Supervisor

Limanan City.

Haitian Agriculture's headquarters is located here. Through Mada's connections, they acquired a 12-story hotel and converted it into the company's temporary headquarters.

Zhang Wei, who just graduated from Fudan University this year, felt like he was dreaming. He had originally come to Manila to find someone and had spent over half a year drifting around Manila, exhausting more than half of his savings.

Half a month ago, he encountered Haitian Agriculture's recruitment drive in Manila. He hadn't initially considered applying, but after some events transpired, he found himself, by chance, becoming the General Manager of Haitian Agriculture.

He glanced at a photo on his phone. It was a group picture. Besides himself, there was a young man who looked about seventy to eighty percent similar to him.

Big Brother! I must find you. Zhang Wei put away his phone and picked up a document, getting busy.

He joined Haitian Agriculture partly for the high salary and partly to find his elder brother, Zhang Hao, who had disappeared in Luzon two years ago.

As for why Li Qingye agreed to let a fresh university graduate become the General Manager of Haitian Agriculture, it was because Zhang Wei's background was simple, and he hadn't yet been beaten down by society.

Although Li Qingye had the support of Ancestral Memory, it didn't mean he liked working with cunning old foxes and seasoned veterans. It was better to have less internal scheming. If they were constantly engaged in deception, it would be too exhausting.

University students like Zhang Wei, fresh out of school, were still relatively pure-minded and in a state where they could be molded. Their thinking hadn't completely solidified.

Haitian Agriculture's expansion was extremely rapid.

Seaweed fields, processing plants, employee dormitories, and mechanical equipment were expanding like mushrooms after a rain, supported by a continuous stream of cash flow.

Limanan City, on the northern coast.

Along the coastline between Bacchus Town and Coral Town, a stretch of construction sites was taking shape, with ponds forming bit by bit through the efforts of excavators and workers.

The dimensions of these ponds were standardized, with cement roads in the middle for transport vehicles to pass through. On the side facing the ocean, a 15-meter high dike was being constructed.

The fill for the dike came from the mud excavated from the ponds. Between the dike and the coast, there were actually hundreds of meters of mangroves or beaches.

After all, Luzon is frequently hit by typhoons. If typhoon prevention measures were not properly implemented, they would suffer great losses in the future.

The three small towns amidst the seaweed fields were now overcrowded.

Fortunately, the internal affairs department had promptly dispatched 50 security guards. These were not mere doormen like in China, but quasi-soldiers armed with shotguns and equipped with bulletproof vests and helmets.

Julie, who had come from Manila to work, wiped the sweat from her forehead. Looking at the bustling construction site, she tried hard to adapt to her supervisory role.

Not far away was her superior, Blair, the head of Homo sapiens Company's supervision department. He was a one-eyed middle-aged man who looked fierce but was meticulous in his work.

Julie carefully inspected the construction status of several surrounding ponds, using auxiliary tools to test various parts and check if they met design specifications.

She cherished this job greatly. Having grown up in the slums of Manila, she had suffered hardships since childhood and had worked her way through university.

However, even with a degree in Luzon, it was difficult to get ahead. Of course, there was still a glimmer of hope.

"Is this up to standard?" the one-eyed man asked.

"Uh... the bottom strength of section 7 of pond 13 is insufficient to support... and also..." Julie quickly reported every issue she found.

The one-eyed man then looked at another man: "Wang, go and re-examine it."

Wang Muyi took Julie's inspection report and immediately led his team to re-examine each section. He was a construction supervisor recruited from China by Homo sapiens Company.

He had already done things like this several times.

Although Wang Muyi thought the one-eyed man was being overly cautious, as Julie had been quite reliable these days, the supervision department had special regulations requiring cross-checks. A single supervision team was not allowed to complete a project's supervision independently.

In reality, they didn't understand the working methods of the Soldier.

As a Soldier, the one-eyed man was very rigid in his work. Even if it meant wasting manpower, he would still carry out orders without hesitation.

However, this also had its advantages: the supervision work was extremely thorough.

Previously, a foreman had tried to bribe the one-eyed man with a red envelope. He accepted it directly, then turned around and reported him, leading to the downfall of several foremen. The remaining foremen now trembled at the sight of the one-eyed man.

A short while later, Wang Muyi's team returned.

"Minister Blair, it basically matches the results of the initial inspection. Except for the unqualified cement pouring in section 6 of pond 14, everything else is accurate."

The one-eyed man looked at the reports from both teams and instructed, "After you return, write a rectification notice and have the engineering party rectify it immediately. After you both sign it, bring it to my office."

"Understood." Wang Muyi nodded.

"Yes, Minister." Julie also quickly nodded.

The two supervision teams were not just colleagues; they were also competitors and overseers.

If they discovered issues that the other team had missed in their supervision area, they could earn a performance bonus from the other team. The supervision department's performance was graded on five levels: D, C, B, A, S. The minor issue of unqualified pouring just discovered was a C-level performance.

In this process, Julie's team was deducted a C-level performance, while Wang Muyi's team earned a C-level performance.

As for mutual concealment, if problems arose later, whoever was the second supervision team would bear full responsibility.

If someone else's supervision led to problems, they might end up in jail. But for Homo sapiens Company, it could be life-threatening.

Especially with the one-eyed man constantly sitting in his office polishing his revolver, it put immense pressure on Wang Muyi and the others.

Of course, Wang Muyi was quite satisfied with his current work situation. His base salary was $3,000 US dollars per month, and the company covered food, accommodation, and flights. Including performance bonuses, he estimated his annual income to be around seventy to eighty thousand US dollars.

Although in China, construction supervisors might receive red envelopes from foremen, those envelopes carried risks. If the project had problems, they would be finished.

Moreover, with a satisfactory regular income, who would want to take risks for illicit gains?

Wang Muyi had fallen out with his previous engineering contracting company and resigned because he refused to sign off on something.

The main reason was that the engineering contracting company was too corrupt, which scared Wang Muyi into fleeing overnight. He encountered Homo sapiens Company recruiting in Yangcheng and decided to try his luck in Luzon.

He didn't need to save face for the foreman at all. After all, the head of the supervision department, One-Eye, was someone who wouldn't budge no matter what. With a superior like that, he couldn't just turn a blind eye even if he wanted to.

Even if he wanted to turn a blind eye, his subordinates would likely be the first to revolt. After all, if problems arose, everyone would share the blame, and performance bonuses would be docked together. Conversely, if problems were found and fixed, there would be a substantial performance bonus.

With another Julie team competing, no one wanted to slack off.

As for making things difficult for subordinates, that involved another department at Homo sapiens Company—the Human Resources Department.

Homo sapiens Company was gradually implementing HR reforms, with a focus on employee management. Even the general manager didn't have the direct authority to fire ordinary employees. Only after a department reported it, the internal affairs department reviewed it, and the HR department and the chairman approved it, could an employee be formally dismissed.

This involved three departments and required Li Qingye's personal signature for approval, making clandestine operations too difficult.

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