Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After riding for more than 40 minutes, Liang En and the others finally arrived at the plantation. However, the difference from before was that the original open space near the plantation was now covered with factory buildings and dormitories with colored steel structures.

"This is where those knitted goods are produced." Liang En pointed to the colored steel house and told Joan. Although he had never been here, those who had come before had taken photos here.

"Considering that we are mainly engaged in the business of relatively high-end knitted products, we only use machines to process raw materials to save everyone's experience. The weaving process is still purely manual."

"So that's it." Joan of Arc nodded, "Actually, we couldn't make much money just farming in that era. What really made money was various processing industries, such as brewing wine, making textiles, etc."

While they were chatting, the car drove into the plantation. Due to the investment in the past few years, the road in the plantation has become much smoother.

Because of jet lag, they rested for a day in XA City after arriving at the plantation before meeting the plantation owner who wanted to sell his plantation the next day.

The owner of this plantation is a Ukrainian living in the UK. The plantation was only part of countless investments. Therefore, after discovering that this business had a tendency to lose money, he immediately sold the plantation.

Like Liang En's plantation, this 70-hectare plantation also grows Philippine hemp, or to be precise, most of the plantations in this area grow this kind of thing.

After all, this kind of thing is considered one of the Philippines' traditional export products, accounting for 85% of the world's total exports, so it is normal to find large planting areas.

"Of the 740 hectares of land currently owned, 720 hectares are planted with Philippine hemp, and only 20 hectares are used to grow coconuts, rice, mangoes and even some vegetables and a series of miscellaneous items."

Among the lands used for miscellaneous purposes, 15 hectares are rice fields. After Liang En took over, he introduced hybrid rice from China and hired agricultural experts to guide the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, allowing these lands to produce 120 tons of rice every year.

There is enough food to feed 4,000 people, so it is good for Liang En that the workers who work for him and their families have enough food to eat.

In fact, Liang En originally planned to change the rice fields into fields for growing cash crops, but was later persuaded by Huang Tao because the food prices in the Philippines had changed too much.

It is simple for Liang En to just pay wages, but this leads to too much staff turnover and management problems are prone to occur, not to mention that the current flagship product, knitted products, requires skilled workers, and it is impossible to accept the loss of skilled workers.

But if you have to take care of food, although it will help win people's hearts, once food prices fluctuate, it can easily lead to the need to spend extra money, which is not a good idea.

Therefore, whether from the perspective of stabilizing people's hearts or from an economic perspective, it is very important to ensure food supply if the plantation is to be able to operate smoothly.

To be honest, Liang En thought at first that a place like the Philippines, with its good water and heat conditions, would theoretically have no shortage of food. But later he learned that this country cannot even be self-sufficient in food and needs to import a large amount of food every year.

This situation occurs purely because the economy of the Philippines is basically completely controlled by European and American capital, so they use a large amount of land to grow various cash crops.

Therefore, after entering the 21st century alone, this country has experienced two food crises, and the temptation that caused all this cannot be changed by Liang En at all. In this case, if he wants to ensure the safety of his industry, he can only take some stupid measures.

In fact, growing food in this country is somewhat taboo. After all, it is related to the important interests of some Western countries. Fortunately, Liang En and the others mainly used the food for themselves, so they didn't attract too much attention.

According to Huang Tao, these rice fields have indeed stabilized people's hearts. At least after learning that Liang En reserved those rice fields for the consumption of the company's employees, Liang En and the others easily stabilized people's hearts in the shortest time.

To be honest, after acquiring a new industry, unless you plan to make large-scale changes and fire all employees, stabilizing old employees has always been a very complicated task.

And Liang En was able to get it right this time. Just a simple arrangement solved the most important problem in the acquisition, which saved a lot of money and energy.

Because they bought a new plantation this time, Liang En and Jeanne naturally wanted to visit it. Along the way, he happened to be able to pass several plantations of his own and take a look.

Completely different from the plantation that Liang En and the others had been running for a while, the infrastructure of this new manor was extremely poor. It could even be said that there was basically no infrastructure at all.

For example, although there are barely roads and ditches in this manor, they are all made of earth, the roads are full of potholes, and the ditches have collapsed in many places, making it look like a depressed scene.

The same problem also occurs on the six or seven-meter-high abaca plants on the roadside. These plants do not look very healthy. Even a layman can tell that this plantation is poorly run.

The only thing that made Liang En feel gratified was that the overall performance of the local agricultural workers became more positive after hearing that Liang En was about to accept the plantation. They seemed to welcome Liang En to accept this industry.

"Although our wages here are above average, the benefits here are better than those in other places." Huang Tao introduced to Liang En in a low voice. “So many people around here want to work in our industry.”

"Workers in places like this have basically heard about the work content and working conditions of our workers there, so they are very happy after knowing that we acquired this plantation."

Because everyone came together, Liang En temporarily changed his plan and gave a speech. Fortunately, English is widely used in the Philippines, so everyone can understand Liang En’s speech in English.

The content of the speech was also very simple. Liang En knew that it would be unpopular to talk high-profile to these people who were not well educated and lived a difficult life, so he simply talked about the work that employees had to do in this speech. Wages and benefits.

Obviously these things can attract everyone's attention the most. Liang En successfully attracted everyone's attention with just a few words. After he finished explaining, everyone clapped excitedly, and some even cheered.

"The next thing we have to do is to reorganize this plantation. At least the infrastructure of this plantation needs to be completely renovated." After finishing his speech, Huang Tao said to Liang En amid the cheers of everyone.

"In addition, we also need to ask agricultural experts to conduct a comprehensive inspection of all the plants in this plantation. I feel that the previous owner here did not pay attention here at all, and the entire manor was a mess. "

"It's normal. For many investors, purchasing this kind of agricultural land is purely for land speculation, so it is naturally impossible to do too much business in this kind of place." Liang En has a good understanding of the virtues of those investors.

"For example, in order to circumvent the laws of the country where they are located, they will still operate those industries on the surface, but they will minimize their investment in the process."