Chapter eight hundred and ninety-fifth as a farmer in Africa
Everyone had greeted each other, and Du Xiaoyuan invited everyone to the hotel, came to the private room he had booked, and began to arrange everyone to attend. This person came from several systems, so the seating rankings were still a bit particular. Du Xiaoyuan has grown a lot of experience over the years, and he is familiar with handling such things and has no mistakes.
The hotel uses a round table, and the difference between the main and secondary seats is not very obvious. There are two seats in the first place, one is asked Xu Wenliang to sit. No one has any objection to this. After all, the old man is there, and he is a senior in the industry, and the private entrepreneurs present are also full of respect for him. The other seat is seated by Feng Xiaochen. He repeatedly claimed that Ruan Phucen was older than him and should sit on the upper head, but Ruan Phucen dared not agree, so he finally pressed Feng Xiaochen to sit down.
The downward position is basically arranged according to the comprehensive consideration of wealth and age. Du Xiaoyuan and Feng Xiaochen's secretary Hang Jin sat in the lowest position. Wan Guansheng and Liang Dongming and others symbolically gave in, saying that Du Xiaoyuan is the leader of the industrial park and should not sit in the lowest position. In other occasions, Du Xiaoyuan might half-super and half-stop choose a slightly better position to sit, but this time with Feng Xiaochen present, he could only choose to be low-key, insisting that he was serving everyone, sitting near the door to facilitate serving dishes and buying orders.
The Kan Dai Industrial Park is quite large, with 60 or 70 Chinese companies living in it. In addition, there are 10,000 or 20,000 local companies in Gabe and a few European, American, Japanese and Korean companies. Therefore, the service industry is also very prosperous. There are a long street for restaurants such as accommodation, shopping and health care. It is said that even residents of several surrounding cities will come to consume from time to time.
Just now, when Du Xiaoyuan brought Feng Xiaochen and others over, Feng Xiaochen noticed that most of the stores here are hung with Chinese characters, and the decoration style is also very Chinese. At first glance, people mistakenly think that they have entered the commercial streets of a city in China. Du Xiaoyuan introduced that in the Kan Dai Industrial Park, Chinese is one of the common languages, and if you can speak Chinese, you can pass without any obstacles. On the contrary, if you only speak the local Gabe language, you will encounter various obstacles in life.
The restaurant they were dining at this time was a full Chinese restaurant. The girl who served the plate was a local black man, but the foreman was a girl from Haidong who was just a fake one. Feng Xiaochen felt it was difficult to understand when he listened to it, but the black waiters could answer her in Chinese. It seemed that the black waiters also had some Haidong accent in Chinese.
"The owner of this store is from Hoi'an. He is from the same village as my wife's cousin. He came to Africa to open a hotel and asked Ruidong for help." Ruan Phuc-gen introduced to Feng Xiaochen.
"I know him." Wan Guansheng also intervened, "He is a little famous in Hoi An now. When he came to Africa, he was a pauper. After working for two years, he returned to his hometown to build a house. Later, he brought many people from the village to Africa to open restaurants, and they all became rich."
"I've heard of this kind of thing." Feng Xiaochen nodded, "My sister Chen has also opened six or seven branches in Africa, and the business is also good."
"You are talking about Mr. Chen, right?" said Ruan Phucen. He also knows Chen Shuhan, which is due to Feng Xiaochen and has a relationship with Yang Haifan. He said: "Mr. Chen is doing big business and taking the high-end route. The branches of the Spring Restaurant she opened are all in big cities in Africa. The small bosses from Haidong are mainly in second- and third-tier cities in Africa, as well as these Chinese industrial parks, and they make small money."
Du Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "The owner of the restaurant we eat is not a small amount of money. There is a saying in our industrial park that opening a factory is not as profitable as delivering lunch boxes. This is a bit exaggerated, but it also means that opening a restaurant is a very profitable business."
Feng Xiaochen said: "Xiaoyuan, you have to see who you say this. In the eyes of Mr. Ruan, Mr. Wan, Mr. Liang, and others, the money earned by a mere restaurant is definitely a small amount of money. What kind of business does Mr. Ruan and others want to do, a profit of 100 million can only be considered a small goal."
Ruan Phuket quickly waved his hand and said, "Mr. Feng is just a joke. I am actually a farmer, so how can I do that with Mr. Feng? Mr. Feng acquires Pumai, and his business is about a profit of one billion euros. That's what courage is."
Feng Xiaochen said: "Mr. Ruan, 30 years ago, you kept the word "farmer" all day long. Now you have a net worth of billions. Are you still embarrassed to say that you are a farmer?"
Ruan Phucen quickly exchanged glances with Wan Guansheng and the others, and then chuckled and said, "Mr. Feng, you are really right. My old Ruan is born to be a farmer. I'm here to Africa this time to be a farmer."
"What does it mean?" Feng Xiaochen sensitively realized that Ruan Phucen had something in his words. He just used the word "farmer" to make fun of Ruan Phucen, but Ruan Phucen came to beat a snake and followed the stick, which led to the topic of the peasant issue. This was not a casual talk. Thinking about Ruan Phucen specifically picking him up to follow him when he came to Africa, he would rather wait for Wang Ruidong for seven or eight days than meet him, obviously there was something to talk to him.
Sure enough, Ruan Phucen put down the wine glass in his hand, showed a honest smile, and said, "Mr. Feng, I'm going to tell you, we came to Kandai this time, in addition to wanting to see Mr. Feng, there is something else we have. I want to talk to Mr. Feng, but I don't know if it's appropriate."
"Not suitable!" Feng Xiaochen looked down and directly gave Ruan Phucen a bad face.
"Uh..." Ruan Phoenix looked bitter and didn't know where he offended Feng Xiaochen.
Feng Xiaochen frowned and pointed at Ruan Phucen with his hand, saying, "Old Ruan, Lao Ruan, you are a well-known entrepreneur now. Can you change this hesitant problem? We have been in love for more than 30 years. My brother-in-law and your brother-in-law are in business together. Why do you pretend to be pitiful in front of me? You talk about Mr. Feng like this and say anything about him, then I will show Mr. Feng's proposition. Do you think Mr. Feng is so easy to talk to?"
"Haha, Lao Ruan, have you been criticized?" Liang Dongming said in a gloating tone, "I told you a long time ago that Mr. Feng is approachable and does not show off. He always treats us as his own. You don't need to beat around the bush in front of Mr. Feng. If you have anything to say. You don't believe it, look at it now, will you make Mr. Feng angry?"
These words can be said to have flattered to the extreme, and they even blocked Feng Xiaochen's mouth, making him unable to refuse his request. Of course, this is also because Liang Dongming and the others knew that Feng Xiaochen was indeed a close official, and if it were someone else, they would not dare to speak like this.
After a series of hahahas, everyone finally got back to the point. Ruan Phucang began to tell Feng Xiaochen about his affairs, and Feng Xiaochen also put away the indifferent expression he had just pretended to be and listened seriously.
"Mr. Feng, I'm going to tell you that Lao Wan, Lao Liang and others are really farmers now. A few years ago, we have reserved more than 10,000 hectares of land in Gosnell, growing grain and vegetables, and the income is pretty good." Nguyen Phuc Gen said.
"Oh, there is something like this, why don't I know at all?" Feng Xiaochen looked surprised.
Feng Xiaochen knew about domestic businessmen renting land in Africa to do agriculture. His aunt Cao Jingmin can be regarded as the earliest pioneer. Although she has returned to China, she still owns equity in an African farm. In recent years, with the deepening of China-Africa cooperation, domestic enterprises and individual investors have invested in agriculture in Africa, which is no longer a new thing. Feng Xiaochen was surprised, but he had never heard Nguyen Phuchen talk about land acquisition in Africa. He didn't know why this gentleman started doing this business.
Ruan Phuket looked a little embarrassed and said, "Actually, I was just playing around at the beginning. We did a project in Africa. The other government owed us the equipment payment and couldn't pay it back for a while, so I discussed with me whether we could use the land to pay it back. I looked at their land, which was very fertile, but no one was farming, and it had been abandoned for many years. I am still a farmer in my bones, so I couldn't see that the land was abandoned, so I agreed. After planting wheat for a year, I found that the harvest was really good, so I pulled Lao Wan, Lao Liang and the others seriously bought more than 10,000 hectares of land and prepared to carry out large agriculture."
Liang Dongming added: "Yes, there is too much land in Africa, and the locals are too lazy to plant it. We asked the Gosnell government to rent land. They said that they can rent as much as they want, and the rent is cheap. A mu of land costs less than two yuan. In the early stage, some expenses for building irrigation facilities are needed. Once done, they can make money by lying down and lying down to make money."
"How do you farm in Africa? How do you solve the labor problem? I think African locals seem to be quite lazy. Otherwise, they can guard so many wastelands and often cause famine." Ning Mo interrupted. His business with African companies can be considered to have some understanding of Africa, and his view is not biased.
Wan Guansheng laughed and said, "This question is really interesting. At first we thought that Africans were lazy, so it would be impossible to ask them to work. But if we want to farm, we can't hire all the labor force from China, which is too high. Later, we tried to hire some Africans to help, but as expected, these Africans are capable, diligent in their work, and their wages are still low, which is much better than hiring people from China."
Chapter completed!