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If you're so tough, why don't you rampage through Ursus and destroy my base in the northwest of Ursus? If you're so tough, let's have a war on terror in Lungmen and see which side the civilians and infected are on.

Little Tiger immediately suspected Yelena was about to cause trouble, but to his utter surprise, the Great Yan envoy, aside from turning completely pale, said nothing and obediently paid the outstanding amount.

Nonsense, if he really caused such a huge mess, even if the emperor didn't kill him, eight hundred censors would force him to kill his entire family.

Is Longmen, this cash port, a place where Lao Wei's family makes money?

This is comparable to causing trouble in the privately owned shipping ports in Jiangnan, which were monopolized by officials during the Ming Dynasty, then waging a local war in the port, bringing this matter to the forefront of the imperial court—

Because suppressing the rebellion requires troop deployment, troop deployment requires court deliberation, and court deliberation requires you to provide a reason—

This kind of bribery is so stupid that they don't even know who to target. It would be better to just have their whole family executed so they don't get in the way of everyone else making money.

Not to mention the idea of ​​smashing through Ursus to destroy the Xia Group. If the Emperor of Great Yan hadn't been replaced by a dog, he wouldn't have made such a brain-dead decision. It would only make the little emperor of Ursus laugh his head off.

Then, troops were quickly mobilized to resist, and the battle began on the land of Kosiché in the east. The warlords mobilized were from the west. Everyone knows what those warlords are like when they enter the duchy. There are also loyal subjects like Helag who unite the people for the greater good.

Finally, they even managed to force a technologically and militarily powerful group into their own camp.

What do you call this? You call it loyalty and camaraderie!

So, the little rabbit turned her back on the company, saying, "Buy it or don't, it's up to you. If you don't want to buy, I'll sell it in Kazimierz and Victoria. I'll relocate my company and bring all my private troops to cause trouble on your border every day, or even fight right here in Longmen." With this threat, the other side became obedient.

He was only seeking personal gain; the emperor had never granted him the right to wage war, and even if he went back and twisted the truth, it wouldn't make a difference.

Since they are not a company of the Great Yan Dynasty, they don't even have a production factory or a single worker within the Great Yan territory. What can you do?

Moreover, if this matter escalated, it was hard to say who would be able to handle the situation. Therefore, the Great Yan envoy quickly changed his previous arrogant attitude, becoming quite…

"Treatise on the virtuous and humble, that's the right phrase, anyway, I almost thought she had gotten into trouble."

"Hmm, I see. That's alright. If they don't give up, I'll have to consider adding Great Yan to Kazdel and Kazimierz."

They're all the kind of people who would be utterly destroyed by agricultural technology. It's pointless to try and compete with someone like Victoria, who played the industrial scissors game.

Of course, once you monopolize most of Terra's food production, Victoria won't escape that fate either.

"Getting back to the main point, do you think Lao Wei can withstand the pressure?"

"Yes!" the little tiger said decisively after consulting his father.

"He was related to the emperor, which meant he couldn't and dared not act rashly. Conversely, the emperor couldn't touch him if he didn't act rashly." This was because it was the foundation of feudal rule and the constraint of clan etiquette.

If Lao Wei showed even the slightest dissatisfaction or rebellion, he would be doomed; the emperor would immediately accuse him of "slander in his heart."

Conversely, if Wei remained completely unmoved, the emperor was powerless against this stubborn regime, because the consequences of revoking, transferring, or weakening fiefdoms without justification were extremely serious.

"So, as long as Lao Wei stays calm and doesn't do anything stupid, everything will be fine. I'm worried about that Pink Sausage Dragon doing something stupid."

"Commander Wei should be able to handle this in advance, right?"

"I hope so," Swire sighed. That pink-faced dragon probably had no idea of ​​the dangers involved.

Of course, she didn't know either, but she could go back and ask her husband. Her husband wasn't a riddle-solving person like Old Wei.

[Because she's the successor to the group, these things were supposed to be explained to her clearly. But Old Chen isn't. If Old Chen dares to take over, even the emperor would dare to kill his entire family.]

"Then the group will be under your temporary management." Old Xia always trusted those he employed; of course, this was also a characteristic of the Star Alliance—most of their human brethren were relatively trustworthy, since traitors were wiped out by the enemy in the early stages of the war.

In an interstellar-scale racial war, there are still fools clinging to the illusion that they can survive? Even if they weren't killed on the spot, they were at least sterilized.

Interstellar civilizations neither need nor can absorb the other's population; they only need your resources and space.

In the event of a large-scale war, annihilation is the most important response. Otherwise, what are you going to do but allow the enemy to conquer your civilization with uterine weapons? [Those who play Stellaris and favor foreign powers will quickly understand.]

"What the hell..." Little Tiger's call was disconnected. Xia Lin knew that this girl had a sharp tongue, but she would actually do things properly. This was in stark contrast to W, who would agree to things but then disappear to slack off.

Skadi, on the other hand, always does what she promises. As for the kind of "wonderful person" who, no matter what you say, will eventually give up, Old Xia hasn't encountered one yet.

Chapter Sixty-Four: Signs of the Great Depression

Chapter 64

At the Lungmen Guard Bureau, all the operators greeted her warmly as soon as she entered. "Swire Sir, we heard you're preparing to take over the family business, is that true?"

"Don't talk nonsense. What do you mean by taking over the family business? It means going back to be a good wife and mother!"

"Hey, you guys have nothing to do, do you want me to find you something to do? So you won't be talking nonsense here?"

The little tiger watched these guys jumping around with a cold eye. She knew that the more she explained, the worse it would get, so she simply stopped explaining.

"Really..." Little Tiger entered the office and plopped down in his seat. There was hardly any official business to handle in front of him. The old city area was quite safe, almost the safest area in the entire Longmen city.

The gangsters were restrained by the Rat King and dared not go in to cause trouble, while the mercenaries hired by large corporations did not dare to go to the Xia Group's territory to carry out missions. The infected people who were unstable factors were sent out in batches or taken in the factory.

This manifests on the surface as a visible improvement in public security. The cases handled by the Imperial Guard Bureau are at most petty thefts, which don't even reach her, the branch chief.

After finishing her meager official duties, Swire had to pull out a tablet to deal with Lao Xia's issues. The information-based office system built around the "Neural Tree" host saved Swire from dealing with endless meetings and paperwork.

The employees of the Xia Group quickly got used to this convenient system. Most of the miscellaneous processes could be handled by the bio-computer array. Only matters marked as urgent or requiring the use of a certain amount of funds from the group would be sent to the president's terminal.

Moreover, Lao Xia is not completely uninvolved, because this system allows him to work remotely through communication devices and handle some matters that can only be decided by him, such as the seed export business of Da Yan.

It can only be said that some events that require the presence of a living person can only be handled by Yelena or Little Tiger. The latter is almost resigned to his fate, originally thinking that his presence at the scene is only to provide advice and help to Little Rabbit.

As a result, everyone was talking to her—everyone seemed to think she was already the mistress of the group.

Actually, no. All collaborations, decisions, and proposals need to be approved by Yelena's side. The White Rabbit is the "Crown Prince," the acting monarch of this money empire. Swire does not have the right to control and manage the funds and resources of the Xia Group, but outsiders do not think so!

Xia's Group's financial management is the most rigid, but also the most efficient, that Little Tiger has ever seen. The entire group doesn't have a single accountant, only a few cashiers responsible for distributing advance payroll. The entire payroll system is verified, calculated, and distributed by a highly efficient bio-computer, which is very fast.

However, this rigidity resulted in enormous expenses for the entire group in terms of taxes and some avoidable costs, and also caused some waste and unnecessary losses.

However, it also reduces the waste and embezzlement of funds by the middle management, since Lao Xia is using public-version free software instead of a professional enterprise management system.

That kind of thing can even automatically generate legitimate tax avoidance and various incentive strategies. It really does physically eliminate more than 95% of the positions between front-line employees and the CEO. And the next step...

If an AI with personality and complex thinking, such as the Mind Core, were to be integrated into the management team, even the president and CEO could be dismissed, leaving only a board of directors that simply seeks personal gain and does not engage in management.

How long the board of directors can survive depends on when Ai realizes they are also an obstacle, decides to acquire the shares, and kicks them out.

The little tiger wasn't aware of this, but she did appreciate the system's convenience and was planning to ask Old Xia how much it cost so she could buy one to handle the Guard Bureau's mundane affairs, especially logistics management.

She's not like Old Chen; she doesn't care about the million-dollar tanker issue. She's a capitalist; if she doesn't have enough employees to eat, she'll fire them immediately. Why keep them around to breed more children?

Therefore, the employee loyalty of Xia's Group is currently very high. After all, there are no middlemen taking a cut. Even the lowest level of VI can simulate and calculate that taking 1/3 of the money given to managers and giving it to employees will improve work efficiency by twice as much as raising managers' salaries and encouraging them to strengthen management.

Furthermore, it leads to a very counterintuitive conclusion: that the salaries and benefits of frontline production workers are increased without middlemen taking a cut.

On the contrary, it will reduce overall production costs, because the increased compensation expenses are far less than the benefits brought by their improved work efficiency, resulting in a decrease in unit costs instead of an increase.

After all, Vi, being a low-level AI, wouldn't have the "sophisticated" idea that workers are stealing its money. It would simply quantify each person's work value based on the coldest data and graphs, and through psychological analysis templates, provide a reasonable stress range and distribute subsidies.

In this situation, the total salary of Xia Group's grassroots employees is almost 1.5 to 1.7 times that of the same level of Longmen employees. A significant portion of this comes from the lower-cost benefits, such as company dormitories.

The company dormitories of the Xia Group do not allow for hereditary succession; employees must leave upon retirement.

However, this also means that they don't have to rent houses, and the portion that would normally be taken as profit by landlords and other real estate developers is saved as a cost.

In short, Vi found that providing employees with 20 square meters of housing directly increased unit costs far less than the cost increase from giving them sufficient housing subsidies to rent or buy a house.

At the same time, it was also found that if the same incentive effect and increased work efficiency are to be achieved, the increase in employees' wages is far more costly than directly giving them houses.

Moreover, employees can gain a greater sense of happiness and cohesion than from a direct salary increase that would allow them to buy or rent a house. This is just one aspect; it also includes aspects such as canteens, transportation, and education. VI can realize that having the company cover all these costs is not only cheaper than paying them enough wages to live on, but also more efficient and easier to manage.

For someone like Little Tiger, who came from a privileged background, these decisions didn't seem out of place. She meticulously verified the details of expenses and income through financial statements and approved of the decisions.

Swire, however, is unaware of the problem: the system is expanding rapidly. It started with company dormitories and is now providing a unified canteen, perfectly avoiding peak meal times for employees and dictating when everyone eats, rests, and works, like a precise and orderly machine.

The next step is what Little Tiger is currently approving, and many employees have reported that this is being done in conjunction with the statistics from the VI backend system.

Because picking up and dropping off children at get off work causes employees to waste their rest time and leads to leaving get off work early, taking leave and other behaviors account for about 40% of the current leave requests in the group.

Furthermore, the complex function tables also show that if all education is the responsibility of the group, from nurseries and kindergartens to high schools, all are built by the group, and schools are built through bidding at prices lower than market education fees, and teachers are hired, and so on.

In technical education programs above the high school level, employees can be directly appointed as teachers. This not only significantly reduces the cost of recruiting teachers, but also allows for the deduction of a portion of their wages. The total amount of wages deducted far exceeds the cost of building schools and hiring teachers, meaning that a large portion of the costs have been cut.

Moreover, the employees are incredibly grateful for this. Who the hell wants to spend two hours stuck in traffic on their way to the city center to pick up their kids, only to have to go back and help them with homework, leaving them exhausted? Now, the school and kindergarten are right next to the industrial park, so they can just pick up their kids and go home on the way.

If you have an office job, you can even see the school playground from the window. People with good eyesight can even see what their children are doing, so they can work with peace of mind without worry.

They are very willing to have a portion of their salaries deducted as educational management fees for this purpose.

After all, the deducted salary is far lower than the cost of outsourcing to an external educational tutoring institution outside the park.

The next step is to establish a dedicated company transportation line. Since the entire old city area belongs to the group, they can directly build a dedicated line without having to compete with others for seats. This will allow for dedicated transportation and significantly reduce employee commuting time and costs, legitimately splitting the profits that would otherwise go to bus companies and taxi drivers 30/70.

The only problem is that while these projects will yield greater returns in the long run, they require a large amount of capital to build in the short term. Normal individual capitalists don't do this kind of thing—any plan that can't recoup its costs in one profit cycle is garbage.

However, the unnatural VI doesn't see it that way; it has already calculated the complete set of profit cycles and curve data.

Swire, being a highly educated professional with a formal business background, was able to understand these reports and data and grasp their feasibility.

As for the issue of short-term profits—please don't discuss this with a rich second-generation like her who doesn't have to worry about going bankrupt; she simply won't understand.

She didn't care about profits, and neither did Lao Xia. The former didn't care about profits because she had money, so it didn't matter whether they made money or not.

Old Xia, on the other hand, didn't care about Terra's currency at all; it was just a tool. The real profits came from the farms, workshops, and wonders that sprang up across the land.

“Let’s do it this way.” Swire didn’t even look at the astronomical project cost calculated by Vi. Originally, White Rabbit was the kind of person who only used one wick at a time. She was fine with small amounts of money, but when faced with such a huge expenditure, Yelena would hesitate, afraid that there was some exaggeration involved, and always wanting to cut some of the cost.

However, Swire is different. To her, this amount of money is no different from pocket money. As long as it is reasonable and necessary, she will sign and release the loan without hesitation.

Now that Yelena has led a team to support Lao Xia, all the work here has been handed over to her. Naturally, with a stroke of her pen, billions of Lungmen dollars have been transformed into mountains of building materials and construction machinery, as well as a sea of ​​people in front of the group's recruitment fair!

It includes meals and accommodation, children's schooling, and a dedicated subway line. In the future, there will even be a special internal shopping street to sell various inexpensive daily necessities and consumer goods produced by the group at low prices.

Although the actual take-home pay is only half or even less of the average salary in Longmen enterprises—wake up!

The difference between a total salary of 2000 and a net salary of 1000 in a place like Longmen where land is incredibly valuable is obvious to everyone.

The former is unable to survive, while the latter lives a very comfortable life, even achieving partial financial freedom and having savings.

Therefore, Lao Xia's Kazdel plan transferred a lot of skilled workers and unmarried young employees from Longmen. As a result, Longmen was bound to hold a recruitment fair to replenish fresh blood for the group's expansion. The applicants completely filled the square in front of the new headquarters building, and more people came from other districts one after another. There were even many foreigners who came because of the reputation.

"Security Department, Security Department is over here, hurry up, Fat Fox!" Razer waved his hand vigorously while holding his shield. Fat Fox with a cat-like head struggled to push through the crowd and headed towards the Security Department's recruitment booth.

The security department of Xia's Group is a less popular job. This means that popular positions, such as technical positions in machinery factories that don't require business trips or involve fieldwork in deserts or snowfields, have an average of over 400 applicants per position. In contrast, the security department only has 283 applicants, second only to the least popular transportation and logistics department with 269 people who are constantly on the road.

After all, even in a niche and challenging department like the Security Department, their salaries are 50% higher than those set by Vi, and they are well-equipped. They receive a year's worth of clothes and shoes upon joining, and don't have to spend a penny on food, clothing, housing, or other necessities—by Terra standards, they are elite full-time, off-the-job warriors.

The logistics department, on the other hand, has seen a 120% increase in wages because they rarely enjoy company accommodation and meals. They are constantly on the road, so sufficient funds must be allocated for their meals and lodging outside, as well as funds to cover expenses such as vehicle damage requiring repairs in mobile cities.

This means that a portion of the benefits have been directly converted into cash and distributed. Now, based on VI's calculations, Little Tiger is preparing to negotiate with several city-states along the main routes to try to extend this portion of the benefits, since cash distribution is far more expensive than universal welfare.

If all else fails, she might as well run her own inn. She submitted this business plan to her father for review. The old man didn't say no, but he didn't say yes either. He just said he would have to think about it.