Chapter 15

Recruiting laborers requires doing so from the factory building in the app. A level one factory has a limit of 10 laborers.

Xiaoming clicked on the recruitment option, and once again, the same mist rose in the production workshop. When the mist dissipated, a powerful laborer with a grayish-blue skin, exaggeratedly bulging muscles, and two fangs protruding from his jaw appeared.

"You are called Niusan. Hurry up and help pass the curb stones."

With Niusan in the middle to pass and stack, the processing efficiency immediately increased by half.

Ye Qing observed for a while and found that when three powerful laborers worked together, the efficiency was basically the same as processing finished curb stones.

Undoubtedly, the entire stone slabs would be much cheaper, making Ye Qing more profitable.

Perhaps he could buy whole stone slabs and process them himself...

Of course, there was only one stone cutting machine. To process whole stone slabs, he would need to add two more cutting machines, operating them in shifts—two running and one resting.

Otherwise, the machine motors would definitely burn out if they ran for a long time.

Ye Qing called Xia Muqing and asked her to change the curb stones to stone slabs and to order finished stone slabs in the future.

Xia Muqing naturally had no objections. The difference between stone slabs and cut curb stones was just one less cutting and moving process, reducing the total order cost by about one million.

After deducting the costs of labor and materials, Xia Muqing didn't lose much money.

Six hours later, a total of 1,200 stone-carved curb stones were processed.

The wrongly delivered stone slabs, when cut, produced 200 more curb stones than Ye Qing had ordered, which was a small but significant gain.

With only a few thousand yuan left in his pocket, Ye Qing directly called a truck with whom he had previous business dealings and loaded the repackaged stone-carved curb stones onto the truck.

The delivery location with the Urban Construction Bureau was set at a road construction unit under its jurisdiction.

Currently, several main roads in the city had not yet started construction. The Urban Construction Bureau decided to start work next Monday, and Ye Qing would begin delivering the stone-carved curb stones according to the contract at that time.

Delivering now was a bit early, but Ye Qing really had no money left and had to sell this batch of stone-carved curb stones for cash.

Not long after Ye Qing made the call, the director of the Urban Construction Bureau and two deputy directors hurriedly arrived to inspect the goods.

If it were ordinary curb stones, even a million pieces wouldn't have made the director come to inspect them personally.

These were artistic curb stones, and Le Zhengdong, the director, was counting on these curb stones to submit a perfect answer to the higher-ups.

The packaging of the curb stones had already been removed by the workers, and a large circle of rough men surrounded them, touching the curb stones with their hands, looking excited and pointing and discussing.

As soon as Director Le Zhengdong got out of the car, the foreman, recognizing him, naturally dispersed the workers to make way for him.

Director Le Zhengdong's demeanor was no better than that of the workers. In his eyes, these were not only exquisite stone carvings but also a representation of his achievements.

Now, the directors of various bureaus, such as the Landscape Management Bureau, the Urban Management Bureau, the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Tourism Bureau, the Culture Bureau, and the Health Bureau, were scratching their heads, trying to come up with ideas centered around culture and technology.

While those directors were still struggling to come up with ideas, the Urban Construction Bureau had already presented a perfect plan and had even processed 1,200 stone-carved curb stones in advance, which were the most critical part of the project.

Whose achievement was this?

Naturally, it was the director's. The entire project, from introduction to decision-making to the acceptance of the first batch of materials, was all his personal effort.

Leading the way in one step, leading the way in every step.

Director Le Zhengdong was confident that once the curb stones on the main roads were replaced, this project, which originally planned to use ordinary curb stones and would not have been considered an achievement, would shine brightly in his hands, adding a significant mark to his career.

"Director, do you find this batch of stone-carved curb stones satisfactory?" Ye Qing, seeing Le Zhengdong staring at the curb stones and smiling foolishly, couldn't help but remind him.

"Satisfactory!" Le Zhengdong loudly interrupted Ye Qing: "I am very satisfied. I can't wait anymore and have decided to have the construction unit start work tomorrow, placing this batch of curb stones on Caiyi Street first."

"Then, about the payment for this batch of stone-carved curb stones..." Ye Qing felt a bit awkward: "My factory is small, and to make this batch of curb stones, I have already used up all available funds."

"Immediate settlement, and the deposit for the next batch of 50,000 curb stones will also be given, increased to 30%."

Director Le Zhengdong waved his hand, and a well-dressed staff member immediately ran over to ask for Ye Qing's company account.

"By the way, Comrade Xiaoye. Can these stone-carved patterns be designed by our Urban Construction Bureau, and more patterns be carved?" Le Zhengdong, who was constantly looking at the curb stones, seemed to have a good idea and asked Ye Qing happily.

"Absolutely no problem. In fact, I also think one pattern is too monotonous. The courtesan paintings are perfect for Caiyi Street, so the other main roads in Zhongyun can also have some locally characteristic patterns."

Since Ye Qing didn't have to provide the designs, he naturally had no objections.

"Good, good, good," Le Zhengdong said three times: "Carve the history of Zhongyun City, with each main road having a different pattern."

Ye Qing, who was about to receive a large sum of money, naturally followed up and agreed, saying that this idea was truly perfect, and he couldn't have thought of such a perfect idea.

"Ha ha," Le Zhengdong's eyebrows danced as if he were doing disco, shaking up and down.

After bidding farewell to the directors, Ye Qing returned to the factory.

His eyebrows also danced like disco. He sold 1,200 curb stones for 72,000 yuan, and the deposit for the next batch of orders, as stipulated in the contract, was increased by 10%, totaling one million yuan.

1.07 million yuan was now securely in Ye Qing's account, and no one could take it away.

1.07 million yuan! Ye Qing was almost ecstatic with joy.

With this large sum of money, Ye Qing felt his back was much straighter than before. Previously, he couldn't even afford to buy a good pack of cigarettes to save face.

Now, the money for a BMW 730 was lying in his account.

And it was foreseeable that such large sums of money would only appear more frequently.

"Beautiful women, famous cars, luxury houses, famous watches, yachts, nothing can be missing!" Ye Qing, who had counted the balance in his account several times, fantasized happily.

Of course, after completing the contract and settling all the funds, Ye Qing would still need to go to the State Tax Bureau to file taxes and pay the tax.

But the more tax he paid, the more he earned, so the more tax, the better.

"Ding ding"

Not long after the money was transferred to his account, the phone of the Monster Factory vibrated again.

"Congratulations, you have earned your first sum of money through the Monster app."

"Do you want to convert part of this money into system gold coins?"

Ye Qing remembered that the conversion ratio was 1:100.

Although he was reluctant, he had to convert some gold coins, otherwise he wouldn't be able to recruit more powerful laborers to upgrade to a level two factory.

Ye Qing had been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to get a drawing lottery from a level two factory.

He selected the conversion button, and the system prompted him to enter the number of gold coins to convert.

Ye Qing gritted his teeth and entered 800 gold coins.

"Ding—Detected that the funds are in the company account. Please withdraw 80,000 yuan in cash to convert."

Without hesitation, Ye Qing took out a cash check, filled in 100,000 yuan in the amount field, and stamped it with all the necessary seals.

To withdraw cash from the company, he needed to issue a cash check and go to the bank.

Fortunately, there was a bank in the park, and Ye Qing spent half an hour withdrawing the cash and bringing it back to the factory. He left 20,000 yuan in his own card and placed the rest on the table for the Monster Factory to convert.

A hazy light enveloped the eight stacks of new banknotes. Under Ye Qing's extremely reluctant gaze, five stacks of banknotes gradually disappeared.

At the last moment of the banknotes' disappearance, a ding sounded, and 800 gold coins appeared in the gold coin section of the Monster Factory.

"Recruit!" Ye Qing gritted his teeth and directly recruited seven powerful laborers.

He decided to go all the way. Although he lost 80,000 yuan, he could upgrade the factory to level two.

This deal was absolutely worth it!