The Americans were clearly not going to allow a fire in their own backyard, so they were very wary of Brazil's renewed engagement with the Soviet Union. Surveillance in Brazil began to be further intensified.

And tried to put pressure on the Brazilian government from various channels in an attempt to prevent Brazil from resuming diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

The U.S. ambassador to Brazil once again came forward to find Fang Lang and tried to persuade the Brazilian government to stop contact with the Soviet Union through Fang Lang, a hardcore pro-American faction.

However, what the Americans don't know is that all this happened with Fang Lang behind him, and without Fang Lang's consent, the report about the US government's interference in Brazil's internal affairs would not have been published.

Not to mention the intensifying war of public opinion in the news media. You must know that a series of Brazilian mainstream media, such as the Brazilian Times, are all under the control of the Fangyuan Group.

And the Americans are not unaware of this, and their purpose in finding Shang Lang is also to influence the position of a series of mainstream media such as the Brazilian Times through Fang Lang, so that everyone can report the news with some obvious bias towards the United States.

Instead of accepting editorial articles from all walks of life in a completely neutral manner, as is the case now, published in newspapers without any revisions.

I have to say that under Fang Lang's words and deeds, Fang Tao has already perfected the skill of controlling public opinion. A polemical section was set up for representatives of the pro-US and pro-Soviet sides to take turns and make their voices heard on their own media channels.

It seems fair and impartial without interference, and allows the two sides to argue freely, but as the mainstream media in Brazil, he mentioned that those pro-Soviet factions published articles, which in fact belonged to pulling bias.

But in the eyes of the Americans, this practice of the Brazilian Times is purely ignorant of politics, how can it really be completely left to the free debate of those literati and scholars?

I don't even understand the most basic news control.

Fang Lang very clearly rejected the request of the US ambassador, saying that this is Brazil's freedom of the press, and we cannot cover everyone's mouth and not give everyone a chance to speak.

He also said that he learned this freedom of the press from the Americans! How can you not follow through? This left the US ambassador speechless for a while.

However, as the U.S. ambassador traveled around Brazil, a significant number of Brazilians did come forward and began to wash the floor for the United States. Fang Lang, on the other hand, took this opportunity to quietly count the guys who cooperated with the Americans and established a complete file for them.

But even if people continue to stand up and wash the ground for this kind of US interference in Brazil's internal affairs, it still does not prevent Brazil and the Soviet Union from resuming diplomatic relations.

After all, the resumption of diplomatic relations between Brazil, an important ally of the United States in South America, and the resumption of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union would be tantamount to a major diplomatic victory for the Soviet Union, and correspondingly, it would naturally mean a diplomatic defeat for the United States.

Naturally, the Soviet Union was happy to see what could make the United States fail, and for this reason, the Soviets made major concessions in the process of restoring bilateral relations between the two countries.

This is naturally a rare diplomatic victory for the Brazilian government, represented by President Scalia, and it deserves to be vigorously promoted.

As a result, for a long time afterward, various Brazilian newspapers began to focus on the benefits of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Brazil and the Soviet Union, especially the relatively cheaper oil that could be imported from the Soviet Union.

This is really a boost to national consumer confidence in Brazil, where oil prices are soaring. Moreover, Brazil was able to export its domestically produced agricultural products to the Soviet Union.

At the same time, Brazil's domestic industry was able to export a very large number of industrial products to the Soviet Union, among which the number of rubber products was the largest.

This situation obviously touched a sensitive nerve in the US government, and it began to hold frequent talks with the Brazilian government, demanding that the Brazilian government impose an embargo on the sale of certain high-tech products to the Soviet Union, with a focus on electronics and high-precision machine tools.

This is because Brazil is the only one that can compete with the United States in these two areas, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is even more advanced than the US government.

In order to persuade the Brazilian government to impose an embargo on the sale of these products to the Soviet Union, the US government had to offer a lot of sincere conditions, among which the relaxation of control over Brazil's refined oil products allowed Brazil's oil prices to quickly return to a normal level.

In fact, the reason why the United States is willing to restore the control of refined oil products is also because it has seen that Brazil's Fangyuan Group has made frequent moves in the crude oil market in the past two years and has made great achievements.

Not to mention the large-scale import of oil from the Soviet Union after the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, the oil purchase agreement signed by Fangyuan Petrochemical and the government of the Portuguese colony of Angola alone can greatly alleviate the oil shortage in Brazil.

It has to be said that in the past two years, after Fangyuan Group and Ridgefield Petroleum Company established a joint venture to establish Fangyuan Petrochemical, it has indeed invested great energy in the international crude oil market, not only starting to look for oil share in the Persian Gulf on the surface, but also winning a large amount of crude oil orders from the hands of Dutch Shell.

Privately, it has quietly extended its tentacles into the African crude oil market on the other side of the Atlantic, which has not yet received too much attention from Western capital countries.

Among them, the investment in the Portuguese colony of Angola is even greater, not only purchasing a large amount of crude oil from the hands of the Portuguese, but also beginning to negotiate with the Portuguese government to obtain the right to exploit oil in Angola.

Although the Portuguese government has not yet agreed to Brazil's demands, most people believe that Portugal will not last long. After all, Brazil is not only negotiating with Portugal in the commercial sphere.

Secretly, they are also in contact with the indigenous people of Angola, and the purpose of the contact is naturally self-evident, which can be seen from the increasingly restless form of Angola now.

The Portuguese authorities believe that Brazil is very likely to support Angola's independence if Portugal continues to insist on not allowing Brazil to intervene in Angolan oil exploration.

This was very annoying to the Portuguese authorities, but somewhat powerless, after all, Brazil's global influence at this time had actually surpassed Portugal's, and the close ties between Brazil and European countries through European aid programs alone were incomparable to Portugal's.

In order to cope with the constant penetration of Brazil into Angola, Portugal had to make Angola its overseas province earlier than in history. Minimize the colonial nature of Angola.

But this obviously does not really solve the problem, because no matter how hard Portugal tries to reduce the colonial nature of Angola, it still cannot change the fact that he is a Portuguese colony.

At this time, when Brazil appeared in Angola and played the role of a-stirring stick, it made Portugal very uncomfortable. What's even worse is that Brazil's purpose is very clear, he only wants oil, and he is willing to pay for the oil he extracts.

Rather than plundering like the colonizers, the natives of Angola had a very good impression of the Brazilians, not only bringing them food and clothing, but even building them public facilities such as schools and bridges.

Under these circumstances, in February 1954, the Portuguese government was forced to approve Fangyuan Petrochemical's right to exploit oil in Angola. Of course, the extracted oil needs to pay a high mineral tax to the Portuguese government.

In this regard, Fangyuan Petrochemical did not care at all, after all, the price of extracting oil by itself, plus the mineral tax, was much lower than the price of buying oil from the Portuguese.

To this end, Fangyuan Petrochemical began to build a large number of oil fields in Angola, and oil pipelines, as well as terminals, directly through pipelines, to the port for shipment to Brazil.

For long-term interests, Fangyuan Petrochemical's oil exploration in Brazil is not an act of plunder, and they have also compensated the local people to a certain extent, not only providing a large number of jobs, but also building schools, roads and other public facilities for the local area.

This has given Brazil a much better reputation in Angola than Portugal.

In addition, Fangyuan Petrochemical has also focused on opening up relations with its neighbor Venezuela, not only importing a large amount of crude oil from Venezuela, but also planning to build a crude oil pipeline through the two countries.

Of course, this pipeline was built in a very secret form, and the purpose of this is naturally to prevent Venezuela from importing oil from Venezuela after the United States and the United States turned on each other later, and after the United States imposed an embargo on Venezuela.

The starting point of this pipeline in Brazil is in the city of Cukouy in the Amazon state, northwest of Brazil, on the border with Venezuela and Colombia. The starting point of the pipeline was chosen in this location, first of all, because it avoids the topography of the Guyana highlands on the border between Brazil and Venezuela.

Secondly, because the garrison commander here, Major General Tabio Mack, was one of the first army officers to join Fang Lang's command, and he was the commander of the Sixth Division of the Wehrmacht who took the initiative to talk to Fang Lang and ask about jungle warfare tactics when Fang Lang held a celebration banquet after Fang Lang eliminated the Eddie brothers' rebels.

However, Fang Lang is not in a hurry for the construction of this pipeline, because now after the restoration of diplomatic relations between Brazil and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union can provide Brazil with a steady stream of high-quality crude oil, unlike Venezuela's oil quality, which is mostly high-sulfur heavy oil and has relatively high processing costs.

The reason why Fang Lang wants to quietly build this pipeline is also to avoid the United States from imposing crude oil restrictions on Brazil in the future, after all, the amount of crude oil on Brazil's land is really limited.

Although Brazil will be able to extract a lot of crude oil from the seabed in the future with the continuous improvement of crude oil extraction technology, it will still be a long process.

Of course, these are the layouts of Fangyuan Group in the international crude oil market in the past two years.

With the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Brazil and the Soviet Union, there is a new huge market for domestic goods, which provides a strong impetus for the further rapid development of the Brazilian domestic economy.

This has further confirmed the correctness of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Brazil and the Soviet Union. It also made everyone realize that Brazil should be more independent and self-reliant, and should not follow the Americans and be at the mercy of the Americans.

In just a few months, Brazil's national independence consciousness has soared, and the US government has been terrified.

At this time, Fang Lang, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly summoned his political spokesperson Xin Shiliang to his manor in Rio de Janeiro.

For Fang Lang's sudden summons, Xin Shiliang felt a faint trace of excitement in his heart, in recent years, with the further expansion of the strength of Fangyuan Group, the political resources in his hands have become more and more huge.

If he was a little frightened and not very confident when he put Mr. Scalia in the presidency, now he has absolute confidence in it.

As long as Fang Lang agrees, he can get the Brazilian government to pass any bill and policy at any time, and he can easily decide who will be the president of Brazil.

Because it is now July 1954, Brazil is about to enter the presidential election year again, at this time Fang Lang personally summoned him for an interview, Xin Shiliang's first reaction was that Fang Lang wanted to discuss with him the candidate for the next president.

Therefore, he is both nervous and excited, this is the person who decides the president of a country! Who would have thought that he, the secretary general of the chairman's office of Fangyuan Group, who is inconspicuous in front of outsiders, would be fortunate enough to participate in the decision of the new president of Brazil as early as possible?

With this mood, Xin Shiliang followed behind Fu Bo, the housekeeper of Fang Lang Manor, and walked into Fang Lang's study.

At this time, Fang Lang was on the long table in the study with a brush, practicing calligraphy, and when he saw Xin Shiliang coming in, he just nodded slightly.

"Haha...... Shiliang is here, you sit first. Fu Bo, please pour Shi Liang a cup of tea. I'll finish writing that first. ”

As he spoke, he motioned for Xin Shiliang to take a seat in the reception area in front of the desk, and casually instructed his housekeeper.

In this regard, Xin Shiliang and Fu Bo naturally have no objections.

"Okay, young owner, you are busy first!"

Soon, Fang Lang's post is over, I have to say that the current Fang Lang has been trained by his little wife to welcome the spring in the brush and calligraphy, and it is much better than the original, at least it no longer looks disorganized.

Fang Lang was naturally very satisfied with this, put down the brush, and couldn't help but appreciate himself for a while before nodding with a smile on his face again.

"Shiliang! I've heard you've done a great job lately! ”

Fang Lang took a wet towel to wipe his hands, walked out from behind the desk, and came to sit down on the rosewood Taishi chair next to Xin Shiliang.

Although Xin Shiliang has a huge influence in the political circles, he is still very clear about his positioning, he knows that the reason why he can have such influence is because of Fang Lang's support, if Fang Lang is not satisfied with himself, he can replace him with another person at any time, and he can do as well as him.

Therefore, whether he is in front of Fang Xinshan or in front of Fang Lang, he is very humble and polite.

Hearing Fang Lang's praise for himself, he was naturally very happy, and hurriedly got up to greet him, bowed slightly to Fang Lang and said:

"The young owner has won the award, and this little achievement achieved by Shiliang is from the trust and support of you and the owner. At the beginning, if it wasn't for the Shaodong family who rescued me from the Japanese devil's cave, Shiliang would have become a dry skeleton long ago.

How can I have the opportunity to follow the young owner and get such a good life in Brazil like now. ”

Regarding Xin Shiliang's modesty, Fang Lang just smiled, waved his hand indifferently, and motioned for the other party to sit down and talk.

"You don't have to be humble, do you have the ability, can I still be unclear?"

(End of chapter)