Leonardo tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, he had already read the Chinese agreement, which was a private agreement. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The President of China intends to set up an agricultural import and export company in his personal capacity, and at the same time invite all Brazilian farmers and grain merchants to join in and form a cartel.

The goal of this cartel is to increase Brazil's grain exports to 10 million tons per year.

Leonardo was very impressed, but some of the terms made him feel difficult to deal with.

The Chinese demanded that Brazilian businessmen persuade their government to waive the clause requiring Chinese laborers to become Brazilian nationals and immigrate with their husbands and wives, otherwise they would not be able to hire enough agricultural workers.

Leonardo knew very well that the reason for this immigration policy in Brazil at that time was that they wanted to drain every penny of labor and sweat, and they didn't want a group of people to go to Brazil and leave after making money, they wanted people to stay, and money to stay.

But the Japanese are the only ones in the world who are willing to agree to this condition.

Leonardo doesn't mind whether the workers leave with their wages, he only cares if he can make money and whether his family's farm can continue to run well, but this policy was promoted by the coffee cartel to the government.

Tens of thousands of Japanese people toiled in the coffee estates, with low wages and hard work, so that the coffee group made enough money that if these workers were allowed to leave Brazil, they would certainly not want to stay, at least Leonardo felt that no one wanted to stay in Brazil in that situation.

Of course, these Japanese people have a contract, and when the contract period is up, they can get a small piece of their own land, and then they can run their own farming, the Japanese don't like coffee, and their small farms are generally growing vegetables and fruits.

But how to convince the Brazilian government, or the coffee syndicate, the more Leonardo thinks about it, the more hateful the coffee syndicate is.

The next morning, Leonardo wakes up with panda eyes in his eyes, and his friend Pedro invites him to have a drink with him.

Although Leonardo was troubled by this, Pedro was very envious of him, because at least the grain group saw hope, and the sugar group did not gain anything at all.

"If I can convince the Chinese to offer you the same terms to the sugar alliance, will you be willing to fight with us for access immigration restrictions?"

Thinking about it, Leonardo felt that it was impossible to fight against the coffee group with the ability of the food group alone.

After all, the grain group is just a loose combination of farmers and grain merchants, and although the number of coffee cartels is small, but it makes their unity closer, although they are all in the same form, they are all cartels bound by various commercial contracts, but the coffee group can run well, and it is not uncommon for various dismantling platforms in the grain group.

Although the sugar group is better, they have been very hard under the competition of Cuba, Colombia and other Central American sugar cane estates in recent years, so they have not been able to implement the cartel agreement well.

"That's for sure. I think you are well aware of this, we can only survive if we work together. ”

Pedro took a sip of Chinese spirits, his tongue getting a little bigger.

"That's it!"

Leonardo stopped drinking and got up and left, he had to settle the matter as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

But is it so easy to want to meet the president?

Leonardo almost got into a fight with the guards, but happened to run into the Portuguese minister who came to the presidential palace, and he was proudly informed.

Yang Chao met with Leonardo for the second time.

"This problem?"

Yang Chao was a little embarrassed, he really didn't want to cooperate with the Brazilian sugar group, because China actually has no shortage of cane sugar production areas, the sugar output of a province in Guangxi in the later generations is higher than the whole world in this era, this kind of cash crop is obviously more cost-effective than growing grain, if Brazil can promote large farms, and can control food security, China's vast areas can be planted cash crops on a large scale.

This is also the reason why Yang Chao chose to cooperate with Brazil rather than with the Americans, and the Chinese Exclusion Act is just an excuse.

Because if you cooperate with the Americans, you will not be able to control food security, and the Americans can threaten the food at any time.

And cooperation with Brazil is different, let Brazil threaten one to try?

But if you don't support the sugar group, the agricultural group obviously can't fight the coffee group, and Leonardo told Yang Chao about the political relations in Brazil very sincerely, and of course Yang Chao already knew it.

"But our cooperation with the sugar group cannot be too large-scale, I can only promise to give the sugar group the right to export tax exemption within three years. That's the biggest guarantee. As for whether we will cooperate or not after three years, we can only see the situation at that time. ”

Leonardo breathed a sigh of relief, he had finally won something for the sugar group, if there was nothing, it was really difficult to convince them, although the grain group and the sugar group have been cooperating, but there is also a competitive relationship, and the same relationship between the coffee group and the sugar group is the same.

Pedro was not satisfied, but Leonardo, after repeated persuasions, told him that it would be beneficial for the sugar group to abolish the agreement, at least they could hire a large number of Chinese bachelors, although bachelors may be less reliable, better than a constant lack of labor.

Pedro finally agreed.

They are just representatives of the private sector, and the Brazilian government representatives have been negotiating with the Chinese government for a period of time, the focus of the negotiations is on the issue of minerals, Brazil's iron ore exports to China this year reached 8 million tons, China's largest iron ore importer, but this move made the Americans feel unhappy, they have been exporting high-grade iron ore to China.

The United States, together with the United Kingdom, agitated the Brazilian government, and they told the Brazilian government that the interests of iron ore exports are huge, and if the Brazilian government wants to nationalize the iron ore, they fully support it, and if the Brazilian government does not plan to nationalize it, they want to also open mines in Brazil, but the United Kingdom and the United States found that the largest iron ore in Brazil is monopolized by Yang Chao's Standard Chartered Mining.

The Brazilian government did not dare to rush into nationalization, and they wanted to buy two iron ore mines owned by Standard Chartered Mining, but the two sides could not reach an agreement on this matter for two months.

Brazilians do value those interests, but they are more encouraged by the political ability of Britain and the United States, as the two most influential empires in the Americas, Britain and the United States undoubtedly have a large number of pro-them political forces in the Brazilian government, which are very powerful, and even the coffee groups may not be able to clash with them head-on.

"Well, it seems we're on our own. It has to be determined as soon as possible, and this year I would like to see Chinese farmers in Brazil open up land on a large scale. ”

After reaching an agreement with Leonardo, Yang Chao decided to find out about the matter as soon as possible, anyway, the main purpose of his mining in Brazil was not to make money, but to control the supply of raw materials.

Soon, with Yang Chao's acquiescence, representatives of Yangzi Bank began to make concessions, allowing the Brazilian government to buy a 30% stake in Standard Chartered Mining for $10 million, but at the same time made some demands.

First, the 30% stake must be divided into three parts, one-third to the local government, one-third to the state government, and one-third to the federal government of Brazil.

If the Brazilians agree to this condition, Standard Chartered is willing to give half of its share of the dividends to build schools, drill wells and repair roads at the mine's site.

Obviously, Yang Chao's purpose is to buy off the locals, and the local government can get a 10% stake, and the annual dividend will be higher than their financial income, after all, the location of the mine is still only a small town, and before Yang Chao went, there was no railway.

The local government has received dividends, the locals have been given jobs, the children of the local people can go to the schools built by the mines, they can drink the sweet water from the deep wells of the mines, and in the future, if the Brazilian government has other bad intentions, such as nationalization, who will these people support? Who will the local town government support? Who will the state government support?

However, in the view of the Brazilian delegation, the conditions of the Chinese are favorable to them, and they are given to the state and local governments, isn't it also the interests of Brazil, and the Chinese also gave a 10% bonus to Brazil to run a school in vain, which is also a benefit for the Brazilians, so they agreed.

But not over, the Chinese also proposed that Standard Chartered Mining will get a special permit, that is, it can hire Chinese bachelors, but ensure that these people will not be traitors and disrupt Brazilian society, as for whether they will leave halfway, whether they will leave after making money, these are none of the Brazilian government's business, only the mining company to deal with.

This was tantamount to undermining Brazil's immigration policy, and the delegation began to struggle.

So they started calling back to the government.

At this time, Brazil's sugar and grain conglomerates joined forces to put pressure on the government, and their legislators not only proposed the lifting of the immigration ban in Congress, but also demanded the introduction of Chinese labor without restrictions on status.

With the Chinese government's concessions on the one hand and strong pressure from the domestic political bloc, the Brazilian government had no choice, and they soon agreed, promising to give Chinese laborers a ten-year privilege to allow bachelors and non-naturalized laborers to work in Brazil.

However, the farms and enterprises that employ these laborers must guarantee these laborers, and if these laborers do something illegal, these enterprises must compensate them accordingly.

After the concessions of the Brazilian government.

Leonardo wished, and at this time, the manager of Yangzi Grain Company, who was talking to him about cooperation, made a suggestion to him.

It is hoped that we will cooperate in the reclamation of vast areas of land in the interior of Brazil.

In the name of Leonardo, an agricultural development company was formed, and Yangzi Bank provided a credit of 30 million US dollars to purchase 1,000 agricultural machinery of various kinds, enter the uninhabited inland plains of Brazil, and reclaim a large farm of 1 million acres. (To be continued.) )