"Isn't Mao Zi very rich, including clothes, ceramic dishes, metal knives and forks, and kitchen supplies? How come he has never seen the market? He is interested in these ordinary things and can't even move forward?"
Seeing the Maozi inspection personnel applauding and praising the contents of the container, many people were still coming up to buy the items while they were being inspected on the ground. Wang Jianjun, who was standing not far away, was very surprised and couldn't help but underestimate it.
"Maozi's economy is quite biased. The total economic output alone far exceeds ours, several times that of ours. However, the developed heavy industry can rival or even surpass us, but the light industry is terrible.
Not to mention simple lamps, home appliances, and clocks, even sanitary napkins cannot be produced and need to be imported from us. "
"Sanitary napkins, does Eastern Group produce these?" Wang Jianjun asked.
Wang Jianjun knew something about the bathroom. It was for women, and his wife used it often.
It's just that this thing is only available in Xiangjiang and doesn't seem to be seen much in the mainland. Every time my wife goes home to visit relatives, she has to bring back a big bag to share with her former sisters.
"Of course we don't produce them. Not only does Oriental Group not do it, but there are also few domestic companies that can produce new sanitary napkins. Due to living habits and prices, there is very little demand for this.
If you purchase from European and American countries, the price is too high, so the gain outweighs the loss if you sell it. " Jiang Lang smiled as he thought of how he almost fell over when he saw the purchase list sent by Mao Xiong, which was so densely packed with needed things.
"Since the gains outweigh the losses, should we give up?" Wang Jianjun asked.
"How is it possible to give up? Mr. Lei said, how can we give up a profitable business? Since there is no such thing in the country, we can just produce it ourselves.
Anyway, if we no longer need the furry bears in the future, we can also export them to domestic sales.
So everything from equipment to raw materials was introduced, and production was carried out while researching on technology. In just three months, the first batch of sanitary napkins was produced.
The quality is worse than that of foreign products, barely reaching 80%, but the price is much cheaper. Ten pieces are equivalent to the price of one. Even if we double the price and add in shipping costs, the price on the big and small counters will be overpriced by European and American brands. Half the price.
In a short period of time, we have occupied the markets of all Maoxiong franchise countries. We have occupied all European and American products, except for the high-end market where there is demand. "Jiang Lang continued to laugh.
"After working with Mao Xiong for several years, I finally understood that making products cheap is not an easy thing. Mao Xiong is not good because they have toiled themselves.
Europe and the United States are not good because their labor is too expensive, and only we can do it. The dividends brought by the population of 1.1 billion are too great.
Nowadays, Oriental Group's products are not only selling well in the countries where Mao Xiong has joined, but the markets in European countries have also opened up, earning the country countless foreign exchanges every year. "
"Mao Xiong tortures himself, Brother Jiang, can you tell me in detail? I like to hear the gossip of Mao Xiong the most, how they torture themselves." The younger Wang Jianguo said with a smile.
“There are too many examples of frustration, just like the land under our feet, the most important base of the Black Sea Fleet, used to be Mao’s territory.
But over fifty years ago, Uncle Corn, the boss of Mao Xiong at that time, had a brain cramp and wanted to make up for his guilt for Er Mao.
With a wave of his hand, Crimea was directly assigned to Ermao, so much so that now he and Ermao are quarreling over the Crimea issue so much that they are losing their minds.
Putting the Black Sea Fleet into the current embarrassment. "Jiang Lang pointed at Sevastopol Port with his right hand and joked.
"Uncle Corn?" Wang Jianguo was very unfamiliar with this name.
"That's Khrushchev, the leader of Mao Xiong in the 1950s." Jiang Lang explained, "The reason why we call him Uncle Corn is because when Uncle Corn came to power.
Mao Xiong encountered a food production crisis. In order to solve the food problem, Uncle Corn learned from the beautiful country and planted corn across the country.
However, Uncle Corn was born as a fitter and did not go through systematic study. When promoting the product, he did not consider the harsh geographical environment of Mao Xiong.
When corn is grown in high latitudes such as Central Asia, although some places have achieved bumper harvests, many more places have failed to harvest anything. This not only results in a great loss of face, but also wastes a lot of time and money.
Strictly speaking, Uncle Corn is right to attach great importance to agriculture. Food is the basis of national stability. The disintegration of Mao Xiong has a lot to do with the food problem.
But we cannot blindly expand the planting area for the sake of yield and make a decision on the head.
In fact, Khrushchev had a better way, which was to build water conservancy projects to increase grain output per acre. This is the case in our country. In recent years, due to the construction of chemical fertilizers, improved seeds, and water conservancy projects, grain production has doubled several times. "
"Brother Jiang is right, but Mao Xiong is so big and has so much land. There shouldn't be food shortages no matter what. How could it be?" He looked at Mao Zi happily carrying rice, noodles and cooking oil.
Wang Jianguo continued to ask.
"There are two aspects to the current situation of Maozi. The first is serious waste." Jiang Lang shrugged and said speechlessly, "Ermao is a famous grain-producing area in Europe, supplying the areas around Moscow.
In order to prepare grain, vegetables, and fruits to arrive in Moscow, special railway transportation has been set up. But even so, no one knows how many vegetables and fruits are wasted on the road every year.
Often vegetables that look beautiful when loaded onto the truck are so rotten that they are inedible when transported to Moscow.
Just ask!
It was all an error in transportation.
Either the shipment was delayed or the vegetables were crushed due to rough handling during transportation.
If in other countries, especially European and American countries, the owner of the goods could beat the railway department to death and ask them to compensate. If they ignored it, they would not use trains but cars to minimize losses.
But in Mao Xiong.
Because they are all public goods, they don't pay much attention to them. For officials, as long as the grain yield is satisfactory and it can be transported to the place, it is not their concern as to whether it can be eaten after it is transported.
Anyway, they are all irresistible factors, and the loss is a loss.
But it is these clearly avoidable factors that cause 25% or even 30% of the food produced by woolly bears to be wasted every year.
This amount can feed a large country with a population of tens of millions.
Why do furry bears, especially those with big fur, like to eat canned food so much, whether it is canned fruit, canned fish, or canned meat?
It’s because we can’t eat fresh ones. Can't buy it either.
In comparison, canned food is much better, with a shelf life of several months or even a year, and no matter how slow the transportation process is, the canned food will not deteriorate. "
"Tens of millions of tons of food are wasted every year, Maozi really is."
Jiang Lang's words opened the eyes of Wang Jianguo and others. They couldn't imagine that Mao Zi would make such a low-level mistake. Could it be that he was really not as smart as Jiang Lang said.
You really don’t know until you go abroad. I used to think that foreign countries were full of gold, but only after I came out did I realize that many places are not even as good as at home.
"Waste is only the first reason. No matter how you say it, Da Mao has inherited the rich legacy of Mao Xiong. The main reason why there is a serious food shortage is Da Mao's reforms.
Jiang Lang continued:
“I don’t know whether Lao Ye is a spy from Europe or the United States or has a fever. He actually believes in the deceptive plans of Europe and the United States. He believes that as long as shock therapy is used on the economy, the planned economy can be turned into a market economy in half a year.
Rely on the invisible hand of the market to solve the problems left by the economy during the Mao Xiong period and embark on the road to happiness and prosperity.
But he never thought about what would happen if economic reform failed.
Yes, shock therapy has been successful, and it was successful in Bolivia.
However, the key to success is that Bolivia is not small despite its size, covering nearly 1.1 million square kilometers.
But in terms of population, when the economic crisis occurred, there were less than 7 million people in the country.
With such a small population, as long as Western countries provide blood transfusions, they can eat enough if they miss something. Stabilize the situation
Not so with Da Mao.
This is a big country with a population of over 100 million and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of companies.
If such a large country wants to transform its economic system within half a year, it cannot be done even if the sun rises from the west.
Governing a big country is like cooking a small one. The process of reform needs to be carried out step by step. Especially when the alliance is disintegrated and the society is in extreme turmoil, strong medicine cannot be used and stability is needed.
Just like our country.
The economy began to transform in 1978, and now more than ten years later, it is still groping forward step by step. If Mao Zi wants to reach the sky in one step, he will only run into communism like we did back then, and then stumble.
Shock, shock!
For Da Mao, who needs stability, once the economic shock subsides, death is not far away. If a strongman does not appear, he is likely to go to the grave.
But that’s fine too.
If Da Mao and Er Mao were not unlucky, how could we make so much money, let alone poach hundreds of thousands of technical talents from the academies of sciences and major research institutes of Da Mao and Er Mao to go to the mainland.
Before I came to Mao Xiong, Mr. Lei told me that the most profitable time is when a country is being built or destroyed.
I didn’t understand it at the time!
When I arrived at Mao Xiong, I understood it only after experiencing its disintegration process.
So how crazy are officials who have lost their beliefs and ideals.
From an arsenal in a remote place, as long as they give them some living necessities and some US dollars, they can pull it in at will, without caring that these are the property of the country. "
"Brother Jiang, you must have made a lot of money in Mao Xiong for such a long time." Speaking of making money, the Wang brothers' eyes lit up.
"I've made a lot of hard-earned money, but it's far behind Mr. Lei." Jiang Lang shook his head, saying that what he earned was not worth mentioning compared to Lei Weidong.
"How much does Mr. Lei earn? Can you give me a hint?" Wang Jianguo asked in a low voice.
"I know exactly how much you earn, I can only tell you one figure.
This year alone, the Eastern Group has sold millions of tons of agricultural products and light industrial products in the Mao Xiong area, and only a portion of these materials have been sold for money.
Most of them were bartered in exchange for a large number of construction machinery that was in short supply in the country.
Among them, there are tens of thousands of heavy-duty military trucks, more than a hundred transport aircraft, bombers, and fighter jets, and as for others, there are tens of thousands of various engineering vehicles.
There are not only furry bears but also those from East Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania and other countries.
Among them, East German vehicles are the most popular in the country, especially the locomotives and carriages of trains.
Because the Type 24 passenger cars in the railway system introduced technology from East Germany, the locomotives and carriages can be used without modification and repainting after they are shipped to China.
They were robbed by the railway department and snatched away by various railway bureaus as soon as they got off the ship, which greatly increased the domestic railway transportation capacity.
As for those cooperative military factories.
Even the most precious 9-axis CNC machine tools can be dismantled and shipped to China, let alone other factories.
In short, it was a barter between us and Maozi!
Not only did it meet the needs of Maozi, but it also saved countless domestic factories. Millions or even tens of millions of people benefited from this transaction, and the domestic economy also increased by nearly six or even seven percentage points.
Last year, in 1991, domestic GTP was close to US$700 billion, and this year it is even higher. If not for the depreciation of the RMB, it is expected to be close to the US$9,000 mark. How much money do you think Mr. Lei can earn? "
Jiang Lang shrugged and said with a smile, "It is said that Mr. Lei has no appreciation for money because he has too much money in his hands. Earning more or less is just a number. Anyway, he will never be able to spend it all in his lifetime.
Only power and women interest him. "
"I have lost interest in money. Isn't it an exaggeration?"
The Wang brothers didn't believe what Jiang Lang said, but thinking about it, it was really possible. If you had a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars, it really didn't matter if you had a little more or a little less. You couldn't spend it all anyway.
"Okay, the time is coming. It's time to visit General Hronopoulos." Looking at his watch, he found that it was almost the appointed time. Jiang Lang took Wang Jianjun and others to the meeting place with General Hronopoulos. place.
"General Hronopoulos, this is the deposit for you." As soon as they met, Jiang Lang got straight to the point and asked Wang Jianjun and Wang Jianguo to hand over the prepared boxes.
"Where's Yuriolov, why didn't you see him?" He looked at a hundred dollar bill, a hundred dollar bill, and a full six hundred U.S. dollars lying quietly in two boxes.
General Hronopoulos' eyes kept smiling. The Eastern Bloc was so generous. No wonder so many people cooperated with it.
"Yuriorov contacted the aircraft carrier at the shipyard. I'm waiting for you to pick him up." Jiang Lang joked, pointing in the direction of the Black Sea Shipyard.
"Today next month, I will take the fleet to the Black Sea Shipyard and take the Varyan to Xiangjiang." Knowing that Jiang Lang was referring to what he said, General Hronopoulos laughed.
"Okay, my boss is waiting for the general in Xiangjiang. As for the materials you want and the departure fee we agreed to pay, they can be shipped by the end of the month.
Still delivering here. Seeing that General Hronopoulos agreed, Jiang Lang stretched out his right hand, "I hope this cooperation will be pleasant." "
"Happy cooperation." General Hronopoulos held his right hand with Jiang Lang and said seriously, "I hope you can help us. Shock treatment has dealt a big blow to our economy, and many people can no longer hold on. ”
With the progress of economic reform, even if Lei Weidong desperately transports materials, Mao Xiong is too big unless his industrial system can be revitalized.
Otherwise, external blood transfusion alone is not enough, no matter how thick the legacy left by Mao Xiong is. Shock therapy has been too destructive to Da Mao's economy and cannot be reversed by manpower.
