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Chapter 363 The Lost Country

When he went to Europe last time, Yang Dongsheng's first stop was Hamburg, Germany. As soon as he got there, he found out that he was cheated by the other party.

But this time is different. This time the American companies were contacted by the municipal governments of Leipzig and Dresden. They were willing to sell several factories to Yang Dongsheng's company for a price of one mark, and then cooperate to develop these lands.

Yang Dongsheng looked it up on the map and found that these cities were all former East German cities.

In view of the fact that the government department is relatively reliable, Yang Dongsheng is going to go to Germany again.

In this era, only a few years before the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, domestic descriptions of East Germany are still stuck in the past.

East Germany's machinery manufacturing, electronics, automobile manufacturing, chemical industry, electric power, steel and other industries are very developed. Among the eight socialist countries in Eastern Europe, East Germany has the most complete industrial system. Window of Doctrine".

But when Yang Dongsheng arrived in this area of ​​East Germany, what he saw was a depressed scene.

Hamburg is glamorous at any rate, but here it is not even glamorous, not even Berlin, which has been determined to become the capital again.

The staff of the American branch who arrived first took Yang Dongsheng and the others to the hotel. The staff of the American branch had already met with the municipal governments of several cities such as Leipzig and Dresden.

The municipal governments of these cities are indeed willing to sell several factories to them at a price of one mark, on the condition that they must use these lands to cooperate in the development of the community.

After Yang Dongsheng settled down in the hotel, seeing that it was still early, he came to one of the factories. The old janitor interrogated them before letting them in.

After the reunification of Germany and Germany, in order to solve the shortage of housing in East Germany, the German governments at all levels built housing.

Europe and North America are the two most developed regions in the world. Our country is used to calling Europe and America together, but Europe and North America are two very different regions.

Calculated by population per square kilometer, the population density of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom is actually much higher than that of our country, and the population density of some countries is comparable to that of certain populous provinces in our country.

Moreover, oil prices in North America are relatively cheap, and the cost of using cars is low; Western Europe is one of the regions with the highest oil prices in the world.

So the United States has built a large number of new communities on the outskirts of the city, but the situation in Europe is more like our country.

Yang Dongsheng strolled into one of the workshops and touched the dust accumulated on the equipment.

According to the information, this is a refrigerator manufacturing factory, which has been closed for several years, but the dust is not thick, and it seems that someone has cleaned it recently.

"Contact China to see if anyone wants this batch of equipment!"

Domestic home appliances are hot, and someone should be willing to take over.

"Mr. Yang, how do you respond to the city government's request for cooperative development?"

"We can cooperate with them to develop this land, but the price of the land must be converted according to the market price! We will not participate in the later construction, but we must participate in the land planning!"

Except for the old janitor, there was no one else around, and a few of them spoke Chinese.

"Are you Chinese?" A parrot-like voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Yang Dongsheng was startled, and hurriedly turned to look behind them. There was no one else behind them except the old gatekeeper.

Seeing that they did not answer, the old man asked again in Chinese, "Are you from China?"

"You can speak Chinese?" Yang Dongsheng was surprised.

In this foreign country in eastern Germany, meeting an old janitor who can speak Chinese is more surprising than finding money when you go out.

"A little bit, I've been in China for a few years!" said the old man.

"Have you been to China as a tourist?"

"No! I'm going to build a factory. In your words, it's called 'aid construction'!"

"Aid construction?" Yang Dongsheng felt that the word was both familiar and unfamiliar.

The old man's name was Olaf Schulz.

When New China was established in October 1949, East Germany established diplomatic relations with China that month. East Germany also participated in 10 projects aided by the Soviet Union.

Later generations, China is the world's largest producer of synthetic diamonds, and its production base is in Yu Province.

At the beginning, with the aid of East Germany, my country established a synthetic diamond enterprise for machine tools in Henan Province.

However, the old man participated in the construction of another project. He stayed in China for several years and learned some Chinese through exchanges with Chinese workers.

After returning to China, the old man worked in several enterprises, and finally became the director of this refrigerator factory.

"Are you going to ship the production line to China? Our factory's technology is very good, and someone must want it! Don't worry, take it back. I've been watching these devices, and no one has damaged them!" The old man said with a desolate expression.

It turned out that the old man had been maintaining these devices.

"Since the technology is so good, why did the factory close down?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"If the cost of your factory's products rises five times in a short period of time, it will also go bankrupt!"

In 1990, Germany was unified.

It is not so much a reunification, not a merger.

After the reunification of Germany, the political system of West Germany was completely implemented; the East German mark was withdrawn from circulation, and the West German mark became the common currency of the two Germanys; the leaders of West Germany became the leaders of the unified Germany...

In the words of Olaf Schulz, everything was taken by the West Germans.

The refrigerator factory under the leadership of Olaf Schulz once exported a large number of refrigerators to West Germany.

Before reunification, the exchange rate between West Deutsche Mark and East Deutsche Mark was 1:4.6, and the cost of each refrigerator they produced was 380 East Deutsche Marks, equivalent to 82 West Deutsche Marks.

Selling to a West German dealer at a price of 140 West German marks, each refrigerator can generate a profit of 58 West German marks, which is very considerable.

Their refrigerator factory is the envy of everyone.

However, in order to win the votes of the East German people, the West German government artificially raised the exchange rate between the West Deutsche Mark and the East Deutsche Mark to 1:1. The cost of each refrigerator in the refrigerator factory suddenly became 380 West Deutsche Marks, but sold to West The price of the German dealer is still only 140 West German marks.

The price of a refrigerator is only about one-third of the cost, so it's no wonder it doesn't close down.

After the refrigerator factory closed down, all the workers in the refrigerator factory lost their jobs. In the end, it was the people of East Germany who were unlucky.

Olaf Schulz's refrigerator factory is just a microcosm of the unification of the two Germanys. Today, this piece of land that originally belonged to East Germany is full of such factories.

(End of this chapter)