The car was driving on the township road, with mountains and forests on both sides shrouded in clouds and mist.
After a light rain, the air felt a little cooler.
While driving, Fang Xinwu hummed an old song along with the melody:
"... Every string of tears is accompanied by every dream... they all slip away unknowingly... I inadvertently turn to this year in this circle... I just feel that I am going through the upstream and downstream flow in this circle..."
The foliage in the mountains is lush, and there is gentle breeze and drizzle in April.
Around the corner, the terrain suddenly opened up.
In front of us is a large plain between mountains and river valleys. The rice fields have been planted with delicate grasses, and the rivers flowing down from the mountains have nurtured this land.
Crossing the expanded highway bridge is a small town halfway up the mountain.
Fang Xinwu glanced at the mountain behind the town. At this time, a large gap had been dug out. It was obvious that the terrain was being transformed.
Engineering vehicles purchased from Dongfeng Group and Sany Heavy Industry are busy doing excavation, transportation, flattening and other tasks.
The speed of construction in Shan State is indeed surprisingly fast.
Terrain similar to Mengli Town is very common in the Shan State Plateau. This is actually a helpless choice.
The main reason is that the valley plains have high temperatures, high humidity, and many mosquitoes. Flash floods are prone to occur during the rainy season. Therefore, in current settlements, you can only choose to live on the mountainside near the river.
But this brings other disadvantages, such as inconvenient transportation, difficulty in obtaining water, landslides and mudslides.
In order to solve these problems, Qingye Group promoted the merger of villages and towns in the Shan State Plateau, strengthened the construction of infrastructure, and cut mountains and filled valleys.
The Mengli Town in front of us is undergoing hill removal and valley filling. Once the transformation is completed, the area of usable high platform and flat land for the team will be about 7 times that of the current one.
noon.
Fang Xinwu and his party ate at Qingye Fast Food Restaurant in the small town.
"Brother Xinwu, this Qingye Group's business is really extensive, it even has fast food restaurants." Fang Xinxin said curiously as she walked out of the shadows.
Maung Heshui, who understands Mandarin, replied in Mandarin with a heavy accent: "Their company is very large. As long as they can make money, they do everything. The Qingye Group has the industry for the basic necessities, food, housing and transportation here."
"Does Hongsawadi not care?" Although Fang Xinxin has been hiding at home in the past few years, she still knows some things through the Internet.
For example, some time ago, the Internet giant's vegetable selling incident caused a turmoil in China, which triggered extremely heated discussions.
Fang Xinwu smiled bitterly and said: "Their boss has a very close relationship with all parties in Hongsawady. Qingye Group is one of the three major groups supported by Hongsawady, and Shan State is the territory of Qingye Group."
"Isn't this a chaebol?"
"Yes, and it is a very powerful trust group."
However, Maung Hesui, a native of Hongsawady, expressed disapproval: "Whether it is a trust or a chaebol, it actually has little to do with ordinary people like us. Even with large companies such as Qingye Group, many people have
stable income."
Fang Xinwu did not comment on this, but he did not say anything about the heinous crimes committed by the Qingye Group.
The main reason is Maung Ho Shui’s mentality, which actually reflects the inner thoughts of most local people.
After decades of warlord wars, the people of Hongsawady have long been in dire straits. The poor at the bottom do not have high demands, they just want to live a stable life.
Therefore, many locals actually have no ill feelings toward the Qingye Group, which continues to devour Hongsawady's assets, and are even grateful.
The inner thoughts of these poor people at the bottom are very simple. They are satisfied if they can have a full meal, do not have to face a chaotic social environment, and have a stable job.
As for lofty ideals, the rise of Hongsawady, and freedom and democracy, they actually don't care.
For the poor who live in a precarious situation and have problems with food and clothing, those things are too far away.
Fang Xinwu is not an angry young man who has just emerged from society. Some things are just a reenactment. He is not qualified to talk about the greed of the Qingye Group, nor is he qualified to despise the short-sightedness of ordinary people in Hongsawady.
As Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory says.
Survival needs are always the first need.
Without a material foundation, everything is just a castle in the air.
There is a lot of traffic in fast food restaurants.
Many of them are employees of the Qingye Group. While eating, they discussed topics such as salary, houses, and women with smiles on their faces.
"Did you hear that?"
"What?"
"The head office intends to develop the entire Shan State into a characteristic agricultural area."
“What is a characteristic agricultural area?”
"A town only grows a few agricultural products. I heard that Mengli Town has been designated as a rice, lemon and grapefruit planting area. From now on, these three crops will be grown."
"real or fake?"
"Of course it's true. My friend from the village next door works in an agricultural company."
"Then where are we in Shantong Region?"
"It seems that everything there is planned for sugar cane, oil palm, soybeans, rice and tobacco."
A group of construction workers were talking enthusiastically about some of the actions of the Qingye Group.
Fang Xinwu silently wrote down these things.
The plan to develop characteristic agriculture is a manifestation of Qingye Group's strong control of the situation, with the purpose of avoiding vicious internal competition.
After all, many farmers are blind. Once they see which agricultural product has a high price and sells quickly on the market, they will easily follow it blindly.
And this is often accompanied by risks.
Cyclical market fluctuations are sometimes very fatal for farmers.
For example, China's sugar orange industry is a typical example.
The blind expansion of planting area in various places eventually led to oversupply and a brutal involution.
At the same time, the channels in rural areas are very single, and it is difficult for farmers to compete with channel operators.
Qingye Group's strength in Hongsawady is already strong enough. Naturally, there is no need to worry about doing things. It directly allocates industries and production scales to each town and requires that only specified agricultural products can be grown.
All aspects of production, transportation, processing and sales are controlled by Qingye Agriculture Company of Qingye Group, ensuring the stability of market prices.
In order to analyze domestic and global agricultural product production and price fluctuations, Qingye Agriculture Company even established a secret global agricultural product analysis office, specially equipped with a supercomputer with a computing power of 1 million terabs per second.
Fang Xinwu, who has lived in Hongsawady for many years, can even feel the sudden change that changes the world.
He could see that one of the important reasons for this sudden change was that prices in Hongsawady were gradually declining at this time.
Whether it is rice, sugar, fruits, seafood produced locally in Hongsawady, or imported palm oil, household appliances, daily necessities and motorcycles, the prices are gradually declining.
This was due to the stable currency value of the gold dollar and the superior products of Qingye Group, which allowed a large amount of materials to be exchanged.
For example, palm oil, in order to ensure enough gold dollars, Malaysia and Java had to sell a batch of palm oil to Qingye Group at a low price.
Coupled with the soybeans harvested this year in Shantung Region, a large amount of edible oil and soybean meal has been obtained, giving Hongsawaddy its own edible oil industry.
The agricultural potential of Honsawady is indeed huge.
For the first time, Fang Xinwu realized that the agricultural potential here could be developed to this extent in a strong system.
The innate agricultural conditions here are really good. As long as there is no internal chaos here in the future, it is only a matter of time before Hongsawady becomes the granary of Asia.
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