The dry season had just ended, and a group of green-feathered aconite birds were chirping on the branches. A few prairie hares looked curiously, and groups of terrifying erect apes were walking unevenly in goose steps, raising waves of smoke and dust...
"Old Cheng, have you studied the budget? Do you need to give you another fund?" Li Yuan still appreciates Cheng Mo and the others' self-reliance. However, they still need to provide as much support as possible.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Mo smiled and shook his head: "Xiao Li, there is no place to spend money here. If you can save some, don't spend it carelessly. Also, have you seen the piled wood? This is where we are leveling this place.
When acquiring land, you cut down the trees. If you have channels to sell all the wood, won’t the farm have start-up capital?”
As old employees of the Construction Corps, Cheng Mo and the others have rich experience in land reclamation. Many of the farms in the Corps were originally developed from woodlands, pastures, wetlands, etc. So how to use the existing resources? Almost all of them have
He is an expert.
In fact, most of the thousands of hectares of land owned by the farm are forest farms. In the eyes of Cheng Mo and others, that forest farm also has high value.
However, when Li Yuan looked at Harden, Harden immediately refused: "Li, don't look at me. We here in Vera are either forest farms or pastures. The wood is not rare at all and no one wants it. Even if we want to export it to Europe,
They won’t look for the closer Central African regions? They won’t look for coastal timber merchants like Sokil? Who will look for us to buy?”
Li Yuan understood what Harden meant. This is similar to Yutouao Village. There are indeed many good things, but the transportation is particularly inconvenient, so the cost is not cost-effective at all.
"Harden, what if you sell it at a lower price? You can always make some money by selling it, right?"
Harden smiled and shook his head: "Unless it's a large-volume order, not to mention the workers' wages, you can't even make back the fuel costs for transportation. If it's just for tens of thousands of dollars, it's not interesting. And wood is available all over the world.
, how can we compete with local timber?”
One thing to say is that wood is indeed not a scarce resource, even Europe and the United States can supply it. Moreover, the unit price is low and the weight is heavy, so transportation costs are more important. If you want to export, Baixi Town is really uncompetitive.
but……?
Li Yuan suddenly thought that the country actually needs timber resources very much?
Not to mention the subsequent logging ban. After many years of development in China, there are actually very few forest farms left, and they are basically located in deep mountains and old forests. However, the largest market for timber is in coastal areas.
To be honest, the cost of shipping from the African continent to coastal areas is actually similar to that of deep mountains and old forests. Especially with the huge market, the forest farms here in Harden can be said to be negligible.
But there are two problems here:
One is foreign exchange balance. There are no soft coins recognized here at all;
The other is the purchase cost. Since there is cheap African wood, why must it be purchased here in Harden? Even if you help a friend, there is no need to suffer a loss yourself, right?
"Li, what are you thinking about?" Harden asked strangely, "If you really want wood, you can cut it as you like here. If I don't have enough wood here, you can also go to the forest there (primitive forest in the Congo River Basin)."
"Oh? Is it okay there?"
"Nonsense. Who knows where the national border is? Even people can come and go at will, so what are a few trees? Haha."
"Huh?" Li Yuan had an idea, "You guys wait a minute and let me think about it."
…
If we encounter traditional industries or ordinary businesses, Li Yuan's rebirth and realistic appearance have no advantage. It's just less detours and fewer mistakes.
After all, there will always be a few talented people everywhere, so shouldn’t others be allowed to perform well?
However, after the baptism of the Internet era, especially the baptism of crazy financing and money burning, how to deceive investors? How to tell stories? How to use ppt? How to burn money? How to create hot spots? How?
Hype…
To be honest, in this era, there are no such talents at all. Except for those liars who have gone crazy, no one would have such courage, right?
How dare you talk nonsense with a straight face? And you can actually swindle a large amount of money?
Until the subsequent IPO of Netscape, and then the IPO of Yahoo, an Internet company that had not yet achieved profitability could actually achieve a market value of tens of billions of dollars?
[An app that has been running stably for many years, comparable to the old book-chasing tool, a source-changing app used by old bookworms, huanyuanapp]
At that time, everyone was surprised to find that, wow! You can still play like this?
It should be said that in the previous series of saucy operations, it was not so much that Li Yuan was far-sighted, but rather that he used those methods of the Internet era. It was a process of deception - hype - then deception - and then hype again...
.
So here, Li Yuan naturally used that idea:
"Haden, how many trees do you have here?"
"How do you know? Anyway, everything within sight is mine. There are many beyond sight."
"Can that be done like this? You give me the exclusive right to sell all the wood. I will sign a 0-year purchase and sales contract with you. No matter what kind of tree it is, how about... $80 per cubic meter? From now on, the price will be repriced every year, based on the international
Calculated at 80% of the market price?”
"Of course it's no problem." Harden agreed.
After all, no matter how expensive the transportation fee is, Harden can still get more than ten dollars per square meter, which is equivalent to free money. What would he not want to do?
But Harden was a little strange: "Man, do you need so much wood? And I don't have that much money to advance here. After all, there are labor and transportation fees."
Li Yuan smiled and waved his hand: "Let's not talk about it for now. The key point is that we need this contract. With this contract, you can open a lumberyard. You should be able to find thousands of lumberjacks, right?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Wait a minute." Harden was startled, "Thousands?"
"Haha. There are thousands of them. Then all these workers will be placed in your White Rhinoceros Town. Each of them will be given a house..."
"Fuck!" Harden's legs softened, "Li, you still want to give them housing? Do you really expect me to go bankrupt?"
"Don't worry. Listen to what I have to say first."
"Okay, okay. You say it first."
"Haden. All the land in White Rhinoceros Town belongs to you, right? The land price here is almost cost-free. You just need to build thousands of houses and then sell them to the workers."
"God! They are such a bunch of poor people, but they still have money to buy...Okay, I won't say anything!"
"Think about it. The simplest house only costs a few thousand dollars, and you sell it to them for five thousand dollars. Their average monthly salary is one hundred dollars! Fifty dollars of it is the mortgage loan. Twenty years
Repayment period.”
"For banks, a worker with a stable income, a lumberyard with a stable business, and a twenty-year mortgage is a high-quality loan. Through a bank loan, you can get almost five million U.S. dollars at a time.
Use the millions of dollars to build houses. You have done nothing, and you have received more than a million dollars. You have also created more than a thousand jobs for your tribe. In addition, there is a steady stream of timber income. The same goes for the workers.
Thanks to the benefits, they not only found jobs, but also owned their own homes."
Harden was dumbfounded: "Lee, is this okay? I...I always feel like something is wrong?"
"Haha, this is guaranteed to work." Later, didn't all the real estate owners in China do this?
"Then... all those lands are public lands within the tribe?"
"This is simple. Give me a few hundred thousand dollars as the public assets of your tribe, and give you some shares of the elder wizard or something? Isn't most of the money yours?"
"What if you don't need the wood anymore?"
"Absolutely not in general. The timber business is actually not important. The key is the 0-year underwriting contract. Isn't it just to find a shady lawyer like Pip? Make sure there will be no problems in the bank's review."
"Hehe. That's true. But... five thousand dollars is too cheap, isn't it? Not as good as eight thousand dollars? Also, two thousand lumberjacks? There are actually 100 households of Central Africans here."
"Haha, the details are up to you."
"By the way. Their monthly salary is US$100? Just US$80! With US$0 to pay off the mortgage, there is still US$30 left. That's 10 francs, 700 CFA francs! Lucina's manager doesn't even get that much."
"hehe."
"Li, who can we find to build the house?"
"Mr. Xia? Aren't they building a hydropower station nearby?"
"Yes! Xia." Harden became more and more excited, "Li, I'm still a little worried. Ten million dollars? This money seems to come too easily. The two of us work together as a partnership? Just half the money for each person?"
"
"Haha." Li Yuan was amused, "Then you provide the land and I will provide the start-up capital. Then I will be your consultant."
Anyway, the start-up capital is not much, it is enough to embezzle it in Y (Africa).
"Brother, don't be a consultant! Why don't you help me? I don't know what to do!"
"Man, don't you think about it. As long as you learn this, you won't be able to develop the second phase? The third phase? The first time we can partner, but then I will take advantage of you."
"That's it!"
"Of course it is. And in the future, you can use wood as raw materials, wood processing plants, furniture factories, wood pulp mills, paper mills... As long as you have start-up capital, you can do anything? The other is reclaimed forest land, the same
You can build a farm. You can also leave it to your tribe for farming."
"ah?"
"Also, your Baixi Town can also be built. With the hydropower station, there should be no shortage of electricity. Doesn't your old man have a coal mine? Then build a gas plant, and your Baixi Town will become a mature town.
It’s a small town.”
"Ah? You also need a gas plant? Fakeyu, it seems that no amount of money is enough?"
"Harden, how could you think of using personal money? Of course the money goes to Thorkill, and they also need to fund the construction of schools, hospitals, especially the road leading to Thorkill."
"Li, will the cabinet agree?"
"Nonsense! Your president will definitely agree. This money can be used anywhere, why can't it be used in your White Rhinoceros Town? As long as he agrees to your president, the votes of your tribe will belong to him in the future! And your White Rhinoceros Town only needs
Once built, your country will have solved part of the unemployment rate, and it will also generate an extra amount of tax revenue, and you don’t even have to look for reasons.”
"Hey!" Harden slowly began to giggle. This sounds wonderful, right?
"Harden, I have another question."
"what is the problem?"
"You know. If your timber is shipped back to China, I won't worry about any sales issues. But you don't recognize soft coins here at all, so I can only pay with goods."
"Then let's use goods! I've already asked about the money. Aren't the goods you wholesale sell well?" Harden didn't care at all. At present, Sokil's domestic market is already filled with small goods from China.
"It is indeed selling well at the moment, but what you and I need to consider is the future."
"future?"
"Yes! Your domestic market will be saturated sooner or later. But we have a twenty-year purchase and sales contract?"
"Li! Come on, tell me. You must have a solution. Haha."
"Build a dock in your Baixi Town. We will find a way to sell it to Central Africa through river transportation."
"This...?" Harden thought about it for a few seconds, "It's possible, but we don't have any channels at all?"
"Don't worry. I have an agent in Kesim. He must have his own channels in the Congo River. I can also find some other people. I don't know if they will be interested."
Anyway, whether it is Noir or Hu Jianren from China, they are all death squads in the business world, and they dare to go to any dangerous place.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Kesim? Will they be willing to come to our White Rhinoceros Town?"
"Why wouldn't you be willing? The competition in Kesim is fierce, and our business here is exclusive. You use the terminal to jointly establish a joint venture with them, and let them find a way to buy cargo ships. Then a joint-stock shipping company will be formed. You will also build the terminal and buy the ship.
Money is saved.”
"Haha." Harden was silly again. If he did this, he would indeed have a high chance of success. "Man, I found out that you are the devil. After listening to your words, I can't help but want to sell my soul."
After laughing for a while, Li Yuan said: "Haden, you are wrong. I prefer doing business with good people."
"Good guy?"
"Yes! Before I came, I first went to Mada Island. I met a priest there, and he was a good man. I made a very interesting discovery about that priest - he was doing business.
At that time, many businessmen preferred to bully good people, because they liked to be reasonable, and after suffering losses, there would be no bad consequences. Unlike those bad people, bad people like to take revenge."
"Is it really?"
"Of course it's true. But it should be noted that good people are not idiots. When they suffer a loss, won't they be angry? So there are very few businessmen recognized by good people. But they will always have needs, so I would rather eat it myself
Even if we suffer a little loss, we still need to achieve mutual benefit with them.”
"Haha. Brother, am I also a good person?"
"Of course! If you are willing, I will send you a good guy card!"