Age of Dreams

The U.S. financial crisis will not stop just because of watching the three major auto companies protesting and demonstrating. It will also step on the brakes because of the quarrel between the two parties. It is still developing in accordance with the established track, and even because of these turbulences. The turmoil in the market has also intensified.

Protests in the Maldives are also increasing with the increasing number of bad news, and everyone's heart is becoming more and more desperate and becoming more uncontrollable.

Of course, in a country like the Maldives, how many protests and demonstrations do not happen in a year?

However, they are protesting, but they will never harass tourists who come here, because they know that these people are their parents, and if they are involved and spread out in the future, then who will travel to the Maldives? Who will feed them?

But the entire Male Island and several other large islands are paralyzed, but it is an indisputable fact.

Their hard-earned money, just as Fannie and Freddie are about to collapse, and they can’t get back a penny. This kind of thing is definitely not acceptable to them, and they can be replaced by any normal person. , There is no way to accept it.

Therefore, no matter what the Maldivian government's rhetoric, the people have only one request, that is, to get our money back, then we can say anything, otherwise nothing will work!

Negative emotions accumulate to a certain degree, but it will explode.

Seeing that the people became more and more angry, the Maldivian government finally had no choice but to compromise, and finally agreed to Citibank's purchase request.

Since the outbreak of the crisis between Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Citibank has long known that they have to sell the islands to make up for their losses, and they want to earn more commissions.

So they spread the news some time ago, especially when Citibank also talked about the super-rich Xiao Qi, Richardson, Ellison and so on. In just a few days, there were 20 or 30 big names. The rich responded.

Now Citibank has purchase requests for almost 88 islands. Among them, the first is Xiao Qi's 36 islands, and the second is Microsoft's second largest shareholder Paul Allen, who has always been good at enjoying. He has set 5 islands in one go.

Looking at such a large number of purchase requests, the Maldives is almost too big.

Although there are about 1,000 undeveloped islands in the Maldives, you can't help but buy them like this!

But Citibank is also smart, they chose the island. They are the most remote and difficult to develop. It is the Maldives's turn to have the strength to develop it. I am afraid it will be fifty to sixty years later.

And they are paying a good price, the small island is about 4 million US dollars, and the big islands are more than 6 million US dollars.

The transportation, roads, houses, electricity, fresh water, maintenance, etc. are all left to the Maldives. These follow-up maintenance costs alone are a big financial supplement every year.

Can use chicken ribs in exchange for so many benefits, even if it is to sell 88 islands. It also moved the Maldivian officials.

But these people are not idiots. They quickly circulated the news through various channels, just wanting to see the public's reaction.

What makes Citibank a little surprised is that these people firmly disagree with the sale of islands, and there are no less than this amount of transportation, roads, houses, and supporting facilities. But they are still stubbornly not allowing the government to sell their islands.

You know, the Maldives now has an annual income of only 30 million U.S. dollars. Far from reaching the US$50 million when the Chinese tourists were overwhelmed!

These island purchases and subsequent expenses of more than 700 million U.S. dollars have basically been their income for 26 years!

Not only that, they also asked the government to quickly settle the US bond issue, otherwise they would be rude.

Okay.

If you think of a way, if you don’t agree, you will know that the palace is forced. This is really unreasonable!

Just when things are at an impasse. Xiao Qi taught Qu Liang the second trick he had prepared.

Citibank understood it, and immediately threw another bait.

As we all know, 70% of the population of the Maldives are concentrated on the island of Male’, causing very serious congestion.

So the Maldivian government built an artificial island near Male Island. Called Hulhumale Island, there is nothing else on it, only houses and supporting facilities.

Hulhumalé Island started construction in 1997 and was still under repairs until 2013. After the construction of the houses here, many Malé people work on the island during the day and take a boat to Hulhumalé Island at night. Sleep at home.

Xiao Qi had heard that the previous Chinese government provided assistance to the Maldives. The content was to build a Chinese city on Hulhumale Island, about 4,000 houses were built for free.

But this matter only started in 2010, and it is only in 2008, and China has not yet begun to help the Maldives.

However, it can also be seen that the housing problem in the Maldives is very prominent.

Thanks to the assistance of the Chinese government and the Maldives' own tourism profits to repair houses, the population of Male Island has dropped to 40% of the total population, and the housing problem has finally been eased.

If the island could be bought with money before, Xiao Qi would no longer make a strategy, but now it is obviously not enough, so he can only increase it.

Xiao Qi's plus is to build a house for the Maldives for free on Hulhumale Island.

Each building has six floors, each floor has 4 houses, and each house is 80 square meters with three bedrooms and one living room. He will repair 300 houses and 7200 houses will be taken down. I am afraid that many Maldivians will be excited, right?

Do you want to disagree?

Then let's add more, and build another two to three thousand sets on other islands where houses can be built, and the whole set is up to 10,000 sets, okay?

The population of your Maldives is less than 400,000!

For any family in any country, this house is a big killer, especially in the Maldives, where there are many children and a generally narrow living area, the obsession with the house is basically the same as that of the Chinese.

Not only Xiao Qi had this confidence, but Citibank, who heard this idea, was also amazed, and immediately formulated a series of plans.

Regarding the issue of building houses, the Maldives has almost no resources, so building houses is also a hassle. All materials must be purchased from neighboring India and Sri Lanka or farther away, and the cost will increase at least two or three times. .

Therefore, in the past, it was very difficult to repair houses in the Maldives. Even if many families had children, they lived together because they did not have a house, and they were overcrowded.

Now someone builds their house for free, so you are not happy about it?

Of course, this matter is not Xiao Qi alone. Citibank has made the budget. When the negotiation is successful, everyone who wants to buy the island will pay the money according to the proportion, because this is also part of the cost of buying the island.

Sure enough, after Citibank threw out this bait, the protesters in the Maldives were moved.

With 7,200 houses, basically one-fifth of young people can own their own house, which can also greatly ease the pressure on the family.

So their protest voice suddenly weakened.

However, people are always inadequate. Although there are a lot of 7,200 sets, why can't there be more?

Not to mention that every family has one set, but every young school-age youth family has one set. Isn’t that an exaggeration?

With this kind of thinking, they started protesting and wrangling again.

These guys don't want to think about it. There are more than 130,000 young people of the right age in the Maldives. When converted into a family, it should be at least 60,000 or 70,000 sets. How much is this cost?

But Citibank is not afraid of their wrangling at all. It is afraid that the Maldivians will not talk about it. Now that they are willing to talk, it will just enter their rhythm.

How can this group of honest and not cunning guys be opponents of talented people like Citibank in negotiations?

Negotiations will take time, but at this point in the process, Xiao Qi and the other rich people finally feel at ease.

It is nothing more than spending more money. Compared with money, the beautiful islands in the Indian Ocean after development are the things that can best reflect a person's wealth and taste!

The 36 islands that Xiao Qi wants to buy now seem to be many, but as long as Xiao Qi's children are reached, these islands cannot be said to be abundant.

Regarding the fate of the island's property rights, Xiao Qi had already thought about it, and the method of distributing the islands was still according to his own Xiao family's property distribution method.

The wife's children in each room have one set, and the remaining islands belong to the descendants of the Xiao family, and no one can monopolize them at any time.

The property rights of these islands are also distributed in this way, and they are allocated at the beginning to avoid any disputes later.

It is good for Xiao Qi to distribute the property to the children, but if a soap opera comes to www.readwn.com because of this, it is most unacceptable for Xiao Qi.

Fortunately, there are examples of the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, and the European royal family. Xiao Qi can learn from their experience and lessons and sum up such a set of more practical methods.

Well, if you want to worry about this, you have to wait at least more than 20 years before the children have grown up.

Now, think about it and enjoy it first!

Xiao Qi started to look forward to the happy scene of taking his wife here on vacation after the restoration of the island was completed.

The things in our house cannot be seen by others, but on this own island, then there is no scruples, right?

This is what life is about. You can have a time and place to relax unscrupulously in order to work better!

With the private islands so useful, it is not in vain that Xiao Qi bothered them so much! (To be continued

ps: Haha, I will block the tweet for the second time the day after tomorrow, thanks to the support of my brothers! Thank you! Only you have achieved today's results!