life copy game

Chapter 480 Ally

"Husband, come and help me get it."

Aisha excitedly opened the door with two huge supermarket pockets.

"I'm coming."

Jack, who was fiddling with the mechanical model, put down the model in his hand and hurried to the door.

"Mom, what did you buy? Is there anything delicious?"

The little girl with two cute braids poked her head out behind her father, holding a golden doll in her arms, her face full of anticipation.

"It's all delicious."

Jack took the shopping bag containing the two big pockets from his wife, closed the door for his wife, and said to his daughter with a smile.

It has been almost a year since their family left Dawn City to Kaya City.

Back then, with the help of the teenager who was looking for clues to the death of their parents, they escaped from the monitoring of Anvis Power Group and came to this industrial city near Dawn City.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

The little girl excitedly hugged the doll and followed behind her father.

Jack reached out and touched his daughter's head, and put the shopping bag his wife brought back on the table.

Kaya City is far less prosperous than Chenxi City. There are no bright and beautiful neon lights, and no glamorous nightlife.

Not even that many employers are hiring.

When he first came here, he was even prepared for life to get worse and worse.

But the development of the facts is completely opposite to what he expected.

Life in Kaya City was not very good at the beginning, but with the series of reforms implemented by Mr. Wei An, the city has undergone earth-shaking changes.

New projects started one after another, new factories were established one after another, and the roar of machines echoed throughout the night.

And with these, is a better and better life.

Although neither he nor his wife's wages have risen, the rent of the apartment has been reduced, and the tuition and living expenses of their children's schools have also been reduced. The wife has also found a formal job in a supermarket under the Nolanka Group.

A few months ago, the insurance company under the Nolanka Group launched an affordable medical insurance, and the group purchased this insurance for all employees.

The reimbursement ratio of this insurance is much higher than that of the previous medical insurance. Jack went to see a doctor before and had to pay a bill of more than [-] federal dollars, but now he only needs to pay less than [-] federal dollars.

The reduction in living expenses allows Jack and Aisha to have more money to buy things that they could only stand outside the shop window and watch quietly for a while, and the daughter can also have toys that she could not even imagine before.

"What's this? A new brand of synthetic steak?"

Jack opened the shopping bag and took out the most piled items.

"It seems to be a new product from the meat products company under the group." Aisha took off her work shoes at the door, rubbed her ankles wrapped in flesh-colored stockings, and put on foam slippers at home.

"Today's new product promotion has a huge price reduction. The supermarket has replenished the goods two or three times and they are quickly sold out. If I don't work next to the container, I can't get it at all."

"Is this selling so well?"

Jack curiously flipped through the steak box in his hand, then picked up the steaks, walked to the refrigerator, opened the door of the freezer compartment of the refrigerator, and suddenly a refrigerator full of various frozen products appeared in front of his eyes.

"Isn't it good to sell?" Aisha walked over slowly, "It is said that Mr. Wei An has invested a lot of money in these food companies and has been losing money all the time. Even if there is no discount, these things are rushed to buy, although I don’t know what Mr. Wei’an wants to do, but we will do our best to help.”

"yes,"

Jack nodded slightly, and he opened a drawer. Quick-frozen bacon, roast chicken, and pizza appeared densely in his field of vision. "It seems that there is no room for it. I said before that the refrigerator in this apartment is too big."

"Why can't I let it go?"

Elsa pushed her husband away and took the steaks from him.

Then Jack saw his wife keep taking out things and putting them in again, as if by magic, stuffing all the steaks into the refrigerator.

"Why don't you just let it go?"

Aisha turned her head and looked at her stunned husband, blinking slyly.

Then her gaze shifted slightly, falling behind Jack.

At this moment, a small figure was lying on the edge of the dining table, carefully digging out two small cakes from the open shopping bag.

Then a hand covered with slight calluses rested on her small shoulder, "I can only eat one small cake a day."

Hearing these words, the little girl's body stiffened for a moment. She looked back at Aisha behind her, and then, under the stern gaze of her mother, she reluctantly glanced at the small cakes in her hand, and carefully put them away. went back.

Jack watched his wife coax his daughter a few words, then sent her into the room to do homework, and he came out of the room after a while.

"what happened to you?"

Aisha looked suspiciously at her husband who had been looking at her.

Jack smiled, took out a small white box from behind, opened it gently, revealing the silver bracelet inside, "Happy birthday."

"You...I...when..." Aisha stared blankly at her husband, "I even forgot about it myself."

Then she shifted her gaze to the bracelet in the box, "Is this the last time I saw that at the mall? It's too expensive."

She reached out and pressed the box, and slowly closed the lid, "This is too expensive..."

"You ran so many times and waited in line for so long to help me make an appointment with that doctor last time," Jack put his hand on his wife's hand lightly, "I just paid a bonus, we can afford it now something."

Aisha stared blankly at her husband, her eyes shone brightly, as if she had pretended to be a clear spring.

Jack slowly stretched out his hand and hugged his wife, "The days to come will get better and better."

"You said the same thing when we first got married, big liar."

Elsa's head rests on her husband's shoulder, and the tip of her nose twitches.

"If you don't believe me, you have to trust Mr. Wei'an, right?"

"Mr. Wei An didn't let you spend money randomly."

The bright and clean windows reflected two embracing figures, and the bright white moon rose slowly along the tip of their hair.

The moonlight sprinkled on the bright lights of the houses.

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In the conference room full of warmth and light, He Ao turned his eyes away from the bright moon outside the window, and looked at the beauty in professional attire beside him with an incredible face.

"You..." Lina looked at He Ao's cheek in surprise, "Are you really Wei An? You're alive?"

"Drip, 36.8 degrees," the robot controlled by Eve retracted the thermometer in its hand, and said solemnly, "It's alive."

Although Eve was indeed answering Lina's question very seriously, the current scene was inevitably a bit funny.

Lina's original words were interrupted by this behavior for a moment, and she forgot to say anything.

"Do you have any worries?"

Howard looked at her with a smile.

"No..." Lina stared blankly at He Ao, and finally, she hesitated and said slowly, "I heard that some evil gods will descend on dead corpses, but... you have a body temperature I'm just a little worried..."

Worrying that this is just a false dream.

"everything will get better."

He Ao looked into her eyes and said softly.

Lina looked into the man's deep eyes, which seemed to have a strange magic power, which made her nervous and anxious heart slowly calm down.

Standing by his side, she can always feel at ease. From the first time she came into contact with 'Weian', she had this wonderful feeling.

At this moment, she finally merged the person in front of her with the figure in her memory. This person is Wei An, the 'Nolanka Group Chairman Wei An' she is familiar with.

Her tightly hanging heart was finally completely let go. She knew that Wei'an's "resurrection from the dead" might really be related to some evil god or great existence, but these were not important, as long as the person who came back was still that person. up.

At this moment, the door of the conference room was slowly pushed open, and the old housekeeper entered the conference room with a stack of documents in his arms.
"Master Wei An, the recent progress data of the group's major projects are all here."

Lina looked up at the old man. This was the most energetic day she had seen the old housekeeper in the past six months.

"Can you tell me a little bit about it?"

He Ao casually picked up the topmost document and asked slowly.

Although he had seen most of the information in the data report sent to him by Eve, he still wanted to hear Danilo's own opinion.

As the actual controller of the Nolanca Group after Wei An's "sleep", Danilo must have a deeper understanding of the current situation of the group than Eve.

After all, some documents that have passed through Danilo's personal files may not necessarily be under Eve's monitoring. Many of Danilo's analytical thinking can't be understood by Eve.

"At present, the progress of the major projects of the group is relatively smooth..."

Danilo turned on the electronic screen in the meeting room, put some documents on the screen, and began to introduce.

The progress of various projects introduced by Danilo is similar to the data that Eve sent to He Ao, but when introducing the current predicament, it is much more detailed than Eve, and brings a lot of the old housekeeper's own analysis and insights.

Generally speaking, the most important problem that the Nolanka Group is facing now is the same as what He Ao predicted at the beginning, and it is a 'money problem'.

The price reduction of education in Kaya City and the price reduction of apartments are all done in the form of subsidies, and subsidies are real money spent.

However, after the estimation and coordination of the actuaries within the group, this part of the funds can still be covered by profits.

But the biggest problem still lies in the investment in new projects, new grain factories, and new military factories.

Especially in the food and military industry, because the technology of the Nolanka Group is too old, except for the weakened version of the Adam-type armor, the 'Cain'-type mecha, the production technology of many of the group's weapons is far inferior to those of the Federation's leading military industry. consortium.

Even the mercenary group under the group only ordered a batch of 'Cain' miniature mechs, and the other weapons were purchased from Ives Space Systems.

To research and develop advanced equipment and technology, you need to continue to invest in large quantities.

Unlike the military industry, which has at least one leading product, the Nolanka Group in the grain industry has almost no leading technology, and the quality and output of various grains, synthetic starch, and synthetic meat products produced are not as good as those of the federal consortium.

Fortunately, the products developed by the food project series companies can still be sold within Kaya City, which will allow the entire project to withdraw some funds and support the continued operation of the project.

This is a question of spending, and besides the question of spending, there is also the question of 'revenue'.

At present, the whole group has already experienced product accumulation.

With the group's large investment in building factories and hiring workers, the investment has been spent, but many of the products produced have been backlogged and cannot be sold smoothly.

Although with the increase of workers, the internal consumption of Kaya City has also been improved, but the people who were poor before did not dare to consume boldly. The economic recovery in the city is slow, and the new production cannot be completely consumed internally. The product.

The markets in several cities where the Nolanka Group originally traded have also fallen into saturation, and even showed signs of recession, which made it impossible for these 'overproduced' commodities to be fully digested.

The core of the Nolanka Group's current financial crisis is that the increase in income cannot match the increase in expenditure, resulting in a deficit, and more and more cash flow has been invested in it.

The solution to this problem is very simple. It is impossible to reduce expenditure. Once investment and production stop, a large number of people will lose their jobs immediately.

Judging from the current situation, there is a lot of room for growth in Kaya City's internal consumption. After rationally adjusting the industrial structure and extending the timeline, the goods produced by the factory can be digested internally.

So the problem that needs to be solved now is the short-term financial problem.

If throttling is not enough, then there is only open source.

There are two ways to open source. One is to find a way to generate a large amount of cash flow, and the other is to find a way to sell all the backlog of goods. If the current market cannot digest it, then open up a new market.

But now the major cities in the entire federation are basically divided up by major consortiums. If they want to gain new markets, they have to conflict with some consortiums.

In fact, Nolanka Group has a new market.

That is Rock City.

After the collapse of the mining consortium, the Nolanka Group successfully entered the Rock City market and won bids for a large number of urban reconstruction projects.

However, under the decades of sustainable depletion of the mining consortium, the vast majority of people in Rock City are too poor to afford food, let alone consumption.

Although with the promotion of a series of policies by the new mayor Wright, Rock City's economy is also recovering continuously, but that is the future market after all.

What the Nolanka Group needs to solve is the immediate difficulties.

Of course, money is the main problem, but not the only one.

There are also problems that money cannot solve.

Like medical issues.

The advancement of medical projects can almost be said to be difficult.

First of all, it is difficult for Nolanka Group's hospitals to recruit enough doctors. Most of the doctors in the Federation are trained by medical consortiums. These doctors are bound to their positions by high salaries and high liquidated damages, and cannot easily change jobs.

And the top doctors basically can't dig.

Even though the Nolanka Group paid a high price to recruit a group of doctors, these doctors are almost a drop in the bucket for the medical projects of the entire Nolanka Group.

More importantly, the medical consortium alliance headed by Qunxing Pharmaceuticals united against the Nolanka Group after realizing that the Nolanka Group wanted to reform the medical industry.

They will poach the doctors poached by Nolanka Group back at a higher price, and try their best to prevent doctors from jumping to Nolanka Group.

The previously conceived Civilian Medical Academy could not begin without qualified and experienced veteran doctors as teachers.

And after the Nolanka Group launched the new type of medical insurance, these medical consortiums jointly raised prices and increased the expenses of the insurance companies under the Nolanka Group. So far, the insurance companies responsible for medical insurance have shown signs of loss.

The amount of these overpayments has flowed into the pockets of the medical consortium.

And because it does not have its own doctors and medical schools, the Nolanka Group has no bargaining power over medical prices at all, and can only let them raise prices.

He Ao knew very well that this was the warning given to him by the medical consortium to make him give up the idea of ​​changing the medical industry system.

Any change will face great resistance, which He Ao already figured out when he put forward these plans.

So he is not surprised by the predicament that Nolanka Group is facing now.

According to Danilo's personality, if he can't get past this hurdle, he will most likely choose to retreat in order to keep the Nolanca Group, and then take it slowly.

But if we retreat at this time, it may be difficult to take a step forward in the future.

He Ao sorted out the information in his mind. He needs an ally, an ally who is strong enough and has the same interests as the current Nolanka Group.

He raised his head and looked at Danilo, "What is the new mayor of Dawn City doing recently?"

Kristos has been in the job for more than half a year, and he should have settled down and started to try something.

　I met something today, and it has been delayed for a long time. It may be tomorrow.

　
(End of this chapter)