Chapter 1559: Eight Diagrams
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Your Excellency the Legion Commander was left in Jamaica for compulsory training, but the Aurora Legion did not stop operating because of this, and even accelerated its development.
After entering the Ministry of Internal Affairs and completing a preliminary understanding of the Legion, Xiao Yi began to get involved in an extremely tedious but extremely important task—the census of the Legion.
The Aurora Legion has been in a state of rapid development in the two years since its establishment, not even a nuclear winter or even a nuclear explosion attack can stop its progress. Lena Fox's Ministry of the Interior has always hoped to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire legion, but it has not been able to do so from beginning to end.
At present, the external threat of the Legion has temporarily disappeared, and the internal turmoil has just gone through. In order to better attack Mexico in the next step, a detailed census is put on the agenda.
There are many items in the census, including the origin, relationship network, work ability, and even fingerprint and blood information of everyone in the army. In order to reduce the boost encountered in the census, Lena Fox cleverly linked the census work with the distribution of benefits.
Zhou Qingfeng opened the space-time gate several times in a row, and brought in large quantities of high-end daily necessities from the real world. For example, cosmetics, handbags, fashion, shoes and hats purchased from France, as well as high imitation products purchased from China. As soon as these items were launched in the special supply store, they immediately triggered a storm of panic buying!
Everyone who completes the registration of census information will receive a shopping coupon. This rough-printed paper with only a simple list has a lot of product information printed on it.
Through the shutters of her office, Xiao Yi could see a large number of female clerks from the Ministry of the Interior screaming in surprise after receiving the shopping coupons. They cheered and even hugged each other to celebrate.
The legion is very generous to its own people. People in the government system, science and education system, and even the agricultural system can get good salaries. But the trouble is that there is a lot of money but nowhere to spend it. There are only a handful of goods that can be purchased in the market, which in turn leads to inflation and rising prices.
When the Legion first started to pay salaries to internal personnel, even a piece of clothing could not be bought in the market in Havana, and all supplies depended on distribution. Men who have money can only throw it into the "Cat's Claw" club, and women can only buy some poor food on the black market.
A large amount of funds cannot be withdrawn, and Legion Bank is also a headache. But now this problem can be considered solved, Zhou Qingfeng brought all kinds of long-disappeared daily commodities from the real world, instantly detonating the consumption desire in the legion that had been suppressed for two years.
After get off work at noon, Xiao Yi went to the canteen of the Ministry of the Interior for dinner, only to find that the usually bustling canteen was empty today. When she asked the reason, she realized that the civil servants who had received shopping coupons in the morning didn't even eat, and all crowded towards the newly opened special store.
Xiao Yi has never experienced a life of extreme poverty. All her supplies are directly supplied by Zhou Qingfeng. And after she finished her meal, she was still very curious to go to the special supply store to have a look, but she was stunned by the crowds of people.
The scene of hundreds of thousands of people crowding shopping malls has disappeared from the minds of Chinese people for 20 to 30 years. It was a memory that only existed when supplies were scarce before the 1980s. But now in front of Xiao Yi was a dense group of people queuing up. Because the line was too long, it had already extended two to three hundred meters.
The two mutants stood at the door of the special supply store, and at this moment, only those who didn't recognize them could control the place.
Xiao Yi walked past the crowd, and the store she saw was also ordinary, just a house facing the street. Every time twenty people are allowed to go shopping for five minutes each time, those who can go in will laugh happily, and those who line up behind are also full of anticipation.
There are several wooden signs hanging at the door of the store, which describe the types of goods in the store. Brands like Dior, Lancôme, Chanel are the most written about and the most people can buy. More than 80% of the shoppers are women, and most of their concerns are fashion, underwear and cosmetics.
But within half an hour of queuing, the staff in the store came out and crossed out a few lines of words with charcoal, "Sorry, Chanel and Lancôme cosmetics are sold out.
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There was a burst of frustrated sighs at the scene, and many women who lined up almost went crazy. Xiao Yi, who was watching the excitement, felt sorry for them, because the ranks within the legion were clearly defined, and the best part of the merchandise was not even released, but was divided among the top ranks.
But without the genuine French products, the domestic brands and high-quality imitations that Zhou Qingfeng obtained are still sufficient. For example, the main cosmetics - Pechoin set, as much as you want, the price is very cheap, and the effect is not bad.
Watching a group of female clerks from the Legion's Internal Affairs Department come out of the special supply shop happily, Xiao Yi could feel their inner joy. The big and small bags of goods can make them happy for a long time, the key is to spend the right money to sell what they need.
"Zhou Qingfeng is really interesting." Xiao Yi really didn't know what words to use to describe that man accurately. Let's say he is shameless, he can spend lavishly in France, and set off his style to an extremely high level. Let's say he is shameless, he turned around and asked for the most cost-effective order from China.
If only relying on the batch of luxury goods purchased by France, it would be impossible to meet the current consumption needs of more than one million people in the Legion at ten times the price. But now there are a large number of products with moderate prices and extraordinary effects that immediately satisfy the members of the entire legion in terms of quality of life and spirit.
"Ordinary people only pay attention to what is in front of them." Xiao Yi recited a sentence that Zhou Qingfeng said, and combined with the situation in front of her, she suddenly felt that it made sense. She walked back to her office slowly, but she didn't expect that someone was waiting for her.
"Ms. Xiao, hello. I'm Clooney." The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Legion actually came to visit in person. The tall and fat old white man shook hands with a smile, and complimented: "Miss Xiao is really beautiful, with a very good temperament. If she can be the assistant to Minister Fox, she must have better abilities."
Xiao Yi was very curious about the foreign minister's visit. She had only been in the legion for a few days, and she had heard a lot of gossip. Regarding this Mr. Clooney, everyone thinks that he is the number one old fox in the Legion and the most naughty person.
"What's the matter for you?" Xiao Yi asked directly without exchanging too many pleasantries.
"It is said that the number of daily necessities currently distributed by the Legion is sufficient. I wonder if we can allocate part of it to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs for foreign sales?"
"External sales is the work of the Ministry of Commerce, it seems that it has nothing to do with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?"
"This is a request from Mrs. Lawrence of the Brotherhood of Steel, that is, Ms. Rachel Connor. She asks in person, and even the head of the legion will not refuse."
Clooney came here in person, how could he be dismissed so easily? He also issued a list of commodity requirements, and the items listed above were actually the most expensive part of the luxury goods that Zhou Qingfeng obtained.
Xiao Yi worked as an assistant to the minister in the Legion. At the beginning, she listened more, watched more and talked less, but she couldn't help being a little annoyed when she saw this list of requirements.
This Mrs. Lawrence asked for things through the Foreign Office, and she took it as a matter of course. Not only did she want it, she wanted so much more. Not only do you want more, but you also want to leave the best part. This is going too far.
"Currently the merchandise sales are very hot, but since I am a friend of the legion commander, I will definitely allocate some of them to this Mrs. Lawrence." Xiao Yi politely declined, and she was in charge of the luxury goods sales. She felt that at most one or two sets would be dismissed.
Clooney was not annoyed, he nodded and left with a smile, as if he had achieved his goal. Xiao Yi immediately consulted Miss Fox about the situation, and wanted to ask Mrs. Lawrence what was her background? Could it be that no matter what request, as long as she asked, Zhou Qingfeng would really agree?
But hearing this question, the always domineering Lena Fox could only sigh. The No. 2 member of the dignified legion said helplessly: "Victor may refuse anyone's request, even me. But Mrs. Lawrence will not be rejected."
"Why? Could it be that Mrs. Lawrence and our army commander..." Xiao Yi felt that there must be some shocking gossip hidden in it.
Miss Fox rolled her eyes and refused to answer the question that annoyed her.