On 10 March 2002, the Independence Day celebrations of the Republic of Goma in Central Africa and the groundbreaking ceremony of the Equator Power Plant were held as scheduled.

Next to the festival site of the Equator Power Plant, equipment and raw materials transported by various equipment manufacturers were piled up in the temporary yard. One of the most striking is the main equipment of the power plant from China, a huge wooden grid box neatly placed together, through the pine strips, you can see the generator and gas turbine units with tile blue paint inside.

After attending a brief ceremony, the heads of state and industry ministers of more than 20 African countries who came to observe the ceremony began to tour the power plant site. What they are most interested in, in addition to the sand table model of the power plant, is the advanced power plant equipment.

The commentators sent by China Hanhua Heavy Industries and Xingbei Heavy Machinery stood in front of their company's equipment, and introduced the basic parameters and advanced nature of the equipment to these African potential customers in English, French, Arabic and other languages at the same time. The officials did not understand the complex technical concepts, but they did know at least one thing: the equipment was approved by the World Bank over the Germans, and was the best in the world in terms of performance and price.

"Minister Nuzama, thank you very much for inviting us to attend this groundbreaking ceremony, which gave us a glimpse of the power plant equipment from China." A neighboring country's industry minister patted Nuzama on the shoulder and said, "Our country has used fertilizer equipment provided by Chinese in the past, and the quality and price are good, but in terms of technical level, there is still a big gap with the Europeans." I never knew that the Chinese had made such rapid technological progress in recent years, and they could actually compete with giants like ALK in terms of power plant host equipment. ”

"yes, yes, I'm surprised, too." Nuzama's face showed an embarrassed look. Originally, there was no need for the Independence Day celebration and the groundbreaking ceremony of the power plant to be held together, and he mainly combined the two, in fact, he listened to Khedira's promise that the Chinese would definitely not be able to ship the equipment in place on time, and he wanted the Chinese to make a fool of himself in this matter. This makes it difficult for Chinese to enter the power equipment market in Africa.

Who would have thought. The Chinese actually managed to get the equipment on time, and Nuzama was dumbfounded when a dozen large flatbed trucks traveled thousands of miles across northern Africa to the power plant site. I originally wanted to embarrass the Chinese, but now it has become advertising for the Chinese.

Khedira secretly looked for pirates to attack Hanyuan No. 4, and Nuzama did not know about it in advance. At first, he didn't even know that the Chinese freighter that had been attacked by pirates was the one that the newspapers reported was transporting the plant's equipment. It was only when the Chinese workers who escorted the equipment arrived that he learned about the specific situation from everyone's accounts and suddenly realized the mystery.

In that moment, he had a feeling of fear. This feeling comes from two sources. First of all, he didn't expect Khedira to be so unethical and not hesitate to use this method against competitors. Secondly, I did not expect that the Chinese would be so strong, and a group of unarmed crews would dare to fight pirates, and the purpose of this was only to ensure that the equipment arrived on schedule.

"We at Hanhua Heavy Industries Group have strong technical strength. At the same time, there is also good credit. You don't know. The equipment you see before you is the same equipment that was almost hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden a month ago. In order to ensure that the equipment was delivered to Goma on time and that the Independence Day celebrations took place, our escorts fought to the death against the pirates and paid the price in blood. ”

A marketer in a GCA uniform stepped forward and told the guests about the heroic story that happened to the device. To everyone's surprise, the marketer turned out to be a German with a high nose. There is no doubt that he is the German project engineer Haig who was recruited by Lin Zhenhua. This time, it won the power plant project in the Republic of Goma. He has a great deal to do. …,

After hearing about the attack on the Hanyuan No. 4, Haig, as a senior project manager, was keenly aware that this was a good opportunity for public relations, and he certainly wanted to spread the story in front of so many African dignitaries. There are a few reporters around every dignitary, and when they write so and so on, then the matter of Chinese equipment entering the Goma Equatorial Power Plant. At least it spread throughout Africa.

"There is such a thing?"

"It turns out that the gangsters who fought bravely in the Gulf of Aden were the Chinese crew transporting this set of equipment!"

"The Chinese are amazing!"

“……”

Haig's sensationalism really worked. In the minds of these African dignitaries, the image of Chinese companies has suddenly become even higher. That's right, they have always dealt with European equipment manufacturers in the past, and the Europeans never think about their needs, everything is done with contracts. But the Chinese are different, they can obviously give up the equipment and then use "force majeure" to avoid responsibility, but they choose to fight pirates, in order to prevent the Goma Republic's Independence Day celebrations from failing.

It is a kind of respect for customers and a sense of reverence for credit. For poor African countries that do not have a high position in the international market, it is rare to be able to receive such respect. Everyone can't help but think of the cooperation with Chinese enterprises in fertilizer equipment, machinery and equipment projects in the past ten years, in these cooperation, they all feel the attitude of Chinese to treat each other equally, which is the attitude that a partner should have.

"Haig is such an old fritter."

Not far away, Lin Zhenhua and He Fei stood together, smiling and commenting on Haig's sensationalism.

Lin Zhenhua came from Yemen in a hurry the day before, and when he left Yemen, He Lan had already taken a flight back to China and went to his parents to recuperate. As for whether He Lan's plan to create a Lin Ya or Lin Ou has been implemented, it is a high secret that even Chen Tian's subordinates don't know.

Originally, Lin Zhenhua did not need to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Equator Power Plant this time, but since he had arrived in Yemen, he was not far from Goma, so he stopped by. Of course, Goma has no opinion on this, and the chairman of the board of directors personally came to support the scene, which also shows the importance of this project.

After Lin Zhenhua arrived in Goma, he made a special appointment to meet Nuzama. He seemed to have inadvertently told Nuzama about the pirate attack and about someone going to Somalia to retaliate. He told Nuzama that there was definite information that the pirate Liv had been assigned by a European to hijack a Chinese freighter, and that the Chinese were angry about the incident and the consequences were serious.

"Mr. Nuzama, I would like to ask if you know anything about this?" Lin Zhenhua asked Nuzama with a sympathetic sneer.

"Mr. Lin, I can assure you that I have no knowledge of this matter at all." Nuzama swore a curse.

"Well, I'd like to believe Mr. Nuzama's honesty." Lin Zhenhua said, "However, I think some of Mr. Nuzama's friends may know something. We Chinese are very reasonable, treat friends, we will hold out fine wine; To deal with the enemies who try to challenge us, we have shotguns. ”

"I suppose we should be friends, right?" Nuzama asked incredulously. Although he claims to be the minister of industry of a country, Goma is not yet the size of Jiangnan Province, and it cannot be compared with Jiangnan Province economically, and the power and energy of him, the minister of industry, are far inferior to that of an economic giant like Lin Zhenhua. In front of Lin Zhenhua, he felt a kind of pressure like a mountain. Somalia itself is an African country, and the mass massacre of pirates in the village of Alamo caused a very big shock on the African continent, and Nuzama has also heard about it. Now, Lin Zhenhua is standing in front of him and talking about this matter lightly, no matter how stupid Nuzama is, he can guess that Lin Zhenhua is the mastermind behind this massacre. Who said that the Chinese are easy to bully and provoke people, and people will also kill people and set fires. With his own body, can he bear the thunderous anger of the other party?

"Minister Nuzama, I hope we can be friends." Lin Zhenhua smiled and shook hands with Nuzama.

This is the first day of events, and today it seems that Nuzama really wants to make peace with the Chinese, although the expression on his face is still a little stiff, but the smile has not disappeared. In line with Haig's speech, Nuzama also nodded repeatedly, expressed his gratitude to Hanhua, and promised to continue to cooperate with Chinese if there are similar projects in the future.

"Mr. Lin, just now the ministers of industry of several countries have come to me, all of them are asking about the construction of power plants, listening to their meaning, they want to directly hand over the entire power plant project to us, completely do the key project model, this model of profits, but amazingly high. It seems that we have really opened up the situation in Africa. He Fei happily introduced to Lin Zhenhua.

"Okay, Lao He, you and Haig have contributed a lot to opening the African market. Otherwise, we have a sales headquarters in Africa, and you can come to this headquarters as a general manager. Lin Zhenhua joked with a smile.

He Fei's face suddenly wrinkled into a bitter gourd: "Mr. Lin, let's not scare people like this, okay?" These African sisters-in-law look like Zhang Fei one by one, if I stay here for half a year, won't this aesthetic be completely scrapped? If you want to send me as a sales manager abroad, you can also think of us as a picturesque and beautiful place, okay? ”

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "I don't know where to eat and drink." However, there is one picturesque place, which is located in the Indian Ocean and is called the Santa Goga Islands. After this incident, will you accompany me there? ”