Chapter 40: The Great Fool (I)
I spent another two days in the capital of this small East African country, and after the first mission was completed, it was now time to start the second mission, which was to establish the so-called "East African United Airlines".
The company's sign may seem big, but the so-called "East African United Airlines" only exists on paper. According to the information, it is jointly invested and controlled by G Guo zhรจngfว and Canadian investment businessman - I.
These are left to the professionals to do it. Ren Lei also flew here the next day to meet me, and then his men arranged for Cฤo to do all the work.
I started to get ready to go back to Canada.
Of course...... If all goes well, maybe that's the case.
Unfortunately, on the third day, things went wrong!
On the morning of the third day, I had just woken up from the hotel with a depressed face. Because the conditions here are really limited, especially the air conditioning in the room, the cooling effect is very poor, and the noise is very strong, and the roar is a headache for me all night. But I can't help but turn it on, otherwise it's too hot to sleep.
When I got up, I was still tired on my face, and most of the time I was still a little angry to get out of bed, and when I was eating breakfast, Ren Lei came to the hotel to look for me.
"What's the matter?" I fiddled with the knife and fork in front of me and said absentmindedly, "It's almost there, isn't it?" When can I go back? Anyway, I'm just here to sign a few papers. โ
"What's wrong? Bad rest? Ren Lei's face looked like something was wrong, but I didn't notice it, just a little irritated and said, "How can you rest well?" I haven't slept well in two days. โ
"Conditions in East Africa are a little worse." Ren Lei casually said perfunctorily. Then he sank his face and looked at me: "Chen Yang...... I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you won't be able to go back just yet...... Something went wrong. โ
"Accident?"
Ren Lei smiled bitterly, and there was some worry in his eyes: "There was indeed an accident." โ
Under my gaze, he slowly told what had happened.
Originally, our plan was to establish such a leather bag company called "East African United Airlines", and then buy several aircraft technologies of the American Lockheed company in the name of this leather bag company. Then, in the name of "East African United Airlines", these technologies will be sold to the Chinese side.
This is the original plan, avoiding the terms of technical barriers, and it is all in everyone's tacit understanding, and the Americans have also acquiesced to this, which is originally a kind of exchange of interests mixed with politics.
But now, it's different!
"The Americans are looking for trouble with us." Ren Lei smiled bitterly: "Although they acquiesced in this matter, they also got some benefits from us. We got a few compromises in exchange for that. But when it came to the end, they still wanted to cause us some trouble. This is also their old tradition, even if the transfer of technology, it will not make you feel good, and there will always be a way to disgust you. โ
I took a deep breath: "What the hell is going on?" โ
"Inspection." Ren Lei smiled bitterly: "In the technology transfer clause, the premise of these technologies being transferred is: they are only allowed to be used for civilian purposes, and they must not be used for any military purposes!" Therefore, the other side wants to confirm that this "East African United Airlines" is not a military aviation organization, but a civil aviation company, and they have to ......"
"What more?" I frowned.
"They will also send an investigation team composed of members of Lockheed and the Zhรจngfว agency to East Africa to conduct an evaluation and investigation of our "East African United Airlines". It is necessary to investigate the technical strength of this company, as well as the company's operations, and the fields involved, and confirm that this "East African United Airlines" is indeed a thorough civil aviation company, and the technology purchased will definitely not be used for military purposes......"
I stared at the round eyeballs, and endured it for a long time before I couldn't help but scold my mother, and finally I held my throat and squeezed out a sentence with difficulty: "Evaluate the company?" Evaluate the ghost! How is it assessed? This company simply doesn't exist!! What bullshit "United East African Airlines", this company exists only on documents! Just an empty name! It's a leather bag company! How is it assessed? โ
Ren Lei didn't speak.
The more I said, the more angry I became: "What do Americans want to do?" Don't they know that this company is a leather bag company? Don't know that this company is just a front?! โ
"Yes." Ren Lei answered me very briefly.
"Knowing that you still did it on purpose? Do they want to go back on it? โ
Ren Lei sat down, sat in front of me, and patiently explained: "This is the consistent tradition of the Americans, who will always find any possible opportunity to embarrass us!" Always give us some problems...... Even if the two sides have already made a deal, they will try to give us a little trouble with the details...... It seems that if they don't, they are unhappy. "[Heaven's Kiss Hand Punch]
"Didn't your upper echelons communicate well with the Americans?" I said loudly: "This company doesn't exist, how can I check?" How is it assessed? โ
"The upper echelons must have agreed a long time ago, and they have also reached a tacit understanding with each other. But that's how the Americans are...... Always. I don't think they're trying to regret it. After all, the connection between the upper echelons and the things that are decided by the other party will not be easily reversed. So, we thought, they probably just wanted to get some cheap back. They deliberately make things difficult for us and then gain some benefits, or they can demonstrate against us and get some evidence, so that when they have a conflict with us in the future, they can make a fuss about this matter...... It's their old habit. We have dealt with Americans a lot, and we have long been used to it. โ
I spread my hands: "What do you say!" โ
"This ......" Ren Lei smiled bitterly: "There is no way." Since they're going to evaluate the company, they're going to investigate the company, so we're going to get a company out and check it out for them. โ
"Get a company out of here?" I didn't get it.
"Yes!" Ren Lei said slowly: "To build a fake company, as long as there is a shelf, they can't find any mistakes on the documents anyway." We just need to get a fake company to deal with them. โ
"Make a company?" I almost died of anger: "Dude...... This is not a trading company! A trading company is very simple, you rent an office building, then get a bunch of people to sit in the company, put a few computers, get a few rows of filing cabinets, and everything can be done! But ......"
I tried to resist the urge to curse: "But this is an airline!" Got it? Airline! Build an airline? It's simple! How much does that cost? How much time? Don't say anything else...... Our biggest problem is that we don't even have a plane in our hands right now!! Plane! My dude! An airline must have at least a plane!! โ
"Yes." Ren Lei's face was ugly, but he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's find a way to get the plane...... It's just that time is a little rushed, and the conditions are too difficult...... So it can only be improvised and overcome overcome! โ
"What about me?" I shook my head, if I didn't know Ren Lei very well, I was afraid that I would have taken him for a madman: "What am I doing?" What do you need me for? โ
"Quite simply, you are one of the controlling people of the company, one of the owners of the company. So when the U.S. representative comes to inspect it, you have to be present and present. Ren Lei was also a little embarrassed: "Moreover, you have to accompany the US representative to inspect the company." โ
"Inspection company......" I groaned, and then said viciously, "You can conjure me up an airline first!" โ
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I finally know what Ren Lei meant when he said "the conditions are difficult, so I can only make do with it".
He didn't lie to me, it was really "improvised"!!
Ren Lei's energy is not small, in just two days, he has done several things at lightning speed!
Now the suburbs of the city bought an abandoned factory warehouse, and then quickly emptied the factory's warehouses and buildings, and mobilized a Chinese engineering team to convert that row of warehouses into an airplane hangar in two days......
Of course, it's not really a hangar, it just looks like it.
After that, just outside the hangar, the open space in the original section of the aircraft factory was stretched several times, and even cement and asphalt were not paved, and then the mobilized rollers pressed back and forth for an afternoon......
"Look, doesn't that look like a runway?" Ren Lei smoked a cigarette and pointed to the busy open space below......
I've looked stupid: "Like ...... Runway? Please, I can still see the exposed stones! โ
"It almost looks flat enough." Ren Lei pouted: "It's not like there will really be a plane landing." โ
"Humph! If a plane dares to land on such a 'runway', it will crash! โ
"Have you seen the airfield next to the trapped mine...... That airport is worse than here. Ren Lei waved his hand indifferently.
A tall tower was quickly erected...... But it's also fake. You don't expect this tower to emit any traffic lights!
Belch...... Technically, it's just a complete metal shelf. It is said that one hundred and nine iron pipes collected by Ren Lei's men from the scrapyard were temporarily welded. In order to save time, they didn't even have time to paint, so they just welded those rusty iron pipes and stood here.
Of course...... There is also a row of lights on it...... Actually, there are only light stands, and if you look closely, the bulbs in those lamps are all broken!
"A lot of roots and things are waste." Ren Lei explained it this way: "Our funds are limited, and we are pretending anyway, so there is no need to spend a lot of money on real searchlights...... The price of a set of airport signal searchlights is enough to buy several cars! We don't have that much money. โ
"What about airplanes?" I asked the most important question.
"You'll see." Ren Lei looked at his watch: "It's almost time to ......"