Chapter 610 New Year’s greetings
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Xueru accompanied Hou Kui and his wife and flew back to Hong Kong to pay New Year's greetings to Wang Yuanchao.

Speaking of which, Wang Yuanchao is Hou Kui's uncle.

Not to mention Chen Xueru, even the big boss behind the entire Bora Kingdom is Wang Yuanchao.

After a brief greeting, the children all ran off to play, and Liu Qijin said to his nephew and his wife:

"When do you plan to have children?"

Now Hou Kui's wife Xu Jingli is in charge of the immigration work in Borneo. Both her mother-in-law and husband have become Borneo citizens, so she follows the same path. Moreover, her mother-in-law is the speaker of Borneo, and is the nominal second in command of Borneo.

Although the Borneo Parliament is divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives, the two vice-speakers, Chen Xueru's two deputies, are in charge of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Wang Yuanchao will not allow the Senate and the House of Representatives to have different voices, right?
Wang Yuanchao couldn't help but look at his wife. How could she, at such a young age, become like an old lady?

Hou Kui said quickly:
"I'm trying to get pregnant, but the medical conditions in Borneo are not good. My mom said that we have to give birth abroad anyway, so why not let Jingli go to the United States to give birth? What do you think, uncle and aunt?"

Chen Xueru said quickly:

"I'm just saying this casually. The Shangjing Hospital will be completed by the end of this year, and will be open to the public next year. It doesn't matter where I give birth to my child then?"

Shangjing is the capital of the Kingdom of Borneo, a newly built city in Sanggao County. Sanggao Capital City, Sangjing? So it was simply called Shangjing.

All kinds of supplies, materials, equipment and personnel can go upstream along the Kapuas River and reach the dock near the new city. Water transportation is very convenient.

Today, all national institutions are still located in the small town of Bintulu, which was originally planned to be the capital of East Malaysia.

Shangjing was a big construction site, with hundreds of thousands of people working according to the plan, cutting trees, building roads, draining water, filling potholes, and leveling the land. Then they built houses, streets, government agencies, and supporting institutions.

The initial plan was to build a new city that could accommodate two million people.

It was expected that by the end of 84, all government agencies and related staff would move to Shangjing.

Wang Yuanchao asked:
“I remember there is a hospital in Bintulu, right? Besides, don’t Kuching and Pontianak have good hospitals?”

Chen Xueru said bluntly:
“Yes, but the obstetrics and gynaecology department of the hospital in Bintulu is not very good. Jingli is not young anymore, so grandpa said that I should be more careful.

Kuching and Pontianak are both small towns with a population of several hundred thousand people. Their population is not as large as that of the New Territories. To be honest, those small clinics look a bit scary.”

This makes it sound like Xu Jingli is very old. She was born in 55, so she is only 28 years old. Of course, after the Chinese New Year, her age will be 30. When the couple has a child, it seems that she is indeed not young anymore.

Kuching and Pontianak are both large cities with hundreds of thousands of people, and are among the top large cities in Borneo. In Chen Xueru's words, they are small towns. There is no other way. In the mainland, cities with hundreds of thousands of people are at most the size of county towns.

East Malaysia was also very backward before, that is, the Blackwater base. A relatively advanced hospital was planned as supporting facilities, but it was limited in scale and departments. Obstetrics and gynecology, well, was not the focus at that time.

In the past, when Wang Yuanchao invested, it was impossible for him to build a large comprehensive hospital.

Lou Xiao'e nodded and said:
"It's better to come back and give birth or go to the United States. It's safer. You can also get American citizenship in the United States."

Chen Xueru said:

"I think so."

As the few of them chatted back and forth, the person involved could only smile along. As a junior, he had no say.

Wang Yuanchao changed the subject and said:
"How often do the mainland's immigration ships come now?"

Xu Jingli said:

"Every week, fully loaded ships arrive from Bincheng, Jinmen, Daocheng, Haizhou, Songhu, Yinzhou, Xiamen and Yangcheng to various places in Borneo, with the number of people entering the country every week being around 2 to 2.5.

Even during the Spring Festival, the fleet keeps operating without any rest.

90% are young and middle-aged men and women. Before, it was generally 3-7, but now the male to female ratio is about :.

10% are families, couples, families, or three generations, with a ratio of 5:2:3.

Wang Yuanchao's eyes lit up. He was delighted with the population numbers, but also surprised that Xu Jingli was so familiar with the basic data. At least he came prepared.

Chen Xueru added:

"If we include the number of migrant workers, the number will be even greater. It would be shocking to see so many infrastructure construction teams coming in batches.

The situation in the north and west is relatively better, but in the south and east, the situation has not been completely quelled yet. There are still people who are dissatisfied with the new government and are rebelling and destroying it. Then they hide among the residents or sneak into the rainforest.

The cleanup of Blackwater is still ongoing.”

Liu Qijin said with concern:

"Then you must pay attention to safety. If you lose safety, you will lose everything."

Wang Yuanchao nodded and said:
"Then did you ask Black Water to be more ruthless?"

Chen Xueru smiled and said:
"That's for sure.

Those who are not of our race must have different hearts. The leader must be shot on the spot, and the other accomplices were arrested and forced to do hard labor, so that they could be reformed through labor. Now there is a shortage of coolies for everything there, especially mining, which is particularly suitable for them. It can be regarded as them using their own hands to atone for their sins. "

Currently, 70% of Borneo's economic income comes from the sale of oil, 10% from the sale of coal, 10% from local products such as timber and oil palm, and the remaining 10% or so comes from taxes.

The tax rate in Borneo, like that in Hong Kong, is extremely low, because Wang Yuanchao had no intention of governing the country by collecting taxes at the time.

We must first solve the problem of whether or not there is one.

Through low taxes, we can develop industries and workers, and then slowly observe and adjust later, right?
Among the other neighboring countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and India, which one is as open as Borneo?

Which entrepreneur doesn’t like Hong Kong’s tax rate?
Moreover, Borneo is far away from the mainland and has a large number of US troops stationed there. There is also a US military base in the Philippines to the north. Unlike Hong Kong, which is right under our noses, such an environment is simply unparalleled.

Not only are taxes low, industrial land costs are also low. The government almost only charges the cost of land reclamation. Moreover, electricity is very abundant. Borneo has sufficient energy for power generation and is still continuing to build power plants.

As long as we add some air conditioning and ensure the working environment, we can achieve 24-hour uninterrupted production by having workers work in three shifts.

[Air conditioning is a government mandatory requirement, otherwise it is too hot and easy to get heat stroke]

My god, the profits are terrifying.

Therefore, factories in several cities in the north and west have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The immigrant ships bring in people, and except for those who report to designated projects, the rest will soon be divided up by these companies.

Are these millions of people? These are millions of human money printing machines!
In addition to the official immigration ships of Borneo, there are countless people who sneak across the border illegally.

If you can speak Chinese and English, you can get a Borneo identity card normally. If you only speak Malay, you will not be deported. The government will directly arrange for you to work in the mines for 5 years, learn some basic Chinese, change some lifestyle habits, and then you can get an identity card.

Can’t change your work habits?
Then keep digging. You came here illegally, so do you still have human rights?
Although Borneo is now building everywhere and seems to be in a booming state, and can spend large sums of money to abduct people from the mainland, in fact, Borneo's foreign exchange reserves are extremely low, and it has to borrow money from several major banks for development. If national defense and security were not handed over to Blackwater, it would be bankrupt in minutes.

But who dares to do it?
Is Heishui a vegetarian?
Are American financial groups vegetarians?
Wang Yuanchao used the leverage of the Kingdom of Borneo in order to seize the honeymoon period before the Soviet Union's bankruptcy.

"By the way, how are your preparations for this year's Los Angeles Olympics?" Wang Yuanchao asked Hou Kui.

Hou Kui scratched his head. Now that the Kingdom of Borneo was just established, apart from the football team brought from Hong Kong, which was still presentable, other sports were really not good enough. However, the football team did not have time to participate in the preliminaries and would definitely not be able to catch up with the Los Angeles Olympics.

I had to be honest:

"The sports system has found some experienced table tennis and shooting players in the immigrant team and is taking them to compete in world competitions. One of them has already qualified for the Olympics. He was a table tennis player who used to be in the mainland army. As for the others, I am not optimistic."

Wang Yuanchao nodded. It would be good enough if someone could qualify to participate. He was also preparing for the Olympics to promote Borneo, so the number of contestants couldn't be zero.

“It’s the first time, time is tight, just being able to show my face is enough.

In this Olympics, we should send more people to observe the mainland athletes carefully to see which ones unfortunately lost the gold medal.

After the Olympics, we will go to the mainland and recruit more of their frustrated, opportunity-less, and retired athletes and coaches. Forget about projects that are too expensive, but rather find projects that suit our national conditions and recruit them.

The mainland values ​​gold medals, but we don’t. We are a small country, and being able to participate in the competition and even win a medal is a victory.

For us, the marginal talents in the mainland are all talents worthy of respect! "

The following words were spoken by Wang Yuanchao to Xu Jingli.

Isn't it?
The mainland won a silver or bronze medal and remained unknown. As for Southeast Asian countries, not to mention the distant ones, let’s take the two neighbors of Borneo as an example. Indonesia didn’t win a gold medal for the first time until 92, and Malaysia has never won a gold medal…

So, if the mainland silver and bronze medalists, or even those who didn't win any medals, come to Borneo and keep up their form, they might be able to perform well and win a medal in the next Olympics? There is also a chance of winning a gold medal, although it is very small, right?

Even if I can't win a medal in the Olympics, I can win a medal in the Asian Games, right?
With the recruitment of batches of players and coaches, in ten or eight years, the sports in Borneo will flourish.

There is no way. If you are not good at sports, people in the Western world will think you are weak.

Speaking of this, Chen Xueru said:
"What about the national anthem? We have the national flag, but we still don't have the national anthem. We're going to go to the Olympics, raise the flag and play the national anthem, so we have to prepare it, right?"

Everyone looked at Chen Xueru. You are really confident. Only those who win gold medals are qualified to have the national anthem played!

Then they all looked at Wang Yuanchao. Everyone knew that this man was a talented man.

Wang Yuanchao rubbed his temple:
"I can write songs, but it's not appropriate for me to create, right? I have the citizenship of three countries now..."

Chen Xueru said indifferently:

"What's inappropriate about that? You are the Earl of Batam, and Batam is the territory of Borneo, right? At least when people sing this song, they will think of this country and you."

Wang Yuanchao nodded, thinking that this was true.

Forget about Hong Ge, the battles in the Kingdom of Bora were no more than county-level armed fights in the inland areas, not even as good as the village fights in some places, otherwise Heishui wouldn't have had so few mercenaries to beat the enemy so badly.

The mainland is full of fighting, and this is also due to the fact that martial arts are too popular.

(End of this chapter)