In the current era, no one would have guessed that even the current mainland government's goal of reform and opening up is only to reach the level of a country like Brazil: the common people can solve the problem of food and clothing, and the country can solve economic difficulties.

No one could have imagined that 40 years later, the mainland would become the world's second largest economy, and Shenhai City would become a top metropolis comparable to Xiangjiang.

Investing in hotels is not the most rewarding investment, but there are only a handful of projects that can be invested in in the mainland: ports, roads, hotels, bridges, etc., and only these infrastructure projects are currently open to Hong Kong businessmen, or to invest in factories in Shekou Industrial Zone.

After Huo Bao and the others left, Xu Zhi opened the door and walked out, found the front desk, and asked, "Do you have any phone calls here that can call Xiangjiang?"

The little girl at the front desk knew Xu Zhi's identity, and hurriedly replied: "There is no international call in the guest house, if you want to call, you have to go to the post and telecommunications office, but it is closed now, and you can only go tomorrow morning." ”

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go again tomorrow." ”

Just as Xu Zhi was about to leave, one of the little girls suddenly said to her side in Mandarin: "This Xiangjiang person is very polite. ”

Xu Zhi glanced back and asked with a smile in Mandarin, "Are the other Xiangjiang people fierce?"

"Ahh

Xu Zhidao: "Although the people of Xiangjiang mainly speak Cantonese, there are some who can speak Mandarin, but most of them have immigrated in the past ten years. ”

In the 50s, Chinese was even more common than Cantonese, and later as time went by, more and more people migrated from Guangdong, coupled with the British government in Hong Kong to promote Cantonese, all TV stations, radio, and movies were restricted from using Cantonese, and the consequence was that in the 80s, young people born and raised in Xiangjiang could not even understand Mandarin.

Even the mainlanders who immigrated to Xiangjiang in the 70s were mostly Cantonese people, and some people who could only speak Mandarin were excluded from the circle.

The female employee nodded to show that she understood, and seeing that Xu Zhi seemed to be easier to speak, she became bold again, and asked, "Mr. Xu, I heard that the salary in Xiangjiang is very high?"

Xu Zhi smiled and quipped: "You tell me how much you are a month first, and then I'll tell you, how about it?"

The female employee looked left and right, and there was only Xu Zhi and another front desk around her, so she said: "I only have 30 yuan a month, plus a few yuan of meat tickets and oil tickets and the like." ”

Xu Zhi smiled and said: "Xiangjiang's words are much higher, and ordinary people's words are four or five hundred Hong Kong dollars a month." ”

"Four or five hundred Hong Kong dollars!" The little girl's eyes suddenly lit up, you must know that her treatment in the guest house is already good, but compared with Xiangjiang, it is far worse!

Xu Zhi knew that the other party might only see the difference in amount, and said: "The salary in Xiangjiang is much higher, but the rent alone has to use up 1/3 of the salary, and the price is also high, and vegetables and meat are very expensive." ”

The little girl didn't understand what prices were at all, and still said, "That's what I earn!" I saved half of my salary by saving money here, and if I was in Xiangjiang, as long as I saved 1/4, it would be higher than my current salary. ”

"Okay, there is some truth!" Xu Zhi couldn't help but shake his head, in general, the quality of life in Xiangjiang or Europe and the United States is much stronger than that in the mainland, otherwise in a few years, there will be no stories of mainland university professors smuggling to the United States to wash dishes, selling Kyoto courtyard houses to fight abroad, and so on......

……

Early the next morning, Director Shen rushed over, and heard that Xu Zhi asked to call last night and was persuaded to retire by the front desk, so he immediately reprimanded the front desk with a straight face.

Xu Zhi mediated: "Director Shen, this is just a small matter, let's go, right?"

Director Shen asked, "Mr. Xu doesn't need to call?"

Xu Zhi said: "No, I have already arranged for someone to go to the post and telecommunications office, I can't delay everyone's time, if my person comes back late, please ask Director Shen to arrange another car to pick him up and go to Shekou." ”

Director Shen nodded and said, "Okay, no problem." ”

This time I came to the mainland, I was just going to build a small factory, and Xu Zhi was followed by a manager of Midea's manufacturing department, but now that I am going to build a hotel, of course, I have to arrange professional people from Xiangjiang to come and have a look.

Bao Yugang, Xu Zhi and the others discussed it again in the morning, and decided to wait until the secretary of Shenhai City came back from Japan to talk to him about the hotel alone, and now they still go to Shekou as planned.

At present in the mainland, in addition to Hongqi, the highest-grade car is the Shanghai brand car, before the Volkswagen Santana entered the mainland market, the Shanghai brand car is a real god car, more rare than the Ferrari of later generations, under normal circumstances, a county, there may be a few cars, the secretary with one, the mayor one, several deputy mayors or directors share one, as for other cadres, or ride a bicycle.

Xu Zhi and others are sitting in the highest Shanghai brand car in this era, in the eyes of mainlanders, this is a god car, but for a group of people in Xiangjiang, it is ......

On the muddy road from Shenhai City to Shekou Industrial Zone, several Shanghai cars drove bumpily all the way.

Xu Zhi grabbed the handle above the roof, not to mention, this design is really good, and the magnitude of catching the descendants is much smaller.

At this moment, the sun is not low, the blazing sun shines on the inside of the car like a boiler, Xu Zhi was already shaking, and asked, "Master, does this car have air conditioning?"

"Air conditioning?" said the master as he drove, "The car still has air conditioning?"

“……”

Director Shen, who was sitting in the front seat, was relatively well-informed, and said: "I'm sorry, the conditions in the mainland are too poor, and there is no air conditioning in domestic cars at present, unless imported cars." ”

"Okay!" Xu Zhiqiang endured the heat and bumps, and said, "Then how long do we need to drive to Shekou?"

Director Shen looked at his watch and said, "It's going to take another 1 hour, the road is a bit winding, plus it has just rained recently, and the road is not very good, so ......"

Shekou and Shenhai City are actually not far away, but at this time, don't talk about high speed, there is not even a decent cement road, you have to go around from the middle town to a place, plus the road is not good, the delay is particularly long.

With a "sway", the people in the car almost jumped up, and just passed through a big pothole, and the driver was so frightened that he immediately stepped on the brakes and reduced his speed.

Suddenly, Bao Yugang next to him asked, "How far is Shenhai City from Shekou?"

Director Shen thought for a while and said, "It's almost 20 kilometers, right?"

Bao Yugang nodded and said, "That's it, I'll fund to build a cement road directly from Shenhai City to Shekou, what do you think, Director Shen?"

"This ......" Director Shen was overjoyed, he didn't expect such a big investment before he arrived in Shekou, and said: "Of course, there is no problem with such a good thing as road construction, but this matter is related to many areas, and it has to be reported to the city leaders." ”

"Count me in!" Xu Zhi also said with a smile, the cement road is only, and 20 kilometers does not cost much, the emphasis is on participation, so that it is easier to talk when trying to find a way to hoard land in the future.