Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 693 Industry
After driving for more than 40 minutes, Liang En and the others finally came to the plantation, but the difference was that the factory building and dormitory with color steel structure were built on the original open space near the plantation.

"This is where those woven products are produced." Liang En pointed to the color steel house and said to Joan of Arc. Although he had never been here, those who came before had taken pictures here.

"Considering that we are mainly in the business of relatively high-end woven products, we only use machines to save everyone's experience in processing raw materials, and the weaving process is still purely manual."

"So that's how it is." Joan of Arc nodded. "Actually, in our time, we couldn't make much money simply by farming. What really made money was various processing industries, such as wine making, textile making, and so on."

While they were chatting, the car drove into the plantation. Because of the investment in the past few years, the road in the plantation has become much smoother.

Because of jet lag, after they came to the plantation, XA City rested for a day before meeting the planter who wanted to sell his plantation the next day.

The plantation owner is a Ukrainian living in the UK, and the purchase of this plantation was only part of countless investments.So after discovering that the business had a tendency to lose money, he sold the plantation immediately.

Like Liang En's plantation, this 70-hectare plantation is also planted with Philippine hemp, or to be precise, most of the plantations in this area are planted with this kind of thing.

After all, this kind of thing is regarded as one of the traditional export products of the Philippines, accounting for 85% of the world's total exports, so it is normal to find large planting areas.

"Of the 740 hectares of land we now have, 720 hectares are planted with Philippine hemp, and only 20 hectares are used to grow coconuts, rice, mangoes and even some vegetables and a series of miscellaneous items."

15 hectares of the land used for miscellaneous items are rice fields. After Liang En took over, he introduced Huaxia hybrid rice and hired agricultural experts to guide the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, so that these lands can produce 120 tons of rice every year.

The food is enough to feed 4000 people, so it is good for Liang En that the workers who work for him and their families have enough food to eat.

In fact, Liang En planned to turn the rice fields into commercial crops at first, but was persuaded by Huang Tao because the price of food in the Philippines fluctuated too much.

For Liang En, it is easy to only pay wages, but this leads to too much turnover of personnel and prone to problems in management, not to mention that the current flagship product knitting requires skilled workers, and it is impossible to accept the loss of skilled workers.

But if you want to manage food, although it will help win people's hearts, once the price of food fluctuates, it will easily lead to extra money, which is not a good idea.

Therefore, no matter from the perspective of stabilizing people's hearts or the economy, it is very important to ensure the food supply if the plantation can continue to operate smoothly.

To be honest, Liang En thought at first that in a place like the Philippines, where the water and heat conditions are so good, theoretically there is no shortage of food, but later he realized that this country is not even self-sufficient in food and needs to import a large amount of food every year.

This situation is purely because the economy of the Philippines is basically completely controlled by European and American capital, so they use a large amount of land to grow various cash crops.

So just after entering the 21st century, there have been two food crises in this country, and the temptations that caused all this are not something Liang En can change.In this case, if he wants to ensure the safety of his property, he can only adopt some stupid methods.

In fact, planting grain in this country itself is a taboo thing, after all, it is related to the important interests of some western countries.Fortunately, Liang En's food was mainly for their own use, so they didn't attract too much attention.

According to Huang Tao, these rice fields have indeed stabilized people's hearts. At least after learning that Liang En reserved those rice fields for the consumption of the company's employees, Liang En and the others easily stabilized people's hearts in the shortest time.

To be honest, stabilizing old employees after acquiring new industries has always been a very complicated job unless you plan to make large-scale changes and fire all employees.

And Liang En was right this time. Just a simple arrangement solved the most important problem in the acquisition, saving a lot of money and energy.

Because he bought a new plantation this time, Liang En and Joan of Arc would naturally go to have a look. On the way, he happened to be able to pass several plantations that belonged to him and visit them by the way.

Completely different from the plantation that Liang En and the others had been running for a period of time, the infrastructure of this new estate was extremely poor, and it could even be said that there was basically no infrastructure.

For example, although there are barely roads and canals in this manor, they are all made of soil. The road surface is potholed, and the canals have collapsed in many places. It looks like a depressed scene.

The same problem also appeared on the [-]-meter-high Manila hemp plants on the side of the road. These plants did not look very healthy, and even a layman could tell that the plantation was poorly managed.

The only thing that made Liang En feel gratified was that the overall performance of the local agricultural workers was relatively positive after hearing that Liang En was about to accept the plantation. It seemed that they should welcome Liang En to accept this industry.

"Although our wages here are above average, our benefits are better than other places." Huang Tao introduced to Liang En in a low voice. "So many people around want to work in our industry."

"The workers in places like this have basically heard about the work content and working conditions of our workers, so they are more happy after knowing that we have acquired this plantation."

Because everyone came together, Liang En temporarily changed the plan and gave a speech.Fortunately, English is widely used in the Philippines, so everyone can understand Liang En's speech in English.

The content of the speech was also very simple. Liang En knew that it would be unwelcome for these people with low education and hard life to make high-profile speeches, so he simply talked about the work that the employees had to do and the salary and benefits.

Obviously, these things can attract everyone's attention the most. Liang En successfully attracted everyone's attention with just a few words, and after he finished explaining, everyone applauded excitedly, and some even cheered.

"The next thing we have to do is to reorganize this plantation. At least the infrastructure of this plantation needs to be fully renovated." After the speech, Huang Tao said to Liang En amidst everyone's cheers.

"In addition, we also need to ask agricultural experts to conduct a comprehensive inspection of all the plants in this plantation. It makes me feel that the previous owner here didn't pay attention here at all, and the whole manor was a mess. "

"It's normal. For many investors, buying this kind of agricultural land is purely for speculation, so it's naturally impossible to have too much business in this kind of place." Liang En has a good understanding of the virtues of those investors.

"For example, in order to evade the laws of the country where they are located, they will still operate those industries on the surface, but in the process they will minimize the investment."

(End of this chapter)