Coquettish Rebirth

"Mr. President, how do you know this Chinese saying?" Jia Hongjian asked in surprise.

Seeing Jia Hongjian's surprised look, President José was extremely happy. He laughed proudly and said, "Do you think I am the president for nothing? Hmph, I have already said that we in Angola will turn to you." China! The Americans are bad, they don’t support us anymore, do we still need Americans? I think you Chinese are good people, and you have developed very well over the years. I think it’s good to learn from you China! So I said earlier Time summoned your Chinese ambassador to Angola and talked to him about your China's development experience. As a result, I heard such a sentence from him. I have been looking for a think tank for a long time, and I think your words are true Very insightful! So I want to rebuild the Luanda railway! If such a railway is repaired, then the agricultural products of the eastern province of Magjelan can be transported to Luanda, and even exported!"

As he said that, the president saw that Jia Hongjian seemed a little unfamiliar with Ma Gelan, so he gave him a detailed introduction.It turns out that Angola was not the granary of Africa when it was first a colony?At that time, the main force of agricultural production in their country was not in Luanda, nor was it in the place that Jia Hongjian and the others contracted now—they were able to contract because there was wasteland there.The former agricultural center of Angola is Majelan, a plateau province east of Luanda.Such a Majelan is located in the north-central part of Angola as a whole. Because it happens to be on the plateau, the overall climate is much better than the tropical rainforest in the west. Overall, it is closer to the subtropical climate in South China.So the crops really grow well, not to say that there are still situations where the temperature is too high and the plants are not easy to grow like in the west.

Such a Majelan province used to be Angola's largest food producing area, and then gradually transformed after independence, becoming a comprehensive agricultural province that gathers a series of crops such as corn, cotton, and tobacco leaves.However, during the civil war, the railway was almost bombed, and in the end, the crops in this large agricultural province could not be transported at all. Over the past ten years, many farmers in the agricultural province have gone bankrupt, so if there is no railway.This agricultural province will soon be abolished.So even if President Jose knows that the country has a surplus of 8000 million US dollars a year.Then I want to spend as much money as possible to repair the railway!On the one hand, the president felt that the Americans were unreliable and the Chinese were reliable, and on the other hand, he felt that Chinese products were cheap, and it should be quite cheap to make railways, so he came up with such an idea!

Regardless of whether the thinking circuit of President Jose is relatively simple and cute.But at least such a general direction is quite insightful!Since President Jose wants to develop the country well.Naturally, Jia Hongjian had to help!Moreover.Although Namageran Province is a large agricultural province, it does not produce rice.So in fact there is no competition with Jia Hongjian's farm, so of course it is necessary to help!So all of a sudden, Jia Hongjian simply agreed to President Jose.Help Angola to go to China to find railway construction companies to chat with, pull them over to have a look, and get a rough quotation or something.Then Jia Hongjian naturally flew back to China, contacted China Railway Construction, a company specializing in railway construction, and brought their personnel to Angola to conduct field inspections and estimate the construction cost.

When the personnel from the railway construction company arrived, they were warmly received by the Angolan government. The government even sent a special working group to personally lead the railway construction team to inspect the Luanda Railway.Then the railway construction team quickly gave Jia Hongjian an answer - if the Luanda railway needs to be repaired, there are two plans with different prices.First of all, the railway in Luanda is single-track, and it is also a meter-gauge or narrow-gauge railway.The distance between the two rails of this railway is about one meter, which is very narrow.As for the railway track spacing used in China, it is 1.4 meters, which is the so-called standard gauge.Therefore, the first option is to repair according to the original meter gauge design. At this time, the speed is about 40-60 kilometers per hour. The overall price of repairing a 500-kilometer railway is about 6 million US dollars.

The second option is to simply use Chinese standards, and convert the original meter gauges into standard gauges. In this way, Chinese locomotives and wagons can be purchased cheaply, and the speed can be increased to 90 kilometers per hour. Although the price is more expensive Quite a lot, reaching about 15 billion US dollars, but the economic benefits brought are even higher!Of course, there is actually a hidden plan - just multiply the plan two by two, that is, when transforming the meter gauge into a standard gauge, build a parallel standard gauge track next to it, so that there will be one to one Back to the two railways, the efficiency of this transportation has been greatly improved!Naturally, the overall price will be more expensive, and will eventually reach about 40 billion US dollars!Because some roads and bridges have to be rebuilt.

It would be a tragedy if the railway has only one line, because there is only one railway, and it is impossible for two trains to travel in both directions!If there is a train going from Luanda to Margelan, there is no way for Magelan to send another train to Luanda!You have to wait for a train from Luanda to arrive at Margelan before you can send the train to Luanda!In this way, the efficiency is too low!From Jia Hongjian's point of view, it is of course better to choose a hidden solution.But the problem is that such a 500-kilometer railway is going to the plateau, because it needs tunnels and railway bridges, so the cost is really too expensive! 40 billion US dollars, this is too heavy a burden for a country with an annual surplus of only 8000 million US dollars!Is it possible to let other countries use their surplus for the next 50 years to build such a railway?Although it is said that if you want to get rich, you need to build roads first, but putting all the surplus in the next 50 years is a bit turbulent. If there is any economic fluctuation or something, the country may be in big trouble right away!Isn't this too risky?

Jia Hongjian reported all these plans to President Jose, and after discussing with his officials for a few days, President Jose told Jia Hongjian that he was going to choose the third plan, which was the hidden plan!Shit, this is the $40 billion plan!Is the risk too great?At that time, Jia Hongjian hurriedly tried to persuade the president, but who knew that as soon as he said the words of persuasion, he heard President José say so logically—"Can't you Huaxia Hi-Tech give us a loan? If you give us a loan If so, we can use the oil field as a reward for you..." Let me go, the president was full of innocence and cuteness at that time!Jia Hongjian was speechless after watching it!

Brother, no matter how rich Huaxia Hi-Tech is, we don’t have RMB 320 billion in working capital to lend you!Besides, after lending it to you, if you pay off the debt with the oil field, don't we have to invest more money to develop it?It's just our family investing money here and there?Although the return is really good in return, is it a bit too much money to invest all of a sudden?Jia Hongjian wanted to refuse, but looking at the president's "cute" and "innocent" eyes, Jia Hongjian really felt that he couldn't say it!If we reject the president's words, isn't that the same as personally suppressing his dream of a strong country?But even if Huaxia High-tech and Huaxia Bank are added, we can't get so much money...or...how about we take the lead in forming a syndicate of banks for collective loans?

The so-called group of banks means that we apply to the higher authorities of the country, and after talking about it, we cooperate with development banks, export-import banks, etc., and everyone shares the shares according to the money paid!Even the money for the development of oilfields is shared by everyone. When the oilfield makes money, everyone divides the money according to the shares!And according to the future oil price trend, basically after 08, the oil price can be kept at a high level. In this case, such an investment business is actually quite profitable!We lent money to Angola to build a railway, and Angola rewarded us with good undeveloped oil fields. After we developed the oil fields for 20 years and made a lot of money, we transferred the oil fields and related equipment to the Angolan government. Are there any benefits?Angola does not need to pay any money, and it is equivalent to exchanging oil for a brand new double-track railway. For Jia Hongjian and the bank group, relying on the future oil price rise, they can get far more than 40 billion US dollars in return!In this way, in fact, all aspects are the rhythm of making a lot of money!

Then... why don't you give it a try?Jia Hongjian, who was too embarrassed to refuse the president, agreed to come down and give it a try.So he returned to the country and made a report with the above, and soon the report got an approval.The above is very supportive of Jia Hongjian’s willingness to help Angola build the railway. Regarding Jia Hongjian’s desire to cooperate with the Export-Import Bank to form a group loan to Angola, the country also agreed in principle, so the specific It was the negotiation between Jia Hongjian, Huaxia Hi-Tech and Huaxia Bank and the Export-Import Bank.With the approval from the above, the negotiation with the Export-Import Bank is very fast. The Export-Import Bank is willing to lend 30 billion U.S. dollars to the Angolan government, and Huaxia Hi-Tech can provide a billion U.S. dollars.In this way, it seems that the proportion of Huaxia Hi-Tech is less, and it seems that it only has 25% of the equity, but after all, this is an investment.The current international oil futures price in 05 was $40 a barrel, and in 08, it was around $140 a barrel!Although historically there will be a big drop in 09, causing the oil price to drop to $40 again, but it will increase slowly in the future, and it will rise to around $10 in 100.From such a point of view, Jia Hongjian's investment is like lying down and counting money. How much is the return on investment?

Don't even mention more than $100 a barrel of oil, even if it is calculated based on the price of a barrel of oil at $40, such a business is actually not a loss!Because the better deep-sea oil wells in Angola can produce more than 20 barrels a day!In this way, a barrel of crude oil earns US$10, then 20 barrels a day is an income of US$200 million, and 365 days a year is US$7.3 million. The cost of 40 billion in five or six years will be returned!Then the higher the price of oil, the sooner we can pay back our capital and make a lot of money! (To be continued..)