Du Xiaoyuan came to Africa with Wang Ruidong more than ten years ago to start a business, and opened a machine repair factory in the industrial park of Avare, specializing in providing machine repair services for enterprises in the park. Later, Du Xiaoyuan was tired of doing business, but he was reluctant to leave Africa, so he signed up just as the relevant departments were recruiting staff to engage in China-Africa cooperation.

The Chinese government's cooperation with Africa is all-encompassing, involving many fields such as politics, economy, diplomacy, and education, science, culture, and health, each of which requires a large number of talents. Du Xiaoyuan has been doing business in Africa for many years and has an in-depth understanding of African customs and customs, which is far more suitable for this kind of work than those cadres in China who have never been to Africa, because he was hired as soon as he was ranked, and he was also placed in a more important position.

After more than ten years in business, Du Xiaoyuan already has a very rich net worth, and he has no desire for monetary benefits, and applying for government positions is just out of an inner ideal. Because of this, he worked hard and honestly, and was well received by the leaders and the people he served, and his position was constantly promoted over the years, and finally he was placed in the Khamtay Industrial Park as the director of the management committee, in charge of hundreds of Chinese and local enterprises in the park.

Industrial parks established by China in cooperation with African countries are no different from the development zones of China's provinces and cities, and generally have special policies to attract foreign investment. After Du Xiaoyuan became the director of the management committee, he spent a lot of energy to recruit enterprises from China to set up branches in the park, and the results were also very remarkable, making the Khamtay Industrial Park quickly become one of the best performing industrial parks in Africa.

In the process of recruiting domestic enterprises, Feng Xiaochen's name also played a lot of roles, some companies originally planned to go to Africa to test the waters, and the funds were invested in which industrial park was almost small, Du Xiaoyuan came to the door, and people also agreed to settle in Kantay Industrial Park, on the surface, it was to give him Du Xiaoyuan a face, but in fact, this face was for Feng Xiaochen.

Feng Xiaochen knew that his brother-in-law was attracting investment under his own banner, and he let people know about it from the side, knowing that these companies investing in Khamtay Industrial Park were actually beneficial to the enterprises themselves, so it was natural, of course, when he met the right time in private, he still had to thank the leaders of these enterprises or something.

Du Xiaoyuan is not blindly brute, he knows which companies are suitable to invest in Khamtay Industrial Park, which are not suitable, and he will not come to the door for those that are not suitable. After all, he is also in his 40s, how can he take the face of his brother-in-law inappropriately.

All of this is tacitly acknowledged. After Feng Xiaochen became the president of the China-Africa Industrial Technology Cooperation Association, the work of various industrial parks in Africa has also become his business jurisdiction, and Du Xiaoyuan is his subordinate. Du Xiaoyuan's work is done well, and it is also a support for Feng Xiaochen. Feng Xiaochen's visit to Khamtay this time also included elements of inspection work.

"Brother-in-law, this is a rolling mill, which is run by a native of Gabe. Last month, they just introduced a second-hand small steel rolling production line from our country, which Brother Mo purchased for them. ”

Du Xiaoyuan pointed to a large factory area in front of him and said to Feng Xiaochen.

Du Xiaoyuan said that Brother Mo was Ning Mo, and I don't know when they met, listening to Du Xiaoyuan's tone, it seems that his friendship with Ning Mo is deeper than Feng Xiaochen. Ning Mo has been obsessed with second-hand equipment over the years, first selling equipment to India, then expanding to the whole of South Asia and Southeast Asia, and then developing to Africa, and the business is getting bigger and bigger. See, it's only a matter of time before we enter Latin America.

In the 90s of the last century, China's economic development was very fast, and the market for means of production was in short supply for a long time, which gave birth to a large number of small steel mills, small cement factories, small machinery factories, etc. These enterprises use small equipment that has been eliminated from foreign or domestic large enterprises, and they do not care about production safety and environmental protection, which is completely barbaric production. In the new century, the country began to rectify the backward production capacity, these small equipment was forcibly eliminated, some of them were dismantled and returned to the furnace when they were close to scrapping, and some of them were still five or six percent new, and it was a pity to directly treat them as scrap iron.

This small rolling mill in Khamtay imported a set of second-hand rolling equipment from China, and it was Ning Mo who turned it upside down, and it was not known whether it was Du Xiaoyuan's help to pull the line. Before Feng Xiaochen came to Kandai, he knew that Ning Mo was also here at this time, and he still wanted to see him.

"Haha, Lao Feng, you're here!"

Feng Xiaochen just thought of Ning Mo when he saw Ning Mo walking out of the factory. He strode up to Feng Xiaochen, patted Feng Xiaochen's shoulder with his hand, and said apologetically: "I heard Xiaoyuan say that you came over today, and you were busy talking to customers just now, and you couldn't go to the gate of the park to greet you, you didn't blame me." ”

"What kind of jokes!" Feng Xiaochen said angrily, "Do we still need this kind of hypocrisy between us?"

Ning Meng said sincerely: "Yes, my wife said, now Feng is always a senior leader, I have to pay attention to the rules in front of you, I can't talk about Lao Feng anymore, it's inappropriate for people to hear." ”

"Didn't you also call Lao Feng just now?"

"Oh, sin, sin, is it too late for me to change my mind?"

"If you change your mind now, I'll leave immediately, and don't say you're my friend in the future. ”

"Haha, I knew it was so. Ning Mo said with a smile. In fact, with the improvement of Feng Xiaochen's position, Ning Mo's respect for Feng Xiaochen in his heart is also increasing, and it is impossible to treat Feng Xiaochen as a "buddy" as in the past. He called Feng Xiaochen Lao Feng, which was also a kind of psychology that he liked, but whenever Feng Xiaochen was not happy with this title in the slightest, Ning Mo would immediately change his name to Feng Xiaochen's official title.

"By the way, Lao Feng, since you're here, let's eat in the factory at noon, right? The owner of this factory is called Savoa, and now he is a buddy with me. Let me tell you, this factory was opened by the brothers, Sava is the factory director, and his younger brother's name is Thorne, who is the chief engineer of the factory and also the apprentice of Xu Lao. Ning Mo said with a fluttering eyebrow. A fat man is always an optimist, even if the fat man is over half a hundred years old.

Feng Xiaochen was a little surprised: "Old Xu, what's the matter, Old Xu is also here now?"

Ning Mo said: "Yes, he is now teaching Thorne to debug the equipment in the factory." The old man was strict, he didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, a black young man who was so strong as Thorne, was stunned by Lao Xu's training. ”

"Let's go, see Xu Lao. Feng Xiaochen said.

A few people walked towards the factory, Ning Mo and Feng Xiaochen walked together, telling Feng Xiaochen about Xu Wenliang's situation as they walked.

When Ning Mo first dumped second-hand steelmaking equipment, there were no technicians at hand, so Feng Xiaochen introduced him to Xu Wenliang, a retired chief engineer of Qinzhou Heavy Machinery Factory. Xu Wenliang was already 80 years old at the time, but when he heard that he was asked to help guide the refurbishment of steel equipment, he was full of energy, not only completed the renovation work excellently, but also flew to India to guide the installation and commissioning of the equipment, and he was very happy.

Since then, Xu Wenliang has become Ning Mo's partner. Ning Mo knew that the old man was too old and didn't dare to let him work too hard, so he hired a group of engineers with a high salary to do specific work, and let Xu Wenliang only do some principle guidance, at most to play a role in some key technical issues.

Xu Wenliang has been a metallurgical mechanical engineer all his life, but whenever he sees metallurgical equipment, he is itchy. Ning Mo told him to just stay in China, but he often took the initiative to ask for guidance from foreign customers. This time, Ning Mo sold a set of rolling equipment to the rolling mill in Savoy, and Xu Wenliang followed him to inspect the installation as usual.

Savoy's younger brother Thorne went to university abroad and studied metallurgy, but according to Ning Mo's words, his professional level is a little stronger than Ning Mo, and he is afraid that he is not even as good as a technical school graduate in China. Although he is not proficient in learning, Thorne's desire for knowledge is very strong, after Xu Wenliang came, he followed Xu Wenliang every day to ask long and short questions, and kept saying that he wanted to worship Xu Wenliang as a teacher. Xu Wenliang didn't know which string was wrong, but he really accepted Thorne as an apprentice, and stayed in the Sava rolling mill for more than ten days in one go, with the intention of teaching what he had learned all his life.

"As soon as I looked at Thorne, I thought he wasn't the material for the technique. Stupid and stupid, not as clever as I was back then. Ning Mo said to Feng Xiaochen with disdain, and by the way, he also hacked himself once.

"What did Elder Xu teach him?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Ning Mo said: "Teach everything, and tell him the debugging methods of the entire rolling production line one by one." Just because we had to explain these commissioning methods to this Thorne, our installation progress was delayed. ”

Feng Xiaochen sighed, noncommittal on this matter. He hadn't seen Xu Wenliang for two years, and he didn't know what was going on with this Thorne, so it was difficult to guess Xu Wenliang's state of mind.

Everyone walked while talking, and unconsciously walked into the workshop where the production line was being installed. There are many people in the workshop who are busy, including Chinese workers and local African workers, and those Chinese are undoubtedly the installers brought by Ning Mo.

Ning Mo looked around, and then walked forward with Feng Xiaochen and Du Xiaoyuan. Feng Xiaochen raised his eyes and saw that not far in front of him, an old man and a young man were standing, talking to the production line. The young man was a black man, with a strong build and well-developed limbs. The old man next to him had all white hair and a thin body, and he looked even weaker when he stood with the black guy.

"How many times have I told you, why haven't you remembered!"

Without waiting for Feng Xiaochen and his party to come to him, they heard the old man loudly reprimanding the young black man.