Chapter 116: Lipstick Trap
readx;? With the sound of hurried footsteps, Mexican President González left his presidential palace with his new aides and drove straight to the Archbishop, located on the north side of Plaza de la Constitución, where someone was waiting for his answer. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This cathedral is a very famous landmark in Mexico, but also the largest church in the whole of Latin America, he built it for more than 200 years, so his architectural style is a combination of classical baroque and neoclassical styles, not only the statues here are very old, and even there are many biblical story frescoes, magnificent.
Gonzalez, in order not to attract too much attention, entered the Grand Cathedral through the side door, and walked through the long corridor to a small conference room.
On the wall in front of the conference room, a large cross is erected, and on the walls on both sides are portraits of some well-known pastors, including the current Grand Pastor Brando, and the people who summoned Gonzalez sit in the center of this room.
There is no problem with the word summoning here, Gonzalez is the president in Mexico, but here, he is nothing, because the person who summoned him is the Maroon Sect's great shepherd Brando, and his illegitimate son Jefferson is sitting next to him, the whole person is cautious, and behind the father and son stands a middle-aged man, who must be Brando's most trusted butler.
"Your Majesty, I am very honored to be allowed into this room and to report back to you on what has just happened. ”
Gonzalez came in and said to Brando, and took the initiative to kiss Brando's fingertips, he behaved very cautiously and humbly.
Brando didn't say anything about this, as if he just had a normal thing, and the other party didn't have the honorable identity of the president, just like an ordinary believer, and then he said lightly: "Then what did you and that Zhou Ming say just now, please tell me, what does the big chief who made the Indians out of the limelight today, what does he want to do." ”
Gonzalez did not hesitate: "Your Majesty, the Great Chief of Zhou Ming, he is still in the same tone, he said that he wants to conduct business activities in Mexico, and he will also buy Mexican companies that are now on the verge of bankruptcy. ”
This answer was not unexpected by Brando and Jefferson, after all, in the negotiations between Jefferson and him, Zhou Ming asked for this. So Brando was not in a hurry to speak, and Jefferson asked, "So did you tell him that you were not allowed to buy financial companies and conduct any kind of financial activity?
Gonzalez nodded, "Of course I've told him all about it, but he doesn't seem to care, and he doesn't make any new requests." ”
Jefferson looked at Brando suspiciously, obviously he didn't understand what Zhou Ming was thinking.
Brando, by contrast, only thought for a moment, and then asked, "So that young man, did he say why he did it?"
Gonzalez replied, somewhat unsure of how to answer: "He said he was trying to atone for his previous actions, and he wanted to ...... Save Mexico. ”
For this answer, Brando and Jefferson were both stunned and then laughed, but Brando was smiling, and Jefferson was laughing.
"Save Mexico? Or atone for your actions? President Gonzalez, are you sure that this is what the Chinese man said? Are you sure you didn't give him any nerve drugs at the time? Or did he lie to you on purpose? Why else would he have told such a funny joke? Because it's as ridiculous as a wolf helping a sheep!" said Jefferson.
Gonzalez was disgusted by being questioned so much by a young man, but given his relationship with Brando, he endured it in the end.
"I don't know how much truth he had to say in front of me, but I could feel his determination to buy Mexican businesses. "Gonzalez.
"So you think that no matter what he says, at least he really has the idea of buying Mexican companies on a large scale, right?" Brando asked.
Look at the question of the Great Shepherd, that is, he can ask more to the point than his illegitimate son!
Gonzalez thought to himself, then nodded and told Brando that this was the case.
Getting the answer, Brando shook his head helplessly, and Jefferson said a little excitedly: "Da Mu, since that Chinese man looks down on us so much, we must teach him a good lesson! I think his determination is probably to achieve the effect of occupying Mexico by acquiring enterprises, right? Imagine if his capital penetrates into companies in all industries in Mexico, then even if we want to move him, I am afraid it will not be so easy." ”
Brando gently rubbed his head, signaling him not to be so excited, and then asked the butler behind him, "Do you remember the last time you said you were going to save Mexico?"
At Brando's words, the butler, who had been wandering around the world, immediately came back to his senses and replied: "My Grand Pastor, of course I remember, that was more than ten years ago, when our President vowed to sever ties with the Church, to return the wealth of Mexico to the Mexicans, and to strangle all the drug trafficking organizations in the country, and he said that he was saving Mexico by doing so. ”
"And what about his final result?" asked Brando again.
Unfortunately, he was soon impeached by Congress, and the day after he stepped down, he died in the streets, and his family is said to have died in their homes because they had lost the protection of the police. ”
The middle-aged butler replied, his tone was very flat, as if he was describing an extremely ordinary thing, but listening to Gonzalez's ears, it made goosebumps rise all over his body, and he hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "Your Majesty Brando, please believe that I am the most devout believer in God, I go to worship every week, and I am also very supportive of the church's exhibition in Mexico. ”
Just a simple sentence can scare a president like this, which shows the terror of the power of the church in Mexico.
"My child, of course I know that you are a very devout believer, and just now my butler just said something carelessly. Brando said to Gonzalez, "But we are reassured of you, but we cannot ignore the guy who is determined to save Mexico." ”
"All Mexicans are born to atone for the sins of their previous lives, so that they can have the opportunity to be chosen to serve God, but if he wants to save, then doesn't that mean that our doctrine is wrong? But this is impossible, so it must be that he is wrong, or that he has some ulterior motive, and whatever it is, we must not sit idly by, we must take measures. ”
Hearing Brando say this, Jefferson's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly: "Da Mu, have you decided to get rid of that Huaxia man? My people are always at your service, I know that he has just left the presidential palace, I can send my people to arrest him immediately!"
"Put away your knives, my child, many things are not solved simply by violence. Brando said with a frown, apparently unhappy with Jefferson's proposal.
Jefferson shuddered at Brando's disgruntled tone: "I'm sorry for my stupidity!"
Brando waved his hand, then looked at Gonzalez across from him and asked, "I think you must have promised him, didn't you?"
"I think my idea must be very immature, but maybe I can provide you with some ideas. ”
As the president of Mexico, Gonzalez is obviously much calmer than Jefferson, he is not in a hurry to answer, but humbly praised Brando before answering.
"According to the advice given by my finance minister, I think we can let Zhou Ming buy Mexican companies, or let him be his self-proclaimed savior of Mexico, but the companies he can buy can end up in the commodity industry, such as computer and telephone, and other telecommunications industries, as well as steel and oil, while the film industry and lipstick and cosmetics must not be touched. Gonzalez said.
"The solution shouldn't have been figured out by patting your head, so there must be a reason, right?" asked Brando, curious.
"The lipstick effect, I think your majesty must have heard of it? That is a famous economic theory that was put forward half a century ago. "To put it simply, every recession in the United States leads to a lipstick boom, because when the economy is down, people will give up buying high-priced goods in favor of low-priced goods, and products like lipsticks and face masks can meet people's consumption**." ”
Gonzalez went on to say, "It's the same with cinema, because of the economic downturn and people need to find comfort, so cinema is such a cheap but suitable thing." ”
"So Mr. President's idea is for us to take these industries that can still thrive in times of economic downturn, and leave the other industries that are in recession to him, right?" asked the middle-aged butler behind Brando.
Gonzalez nodded and said, "That's it, in the current economic downturn, I don't think many people would be willing to spend a few thousand dollars on a computer or a mobile phone, after all, those items are already very expensive, and now there is no need to buy them." ”
"It is for this reason that the Chinese man, whether he is real or fake, wants to be the savior of Mexico, he has to spend money to fill the hole of loss that these companies will never be able to fill. Jefferson took Gonzalez's words and said, his tone was excited, obviously he had found a way to trap that Zhou Ming, and nothing could make him happier than this.
"And not only that, but we can also ask him to increase the scale of the companies he buys every year through the Telecommunications Association and the Iron and Steel and Petroleum Association, and if he can't do it, we can use two to three years to get the shares of these companies back from him. The middle-aged butler behind Brando added.
Jefferson applauded this: "This is really a very good plan! Because no matter what kind of economic crisis, three years from now can pass, and then we can buy those enterprises back from him at a very low price, that is to say, that Chinese idiot who has helped us look at the enterprises for three years at a loss, and as a result, the Mexican people will still scold him as a hateful capitalist, and we are the real saviors!"
Listening to their words, Brando also smiled: "It looks like you all have agreed on the idea?"
Brando finally made a decision: "Then we can decide, according to President Gonzalez's plan, sell all those companies in the commodity industry to our savior, after all, this is the economic crisis he created, and he will have to pay it back himself, and it can be regarded as giving some explanation to the Mexicans and our God." ”8