Chapter 428 Patriotic Feelings
Ron felt that the New Federation's behavior was indeed a bit too ugly and too bold.
How dare you shoot at people in the city hall? Do you really think that the officials of the Mumbai government are made of clay?
As the leading mafia in South Mumbai, they don't lack this income.
The wealth brought by Happy Beans Media alone is equivalent to that of several previous businesses.
I heard from Anand that New United is now even paying attention to the passport business, and gold smuggling has become dispensable.
The CD printing factory on Flas Road presses Happy Bean Media's movies day and night, just like a money printing machine.
This business was very profitable, even slightly exceeding the profits made when Khad Khan was in office.
But human hearts are always greedy, they just want more.
Ron sighed. The new federation was not as good as before.
With Had Khan around, the gang is well-organized even though they are doing illegal business.
Now that young people are in power, all kinds of rules are constantly being broken.
Ron gave Johnny a warning, in a very serious tone.
The selfless Ajie is no joke. If he says someone will die, then someone will definitely die.
Being able to notify Ron in advance was already a matter of consideration for our past friendship.
Ron didn't even think about begging for mercy. Today, he no longer needed to rely on organizations like the New Federation, even for doing dirty work.
If Ajie could meet all the radicals in the New Federation, perhaps the situation would be better.
Based on his understanding of Johnny, the latter would probably disdain to do the work of enclosing a hut, which was too shabby.
After hanging up the phone, Ron turned back to tease little Ravi.
Children of this age are very easy to coax. Maybe you don't even need to say anything. Just keep covering their heads with a towel and then taking it off, and that's enough to make them giggle.
It's December now, and just as we anticipated, the financial crisis, which lasted over a year, has finally quietly faded away, along with its aftermath.
What economists worried about last year, that the crisis would radiate globally, did not happen.
Export trade has become prosperous again and the slogan of globalization has been raised again and again.
India's economy seemed to have just taken a nap and then rushed forward without stopping.
The most obvious sign is the surge in Sur cell phone shipments, which are now more than in any previous month.
A few months ago, Ron contacted New Delhi and asked the BJP government to support new domestic products.
Yes, that’s right, this is the marketing slogan of Sur mobile phone.
With the theoretical support of Barat Winning Science, Suer Electric Appliances' title as the pride of domestic products is becoming more and more stable.
Patriotic brand, real word research!
Mr. Su Dashan persuaded the executives overnight to set the price of the mobile phone at 8,000 rupees.
For every mobile phone sold, Sur Electric will make a loss.
They really make mobile phones just to sell them to everyone without making any profit, but they are actually quite happy about it.
It is said that a user took a Sur phone on a plane, which immediately caused a sensation.
The story begins when the flight attendant saw his cell phone and asked, "What kind of cell phone is this? It's so beautiful!"
This prompted many passengers to leave that person's contact information, and the restaurant manager directly gave him a free meal.
The flight attendants rushed to take photos with him and upgraded him to first class for free.
Look, this is the face of Sur Electric Appliances.
High-end done!
Of course, if you want to sell well, you also need the support of New Delhi.
Ron's second-in-law Aditya, needless to say, is the Minister of Transportation and has the power to direct the work of the Ministry of Telecommunications.
As early as when the Sur mobile phone was first launched on the market, it directly went through the contract phone channel.
But this was not enough, New Delhi added fuel to the fire.
Civil servants who purchase a Sur mobile phone will receive a subsidy of Rs 1,000-3,000.
Each state has limited subsidy funds, which are distributed by region and time period until the subsidy funds are used up.
Well, national supplements.
The price of 8,000 rupees may not be attractive, but what about 7,000, 6,000, or even 5,000?
A mobile phone costs 5,000 rupees, and then look at the imported goods next door that cost nearly 20,000 rupees. What else do you want from a bicycle?
India has a large civil service population of 10 million people, including government workers, police, teachers, flight attendants, etc.
Their salaries are also very high, with monthly salaries exceeding ten thousand yuan. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people working so hard to get into the civil service exam.
However, the more this is the case, the better the welfare benefits, such as the national subsidies for mobile phones this time.
In the last two months of 1998, 800,000 units were sold, several times more than the total of the previous quarter.
The shipment volume issue that Ashish was worried about was not a problem at all.
Sur Electric has placed additional orders with Huazi, and the orders for new chips will double in February of next year.
Machine testing will begin in March, mass production and stocking will begin in April, and sales will start in the middle of the year. Everything is arranged perfectly.
The larger the volume, the lower the chip processing cost. With two million chips, the unit price is expected to drop further to around $7.
Don't underestimate the difference of one dollar, that's a profit of forty-five rupees.
Multiplied by millions, it becomes another huge number.
There are tens of millions of civil servants, and only less than one million have left, so the potential is huge.
With the surge in shipments of Sur mobile phones, the construction of signal base stations for India Mobile has been put on the agenda again.
The 600 base stations originally ordered from Huazi have already been put into use, and have even undergone several technological iterations.
In the past year, India Mobile has purchased another 500 base stations, mainly distributed in New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
With an investment of 110 million US dollars, these three places are basically included in the signal coverage of India Mobile.
Of course, it is just coverage, and there is still some distance to go before it can achieve smooth signal and low latency.
To reach the level of later generations, the number of signal base stations would have to be doubled.
Seeing that Sur mobile phones are about to take off, India Mobile is already negotiating with Huazi for the next batch of base station purchases.
This order is for 2,000 units, worth US$200 million, and is primarily intended to prepare for the upcoming Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Hyderabad locations.
These are the top ten metros in India, where 80% of mobile phone users are located.
If the layout of these telecom circles is completed, the signal range of India Mobile will officially surpass that of the state-owned Department of Telecommunications 'DoT' and become the largest operator in terms of mobile users.
With more than 300 million US dollars invested, this investment has truly surpassed that of the national team.
What Ron said at the beginning has come true, and he is really promoting the development of India's telecommunications infrastructure.
Why did New Delhi agree to provide subsidies to other countries? This large-scale project book is the best reason.
New Delhi doesn't mind giving some help to entrepreneurs who make real contributions.
But Ron also has his own selfish motives. He is advertising for his own Garuda company.
Well, he told New Delhi that the Garuda signal base station was also fully self-developed.
If you want to convince them, there is nothing more direct than doing it yourself.
If you don’t use your own signal base station, who will?
Only after India Mobile is truly operational and effective will other telecom operators approach Garuda for quotes.
It’s all business, one link after another, driving the entire industrial chain.
It’s just that Ron took away most of the profits in the industry chain, including communication terminals, operators, and signal base stations.
If these layouts are activated, it will definitely become a telecommunications giant in the future.
These are all foundations, so spending money is essential.
Fortunately, the financial crisis has passed and overseas trade is gradually recovering.
Ron's small treasury is slowly recovering and is no longer stretched.
After a busy day, it was already January 1999. Ron was about to go to Tamil, but something else happened in Mumbai.
The Shiv Sena is taking action in the cultural field, causing chaos everywhere.
Ultimately the Shiv Sena is a right-wing organisation, and Thackeray is well aware of this, as violence is in their genes.
In order to prevent his subordinates from being recruited by gangs, Thackeray had to find ways to create new channels for them to vent violence, and thus constantly created new imaginary enemies.
The easiest target is the artist, because the illiterate Shiv Sena cannot understand the artwork.
Last year, Ghulam Ali, a famous Baba Yang singer, was performing at a concert in Mumbai. Suddenly, members of the Shiv Sena rushed onto the stage, proclaiming, "We can sing, too," and then chanted, "Long live the Marathi people!"
They said that the Shiv Sena boss had issued an order: Baba Ram artistes were not allowed to perform in Mumbai and Baba Ram athletes were not allowed to compete in Mumbai.
Before the public in Mumbai could react, there were no performances or events to watch.
However, a police spokesman told the newspaper that the organizers had not received any complaints and the entire ban process did not violate any laws or regulations.
Of course not, this is a city where murderers can walk the streets with impunity and hold seats in the highest legislative body.
They have plenty of power and are fearless.
The Shiv Sena also strongly boycotted "Shingan", a film by Indian director Gauteng, which depicts a love affair between a pair of sisters-in-law in Delhi that breaks the shackles of marriage.
“Just because the culture of grinding tofu is spreading like an epidemic, does that mean women who are unhappy in their marriages should not rely completely on their husbands?” Thackeray asked.
He said Indian society cannot tolerate "this kind of Western progressive thinking that treats marriage and divorce as a joke."
Therefore, the Shiv Sena, under Thackeray's instructions, smashed all theaters showing "The Fire of Love" and forced the film to be withdrawn from theaters across the country.
Naturally, the English newspapers published editorials as usual boycotting Thackeray, but no Shiv Sena leader or henchman reads English newspapers.
However, in January this year, the Shiv Sena made a big mistake.
They picked the wrong target, Sachin Tendulkar, the most popular Baba Sheep cricketer in India.
Dissatisfied with the Indian Cricket Board's invitation to the Babar Sheep Cricket Team for a tour, the enraged Shiv Sena stormed into the board's office, smashed things everywhere, and even destroyed the 1983 Cricket World Cup trophy won by India.
Tendulkar was forced to seek police protection, while leaders of the Shiv Sena and the BJP quickly distanced themselves from the atrocity.
Indians love cricket so much, Tendulkar is a big star and everyone likes him.
The Shiv Sena's atrocities have caused resentment among the people, with even the Marathas questioning their actions.
Thackeray is in a difficult situation, but the tiger under his crotch, the Shiv Sena mob, is obviously no longer completely under his control.
This raid was no longer carried out under the guidance of a certain leader or based on a specific governing philosophy, but was simply a mob's attempt to satisfy their thirst for power and practice their terrible delusions that became even more brutal due to their incompetence.
They were a group of young Marathi men who toiled twelve hours a day, endured humiliation and beatings from their wealthy superiors ("You're not from our town!"), and then took the train home.
The train car was like a steamer, the air stagnant and filled with the stench of body odor and sweat. When they returned to their home in the slums, their parents and grandmothers asked them how much they had earned that day.
They are constantly reminded of their incompetence, and the only time they feel like men is when they are in the midst of a rioting crowd, waving the banner of patriotism and claiming to fight for national honor.
They broke into theaters, high-end apartments, and the office of the cricket king who was admired by thousands of people, smashed other people's trophies, beat up bigwigs driving luxury cars, and were proud of being able to get away with it.
The humiliation accumulated every day, the scolding they received, and the disappointment brought to them by this decadent city that never belonged to them were all washed away by the violent outburst.
The anger of the mob is justified, and the larger the crowd, the more furious they become.
Such a collective incites anger, digests anger, and further fuels anger, and anger in turn strengthens the collective.
Suddenly you no longer feel powerless, you feel invincible, you feel that this city no longer belongs to someone else, it is finally yours.
You have the right to be angry, and because of your anger, the city will belong to you.
However, this anger comes at a price.
(End of this chapter)
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