Chapter 451 Inspection
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In the morning, Nieto got up. He goes about his daily schedule like a wind-up clock. As a Mexican, he has a rare indifference. Others think he is weird, but no one knows what he has experienced in the past.
Smuggled from Mexico to the United States, and from the United States to Cuba. Nieto has seen too many deaths on this road. The young man who would tremble when he saw corpses and blood had just passed his twentieth birthday, but he was no longer surprised by anything.
The servant arranged breakfast for Nieto and brought the day's schedule by the way. Semi-literate, he learned English and Spanish in a very short period of time. Now he is the sheriff of the Havana port of the "Aurora Legion", with five or six hundred people under his command, and also serves as a customs officer.
It's just that no one is optimistic about this appointment. Everyone thinks this is just a transitional character. The reason why Peña Nieto has a position is that His Excellency the Legion Commander gave him some kind of reward. There are some rumors that this Mexican once unintentionally helped His Excellency the Legion Commander a lot. In fact, Nieto himself is not very confident about whether he can do a good job.
But surprisingly, Nieto, who was just a farmer in the past, did very well in this position. He is very hardworking with a always cold face, he is busy every day, and his subordinates are naturally busy as well. A lot of people said behind their backs, 'This Mexican is so dark and scary, he might have been a big drug lord in the past' or something.
Drug lord? Poor Nieto was forced to smoke marijuana, the only drug he had been exposed to in the past. After saving his life from the battlefield by chance, he hated any drugs. Marijuana, in particular, would bring back painful memories for him.
As a sheriff, Nieto's task is to keep patrolling and patrolling. He was always walking from one patrol to the next, and then tirelessly checked all imports and exports, trying to do everything right.
The businessman who came to Havana was also very afraid of Nieto. This guy didn't look like a Mexican at all. No bribes could make him tempted. The only thing that could make him act was the order of his superiors. No one ever took him lightly after hanging businessmen trying to buy him off the jib of a quay crane for a whole day.
According to the itinerary memorandum, a new commodity will appear in the market at the pier today - matches. Nieto will go and have a look. Every time the factory in Havana releases a new product, it will cause a sensation in the market, because these products are often urgently needed by the society, and the panic buying by businessmen always causes chaos.
Matches are one of the urgent needs.
In the past, a lighter was used to ignite, or the stove had its own ignition device. But now that the industrial system has collapsed, cheap and convenient lighters have almost disappeared. Anyone who has a light lighter can sell it for a good price.
No fire is a nuisance. When lighters were scarce, ordinary people had to try their best to light a fire. Someone once ran for several kilometers to find the kindling in order to light a fire. This kind of thing is not a joke.
Since the lighter was considered an authentic industrial product and not a low-value item, Zhou Qingfeng couldn't bring it from the real world. So he got an old and unwanted match production line. This is also a discarded equipment from an old factory in Northeast China. The complete set of equipment is only 50,000 yuan, which is purely purchased at the scrap iron price.
The machine processes wood into matchsticks, air-drying, dipping in medicine and other processes are all driven by electricity and completed automatically. All raw materials can be found in Cuba, and the establishment of the factory took only one week. The only headache is that there is no qualified packing box, and Miss Fox has to hire workers to pack matches in crude and heavy wooden boxes.
The reappearance of matches can be regarded as a solution to the big problem of igniting wasteland, and merchants snapped up them 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 there would even be a backlog of inventory. But he didn't expect that the wasteland residents who couldn't light a fire in their lives had such a great demand for matches.
The matches put on the market every day will be sold out in less than half an hour.
Matches may look inconspicuous, but they have a large sales volume, a wide market, and an astonishing 500% initial profit. As soon as it appeared, it surpassed the old clothes and became the new flagship product of the "Aurora Legion". It returned the currency spent by the Legion to purchase various raw materials very well. Lina has already asked for at least ten more sets of match production lines.
For Nieto, he likes to go to the market every day and watch the merchants fight for a few boxes of matches. In fact, people in the entire "Aurora Legion" system like to watch others snap up their own products, and that kind of honor and pride is extremely exciting.
"We will be able to restore human civilization." Nieto has just got rid of illiteracy, but he deeply understands that the meaning of the word civilization is to live a better and better life. And when he was patrolling the market, he also found that another new product was launched in silence—soap.
The soap made of whale oil is square and square. It also seems inconspicuous, but it can be regarded as a necessity of life, and the sales situation is very good.
In the past, whale oil was mainly used in industry and lighting, but the refinery of the "Aurora Legion" can produce kerosene, so the role of whale oil in lighting is greatly reduced. The oil is also unfit for consumption due to its fishy smell, making soap a good use.
However, whales are not found every day, so the production of soap is not high, and the internal needs of the legion are often prioritized. Once soap is sold in the market, businessmen who come to Havana will also fall into a state of scrambling for quotations. This has almost become the norm in the Havana market, and it is noisy every day.
After a morning inspection, Nieto was very satisfied with the area under his jurisdiction. The exuberant sales situation is always full of vigor and vitality, and he is also full of confidence. And the lunch at noon also surprised Nieto again. The greenhouse established by the Legion began to supply vegetables.
Oh my God, eating canned food and dry bread for months really makes people want to hang themselves. Since the canteen is used to provide food for all subordinates in the army, basically there is no choice in what food to eat. Nieto remembered that when the sea fishing boat brought a large amount of krill, the whole cafeteria was full, and many people queued up for a bite of shrimp.
As for the current vegetables...the production is not enough and can only be supplied to civil servants. After all, the health of the bureaucracy is related to whether the Legion can effectively rule the entire society. What is served today are mung bean sprouts, which are simply boiled in water and then added with salt.
This super simple cooking method made Nieto shed tears after taking a bite. How much bitterness and hardship did he go through in order to eat this plain vegetable again? Those who can still eat it now are definitely the rulers of the upper class.
Nieto ate a clean lunch. Just when he was about to leave, two men 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 Legion Investigation Bureau, and we are recruiting a group of Mexicans to perform special tasks assigned by the Legion Chief. However, since you are already a mid-level civil servant in the Legion, we do not make mandatory requirements. I just want to ask if you are willing to accept This dangerous mission?" said the man in black.
"I am absolutely loyal to the Legion Commander, and I am willing to complete any task he entrusts." Nieto agreed without hesitation. In the vigorous army, he also has a dream of making contributions in his heart. (To be continued.)
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