I Really Didn’t Want To Make A Lot Of Money

Chapter 388

Chapter 388

The dark Chinese said: “It’s okay, we now have more than 5,000 hectares of forest rights, which can be exploited for a long time.”

Chen Ling had the final say in his heart, and asked, “More than five thousand hectares, is it a lot?”

“Young man, you are not in our business, and I don’t know what’s going on here.” The dark Chinese brought Chen Ling to the truck, “Look at this wood. I pulled 5 pieces in a cart. This is a normal size;” Sometimes we can only hold one piece of wood in a cart.”

The truck that transports the wood is modified. It is more than one meter high, and the wood is more than three meters high. A few thick straps firmly fasten the five pieces of wood to the truck.

“This wood is big enough! How much of this wood can be in five thousand hectares?” Chen Ling asked.

“Generally speaking, one hectare of woodland has about 300 cubic meters of wood, and 5,000 hectares is 1.5 million cubic meters.” The dark man said, “This kind of ordinary-sized wood is very much, and I don’t know how many roots it can have.”

“So much?” Chen Ling imagined more than one million cubic meters of things piled up in front of him, surprised.

The man smiled and said, “It’s okay, we Chinese came too late. Our five thousand hectares are a lot, but compared to the French, they are not small. They are all tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of hectares of woodland.” He said, He shook his head, as if he felt sorry because the business of the Chinese is smaller than that of the French.

Chinese people are used to it, no matter where they are, no matter what they do, they like to compete for the first place, not being first is not good enough.

“Is the wood produced here worth it?” Chen Ling was curious. The cost of transporting wood from these deep mountains and old forests to the port and then across the ocean to the country is certainly not low. I don’t know if it will make money if it is transported back to the country.

The man said: “It’s valuable! The wood is everywhere here, it’s not valuable, and it’s valuable when shipped back to China. The tree species here are very good. Look at my cart, all of which are African pears. Everyone is rushing to get them back to China. Very pretty!”

He gave Chen Ling a cigarette, Chen Ling declined, and smiled: “Will mining wood in this way damage the environment?”

The man lit himself a cigarette, and seemed amused by Chen Ling’s words. He accidentally choked on himself and coughed constantly.

“Young man, look at this vast forest that covers the sky and the sun. Can we cut it all down? It won’t be cut down for 100 years!” He said, “I tell you, we cut trees, and that’s all we cut. They won’t shave their heads. And the Gabonese government has regulations that all logging companies must plant trees. There are regulations on how many trees to cut and how many to plant. On the contrary, it’s the company that ruined the forest and shaved its head.”

“What company?” Chen Ling asked.

The man pointed to a palm tree on the side of the road: “They came to Gabon to grow oil palm. They were terrible, they circled the ground, transferred equipment, left no grass, transported useful wood, and burned the useless. Then plant oil palm. You will know that the palm forest is clean, except for the palm, which is exposed to red soil.”

“Their palm tree is not the same as this one. The improved one is very short. The palm fruit grows on the ground and is easy to pick. The workers drove the tractor in and circled around, pulling back a cart of palm fruit. The base.” The man shook his head, dissatisfied with the practice of growing oil palm.

“Is it the Aolang Group?” Chen Ling asked.

“Oh, you know, it’s them, the companies in Singapore employ Indians.”

The guy may meet with few Chinese, and he is very talkative. While waiting for his colleague to come, he talked a lot with Chen Ling.

Chen Ling learned that his surname was Dai, and he was the head of a Chinese timber company. He occasionally drove to pull the wood. He happened to meet Chen Ling today.

“Brother Dai, if you had half a million hectares of woodland, what would you do?” Chen Ling asked him tentatively, wondering what the concept of this number is in the mind of making wood.

The man chuckled: “If I have 500,000 hectares of woodland, I must do something big! A huge thing… 500,000 hectares, one hundred times the amount of woodland in our company, is too valuable!”

“How much money can be sold?”

The man opened his mouth and said it for a while: “It’s too big, no concept… several hundred million yuan? US dollars? Brother, you can’t simply calculate this. It depends on many conditions and the lumber market. And, you can’t. Just look at how much it sells, you have to see another more important point, the right to speak!”

“What right to speak?”

The man surnamed Dai pointed to the palm tree again and said: “The right to speak is your influence in this industry. Looking at the palm trees, Olang Group has planted too many in Gabon, and the scale is too big. They have the final say on the entire oil palm industry in Gabon. If one of our Chinese companies has 500,000 hectares of forest land, and then we unite all Chinese companies, we can have a huge influence in Gabon’s timber industry. It even affects the international wood supply. Do you understand?”

Chen Ling roughly understood: “Industry leader, industry rule maker…”

“Yes!” said the man, “we are at a disadvantage now. The rules in this industry are all set by the French. They are large in scale, and they collude with the local government to formulate laws and regulations that are beneficial to them. Small businesses and individuals are disadvantaged.”

Chen Ling thoughtfully said, “Well, we have to find a way to change.”

“It must be changed!” The man lowered his voice, “We are all Chinese, it doesn’t matter to say that. You know, this wood is a good thing, and the wood in the virgin forest is even a good thing. We don’t have any in our country. Our forests have been cut too hard, and now we can’t cut them down anymore. When we come to Africa to cut trees and transport them back to China, we are tantamount to bringing back something better than others to our home. But the French rules are very annoying! ”

“How do you hate it?”

The man croaked and said, “Look at the wood on my cart. This is a log. We like this log the most in our country. We pull it back to process and process it according to our needs. However, the Gabonese government, together with the French, must ban it. For log export, only certain types of sawn timber are allowed to be exported. This is too troublesome. The size of sawn timber they stipulate is different from the lumber we are used to! You see, this is not enough influence and being bullied!”

Chen Ling didn’t quite understand why the French didn’t let the logs be exported. This log is brought back to Europe, it should be very useful, and can be processed according to your own needs.

The man explained: “We Chinese like wood. Large wood is of great use and can be sold at a good price. They are French, all of which are standard sizes and are used throughout Europe, so they don’t care whether logs are exported. They have a very high attitude. What is it that in order to promote local economic development, let all timber merchants process the logs locally before exporting them. It’s too hypocritical!”

“If we can become bigger and stronger here, we can also influence the local government and formulate policies that are beneficial to us. Those in uniform will not dare to blackmail us anymore. We will get their superiors!”

Chen Ling chatted with the man surnamed Dai, and felt that the 500,000 hectares of woodland was more and more meaningful, and began to seriously consider sending people to Gabon to take over this matter, and to make the Chinese timber industry bigger and stronger in Gabon.

Coupled with iron ore, there is a lot of room for imagination.

When colleagues surnamed Dai sent the keys, Chen Ling chatted with them again, asked for contact information, and took the motorcade straight to the border.

“Brother Dai, did you see it? There is a beautiful white woman sitting next to Boss Chen, who is so tall!” The colleague is also a young man. He has not seen a beautiful woman to admire in the remote Makoku for a long time, and he is very excited.

The man surnamed Dai lightly patted the back of his head: “They are different, don’t you see it? The whole caravan listens to him, and all the white people listen to him.”

“Awesome… He said he was from Jianye, our Jiangsu fellow!” The young man seemed to be proud of him.

“Work harder, you can do it too!” The man drew a pie for him casually.