Homo sapiens

Chapter 338 Brave New World (End)
"No. 204, Building 605..."

"arrive!"

Stepping out of the elevator, Liu Meizhu found that the house was quite distinctive, and she asked curiously, "Jing Cai, are all the houses here like this?"

"It's all like this. Newly built houses are all designed in this way." Zhao Jingcai nodded.

The reason why Liu Meizhu was very surprised was because the housing here was really unique, and it was very different from that on Dayuan Island.

In other words, Homo sapiens' residential building design concept is quite different from traditional commercial housing.

When Chen Yanxiu and his family stepped out of the elevator, they discovered this difference.

The first thing that catches the eye is that the house is not like a high-rise residence, but a villa, because the houses on this floor do not share the same walls.

Pass through a corridor with a width of 4 meters and come to gate 605.

There is a small alleyway with a width of 1 meter between the left and right sides of the house and the neighbor's house. Liu Meizhu did not enter the door first, but walked along the alleyway on the left.

After passing through the alleyway, it suddenly became clear.

The second half of the house in front of me is also the balcony area facing the outside, and it happens that the neighbor is having a barbecue on the balcony.

The hostess of the neighbor saw her and greeted her with a smile in Thai: "Sawadhika..."

"Ah...Sawadika." Liu Meizhu also knew this sentence in Thai.

The neighbor also seemed to see that Liu Meizhu did not understand Thai, and pointed to the back door of her balcony and gestured a few times, and said a few words in stammering Chinese:

"Hello...Are you new here?...The back door is here...I have time to be a guest..."

But the husband of the female neighbor laughed and said in fluent Mandarin: "Hello, you are a new resident of No. 605. The back door of your house is on the other side, and you can go around from here."

"Thank you, are you Chinese?" Liu Meizhu breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the familiar Chinese.

The male neighbor shook his head: "I'm from Chiang Mai."

"Your Mandarin is so good that you can't even hear the accent. Thank you for reminding me. I won't bother you."

"It's ok."

After saying goodbye to the neighbors, Liu Meizhu hugged her little daughter and walked around to the back. She found that there was also a corridor behind the balcony, but the width of this corridor was about 1.5 meters.

One side is the low wall of the balcony, and the other side is a huge window. Below the window is a hollow stainless steel grid with a height of 1 meter. It is a single glass window with a height of 2 meters, and the overall height of the three parts is 4 meters.

Liu Meizhu also found that the buildings here are very high.

Standing in the back corridor for a while, you can overlook the lush small park not far away.

She walked in from the small alleyway on the other side, and saw the side back door of her house, which could be opened directly.

"The door is not locked?"

After entering the inside, it was a large balcony. The wall on the side of the balcony facing the neighbor we met just now was 2 meters high. Obviously, this was specially designed to block the view.

On the other two sides, there are 1-meter-high low walls, but it is also equipped with a 1-meter-high foldable bamboo fence. The fence is covered with gauze, which can also block the line of sight.

Since it is a family of four, according to the internal housing standard, the per capita living area is 30 square meters, and her home has a living area of ​​120 square meters.

However, the 100-square-meter balcony at the back of the house is not counted in the house area, and other front and rear corridors, left and right side alleys, elevator shafts, stairwells, oil fume wells, garbage wells, and wire pipe wells are not included in the house area.

In other words, the 30 square meters per capita stipulated by Homo sapiens is the actual indoor area of ​​30 square meters per capita.

The balcony area is still empty at this time, just a piece of open space among the walls.

Through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, she could see the living room and the open kitchen inside the house, while her husband Chen Yanzheng was packing up.

Open the back door on one side of the floor-to-ceiling windows, and you can enter the living room by yourself.

Liu Meizhu put her little daughter on the sofa: "This house is so big, but it must have just been renovated, right? Will there be formaldehyde or something?"

"Don't worry about this. These walls are made of environmentally friendly and safe coral diatom mud. The furniture is made of iron bamboo, stainless steel, and aluminum alloy. No chemical glue is used. Once the decoration is completed, it has reached the occupancy standard." Zhao Jingcai patted the sofa.

Liu Meizhu walked around the room.

This 120-square-meter house has four bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a storage.

其中主卧16平方米、三个次卧总共36平方米，入户前厅8平方米、后大厅20平方米、开放式厨房16平方米、两个卫生间16平方米、储物间4平方米、中轴走道4平方米。

Plus a balcony of 100 square meters behind the house.

Since the open kitchen, the rear hall, and the balcony have no visual barriers, the area of ​​136 square meters looks very spacious.

"Husband, I feel that the floor of this house is so high that a small second floor can be separated."

Chen Yanxiu looked at the ceiling of the living room, it was indeed very high.

But Zhao Jingcai reminded: "The height of this floor is 4 meters, which is indeed higher than ordinary commercial housing, but I do not recommend that you add a small second floor. If there are too many people, you can apply for a replacement house. There is no need for internal partitions."

"And if you do this, the Department of Housing Management will not approve it. Don't change the layout of the walls inside the house casually. These walls are specially designed to resist earthquakes. If you change the structure casually, it will destroy the earthquake-resistant structure of the entire building. , once it is discovered by the housing management department, it will be severely fined."

Hearing that he would be punished, Liu Meizhu immediately dismissed the idea of ​​reconstruction.

Since the residential buildings of Homo sapiens are only rented and not sold, the property rights of these properties belong to the company, and the employees only have the right to use them, so they do not have the right to remodel without permission.

Even if you want to redecorate, you can only find the Coral Decoration Group under the head office, and there are very few parts that can be modified by individuals.

Zhao Jingcai continued to remind: "You should pay attention to maintaining furniture and electrical appliances. These things have a maintenance fee and an update fee, which are calculated according to the service life."

"How much is this fee?" Chen Yanxiu asked quickly.

"Furniture usually has a non-destructive period of 10 to 15 years, and home appliances have a non-destructive period of 5 to 10 years. The so-called non-destructive period means that within this period, the company will not replace you with new ones; after this period, if there is aging , faults, you can replace the same items through the old-for-new method.”

Chen Yanxiu touched his chin: "That is to say, within the non-damage period, if there is damage, you will have to pay maintenance and renewal fees?"

Zhao Jingcai nodded: "Yes."

Liu Meizhu, who turned on the TV, pressed the remote control and asked with a smile, "Can these appliances be used for 5 to 10 years?"

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. These electrical appliances are produced by the company itself. As long as they are not used in violation of regulations, they will be used for more than 12 years."

Chen Yanxiu was very surprised: "Does the company not implement the planned scrapping?"

"There's no need for that." Zhao Jingcai shook his head with a smile: "The company doesn't pursue profits for the products sold by internal employees, so naturally it doesn't engage in such tricks."

As Zhao Jingcai said, the "profit" that internal employees can provide to Homo Sapiens is actually their labor.

In this case, it means that the more durable the products sold to internal employees, the lower the company's operating costs will be.

Otherwise, a TV will break down within three or four years, and employees will continue to buy new TVs. Does this mean that the company will squeeze out some resources for the production of new TVs?

The planned obsolescence of the free market is an inevitable choice for enterprises to maintain product production and profits.

Although planned obsolescence will cause a lot of resources to be repeatedly wasted, this is the survival status of the free market.

Homo sapiens doesn't have that need.

Isn't it good to invest these resources in technology research and development?
Therefore, the products that Homo sapiens supply internally are often leather-based and durable versions.

……

Liu Meizhu watched the TV program and subconsciously pressed the remote control to change channels.

"Huh? Why are they all Chinese stations? I remember that among the official languages ​​​​of Homo sapiens, there are Burmese, English, Thai, Malay and Javanese?"

Zhao Jingcai was stunned for a moment, and thought for a moment: "Nanyang Films should have automatically set Chinese as your first language for you."

Chen Yanxiu, who was making milk powder for his little daughter, glanced at the TV: "This kind of old TV is quite rare now."

The TV in the living room is indeed a bit like the old TV in the past, but it is actually a TV with the latest technology. It uses Homo sapiens' unique nano-structure light screen, which not only has very low energy consumption, but also has a softer image.

The reason why the design is relatively old-fashioned is because this TV is not designed for young people to use at all, but for the elderly.

This is also the TV standard determined by the Social Research Office of Homo sapiens after careful deliberation.

Many motor manufacturers nowadays are blindly pursuing so-called innovation, without considering the user's feelings at all, and have made a lot of fancy functions.

Old people don't know how to use it, and young people seldom watch TV. As a result, the use of electric motors in the home is very embarrassing.

The Homo sapiens Social Research Office has seen this problem. After entering the 21s, with the popularity of smartphones, laptops, and tablet computers, only middle-aged and elderly people are left to use TV sets.

However, TV manufacturers intend to bring back the market of young people by adding functions.

There is nothing wrong with this idea in itself, the problem is that their operation is very insane.

Consumers embracing the young group, but forget that the largest user group of TVs - middle-aged and elderly people, have made fancy functions, and even designed many very difficult functions.

In terms of the balance of needs between the young group and the middle-aged and old groups, it was handled very badly, causing both parties to be unhappy.

Homo sapiens learned this lesson and readjusted the functions of the TV station.

As soon as Liu Meizhu turned on the TV, the system automatically entered the fool mode, directly displaying the first channel of Homo sapiens Chinese, and the only way to change channels was through the remote control instead of selecting various functions.

"This remote control is actually for the elderly. If you want to use other functions, here it is..." Zhao Jingcai said as he opened the drawer of the TV cabinet and took out a small box from it.

After opening the box, there are smart remote control, wireless mechanical keyboard, wireless mouse, and audio-controlled remote control.

After making the milk, Chen Yanxiu handed the bottle to his wife, and then played with the keyboard and the smart remote.

"With these accessories, this TV can directly become a computer."

Zhao Jingcai said with a smile: "The production line of this kind of TV is originally shared with the computer production line. In addition, this voice-controlled remote control is also for the convenience of the elderly and children."

He picked up a sound-controlled remote control similar to a karaoke microphone, and pressed the red recording button: "I want to see real happiness."

After speaking, he released the record button.

Suddenly, a floating window popped up on the TV page.

[Retrieving...]
[The search is complete, and the first episode of "True Happiness" is being played for you...]
Soon the TV screen entered the first episode of "True Happiness".

Then Zhao Jingcai pressed the recording button again: "Episode five."

Then the system automatically jumps to the fifth episode.

"Good function, very friendly to illiterate old people and children, but can this thing recognize dialects?" Chen Yanxiu asked curiously.

Zhao Jingcai nodded: "Yes, as long as the TV is connected to the Internet, the data analysis center can analyze thousands of common dialects. Even if you speak Hokkien, the system can recognize it."

"It seems that the company's technology in translation and artificial intelligence far exceeds that of Google!"

"Of course, Google only has a few employees. Yemai, Zhiyun, and Magnetic Spectrum are three network technology subsidiaries, but they are giants with 87 employees."

Chen Yanxiu didn't make any fuss about the size of the employees of Homo sapiens' subsidiaries.

After all, the company's current total number of employees has reached 6 million, minus the old, weak, sick and disabled, plus the average age of the population in the Homo sapiens company's control area is very young, at least [-] million young adults.

Therefore, the number of employees in each subsidiary is unprecedentedly large.

At present, among the major subsidiaries of Homo sapiens, the three major construction engineering groups have the largest number of employees, with a combined total of about 8300 million.

This is also one of the reasons why Homo Sapiens can quickly promote a large number of infrastructure projects. Similar to old areas like Hongshawadi, various supporting facilities are already very complete.

Johor, which was previously part of Malaysia, only has relatively complete subway facilities, while other supporting facilities are still in the process of being perfected.

The supporting facilities in Kampung City are relatively good, because this is the priority support for the electronics industry.

With the further increase in the proportion of new humans, Homo sapiens company's talent advantages in various industries have been further enlarged.

For example, the dialect translation problem that Chen Yanxiu is concerned about, as long as dozens of new human employees cooperate, and find some new human beings who can speak such dialects, the construction of a speech translation database for a dialect can be completed in less than a month or two.

And this kind of human investment is difficult for Google to do.

Of course, arrogant European and American companies will not set up a translation project team specifically for a small language.

But Homo Sapiens can and must do this.

For example, in Africa, Latin America, and various parts of Asia, Homo sapiens' Internet subsidiaries can now suppress Google, Youtube, Twitter, and Must-Death.

The core competitiveness of Homo sapiens lies in the deep cultivation of small languages ​​and dialects.

As long as Homo sapiens' Internet subsidiary enters a region, they will quickly create a localized version based on the local language.

At the same time, a professional docking department will be set up to serve minority language users.

No matter how good English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German are, they are only the mainstream languages ​​in Europe and America.

In the vast Asia, Africa and Latin America regions, there are many people who speak various dialects.

For example, Tianzhu, which has 1652 languages ​​and dialects, has more than 22 official languages.

No matter how powerful Google is, there is no way to build a dedicated database for 1652 languages ​​and dialects, but Homo sapiens can do it.

Therefore, in small-language areas, European and American Internet companies cannot compete with Homo sapiens companies.

The high-quality professionals that both parties can invest in are not of the same order at all.

This is also the core method by which Homo sapiens can now set off a wave of public opinion in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and fight cognitive wars, cultural wars, and public opinion wars with Europe and the United States.

The local language can be used, and the resistance of the local people to Homo sapiens will be greatly reduced. This advantage has a huge bonus effect on the guidance of public opinion.

In fact, the emphasis on small languages ​​is also to further consolidate the loyalty of employees within Homo Sapiens.

The reason why the natural employees of Sapiens company are also very loyal to the company is that they feel that they are valued and respected in their work and life.

If those natural workers are forced to use a certain language at once, they will definitely feel uncomfortable in their hearts.

But Homo sapiens company with 1.5 million new humans can completely take care of natural employees who speak small languages ​​and reduce communication barriers.

Therefore, in the daily work of Homo sapiens, we can often see those supervisors, team leaders, factory directors, managers, etc., who speak several languages ​​proficiently.

This also makes many natural workers more convinced of their superiors. After all, they can speak several languages, so they don't look like ordinary people.

……

While watching TV, Chen Yanxiu asked, "Jing Cai, do you speak Malay here in Johor?"

"Huh?" Zhao Jingcai scratched his head, recalling the experience of the past month, he suddenly found that these days, he rarely encountered language barriers.

"How should I say it? I speak Chinese here, and many colleagues around me can speak Chinese, but some employees can also speak English or Thai, but there are always several people who can speak multiple languages ​​in each department, so there is no need to worry. communication problem."

"So that's the case, then I can rest assured." Chen Yanxiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Meizhu wiped her little daughter's mouth: "There should be many people here who can speak Chinese. Just now I met the neighbor next door, and her husband can speak Chinese."

"It's better this way. You don't have to worry about communication problems in the future, and life will be very convenient." Chen Yanxiu looked at the time and found that it was already 03:30 in the afternoon.

He turned his head and asked, "Jing Cai, how about having dinner together tonight?"

"No, you must be busy cleaning up the house tonight, and I will treat you to dinner next week." Zhao Jingcai shook his head.

Chen Yanxiu also felt a little tired, so he went down the donkey: "Then make an appointment next week. By the way, leave a number and email address..."

The two left each other's mobile phone number, Yemai number, and email address.

After sending Zhao Jingcai away, Chen Yanxiu hurriedly cleaned up the house.

After opening the wardrobe in the master bedroom, he found that there were brand new bedding sheets and pillows inside. He hung up his daily clothes, tore off the dust jackets covering the furniture, and spread sheets, quilts and pillows.

After working for an hour and a half, I cleaned up the house.

Chen Yanxiu, who was physically and mentally exhausted, came to take a bath in the large bathtub in the bathroom.

Liu Meizhu, who was watching the children, took a few small benches from the storage room, and the three of them rested on the balcony.

Liu Meizhu looked at her mobile phone. In the employee account of the mobile phone, there was her salary and comprehensive subsidy for this month, a total of 650 gold dollars.

Homo sapiens payroll is divided into two parts.

Part of it is basic salary and comprehensive subsidy, and this part is paid on the first day of every month.

The other part is overtime pay, performance wages, and bonuses, which are paid at the end of each month.

Liu Meizhu applied for a job as a manicurist, and she was paid Ding 4 when she first joined the job.

And Chen Yanxiu is a chip tape-out inspector, and he is paid C4 as soon as he joins the job.

Looking at the family common property line on the staff account, the couple currently have a balance of 3800 gold dollars.

Liu Meizhu is a budget-conscious woman. She used to manage the money in the family. Now that she comes to live in Kampong City, she needs to make a new income and expenditure plan.

There is a bookkeeping function on the employee account. After opening it, she began to list various expenses.

While listing the expenses, ask the system wizard about some situations.

Housing rent: 120/month
Water and electricity fee (100 cubic meters of water per month, 1000 kwh): 30/month
Gas fee (1000 cubic meters per month): 10/month
Communication fee (two mobile phones): 20/month
Wired network (including fixed line): 5/month
These are fixed expenses, a total of 185 gold dollars.

Of course, if you feel that the fixed package of water, electricity and gas is not cost-effective, you can also choose to pay by volume.

Usually tap water is 0.07 per cubic meter, residential electricity is 0.03 per kWh, and gas is 0.02 per cubic meter.

This pay-as-you-go fee is more cost-effective for those who do not often cook, bathe, or live at home.

And Liu Meizhu felt that she must cook frequently at home, and it would be more cost-effective to choose a fixed set meal.

As for other transportation expenses, food expenses, daily necessities, cosmetics, clothes, milk powder and diapers, she also carefully calculated the local prices.

Even if she chooses better food and daily necessities, the total monthly expenditure of a family of four is still around 670 gold dollars.

In other words, the monthly balance of the family is about 3130 gold dollars.

"Prices are really cheap. It seems that some other expenses can be added." Liu Meizhu feels that there is still a relatively large balance, so she can consider other things.

"Buy a car? It's not necessary, is it? You can rent a car here, as well as subways, buses and taxis."

"House? Uh... There are no commercial houses for sale here, eh..."

Although Liu Meizhu didn't find a commercial house, she found a fine decoration service, where she could customize all kinds of furniture and appliances, as well as specially design balconies. She looked at the bare balconies, and she was a little moved.

But about the decoration, she needs to discuss it with her husband.

Then Liu Meizhu continued to plan. With sufficient income balance, fitness and beauty, travel and entertainment, hobbies and so on can all be considered.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Meizhu found that too many choices are also an annoyance, but she never tires of this kind of happiness annoyance.

Looking at the sunset outside the window, Liu Meizhu stretched her waist, and then sighed:

"It's so cool! This is what I want to live!"

Chen Yanxiu, who had just taken a shower, looked at his wife in high spirits with surprise on his face: "Why are you so happy?"

"Thinking about a better life in the future!"

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