Chapter 311 Supporting Common Interests

Chapter 311 Supporting Common Interests

Chapter 311 Supporting Common Interests

After the meeting, Mr. Zhou, Lao He, the bald middle-aged man and others went back to their homes.

After leaving the office area of ​​the Taunggyi Mercury Mine Company, we arrived at the street of Hebang Town, which was quickly paved a week ago.

The pavement structure is made of foam silicon material and specially made permeable asphalt cement. It is essentially a huge slab that is airlifted from the country by airship and then laid directly on the leveled roadbed to form a street.

Mr. Zhou stood on the side of the road, and soon his driver drove over in a pickup truck.

This street has four lanes, but only half of it has been paved. The remaining half of the lane has been fenced off. A domestic road construction company has contracted the infrastructure construction project in Hebang Town and has currently recruited nearly 500 local young and middle-aged people as construction workers.

In fact, the population of the entire Hebang Town is not large. Together with the surrounding villages, the total population is about 1.5.

Therefore, with a large number of Seris companies moving into the area, the local young and middle-aged people have been quickly drained away.

The pickup truck of Mr. Zhou and his entourage passed through the old town and came to a road on the east side. This is the local branch of Southern United Mining.

As the head of a branch, Zhou Qi will need to stay in the local area for a long time in the future, so he is more concerned about the construction progress of the office and living areas.

As soon as he came back, he called a few managers to a meeting.

Zhou Qi stood at the door of the temporary office, looking at the construction of the living area not far away: "A Ming, how is your work going?"

"It's almost done. If there were still some qualified building materials available locally, we would have moved into the new dormitories long ago." Amin was speechless about the infrastructure services in Hongsavadi.

Especially in such remote mountain towns, there are no construction workers, no qualified standard building materials, and even no water and electricity supply. Everything has to be allocated from Yunnan Province in China and then airlifted over.

In order to build quickly, they did not have the idea of ​​pouring the foundation locally. Instead, they used prefabricated reinforced concrete foundations from the country and then transported them by airship.

Now their construction team is digging a number of large pits on the construction site to place the reinforced concrete foundations.

Amin then added: "The foundation will be there tomorrow afternoon, and the dormitory building will be there the day after tomorrow."

Suddenly an executive came running over, panting.

"Hoohoo...Mr. Zhou, good news."

"Xinghe, any good news?" Zhou Qi asked curiously.

Li Xinghe wiped the sweat from his forehead: "The mobile company just sent a text message to inform us that the mobile communication service in the entire Taunggyi Basin has completed the test. From now on, we can directly use the 4G network here."

"It's already usable? This is indeed good news." Zhou Qi took out the mobile phone in a sealed bag from his trouser pocket, and then took out the mobile phone from it.

Other people's cell phones were also put in sealed bags.

The reason for this strange situation is mainly that the weather in Hongsavady is too hot, especially in the tropical valley terrain of the Taunggyi Basin. Once the summer rainy season arrives, it is hot and humid, and the perceived temperature is very high.

The mobile phone you carry with you is easily soaked in water. It must not only be protected from rain but also from sweat. Ordinary mobile phone cases are of no use at all. You must either use a waterproof mobile phone case or a sealed bag.

Li Xinghe, who had just run over, took out a bunch of waterproof phone cases from his backpack: "Mr. Zhou, the logistics department has purchased a batch of waterproof phone cases from China. You can pick one you like."

Zhou Qi didn't hesitate and directly picked out a waterproof phone case with a panda pattern on the back, opened the box, and put on the phone case.

This waterproof phone case has a flip-page design. The waterproof film on the surface can be used by touching it directly, or it can be opened and then touch the touch screen of the phone.

He turned on the screen of his mobile phone and saw the mobile communication signal. He tested the communication quality of the network signal and found that it was not much different from that in China. Then he looked up and asked, "What about the telecommunications company?"

"The telecommunications company's communication airship has not been built yet. It is estimated that it will not fly here until December."

"Forget it, just use it!"

Currently, the network services of the three major telecommunications operators in Southeast Asia, except for a part of the fiber optic network left over from previous construction, all future network communication services will be provided by communication airships.

There are several benefits to doing this.

On the one hand, the coverage range of communication airships is relatively large. Even in mountainous areas, the coverage radius of high-quality communications of a communication airship can still reach about 50 to 100 kilometers.

This is much easier than building a ground fiber optic network, and can also reduce costs and increase efficiency.

On the other hand, communication airships are not easily affected by natural disasters or man-made disasters.

Especially in relatively chaotic areas such as the Chanbang Plateau, which is also an area where geological disasters and weather disasters are relatively serious.

The high-altitude communication airship can guarantee long-term stable service.

Finally, of course, there is this type of communication airship. If an emergency situation arises, it can fly directly back to the country and directly paralyze the local wireless network service.

The communication airship, which combines various advantages, has basically become one of the new generation of communication development routes in China.

Even in a cloudy day, normal communication between the airship and the ground can still be guaranteed.

Of course, in order to support the local area, the three major telecommunications service providers did not eat alone, but quickly penetrated into the local telecommunications market by establishing joint ventures.

For example, the telecommunications services in Hebang Town are controlled by three powerful local families: the Mai Dong family, the Aung Gu family, and the Min Hlaing family.

The strength of these three families is actually not that great, with only a few dozen people in the family, but their local network of relationships is intricate.

In fact, supporting local tyrants has nothing to do with anything.

Because Seris Enterprises has a unified association behind these regions, generally called the Association for Progress and Development, which is ostensibly composed of local senior executives from various overseas companies.

This kind of plan for local powerful people is not to support just one person, but to support a large number of people.

Taking Hebang Town as an example, in industries such as communications, water, electricity, plantations, and services, there are often two or three families running the same industry.

As a result, there will be a large number of small local tyrants, and their interests will be inconsistent.

As long as their power is properly controlled to avoid a situation where one company dominates the market, the Jinfa Association will be able to sit firmly on the throne.

If they don't obey and the support is cut off, this family will soon fall apart.

In addition, overseas companies have drained the local young and middle-aged labor force, so even if these small tyrants want to incite public opinion, they are almost blocked.

By then, if the time comes and we really need to deal with the disobedient little tyrants, we will simply revoke their authorizations and terminate related cooperation. Other local people will quickly take action to take over the industry and naturally will not stand up for a discarded child.

Profits are the key to maintaining control.

As long as they can bring continuous benefits, these local tyrants don't mind cooperating with anyone.

This is also the main reason why overseas companies pay local employees high salaries. In order to protect their own interests, these local people will certainly not turn against them easily.

Just when Zhou Qi and others were busy calling their families.

As the mobile company's communication services were being launched, the Angu family in Hebang Town also razed their small courtyard to the ground. This small courtyard was on the edge of the old town and was quite large, about 260 square meters. A young man with dark skin, wearing a bamboo hat, stood beside the foundation of the courtyard and said, "Father, how long do we have to wait?"

"Don't be in a hurry." Anggu fanned himself with his bamboo hat.

After a while, a pickup truck drove up nearby.

"Ungu?"

"It's you, Maung An." Aung Gu took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it over: "Is the food here?"

Mao An was the boss of Hebang Xindi Construction Contracting Company and one of the small tycoons who were supported. He took the cigarette without hesitation, tore open the packaging film, lit a cigarette, and took a slow puff: "Huh... Here it comes, have you finished the foundation and drainage?"

"It's been done a long time ago." Anggu pointed to the location drawn with quicklime powder.

The foundation of his house is naturally not reinforced concrete, but a more traditional rock foundation. The drainage pipes and septic tanks are not built within the house, but in a small open space next door, so as to facilitate maintenance.

"Boss, the stuff is here." Maoan's younger brother came over with a walkie-talkie.

In the air not far away, an engineering airship carrying a three-story building flew over from the temporary airship cargo distribution center east of Hebang Town.

With the cooperation of Mao An and others, the three-story building was steadily placed on the foundation. The base area of ​​the building is 3 square meters and there is no eaves.

Taking into account the unstable local geology and the low level of foundation construction, which may lead to foundation settlement, the overall height of this small building is 14 meters, with each floor being 4 meters. The floor of the first floor is specially arranged and hollowed out at a height of 2 meters.

When the Anggu family had the excavator dig the foundation, they deliberately allowed the foundation surface and the surrounding ground to sink about one meter. Therefore, after the small building was lowered, it was actually only about one meter away from the surrounding ground.

"Okay, Angu, let's go in and take a look!"

Mao An came with a ladder, placed it at the door, and led everyone to climb up.

Take out the key and open the rolling door.

After opening the rolling shutter door, there is a layer of specially tempered glass door and glass partition, and then you can open the door again.

Everyone went inside.

The first floor is divided into three parts: the hall, the bathroom, and the back warehouse.

"These things are accessories for your house. I will send someone to install them tomorrow." Mao An said, pointing to a pile of boxes in front of him.

The walls, floors, ceilings and other parts of the hall have been decorated in advance. The floors are made of plastic imitation wood, the ceilings are made of aluminum plywood, and the walls are made of white putty imitation porcelain coating.

Going up to the second floor is the living area.

"Mao An, where are the electrical appliances?"

"Why rush? The stuff will be here in a few days."

After looking it over, Anggu was quite satisfied. Although the price of this house in Maoan was 144 million yuan, he felt it was worth the money.

After all, this is a fully decorated house with electrical appliances and furniture, and the price of 3000 yuan per square meter is indeed acceptable.

Of course, he paid for it in gold.

As local tyrants, these people often do not like to hold Myanmar currency, and either hold foreign currency or gold, silver and jewelry.

For the sake of financial security, many overseas companies do not like unstable local currencies and either use the Chinese Yuan or precious metals or land with fixed value as collateral.

The Angu family stored half of the family's gold, about 12 kilograms, in the branch of China Construction Bank in Hebang Town as special collateral, and obtained a large number of loans.

Anggu used these loans to purchase buildings and open a telecommunications service store. He also spent a lot of money to send his youngest son to study abroad in Serbia.

In less than a week, Maoan's engineering team completed the installation of electrical appliances and furniture, as well as water pipes, electrical wires, sewage pipes, etc.

At the same time, the hollow part of the foundation was filled with earth and stones, and two stairs were built with relatively large stone bars, one at the entrance of the telecommunications service store and the other on the side for family members to go up and down.

As the electrical appliances, furniture and home textiles were arranged, the work team sent by the mobile company also brought various things over. While giving the things to Anggu, they also trained them on how to operate the various equipment.

Of course, in order to adapt to the high illiteracy rate in the local area, the operation of many devices is set up to be extremely simple and fool-proof.

Soon, this store named "Hebang Mobile Communications" officially opened for business after several local monks performed a ritual.

In addition to communication cards and phone bill recharges, the store also sells a variety of digital products such as mobile phones, tablets, and laptops.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of the store, Anggu sent his eldest son and daughter-in-law to the mobile company training center in Yunnan Province. They were trained for more than two months and only returned a few days ago to take over the management of the store.

"Boss, do you sell mobile phones here?" A middle-aged man wearing the work clothes of the Taunggyi Mercury Mine walked in with a flyer.

Angu's eldest daughter-in-law Lina asked with a smile: "What type of mobile phone do guests want? We have..."

The miner looked at the rows of mobile phones on the table and said, "I want two of the ones that can video chat."

"All mobile phones in our store can record videos..."

“Which one is cheaper?”

Lina took out a low-end mobile phone from Culiang. "This one! It's only 999 yuan."

"Hua Yuan?"

"of course."

"Nothing cheaper?"

Lina shook her head: "Sorry, 999 yuan is already the cheapest model, but if you buy two, I can give you three months of phone bills."

After some bargaining, the middle-aged miner bought two mobile phones and a special communication service package for 1950 yuan.

For these miners, their monthly salary is around 7500 yuan, so they naturally have no pressure to buy mobile phones or the like.

Anggu's telecommunications store had only been open for over a week, but it had already sold more than 80 mobile phones. Although they were mainly low-end models, he did some calculations and found that selling mobile phones was actually just a one-time deal, and the real profit came from the commission from telecommunications services.

The other two telecommunications stores that had signed contracts also began to get anxious when they saw that Anggu was making continuous profits. After all, the market in the entire Hebang Town was so small that even if half of the population bought phones, the limit would be only 7500 phones.

In addition, communication services have the advantage of first-mover advantage, so they are very anxious and keep urging telecom companies and Unicom companies to approve communication services as soon as possible.

But there is no way. Currently, Blue Whale Airship has been continuously expanding the scale of its airship production, but it still cannot meet the surging market demand.

(End of this chapter)