Chapter 174: Preparing for a Rainy Day
The power of one person may seem insignificant, but the power of a group of people is undoubtedly astonishing.
Rows of tall buildings were completed within half a month.
However, the interior decoration has not yet begun, and it is estimated to take another ten days to complete.
After the decoration is finished, it will take another month before people can move in.
But the new houses can now be put up for sale.
The Pet Beast Park that Song Tiantian wanted to build was also completed in half a month.
It has to be said that the piece-rate system motivated many people to voluntarily work overtime and complete their tasks.
Song Tiantian only required them to work six hours a day, but any extra work done would earn them more money.
Many people didn’t want to sleep, but Song Tiantian strictly mandated that each person could only work a maximum of twelve hours a day, and they were forced to go home and rest.
The key is that the houses are very cheap! Houses with slightly less favorable orientations cost only five to six hundred thousand, while good large houses cost around a million.
They come in two sizes: the larger ones are about 100 square meters, with three bedrooms and two living rooms, suitable for families.
The smaller houses are about 60 square meters with one bedroom and two living rooms, as there are still single individuals who don’t need much space.
This is practically a cabbage price, which has tempted many people. Some naturally strong and fast workers, combined with their contracted Pet Beasts helping with the work, can earn around a hundred thousand a day.
This means they can earn back the cost of a house in just a few days, leading to immense happiness.
Each person can only purchase one house, but construction workers can pre-purchase, allowing them to choose better floors and orientations first.
This is a preferential treatment Song Tiantian offers to the construction workers.
Song Tiantian did not have the builders construct large, expansive apartments for all the houses, as these residences are not intended for the wealthy.
No matter how rich one is, the maximum they can purchase is a 100-square-meter house.
There are approximately twelve to thirteen thousand of these houses, enough for almost everyone to have one, with some left over.
Song Tiantian also did not expect the land surrounding the Pet Beast Center to be so vast.
The houses are built in a circular pattern along the perimeter wall.
They essentially serve as natural sentry posts for the Pet Beast Center. While the outer-facing houses have better orientations, they are also cheaper. Conversely, houses facing the interior of the Pet Beast Center are actually less expensive.
For all the houses, the balconies were directly enclosed by the workers, and all of them were fitted with bulletproof glass.
There is a residential building approximately every few hundred meters. If the population grows further, more houses can be built in staggered arrangements.
To encourage people to buy new houses, Song Tiantian also launched a new initiative: employees who do not live in the dormitories allocated by the Pet Beast Center will receive a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan.
While 500 yuan is not a large sum, it’s still money.
Although the new houses have a better environment, very few employees are willing to move into them. Only those who arrive later and have no dormitory will purchase them.
This is because they all know that the new houses are located near the edges of the Pet Beast Center, and they consider those areas unsafe.
Song Ruyu, however, came to inspect the area a month later and found that all the houses were fully renovated but still unoccupied.
She then sent another fifty thousand people over.
With a wave of her hand, she rented out the unsold houses for three months for these people to live in.
Song Tiantian was speechless; it hadn’t even been a month, and there was still formaldehyde. Moving in would affect their health.
But Song Ruyu didn’t care at all.
With so many people, Song Tiantian did not arrange jobs for them. This is because many of the previous seventy thousand people had been involved in construction, and now that the houses were built, there wasn’t much work left for them.
Song Tiantian had to find ways to arrange jobs for this group of people.
She could only have people take statistics and prioritize those with families for job assignments.
Only one person per family would be assigned a job; the rest would have to find their own way to make a living, perhaps by opening a small shop downstairs.
As for those without families, who are single and unburdened, they would also have to find their own way, or become temporary workers. They would only work five days a month, which Song Tiantian calculated.
The salary from working five days would be just enough for one person to cover their monthly expenses.
This is a last resort. After the Beast Tide passes, their lives will improve, and they will be able to find jobs in Qingshan City.
Currently, because the Beast Tide is known to be coming, small bases and companies outside of Qingshan City have almost all been shut down.
Once the Beast Tide passes, these companies will resume recruitment.
To be honest, it’s impossible not to be anxious. Currently, the vegetables and rice in the Pet Beast Center supermarket are all grown by Song Tiantian’s Pet Beasts.
The variety of vegetables has significantly decreased.
There is only one brand of rice available.
Qingshan City is no longer selling food externally; they are only providing seeds to Song Tiantian. Essentially, the Pet Beast Center has to be self-sufficient.
Although Song Tiantian has built a greenhouse and a planting base, the crops from these places cannot mature that quickly.
Moreover, the quantity is not particularly large.
There are a lot of people at the Pet Beast Center now.
If Song Ruyu hadn’t provided seeds in advance, the Pet Beast Center would have had great difficulty operating without food.
However, Song Tiantian can now only rely on the Hell Ghost Vine, Illusion Grass, and Big White, these three Pet Beasts, to help with the harvest.
The System has no physical form and cannot do work.
Song Tiantian still has a considerable amount of grain stored in her warehouse, but this grain is for emergencies, and Song Tiantian does not intend to take it out now.
Anyway, the supermarket sells seeds. Song Tiantian originally wanted to ensure affordable ingredients, but she saw a lot of waste from the daily swill, so Song Tiantian increased the price of ingredients.
Her Pet Beasts work very hard every day. If everyone wastes less, they will have to work less.
If anyone finds it expensive and insufficient, they can purchase seeds. Beast Tamers all have Pet Beast Spaces, where they can grow some food in their own spaces and even set up stalls to sell it later.
Perhaps because there are many Beast Tamers at the Pet Beast Center, and everyone has a Pet Beast Space where they have stored a large amount of food, people’s morale is generally stable. Seeing the increase in ingredient prices, they are actually pleased.
This proves that their previous actions were correct and not a waste.
Moreover, everyone can plant some of their favorite vegetables in their spaces. Even if the variety of vegetables available outside is not that great, they can still eat the vegetables they desire.
Some people have even planted fruit trees in their Pet Beast Spaces, fearing a shortage of fruit.
Those without jobs can set up stalls to sell agricultural products to make a living. Although life is difficult, they can still survive.
