Chapter 116 Connections
Bai Fu's hair stood on end, she was excited and incredulous.

His mouth opened wide, his smile growing.

Has technology advanced to this extent without us noticing?
The emergence of robotic limbs means that people with disabilities have the opportunity to lead a normal life.

This is another great invention that changed the world.

Bai Fu admired herself, while Admiral Bai asked Su Xiaocai in a low voice, "Have you developed mechanical eyeballs or something like that?"

"I don't have three heads and six arms, do you know how busy I am? When I go out to eat, it all depends on the boss's cooking skills."

A foodie has a high level of awareness. In other words, in her heart, your face, General Bai, is not as important as food.

"Well, I'm just asking." After a tentative sentence, Admiral Bai realized that Su Xiaocai could do it but didn't have the time.

What a shame, we have to wait.

"Where's the promised manpower? You haven't given it to me yet, so I can't spare the time." Su Xiaocai said bluntly: "Manager Ji has recommended a manager to me."

General Bai also looked for people, but they didn't know the value of the product and said they didn't want to come.

There was only one person willing to interview, and General Bai felt a little embarrassed and ashamed, but he couldn't force the person to work for Su Xiaocai.

It's not good to feel resentful.

Some technical soldiers who retired from the military camp have their own world and good development prospects, so it is understandable.

"If they don't want to, let me do it." Bai Fu suddenly said. She had come down from the peak of her career, and if her hands and feet hadn't restricted her development, she would have wanted to make a comeback long ago.

It is because I was so ambitious in the past that I am depressed all the time.

She heard it all, and if Su Xiaocai wanted to build a machinery factory, she wanted to manage it.

The four soldiers were very quiet, trying to reduce their presence. The bosses were talking while the younger brothers were drinking tea, pretending not to hear anything.

Su Xiaocai pondered, "What did you do before?"

Admiral Bai said disapprovingly: "She was working as an armaments coordinator before she was injured. She has been away from the army for some years."

Bai Fu continued to recommend herself, saying that as an elder sister, she wanted to do something big and her younger brother couldn't interfere.

"I graduated from Junyue Dream Academy. I was a colonel in the army and have participated in more than a thousand wars of all sizes. I am familiar with the work processes of multiple departments. My subordinates describe me as fair and rigorous. If you hire me as a manager, I can ensure that your factory will operate normally and will not make any low-level mistakes or have any quality problems."

Others can see that Su Xiaocai has a promising future, and Bai Fu sees it even more.

This little girl doesn't have much ambition in her eyes.

Those who are ambitious can't wait to find someone themselves.

Since Su Xiaocai has no ambition, Bai Fu will help her stabilize her position.

She admired the technicians who benefited the country and the people the most in her life. With Su Xiaocai, she could realize her ambitions without any scruples.

Su Xiaocai took a sip of tea and found it far inferior to the tea collected by the old principal.

Su Xiaocai refused: "I'm sorry, you are not suitable at the moment."

"Why? I'm very capable, I can prove it to you..."

"No, you're a good person, but you're too emotional. You're not suitable at the moment." Su Xiaocai was very good at judging people and hit the nail on the head.

General Bai nodded slightly. Bai Fu was very good, with outstanding abilities. Normally, she had a spirit of never giving up.

But she has a habit of nitpicking, including about herself. After injuring her limbs, she became self-doubting, decadent, irritable, and had too many negative emotions.

Bai Fu looked directly at Su Xiaocai.

Those clear and cool eyes were full of calmness and without discrimination, they were just stating the facts.

She's telling her that you're not in a good mental state.

"I can go see a psychologist and adjust my mood." Bai Fu even said humbly, "I can definitely adjust in a short period of time and get better. Can you give me a chance? I need your job."

A job that she believes is meaningful and can help people.

Su Xiaocai knows that some people cannot waste their time, so they like to do a lot of things that can help others in order to achieve self-improvement and maintain a normal mental state.

Although she couldn't do it, she admired people like Bai Fu.

It's not a bad thing to use this kind of person. As long as you don't actively alienate her or abandon her, she will be very loyal.

But as a boss, you need to know your limits when facing her.

"If you can adjust your condition before the interview, which is about a week later, you can give it a try." Su Xiaocai looked at General Bai, "You won't stop me from managing the candidates just because Ms. Bai Fu is coming for the interview, right?"

How dare General Bai?

It would be best if Bai Fu didn't pass the interview. She could be her own boss instead of working under Su Xiaocai.

Seeing Bai Fu's high morale, General Bai could only swallow his opinions.

If Su Xiaocai can get along well with Bai Fu, he won't stop her. Bai Fu's happiness is the most important thing.

Even at their old age, they are all restless. Perhaps this is determined by the Bai family's genes, they are born like this.

With Su Xiaocai's reply, Bai Fu started to receive psychological treatment when she returned. She was sure that she would be able to have a new mental outlook before the interview.

Su Xiaocai kept sneezing when she returned to the laboratory. Xiaowanzi prepared a delicious medicinal meal for her. "Is Caicai too thin and has a cold?"

"No, my nose just itches." Someone must have been scolding her.

You guessed it right, someone was scolding her.

The person who scolded her was Bai Ling. In order to adjust her state of mind, Bai Fu first scolded Bai Ling for taking advantage of her relationship with her to stir up trouble.

Then he ordered the servants not to welcome Bai Ling over anymore unless she changed her unruly and rude character.

Bai Ling went to inquire later and found out that General Bai had arranged other girls to replace her.

And successfully changed Bai Fu's attitude.

Of course, she was getting the wrong information.

But that didn't stop her from cursing at the girl who replaced her, and she also cursed General Bai. Her parents happened to hear it when they came back, and gave her a good beating.

……

Regarding the bidding for the competition, Yu Haiming tried his best to write a good bid.

Don't worry about anything else and just focus on expanding his server.

He clearly told everyone that he didn't care much about the results of this bidding.

It seems to be saying that they are just going through the motions and no one knows whether they will be selected or not.

However, he and Su Xiaocai didn't care much.

Other large companies also did not regard Feifan Island as a competitor. A company that did not even have a complete set of servers was not to be feared no matter how good its technology was.

Big companies are secretly competing with each other to win projects.

The competition of ten galaxies covers such a wide range that getting the project is equivalent to telling everyone that they are the best in the industry.

For a time, bosses all used their own methods, either changing the feng shui of their own offices or destroying the feng shui of other offices.

In this battle of metaphysics, every move is beyond the imagination of outsiders.

Those who know the inside story discuss behind the boss's back that he has a mental problem. Those who don't know the inside story always think that there are new things happening in the office every day.

Occasionally, the bosses would fly into a rage and ask questions like "Why is there one fortune fruit missing from my collection?", "Who moved the table?", "Why hasn't my green rosary pendant arrived yet?"

There are countless small actions just to seek psychological comfort.

Su Xiaocai is not very interested in short-term competition. If they really win the bid, she will complete the simulation city at her own pace.

Those who have connections have already approached the higher-ups of the organizing committee, hoping to snatch the prize through their connections.

After all, this kind of operation is too common. They take advantage of others and then divide the money up and put it back into their own pockets.

It's almost become a routine operation.

But with the military watching this event, all your connections are useless.

The organizing committee members were very positive at this time. After receiving the bids submitted by all parties, they immediately held a meeting.

The organizing committee has thirty main members, all of whom are senior management and will take turns sitting in the chairmanship.

But this event is very special, as the chairman is not just one person.

It's two people.

A former organizer of the event, an old man from the Yi family, was respectfully called Yi Lao.

One is from the military, and is a familiar face.

The military sent Colonel Bai.

Since supervision is required, of course the only option is to place someone who has power but has no connection with the organizing committee.

When it comes to the art of balancing, the political commissars are better at it than the organizing committee.

General Bai was famous for his fairness, and there was no one from the Bai family on the organizing committee of the event, so he got this important position very "smoothly".

Colonel Bai has several professional personnel around him, including people in network technology.

The event organizers should not be too blatant in favoring the companies behind them.

Everyone has looked through the tender documents. To be honest, most of them come from large companies, so they cannot be bad.

Some of the bids also include semi-finished videos of the event venues, except for Feifan Island, which is so honest that it is scary, let alone the videos.

The text and pictures are extremely simple, and stand out among the "flashy" bids. "Vote first and recommend the two that you think are good."

Yi Lao took the initiative to speak.

Although Yi Wenling of the Yi family is engaged in network technology, no one in the Yi family is involved in making games.

Among Yi’s relatives, only the training grounds that do real-world simulations, such as the 022 Mechanical Planet, are projects that belong to the Yi family.

So no one has any objection to Mr. Yi being the chairman this time.

Colonel Bai had a clear goal. He only voted for Feifan Island and abstained from the other vote. It was not because he was deliberately biased, but because he had played the Feifan Island plan before.

With the Extraordinary Island Project, other games look like toys.

That level of sophistication is something that many large companies cannot achieve.

What Feifan Island lacks now is the upgrade of the simulation cabin. The existing simulation cabin cannot keep up with the Feifan Island plan.

But what is imperfect about the simulation cabin is its relationship with the Extraordinary Island.

The voting results soon appeared on the screen. Not surprisingly, there were sixty votes, and the "Extraordinary Island Project" had twenty-eight votes.

The organizing committee members looked at each other, shocked at their mutual understanding.

Everyone knows why it was chosen.

Some knew that Feifan Island was not up to the task, some simply used it to make up the numbers, and some truly thought that the bid for the Feifan Island project was quite well written.

As luck would have it, the Feifan Island Project became the company with the most votes.

But the vote is not the final word.

We also need to consider comprehensively and ask the company to provide more information.

The top five companies in the vote all have a chance.

These companies seemed to have received inside information that the funds were controlled within 500 million. Only Feifan Island was honest and filled in 500 million exactly as it was promised.

“Let’s first confirm with these five companies whether they can meet our requirements before the competition. If they can, we will bring people to experience it within a month. If not, don’t waste your energy.” said Mr. Yi.

Someone raised his hand and asked, "Suppose they all say yes, which one should we go to first?"

There is no doubt that everyone wants to see the Extraordinary Island Project first.

The sooner the better, so that it can be eliminated first.

The number of votes is so high, it’s too dazzling.

But they couldn't bring it up first, so everyone looked at Colonel Bai, because they would act as testers to evaluate whether the company met the standards.

Colonel Bai: "Let's wait for the company's reply first."

He then added, “You can only experience it after you see how far the project has been completed.”

If the other party says that it can be completed within 20 days, but the organizing committee members insist on going ahead of time, then they are cheating.

The organizing committee members, whose IQs were not crazy, nodded one after another.

So before that, let’s investigate five companies first.

This competition involves not only mecha engineers, but also maintenance engineers, designers, and even logistics personnel.

Therefore, the goal of the team competition is to get straight to the point and recruit talents from all walks of life.

The military is hungry, and they will eat any talent.

Therefore, it would be very costly if it is not done online.

……

Su Xiaocai, who had been working overtime for days, received a call from Yu Haiming, asking about the progress of the competition project and when it would be completed.

"About ten days. There are still some details to be dealt with. What's wrong?"

Yu Haiming was silent for a while before saying, "The organizing committee needs to check the progress and determine whether it can be completed within the deadline."

"Well, then, I can complete it here, but are you having any difficulties here?"

Boss Su guessed correctly, he didn't have enough manpower.

"How much is the difference?" Su Xiaocai also knew that it was a bit unreasonable.

Technical problems are easy to solve, but it is indeed difficult to gather manpower. No matter how many human resources General Bai has, it is impossible for him to help her solve all the problems.

Su Xiaocai thought of Old Man Su, who was the boss of the ball after all, and had a lot of connections.

Should I go and take advantage of Old Man Su again?

Yu Haiming said: "I have some friends who are good people, but their education is not high."

"It's okay, just make your own decision. Just tell me how much is missing, how is the progress, and how many people you can find."

"Currently, we have covered about 30 percent of the habitable planets for humans. In the next week, we will be able to increase that to about 10 percent. It is estimated to take three months to reach a coverage rate of more than 80 percent." The further we get into the future, the harder it will be to find people, and they will all be tough tasks.

Especially on mining planets and garbage planets, not many people are willing to stay there for a long time.

"Try your best. If it still doesn't work after you've tried your best, then just take it slow. The money has been spent, so just find a way to earn it back."

With Su Xiaocai's promise, Yu Haiming's uneasy mood finally came to fruition.

"Okay, I'll reply first and tell them to finish the project you're working on within twelve days." The time can't be too tight. With a grace period of two days, Su Xiaocai should be able to complete it more smoothly.

"Ah."

Turning around, the mature and steady Su Xiaocai turned into a naughty kid.

She went to act like a spoiled child to Old Man Su again.

"Dad~"

Old Man Su hung up the phone directly: When my daughter calls, it must be something bad.

Su Xiaocai: “…”

She had no choice but to change to a normal voice and called the second time, seriously asking Old Man Su for help.

"You're always annoying me. Tell me, what's the matter?"

Su Xiaocai told him about her current difficulties and said she wanted to find some people to go to another planet to find a safe place to install the server.

"Is that all?" Old Man Su scratched his ears. His daughter was a bit useless. She was supposed to be a community leader, but she was useless at the critical moment.

"Do you have a solution?" Su Xiaocai said, "I need a lot of people, and they need to be responsible. Even if they want to resign, they need someone to take over their position before they can resign. And they need to take care of the small maintenance robot so that our technicians can remotely control the maintenance."

Although Old Man Su only occasionally met with a few close friends during the more than ten years he raised Su Xiaocai, it does not mean that he has no human resources.

"Tell me the planet you need to go to, and I'll see how much I can help you with. I'll give you a quote then."

Su Xiaocai: "Dad is so generous. Dad, you are the best."

"You always say the same few compliments. Do you have any other ways to compliment me?"

"Not only can I praise you in various ways, I can also take practical actions to make you the most beautiful person in the crowd and send you a colorful robot arm..."

"Beep, beep, beep." The communicator interrupted the conversation.

Su Xiaocai snorted coldly. If you don’t listen to your daughter, you will suffer.

The robotic arm in his hand pretends to have a single function, imitating the prosthetic limbs on the market.

He didn't even listen to her nagging and changed the robot arm. He was so impatient.

……

Since Old Man Su was forced to retire, many of his "old subordinates" have been cleared out one after another.

Those who can be his teammates all have "real skills" and can grasp the technical aspects directly.

Old Man Su remembered that there were several people who were specialized in personnel recruitment and they had a lot of talented people on hand.

He sent Su Xiaocai's recruitment information to the group and asked if any of them had any connections who could find someone for the job.

“Is there an age limit?”

Suddenly someone asked.

After all, this job seems to be tailor-made for retired cadres. As long as you find a place and put the server, you can be a comfortable security guard without anyone bothering you.

If the server breaks down, they don't have to repair it. They just need to know some knowledge about starting up the robot, and the rest can be left to the people in the head office.

How comfortable.

"Look, at our age, is it suitable?"

Father Su was suspicious: "How old are you? Are you retired? Have you nothing to do?"

"It's not that I have nothing to do, but that I have too much to do. I want to find a place with beautiful scenery, where I can stay, get paid, and not have to worry."

They are tired of their current jobs, which require 997 hours of work and lack of freedom. As they get older, they would like to live a more comfortable and relaxed life.

It's hard to describe what Old Man Su said. They went to Su Xiaocai's company and planned to be a sweeping monk? If they don't make a sound, they will make a big splash?
"You decide for yourself. If you find a place you'd like to go to, please let me know. My kid said that the best place to rent is a place for both commercial and residential use, and it needs to be guarded day and night. If you have such a place, please let me know. Thank you."

A comrade in the group spoke up. He was still working in the army. The job provided by Old Man Su was like a spring breeze blowing into his heart, soothing and warming him. It came just in time.

"Boss Su, I have several hundred retired soldiers from the logistics department. Can you take them all? They just have some minor defects, such as missing two fingers, some psychological trauma, and some missing ears. I guarantee that they are not soldiers who have committed crimes and have decent character."

The comrade added: "As long as you accept it, I can teach you a trick."

Before Su Lao said yes, his comrade told him: "You can find space stations on those garbage planets with fewer people. You don't have to set up servers on the ground. You can also rent a small house in the space station. This way you don't have to worry about the frequent conflicts on the ground."