Chapter 0818 benevolence
Two BBC reporters fled from Lashio like frightened birds in a panic. They were sitting in an old-fashioned jeep and rushed to Mandalay more than 200 kilometers away.
Halfway through the car, the driver yawned and said he wanted to take a break. The British man watched him take out a cigarette from his pocket and smoked one before he was refreshed.
It wasn't good to park halfway in the wilderness and walk with an addict. The two British guys were afraid that the smoker would suck too much and would lead to a car accident on the road, so they insisted on driving themselves.
The journey was like escaping. After finally leaving the mountainous areas in northeast Myanmar and arrived in Mandalay, the British immediately called the police in the local area, saying that his translator was shot dead in Lashio. The local officials only said "Oh" and said they knew.
"Don't you go and investigate?"
“What to check?”
"Someone is dead."
"You should have signed an agreement when you applied to Lashio. We have reminded you to be careful. Now you can still return from Lashio intact, which is a great luck."
The low-ranking officials in charge of the reception were not concerned about the British call and only made simple records. This made the British, who was a BBC reporter, angry.
"Did you ignore the invasion of the 'Holy Light' group? Even our reporters in Yangon have heard the news that you are indifferent in Mandalay?"
This is a huge accusation. The receptionist had a stern face, "You British people like to make unreasonable slander and smear. The 'Sheng Light' Group signed an agreement with Wa and Shan State and was invited to invest in the local area. What's the problem?
Because of the investment of "Holy Light", the tobacco fields in the Golden Triangle have been almost wiped out. Except for those drug dealers, everyone has benefited. The public security this month has obviously improved much.
Even Mandalay is about to sign a cooperation agreement with "Sacred Light". Both parties will jointly invest in the construction of a regular highway with a total length of more than 300 kilometers from Mujie Port to Mandalay, which is expected to be repaired in two years.
As long as this road is repaired, heavy trucks can go directly from Mujie to Mandalay in four hours. Our grain and wood can be sold to China more easily.
"Sheng Light" also agreed to build a vehicle manufacturing plant in Mandalay. They will send people to teach us how to produce motorized tricycles and four-wheelers. Everything is taught from leveling the land to building factories, to water and power supply, and the local production of spare parts.
Mandalay needs such a factory. We have already selected land outside the city. The engineers of "Sheng Light" guarantee that the beam-type factory can be built in half a year and put into production within one year. The annual output is at least 100,000 vehicles."
When it comes to the number of "100,000" vehicles, the officials who received them are also full of expectations. For Myanmar, a country with almost zero industry, a vehicle factory with an annual output of 100,000 vehicles is a huge progress.
This will drive the development of an entire industrial chain, increase tens of thousands of "high income" employment, and provide society with urgently needed vehicles, greatly improving labor efficiency.
The two British men exclaimed: "This will put you in an unavoidable debt trap. It will pose a huge threat to your finances, and you will be bankrupted by unbearable interest. This is the case in Latin America now."
The reception officials squinted at this, "Our current finances are rotten enough, how can it be rotten? The government has no money to pay the civil servants' wages, and we now have no basic gasoline and diesel.
Besides, if you invest in your own business, how can you get debts? If no one owes debt, where does the high interest come from? What are you thinking? The Holy Light doesn’t play your tricks.”
"Holy Light" doesn't even provide financing?
The British guy was blocked and thought hard for a long time before continuing: "You still lack gasoline and diesel when you have a vehicle. The annual output is 100,000 vehicles, and your foreign exchange cannot support a large amount of fuel imports."
Myanmar is extremely short of oil and gasoline and diesel. But they don’t have much foreign exchange to import, which leads to their domestic vehicles not being able to run, and agricultural machinery is not even more so. Social development is a joke.
But the reception officer shrugged.
"'Sheng Guang' is willing to invest in the construction of an oil refinery on the western coast to produce oil for us. They will also lay oil pipelines, which not only meet our domestic needs, but will also be able to export to China inland.
As for the current oil demand, "Holy Light" also expressed its willingness to do its best to meet it. This condition is difficult for us to refuse, so Yangon also agreed to the investment cooperation projects of both parties."
For an agricultural country, industrial products that can greatly improve production efficiency are irresistible. For example, a water pump can allow more farmland to be irrigated, significantly reduce labor but get several times the profit.
That farmer is really willing to fetch water endlessly in the fields during the busy summer? Are you just looking forward to mechanical equipment to help?
In every link of farming, sowing, fertilizing, spraying, harvesting, and transportation, agricultural machinery needs to be involved in order to achieve dozens or hundreds of times the efficiency improvement.
But I know, which industrial country is willing to help another agricultural country selflessly? Everyone can say beautiful words, but the interests still need to be negotiated.
Now the "Holy Light" appears. It doesn't talk about anything else, it just talks about money.
It doesn’t matter if it is a machinery factory that produces tricycles.
But adding oil refineries to oil pipelines sounds like a huge project and a terrible project. Both British guys were about to explode and felt that the news was unacceptable.
“Where are you going to build a refinery?”
"I don't know, it's not decided in the short term. Anyway, it's by the sea west." The receptionist pointed to the Myanmar map in his office, and the two British men were even screaming.
"There must be a conspiracy. To the west of Myanmar is the Bay of Bengal, which covers an area of more than 2 million square kilometers and has a water depth of more than one thousand meters. This place is very suitable for the cruise of ballistic missile nuclear submarines."
"No, you cannot allow the 'Holy Light' to build a refinery. This will pose a huge threat to the world of freedom and democracy. With refineries, there will be ports, and with ports, there will be military bases. With military bases, you will seize your living space."
The two British men said one by one, as if they were hysterically depicting the arrival of the doomsday.
The receptionists were stunned by their fangs and claws, and after a while, they said calmly: "Yes, just like what you British people have done."
"We are a civilized society, unlike those evil regimes."
"So you are blocking us? Put us in evil too."
The British guy is silent again.
Yangon is now blocked by the West and cannot stand it. The country is on the verge of collapse and cracking. If it fails to come, it has to bow its head and beg for mercy. But now Zhou Qingfeng has taken action. I really want to thank the West for forcing this neighboring country to the point of no way out.
There are a lot of outdated production lines in China that need to be eliminated, and huge amounts of backward production capacity are waiting to be abandoned. These things are all negative assets that no one wants - but they may not be necessary in other countries.
In a slightly larger city in China, who doesn’t have a “small small business”? With Yunnan alone, Zhou Qingfeng can make a large number of industrial junk, and hundreds of thousands of technical workers who are about to be eliminated.
Most of these people are in their forties and fifties, and can no longer keep up with the development of the times, and are unable to learn and make progress. Apart from being cared for, they set up a small stall to do some miscellaneous work, why don’t they go abroad to be casual?
Anyway, agricultural countries are not picky, so they need low-end industrial products.
Isn't this a hit and awkward thing?
Chapter completed!