"
"Let your company do more maintenance! Otherwise, black smoke will come out again in a few years."
The old driver shook his head: "This is a natural gas car. It doesn't burn diesel, so it won't emit black smoke."
"Natural gas vehicle? We won't find natural gas here, will we?" a passenger asked doubtfully.
The old driver gently turned the steering wheel: "Who knows?"
In fact, various cities in southern Luzon Island have now built a large number of methane fermentation plants, which are sufficient to supply the gas needs of local residents, and there is even a gradual overcapacity situation.
Although excess methane can be stored by expanding storage tanks.
But this is not a solution, because in addition to the 11 methane fermentation plants that have been built, there are 8 methane fermentation plants under construction in other cities, and 14 methane fermentation plants that have entered the planning stage.
These methane fermentation plants will be put into operation one after another, and by then the methane production in Luzon will reach between 8 billion and 10 billion cubic meters per month.
Even if there is consumption from fertilizer production bases, there is no way to absorb so much methane.
Therefore, after discussing with a group of management, Fang Xincheng decided to introduce natural gas vehicles, and the partners were King Long Motor Company and Shaanxi Automobile Company.
King Long Motor mainly supplies buses, ambulances, fire trucks, tourist buses, etc.; Shaanxi Automobile Company supplies large trucks, small trucks, cold chain transport vehicles, garbage trucks, etc.
These vehicles are all required to be converted into natural gas vehicles, but they do not need to be equipped with gas cylinders, which will be assembled by the Zhiren Company itself.
Anyway, our company's gas cylinder storage tanks are very good, and the methane we produce is very cheap, which greatly reduces the fuel cost in transportation costs.
Although the bus fares have dropped, the bus company is still profitable, and its profit has even increased by about 63% compared to the previous profit.
The secret is that fuel costs have dropped significantly, the improvement of infrastructure has also reduced energy consumption by a small amount, and the general increase in residents' income has led to an increase in the number of people taking the bus.
What is competitiveness?
That's competitiveness.
