“Let’s talk about it, let’s say it.”

Nguyen Fungen frowned, the expression on his face could not say whether he wanted to cry or laugh, and was extremely entangled.

“Let me tell you.”Liang Dongming took over the words for Nguyen Fogen and said: "After we bagged the land, we hired some agricultural technicians from the country, mainly responsible for technical matters, and the labor in the field must be done by hiring locals."We posted job postings and gave wages twice as high as the average local worker.I went to their villages, and they were very poor farmers here, and giving them a dollar a day would be enough for their families to eat, much better than being idle at home all day.”

“And then what?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

Liang Dongming said, “There are very few people who have come to apply, and those local black people would rather be hungry than come to us to work.”

“Why is that?”Feng’s curiosity was caught.

He said, “I didn’t know it at first.Later, the black people who had applied for two days, just worked, asked for a salary, and I said that before the end of the month, they could not pay their wages, and they said that they would lend them their wages for the two days.I thought maybe there was something urgent about their family, so they paid their wages.As a result, they got their salary and went to buy cigarettes and alcohol, and took the whole family to eat at the restaurant.Spend the money clean, then come back to work, and then borrow a salary.”

Feng Xiaochen generally understood, and could not help but laugh heartily.

Nguyen Fogen said: "As soon as Lao Liang told us about this, we will understand."People here are not like Chinese.We make a little money, always think of the long flow of water, can not spend all at once, to save a little in case.All of them here are drunk today, and tomorrow there is no rice tomorrow.They are sorely desperate to plant because they can’t wait for the harvest.We recruit workers say that wages are settled on a monthly basis, and they can't wait, so they don't want to come to work."

Liang Dongming smiled: "After we understood this, we changed the recruitment conditions, stipulated the salary day, and you can take one day's money."As a result, thousands of people signed up, and they worked hard, more than we had hired people in the country.

"Ah, that is so."Feng Xiaochen laughed, this kind of thing, he had heard people before, but did not pay special attention.Now listen to Nguyen Fugen, they say, he found that Africans do have such characteristics, if they can do their best, these people are actually very good labor force.

There is a concept in economics, called the "resource curse", roughly said that countries with rich resources, the people do not have to pay too much effort, can live a better life, so the country has no incentive to innovate, but will eventually become a backward country.

Many parts of Africa belong to the tropical climate, rich in vegetation, people can survive just by collecting wild fruits, and thus also develop the habit of instant happiness.In contrast, in China, there are many people, survival depends entirely on the production of land, a year of hard work to get the family's rations, a little delay in the agricultural, will starve.Such geographical conditions have led to the Chinese people's sense of crisis at all times, and they dare not slack off.This habit was retained even in the industrial age.

According to data released by international organizations, the savings rate of Chinese residents is the highest in the world, far higher than that of Western developed countries.Some people interpret this as the "inferior nature" of the Chinese people, and say that this is because the Chinese system cannot guarantee medical care and old-age care, so the people have to save money.In fact, this is a virtue of the Chinese people.Financial experts in the United States believe that individuals should have savings that can guarantee spending more than half a year, which is a sign of financial health, and most Americans simply cannot do this.

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

At this point, the box of Nguyen Fungen and others opened up and began to gushed about their employment of local black people.According to them, after this pay-day settlement, they do not have to worry about the problem of employment, and a large number of people are waiting to be recruited every day.Some people settled their wages on the same day and did not come to work the next day, because the family already had the same day's rations, and only when these rations were finished, they would return to work to make money.Nguyen Fogen is now accustomed to this highly mobile way of working, these people do not come to work, they hire others, waiting for two days, the original group of people came back, is still familiar with the face, even training is not necessary.

Africa's economic development is not as good as in other regions, but the people are no longer just satisfied with eating and dressing, but have other needs, such as the use of mobile phones.With the habit of eating food for these black people, it is naturally difficult to save money to buy mobile phones.So, Nguyen Fungen they came up with a way to rent a mobile phone, stipulating that as long as the farm is working for a day, you can get the right to use the mobile phone for one day, and with a year, the mobile phone will belong to the other party.As soon as such a policy was introduced, more than doubled the number of people applying for work, and the continuity of work was guaranteed.

“I thought, in doing this, it will take a few years for these people to learn to save money.”Liang Dongming commented with a smile.

"If you can really let these local people learn to save money, you are meritless."Feng Xiaochen said with emotion.

"Yes, if we could make such ten or twenty years, this place would certainly change."Nguyen Fogen said.

Feng Xiaochen looked at Nguyen Fugen and asked, “Why, Lao Nguyen, has things changed?”

It is not surprising that Feng Xiaochen asked this question, because it is a clear thing.Nguyen Fugen they went around so many bends, and told Feng Xiaochen that they were renting land, obviously not enough to eat and talk.They said that in the past few years, the income from renting land has been good, and the latter sentence is naturally to say that the situation has changed now.Feng Xiaochen has this self-knowledge, knowing that he is not ashamed to close the moon's small fresh meat, Nguyen Fungen they ran to the Kangdai, not to chase the stars.

Sure enough, Nguyen sighed and said, “Well, we worked hard to develop the land, the irrigation facilities were also made, and the farmers were trained, and as a result, we were not allowed to rent.”

“Why?”Feng Xiaochen’s eyebrows were wrinkled and asked.

“Someone is competing.”Wan said, “A better condition has been given to the Gossner government to take back our land and plant it for him, so we cannot sow it.”

“The Europeans?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

Nguyen Fugène sneered and said, “We Chinese are the Chinese.”

Feng Zhichen suddenly became serious: "What is this, Lao Nguyen, you tell me things."

When Nguyen Fogen rented land in Gosner, the benefits of farming in Africa were not obvious, so no one in the country came to compete with them.In the past two years, most of the enterprises and individuals who run farms have made money, and the argument that running a farm in Africa can be profitable has gradually become popular in China, so more and more people who go to African land rents have formed a competitive relationship with these people who have rented land.

Gosner can open up a lot of wasteland, but Nguyen Fugen because they came early, so they chose a piece of land with good transportation and water conditions, and after two or three years of development, the land has gradually become cooked, and the development model is ready-made, much stronger than reclamation of wasteland.

So a company from home looked at Nguyen Fungen’s farm and came to negotiate with the head of the farm and asked them to subcontract the land to the company.Subcontracting, of course, is also allowed, but whether it is subcontracting land, or subcontracting factories, shops, etc., there are subcontracting costs.For example, I rented a store for $500,000 a year.I have been in business for two years, formed a popular, you want to subcontract from me, in addition to bear the 500,000 rent, but also need to pay me an additional subcontract, this is the practice in the industry.

The company also promised to pay the subcontracting fee, but only 10 yuan per acre, 10,000 hectares of land is less than 2 million, which is almost humiliating these people.You know, just because of Nguyen Fogan's wealth, the value of staying in Africa for a few days is more than 2 million, the other side wants to use such a subcontract fee to take away the land he has operated for several years, is not wishful thinking?

Nguyen Fogen and others arranged in the farm management did not dare to take charge without authorization, through the long-distance phone call, the matter reported to Nguyen Fugen and others.Several bosses heard this matter, are furious, but considering that the farm is abroad, it is not appropriate to have more trouble, so they told the farm owner not to conflict with the other party, just to say no.If the same thing is put in the country, Nguyen Fugen, who does not hire people to hit each other's sultry sticks, is already very reasonable.

Who would have thought that the other party, after being rejected, did not die, but contacted the police of Gossner, and began to find trouble on these farms, trying to force them to give up their leases and transfer the land to the company.At first, the farm was able to cope with it, but as the other party's means continued to intensify, the head of the farm could not bear it and asked for domestic help, which led to the trip to Africa by Nguyen Fogen and others.

"This is not unusual."Listening to Nguyen Fogen, their narrative came to an end, and Du Xiaoyuan interjected.

“This word at first?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

Du Xiaoyuan said: "We have all over the industrial parks have done similar things, some domestic enterprises in order to seize the market, desperately pressure the price, or bribe local officials, the purpose is to exclude peers."Many companies say they are not afraid to compete with foreign companies, whether it is local or Western companies, they have enough strength to win the competition.The only thing they are afraid of is to compete with our own enterprises in China, whether we win or lose, we are our own people."

“Why have you never told me anything like this?”Feng Xiaochen put his face down and said.