Chapter 177: Plan Ahead
Listening to Shaklu's request, Mukesh was a little puzzled: "Do you Pandit boss still lack a house?" ”
"Don't worry about this, anyway, I'll ask you for a house you don't live in, don't be reluctant to give it to me!"
"Cheng, Cheng, Cheng, you have spoken, then don't talk about the house I don't live in, even if it is the house I live in now, I can give it to you, but if you make a mistake in divination, then what should you do?"
"If you don't take over the Xincheng Group in ten years, I pay you a million dollars, how about it?"
"Good! That's it. ”
The bet may seem like a child's errand, but Shakru thinks that the 27-story "Andilia" (an island in ancient Indian mythology) that Mukesh spent a billion dollars on is too much of a pity, so he plans to reuse it, of course, he can't just give Mukesh a million dollars.
At 3:50 a.m. on September 30, a devastating earthquake struck Latour in Maharatstra, destroying 73 surrounding villages and causing at least 30,000 casualties.
The high mortality rate of the Latour earthquake is due to the dense population of the area, the fact that the earthquake occurred in the early hours of the morning when people were asleep at home, and more importantly, the characteristics of the houses of the local residents. Latour is a poor agricultural area, the local residents lack the experience of earthquakes, their houses are mostly made of stone adobe, the walls are thick but not solid, the houses have no foundation, the earthquake resistance is poor, once the earthquake collapses, the stone adobe is smashed down, into a pile of rubble, burying the sleeping people in it. The rubble piles formed by earth and rock do not form a small space for the buried people to survive like the cement pillars of modern buildings, and rescue excavations can show that there are few survivors of the people buried in the rubble, so the death toll is very high.
In the aftermath of the Latour earthquake, Adwani, chairman of India's largest opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, blamed the Indian government for failing to warn local residents in advance, resulting in so many deaths. He said local residents reported that at least 1,500 small earthquakes had struck the Latour area since September 1992, and that the Indian government had been ignoring a strong earthquake that struck the Hellare area near Latour on Sept. 19 this year.
He also claimed that more than two months ago, the elder of the Belur temple and the contemporary priest of divination, Shakru, had successfully predicted that there would be a major earthquake in the vicinity, but the local government did not pay enough attention to it, otherwise if the arrangements and evacuation were carried out earlier, the damage would never be as great as it is now.
However, India's geologists believe that Maharashtra has not been considered a region where major earthquakes can occur in the north near the Himalayas in the past, according to India's geologists. "We are confused and need to investigate to see if there is crustal fissuring activity in this area," said Paddy, deputy director general of the Geological Survey of India. He said the Latour area is located on the oldest and most solid rock formations in the South Asian subcontinent, and the Geological Survey of India has always believed that the area will not be subject to major earthquakes. Some Indian public opinion believes that the construction of some large reservoirs is the reason for the increase in earthquakes in India in recent years, but experts have never expressed support for this.
Although the earthquake was tragic, but it had no impact on Shakru, at the moment he was most worried about the Indian plague a year later, although the plague did not kill many people, but the impact was great, according to the reported scene is a bit of a post-apocalyptic novel The virus attacked, for a time New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and other places were all in a panic, and the economic blow was even greater, when many countries interrupted various cooperation projects with India, tourism, The hotel industry has been devastated.
Although Shakru has just bought a hotel, but because the hotel is being renovated and changing the layout, so there is no impact, the most worrying thing is his own pharmaceutical factory, once next year's plague is really as tragic as he remembers, then his Will Gang's career will be in trouble, first of all, in that panic situation, his own pharmaceutical factory will definitely not be able to produce normally; Secondly, even if it is barely produced, if the outside dealers and customers are afraid of the Indian plague, it will definitely affect the sales of the product. Although he can bear the loss of a few months, the market will never wait for him for a few months, and the market gap in Wilgang will definitely be replaced by other similar products, and it will not be a simple matter for him to regain the market when the plague storm has passed.
Therefore, Shakru felt that he had to prepare for a rainy day and prepare a way out before the outbreak of the plague, and after careful consideration, Shakru decided to open a branch factory abroad, and the location of this branch factory became a headache for him.
In Shakru's eyes, the best workers in the world are the workers of socialist countries, especially those of the older generation of workers who are simple-minded, who work carefully and hard, and the wages are particularly low, especially the workers in China and North Korea, who are even more exemplary, not to mention workers from other countries, even the workers of China's post-80s generation cannot compare with them.
Relatively speaking, Shakru prefers North Korean workers, because it is the period of North Korea's "Great March of Suffering", and it is estimated that as long as they are given a salary that can feed their families from starvation, a large number of people can apply, but unfortunately not to mention that they are Indians, even Chinese are not qualified to enter North Korea to open factories.
In fact, it is not that the wages of Chinese workers are high, even the wages of state-owned enterprise employees in 93 were about 100 yuan a month, but the problem is that at this time, China has not yet reached the golden age of state-owned enterprise reform and a large number of laid-off foreign capital, and it is difficult to recruit suitable workers to open factories in China, after all, in the eyes of the Chinese, the iron rice bowl of state-owned enterprises is much more reliable than their own foreign-funded boss.
Just when Shakru was pondering whether to venture into the Soviet Union to open a factory, in fact, Lao Maozi's workers' skills and quality were also good, but it was too chaotic there now, but fortunately, he could Toktakhonov to help him town, but just when Shakru was hesitating, Liu Zi'an suddenly made him change his mind. (To be continued.) )