The European Revival Program had already met twice, the first in London and the second in Paris, the first two times with the participation of the Soviet Union and their member countries, but this time, because the differences were too great, the Soviet Union withdrew from the program.

Soon after, the Soviet Union came up with an "alternative plan" for the European revival plan in Eastern Europe, which mainly included economic aid to Eastern European countries and the development of trade between Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union, which became known as the Molotov plan, which later became the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance.

In Western Europe, the United States set up the "General Administration for Economic Cooperation" to be responsible for the implementation of this plan, and the leader of this agency was Paul Hoffmann, whom Zhou Nan had met.

In this life, there was no such thing as the Marshall Plan, and instead it was officially called: "The European Recovery Plan".

It is impossible for the United States to agree with the name of Zhou Nan for this plan, but in Europe, countries are accustomed to replacing the name "Marshall Plan" with "Jonas Plan" on unofficial occasions.

At the heart of the Jonas plan was the idea that the United States would use its resources to help European countries, and that they would benefit from trade in trade.

From the outset of the plan, the vast majority of governments participating in the Jonas plan understood that they would never have to return the counterpart to the United States. Eventually, most of this balance was included in the national budget and then "disappeared".

Germany, however, is an exception. Unlike other European countries, the United States initially stipulated that Germany must return all aid payments at a later date.

But later, the funds that Germany was supposed to return were also significantly reduced.

By July 1, 51, Germany had received about $1.5 billion in aid from the Marshall Plan and returned less than $500 million.

After that, the aid received amounted to $270 million, of which they had to repay less than $20 million to the Export-Import Bank of the United States in Washington.

Zhou Nan was thinking about the content of the Marshall Plan in the future, and at the same time thinking about what Marshall would talk about with him.

The bicycle passed by the Hilton Hotel without stopping, and Fayward said: "There are so many people from all over the world in the hotel that Ludwig invited Secretary Marshall to Villa Sennar on your behalf." ”

Zhou Nan thought for a while and said, "You send me directly to the main house, I'll prepare it first and entertain them in my own home." ”

Feward snorted and said, "Indeed, in the Villa Sennar, it is a little too formal, and entertaining at home can bring personal feelings closer. However, Ludwig cannot make the invitation on your behalf. ”

As one of Zhou Nan's spokespeople, it is normal for Storco to help him invite guests to the office, but if he invites people to his home, it will be more and more devastating.

There was no one in the main house tonight, and the group of women were all in the town to celebrate. Although it was not completely dark, the lights on the farm were all lit, adding a touch of warmth to the somewhat cold farm.

Zhou Nan opened the main door of the main house, first went into the kitchen, picked up a few bottles of hot water, and then turned on the coffee machine in the small living room.

In his home, he often receives small gifts from scholars and visitors from all over the world, among which coffee and tea are the most numerous.

The arrival of the Chinese in Southeast Asia also brought their most famous cat poop coffee, but unfortunately, as soon as Zhou Nan heard that this coffee bean was eaten and pulled out, he was grateful for this coffee.

His favorite drink is tea. In another life, when he was young, he liked clear tea and green tea, and when he got older, he preferred to drink Biluochun, Tieguanyin, and some Pu'er in winter.

There are many guests, and there are all kinds of tea at home, but in order to let these Yankees feel the Chinese culture, he is going to make Tieguanyin's kung fu tea today.

Through the floor-to-ceiling glass, he saw a group of people coming to the range of the main house, and Zhou Nan immediately greeted him.

Except for Marshall, most of the others were also acquaintances, and only a few bankers' representatives and Zhou Nan, a member of the Commodity Export Committee, did not know him.

Zhou Nan shook hands with them one by one and invited them into the main house.

The main seat in the small living room has twelve seats, four single sofas, four double sofas, and a low table surrounded by logs.

Stolko and Fewerde helped add a few chairs between the sofas, and invited the guests to sit down together.

Marshall greatly praised the beautiful scenery of Zhou Nan's home, expressed some envy and appropriate compliments, and admired Zhou Nan making kung fu tea.

In Zhou Nan's home, the tea is good tea, the water is mountain spring water, and the tea thrown out is naturally very fragrant. For ordinary foreigners, it is difficult for them to get used to tea without sugar and milk, but for Marshall, who spent nearly a year on the mainland last year, there is a sense of intimacy.

Although he came from a military background, he was quite moderate in foreign policy. Moreover, he never thought that the world should be the way the United States did, and he also admired communism very much.

Therefore, Zhou Nan is willing to treat each other with courtesy, not because he is the secretary of state, but because of his character and character.

His tea set was also given by a young man named Huang Limin from Indonesia, whose ancestral home is the hometown of restored tea, and his family is also engaged in the tea business. This time he came to Switzerland, he gave a set of purple clay pots from Yixing, which came from a famous artist, and it was also the most valuable gift.

After Zhou Nan found out, he wanted to return it to him, but he insisted on refusing, and Zhou Nan could only accept it. gave him a handwritten "Benefiting the Country and the People" as a return gift, which made him very excited.

Although Zhou Nan has not studied tea seriously, he has been making tea for decades, and this set of procedures is also smooth, and everyone even praised his tea making with a sense of art.

The tea was brewed, the greetings were over, and the conversation was back to business.

Marshall first briefly introduced to Zhou Nan the achievements of this meeting, which are not much different from the Marshall Plan in the previous life.

The U.S. Congress approved a $13 billion aid package, with $3.4 billion for imports of raw materials and semi-finished goods, $3.2 billion for the purchase of grain, feed and fertilizer, $.9 billion for imports of heavy industrial goods such as machinery, vehicles and heavy equipment, and $1.6 billion for fuel imports.

At the same time, a counterpart fund has been set up, which is a project to convert EuroRecovery aid into local currency. According to the statute of the General Administration for Economic Co-operation, not less than 60 percent of the funds should be used for investment in the manufacturing industry.

In particular, in Germany, almost all of the money must be used in manufacturing, and then 60 percent of it will be used for revolving private loans, and 40 percent of the profits will be compensated to other countries as reparations.

In Zhou Nan's memory, through this fund alone, Germany will pay at least 80 billion Deutsche marks in compensation to other countries in the next 60 years.

Although the existence of Zhou Nan affects many details, it has little impact on this world environment.

His purpose in looking for Zhou Nan was to let Zhou Nan take up a position as a consultant in the General Administration of Economic Cooperation. Although in terms of details, they and European countries do not want Zhou Nan to participate, but in terms of overall policy control, they all believe in Zhou Nan's ability, after all, this plan was proposed by Zhou Nan at the beginning.

Now that the dust has almost settled on the distribution of interests, they need a senior expert who has a clear understanding of the big picture and is neutral to help them control the big picture.

Zhou Nan didn't want to participate in their entanglement of interests, but it didn't mean that he was willing to be marginalized, he was very moved by this invitation in his heart, but he didn't directly agree to them.

Because he is now the Deputy Secretary-General of the Swiss Confederation, if he wants to hold a position in an international official organization, of course, he must first obtain permission from the Swiss government.

Zhou Nan knew very well that the Swiss government would not have any opinions, because Zhou Nan was now an adviser to the General Administration for Economic Cooperation, so he would naturally be able to take care of Switzerland's interests.

However, the procedure still has to follow the normal process, not to mention, he can't wait to agree, so it's too ugly.

Therefore, Zhou Nan verbally expressed his willingness to take on more responsibilities, but first with the approval of the Swiss government.

The guests and hosts had a good conversation, Zhou Nan invited Marshall to drink two teas, he had to rush to Geneva in the evening, and he couldn't stay longer, so he got up and said goodbye.

sent such a great benefit to Zhou Nan, of course, Zhou Nan also wanted to express his gratitude, not only sending him out of his home. He also took the hotel yacht and sent him all the way to Buochs Airport at the foot of the Bergen Mountains across the lake, and left on a special plane, and Zhou Nancai followed the yacht back home.

Several women in the family came back, and when Lily saw Zhou Nan, she hugged his thighs and talked about the excitement of the town in words that she still couldn't understand.

Zhou Nan picked her up and teased her to feed herself the chocolate in her hand. Lily was still a little stingy when she came to Switzerland, but recently she had everything she wanted to eat, and she was not stingy, so she directly fed the chocolate in her hand to Zhou Nan's mouth.

Caroline watched Zhou Nan tease Lily like a child, and there was always a sense of unreality in her heart. Just now, was it really the US Secretary of State who came to his house as a guest?

The child who raised himself has really become a big man now!

"Lily, come here, don't bother with my uncle, my uncle still has a job. Jonas, hungry, aren't you? ”

"I ate a lot of snacks on the street in the afternoon and I'm not hungry at all. Still, let's make us something to eat, Ludwig and Fedward haven't had dinner yet! ”

Stolko and Feyward were not polite, and directly asked Kelly what they had to eat, and made them a little at will.

The three of them sat on the sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the small living room, and Stolko handed him the minutes of the meeting he had taken from today's meeting.

While Zhou Nan watched, he also talked to Zhou Nan in detail about the attitudes of the representatives of various countries during the meeting, so that Zhou Nan also had some impressions of things other than words.

But Zhou Nan didn't care about any of this, because the establishment of NATO was officially put on the agenda at this meeting.