In order to acquire a suitable food processing enterprise as soon as possible, Li Yalin asked Ai to analyse the list of all the regular food processing enterprises in Morocco, and then analyse the advantages and disadvantages of each of them based on their registered addresses, combined with the satellite pictures of the skyline.
One of Ai’s greatest strengths was that it could think, so instead of guiding it step by step, Li Yalin directly informed it of his own needs, and asked it to find a food business that was not in a good operating condition, but covered an area and a building that could hide a few thousand people, and was geographically far away from densely populated areas.
Ai immediately selected five businesses that met his needs.
These five enterprises were all located in relatively remote areas of Morocco, one of them was not far from Duke Mining, only about a hundred kilometres away, and even better, this enterprise was only less than fifty kilometres away from the coastline, so if he wanted to place his people here and wait for them to be transported out of the country, then this was the best choice.
Thus, Li Yalin temporarily separated from Ye Chen early the next morning, and travelled alone to that enterprise to find out what was going on.
Ye Chen, on the other hand, stayed in his hotel room and sat on the ground, continuing to review the set of hand seals while slowly accumulating the aura in his body.
Ye Chen was now so obsessed with this set of hand seals that he was like a woolgathering addict, whenever he had the time, he would cultivate in this way, and by repeating that set of hand seals over and over again, he would gain extra spiritual qi for himself.
Li Yalin finally arrived at the town where that food processing enterprise was located after a three hour drive.
This enterprise was located on the outskirts of the town, and the more than three hundred employees basically came from this town, which was roughly thirty kilometres away from a fishing port on the north-eastern coast of Morocco, and because it wasn’t directly on the coast, the people in this town didn’t have the opportunity to become fishermen.
When the coastal fishermen rely on fishing to improve their living conditions, the villagers of this small village can only go to the surrounding seafood processing enterprises to work, and the enterprise selected by Li Yalin is a specialised production of processed seafood, especially in the production of canned sardines as the main private enterprise.
Morocco is the world’s largest exporter of sardines, the domestic production of canned sardines and other seafood products to survive at least hundreds of enterprises, although Morocco’s GDP because of the sardines have increased, but most of these enterprises producing canned sardines are not easy to live.
Because it is only the most primary food processing, their threshold is relatively low, and because of the low threshold, so the competition between peers is also very fierce, new enterprises want to stand firm, often rely on the price war to get orders, over time, we press each other’s prices, resulting in the entire industry’s profit margins are declining, and nowadays, many enterprises are struggling on the edge of the survival line.
This is the case with the enterprise chosen by Li Yalin.
It was funded and established by a former civil servant of the local municipal government, after more than ten years of continuous development, the scale is indeed getting bigger and bigger, but because of the backward production technology and low efficiency, the business situation here is also gradually declining, the owner of the enterprise is getting older, gradually losing ambition, and only thinking of continuing to rely on this enterprise to create a meagre profit, and because of this kind of thinking, he has not invested any more money into the enterprise to be used toUpgrading and expansion, so that the competitiveness of the enterprise is getting worse and worse.
More crucially, such an old enterprise, want to get out is very difficult, the industry profit is not high, the cost of upgrading and reconstruction is a huge expenditure, the slightest error may fall into the loss, who do not want to take this risk.
And Li Yalin also looked at another natural advantage of seafood food processing enterprises, that is, they are bound to have vehicles transporting raw materials constantly shuttling between the factories and the docks, once Ye Chen wants to transport those dead soldiers quietly, the sea route is the only reliable choice, then through the camouflage of seafood food processing factories, you can make use of the vehicles that are travelling to and from the fishing harbour to constantly send people away.
