Rise of the Wasteland Chapter 451: Inspection
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In the morning, Nieto gets up. He made the daily schedule just like the clock that wound up the clockwork. As a Mexican, he rarely comes with an indifferent atmosphere. Others think he is strange, but no one knows what he has experienced in the past.
Smuggling from Mexico to the United States and then from the United States to Cuba. Nieto saw too many deaths on this road. The young man who shivered when he saw the body and blood had just passed his 20th birthday, but he was not surprised at anything.
The servant arranged breakfast for Nieto, and delivered the day ’s schedule. He was illiterate and he learned English and Spanish in a very short time. Now he is the sheriff of the port of Havana ‘Aurora Legion’. He has five or six hundred people under his command and also serves as the customs.
It's just that no one is optimistic about this appointment. Everyone feels that this is just an excessive character. The reason why Nieto has a position is some kind of reward to him from the commander of the legion. There is a rumor that this Mexican has inadvertently helped the commander of the legislature. In fact, Nieto is not very confident about whether he can do well.
But surprisingly, Nieto, who was a farmer in the past, did a good job in this position. He is always diligent with a cold face, and he is busy every day, and his subordinates are naturally busy. Many people say in the back, ‘This Mexican is so dreadful and horrible, it used to be a big drug lord’ or something.
Drug lord? Poor Nieto's only exposure to drugs in the past was hemp, and he was forced to smoke. After lucky to retrieve a life from the battlefield, he hated any drugs. Especially big hemp, will evoke his extremely painful memories.
As a sheriff, Nieto ’s mission is to keep on patrolling and patrolling. He always walks from one patrol to the next, and then tirelessly checks all import and export materials, trying to do everything possible.
The businessman who came to Havana was also very afraid of Nieto. This guy was not like a Mexican. There was no way to bribe him to be tempted. The only thing that allowed him to act was the command of his superior. He once hung the businessman who tried to buy him on the boom of the dock crane for a whole day, and no one looked down upon him after this move.
According to the itinerary memorandum, a new commodity will appear in the terminal market today-matches. Nieto will take a look. Every time a new product comes out of a factory in Havana, it will cause a sensation in the market, because these products are often urgently needed by society, and the businessmen's rush to buy always causes chaos.
Match is one of the most urgently needed items.
In the past, lighters were used for ignition, or the stove had its own ignition device. But now that the industrial system has collapsed, cheap and convenient lighters have almost disappeared. Whoever has a portable lighter can sell for a good price.
No fire is a hassle. When lighters are scarce, ordinary people have to do everything they can to ignite. Someone once ran a few kilometers to find a fire for a fire, this kind of thing is not a joke.
Since the lighter is not an authentic industrial product, it is not a low-value item. Zhou Qingfeng cannot be brought from the real world. So he got an old match production line that no one wanted. This is also a discarded equipment of an old factory in the Northeast. The complete set of equipment is only 50,000 pieces, which is purely purchased by scrap iron.
The machine processes the wood into match sticks, air-drying, dipping and other processes are all driven by electricity and are completed automatically. All raw materials can be found in Cuba, and the establishment of the factory took only a week. The only headache is that there is no qualified packaging box. Miss Fox had to hire people to put matches in a crude wooden box.
And the reappearance of matches can solve the big problem of Wasteland ignition, and the merchants are buying like crazy. An old production line has an industrial output of almost 200,000 boxes per day.
Zhou Qingfeng originally thought that this output should be completely sufficient, and even a backlog of inventory would occur. But he did not expect how much demand for matches from Wasteland residents who could not catch fire in their lives. Matches placed on the market every day will be sold out in less than half an hour.
The match looks inconspicuous, but the sales volume is large, the market is wide, and the initial profit reaches a staggering 500%. As soon as it appeared, it surpassed the old clothes and became a new fist product of ‘Aurora Legion’. It was a very good return to the currency spent by the Legion to purchase various raw materials. Lena has requested at least ten more match production lines.
For Nieto, he likes to go to the market every day to watch the merchants grab their heads for a few boxes of matches. In fact, people in the entire Aurora Legion system like to watch other people snap up their own products. The kind of honor and pride makes people very excited.
"We must be able to restore human civilization." Nieto just got rid of illiteracy, but he deeply realized that the meaning of the word civilization is that life is getting better. And when he visited the market, he also found that another new product was launched silently-soap.
Soaps made from whale oil are found square by square. It also seems inconspicuous, but it is also a necessity of life, and the sales situation is very good.
In the past, whale oil was mainly used in industry and lighting. However, ‘Aurora Legion’ refineries can produce kerosene, and the role of whale oil in lighting is greatly reduced. Because whale oil has the smell of fish, this oil is not suitable for consumption, making soap is a good use.
However, whales are not available every day, so soap production is not high, and it is often a priority to meet the internal needs of the legion. Once there is soap sales in the market, the merchants coming to Havana will also be in a state of scrambling for quotations. This has almost become the norm in the Havana market, noisy every day.
After a morning tour, Nieto is very satisfied with the area under his jurisdiction. The strong sales situation is always full of vigor and vitality, and he is also full of confidence. The lunch at noon also surprised Nieto again, and the greenhouse established by the Legion began to supply vegetables.
It ’s a pity that people who eat canned food and dry bread for a few months really want to hang themselves. Since the canteen inside the legion provides food for all members, it is basically impossible to pick what food to eat. Nieto remembers that when the sea fishing boat brought a lot of krill, the entire cafeteria was full, and many people queued up for a bite of shrimp.
And what about vegetables now ..., the output is not enough to supply public officials. After all, the health of the bureaucracy is related to whether the legion can effectively rule the entire society. Today's supply is mung bean seedlings, which is simply boiled in clean water, and then add salt.
This super simple cooking method makes Nieto eat a bite and even tears down. How much bitterness and hardship have you experienced in order to re-eat this flat-talking vegetable? People who can still eat it are definitely the rulers of the upper class.
A lunch made Nieto eat clean. When he just thought about leaving, two people in black uniforms found him and asked directly, "Are you Nieto?"
"Yes." Nieto stood up quickly, he knew who was in front of him.
"We are from the Legislative Bureau of Investigation, and we are recruiting a group of Mexicans to perform the special mission assigned by the regimental commander. However, since you are already a mid-level official in the legion, we do not make a mandatory requirement. Just want to ask if you would like Unwilling to accept this dangerous task? "Said the man in black.
"I am absolutely loyal to the captain of the legion, and I am willing to complete any tasks he has given." Nieto agreed without hesitation. In the energetic legion, he also had a dream to make a contribution. (To be continued.)