After being intimidated by the other party's cannon-like questions for a while, Mina took a moment to control the rhythm and began to explain.

"Bureau Lu, Director Jiang, do you think the shirt you are wearing now is worth the value of cotton, or is it really good. ”

The question seems a bit off-limit, but it also keeps the rhythm under control.

Lu Ju looks like a simple person, wearing a cotton shirt, while Director Jiang of the Foreign Investment Office next to him obviously has to deal with foreign businessmen every day, so he is more foreign, willing to spend money on clothing, and wears really good shirts.

Therefore, Lu Ju just cleared his throat and said without a doubt: "Of course, Director Jiang's body is really valuable, but it is a high-tech chemical fiber, how can cotton homespun cloth compare?"

Mina smiled indifferently: "Then it seems that Lu Ju's homework has only achieved eight points, and he hasn't done it thoroughly." Director Jiang, you should know more about the outside, you know that now in the United States, in the textile market, is the popularity of cotton cloth or indeed the popularity of chemical fiber. ”

Director Jiang thought for a while and said sincerely: "Four or five years ago, when I went abroad for the first time, foreigners were indeed relatively novel, but now, it has gradually turned around, and it can only be said that it is not equal. ”

Mina: "It's a good match—but you can't deny that the trend is that the price of chemical compounds is falling faster than the price of agricultural raw materials." ”

"That's true. Director Jiang directly admitted it.

Mina didn't give a chance to breathe, and explained interlockingly: "So, when considering production costs, don't put Gatorade and Red Bull on the same level as Coca-Cola."

Coca-Cola is blended with chemical raw materials. And Red Bull, a formula native to Southeast Asia, not to mention Chinese herbal medicine, but at least plant extracts. Gatorade is also a sports drink that contains a certain amount of fruit juice puree -

Of course, this is just a statement of facts, not that chemical raw materials are bad, and there is no such thing as belittling any product. Red Bull and Gatorade also have chemical raw materials, which, like Coke, are legal and harmless food additives.

And we believe that in the next 20 years, the cost of plant extracts and fruit and vegetable products in China will still be advantageous compared to the United States, as long as the supplier quality control is good, it is absolutely profitable to set up Gatorade's global puree factory in China - do you have any commercial concerns about this layout decision of Red Bull Group?"

Of course, there will still be doubts, but at least the most important question just now has been responded to by Mina head-on.

Director Lu and Director Jiang also had to consider the sincerity of foreign businessmen.

Talks continued.

……

There is no doubt that the material that Mina used to refute the other party's question just now was the direction that Gu Biao mentioned on the small note.

Moreover, if there is a chance for Gu Biao to make a statement in person, the effect may be much better, but it is a pity that Gu Biao is now saddled with the suspicion of an "evil real estate developer" and it is inconvenient to come forward.

Why did Gu Biao know so much about social doubts in this regard? This has a lot to do with the ignorant rumors on the Internet that he later saw.

As we all know, decades later, the circle of friends of some chat software is basically the hardest hit area of ignorant middle-aged and elderly rumors. Gu Ao's later generations experienced the turmoil around 2017, when the production of the old beverage "Arctic Ocean Soda" in Beijing resumed.

In the mid-80s, when Arctic Ocean soda sold for 2 cents a bottle, Coca-Cola was about 1 yuan.

(There are many people who check the official information that Coca-Cola is officially priced at 5 jiao in 82.) But in fact, this price is a 5 jiao foreign exchange coupon, not 5 jiao ordinary yuan. Considering that foreign exchange bills are only nominal, the official exchange rate is equivalent to the RMB, but in fact it is always much more expensive than the RMB. I write 1 ordinary yuan, I think it is more appropriate. ）

When production resumed in 2017, Coca-Cola and Fanta were 3 yuan a can, and Arctic Ocean soda became more than 6 yuan a bottle for retail.

And then a lot of them, maybe because of ignorance, or just because of the Muyang dog, started to spray: the price of Coke Fanta has only increased by 3 times in 35 years! The price of Arctic Ocean soda has increased by 30 times in 35 years! The inflation rate is 10 times higher than that of Coke!

Feelings of consumption! Playing with the feelings of nostalgic people! Sure enough, we can't support domestic products! Chinese is too treacherous, but it is still the conscience of American enterprises......

However, these rhetoric ignores the fundamental fact that Arctic Ocean soda and Fanta are not the same thing. Arctic Ocean soda is orange water filled with carbon dioxide, while Fanta is citric acid/sodium benzoate filled with carbon dioxide...... Solution.

Looking at the ingredient list of the two, you can see that there is "concentrated orange juice" in the Arctic Ocean soda, while Fanta only has "fructose syrup"-

In fact, strictly speaking, from the process should be called HFCS, High Fructose Syrup, the literal translation of English should be translated as "high fructose syrup", foreigners can see that this is made of corn as raw materials.

But it is not wrong to translate it as "fructose syrup", which is nothing more than omitting the manufacturing process, not indicating the source of chemical raw materials, but only the finished product ingredients. In order to use the Chinese word "glucose", it is possible that people with no chemical knowledge will mistake "fructose syrup" for something related to "grapes", and reduce the resistance to its chemical process.

Therefore, when analyzing to this step, we can know that Fanta has only risen 3 times in 35 years, and it has nothing to do with Coca-Cola's conscience, but because of 35 years of scientific and technological progress, many process costs of chemical synthesis have plummeted, so the cost of chemical materials such as citric acid and vitamin C has not risen but fallen.

However, the price of oranges, a natural product, has been steadily rising.

Fanta should really be compared to the anti-inflation conscience, not with the Arctic Ocean soda, but with the vitamin C silver tablet. In the 80s, synthetic vitamin C was still high-tech, and after 30 years, it was super rotten. Vitamin C Yinqiao tablets will only be discontinued, so as not to block the way for pharmaceutical companies to squeeze profits because they are too cheap and effective, but it is difficult to increase prices.

This is the same reason that in the 80s, it was true that chemical fibers were worth a lot of money, and natural fiber fabrics were worth more money in later generations.

Only those who are really cold-eyed and objectively look at the cost changes in the industry can have insight into the general trend.

Under Gu Ao's suggestion, Mina is to refresh the cognition of relevant departments and make them fully convinced: relying on the worthless demographic dividend period of China's rural labor force for more than ten years, as long as the standardization and quality inspection of suppliers are done well, there is still a lot of space.

Don't wait until the peasants are worth their money in the future to come to their senses, and the window period will pass.

……

"How will the report work?"

As the door of the conference room reopened, Gu Wei, who had been smoking a cigar outside for a long time, casually pressed the cigar into the ashtray and asked Mina easily.

Gu Biao didn't want to smoke a cigar, he just wanted to put on a detached posture with no interest in it.

"It's not bad, it's not humble or arrogant, it's reasonable. Mina smiled and said a formulaic comment, as if returning to the years of studying at the Foreign Affairs Academy,

"Anyway, I have a way out, if they get the scale of the land, it's a big deal to move to a neighboring city to open a factory, and welcome our people to be able to line up in Hujiang." I have no desires, no desires, of course, I don't need to give them face when I speak, I just do everything in business, what to say. ”

Gu Biao listened, smiled and patted Mina on the shoulder: "Then how did Lu Ju and Director Jiang react?

"I was also surprised that they didn't, and they still took notes. Mina shrugged gracefully.

"It seems that he is a good official, but he is not right about things, so that's good. Gu Biao commented pertinently.

Mina: "Don't be too happy, the terms of the investment land grant are not so easy to negotiate, and when you meet serious people, I am afraid that this agreement will add a lot of protective additional conditions - it is estimated that if someone really takes the land of our factory to build commercial housing in the future, the city will take back the land according to the agreement." ”

Gu Biao smiled bitterly: "It's okay, I didn't plan to speculate on the land - by the way, since you are so tightly guarded, where is the land that the city is going to allocate to it?" ”

Mina: "It's just a preliminary game, and the current opinion is to move to the eastern suburbs of the city, which is further east than Red Bull's current factory, east of Huancheng East Road." ”

Gu Biao listened, and subconsciously made up the map in his mind.

As a native of Qiantang in two lifetimes, this brain supplement didn't take him a few seconds.

Another time and space Zongqing's thick wahaha, because he was born in a factory run by Laodong Road Primary School, can occupy the core of the city. But now Zong Qinghou has been poached by Gu Biao to be the president of Red Bull (China), and Red Bull is starting from scratch, so of course it can't occupy the core plot of the city.

Qiantang's urban planning has always been to move the "low-end manufacturing" to the east and northeast of the city, and when Red Bull built its factory two and a half years ago, it was already close to the eastern edge of the city, sticking to the east of the moat. Now the Gatorade factory is required to move further east, to put an end to the possibility of speculating land to develop commercial housing, it is estimated that it is already in the area of the Provincial Agricultural University, or even more east than the Provincial Agricultural University.

There is no doubt that in the 80s, the agricultural university in Qiantang was located in the countryside. Therefore, the plots there are still fields, and it is inevitable that there will be another wave of demolition and land acquisition.

Gu Biao thought about it in his mind, and didn't say anything else, just mentioned: "If the city is only willing to approve the land in the east of the city, then that's it, but you have to insist, try to go to the south, preferably the land in the south of the Provincial Agricultural University, don't go to the north of the Provincial Agricultural University - the north of the Provincial Agricultural University, but it is the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the pesticide research institute under the Academy of Agricultural Sciences." The land near the pesticide factory must not be wanted, and even if it is harmless in the future, the food factory cannot be opened. ”

Gu Biao is an old Qiantang for two lifetimes, and he fully knows how cheap some real estate projects are sold a few kilometers north of the Agricultural University in the future, but the locals who know how to do it will still not be tricked, so they will deceive new immigrants from other places to enter the pit. Although there is no evidence, it is rumored that the probability of liver cancer in the residents of the pesticide factory plot seems to be many times higher.

Mina made a note of the suggestion, and the matter was left untouched for the time being.

"In addition to the dinner party in the evening, are there any other inspection arrangements?" Gu Biao took the opportunity to switch to the next topic.

Mina replied casually: "Zong Qinghou is planning to temporarily arrange for the city leaders to inspect the living environment of the Red Bull Company's employee community - the negotiation just now, the two sides were not very happy, you left too much impression on the land speculation capitalists."

Manager Zong thinks that it may be a better way to alleviate prejudice by letting the leaders feel that 'Red Bull is leading workers to common prosperity, and Red Bull workers are far happier than other citizens'. ”

Gu Biao thought for a while and nodded: "That's not bad." ”

After a staggered banquet to ease the tension, the group stopped driving, and went directly to the employee community of Red Bull Company to inspect under the guidance of Zong Qinghou.

Nowadays, as long as Red Bull workers are willing to work overtime, it is easy to earn two or three hundred a month, which is about four times the basic salary of ordinary citizens, and four times that of middle-aged and middle-aged workers above the fourth level. Five to six times more likely than younger workers with lower titles.

Therefore, although Red Bull does not have its own dormitory area, as long as it is a community where Red Bull workers and white-collar workers live, the consumption level is still significantly higher than other places in the city.

It was also the first time for many cadres of the Foreign Investment Office and the Land Bureau to go deep into the community and have close contact, and they couldn't help but feel deeply.

Gu Biao felt quite bored, so his focus was different from that of people.

As he walked along with the inspection team, he quickly noticed a dark entertainment venue on the street at the entrance of the Red Bull community.

"What is this place?" he asked casually.

Zong Qinghou, who led the team to comment, took a look: "This is a game machine hall, it should be the first game machine hall in the city, it is all imported goods, but it is high-end." It is only in our Red Bull community that we can afford this kind of public entertainment facilities. ”

"Game machine hall, is this thing already legal in the mainland?" Gu Biao couldn't help but be curious.

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