Hotel, suites.

Yang Xin, who came back from talking about business, complained in front of Song Weiyang: "The factory is ready to open, but I'm afraid the labor is not enough, and the people of Brunei 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. ”

Earlier, we said that Brunei's labor is cheap because the assembly line workers in this country are all migrant workers hired from poor countries such as Bangladesh.

Many Brunei natives don't work because they have money, and their per capita income was the first in the world in the 80s, the first in Asia in the 90s, 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 goes directly to the royal family, and the remaining half is distributed to the government and ordinary people.

In Asia, Masayoshi Son surpassed the king of Brunei last year because investing in the Internet is more profitable than selling oil. Last year, Son's personal assets were more than $30 billion, and due to the listing of a number of websites he invested in earlier this year, his personal assets directly doubled to $70 billion, even surpassing Bill Gates to become the world's richest man for more than 10 days. Then it collapsed, the dot-com bubble burst, and Son couldn't even make it into the top 20 of Asia's richest list.

Shen Fuxing also said speechlessly: "I don't know, I really didn't expect that in a small country like Brunei, ordinary people would live so generously." In the 80s, when we had just started reform and opening up, Brunei's per capita GDP was already more than $20,000. ”

Yang Xin said: "What's more. Brunei farmers do not pay taxes for farming, but the government pays back subsidies, for fear that the farmers will abandon their land. Now Xifeng is taking the lead in building an agricultural product base, and the Brunei government is actually taking the initiative to issue initial loans, and for every kilogram of fruit we purchase from farmers, the Brunei government promises a subsidy for canned food. The more purchases, the higher the subsidy, not only is there no tax, but money is also poured. Compared to the Chinese farmers, the Brunei farmers are so happy!"

Shen Fuxing was surprised: "The support is so great?"

Yang Xin said: "The main reason is that Brunei's economy is too homogeneous, and it is afraid that oil and gas will be sold out, so it will vigorously develop other industries." The best developed is the garment manufacturing industry, which Brunei has been supporting since 20 years ago, and because the domestic people are unwilling to work, they are frantically recruiting people from Bangladesh and Thailand. ”

"Very special indeed. Shen Fuxing said.

Yang Xin said: "The same is true of Xifeng's canning factory, where all the assembly line workers are from Bangladesh. Obviously there are good tropical fruit resources, but the locals just don't want to open a canning factory, and leave the opportunity to make money to us. There are also fishery resources, and Brunei's fishermen are no longer working, and the government is still calling for foreign investment to invest in fishing farms here. Let's put it this way, as long as Xifeng builds a fishing farm, canned fish can be sold a lot in Brunei, because they need to import it in the first place. ”

Song Weiyang smiled: "Too much money!"

Isn't it often reported in China that after the demolition of a certain village, the once industrious and poor farmers stopped working after receiving the demolition money, and the whole village played mahjong, and even the children did not want to go to school until junior high school.

Thirty years ago, Brunei was a backward agricultural country, and after discovering oil, it suddenly became rich.

The royal family had the money to build temples like crazy, and the government had money for all kinds of willfulness, so it took ten years of confusion before they realized that they should develop other industries. The disparity between rich and poor in this country was huge until the 80s – even though it was the world's largest per capita income at the time. It was not until the rich people stopped treating money as money that they began to gradually improve the treatment of the people at the bottom, and now it has become no tax on agriculture, free education and medical care for all.

As a result, even more embarrassing things happened, after the welfare of the common people was improved, a large number of farmland was quickly abandoned, and the unemployment rate also increased year by year, because many people did not want to work anymore.

Yang Xin said with a smile: "Now it is the Brunei government that is frightened and coaxes farmers to farm and raise poultry and livestock. Another problem is that if Xifeng builds a new factory, it must recruit a certain percentage of Bruneian workers. Although these workers are paid more, the Brunei government promises subsidies, which to put it bluntly means that the government pays for the people to work. ”

Shen Fuxing said, "You say, when can Chinese be like this, they can live well without work." ”

Song Weiyang said: "Judging from the size of China's population, if it reaches that level, its GDP will be at least 10 times that of the United States, and it will have enough strength to dominate the world." ”

"Yes, too, there are too many Chinese. Shen Fuxing laughed.

Yang Xin shook his head and said, "High welfare benefits are not a good thing. In the past few days, I have learned that in the past 20 years or so, Brunei's oil has been sold more and more, but its per capita income has become less and less. It used to be the first in the world, then the first in Asia, and now it is the third in Asia. Because everyone is reluctant to work, those powerful Bruneians can make money by investing in canneries. Hey, people don't look down on that little money, only focus on oil and gas and its upstream and downstream enterprises. Brunei's garment manufacturing industry is among the top five in Asia, but there are few locals in the garment factories, most of them are built by foreign investors, and the rest are also built by Chinese people in Brunei. ”

Shen Fuxing sighed with emotion: "Yes, the welfare is too good to be motivated." ”

Yang Xin said: "If it weren't for the support of the Chinese, Brunei's other industries would not have been able to do it at all." ”

At this time, the Chinese population 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 percent of Chinese have red cards and are not entitled to national treatment or even citizenship – although their next generation can be upgraded to citizenship if they are born in Brunei and pass the relevant exams. The remaining more than 45% of Chinese can only get green cards, and they must reapply every three years or they will be deported.

In other words, three-quarters of the Chinese in Brunei do not enjoy national treatment, and they don't even think about free medical care and education. The high-end talents in this part of the Chinese have immigrated to other countries, resulting in a shortage of high-end talents in Brunei.

It is not only the Chinese who are discriminated against, but all non-Malays who are discriminated against.

Moreover, because the Chinese are hardworking and intelligent, their social status in Brunei ranks second, second only to the main ethnic group of the country - now Brunei's construction industry, restaurants and hotels, department stores, wholesale and retail, etc., are almost monopolized by the Chinese group, there are many millionaires and multimillionaires, but it is almost impossible to become a billionaire.

By the way, whether it is a yellow card, a red card or a green card, there is no individual income tax and value-added tax for doing business in Brunei, and even there is no restriction on profit remittance and no tax - Xifeng's factory in Brunei only collects import and export trade tax, and the country's policy is very strange.

Yang Xin said: "Although I promised to invest hundreds of millions of dollars 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, and migrant workers from Bangladesh will also increase their wages. Now the coconut tree resources of the entire Brunei have been taken by Xifeng, which is enough, and it is the biggest harvest of this trip. ”

"All the coconut tree resources in the country have been given to Xifeng?" Shen Fuxing was a little surprised.

Yang Xin said with a smile: "How big is the whole Brunei, and it is bigger than Rongping City." If it weren't for Brunei's enough agricultural subsidies and no VAT and business tax, I would have gone directly to the Philippines and Malaysia to build coconut palm bases. ”

Song Weiyang said: "The Philippines is a bit chaotic, and the coconut trees in Malaysia involve the locals. Although Brunei is small, it has easy access to coconut palm resources and good diplomatic relations with China, making it a long-term and stable partner for cooperation. By the way, how is the cooperation between China and China?"

Shen Fuxing said: "I have contacted more than 10 entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, and only reached cooperation intentions with Singapore and Brunei. A boss in Singapore, hoping to obtain a patent for the production of USB flash drives, also agreed to join our USB flash drive patent alliance. The boss of Brunei was even more arrogant, and directly ordered 30,000 USB flash drives. ”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "Local tyrant, there is 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 the cash register computer in China, Brunei's retail industry is more than 90% controlled by the Chinese, I have contacted the president of the Brunei Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and he is willing to help with the promotion. Moreover, this president also wants to represent other products of China, and if I don't come this time, he plans to go to Lenovo to cooperate. ”

Song Weiyang said: "Brunei is still too small, with a population of only hundreds of thousands, even if it monopolizes the business here, it is nothing. ”

Shen Fuxing said: "It is too difficult for electronic products to be exported, and a USB flash drive has an advantage. ”

Song Weiyang suddenly remembered a business where he could sell electric sports cars to the king of Brunei. Even after another 20 years, the king has an incredible amount of money, the second largest king in the world in terms of assets, and his reputation for luxury is so famous that Rolls-Royce alone has bought 200 cars to form a fleet.

Now the electric vehicles jointly invested by Song Weiyang, Li Sufu and Wang Chuanfu have long been ready to go on the road. Thousands of batteries can be assembled and replaced into GM's electric vehicles, and the range can reach 400 kilometers. It's just that the battery control system is old and faulty, and there is a fire or something every three or five days, and I don't know when it will stop.

When the battery control system is perfected, Song Weiyang will make some additional investment, buy other related patent authorizations, and dismantle other sports cars to "launch products" by himself.

It was very difficult to promote, and it had to be sold to local tyrants who were looking for novelty, and the king of the Sultan was a good buyer. After the king ordered, he would definitely drive it himself, and then let the reporter take a photo and take it to the port city to go crazy publicity, and the local tyrants in the port city would also follow the trend to buy, and this is how the fame slowly spread.

By the way, there are also local tyrants in the Middle East, who buy a car is equivalent to buying a toy, and they can't drive it a few times.