Chapter 126 New Industry (Part 3)
The car was driving on the rural road, with the mountains and forests on both sides shrouded in mist.
After a light rain, the air became a little cooler.
While driving, Fang Xinwu hummed an old song along with the melody :
"... every tear accompanies every dream... they all slip away without me noticing... I turn around in this circle unintentionally to this year... I only feel that I have been through the ups and downs in this circle..."
The mountains are lush and leafy, and there is a gentle breeze and drizzle in April.
At the bend, the terrain suddenly becomes clear.
Before our eyes is a large mountain valley plain where rice fields have been planted with tender first rice grains. The rivers flowing down from the mountains nourish this land.
Crossing the expanded highway bridge is the small town located halfway up the mountain.
Fang Xinwu glanced at the mountain behind the town. A large gap had been dug out of it, and it was obvious that the local terrain was being transformed.
The engineering vehicles purchased from Dongfeng Group and Sany Heavy Industry are busy with tasks such as digging, moving, and flattening.
The construction speed in Shan State is indeed unexpectedly fast.
Terrain similar to that of Mengli Town is very common in the Shan Plateau, and it is actually a helpless choice.
The main reason is that the temperature in the river valley plain is high, the humidity is high, there are many mosquitoes, and flash floods are prone to occur during the rainy season. Therefore, when it comes to settlement, we can only choose to live halfway up the mountain near the river.
But this brings other disadvantages, such as inconvenient transportation, difficulty in obtaining water, landslides and mudslides.
In order to solve these problems, Qingye Group promoted the merger of villages and towns, strengthened infrastructure construction, and reduced mountains and filled valleys in the Shan Plateau.
The Mengli Town in front of us is currently in the process of cutting down mountains and filling valleys. Once the transformation is completed, the group's available high platform and flat land area will be about 7 times the current amount.
noon.
Fang Xinwu and his group had dinner .
"Brother Xinwu, the Qingye Group's business is really extensive. It even has fast food restaurants." Fang Xinxin said curiously as he walked out of the shadows.
Mao Heshui, who could understand Mandarin, answered in Mandarin with a heavy accent: "Their company is very large. They do any business that can make money. Qingye Group has businesses in everything from food, clothing, housing and transportation here."
"Hongsavadi doesn't care?" Although Fang Xinxin has been hiding at home in the past few years, she still knows some things through the Internet.
For example, some time ago, the incident of an Internet giant selling vegetables in China caused a lot of controversy and triggered extremely heated discussions.
Fang Xinwu smiled bitterly and said, "Their boss has very close relations with all parties in Hongsavadi. Qingye Group is one of the three major groups that Hongsavadi focuses on supporting, and Shan State is the territory of Qingye Group."
“Isn’t this a chaebol?”
"Yes, and it is a very powerful trust group."
However, Maung Ho Shui, a local of Hongsavadi, disagreed: "Whether it's a trust or a chaebol, it actually has little to do with ordinary people like us. Even with large companies like Qingye Group, many people have stable incomes."
Fang Xinwu did not comment on this, but he also did not say anything about the Qingye Group's heinous crimes.
It’s mainly the mentality of Mao Heshui, which actually reflects the inner thoughts of most local people.
After decades of warlord infighting, the people of Hongshawadi have long been living in poverty. The demands of the poor at the bottom are not high, they just want to live a stable life.
Therefore, many local people do not have any ill feelings towards the Aoba Group, which continues to devour Hongsawadi's assets, and they are even grateful to it.
The inner thoughts of these poor people at the bottom of society are very simple. They are satisfied as long as they can have a full meal, do not have to face the chaotic social environment, and have a stable job.
As for any lofty ideals, the rise of Hongsavadi, or freedom and democracy, they actually don't care.
For the poor people who are struggling to make ends meet and have trouble getting enough food and clothing, those things are too far away.
Fang Xinwu is not an angry young man who has just entered society. Some things are just repetitions. He has no right to talk about the greed of Qingye Group, nor is he qualified to despise the short-sightedness of ordinary people in Hongsawadi.
As Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory says.
Survival needs always come first.
Without material foundation, everything is just castles in the air.
There is a lot of customer traffic in fast food restaurants.
Many of them were employees of the Aoba Group. While eating, they discussed topics such as salary, house, and women with smiles on their faces.
"Have you heard?"
"What?"
“The head office intends to develop the entire Shan State into a characteristic agricultural area.”
“What is a characteristic agricultural area?”
"It means that a town only grows a few kinds of agricultural products. I heard that Mengli Town has been designated as a rice, lemon and pomelo planting area, and will only grow these three crops in the future."
“Is this true or false?”
"Of course it's true. My friend from the next village works for an agricultural company."
"What about our Shandong District?"
“It seems that the area is planned to be used for sugarcane, oil palm, soybeans, rice and tobacco.”
A group of construction workers were discussing enthusiastically some actions of the Aoba Group.
Fang Xinwu silently wrote down these things.
The plan to develop characteristic agriculture is a manifestation of Qingye Group's strong control over the situation, and its purpose is to avoid vicious internal competition.
After all, many farmers are blind. Once they see which agricultural products are priced high and sell quickly in the market, they will easily follow suit.
This is often accompanied by risks.
Cyclic market fluctuations can sometimes be fatal to farmers.
For example, China's tangerine industry is a typical example.
Various regions blindly expanded the planting area, which eventually led to oversupply and a brutal internal struggle.
At the same time, the channels in rural areas are very single, and it is difficult for farmers to fight against channel dealers.
The strength of Qingye Group in Hongsawadi is already strong enough, so there is no need to worry too much when doing things. It can directly allocate industries and production scales to each town and require that only specified agricultural products can be grown.
From production, transportation, processing to sales, all aspects are controlled by Qingye Agricultural Company of Qingye Group, ensuring the stability of market prices.
In order to analyze domestic and global agricultural product production and price fluctuations, Aoba Agricultural Company even set up a secret global agricultural product analysis office, which is equipped with a supercomputer with a computing power of 1 million teraflops.
Fang Xinwu, who had lived in Hongsawadi for many years, could even feel the sudden change that was like a complete change of world.
He could see that one of the important reasons for this sudden change was that prices in Hongsawadi were gradually falling at this time.
Whether it is rice, sugar, fruits, seafood produced locally in Hongsavadi, or imported palm oil, home appliances, daily necessities and motorcycles, prices are gradually falling.
This was due to the stable value of the Jinyuan currency and the superior products of the Qingye Group, which exchanged for a large amount of supplies.
For example, in order to ensure sufficient funds, Malaysia and Java had to sell a batch of palm oil to the Aoba Group at a low price.
In addition, the soybeans harvested in the Shan East region this year provided a large amount of edible oil and soybean meal, allowing Hongsavady to have its own edible oil industry.
The agricultural potential of Hongsavadi is indeed huge.
For the first time, Fang Xinwu realized that the agricultural potential here could be developed to this extent under a strong system.
The inherent agricultural conditions here are really good. As long as there is no internal chaos in the future, it is only a matter of time before Hongsawadi becomes the granary of Asia.
