At twelve o'clock, the negotiations were temporarily suspended and Total prepared a working meal for them. However, this kind of working meal is a real working meal, although it is not a boxed lunch for one person, but there are not many sandwiches, bread, hamburgers, and a Turkish meatloaf that does not taste very good.

Among them, the best tasting was a large portion of mushroom soup, and Chen Mo drank two bowls by himself. In his opinion, the cost of lunch for each person is definitely not more than ten euros. I don't know whether to praise Total for its careful calculations or to scold them for being stingy.

After lunch, the staff took them to the lounge on the third floor of the building, which was the company's employees' lounge outside, and a private room was prepared for them. The room is furnished with large and comfortable sofas, and the window looks out onto a small green garden, which is quite nice.

Chen Mo saw Han Sujie whispering something in Minister Xue's ear, and the two of them whispered a few words, and Minister Xue closed his eyes and recuperated. As for a few colleagues who had tensed their nerves and participated in the consultation, they collapsed on the sofa as if they had no bones on their bodies.

French law stipulates that each person has a 35-hour working week. In other words, each week is calculated on a five-day basis, and the working hours cannot exceed seven hours. These seven hours are not real working hours, but are calculated from entering the company and ending after leaving the company, and the hour of lunch is also recorded in these seven hours.

Chen Mo had heard Li Shan say before that white-collar workers in Paris would not really work more than three hours a day. This is not the result of any one person, but the results of more than 50,000 white-collar workers counted by the French daily newspaper.

They work seven hours a day, and if you don't take an hour from lunch, you'll have only six hours. Of these six hours, the general time is spent chatting, and the real working time is almost three hours.

Although France is still in place for daylight saving time, which will not be implemented until after mid-October, Total has already started to implement winter time. In other words, you will go to work at 9 o'clock in the morning and leave work at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. So if they want to negotiate things today, they only have three hours left, so they have to go back to the conference room to continue the negotiations after a short break of less than half an hour.

After sitting for a while, with a little more than five minutes to go, everyone was refreshed and ready to go downstairs. Chen Mo preemptively helped the people in the business department lift two heavy document boxes. "All of you have worked hard, just me, I'm an idler, let me do this manual work."

They were still a little embarrassed to snatch it back. Minister Xue smiled: "Don't be humble either, Xiao Chen is strong and young, let him do a little more of these jobs." ”

The morning consultations were mainly focused on the framework of the scope of cooperation, so everyone was nervous, but the afternoon time quickly delineated the scope of the articles. At this time, it was the turn of several legal staff members to get busy, and they had to review each by one to see that the framework needed to be circumvented and cater to the laws and regulations of the country, France, the European Union, the African Union, and Angola.

The rest of the time, the consultation focused on the timing and place of the subsequent formal negotiations, such as where was the first negotiation scheduled? When will the on-site exploration of the exploration rights area be carried out, where will the second negotiation be conducted, where will the formal contract be signed, etc......

This kind of large-scale cooperation, the whole negotiation process will take two or three months to say the least, and if it does not go well, it may take ten or eight years, and if there is no certainty of a timetable in the early stage, it will be too disorderly.

However, the intentions of both sides of this cooperation are very urgent, so there are not too many objections to the time and place of the negotiation, and it only took more than an hour to preliminarily determine the process of the entire negotiation, and the time frame is less than half a year.

At this time, both sides were relaxed, and Albert also arranged for the staff to open a bottle of red wine, which was a small celebration of the smooth negotiation.

Although Chen Mo was relaxed, he was actually hanging in his heart all the time. He can only speak French well and has no problem with general communication. However, in terms of technical terms, I only made a strong supplement for a week, so I was afraid that there would be words I didn't understand on this occasion, which would be a shame.

However, since there was no professional negotiation involved, and there were no too professional words, today's translation turned out to be quite good, and at this time, he really relaxed.

At the end of the negotiations, they gave each of them a small gift, a small bottle of Chanel perfume for each of the two women, and a Cartier tie clip for each of the men. This is certainly not the most expensive kind, according to Chen Mo's estimate, the value of the perfume is less than fifty euros, and the value of the tie clip is also less than one hundred euros.

Seeing that the two sides were talking and laughing, they didn't seem to take this to heart, and of course Chen Mo accepted this small gift quietly like everyone else.

Before four o'clock, everyone walked out of the Total building, still in two commercial vehicles, and sent them back to the hotel.

Director Xu and Director Wang will continue to stay here and wait for the formal negotiation team from China to come. However, Minister Xue and Chen Mo, as well as two colleagues from the Technical Appraisal Section, were going to take a night flight to Norway to carry out a phased acceptance of the three ** units ordered by CNPC there.

In fact, there was already an acceptance team stationed there in Norway. However, there is already a ** that is about to be completed, and a higher-level leader is needed to attend the delivery ceremony, so Minister Xue came over this time, mainly from the town.

The negotiation in France involved the procurement department, the international business department, and even the exploration department and the production department, so Minister Xue could only be a pioneer officer and prepare for the preliminary work.

However, ordering ** with the service company under Statoil is the "internal" affair of the purchasing department, and Minister Xue, as the head of the international department, can be regarded as a big deal.

And due to the different positions of supply and demand, Chen Mo's reception standards are also very different. In Paris, they had to pay for their own hotel, but Norway had already arranged rooms for them, just waiting for them to check in.

Although the two staff members of the technical appraisal department were given a day off, they also returned to the hotel early to wait, and they will go to Norway with Chen Mo to meet other colleagues, and then stay in Norway.

This time, when I went to the airport again, I didn't have to drive Total to send a car to pick me up. Han Sujie's husband, the French general manager of the grain and oil group, personally drove his BMW 730 to send him off. Judging by his attitude towards Minister Xue, coupled with the private banquet last night, Chen Mo also knew that their relationship was definitely not ordinary.

Bringing two cars to the Red Army, Chen Mo put Minister Xue's suitcase into the trunk of the car, and wanted to go to another car with his two colleagues. Minister Xue shouted, "Xiao Chen, come, come with us." ”

Chen Mo paused for a moment, from noon to afternoon, Minister Xue had been whispering with other staff members, discussing something. Although many of them deliberately carried themselves behind their backs, they didn't have the idea of letting themselves understand. He also understands that in the process of such large-scale business negotiations, he is indeed not valued by them, and his mind is not together, after all, he can't intervene in these things.

For this reason, he also felt that he needed to avoid suspicion. Seeing him hesitating, Han Sujie smiled and said, "Come and sit with us, speaking of which, our two families still have a little relationship!" ”

Although he was even more confused, Chen Mo didn't delay any longer, and said with a smile: "I'm ashamed to say it, I've never been in such a good car, and I followed Minister Xue today." ”

However, when he got into the car, Chen Mo did not look around, but honestly sat behind the driver's seat of the Red Army. Han Sujie, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked back and smiled: "I only learned from Lao Xue's introduction last night that you are the nephew of Sister Kang Mei, if I had known earlier, I would have called you here since last night." I have been in an old relationship with Sister Kang Mei for many years, and every time Weiwei comes to Paris UNESCO, she almost always lives in my house. ”

Chen Mo said with a smile: "It stands to reason that I should call Auntie, but I can't shout such a young Auntie." ”

"You're still young, you're about to become an old woman. The girl in my family, who doesn't take me seriously now, knows that she worships Weiwei and degrades me and loses hope in life. ”

Xiang Hongjun started the car and said with a smile: "Weiwei's girl is really powerful, and only Sister Kangmei can raise such a powerful girl, if I am not reluctant, I want to send my girl to her to raise for a few years." ”

Minister Xue had already heard the two of them talk about Yu Weiwei's power last night, and heard that a girl who was just twenty years old was not only proficient in many Chinese, but also entered the best private women's college in the United States and became a special observer of UNESCO.

"Xiao Chen, originally I thought you were good enough, but compared to your cousin, you are still a little worse!"

Chen Mo was not jealous when he heard them praise Wei Wei, but instead had a feeling of relief and complacency, after all, Wei Wei was his cousin, she was excellent, and his cousin was also honored.

"That is, Weiwei is so good, and my cousin is ashamed, so I can only demand myself with higher standards."

"Well, work hard, with the support of Mr. Kang, your future development is unlimited!"

Along the way, Han Sujie kept talking to Chen Mo, leaving the other two men aside. However, the topic was mainly focused on his aunt Chen Kangmei, and listening to Chen Mo tell some of his aunt's stories also listened to it with relish.

When entering the airport, Xiang Hongjun also shook his hand and said: "Next time I come to France, let me say in advance, I have been in France for five or six years, and I can help with anything." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Xiang, there will be a lot of opportunities in the future. If you don't bother you, I'll come and harass you often in the future. ”

Xiang Hongjun laughed and said, "Welcome, welcome ......"