Chapter 1129 The country is poor and short-sighted
On October 20, 1998, on a large ship moored in the port of Belize, six men raised their wine glasses and touched each other, and with the crisp sound of the wine glasses colliding, a huge plan officially began, and at the same time a dark cloud hung over the head of this small Central American country. In times of peace, the direct use of peaceful means to directly seek control of a country may sound so fanciful, but there are people who do it.
Three days later, Roman, Sergei, Rats, Xiao Go, and Kuroko left Belize one after another. Roman will return to Vancouver and use the resources in his hands to help Xiao Wu and Sergei send batches of people from all over the world to Belize City by sea. When they arrive in Belize, they are given work visas under their new status, nominally as builders of power plants and pyramids. They were joined by batches of weapons and ammunition, all of which were stored in the basement of Toronto, where they were time bombs, and now they had finally found a place to use them.
Xiao Wu and Kuroko's task is very simple, their construction company will sign a construction contract with a group company called Pyramid in Belize, and workers with status will enter Belize through legitimate channels, and employees without status will enter through Roman channels. In addition, they had to purchase a large number of construction machinery in the United States and Canada, and they also shipped it on ships.
When Sergei and Ratz returned to Toronto, they flew back to Russia and set up a construction company in Latvia, where they didn't have a single person who could build, all of them were old ministries and mercenaries they had recruited. Ratz will also travel to various European countries. Just like waking up Melinda, waking up the former Soviet intelligence agents and double agents of various countries in his hands, using information coercion and money temptation. Use them to gather intelligence about the Belize government. The focus of the surveillance is on the reactions of the governments of Mexico, Guatemala, Hondras, the United States, and the United Kingdom to changes in the domestic situation in Belize.
Some of these individuals are still serving in the intelligence services of various countries, as long as they do not threaten their own security. It is also a common practice in the industry to sell out the intelligence of other countries in a small way. With the information and information provided by these people, Hong Tao can grasp the attitude of the relevant governments towards him, and then adjust the action steps in Belize and prepare countermeasures in advance, which is equivalent to a layer of insurance.
At the end of October, the foundation stone of the Great Pyramid and the thermal power plant was finally officially laid, and the Prime Minister of Belize, the Mayor of Belize City and a large number of senior government officials attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the two projects. At the same time, a golden key symbolizing honorary citizenship was also stuffed into the hands of Hong Tao and Bai Liwei, which also marked that Hong Tao and Bai Liwei were already nominal Belizean citizens. Of course. It's just nominally, and it's of little use other than having a temporary Belizean identity.
For Hong Tao, what is really useful is the steady influx of foreign construction companies, Belize does not have a large construction company, it is okay to build a house, to undertake such a large engineering project, it is beyond the power to give Hong Tao the green light. Let him go and hire a foreign construction company. And he had to beg Hong Tao to hire as much local labor as possible and go to the construction site to do some simple work.
These are only superficial actions, not stipulated in the contract. Hong Tao didn't have a problem with not employing the Belize government. However, there is one promise that Hong Tao must fulfill, that is, Hong Tao must hand over some of the construction materials that can be procured locally in Belize to several local companies that are closely related to the Belize government and the Belize city government. This is the most important thing, in exchange for these small profits in Hong Tao's view. There is already a war between the dignitaries of the Belize government, and there is some influence of the opposition parties in Parliament. The battle for soup is almost white-hot.
Through Melinda's sources, Hong Tao accurately grasped the true situation of these dignitaries. Whoever can offer more terms in exchange and who sells the country the most thoroughly, he will give him an extra sip of wine, and then throw more loaf of bread. Large-scale procurement of local agricultural products, construction of tourist bases in coastal cities with good scenery, investment in timber processing factories in inland areas, anyway, Belize needs everything, he can invest, the premise is to see who can give himself better and more preferential policies.
These projects are not in a hurry, talk slowly, Hong Tao is waiting for their internal struggle to divide the winner, the person he wants to cooperate with must be the winner, and then through other channels, give enough support to the loser, so that they can stand up and continue to fight with the winner. These projects are just a few bones thrown out by themselves, in order to disrupt Belizean politics and make them forget about themselves as hungry wolves.
With the entry of foreign construction companies into Belize, in addition to construction workers and construction machinery, there are many people with black hair, black eyes, and who look very similar to Hong Tao, except for a construction team from Beijing, China, everyone else is employed by construction companies from different countries, and the number is as many as a dozen. By mid-November, Belize City had gathered nearly 1,000 foreign construction teams, and huge sea ships were still lining up outside the wharf day and night, waiting to unload their machinery, steel, and personnel onto the wharf.
It would be nonsense to say that there are no people in the Belize government who understand, but most people are still carried away by the immediate benefits. As for the person of Aithon, they have not investigated it in advance, this place is not far from the United States, and even most of the programs broadcast by TV stations are broadcast from the United States, and it is not difficult to know a person who does not deliberately hide himself.
In their eyes, this Ethorn is a rich bastard, a new love who has his own unique way of doing things, and never goes off the beaten path. Rumors are circulating in the United States that he has gone mad at becoming a god, plus the pyramid he built on Long Reef and another larger and taller pyramid that has already broken ground. Everyone believed that this rich bastard had really gone mad, and that he was using his immense wealth to satisfy the fantasies of his crazy head, trying to actually create a sun god.
Most governments in the world will not turn a blind eye to Hong Tao's attempts, because it will affect the government's control over the country, and if it is not done, it will shake their foundation. But for the Belize government, with foreign capital entering, it is the main thing for them to make money, for the sake of less than 10 million US dollars a year of free aid, they will even break off diplomatic relations with the Chinese government and establish diplomatic relations with the Wanwan government, when the big cake measured in one billion dollars is placed in front of them, it is nonsense to resist corrosion and never stick to it. Even if they don't agree, they won't be able to do so, and if the opposition party gets the first place, maybe the next general election will be a major mistake by the ruling party.
The people don't care what you're refusing for, they just know that you've turned down an opportunity that will allow them to get out of poverty, get better health care, get better education, earn more money, and then they'll throw themselves into the opposition and get the current government down. At that point, these investments should come in and have to come in, but it has nothing to do with them, they can only watch the newly established government eat with their mouths full of oil.
Therefore, no matter whether anyone in the country can sober up or whether anyone can issue a warning, everyone chooses to ignore it. For the government of a small, poor country, this is a deadly poison, and you must die if you don't drink it. Not to mention Belize, even the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, and Mexico, which are much bigger and stronger, will still be affected by the economy. A large drug cartel can sway government policy, or even allow the government to continue to shelter drug traffickers in the face of international pressure.
At the same time, a group of people appeared in Belize City, all dressed in white linen robes with a glowing pyramid logo on their chests and backs, numbering hundreds of people of all skin colors, from black-haired and black-eyed Asians to blonde Europeans and Americans. Officially a staff member of the Pyramid Foundation, they did nothing every day, divided into more than a dozen groups, and roamed around Belize City to gather locals for prayer meetings.
This prayer meeting is not compulsory, it is completely voluntary, as long as everyone who comes to listen to the prayer, they will receive a small piece of paper called a god scroll, and with this small piece of paper, they can go to a large warehouse next to the dock to exchange for rice, milk powder, clothes, shoes, hats, and medicines. If you are sick, you can also go there with a certain number of divine scrolls to be treated by a white doctor.
At first, the locals were very wary of these strangely dressed foreigners, and few people would go to the mysterious prayer meeting, but as soon as one person actually received the scroll and exchanged it for daily necessities from the docks, more and more people would soon go to the prayer meeting. Although most of the people went for the gods that could be exchanged for things, it was not long before some locals began to take the initiative among their neighbors to help promote the pyramid foundation, and they believed it......!