Chapter 933: Dream of a North African Power

Darryl Hitchcock, Minister of Procurement in the Northern Province of Tossan, Africa, was walking with a group of entourage in the large exhibition hall set up in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, and he felt that the time had come for him to make a difference.

Daryl Hitchcock graduated from the École Polytechnique de Paris in France and is a true returnee in Tossang. He returned to Tossan from France with dreams of becoming an industrial powerhouse, only to find himself useless.

At that time, the king only knew luxury, and he turned the foreign exchange he bought from selling ore into famous cars, watches, brand-name clothing, and a large number of weapons and equipment produced in the West, completely ignoring the fact that the country's per capita GDP was less than 100 US dollars, and the average life expectancy was only in the early 30s.

And this time, he came with a mission, and the king ordered the former purchasing minister to take him back with him to purchase a large number of fashionable clothes, because the king had a total of 103 wives and needed a large number of clothes to please them, so he did not hesitate to take out nearly half of the country's total income at one time and hand it over to them, so it can be said that they were wealthy.

However, there was an unexpected news, just after the king had approved the matter and handed them the money, a coup d'état suddenly took place in the country.

The coup d'état happened so quickly that few people could react to it, and it was a young and powerful leader with military support, the former economic executive.

Daryl was already extremely dissatisfied with the old king, so he welcomed this matter even more, and directly accepted this fact.

The old king went into exile with his retinue and large amounts of dollars, and the new leader announced the beginning of the Ming Boiled Reform, the establishment of a new Totsan of federalism. Darryl's friend Bayler ran for governor of the Northern Province, and from the beginning of his rise to power, he launched a vigorous land reform and industrialization plan.

And he, from the original national purchaser, directly jumped to the procurement minister of the Northern Province, almost the status of the second-in-command of the Northern Province, and his power skyrocketed.

Things have changed, but the incident has not changed, he was still ordered to participate in this clothing event, but his new mission this time is not to purchase luxury goods, but to bring back to his country a clothing company that can change the current situation in the northern province.

This kind of enterprise is a labor-intensive enterprise, which can not only immediately increase labor jobs, stabilize people's livelihood, and increase the income of the people, but more importantly, it can quickly solve the problem of local people's clothing.

He believes that this problem is not difficult to solve, and he is full of confidence at the moment.

Darryl, the most economical person in the entire Northern Province, was appointed Minister of Procurement by Bayler, and he also had another status in the country, that is, the economic executive of the Northern Province, and received $40 million in construction funds for the trip.

This money is one-third of the total fiscal revenue of the entire Northern Province for the next five years, and when Bailer handed him to Daryl, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "My old friend, the future of the Northern Province is entrusted to you." I hope to be able to see the Northern Province become the Paris and Birmingham of Africa in my lifetime. ”

Industry is not so easy to establish, although it may not be able to be achieved overnight, but it can be carried out in parts, for example, to establish a garment factory first, to solve the problem of dressing most people, to reduce the appearance of various skin diseases due to sun exposure.

"Don't worry, Mr. Byler, I will definitely try. Daryl promised enthusiastically.

Building an industrial city in Africa is not an easy task.

The new Republic of Tosan was so poor in industry that it was impossible to find a factory capable of producing sewing machines even within a few hundred kilometers of the country.

However, Daryl is not worried about this, he knows that there is first-class industrial equipment in Europe, and he has 40 million US dollars in his hand, so he is worried that he can't buy an industrial city?

Of course, the $40 million can't all be used to buy equipment, and Daryl knows that. To develop industry, roads, factories, workers' dormitories, and so on are needed, all of which require money. In addition, not all of the funds that Bayler gave him were real dollars, most of them were the local currency of the Uzan country, which could not be used to buy products on the international market.

When he was studying in France, Daryl had heard of the Frankfurt International Equipment Exhibition and knew that it was the world's top equipment fair, but it was not easy to participate there, the reason was simple, they were poor!

This time, when he got the news of the opening of Paris Fashion Week, he took a few of his entourage and traveled thousands of miles to Paris.

He hoped to build the garment factory first, and then visit some surrounding European countries to inspect some equipment, and in his pocket, he had 10 million US dollars in foreign exchange, which was all the capital he used to build the industrial modernization of the northern province.

Daryl knew that the money was hard to come by, so during his time in Europe, he and his entourage stayed in the cheapest hotels and ate the simplest meals. He constantly instilled in his entourage the concept of strengthening the country and enriching the people, so that they were full of enthusiasm like himself.

"Aha, this is Giorgio Armani's booth, this is the world's top brand! Let's go and have a look!" Seeing Giorgio Armani's booth, Daryl Hitchcock suddenly felt his blood boiling, and it would definitely be a very good thing if he didn't reach a cooperation with him.

A few people squeezed through the crowd, worthy of being an international brand, their family occupied a long area, all kinds of samples were enough to dazzle, and the hot beauties around them were even more dizzying, but Daryl's gaze obviously didn't delay any effort on these impossible blonde women, just glanced at it casually and looked at the narrator in the middle.

"Sir, is there anything I can do to help you?" said a Giorgio Armani clerk as he approached and asked Darryl politely. However, he didn't notice that behind the staff's professional smile, there was a hint of cold arrogance.

In fact, he saw what it would be like, how would a white employee of a large global company feel when he saw a black man in African clothes, and he had done it in a professional spirit.

"Oh, my name is Daryl Hitchcock, and I'm the Minister of Procurement in the Northern Province of the Republic of Tossan. Sir, could you please contact your on-site manager, I would like to talk to him about cooperation. Darryl is fluent in English and said that he studied hard during his study abroad in France and was able to communicate with people in English and French proficiently.