Chapter 771 (1/2)
In the dining room of the villa on the top of the mountain south of Park City.
It's January 22.
Sunday.
In the early morning, grace, who had been hiding in the bedroom where she had never slept before, didn't come to the restaurant until the waiters set breakfast and got up.
Simon is already at the table with Celia Miller.
After saying good morning, she glances at the little man who is talking about Ukrainian affairs with Celia in a black ol suit. Grace hesitates a little, but she takes the initiative to sit next to Simon, but she doesn't dare to look at Celia in the opposite direction.
Bryce Levison is missing from the restaurant.
However, it is obvious that the woman who is usually in good health has no habit of getting up early.
Among the three women, no matter in age or appearance, she can't compare with the other two women. It's just that her love for the little man has penetrated into her bones. She is willing to give everything for him, even to die.
Therefore, although the little man didn't mean to aggrieve her last night, she took the initiative to go up.
In fact, I'm jealous and want to fight.
Grace found out another thing. There are always rumors in the circle that he likes other people's wives. However, it seems that this is just an appearance, a fact It seems even more hateful.
Ridiculous little bastard.
But
Anyway.
As long as you can be so close to him once in a while, anything will do.
As she sips breakfast, her mood gradually calms down, and grace begins to pay attention to the discussion between the little man beside her and Celia.
For overseas investment, Simon never naively thinks that he has money and is willing to spend money to open up markets in other countries. Doing so will only lead to being slaughtered. Therefore, only when a country's foreign economic policies are continuous and stable enough, or the westero system has considerable influence and control over the target market, can it open up investment.
The former is China and the latter is Ukraine.
Moreover, the Ukrainian side is temporarily limited to the state of Rovno.
Kiev's previous concession on the replacement of the governor of the state of Rovno made Simon determined to further increase investment in the region.
Simon intends to build Ukraine, or to be exact, the Rovno region, into a huge ”European factory.”.
For general overseas capital, Ukraine's most attractive resources are probably the agriculture supported by fertile black land and the huge industrial system inherited from the Soviet Union.
However, in Simon's view, Ukraine's most abundant resources are human resources.
At present, Ukraine has 52 million people with an average salary of less than US $30, which is equivalent to China on the other side of the ocean.
In my memory, 20 years later, China's economy took off, and Ukraine's per capita income is still only US $200 or US $300, which is an absolute false high figure in official statistics.
The country's economic downturn has led to the displacement of more than 9 million people in Ukraine. In order to survive, Ukraine has been exiled to various European countries and engaged in various bottom jobs. This proportion accounts for 20% of the country's total population. Only the Middle East countries, which have to flee from their homes due to war, can match it.
Not to mention in the future.
Simon's current plan is to make use of Ukraine's low cost of human resources to build the Rovno region into a small ”European factory” to attract enterprises and capital from both inside and outside the vistro system to build a variety of factories that require a large number of labor in this region.
Compared with this plan, Simon's previous series of investments in ronov state can only be regarded as a trifle.
As Nokia becomes the world's largest manufacturer of mobile communication devices, especially the production of mobile phones, it will show explosive growth in the next few years, eventually reaching the annual sales volume of hundreds of millions of mobile phones. The lowest level assembly workers needed for Nokia's mobile phone production will also reach hundreds of thousands. If all kinds of supporting industrial chains are included, the overall employment will reach hundreds of thousands Million level.
Nokia's main OEM base will be set up in China.
However, Simon plans to put part of Nokia's mobile phone production business in Ukraine for some reasons that eggs can't be put in one basket.
In the near-term plan, Nokia will build an assembly plant with an annual output of 1 million mobile phones in livny. This alone will bring 3000 direct jobs, and various supporting facilities will indirectly drive at least tens of thousands of long-term jobs.
This is just the beginning.
Just in 1994, Nokia shipped 12.7 million mobile devices alone, and is expected to reach 20 million in 1995. After the outbreak of mobile communication industry in 1996 and 1997, this data will continue to double.
Simon's plan is to put 20% to 30% of Nokia's mobile phone production in Ukraine according to specific conditions.
Therefore, Nokia alone can create hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs for the Rovno region in the future.
Of course, Nokia is not alone in the plan.The entry of other affiliated enterprises of westero system can also achieve this effect.
At that time, Livni, the capital of the state of Rovno, will be more prosperous than Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. With the deep promotion of economic penetration, the control of the vistro system over the state of Rovno and even the whole Ukraine will become stronger and stronger.
When it comes to the jobs of millions of people, no one dares to act rashly against the interests of the vestro system in Ukraine.
Moreover, Simon will not support the Rovno region without restraint. He has even considered how to withdraw the wealth accumulated after the development of the region in the future, so as to avoid its industrial upgrading and get rid of the fate of the lowest level OEM base.
The method is actually very simple.
Real estate.
A house, decades of mortgage, bind several families for a lifetime, crisp.
There is no blood to kill.
Therefore, in the future, if there are some uncontrollable changes, Simon can leave real estate in the Rovno area, and it may be the last worthless real estate. The wealth accumulated by millions of people through decades of hard work will be quietly squeezed and transferred by the westero system.
Simon will not easily tell others about these deep-seated considerations. Even Celia, who has had a close relationship with her at the dinner table, will only let Celia carry out her plan.
However, even if Simon did not point out, Celia was also vaguely aware of the huge and far-reaching layout of the little man in front of her.
Unlike a woman beside Simon who has given up herself and can't extricate herself, Celia, who was forced to quit Washington officialdom, is still more interested in the powerful hidden power brought by the Westeros system.
Celia enjoyed the feeling of speaking to many heads of state on behalf of the westero system at the UN General Assembly, of participating in the creation of a private military force, of bargaining directly with the president of a country, and even of tit for tat.
Celia did not deny that she was a powerful woman.
Originally, she was dissatisfied with helping men deal with all kinds of business and even life trivia. During this time, especially after Simon's combing in the early morning, Celia realized that men seem to be at their fingertips and unconsciously have laid a huge chess game.
And she is no longer a chess player like other people. At least she is also a tea maker beside the chess player.
Towards the end of breakfast, Simon said to Celia, who was shining in her eyes, ”I will return to Los Angeles in the morning. If there is no other arrangement, I will leave for Ukraine next Wednesday. If you don't want to go there with me in a short time, just let Emily go with me.”
Celia immediately shook her head. ”No, I'll go with you.”
Simon nodded: ”this is better.”