Xin Shiliang knows Fang Lang's current political position, and it can be said that he and President Dutra are in the same boat, and now he hears that Fang Lang decisively chose to find a new supporter because Dutra chose to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, or he feels a little hasty, so after thinking about it for a while, he decided to keep it.

"Boss, President Dutra has three years left in his term, are we in too much of a hurry?"

Hearing this, Fang Lang shook his head resolutely and said:

"I don't believe you don't understand how unwise President Dutra's behavior of taking the initiative to take sides is, in his opinion, with the support of the Americans, it is impossible to ignore the Soviet Union, but he does not know that this is to use the Americans as a gunman.

With the scumbag urine sex of the Americans, he licks to the end, and he will inevitably have nothing.

While his actions may bring short-term prosperity to Brazil's economy, anyone with a slight political eye will understand the serious political consequences of doing so, plus he is not a politician and does not belong to any political party in the first place.

He will be elected only because he has military power in his hands, and the SPD and the National League need him to face the counterattack of former President Vargas.

With his presidency, coupled with the Army's defeat in the encirclement of the Eddie Brothers rebels. The top of the War Department has undergone a purge, and the current War Department is no longer the original War Department.

Now that he has made such a bad move, the SPD and the NLD will inevitably abandon him directly, and the Labour Party has actually absorbed part of the theory of the CPSU, many of them are pro-Soviet, do you think they will support a president who has taken the initiative to sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union? ”

After Fang Lang's analysis, Xin Shiliang also lost confidence in President Dutra in an instant, so it seems that it is indeed difficult for President Dutra to be re-elected.

"Shall we try to persuade Mr. Dutra to abandon this idea, while the policy has not yet been implemented?"

Fang Lang's hand holding the microphone paused, and it seemed that he was also doing a psychological struggle, and finally sighed and said:

"Forget it, the news has already gotten out, and even if he heeds our advice and abandons the idea, the bad effects that should have taken shape have already taken shape.

Besides, this matter is obviously not his opinion alone, there must be a large group of pro-American capitalists behind him who support this opinion, and our Fangyuan Group can also be regarded as a representative of the pro-American faction, and it is not appropriate to stand up and speak out against it at this time, and it is easy to be targeted by the Americans.

You should do what I asked and hurry up to find a new presidential candidate! ”

After listening to Fang Lang's words, Xin Shiliang, who was on the other side of the phone, also understood Fang Lang's thoughts, nodded and said directly:

"Yes, Shaodong, then I will start looking for suitable candidates among the three political parties now."

Ending the call, Fang Lang sighed helplessly, leaned on his desk and didn't speak for a long time, speaking of President Dutra, he still has a lot of respect for him, after all, he has a very close relationship with the US military.

In addition, when Mr. President took the initiative to send troops to participate in the war, Dutra, who was born as the Minister of War, also looked at him differently as a naval general, and even promoted him to the rank of rear admiral at a young age, and controlled half of the naval power of the Brazilian Navy.

Without Dutra's support, none of this would have been so easy to achieve, and there are many people in the navy who are very dissatisfied with his current position. If it weren't for the fact that he led the fleet under his command to win two military merits in peacetime, someone would have to stand up.

It's a pity that one wrong step, one wrong step, and I don't know if it was the Americans who said something to him, or the signing of the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro made him feel that he had found a backer. For him to suddenly come up with such a stupid move, even Fang Lang felt a little sorry for the other party.

On October 20, 1947, the Dutra government officially announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and for a time public opinion was in an uproar, and two demonstrations of more than 1,000 people even broke out in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

But none of this has anything to do with Fang Lang, he just hid in Natal and quietly observed the changes in the situation, and took the opportunity to ask the companies under the Fangyuan Group to hurry up and take advantage of this honeymoon period between the United States and Pakistan to get more technical support from the Americans.

At the same time, the Brazilian Development Bank and the asset management company were ordered to increase their support for small daily chemical factories, while Fangyuan Group invested in the construction of a medium-sized hydropower project on the Piranas River in the northwest of Natal, officially starting to set foot in the energy sector.

With this power station, the problem of power shortage in the electrolytic aluminum plant that Fang Lang wanted to build was immediately solved, and then Fangyuan Group built the largest electrolytic aluminum plant in the Americas in the northern city of Natal.

The bauxite produced by the large bauxite mine of the Northern Mining Company in Orichmina, on the north bank of the Amazon River in Pará, no longer has to sell the raw ore directly. After all, as a shareholder of the Northern Mining Company, Fang Lang still has the right to purchase bauxite first.

Of course, the largest electrolytic aluminum manufacturing plant in the Americas wants not only to absorb the cheap bauxite from the northern mines, but more importantly, across the Atlantic, the world's largest bauxite mining area, Guinea in West Africa.

Fang Lang's huge ambition can be seen in the construction of the electrolytic aluminum factory here, and he is confident that after several years of development, his Fangyuan aluminum industry can become the leader of the world's aluminum products industry.

The aircraft and automobile manufacturing industries under Fangyuan Group are all large consumers of aluminum, and if they want to support the early development of this aluminum factory, these companies alone are more than enough.

At the same time, Fang Lang is more interested in the opportunity to master the development technology of hydropower stations and enter the basic energy field in Brazil. Because he is the owner of Caterpillar, the hydropower equipment installed in the hydropower station is purchased from his own company.

In order to further develop hydropower technology in Brazil, Fang Lang directly arranged for Caterpillar to set up its own branch in Brazil, began to invest heavily in the research and development of advanced hydropower equipment, and at the same time, built a construction machinery manufacturing plant in Brazil.

Paving the way ahead of time for the construction machinery orders needed for the upcoming European reconstruction plan. Of course, all of this requires a process, and it takes a long time to open a factory, from the beginning of land acquisition and demolition to the completion of factory construction to official operation.

Fortunately, although the reconstruction plan for Europe has now been basically decided, it will take some time before it can be officially implemented, and everything is still in time.

After all, European countries are still fighting over how much aid they should receive. These obviously have nothing to do with Fang Lang.

Now that he has set up a team of experts at the Global Group in the United States, he has entered Europe ahead of schedule to inspect some valuable industries and factories with core technologies, and as soon as the aid program officially begins, he can make assistance investments in these enterprises through the special status of the Bank for International Settlements.

Just when Fang Lang thought that he could continue to watch from the wall and wait for the opportunity, Yasini Hartung, the boss of the Pan-European Highway Management Company, found him.

Fang Lang met with Fang Lang at a small farm built outside the Natal naval base. Looking at Yasini Hartung, who flew over from Turkey, Fang Lang asked a little strangely:

"Mr. Hartung, I wonder why you are in such a hurry to find me?"

Yasini Hartung is a middle-aged white man with a delicate mustache, a neat suit looks very temperamental, Fang Lang is not the first time to meet him, when he came to interview the CEO of the pan-European highway management company, Fang Lang was deeply shocked by the scholarly temperament he showed.

After some understanding, the other party turned out to be a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the reason why he came to this company for an interview was because he fell in love with this highway that could make him famous in history.

For his purpose, Fang Lang doesn't mind, there is such a talent, the employees in the company can just learn more, and in the route planning of highway construction, with the participation of this guy, it is indeed a lot smoother.

However, now Yasini Hartung seems to have taken some blows, and the whole person does not look very happy. Sure enough, the other party's subsequent answer confirmed Fang Lang's guess.

"Boss, our highway construction plans in Turkey may be in vain?"

Fang Lang was stunned by this, the pan-European highway management company was established by his Universal Group, the Morgan consortium, and the Rockefeller Group. I didn't expect that the first project that had just started was met with resistance.

"Oh! What is the situation? ”

"The Turkish government says that the highway is a government infrastructure and that there is no problem in building the highway there, but they have to own a stake."

Hearing this, Fang Lang didn't feel angry, in his opinion, such a request was not too much, after all, each country has its own policies, and when the hometown was changed, didn't it also require the joint venture to distribute shares? Besides, the land belongs to the other party, and it is not unacceptable for the other party to ask for shares.

"That's okay! We are in business, as long as we can make money, it doesn't matter if we bring their local capital with us! ”

However, they only planned to take a stake in the land needed to build the expressway, but they demanded absolute controlling stake, and put forward their own requirements for the route planning and operation of the expressway.

If we do what they want, we don't have any chance of making a profit at all, and the whole project will become a free construction project. ”

As soon as these words came out, Fang Lang suddenly frowned.

"Did you make it clear to him that this project is not a financial aid program from the U.S. government, but a commercial project of our company to help them restore transportation as soon as possible."

As soon as Fang Lang said this, Yasini Hartung touched his nose a little embarrassed and said:

"Boss, Turkey is not a belligerent country, the war did not take place on their soil, therefore, the country has not been affected by much war, and the infrastructure is intact."

Fang Lang was stunned when he said this, he really didn't know much about Turkey, he didn't expect the war to break out on Turkish soil, what kind of shit luck did he take.

"That's not right! Turkey is one of the victors in Europe! Turkey's western neighbors, Greece and Bulgaria, were occupied by the Axis powers during the war, so how could Turkey not be a belligerent? ”

After Yasini Hartung coughed twice when he heard this, he slowly spoke with a little embarrassment, and it seemed that Fang Lang didn't even know this and felt a little ridiculous.

"Boss, Turkey had been a neutral country during the war, and it was not until February 1945, near the end of the war, that they hastily declared their entry into the Central Powers to declare war on Germany.

As far as I know, there is also a very interesting little story about the British Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, who told the Turkish Prime Minister that they would only accept those countries that had declared war on the Axis powers before March 5, 1945, to join the Allies.

It was the end of February, just in time for Sunday, and the members of the Turkish parliament were resting and could not vote to declare war on the Axis powers.

Then, on Sunday, the parliamentarians unanimously passed a resolution declaring war on the Axis powers. That's why Turkey became the victorious country. ”

"I'll go, and this kind of thing, these politicians in Turkey are amazing!"

After Fang Lang heard this, he did not look down on Turkey, on the contrary, he admired Turkey's operation very much, to know that Turkey's location is very important, the Turkish Strait in his territory is an important transportation artery connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, known as the throat of the world.

I thought that the big ship that my hometown bought from Ukraine was stopped in this strait by these bastards.

He really didn't expect that during World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union did not control this strait, but allowed Turkey to maintain neutrality, but think that maybe it was because this transportation artery was so important that Germany and the Soviet Union did not do anything!

Needless to say, Fang Lang could think of how much the Allies and the Axis would have to pay to win over this neutral country that controls the throat of the Black Sea.

No wonder now that I want to build a highway in Turkey, the other party still ignores it and asks for a sky-high price!

If this is the case, the highway plan in Turkey really needs to be carefully considered, after all, there is no pressure on others to rebuild, how can they be willing to make money easily?

However, Fang Lang quickly thought that when the Peninsula War was about to break out, Turkey, a country that did not even participate in World War II, actually sent more than 5,000 troops to participate in the so-called United Nations Army, which made Fang Lang's heart very unhappy.

This is the fourth-largest number of troops, only a few hundred fewer than Canada. Of course, in the end, they also became the third most deadly country, and they retreated to their hometown in embarrassment.

Thinking of this, and looking at the current situation in Turkey, Fang Lang really didn't want to get involved in the aid to Turkey at all.

At present, the business of the Whip of God military contracting company under his command has not been carried out in Turkey, because there is no war in Turkey at all, and all they need is all kinds of military material support.

The reason why the Americans strongly supported Turkey was simply because Turkey's location was so important that the Iron Father of the North, after the war, put forward a request for the construction of a military base in Istanbul.

For the Turkish government, this is simply an infringement of their sovereignty, which is why they did not hesitate to throw themselves into the arms of Europe and the United States.

In fact, now that Fang Lang thinks about it, if the Iron Father does not make such a request, it is not possible that Turkey will remain neutral in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union as it did in World War II.

(End of chapter)