Chapter 228 Full Intervention
Ceylon.
Jewel City.
In the temporary press conference hall.
Diss and Qingye Group President Liu Zhifan shook hands. The reporters and photographers around them immediately took out their cameras and took pictures of the two of them.
Soon the two of them signed the contract.
This collaboration was quite unexpected.
The main content of the cooperation is: Aoba Group will sell 2 million tons of rice to Ceylon at a low price every year. The price is that Ceylon will sell the operating rights of three ports to Aoba Group, and the right to develop 30 square kilometers of land near the ports. The contract period is 99 years.
The three ports are Galle Port in the south, Trincomalee Port in the east and Silae Port in the north.
In order to ensure the food supply of Qingye Group, the three ports operated by Qingye Group only need to pay a usage fee of 3 million gold yuan per year, and all other taxes are exempted.
The reporters present, as well as the heads of major foreign companies and consuls from various countries, all thought that Diess was crazy.
But he is not crazy, but the best option at the moment.
at the same time.
In the chaotic Colombo Port, public order has finally been restored to some extent in the past few days.
The former Old North Port area, after being renovated, finally welcomed its first batch of "guests", with four container and grain transport ships slowly docking at the port's berths.
The South Port Area is the Colombo Port Management Company which is controlled by China Merchants Group.
At this time, the company's manager Huang Zhenguo was standing in an office on the upper floors of the office building, looking at the situation in Beigang.
"Qingye Group? Aren't they afraid of losing all their money?"
Deputy Manager Ye Xiaofei shrugged: "If we can get the long-term operating rights of the three ports, plus the surrounding land, then it's barely possible ."
Huang Zhenguo took off his work clothes and changed into casual clothes: "Let's take a few people to Colombo city to have a look."
The group drove a heavy bulletproof off-road vehicle and appeared in the city of Colombo in a low-key manner.
After a while, they saw a large number of residents queuing up.
Park the car under the shade of a tree on the roadside not far away.
Huang Zhenguo and Ye Xiaofei looked at the residents queuing outside the car window. At the end of the crowd was a Qingye Supermarket which had been open for more than half a year this year.
However, at this time, Aoba Supermarket had already merged with more than 20 stores in the surrounding area, and after connecting these stores, it transformed them into temporary sales counters.
More than a dozen gas trucks were parked nearby, and hundreds of hired laborers were busy moving supplies from the containers of the trucks.
"Let's go down and take a look!" Huang Zhenguo suggested.
"Do you want to wait a moment?" Ye Xiaofei was a little worried.
But Huang Zhenguo shook his head and pointed to several corners of the street: "See? They are all fully armed soldiers."
Ye Xiaofei observed for a while and found that there were indeed many soldiers standing guard in groups of three or five. These soldiers occupied key points on the street. He even found that his off-road vehicle was being stared at by several people.
After opening the car door, the two approached a store without even glass windows. Inside were more than a dozen large refrigerators. They heard the sound of an engine coming from the back of the store. It was obvious that Aoba Supermarket was using a temporary generator to supply its own electricity.
The refrigerator contains frozen chicken breasts, chicken wings, chicken legs, pork and the like.
Seeing the price on the label, Ye Xiaofei frowned and whispered, "Only accepting gold yuan? Aren't they worried about trouble from the Ceylon side? And do the Ceylonese people have gold yuan?"
Huang Zhenguo pointed a few hundred meters away and said, "Maybe the answer is over there!"
Ye Xiaofei turned his head away.
Aoba Bank?
The two walked over and arrived at the gate of Aoba Bank, which stated that it accepted gold and silver in exchange for gold yuan, and also provided mortgage loans and asset acquisition services.
No gold?
Here it is.
As soon as the Aoba Group entered Colombo, it quickly started recruiting and successively set up supermarkets, banks, restaurants, properties, gas, electricity, water, ports, warehouses, logistics, hospitals, pharmacies, taxis, construction companies, etc.
Colombo, with a population of just over 600,000, suddenly lost tens of thousands of laborers.
As the food, supplies and equipment mobilized by the Aoba Group from Hongsavadi arrived at various ports in Ceylon one after another, the people who had been noisy before suddenly quieted down.
The sky is big, the earth is big, and eating is the most important thing.
With tens of thousands of employees and their families, the Aoba Group instantly became a force that occupied nearly half of the population in Colombo. This was simply terrifying.
Anyone who dares to touch Aoba Group’s assets in Colombo will be beaten up by local residents in minutes.
Huang Zhenguo and Ye Xiaofei came to a local restaurant where they often ate.
The restaurant owner saw the two and greeted them with a smile: "Hello! Huang, Ye, do you want to eat? I finally bought some mutton and onions today."
Huang Zhenguo ordered a few dishes as usual, and sat down at a random table. Through the glass window, he saw that there were a lot more trucks and vans on the street.
But something was wrong at the time, because a large number of trucks and vans were vehicles with the Aoba Automobile logo.
After the restaurant owner gave instructions to the kitchen staff, he came over with a few bottles of Aoba Cola and said, "This is the only cola we have now. Do you mind?"
"It doesn't matter." Huang Zhenguo smiled and shook his head.
Ye Xiaofei asked in a low voice: "Singer, you should have bought your ingredients from Qingye Supermarket, right?"
"Well, there's nothing we can do. Right now, this is the only supermarket that has cheap ingredients, although it requires identification." Singh spread his hands helplessly.
"Where did you get the money?" Ye Xiaofei asked half-jokingly.
Hearing this, Singh smiled bitterly and said, "I took my wife's gold jewelry and mortgaged it to that bank for 80,000 yuan."
"How is business now?" Huang Zhenguo said, and then took another look at the restaurant's occupancy, and found that it was less than one-third of the previous level.
Singh looked depressed: "It's very bad. Many people don't have money now. They can only rely on relief meals, let alone come to the restaurant."
"At least there's something to eat." Huang Zhenguo took a sip of Coke.
"I hope the economy will recover as soon as possible!" Singh looked expectantly at the busy streets outside.
But Huang Zhenguo smiled bitterly in his heart. It was obvious that local people like Singh did not realize the seriousness of the matter and the brutality of the Qingye Group.
You know, Hongsavadi has been completely swallowed up by the three major groups, and it is difficult for small private enterprises to survive in the territory of giant enterprises.
This is like under the towering trees in a tropical rainforest, it is difficult for other plants to gain living space.
After having a meal.
Huang Zhenguo and his party strolled around the streets of Colombo again. Although the previous bankruptcy had brought great negative impact on the people of Ceylon, with the full intervention of Qingye Group, it was barely back to normal.
Both of them were worried all the way.
After returning to the port management company's office building.
Standing in front of the window, Huang Zhenguo took a sip of boiled water:
"Huh... Horrible, this Qingye Group is too terrible."
"It's really scary. If there are no restrictions, such giant companies will quickly swallow up all the industries in a region. And once they succeed, it will be very difficult to drive them away in the future." Ye Xiaofei's expression was also very solemn.
As Ye Xiaofei said, the reason why giant enterprises are giant enterprises is because of their huge scale and interconnected industrial chains.
When employees of giant companies make up the majority of the local population, to restrict or divest them is tantamount to disemboweling oneself.
"The business at Colombo Port is worrying!" Huang Zhenguo's words were full of sadness and worry.
After witnessing the horror of the Aoba Group, he did not think that the investment promotion company could easily gain a foothold in the Port of Colombo and would inevitably be targeted by the other party in the future.
