To put it bluntly, the one-time cost of the water diversion project is only a few hundred million yuan. After all, the simplest surface oil pipeline is only a few hundred thousand kilometers per kilometer, and the submarine pipeline is several million yuan per kilometer.

The total price of Gu Kun's plan to lay 50 kilometers of submarine pipelines will not exceed 200 million, plus supporting reservoirs, the total will be capped at 300 to 400 million.

It's just that the plans he submitted to the Malays exaggerated the difficulty of construction.

The Malays do not have seabed topography and hydrological data, and do not know that "the seabed siltation and sea conditions between Lanfang and Kuching are so suitable for construction." Therefore, even if Governor Li brings experts to assess the water content, the water content will be at best

Even after half of the water was removed, the cost they thought they saw clearly was still at least twice as expensive as the actual cost.

If Gu Kun wanted to ask the Malaysian side to share 10% or 20% of the construction cost for this project that is said to be worth more than 1 billion, he would have to sell hundreds of millions of tons of water to make money back.

Xiangjiang asked East Guangdong to buy 800 million cubic meters of water a year, and Li Jiapo asked Johor Baru to buy only 300 million cubic meters a year. With such a volume in Lanfang, Gu Kun's willingness to buy 200 million cubic meters a year is already very respectable. Malays think

Only 10% of the construction cost can be earned back by selling water for more than five years.

Under such circumstances, Gu Kun lowered the price of water to 20 cents per ton, but Governor Li only gave up after a symbolic resistance, so it was natural.

After all, during the construction process of the project, a considerable employment problem for the Malays can be solved. During the future operation period, the water company will also be able to absorb a number of surplus jobs.

Moreover, the "electric tigers and water tyrants" are all fat men who eat the royal food. Governor Li has already thought about how many subordinate affairs officers will try to fill their relatives who can't find jobs to use their salary.

Wherever there are Chinese people, there is a humane society. This has nothing to do with nationality and is the same everywhere.

"Anyway, Heli got it for nothing. We didn't pay any of the construction costs. We sold 40 million ringgit a year for nothing. The labor cost of the water company is one-third, right? That's honest enough, that's fifteen hundred

Ten thousand, a business editor with an annual salary of thirty thousand ring can support 500 positions, and make a profit. How much percent of the remaining entertainment expenses can be kept..."

Governor Li thought happily, but he knew that at least a small part of it should be given to the governor's relatives, and the other parties should also benefit from the rain and dew equally.

After everyone reached a tacit understanding, the focus of the negotiations quickly shifted to other areas of cooperation in roads, bridges and communications infrastructure.

Li Jingshen Boss Li took a cursory look and asked suspiciously: "Gu Sheng, I think the scale of your infrastructure investment is equivalent to at least tens of billions of ringgit. With all due respect, let alone Sarawak, it is the entire Kalimantan."

The entire economies of the three island countries are not worthy of such heavy investment.

With a population of 3.5 million, can Sarawak use such a huge potential transportation network? If you are really willing to invest this money, I think the land for the project will not be a problem at all. Look at my face today, let alone Governor Li.

We will allocate infrastructure land to you free of charge. Even if you need to acquire another mile of land along the road and bridge, we can allocate it to you!"

Li Jingshen’s words are really courageous.

"Build railways and roads, and allocate a certain width of land along the lines to investors." This is a practice left over from the semi-colonial era, and Chinese people are familiar with it - when Japan built man-made railways, such as the South Manchuria Railway,

, it is necessary to demarcate land ownership along the line. If it is near a railway station, the radius will be several times larger according to the station grade.

Li Jingshen dared to say this simply because there is nothing to plunder in Kalimantan, so there is not even one kilometer of railway on the island.

750,000 square kilometers, only 20 million people, how valuable can this land be?

As long as Gu Kun doesn't give up the tens of billions of construction funds.

Gu Kun also laughed when he heard this: "I just build the cross-sea transportation connecting the two countries, and I don't go deep into the interior of Sarawak. How can the compensation for the land be enough? In comparison, I care more about investing.

What I want is your commitment to supporting industries. What I want is to ensure that after I expand Lanfang Port and Lanfang Airport and repair the road connecting Lanfang Port/Airport, you will have enough business volume to satisfy my facilities.

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Li Jingshen: "Be specific."

Gu Kun was no longer polite: "I hope Boss Li will increase investment in oil palm plantations and rubber plantations throughout Borneo, and expand production capacity by more than five times in the next few years, so that Lanfang Port will have enough goods.

Can be shipped outside.

I respect you as a senior in the industry and a big boss in the plantation chemical economic circle. I don’t want to compete with you for business. So as long as you expand production, I will not get involved. If you don’t want to expand production, then I will not waste my investment.

, why should I personally expand the plantation and refinery business in Sarawak?"

Opening plantations and refineries is a business that does not have much technical content, but it is complicated to manage and control costs.

It would be best if we could let professional people do professional things.

Gu Kun also asked about Boss Li. He is not a bad character. He is a patriotic overseas Chinese and is relatively pro-China. It is good to have more friends and more influence.

It is impossible for Gu Kun to truly face the power of the entire Borneo as a conqueror.

What he hopes more is to outsource the palm oil and rubber industries, and he can at most make a small contribution in other resource stocks that are not Li Jingshen's core interests.

Under such a good-faith alliance, Li Jingshen would reciprocate the favor and use his power in Malaysia to help Gu Kun eliminate other competitors. This was regarded as a kind of "division of spheres of influence."

Anyway, Malaysia’s anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition regulations are not very strict.

Li Jingshen has also been in the business world for decades. How could he not understand Gu Kun's olive branch?

He just settled the accounts and pondered: "Why do you think the market demand for palm oil and natural latex will be so big in the next few years? With my strength, it is certainly not difficult to go all out to expand production, but I don't see it being that big.

sales.”

Gu Kun put it bluntly: "I think the Chinese market in the next five to ten years can absorb your output. You should think about how poor China was in a few years ago. At that time, Wanwan

People say that mainlanders can't afford instant noodles, and people in Wanwan attract onlookers when they eat instant noodles at the SAR train station. That's all true - it's just that it was a fact in the early 1990s, and it has changed a lot now.

In the past few years, Chinese people thought that going out to eat was always a luxury, and it was considered "eating out". The demand for packaged food has been suppressed. However, in the past two years, I think the per capita income of the Chinese market has increased.

, the turning point in demand for the food industry has arrived. Be it instant noodles or biscuits, they will completely transform from 'light luxury goods' to daily necessities. The market here is very large, and you should not be without research."

Palm oil is a tropical specialty, but Chinese people do not use it when cooking. The biggest consumers are instant noodle companies that use it when frying bread, and various processed foods such as biscuits and pastries.

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Including the pure white solid oil used in Zhengshin Chicken Cutlet or other fried kushikatsu restaurants on the street, it is all palm oil.

The smell of palm oil is quite fragrant, but compared with other vegetable oils, the fatty acid saturation is higher, between vegetable oils and animal oils (that's why it is white and hard like lard and butter), so later

Being given the bad reputation of being "unhealthy".

However, Gu Kun also knows that Chinese people pay attention to health, and the decline in instant noodles sales happened after 2015. Now there are at least 15 years for various processed foods and oils to increase in price and increase sales.

As for the demand for rubber, it lags a little behind. Nowadays, Chinese people are still too poor, so they all sleep on cheap Simmons, or wherever rubber is used, cheap synthetic rubber is used.

The shopping habit of bringing natural latex mattresses when traveling to Southeast Asia will basically take seven or eight years to take shape.

However, since he was trying to trick Li Jing into investing deeply, Gu Kun didn't hesitate to brag a little bit more.

At least, Gu Kun can guarantee that if he engages in this kind of tourism shopping in Lanfang, the consumption potential of tourists who come to Lanfang to spend thousands of dollars on a natural latex mattress should still be affordable.

As long as the brand building can keep up and let the buyers pretend to be awesome, it will be enough.

The conditions for growing rubber in Borneo are very good, and it is definitely more promising than the rubber industry in Thailand and Vietnam. Historically, it has just not been able to hold its position, and the Thais have taken advantage of the brand. In addition, Thailand is a secular country that is relatively Buddhist.

, China has done a good job in tourism guidance, so this industry has fallen by the wayside.

Boss Li always felt that it was a bit unreliable, but under the threat of Gu Kun's "If you don't do it, I will do it myself", he decided to negotiate a framework gentleman's agreement.

This can only be a gentleman's agreement, because if it were to be implemented into an agreement, it would be illegal and would be a monopoly act of "dividing the market and eliminating competition."

But everyone is a decent person, and Governor Li and Grand Duke Lanfang are witnesses. Boss Li believes that Gu Kun dare not lie and break his promise.

After restricting Li Jingshen's main expansion direction, Gu Kun had no choice but to continue talking with both parties about the prospects of other industries.

“I think Sarawak’s other mining and metallurgical industries, crude oil, refining, and various raw material industries can all increase their development efforts to cope with the huge demand in the Chinese market in the future. First come first served.

We are all Chinese. Your surname is Li and your ancestral home is Hu Jian. If you want to return to China to sell minerals, you will definitely have an advantage over the Australians. The current low prices of various raw materials are the sequelae of the end of the Cold War. They will definitely not be available after the expansion of the WTO.

will last.

Our Lanfang Port will invest in the construction of an ore ship/oil tanker terminal of more than 200,000 tons in the next few years. I think very clearly that we cannot do the container transshipment in Lijiapo, but we have already done the transshipment of bulk carriers and oil tankers in the past few years.

Doing it.

In the future, the bulk resource industry in Sarawak and even the entire Borneo will be further developed. The throughput of Lanfang Port positioned as a resource export port will definitely be sufficient.

At that time, the fees for you to use Lanfang Port, Lanfang Airport, as well as the facility fees for the cross-sea bridge and other supporting roads will be very considerable. If you want to save some tolls, why not invest some money with us now and take advantage of it?

In the face of the financial crisis, sluggish demand, and depressed prices and labor force, we set up shop.

If you are unwilling to pay, then you really can only do what Boss Li just said, exchange the land for a certain amount of mining and metallurgical exploration rights, or wait for the full payment of tolls and the use of ports and airports in the future.
Chapter completed!