Odessa, a shipyard adjacent to the port of Odessa in the north of the city.

Even though a lot of work was suspended for security reasons and standing near the huge door crane to look around, you could still see many workers busy in the distance, and you could imagine the enthusiasm of normal working conditions.

After running with the man for a day, Li Fuzhen saw them all, including heavy industry projects such as steel, shipbuilding, petrochemicals, machinery, etc.

It is inevitable to feel threatened.

Not to mention the entire South Korea, but Samsung Group, many industries currently involved are quite consistent with this. More importantly, if you compete for costs, South Korea will definitely not compete with Ukraine. Just talking about workers’ wages, I heard from the discussion between men and the head of the shipyard, the average monthly wage of workers here is less than US$50.

How to compare?

Of course, South Korea also has its own advantages, that is, its higher-level technical level.

Ten years have passed, and the Ukrainian shipbuilding industry, which was able to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, is now building only two 12,000-ton bulk cargo ships.

Compared with South Korea, it is absolutely low-end.

In South Korea, for bulk cargo ships, it is easy to launch a 200,000-ton cargo ship in most shipyards and are at the forefront of the world.

However, I still listened to the man's conversation with the other person. At present, these two bulk cargo ships are just practicing. The construction period is expected to be 12 months. In the next step, as long as the orders and funds are guaranteed, the 50,000-ton bulk cargo ship project can be launched.

Lee Fuzhen didn't doubt this either.

Even if it has been abandoned for ten years, it is a super industrial power that once competes with the United States, and its foundation cannot be completely defeated so quickly.

Think about the series of projects I have seen today and look at the man in front of me.

What is this guy going to do?

Replace Korea?

In addition to the two girls who came to join in the fun, Simon was still surrounded by the familiar core members of the Rovno Gang. Andrei Smirnov, who successfully transferred from Rovno to the governor of Odessa Prefecture, Sergei Komorov, the head of Oldek Company, and so on.

The current shipyard is called Odessa Shipyard. It is integrated by the original shipyard of the same name and a newly recruited team. It is completely controlled by the Westeros system capital. It currently has 2,500 employees. Compared with the famous Black Sea Shipyard, even now, its scale is still far inferior. However, just 2,500 employees are also one of the best industrial talents in this country.

Simon came to Ukraine at the beginning of the year and then started recruiting. When the background of the Odessa Shipyard was reported, there were more than 70,000 candidates who sent resumes with a limited number of 2,500 people.

The reason is very simple. Even the famous Black Sea Shipyard is now in a state of half-dead, and most people cannot even pay their wages.

In comparison, Ukraine, which is still at the lowest point after the 1997 financial crisis, the only highlight of the domestic economy is the industry related to the Rovnobang, which is backed by the Westeros system. Odessa Shipyard happens to be one of them, and no one doubts the factory's ability to pay.

Therefore, even though the average monthly salary offered by the Odessa shipyard is less than US$50, it still attracts countless people.

Similarly, there are a series of heavy industry projects that the Westeros system has rapidly rolled out in Odessa.

Simon had hesitated about the layout of Eastern Europe, and finally decided to talk about the future. He would do what he is doing now. He would skip all kinds of trade-offs and follow the direction he thought was right.

It is well known that the former Soviet Union's heavy industrial foundation was sufficient to compete with the United States.

Just like the aerospace nuclear energy and other technologies that Simon previously organized and organized, in Simon's view, if other heavy industry industries are allowed to completely defeat as they once did, it will be a loss to the whole world.

Since the Westeros system is not short of funds now and has enough influence on Ukraine, things become very simple. To the greatest extent, pick up as much as you can.

After all, it was only ten years later, I could still pick up a lot of things.

After the re-planning of Ukraine's layout, Simon planned to use Rivni in the northwest and Odessa in the southwest as the fulcrum to gradually connect the entire Xiwu west of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, and finally form a Chinese-style economy completely controlled by the Westeros system. Among them, the northwest is dominated by light industry and heavy industry in the southwest. With Ukraine's outstanding geographical location, various industries have developed, and the market can radiate to a large area such as Western Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

As long as this area is firmly grasped, developed, and grasping the initiative of Ukrainian economy, it will basically be like controlling the entire Ukraine in the future.

As for the vacant Dongwu, I will talk about it in the future.

Not only that, as long as Xiwu can rise, with the cost advantage that can be easily maintained in the next 20 or 30 years, it can also compete with Western Europe to seize the resources and markets of other Eastern European countries that Simon did not want to leave to Britain, France, Germany and other countries, and even the markets of Western European countries themselves.

Finally, it’s still the same thing. Making Xiwu can be regarded as another ‘egg’.

When there are enough eggs, similar to what later people often say, the Japanese created a Japanese overseas.

Since manufacturing is doomed to be impossible to return to the United States, hollowing out is inevitable, then create another America overseas. Of course, to be precise, it is an "America" ​​under the absolute control of the Westeros system. It only borrows a tiger skin and has only one owner inside.

Speaking of which, Simon actually doesn't mind the participation of other federal capitals. The problem is that production is anti-human, and plunder is the nature. How can we make money through finance after working hard in industry? Therefore, it is not easy to convince others to give up the easier plunder and work hard to do production. Simon is too lazy to be thankless.

After a day of traveling, I took a bus back to Linhai Manor in the northeastern suburbs of Odessa, the sky was already dusk.

As he took advantage of the situation, he looked through a plan for a refining and chemical integrated project planned in Odessa. He felt that Li Fuzhen, who was sitting on the side, looked at herself again with a strange look that had lasted all day. Simon asked, "What's wrong?"

Miss Li hesitated for a moment and asked bluntly: "Are you here, are these arrangements to replace our Korea?"

Simon looked up, glanced at the girl beside him, and bent the corner of his mouth: "So keen?"

Miss Li stared at the man in front of her: "You really plan to do this?"

Simon reached out and pinched the delicate chin of the girl beside him: "It's not good to be persecuted so much."

Substitution is indeed a substitution, but South Korea... where to follow?

Lee Fuzhen shook her head, and the hand fell down, grabbed her neck again, shook it again, and stretched it without any trace. Her neck was not short at all. The bad guy was unforgivable: "Then why do many projects here overlap with South Korea?"

Simon took his hand back without explanation, shook his head slightly and said, "Stop thinking about it. What South Korea needs to do is to continue to upgrade the industry and maintain high-end advantages. If you stop moving forward, you will definitely be replaced."

Miss Li is not a mess. She probably understands Simon said this. Thinking about it carefully, it is true that although it coincides, the layout of men here is relatively large and South Korea, and it is impossible to catch up for a while.

Delfina sat on the other side of Simon, waited for the two of them to finish speaking, and said, "Simon, you should be building Ukraine for Africa, right?"

After Delfina said this, Li Fuzhen suddenly remembered that when he visited the oil refinery during the day, he heard a man discussing the import of oil from Angola with the factory manager. Not only that, another conversation also talked about investing in the construction of a batch of power plants in Africa. Even the two bulk cargo ships under construction were planning to transport raw materials such as coffee and wood from Africa.

After sorting it out, there are quite a lot of connections with Africa here.

When Simon heard Delfina say this, he jokingly said half-truely: "Yes, I plan to grab all your French territory in Africa."

Delfina rolled her eyes immediately: "I don't care. You men like to snatch them."

Lee Fuzhen was intrigued: "Simon, if you want to develop Africa, Korea can do it too."

Simon subconsciously came over when he saw the girl beside him, lowered his head, kissed the woman's lips, feeling the coolness and softness. After Miss Li subconsciously dodged, she took the initiative to step forward, straightened her body again, and said, "No problem, I will send some project information here later, and Samsung can participate in the bidding."

Li Fuzhen was attacked and her head was a little dizzy. Seeing the man agreeing so readily, she was a little moved. Just because she didn't know what to say, Delfina had already broken up: "Li, do you think Korean companies can compare with Ukrainian companies in terms of cost?"

Li Fuzhen then realized that he remembered the shipyard's monthly salary of less than 50 US dollars on average. He hugged the man's arm and shook it. Damn it, if you don't want it, you don't want it, and you're perfunctory.

Simon tilted his head and pressed the head of the girl beside him, and smiled and said, "It's good to understand. What Korea needs to do is to nail the market to Europe and the United States. Compared with the West, you still have a cost advantage."

Miss Li didn't appreciate it: "You just want us to be your production base."

"Yes," Simon did not deny it at all: "And, you should be glad. Looking at Eastern Europe, they want to build a production base, and they may not have a chance."

Seeing that the two of them were quarreling but obviously getting tired of getting tired, Delfina couldn't help but find another topic and interrupted, "Simon, when I visited the shipyard, I heard them say that I hope you can take down the Black Sea shipyard, why don't you?"

The Black Sea Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding giant in the former Soviet Union, and the aircraft carrier base, even Delfina knows it.

Li Fuzhen didn't know much about it, but since Delfina asked, she raised her head slightly and looked over curiously.

Simon did not explain to the Odessa Shipyard director who made this suggestion at the time. He had no shyness to the two girls around him. He shook his head and said, "It's too big, the entanglement of interests is too complicated."

Li Fuzhen still wondered: "You are so powerful in Ukraine, are you afraid of being complicated?"

"The only one I can absolutely control in Ukraine is Rovno Prefecture, even Odessa is still sorting out. The Black Sea Shipyard is located in Nikolayev Prefecture, outside my power." Simon explained, glanced at the two women on the left and right, and then said: "You two will be involved in a huge family industry in the future. I will teach you a truth. Foreign investment. Don't think that you can be unimpeded by money. If you cannot grasp enough initiative and enter a new area rashly, you will be eaten up. Local forces will not care about how much influence your Samsung Group or LVMH has in the world, nor will you care about how much stimulus your entry will bring to the local economy. They only care about their own interests. If they don't get any benefits, they would rather destroy it."

Delfina listened carefully to Simon's words and nodded slightly as if she had some clarity.

Li Fuzhen also agreed, but was a little dissatisfied: "Simon, you don't have much influence in Southeast Asia, why are you still investing heavily?"

Simon smiled: "In terms of Southeast Asia, it is just a prelude to the early stage, and how do you know that I have no influence?"

Lee Fuzhen opened her mouth and suddenly thought of the "Black Phoenix" who quietly ran from South Korea to Southeast Asia. The man even pushed the gangsters over, and you can imagine other aspects. Obviously, he just didn't know it.

Luxury Mercedes-Benz stopped in front of the castle-like villa in Linhai Manor. Simon got out of the car with two girls, and the tall Eve Bessonoskova and her maid were greeted by the door.

There were also guests who wanted to meet, so they sent the two girls to take a shower and there were social events tonight.

Under Eve's guidance, Simon went to another large bathroom in the villa with sea views. Under Eve and two maids, he took off his clothes and soaked them in the bathtub, grabbed the tall girl who was about to leave, and asked one thing: "Do your father really not want to come to Odessa?"

It is very important to open up new territories.

Simon has been cultivating various direct descendants in Ukraine over the years, quietly observing the records, constantly improving the available ones, and decisively eliminating the unavailable ones.

The Bessonoskova family, except for a certain little goblin who escaped, were the kind that made Simon very satisfied.

Eve sat down on the marble table in the bathtub, reached out to rub the man's back and whispered: "Dad is very satisfied with his current job, and they are all familiar things."

Eve's father was an engineer at a large arsenal in Ukraine. In recent years, he has been in charge of logistics affairs at the military theme park in Rifny. It should have been a job full of fuel and water. Eve's father did not leak water. Even Alexander Nagiev, the head of the military theme park, said that the park can achieve outstanding achievements in recent years, and Yi's father is indelible.

In that case, Simon is certainly happy to put the other party in a more important position.

Unexpectedly, things were unexpected.

This is the same kind of person as Yekaterina Noskova, who made the Rifny Fertilizer Factory bigger and stronger but obsessed with it, the kind left over from the former Soviet era.

After thinking for a while, Simon asked, "Where is your brother?"

"Brother wants to come over, but Dad doesn't want to let him go, worried that he will mess up," Eve said, pausing, and whispering: "Dad hopes that my brother can take him in a few years, right... Dad has always been very satisfied with that supervisory job and salary. He is a conservative person."

The military theme park has been in full swing in recent years, so the staff's remuneration will naturally not be treated unfairly, not to mention the relationship between Eve.

Since that's the case, Simon didn't force himself and said, "Take time to let your brother and Alexander University manage it, and you can take over the theme park work in the future."

Eve showed a grateful look and chatted for a few more words. Seeing that the man had no other instructions, she said, "Ms. Tymoshenko has been waiting for a long time. I'll let her come over?"

Simon nodded: "Yeah."

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PS1: There have been a lot of fun recently, with all the troubles, monsters and misfortunes. Just think that if you don’t have the ability of 96 rich people in Ukraine to jump ship at any time, you should not have to worry about your position. Of course, except for eight-year-old children, children can discuss right or wrong.
Chapter completed!