The four companies jointly established Dream Town Co., Ltd. and raised a total of 300 million yuan in funds, with Temasek holding a 30% stake, the Maker Space 5%, Kushner Companies 20%, and Green Core Development 45%.
The four companies unanimously decided that Nan Yi will serve as chairman and executive president, Li Jialong will serve as vice chairman and executive vice president, and the secretary of the board of directors will be appointed by Kushner. How the company's specific management will be distributed will have to wait until the company structure is established.
Han Zhenhe is in Coconut City, and Ueto Masami has already transferred several people from the South Office to assist, so Nan Yi does not need to participate in the early preparations for the construction of Dream Town.
"Hey, hey, hey, fuck..."
Nan Yi was fishing at the beach when the phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and heard a few "Hello"s, but he couldn't hear what the other end was saying.
When Shencun was planning to build an analog signal base station, one of the spots was allocated to Echeng, so there is analog signal in Echeng, but to use a mobile phone in Echeng, the signal needs to be transferred through Shenzhencun, which means that the mobile phones in Shenzhencun can be used in Echeng.
In January this year, mobile phone services were officially launched in Echeng, and the analog signal was further enhanced. However, the signal's radiation range was only in the urban area and did not include Xiaoya Bay. The seaside where Nan Yi stayed was not too far from the base station in Shekou, and there was a weak signal, so Nan Yi could receive the call.
But now it seems that there is no point in holding the mobile phone. There is no caller ID and I don’t know who is calling. Nan Yi can only hang up and wait for the other party to call his satellite phone.
Two days later, the news from Qiao Weiping and Ma Mingyu was summarized. Other city units had established windows in Echeng and Xiaoyawan. The largest number of them was in Baoqing County, Funan. There were more than ten units that had established windows in this small county-level city. At the same time, many people from Baoqing had invested in real estate or speculated on land in Echeng.
A businessman named Yang Qing from Baoqing has built his first real estate project "Fuhua Building" in Echeng. The location is good and the land price is only 315 yuan per square meter, equivalent to less than 210,000 yuan per mu. The project will be launched soon.
Ma Mingyu went to the Echeng Real Estate Bureau and Xiaoyawan Management Committee, and basically understood the principle of land transfer here - exchanging land for money, exchanging land for roads, streamlining the business process, and only requiring a stamp, whether purchasing land or developing real estate.
After hearing the news summary, Nan Yi asked Wenren Lanyue to give Ma Mingyu 30,000 yuan and asked him to make friends in the management committee. He also asked Qiao Weiping to play the role of a newcomer in real estate speculation and stay in the gathering place of practitioners in the same industry to find out some industry trends.
Nan Yi himself stopped fishing and instead went to the aboriginal villages in Xiaoya Bay to look for traces left by time.
The previous village, the next village, Chashan Village, Nan Yi's figure was left in the information exchange center of one village after another. Every time he arrived at a village, Nan Yi would explore the villagers' attitude towards land acquisition. The old, middle-aged and young people spoke Hakka with different tones, but conveyed the same message - they were happy to see the land acquisition, and they were eager to acquire more land.
When Nan Yi set foot in the Laoshe Village area, there were a few more people around him, including Ge Cuizhu, her secretary Shi Guofeng, and the environmental assessment personnel of the Reclamation Group.
Near Laoshe Village, Nan Yi discovered a flat area surrounded by mountains on three sides. On one of the mountains, a stream flowed through the foot of the mountain. The underground water source at the outlet was abundant. Nan Yi learned that the stream had not been dry for hundreds of years. The scenery here is beautiful, the air is fresh, and the soil is very fertile. Oil would come out if you squeeze it.
Standing on the top of a mountain surrounded by mountains on three sides, Nan Yi and the other two looked down. The grass on the flat ground was lush and green, with a few touches of color in between. Nan Yi took a telescope and looked at the green.
"Aunt, look, what's over there." Nan Yi handed the telescope to Ge Cuizhu.
Ge Cuizhu took the telescope and looked at what Nan Yi pointed at and said, "It should be a patch of wild grapes, Guofeng, let's have someone pick some samples and take them back later."
"Yes, Chairman."
"Nan Yi, let me guess. You want to transform this place into a fruit orchard, just like the picking barn I visited in the 77th arrondissement of Paris, with the theme of tourists picking fruits by hand, to create a weekend getaway."
"Haha, Auntie, there's no need to put it in such a high-sounding way. In China, it's just called a farm stay." Nan Yi smiled and said, "Our understanding and development of the concept of combining agriculture with tourism are lagging behind a lot, while the north is ahead. In the early 1980s, when I went to Yanshan to discuss chestnut trading, I saw the prototype of a farm stay there.
In recent years, many farmhouses have opened in the suburbs of Beijing. There are already many small restaurants providing food and beverages for anglers near the Miyun Reservoir, and each one has its own characteristics. "
"It can't be said to be lagging behind. After all, the form of entertainment such as farm stays is not very popular in China. It is easy to earn money to support a few people, but it is difficult to operate it in a corporate manner like us," said Ge Cuizhu.
"That's right. It's too early to expand farmhouses to Daheshen. But this place is an exception. No matter where you come from in Shencun, the distance to here is no more than 50 kilometers. It's less than 17 kilometers away from where the Xiangcun people keep concubines.
Auntie, think about it, on Saturday night, bring your little wife here, stay in a single- family holiday home halfway up the mountain, have a big meal at night, and the next day walk out of the house to breathe some fresh air, walk down the mountain path, pick some fruits in the orchard, and supplement your vitamins;
At noon, we go to the vegetable garden and pick whatever vegetables we want to eat. If we want some meat, we can pick bullfrogs, crabs, fish, shrimp, eels, cows, donkeys, sheep, pigeons, chickens, ducks, geese, and seafood. If they do not harm the overall environment and do not have peculiar smells, we can raise them here. If they are not suitable, we will cooperate with nearby villagers and ask them to help us raise them.”
Nan Yi pointed to a place and said, "There, we can set up a BBQ. If a family comes here, they can have a barbecue by themselves. There can be a small water park over there, and a paid fishing ground next to it. If you want to eat fish, you can go fishing by yourself. In addition, we can also set up a fishing enthusiasts association and organize fishing competitions here regularly.
The hillside opposite is uneven and rises in steps. We can plant corn fields, bamboo forests, and pile up straw bales. We can also build two cow sheds at the edge. If there is demand, we can also build pig pens. We call that place a battlefield.”
"Battlefield? What does that mean?"
"Aunt, if you think about it a little, you should be able to guess it." Nan Yi said with an ambiguous look on his face.
Ge Cuizhu thought about it for a moment and understood what Nan Yi was talking about. She slapped Nan Yi on the arm and said angrily, "You bastard, you have so many evil ideas."
"Haha, the official name of this place is Three-sided Mountain Hundred Fruit Garden, and the informal name is Lover's Valley. In short, the food here is healthy and delicious, and the fun is fun and exciting, but the cost of a trip here is no more than buying a piece of clothing at the mall.
From the beginning, our target customers were the people of Xiangkeng and their mistresses. We couldn’t just come here for that kind of thing. There had to be some romance. Buying clothes and jewelry was romance, and coming here to have fun was also romance.”
"Once the reputation of Lover's Valley spreads, how could those whole families of tourists come here again?"
"That's why I said it's an unofficial name. As long as the name 'Lover's Valley' is thrown out among tourists, they will spread the name themselves. We don't recognize this name. Our official focus has always been family travel, returning to the countryside and letting children get close to nature.
However, this concept is a bit ahead of its time. The current situation is that people have just washed their muddy legs and moved into high-rise buildings, and have not yet grown tired of eating delicious food. It is unlikely that they will return to the countryside in the short term.
When we rarely have the chance to eat white rice and pork, what we think in our hearts is that it would be great if we could eat pork and white rice for the rest of our lives, and we would never get tired of eating them every day. But what is the reality?
If you eat it for a month, you will definitely get sick of it. Instead, you will enjoy it more if you switch to pig food.
It’s hard to say when people will get tired of the city, five, ten, fifteen years, or maybe even longer. If this is just an independent project, it won’t be too late to start again ten years later.”
Nan Yi turned around and pointed to the south with his left hand. "In 1979, the population of Bao'an was 314,100. Now the registered population of Shencun is 686,500, and the permanent population is 1,677,800. Five years from now, what will the permanent population be like, and what will the floating population be like?
If a person wants to live in Shenzhen, he must have a place to work, a place to live, a place to eat, a place to entertain, and a place to see a doctor, all of which are inseparable from the land.
If Shenzhen wants to develop, it needs to build more factories, more high-rise buildings, and more residential buildings. Where will the land come from? Open up the mountains and fill the sea? Can it be filled indefinitely?
"Land expropriation, expropriation of collective land from farmers." said Ge Cuizhu.
"Yes, at present, Shenzhen is developing in blocks, with a piece here and a piece there. The reason why they are not connected is that the nature of the land is a very important factor. The cost of land acquisition is too high. There are still many state-owned vacant lands. When the city is making plans, it will try to avoid land acquisition.
But when the vacant land is exhausted, we will inevitably have to think about taking collective land. Now in Shencun, doing anything is better than farming. Older people still have the energy to farm, but few young people are willing to do that.
On the one hand, the city needs to develop, but on the other hand, arable land has not played its basic function of producing food. In the past, we grew vegetables everywhere and sold them everywhere, but now we grow less and harvest more, and concentrate the supply to Shencun.
Not to mention food, there are very few areas in the entire South that can be self-sufficient. The situation in Shencun is even more serious. Land abandonment is becoming more and more serious, not only for food but also for vegetables.
A country must ensure its food self-sufficiency..."
Before Nan Yi finished speaking, the school beauty leaned close to his ear and said, "It's Mrs. Scarlett's call. It's urgent."
Without the school beauty's reminder, Nan Yi understood that Scarlett must have something urgent to tell him when she called him in the early morning in New York. After apologizing to Ge Cuizhu, he walked to the side to answer the phone.
"Scarlett, what's going on?"
"A few minutes ago, I received a report on soil moisture in the Ural region and southern Ukraine. Our people compared the data from recent years and came up with a guess - the Soviet revisionists are likely to suffer a drought."
“When is the forecast?”
"It is not possible to come up with a more definite conclusion now. More data is needed for comprehensive analysis."
Making long-term weather forecasts is not an easy task. If you want to draw a conclusion with a high degree of accuracy, it takes a long time to collect a large amount of multi-dimensional data for horizontal and vertical comparative analysis.
"Understood. Let me know when you come to a conclusion."
"uh-huh."
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yi walked back to Ge Cuizhu and said, "Aunt, a country must be self-sufficient in food, otherwise it will be easily contained by other countries. Ten years ago, the Soviet revisionists were a superpower, five years ago, they were a strong country, but now they are vulnerable.
Kissinger once said, whoever controls oil controls all countries; whoever controls food controls humanity; whoever controls the right to issue currency controls the world.
In 1969, Nixon became president. At that time, the United States was in a state of disarray. The Soviet revisionists were expanding, the Vietnam War was in a mess, and American society was seriously divided.
Kissinger, who was then the head of Harvard University's Center for International Studies and a strategic master who is now regarded as the most outstanding Secretary of State in American history, outlined a clear blueprint for the United States to win the Cold War: get rid of burdens, establish a front, lay a solid foundation, advance from the outside, and disintegrate from within.
The specific approach was to end the Vietnam War, fully ease tensions with my country, reorganize the Middle East, abandon the gold-dollar system, build a new petrodollar, and establish an alliance system that was completely obedient to the United States.
These things are essentially all for one goal: to make the United States invincible first.
"Those who were good at fighting in the past first made themselves invincible, waiting for the enemy to be defeated." This is from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. I heard that Kissinger highly praised this book and has been studying it.
I will not elaborate on the specific strategies used by the United States to deal with Soviet revisionism, as I have heard most of them from hearsay. However, Kissinger grasped the fatal weakness of Soviet revisionism and developed many tactics around this weakness, which is food.
In recent years, the Soviet revisionists' grain production has been declining year by year, the grain self-sufficiency rate has been getting worse and worse, and the dependence on foreign imports has been increasing. Imports require foreign exchange, and the Soviet revisionists' source of foreign exchange is heavily dependent on weapons and oil exports.
Starting from August 1985, OPEC's oil production increased sharply. At the same time, the United States announced the relaxation of its oil production policy, focusing on the development of North Sea and Alaska oil production, opening the market, reducing domestic strategic oil reserves, and intentionally or unintentionally taking a multi-pronged approach to suppress oil prices.
The plummeting oil prices led to a decrease in the Soviet revisionists' foreign exchange earnings. By the first half of 1986, the oil revenues of Iran, Iraq and Libya had decreased by 46%. These three countries were the main arms exporters to the Soviet revisionists. Without money, they naturally could not buy weapons, which made the Soviet revisionists' foreign exchange earnings even worse.
The price of oil is weak, but the price of food, Aunt, I don’t need to say much, we eat grains and vegetables, and the international grain and vegetable price list is posted on the wall of Aunt’s office.
There is no money, but food prices are soaring. What the Soviet revisionists should consider now is not the issue of returning to world dominance, but how to feed nearly 290 million people. "
Ge Cuizhu nodded. "Since 1982, the Central Government's No. 1 document has been themed on agriculture, rural areas and farmers for five consecutive years. The top leaders attach great importance to the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers."
"Yes, food is the primary need of the people, and food is no small matter. The control of arable land is not too strict now, but it will be tightened sooner or later. Urban development requires land, the phenomenon of wasteland is becoming more and more serious, and the area of ​​arable land must be guaranteed. These three problems are the problems that Shenzhen and Cun will face in the process of development. Auntie, how do you think they should be solved?"
"Expropriate the arable land, manage it in a unified way, and give it to those who are willing to cultivate it."
Nan Yi smiled and asked, "Who wants to plant it?"
"The Reclamation Group."
"Planting on arable land is not only related to the supply of food and vegetables, but also involves the ecological environment. It is impossible to have no arable land, and it is also necessary for no one to plant on it." Nan Yi pointed down the mountain again, "There are about 260 acres here. The fruit garden only needs 120 acres, and the remaining 140 acres can be turned into an organic vegetable garden.
The paddy fields in Xiaoya Bay only cost 3,000 yuan per mu, and the dry land only costs 2,000 yuan. This is mountainous land, and it is also virgin land. There are mountains on three sides and 260 mu of land. The management committee expropriated the land and then transferred it to us. The price of one mu of land will not exceed that of dry land. We can have the right to use it for 50 years for a few hundred thousand yuan. Don’t be too cheap.”
Ge Cuizhu's eyes lit up and she said, "Nan Yi, do you want to build a vegetable planting base around Shencun?"
"Haha, let's put it this way. This is not only a planting base, I also want to integrate the concept of tourism into it. Let's use this place as our test field and explore the feasibility of agricultural tourism."