Chapter 393(1/2)
The people from Hafei left and went back with the Chinese team. They wanted to go back and discuss the matter of opening a branch in Morocco.
This is a very serious matter.
In recent years, the export products of the East that can be exchanged for foreign exchange are mainly agricultural products. In the 1980s, it was the farmers who saved the East.
Although China is far from having enough food and clothing.
Rice, flour, cotton, pigs, poultry, eggs...
In addition, there are a large number of rural handicrafts, silk flowers, cork paintings, bamboo weaving products, latte art...
Except for hand-made agricultural products, including petroleum and minerals, there are very few high value-added industrial products, which are very unhealthy and have no future from an economic point of view.
On the same level as Morocco...
The person who is currently purchasing large quantities of industrial products in the east is Sean, or to be more precise, Jeff the High Sparrow.
The High Sparrow not only controlled the 'street offices' in northern Colombia, but also established a trading company.
It was established because I previously supported the Decap armed forces and found that walking tractors were very suitable for Colombia.
At present, not only walking tractors are imported, but also a large number of maintenance and processing tools.
Various pliers, wrenches, saws...including machetes!
Don't get me wrong, it's not about killing people, it really isn't.
It is to chop agricultural products such as coconuts, bananas, and sugar cane.
Jeff, the largest mafia leader in northern Colombia, is engaged in legal and serious business, while Sean, a serious businessman, is engaged in illegal underground military gangs...
The difference is that Jeff's people will try their best to keep the price as low as possible when importing, while Sean will take the initiative to increase the price.
So, is it better for the East to do legal business or illegal business?
The problem facing the Hafei people is this.
The condition Sean gave was to set up a joint venture to sell Hafei cars in Morocco.
From the east's perspective, Sean can completely import from the east and sell it in Morocco. There is no need to engage in any joint venture. The government will help promote it. The east believes that the effect will be very good.
Although the people at Hafei are not optimistic that their cars will achieve high sales in Morocco,
Well, the embassy is not optimistic either, but for different reasons.
However, promoting cooperation is necessary.
The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Industry, the top leaders of HLJ, and Harbin Aircraft Corporation are conducting urgent consultations with multiple parties to come up with a cooperation plan as soon as possible. Sean urged them urgently.
I can count up to hundreds of thousands per minute, how can I waste so much time with you?
It's a consultation, a discussion. It's not a meeting.
There is a strange phenomenon: meetings with many people are not important, important meetings with few people, large meetings are held to solve small problems, small meetings are held to solve big problems, meetings are not held to solve key problems, and meetings are always held when problems are not solved.
In the final analysis, the value of a meeting is determined by the number of people attending it.
Remember, it is not directly proportional, but inversely proportional!
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While having a quick discussion in the east and setting the tone, Sean was not idle either. The last time he hurriedly returned to the United States was because of the reorganization of the Umbrella Company, there were still many things that had not been dealt with here.
The first thing is to find the Frenchman Thompson Alves.
This was the second time the two parties met. The last time was on the yacht. Sean kicked down two lockers of U.S. dollars.
In the end, no cash was given. Those were too rough, and at their level they couldn't do such transactions.
Money is not the most important thing to Thompson Alves, and he cannot take any money.
Sean only showed sincerity. In fact, the report he gave was through the French assets seized and confiscated by Morocco.
Thompson Alves' nephew opened a foreign trade company and took away large quantities of goods at low prices from warehouses confiscated by Moroccan officials, shipping them ship by ship.
Of course, the Spaniards also opened a company there and took away a lot of goods.
These are all things that companies in France paid for but disappeared during the seizure. Don’t ask why they disappeared or where they disappeared to.
Those companies in France would be very happy if they could get their companies back, and only those who have no brains would trace the whereabouts of a batch of goods.
The two companies each took away goods worth about 30 million yuan. Sean's team calculated that the two companies could each earn about 8 million yuan.
The total amount of goods seized before and after is about 300 million, and many people will participate in the carving up later, both French and Spanish. The efforts of so many people in the later period to promote the reconciliation between the two sides are not in vain.
Of course, the starting point is to consider the issue from the perspective of the country. Economic blockade is not beneficial to anyone.
Whether you should verbally scold or scold, and whether you should actually promote negotiations or promote negotiations, this is similar to the saying, "Being anti-American is work, going to the United States is life."
But this has nothing to do with Sean, and he doesn't have to pay for it.
This time Sean came to see Thompson Alves to communicate with him about Libya. After all, he was providing military personnel to Cardano to fight against Chad under French protection, so he wanted to communicate privately.
After chatting for a while, we talked about French food, and then from food to Africa. Naturally, we talked about Chad and Cardano.
"Colonel Card is still very motivated. I estimate that in less than two months, Colonel will be able to push the front back to the central region of Chad again. Well, within five months, he will push the front again to the central region of Chad." Sean smiled and drank the wine.
He took a sip and said with a smile.
Thompson Alves pondered for a moment and asked in a confused manner: "Why?"
"We have analyzed Ka Dazuo's personality and judged that it is best to find something for him to do, to make him nervous and busy." Sean smiled and spread his hands, "You know, when a person is free,
When you wake up, you will think too much and it will be more troublesome."
Thompson Alves nodded. He understood the United States' considerations, and for France, it was obviously not a good thing for Chad to be too peaceful. "Indeed, these black Africans are too lazy."
As he spoke, Thompson Alves stirred the mushroom soup with a spoon, "They will only find a place to lie down during the day, or they will hide in the house to mate. They will not go to work without a whip, you give
They plant seeds for them, and they only eat the seeds instead of scattering them on the ground. Once they are full, these black people are so happy that they are crazy and feel that they are the kings of the world."
"I have always felt that they are like uncivilized chimpanzees. There are hundreds or thousands of chimpanzees in a group, and the leader has the highest mating rights."
"Besides mating and eating, I just hide in a cool place to sleep or play, and scratch each other's parasites, well, that's all!"
Sean burst out laughing when Thompson Alves said, "Okay, man, I already have a picture in my mind. You said it is indeed very vivid."
"I'm not a racist. You know, there are many black people in France and there are many in the army." Thompson Alves spread his hands helplessly, "But this is what the indigenous black people in Africa are really like. I am in Africa
I was stationed for a long time and I conducted an experiment, you know!"
"Say." Sean became interested.
"I arranged for some black men from the French army to come out to train the local armed personnel and teach them knowledge, from basic language to basic military capabilities." As he said, Thompson Alves looked very strange, "I went through a long process
Observing time, yes, I found that it was like a circus teaching a group of orangutans to juggle."
"They know that this knowledge is useful, but they just don't learn it. They sleep during class, chat, play, or simply stay late and sleep in the room."
"Then I ordered to give them only half of the food, and only those who learned how to eat could eat. You can't imagine the result."
"Oh, are they starting to study hard?" Sean looked curious, really curious.
"No, they chose to sleep more and reduce their activity so that they would not be so hungry!" Thompson Alves waved his arms angrily.
Hahahaha, Sean laughed so hard that his stomach hurt. After a long while, he said: "Then what?"
"Then I ordered the students not to be given any food!" Thompson Alves gritted his teeth.
"Okay, now they will start learning, right?" Sean shook his head and smiled.
"Wrong, absolutely wrong!" Thompson Alves took a deep breath and said in an extremely calm tone: "They ran away and ran back to the village overnight."
"Pfft, hahahaha!" Sean laughed and slipped out of the chair. Damn it, is it really so exaggerated?
Sean didn’t know much about Africa, especially Africa at this time in the 1980s. It would be 30 years before there was more information about Africa.
In Africa in the 1980s, the main labor force and those fighting the war were those born in the 1950s and 1960s, who lived in the colonial era.
No one can expect Africans to have any enthusiasm for labor during the colonial period, because no matter how hard you try, you will never be able to get rid of your status as a black slave.
There is absolutely no way.
Coupled with Africa's geographical environment and climate environment, working three hours a day is their pursuit.
You don't need a house, you can just use thatch and yellow mud that can be found everywhere to build a dome hut. The main purpose of the hut is to prevent sunlight and ventilate. It doesn't matter whether it leaks or not.
You don't need very good clothes, just a pair of trousers, even a piece of cloth wrapped around it is enough.
They don't need to be full, as long as they are not hungry, they have a custom of planting a tree, a local fruit tree, in the yard or nearby after giving birth.
They are too lazy to breed a few more, there is absolutely no need.
If there are no assets, there is no need for protection. If there is no upward path, there is no need for learning. Just be happy!
Africa will have to wait until the post-80s and even post-90s rise to see changes. Well, just a little bit.
It wasn't until Sean sat down again that Thompson Alves continued: "Finally, I ordered the soldiers to capture all the people, and then forced them to train with guns. If they didn't train well, I would whip them hard.
Like a slave."
"Why do we have to teach them?" Sean asked curiously.
"After all, I can't expect a small number of French soldiers to complete all the work, and it doesn't look good. They are an independent country, and of course they have to manage it themselves. Otherwise, I would think France is going to colonize." Thompson Alves pouted.
To be continued...