507. Group buying

The diplomats of the two countries, especially those from several miles of the country, have been making preparations for this visit for more than half a year, and the contents of the talks and the people to whom they will talk have all been agreed upon in advance.

Some of the items that could be finalized were actually finalized before Shire's departure, and the process ceremony was signed off during the meeting to show the results of the visit.

There are still many projects that have not yet been finalized and need to be further negotiated and communicated. This also involves a series of specific tasks such as epidemic prevention, security, and reception, which are very trivial and complicated.

Dongguo pursues a foreign policy of equality for all countries, but after all, Dongguo is a major power in the world, and Jili is probably one of the most neglected countries, and Shire's visit is really not easy.

Charles brought a visiting team of more than 100 people, and it was very troublesome to have a closed-loop reception in Dongguo, but fortunately, Wang Fengshou had already done the communication and foreshadowing a long time in advance, and tried to arrange everything properly.

It was the largest foreign mission in the history of the country, and Charles was the youngest head of state in the world, but his trip was very low-key, with little publicity and no official announcement.

The Dongguo official also only issued a press notice, reporting that the general manager of the country of several miles, Xial, was invited to visit, just a few lines. After the talks, the two countries may issue a more detailed joint announcement or something.

Such a low-key visit would not have caused any waves, but the unofficial media insisted on stirring up a certain amount of heat on the matter, reporting and analyzing the visit from all angles.

Overseas media focused on criticizing the Dongguo government, claiming that the upcoming talks between the two countries represent the ambition of the Dongguo to expand its influence on the Black Wilderness Continent and undermine the world order.

The details of the cooperation have not yet been disclosed, but it has already been described as a cultural and economic invasion of the eastern country.

In the eastern country, many non-governmental self-media have organized their voices, jokingly calling the char's team a begging group or a foreign monk group, and ridiculing them for coming to the eastern country to beg and make a fortune. Its main purpose is to criticize the eastern country.

As for how the country of Jili will feel, not too many people care.

Speaking from the heart, the current situation of many countries in the Black Wilderness Continent is indeed a bit lower, and the final result of many cooperation projects is very absurd and magical. As for the countries of a few miles before the establishment of the new alliance, it is even more difficult to find a lower limit.

Of course, Charles was well aware of these circumstances, so he put his posture very low this time and promised enough in advance.

He knew very well in his heart that this was the best, if he wanted to really pull the country from the bottom to the upward channel, this was the best, even the only option, if he missed it, he would not despair in the future, but many things would become extremely difficult.

As for the other options, they have been tried a long time ago, and they constitute the modern history of the country of several miles.

This time, he will discuss cooperation in aid and construction in 15 fields and more than 70 projects. It is indeed an aid to build, because the country itself does not have the technical reserves, construction teams, material production and supply capacity for these projects.

It can even be said that the vast majority of countries in the world do not have it at present.

However, the country still has a little advantage, that is, there is a stable environment, including a political environment, a public security environment, and a living environment, which can provide all aspects of protection for construction projects.

The eastern side has already sent several small delegations in the early stage to make on-the-spot inspections in the country of several miles, otherwise it would not have talked about today's situation.

From the very beginning, the country did not want to ask for economic assistance, but wanted to cooperate in all aspects.

Dongguo's large-scale infrastructure capacity is unparalleled in the world at this stage of history. However, the large-scale infrastructure construction in the eastern country has gradually entered a bottleneck in recent years.

However, the skilled workforce, including the entire infrastructure industry chain, needs a constant stream of new projects to sustain it, and the country of Mile provides a huge demand for this.

Roads and bridges, power stations, mineral mining and processing, logistics, information flow, and energy flow networks are all key projects, and cooperation can basically be divided into three categories.

The first type is the order project, where the country directly places an order and pays the agreement in installments. This is the safest and most secure way of cooperation for Dongguo, which is equivalent to exporting personnel services and technical equipment.

The second type is loan-aided construction projects, in which Dongguo provides special loans to make up for the lack of funds in several miles. The loan has a special custody account, which is only used to pay for the contract of the aid project, and the country may not even have cash in hand.

The loan needs to be secured and collateralized, and the specific form to be used is what the two parties need to discuss.

The third type is direct investment projects, which, after completion, are equivalent to a sole proprietorship or joint venture established in the territory of the country, which is actually equivalent to owning or controlling the country's economic resources to some extent.

In the case of good reputation of both parties, the latter two types of cooperation are more beneficial to the East Country, which can absorb excess capital and production capacity at the same time, but it is also more risky, so it needs to be carefully balanced.

For example, the road and bridge project adopts the first model in Huanxiang Tebang; In the rest of the country, the second model is almost always used. Similarly, there is the construction of power transmission and transformation grids.

Another example is the hydropower project, which is the area where the two sides can best agree on cooperation. The Lofogen Hydropower Station has been completed to generate electricity, and the Banyuan River Hydropower Station is under construction.

Hydropower is limited by natural resources, and the development margin in the eastern country is not large, and in recent years, some small hydropower plants that affect the environment of the river basin have even been dismantled. However, as a country with very special meteorological and climatic conditions, what is most needed is water conservancy construction.

Water and hydropower projects, which are a mixture of the above three types, can be planned for many years to come.

Of course, the government of the country of several miles lacks funds, so it is necessary to apply for aid loans. And many self-funded projects are basically Huanxiang Industrial Investment, so Feng Zibin came with the delegation, which can be regarded as escorting Shire.

Feng Zibin is here, and of course Hua Zhenxing will be seconded. The embassy of several miles also posted many group photos of the visitors on its website, all of which were large-pixel high-definition photos.

In the group photo and another small-scale group photo, you can see Feng Zibin and Hua Zhenxing at the same time. This was also specially arranged by Hua Zhenxing, and his illusion magic realm is now also rising with the tide of cultivation.

Such a group photo can be done without flaws, and even the on-site personnel can't find the clues, and those who know the inside story are their own people, which can be regarded as a cooperative collective cheating.

Feng Zibin's status as a special commercial representative appointed by the president is actually not many occasions for him to appear in public, and he does not participate in specific negotiations, and his most important task is to finally nod his head when it comes to certain projects.

Huang Fengye's project team traveled back and forth between Pingjing and Wucheng during this time, spending most of their time in Wucheng, and by the end of April, everyone had to return to Pingjing's office because they would officially move into the dormitory two days later.

Just after going to work this morning, Lin Hongshan suddenly exclaimed: "Lao Huang! ”

Huang Fengye was taken aback, turned his head and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Lin Hongshan: "Do you know what Xiaohua's background is?" He almost became the ambassador of the country of Mile to the East, the president of the country of Mile is the youngest of the president, and he has been wearing open crotch pants and playing with mud since he was a child! He's not from the East......"

Just now she was brushing the news of the visit of the president of the country and found a group photo.

There are less than 10 people in the photo, including the general seat of the country of several miles, Wang Fengshou, the ambassador to the east, and Feng Zibin, the actual controller of Fangguan Development...... There is actually a Hua Zhenxing.

If in the past, Lin Hongshan would not have paid attention to such news at all, and would only slide over when she saw it, but now that she has joined the development of Fangguan after all, and Luo Hongyu and Hua Zhenxing, two acquaintances, have been seconded to the mission of Jili Country to help.

Lin Hongshan saw the photo of Hua Zhenxing and the "big shots" in Jili Country, and searched for keywords again, but a bunch of links popped up, which were basically old news from last year, which startled her.

Everyone gathered around when they heard this, and they were amazed, and the newly recruited team members lamented that they were late, and regretted that they did not see Xiaohua in person.

It is no wonder that Huang Fengye and others were surprised, when Qi Yichao introduced Hua Zhenxing to the project team for internship, he only said that Hua Zhenxing was a freshman student of Chunhua Construction Institute, and did not explain much else.

Hua Zhenxing gives people the feeling that he is completely a teenager from the Eastern Kingdom, maybe his family has a very good background, but he didn't expect him to be an international student from a few miles away, and he is not the kind of college entrance examination immigrant who only changed his nationality.

After understanding the situation, Huang Fengye actually felt not very surprised.

In the same group, there is also Luo Feiyu from the headquarters of a few miles away, I heard that she is originally a Chinese from the Eastern Kingdom, and the chairman Xia Yading, who I saw two days ago, is an authentic black wilderness native.

But Chairman Xia gave him the feeling that he grew up in a small town in the eastern country, if he blocked his face, at least Huang Fengye couldn't detect that the other party was a native of the Black Wilderness.

Xia Yading is very fluent in Eastern Chinese, and even has a little dialect accent, which sounds like he is from the same place as Director Chen Weihu.

Huang Fengye heard it right, his observation is also very strong. Xia Yading does speak with an accent from the northern region of Eastern Jiangsu, because when he first learned Eastern Chinese, his teacher was Chen Weihu, who was also a slave laborer on a plantation.

Not to mention that Huang Fengye and others have this feeling, the representatives of the East China who participated in the project cooperation negotiations between the two countries also have this feeling.

How to describe it, just like the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development...... Hold a special meeting to discuss the development plan of the place. Although there were many diplomats on the scene, there was no need for an interpreter, and everyone spoke in Eastern Chinese.

In addition to the Black Wilderness natives such as Xia Er and Xia Yading, there are a large number of Chinese people of Eastern descent in the delegation of Jili Country, such as Wang Fengshou, Li Jingzhi, Shen Sishu, He Guang, Luo Feiyu and so on.

This kind of meeting is less ceremonial, but more intimate, and it is very convenient to talk.

Jili has made the Eastern Chinese language the official language, and it can be said that it is the only Eastern Chinese country overseas. The fact that such a country actually appeared in the Black Wilderness Continent is somewhat weird and even a little absurd.

Before the arrival of Western colonizers, the Eastern Chinese used to be the official language of the countries of Dongzhou, and the Dongguo script was also used throughout the continent throughout history.

Nowadays, although some residents of overseas areas still use the Eastern Chinese language and the Eastern language, they have not designated it as the official official language, let alone the only official language.

Speaking of which, there is another small episode. I think that after the establishment of the New Guinea Kingdom, Yin, Lanxi and Eastern Chinese were all established as official languages, and in practice, Eastern Chinese was used.

A coup d'état was planned in the capital in an attempt to overthrow the newly formed Shire government. The result, of course, was quickly extinguished, and the government of the country immediately launched an investigation into the attempted coup.

The conclusion of the investigation is very absurd, and some overseas forces have contributed 1 million meters of "military operation funds", and less than 100,000 yuan have been intercepted and provided to the local armed remnants in Mowang City.

The most important demand of the plotters to support the coup d'état is to remove the legal status of the Eastern Chinese language.

Charles was angry, so they crossed out Yin and Lanxi, and Eastern Chinese became the only official official language in the country. This young man, who grew up in a neighborhood gang, is also very temperamental.

Although he did not come to Huayuan, Charles also knew very well that he was here to ask for help this time, and the fact that the country of several miles became a country of eastern Chinese was the greatest sincerity.

This represents the willingness of the country to accept the cultural traditions and way of life of the eastern country, and more importantly, the willingness to accept the industrial system and technical standards of the eastern country, and connect with the industrial structure of the eastern country.

The first priority of the talks went well, because there was really no reason why it might not go well. The two sides determined that the Dongguo currency would be the trade settlement currency, and the countries of Jili would join the Dongguo Currency International Settlement System and accept the digital Dongguo currency.

Guinea is not a member of the current WTO, so this is a unilateral negotiation between it and the East, and the results of the talks will not be automatically used by third parties.

This issue is of great significance, which is equivalent to the recognition of the status of the international currency of the Eastern Currency, and also regards the Eastern Currency as the main body of its foreign exchange reserves.

Of course, the country has done so after careful consideration in many aspects. In this way, Dongguo's assistance to the country of several miles has become much easier.

With the current level of development of the country, the products and services it wants to import can be provided by the eastern side. If there is not even the East, either other countries will not be able to provide it, or the cost performance of the substitutes will be extremely low.

There is a lack of resource products in the east, and these are precisely the ones that the country itself has, but it does not have the ability to mine and process.

For example, two oil fields have been identified in the country of several miles, one in the Wago Desert and the other in the northernmost part of the state of Huanxiang, but they have not been exploited.

The country itself cannot be exploited, and foreign capital is not interested in it, because the country is close to the world's major oil-producing regions, where there is cheap and high-quality crude oil, and the rate of return on building new oil fields in the country is too low.

In fact, several miles of country have been importing refined oil products for many years, because there are no refineries in the country. Dongguo originally aided the construction of the heavy oil power plant in the non-sogang port, and also built a supporting wharf, which was mainly used for importing heavy oil.

The cooperation also includes the oilfield exploitation project, and the oilfield in the north is fully invested by Huanxiang Industry, including the supporting refinery, and a long-term agreement has been signed with the eastern side.

The Vago Desert Oilfield is fully invested by the Dongguo side and owns 60% of its output. This is a special form of cooperation that is different from the general joint-stock system, and is mainly seen in mineral mining projects.

These two oil field projects may not seem economical in the short term, but the country is mainly considered from the perspective of national strategic security. In the event of a change in the surrounding situation and a blockade of the country, the supply of basic crude oil within the territory must be guaranteed.

If the crude oil is cut off, all kinds of large-scale engineering vehicles, especially agricultural machinery, will have to lie down, industrial and agricultural production will be greatly affected, and the safety of people's livelihood will not be guaranteed.

Its production capacity does not have to meet all the needs in normal times, and it is supplemented by a certain amount of imported oil products, but in a special period, it can ensure that it meets the strategic needs of the country.

There are many cooperation projects to be discussed between the two countries, and they basically have the above characteristics. The direct investment projects of the several countries are fine, but how to ensure the safety of investment in the loan-aided construction projects and the direct investment projects in the eastern country?

There are some words that cannot be said directly by the eastern side, but the few miles side can also understand the hints.

For example, the Shire government has collapsed in two years, and the urine of the countries of the Black Wilderness is also a situation that must be taken into account, so what about the project we talked about today?

What else can the Charles say? The other side can only be dispelled as much as possible through various means, such as military cooperation.

On the other hand, Huanxiang Industrial's investment in Dongguo is also a guarantee, for example, its subsidiary Fangguan Development has spent tens of billions of yuan, which can be regarded as a nominee.

Cooperation in the military field, the several mile country side politely rejected the proposal to send officers to the Eastern Military Academy for training. Although the cooperation between the Eastern Kingdom and the countries of the Black Wilderness is often in this form, Li Jingzhi believes that this is not what the country needs most at present.

Of course, the level of army building thinking and tactical command taught at the Dongguo Military Academy is extremely high, but after the senior commanders go back, they often find it difficult to use them.

This is also normal, what kind of troops did the Dongguo officers command, and what kind of army did they go back to command?

Li Jingzhi hoped that the eastern side would be able to help the country by setting up a training school for noncommissioned officers in the local area, mainly training noncommissioned officers at the grassroots level, and improving the building of the military system.

Li Jingzhi even hoped that the Dongguo side would be able to send a grass-roots officer training regiment to help the country directly train its field troops.

Another measure to support it, Huanxiang Industry has organized the employment of veterans and demobilized soldiers, including commanders and fighters at all levels, through the development of housing customs...... These are not included in the content of this meeting.

The country will also provide a supply port for the eastern ocean-going escort fleet, and it is too sensitive to call it a military base, so call it a supply base.

In accordance with Hua Zhenxing's instructions, Li Jingzhi carved out an island on the northern coastline of Jili Kingdom, which was where the supply base for the eastern side was located.

Ports, especially large natural harbors, are very limited by natural conditions. Although the coastline of the country of several miles is long, there are not many such places, and this island is just right.

It covers an area of more than 20 square kilometers, more than 10 kilometers from the land, and its location is in the northern part of the country, which happens to be the middle part of the coastline of Huanxiang Tebang.

There are no artificial facilities there, it is still an undeveloped no-man's land, and it has historically only been infested by pirates.

Feng Zibin nodded, named the island Shuangyong Island, and gave Dongguo a lease for fifty years, and the rent was free. However, the facilities on the island will have to be built by Dongguo itself, and he will also be responsible for helping to train the navy of several miles in the future.

However, the construction of the eastern part of the country also needs basic facilities, at least the supply of water and electricity can be guaranteed, right? This brings us to other cooperation projects, and the cooperation between the two countries is a complete system.

Shuangyong Island is located right at the mouth of the planned Zhenxing River, which does not currently exist. However, with the experience of building the Beiluo River Basin, the construction of the Zhenxing River Basin runs through the construction plan of Huanxiang Tebang in the next few decades.

The first step was to build the Zhenxing River Hydropower Station upstream, which would be twice the size of the Lofogen Hydropower Station.

In the entire Zhenxing River Basin, one hydropower station is not enough, and the mountainous areas in the upper reaches and the wetlands in the middle and lower reaches also need a complete set of water conservancy systems, and the gradient hydropower stations of each tributary in the long-term plan will reach double digits.

At the mouth of the Zhenxing River, a city will be built in the future, which is one of the six main cities in the planning of Huanxiang Tebang, and is tentatively named Changhe City.

In addition to the six main cities, Huanxiang Tebang also planned 30 cities and towns equivalent to county seats, and only three have been built so far, namely the three towns in the agricultural reclamation area.

Even if the Zhenxing River Hydropower Station is built first and the main channel of the Zhenxing River is built that flows continuously all year round, the construction period may be close to ten years.

So what to do in the short term? The port of Gaoqiao Town was also leased to Dongguo free of charge, and the lease period was tentatively set at 20 years.

This port, or special wharf, was actually built by the Dongguo engineering team, and there are ready-made oil depots and various storage depots on the shore, which can be used as a temporary supply base as long as they are slightly rebuilt, but the scale is limited.

The lease period of 20 years is a promise of Huanxiang Tebang, in fact, how long this temporary base will be used depends on how fast the construction of Shuangyong Island is on the eastern side.

Located on the eastern shore of the Black Wilderness, the country is close to the world's busiest shipping routes off the coast, and further north is the canal that connects the basin to the sea.

The Eastern Ocean Escort Fleet, which cruises in shifts in this area all year round, is in great need of such a supply base.

This is not only a military cooperation project, but also a comprehensive project related to water conservancy, electric power, and urban construction. In addition, the army of the country of several miles will also be uniformly equipped with standard weapons produced in the eastern country.

The high quality and low price of weapons in the East are only one factor, and the purchase of military command and equipment systems is, in a certain sense, equivalent to paying a kind of protection fee.

In particular, the acquisition of modern, high-tech weapons systems would also be tantamount to defencelessness in the countries that produce the weapons and equipment.

Military equipment is too expensive, especially modern advanced weapons, it is simply a gold-swallowing beast that cannot be fed, and the economic capacity of the country must be taken slowly and maintain a stable long-term development idea.

Not to mention anything else, the current naval strength of the country is about zero, and the air force is only two dual-purpose utility helicopters, plus a batch of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Even with Hua Zhenxing's financial resources, the tens of billions of communities in Pingjing, Dongguo, will buy when they say they will buy it, but it is still stretched thin to equip a modern army. Fortunately, the military forces around the country do not pose any threat at present.

Some of the projects discussed by the two countries can start tomorrow after signing today, and more are long-term intentions in the future, which can be adjusted at any time according to the situation of cooperation, and involve huge budgets.

The budget that Hua Zhenxing can use here will range from hundreds of billions to trillions of Dongguo dollars per year in the next seven or eight years, depending on whether Gao Le, Bai Shaoliu, and You Fang will give it their best.

With the Huanxiang Industry represented by "Fengzibin" in the back, the country is not blindly asking for assistance, at least the projects that have been negotiated, and the scale of direct capital investment is also very large.

Therefore, the talks went relatively smoothly and basically met the expectations in advance.

What Hua Zhenxing didn't expect was that a small project that seemed inconspicuous but had a very large potential impact ran into obstacles.

Shen Sishu was in charge of the relatively difficult negotiation in the field of educational cooperation, especially the cooperation intention between the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China and the Wucheng Branch of the University of Technology, which was vetoed!

(Typos are corrected first)

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