Chapter 38: The Uproar
Managing an economic empire spread across the globe, with a little responsibility, the time spent traveling around the world will be inundated with countless documents. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Every day, the documents sent from all over the world need to be read by a team of nearly 100 secretaries and dozens of consultants 24 hours a day to read them all.
Only some important matters can be sent directly to Zhou You, and most of the affairs become a short report when they are in front of Zhou You.
Because there were too many emails coming and going, for the sake of safety, Zhou You took advantage of the convenience of being a shareholder of several large Internet companies to design a security protection network comparable to the Pentagon for his company, ensuring the security of all the communication lines of his company.
Letting go of the computer in front of him, Zhou You stood in front of the window with a coffee cup. Outside the window is a beautiful coconut grove and sandy beach, and beyond is the vast Atlantic Ocean.
Luanda is a beautiful coastal city with a natural deep-water port and a beautiful natural breakwater. The narrow peninsula, which is less than a kilometer wide and about five kilometers long, acts as a natural barrier to protect the city. On this peninsula, with its shady woods and beautiful beaches, it is one of the most upscale residential areas in Luanda.
In order to prevent harassment by reporters, Zhou traveled to Luanda, and was arranged to live in a high-end foreign-related hotel on the peninsula, and lived in one of the most luxurious villas.
Although it was late at night, Zhou You still didn't feel sleepy, and the two secretaries on night duty were still sitting in front of the computer, receiving messages from all over the world.
"Boss, the company in the mainland sent a text message, the matter is very small, but it asks you to make a decision yourself, which is very puzzling."
"I sent it to look at ...... and replied to Tmall Korea to thank the South Korean government for the invitation, but at least for this year, I don't have time to go to South Korea. Regarding the lawsuit filed by the American Hardware Association, let the American branch and Wal-Mart jointly respond to the lawsuit, no matter how much money is spent, the lawsuit must be won, and of course, it is better to settle out of court. ā
Seeing the text message sent to his mailbox, Zhou Youqi was almost ready to wake up Cai Ajiu, who was already asleep, and scolded him. More than half a month ago, Zhou You asked him to clean up Song Dazui, who was talking nonsense in front of the media, and he completed the task well, after traveling to London, he saw Song Dazui being attacked and nearly 20 big teeth knocked out of his mouth.
Now that he was angry, Zhou You left Song Dazui behind. However, the two boys in charge of doing it were too rampant, and they proudly said that they did it themselves when they were picking up girls. This was known to Song Dazui, who was looking for revenge everywhere, and bribed the two women and accused the two boys who did it.
The impact of this case was very great at that time, although Song Dazui could not be compared with Zhou You, but he was also a celebrity, and the case of his attack was quite sensational at the time, and to this day, he is still living in the hospital.
Although he knew very well that this matter was Zhou You's anger for his own woman and gave him the guts, he didn't dare to pull the matter on Zhou You's head. But he still has the ability to deal with two little guys.
This morning, the Yangcheng police confirmed that they had arrested the two guys who did it, they were both Cai Ajiu's clansmen, this time, even if they couldn't really convict these two little guys, but, it would definitely affect Zhou You's reputation.
Because everyone knows that the Cai family has a very close relationship with Zhou You, and it can be regarded as the first dog leg of Zhou You in the mainland. Even if this case can't be related to Zhou You, everyone knows that this matter is inseparable from Zhou You.
Zhou You thought about it, but still called Cai Ajiu up. "You will go back to Yangcheng tomorrow, no matter what you do, let this matter settle as soon as possible."
Cai Ajiu was sleepy-eyed, rubbed his eyes and sighed: "I'm going to the east with the military people tomorrow, and you now let me go back to China for this little thing!" Don't worry, I'll call back and promise to get things done. ā
His phone call was sent back to his sixth brother Cai Yuanzhong, and on the phone, he complained about his two nephews before he ordered: "Sixth brother, you go directly to Song Dazui and ask him to withdraw the case, our Cai family is not something he can afford to provoke as an upstart, if he doesn't listen, he will directly collapse his company." ā
Zhou You listened and sighed again and again. "That's what you do?"
He laughed. "Sometimes the more simple and crude it is, the more effective it is, and that's what I learned from you. In the face of absolute strength, any intrigue is useless. ā
Well, Zhou You also admits that his method should work, and it is indeed the way he likes to use. Although Song Dazui has a little money, his money is better than ordinary people, and he can't compare with the Cai family at all. What's more, he is now in the entertainment industry, and Zhou You is the biggest leader in the entertainment industry, his words guarantee that the film and television dramas that Song Dazui is investing in now will not even be filmed, let alone released.
If Song Dazui had been wise, he would not have resisted directly.
When Zhou You woke up, the news from China had reached his bedside. Cai Laoliu's appearance really made Song Dazui retreat, he went to the police station to withdraw the case, and he didn't dare to make any more nonsense in front of the media, and the matter seemed to have really calmed down.
This made Xu Yanlin, who wanted to make this information into big news, extremely frustrated, but from this incident, she also noticed the shadow behind her.
Thinking of Zhou You, her heart was sour, and there was an indescribable regret lingering in her heart. No one thought that Zhou You, who seemed to be just a high-quality stock, would rise to such a status now, and now he is already very different from him!
His ridiculous self-esteem at the beginning made his apology to his colleagues seem so ridiculous. If time was reversed, he would not have given up on him so easily, otherwise, why would he still be such a small host on the TV station!
But for Zhou You, he had already forgotten Xu Yanlin, and only occasionally thought that he had such a relationship experience in Yangcheng. and that Xu Tianhua, who had already blurred in his impression.
In the morning, under the arrangement of the Angolan government, he visited the local AIDS prevention and control center, the Red Cross hospital, and also visited an orphanage. Of course, everywhere he went, he also donated a sum of money that was not too much, but definitely a lot.
In the evening, he attended a welcome banquet held for him by a number of local chambers of commerce, half of which were locals, and a small half were representatives of enterprises from the mainland, and almost half of them were Chinese.
From this alone, it can also be seen that mainland enterprises in Angola have developed better and better, and their influence is getting bigger and bigger.
Luanda is singing and dancing, but in the central and eastern part of Angola, a major clearance campaign against the opposition is in full swing.
At 10 a.m., President dos Santos gave a speech on television declaring war, mobilizing for war by combining the country's political situation and the investment climate, including economic development.
At the same time as he gave his speech, the government forces from Mawenga in the southeast, Huambo in the center, Dondo and Sorimu in the northeast, Kazombo and Lukuse in the east, mobilized a total of more than 30,000 troops, divided into more than 20 offensive phalanxes, and carried out an indiscriminate clean-up operation against all the opposition.
The traveling security company, with a total of 700 personnel, also participated in the purge and served as the main force in Kazombo and Huambo, launching attacks on the local security and UNITA groups.
In Kazombo, an offensive phalanx of more than 300 men commanded by Youngbili, armed with SAR-21s, attacked three strongholds, killing and wounding more than 300 on the first day of operation.
On the news program that night, Billy Young, whose face was painted with insect paint, also gave a television interview, declaring that the culprit behind the kidnapping and killing of the company's hostages must be brought to justice. His conspicuous security company attire, security company badges, and the Singapore-made SAR-21 he held were all in the limelight on television.
That night, the media around the world was boiling over. This was the first time that a traveling security company had officially participated in an act of civil war in a country, and the capabilities they displayed were no bad at all, and the mountains of corpses and weapons on the screen made everyone shudder.
Although his two attacking phalanxes are still nominally under the unified command of the Angolan government, they show far more fangs than the Angolan military. In total, on the first day of the operation, the enemy lost almost three hundred killed, wounded two hundred, and captured almost a thousand. More than half of these casualties were caused by this team of less than 700 men.
And all the world's major media branches in Angola have asked the Angolan military for battlefield interviews, and most of them have set their sights on the battlefields of Huambo and Kazombo.
The company that traveled around had always appeared as a commercial company, and this was the first time that it was directly involved in a war and had shown great combat effectiveness.
And their act of provoking a large-scale war in retaliation for the kidnapping has also caused heated discussions in the media around the world. Of course, some of the media have expressed their appreciation, but more of them are criticizing and blaming.
In particular, their murderous behavior has led to one-sided accusations. In a war of more than 30,000 people, they killed more than half of them in less than 700 people, and the impact was too great.
Especially on the afternoon of the next day, after the massacre at the Luau training camp was revealed, Zhou You immediately felt the pressure from all over the world.
The Luau training camp was shown to the world's major media by the military after Luau stabilized the local situation, because the few survivors of the training camp had fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and revealed the massacre that took place before the declaration of war to a media in the United States.
Yes, because the situation at the scene was so brutal, the world's major media did not call it a battlefield, but a slaughterhouse.
One hundred and one corpses of various causes of death were captured on camera, corresponding to the crumbling houses at the scene and the mournful weeping of local villagers.
At the scene, most of the people were unarmed, and only two AK47s and two pistols that had not been fired were found at the scene, plus one AK47 that had been fired, there were only five guns at the scene.
This massacre also pushed Zhou You directly to the forefront of public opinion, and even many media directly called Zhou You the executioner and called on relevant international institutions to judge Zhou You.
Unfortunately, President dos Santos helped Zhou You take on most of the pressure, calling Zhou You's actions a military act arranged by the military, and directly conferred the post of honorary colonel on Zhou You, calling him a good friend of the Angolan people.
This kind of cover-up made Zhou Youtui lose most of the responsibility, although there is still some public opinion pressure, but it does not have much direct influence on him.
And the strength he showed this time also made people all over the world know, and they are now not only a simple businessman, but also the leader of a large military force.
By the third day, the fighting was still going on, and many of the rebels had been unable to withstand the military attacks and began to retreat from the cities to the countryside, to the mountains, and some even directly beyond the borders.
Both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia have opened their borders to local refugees and established refugee camps. Even South Africa is making strong calls for a direct flight to be opened for refugees.
The AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, also sent observers to Angola urgently and called on all parties to exercise restraint and work towards a peaceful resolution of the dispute.
But with the government forces in the ascendancy, their appeals seem so weak.
At the very beginning of the war, the Cuban government sent an observation mission of more than 100 people to Angola on a chartered flight. Their relationship with Angola is what the relationship between the mainland and Pakistan is very close. During the Angolan civil war, the Cuban army has been assisting the Angolan military against UNITA and the United States forces behind it, and the two sides have a deep friendship.
However, in the face of the Cuban observer mission, the security company rejected their staffing arrangements outright, preferring to accept American journalists rather than their personnel. This made the Cuban side very angry, but there was nothing they could do about it. Eventually, the Cuban observer mission was divided into various battlefields, but there were no observers on the battlefields of Kazombo and Huambo.
For this reason, Castro urgently sent a delegation headed by his younger brother Castro Jr. to visit Angola urgently. Of course, the main purpose of his visit to Angola was to ease relations with Zhou You.
On the evening of the fourth day of his arrival in Angola, President dos Santos hosted a banquet at the presidential palace and entertained Zhou and Castro Jr. I want to be a peacemaker for them.
Since his debut, especially after his success, Zhou You has never suffered a loss, and the only time he suffered a loss was when he was betrayed by Castro and sold him to the Americans.
Maybe he deliberately wanted the Americans to drive Zhou You to their side, but Zhou You had too many interests in the United States, and he would rather go to prison in the United States than choose to leave the United States. In this way, Castro's purpose was not achieved, but instead offended Zhou You.
Now, in the face of Cuba's olive branch, Zhou You has not been able to make up his mind whether to accept it or not.