From arms dealer to king of war

Under the guidance of professionals, Qiao Jia and the others carefully visited the ‘Sky Resort’ that Said spent a lot of money to build...

The sky resort, which appears to be built with rainforest trees as beams and pillars, actually contains the cutting-edge technology of the modern construction industry and the imagination of top designers.

Said requires an organic combination of modernity and primitiveness...

The general meaning is that I want both original landscape and modern convenience.

This kind of fucking requirement of both wanting and wanting made the designer rack his brains and finally compromised on a miraculous solution.

The sky resort that seems to be built on trees is actually supported by thousands of solid steel structures at the bottom. However, during construction, an organic material was used on the outside of the steel structures to camouflage them, making them look like trees... …

What's more bizarre is that these 'big trees' actually attract a large number of vines to cling to them, making it look as if they are real.

The entire resort looks like a huge spider web when viewed from the air.

There is a building at each node, and the outermost side of the 'spider web' is a viewing point and the starting point for various rainforest activities.

In the inner circle are public service points, which include several specialty restaurants, several massage parlors, several specialty department stores, gyms, rainforest meditation, and a series of service points.

The third floor further inside is the guest rooms. There are 150 independent guest rooms, each of which can accommodate 4 to 6 people, which can fully meet the needs of a family.

The fourth floor is a super-luxury treehouse villa specially designed for rich people. There are only 50 in total.

Each sky villa has an area of ​​nearly 160 square meters. The interior decoration of the villa is not magnificent, but the hardware is definitely first-class.

Moreover, near the inner side of the villa, there are two small suites that cantilever out like tentacles, making it convenient for rich people to accommodate their own servants or nannies.

The innermost part is the core area of ​​the resort. There is a huge beam in the center that supports a helicopter platform to facilitate the transfer of patients in the resort or important people in emergency situations.

Relying on this huge beam is a tropical-style roof like an umbrella, and below is a three-story building.

The first floor here is the lobby of the resort, which is not only planted with many rare plants, but also has a buffet restaurant.

On the second floor there is a small theater that can accommodate 200 people, a movie screening room, and a conference room.

The third floor is where the resort staff accommodation and offices are located.

On the fourth floor, which is the periphery of the helicopter platform, there is a circular corridor that allows visitors to overlook the surrounding jungle from a high altitude.

The bottom is a concrete space used to house large fuel-fired generator sets.

The entire resort looks like a spider web from above, but from below, it is a huge umbrella-shaped tassel supported by giant sky pillars and connected by covered bridges.

The lowest point on the outside is only about 15 meters from the ground, while the highest point inside is 45 meters above the ground, which is about the height of a 15-story building.

Standing at the highest point of the resort, you have a panoramic view of the surrounding jungle and waterways.

Qiao Jia stood on the highest viewing platform and admired the beautiful scenery around him. At the same time, he also understood why the drug dealers were anxious.

Said said he only purchased 60 square kilometers of rainforest land, but in fact he bought land on both sides of this hidden tributary.

A nearly 35 kilometers long S-shaped winding tributary wraps several rainforests covering an area of ​​nearly 100 square kilometers, becoming the actual control area of ​​the resort.

Moreover, Said had a serious desire to control the private sector. He built two checkpoints at the entrance of the upstream parallel river into this tributary, and arranged for dedicated personnel to guard them.

Except for local indigenous people, no commercial cargo ships or pleasure boats are allowed to enter this tributary.

Originally, no one used this tributary, because the two parallel rivers, the upper and lower rivers, lead directly to Manaus. After the Brazilian government got enough money, it did not care about what Said did.

But now Saied's approach has been proven. He has cut off the key channel for drug traffickers to avoid Brazilian water security forces, making their cargo ships unable to advance or retreat.

After visiting the resort, Qiao Jia could say with conscience that Said is definitely a person who knows how to spend money.

If anyone in the future says that Dubai's tycoons don't take money seriously, Qiao Jia thinks that person must be a fool.

With the money to purchase 60 square kilometers of rainforest, 160 square kilometers of rainforest were enclosed.

Although there is a clause in the contract not to destroy the rainforest, this is really not a big problem for Global Safari.

According to Said, this is investing in the lungs of the earth.

This guy has a ridiculous idea, which is to take more of the Amazon rainforest and protect it to balance the carbon emissions of Dubai's modern development.

Global warming is a worldwide issue, but most of the early vested interests require developing countries to maintain the status quo and reduce carbon emissions.

Even the last so-called research group organized by more than a dozen people was able to require developing countries to purchase carbon emission shares without telling the public at all where the money was ultimately used.

Many places in Europe have begun to levy carbon emissions taxes on companies, which requires companies to purchase carbon emission shares before production.

Part of it is free, but the carbon emission tax on the excess part still makes many companies complain, which ultimately led to the outflow of a large number of low- and mid-end industries.

There are even some companies in Europe that specialize in reselling carbon emission shares, which is to sell the unused carbon emissions of some companies to those companies in need at a reduced price.

Europe, which is highly modernized and financialized, has used a concept to create an industry and create tens of thousands of jobs. The price is that low-end industries have fled and more people have become unemployed.

But it doesn't matter to people, because most of the people engaged in low-end industries are migrant workers, and these walking means of production are not included in the unemployment rate. If you can't survive, just get out.

Regarding this, the situation at Boss Qiao’s old mother’s house is somewhat similar…

Enterprises that once regarded sacrificing environmental costs as a development factor have been shut down on a large scale, forcing them to upgrade their industries or relocate highly polluting projects to pass on environmental costs to the outside world.

This has caused many small and medium-sized enterprises to have operational difficulties and finally had to give up.

This is the only way for industrial upgrading. There is really no way!

Said's statement is quite novel, but this guy did not mention the issue of rainforest ownership, which seems a bit green tea.

You buy rainforests to pay carbon emission taxes, how can you embarrass those people who pay the fees honestly? What do you think of those who quietly plant trees?

Qiao Jia leaned against the fence of the observation deck, watching Jino use a suitcase of mosquito coils to collect a stack of U.S. dollars from Said's old housekeeper. He gave Jino a thumbs up...

This kid is definitely smart enough, and the mosquito coil industry in Sangha Town is now supporting a lot of people.

Boss Qiao didn’t even expect that this guy would actually develop ‘overseas customers’.

Using a box of mosquito coils, he got $10,000 worth of wool from a rich man in Dubai. Although he never considered that Boss Qiao had a stake in the resort, the pioneering spirit is still worth encouraging.

Who among the average 14-year-old boy dares to bargain with the butler of the Dubai royal family?

When Said saw that Boss Qiao was a little scornful of his "carbon emission balance plan", he said unhappily: "Jackal, this is a good plan!

I have discussed with Tahnoni and others, and they are willing to invest 200 million U.S. dollars each for me to operate. We are preparing to establish a "Lungs of the Earth Protection Fund."

The money will be used specifically to acquire those rainforests and then start protecting them.

We paid the money and it was a given that we took ownership of those lands! "

Said said, looking at Qiao Jia's still unmoved look, he frowned and said, "Why don't you seem interested at all?

You said yourself that as long as you have the ability, you should do more for this world.

We are friends and I am doing meaningful things...

Why do I think that guy would make you happier by selling some mosquito coils? "

After hearing this, Qiao Jia nodded with a smile and said, "Because Jino earned 10,000 yuan, but he supported a lot of people.

It is certainly a good thing to revive the rainforest, but if you touch your conscience, how long can you persist with such a project with an extremely low input-output ratio?

When you hold the title deeds to these lands, how long can you resist financializing them?

Establish a so-called charitable foundation, establish a concept with environmental protection as its core, and then financialize the rainforest.

Use the acquired land to finance and absorb the funds needed to seek profits to expand the scale of the acquisition.

Unless you specify in the contract when you acquire those rainforests that the native rainforest will never be used for commercial logging, otherwise the project will definitely deviate from your current vision.

Timber export is an important export item for Brazil. If you can't solve the core contradiction, what's the point of just buying land? "

Qiao Jia looked at the princes next to him and said with a smile: "Of course, if you just want to have fun, it's not impossible.

Buying the land that has experienced deforestation at a low price, then planting trees with higher added value, and conducting orderly management and harvesting can be regarded as an undertaking that will benefit the future and the future.

As long as you don't have the idea of ​​​​making money to make money, you can still do this.

The climate in Brazil is really great. Thirty years of investment and fifty years of investment will yield results. The predecessors planted trees for future generations to enjoy the shade.

If you can accept it, give me a share...

I am really not a philanthropist, but after experiencing so many things, I found that it is really meaningless to let money appreciate in the capital market.

That thing is imaginary, there is no hard back, and those big bookmakers can wipe out your gains instantly at any time.

It is much better to actually turn money into assets and then use these assets to do some meaningful things than to use finance to do so-called good deeds...

You are not short of money. Since you want to be a good person, then be a good person and do it to the end...

For example, purchasing large quantities of felled rainforests and organizing manpower for multi-planting and orderly logging can provide many jobs for Brazilian Indians.

If you do this, let alone refuse to buy the so-called carbon emissions share, if someone dares to say nonsense, you can slap what you have done on their faces. "

Among the princes present, only Said could understand Boss Qiao’s thoughts.

Several other families rely on the energy industry to survive, and maximizing energy value cannot do without the current international financial order.

It's not that they don't understand the truth, but they feel that Boss Qiao's utopian speech deviates from the laws of modern economics...

There are only so many years in a person's life, and it takes decades to invest in a career that you don't know whether it will be productive, and it is in someone else's home...

Crazy?