Rebirth of the Wild Age

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Yang Xin, who came back from talking about business, complained in front of Song Weiyang: The factory is about to open, but the labor is probably not enough. Brunei people are too rich.

You can contact local governments in China to organize Chinese migrant workers to work in Brunei, Song Weiyang said with a smile. This is earning foreign exchange. The 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 labor hired from poor countries such as Bangladesh.

Many locals in Brunei do not work because they are rich. Their per capita income was the first in the world in the 1980s, but fell to the first in Asia in the 1990s, and now it has 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 directly belongs to the royal family, and the remaining half is distributed to the government and ordinary people.

In Asia, Sun Zhengyi was able to surpass the King of Brunei last year, because investing in the Internet is more profitable than selling oil. Last year, Masayoshi Son’s personal assets were more than 30 billion US dollars. Since many websites he invested in were listed earlier this year, his personal assets directly doubled to 70 billion US dollars, and he even surpassed Bill Gates to become 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 of Asia's richest list.

Shen Fuxing also said in amazement: I don't know if I don't come here. I really didn't expect that in a small country like Brunei, the lives of ordinary people are so luxurious. In the 1980s, we just started reform and opening up, and Brunei's GDP per capita was already 2 Thousands of dollars.

Yang Xin said: It's more than that. Brunei farmers don't pay taxes for farming land, but the government gives subsidies instead, for fear that farmers will abandon their land. Now that Xifeng is taking the lead in building an agricultural product base, the Brunei government is actually taking the initiative to issue initial loans. Every time we purchase a kilogram of fruit from farmers, the Brunei government promises a subsidy for canned food. The more we purchase, the higher the subsidy. Happy!

Shen Fuxing asked in surprise: The support is so strong?

Yang Xin said: The main reason is that Brunei's economy is too simple. It is afraid that oil and natural gas will be sold out, so it vigorously develops other industries. The best-developed one is the garment manufacturing industry. Brunei has supported it since 20 years ago. People don’t want to work, so they frantically recruit people from Bangladesh and Thailand.”

It's really special. Shen Fuxing said.

Yang Daoxin: Xifeng's cannery is also like this. All the workers on the assembly line come from Bangladesh. Although there are very good tropical fruit resources, the locals just don't want to open a cannery, leaving us the opportunity to make money. There are also fishery resources, Brunei The fishermen are not working anymore, and the government is still calling for foreign capital to invest in the construction of fish farms. Let’s put it this way, as long as Xifeng builds the fish farm, a lot of canned fish can be sold locally in Brunei, because they need to import of.

Song Weiyang laughed and said, It's too much money!

Isn’t it often reported in China that after a certain village was occupied and demolished, the once industrious and poor farmers stopped working after receiving the demolition money, and the whole village played mahjong, and even the children refused to go to school after they reached junior high school.

Brunei was a backward agricultural country 30 years ago, but suddenly got rich after discovering oil.

The royal family has money to build temples like crazy, and the government has all kinds of willfulness. After ten years of being so confused, they realized that other industries should be developed. The disparity between the rich and the poor in this country was huge until the 1980s—although the per capita income was already the highest in the world at that time. It was not until the rich stopped treating money as money that they began to gradually improve the treatment of the people at the bottom. Now it has become that agriculture is not taxed, and education and medical care are free for all.

Then an even more embarrassing thing happened. After the people's welfare was improved, a large number of farmlands were quickly abandoned, and the unemployment rate increased year by year, because many people did not want to work anymore.

Yang Xin said with a smile: Now the Brunei government has been frightened and coaxed farmers to plant land and raise poultry and livestock. Another problem is that if Xifeng builds a new factory, it must recruit a certain proportion of Brunei workers. Although The wages of these workers are higher, but the Brunei government promises to subsidize it, so to put it bluntly, the government pays its citizens to work.”

Shen Fuxing said longingly: You say, when the Chinese can be like this, they can live well without working.

Song Weiyang said: Looking at China's population, if it reaches that level, its gross national product will be at least 10 times that of the United States, and it will be powerful enough to dominate the world.

That's right, there are too many Chinese people. Shen Fuxing laughed.

Yang Xin shook his head and said: High welfare is not a good thing. I have learned about it in the past few days. Over the past 20 years, Brunei has sold more and more oil, but its per capita income has decreased. It used to be the first in the world, and then It is the number one in Asia, and now it has become the third in Asia. Because everyone is unwilling to work, those powerful Bruneians can make money by investing in canning factories. Hey, people don’t care about that little money , only focus on oil and gas and its upstream and downstream enterprises. Brunei’s garment manufacturing industry ranks among the top five in Asia, but there are few locals in garment factories, most of them are built by foreign investors, and the rest are also Brunei Chinese Build a factory.

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

Yang Xin said: If it were not for the support of the Chinese, other industries in Brunei would not be able to develop at all.

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 the Chinese hold a red card and cannot enjoy national treatment, or even apply for citizenship—but if their next generation is born in Brunei and passes the relevant examinations, they can also be upgraded to citizenship. More than 45% of the remaining Chinese can only get green cards, and they have to reapply every three years, otherwise they will be deported.

That is to say, three-quarters of the Chinese in Brunei cannot enjoy national treatment, and free medical care and education are even unthinkable. These high-end talents among the Chinese have immigrated to other countries one after another, resulting in a shortage of high-end talents in Brunei.

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

Moreover, due to the industriousness and intelligence of the Chinese, the social status in Brunei ranks second, second only to the main ethnic group in this country-now Brunei's construction industry, restaurants, hotels, department stores, wholesale and retail, etc. The Chinese community is monopolized, and there are many millionaires and multi-millionaires, but it is almost impossible to become a billionaire.

By the way, regardless of whether you have a yellow card, a red card or a green card, you do not collect personal tax or value-added tax when doing business in Brunei, and there are even no restrictions on profit remittances and no taxes. Only import and export trade taxes are collected. The policy of this country is very strange.

Yang Xin said: Although I promised to invest hundreds of millions in a few years, I will only build a beverage factory in Brunei. Judging from the current trend, Brunei's labor costs will increase significantly. After all, the consumption level of local people is getting higher and higher. The higher the rate, the wages of migrant workers from Bangladesh will follow suit. Now that the entire coconut tree resource in Brunei has been taken over by Xifeng, this is enough and is the biggest gain of this trip.”

Have all the coconut resources in the country been given to Xifeng? Shen Fuxing was a little surprised.

Yang Xin said with a smile: Brunei is only as big as a whole, and it is bigger than Rongping City. If Brunei has enough agricultural subsidies and does not collect value-added tax and business tax, I will go directly to the Philippines and Malaysia to build coconut tree bases. .”

Song Weiyang said: The Philippines is a bit chaotic, and the coconut trees in Malaysia involve the local people. Although Brunei is small, the resources of coconut trees are easy to obtain, and the diplomatic relationship with China is also very good. It is a long-term and stable partner for cooperation. By the way , how is the cooperation with China going?

Shen Fuxing said: I have contacted more than a dozen entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, and only reached cooperation intentions with Singapore and Brunei. A boss in Singapore hopes to obtain a patent for USB flash drive production, and agrees to join our USB flash drive patent alliance. And the boss in Brunei is even more arrogant, directly placing an order for 30,000 USB flash drives.”

Song Weiyang smiled and said, Local tyrants, they have a lot of money.

Shen Fuxing said: I asked, Brunei's high-end consumer goods market is growing rapidly, and the market for automobiles, computers and other products is broad. I plan to sell cash register computers from China. Brunei's retail industry is controlled by more than 90% of the Chinese. , 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 of China. If I don’t come this time, he plans to find Lenovo for cooperation.

Song Weiyang said: Brunei is still too small, with a population of only a few hundred thousand. Even if it monopolizes the business here, it's nothing.

Shen Fuxing said: It's too difficult to export electronic products, and only a USB flash drive has the advantage.

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

Now the electric car jointly invested by Song Weiyang, Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu can already be used on the road for fun. Assemble thousands of batteries and replace them into GM electric vehicles, and the battery life can reach 400 kilometers. It's just that the battery control system is always malfunctioning, and there will be a fire or something every now and then, and I don't know when it will stop.

After the battery control system is perfected, Song Weiyang will invest more and buy other relevant patent authorizations, so that he can launch products by himself after dismantling other sports cars.

The promotion of this thing is very difficult, and it can only be sold to those local tyrants who pursue novelty. The Sultan King is a good buyer. After the king ordered, he would definitely drive with itchy hands himself. At that time, let the reporter take a photo and take it to Hong Kong City to promote it wildly.

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