The next day, Barnett came to visit Yang Peiqi's residence. The old man's attitude towards Yang Peiqi is still very enthusiastic, at least much more enthusiastic than the last time they met.

In addition, Yang Peiqi also found that among the attachés he brought with him, there was actually a Chinese employee, a more energetic Taiwanese woman, who looked about twenty-five or sixteen years old, but her skin color was different from that of Taiwanese natives, it was a very healthy wheat color, which was the result of frequent sunbathing.

After Barnett was polite to Yang Peiqi, he got to the point: "I invited Mr. Yang to Australia this time because there are some different voices in the state government, and some people are skeptical about your company's development capabilities, so I hope Mr. Yang can increase his investment in the Darling mining area." ”

Barnett told Yang Peiqi about the situation, and it turned out that a more influential female parliamentarian in Western Australia, who is also the deputy mayor of Perth, was a little dissatisfied with Barnett's cooperation with Yang Peiqi. Of course, she did not directly question the legitimacy of this cooperation, after all, this cooperation was signed between the Western Australian government and Explorer Mining, and the legitimacy was agreed by the Western Australian government and the parliament, and the female parliamentarian also voted in favor of it. She simply questioned the government's work meeting that Explorer Mining does not have the capacity to develop a mega-mine with reserves of 10 billion tonnes like the Darling mine.

After listening to Barnett's introduction, Yang Peiqi was obviously stunned. Although he knew that someone would jump out against him sooner or later, he didn't expect it to be such a person.

According to Barnett. The councillor who questioned Explorer's mining was not only a woman, but also a Chinese immigrant.

If a white person or an immigrant from another country jumps out to question it first, Yang Peiqi can understand. But a Chinese, or a woman, came to be the vanguard of this opposition to herself, but Yang Peiqi was quite puzzled.

Could it be that when did you offend this woman named Du Shaofen? Probably not, after I came to Australia, I don't seem to have a grudge with anyone, right?

That is, this woman may be the person supported by Liangtuo. Seemingly. The two were already aware of the threat they might pose to them.

For the two extensions, Yang Peiqi had long been mentally prepared for them to jump out against themselves. Because the rise of FMG a few years ago has already sounded a wake-up call for them. It is believed that they do not want to have another competitor like FMG in Western Australia.

Of course. It cannot be ruled out that this was done by FMG, because they themselves rose from the set of white wolves with empty gloves, and they must be more sensitive to such things.

However, it was a Chinese congresswoman who jumped out against herself first. Yang Peiqi's mood is still very complicated. After all. Although there are many Chinese in Australia, they account for less than 3% of Australia's total population.

It should be said that as a pure immigration country, the Australian government's attitude towards immigrants is relatively relaxed, so once you become an immigrant, you can enjoy the various preferential treatment provided by the government for citizens, which has also attracted many people, including Chinese, to immigrate to Australia.

However, because the welfare benefits of citizens are too high, the financial burden of the Australian government is heavy. Since the Howard government, Australia has begun to cut this part of the budget. In addition, a series of policies have been formulated to distinguish between the treatment of citizens and immigrants, in an attempt to reduce the burden, so that the economy can embark on a path of sound development and provide more development funds.

And to the current Prime Minister Julia. After Gillard took office, he directly rejected the "Greater Australia" population plan advocated by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, that is, if Australia continues to accept migrants at the current rate, Australia's population is expected to grow to 35 million by 2050.

Girard, however, believes that Australia's population will be in trouble if it grows at this rate given water scarcity and lack of infrastructure, as well as large areas of Australia being uninhabitable. However, she said Australia still needs skilled migrants.

In such a situation, Australia's absorption of immigrants has slowed down considerably.

Despite this, there are still a lot of Chinese who have moved to Australia, a large part of them are the second generation of children who made a fortune in mainland China, and the ancestors who got rich in advance, hoping that their children can receive Western education, and learn some modern management experience, and then return to China to take care of the domestic company business, so the number of rich luxury people here is still a lot, sometimes at night, you can see a lot of expensive sports cars on the road, most of them are the children of these Chinese.

Of course, more Chinese have lived in Australia for several generations, or immigrated from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and other Southeast Asian regions, and these people have nothing to do with China, and they have no sense of identity with China. This is the so-called "yellow-skinned and white-hearted" banana man.

If this woman named Du Shaofen is this part of the Chinese, it would be easier to understand.

However, Yang Peiqi did not have the heart to investigate the identity of this woman named Du Shaofen, and his top priority was to stabilize Barnett.

Yang Peiqi is well aware that Barnett has not only asked to meet with him because some Western Australian MPs have questioned the cooperation, but he may have thought the same thing himself. After all, Explorer Mining's investment in Western Australia is not small, and if the entire company were to operate, it would require at least $1 billion or more to operate, which is not a small amount.

What's more noteworthy is that once the mine is operational, the benefits are also very considerable.

However, the strength of Explorer Mining is really not strong now, even if it is listed in Hong Kong through the backdoor listing of Tongguò, its market value is only 13.4 billion Australian dollars, and it still seems a little weak to develop the Darling mining area.

However, Barnett has always suspected that Yang Peiqi is the spokesperson of some big forces in China, so he does not dare to directly oppose this cooperation project.

Moreover, judging from the fact that Yang Peiqi's company has built its own transportation railways and ports to the sea, their investment plan is relatively long-term and should be trustworthy.

But in any case, he also needs to personally contact Yang Peiqi himself to implement this matter.

After learning about Hobbit Barnett's concerns, Yang Peiqi had a plan and explained to them: "Mr. Barnett, my company will definitely make every effort to build the Darling mine. However, because the company's funds are relatively tight, the progress is a little slow. And that's why I want my company to be listed in Australia, because I believe that with the support of the Australian stock market, we will be able to get more money for the construction of mines, railways and ports, which will also speed up the progress. ”

After listening to Yang Peiqi's words, Barnett nodded and said with a smile: "So I understand, because it is a bit abrupt to invite Mr. Yang to Sydney for this matter, but does Mr. Yang have a good financing plan?" Now that the stock market is flat, and Explorer Mining has no influence in Australia before, I am worried that the listing and financing may not be satisfactory. ”

Yang Peiqi waved her hand and said: "I am not worried about this matter, I believe that local investors in Australia are still very discerning, and I will also make a special report on this issue, so that investors can more easily understand how we operate, so as to enhance their confidence." Another point is that if the market financing is not satisfactory, in the end I will still invest enough money to develop the iron ore business in Western Australia, and this general direction will not change. ”

Barnett was waiting for Yang Peiqi's words, because to his ears, this sentence was Yang Peiqi indirectly indicating that he had a strong backstage, so he immediately smiled when he heard the words: "Our Western Australian government has no doubt that Explorer Mining is enthusiastic about the development of iron ore resources in Western Australia, as the host, we will also try our best to provide some convenient conditions for the development of investors, please rest assured Mr. Yang." ”

How did Barnett know that Yang Peiqi said this not because he had a strong backstage, but because he had other ways to get money.

Yang Peiqi's plan is very simple, that is, if he can't get enough money from the stock market, then he will directly turn on the cheating mode, use Explorer 8 to explore treasure, and then sell the money to develop the Darling mining area.

Although Barnett misunderstood Yang Peiqi's words, after all, it did not hinder the overall situation, and the result was still developing in a good direction.

After that, the two sides had friendly talks on government-enterprise cooperation, and both sides felt that the sincerity of the other side was great, and they also conducted in-depth consultations on some policy support, and made historic progress, far more than the facilitation conditions given by the Western Australian government in the last negotiation.

It wasn't until these people left that Yang Peiqi heard his subordinates report that Barnett was now Gillard's opposition, so he hoped to do something amazing in Western Australia, and have a chance to win the next Australian prime ministership.

Yang Mingyu told Yang Peiqi: "Barnett said bluntly in public last year that because the Australian federal government does not understand the great changes brought by the mining boom to the Australian economy and stubbornly promotes policies that harm the interests of Western Australia, the political and economic relations between Western Australia and Canberra have fallen into a low point, while the relationship with China and other Asian countries is strengthening." Barnett also said WA's focus is on Asia, not Canberra. He said it wasn't WA flouting [the federal government] or seeking independence, but simply an economic reality. (To be continued......)