Rebirth of the Wild Age

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Yang Xin, who came back after talking about business, complained in front of Song Weiyang: "The factory is about to open, but I'm afraid that there is not enough labor. The people of Brunei are too rich."

"You can contact the domestic local government to organize Chinese migrant workers to work in Brunei," Song Weiyang laughed. "This is for earning foreign currency. Local leaders must be very supportive."

Earlier we said that Brunei’s labor is cheap because the assembly line workers in this country are all foreign laborers hired from poor countries such as Bangladesh.

Many local people in Brunei do not work because they are rich. Their per capita income was the world's first in the 1980s, fell to the first in Asia in the 1990s, and has now fallen to the third in Asia.

Who was the richest man in Asia at the end of 2000?

King of Brunei!

Because half of Brunei’s oil revenue goes directly to the royal family, and the remaining half is distributed to the government and the people.

In Asia, Sun Zhengyi was able to surpass the Brunei king last year because investing in the Internet is more profitable than selling oil. Last year, Sun Zhengyi's personal assets were more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. Because of the listing of many websites he invested in earlier this year, his personal assets directly doubled to 70 billion U.S. dollars, even surpassing Bill Gates to be the world's richest man for more than 10 days. Then it collapsed, the Internet bubble burst, and Sun Zhengyi couldn't even squeeze into the top 20 richest people in Asia.

Shen Fuxing also said, "I don’t know if I’m not here. I really didn’t expect that in a small country like Brunei, the life of ordinary people would be so generous. At that time in the 1980s, we had just started reform and opening up. Brunei’s per capita GDP was already 2 More than ten thousand dollars."

Yang Xin said: "Well. Brunei farmers do not pay taxes on their farming. Instead, the government pays subsidies, for fear that the farmers will leave the land unused. Now Xifeng takes the lead in establishing an agricultural product base, and the Brunei government is actually responsible for issuing initial loans. Every time we purchase a kilogram of fruit from farmers, the Brunei government promises to subsidize the canned food. The more purchases, the higher the subsidy. Not only does it not charge taxes, but it also repays money. Compared with Chinese farmers, Brunei farmers are too Happy!"

Shen Fuxing was surprised: "So much support?"

Yang Xin said: "The main reason is that Brunei’s economy is too monotonous. I am afraid that oil and natural gas will be sold out, so I vigorously develop other industries. The clothing manufacturing industry has developed best. Brunei has been supporting it since 20 years ago. People do not want to work, so they recruit people from Bangladesh and Thailand madly."

"It's really very special." Shen Fuxing said.

Yang Datong: "The same goes for Xifeng's cannery. All the assembly line workers are from Bangladesh. The locals are reluctant to open cannery because of the very good tropical fruit resources. They simply leave us the opportunity to make money. There is also fishery resources, Brunei. The fishermen are no longer working, and the government is still calling for foreign investment here to invest in the construction of a fishery. Let’s put it this way, as long as Xifeng builds a fishery, a lot of canned fish can be sold locally in Brunei, because they need to import. of."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Too much money is making trouble!"

Isn’t China often exposed to the news. After the demolition of a certain village, the once industrious and poor peasants stopped working when they received the demolition funds. The whole village played mahjong, and even the children were reluctant to go to school when they reached junior high school.

Brunei 30 years ago was still a backward agricultural country, and suddenly became rich after discovering oil.

The royal family had money to build temples madly, and the government had money and all kinds of willfulness. It took ten years to be so confused before realizing that other industries should be developed. The disparity between the rich and the poor in this country was huge until the 1980s-even though the per capita income was already the world's first. It wasn't until the rich stopped treating money as money that they began to gradually improve the benefits of the people at the bottom. Up to now, there is no tax on agriculture, and education and medical care are free for all.

As a result, even more embarrassing things appeared. After the welfare of the people improved, a large number of farmland was quickly abandoned, and the unemployment rate increased year by year, because many people did not want to work anymore.

Yang Xin smiled and said: "Now the Brunei government is scared, coaxing farmers to plant land and raise poultry and livestock. Another problem is that if Xifeng builds a new factory, it must recruit a certain percentage of Brunei workers. Although These workers are paid higher salaries, but the Brunei government has promised subsidies. To put it bluntly, the government spends money to let the people work."

Shen Fuxing looked forward to: "You said, when will the Chinese be able to do this, and they can live well without work."

Song Weiyang said: "From the perspective of China's population, if it reaches that level, its GDP will be at least 10 times that of the United States, and it will have enough strength to dominate the world."

"Also right, there are too many Chinese." Shen Fuxing laughed.

Yang Xin shook his head and said, "High welfare benefits are not a good thing. I have learned in the past few days that in the past 20 years, Brunei has sold more and more oil, but its per capita income has decreased. It used to be the number one in the world. It’s No. 1 in Asia, and now it’s No. 3 in Asia. Because everyone is unwilling to work, those powerful Bruneis can make money by investing in canneries. Hey, they don’t like that little money. , Only focusing on oil and gas and its upstream and downstream enterprises. Brunei’s garment manufacturing industry is among the top five in Asia, but there are few locals in the garment factories. Most of them are built by foreign investors, and the rest are also Chinese in Brunei. Build a factory."

Shen Fuxing said with emotion: "Yes, if the welfare is too good, there is no motivation."

Yang Xin said: "If it weren't for the support of the Chinese, other industries in Brunei would not be able to do it."

At this time, the Chinese in Brunei accounted for about 11% of the total population, but only a quarter of the Chinese had a yellow card (identity card). About 30% of Chinese people hold red cards and cannot enjoy national treatment or even apply to become citizens-but their next generation can be upgraded to citizens if they were born in Brunei and passed relevant examinations. More than 45% of the remaining Chinese can only get a green card, and they must reapply every three years, otherwise they will be deported.

That is to say, three-quarters of Brunei Chinese are not entitled to national treatment, so don't even think about free medical care and education. High-end talents among these Chinese have immigrated to other countries one after another, leading to an extreme shortage of high-end talents in Brunei.

Not only the Chinese are discriminated against, but all non-Malays are discriminated against.

Moreover, because the Chinese are hardworking and intelligent, they rank second in Brunei’s social status, second only to the main ethnic group in this country-now Brunei’s construction industry, restaurants, hotels, department stores, wholesale and retail, etc., are almost all The Chinese community has been monopolized. There are many millionaires and multimillionaires, but it is almost impossible to become a billionaire.

By the way, regardless of whether it is a yellow card, a red card or a green card, there is no tax or value-added tax for doing business in Brunei, and even profit remittances are not restricted and tax-free-Xifeng's factory in Brunei, Only import and export trade taxes are levied. This country's policies are very strange.

Yang Xin said: “Although I promised to invest as much as RMB 100 million in a few years, I will only build a beverage factory in Brunei. Judging from the current trend, Brunei’s labor costs will continue to increase significantly. The higher you come, the wages of migrant workers from Bangladesh will also increase. Now the entire coconut tree resources in Brunei have been taken by Xifeng. This is enough, and it is the biggest gain of this trip."

"Has the country's coconut tree resources given to Xifeng?" Shen Fuxing was a little surprised.

Yang Xin smiled and said, "Brunei as a whole is just bigger than Rongping City. If it weren’t for Brunei’s enough agricultural subsidies and no value-added tax and no sales tax, I would go directly to the Philippines and Malaysia to establish coconut tree bases. ."

Song Weiyang said: "The Philippines is a bit messy, and the coconut trees in Malaysia involve the locals. Although Brunei is small, the coconut trees are easy to get, and the diplomatic relationship with China is also very good. It is a target for long-term and stable cooperation. That's right. How about the cooperation talks in China?"

Shen Fuxing said: "I have contacted more than a dozen Southeast Asian entrepreneurs, and only reached cooperation intentions with Singapore and Brunei. A Singaporean boss, hoping to obtain a patent for the production of USB flash drives, also agreed to join our patent alliance for USB flash drives. Brunei’s boss is even more proud and directly ordered 30,000 USB drives."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Typical tyrant, there is a lot of money."

Shen Fuxing said: "I asked, Brunei’s high-end consumer goods market is growing very fast~www.readwn.com~ The market for automobiles, computers and other products is vast. I plan to sell the cash register computers in China, and Brunei’s retail industry is The Chinese control more than 90%. I have contacted the president of the Brunei Chinese Chamber of Commerce and he is willing to help with promotion. Moreover, this president also wants to represent other products from China. If I don’t come this time, he plans to Go to Lenovo for cooperation."

Song Weiyang said: "Brunei is still too small, with a population of hundreds of thousands, even if it monopolizes the business here, it is not a big deal."

Shen Fuxing said: "It is too difficult for electronic products to be sold abroad, so a USB flash drive has the advantage."

Song Weiyang suddenly thought of a business, he could sell an electric sports car to the King of Brunei. Even in another 20 years, the king has amazing financial resources, his assets rank second among kings in the world, and his reputation for luxury is well-known around the world. Rolls-Royce alone bought 200 vehicles to form the team.

Today, the electric vehicles jointly invested by Song Weiyang, Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu are already on the road. Assemble thousands of batteries and put them into a general-purpose electric car, and the endurance can reach 400 kilometers. It's just that the battery control system keeps going wrong, and it catches fire every other time, and I don't know when it will stop.

When the battery control system is complete, Song Weiyang will make additional investments, buy other related patent authorizations, and dismantle other sports cars to "launch products" by himself.

The promotion of this thing is very difficult, and it can only be sold to those local tyrants who pursue novelty. The King of Sultan is a good buyer. After the king ordered, he would surely drive himself with his hands. Then let the reporter take a photo and take it to Hong Kong City for crazy promotion. The local tyrants of Hong Kong City will follow the trend and buy it. This is how the reputation spread slowly.

By the way, there are local tyrants in the Middle East. Buying a car is equivalent to buying a toy, and they can't drive it a few times.