The Simon family came to Australia and first accompanied the two elderly people for some days, took daily social engagements, and went to Tasmania for a few days to relax. By the way, they took a look at their own industries. They returned from Tada Island, and it was already mid-January.

Melbourne.

This is Thursday, January 13th.

After returning from Tower Island, I did not rush back to Los Angeles, but continued to start some work here.

I just visited the set of Justice League yesterday. After the New Year, the project has been fully restarted. It is expected that the filming will be completely finished in May. Including the later stage, it will happen that the first part will be launched without delaying the end of the year.

Today at Johnston Holdings headquarters in Melbourne city centre.

In the next few days, there will be a lot of things to discuss.

For example, today, the topic is about building a railway in Angola.

The civil war in Angola has not yet ended completely, and the areas bordering Congo are not peaceful. However, the power of Angolan President Dos Santos has gradually stabilized. Even if it is unstable, the Westeros system will stabilize him. After all, this is a prerequisite.

Considering the preparations for the past few years, the next step is to make a deeper layout.

If you want to transport all kinds of resources from Angola from the inland areas, some of the remaining highways, railways and other infrastructures in this country during the colonial era are far from that.

Speaking of this, Simon will inevitably think about a certain issue again in the near future.

Why do Western countries not pay attention to the development of Africa?

Some of the arguments that have always wanted to build a cheap raw material base in Africa is actually correct, but not entirely correct.

Africa has developed.

During the colonial era, Western countries also invested heavily in Africa.

In Angola, at its peak in the 1970s, Angola, as a major coffee producer, once had an annual coffee production of more than 200,000 tons. Then, Africa successively worked its own way and a widespread civil war broke out, which resulted in destroying everything that had happened.

In the past few years, before the Westeros system opened large coffee plantations in Angola, Angola's annual coffee production was only a pitiful less than 5,000 tons.

Other industries are also roughly the same after decades of war.

Similarly, more other countries in Africa have similar rules, war destroys everything, and the West cuts off universal assets to Africa, and then now, poor, backward, and nothing.

At the same time, in the timeline of recent years, in the context of the African war, Simon Capital naturally could not enter Africa at will, so it found a better direction.

For example, Latin America.

Latin America also flourished in the 1970s and 1980s, and then basically fell to the threshold of the middle-income trap of developed countries. As for the process, it is probably similar to what South Korea just experienced. South Korea's per capita annual income reached US$10,000, and then it encountered a financial crisis, triggering an economic crisis. In addition, it lacked complete sovereignty, and the country's economy was quickly penetrated by Western capital.

In addition to Latin America, there is also Asia.

The four little dragons and four little tigers in Japan, South Korea and even Southeast Asia are the result of the continuous import and support of Western capital, including China at present.

Until now 2000.

Capital is ruthless and profit-seeking, and will not deliberately target anyone unless you can give it benefits.

Therefore, the main reason for the collapse of Africa in the past few decades is the internal problems of Africa. Of course, no one can deny the game between big powers and small countries have become pawns. In short, compared with Asia, Latin America, and even Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Africa is not a very good investment.

The reason is simple. Investing 10 million in Asia can increase steadily by 15% in a year and investing 10 million in Africa may be a mess because of a war. How do you choose capital?

Then it will be after 2000.

In history, Africa gradually stabilized after 2000, and its economy had developed to a certain extent, but the development was not obvious.

The reason is also very simple.

It’s just that one China in Asia has directly supported the growth engine of the entire world economy. Global capital has flocked to China and its surrounding areas. Or is it because of the rate of return, who would invest in Africa indiscriminately?

Um.

Not right.

In fact, there is one, or China. However, no one can deny that China has little intention to make money in investment, and has a greater tendency to make publicity. Because it is to make publicity, it is impossible to make money, and it is impossible to work too hard after all. As a result, the African economy only drank a little soup outside the super engine of China.

Until Simon was reborn.

In the future, can Africa afford it?

Many people have no answer.

However, since Africa has the potential of Angola's annual coffee production of more than 200,000 tons, there is no reason why Africa will not be able to develop at all after decades of further technological advancement, as long as there is sufficient investment, reasonable planning, and a stable development environment.

What's more, Africa has a South Africa.

Of course, Simon also knew that the prosperity of various industries in Africa was mainly dominated by white people during the colonial period. Since that is the case, it is still the case now.

Just like the planned Angola railway network.

Simon's plan this time is to directly hand over to Chinese construction companies to build. The Westeros system is responsible for investment. The future ownership belongs to the Westeros system and the Angolan government, but the control belongs to this side. At the same time, the Westeros system must also take the dominance of the mining and agriculture development in the corresponding regions driven by the Westeros system.

It is for the Angolan government and people to honestly share the dividends.

If one word had to be asked, Simon wouldn't mind that this was neocolonialism.

In addition to infrastructure in Africa, Simon is also discussing a brand new core mining production system with Australia, one of which is rare earths.

With the continuous expansion of detection technology, it is not difficult for countries to discover that there is no shortage of rare earth mines around the world. Just like now, the team under Johnston Holdings has discovered rare earth mines in the Angola headquarters area.

The key is production.

The reason why China once controlled the production of rare earth ore was not a technical problem, but an environmental problem. Many rare earth metals even produced a large amount of radioactive waste during the production process, which was difficult for Western countries to bear such environmental costs.

Simon wants to build a rare earth production system controlled by the Westeros system. Mineral storage is not a problem, the key is production.

However, the target is also ready-made.

Ukraine.

Ukraine now does not have much room for bargaining, and there will be no such thing in the future.

Simon's plan is to invest in and build a special rare earth factory in Ukraine, and then provide raw materials from Africa, Australia and even Latin America and transport them to Ukraine for production.

The output value of the rare earth industry is not large after all, so the key is nothing else.

For example, steel.

In this regard, Simon has no plan to compete with China for productivity, and mainly invests in China in order to share more dividends of industrial development.

However, in other aspects, such as copper and aluminum, and even the lithium, sodium, cobalt and other resources involved in the new energy plan in the future, the Westeros system must strengthen its own layout.

One of the aluminium consortiums in Russia is already under construction.

As the saying goes, you must master enough resources to have enough voice and even control over the world in the future.

End the day of work and take a ride home with Anthony.

Dining together at the Johnston family mansion on the Yarra River in the evening.

The two brothers continued to talk about things along the way. The car left the city, came to the northern suburbs, entered the family mansion, and stopped in front of the main villa.

Simon got out of the car and saw a small person standing on the lawn on the east side of the main villa, tilting his head, looking at the sunset that was about to fall in the west.

Of course, Anthony also noticed, walked over with a smile, and asked, "What is Sier doing?"

Simon shook his head and signaled Anthony to enter the villa. He simply walked over, nodded to the waitress guarding next to him, picked up her daughter, looked to the west together, and joked: "Baby, what are you looking at? Do you miss your mother star?"

Compared to Simon, the family now thinks that a little girl is more like an alien.

That's why Simon's joke is.

The little girl was suddenly picked up by her father. She knew that she could not get rid of the embrace of this adult human male. She could only twist her body gently, find a more comfortable position, and continue looking at the sky.

Of course I also heard my father's words.

However, she was too lazy to answer such a boring human joke, just as she hated the adult humans most to treat her like human cubs.

Very annoying.

After being silent for a while, the little girl saw that her father was still dazed by her, thinking about the mother who was not related to her, if she knew that she ignored the person beside her, she would inevitably have to whisper again, so she said, "Dad, do you miss her?"

Simon shook his head seriously: "Of course not, our mother planet has been destroyed in an interstellar war, so, baby, be a man on earth."

More boring jokes.

But, the little girl felt that she should cooperate and smiled, so she hooked up a perfect human cub and added by mistake: "Dad, I mean, do you miss the future?"

Simon's eyes suddenly restrained, and he turned his head to look at it. Just now, because of his signal, the girl's personal servant had already avoided it far away and could not hear the conversation between the father and daughter.

Withdrew his gaze, Simon relaxed a little, looked at his baby daughter with interest, and after a moment, he finally said, "Baby, you can't tell others about this kind of thing, do you understand?"

Seattle nodded.

Simon added: "Mom can't say it either."

Seattle nodded again.

My father is so annoying. She is not a child. Based on the IQ and knowledge reserves of ordinary humans, um... she should be hundreds of years old.

But, I was curious again: "Dad, how did you come here?"

Seeing that the little girl was also in a serious tone, Simon just asked a question, thought about it, shook her head honestly: "Dad doesn't know, so this universe is very magical."

The little girl asked again: "How much future does Dad have?"

Simon also continued to be calm: "Probably twenty years, and in the future, dad will depend on you. Baby, can you predict a further future?"

The little girl seemed to think seriously for a half second and shook her head: "It's very boring."
To be continued...