Chapter 119: Billionaire in the Slums

Now Wang Fang has not found a suitable partner in India, in order to improve his brand reputation, Boss Wang decided to do something for the poor people in Mumbai.

Mumbai is probably home to the world's most famous slums, spreading its "fame" around the world through Bollywood. Not to mention, the economic activity in the slums is quite impressive, in the words of one resident interviewed, "every one of us works". Now in the slums of Mumbai, the average salary is $80 per month.

Boss Wang's plan is to make money from these low-level people and provide them with a place to live in 20% of their income, which is a low-rent house with a monthly rent of $16. The reason for this is, of course, that he has mastered a set of methods for building cheap houses, with prefabricated panels of foam cement for the exterior walls and cardboard prefabricated panels for the interior walls.

At the bottom of the house, there is a sewage pipe leading to a composting center, where earthworms and worms convert ammonia-rich nitrogen into finer excrement, which nitrifying bacteria can then feast on and efficiently convert into nitrogen fertilizer. This is the basic principle of many aquaponics systems.

Therefore, a variety of vegetables can be grown not far from the residential area, which can not only purify and beautify the environment of the slum, but also provide food.

The most terrible thing about a real slum is sanitation, and in addition to toilets, safe drinking water is key. Even the low-rent housing provided by Boss Wang to the slums, in order to save costs, the entry-level model has no running water, but it can send free bottled water to residents.

In order to prevent waste, the unused quota can be saved up and sold, so that the residents will consciously save water and achieve better results by economic means.

The system used to deliver bottled water to residents' homes is one of the most bizarre things about Boss Wang's low-rent housing. Each house has a workshop in the backyard that connects to each other, and automatically controlled mobile trolleys can transport supplies between workshops. The reason why it is called "Workshop" is already known from the name of its purpose, which is where the work is located.

Remember the Maker Youth Hostel? A capsule system that allows you to live in free of charge if you work 2 hours a day. This low-rent house in Mumbai is the Indian version of the youth hostel designed by Wang Zhan for the three brothers, and you can also exchange labor for rent. 2 hours a day, 30 days a month, in exchange for 60 hours of work.

Don't forget what the price of this low-rent house is, the monthly rent is only 16 US dollars, so these 60 hours are calculated as 0.27 US dollars per hour, about 1.76 yuan, and if converted into a day's salary, it is 14 yuan for 8 hours. Now if you were asked to work for a day and earn 14 yuan, would you do it?

So, if the slum dwellers are attracted to this low-rent house with its own backyard workshop, it is quite cheap labor. Even when converted into dollars, it is only $64, which is less than the average slum wage of $80.

However, this account can't be completely counted like this, because the mass-customized low-rent housing still looks very high-grade, the health is guaranteed, the electricity, and the safe water source are 666, which is much better than the conditions in the slums, and has a fatal attraction to some residents who are eager to improve their lives.

What's more, Boss Wang will not always give such a low salary, because sometimes there is an urgent need to produce something, and at this time, he can be given a little more salary, or even several times the hourly wage, which is much better than the average salary in the slums.

After all, the workshop is a place of work, and the safety of parts needs to be considered, so the workshop and the workshop are connected to form a working unit, and the unit as a whole is closed to facilitate safety management.

The final plan is for 42 families to form a closed alley, a figure related to the number of households in the slums of India. There are 1,370 households living in slums in India, with a total of 65 million people. When you do the math, there are an average of 4.74 people per family, and 42 families are about 200 people.

The cognitive ability of ordinary people is that they can only remember 200 people, Wang Fang hopes that a closed alley can form a society of acquaintances, and the world has its own warmth, so he set the rules of these 42 families. In the future, we will also be able to pursue population coordination in the distribution process, and try to gather about 200 people in a unit.

These workshops composed of 42 families are equivalent to a "labor cloud", and in addition to Wang Zhan's Judy factory, as the plan progresses, there will be more and more surplus labor, all of which have the potential to become foundries. One unit is equivalent to the labor of 10 people, and one foreman can be selected to take over the work.

The economic activity in the slums is very active, such as the famous Dharavi in Mumbai, which has a population of between 600,000 and 1 million, and the total annual turnover of goods exported can reach as much as 500 million or 600 million US dollars.

When the scale of the low-rent housing workshop reaches 60,000 people, the worst result can reach 60 million US dollars, with an average of 1,000 US dollars per person. And the cost of Boss Wang's low-rent housing will not reach the level of $1,000, which is a promising business.

The slums will be upgraded by him, and the 13.7 million households in India will be targeted by him, and he will be able to enjoy this large wave of cheap labor, which is theoretically limited to $13.7 billion a year.

Boss Wang's wishful thinking is crackling, but to publicize to the outside world is to bring the gospel to the slums, and he is really like a godfather.

Originally, Boss Wang wanted to build 420 sets to test the water, but after calculation, the cost of these 420 sets was less than 420,000 US dollars, which ...... It seems to be too pediatric, not at all like the style of a 10-billion-dollar celebrity, and people laugh out of their teeth when they say it. 4200 sets? It's just that the cost of 4.2 million US dollars is less than that, and it can't be done, simply, 42,000 sets at once.

This shocked the whole of India, because so many houses, if released and calculated according to 4.74 family members, could absorb 200,000 people at once, and suck out one-third to one-sixth of Dharavi, which is similar to the effect of the multi-billion dollar slum renovation plan of some consortiums.

Of course, such a large-scale plot of land is not easy to buy, you can make every 420 households a community, even if it covers an area of 100 square meters per household, it only covers an area of 42,000 square meters, of course, if Boss Wang wants to buy land near Mumbai, where every inch of land is expensive, the land price is about 5,000 US dollars per square meter, and the 42,000 square meters will need 210 million US dollars.

Boss Wang won't spend this kind of unjust money, wouldn't the whole plan cost 20 billion?

On the one hand, he can apply to the government for free use of the land, because it is a slum upgrade. On the other hand, you can also buy land in remote places, which may be more than ten times cheaper.

If it is still too expensive, then he will resort to the trick that has already been used in China - a solution that does not require or occupies very little land in theory, and is overlaid on farmland, orchards, and vegetable fields.

Boss Wang is a person who owns a transportation empire, remoteness is nothing to him at all, and it is easy to solve the problem by opening some buses.

He can also use the method of sharing the rent with the landlord, at this time, the rent of 16 US dollars a month has become his advantage, how many dollars can he share? Or is his "labor cloud" making a lot of money.

In short, all kinds of ways, all-inclusive, must make land prices not a problem.

The Mumbai government quickly agreed to a plan of 42,000 square meters for 420 households, selling a lot of land at a very low price. However, this is quite controversial, the operation of a foreign company, and in the first batch of 420 applications, the practice of applying for priority through Judy's mobile phone has been protested by Indians, arguing that since this is a public welfare project, it should not be linked to a certain product, otherwise it will bring benefits to some companies, which is unfair.

Wang Fang was originally for the convenience of mobile phone management after moving in, but I didn't expect that there was still this problem, and it was too late to change my words, and the city government was not willing to continue to approve, so the road of taking the government route was temporarily closed.

Later, the plan to buy the land was changed to a ten-year lease before it was re-approved by the city government, and the price of the land could be increased at that time, and both the city government and the citizens were satisfied.

In a small way, Boss Wang has already had a countermeasure, and the project he is engaged in in China is a semi-permanent residence that can be relocated at any time, and the rent will be raised? The lord will change places, and in the end, the other party will compromise, otherwise the land will become worthless, and it will be the landlord who will suffer the big loss.

India's government is corrupt, and people generally distrust politicians and developers, except for the owner of Judy's mobile phone, because he can't run away, and the high-tech image makes people instinctively think that such bosses rarely run away. Besides, the data that had been released when Boss Wang's plan was progressing showed that about 50% of it was the purchase of private land, and the people couldn't control it if they wanted to interfere at this time. Private land is sacrosanct.

It's just that Boss Wang's requirements for landlords are relatively high, and all 42,000 square meters of landlords must agree to place an order. These lands are relatively remote, and if there is no large institution to develop them, the low price is several times, so Boss Wang can advance or retreat.

From the perspective of floor area ratio, the planned low-rent housing is no longer like a slum, because the usable area for a family is 50 square meters, and the horror scene of the slum is often a family of five crammed into a small space of 10 square meters. And it is divided into upper and lower floors, that is, 50% of the land can be used for public buildings, and these public buildings can be built on high-rises, and even a lot of land can be used as gardens in the alleys.

From 10 square meters to 50 square meters of shotguns, you say that the residents of the slums can not rush to it? So, whenever the pre-sale starts, it's always a hot scene. The people who looked at the model house also stepped through the threshold.