"Mr. Zhou, welcome to France. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Although standing at the bottom of the steps, the 1.96-meter tour is still a cut higher than that of Sarkozy at 1.65 meters. Zhou You's hand was clasped tightly with his, and he smiled gently: "Your Excellency the President's hospitality is a great honor for the contemptible people. ”

In the courtyard of the Élysée Palace, a bright red carpet stretches out for 20 meters, flanked by costumed bands playing a piece of music that the tour does not understand, much like the Spanish bullfight. Although this ceremony is not as grand as the ceremony of entertaining the country's leaders, it is also grand enough for Zhou You.

His new wife, Bruni, was also dressed up, but she was much taller than him, and at this moment, she hugged Gracia and performed a close veneer salute.

The two men waited for them to get closer, and then Zhou You extended his hand to Bruni. But Bruni opened his arms and hugged Zhou You, sticking them on each of Zhou You's cheeks. Zhou You has never been accustomed to the enthusiasm of the French, but he has no resistance to this former supermodel, and enjoys a soft heart.

Sarkozy bowed to Gracia with European aristocratic courtesy, grabbed her left hand, and kissed her on the back of her hand. "Your Excellency the Countess of Reims, welcome home."

Although Gracia was a count of Spain, she was a Basque. The Basques live in the northern part of Spain and the southern part of France, and in the south of France, they enjoy a certain degree of autonomy.

Although the two countries have a border, this border is very restrictive for the Basques. The Basques in that region can cross borders almost at will, without the control of both countries.

As a Basque Gracia, the French can also be considered their own nationals, and in this respect, Sarkozy's homecoming is also justified. Of course, this cannot be said in public, especially in front of the Spaniards, otherwise there will be international disputes. However, saying this in front of the Basques can win the favor of the Basques.

Gracia was very happy, both in Sarkozy's attitude and in the vanity of being called a countess.

The two couples exchanged pleasantries for a while at the entrance of the reception hall of the main building of the Élysée Palace, introducing their respective entourages before being welcomed into the living room on the first floor by the Sarkozy couple.

Instead of following strict international etiquette, where men walk in the middle and women walk on both sides, they let two women walk in the middle and talk, and instead the two men walked on both sides, behind them, following their respective retinues.

For Sarkozy, the perception of travel is more complicated, a typical Frenchman with extreme contradictions and romantic ideas. When he took office, he was warmly welcomed by the United States, because before him, Chirac had been alienated from the United States. But after he took office, he quickly returned to Chirac's line, and even participated in the Libyan war in order to show his existence, despite the opposition of the Americans, and united with other NATO countries.

And during his presidential campaign, he also accepted a political donation of 50 million euros from Colonel Libya Ka. The contradiction of receiving donations but doing things to Libya is vividly embodied.

He has also created many French presidential firsts, he is the first president to divorce while in office, the first president to get married, the first president to be a father and a grandfather at the same time during a presidential term, and his peachy news has always attracted more attention than his governing policies.

When he was Secretary of the Interior, his wife abandoned her husband and children and eloped with Richard Artias, an advertiser in New York, making him wear a big green hat. During his campaign for president, he came back to help him run for president, and then officially divorced after he became president. He became president for just half a year, and four months after divorcing his wife, he married supermodel Bruni at the beginning of this year.

It is difficult to grasp the thinking of this kind of person, and it is not difficult to want him to use it for himself, but the difficult thing is how to control the situation so that he will not change his mind subsequently.

In the living room, two couples sat on couches overhead, flanked by their respective entourages, in addition to some ministers from government departments, as well as Airbus officials.

Half a year after the order was placed, it was time for the delivery of the ten Tiger helicopter gunships scheduled for the tour. Zhou You's reason for coming to France this time is that he received his ten armed helicopters and corresponding weapons.

However, during the talks, there was little discussion between the two sides on this issue, and more on the overall development plan of the DRC. The French Minister of Industry and Commerce have always wanted to expand the role of French companies in the Global Tour Development Program, and they have also tried their best to expand the proportion of investment in French companies under various conditions.

South America is the base of Spain, and in South America, French companies cannot compete with Spanish companies. In South America, with the exception of Brazil and a few small countries, almost all countries are Spanish-speaking, and most of them are also of Spanish descent, and for this alone, the French cannot win.

But in Africa, the influence of the French is not weak at all, and it can even be said that there is no other country to compare with it, except for the British.

However, there is one big flaw in the development projects that travel around, and that is the financial services of banks.

At present, there are banks in the United Kingdom, Spain, Singapore, the United States, and even the mainland, but not France.

Without the participation of French banks, French companies, even if they join the program, still do not get the maximum profits, because in the process of economic growth, a large part of the profits are deprived by other links.

Even if French companies could make a small profit from their production process, those profits would be nothing compared to the economic growth generated by the overall development plan.

At the beginning of the tour, the largest source of profit was twenty percent of the profits of all large enterprises, which gave him enough money to invest in infrastructure. But later, the biggest source of his profits was not these shares, but the profits from the capital transactions of all enterprises in the course of operation. The benefits of this economic growth are the biggest engine for the continuous flow of capital traveling.

Just like a supermarket, the profit at the beginning mainly depends on the sale of goods, but later, it is the supplier's capital inventory investment, which has become the largest source of profit for the supermarket.

In the development plan of the tour, the road transport is involved in the tour, the electricity supply is the tour participated, the bank provides loans and the resource supply tour also participates. In addition to the processing link tour did not participate, to the later product sales, the tour is also participating, which is equivalent to a complete industrial production chain, capital turnover chain, each link of the tour can earn a little profit, concentrated together, it becomes a huge amount of money.

Relying on this means of operation, Zhou You not only controls the entire market, but also controls all the enterprises in his hands, and it is also for this reason that the annual global power ranking lists Zhou You as the most powerful person in the world.

A complete industrial chain, and IQ occupies a link in the middle, and the profit difference in this is very large. French companies themselves account for a very small proportion of this, and they also know that they cannot compete with mainland companies, and it is difficult to expand their share, so they seek to expand the overall scope of their enterprises in this chain.

However, since Zhou Yu did not take a stake in a French bank, it was very difficult for a French bank to get involved. In South America, they didn't have any chances, but in Africa, they did.

However, Zhou You could not easily agree to their terms, not only because he did not take a stake in a French bank, but more importantly, he could not upset the fragile balance that the mainland, Spain, Singapore, the countries where he invested, and the participating companies in other countries had managed to build a fragile balance.

Expanding the share of French banks, expanding the share of French companies, means that the share of existing banks and companies will be reduced. Sustaining such a large economy is not an easy task, and once the balance is broken, it will be even more difficult to restructure.

In fact, starting from Colombia, these companies have formed a complete industrial circulation system, and these enterprises have formed a complete interest group in the past cooperation, and even he cannot easily eliminate or introduce new enterprises or banks.

His power is that he controls the implementation standards and doors of the entire interest group. Internally, he has his own set of selection criteria, and the operation of all enterprises is under his control, and externally, he has the right to refuse or introduce a certain enterprise in a certain industry.

However, this power is not unchecked, and the source of restraint is the balance of the whole group.

He is the maker of the rules, but also the beneficiary of the rules, and of course the maintainer of the rules.

The meeting seemed to say a lot of content, but today's meeting was actually entangled in the language pile, from beginning to end, Zhou You only understood one sentence of Mr. Zhou, and then sent emojis as if talking to himself.

He understands English, he knows Spanish, but he doesn't know French. But the tsundere French never bother to converse in English, so today's conversation mainly relies on interpreters to communicate with each other, so the pace of communication naturally slows down.

However, the French dinner that night tasted quite good, and the amount of food on the tour also gave the French a taste of the rhythm of a starving ghost, from the first plate of sweet soup to the last fruit salad, Zhou You ate 14 dishes cleanly, and even the three different wines, Zhou You also dried them all.

It wasn't until after dinner, when the couple visited the Élysée Palace alone, that the two sides really calmed down and talked. At this time, both parties communicate directly in English, and there is no need for an interpreter to interject on the side.

"Your Excellency, although the effects of the financial crisis are gradually dissipating, the economic situation in Europe is not optimistic due to the sluggish real economy. Because the monetary contraction policy brought about by the financial crisis will take some time to recover, it is most urgent to beware of the dollar bailout policy formulated by the United States through the G20 agreement, which leads to the depreciation of the euro. ”

"Mr. Zhou, we all know that you are an excellent financier, do you have any countermeasures for this?"

Zhou You's eyes looked at a painting by Cézanne on the wall, which should be genuine, borrowed from the museum. It's a pity that Zhou You doesn't have the slightest ability to appreciate why such a painting is worth tens of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

"All central banks are using their dollar funds to bail out the market, which has led to the fact that the dollar exchange rate has not only stabilized, but also increased the central parity, on the contrary, the euro area, which has been strongly affected by the financial crisis, has now put all the dollars in its hands into the market, so the consequences are obvious. My personal abilities are limited, and although I see some signs, I can't do anything about it. ”

Sarkozy is not an incompetent, and he only needs a little consideration to see the situation of the lobbying. The shortage of the dollar will inevitably lead to the rise of the dollar, and at this time, the euro area affected by the financial crisis will suffer from economic setbacks, and the fall of the central price of the euro is the inevitable result.

Countries like France and Germany are slightly better, but several countries in southern Europe will be severely affected by the weakness of the euro. Because in the entire eurozone, almost all countries have relatively high welfare levels, government deficits are under great pressure, and a weak euro will directly affect the lives of ordinary people.

But Sarkozy would not have known how much of an impact this incident would have, so he did not take it to heart and pulled the topic back. "The dollar bailout is the policy set out in the Washington Declaration, and we can't care about the aftermath until the crisis is over. Therefore, this financial policy still needs to be implemented before next year's summit in London. ”

Zhou You nodded, indeed, when the shadow of the financial crisis still loomed over Europe, it was impossible for them to change their existing policy, because it would lead to a divergence of lines between Europe and the United States, and no one could afford such a change.

"I don't want to criticize the agreement of the Washington Declaration, but the way in which countries come together to deal with the crisis is the right one. Failure to do so will allow the financial crisis to continue, but I hope that Your Excellency will consult more with financial experts and actively prepare a plan for dealing with it. ”

Sarkozy asked with some doubts: "Mr. Zhou, I have always regarded you as a good friend of the French people, and if you have seen any signs, I hope to tell me bluntly." ”

The purpose of Zhou You is to sow discord between Europe and the United States, but Zhou You will never let the United States know the role he plays in this. So, he shook his head with a smile and said: "I just think that the current European foreign exchange reserves have fallen to a dangerous level, and the current situation, the ability of European countries to deal with risks has been greatly reduced, which is very dangerous." ”

Sarkozy asked: "What will this lead to?" ”

Zhou You took his gaze back from the oil painting, looked into his eyes and said, "European debt crisis." ”