After lunch, Lai Shengli separated from Ahhasi and the others.

In addition to having an exclusive office in the commodity trade center, COFCO also leases a 15-storey office building in Yangon, with the lower seven floors for office space and the upper eight floors for staff dormitories.

Usually every afternoon, Lai Shengli and another deputy manager will change guards, and the other party will go to the commodity trade center to sit in the town, and go back to the branch office by himself.

In order to save costs, many multinational companies do not even rent office buildings, but directly choose the exclusive office of the commodity trade center as the office location.

After a busy day in the office, Lai Shengli looked at his watch and found that it was already 5:40 in the evening.

After instructing the assistant about some things, he went directly to the dormitory on the 15th floor, and came to see his wife Wang Lizhu and daughter Lai Xiaoni from China, and also rested all day.

Lai Shengli changed into a set of short-sleeved casual clothes, and then asked his wife, who was watching TV, "Do you want to take a stroll in Yangon?" ”

Wang Lizhu turned her head to look at her daughter: "Xiaoni, do you want to go shopping?" ”

Lai Xiaoni, who only came back from studying in Australia this year, knocked on her laptop with an indifferent face: "I don't care, you decide!" ”

Lai Shengli made a decision directly: "Then let's go shopping!" Xiaoni, you can also observe Yangon, which will help you do finance in the future. ”

"I don't think there's anything to see in Yangon." Lai Xiaoni closed her laptop and shrugged her shoulders with contempt.

As a master's degree in finance, Lai Xiaoni actually searched the financial system and rules of Honsavady on the Internet before coming to Yangon.

After seeing Honsavady's finite gold standard monetary policy, she knew the future of the place was in jeopardy.

The gold standard looks very good, the problem is that the production of gold is limited, plus the industrial value of gold is not irreplaceable.

If Hungsavwady does not change the gold standard in the future, the upper limit of currency issuance will be two or three times the amount of gold reserves at most.

This can lead to the scarcity of money, which in turn leads to deflation, which is not conducive to the development of the economy.

Of course, Lai Xiaoni also saw the intention of Honsawady, the currency is anchored to gold and advantageous goods, as long as the exchange can be guaranteed, it can indeed make the gold dollar very strong.

It's a pity that this model, with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system back then, has long become anachronistic.

Gold is finite after all.

Lai Shengli didn't think too much about it, and directly handed his wife and daughter a few thousand gold yuan in cash: "Everything is good here, but it's troublesome that you can't exchange gold dollars directly, and the company only gives me 50,000 gold yuan every month." ”

"Dad, do you think other people are fools? If foreign currencies were allowed to be exchanged for gold dollars, hundreds of tons of gold in Honsavady would be drained by other countries in less than a day. Lai Xiaoni rolled her eyes.

Lai Shengli shook his head with a smile while closing the door: "Of course I know, but such restrictions are too big, and you have to be careful if you want to buy something." ”

Went downstairs.

As the sun sets over the city of Yangon, the streets are mixed with the golden glow of the setting sun.

COFCO's office building, on this street, is full of all kinds of large and small office buildings.

However, the three of them did not take the car, it was a walk in the evening breeze.

As I walked, I came to the intersection of another street.

There is a large supermarket at the intersection.

Lai Shengli glanced at the signboard and instantly knew that this was one of the subsidiaries of the United Group.

Wang Lizhu, a wife who likes to go to the supermarket, pulled the father and daughter into the United Supermarket, and as soon as they entered the supermarket, a cold wind made people get goosebumps all over their bodies.

Lai Shengli pushed the shopping cart, and Wang Lizhu selected the goods.

Lai Xiaoni, who felt a little bored, picked up a bag of freeze-dried jackfruit, with a net content of one kilogram, and the price was 0.5 gold yuan.

She looked at the other fruits on the shelves.

A pack of pitted durian meat (1 kg) is 4.5 yuan......

Black Vajra Lotus Mist 1.5 yuan for a pack (1 kg......

A pack of bananas (2 kg) is 2.3 yuan......

A pack of concubine laughing lychees (1 kg) is 2.2 yuan......

This price made Lai Xiaoni a little surprised, she secretly converted the exchange rate in her heart, and found that this price was very cheap.

"Dad, what is the median salary in Honsavady?"

Lai Shengli, who was pushing the shopping cart, was stunned for a moment: "Uh...... It's about 3,000 gold dollars a month! ”

“3000？” Lai Xiaoni quickly crossed the tropical fruit section and entered the vegetable section.

After a cursory look, the price of vegetables here is also not high.

In units of 1 kg, carrots are 0.7 yuan, tomatoes are 0.6 yuan, cucumbers are 0.8 yuan, yellow onions are 0.8 yuan, cream cabbage is 1 yuan, cabbage is 0.6 yuan, white radish is 0.6 yuan, loofah is 0.9 yuan, and macaroni is 0.6 yuan......

Then she went to the meat section again.

The same is in units of 1 kg, chicken breast is 7.2 yuan, chicken thigh is 8.1 yuan, pork belly is 16.6 yuan, pork leg meat is 15.5 yuan, boneless pork rib is 17.5 yuan, pork loin is 16.2 yuan, lamb leg meat is 22 yuan, beef eye meat is 38.4 yuan, beef brisket is 32.6 yuan, and beef short rib is 42 yuan......

"That's pretty cheap!"

Lai Shengli shook his head: "You can get a 7.5% discount by using the employee card of the United Group, and there are also discounts on holidays." ”

"The United Group? The one that is one of the three major consortia in Honsavady? If someone else spends with an employee card, isn't there a loophole? Lai Xiaoni found the problem in an instant.

But Lai Shengli explained with a smile: "They deliberately let the employee cards flood out, even if it is a 7.5% discount, the three major groups are still profitable." ”

Lai Xiaoni gasped.

The price of goods is simply too low.

"Honsavady has a large population, right?"

"It's about 57 million now." Lai Shengli replied as he picked up a large bag of packed two-kilogram boneless beef ribs and put them in his shopping cart.

"With almost twice the population of Australia, how do they maintain such a huge food supply?"

Lai Shengli shrugged: "Not only can they be self-sufficient, they can also export a lot, in the first two quarters of this year, the country imported 23.25 million tons of roughage and 2.8 million tons of rice from Honsavady. ”

"......" Lai Xiaoni was shocked.

Her previous impression of Honsavady was that it was a backward and chaotic zone, and even if there had been changes in the past few years, it should not have changed so much.

What does she see now?

A "quasi-developed country" with extremely good welfare and extremely low prices?

If the purchasing power of the currency against food is calculated at the level of the average median income of Honsavady at 3,000 per month, then Honsavady has basically reached the standard of developed countries.

After all, in a developed country like Germany, the median income of ordinary people is more than 2,000 euros per month after tax, and its prices are about the same.

Lai Shengli himself felt a little skeptical about life at first, but after living in Yangon for more than half a year, he gradually figured out the key to it:

"This is something that I can't envy, after all, the natural conditions in Honsavady are too favorable for agriculture."

In fact, Lai Shengli still has some words to say, and the key to Honsawady's rapid rise in the median income of residents is not entirely dependent on agricultural potential, but on the pervasive business model of the three major groups.

"I suddenly became a little interested in this place." Lai Xiaoni's eyes showed a glimmer of seeking the truth.

And her mother, Wang Lizhu, was made a little difficult to choose by the cheap agricultural products on the shelves.

Just to visit the supermarket, the three of them walked for more than an hour.

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