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Chapter 493 A Bad Sign! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

After the initial surprise, Wu Feng quickly understood.

In his previous life, around 2022, he saw a video that shocked him greatly.

That video was about a type of food that the poorest people in Siam often ate, called something like "meat," a rather strange name.

An elderly Siamese woman and her two children make a living by scavenging for garbage.

When it was time for dinner, I took the equivalent of less than 40 cents RMB and rummaged through the food scraps scattered behind a small restaurant. I found a bowl of meat that was so dirty I couldn't tell what color it was anymore. Then I took it home, washed it, and heated it up.

This is the family's best main course for dinner!

He was quite shocked when he watched the video.

Clearly, even in a large city like Siam's capital, the living conditions of the poor at the bottom of society remain far from optimistic.

They'll probably be able to get a decent meal, but dreaming of eating anything good is just wishful thinking.

This video is from 2022, which shows how much the poor in Southeast Asian countries need cheap food.

Things like canned meat and cheap biscuits, I believe, can be sold as long as they are sourced from Southeast Asian countries.

This is similar to the businesses that Wu Feng, Jiang Tiansheng, and Han Bin were involved in.

To make Southeast Asian people, like people in mainland China in the 1960s and 70s, prepare three turns and one sound for their weddings.

Once they all get used to it, and even regard it as a custom, then there will be a huge market for the old-fashioned bicycles, sewing machines, electric fans, and radios that are continuously being transported from the mainland.

The market in the Indochina Peninsula alone is enough for them to live off for decades.

When the market is almost saturated, upgrade the so-called "three turns and one sound" (referring to a radio, a sewing machine, a watch, and a radio), and you can make a fortune for decades.

This doesn't even include high-quality counterfeit clothing, shoes, hats, flashlights, and various practical gadgets.

Even in big cities, the poor and ordinary people still make up the majority.

Black and white televisions, radios, washing machines, refrigerators, and so on, can all be shipped from the mainland.

In fact, it is perfectly reasonable to view the Southeast Asian grassroots market at this time as the mainland in the 1960s and 70s.

As time goes by, the pace of development in mainland China will accelerate, and the lag time for Southeast Asian countries will be extended.

Ultimately, only a very small minority can truly integrate with the international community and enjoy the most advanced technological services.

In fact, some small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises that the mainland itself may not care much about are highly sought-after by Southeast Asian countries.

The sheer scale of its entire industrial sector is no joke.

This wave has given many state-owned enterprises in mainland China, especially those in the food industry, a real boost.

Although their products are outdated in the mainland market for various reasons, they can only maintain a meager profit or support the normal operation of the business by adopting a strategy of low profit and high sales volume.

This time, although the ex-factory price of the product was still not high, the other party paid in dollars, which was subsidized by both national and local governments.

Regardless of how delighted the mainland side is, ATV has certainly demonstrated its enormous influence this time.

Its television signal can cover the entire Southeast Asia, making it absolutely the first among Chinese-language television media outlets.

At that time, even CCTV in mainland China couldn't compare.

Putting aside other things, ATV managed to obtain news and footage of the unspeakable areas along the northern border of Myanmar, which is not available on television stations in neighboring countries.

Of course, this has a lot to do with that established mining company; many powerful figures there give it face. They conduct interviews on seemingly sensational but actually trivial matters, then film some visually impactful footage—that's it.

Even so, it still deeply moved the audience when it was broadcast.

The living conditions of the teenagers and even children there are so terrible that any normal person would feel heartbroken after seeing them.

There was even a scene showing the two factions clashing.

ATV's move has drawn the attention of many people and forces to this unspeakable area.

In fact, ever since many powerful figures from the mainland came here, there has never been peace here, and small-scale conflicts frequently break out.

This even affected the supply of pills to external customers!

According to some established and powerful figures, they discovered the presence of Westerners in the strongholds of those long-established and powerful families.

They thought they were just mercenaries hired by the other side, so they weren't afraid at all.

Several small villages were blown up by powerful men from the mainland, who kicked them with large double kicks, and the foreigners inside perished along with them.

However, they later found the wreckage of a large telegraph machine, which made me think these guys were completely out of their minds.

What era are we living in? Why are we still playing with such outdated stuff?

Satellite phones are a bit expensive, but the call quality is perfectly fine.

After hearing this news, Wu Feng said nothing.

He had his own guesses, but so what?
Most men from the mainland still carry the lingering influence of their teaching days, so why would they be afraid of Westerners?
At the same time, ATV also continuously broadcast reports on the chaos in the archipelago nation.

At this time, the island nation was in utter chaos.

The fighting continues in the border areas, with the most intense fighting taking place on Timor Island.

It seems that the regular army of the archipelago nation is showing signs of being unable to hold out.

Meanwhile, in the heart of this archipelago nation, all sorts of things happen frequently.

The aftermath of the financial market turmoil and the collapse of the foreign exchange market has now begun to fully erupt.

The money in the hands of the rich has shrunk dramatically in a short period of time, so they naturally have to squeeze more value from the poor to make up for the losses.

All of these situations were captured by photojournalists and produced into a special program for broadcast.

Effect of the bar!
Anyone who has read the news reports will agree that the president of the archipelago nation is incompetent and bears a great deal of responsibility for this chaos.

Moreover, Southeast Asian Chinese who have become loyal viewers of ATV's satellite channel have already sensed something ominous from the content and images in the reports.

Some of the older people are very familiar with this kind of atmosphere.

In particular, when ATV reported that several local Chinese tycoons had taken advantage of the stock and currency market crash in the archipelago nation to amass wealth, I almost couldn't help but curse them out.

Are you crazy about money?

Don't you realize this is the current situation? What if you make money but don't live to spend it?

ATV didn't hold back either, helping the leader of the Thousand Islands review his life story.

With the support of the United States, he started his career in a very dishonorable way. He is a master of large-scale clean-up operations and has no regard for human life.

(End of this chapter)