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Chapter 210
chapter 0125 part 2
Lane reported on the work to Boss Tang while driving.
"What about the other directors? Did they cause any trouble?" Tang Song twirled the wine glass in his hand.
Among the projects at Oscorp that Tang Song invested in, there's the big prize of the Longevity Potion.
Divesting several projects, putting aside everything else, those aging old fellows on the Oscorp Board of Directors definitely wouldn't agree.
"During the time you were away, there was an outbreak of influenza in New York, and both Mr. Solomon and Mr. Yasa unfortunately passed away!" Lane said. "Miss Skye attended their funerals on your behalf. Their families, due to excessive grief, sold their shares in Oscorp. Currently, on the Oscorp Board of Directors, you are the second major shareholder!"
"Well done! You've worked hard during this time, Lane!"
Tang Song raised his wine glass in a toast towards Lane, who was looking in the rearview mirror.
"Boss, this is what I should do. You entrusted the matters in New York to me before you left, and I cannot fail your trust!"
Lane looked at Boss Tang through the rearview mirror, expressing his sincerity.
"Oh, right, Boss, before you arrived, Frank and I discussed it and specially prepared a gift for you! To welcome you back!"
"Oh?" Tang Song handed the wine glass to Fox beside him, crossed his hands, and became interested. "A gift! What kind of gift?"
"The werewolves who appeared at the Dock and colluded with that group of vampires, we found them!
The Werewolf Leader among them mentioned something called Perfect Blood. According to him, possessing Perfect Blood allows one to fuse with any gene to strengthen oneself, fearing neither disease nor guns or blades.
It should be the key to the Blood God's artificial Daywalker that you mentioned back then.
That group of werewolves has all been captured and are currently imprisoned underground in Raccoon City. How do you want to deal with them?"
"Don't go back to the Manor first, go to Raccoon City!"
After hearing Lane's introduction to Perfect Blood, Tang Song suddenly leaned forward, his two overlapping thumbs pausing.
The phrase "can fuse with any gene to strengthen oneself" made Tang Song think of his own concept regarding God-Demon Transformation.
Especially since his Five Yin Pouch happened to contain half a vat of King Ghidorah's flesh and blood cells.
"Yes, Boss!"
Lane used the communicator to inform the front car to change the route, and the motorcade drove towards the suburbs outside New York City!
...............
The Federation has a large territory area, is vast and sparsely populated, with uneven population distribution. Most of the population is concentrated in major cities.
Many small towns are scattered across the wilderness like sesame seeds. Sometimes, driving on the highway for a whole day might not even reach one.
In the Federation, where road trips are popular, many people mysteriously disappear during their travels. Art imitates life.
This is also the reason why road horror films have a large market in the Federation's cinemas.
.........
Some small towns in the Federation are even smaller than a village, with only dozens of households and a Police Department with no more than three Police Officers.
Raccoon City is certainly not like that. This cultural tourism project supported by the New York State Government is no more than thirty miles from the New York City Area, a not-too-near, not-too-far distance.
According to Tang Song's plan, this small town can accommodate at least twenty thousand people.
The construction site is bustling with activity, with over twenty Engineering Teams working simultaneously.
Most of the workers are construction workers under Tang Group.
There are also several hundred workers who are clearly Asian, with two large characters "China Construction" written on their vests! They were all hired by Lane from within China with high salaries, not just because of their work efficiency.
Another part of the reason is that the blueprint/diagram for Raccoon City provided by Boss Tang involves a lot of Eastern Feng Shui principles, which the Federation's construction workers only have a superficial understanding of.
Like the waterways, Boss Tang requires that living water flows throughout the entire small town of Raccoon City according to the blueprint/diagram requirements, similar to the layout within Tang Manor.
It can even reach the extent where fish can swim in the gaps between the pebbles under people's feet.
According to the Boss's intention, the entire Raccoon City is to be arranged as a massive magic array. If relying solely on Federation workers, not only would the construction period be extended, but the East-West culture gap alone would delay the entire project by at least half a year.
Therefore, after consulting with Boss Tang, Lane spent heavily to directly bring in a batch of workers from within China.
Food and accommodation are provided. Ordinary laborers are paid five hundred US Dollars a day. Designers and Engineers who have worked on such projects, like landscape design, can earn a daily salary of one thousand US Dollars.
Therefore, Lane is confident that the construction of Raccoon City can be completed within two months.
One must know, this is not building one or two housing developments, this is building a small town.
Dozens of tower cranes, hundreds of excavators, hundreds of engineering vehicles, and nearly a thousand people working simultaneously. The entire construction site is dusty and bustling with activity.
This is only a portion of the people visible. Including the workers who work at night, the total number of people on the entire construction site adds up to several thousand.
So far, one-third of the construction period has passed. From materials to labor, Boss Tang has already spent seven hundred million US Dollars.
A motorcade of eight luxury cars drove into the construction site. Many workers who were busy working stopped what they were doing and looked over.
Tang Song looked outside through the car window, his divine sense sweeping over the location and foundation of the planned houses in Raccoon City as they passed by.
The car drove all the way to the center of the small town. Only after confirming that these workers were indeed constructing precisely according to the blueprint/diagram did Tang Song confidently withdraw his divine sense.
"How is the housing allocation in the small town?"
"Currently, the five hundred houses built in the initial phase have been allocated to the families of the Paper Soldiers and frontline armed security personnel. We plan to build another fifteen hundred to two thousand houses in the small town later, to be allocated to the company's current employees!"
Lane reported to Boss Tang on the group's internal housing allocation plan for Raccoon City.
"Supporting facilities must keep up in the later stages!" Tang Song lightly patted Fox's thigh with his right hand.
For Boss Tang, who is an Easterner to the core, a sense of home and country is inevitable. In the perception of Easterners, houses are almost synonymous with home.
In an international metropolis like New York, housing prices are naturally ridiculously high. One could say living in New York is not easy.
Tang Song pays his Subordinates a decent salary, but he doesn't want the people who risk their lives for him to be tied down by a pile of rebar and concrete for their entire lives.
The Raccoon City plan is to build at least two thousand independent European-style small courtyards, prioritizing the housing issues for the families of Paper Soldiers, as well as frontline Mercenaries and armed security.
Furthermore, in the later stages, Raccoon City will also build thirty-six thirty-story apartment buildings, provided free of charge to the growing number of Tang Group employees and their families.
As for the issue of work and commuting in the later stages, on one hand, Boss Tang will relocate some of Tang Group's legitimate businesses in New York City from the disaster-prone New York City Area to Raccoon City.
Additionally, Boss Tang, as a City Councilor of New York City, plans to propose to the City Government the construction of a subway line from New York City to Raccoon City.
For this, Boss Tang is willing to generously donate fifty million US Dollars to the New York City Government as initial project funding.
"Currently, we have reached agreements with two hospitals and two private high schools! They are willing to open branch campuses in Raccoon City! Also, several large supermarkets like Walmart, people from the group are currently negotiating with them!"
The motorcade stopped in the very center of Raccoon City, in front of a building whose skeleton had just been erected.
Compared to the almost undefended construction site on the periphery, around this building, which still had scaffolding erected,
over a dozen armed security personnel patrolling back and forth with guns indicated how much Boss Tang valued this place.
(End of chapter)
Lane reported on the work to Boss Tang while driving.
"What about the other directors? Did they cause any trouble?" Tang Song twirled the wine glass in his hand.
Among the projects at Oscorp that Tang Song invested in, there's the big prize of the Longevity Potion.
Divesting several projects, putting aside everything else, those aging old fellows on the Oscorp Board of Directors definitely wouldn't agree.
"During the time you were away, there was an outbreak of influenza in New York, and both Mr. Solomon and Mr. Yasa unfortunately passed away!" Lane said. "Miss Skye attended their funerals on your behalf. Their families, due to excessive grief, sold their shares in Oscorp. Currently, on the Oscorp Board of Directors, you are the second major shareholder!"
"Well done! You've worked hard during this time, Lane!"
Tang Song raised his wine glass in a toast towards Lane, who was looking in the rearview mirror.
"Boss, this is what I should do. You entrusted the matters in New York to me before you left, and I cannot fail your trust!"
Lane looked at Boss Tang through the rearview mirror, expressing his sincerity.
"Oh, right, Boss, before you arrived, Frank and I discussed it and specially prepared a gift for you! To welcome you back!"
"Oh?" Tang Song handed the wine glass to Fox beside him, crossed his hands, and became interested. "A gift! What kind of gift?"
"The werewolves who appeared at the Dock and colluded with that group of vampires, we found them!
The Werewolf Leader among them mentioned something called Perfect Blood. According to him, possessing Perfect Blood allows one to fuse with any gene to strengthen oneself, fearing neither disease nor guns or blades.
It should be the key to the Blood God's artificial Daywalker that you mentioned back then.
That group of werewolves has all been captured and are currently imprisoned underground in Raccoon City. How do you want to deal with them?"
"Don't go back to the Manor first, go to Raccoon City!"
After hearing Lane's introduction to Perfect Blood, Tang Song suddenly leaned forward, his two overlapping thumbs pausing.
The phrase "can fuse with any gene to strengthen oneself" made Tang Song think of his own concept regarding God-Demon Transformation.
Especially since his Five Yin Pouch happened to contain half a vat of King Ghidorah's flesh and blood cells.
"Yes, Boss!"
Lane used the communicator to inform the front car to change the route, and the motorcade drove towards the suburbs outside New York City!
...............
The Federation has a large territory area, is vast and sparsely populated, with uneven population distribution. Most of the population is concentrated in major cities.
Many small towns are scattered across the wilderness like sesame seeds. Sometimes, driving on the highway for a whole day might not even reach one.
In the Federation, where road trips are popular, many people mysteriously disappear during their travels. Art imitates life.
This is also the reason why road horror films have a large market in the Federation's cinemas.
.........
Some small towns in the Federation are even smaller than a village, with only dozens of households and a Police Department with no more than three Police Officers.
Raccoon City is certainly not like that. This cultural tourism project supported by the New York State Government is no more than thirty miles from the New York City Area, a not-too-near, not-too-far distance.
According to Tang Song's plan, this small town can accommodate at least twenty thousand people.
The construction site is bustling with activity, with over twenty Engineering Teams working simultaneously.
Most of the workers are construction workers under Tang Group.
There are also several hundred workers who are clearly Asian, with two large characters "China Construction" written on their vests! They were all hired by Lane from within China with high salaries, not just because of their work efficiency.
Another part of the reason is that the blueprint/diagram for Raccoon City provided by Boss Tang involves a lot of Eastern Feng Shui principles, which the Federation's construction workers only have a superficial understanding of.
Like the waterways, Boss Tang requires that living water flows throughout the entire small town of Raccoon City according to the blueprint/diagram requirements, similar to the layout within Tang Manor.
It can even reach the extent where fish can swim in the gaps between the pebbles under people's feet.
According to the Boss's intention, the entire Raccoon City is to be arranged as a massive magic array. If relying solely on Federation workers, not only would the construction period be extended, but the East-West culture gap alone would delay the entire project by at least half a year.
Therefore, after consulting with Boss Tang, Lane spent heavily to directly bring in a batch of workers from within China.
Food and accommodation are provided. Ordinary laborers are paid five hundred US Dollars a day. Designers and Engineers who have worked on such projects, like landscape design, can earn a daily salary of one thousand US Dollars.
Therefore, Lane is confident that the construction of Raccoon City can be completed within two months.
One must know, this is not building one or two housing developments, this is building a small town.
Dozens of tower cranes, hundreds of excavators, hundreds of engineering vehicles, and nearly a thousand people working simultaneously. The entire construction site is dusty and bustling with activity.
This is only a portion of the people visible. Including the workers who work at night, the total number of people on the entire construction site adds up to several thousand.
So far, one-third of the construction period has passed. From materials to labor, Boss Tang has already spent seven hundred million US Dollars.
A motorcade of eight luxury cars drove into the construction site. Many workers who were busy working stopped what they were doing and looked over.
Tang Song looked outside through the car window, his divine sense sweeping over the location and foundation of the planned houses in Raccoon City as they passed by.
The car drove all the way to the center of the small town. Only after confirming that these workers were indeed constructing precisely according to the blueprint/diagram did Tang Song confidently withdraw his divine sense.
"How is the housing allocation in the small town?"
"Currently, the five hundred houses built in the initial phase have been allocated to the families of the Paper Soldiers and frontline armed security personnel. We plan to build another fifteen hundred to two thousand houses in the small town later, to be allocated to the company's current employees!"
Lane reported to Boss Tang on the group's internal housing allocation plan for Raccoon City.
"Supporting facilities must keep up in the later stages!" Tang Song lightly patted Fox's thigh with his right hand.
For Boss Tang, who is an Easterner to the core, a sense of home and country is inevitable. In the perception of Easterners, houses are almost synonymous with home.
In an international metropolis like New York, housing prices are naturally ridiculously high. One could say living in New York is not easy.
Tang Song pays his Subordinates a decent salary, but he doesn't want the people who risk their lives for him to be tied down by a pile of rebar and concrete for their entire lives.
The Raccoon City plan is to build at least two thousand independent European-style small courtyards, prioritizing the housing issues for the families of Paper Soldiers, as well as frontline Mercenaries and armed security.
Furthermore, in the later stages, Raccoon City will also build thirty-six thirty-story apartment buildings, provided free of charge to the growing number of Tang Group employees and their families.
As for the issue of work and commuting in the later stages, on one hand, Boss Tang will relocate some of Tang Group's legitimate businesses in New York City from the disaster-prone New York City Area to Raccoon City.
Additionally, Boss Tang, as a City Councilor of New York City, plans to propose to the City Government the construction of a subway line from New York City to Raccoon City.
For this, Boss Tang is willing to generously donate fifty million US Dollars to the New York City Government as initial project funding.
"Currently, we have reached agreements with two hospitals and two private high schools! They are willing to open branch campuses in Raccoon City! Also, several large supermarkets like Walmart, people from the group are currently negotiating with them!"
The motorcade stopped in the very center of Raccoon City, in front of a building whose skeleton had just been erected.
Compared to the almost undefended construction site on the periphery, around this building, which still had scaffolding erected,
over a dozen armed security personnel patrolling back and forth with guns indicated how much Boss Tang valued this place.
(End of chapter)
