Everyone greeted each other, Du Xiaoyuan greeted everyone into the hotel, came to the private room he had booked, and began to arrange for everyone to sit down. This cadre comes from several systems, so the seating order is still a bit particular. Du Xiaoyuan has also gained a lot of experience over the years, and he is also familiar with dealing with this kind of thing, and there is nothing wrong with him.

The restaurant uses round tables, and the difference between the main and secondary seats is not very obvious. In the first two positions, one invited Xu Wenliang to sit, and everyone had no objection to this, after all, the old man's age was there, plus he was a senior in the industrial world, and the private entrepreneurs present were also full of respect for him. The other position was sat by Feng Xiaochen, who repeatedly claimed that Ruan Fugen was older than him and should sit on the top, but Ruan Fugen dared to agree, and finally pressed Feng Xiaochen to sit down.

The lower positions are basically arranged according to the comprehensive consideration of net worth and age, and Du Xiaoyuan and Feng Xiaochen's secretary Hang Jin sit at the bottom of the position. Wan Guansheng and Liang Dongming symbolically conceded, saying that Du Xiaoyuan was the leader of the industrial park and should not sit down. On other occasions, Du Xiaoyuan may choose a slightly better position to sit in half-push and half-on-place, but this time with Feng Xiaochen present, he can only choose to keep a low profile, insisting that he is serving everyone, sitting by the door, convenient for serving and paying for food, etc.

The scale of the Khamtay Industrial Park is not small, there are 60 or 70 Chinese enterprises living in it, plus Gabay's local enterprises and a small number of enterprises in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, there are always 10,000 or 20,000 people, so the service industry is also very prosperous, what restaurants, accommodation, shopping and health care stores are enough to have a long street, it is said that even the residents of several surrounding cities will come to consume from time to time.

When Du Xiaoyuan brought Feng Xiaochen and others over just now, Feng Xiaochen noticed that most of the stores here were hung with Chinese characters, and the decoration style was also very Chinese, which at first glance made people mistakenly think that they had walked into a commercial street in a certain city in China. Du Xiaoyuan said that in the Khamtay Industrial Park, Chinese is one of the common languages, and if you can speak Chinese, you can pass it unimpeded, on the contrary, if you can only speak the local language of Gabe, you will encounter various obstacles in life.

The restaurant they were dining in at this time was a full Chinese restaurant. The girl who served the plate was a local black person, but the foreman was a fake Haidong girl, and a Haidong-style Mandarin made Feng Xiaochen feel difficult to understand, but those black waiters could answer her in Chinese. If you listen closely, it seems that the black waiter's Chinese also has some Haidong accent.

"The owner of this shop is a native of Hui'an, and my wife's cousin is from the same village. When he came to Africa to open a restaurant, he asked Ruidong to help. Ruan Fugen said to Feng Xiaochen.

"I know him. Wan Guansheng also interjected, "He is also a little famous in Hoi An now." When he came to Africa, he was a poor man, and after two years of work, he returned to his hometown and built a house. Later, he brought many people from his village to Africa to open restaurants, and they all made a fortune. ”

"I've heard of that before. Feng Xiaochen nodded, "My sister Chen has also opened six or seven branches in Africa, and the business is also good." ”

"You're talking about Mr. Chen, right?" said Ruan Fugen. He also knew Chen Shuhan, both because of Feng Xiaochen and his 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. These small bosses from Haidong are mainly in second- and third-tier cities in Africa, as well as these Chinese industrial parks, and they all make a small amount of money. ”

Du Xiaoyuan said with a smile: "The owner of this restaurant where we eat is not making a small amount of money. There is a saying in our industrial park that those who open factories do not make as much money as those who deliver boxed lunches. This is a bit exaggerated, but it also shows that opening a restaurant is a very profitable business. ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "Xiaoyuan, you have to say this to whom, in the eyes of Mr. Ruan, Mr. Wan, and Mr. Liang, the money earned by a mere restaurant is definitely a small amount of money." Mr. Ruan, what kind of business do they want to do, and a profit of 100 million yuan can only be regarded as a small goal. ”

Ruan Fugen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Mr. Feng is laughing at us, I am actually a farmer, how can I have Mr. Feng's big hand." Mr. Feng's acquisition of Promai, a business is about a billion euros of profits, that is called courage. ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "Mr. Ruan, 30 years ago, you talked about the word farmer all day long, and now you are worth billions, are you embarrassed to say that you are a farmer?"

Ruan Fugen quickly exchanged glances with Wan Guansheng and them, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Feng, you are really right, my old Ruan was born to be a farmer, no, I came to Africa this time to be a farmer." ”

"What do you mean?" Feng Xiaochen was keenly aware that Ruan Fugen had something to say, and he was just using the word peasant to make fun of Ruan Fugen, but Ruan Fugen came to beat the snake with a stick, and led the conversation to the peasant issue, which was not casually said. Thinking of Ruan Fugen when he specially selected him to come with him to Africa, he would rather wait for seven or eight days at Wang Ruidong's place than meet him, obviously he had something to say to him.

Sure enough, Ruan Fugen put down the wine glass in his hand, showed a sincere smile, and said: "Mr. Feng, I won't tell you, a few of us came to Khamtay this time, in addition to wanting to meet Mr. Feng, there is another thing, I want to talk to Mr. Feng, I don't know if it is suitable or not." ”

"It's not suitable!" Feng Xiaochen turned his face and directly gave Ruan Fugen a deflated.

"Uh......" Ruan Fugen had a bitter face, not knowing where he offended Feng Xiaochen.

Feng Xiaochen stiffened his face, pointed at Ruan Fugen with his hand, and said, "Old Ruan, old Ruan, you are also a well-known entrepreneur now, can you change this mistake of talking and talking." We have been friends for more than 30 years, my brother-in-law and your brother-in-law are in partnership in business, why are you pretending to be this pitiful look in front of me?

"Haha, Lao Ruan, have you been criticized?" Liang Dongming said in a gloating tone on the side, "I told you a long time ago, Mr. Feng is approachable, does not put on a show, and has always treated us as his own, you don't need to beat around the bush like this in front of Mr. Feng, just say anything directly." You still don't believe it, look at it now, make Mr. Feng angry, right?"

These words can be said to have taken the sycophants to the extreme, and they also blocked Feng Xiaochen's mouth to some extent, making him unable to refuse his request. Of course, this is also because Liang Dongming and the others know that Feng Xiaochen is indeed an official who can be approached, and if it were someone else, they would not dare to speak like this.

After a haha call, everyone finally got back to business. Ruan Fugen began to talk about himself to Feng Xiaochen, and Feng Xiaochen also put away the indifferent expression he had just pretended to be and listened carefully.

"Mr. Feng, I won't tell you, I, Lao Wan, Lao Liang and a few of them are really farmers now. A few years ago, we contracted more than 10,000 hectares of land in Gosner to grow grain and vegetables, and the income was not bad. Nguyen Phuc Gen said.

"Oh, there is such a thing, why didn't I know at all?" Feng Xiaochen had a look of surprise on his face.

Feng Xiaochen knows about domestic businessmen renting land in Africa to engage in agriculture, and his aunt Cao Jingmin can be regarded as the earliest pioneer, and now although she has returned to China, she still owns the equity of a farm in Africa. In recent years, with the deepening of China-Africa cooperation, domestic enterprises and individual investors have invested in agriculture in Africa, which is nothing new. Feng Xiaochen was surprised, but he had never heard Ruan Fugen talk about contracting land in Africa, and he didn't know how this benevolent brother could do this.

Ruan Phuc Gen looked a little embarrassed and said: "Actually, I was just playing casually at the beginning, we were doing a project in Africa, and the other government owed us money for the equipment, and it couldn't be paid for a while, so they discussed with me whether they could use land to pay it back." I looked at their land, very fertile soil, that is, no one cultivated it, how many years had it been abandoned there. I'm still a farmer at heart, so I can't see the land being wasted, so I agreed. After planting wheat for a year, I found that the harvest was really good, so I pulled Lao Wan and Lao Liang and them, and seriously contracted more than 10,000 hectares, ready to engage in large-scale agriculture. ”

Liang Dongming added: "Yes, there is so much land in this part of Africa that the locals don't bother to plant it. We asked the Gosner government to rent land, and they said that they could rent as much as they wanted, and the rent was cheap, less than two yuan per acre of land, that is, we still need to invest some money in the early stage to build irrigation facilities. ”

"How do you solve the problem of labor when you farm in Africa? I think the African natives seem to be quite lazy, otherwise how could they guard so much wasteland and often have famines. Ning Mo interjected. He has done business with African companies in this period, and he can be regarded as having some understanding of Africa, and his view is not biased.

Wan Guansheng smiled and said, "This question is really interesting. At first, we also felt that Africans were lazy, and it was definitely not okay to ask them to work. But if we want to farm, we can't hire all the labor from China, and the cost is too high. Later, we tried to ask some Africans to help, and to our surprise, these Africans were very strong, diligent, and had a low salary, which was much better than if we had hired people from China. ”

"However, if the locals are so diligent, why would so much land be abandoned?" Feng Xiaochen asked curiously. He really hadn't studied the agricultural problems of Africa in depth, and most of what he had learned before was from his aunt, and the aunt's observation of the problem was limited, so he couldn't say anything famous. Now that he had the opportunity, he naturally wanted to ask.