Ceylon.

Gem City.

In a temporary press conference hall.

Diess and Liu Zhifan, president of Aoba Group, shook hands, and the reporters and photographers around them immediately took pictures of the two of them with their cameras.

Soon the two signed the contract.

This collaboration was a big surprise.

The main content of the cooperation is that the Aoba Group will sell 2 million tons of rice to Ceylon at a low price every year, in exchange for the sale of the operating rights of the three ports of Ceylon to the Aoba Group, with the right to develop 30 square kilometers of land near the ports, for a contract period of 99 years.

The three ports are Galle Port in the south, Trincomalee Port in the east, and Sile Port in the north.

In order to ensure the food supply of the Aoba Group, the three ports operated by the Aoba Group only need to pay a usage fee of 3 million gold yuan per year, and all other taxes are exempted.

The reporters present, or the heads of major foreign companies and consuls of various countries, all thought that Diess was crazy.

But he's not crazy, he's the best option right now.

Meanwhile.

In the chaotic port of Colombo, law and order have finally been restored in the past few days.

The old North Port area, after being renovated, finally ushered in the first batch of "guests", and four container and grain carriers slowly docked in the berths of the port.

And the South Port District, which is the Colombo Port Management Company controlled by China Merchants Corporation.

At this time, Huang Zhenguo, the manager of the company, was standing in an office on the upper floor of the office building, and he looked out at the situation in Beigang.

"Aoba Group? Aren't they afraid of losing their money? ”

Ye Xiaofei, the deputy manager on the side, shrugged: "If you can win the long-term operation rights of the three ports, plus the surrounding land, it will be reluctant." ”

Huang Zhenguo took off his work clothes and changed into a set of casual clothes: "Let's take a few people to Colombo city to have a look." ”

A group of people drove heavy bulletproof off-road vehicles and appeared in the city of Colombo in a low-key manner.

After a while, they saw a large number of residents queuing.

Park your car in the shade of a roadside tree not far away.

Huang Zhenguo and Ye Xiaofei looked at the queuing residents outside the car window, and at the end of the crowd was a green leaf supermarket that had been open for more than half a year this year.

However, at this time, Aoba Supermarket had merged more than 20 stores in the surrounding area, and after opening these stores, they were transformed into temporary sales counters.

More than a dozen gas trucks are parked nearby, and hundreds of hired laborers are busy moving supplies from the trucks' containers.

"Go down and have a look!" Huang Zhenguo proposed.

"Do you want to wait?" Ye Xiaofei was a little worried.

But Huang Zhenguo shook his head and pointed to a few corners of the street: "Do you see it, they are all heavily armed soldiers." ”

Ye Xiaofei observed it and found that there were indeed many soldiers standing guard in groups of three or five, these soldiers occupied key points on the street, and even he found that his off-road vehicle had a few eyes staring.

Opening the car door, the two approached a store that didn't even have glass windows, and there were more than a dozen large refrigerators inside, and they heard the sound of the engine coming from the back of the store.

Inside the refrigerator are frozen chicken breasts, chicken wings, chicken thighs, pork, and the like.

Just seeing the price on the label, Ye Xiaofei frowned, and said in a low voice: "Only accept gold yuan?" Aren't they worried about trouble on the Ceylonese side? And do the Ceyloneseans have gold dollars? ”

Huang Zhenguo pointed a few hundred meters away: "Maybe the answer is over there!" ”

Ye Xiaofei turned his head.

Aoba Bank?

The two of them walked over and came to the gate of the Aoba Bank, where it was written that they would accept the exchange of gold and silver for gold dollars, and at the same time provide secured loans and asset acquisition services.

No gold dollars?

That's not it.

As soon as the Aoba Group entered Colombo, it quickly started recruiting and successively laid supermarkets, banks, restaurants, properties, gas, electricity, water, ports, warehousing, logistics, hospitals, pharmacies, taxis, construction companies, and so on.

Colombo, with a population of just over 600,000, was sucked away from tens of thousands of laborers at once.

As the grain, various materials and equipment mobilized by the Aoba Group from Hungshawady arrived at various ports in Ceylon one after another, the people who were still making noise before suddenly quieted down.

The world is big, and the dry rice is the biggest.

Tens of thousands of employees and their families have instantly made the Aoba Group a force that accounts for nearly half of the population in Colombo, which is simply terrifying.

Whoever dares to touch the Aoba Group's industry in Colombo now will be beaten by local residents in that minute.

Huang Zhenguo and Ye Xiaofei went to a local restaurant where they often frequented to eat.

When the restaurant owner saw the two of them, he greeted them with a smile: "Hello! Yellow, leaf, eat? Finally got the lamb and onions today. ”

Huang Zhenguo ordered a few dishes according to his usual habits, found a random table and sat down, and through the glass window, there were a lot more trucks and vans on the street.

It's just that something is not right at the moment, because a large part of the trucks and vans are vehicles with the Aoba car logo on them.

After the restaurant owner ordered the back kitchen, he came over with a few bottles of Aoba Coke: "Now there is only this Coke, don't you mind?" ”

"It's okay." Huang Zhenguo smiled and shook his head.

Ye Xiaofei asked in a low voice, "Singh, your ingredients should have been purchased from Qingye Supermarket, right?" ”

"Well, there's no way, there are cheap ingredients in this supermarket now, although you need identification." Singh helplessly spread his hands.

"Where did you get the gold dollar?" Ye Xiaofei asked half-jokingly.

Hearing this, Singh had a wry smile on his face: "I took my wife's gold jewelry and went to that bank to mortgage 80,000 gold yuan." ”

"How's business going now?" After Huang Zhenguo finished speaking, he took another look at the attendance in the restaurant and found that it was less than one-third of what it was before.

Singh looked depressed: "Very bad, now many people don't have gold yuan, so they can only rely on relief meals, let alone come to the restaurant." ”

"At least you have to eat." Huang Zhenguo took a sip of Coke.

"Let's hope the economy recovers soon!" Singh looked expectantly at the bustling streets outside.

But Huang Zhenguo secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, obviously the locals like Singh did not realize the seriousness of the matter and the ferocity of the Aoba group.

You know, Honsavady has been completely swallowed up by the three major groups, and it is difficult for small private companies to survive on the territory of giant enterprises.

It's like a tropical rainforest under a towering tree, where other plants have little room to live in.

After eating a meal.

Huang Zhenguo and his entourage wandered around the streets of Colombo City again, although the previous bankruptcy had brought a great negative impact to the people of Ceylon, but with the full intervention of the Aoba Group, it was barely back to normal.

Both of them had a lot on their minds along the way.

After returning to the office building of the port management company.

Standing in front of the window, Huang Zhenguo took a sip of cold white open:

"Whew...... It's terrible, this Aoba group is terrible. ”

"It's really scary, if there is no restriction, then this kind of giant enterprise will quickly swallow up all the industries in a region, and once it is won by the other party, it will be very difficult to drive away the giant enterprise in the future." Ye Xiaofei's expression was also very solemn.

As Ye Xiaofei said, the reason why giant enterprises are giant enterprises is because of their huge scale and interlocking industrial chain.

When the employees of giant enterprises occupy the vast majority of the local population, restricting or divesting giant enterprises is tantamount to disemboweling yourself.

"Business at the Port of Colombo is worrying!" Huang Zhenguo's words were full of sorrow and worry.

After seeing the horror of the Aoba Group, he didn't think that the China Merchants Company could easily gain a foothold in the Port of Colombo, and he would inevitably be targeted by the other party in the future.

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