"What's going on in this matter? How can people say it..."

Ruan Phuket frowned, and the expression on her face could not be said to be because she wanted to cry or laugh, and she was extremely entangled.

"Let me say it." Liang Dongming took over the conversation for Ruan Phuc Gen and said, "After we consigned the land, we hired some agricultural technicians from China, mainly responsible for technical matters. The labor in the fields must be done by local people. We posted a recruitment notice, and the salary paid was equal to twice the level of ordinary local workers. I have visited their countryside specifically. The farmers here are very poor. Giving them a dollar a day is enough for their family to have enough food, which is much better than being idle at home all day."

"What then?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Liang Dongming spread his hands: "There are very few people coming to apply for the job. The local blacks would rather go hungry than come to work here."

"Why is this?" Feng Xiaochen's curiosity was aroused.

Liang Dongming said: "I didn't know at first. Later, those black men who applied for the job asked me for salary after just two days of working. I said that they could not pay their salary before the end of the month, so they said they would lend them their salary for the past two days. I thought that it might be because their family had something urgent to use money, so they paid them a salary. As a result, they got their salary and went to buy cigarettes and alcohol, and took their whole family to a restaurant for dinner. They spent all the money, and then came back to work, and then had to borrow their salary."

Feng Xiaochen roughly understood and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

Ruan Phucgen said: "Once Lao Liang talks about this, we will understand. The people here are not like us Chinese. We make some money, and we always think about the long flow of water and can't spend it all at once. We should save a little just in case. The people here are all drunk today and drunk tomorrow without rice tomorrow. They are in so much land they are unwilling to plant because they can't wait for the harvest. What we recruit is that the salary is settled monthly, and they can't wait, so they are unwilling to come to work."

Liang Dongming smiled and said, "After we understood this, we changed the recruitment conditions and stipulated that the salary would be paid every day, so that we could get a day's money by working one day. As a result, thousands of people came to sign up at once, and they worked very hard, which was more motivated than hiring people in China."

"Haha, so that's how it is." Feng Xiaochen laughed. He had heard people talk about this before, but he didn't pay much attention. Now when Ruan Phuchen and others said that, he realized that Africans do have such characteristics. If they can contribute to their preferences, these people are actually very good laborers.

There is a concept in economics called "resource curse". It roughly means that a country with rich resources can lead a better life without putting too much effort into a country. Therefore, the country will lose the motivation to innovate and will eventually become a backward country.

Many places in Africa have a tropical climate and are rich in vegetation. People can survive by collecting wild fruits, thus developing the habit of instant fun. In contrast, China has a large population and a small land area, and its survival depends entirely on the production of land. A year of hard work can only obtain food for the whole family. If the farming time is delayed a little, they will go hungry. Such geographical conditions cause the Chinese to always feel crisis and dare not slack off. This habit can still be preserved even in the industrial era.

According to data released by international organizations, the savings rate of Chinese residents is the highest in the world, far higher than that of developed Western countries. Some people interpret this as the "bad nature" of the Chinese people, and they also say that this is because the Chinese system cannot guarantee medical care and pension, so the people have to save money. In fact, this is precisely a virtue of the Chinese. American financial experts believe that individuals should have savings that can guarantee more than half a year of expenditure, which is a manifestation of financial health, and most Americans cannot do this at all.

The same is true in Africa, South Asia, Latin America and other places. The richer the resources, the more backward the economy will be. This is the magic of the resource curse.

Speaking of this, Ruan Phucang and others started talking about interesting things about hiring local black people. According to them, after adopting this daily wage payment method, they no longer have to worry about employment. Every day, a large number of people are waiting to be recruited. Some people settled their wages that day, but they stopped coming to work the next day because their family already had the food for the day. Only when these foods were finished would they come back to work and make money. Ruan Phucang and others are now accustomed to this highly mobile way of employment. If these people don’t come to work, they will hire others. After two days, it turns out that the group of people is back, and they are still familiar faces and don’t even need training.

Africa's economic development level is not as good as other regions, but the people are no longer satisfied with eating and clothing, but have other needs, such as using mobile phones. With these black people's habit of eating food for the first time, it is naturally difficult for them to save money to buy mobile phones. So, Nguyen Phucen and others came up with a method of renting mobile phones, which stipulates that as long as you work on a farm for one day, you can get the right to use your mobile phone for one day. After one year of use, the mobile phone belongs to the other party. Once such a policy was introduced, more than twice as many people apply for jobs, and the continuity of work was guaranteed.

"I thought, if I continue to do this, it will take a few years for these people to learn to save money." Liang Dongming commented with a smile.

"If these locals can really learn to save money, you will have great merits." Feng Xiaochen said with emotion.

"Yes, if we could do it for more than ten years or twenty years, this place would definitely change a lot," said Nguyen Phuc.

Feng Xiaochen looked at Ruan Phucgen and asked, "Why, Lao Ruan, has things changed?"

It is not surprising that Feng Xiaochen asked this, because this is an obvious thing. Ruan Phuchen and the others have gone around so many twists and told Feng Xiaochen that they rented land, and they obviously wouldn't be having enough to chat with them. They said that the profits of renting land in the past few years were good, but the latter sentence naturally means that the situation has changed now. Feng Xiaochen has this self-knowledge and knows that he is not a young and handsome guy who is ashamed of flowers and moon. Ruan Phuchen and the others come to Kandai, not to chase stars.

Sure enough, Ruan Phucang sighed and said, "Oh, we worked hard to develop the land, irrigation facilities, and farmers were cultivated. As a result, people did not let us rent it."

"Why?" Feng Xiaochen frowned and asked.

"Someone can compete." Wan Guansheng said, "Someone has given the Gosnell government better conditions and asked us to take back our land and plant it for him, so we can't plant it."

"European?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Nguyen Phuc Gen sneered: "It's us Chinese."

Feng Xiaochen suddenly became serious: "What's going on? Lao Ruan, please explain the matter to me clearly."

The matter is actually very simple. When Nguyen Phuchen and his friends rented land in Gosnell, the benefits of running farms in Africa were not obvious, so no one in China came to compete with them. In the past two years, most of the companies and individuals who run farms have made money. The statement that running a farm in Africa can make a fortune has gradually become popular in China. Therefore, more and more Chinese people went to Africa to rent land, forming a competitive relationship with the people who originally rented land.

There are many wastelands that Gosner can explore, but because Nguyen Phuchen and others came early, they chose a piece of land with good transportation and water conditions. After two or three years of development, the land has gradually changed from raw land to mature land. The development model is ready-made, which is much better than reclaiming wasteland.

So, a company from China looked at Nguyen Phucen and his farm and came to negotiate with the farm's person in charge and asked them to subcontract the land to this company. Subcontracting is of course also allowed, but whether it is subcontracting land, subcontracting factories, shops, etc., there are subcontracting fees. For example, I rented a store for a rent of 500,000 yuan a year. I have been operating for two years and have become popular. If you want to subcontract from me, in addition to having to bear the 500,000 yuan rent, you also need to pay an additional subcontracting fee for me. This is a practice in the industry.

This company also agreed to pay the subcontract fee, but it only costs 10 yuan per mu, and 10,000 hectares of land is less than 2 million. This is almost humiliating people like Nguyen Phucen. You know, based on Nguyen Phucen's wealth alone, the value of staying in Africa for a few days is more than 2 million. Isn't it a delusion to use such subcontract fee to take away the land he had been operating for several years?

Ruan Phuchen and others arranged for the management staff on the farm to make decisions without authorization, and reported this matter to Ng Phuchen and others via long-distance phone calls. Several bosses were furious when they heard about this, but considering that the farm was abroad and it was not advisable to cause trouble, they told the farm manager not to conflict with the other party, but just politely refused. If the same thing was put in China, it would be reasonable if Ng Phuchen and others did not hire anyone to beat the other party.

Who would have thought that after being rejected, the other party did not give up, but contacted the police in Gosnell and began to trouble these farms, hoping to force them to give up the lease and subcontract the land to this company. The farm could still deal with it at the beginning, but as the other party's methods continued to increase, the farm's head could no longer bear it and asked for help from the country, which led to the trip to Africa by Nguyen Phucen and others.

"This kind of thing is not uncommon." Du Xiaoyuan interrupted after hearing Ruan Phucen and others' narrative come to an end.

"At first of all this?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Du Xiaoyuan said: "Similar things have happened in industrial parks everywhere. Some domestic companies desperately suppress prices or bribe local officials in order to grab the market, with the purpose of excluding their peers. Many companies say that they are not afraid of competing with foreign companies. Whether it is local companies in Africa or Western countries, they have enough strength to win in the competition. The only thing they are afraid of is to compete with our own companies in China. No matter whether they compete for winning or losing, they are our own people."
Chapter completed!