Jin Jianbo won a gamble with Lin Zhenhua when he was young, and finally gambled himself in prison. After squatting in the dark room for a few years, his personality has calmed down a lot, and he has more understanding of the world.

After being released from prison, he rejected Lin Zhenhua's offer to hire him to run a factory in Northeast China, and insisted on going to Africa to open up, which was also with a bit of a comeback. For Lin Zhenhua, although Jin Jianbo has long lost his jealousy, he still regards him as his target to catch up. He is determined to rely on his own strength to make a career that is not weaker than Lin Zhenhua, in order to wash away the shame on himself.

Africa is fertile ground for entrepreneurs. The economy is underdeveloped, the per capita income is not high, but at the same time there are few competitors, and many markets are in a vacuum, which is suitable for entrepreneurship. Jin Jianbo has spent several very difficult years in Africa, but he has also achieved fruitful results. Today, he owns a large company with assets of tens of millions of dollars, and its business covers seven or eight countries in West Africa.

As he told Lu Qihong and others, in addition to the trade he did when he first made his fortune, he is now involved in real estate and infrastructure projects, which are very lucrative. Jin Jianbo's own ability is still very strong, and there are no interpersonal constraints in his company, so he has done smoothly, and the business volume has almost doubled year after year, and the future is bright.

This time he met Wang Shuijin on the street, and Jin Jianbo felt cordial and showed off. He specially invited Wang Shuijin and his entourage to his company, so that he could see his current situation, and then use his mouth to go back to the original Jiang Shidian to publicize and publicize. The last memory Jin Jianbo left to Jiang Shidian was the image of being handcuffed by the police, and he hoped that the news that Wang Shuijin brought back would make everyone forget that memory.

Jin Jianbo has such thoughts, but it can't be regarded as vanity or hypocrisy, self-esteem is something that everyone has, and people like Jin Jianbo, who used to be ambitious as a teenager, have especially strong self-esteem. Of course, Wang Shuijin is indeed a big mouth. Afterwards, he took the opportunity to return to China for a vacation to talk about what he had seen and heard in the former Jiang Shidian and now Hanhua Refrigeration Equipment Company, which won Jin Jianbo a lot of appreciation and envy.

Jin Jianbo is really concerned about Hanhua's affairs, he told Lu Qihong that his company has a blood connection with Hanhua, and the 100,000 yuan of funds he first started his business was lent to him by Lin Zhenhua, so he must give Hanhua some returns.

After a hearty luncheon. Jin Jianbo personally accompanied Lu Qihong and others to Lagos City to choose the venue of the Hanhua sales center. His local connections are really much more extensive than those of newcomers like Lu Qihong, and it didn't take much effort to find a high-quality and inexpensive property, including a façade, office space, living room, parking lot, etc., which is only more than 200,000 US dollars a year, which is fully in line with Lu Qihong's original budget.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Kim. This has helped us a lot. Lu Qihong held Jin Jianbo's hand, thanked him repeatedly, and said that he must report to the headquarters as soon as possible, especially to report to Mr. Lin about Mr. Jin's goodwill.

"Hehe, if you write a report to Zhenhua, don't forget to say hello to him on my behalf." Jin Jianbo said.

"Definitely, definitely." Lu Qihong responded.

"By the way, do you want to recruit some local employees when you open a sales center? What are your plans for this? Jin Jianbo asked with concern again.

Lu Qihong said: "We plan to wait for the venue to be decided. Began to publish a recruitment notice to recruit 20 local employees. ”

Jin Jianbo thought for a while and said: "Africans have a relatively honest personality and a simple way of thinking, which is their advantage. But the disadvantage is that the spirit of hardship and hard work is not as good as that of us Chinese, especially we do not like to use our brains, and we are embarrassed to be of great use. Of course, this is just a general phenomenon, and it does not exclude that there are some intelligent, hard-working blacks. But you have to sift through it. The cost is a bit too much. ..., if Manager Lu doesn't mind, I can recommend a few of my competent employees to you. Help you lay the foundation first, and if you train the right people yourself in the future, let them come back to me. What do you think? ”

"This is really a send-off, Mr. Jin, you have thought too much about us." Lu Qihong said sincerely.

The most difficult part of doing business in a foreign country is cross-cultural management. Previously, Lu Qihong and others had been worried about how to recruit black employees and how to manage them. GCA had the experience of recruiting black employees in Africa in the past, but there were very few people with this experience and could not be assigned to various sales centers. Among the three members of Lu Qihong's party, only Wang Shuijin had done engineering in Africa and had very little contact with blacks, and as for the experience of managing blacks, it was completely blank.

Now, Jin Jianbo said that he was willing to send a few black people from his company to help Lu Qihong, which solved one of Lu Qihong's biggest problems. The person sent by Jin Jianbo is naturally honest and reliable, and he has been used in Jin Jianbo's hands for so long and has been fully run-in. Having these people at the heart of the black workforce in the sales center would reduce a lot of communication headaches, and Jin Jianbo was really thoughtful in that regard.

While Lu Qihong and the others are slowly taking root, other sales teams of GCA are also going to various parts of the world to prepare to set up camp. A team of four led by sales manager Fang Lei had just arrived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, South America.

Santa Cruz is the capital of the province of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia, which covers an area of 370,000 square kilometers and is the largest province in Bolivia and is geographically part of the Amazon rainforest. The province has a population of more than 2 million, agriculture and mining are very developed, and industry is just starting.

A few years ago, Chu Hongyang and his sales team signed an order to build a large fertilizer plant in Santa Cruz province, opening the door for Hanhua to enter the region. In the following years, the GCA Group gradually opened up the situation by building a pharmaceutical factory and several machinery factories for the area. Fang Lei and others will set up a sales center here, in addition to providing technical services for several factories built before, but also continue to expand the market and strive for more orders.

There are no direct flights to China from Santa Cruz, and there are no direct flights from China in all of Bolivia. Fang Lei and his entourage first flew to Peru, then changed trains and cars, and finally came to this city on the plateau on the eastern side of the Andes.

The city of Santa Cruz is a vast city with labyrinths of roads. Fang Lei sat in the taxi and counted curiously, and in less than a mile away, he saw six staggered roads, and the entire city was cut into thousands of small squares by these roads.

The chatty taxi driver told them like a tongue twister: this is Via Parl, this is Via rene_moreno, this is Via Independercia, this is Via Velasco, this is Via Colon...... Cui Linmei, the Spanish translator in the team, was defeated after only a few minutes of translation, and this kind of work is really not capable of human beings.

Looking out of the car window, there are no tall buildings on both sides of the road, and there are South American-style spire huts dotted around, and there are large trees planted in front of and behind the houses, which looks quite wild. The pedestrians on the side of the road are pot-bellied and leisurely, and there is no such scene as the rush of people in China's provincial capitals.

"It's a big city." Fang Lei sighed, "After walking for so long, I'm still in the suburbs." …… Uh, Mr. Driver, how far are we from the city center now? ”

The last sentence, he asked the driver through Cui Linmei, before this trip, he practiced Spanish for several months, but when it came to the specific application, he was still a little unable to apply. ..., the driver turned his head to look out the window and said proudly: "This is the city center!" ”

"This is the heart of the city!" A carload of people were shocked, everyone went to the window to look out, well, it seemed to see some light box advertisements in front of the small bungalow, and a supermarket like a commissary, the road was clean enough, and the other was quiet...... Or rather, let's call it deserted.

"Manager Fang, we didn't make a mistake, right?" Dong Yongjian, a young technician, muttered, "This place, not to mention compared with Nandu, is not as good as our hometown Fenghua." ”

Fang Lei and Dong Yongjian are both children of the original Hanhua Machinery Factory, and they have some feelings for Fenghua. As a small county, Fenghua has slowly developed in recent years, with dozens of 10-story buildings built, which indeed look much more modern than Santa Cruz.

"You don't understand this, people in foreign cities pay attention to natural beauty, idyllic life, which is like our Chinese cities, all of them are reinforced concrete jungles, suffocated to death. I love this place in Santa Cruz. Cui Linmei said with an obsessive look on her face. She is worthy of being born in a foreign language, and her mood is obviously very different from Fang Lei's turtles.

"But we're here to sell equipment, okay?" Dong Yongjian retorted, "It's just such a big village-like city, how can it look like an industrial city, I think, our business will definitely not be good." ”

"That's what Manager Fang is considering." Cui Linmei said with a grin.

"No, if our performance is not good, the bonus will be less, which is a matter involving the vital interests of each of us." Another mechanic, Wang Yumei, said.

Fang Lei, as the leader of the group, naturally wanted to put on a show, and he said to everyone: "What do you know, the group sent us here, not only to sell machines, our main task is to ......"

Speaking of this, he dragged out a long speech and put on a profound look.

"What is it?" The other three asked in unison.

"Iron Mine! Mutong Iron Mine! Fang Lei waved his fist and said.