Chapter 1133: Voice of the Americas

The performance of these people in Belize City just proves Hong Tao's point of view, they have seen too little, so they are ignorant, so they will be deceived by people like Ouyang Qing. If this set of tricks is put in Europe and the United States, people will be called to the police every minute, and it is still a bit possible to secretly deceive a small number of people.

Just after Christmas, another big event happened in Belize City, and it was something that had never happened in Belize before, a strike! Hundreds of porters working in the port went on strike en masse, and they also took to the streets with various slogans and banners, and the demand was very simple, demanding that the management cancel the night overtime, or increase the wages for night overtime!

At first, the Belize City police planned to send the police to drive away the marchers, but when they got to the place, the police changed to help the procession maintain order. Why? Because the crowd was not just locals, at least a third of the marching crowd was all white, from the crew of the De Belivi shipping company to the foreign construction workers who were working on the Pyramid Group. How can you take care of this thing? People are infighting, where do you help? Before you find out the details, let's bear with it and see if we talk about it.

The march lasted all day until dinner time, but the work was not resumed, and the noisy docks were as quiet as death, and the residents of the neighborhood were finally able to sleep well and not be woken up by the rumbling of the big machines.

Early the next morning, representatives of the freelance trade unions, the organizers of the strike, and representatives of the Pyramid Group entered the small two-story building of the town hall and began arduous negotiations under the mediation of the Belize city government. The negotiations lasted two days before they were concluded. The result was beyond everyone's expectations, and the union actually won. The management representatives agreed to the union's request to cancel the two shifts between 12 p.m. and 6 a.m. the next morning. Also announced. To compensate for the loss of the six-hour schedule, Pyramid Group will recruit an additional 100 dock workers to speed up the daytime work.

The news was first published by a small radio station called the Voice of the Americas, and then by a small newspaper of the same name, which made the front page first, while other local radio stations, newspapers and television stations were unaware of it. The two namesake, both of which belong to a Voice of the Americas media group that has been registered in Belize City for less than two months, and this is the first time that the radio and newspaper have appeared in Belize City.

As for who this Voice of the Americas is, no one has paid much attention to it, and now they will find out when they look it up. Its president is a Brazilian-American and a young woman, whose full name is Ana Calerina Victory José Carreballo. The media conglomerate's headquarters are now located in Belize City, with only a small two-story building, which was originally a hotel, and the radio and newspaper offices are also located here.

If you want to ask who Anna Calerina Victoria José Carrebalo is, Hong Tao will have to think about it to know, but she has another name Hong Tao is familiar with, called Lily! This is the task that Hong Tao gave to Lily, let her prepare a media group similar to the golden voice in Belize City alone, and she really did it, faster than Hong Tao imagined. I thought she would need at least half a year. I didn't expect it to open in less than 2 months.

In fact, Hong Tao also made a formalist mistake, he always thought in his mind that things like radio, newspapers, and television stations would be difficult to establish. The formalities for broadcasting and publishing alone have to go through three or two months. This is still in Europe and the United States, if it is put in China. Don't even think about it in your life, and dare to run a private television station and newspaper office? How can the important weapon of the country fall into private hands!

But he forgot a question. If Lily were asked to open such a company in the United States, she would have to take only one way, that is, to acquire the ready-made, and it would be very troublesome to reapply. But in a small poor and backward Central American country like Belize, a private radio station can be established with an antenna, a simple recording booth, and a license to use a band. Then you find an announcer or DJ, and you can officially broadcast, and the only difference compared to the big radio station is the height of the broadcast antenna and the power of the transmitter.

The newspaper is relatively a little more difficult, but with Melinda's internal response, with a little money, the publishing license is in hand. Vacate the basement of the hotel as a printing workshop, find a few workers, text editors, etc., put paper on it, and start printing. Then go out on the street and hire a bunch of idle half-sized lads, and give a little salary to be their own distribution team. What kind of bicycle do you want? In Belize City, 10 kids can walk on their feet, and as long as you don't care about the cost of a subscription, they promise to get your newspaper to every family.

As for the question of whether she can afford to send it and how long it will take to give it away for nothing, Lily doesn't care, it depends on Hong Tao's decision. Hong Tao said that they should cultivate their reading habits first, and after they are attracted by the news, advertisements, and stories from all over the world in the Voice of the Americas, they will not have to worry about the number of subscriptions. The main purpose now is to squeeze down the largest local Belize political newspaper, and then buy it at the price of cabbage, and even do not need to build a new factory or office, just move directly.

The reason why Hong Tao is so sure is entirely due to the new magic of the Internet. With the Internet, no matter what news and interesting facts you have, you can find them from above. Moreover, Hong Tao has a controlling stake in Yahoo and Xueyan Big Database, as long as there is news on the Internet, it will be in the Voice of the Americas. Not to mention a small newspaper in Belize City, even if it is placed in a big city like New York and Los Angeles, Hong Tao can make a new newspaper develop in a short time.

"It's not bad, but there's no need to use this paper so good, right? This is the newspaper that people sitting in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel lounge should hold, and I should save it, and my money is not blown by the wind!" Hong Tao was sitting on the deck of the Mouse Superman at this time, admiring the natural scenery of the pyramid island, while looking at the newspaper in his hand, and then grinning.

Since the construction of the construction site, the Mouse Superman has left the port of Belize City and returned to the deep-water dock on Pyramid Island for only one reason, it is too noisy. And the Mouse Superman stopped there, occupied a deep-water berth in vain, and it was also very obstructive, so it was okay to leave. Anyway, the things that need to be done are almost done, and the first step of the Sun Project is unfolding in an orderly manner, and he is not staring at Belize City, too.

At present, the main projects on the pyramid island have been completed, and the interior decoration, furniture and electrical appliances are also in place, and only some mechanical equipment installation and commissioning work is still in progress. To say that Amundsen is really straight-tempered, Hong Tao really offended him hard, and as soon as the engineers and technicians of the Kvarner Group finished their work, they didn't stay for a minute, and they all withdrew. Whoever provides the equipment will be sent by the family themselves to install and debug, Amundsen will no longer help a little more, and will implement it 100% in accordance with the terms written in the contract.

Of course, Hong Tao will not go to Amundsen for trouble, I wish he hadn't come for a few years, Levin's old spy can't take care of his side now, the Odyssey and the Commander have entered the final stage of equipment adjustment, and the first experimental rocket is planned to be launched in May, just the group of Russian and American scientists who quarrel all day long is enough for him to manipulate, he deserves it!

As for why he still lives on the ship and does not live in his pyramid, the main reason is that he is stinky, he does not say that there are toxic gases such as formaldehyde in it, so he has to turn on the exhaust system to let the air convection for a month, and by the way, he also tests the reliability of the power supply, exhaust and temperature regulation systems in the pyramid. If you don't stop for a month, you have to replace it with a new one or return it if there is a quality problem with the equipment, and I don't give a penny less, so you can't reduce the quality for me at all. In order to achieve the reliability of this military standard, a lot of equipment is manufactured separately, for which he has to pay an additional 50% of the purchase price, and if he can't run continuously for even a month, he is blind!

"I borrowed all this batch of paper from Barbara, and even newsprint had to be imported here, and the supplier had no supply channels in Belize for a short time, so I had to make do with it first. Lily looked at the golden pyramid, then at the newspaper in Hong Tao's hand, and answered Hong Tao's question with a roll of her eyes. The subtext is obvious, you have the money to build such a thing, enough for a newspaper to use the best newsprint in 100 years.

"Don't be unconvinced, the more money you have, the more you can't spend it indiscriminately. What is going on with the TV station? You don't want to build a new TV station yourself? That would be too wasteful, at most a year, after the big pyramid is built, your radio station, television station, newspaper office will all have to move in, and at the top of the pyramid there will be a 50-meter-high antenna tower, which you will use to transmit radio and television signals to the whole country. "Hong Tao don't look at the eyes small, but he can't stand the length of the eyes, it may be a little more troublesome to look up and down than others, but it is much more convenient to look left and right than others, and Lily's small movements have also been discovered by him.

"But there are only two private television stations in Belize City, both of which are controlled by the Red Party and the Blue Party, and they will not sell them, otherwise they will be even more passive during the general election. Lily was very aggrieved, and Hong Tao didn't have a backache when she stood and spoke. (To be continued......)