Dongqing explained the situation to the construction team, and together with the team leader, they observed the seaside for two days. They finally decided to start construction at 4 p.m. the next morning before high tide, and to pave the road between the two islands with quick-setting cement concrete.
The construction team installed a large mixer on the site and used a large generator to generate electricity.
A week later, all the materials needed for the road construction between the two islands were ready and transported.
Beforehand, drill holes on both sides of the reef with a pneumatic drill, insert thick steel bars into the drill holes, and place the template on the steel bars.
Using dump trucks to transport concrete to the sea, the roadbed between the two islands was paved in just two nights. Even at the highest tide, the road surface was still above the sea, and normal construction could then proceed.
The road is 20 meters wide, and the next day they began pouring reinforced concrete above the roadbed.
Dongqing required that the road surface be at least 10 meters above the water level at the highest tide, and this two-kilometer road cost more than 10 million yuan.
Dong Qing went to an island and wandered around the mountains for several days, but he did not find any gems or jade. It cannot be said that there is no treasure on the island, but at least he has not found any so far.
The mountain on the island wasn't very big. Dong Qing hired a construction company to build a wall around the mountain, enclosing the entire area. Several villas were built inside the wall in front of the mountain, and from then on, ordinary people were not allowed to enter the area.
January arrived quickly, and the villa was completed. She asked her third sister to move in first.
After several months of construction, the roads on both islands were completed. Dong Qing bought several new cars and transported them to the islands, where they can now travel freely between the two islands.
The infrastructure development on the two islands cost more than 100 million RMB, which sounds painful.
Jade mining requires hiring workers, so Dongqing called his wife and asked her to arrange for twenty honest and reliable workers from the company's factory to work on the island.
That morning, they arrived at Sisters' Island and were led into a villa. Dong Qing said, "There's a special job for you. I'll pay you a basic salary of 10,000 yuan a month, plus bonuses. Are you willing to do it?"
They could only earn a few hundred yuan a month working in their hometown, so who wouldn't want to work for ten thousand yuan a month? The group happily agreed.
Dong Qing said, "I have one condition: you can't leave this compound every day. Your family members will receive their monthly salaries from the company. They can take whatever you earn here. You should have discussed this with your family members before you came, right?"
This was indeed agreed upon. Before they came, they were asked to bring their families to the company to complete the procedures for receiving their salaries. They would earn money on the island, and their families would go directly to the company in their hometown to receive their salaries. Dongqing had his wife arrange all of this in advance in their hometown so that they could work here with peace of mind.
A forty-year-old man said, "It was all agreed upon when we came here: we'll earn money here, and my wife will receive her salary back home. Can we go back to our hometown for the Spring Festival?"
Dong Qing said, "The Spring Festival is only a few months away this year, so you don't need to go home for the New Year. From now on, you'll have a month-long holiday to go home for the Spring Festival every year. But you must keep your work a secret. If you can do that, I'll hire you. If any of you can't, I'll arrange ordinary jobs for you on the island, but the wages will be very low, not much higher than back home. Think about it."
These twenty men were indeed loyal and honest, which was why Li Yuzhu sent them over. All twenty men readily agreed.
Dong Qing said, "Let me be clear from the start: if word gets out, I won't make things difficult for you, but you won't need to work here anymore. Go back to your hometown immediately. If word gets out while you're home for the Spring Festival, you don't need to come back."
The reason these jobs are paid so high is because of the confidentiality aspect; otherwise, why would they be paid such high salaries?
All twenty people pledged to keep the secret absolutely.
Dong Qingxia then assigned the task of mining gems to these twenty people, who lived and ate at the villa every day, essentially losing their freedom.
But with such high wages, they all felt comfortable continuing to work there.
Every month, Dong Qing would have their family members receive their wages back in their hometown. After receiving the wages, Li Yuzhu would have the family members call them so that they could work on the island with peace of mind.
There are security guards on duty outside the main gate of the mountain, but they can only guard the gate from the outside and cannot enter. Everyone knows that this is the boss's forbidden area, and no one knows why the guards are so strict.
Dongqing built a jewelry processing factory on the island, sending the jade and emeralds he collected to the factory to be processed into jewelry.
The factory only knew that the jade and emeralds were bought from other places, but no one knew where they came from, let alone that they originated from this island.
The diamonds were taken out and sold directly.
Every day, the workers load the jade and emeralds they dig into a fully enclosed truck. When the truck is full, Dong Sanmei will personally drive it to the jewelry processing factory.
Of course, they weren't sent directly to the jewelry factory. Instead, they would drive to the dock, take a ship back to the mainland, go around in circles, and then bring the goods back, creating the illusion that they were brought back from outside.
In this way, no one knows where he brought back the jade and emeralds; the secrecy is extremely tight.
They dig in the cave every day, and the slag they dig out is poured into the sea along the slope, so no one can see the slag they dig out.
The sea is so vast that it can be filled with any amount of slag; it's a sea that can never be filled.
The twenty men were very loyal; they handed over all the gems they dug up each day to Dong Sanmei.
Of course, they would also receive generous bonuses; for every gem they unearthed, they would receive fifty dollars.
A bonus of fifty yuan per gram is no small amount. They can dig up more than a hundred grams of diamonds every day. Not to mention their wages, the daily diamond bonus for the twenty people is more than 5,000 yuan, which they split equally.
They earn 20,000 yuan a month, which is supposed to be a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan.
In those days, what did it mean to earn 20,000 yuan a month? Their wives were overjoyed when they received their wages back in their hometown.
This also fully demonstrates that Dongqing is good at employing people. With such a high monthly income and the fact that their families can receive their wages in their hometowns every month, how could they not work hard?
They do manual labor, but they live very well every day. They get free meals with meat at every meal, and with such a good life and high salary, they wouldn't dare to complain. Everyone is afraid of losing this job because it's so lucrative.
This mountain has a very large deposit of jade and emerald. Twenty people can dig out several tons of jade and emerald every day. However, there is no bonus for digging jade and emerald. Instead, there is a monthly bonus, which is calculated based on the monthly performance. The more products you dig out, the more bonus you will receive in a month.
Whether or not there are bonuses, they work very hard because if they don't dig out so much slag and jadeite, they can't dig out so many diamonds. Their bonuses are all tied to diamonds, and the bonus of fifty yuan per diamond is enough to keep them working hard.
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