Chapter 839: Economic Vassals (Four More Votes!)

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Tensions have calmed considerably as war criminals have been imprisoned, post-war liquidations have ended, and the Transitional Government has smoothly taken over national affairs.

At present, the army of the Moro country still occupies Manila, and the scars of war can still be seen in the streets and alleys, and the war refugees who originally filled the streets and alleys and lined up at military checkpoints to receive relief food are much smaller than in previous days.

Light industry is developing in Mindanao, with food processing plants, paper mills, and garment factories springing up. People who couldn't find work in Manila began migrating south, taking a boat from Quezon City to Mindanao to try their luck.

Although the war between the two countries has just ended, the reunification of the two countries over the years has made the two peoples have a few traces of blood ties. The transitional government has a good relationship with Santos, and in order to ease the country's tense employment pressure, the two sides have signed a special visa-free agreement to facilitate the unemployed in Manila to travel to Mindanao to work.

The industry of Moro is in its infancy, and these skilled workers from Manila are in need.

In early September, with the help of the State Grid Corporation of China, the power grid in downtown Manila and the industrial area was finally restored. As for when Manila's power grid will return to pre-war levels, it will probably have to wait until this time next year.

At the moment, on the outskirts of Manila, production has resumed in plantations large and small.

In the whole of Manila, and indeed in the whole of southern Luzon, the only thing that has lost the least is these unskilled plantations.

Although domestic orders have been cut by the first mate, fortunately, relations between Singapore and the Philippines have eased after the transitional government took office, and the new country has lowered tariffs on a total of 21 goods such as bananas, mangoes, coconuts, and iron ore from the Philippines.

Years of border friction and the participation of Star Ring Trade in the Mofie War have made the Filipinos generally hostile to the new country, but these fruit farmers who have benefited from it are undoubtedly grateful to the new merchants who saved them from fire and water.

Among them, led by the Future Man Group, the Future Man Biology has eaten almost all of their unsalable inventory.

At the moment, these refugees from the city to the countryside are helping to carry boxes of fruit onto wooden carts, leading mules and horses to carry the goods to the dock. The plantation wagons broke down, and the new cars had not yet arrived, so they had to settle down in this primitive way.

Some of these people were wearing leather shoes and even trousers.

It is obvious that they are not peasants, but they are doing harder work than peasants, and only they know the bitterness of it.

In the whole of Manila, there are not a few companies left that have not collapsed, and there are simply not a few decent jobs available to them.

Although power has been restored to several large industrial parks, not a single factory can be found at the moment. It's not just the power grid that's being paralyzed, it's also the production lines and industrial machines that are being paralyzed. Without production tools, there are so many kilowatt-hours of electricity, it is impossible to plug yourself into the socket, right?

Speaking of the negative impact of EMP on Philippine industry, relatively, we have to mention the pure electric vehicle companies that Jiang Chen acquired in Europe earlier.

Previously, due to a series of sanctions by the European Union, many pure electric vehicle companies such as Rourka have gone from a market value of billions of dollars to the brink of bankruptcy. At that time, Jiang Chen gave an order to let Rourka and others move the company from Europe to Asia, settle in the Singapore and Malaysia Special Economic Zone, abandon Europe, and focus on the Chinese, Japanese and Korean markets.

While carrying out the order, Rourka's mood was undoubtedly hopeless.

However, it was not even two months later, and the situation immediately took a turn for the better! Not because of anything else, but because of the EMP that Transwarp Trade detonated over Manila!

Within the scope of the EMP crackdown, civilian vehicles throughout Manila have been turned into scrap metal, and motor vehicles throughout the country have become nervous.

The paralysis of the transport system is even more of a headache than the paralysis of the production system. Affected by this, the demand for automobiles in the Philippines has increased dramatically, and the performance of Rourka Automobile Company has almost surged!

Especially pickup trucks and small and medium-sized trucks, many companies have to borrow money from banks in order to restore paralyzed logistics. In this environment, with reliability and relatively low prices, the Rourka brand conquered half of the Philippine market for related types of automobiles in one fell swoop.

In order to fill this large market gap, Rourka has successively ordered the company's assembly plants to expand production lines, and at the same time, it has joined forces with Future People Heavy Industries and a number of electric vehicle manufacturers to invest in the construction of solar electric vehicle charging stations in major cities such as Manila in the Philippines to further consolidate its current market position.

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To maintain a long-term vassal relationship, it is not a single contract, but an economic dependence.

What Jiang Chen had to do was to let every piece of iron ore knocked out of the mine by the Filipinos have to be sorted and smelted by the steel mills in Xinguo or indirectly related to Xinguo...... The final result is finished steel. Every grain of rice produced by Filipinos has to go through the food processing plant of the Future People Group before returning to their own tables.

At that time, even if the transitional government is dissolved, the new president elected by the Philippine general election is not Bowdista, and they will have to continue to hold their noses as vassals for the sake of employment and GDP figures.

After staying in Manila for a month, and the matter at hand had been dealt with, Jiang Chen took a plane back to Koro Island.

Walking out of the airport and looking at the bustling crowd on the street, Jiang Chen finally had a feeling of returning to a civilized society. Staying in Manila can be quite inconvenient in every sense of the word. There were armored vehicles before and after each trip, and there were at least two people standing in front of the car when the door was opened.

Fortunately, now that he's back, it's time for this life to end.

Unlike dilapidated Manila, the developing new country can be said to be thriving. The war between the neighboring countries did not affect the lives of the people of the new country, but because of the depreciation of the peso, the price of goods on the island of Koro was much lower than before.

Especially fruits and food.

In mid-September, the first batch of rice, cabbage and carrots from the bottom of the sea finally landed at the farmers' markets on Koro Island and Penglai City.

Because there is no need to worry about pests, these agricultural products can be said to have not sprinkled pesticides at all, and they are truly pure natural and pollution-free! And due to the carbon dioxide-rich environment of the ocean, as well as the constant temperature and other factors, these crops produced on the seabed are often of higher quality and more delicious than those cultivated on land.

Look at the grains of rice, the grains are full like pearls, and the steamed rice is even softer and glutinous and fragrant, and it is simply addictive to eat! There are also the cabbages, which are watery and smart, and the vegetables are all the same as mutton fat jade, which is pleasing to look at, and delicious to eat, and there is nothing to say about nutrition.

No matter which country's market such agricultural products are put in, the competitiveness is definitely nothing to say.

And the most important thing is that it is cheap!

Because it is a vegetable produced in China, not only does it not have to pay tariffs, but even the corporate income tax enjoys policy subsidies. In addition, because there is no need to use pesticides, the three-dimensional cultivation of vegetables and fish farming on top of the vegetables even eliminates the need for fertilizer, and the highly mechanized cultivation does not require too much manpower.

If you don't consider the one-time investment in building a planting base, the cost of these rice grown on the seabed is at least 30% lower than that imported from Thailand and Australia!

(With a small outburst, Morningstar, I can finally be cheeky and ask for a ticket.) And the monthly pass brothers, hehe, please hand over the ticket! Thank you very much! (To be continued.) )