industrial overlord

Chapter 638 Investors

By the standards of a country, the São Goga Islands are indeed small.But if you look at it as a city, it's not small at all.Boston should be famous enough, right?It also only has a population of 60, and the St. Goga Islands are equivalent to 1/3 of the population of Boston.

From the perspective of economic development, the St. Goga Islands are far from Boston. According to Lin Zhenhua's evaluation, it is equivalent to a poor county in mainland China.However, no matter how impoverished the county is, the office building of the county government will not be too cold.The same is true of the Saint-Goga Islands. At least this presidential palace is no less shabby than a county government office building. Kopecini's office has a usable area of ​​hundreds of square meters. Inside, there are air-conditioners, large desks, and leather sofas. It can be said that one cannot be missing.

Since Lin Zhenhua and others were VIPs, Kopeccini directly took them into his luxurious office, invited them to sit on the expensive sofa, and then called several ministers to listen to the What exactly do these Chinese guests want to do.

"I'm a businessman." Lin Zhenhua said straight to the point, "I came to San Goga Islands to invest."

"Investors are very welcome!" Trade and Industry Minister Mrak said excitedly with a big grin, "We are willing to provide investors with all necessary convenience."

Yes, can he not welcome it? The St. Goga Islands have not received any foreign investment so far.

"I would like to know what are the main industries of the San Goga Islands and what are their advantageous resources," Lin Zhenhua said.

"Well..." Mrak was speechless, and he turned his attention to Minister of Agriculture Trek, because the only industry that Sangoga can call an advantage can only be agriculture.

Treker said: "The fishing industry of our San Goga Islands has been very developed since ancient times. At present, our marine fish products can not only meet the living needs of our residents, but also can be exported to neighboring countries such as India and Sri Lanka, in exchange for our country. Industrial Products."

"Oh? How much is the annual export volume of sea fish?" Lin Zhenhua asked with great interest.

"$30!" Trek said triumphantly.

He Fei counted and interjected, "That is to say, the average foreign exchange income of each resident is US$1.5?"

"Uh...Actually, we not only export marine fish, we also export guano, and the annual amount is... more than 50 US dollars." Trek said.This time, his tone was much lower, because it was still very pitiful to apportion 50 dollars to 20 residents.

Sometimes, when people describe a place as poor, they always use the expression "birds don't shit".In fact, this is still reasonable, because bird droppings are rich in nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and are very high-quality natural fertilizers.Many of the islands in the São Goga archipelago are home to seabirds that have deposited a thick layer of guano over thousands of years.The São Goga Islands can also generate a large amount of income by exporting guano to neighboring countries.

Lin Zhenhua didn't care about this kind of amount in units of hundreds of thousands. The set of gas turbines he just sold to the Republic of Goma was worth tens of millions of dollars. The St. Goga Islands smelt of bird droppings for a year. , it is not as valuable as the two blades on the gas turbine.

"Is this all the industry in the St. Goga Islands?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Kopechni nodded depressedly, and said: "Yes, our place is far away from the land, and the transportation cost is very high, so it is very difficult to develop any industry. As for agriculture, the existing cultivated land on the island is only enough to satisfy It is almost impossible to develop more industries for the needs of the residents to eat. Therefore, I don’t know what kind of investment Mr. Lin intends to make when he specially visits our San Goga Islands this time.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Your Excellency, before I introduce my investment intentions, I would like to introduce to you the situation in China. In China, there are also many poor areas. In those places, there is a popular saying that if you want to be rich, you must first build roads." .From the Chinese point of view, as long as the transportation is convenient, the economy will naturally develop.”

Kopechni didn't understand what Lin Zhenhua meant. He pointed to the map on the wall and said, "Mr. Lin, you see, we are an island country hanging in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and it is impossible to develop any convenient transportation. So, you say We may not be able to learn from the experience of the Chinese people.”

Lin Zhenhua shook his head and said: "Your Excellency is wrong. There are at least three popular air routes passing around the St. Goga Islands. This is equivalent to three highways on land. How do you think that the St. Goga Islands are Is the transportation not convenient enough?"

"But... what do these routes have to do with us?" Mrak asked strangely. In his opinion, the ocean-going freighters on these routes were just passing by in a hurry, and had nothing to do with the St. Goga Islands.

Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to continue to put on a lecture face, and said: "In China, there is another saying, which is called relying on mountains to eat mountains, and relying on water to eat water. How can you eat by relying on three waterways?"

"Mr. Lin please advise." Kopechni said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "In China, if there is a road next to a certain village, the villagers will find ways to use this road to make money. They will buy some local specialties and place them on the side of the road to attract passing vehicles to stop. Come down to buy. If there is a big traffic jam on the road, the villagers will have more options. They will sell food to the drivers who are stuck on the road. Think about it, when you are stuck on the road and you are hungry, you still care The price of the food?"

"Don't your Chinese drivers take some food with them?" Trek asked.In the St. Goga Islands, there will never be traffic jams, but fishermen will bring some food when they go out to sea, and Trek can be regarded as an analogy.

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "They can bring food, but can they bring boiled water? For example, if you want to make instant noodles, can you boil them without boiling water? Those villagers just carry boiled water bottles to sell instant noodles. Who wants to make instant noodles? Boiled water, you must buy instant noodles at the same time, so the drivers will have to give in?"

"It's interesting." Kopechni nodded, "But, Mr. Lin, what does what you said have anything to do with our St. Goga Islands?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "The relationship is very important. Think about it, hundreds of ocean-going freighters pass by you every day. Can you follow the example of Chinese villagers and sell food to these ocean-going freighters? At sea, the price of food from land has doubled, so the crew probably wouldn't care, would they?"

"Yes, we can also sell boiled water!" Trek rushed to say, but Kopechni and Mrak despised him as soon as he said it, please, ocean freighters are not trucks, they can burn their own boiled water.

Lin Zhenhua took Terek's words and said: "Minister Terek is very right. Of course, what he said about selling boiled water is just a metaphor. What we want to sell to the freighter is the product that the freighter cannot provide itself. For example, fresh vegetables, which cannot be satisfied by any freighter, right?"

"This idea is really great!" Kopechni was overwhelmed, "Just think about it, if one boat can buy us $100 of vegetables, 100 boats a day can buy $1 of vegetables. One year 365 days, that's 365 million, which is more than all our exports combined."

"And the fresh fish, I think, the crews on these freighters can't possibly go fishing themselves, so if we can sell our fish to them, it will definitely cost a lot more than if we ship it to India , and it also saves the freight. As for the guano...I don’t think those passing freighters will be interested in this, right?” Trek began to think about it.

"So, Mr. Lin came to our San Goga Islands this time to invest in this business?" Mrak asked.He began to think that if he wants to do the business of passing freighters, he must go to sea to conduct transactions, so he needs to invest in some speedboats. Could it be that the investment this wealthy Chinese businessman said is to buy some speedboats to be a sea hawker?This seems to be inconsistent with the identity of this rich businessman, right?Also, doing this kind of business can't make much money in total. If he is allowed to intervene, how much will there be left in the St. Goga Islands?

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "What I said is just to give you some inspiration. If Your Excellency the President and the ministers feel that such a business can be done, I am willing to purchase 100 small boats and provide them to you in the form of lease. I won't be involved in the specific business. What I want to do here is a relatively large business."

"What business?" Several government officials asked at the same time, their emotions had been completely mobilized by Lin Zhenhua's idea, and they were eager to know what this Chinese businessman with the ability to turn stones into gold was after all business.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Selling goods at sea is only a small profit after all. If passing merchant ships can stop at the San Goga Islands and let the crew go ashore to rest and spend, then the turnover generated will be considerable."

"This is unrealistic." Mrak said, "Our St. Goga Islands simply don't have a dock that can accommodate large ships. It is impossible for ocean-going cargo ships to dock here."

"You should say that you didn't have such a pier in the past, but since we came here, you will have such a pier." Lin Zhenhua said with a smile, "Let me introduce to you, Mr. Lu Donglin, who is An expert in port construction. He has studied the materials of the St. Goga Islands before, and believes that there is an excellent port on Ihalos Island where we are now. As long as we make some improvements and build a few deep-water wharves, then There is no problem with berthing large freighters with a capacity of more than 5 tons."

"You want the San Goga Islands to invest in the construction of a port?" Kopechni was completely stunned. This was a big deal that he couldn't even dream of.

(End of this chapter)