The dinner was held in a seaside hotel, and the little actress was very excited, because she had never eaten such a big lobster, but in fact, lobsters in Australia were not expensive, and the real value was those bottles of white wine.

"Witt, Champagne, for the best." Ma Fengfeng snapped his fingers, and the waiter quickly took a bottle of French champagne, and there was a layer of dew on the chilled bottle, and the wine bottle was opened with a ping, and the three people's wine glasses were lightly poured with pale yellow wine, and they touched it in the air and made a crisp echo.

"Beggar Silk." Ma Fengfeng took a sip, and the little actress also did it, exaggeratedly pressing her little hand on her crisp chest to make a drunken appearance, but Zou Wenzhong only tasted it, put down the wine glass and wiped the corner of his mouth with a napkin and said: "For this project, we have been operating for more than a year, dozens of rounds of negotiations, collecting a few hard drives just for the data, and finally making wedding clothes for others." ”

Ma Fengfeng said: "Isn't it, if there is no preliminary work for us, how can such a big project be signed, you can rest assured, our achievements are clearly seen above, otherwise, Lao Zou, there is no suitable position for you in China now, just go to this Northwest Australia Mining to be the vice president, first work for two years and wait for the limelight to pass." ”

Zou Wen's heart moved, the fraud case of the four gold companies involved a wide range, almost ruined his career, even if he came back, he would have to lie dormant for a few years, for himself in the prime of life, it was tantamount to torture, Ma Fengfeng's proposal was good, he was an idle vice president in Northwest Mining, and he had a salary of tens of thousands of Australian dollars a month, and people would not be idle, so he could consider it.

"Fengzi, let me think about it." Although he was moved, Zou Wenzhong still looked preoccupied, and Ma Fengfeng smiled boldly: "Don't think about it, it's just him, I'll arrange it." ”

Sure enough, Ma Fengfeng got Zou Wenzhong's work done with a phone call, the Ma family and the Ye family seemed to have entered the honeymoon period, Ye Han's Wynn Group quietly hired Zou Wenzhong as the vice president of the overseas subsidiary, and the salary was quite generous, and both parties understood that in fact, arranging such a dispensable position was just an indication of attitude.

I thought it would be a protracted tug-of-war negotiation, who knew that it took less than a week to sign the contract and pass it at the hearing, everyone was ecstatic, for fear of long nights and dreams, and within 24 hours finalized the members of the leadership team of the Australian company, a group of more than ten people flew to Sydney, Zou Wenzhong was in Australia, and he simply did not even return home, and went directly to meet with the leadership team.

Northwest Australia Mining is located in the wilderness of the northwest of the continent, where the iron ore grade is slightly lower than that of Rio Tinto mine, basically reaching more than 50, which is much higher than the domestic poor iron ore grade.

The new leadership team is led by a highly respected president, most of the team have studied or worked abroad, fluent in English, proficient in international business, and there are several young and beautiful female translators in the team, with them, they all know the origin of Zou Wenzhong, and they respect the executive vice president who was born out of nowhere, so that Zou Wenzhong, who has just fallen from the position of president of Huaxia Mining, feels a little gratified.

Northwest Mining, whose headquarters is located in Brisbane, thousands of miles away from the mine, came to the headquarters of the Chinese leadership, checked the financial files, sorted out the personnel relations, and was about to make a big deal when the mine in the Kimberley Highlands came with bad news.

The workers went on strike.

The leadership team was in a hurry and flew to the mine overnight to investigate the reason, but it turned out that the workers' big brothers thought that the income was too low, and they wanted to fight for treatment while changing owners.

So the leaders checked the financial records, and if they didn't look at it, they were shocked to see that the most ordinary truck drivers have an annual salary of 150,000 Australian dollars, and even the annual salary of a cleaner is 100,000 Australian dollars.

This is worth it, who can bear such a labor cost, the leader waved his pen, all dismissed, recruited hundreds of workers from China, and managed to eat and live overseas allowances plus double salary at the end of the year, which is only 100,000 yuan a year.

Trouble soon came again, the trade union directly sued the company in court, the leader found a lawyer to consult, the dismissal of workers is tantamount to a fantasy, this kind of lawsuit will undoubtedly lose, if you don't do well, you can pay the family money into, the leader asked what can be done, the answer is no solution, the only way out is to negotiate with the trade union.

Trade unions, this term is very familiar, but foreign trade unions do not seem to be like in China, led by party committees, there is nothing to organize a table tennis competition, older young people blind dates or something, the trade unions of mining workers are similar to triad groups, with hundreds of years of heritage, Australians have the blood of murderers and thieves in their veins, coupled with strong trade union organizations and legal protection, the new Chinese are their opponents.

The introduction of Chinese workers is even more unrealistic, Australia's unemployment rate is already high, the introduction of miners will make the already unbearable unemployment rate fall again, public opinion is agitated, the government will step down at any time, but the government does not directly refuse, but through various regulations to increase the cost of introducing miners to an unbelievable level, so that you can retreat.

On the one hand, it negotiated with the labor union, on the other hand, it stopped injecting capital into the Northwest Mining, and the iron ore import countermeasure team under the leadership of the State Council made emergency deployments to develop the St. Wood Iron Mine in West Sadamoa with an additional 50 million US dollars, and strive to put it into production as soon as possible.

……

Melbourne, Australia, in a secluded bay, a flat boat floating quietly on the water, the owner of Brayman Mining, Richard . Thorpe sat on the boat with a pipe in his mouth, a straw hat and sunglasses, and a fishing rod in his hand.

On the shore road, a large-displacement SUV drove up, and Ma Fengfeng and Zou Wenzhong got out of the car, and Ma Fengfeng shouted at Thorpe: "Mr. Thorpe, we are here." ”

Thorpe smiled slightly, shook the rod, and a large fish was fished out of the water, fluttering desperately in the cabin.

The boat sailed to the shore, Zou Wen walked up attentively, and helped Thorpe to get off the boat, in fact, he was not younger than Thorpe, but Thorpe's legs and feet were not very convenient, in the Indonesian island horror, a bullet penetrated the car and hit his leg, although the bullet has been taken out, but walking is no longer as windy as before.

Thorpe's villa is not far away, a house with a view of the sea, he led the way in front with a cane, Ma Fengfeng and Zou Wenzhong followed behind, but Thorpe did not walk in the direction of the villa, but picked a bunch of wildflowers on the side of the road, walked to a white marble tombstone, and squatted down with difficulty to put the wildflowers in front of the tombstone.

Ma Fengfeng and Zou Wenzhong looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the Thorpu gourd.

"Her name is Helen, she is from Shanghai, she was only 25 years old when she left this world, and she once told me that her biggest dream is to live in a place where she can see the sea." Thorpe didn't look back, and as he uttered these words, the sea breeze ruffled his hair, and the middle-aged American looked so lonely.

"Ahem, Mr. Thorpe, we are here to talk about ......" Zou Wenzhong didn't finish his words, and was interrupted by Thorpe: "I know your intentions, you think that the union is controlled by me, and you want to test it, I can tell you that no one can control the union, and you are in big trouble." ”

Ma Fengfeng listened to Zou Wenzhong's translation, and said angrily: "Dude, you are too unsophisticated, how can you throw a mess to us, you do this, you make me very faceless, do you know." ”

Thorpe could understand Ma Fengfeng's words, and he said in a slow tone: "Mr. Ma, in fact, I have always felt that we are friends, or to use a Chinese proverb, we are grasshoppers on a rope, you know, Brayman is just a pawn of Lei Tuo, and you are also a member of the huge family, we should help each other and make something for ourselves, right?" ”

These words went to Ma Fengfeng and Zou Wenzhong's hearts, and after a short silence, Ma Fengfeng said: "Mr. Thorpe, how can we help each other? ”

"It's very simple, I'll help you solve the union, and you help me solve one person."

"Who." Ma Fengfeng and Zou Wenzhong asked in unison.

"Liu Ziguang." Thorpe paused, then said, "Helen died at the hands of his guns, and I was wounded in the leg by him, and I am sure you have no good impression of him, and his death is our common wish." ”

Ma Fengfeng and Zou Wenzhong glanced at each other again, feeling that this condition was a bit too simple.

"Mr. Thorpe, why don't you just send someone to kill him? I believe that you are not a soft-hearted man and a woman. Ma Fengfeng said tentatively.

Thorpe smiled: "In West Africa, in the United States, in Europe, in Hong Kong, in Indonesia, I have learned many times how powerful this man is, and I almost died under his gun, if I can kill him, do I need to beg you." ”

This is reliable, Liu Ziguang is simply a demon, the Central Investigation Department wanted to deal with him, but he folded Director Tan in, Ma Fengfeng also sent a killer, the result is not the same, this guy is extremely cunning and extremely dangerous, and he is worthy of being a top agent trained by the military.

"You can consider it, just this one condition." Ma Fengfeng asked.

Thorpe shrugged: "Of course not, it's just a human life, it's not worth anything, it's just a prerequisite for cooperation." ”

Ma Fengfeng hugged his arms with interest and asked, "What about after solving Liu Ziguang?" ”

Thorpe said: "I will deal with the trouble of the union, but if we want to solve the fundamental problem, we still need to bring in workers, although it is difficult, but it is not impossible." ”

Zou Wenzhong was surprised: "Isn't the government afraid that the unemployment rate will fall again and the people will protest?" ”

"It's not politicians or voters in power in this country, it's the mining giants, and the giants can even influence the choice of the prime minister, so it's hard to bring in a few Chinese miners," Thorpe said. ”

"But......" Ma Fengfeng was a little puzzled, "what do you need?" ”

"14% stake in Wood Iron Mine." Thorpe replied lightly.

"No need to talk." Ma Fengfeng turned his head and left,