Act Seventeen New Financial Resources
Thanks to Chen Fengqi's letter of introduction, which was full of murderous intent, Roger believed that those contractors would not risk their own lives to take advantage of him, and the price he offered was also generous, so even if they didn't cut corners, the contractors could still make a lot of money.
The design was handed over to an American designer, the recruitment of workers was handed over to a contractor, and procurement was handled by someone named Tan Ni. The construction was supervised by Americans, who contracted out the work to the contractor, leaving Roger, a "non-professional", with nothing to do. Although there were still many things to attend to in building the factory, the machines ordered from America would take time to arrive, and road construction and factory building also required time, during which he really couldn't do anything.
So, after becoming idle, Roger ran back to the modern world in a flash and started living as an online otaku. No choice, who let the standard of living between two worlds be so different? On the Republic of China side, even the hotels didn't have electric lights, and at night they could only rely on kerosene lamps for lighting. The dim light made it impossible to see anything clearly, which was unbearable for Roger, who was used to sleeping after 11 pm.
Since the Time-Space Cavern is in Hainan, Roger will naturally have to stay there often. It's not feasible to always live in a hotel, so to save money, he had moved out of a three-star hotel and into a family inn, but even so, the expenses were still considerable.
So, back in modern times, Roger began looking for a suitable house to rent.
Fortunately, the things on the Republic side are all prepared and still need to wait for a while, he has plenty of time to find a house, and by the way, he can also check out the current market conditions of jade, until Tan Ni sends people back from Myanmar, his jade business will be opened, and modern funds are all dependent on this!
The place where the cave is located is quite far from the city, so Roger also looked for a house in the suburbs, which saved him a lot of money. He just agreed on one online today and was about to go see it.
He found the entrance according to the address, Roger knocked on the door: "Is Miss Jiang at home? I'm Roger, who came to see the house as promised."
After a brief wait, with the "creaking" footsteps stopping, the door slowly opened a crack.
"Ah, Mr. Luo has arrived, please come in quickly." The landlord, Ms. Jiang's voice came out before the door was fully open, sounding quite pleasant and slightly childish.
When the door was fully open, Roger finally saw the true appearance of the so-called Miss Jiang. She had a slender figure but with curves in all the right places, roughly the kind that most girls envied. Her face was also quite elegant, even without makeup, she looked refined and beautiful. She was around twenty years old, which made her surprisingly young to be a landlord. What puzzled Roger the most was that he seemed to have seen this person before, but couldn't quite recall where.
"What's wrong? Don't come in, how can you see the house? Standing outside, what can you see? Or are you a superhero with X-ray vision? Oh my, that's really dangerous!" As she spoke, the girl made a cute gesture of covering her chest, as if Roger could really use his X-ray vision to see through her clothes.
"How could it be possible? It's just that I didn't expect the landlord to be a little beauty and was stunned for a moment."
To be honest, the house doesn't look that great. Roger is away for at least 20 days a month and is always busy with this and that in the country, even when he comes back, he's busy with inventory. He doesn't have any requirements for the room, it's just a temporary place to stay, as long as the location is good and the price is reasonable, the hardware is passable, it's OK. After selling the jade stone and making money, we'll eventually buy our own house.
The location of the house was selected by him in advance, so it's naturally okay. Although the price is a bit expensive, it's acceptable. Roger just took a casual glance and signed the contract with Miss Jiang.
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The house was settled, and Roger went back to the Republic of China to check on the progress of the project, but he was worried again - there wasn't much cash on hand.
Tan Ni spent $500,000, with $400,000 used to buy equipment in the US. It's unclear whether it was enough or if there were any leftovers. As for Roger's $100,000, it seemed insufficient.
Logically speaking, $100,000 is almost enough to exchange for 200,000 yuan, which is just enough to build a factory, but Roger is not that simple.
In 1924, Hainan had only two highways. Relying on such traffic conditions to transport large equipment is not nonsense? So, in addition to building a factory, the more important task is to repair a high-standard highway from the factory to the port! With this one, $100,000 can't be considered abundant.
Moreover, in order to facilitate the guarding of the cave and the transportation of modern products, Roger's factory is prepared to be built in the Wuzhi Mountain area, just not far from the Shikong Cave. It's not easy to build a factory there either, and it will take a lot of money just to flatten the land.
"Damn it, what the hell am I supposed to do with this money?!" Roger scratched his head in distress, aimlessly browsing various information online, trying to find something suitable for sale.
He didn't want to mess with penicillin again before the factory was set up, that medicine is too spiritual, what if someone really pays attention to it and doesn't know how many more troubles will arise.
He was browsing randomly when a pop-up ad caught Roger's attention - "XX Enlargement Gel, Top-notch Effect!"
A disgusting and boring advertisement, in general, people would just ignore it, but this time it made Roger think of a magical blue pill. If the inventor of penicillin is regarded as an angel by patients all over the world, then the inventor of the blue pill will be regarded as God by those who take it...
It's really unreasonable if this thing doesn't make money!
He thought of it and did it, Roger hastily put on his shoes, wore his clothes, and rushed downstairs to the pharmacy.
"Uh... Wan Aiko, give me... uh... 100 boxes! On credit!"
Viagra, this thing is usually bought by some people, but I've never heard of anyone eating it as a meal, but this guy in front of me... probably even the appetizers have to be blue.
The pure and lovely shop assistant in the pharmacy looked at Roger with extremely pitiful eyes, while sweeping away all the Viagra stock in the store and packing it for Roger.
As Roger fondled the Viagra packaging with a treasured gaze, an elderly customer in the store couldn't help but shake his head slightly and sigh: "Poor kid... he's still so young, yet he's already relying on this stuff to get by... what kind of life will he lead in the future..."
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately triggered a resonance in the store, however, Roger, who had already walked out of the store, was clearly unable to hear it.
