Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"We want all this land..."

"From here to here, and here..."

In Sudan, a helicopter was flying in the air. On the helicopter, a group of Chinese tycoons were looking at the land below and drawing on the map.

The accompanying Sudanese officials swallowed their saliva. They finally saw what tycoons are.

This is called tycoons. They don't take money as money at all. Especially the people of Huasheng Agricultural Company, they are even more like this. They often look at it in the air and start drawing circles on the map.

This is a national map. A random circle is a large area.

What shocked Sudan the most was that Huasheng Agricultural Company wanted even the uninhabited desert. In Sudan's view, this uninhabited place is useless. But in the eyes of Huasheng Group, the desert can become a good place as long as it is managed slowly.

The most important thing is that the desert is cheap. One square kilometer is only 10,000 US dollars, and there is no land tax.

Land tax is a tax specially set up by Sudan for this transaction.

Although they sold the land, the land owner must pay 5% tax every year. This tax is determined according to the price you paid when you bought it.

If you bought the land for 100 million US dollars, you will need to pay 5 million US dollars in taxes every year. This kind of tax is normal. The so-called permanent property rights abroad are like this. Whether it is a house or land, it is indeed yours forever, but you need to pay taxes every year. If you don't pay taxes, the tax bureau has the right to confiscate your property and auction it.

A 5% tax doesn't sound like much, but it happens every year.

There is no such tax in the desert area. Sudan sells off the desert uninhabited area. Anyway, people can't live there, and crops can't be grown. It's a barren land, so it's thrown away wherever it is.

Now if someone wants it, sell it.

There are many deserts in northern Sudan, and Huasheng Agricultural Company will not jump. It started to enclose land directly. Don't miss the opportunity to enclose land at a cabbage price.

Especially near the border areas of Libya, Chad, and Egypt. Huasheng Agricultural Company waved its hand and directly spent 1.5 billion US dollars to buy an area of ​​150,000 square kilometers there.

This place is all desert, without any human habitation, plants, or animals. It is just an uninhabited area.

However, this uninhabited area has a high strategic value.

This uninhabited area is connected to Libya, Egypt, and Chad. In other words, this area connects four countries from east to west and north to south.

If this place is turned into an industrial zone, the products produced here can be easily sent to the four surrounding countries.

As for how to use it, Xu Huasheng has not yet figured it out. But while it is cheap now, buy it first. Besides, Xu Huasheng has some genetically modified desert plants here.

These plants are not only drought-resistant, but also can fix wind and sand and improve soil. If you invest in building a pipeline directly to the Red Sea and build a desalination plant on the other side of the Red Sea, you can make use of the desert.

The most important thing is that the guards promised by Sudan are limited according to the scale of the land purchased. Sudan stipulates that only one guard can be equipped for every square kilometer.

If you buy 100 square kilometers, then the number of guards on your land will be 100. These people need to report to the Sudanese government, and their weapons also need to be reported. The Sudanese government has the right to regularly inspect the guards and camps, and issue certificates and gun licenses to the guards.

Theoretically, the 150,000 kilometers of desert purchased by Huasheng Agriculture can directly equip 150,000 guards. This is awesome. If there are 150,000 guards equipped with advanced weapons and equipment, they can defeat the Sudanese government army.

However, the Sudanese government is not stupid, and it will definitely not approve so many guards for Huasheng Agriculture.

The local tyrants, the Chinese inspection team is a super local tyrant in the eyes of the Sudanese government. It's like China looks at the big dogs in the Middle East.

Spend money like water, whether it is land or various mineral resources, they are willing to take it.

And the money is paid when the contract is signed, which is neat and tidy. However, most of them are not given in cash, but various materials.

Now Sudan is in a state of disrepair, and the country lacks too many things.

Even food and medicine are in short supply, and many people are still hungry. So most of this large-scale transaction is barter.

Exchange land for food, mines for medicines, resources for infrastructure, arms, etc. Although this trading method is very primitive, it is very suitable for Sudan, and Sudan is quite satisfied. Because these things are what they urgently need. Now the United States is still imposing sanctions on Sudan. If Sudan is given a lot of dollars, they may not be able to buy what they want.

As for the sanctions of the United States, China now doesn't care.

You dare, America?Try sanctions. Now many things in the United States are imported from China. This includes the most advanced chips.

Now many high-tech companies in the United States cannot do without China. If the United States dares to impose sanctions, China will dare to impose sanctions on you. At that time, the biggest losses will still be American technology companies.

The American semiconductor industry, which was once proud of, is now really no match for China in terms of technology and production costs.

Even if the United States can produce some chips, the costs are completely different.

If they only need to pay $100 for a chip with the same performance from China, then the cost price for their own production may be $150 or even more.

If you really restrict Chinese chips from entering the United States, then the products of many high-tech companies in the United States will not be able to go out of the United States and compete with other brands in the world.

For example, IBM, which has been revived, has been revived. It has a very high global market share. In the North American and European markets, IBM is the largest supplier, not only for personal PCs, but also for the commercial end.

But can IBM do without the Washington Group now? It cannot do without it at all. Now IBM does not even have a production line. There is only one R&D department, all parts come from China, and finished products are produced in China and shipped to all parts of the world.

There is no need for the Chinese government to take action. Huasheng Group can directly strangle IBM with a stranglehold.

To put it bluntly, IBM is now working for Huaxia Semiconductor's industrial chain. If a computer can make 1,000 yuan, Huaxia Semiconductor's industrial chain can take 600 or even 700 yuan of profit, and the remaining 300 or 400 yuan is IBM's.

But even so, IBM's current profits are considerable. It is precisely because IBM has left enough profit, so IBM has now formed a serious dependence on Huaxia Semiconductor's industrial chain, and it can't get rid of it at all, and it is unwilling to get rid of it. How good it is now, making a lot of money, and saving worry and effort. This way of making money, which capital doesn't like.