Chapter 1305 Don't Drive

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Ichiro Sakai squatted outside the talent market in Urumqi, with a group of migrant workers dressed in rustic clothes in front of him and behind him. He was in his thirties, with a strong physique and a simple face. He was wearing a cheap camouflage uniform, and he was inconspicuous among the crowd.

A bunch of migrant workers waited outside the market for work, and occasionally someone came to recruit workers. It's usually just odd jobs like renovations. Workers with some skills can earn hundreds of dollars a day, and there are also younger workers who have little skills and can only be hired as temporary workers or porters.

Sakai Ichiro speaks a Shaanxi dialect and looks very honest. When asked, he would say that he is from Xi'an. His physique from the gym looks good, and several clients have come to ask him. The price was very good, but he just shook his head and made excuses not to go after asking about the place of work.

As an economic spy, Sakai Ichiro's task is to wander around the flower planters. He doesn't have any special tasks, and he doesn't go to dangerous places. He only collects economic data on planting flowers through various market channels, as a basis for Japan's foreign policy decisions.

Most spies do not need any special means to spy on all kinds of intelligence. Public channels can reflect a lot of information. Whether they can obtain it depends on whether the intelligence agent has a meticulous heart.

Ichiro Sakai has been working as a flower grower for ten years, and his work is dull but productive. Every time, he can judge big problems from some seemingly ordinary angles, and he has repeatedly compiled them as reference materials on the desk of the Japanese Minister of Finance and Economics and even the Prime Minister.

But this time some economic anomalies that suddenly appeared in Urumqi were very surprising, and Ichiro Sakai wanted to investigate this.

The so-called "abnormality" manifests itself in many ways. For example, Singapore Airlines has resumed its independent operation. Its special low prices have attracted a large number of customers, and its fleet size has suddenly increased tenfold, becoming an important key node in changing Urumqi and even the entire Northwest region.

Ichiro Sakai didn't want to investigate this airline at first, because it is very common for florists to form a large state-owned enterprise and make it bigger and stronger. The flower-planting government often uses administrative orders to do this kind of thing, and its governing efficiency is among the best in the world.

But Sakai Ichiro found some very puzzling situations while observing the streets of Urumqi. Many agricultural and sideline products in the Northwest are popular, and various coastal seafood products are emerging one after another, the quantity is huge, and the price is very good.

The number of people traveling to the Northwest has also increased significantly, driving a lot of economic consumption. Obviously, this is the result of a huge improvement in the logistics system.

Sakai Ichiro initially judged that this was only a temporary situation. After a period of time, Singapore Airlines' preferential low prices not only have not ended, but even have a long-term meaning.

In the past, due to the high cost of logistics, the transportation of goods must be in large quantities to be cost-effective. However, if the quantity is large, it must be exploited by middlemen. Agricultural products that cost a few cents or even a few cents a catty in the field can cost a few yuan or even dozens of yuan a catty when they are served on the table.

Now, with the participation of e-commerce and express delivery, merchants in the northwest can directly trade with customers in the southeast, the price of goods can be greatly reduced, and the transaction volume has increased rapidly. If this low-cost logistics situation exists stably, the promotion of economic growth will be very significant.

In the past, Japan's Shinkansen detonated the country's economic development. Now that the logistics in the Northwest of Changhua has been greatly improved, this will also be a hugely influential event.

"I didn't expect China to build a low-cost aviation logistics network while building high-speed rail. It's really scary!" Ichiro Sakai decided to reveal the secret of this low-cost airline. He learned that Singapore Airlines will recruit a large number of ground handlers, so he decided Mix in and have a look.

Porter is a good job, you can get in touch with the first-hand information of logistics, and you can contact many people, the most important thing is not to attract attention. The only trouble is that he is a little tired, but Sakai Ichiro feels that his body is stronger than ordinary migrant workers, and he will definitely be able to hold it.

After waiting patiently for a day, Ichiro Sakai became an employee of Singapore Airlines Cargo as he wished, and was immediately sent to the cargo terminal to start working immediately. When he arrived at the freight station, he was shocked to find that things were a little beyond imagination—there were thousands of people in a small freight station.

The foreman who led the team spoke rudely, and stood on the carriage holding the electric horn at every turn, yelling, telling his subordinates to hurry up and hurry up, "The standard time for loading a hundred tons of cargo is ten hours, and the standard time for transporting it to the cabin is 10 hours." ninety minutes.

The company has high requirements on time, and there is a bonus for every minute ahead. If you want to make more money, you have to move faster. Speed ​​up and we can double our wages! "

Coastal express companies have begun to use robot technology to sort packages, but Singapore Airlines and its supporting express companies have not yet built such a high-level logistics system. They can only rely on more manpower to improve transportation efficiency.

The most troublesome thing is that due to the particularity of air transportation, all scattered packages must be loaded into containers in advance. However, there is a big difference between air transport and railway and road container transport. It has special requirements for the stacking of goods, otherwise it will be troublesome if the center of gravity of the plane is unstable.

This loading process has special safety standards, requires professionals to complete, and has undergone special inspections. The work of loading and sorting is not done by the courier company, but by the airport's qualified ground handlers.

However, in order to improve efficiency, Zhou Qingfeng asked the airport to hire more porters, just to assist the professional loading ground staff every day, save as many hours as possible, and improve the overall air transport efficiency.

And Ichiro Sakai applied for this kind of hard-working porter. He originally thought that his job was to drive a forklift, or at least a trailer. This is really direct contact with logistics information, but it is too tiring!

It took a whole morning to sort out two air freight containers, and the truck finally took the containers away and sent them to the plane. Sakai Ichiro thought that he could take a rest after a long time, but he didn't know that a large amount of goods would be delivered immediately afterwards.

Package, package, mountain of packages!

Ichiro Sakai quickly took a few mouthfuls of food in the cafeteria, and was rushed to unload by the foreman of the cargo station. The foreman's electric horn yelled, "Hurry up, hurry up, those idiots in the delivery can't load it, so we have to unload it and reinstall it again!"

Ichiro Sakai is usually used to eating slowly, filling his stomach gracefully and calmly. But the foreman's urging forced him to work without eating half a bowl of rice. It was carried by bare hands again, and every package was exhausting.

"Where are these goods?" Sakai Ichiro held a large box and walked from one container to another, panting tiredly.

"Turpan's cantaloupe and grapes, inland people like Xinjiang's fruits very much. Now the freight rate is low, and the sales volume has skyrocketed." An old porter in his 50s and 60s also walked past Ichiro Sakai with a box of packages, and answered casually the latter problem.

The foreman was still yelling violently, "Handle with care, if there is any loss during transportation, the bonus will be deducted."

The work efficiency in the afternoon was higher, and the team of Ichiro Sakai finished three containers. Hearing the truck rumbling away, the foreman finally yelled, "Change a group to work, and the others go to eat."

Ouch... I'm so exhausted!

When he arrived at the cafeteria, Ichiro Sakai found that he had been working all day but hadn't had time to find out any information, and had been moving around all day. He was so tired that he had no appetite, and felt that his body in the gym was not suitable for this kind of boring pure physical labor.

"How does our company achieve low-cost freight?" Ichiro Sakai asked the porters in the same group at the table in the cafeteria. Information is often obtained inadvertently in this way.

"Our company has too many planes." Someone answered irrelevantly.

"Perhaps it is due to the large number of aircraft and the large volume of transportation, which has lowered the cost." This is still an irrelevant question.

"I heard that the company transports tens of thousands of tons of goods every day. It is a large enterprise supported by the central government. My relative's beef and mutton have been selling very well recently, and the sales volume in one day is worth the past month. The family is too busy, and they have to hire Two people will do."

"The central government has really managed a good company this time. It is said that Urumqi will build a logistics industrial park, train express companies to obtain air cargo safety qualifications, and double the current cargo efficiency. This is really good!"

Small talk at the dinner table is like this, and what is said may not be the first thing talked about. Ichiro Sakai wanted to know how Singapore Airlines achieved low-cost freight, but the information he got was the epitome of the economic growth of the entire Northwest after the opening of logistics by Singapore Airlines.

Ichiro Sakai was also thinking about what key factors were hidden behind this situation.

But the foreman suddenly rushed into the cafeteria with a loudspeaker, and shouted loudly: "The warehouse is liquidated, the courier bastards are liquidated. Everyone, don't eat, hurry up and help load the car!"

Thousands of families in the Northwest finally had the opportunity to make a fortune, and countless young and old in Xinjiang were waiting for us to deliver all the packages on time. We can't smash our own signs, we must not hold back at this time! "

When the foreman yelled, a bunch of porters in the cafeteria rushed out. Sakai Ichiro saw that the foreman was staring at him, and said weakly: "I have only eaten half a bowl of rice, and the chicken legs haven't been eaten yet."

"Everyone else has finished eating, but you are slow. Why don't you look like a man from our northwest?" The foreman scolded people in a terrible way.

Ichiro Sakai could only give up his dinner and go to work hungry. There are more and more goods in the cargo terminal. Trucks are constantly bringing in packages, and the turnover of e-commerce is increasing rapidly. Singapore Airlines’ cargo planes used to fly two round trips a day, but now they have to fly three round trips.

Tired..., really tired!

Ichiro Sakai dragged his exhausted body back to the company dormitory in the middle of the night. Compared with other workers who received double bonuses, he felt a little hypoglycemic after not eating enough for a day. When everyone fell asleep in the middle of the night, he suddenly sat up nervously and waved his hands...

"Don't drive, don't drive, you can't keep up with your nutrition."