Chapter 88: The Mediator

In Zhou You's office, Arango stretched out his hand to Zhou You and said, "Evan, please allow me to thank you again, hearing your words, I feel more and more that I have chosen to work in Nanyang Company, which is the right choice. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

"Please come, it was also the right choice I made." The former president was invited to sit down, and the others sat down separately. Rodriguez brought in five cups of coffee and brought them to everyone.

Bernard and Arango sat at the desks of the tour, their expressions a little serious. But old Volando didn't feel much, sitting leisurely on the sofa by the window, watching the training on the training ground below.

Sanchez accompanied old Volando with interest, and his eyes didn't drift for a moment. Originally, Cai Ajiu should have come over, but he didn't understand English, and he couldn't understand the meeting at all, so he got impatient after a while and ran to the training ground.

After taking a sip of the somewhat piping hot coffee, Zhou You put the cup back on the table. Only then did he say in Spanish: "On the side of the future Colombian branch, everything needs to be done by two people." How to build a new company into a trustworthy company requires the joint efforts of all of us. Mr. Bernard, most of the company's security personnel are here, and next week, a hundred security personnel from the mainland will be in place. In Colombia, although we have solved the problems at the top, there are still obstacles at the grassroots level, both on the government side and on the guerrilla side. In addition, Colombia's drug lords, organized crime gangs are still rampant, and the difficulties we face are also daunting. Security guards from China also need to be trained in shooting, and it's up to you to arrange all of this. I hope that within a week, I will see you submit me a report on my work plan. ”

Bernard nodded and said, "I was going to wait for all the security personnel to be in place and everyone to cooperate before submitting the work plan......"

Zhou You shook his head and said: "The time is a bit urgent, but the enterprises from the mainland are very anxious, and every loan of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars is a huge amount of interest every day, so everyone must hurry up and arrange work." At the latest, after three days of waiting, all the preparations will be carried out, so those security guards from the mainland have no time to adapt to it, so they have to devote themselves to their work. As for other training, it can only be arranged during the waiting period. ”

He nodded and said, "I'll arrange it." ”

Zhou You shook his hand and asked, "Do you feel satisfied with the office prepared for you?" ”

"It's good, but the dormitory is a bit small, and I'm going to bring my wife from Spain too, but now there's only one single room."

Zhou You nodded, turned to Arango and said, "Mr. Arango, you instruct the people below to arrange the logistics problem, and Mr. Bernard's problem will be given priority." ”

Arango smiled and nodded, "Please rest assured, it will be solved tomorrow at the latest." ”

Knowing that his conversation was over, Bernard took a sip of his coffee, stood up and said, "Then I'll go to work first." ”

After he left, Zhou You handed Alange a cigarette, lit one himself, and said: "Mr. Alango, you should have read the company's development plan, in view of the current situation, do you think there is anything that needs to be improved?" ”

Arango lit a cigarette before saying, "No matter how good the plan is, there will always be all kinds of accidents in the process of implementation. At present, the company has just been established and has not officially started its work, and there are no problems in the work, but there are many small problems in the preparatory stage. The most serious problem now is that we didn't plan the base well at the beginning, which has resulted in half of the people now needing to stay outside, which not only increases our security efforts, but also makes it difficult to manage. Personally, I believe that the construction of the new building should be on the agenda as soon as possible. ”

You can't blame anyone else for this, you can only blame yourself. At the beginning, he did not expect that mainland enterprises would have such a large management team, and at the beginning he only budgeted that about 30 people in one company would stay in the headquarters to work, and the rest would work directly in the oil fields or mines.

However, he has never run a business, and he does not know how meticulous the management of a large enterprise is, and how many departments he has not even heard of, but it is an indispensable part of the management process.

As a result, the 500 beds he originally arranged were less than half of the actual needs, and if according to the needs of major companies, the headquarters of each company alone needed to arrange more than 100 beds, which means that there needs to be an office area that can accommodate 2,000 people, and the current base capacity can only meet a quarter.

Zhou You sighed and asked, "Then do you have any specific measures?" ”

Arango was prepared for this, and said methodically: "First of all, we should sign a long-term private room contract with the hotel to reduce the cost of housing. The second is the plan for a new office building at the site, and I personally recommend finding a design firm from Singapore and then an architecture firm from Colombia. The third is to establish a complete set of joint defense plans with the 17 enterprises invested, and at present, each company has 20 security team members, which I think is still a bit small, because 20 people are not even busy with daily security precautions, let alone provide security protection for important personnel. Fourth, it is necessary to establish sound information channels in Colombia and to station information-gathering personnel in major cities and areas of tension, so as to change from passive defense to active defense. The fifth plan is my personal wish, I hope that the company can take the opportunity of cooperation now to become a mediator between the two sides of the Colombian civil war, which will not only be beneficial to our future work, but also allow the company to become a regional cooperative company in South America and go out of Colombia. ”

Become a mediator between the two sides of the Colombian Civil War! Zhou You's heart immediately moved when he heard this, and he looked at Arango, who was very calm, as if this plan was just an ordinary trivial matter.

But Zhou You would never think so, he knew very well that if he could do this, it would indeed have a very positive effect on his future development in South America.

If you can really do this, then your own company will become a popular company not only in Colombia, but also in countries such as Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Cuba. Because these countries are all leftist and factional countries, and they all have a supportive attitude towards the Colombian guerrillas, and Zhou You can do this, and those countries are also open to Zhou You. Although Zhou You has not considered the changes in the situation in the future, he will definitely be able to bring huge economic benefits and social influence to himself.

Of course, Arango is not without selfishness, he is the former president of Colombia, and if he can promote this, it will be more brilliant for him personally than his achievements as president.

But Zhou You won't care about this matter, because in this matter, the interests of the two of them are the same.

Zhou You thought about it for a while, and deliberately said tentatively: "Although the company has brought the two sides of the Colombian civil war together because of investment problems, if you want to become a mediator, the company's background is still a little insufficient. The demands of the two sides of the civil war are quite different, and if the company is caught in a huge and complex mediation matter, will it affect the company's business? Will this have some negative reputational effects? ”

Arango shook his head and said, "On the contrary, I personally think that both the people and both sides of the civil war are tired of the forty-year-long civil war, and everyone has a vision of longing for peace. In the past, because of the involvement of the United States, the Colombian government had to compromise on many issues in order to seek the support of the United States, which was the main reason why the two sides of the civil war could not agree on the agreement......"

Hearing him say this, Zhou You felt more and more that he should not get involved in this matter, because the economic benefits that Colombia can bring to him are limited, and what he can now gain is more of an increase in influence. But in the United States, my cooperation with Sands, with the UFC, with Barron, including at Google, with Apple's stake can bring huge benefits to me.

Compared with the two sides, Colombia is absolutely not as important to itself as the United States, and if it is too deeply involved in political issues, it will become a thorn in the side of the US government, which is more than worth the loss for itself.

However, Zhou You didn't know how to refuse Arango's request. Because from Arango's point of view, this matter is harmless, and it is the first time that I have a formal conversation with him, which has dampened his enthusiasm, and it is not my own will.

He hesitated for a moment and said: "I will think about this matter, if a commercial company is too involved in political issues, it will give the company a strong political color." This will bring many unavoidable biases and artificial obstacles to the company's future global operations, and I need to seriously consider it. ”

Aside from this problem, Zhou You and Arango had detailed communication on other issues related to the company's development, and the two sides also reached a lot of consensus on opinions. Overall, the discussion was very positive. Both sides were also happy with their choice.

It wasn't until it was almost time to eat lunch that the two ended their conversation. Zhou You sent Arango away, returned to the office, and asked the old Volando, who had not interjected: "What do you think of Arango's suggestion to make the company a mediator?" Do you think the impact of this advice will be positive or negative? ”

Sanchez also looked at the elder Volando with concern, hoping to hear an answer from the elder Volando that would excite him. From a gangster, gangster, to a high-level figure who is now involved in international affairs, he couldn't be more satisfied with his life choices.

However, it is also because the platform was too low at the beginning, and he does not have his own worldview in international affairs, so he also cherishes every such opportunity.

(To be continued.) )