Homo sapiens

After lunch, Lai Shengli said goodbye to Ahasi and others.

In addition to having an exclusive office in the Commodity Trade Center, COFCO also rented a 15-story office building in Yangon. The lower 7 floors are office areas and the upper 8 floors are employee dormitories.

Usually every afternoon, Lai Shengli would change positions with another deputy manager. The other deputy manager would go to the commodity trading center and he would go back to the branch to work.

In order to save costs, many multinational companies will not even rent office buildings, but directly choose exclusive offices in commodity trade centers as their office locations.

After working in the office all day, Lai Shengli looked at his watch and found that it was already 5:40 in the evening.

After giving some instructions to his assistant, he went directly to the dormitory on the 15th floor. His wife Wang Lizhu and daughter Lai Xiaoni, who came from China specially to visit him, also rested for a whole day.

Lai Shengli changed into a short-sleeved casual suit, and then asked his wife who was watching TV: "Would you like to take a stroll in Yangon?"

Wang Lizhu turned to look at her daughter: "Xiao Ni, do you want to go shopping?"

Lai Xiaoni, who just returned from studying in Kangaroo Country this year, typed on her laptop with an indifferent expression: "I don't care, you decide!"

Lai Shengli made the decision directly: "Then let's go shopping! Xiaoni, you can also observe Yangon. This will be helpful for your future financial work."

"I don't think there is anything to observe in Yangon." Lai Xiaoni closed her laptop and shrugged with contempt.

As a master's degree in finance, Lai Xiaoni actually searched the financial system and rules of Hongsawady on the Internet before coming to Yangon.

After seeing Hongsawady implement a limited gold standard monetary policy, she knew that the future of this place was worrying.

The gold standard looks very good, the problem is that the production of gold is limited, and the industrial value of gold is not irreplaceable.

If Hongsawady does not change the gold standard in the future, the upper limit of currency issuance will be two or three times the gold reserve at most.

This will cause money to become scarce, leading to deflation, which is not conducive to economic development.

Of course, Lai Xiaoni also saw the intention of Hongsawadi. The currency is anchored to gold and advantageous goods. As long as the exchange can be guaranteed, the gold dollar can indeed be very strong.

It is a pity that this model has become outdated with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system.

Gold is limited after all.

Lai Shengli didn't think too much and directly handed over several thousand gold yuan in cash to his wife and daughter: "Everything is good here, but it's troublesome not to exchange gold yuan directly. The company only gives me 50,000 gold yuan every month." Use quota."

"Dad, do you think others are fools? If foreign currencies are allowed to be directly exchanged for gold dollars, hundreds of tons of gold in Hongsawady will be emptied by other countries in less than a day." Lai Xiaoni rolled her eyes.

Lai Shengli closed the door and shook his head with a smile: "Of course I know, but it's just too restrictive. If you want to buy something, you have to be careful about your budget."

Went downstairs.

The sun sets over Yangon City, and the streets are mixed with the golden color of the setting sun.

The street where COFCO's office building is located is filled with various large and small office buildings.

However, the three of them did not take a car, but took a walk in the evening breeze.

As I walked, I came to the intersection of another street without realizing it.

There is a large supermarket at the intersection.

Lai Shengli took one look at the sign and instantly knew that it was one of the subsidiaries of the United Group.

His wife Wang Lizhu, who likes to go shopping in supermarkets, took her father and daughter into the United Supermarket. As soon as they entered the supermarket, a cold wind caused goosebumps all over their bodies.

Lai Shengli pushed the shopping cart, while Wang Lizhu selected the products.

Feeling a little bored, Lai Xiaoni picked up a pack of freeze-dried jackfruit. The net content of one kilogram was 0.5 gold yuan.

She looked at the other fruits on the shelf.

A pack of pitted durian meat (1kg) is 4.5 yuan...

A pack of Black Diamond Lotus Mist (1kg) costs 1.5 yuan...

A pack of bananas (2kg) costs 2.3 yuan...

Feizixiao lychees cost RMB 2.2 per pack (1kg)...

This price surprised Lai Xiaoni. She secretly converted the exchange rate in her mind and found that the price was very cheap.

“Dad, what is the median salary in Hongsawady?”

Lai Shengli, who was pushing the shopping cart, was stunned for a moment: "Uh... about 3,000 gold yuan per month!"

"3000?" Lai Xiaoni quickly crossed the tropical fruit section and entered the vegetable section.

After a quick look, the prices of vegetables here are not high either.

In units of 1 kilogram, carrots are 0.7 yuan, tomatoes are 0.6 yuan, cucumbers are 0.8 yuan, yellow onions are 0.8 yuan, butter cabbage is 1 yuan, cabbage is 0.6 yuan, white radish is 0.6 yuan, loofah is 0.9 yuan, macaroni is 0.6 yuan... …

Then she went to the meat section.

Also based on 1 kilogram, chicken breast is 7.2 yuan, chicken leg is 8.1 yuan, pork belly is 16.6 yuan, pork leg is 15.5 yuan, boneless pork ribs are 17.5 yuan, pork tenderloin is 16.2 yuan, lamb leg is 22 yuan, and beef eye Meat 38.4 yuan, beef brisket 32.6 yuan, beef short ribs 42 yuan...

“The price is quite cheap!”

Lai Shengli shook his head: "If you use the United Group's employee card, you can get a 25% discount. In addition, there are big discounts during holidays."

"United Group? Is it one of the three major consortiums in Hongsawady? If other people use employee cards to make purchases, isn't there a loophole?" Lai Xiaoni discovered the problem instantly.

But Lai Shengli explained with a smile: "They deliberately let employee cards flood out. Even if they offer a 25% discount, the three major groups are still profitable."

Lai Xiaoni took a breath of cold air.

The price is simply too low.

“Isn’t there a large population in Hongsawady?”

"It's about 57 million now." Lai Shengli answered as he picked up a large bag of two kilograms of boneless beef ribs and put them in his shopping cart.

"With almost twice the population of Kangaroo Country, how do they maintain such a huge food supply?"

Lai Shengli shrugged: "Not only can they be self-sufficient, they can also export in large quantities. In the first two quarters of this year, the country imported 23.25 million tons of roughage and 2.8 million tons of rice from Hongsawady."

"..." Lai Xiaoni was shocked.

Her previous impression of Hongsawady was that of a backward and chaotic area. Even if there were changes in the past few years, they should not have changed so drastically.

What does she see now?

A "quasi-developed area" with extremely complete welfare and extremely low prices?

If we calculate based on the purchasing power of money for food, and the average median income of Hongsawady is 3,000 per month, then Hongsawady has basically reached the standards of developed areas.

After all, in developed countries like Germany, the median income of ordinary people is just over 2,000 euros per month after tax, and the prices are similar.

Lai Shengli himself felt a little skeptical about life at first. Later, after living in Yangon for more than half a year, he gradually understood the key:

"This is something I can't envy. After all, the natural conditions of Hongsawady are very favorable for agriculture."

In fact, Lai Shengli still has something to say. The key to Hongsawady's ability to quickly raise the median income of residents is not entirely based on agricultural potential, but the all-pervasive business model of the three major groups.

"I suddenly became a little interested in this place." Lai Xiaoni's eyes showed a trace of searching for the truth.

But her mother, Wang Lizhu, was troubled by the cheap agricultural products on the shelves.

Just visiting the supermarket took the three of them more than an hour.

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