Rebirth of India: Superior

After hearing Shakru's request, Mukesh was a little puzzled: "Do you, the big boss Pandit, still lack a house?"

"Don't worry about this. Anyway, when the time comes, I won't care if you want a house you can't live in. Just don't be reluctant to give it to me!"

"Cheng, Cheng, Cheng, you've already spoken. Let alone the house I don't live in, I can give it to you even the house I live in now. But what should you do if your divination is wrong?"

"If you fail to take over the Prudential Group in ten years, how about I pay you a million dollars?"

"Okay! It's settled then. +◆"

This bet may seem like a child's play, but actually Shakru feels that the 27-story "Andilia" built by Mukesh at a cost of one billion US dollars (Andilia is an island in ancient Indian mythology) is too much. It was a pity, so he planned to reuse it. Of course, he couldn't give Mukesh just one million dollars.

Facts have once again proved that Shakru's ritual divination is extremely effective. At 3:50 in the morning on September 30, a major earthquake occurred in Latur, Maharashtra. It destroyed 73 surrounding villages and caused at least 30,000 casualties. For a time, this tragic earthquake shocked the world.

The reasons for the high mortality rate from the Latur earthquake are: first, the area is densely populated; second, the earthquake occurred in the early morning when people were asleep at home; and more importantly, the architectural characteristics of local residents' houses. Latur is a poor agricultural area. Local residents lack earthquake experience. Most of their houses are built with stones and adobe. The walls are thick but not strong. The houses have no foundations and have poor earthquake resistance. Once an earthquake occurs, the houses will collapse. Stones and adobes fell one after another, turning into a pile of rubble, burying the sleeping people inside. The rubble piles formed by earth and rocks do not form a small space for the buried people to survive like the cement pillar boards of modern buildings. From the rescue and excavation, it can be found that there are few survivors of the people buried in the rubble piles, so the death toll is extremely high.

After the Latur earthquake. Advani, chairman of India's largest opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, accused the Indian government of failing to provide advance warning to local residents, which led to the death of so many people. He said that local residents reported that at least 1,500 small earthquakes had occurred in the Latur area since September 1992. On September 19 this year, a stronger earthquake occurred in the Herare area near Latur, and the Indian government Always turning a blind eye to this.

He also claimed that as early as more than two months ago, Shaklu, the elder of the Belur Temple and the contemporary inheritor of priestly divination, had successfully divined that a major earthquake would occur nearby, but the local government did not cause enough concern. Pay attention, otherwise if arrangements and evacuation are carried out in advance, the losses will never be as great as they are now.

However, Indian geological experts believe that. The past few major earthquakes in India have occurred in the northern region near the Himalayas, and Maharashtra has not been considered a region where major earthquakes are likely to occur. "We are confused and need to conduct an investigation to see if the cracks in the rock crust in this area are active," said Padi, deputy director of the Geological Survey of India. He said that the Latur area is the oldest and solid rock formation in the South Asian subcontinent. Tectonically, the Geological Survey of India has always believed that serious earthquakes will not occur in this area. Some Indian public opinion believes that the newly built large reservoirs are the cause of the increase in earthquakes in India in recent years, but experts have never expressed support for this.

Although the earthquake was devastating, it had no impact on Shakru. What he was most worried about at the moment was the Great Plague in India a year later. Although not many people died from this plague. But the impact was huge. According to the scene in the report, it was like a virus attack in a doomsday novel. For a time, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and other places were all plunged into panic, and the economic blow was even greater. At that time Many countries have interrupted various cooperation projects with India, and the tourism and hotel industries have suffered a devastating blow.

Although Shakru just bought a hotel. However, since the hotel is being renovated and the layout is being changed, there is no impact yet. The most worrying thing is his pharmaceutical factory. If the plague next year is really as tragic as he remembered, then his Welgon career will be in trouble. . First of all, in such a panic situation, your own pharmaceutical factory will definitely not be able to produce normally; secondly, even if you can barely produce it, if external dealers and customers are concerned about the Indian plague, it will definitely affect the sales of the product. Although he can afford the losses of a few months, the market will never wait for him for a few months. The market gap left by Welgun will definitely be replaced by other similar products. He will try to regain the market after the plague crisis has passed. That is not a simple matter.

Therefore, Shakru felt that he had to prepare for a rainy day and prepare a retreat before the plague broke out. After careful consideration, Shakru decided to open a branch factory abroad, and the location of this branch factory became a very headache for him. problem.

In Shakru's eyes, the best workers in the world are those in socialist countries, especially those of the older generation who are simple-minded, work conscientiously and hard-working and bear no complaints, and their wages are particularly low, especially in China and North Korea. Workers are even more exemplary. Not to mention workers from other countries, even Chinese workers born in the 1980s cannot compare with them.

Relatively speaking, Shakru prefers North Korean workers, because now is the period of North Korea's "Great March of Suffering". It is estimated that as long as they are given a salary that can support their families and not starve to death, there will be a lot of people to apply for the job. Unfortunately, not to mention himself as an Indian, even Chinese people are not qualified to open factories in North Korea.

In fact, it is not that the salary of Chinese workers is so high. In 1993, even employees of state-owned enterprises only earned a hundred yuan a month. But the problem is that at this time, China has not yet entered the golden period of foreign investment in the reform of state-owned enterprises and a large number of workers have been laid off. It is difficult to recruit suitable workers to open factories in China. After all, in the eyes of Chinese people, the iron rice bowl of state-owned enterprises is much more reliable than that of foreign bosses.

Just when Shakru was thinking about whether to take the risk to open a factory in the Soviet Union, in fact, the skills and quality of the workers of the old Russians are also good, but it is too chaotic there now. Fortunately, he can have Toktakhonov to help him calm down. But just when Shakru was hesitating, a sudden call from Liu Zian made him change his mind.