Australia is vast and sparsely populated, with a territory of more than 7 million square kilometers and a population slightly smaller than the permanent population of Yanjing. The Australian government also has more than ten islands for sale all year round. In recent years, it has been affected by the economic crisis.
Island prices have plummeted. Developed islands that were originally sold for more than tens of millions of dollars now sell for less than tens of millions of dollars, but even so, there are only very few buyers.
Only the truly rich can afford the purchase of a private island. The island is not a house located in the city center. If it is an undeveloped island, the purchase price is only a small part of the overall expenditure. If it is truly developed,
The cost is extremely high. For any building development on the island, the cost of the main body of the building will be more than twice as high as usual. This does not include changes to the landscape, such as time-consuming and labor-intensive land leveling.
For many people, the practicality of the island is not very high. It costs tens of millions of dollars or more to purchase. After it is completed, the time you can enjoy it is only ten and a half months per year, and every time it is used, the cost is very high.
So high, a small number of rich people bought private islands with enthusiasm, and they will definitely regret it within three years. If there is another economic recession and income decline, then the island will become a hot potato that cannot be sold.
Because of the current situation, Zhang Wenhao came up with the idea of purchasing an island. After careful inspection, he found that the current market situation was indeed the most suitable time to make a move. Both girls like the tropics and want to be closer to home. Australia is definitely not the right choice.
For the second choice, Zhang Wenhao screened the islands for sale in Australia and after breaking them down, he found that most of them were not in line with his wishes.
The problem with most islands is that they are too small. Most of them are less than one square kilometer in area. There is no problem in building a large villa on such islands, but if you want to build an airstrip, it is simply a dream.
There are a few large islands. The landforms on the islands are also disappointing. Either most of them are occupied by mountains, or there are many reefs around them.
Zhang Wenhao looked at the map and found that there is an island called Dorney about 100 kilometers away from northwest Queensland, Australia. This island covers an area of nearly five square kilometers. The longest end is 2,400 meters apart, and the landforms are divided very appropriately.
Half of it is low mountains and hills, and half of it is forest. The forest is located on a gentle terrain, making it easier to rebuild.
Based on the analysis of satellite bird's-eye view, Xiaoer concluded that Dhoni Island can build a Class 3C runway with a maximum width of 40 meters and a length of 1800 meters. In this case, a gentle area of about one square kilometer can be left for the construction of other projects.
Building complex. This kind of runway is basically not suitable for the take-off and landing of small and medium-sized mainline aircraft such as the Boeing 737. However, if Dongchen installs a large-thrust engine on an aircraft of the same level as the BBJ2 and comprehensively conducts a comprehensive overhaul of the aircraft's take-off and landing system,
Upgrade. This kind of runway will be enough to handle takeoffs and landings.
The runway on the island can fully meet the take-off and landing of aircraft of the BBJ2 level. The water depth on one side of the island can accommodate ships with a displacement of less than 2,000 tons. Only a simple pier needs to be built to accommodate the take-off and landing of cruise ships and seaplanes.
From the island, you can take a jet to travel to any part of the world, or you can take a yacht to any sea area. You can directly take a seaplane or helicopter to the Australian mainland. In this way, although you live on the island, the transportation is incomparable.
Conveniently, the straight-line distance between here and Yanjing is less than 6,000 kilometers. If Zhang Wenhao can launch the comprehensive development of supersonic civil aviation within three years, then it will only take about two and a half hours to reach Yanjing from here. At this speed
, just like ordinary people going from the South Fifth Ring Road in Yanjing to the North Fifth Ring Road.
However, Zhang Wenhao's plan for Dhoni Island is very practical. He only needs a runway and a set of communication facilities that can directly contact the air traffic control in Queensland. Relying on Dongchen's strength, if he wants to comprehensively transform business jets like bbj2
, it can even allow bbj2 to achieve 100% accurate blind take-off, blind landing, and even unmanned driving throughout the entire process. Therefore, the airport's auxiliary facilities do not need to be too complicated at all. A runway, a set of communication radars, and a hangar are enough.
The island is currently in an undeveloped state, and is not a military location, a fishing area, or an oil producing area. The island itself has no territorial significance for the Australian government.
In terms of economic significance, even tourism is difficult to develop, and development requires a large amount of funds, so the gains outweigh the losses.
However, neither the Australian government nor the local government of Queensland has publicly sold this island, which makes Zhang Wenhao somewhat worried. At present, this island is the most suitable choice. Apart from it, other islands are too far away from the mainland.
Daily life will also be inconvenient.
Zhang Wenhao decided to let Long Xiaoyue come forward to negotiate with the local government of Queensland about the purchase of Dhoni Island. Long Xiaoyue received an email from Zhang Wenhao from the Maldives, and was confused by Zhang Wenhao. Okay, why do you have to go to Australia to buy it?
Private island? Could it be that Zhang Wenhao is preparing to retire when he is only in his early twenties?
However, Long Xiaoyue did not ask any further questions. Since Zhang Wenhao had given the order, she should go all out to do it. Immediately, Long Xiaoyue directly contacted the state government of Queensland, Australia in the name of Dongchen Group CEO, and proposed that Dongchen was preparing to establish a new business in Queensland.
The intention to purchase the island, but Queensland did not expect that this state, which was not well-known in Australia, could attract the attention of Dongchen Group. It was very excited at the moment and immediately telexed to Long Xiaoyue all the ten properties for sale in Queensland.
Six islands detailed information and quotations, but Long Xiaoyue responded quickly: Dongchen is interested in purchasing Dhoni Island, please directly provide the quotation and specific terms of the contract.
Dhoni?
The Queensland government is also very surprised by Dongchen's choice. In fact, Dhoni Island is not a valuable island in their eyes. Queensland has developed dozens of islands for sale or to be sold. The reason why there has been no
Dhoni Island was chosen because Dhoni Island is far away, has a large area, and has high development costs. The user group is too small. Nowadays, users like mini islands within one square kilometer. Whether they are developed by Queensland itself or
The cost of selling it or buying it back and developing it yourself is much lower. No one will buy a private island like Zhang Wenhao and even want to build an airstrip on the island. Even the richest man can do it.
I would rather spend this money on other things, such as private planes, private yachts, etc. No one would choose to build an airstrip and various auxiliary facilities on an island that they can only visit a few days a year.
As mentioned above, Dhoni Island has never had much economic value in the eyes of the Queensland government. The reason why they did not put the island up for sale was not because it could not be sold, but because they were worried that it would not be sold at all.
Considering the financial resources and strength of Dongchen Group, Queensland believes that if Dongchen purchases an island in Queensland, it will be a great boost to the sales of private islands in Queensland. Therefore, the Queensland government immediately gave a relatively
The actual quotation is US$12 million for purchasing the island, US$2 million for various process taxes, and the lease term is 99 years.
Long Xiaoyue reported this situation to Zhang Wenhao. Zhang Wenhao sneered at this. Although the "large property rights" in 1999 seemed to be very good, Zhang Wenhao did not recognize this property rights strategy at all. If he bought this island, he would definitely
It is necessary to invest a huge amount of money in its construction. Although he does not expect to live beyond 1999, he hopes that the island he bought can be left to his descendants as his own inheritance. Not only does he need a paradise far away from the hustle and bustle of the world,
, his future eldest grandson will probably still need it.
Immediately, he wrote an email himself. Long Xiaoyue forwarded it to the Queensland government. The content was very simple: Dongchen requires the permanent property rights of the island itself! Otherwise, Dongchen will consider listing Australia as the lowest priority cooperation partner.
Most countries sell islands with freehold property rights. Australia insists on coming only to rent but not to sell. Is it because Australia looks like a broken ostrich egg?
What is the lowest priority partner?
That is, if I don’t openly break up with you, we can still cooperate, but your cooperation priority is the lowest. In other words, for example, Dongchen Aviation will soon export aircraft engines to overseas markets. Although Australia is not like Japan and South Korea,
In that case, it is impossible to get export quotas, but you will also have to be ranked behind all other countries. They will not consider you until everyone else has finished changing.
Dongchen is now rich and powerful, and the ability to attract money from several major business sectors is so strong that he is no longer the envy of world-class companies, but even the envy of many countries. He doesn't care about offending the government of a certain country. I like Doni Island.
, you have to sell it to me, and it is a permanent property. It doesn’t matter if you don’t sell it to me. In the worst case, I won’t do business with you. Although it is a bit too strong, this is the feeling Zhang Wenhao wants.
Queensland did not expect that its own country's laws would also make Dongchen dissatisfied. Australia's land does not allow buying and selling. Even private islands can only be rented but not sold. Moreover, there are clear requirements for the purpose of purchasing islands. Some islands are only
It can be used for residence, but cannot be used for tourism development or other purposes. Now Dongchen suddenly takes a fancy to an island and demands unprecedented permanent ownership. This is a request that the Queensland government cannot and does not dare to accept.
But Dongchen also made a very strong statement. If it refuses to provide permanent property rights, then Dongchen will list Australia as the lowest priority cooperation partner. Isn’t this nonsense? Although Queensland does not care whether Dongchen cooperates with them, Australia
However, there are many markets that will be affected by Dongchen, and the first one is the automobile market. Australia only has one car brand, Holden, and it was acquired by General Motors. Now it has been reduced to the point of being an OEM for Dongchen, while Australia's aviation
The company is also eagerly waiting for Dongchen's engine.
More importantly, the release of Dongchen Univeal has made the whole world realize that the computer field has made rapid progress in terms of hardware. The next step is probably to be followed by the vigorous development of software. If Univeal becomes the world's computer
Mainstream terminals, then all industry software will be transferred to Univeal's Longchen platform for development in the future. The impact of this is too wide, from people's lives to all walks of life, I am afraid that in the future they will all rely on Univeal's powerful computing power. If Dongchen
If it really refuses commercial cooperation with Australia because of the issue of an island, then Australia will be in big trouble.
However, the Australian government cannot express any protest to Dongchen. It is rare for a country in the world to protest against a company. This is too shameful and breaks the rules. It makes other people laugh. Moreover, he cannot express any protest to Dongchen.
If any sanctions are imposed on a company like Dongchen, Australia will be a pure importer of any business of Dongchen. There is not even a company that exports spare parts in the production process of Dongchen. The only way a country like this can face such a company.
Sanctions are meant to prevent others from entering the domestic market, or to increase tariffs or even issue anti-monopoly fines. However, others use this to threaten themselves. What else can they do? Dongchen really wants to refuse because of an island.
When it comes to exporting products to Australia, no matter how bullish the Australian government is, it will inevitably be caught blind.
Just two days later, the Queensland government received the authorization from the Australian government. Duny Island can be sold to Dongchen with permanent use rights as an exception, but the use must be limited to private residence forever, and even tourism development is not allowed.
, and any construction of Dongchen on Dhoni Island needs to be submitted to the Australian government for approval and the most stringent and complicated contract terms must be signed. Once Dongchen violates any of these terms, the Australian government has the right to take back Dongchen’s permanent ownership.
"Sign up?" Zhang Wenhao was disdainful and responded to the email in person, writing two big words in Chinese: "Goodbye."
If Zhang Wenhao hadn't been unwilling to deal directly with the Philippines and Indonesia, he would have bought a larger island from these two countries. In that way, the straight-line distance to Yanjing would be much closer.
Leaving behind Australia, which had a lot of troubles, Zhang Wenhao opened the world map and regarded Papua New Guinea, which borders Australia in the north and Indonesia, as the next target. However, Papua New Guinea's economic development is relatively backward, and its annual domestic output value is
It's just over five billion US dollars.
Countries like Papua New Guinea rarely have direct trade relations with Dongchen. First, this country is too poor. Airlines are like North Korea. Mainstream passenger planes like Boeing and Airbus cannot afford them at all, and high-end equipment like Univeal cannot be afforded.
It is not something that the country's citizens can afford. Secondly, the country's unique geographical location and landform are really annoying. If we want to list the countries with the least developed car market in the world, it can definitely be counted as one. Its capital,
There is no road leading to any other city in the country. It can be seen that selling your car to them is equivalent to selling your down jacket to Sudan, a poor place with an average annual temperature of 28.7 degrees Celsius.
However, for Papua New Guinea, Dongchen is a rare rich man who can take a fancy to this barren land. When he heard that Dongchen wanted to buy an island, the Papua New Guinea government gave more than 100 island choices in one breath. Papua
There are more than 600 islands in New Guinea, less than half of which are uninhabited and undeveloped islands. They are just for display. If you sell them, you can earn a lot of foreign exchange.
The price and conditions offered by Papua New Guinea also made Zhang Wenhao very excited. Among the more than 100 islands to choose from, no matter which island Dongchen valued, the Papua New Guinea government could provide permanent use rights at a price of
Three million US dollars per square kilometer. As long as it is not used in the military field or violates the laws and regulations of the United Nations, Dongchen can use it as he pleases. The Papua New Guinea government is too lazy and has no energy to do so.
This time it felt like Zhang Wenhao had discovered a new world. Although the price of three million US dollars per square kilometer seemed a bit cheating and a rip-off, for Zhang Wenhao, what he wanted was to be free from restraints. He and the waiter spent a long time screening, and finally
Decided to buy four islands of different sizes from Papua New Guinea at one time.
These four islands are very close to each other. One of the main islands covers an area of about six square kilometers, and the three auxiliary islands all cover an area of less than two square kilometers. The maximum distance of the auxiliary island closest to the main island at low tide is less than three kilometers.
The combined price of the four islands did not exceed 40 million US dollars, and the area and terrain of the main island were much more suitable than Duny Island in Queensland. Zhang Wenhao immediately entrusted Long Xiaoyue to go to Papua New Guinea to sign an agreement with the government of that country.
In less than 24 hours, the ownership of the four islands was transferred to Zhang Wenhao's name. The Papua New Guinea government's contract did not impose many restrictions, as long as the use of Dongchen complies with international norms.
, in compliance with domestic laws, and the Papua New Guinea government will not give any interference.
The Australian government has always had a close relationship with the Papua New Guinea government. When the Australian government learned that Dongchen purchased four islands from Papua New Guinea, it immediately panicked. Their economy is much stronger than that of Papua New Guinea.
times, they don’t care about this foreign exchange at all, but what they care about is that they offended Dongchen this time. They don’t know what kind of trading position Dongchen will position Australia in. If this really offends Dongchen, Australia will be in Dongchen.
In our eyes, we are in the same embarrassing situation as Japan and South Korea. That is, in an absolute sense, we are losing big for a small gain.
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