Please make money.

"It's rare to find something that can surprise you."

"Indeed, but this is good news for you. We have gained a short-term comrade. International hot money is shorting the Thai baht, but there was a traitor among them, who brought in nearly 10 billion... not much, but very useful."

"Does this have anything to do with what you suspect?"

"No, I don't." The woman in black looked at her hands and seemed to vaguely see some shackles: "I just find it strange. Why would someone not pick up the money dropped on the ground, but have to snatch it from the tiger's mouth?"

"I don't know what you're wondering about, though."

Princess Sirindhorn seemed to be cold, and she closed her eyes slightly to feel the sunshine.

"But if someone dares to snatch food from a tiger's mouth, then I think the tiger must not be a scary thing to him."

"...That makes sense." The woman in black stood up and said, "That's it, wait for my news, it will be done in half a month at most."

"You called them all here. Is it really okay for you to do this?"

"In my eyes, they are not tigers, but jackals. They won't let me go when I am weak. It's just a partnership."

The woman in black smiled and said, "Capitalism has no friendship, only interests. It was like this before and it will be like this in the future."

"..."

276-I'm just a cute little business person

Alia found that playing in Siam was not fun at all.

Thanks to Siam, I have increased my mental fatigue several times in less than 72 hours...

"Look at the crocodiles. They are killed and their skins are sold for barbecue. This is barely understandable. After all, they are capable of large-scale breeding."

"Look at the elephant, its feet are all rotten from the chains, and it's asking me if I want to ride it - do I look like a heartless guy?"

"The most important thing is to see the tigers. What about Gouba Longhu Park? They whip and beat me with sticks at every turn, and even asked me if I wanted tiger bone wine. I don't want his head!"

Unhappy Alia was very unhappy about this trip, but An Lele knew that her unhappiness was only superficial.

It seems that what the eldest lady was really unhappy about was because of that little girl.

Ah, but selling tigers for money is a bit too much...

There was also the Tiger Temple incident in Siam before, wasn’t that also part of the black industry?

It is said that under the teachings of monks, tigers live in harmony with humans, and are covered with a layer of golden "Tiger Temple" by tourists.

Tourists from all over the world come here and spend money to have close contact with tigers.

As a result, a female student from the University of Queensland chose the "Thai Tiger Temple" as her research object for her master's thesis in order to experience the harmony and beauty of nature and wild animals. She finally found that the so-called harmonious coexistence was more like some kind of dark breeding and trading of wild animals, and the temple was just a shell.

Of the more than 100 tigers, more than 80 died from infectious diseases or diseases caused by inbreeding.

Driven by public pressure after the exposure, Siamese officials searched the Tiger Temple and found countless tiger products, including tiger skins, tiger tooth carvings and various tiger bone amulets.

There were even more than 40 tiger cub carcasses soaked in bottles and several jars containing tiger organs.

It is said that these tiger cubs were made into bottled supplements and sold on the black market in Southeast Asia when they were one year old.

The illegal wildlife trade actually reflects not only the shadow of the so-called peaceful Buddhist culture, but also the backwardness of the country's industrial structure.

Since there is no other way to make money, they can only rely on the mountains, the water, and the wild animals for their food.

They even eat people - the biggest transit point for the black industry of human trafficking is Siam. Isn't Xinchai the one who does this?

The senior brothers and sisters did not have such deep feelings. They came here for a trip and they exclaimed in amazement when watching the crocodile show, which seemed quite shocking.

An Lele’s previous perspective was also in the clouds, floating lightly, overlooking Siam.

But the eldest lady seems different.

Lele thinks that Alia’s subsequent anger might be due to some gang or some plot about the Urban Dragon King.

It could even be that some evil forces came to provoke her again - there are always blind guys - and then she smiled with a crooked mouth.

She was just angry because the little thing like 'as long as you work hard you will get the corresponding rewards' couldn't be done here.

This perspective coming down from the clouds made An Lele feel a little bit at a loss for a moment, but it also gave her a deeper understanding of the hustle and bustle of the world.

She followed Alia all the way back. Her senior brother and sister went to the Pink Temple to check in. They both used the excuse that they were tired from playing and came back to rest.

After returning to the hotel, Alia looked at the snacks in front of her and wanted to overturn the table, but in the end she held back.

"Has there been any response from Mr. Lei?"

"Yes, they said they have contacted Ms. Qin." Lele looked at the snacks on the table and said, "Miss, what do you think? How about we donate some money?"

"Donate money? To whom?"

"For those children?"

“It’s useless. Or it is useful, but still useless.”

Alia waved her hand and said, "Education, industry, it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. If the general environment and atmosphere are not good, you can't help anyone."

Alia feels that she is a businessman, not a philanthropist.

Doing business in China is like doing charity, which can only mean that her skills are not good and she lost money in business.

You can't use that approach when you are abroad. The most basic thing is that you can sympathize but you can't just be a saintly person.

"We have to find a win-win solution..."

Alia stuffed a shrimp ball into her mouth, stood up and paced back and forth: "Well, Lele, let someone arrange for me to go see Boss Jiang."

"Boss Jiang? Jiang Tianyi? Why?"

"What is the pillar industry in Siam?"

"…Red Romance?"

"Tsk—be serious!"

"Ooooh...travel?"

"No, it's tourism manufacturing and agriculture. Agriculture, to be exact, is the export of agricultural products."

Of course Alia knew how good the geographical environment of this place was. It had a tropical climate, three crops a year, and the rice yield was growing rapidly, so it was a frequent topic in geography questions.

But what the geography question didn’t mention is that Siam’s largest agricultural export to the country is not rice, but fresh durian…

Rice is not even in the top five. The top five agricultural products exported to China are fresh durian, cassava, cassava starch, guava, mango, mangosteen and frozen meat products.

But these are not the point. The point is that Alia wants to do something that can benefit more people, rather than just doing charity.

"Tianrun Department Store and our Aililai can just talk to Siam about joint procurement and set up several large-scale procurement chains to be responsible for the import of agricultural and aquatic products, such as tropical fruits, rice, frozen fish and shrimp, fragrant rice, sugar cane and coconut, etc., which can also be further processed here."

Siam is actually a world-class seafood supplier, ranking third in Asia-Pacific. The first two are from China and Japan respectively.

Ailia plans to discuss with her uncle about marine cage aquaculture. She has previously seen a nice idea called sea farm in the mechanical and chemical department.

A 10-ton smart fishery large-scale aquaculture vessel with more than ten aquaculture warehouses built in, producing thousands of tons of high-quality fish annually.

The way it works is just like the silly idea of ​​a swimming pool filling with water and draining water at the same time when doing homework.

Large construction ships pump seawater in and discharge it out at the same time, creating an ocean-like environment inside the ship.

If you encounter any problem like poor water quality, a typhoon, or cold or warm currents, you can just step on the accelerator and run away.

If the scallops from Changzi Island were placed inside, could they pass through the wall and fall into the sea?

But that is a plan for the future. Not only can that thing choose an anchorage in Siam, it can also go to the deep sea and the open ocean.

Now Alia wants to be a middleman and not make so much profit from the price difference, so that people in China can eat good agricultural products and some poor families here can have some extra money.

"The export of agricultural products is a pillar industry in Siam. It is almost comparable to the income of the Siamese royal family and accounts for 8% of their GDP. But if you really want to calculate, I saw their export data before. It only exports tons of rice a month. We can eat more."

"They are too lazy. I saw that their yield per mu was only 400 kilograms."

"No, it's not their fault. It's export-oriented."

Although foreigners generally have the impression that they are lazy, it is more because their rice is mainly exported, so they have to sacrifice production to ensure quality.

Rice is planted once a year during the rainy season, and all of it is tall, deep-water rice of the conventional variety, grown using traditional agricultural methods, with very little use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

There is an absolute surplus of rice in Siam, and domestic consumption is far behind production, so the farmers here are actually very idle.

After all, the planting season is only about four months a year, and the actual busy time is about half a month before planting and harvesting.

But the problem is that apart from these things, Siam’s level of development does not have any large-scale industrial areas that can provide employment.

In other countries, people can go out to work after the busy farming season and have more employment opportunities, but in Siam, there is not even such an opportunity. The only industry that can follow suit is the tourism industry.

As we all know, Siam only has one big city, Bangkok, and other places are rural areas. Even Chiang Mai Province is only at the county level compared with China.

It cannot be said that the Siamese government has absolutely no development plans and guidance for these places, but it can basically be said that it has none at all.

If they were any use in this regard, it wouldn't be to say they were completely useless...

"We have to do this in China too. I've wanted to say this a long time ago. The problem with suppliers is huge, very huge. I can understand that the middlemen make a profit from the price difference, but I can't understand why they make so much money. We had a corn product in our supermarket before. Do you remember it? It was the Nongsao corn product that cost more than eight yuan."

"Well, I said it was expensive—what happened?"

"I've seen it here before. It's even exported. But what do you think the price is?"

"...Will it be cheaper than supplying us with goods from China?"

"To be exact, it is much cheaper! I sent a text message to the store manager and found out that the source purchase price from our supplier is 4.2 yuan, which is 4.6 yuan including tax invoice and freight. The supplier's price to us is 6 yuan, and the supplier's markup rate is 23%. The price in our store is the manufacturer's market guide price of 8.5 yuan."

An Lele blinked, then leaned back tactically: "Is this true?!"

"Really? The markup rate is 29.4%. More importantly, the price they give here is 2.7, and the purchase price is 0.7. The best quality ones that can be packaged individually are less than 9 cents each. I have asked someone to trace the source of the product. When I return, I will recall all these junk and take them off the shelves one by one!"

“How do you recall what you’ve eaten?”

"As long as there is a receipt, it will be fine. If there is no receipt, don't we still have the sales and shipment data in the system background? We can refund everyone we can contact, so we don't have to bear the injustice."

In Siam, agricultural products such as fresh durian, mangosteen and jasmine rice are priced extremely low.

The best quality fresh durian only costs more than 20 yuan per kilogram, including the cost of import. Alia doesn't believe that she can't guarantee the price even if she purchases directly from sources around the world in the future.

"What cost? I want to see who can compete with me in cost this time! From now on, if there is a profit of 10 yuan, the place of origin will make yuan, my employees will make yuan, and I will make yuan. I will still make a fortune! I don't believe that % profit is not enough for me to enjoy..."

An Lele scratched his head and said, "Then I'll contact Boss Jiang and ask him, but why hasn't anyone done this before?"

"Of course it's because the risk is high. You have to pay first and bear the cost yourself if you buy directly from the source. More importantly, supermarkets want large-scale and standardized supply without middlemen screening and sorting. Whether it's fresh produce or fruit from these sources, it's easy for the quality of the supply to be inconsistent."

"So we're okay now?"

"I have money. I can just be a middleman and not make any profit from the price difference. Tell Mr. Lei that I will ask Aunt An for help in this fight with international hot money. I can use the golden finger when necessary. I will squeeze out all their wealth! Squeeze every drop of oil from them! I will keep at least one third of the money here to build a direct sourcing base!"

"What about the remaining two-thirds?"

"Of course I'll go home and build it! Are you stupid? If there's any benefit, shouldn't I go home first?"

"That makes sense... And Siam has a transit port here, which can collect other goods from all over the world and bring them over via the Malacca route."

"Yeah, so this is quite important. We need to have a good relationship with the local officials."

Siam's culture and state system determined that its officials had no grassroots execution capabilities, so they had to delegate grassroots power to the temples.

The temples take care of weddings, funerals, births, sickness and death at the grassroots level, and each village is a small group.

Before urbanization and industrialization, such landlord structures were prevalent throughout the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in Southeast Asia and India.

Arya's way of building a good relationship with them was not, of course, physical - although that was certainly possible - but she thought she could do it in another way.

"Recruit local people. I need a local promotion team that can build good relationships with the locals. Also, who is the boss of the temple?"

"The boss of the temple? The Grand Palace!"

"Ah, where's the second one?"

"The old Buddhist temple."

"Ah Xi... Why did I kick the door again? Where's the third brother?"

"There is no third brother. These two are the ones with the greatest influence. Everyone else is a third brother. The Grand Palace influences the whole country, the old Buddha temple influences Bangkok, and the others are all local. Who can you find, young lady?"

"Is there no way for me to find someone who is sincere and willing to work for the good of Siam? I'm giving him money!"

Damn it, Siam has been begging for foreign investment every day, but now that I'm here, I find that I can't find anyone to give some money to.

White, go to the King of Thailand; Black, go to Shinchai - Alia went to both. The two sides had a cordial and friendly conversation, but they failed to reach a consensus.

"That's not impossible..." An Lele thought for a moment, "I heard that Princess Sirindhorn was discharged from the hospital today and is back to managing state affairs. Should we try to contact her? I think she should be quite supportive of your idea of ​​purchasing directly from the base."

"Princess Sirindhorn... yes, she has national influence. If we can get her support, it should be much easier for us to establish a direct purchase base in Siam."