The plane landed at Xiangjiang International Airport, and before the rappelling ladder was lowered, I saw rows of cars parked on the emergency lane next to it. These cars are all environmentally friendly electric vehicles, which are special vehicles for the Xiangjiang government, which is much better than the inland.

This saves resources and reduces expenses. I have to say that in terms of clean government, the young Xiangjiang government has done much better than many places.

Li Shaoyang walked down the gangway, but he didn't see his old acquaintance Liu Jianming in the crowd of "greetings", and he couldn't help sneering in his heart. And the lineup that came to pick up the airport this time is also luxurious. Although there are no real big names, there are people from the three major departments of the Hong Kong government, the Department of Justice, the Secretary for Administration and the Secretary for Finance.

Like the Director of Audit, the Department of Health, the Environment Bureau, the Security Bureau and the Commissioner of Police, they all greeted Li Shaoyang, and the one standing on the far left Li Shaoyang had seen in the news, which was a rare strongman of the Hong Kong government, Mr. Cai Mingchang, a two-term veteran of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

When Li Shaoyang walked to the ground, Jiu'er next to him leaned over and whispered: "The person on the far right who doesn't look to be forty years old, I know this, is the person in charge of the Independent Commission Against Corruption." ”

Li Shaoyang was stunned, the people from the Independent Commission Against Corruption also came, this is unreasonable, this time the Xiangjiang government sent to greet the crowd, it should be the team that is about to negotiate with the Northern Group on the debt, so it is mainly senior officials from the Department of Health, the Environment Bureau and the Financial Authority.

Because the situation in Hong Kong has just stabilized, and for the sake of security, it is understandable that the Security Bureau and the Commissioner of Police are sitting on the sidelines, but why did the Independent Commission Against Corruption also join?

He slowed down and motioned for Tang Yanran to walk in front, and he shrank back and muttered to Jiu'er: "Can Edward's intelligence work in Xiangjiang penetrate the government?" ”

Jiu'er shook his head: "Edward has established a low-level intelligence protection network, and he can guarantee that he can take care of all the streets in Xiangjiang, but at the top level, we don't have the resources to ......."

Li Shaoyang frowned: "If my guess is correct, the only friend we have in the upper echelons of Xiangjiang may have had an accident." ”

Jiu'er immediately understood: "Liu Jianming? He was controlled by the Independent Commission Against Corruption? ”

Li Shaoyang hesitantly: "This is a card prepared by the Xiangjiang side before negotiating with us, you may not know, I came to Xiangjiang three times, all of them were entertained by Liu Jianming, and the second time, well, I brought Su Su here to drink, or Liu Jianming invited a guest." These are all places where the Independent Commission Against Corruption can make a fuss. The Xiangjiang side wants to use this as a bargaining chip, and they can suppress us at a critical time, and it seems that they are determined to negotiate with us. ”

At this time, Tang Yanran, on behalf of the Northern Group, had already shook hands with the high-level leaders, and Jiu'er hurriedly asked, "What should we do?" ”

Li Shaoyang's mind turned sharply: "You arrange, we have to strike first, you can do this......"

After he finished ordering, Jiu'er excused himself to go to the toilet and slipped away quietly.

Because Tang Yanran led a huge team this time, not only several executives of the North Group, but also Li Shaoyang, Isabella and others, plus the specially hired international public relations negotiation team, the group has more than 30 people, so Jiu'er, who walked behind, did not attract their attention.

They successfully arrived at the Kowloon Convention and Exhibition Center, where a special conference room was prepared for this debt negotiation and negotiation.

Along the way, Tang Yanran politely praised: "Xiangjiang's handling of this crisis is not only efficient, but also very stable, and now it looks like nothing happened, it is still so prosperous and quiet." ”

Naturally, Director Cai of the Monetary Authority also responded politely: "This is thanks to the help of the antibodies and vaccines of the Northern Group, and of course, the support of the central government." ”

Tang Yanran smiled slightly: "It seems that you should put your gratitude to the central government first." ”

Director Cai was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "President Tang, I like your straightforwardness, of course we have to be the first to thank the central government, but we are actually the children of the central government, and for our mothers, gratitude is heartfelt." I would like to thank the 'friends' of the Northern Group first. ”

Tang Yanran pursed her lips and smiled, but she secretly scolded in her heart, this old fox.

Both sides said very politely, but they were tense, and they tested each other as soon as they came up.

When they arrived at the Convention and Exhibition Center, because it was early in the morning, everyone did not eat, and Tang Yanran and his party naturally enjoyed a unique "official meal" in Xiangjiang.

There is no banquet, no wine, not even drinks, in strict accordance with the standards set by the government, whether it is the director or the director, whether it is the entourage or the miscellaneous person, it is a unified standard, a breakfast, a glass of milk, a piece of toast bread.

There was no staggered atmosphere, everyone finished the meal silently, and after solving the problem of eating at the conference table with great efficiency, they began to introduce each other.

When Tang Yanran calmly introduced the public relations negotiation team invited by the Northern Group, Xiangjiang changed color and gasped.

The Northern Group invited the British Empire Royal Consulting Agency, a public relations consulting team with nearly 100 years of experience, not to mention the large international groups they have served, from a distance, after the end of World War II, they led the negotiations on German war reparations.

The most important thing is that the leader of this team is too big, and it turns out to be Dr. Wei. Dr. Wei was the chief secretary to the last British Governor General stationed in Hong Kong, then known as the Chief Secretary of the British Governor of Hong Kong, equivalent to the current Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong government, before 97, he was the policy adviser to the Governor and the leader of all civil servants in Hong Kong.

This is interesting, if it was put a few decades ago, Dr. Wei sitting here was the "prime minister" of Xiangjiang, and the Northern Group actually invited him. How is this negotiable?

Cai Mingchang was the most embarrassed, when he was still an ordinary lawyer, he used to be Dr. Wei's pony, but now he can be said to have met the previous boss, and this momentum is gone.

But what Cai Mingchang is most worried about is not this, Dr. Wei personally led the administrative work of Xiangjiang in the 90s, and knows all the inside stories and development processes of Xiangjiang's politics and economy.

It's too passive!

Cai Mingchang went to the smoking room under the pretext of making eye contact with several people who were mainly responsible for negotiations, and they hurried away and hurried back, and had temporarily decided to play their hole cards, that is, Liu Jianming's "collusion" with the Northern Group, so that he could gain the moral upper hand and give the Northern Group a disadvantage of "bribing civil servants."

And their first request after returning was to ask Li Shaoyang to come forward as a negotiation object.

The Xiangjiang government is not a fool, and it knows the real helm of the Northern Group, although Tang Yanran is the president, but he is not the actual speaker.

For this request, Tang Yanran refused, and said very seriously that Li Shaoyang was only a consultant of the Northern Group, and had little to do with the group, if he didn't want to believe it, the Northern Group could show direct evidence.

Cai Mingchang and others insisted that Li Shaoyang must talk, and Tang Yanran finally replied calmly: "That's okay, but you also have to let the Secretary for Justice and the Financial Secretary come forward." ”

At this time, both sides were annoyed, and they almost turned their faces.

is still the head of the negotiation team of the Northern Group, that Dr. Wei came forward and said that the negotiations should be based on mutual concessions, so Li Shaoyang, who was sitting in the chair behind him, got up and said on the spot that President Tang had all the right to deal with it, just like he was here, but Li Shaoyang himself quietly withdrew.

Dr. Wei's prestige in Xiangjiang was not inferior to that of the original Governor of Hong Kong, and the Xiangjiang side could accept Li Shaoyang's withdrawal, and the last thing they wanted to see was that Li Shaoyang was sitting in the back and commanding, and Tang Yanran was arguing in front.

Li Shaoyang walked out of the convention and exhibition center easily, naturally followed by a few tails, and they were all ordinary people on the street, the magic weapon of the Xiangjiang police and the Security Bureau - undercover personnel, at this time they showed their ability.

Li Shaoyang walked two blocks, and the tracking personnel behind him changed three times, and he was very alert and had no flaws.

"It's worth learning!" Li Shaoyang said to himself: "These tracking methods are much stronger than those of the FBI." ”

So he quickened his pace, suddenly turned to an alley, and then kicked on the left wall, and then kicked on the right foot, and staggered up to the second floor next door, looking down, but after a while, a young man walked in, saw that there was no one, took out a cigarette and lit it, and took out his mobile phone and chattered.

Li Shaoyang sneered, jumped down, and kicked him into the grocery store next to him before he could react.

The shopkeeper was still dozing, and he was so frightened that he immediately called the police, but Li Shaoyang shook his hand and blocked his mouth with a stack of banknotes.

"The big guy wants to do something here, you go while you rest." Li Shaoyang said in Cantonese.

"Big guy, you do it slowly, I won't even see it" The shopkeeper picked up the banknote and hid it under the cabinet silently.

"What are you doing...... the young man who was following him rolled his eyes wildly, and immediately shouted: "Offended you by smoking a cigarette?" ”

Li Shaoyang grabbed a rag and stuffed it into his mouth: "Brother, what you do, everyone knows it in their hearts, stop quibbling." ”

Li Shaoyang whispered, but dragged him to a dark corner, took out his mobile phone casually, turned on the recording and said with a smile: "So don't worry, we have time, we can talk slowly." ”

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Half an hour later, Li Shaoyang walked out of the grocery store easily, and then sent the audio materials obtained after the interrogation to Tang Yanran, then stretched his waist and walked to the bar street humming a small song.

Li Shaoyang is ready to relax, because he knows very well that this negotiation over tens of billions of debts will be a protracted battle.