Chapter 426: The Sword Opens a Line
In the eyes of the staff of the "Babylon" branch of the military industrial enterprise, this kind of landscape may be called pleasant and pleasing to the eye, but in the eyes of the Tang side, there is clearly a strong sense of disobedience that cannot be dissolved, not that the environment is not good enough, but that the arms trade is too incompatible with the poetic scenery, as if heaven and hell are forcibly blended together, which makes people feel a little unhappy from the bottom of their hearts.
Of course, he doesn't care how the Star Alliance government plans the "Sky Garden", perhaps because it has the word "garden" in its name, and it is a bit unworthy of the name if it does not do so, or maybe it is a company like the "Rover Technology Consortium" that has brought huge taxes to "Babylon", and the Star Alliance government has reciprocated the favor by creating such a picturesque business park.
Arms and beauty, war and peace, deceit and the quiet years...... Tang Fang suddenly felt that this scene was very ironic, he wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, he wanted to be angry but felt unreasonable, so his walking posture was always a little twisted, looking like a slightly lame young man from behind.
Hausen grinned once and again, he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, because the side face of Aros next to him was as cold as a piece of ice, exuding a chill.
There are few pedestrians on the clean street, only a few small electric cars are parked alone under the trees, and a few merchants sit in the rest area of the high-rise buildings on both sides, drinking coffee while quietly watching the four people who stroll, guessing their goals and objectives. The four of them are all wearing military uniforms, and under normal circumstances, it should be a military general sent by the country to purchase "Babylon", but the strange thing is that the national emblem on the uniforms of several people has been torn off, and the origin cannot be clarified.
Ward Heavy Industries, Iga Industries, Black Thorn Shipbuilding, Eco-Sowopurna Group, Gustas Aerospace Technology Group, ...... All kinds of Star Alliance and non-Star Alliance military industries stand on both sides of the street, and the exterior glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings of different styles and shapes face the "artificial sun" in the sky, reflecting round after round of seven-colored rainbow light.
The office of the Rover Technology Consortium in the Sky Garden is a 20-meter-high, silver-ring-shaped free-standing building with spotless glass doors and windows facing the lobby. The light can be seen, and the light is like a mirror that refracts the sun.
The reception desk was a young girl in her 20s, dressed in a pure white suit, and when she saw Tang Fang and others walking into the hall, she immediately smiled and got up to greet her: "Hello, welcome." ”
"Conan? Christian is not there? ”
Conan in Tang Fang's mouth? Christian is the head of the "Rover Technology Consortium" in Babylon.
The girl was slightly stunned. The branch set up by the "Rover Technology Consortium" in "Babylon" is not just an office like "Jakarta Pur", but a small branch office, responsible for the foreign trade and cooperation of the entire enterprise, which is an important department of the entire group company of the "Rover Technology Consortium". Christian couldn't have come out in person.
Also, what kind of weird combination are these 4 people in front of you. The young man who spoke was two or three years older than her, but why did he give her an inexplicable sense of oppression, as the front desk of the "Rover Technology Consortium" in the "Babylon" branch, in addition to excellent communication skills, but also have keen insight, strong adaptability, and excellent psychological quality, working in such a position. What kind of big man has not been seen, corporate giants, big arms dealers, pirate leaders, generals of sovereign states...... She'd seen them all. But there is no one like the young man in front of him.
From a polite point of view, as a customer, it is more or less disrespectful to call the manager by name, but strangely, from his indifferent and calm gaze, it seems that this qiē is taken for granted.
Take a closer look at a few people. The girl realized that she was wrong, and the oppression she felt just now came not from the young man, but from the burly veteran behind him with a cigar in his mouth, ignoring the no-smoking signs on the walls, the kind of smell she had only felt in some murderous pirate leader. But...... It's a little different, if the pirate leader I've seen in the past is a tiger, the veteran is a squinting lion and napping.
"Corey? Christian is not there? ”
The girl was awakened by the questioning, and once again shifted her gaze to the young man in the front, thought for a moment, and whispered, "Yes." ”
Tang Fang walked to the rest area next to him, ignoring a black man who was as thin as a bamboo pole with scrutiny and jealousy in his eyes, and while slowly sitting down, he ordered: "Contact him if you are tired, and just say that ...... 'Morning Star Casting' Tang Fang came to visit." ”
"Morning Star Casting...... Tang Fang ......" The girl muttered a few words, and there was no reservation information about "Morning Star Casting" in all her memories, as for the name "Tang Fang", it was somewhat familiar.
"Okay, please wait." The girl hurriedly turned on the communication device and tried to contact Corey? Christian's assistant.
Tang Fang and Aros sat down side by side, and in the process, the captain found an abnormality that was not abnormal, and the tall thin black man sitting not far away shook his hand the moment he heard the name "Morning Star Casting", and the coffee in the cup spilled a little, and a cloud of brown dirt leaked out on the cuffs of his pure white shirt, adding a heavy touch of oil paint to the black and white background painting, which looked a little ridiculous, because the oil paint was more eye-catching than his black charcoal-like face.
Don threw a good-natured smile at him, and the corners of the black man's mouth twitched a few times, and slowly swallowed and cracked his mouth, revealing his neat teeth with a slight cigarette stain, and smiled a little reluctantly.
"Hello, Tang Fang......"
The captain suddenly thought that this was very interesting, it had only been one and a half months since he left "Jakarta Pur", but he did not expect that the black man had actually heard the name of "Morning Star Casting", which was really more and more interesting. Is it possible that a company with no name and no form would have so quickly come into the field of vision of the "Babylonian" business organizations?
Take the content of the communication with Walton a few days ago, he and Joey did receive a lot of minerals in the hundreds of millions of star coins in their accounts within half a month after the departure of the Morningstar, but later as time went by, the prices of iridium-containing minerals and cesium-containing minerals rose like rockets, and some miners who established trading intentions with Walton's Tongguò business platform even fought to pay liquidated damages several times the deposit to break the contract.
Tang Fang was curious. Who the hell is making trouble in the dark, Iga Industries? Or O'Neill? Or other shipbuilding companies?
He looked up at the huge "Rover Technology Complex" icon on the background wall behind the receptionist, frowned slightly, and then stretched it out again, maybe the "Rover Technology Complex" would be unhappy with the "Morning Star Casting" storage zài, but in the "Jakarta Pur" star system. He did Johnny a lot of help, and even Clement, who was close to "Iga Industries" in the eyes of outsiders, was discredited.
In this context, if he is the top management of the "Rover Technology Consortium", the wisest thing to do is to wait and see what happens, after all, "Morningstar Casting" has made a feud with "Iga Industrial", and there is O'Neill as an obstacle, and there will inevitably be a business war between the two sides in the future, if the "Morningstar Casting" collapses, the "Rover Technology Consortium" has no loss. If "Iga Industrial" collapses, maybe it will be able to fish in troubled waters and pry a few big customers over.
He didn't believe that Johnny hadn't revealed his skills to the top of the "Rover Technology Consortium", Johnny and Newton? Bell was the mediator of the "Lokia Affair", and he should have some knowledge of his character and abilities.
Also, he didn't come to "Babylon" empty-handed this time, and if he wanted to use the commercial resources of the "Rover Technology Consortium" to accomplish the goal of this trip, he naturally had to give others a taste of sweetness. The Monya Empire's ship-making process cannot be sold, but some land vehicle crafting processes are available. and the wreckage of the Ipsisaurus, but they can be sold to them at a discount.
Unless Corey? Christian was stupid, so he didn't pick up the ready-made cheap, but chose to provoke him.
Tang Fang was sure of one thing, he thought of it, and the senior management of the "Rover Technology Consortium" must have thought of it, which was the reason why he came directly to the door without thinking about it. Smart people are often very neat when talking about business, and only those small traders in the vegetable market who do not know how to take care of the feelings of customers will fight for a dime and fight with their parents for food and clothing.
"Hello, Rutherford."
The black man didn't expect Tang Fang to take the initiative to greet him, and it took a while to react, and he quickly cleaned up his feelings and replied. His self-regulation skills are great. It can be seen that he is a well-educated person, but he lowered his head when he spoke, and he didn't dare to look at Tang Fang's eyes at all, which seemed a little rude.
"Oh."
Tang Fang stopped talking, he keenly noticed a phenomenon, the receptionist seemed to be a little unwelcoming Rutherford, occasionally when he looked up at the rest area, he would always cast a little disgust and a little fear at the black man, and he wanted to say something and stopped, there was a kind of contradictory expression that wanted to explain something, but he didn't know where to start, which made him a little curious, what is the origin of Rutherford, and what is the purpose of coming to the "Rover Technology Consortium"?
Of course, he wouldn't ask too much, because it had nothing to do with him, and the captain had always been afraid of trouble, especially when it came to irrelevant matters.
Three minutes later, the elevator door opened, and a handsome man in a suit and leather shoes with a clean stubble stubble walked out with two entourage, glanced down the hall, and walked straight towards the rest area.
The sofa Tang Fang was sitting on faced the street, with his back to the elevator, and he couldn't see the people behind him, but he could hear the footsteps, and the sound of leather shoes hitting the floor was dull and steady, indicating that the person who came was very confident, but the pace was a little faster, and he should not be very old, at least younger than Johnny, and it was the limit to be 5 or 6 years older than him.
A manager in his 30s? If it is an ordinary small company or small business, it may be the children and grandchildren of the big boss, but a large arms enterprise like the "Rover Technology Consortium" is obviously impossible, if he guessed correctly, should it be Corey? Christian's assistant.
Therefore, he did not move, and sat firmly on the sofa, which has nothing to do with etiquette, but with identity. Anyway, he's the big boss of "Morning Star Forge", even if it's Corey? Christian and his ilk are just branch heads, and their status is a cut below those on the board of directors, not to mention that now he is only an assistant manager.
In fact, Tang Fang was not a high-profile person, but after the "Jakarta Pur" made such a move, his existence has slowly entered the vision of the Star Alliance businessmen and high-level politicians, in this context, if he continues to keep a low profile, it will make people feel that he is contrived, but it is better to show Xiàn's pride, which helps to enhance the image of "Morning Star Casting".
His face was reserved. Rutherford, who was not far away, stood up at once and walked quickly to meet the three people who walked out of the elevator.
Tang noticed a detail, Rutherford was in a hurry, but he still didn't forget to tidy up his sleeves, so that the coffee stain was flipped to the side and not easy to be noticed.
The captain's ethnographic outlook is still at the beginning of the 21st century. A black man who paid so much attention to personal hygiene and social details made him lose his mind for a moment...... This attribute of cleanliness has nothing to do with race......
"Mr. White, I am Rutherford of the 'Tarno' group...... Is Mr. Corey absent? ”
"I'm sorry, the manager has not returned from going out to discuss cooperation, otherwise, he would not have arranged for me to receive Mr. Tang Fang." The young assistant Wright not only has excellent work ability, but also has a very distinctive voice, a slightly hoarse voice, and a moderate speed of pronunciation. There seems to be a kind of magic that makes people feel inexplicably intimate and relaxed when they listen to it.
Tang Fang felt that this person must be a master of pickling girls, and the appearance of a person suddenly appeared in his mind, Beckham, yes, it is the No. 1 little white face of Tianzi that has made countless women dream, sometimes he will think viciously, the level of this product is not low. Is the ability to kick a woman just as proficient?
"Mr. White...... You don't really have to ...... about it."
Before Rutherford could finish speaking, the two men who followed White next to him were already blocking him like a door.
"I'm sorry. I really can't help you with this matter, and when the manager comes back, I will definitely contact your company first. "White? Davide said apologetically, his expression was very sincere, and his eyes were very clear, as clear as the bright and bottom-out cold pool water. There is not the slightest suspicion.
It's a pity that Tang Fang couldn't see this scene, he sat very reservedly, and the right half of his face was drowned in the choking smoke of inferior cigars. Finally, he couldn't help but turn his head, but instead of looking at White walking behind him? David. Instead, he bared his teeth and looked at Aros next to him, and didn't say a word.
The veteran frowned, his eyes filled with helplessness, and he took half of the cigar away, and twisted it vigorously on the glass coffee table without an ashtray.
This insignificant movement between the two of them seemed so natural that it was like opening their eyes in the morning and seeing the first rays of sunlight slipping into the room through the cracks in the curtains.
White? Davide's steps suddenly became a little messy, Tang Fang didn't say anything, didn't do anything, but it was as if he had said everything and done everything. He didn't know why, the silent communication between the two people in front of him made him palpitate for no reason, that feeling was like someone pulling out a line of peerless fierce sword, and then quickly closing it, there was no cold light, no sword light, only a wisp of murderous aura, although it was not much, but it was enough to disturb his state of mind.
White? Davide's favorite sport is fencing, compared to ordinary people, he has a pair of extremely sharp eyes, and sharp intuition, this is his specialty, but also an assistant should have the ability, he has heard of the name "Tang Fang" for a long time, but he did not take it to heart, but at this moment, he found that the eyes that he thought were superior could not see through the depth of the young man who was several years younger than him in any way.
"Dare to ask, but Mr. Tang." He approached the couch, his otherwise cordial expression a little more respectful.
Tang Fang turned sideways, looked at him a few times, and stood up with a smile: "I'm Tang Fang." ”
White? Davide was in a trance for a while, and asked himself if he had thought wrong just now, the young man surnamed Tang gave people a very modest and polite feeling, not at all like what he imagined in his heart, he was a guy with a deep city government and a deep mind.
"White, White? David. ”
He stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Tang Fang, and met with Aros, Haosen, and Tang Lin, and then bowed slightly to the elevator room: "This is not a place to talk, a few people, please come with me." ”
Tang Fang nodded, and said, "Please", and it was not hypocritical, when he walked to the elevator first, and when he passed by Rutherford, he glanced sideways, and it looked like the black man was disappointed, and looked at White with a depressed face? Davide glanced at him a few times, didn't say anything, shook his head and waited no longer, picked up the black suit on the back of the sofa and put it on his elbow.
The black suit was unrelenting, just enough to cover the coffee stains on the shirt.
Finally, Rutherford bowed slightly to him, turned and walked towards the gate, the socks in his black shoes almost the same color as his trousers.
In White? Under the guidance of Davide, a group of several people took the elevator to the manager's room on the 8th floor, which was very classic - bookshelves, desks, sofas and coffee tables for guests, and a product model of the "Rover Technology Consortium".
The room was large, with few displays and a little spacious, and behind a desk near the floor-to-ceiling window sat a white man in his mid-50s, with low hair and sparse curls wrapped around his forehead like a swimming ring.
When Tang Fang and the others entered the door, he was standing up from behind the white dazzling crescent-shaped desk, as if he had seen a loved one who had been separated for more than 20 years, he opened his arms from afar, walked quickly to the captain, and came to a very warm Western-style hug.
"Tang Fang...... Brother Donald, I have heard of you from Johnny for a long time, and I have been waiting for you to come to 'Babylon' to meet you and make friends, and by the way, I will do my best to repay the help I received in 'Jakarta Pur'...... Luckily, you're finally here. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for forgetting, Xing Zhouhuang's two book friends for the reward.