"My husband's generation of durian plantations alone should cover hundreds of thousands of acres, covering hundreds of square kilometers. It's so spectacular and smells so good."
Looking at the mature plantations all over the mountains and plains, Lin Ying couldn't help but sigh.
Saranova pointed to the east: "Climb those mountains to Balingian, Durham, and the boss's natural rubber plantation, cat poop coffee plantation, and cocoa plantation."
"Balinkian and Durham? Oh, I remember, it's the city opposite Zengmu Ansha, right?" Lin Ying sighed, "I didn't realize it when I looked at the map. It was only when I walked around that I discovered that my husband's business
It spans most of Sarawak.”
The girls were still sighing, but Gu Kun had been notified and came out in a car in person: "Hey, have you got your degree certificate? We're all here. It's not too hot to stand outside. Come in quickly. There's air conditioning in the room.
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Lin Ying immediately pounced on her like a swallow in the forest, was rubbed a lot, and then led Gu Kun into the house, followed by the other girls.
Gu Kun was wearing a straw hat today, a stiff thin linen plaid shirt, and big sunglasses. His appearance did not look like a billionaire, but more like an ordinary Mexican/Colombian tycoon.
The reason why she was dressed like this was because it was too hot. In just two minutes from getting off the car to walking back to the house, Lin Ying was already sweating slightly.
The air-conditioning in the room is fully turned on, which is a standard feature in Lanfang's home, but in plantations in the suburbs of various cities in Sarawak, it is already considered a luxury.
Lin Ying blew the air conditioner for a while and subconsciously noticed something was wrong.
The level of development here is still very low. Before Gu Kun's people came, most of the local rural residents did not have air conditioners. It is not that they cannot afford air conditioners, but the power grid expansion construction in rural Sarawak is really slow.
As long as the wires are pulled along the way, most of your neighbors do not need such high-power civil power lines, so the diameter of the power supply cable will be designed with a low carrying capacity to reduce costs.
In a semi-poor capital-conscious country, what some wealthy people fear most is living among a bunch of poor neighbors. This is because power companies in capital-conscious countries are very cost-conscious when laying out capacity.
If you live among poor neighbors who cannot afford air conditioning, you deserve to have no air conditioner. If you live among poor neighbors who cannot afford mobile phones, you deserve to have poor mobile phone reception.
If no one shares the cost of infrastructure, then there will be no infrastructure. That’s why residential areas in these countries have a serious concentration of rich and poor, and people living in slums will move out if they have a little money.
Only in South Asian cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata can there be "communities with housing prices of US$10,000, but just across the street they can drop to US$1,000."
These difficulties are difficult for the citizens of society to imagine.
Many people on Douyin later shared videos of electricians repairing wires in South Asian countries. Hundreds of wires on a pole were a mess like a honeycomb. Many domestic comments only saw "The electricians in this place are awesome, so...
Anyone can recognize it."
As everyone knows, this is all because everyone is afraid of being taken advantage of by their neighbors. The wire fees that each household in the same area is willing to pay and the power required are different, so the power company can only pull a thin wire for each small area.
If you are willing to pay for a wire with a few millimeters of cross-sectional area, we will give you as much power as possible.
Originally, one thick wire could solve the problem in mainland China, but when it came time to subdivide it into homes, it turned into dozens or hundreds of thin wires. There was a lot of waste in repeated construction, and there was even more duplication and redundancy in the manual labor of electricians.
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Lin Ying is a native of East Malaysia. Although her family is from Kuching, the capital city, she is also well aware of the complexities and difficulties of electricity use in nearby rural areas. In particular, the infrastructure in East Malaysia is much less developed than in West Malaysia.
The plantations cannot be compared with the durian producing areas around Penang.
So, at this moment, just looking at the local rural plantation infrastructure being laid out all the way, every household has enough capacity to use air conditioners, and the infrastructure looks so clean and simple, it is very shocking to my heart.
She somewhat understood why Latin American countries wanted to colonize Oceania's United Fruit Company, and why it developed to the point where the United Fruit Company's power could easily decide or depose the presidents of 15 Latin American countries.
"We don't need to install our own diesel engines here. Do we just rely on commercial air conditioners?" Lin Ying couldn't believe it. After enjoying the coolness for a while, she asked a question.
The original rich locals, if they live in rural areas, also use air conditioners, but many of them make their own diesel generators for emergencies because the mains power supply is too complicated and the capacity is not enough. Anyway, both Sarawak and Brunei have oil fields, and local civilian diesel generators
Quite cheap.
Gu Kun answered matter-of-factly: "That's necessary. I want to run the business for a long time. I'm not just here to play. Of course I have to build it properly - once it's built, these lands will be mine in the future."
Lin Ying tentatively confirmed: "So, all the farmers and local immigrants who set up plantations for us can also use air conditioners? Do they charge a fee?"
Gu Kun: "Of course it is useful, and fees are charged, but the initial installation fee is at least half cheaper than the original local power company, and it can also be deducted from future wages. Not only the initial installation fee for electricity, but also many others
The initial installation fee can be deducted, and most of them are very happy. Those who are not happy don’t need to be hired by our ‘Lanfang Fruit Company’.”
Gu Kun’s future colonial plantation in Malaysia will be managed by the newly registered ‘Lanfang Fruit Company’. Gu Kun and the Lanfang royal family are the only major shareholders of the company.
This extremely traditional industry does not require any advanced organizational structure and management. Robots can manage it well. It is nothing more than hiring tens of thousands of contractors to grow fruits and then centrally purchase and sell them.
As for this company name, Gu Kun is obviously vulgar on the surface, but secretly he hopes that the company will become a state within a state like the notorious "United Fruit Company" in Latin America fifty years ago. (In the years when United Fruit was at its most rampant,
Dulles, the largest shareholder, is the Secretary of State of Oceania, and the second largest shareholder is his brother Dulles Jr., the director of the CIA. Therefore, they can depose the presidents of Latin American countries at will, and immediately dispatch the Oceanian army to eliminate those who disobey.
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Although Gu Kun had always despised colonial dogs like United Fruit, he had to admit that in terms of construction efficiency, allowing one company to take over everything could indeed greatly accelerate local development and benefit the entire people.
Just like electric power construction, water conservancy construction, communications, railways, etc., if they are not allowed to be all-encompassed and forced to apportion, no one will ever pay for many constructions.
In terms of cost, forcing every local household to pay "one-tenth of a cable with a cross-sectional area of 50 square millimeters" is definitely better than forcing each person to pay "the full price of a cable with a cross-sectional area of 5 square millimeters."
It's much cheaper to pay the bill.
Elementary school students can calculate that the former solution can save 9 times the cost of cable rubber and the labor cost of electrician laying.
Looking at the world, if this kind of thing is to be accomplished, it must either be like a large-scale colonial company, where most of the profits will go to it after the construction is completed. Or it may be like China, where the state pays the bill. There is no way of "free market game"
You can go.
When Gu Kun pushed for construction here, it happened to be that the financial crisis needed to boost demand, and the locals had to bear with their demands, which gave Gu Kun the opportunity to integrate everything.
Now that the pain of apportionment has passed, everyone has begun to miss Gu Kun. If this savior had not appeared, local farmers may not have been able to use air conditioners in 10 years, and they would have to worry about high heat loads in 20 years.
when tripping.
Gu Kun pointed to the plantations all over the mountains and the farmers' houses nestled between the plantations: "I have planted 200 square kilometers of Guadaquila durians here, and there is also an 80 square kilometers cat poop coffee zoo reserve.
400 square kilometers of rubber plantation and cocoa. Currently, we employ 4,000 contract households to help me grow it. On average, each household manages 50 acres.
There is no way, durians have to be grown on slopes, and cat poop coffee is all set up like a zoo, with big iron fences and trees. What we are doing is a high-end route, and we cannot leave any trace of abuse to people from animal protection organizations.
Civet's handle.
Therefore, we cannot reduce manpower like mechanized operations in the plains. One family manages 50 acres, which is the limit. Our products are expensive anyway, and the wool comes from the sheep. The more manpower is, the more expensive it is. Do not close the civets.
Of course, the cat poop coffee in a small cage is more expensive than the one in a small cage. Those rich people who want to show off will not buy it at all."
One acre is equivalent to six acres of domestic land. Anyone who has planted fruit trees in the countryside knows that it is very tiring for a family to contract 300 acres of orchards. This is because Chinese people in Southeast Asia generally have many children, and each household has a large population to keep busy.
The management structure set up by Gu Kun is basically similar to that of Mr. Chu of Hongta, who grew clouds of smoke, and even later oranges. It can be considered a high-quality route. Although the contractors here have to be purchased by him at a lower uniform price
All output, but after all, the company also pays a basic salary, which is now 500 yuan per household per month.
Farmers working on the land are still paid a basic salary, which is definitely a benevolent government. Gu Kun also saw that Boss Chu’s performance system would work well in future generations, so he did not hesitate to try it. (When Boss Chu was released from prison in 2004 to grow oranges, he gave it to farmers.
The basic salary is 600 yuan per month, RMB)
"But why do these durians ripen so fast? You've only been operating here for two years, right? Durian trees shouldn't grow so fast." Lin Ying still had some questions that she didn't understand, so she asked casually while eating durians.
Gu Kun took a sip of the fresh cat poop coffee: "Actually, the nearby hills are ripe, less than 20 square kilometers. For the trees here, I originally selected larger saplings and bought them at a high price for transplanting. Others
The plots are cultivated with small seedlings, and it will take at least 5 years to stably bear fruit, which means they can be fully shipped in 2002.
But I'm not in a hurry, anyway, most people in China can't afford durian now. After 2002, Chinese people will generally be able to afford durian, and I won't have time to supply it in large quantities. If there are too many, I will lose my identity.
Grade.”
Gu Kun and his woman were eating fruit and drinking coffee when their cell phone suddenly rang.
He picked it up casually, and it turned out that Liang Jinsong, who had not contacted him for several months, was giving him another routine report of good news.
Liang Jinsong said on the phone that Gu Kun's real estate stocks in the Hong Kong stock market have finally been completely sold out. Now he has started to sell telecommunications and network stocks, and he has done so very fast. He has sold off more than 2 billion U.S. dollars in market value in one week.
The stock prices didn’t even drop a little bit.
Liang Jinsong saw that the market was really good, and he was afraid of suffering a loss if he started early, so he flew over personally to ask Gu Kun if he wanted to slow down.
"If I tell you to run, run away. Any less money you make will be mine - why can't you keep calm? Are you already in Lanfang? I'm eating durian in Sibu today. Come and tell me in person."