For half a month, Zhou Nan either went to banquets everywhere, or organized banquets at home to entertain guests from all walks of life.

Yannick stayed in Switzerland for more than half a month, on the one hand, to help Zhou Nan arrange a banquet, and the main purpose was to negotiate with businessmen from Asia to build an automobile factory in Nanhua.

The first branch of Volkswagen will mainly produce Volkswagen barrel cars and Beetles. In this era, the Volkswagen barrel car is still a very good off-road military vehicle, and the Beetle is an affordable Volkswagen model.

Volkswagen factories will not invest money, mainly technology and channel investment, and all investment is jointly raised by Chinese people in Southeast Asia.

For half a month, the matter of cooperation has not yet entered the stage of formal consultation, and the only condition for the negotiation is that Nanhua will plan a large-scale economic development zone in Shankouyang, of which five square kilometers of land Nanhua will take 20 percent of the shares and provide corresponding supporting services.

For the remainder, Volkswagen holds 40 percent of the shares, while the Chinese Alliance holds 40 percent of the shares.

The business investment groups that came to Europe from Nanhua were mainly Chinese merchant families in Nanhua, and they all had some funds in their hands, but they did not have very good investment projects.

Their arrival was warmly welcomed by all walks of life in Switzerland, and in just half a month, more than 200 cooperation projects were negotiated.

One of the largest investments is that Switzerland will invest US$100 million to build a large hydroelectric power plant on the Kapuas, the largest river in Borneo, at the foot of the Raya Mountains in central Borneo, and will build a power supply network covering the entire island of Borneo.

Switzerland can be said to be the world's first in terms of technology reserves for the construction of hydropower stations, and the technology of large-scale hydroelectric generators and centrifuges is the first in the world.

In addition, because Borneo is rich in coal resources, Switzerland will also help Nanhua to build two thermal power plants to improve the power supply capacity.

In addition to these, there are other investment projects that have reached more than 200 intentions, but because the war there has not yet ended, the intentions are still only intentions.

But just as the Swiss community was jubilant, Britain, the United States, and even France protested. It is believed that this market in Nanhua should be fair and open to their enterprises, and all projects should be fairly tendered.

If the market is not opened to the Western countries, South China will be in a very difficult situation, and now that it has offended the Soviet Union, it must not offend the Western countries.

But if all the projects are put out for tender, then they fall for their conspiracy. Because this kind of bidding seems fair, it actually gives Western companies the opportunity to collude and monopolize the industrial market in South China.

Therefore, Nanhua's response was to introduce a law on investment promotion at the end of October. The South China government will implement an economic policy of focusing on the big and letting go of the small, and all industries related to national security, such as energy, minerals, electric power, telecommunications, and information, will be managed by the government, and the other industries will be delegated to individuals.

This law has been strongly opposed by Western countries, because South China now has nothing, and the most coveted by Western countries are forestry resources, mineral resources, and oil resources.

Now that these industries are nationalized and only other industries are opened, of course, those companies in the West are not willing.

However, these industries happen to be weak sectors for the Dutch government, which is a commercial country with a focus on trade. They don't have much of an advantage in these monopoly industries.

And now that these industries are nationalized, they can create greater benefits, and these benefits also have a share of the Netherlands. Therefore, the Dutch government is strongly supportive of this policy.

For a week, the South China Parliament made its position clear in various media outlets, insisting that industries that are vital to the country's stability will never be delegated to the private economy.

At that time, Southeast Asia was under the influence of the Chinese and turned to the Soviet Union, so the Western countries would not be able to steal chickens and rice.

Therefore, after the threat failed, they could only say that they reluctantly accepted the economic policies of South China. However, it is necessary to implement a uniform and fair policy for European investors.

In fact, this is just a step down, until the situation in Southeast Asia is not stable, their companies cannot monopolize resources, let them invest, and they will not take risks.

But Switzerland is not picky, and Swiss banks are willing to take on this risky loan. Controlling a country's electricity resources is a decoy that cannot be abandoned for Switzerland, a country that has always been politically isolated.

Because of its political isolation, Switzerland is quite passive when it comes to economic investment. Good projects simply don't take their turn, Western countries invest all over the world, monopolize resources, but Switzerland has never had such a good thing.

Only they can accept Nanhua's condition of returning the power plant to Nanhua after recovering its costs.

Of course, this time period is also very long, and there are other conditions attached to it. For example, in the future, the right to operate a hydropower station or a thermal power plant will still be theirs, but the ownership will be returned to Nanhua, and even if they recover their costs, they will still be able to charge a large amount of management and operating expenses every year in the future.

In addition, Swiss banks are willing to lend money because they have obtained the right to set up a commercial bank in Nanhua and participate in the future development of Nanhua.

Although Zhou Nan adhered to state capitalism, he was also afraid that the future state-owned enterprises would become monopoly chaebols, so from the very beginning, it was determined that the ownership belonged to the government, but the management rights were jointly ventured.

Ensure that oil companies, mining companies, and forestry companies have the influence of private capital and do not become an unenterprising waste.

In the future, these countries will develop into enterprises, and when they enter the foreign energy industry, they can also directly have natural allies.

As a neutral country, Switzerland will be the base of the world's energy and mineral companies in the future, and with this ally, South China will definitely be ahead of other countries in every way.

In the next few decades, Australia's mining, the Middle East's crude oil, etc., if Nanhua does not get a piece of the pie, then Zhou Nan's life will be too much of a failure.

Therefore, sacrificing part of the management rights now can not only prevent the solidification of power in the future, but also enhance international competitiveness, why not!

Of course, other countries have not yet understood this, only seeing that Nanhua insists on unwavering ownership, only opening up the right to operate, and when there is no temptation of huge profits, British and American companies are not interested.

Only Royal Shell, a joint British and Dutch company, currently has some interest in oil development and management rights around Borneo, also because of Dutch relations.

Because in this era, the main thing is to develop shore-based oil, and the development technology of offshore oil is not perfect, and the cost is much higher than that of shore-based oil.

Even if there are concerns from all sides, the results of Nanhua's European investment delegation are still very gratifying. Because in addition to Switzerland, there is also a Netherlands, which is now focusing its investment on South China.

The Dutch have been operating in the East Indies for hundreds of years and have numerous investments throughout the East Indies. Now the Javanese people are resolutely resisting, and a lot of the original funds have flowed to South China.

The Netherlands is also the suzerainty of South China, although they no longer have the right to mix in domestic affairs and economy, but they still have the right to speak in taxation and diplomacy.

Even if they lose a little bit of investment, they can also subsidize Dutch investment enterprises in the form of tax rebates and subsidies in other aspects.

Together with the withdrawal of funds from the rest of Southeast Asia, the investment delegation signed a cooperation intention in the Netherlands with nearly one billion US dollars, covering almost all industrial and commercial fields.

At the beginning of November, the investment delegation arrived in London, England, and even with the platform of Zhou Nan, it was met with a cold reception from the British business community. However, these are not unexpected in Zhou Nan's expectations.

In London, there were fewer than 20 cooperation agreements before the investment delegation. Most of them are price alliance agreements with the London crude oil futures and metal futures submarkets.

Zhou Nan stayed in a luxury villa in London for two days, and then waited for Audrey.

Paramount has already urged it a few times, and there are still a few dubbing parts of the "Anne Frank Diaries" movie that Audrey needs to go to Los Angeles to complete, and then it will start global promotion.

However, they did not immediately leave for the United States, but stayed in London for two more days.

Since the end of February, Zhou Nan and Audrey have not seen Marita for more than half a year, and this time they came to London, of course, Audrey had to have a good time with Marita for two days.

Zhou Nan didn't get involved in the world of the two girls, just had a meal with them, and then was busy dealing with Nanhua's affairs.

This luxurious villa on Garden Street in Kensington Palace has become the residence of Audrey's grandfather Allen, and the old man helps them look at the house and take care of it very well.

After staying for a few days, Audrey realized that although he had paid the old man a large sum of money every month. It was enough for him to raise a few servants and maintain the hygiene of the villa, but his life was very poor.

Because Zhou Nan was busy socializing every day and barely ate at home, Audrey still saw this matter.

After Audrey told Zhou Nan, as soon as he asked the servants, he learned that even these servants were temporarily invited back by Allen.

On weekdays, Alan rarely fires, and only asks hourly workers to clean the villa once a week.

When asked Allen, the old man did not hide anything, telling Zhou Nan and Audrey that he bought most of his money for Arsenal shares, and Arsenal's operation was not ideal, so there was no dividend......

Still, Allen insists his investment is worth it because he loves Arsenal. Therefore, he invested all his spare money in it, and it was worth it to help Arsenal.

Zhou Nan thought of the suggestion that Nord had asked him to buy Inter Milan some time ago, and after thinking about it, he said to Allen: "Your pocket money is just a drop in the bucket for Arsenal, if you really like Arsenal and are willing to invest, I can also take out a sum of money to help Arsenal tide over the difficulties." ”