"Well, this is our engineering budget."

Bella smiled and handed over an account book, which not only contained detailed construction expenditure records of Ithaca City, but also various budgets, but even the budgets of Kalapag were included.

Xiao Feng laughed in his heart that Bella was really smart. The account book also included the part of the Kalapag Islands. This account book was clearly intended to show it to him.

But this is good. After all, the two parties have a cooperative relationship, and many accounts are clearly made, which is good for both parties.

He probably read the account book of the construction of the Kalapag Islands. Plum Blossom Island is the main island, and the construction projects of the other five sub-islands will cost about 5 billion US dollars.

This is not a small amount of money in South America, especially in areas like Kalapag.

The Chen family paid half of the money and Xiao Feng paid half of it. Considering that the Li family's old fortune had been collected before, that part of the money alone would be enough to pay for the construction cost.

The construction cost in Ithaca may be higher, after all, it involves compensation for renovation of old cities, expansion, etc.

The total budget for this project is about 8 billion US dollars.

But Xiao Feng estimated that after the project was completed, these budgets would definitely exceed the standard.

"Is eight billion enough?"

He asked Bella tentatively, and Bella smiled and said to Xiao Feng.

"Actually, this is the case. Many people in the construction team have very low salaries. And we have calculated that even if we purchase cement, steel bars, and even construction machinery from China, it is lower than the cost of purchasing locally. So the project budget is enough."

Xiao Feng nodded. Regarding building materials, it is indeed cheaper to purchase from domestically than to purchase from Tongguo.

This is mainly because the foundation accumulated by large domestic infrastructure projects over the years, cement, steel bars and other consumables have been overcapacity.

For example, the Belt and Road construction that the country is promoting now, most of the building materials used in projects are purchased from China.

Even if the steel cement is shipped to Africa, it is cheaper than purchasing from Africa.

It is naturally not a problem in South America. Although the economy of the Copper Kingdom is not very good now, they are "developed countries" assessed by the United Nations and their artificial level is high.

So if they hire their local workers to purchase building materials from the local area to carry out this project, the cost will be at least quadrupled.

And the construction period will be more than doubled!

"By the way, why are workers' wages so low? Those people are all from China, and they don't make money from far away. You are not good, right?"

Xiao Feng suddenly thought of this and asked Bella. When he heard this, Bella smiled slightly.

"In fact, most of the workers have signed technical immigration contracts with us. They can obtain our status in Ithaca area by working on this site for three years according to the current salary standards."

Li Zhiyang couldn't help but realize it suddenly, and then smiled and said to Bella: "You are good plans to kill two birds with one stone?"

This operation not only saves a lot of costs for the engineering project, but also provides a lot of human resources.

These workers may be dispensable ordinary workers in China, but in the Copper Country, they can definitely be called high-tech workers.

The most important thing is that even if Bella gave them a low salary, the salary level was similar to that they worked in China.

Moreover, the prices here are extremely cheap, such as eating and housing, which are cheaper than in China.

What's more, there are food and accommodation on the construction site, so they only have a little daily expense and need their own size.

So even if the salary is similar to that in China, they can save money.

“Are workers willing to immigrate to our Ithaca area?”

Some of the hometowns are hard to get rid of, but most of them are willing. After all, they are in their prime years in their twenties and thirties, and the pressure to survive in China is quite high.

Bella has also been to China many times and is still very familiar with the living environment of ordinary people in China.

Nowadays, ordinary male Chinese, especially those who do not have high-level diplomas and can only rely on skills and hard work, it is really difficult for them to make a breakthrough in China.

Moreover, the survival cost in China is so high. Buying a house and starting a family is not something that these ordinary workers can afford.

These workers have worked with the foreman in the past, and have worked in Africa and the Middle East, so they also understand the situation overseas.

The reason why they did not stay in Africa is that on the one hand, Africa is too poor and the country's political situation is too unstable, and on the other hand, African women do not look very consistent with the aesthetics of the Chinese people.

That's why there weren't a large number of them staying in Africa, but even so, many of them still married African wives.

Speaking of the Copper Country, the attractiveness of immigration is much greater than that of Africa.

First of all, Ithaca is a region dominated by Chinese people. Although there are differences in language environment and living habits, they can adapt to it.

The political environment here is relatively stable and friendly to Chinese people. Moreover, the women here look more in line with the aesthetics of Chinese people, so naturally there are a large number of workers willing to immigrate to Ithaca.

After all, the natural environment here is much stronger than many places in China. The most important thing is that the pressure to survive here is not that great.

Because of this, after many construction teams came to join us, Bella arranged for people to discuss immigration options with the workers when discussing the contract.

The result is not bad, many people agreed readily.

Although these workers may not have a high level of education, they all know that if one day they get old and can no longer work, if they return to China at that time, they will be quickly eliminated by the high-intensity living environment in China.

But if you stay in the Copper Kingdom, it will be much easier, after all, the pressure on the living environment here is much smaller.

Because of this, the project greatly saved some of its personnel and saved construction costs.

"Where is the immigration bureau?"

Although the Chen family is now in the political circle of Tongguo, Xiao Feng is still worried that it will arouse suspicion from some people by hiding into China with such a big fanfare.

"Ha, don't pay attention to that. First of all, we are an autonomous region. We have autonomy in immigration options. In addition, there are also our people on the Immigration Bureau. And the political circles want us to immigrate to more talents. Nowadays, a large number of young people travel overseas every year, and the government hopes that more people will immigrate to create GDP. As long as we pay taxes on time and on time every year, those people can't say much."

Seeing that Bella was so confident, Xiao Feng stopped saying anything more.

Well, this just happened to solve the problem of local population that he was worried about.

"Well, that's good. Since we have started to immigrate, we can't just immigrate these skilled workers, but we also need to introduce some advanced knowledge talents."

Xiao Feng said to Bella again, and Bella nodded with a smile.

"Hehe, that's right, now we have contacted many immigration agencies in the mainland to help contact more skilled immigrants. For example, engineers in various electronics, teachers from primary and secondary schools and even universities, we want to reshape our education system in Ithaca area. And doctors, we also want to introduce a group of people... "

Xiao Feng nodded: "These people need to be introduced in more ways. What will our Ithaca area develop in the future depends mainly on them. Our future goal is to be compared with high-end Chinese areas like Jiapo."

Bella's eyes lit up. She didn't expect Xiao Feng to set the tone of the Kalapag area so high.

It seems that he is not the kind of person who plans to leave with just one vote!

What Xiao Feng was thinking was that so many black technologies he had brought from another world were to be incubated here.

Without talent support, you will be castles in the air and you will definitely be suspected.

Only when more Chinese college students and scientists are introduced and more black technology is revealed in the future, will it become more reasonable.

After talking about the issue of talent introduction, Xiao Feng shifted the topic to the funding aspect.

"Is the money enough?"

"At present, from Citigroup and Southern Cross Bank, we have borrowed a total of $2 billion. We have mortgaged several high-quality farms near Ithaca and the remaining salt lake mines to them..."

"Wait? We have a salt lake mine here?"

Xiao Feng was a little confused. In the past, the Ithaca area was indeed a famous mining area, but the main production was saltpeter.

That is, the raw materials for making fertilizers and explosives. The war broke out between the Copper Kingdom and Peru and Bolivia in order to seize this mining area.

Later, after the Tong Kingdom won, it divided the mine to the Chinese who made military achievements in the war to live in it. In fact, it was not a good intention.

Because this mining area was on the verge of exhaustion at that time, the Chinese were arranged here and they could also watch over the door. Once there was any movement in Peru and Bolivia, this was the war zone.

Later, the mining area was exhausted, so it was converted into an agricultural area.

Xiao Feng really didn't study the mineral resource reserves in this area very well, and he really didn't know that there was a salt lake nearby.

"Ha, our Ithaca area goes east, and at the foot of the Tbilisi Mountains, it turned out to be a large area of ​​undeveloped algae. But in recent decades, due to the gradual decrease in rainfall, a salt lake has been formed. Later, someone discovered lithium mines there, but no one has developed them..."

I'll make a big deal, it turns out that there is really lithium mine reserve?

"Why hasn't developed before?"

"Uh! Mr. Xiao, you should know that when our Ithaca was controlled by the four major families, it was always faster to do other businesses than to start a mine. Besides, even if you don't do those businesses, it's easier to buy some fish every year than to start a mine..."

Grass is really a waste of resources, and Xiao Feng is speechless.
Chapter completed!