Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 694 Development Direction.

"It's really a terrible thing." After listening to Liang En finished what the so-called investors did, Joan shook her head and sighed. In her eyes, agriculture is very important, and this approach is obviously inappropriate.

"Yes, it's very bad, even worse than if they didn't do anything." Liang En nodded and said, "Because the other party planted these things, those pests and diseases will also affect the surrounding plantations."

"You are right. Viruses and those pests don't care about the division of human plantations. If there is a problem in one plantation, then the surrounding plantations will also have problems." Liang En nodded.

"Like the last time there was an outbreak of stem rot on this estate and it spread around, and we had to spend a lot of time, effort and money to fix the problem."

"Then didn't the owner of this plantation pay you any money?" Joan of Arc asked a little puzzled. "The other party should lose money for such problems that are obviously caused by the other party."

"That's the theory, but this kind of investor basically understands the law thoroughly, and has enough legal personnel to fight the lawsuit." Liang En shrugged helplessly.

"And the other party took advantage of the legal loopholes and was able to drag a very ordinary small lawsuit for several months. At the same time, it could make those who wanted to file a lawsuit spend a lot of time, money and energy."

"It's really wicked." Zhen had a very bad impression of this kind of guy who played with the law, after all, she had suffered in this regard back then. "So you didn't go to court?"

"No, because my lawyer told me that the losses outweigh the gains." Liang En raised his eyebrows lightly. "The money and energy paid are more than what they lost, and it's not worth it at all."

"Fortunately, everything has changed now. At least after buying this plantation, our land has been connected into one piece, so that we can carry out overall planning in the future."

Commercial agriculture has high requirements for scale. The larger the scale, the lower the average cost and the higher the profit. Therefore, for Liang En, this plantation is very valuable.

It's just that it will take some time to adjust the newly purchased plantation to the level of Liang En's other plantations. After all, neither the infrastructure construction nor the adjustment of the plants in the plantation is a simple matter.

After completing the inspection of the newly purchased plantation, Liang En and the others walked along the highway to observe other plantations. From a purely visual point of view, these plantations are obviously better than the new ones. Quite a lot.

This is even true for the roads passing through the plantation gate. Although the roads are still dirt roads, it can be seen that these roads are managed by someone. At least they are not full of potholes like the roads in other places.

"It was repaired by our people in their free time." After hearing Liang En's question, Huang Tao quickly replied, "After all, this road is mainly used by us, and some trucks often pass by, so repair the road It's very meaningful."

In addition to this road, they also built a 6m and a 9m reinforced concrete bridge on two small rivers to replace the original temporary bridge built only with wood.

In addition to transportation, they also built more than 60 street lights, 5 biogas digesters, a health room, a nursery school and a primary school, which can be regarded as the construction of public facilities in the entire area.

"Then what did the group of guys who were supposed to be in charge of these tasks do?" After hearing Huang Tao's report on the construction achievements in the past few years, Liang En seemed a little shocked.

Because the work they are doing now should be the work that local officials should do, and local officials are completely absent from the construction of infrastructure in the region.

"They didn't do anything. After all, our side is a rural area in the south of the Philippines, and the core of this country is a city in the north near Manila." Huang Tao felt a little ashamed when talking about these things.

"So operating here, we either choose to endure the harsh environment, or we can only solve these problems by ourselves. Fortunately, we have also received a lot of help."

"For example, we just built a site for the health center, primary school and childcare. As for the personnel inside, they are volunteers recruited through cooperation projects with the United Nations."

"Besides, because of your international prestige, the local officials have also done some things, such as counting the investment in this area as charity to reduce our taxes."

"It doesn't sound too bad." Liang En nodded. He had heard about the situation in the Philippines before, so this situation is already the best guess.

Soon, the car came to a small town, which Liang En had visited before when he got his first manor.It was a somewhat dirty town at the time.

Although the town still looks a little chaotic now, it is much cleaner than before, and at the same time, the town has obviously become more prosperous in terms of scale.

To give the simplest example, many houses that used to be made of iron sheets and thatch have now become houses of red bricks and cement. Although they look very simple, they are obviously much better than before.

At the same time, the business here also developed. In addition to the original two small restaurants and a pharmacy, there appeared more small restaurants, small supermarkets, a bicycle shop and a small repair shop.

"The prosperity here is related to us." Huang Tao said in a low voice. "Because we are willing to use more money to hire those workers and provide them with a certain level of welfare. In this case, they will naturally have money to spend."

"It seems that we have done a very good thing." Joan nodded in satisfaction, then pointed to a construction site with a cement mixer truck not far away and asked, "What are you doing over there?"

The reason why Joan was surprised was that the construction method of the buildings in this area was very primitive, basically all were built by hand, and occasionally an electric hoist could be regarded as mechanization.

At the same time, when the local houses are built, they are basically red bricks and prefabricated panels. The rich may paste some tiles, which is full of the construction style of urban villages in China in the 90s.

So the current modern construction method looks a bit out of tune with the surrounding environment, and anyone who comes to the town will be attracted by such a scene.

"What is being built now is a bank, the Philippine branch of the First State Bank of Barboursville." Liang En said with a smile, "You know, this bank can set up a bank in the Philippines."

"So according to the results of my previous discussions with Elizabeth, we will build a new bank branch in this place, mainly operating small loan business for those local people."

"There is no doubt that the financial industry is definitely making money, it's just the difference between earning more and earning less, and the banks here are not purely for making money, but for supporting local businesses."

"It does sound like a good idea." Jeanne nodded and said. "I know how important the financial industry is to the economic development of the entire region in modern society, and what you do now will change this place."

(End of this chapter)