Homo sapiens.

Chapter 218 Quasi-developed Areas

After lunch, Lai Shengli said goodbye to Ahasi and the others.

In addition to having an exclusive office in the Commodity Trade Center, COFCO also rented a 15-story office building in Yangon. The lower 7 floors are the office area, and the upper 8 floors are the dormitory area for employees.

Usually every afternoon, Lai Shengli will change guards with another deputy manager, who will go to the Commodity Trade Center to sit in charge and go back to the branch office by himself.

In order to save costs, many multinational companies do not even rent office buildings, but directly choose exclusive offices in the Commodity Trade Center as their office locations.

After working in the office all day, Lai Shengli looked at his watch and found that it was already [-]:[-] in the evening.

After instructing his assistant to do something, he went directly to the dormitory on the 15th floor. His wife Wang Lizhu and daughter Lai Xiaoni, who came from China to visit him, also took a full day off.

Lai Shengli changed into a set of short-sleeved casual clothes, and then asked his wife who was watching TV, "Do you want to take a stroll in Yangon?"

Wang Lizhu turned her head to look at her daughter: "Xiao Ni, do you want to go shopping?"

Lai Xiaoni, who just came back from studying in Australia this year, tapped on her laptop indifferently: "I don't care, you decide!"

Lai Shengli made a decision directly: "Then let's go shopping! Xiaoni, you can also observe Yangon, which will help you in your future financial work."

"I don't think there is anything to observe in Yangon." Lai Xiaoni closed her laptop and shrugged contemptuously.

As a master of finance, Lai Xiaoni actually searched the financial system and rules of Hongshawady on the Internet before coming to Yangon.

She knew the future of the place was in jeopardy after seeing Honshawady pursue a monetary policy with a limited gold standard.

The gold standard looks very good, the problem is that gold is produced in limited quantities, plus the industrial value of gold is not irreplaceable.

If Hongshawadi does not change the gold standard in the future, the upper limit of currency issuance will be at most two or three times the gold reserve.

This will cause money to become scarce, which will lead to deflation, which is not conducive to the development of the economy.

Of course, Lai Xiaoni also saw Hongshawadi's intentions. The currency is anchored to gold and superior goods. As long as the exchange can be guaranteed, the gold dollar can indeed be very strong.

It's a pity that this model, with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, has already become outdated.

Gold is finite after all.

Lai Shengli did not think too much, and directly handed thousands of gold dollars to his wife and daughter: "Everything is good here, but it is troublesome not to exchange gold dollars directly, and the company only gives me 5 gold dollars every month." Use quota."

"Dad, do you think other people are fools? If foreign currencies are allowed to be directly exchanged for gold dollars, hundreds of tons of gold in Hongshawadi will be emptied by other countries within a day." Lai Xiaoni rolled her eyes.

While closing the door, Lai Shengli shook his head with a smile: "Of course I know, it's just that the restrictions are too great, and you have to plan carefully if you want to buy something."

Go downstairs.

The sun sets in Yangon City, and the streets are mixed with the golden afterglow of the setting sun.

The office building of COFCO Group is located on this street, which is full of various large and small office buildings.

But the three of them didn't take a car, they were walking in the evening wind.

Walking and walking, unknowingly came to the intersection of another street.

There is a large supermarket at the intersection.

Lai Shengli glanced at the signboard and instantly knew that it was one of the subsidiaries of United Group.

His wife, Wang Lizhu, who likes to go shopping in the supermarket, dragged the father and daughter into the United Supermarket. As soon as they entered the supermarket, a gust of cold wind made people get goosebumps all over their bodies.

Lai Shengli pushed the shopping cart, while Wang Lizhu selected products.

Feeling a little bored, Lai Xiaoni casually picked up a pack of freeze-dried jackfruit, the net content of one kilogram, and the price was 0.5 gold dollars.

She looked at the other fruits on the shelf.

A pack (1 kg) of pitted durian meat is 4.5 yuan...

Black Vajra Lotus Mist pack (1 kg) 1.5 yuan...

A pack of bananas (2 kg) is 2.3 yuan...

Concubine Xiao lychee pack (1 kg) 2.2 yuan...

This price made Lai Xiaoni a little surprised. She secretly converted the exchange rate in her heart and found that the price was very cheap.

"Dad, what's the median salary in Hongsavati?"

Lai Shengli, who was pushing the shopping cart, was stunned for a moment: "Uh...about 3000 gold dollars per month!"

"3000?" Lai Xiaoni quickly crossed the tropical fruit area and entered the vegetable area.

After a cursory look, the price of vegetables here is also not high.

以1公斤为单位，胡萝卜0.7元、西红柿0.6元、小黄瓜0.8元、黄皮洋葱0.8元、奶油白菜1元、大甘蓝0.6元、白萝卜0.6元、丝瓜0.9元、通心菜0.6元……

Then she went to the meat section again.

同样是以1公斤为单位，鸡胸肉7.2元、鸡腿8.1元、猪五花16.6元、猪腿肉15.5元、去骨猪肋排17.5元、猪里脊16.2元、羊腿肉22元、牛眼肉38.4元、牛腩32.6元、牛小排42元……

"The price is quite cheap!"

Lai Shengli shook his head: "Using the employee card of United Group can get a 7.5% discount, and there are also big discounts on holidays."

"United Group? One of the three major consortiums in Hongshawadi? If other people consume with employee cards, wouldn't there be a loophole?" Lai Xiaoni immediately discovered the problem.

But Lai Shengli explained with a smile: "They deliberately let the employee cards flood out. Even with a 7.5% discount, the three major groups are still profitable."

Lai Xiaoni gasped.

This price is simply too low.

"Isn't there a lot of people in Hongshawadi?"

"It's about 5700 million now." Lai Shengli answered while picking up a large bag of two kilograms of boneless beef ribs and putting them into his shopping cart.

"Almost twice the population of Australia, how do they maintain such a large food supply?"

Lai Shengli shrugged: "Not only can they be self-sufficient, but they can also export in large quantities. In the first two quarters of this year, China imported 2325 million tons of roughage from Hongshawadi and 280 million tons of rice."

"..." Lai Xiaoni was shocked.

Her previous impression of Hongshawadi was a backward and chaotic area. Even if there have been changes in the past few years, it shouldn't have changed so much.

What does she see now?
A "quasi-developed country" with extremely perfect welfare and extremely low prices?
If calculated according to the purchasing power of currency to food, and the average median income of Hongshawadi is 3000 per month, then Hongshawadi has basically reached the standard of developed countries.

After all, in a developed country like Germany, the median income of ordinary people is only more than 2000 euros per month after tax, and the prices are similar.

Lai Shengli himself felt a little skeptical about life at first, but after living in Yangon for more than half a year, he gradually figured out the key points:
"I can't envy this matter. After all, the natural conditions of Hongshawadi are really favorable for agriculture."

In fact, Lai Shengli still has some things to say. The key to Hongshawadi's rapid increase in the median income of residents is not entirely dependent on agricultural potential, but the pervasive business model of the three major groups.

"I suddenly became a little interested in this place." Lai Xiaoni's eyes showed a trace of truth-seeking.

But her mother, Wang Lizhu, was a little difficult to choose because of the cheap agricultural products on the shelves.

The three of them walked for more than an hour just to go to the supermarket.

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