Chapter 51: Buying a Piece of Land
In the Pacific Ocean, Lee Ming-woo sat in the cabin and pondered.
The development of the country is undoubtedly a failure, under a mature political system, all industries are developing according to the established line, and the rentier forces of the old productive forces are too large, whether for the sake of stability or profit, they will not allow Li Mingyu to become the dominant one.
All the results have become someone else's wedding dress.
Where to go next?
The parents in China have cut off contact with Li Mingyu on the Internet, but they don't have to worry about the Zheng family going to find any trouble.
There are not thousands of people named Li Mingyu in the country, but also hundreds, and it is still a little difficult to find his parents in the absence of household registration information, not to mention that there are androids on the parents' side to protect them, and there is no danger at the time.
There is no going back to China now, and Li Mingyu, who is in exile overseas, has begun to think about where to start with his new starting point.
A world map was projected on the steel wall of the cabin, and Li Mingyu looked at the map carefully, choosing the end point of the voyage.
It is necessary to have abundant oil and gas resources, rich mineral resources, and close to the equator.
Gulf of Guinea?
Lee Mingyu quickly locked on a location.
"Poor is a little poor, but it doesn't matter, what I have is money!" Li Mingyu touched his chin and said to himself.
Several androids rushed over from the far horizon, which was temporarily adjusted by Li Mingyu before he decided to leave, except for the gold in this cabin, these androids were all his family property.
The exchange of cash for gold was made in response to the current situation.
In backward countries, sometimes gold is the hard currency.
A bionic man holds a folded industrial-grade 3D printer and a can of olefin-3 polymer materials, and stretches the printer out on the cabin.
The horsepower of this ship is very low, and Li Mingyu is still very close to the coastline at present, and if they send warships to intercept it, Li Mingyu is still very dangerous.
After the printer was filled with olefin-3 polymer material, it immediately twisted the robotic arm and began to print.
An external propeller was quickly formed under the printing of the robotic arm, and it only took ten minutes for an industrial-grade 3D printer to complete the printing of such a non-technical printing product.
The android mounted the newly printed outboard propellers on both sides of the cabin, and then placed plasma fuel rods into the propeller's engine.
With the blessing of high-energy fuel, the external propeller spun rapidly, driving the cargo ship forward quickly, leaving a string of white waves on the sea, Li Mingyu looked back at the land that was gradually moving away, and his eyes gradually deepened.
"Wait, you'll regret that day." Li Mingyu said to himself.
A day later, Lee's ship docked in the Gulf of Guinea.
When you set foot on the land again, you can see endless forests and towering mountains, sparse crowds of people selling primitive materials on the coast, vegetables, fruits, timber, ores, except for the vicinity of the port, there are hardly any concrete buildings here, and the desolate scene comes into view, making Li Mingyu wonder if it is the right choice to develop here.
Lee Mingwoo didn't want to start developing in a coastal port, he wanted to go deeper.
The long coastline is too difficult to defend, and Li Mingyu, who has been playing house repair games for a long time, knows it well, and he is ready to go inland to find a relatively flat place close to the equator.
In the port city of exchanging bits and pieces of gold for some local currency, Li Mingyu bought a truck as a means of transportation, and asked the port crane to load the entire ship onto the truck and then drove deep into the rainforest.
After driving deep into the rainforest for two or three hours, a small town came into view.
It is said to be a town, but it is actually a gathering place of residents, with uneven levels of houses, some made of concrete, some made of wood, and a concrete road interspersed through the center of the small town, along which the houses of the residents are built.
The road is very narrow, and the android walks cautiously on the road in a large truck, for fear of crushing the inferior road.
As you walk along the road, there are fewer and fewer wooden houses and more concrete ones, but these houses are all low, and you can hardly see buildings longer than three floors.
Through Xiaoyu's online search, this is a small country in the Congo Basin called Wakaba, the whole country is in the primeval rainforest, the hot and humid climate is not suitable for human survival, but animals and plants are like fish in water here.
The inhabitants of the area lived a very primitive life, and the outside world could hardly influence it, and although the government was formed here, it was not strong due to the influence of the warlords in the northeast.
Thankfully, it's so poor that even warlords don't bother to patronize it.
As we drove all the way to the end of the road, a town that looked a bit like a rural-urban junction came into view.
Li Mingyu rubbed his eyes in disbelief, a little unable to believe what he saw with his eyes.
"This pedal is the capital of a country? The house in my old town is better than this. Li Mingyu said in surprise.
The children of the town were running barefoot around the land, and they saw a truck approaching with a new look.
After getting out of the truck and looking at the endless primeval forest in front of him, Li Mingyu let out a long breath.
Poor! It's so poor!
Two days ago, he was still living the kind of life in Changzhou City, and when he returned to the primitive society, Li Mingyu really couldn't get used to it.
However, Li Mingyu, who was obsessed with sandbox games, quickly adjusted his mentality, isn't the fun of sandbox games just to start building from nothing, but just moving to the real world, anyway, it won't be himself who does it in the end.
Wearing a suit of hundreds of thousands, Li Mingyu almost wrote a few words on the door of his head, and walked to the country's diplomatic department according to the guidance of this Xiaoyu.
In a small two-story building, a swarthy old man in his fifties was sitting on a seat resting, the weather was so hot that it was too hot to cheer up.
Li Mingyu took off his coat and held it in his hand, and stepped into the building wearing a fancy shirt.
"Hey! Anyone? Li Mingyu shouted in a non-standard local dialect.
Of course, he can't speak the local language, but with Xiaoyu translating in his ear, there is nothing wrong with bluffing.
"What are you going to do, sir?" The swarthy old man was woken up by Li Mingyu, and when he saw his neat suit, he hurriedly greeted him warmly.
"Investment, I'm going to come here to invest and set up a factory." Li Mingyu replied with a smile.
Hearing the word investment, the old man's eyes immediately lit up, and no one had come to him for many years to do investment business.
It's so poor, there's no mineral resources to get hold of, it's far from the port, there's no timber business, it's a hot climate that's not suitable for tourism, and the old people have hardly seen anyone except for some explorers who come here.
"Invest in a factory? Okay, okay? Sir, how large a factory are you going to build, I will report to our President at once, he went to the United Nations the day before yesterday to apply for international relief, and he will be back today, or you will sit and wait. The old man beckoned to Li Mingyu as he turned on the only fan in the room.
"Whew!" The hot climate made Li Mingyu a little dizzy, the wind from the fan was hot, and the thin shirt was worn on his body, and he was completely wet with sweat after a while.
"No, I can't stand it, you go and take down the air conditioner from the truck." Li Mingyu said to the android.
The android got up and went out the door, and soon entered the house with a tattered car air conditioner, and after connecting it with plasma fuel power generation, a cool air with a strong smell of engine oil blew on Li Mingyu's face.
Li Mingyu frowned, forget it, the conditions are difficult, bear with it.
Taking the bag held by the android, Li Mingyu poured the Congo coins in the bag on the table, a bundle of one million yuan, almost a dozen bundles, the face value of the Congo currency is very large, and the volume of more than a dozen bundles of Congo coins is the size of a plastic bag.
The exchange rate of the Congolese currency is very low, and when converted into the currency of the country, these tens of millions of Congolese dollars are only hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is not a large amount.
Although this money is nothing in China, it is an astronomical amount for the elderly.
A few dozen Congolese coins can buy a pound of grain, and tens of millions of Congolese coins can buy how much grain?
The purchasing power of the Congolese currency in this country is still very strong.
"Wait a minute, I'll give the President a call." The old man poured Li Mingyu a glass of water and said enthusiastically.
There was a landline in the building, and soon the phone was connected, and the president on the other end of the phone said that he was on his way back and that he would be there in ten minutes.
When Li Mingyu heard that he would arrive in ten minutes, he couldn't help but be a little curious about what this president of Wakaba looked like.
Carrying the car air conditioner and moving a small bench to sit at the door of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Wakaba, Li Mingyu ate the special fruit handed by the swarthy old man, and waited for the arrival of the president.
Ten minutes later, a small car full of dust drove slowly from the road.
The car is not a luxury car, and it is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in China, and the identity of the president is really a bit cheap.
The car drove to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Wakaba, and a middle-aged man with dark skin in a suit and leather shoes stepped out of the car, wearing black-rimmed glasses and looking sven.
"Hello hello, you are the gentleman who is ready to invest in Wakaba, right? I am Uma, the president of Wakaba. The dark-skinned middle-aged man, who spoke fluent English, introduced himself while holding Li Mingyu's hand.
If you don't look at the surrounding environment, don't look at his dusty car, and people who just look at him want to say that he is the president, Li Mingyu still believes it.
Shaking hands with President Wuma, Li Mingyu said in the local language: "Hello Mr. President, I am Li Mingyu, the environment of your country is very good, I like it very much, I plan to build some industries here, and I hope you can give some policy convenience." ”
Li Mingyu said bluntly:
"I'm going to buy a piece of land!"