Chapter 297: A Base
For a country where the economy is regressing, the national debt has recently been rated as a "junk stock", and the technology industry is out of reach, the local government is quite expecting foreign capital to invest in high-tech with US dollar bills.
The mayor of Cape Town, the ANC (ANC, opposition party) members of the National Committee, and the head of the Investment Committee, which is directly managed by the Cabinet, were also given a very grand occasion for the meeting that Yang Ming wanted...... A group of shiny black politicians arrived.
Yang Ming felt that he had become a little tanned in the United States a while ago, but now he is very white compared to them, and he smiled a little reservedly when he told Zhang Bing, who was wearing a suit and leather shoes next to him, to this idea.
"If you see more of this meeting, you'll get used to it. Yang Ming asked him to relax, to be honest, the ups and downs have been experienced, and after seeing a lot of big people, he said that everything was very calm.
"This is Delier, the mayor of Cape Town. "Someone introduced.
"I am honored to meet you, Your Excellency the Mayor. Yang Ming communicates fluently in English.
"Me too, our friend from China, Mr. Yang!" Delier smiled, his loose English a bit of a mouth-to-be-agglie, but South Africans all spoke with that accent.
Yang Ming introduced: "These are my partners, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Williams, and Mr. Li, who has been investing in the local area for many years, is committed to maintaining law and order, and has won many government awards. ”
"I am quite familiar with Mr. Lee, an outstanding contributor to the security industry, who is an excellent addition to our policing component. The latter said.
"So I don't think I agree with the outside world's view, South Africa is very chaotic, law and order is bad? No, no! On the contrary, I see a strong enough civilian security force and a police-civilian cooperation system here, which is just the right proof that this is an open government that welcomes foreign investment!"
Hearing these remarks, the mayors and legislators were full of smiles! The well-known entrepreneurs from China said this, and they also had a bright face on their faces.
After all, in the world, China, as the second largest economy and at least the top three military powers, the origin represented by Yang Ming cannot be underestimated.
Now that he is boasting like this, the politicians feel very comfortable, and they have won the support of entrepreneurs from the big countries, and from the point of view of their capitalist political structure, the big entrepreneurs can definitely influence politics!
Zhang Bing just looked at Yang Ming and naturally praised the other party, and he didn't see any rustiness, then he understood, what he boasted on the wine table, I talked and laughed with the leader, it was really not bragging!
Because Yang Ming intends to strengthen his attitude of representing the country, we favor you, and at the same time we want to invest in you and expand your science and technology and industrial industries, what should you do?
This must also have to do with the attitude of the media.
So the commissioner for foreign investment, Mr. Patti, promised: "South Africa is, and still is, a country that welcomes investment from outside companies and offers a very good policy benefits and atmosphere. ”
"I believe that it will be a great boost to your national defense industry!" Yang Ming said.
"We're looking forward to it!" they smiled.
The meeting in public has achieved good results, and the friendship with investors has been established, and it can naturally be transferred to private occasions.
Later, Li Jianjun told him: "In private, we can invite them individually to enhance exchanges, and as long as they are invited, they will express their willingness to accept the conditions and rest assured." ”
"There's really no need to hide it at all. Yang Ming was surprised.
"It's the same up and down, busy making money!" Li Jianjun smiled.
Yang Ming invited them to the five-star hotel where they stayed, whether it was public or private, it was necessary for politicians to participate, and then he also arranged it properly, protecting privacy throughout the whole process and refusing to be born.
There are not so many formulas for dealing with people in private, talking about prospects and investment, and a little bit of a small gift from Yang Ming: "Some of the offshore funds donated to ANC for development and creating better results. ”
As soon as they heard this kind of link operation, they were originally a little wary of external funds, and they all smiled, because everyone understands that this is the safest way at present.
First of all, offshore companies do not disclose shareholder composition information in a considerable number of registered territories, which can achieve a large degree of confidentiality.
Secondly, although Swiss banks have been required by various countries to provide personal account information and are no longer absolutely confidential, offshore companies are enterprises and remain confidential.
Therefore, using an offshore company to open a UBS account - this is the best way for many countries and corruption enthusiasts to hide their funds and flee with money!
In the midst of the laughter, they accepted the donation from this high-sounding "political supporter", after all, among the typical representatives of the European and American systems, American politicians also need political donations, don't they?
This kind of transaction without a trace, as long as Yang Ming doesn't say anything, no one can find out. Correspondingly, they only need to give some convenience in the approval of enterprise qualifications.
At the level of the state's acceptance of investment, even if it is done publicly, it will be approved. Who wouldn't be happy to make friends with a gesture?
This night is a time when crisp champagne glasses collide and expensive liquor is poured down, and the guests and hosts are happy!
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Yang Ming woke up the next day, and after talking to his wife on the other side of the world for a while, he got up to eat breakfast and watch the news - the new president was caught in a bribery storm, and there was evidence that his son received a gift of 500,000 rand (about 250,000 RMB) from the outside world, and the white party DA asked the president to explain the matter in parliament......
"It's going to be the same as it used to be, nothing will come of it. "The butler of the presidential suite who served him was a white lady.
Yang Ming has a lot of local "rules", which he also knows from her, and now he can only say: "At least in some ways, it means that the rules are not dead." ”
"I hope so!" the butler clearly did not hope.
Yang Ming can't help either, but to be honest, he is the beneficiary of this method, psychologically he is supportive, but in reason he can't comment.
In short, all the problems in the field of investment and defense contracting have been properly resolved.
At the government level, equipment and products sent from the United States will be allowed to enter South Africa, and robotics industry companies will be allowed to purchase some equipment and weapons necessary for research.
Machine guns, grenades, these are necessary, if you study them, buy a few tanks, helicopter gunships, jet fighters...... It's not impossible.
At present, it is still in the equipment to be in place, waiting for the hardware to be complete, the software field he is responsible for only needs a short time of debugging, and it can be applied to the machine.
Skipping the hardware equipment link saves at least one or two years of foundation laying and saves a lot of unnecessary investment.
Even if he wanted to, he could jump out of the robot industry and develop more new-age weapons that he had conceived, guns that no longer use gunpowder, new propulsion technology, and so on.
Robotics Industries was founded in Cape Town. He enclosed a large plot of land in the suburbs, and planned to enclose it with a wire fence, and the EMC Group was responsible for providing security, and building an R&D center and residential area in the circle.
There's no need to go downtown and live with blacks, and you're always on the lookout for where you're being targeted and where you're threatened.
Because of the problem of public security, Yang Ming gave it a "corporate city" plan similar to Google Mountain View, giving the technicians who came to live a more stable place.
An industrial field with the nature of a research base has been established, which is not as mild-mannered as medicine and commerce, and it will be filled with weapons research, PMCs, and even mercenaries in the cloak of legality.
No one can say that one day it will come in handy.