Chapter 102: Wild Brazil
Two months ago.
Wei Chen is a capable officer under Hong Tao of the Ministry of Commerce, while Huang Shanyue is an elite programmer under Li Moran.
The two of them set off from Shanghai, transferred in Dubai, and then made a second transfer in Cape Town, and finally arrived in Brazil, one of the farthest countries on the planet from China.
At Sao Paulo Airport, Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue walked out of the hall with some excitement and some apprehension, pushing a cart full of luggage.
"Here, here!"
Chinese faces in yellow plaid shirts waved at the two of them, holding cards with their names written on them.
"My name is Liu Zhifeng, and I am from the Human Resources Department."
A man in a yellow plaid shirt shook hands with them.
Perhaps because he has been in Brazil for a month, Liu Zhifeng looks darker than in the photo, wearing the same pair of slippers as the locals.
"Your human resources department is mysterious enough, there are your people all over the world, but I doubt that there are any elites to be poached in Brazil?" Wei Chen said.
Liu Zhifeng scratched his head, "Embraer still has some talents, these Brazilians can build planes, but I'm not here to poach people, but to make a front stop for the two of you." ”
Liu Zhifeng said, led Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue to a tattered Toyota Camry, opened the trunk, and put their luggage.
"This place is not very peaceful, there are roadblocks and robberies in broad daylight, if you drive a luxury car like Mercedes-Benz BMW, it is equivalent to telling others to rob you, so the company only has two broken cars, in addition to this one, there is also a Toyota bread, the car is more cold, follow the local customs, you just live and use it." Liu Zhifeng muttered.
When Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue heard this, they were a little weak-hearted, and they always felt that there were eyes staring at them all around.
Liu Zhifeng packed his luggage and drove on the road, and he explained while driving.
"In this place in Brazil, don't carry too much money on you, but you can't bring it without it, it's almost the same as carrying fifty reais, after all, the robbery here is all with guns, if you don't have money in your pocket and annoy the robbers, I'll give you a shot if you can't get it right."
"Don't look at the backwardness of this place, the price is expensive, a casual meal costs hundreds of yuan, and a small hotel at the level of a county guest house costs more than 800 a night."
"The benefits, it's not nothing, a large number of neon people immigrated to Brazil in the early years, so there are a lot of neon descendants in the local area, as long as you two don't speak, the locals all default to you being indigenous, if you want to eat Japanese food, go to Japantown, and ensure that it is as authentic as what you eat in neon."
"And the people here, one counts as one, they are all mixed-race, so there is no racial discrimination."
Liu Zhifeng introduced the customs and customs of Brazil, and Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue were completely dumbfounded.
It is always said on TV that the sun and sand in Rio de Janeiro, and after Liu Zhifeng's introduction, this Nima is simply a violent neighborhood, and the bloody is very good.
The car stopped at the intersection and waited for the traffic light, and four or five big beauties with brown skin, plump breasts and fat buttocks, passed through the sidewalk in front of the car, their hot bodies and unclothed clothes made Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue's eyes straight.
Liu Zhifeng whistled lightly, then took out a box of chewing gum from under the windshield, and said something to the big beauties in Portuguese.
When even a big beautiful girl in a white shirt leaned over, took away the gum in Liu Zhifeng's hand, and kissed him, she was generous and not shy at all, as if Liu Zhifeng was her boyfriend.
The green light turned on, the little broken car hit the road again, and Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue looked directly at Liu Zhifeng.
Liu Zhifeng casually wiped off the lipstick on the left side of his face and shrugged, "After a long time, you will understand, for Brazilians, XXOO is as simple as drinking water, as long as you want to drink, you can drink it at any time, regardless of the occasion." ”
"Welcome to the legendary Wild Brazil!"
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St. Paul's City, 25th Street.
After getting out of the car, Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue looked ahead in surprise, countless East Asian faces, making the two of them feel very cordial, under the sign of Azhuxiang Restaurant, there were bursts of familiar fragrance, and it seemed that some diners had ordered chopped pepper fish heads.
"This is it, Brazil's largest Chinese town, in this world, as long as you can make money, there are absolutely Chinese, here you can speak Chinese to your heart's content, anything that can be bought in China, there are here, of course, the price will be more expensive." Liu Zhifeng said.
As far as the eye can see, there are almost 1,000 Chinese-run shops, selling glasses, stationery, bags, shoes and hats, small household appliances, restaurants and supermarkets.
"With prices so high, can you make money doing business?" Wei Chen asked curiously.
Liu Zhifeng said with a smile, "You don't understand this, the higher the price, the more you earn, a pair of jeans of more than 20 yuan in China, you can sell it for more than 100 yuan when you get it, do you say you make money?" ”
"Our fellow countrymen are too good, the supply of goods in the whole of Brazil is controlled by the Chinese on the 25th Street, don't look at these small stores, there are warehouses in the back, and the whole cabinet of clothing department stores is imported from China to Brazil."
"Even the funds for our branch office in Brazil were also brought in with their help, a bill of 100 reais, directly loaded into a large suitcase, which almost scared me to pee, fortunately there were bodyguards with real guns to escort me."
Liu Zhifeng said a lot about what happened after he arrived in Brazil, how to send money to local officials, and when he rented a house, he was almost cheated by the landlord because he didn't know Portuguese, but fortunately, Chinese friends he knew in the local area helped.
"This place is chaotic, it's just like what is written in a magical realist novel." Liu Zhifeng shrugged his shoulders, "There are bad local Chinese who catch their compatriots and pit them to death, but there are also many well-meaning ones who have helped us a lot." ”
"Let's go, take you to the company."
Walking into a building guarded by armed guns and live ammunition, Liu Zhifeng and the others came to the twelfth floor.
This floor is about more than 200 square meters, and it has been rented by Xingchen Technology, and the rent is indeed very expensive, more than 40,000 yuan a month, catching up with the price of Lujiazui.
"The decoration is made by a Chinese company, the tables, chairs and benches are made in Guangzhou, the real Brazilian local, it is estimated that these mangoes, sweet and cheap, at night, the mangoes that cannot be sold in the vegetable market are thrown all over the street and no one picks them up."
Liu Zhifeng said, from the small table where the company received customers, he took two mangoes to Wei Chen and Huang Shanyue, and they put them in front of their noses and smelled them, the aroma was fragrant, and it was really different from the ones sold in the Shanghai shopping mall.
The platform has been set up, and from now on, the three of them, plus an accountant surnamed Jin, are the four heads of Xingchen Technology's branch in Brazil, respectively in charge of personnel, finance, business operations and technical support.
Accountant Jin is not currently available, and the accountant of the Argentine branch next door is hospitalized due to illness due to unadaptability, and Accountant Jin is temporarily transferred to help and will not come back in a few days.
In the evening, the three of them had dinner outside and came to the apartment rented by the company.
The apartment is in an elegant area of the affluent area, and there is a maid who specializes in cleaning.
Xingchen Technology has always done its best to treat its employees, even if they are far away in Brazil, they still live comfortably.
On the balcony, some barbecue restaurants were set up to eat leftovers, packed barbecue and sausages, and the three of them looked at the moonlight and drank beer.
Wei Chen muttered, "I studied business, and sometimes I really don't understand Mr. Luo's thinking mode, opening a branch so early, and there are dozens of branches, each branch is a standard size and configuration, from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, this price is a bit high." ”
"No, I'm also confused, so I came to Brazil with Accountant Jin." Liu Zhifeng said.
Huang Shanyue frowned, he came out of the software center, and he had already guessed that the project that the company was secretly working on should be the operating system.
To be honest, when Huang Shanyue heard that he was going to be transferred to Brazil, he was not happy, because he wanted to stay at the headquarters and fight with everyone.
Li Moran talked to him and told him that the company was going to have a big war soon, unlike before, it was a real global war, and he went to Brazil to be the local technical director, which was very important to the company.
Therefore, Huang Shanyue was the only one who knew something inside, he took a sip of beer and said with a smile, "Maybe it's because the company is going to have a big war, and we need to lay out in advance in the world." ”
Wei Chen and Liu Zhifeng were stunned, and Liu Zhifeng asked, "The big war?" On how large? ”
Huang Shanyue thought for a moment, "It's probably the kind of war we have on Facebook or Google." ”
There was silence at first, and then Wei Chen and Liu Zhifeng laughed at the same time.
Wei Chen said, "Don't be kidding, Google has nearly 70,000 employees around the world and a market value of more than $800 billion!" ”
"We just have more people? If you don't count the factories below, can there be 3,000 people? It's not even one-twentieth of people's, let's beat people, can we beat them? It's not a level good or bad at all. ”
Huang Shanyue didn't speak, and continued to drink his beer, and before leaving, Li Moran told him that the matter was very important and that he should keep it secret as much as possible.
In short, without many people knowing, Xingchen Technology has launched a global plan in November of the first year of its establishment.
With an investment of more than 7 billion yuan, 49 branches have been established around the world!