Chapter 1980: The Tug of War

The financial crisis in the United States will not stop just because of the protests and demonstrations of the three major automobile companies, and it will also step on the brakes because of the quarrel between the two parties. It is still developing according to the established track, and even because of these turmoil, the financial crisis Market turmoil also intensified.

With more and more bad news, the protests in the Maldives made everyone feel more and more desperate and became more and more uncontrollable.

Of course, in countries like the Maldives, how many times do protests and demonstrations happen a year?

However, their protest is a protest, but they will never harass the tourists who come here because they know that these people are their food and clothing parents. If they are involved and spread out later, then who will come to Maldives for tourism? Who feeds them?

But it is an indisputable fact that the entire Male Island and several other large islands have been paralyzed.

Their hard-earned money, just like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is about to collapse, and there is no way to get back a penny. Such a thing is definitely not acceptable to any normal person. , there is no way to accept it.

Therefore, no matter how rhetoric the Maldives government makes, the people have only one request, that is, to get our money back, so they can say anything, otherwise nothing will work!

When negative emotions accumulate to a certain level, they will explode.

Seeing that the people became more and more angry, the Maldives government finally had no choice but to compromise, and finally agreed to Citibank's request to purchase on behalf of them.

Ever since the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae crisis broke out. Citibank has long known that they have to sell the island to make up for the loss, and they want to earn more commissions because they are greedy for money.

So some time ago they spread the news, especially when Citibank also mentioned that the super rich such as Xiao Qi, Richardson, Ellison and so on were also interested, in just a few days, there were twenty or thirty big Regal responded.

Now Citibank has purchase requests for almost 88 islands. Among them, Xiao Qi's 36 islands ranked first, and Paul Allen, the second largest shareholder of Microsoft who has always been good at enjoying himself, ranked second. He ordered 5 islands in one go.

Looking at such a large number of purchase requests, the Maldives is almost overwhelmed.

Although there are about 1,000 undeveloped islands in the Maldives, you can’t help but buy left and right!

But Citibank is also smart. The islands they selected are the most remote and difficult to develop. It is the turn of the Maldives to have the strength to develop. I'm afraid it will be fifty or sixty years later.

And their price is also good, the small island is about 4 million U.S. dollars, and the big island is more than 6 million U.S. dollars.

There are also subsequent transportation, roads, houses, electricity, fresh water, maintenance, etc., which are all handed over to the Maldives. These follow-up maintenance costs alone are a big financial supplement every year.

Can exchange so many benefits with chicken ribs, even if you have to sell 88 islands. It also moved the hearts of Maldives officials.

But these people are not stupid, and quickly spread the news through various channels, just to see the reaction of the people.

What surprised Citibank was that these people firmly disagreed with the sale of the island. Even if they can get 440 million US dollars to buy the island, there are no less than this amount of transportation, roads, houses, and supporting facilities. , but they still stubbornly do not allow the government to sell their islands.

You know, the current annual income of the Maldives is only 30 million US dollars. It is far from reaching the 50 million US dollars when the tourists from Huaguo were overwhelming!

These island purchases and follow-up expenses of more than 700 million US dollars are basically their income for 26 years!

Not only that, they also asked the government to quickly resolve the issue of US bonds, otherwise they will be impolite.

okay.

If you think of a way and you don't agree, you will know that the palace is forced. This is really unreasonable!

Just when things were at an impasse, Xiao Qi used his second move. Taught it to Qu Liang.

Citibank understood, and immediately threw another bait.

As we all know, 70% of the population of the Maldives is concentrated on the island of Male, causing very serious congestion.

So the Maldives government built an artificial island near Male Island, called Hulhumale Island, with nothing else on it, only residences and supporting facilities.

Hulhumale Island started construction in 1997 and was still under construction until 2013. After the houses here were built, many Malé people worked on Malé Island during the day and took a boat to Hulhumale Island at night. home sleeping.

Xiao Qi has heard that the former Huaguo government provided assistance to the Maldives, and the content was to build a Huaguo City on Hulhumale Island, and about 4,000 houses were built for free.

But this matter only started in 2010, and it is only 2008 now, Huaguo has not started to help the Maldives yet.

However, it can also be seen from this that the housing problem in Maldives is very prominent.

It is also because of the help of the Chinese government and the Maldives' own tourism profits to build houses everywhere that the population of Malé Island has dropped to 40% of the total population, and the housing problem has finally been alleviated to some extent.

If it was possible to buy the island with money before, Xiao Qi would not make any more tricks, but now it is obviously not enough, so he can only increase the price.

Xiao Qi’s plus is to build houses for Maldivians on Hulhumale Island for free.

Each building has six floors, four houses on each floor, and each house is 80 square meters with three bedrooms and one living room. If he builds 300 houses and 7,200 houses in this way, many Maldivians will be tempted, right?

Would you like to disagree?

Then let's go further, build another two to three thousand houses on other islands where houses can be built, and get about 10,000 houses in total, okay?

The population of your Maldives is less than 400,000!

For any family in any country, this house is a big killer, especially in Maldives, where there are many children and the living area is generally narrow. The obsession with houses is basically the same as that of Chinese people.

It wasn't just Xiao Qi who had this confidence, Citibank, who heard the idea, was also overwhelmed, and immediately formulated a series of plans.

As for building a house, the Maldives has almost no resources, so building a house is also a hassle. All materials have to be purchased from neighboring India and Sri Lanka or farther away, and the cost will increase by at least two or three times. .

Therefore, building houses in the Maldives used to be very laborious. Many families lived together because they had no houses, even if their children were married. It was extremely crowded.

Now someone is repairing their house for free, isn't that happy?

Of course, it’s not that Xiao Qi paid the money alone, Citibank made the budget, and when the negotiation is successful, whoever wants to buy the island, everyone will pay according to the ratio, because this is also part of the cost of buying the island.

Sure enough, after Citibank threw out this bait, the demonstrators in the Maldives were moved.

7,200 houses, basically one in five young people can own their own house, and this can greatly relieve the pressure on families.

So their voices of protest suddenly weakened.

However, there is always a shortage of people. 7,200 sets are certainly a lot, but why can't there be more?

Not to mention that every family has a set, but every young family of school-age youths has a set, isn’t that an exaggeration?

With such thoughts, they started protesting and wrangling again.

These guys don't even think about it. There are more than 130,000 school-age young people in the Maldives, which should be at least 60,000 to 70,000 units when converted into a family. How much is this cost?

But Citibank is not afraid of their wrangling at all. It is afraid that the Maldivians will not talk about it. Now that they are willing to talk, it just entered their rhythm.

How could this group of honest and not cunning guys be the opponents of Citibank in negotiations?

Negotiations will take time, but at this point in the matter, Xiao Qi and the other rich men finally feel at ease.

It is nothing more than a matter of spending more money. Compared with money, those beautiful islands in the Indian Ocean after they are developed are the things that can best reflect a person's wealth and taste!

The 36 islands that Xiao Qi wants to buy seem to be a lot now, but as long as Xiao Qi's children are in the generation, these islands cannot be said to be very abundant.

Regarding the destination of the property rights of the island, Xiao Qi had already thought about it, and the method of allocating the island was still according to his own Xiao family's property distribution method.

The wife's children in each house have one set, and the remaining islands belong to the descendants of the Xiao family, and no one can monopolize them at any time.

And the property rights of these islands are distributed in this way, and they are distributed from the beginning to avoid any disputes in the future.

It is good for Xiao Qi to distribute property to the children, but if there is any soap opera because of this, it is the most unacceptable for Xiao Qi.

Fortunately, there are examples of the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, and European royal families. Xiao Qi was able to learn from their experience and lessons, and sum up such a set of more practical methods.

Well, if you want to worry about this matter, you have to wait at least 20 years later, when the children have grown up.

Now, let's think about enjoying it first!

Xiao Qi began to yearn for the happy scene of bringing his wife here for vacation after the island is repaired.

Our family's things cannot be seen by others, but on this own island, there is nothing to worry about, right?

This is what life should be like. Only when and where you can relax unscrupulously can you work better!

With such good uses for private islands, it is not in vain for Xiao Qi to take so much trouble for them! (to be continued ~^~)

PS:  Haha, I will block Twitter for the second time the day after tomorrow, all thanks to the support of my brothers! Thank you! It is because of you that today's achievements are possible!