After the secretary received permission, he quickly transmitted it back to the Brazilian consulate, which was also very fast, and the two sides quickly agreed to meet in three days.

"Hello Mr. Consul." Chen Zhiwen said with a polite smile.

"Hello Chen Sheng." Consul Thales also smiled and said: "It is a pleasure to meet you, this is Mr. Tavares from our Brazilian Ministry of Commerce, who is in charge of foreign trade and investment. ”

"Hello, Mr. Tavaris." Chen Zhiwen said in English to the brown man beside Thales. As he imagined, Brazil must be looking for himself about business cooperation, otherwise there is no reason to find himself a businessman.

In fact, it is not the first time that representatives of some countries have come to themselves, when the scale of the industry reaches a certain level, it will inevitably attract the attention of some countries, especially countries near Asia, are striving for the huge order procurement volume of Galaxy Trade, Chen Zhiwen has also met a few people, such as representatives of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and some smaller countries will be handed over to his subordinates to deal with.

"Hello Mr. Chen." Tavaris, too, replied in English with some accents, that he had come from Brazil and did not speak Hong Kong's native Cantonese, like the consul in Hong Kong.

"Take a seat, I've got the best coffee in Brazil ready." Chen Zhiwen took the two to the inner room of the office, which has a professional conference room, all kinds of fruits, drinks, tea and coffee, there are many varieties, so that it is convenient for guests from different places around the world to choose.

"Thank you." The two Brazilians also seemed to smell the authentic coffee and immediately said with a smile.

"I don't know why the two of you came to me?" After chatting with them casually, Chen Zhiwen asked directly.

Tavareston paused and said, "Mr. Chen, we are here this time to invite you to invest in Brazil. ”

"Investment? What to invest in? Chen Zhiwen nodded and asked, this is also expected.

"We hope that Mr. Chen will be able to build a new factory in Brazil for your electronics company, so that it can cover the whole of South America and even the Americas, with our location and the convenience of shipping, it is much cheaper than producing from Hong Kong and shipping to the United States." Tavaris said with a smile.

"As far as I know, Brazil's local electronics industry is not bad, so why do you need my investment?" Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

In later generations, there was almost no electronics industry in Brazil and even in South America, but in the 70s, the electronics industry in Brazil was actually quite good.

In 1971, the Brazilian government set up a special information industry department, in charge of the domestic electronic information industry, with the national will as the core, to promote the development of the domestic electronics industry, including electronic parts, chips and computers (industrial control), which is similar to the operation of Wanwan in the 70s.

Although Brazil is currently in a sovereign debt crisis, the economy in the 70s is still very good, that is, the mainland next door is reopened, and the initial catch-up goal is to become an economic level country like Brazil, the internal market is large enough, and it also makes Brazil's electronics industry unique, even surpassing the bay in scale, but South America is far away from Asia and has little influence.

If it's just like this, considering the population of Brazil and South America, it can't be said that it is necessary to invest in building factories, but it is not impossible to consider, but the problem is that the development of Brazil's electronics industry is to a large extent infringing on the patents of American companies, you know, it is European, Japanese semiconductor companies, if they want to bypass the American patents, it is very difficult, either pay patent fees, or spend a lot of money to develop new technologies, Europe and Japan are strategic allies of the United States, but Brazil often contradicts the United States because of the deal with polar bears, Naturally, patents are not granted.

In order to develop the electronics industry, many Brazilian companies began to infringe on US patents, and finally in 1986, the United States launched global sanctions, and all industrial products were difficult to export, until the 90s were forced to kneel down.

In this case, Chen Zhiwen doesn't want to mix this troubled water, the Brazilian market is not small, but it is far worse than Europe and the United States.

"Mr. Chen, we have more than 100 million people in Brazil, and the consumption power of electronic products is still very strong, at least, you can try to produce Brazilian-made goods in Brazil, right? This also avoids costly customs duties. Tavaris added that rejection is the norm, but it still has to be fought for.

"Mr. Tavaris, Brazil's electronics industry, mainly industrial control computer and information industry, this is different from our Midea game machine industry, there is no corresponding matching, we need to invest, but also need to import various parts from Asia, although they are all small pieces, but the cost of time is too high." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and refused, it is one thing not to want to invest, but there must be a better reason to refuse, how can the other party say that he is also a representative of a country, and face still has to be given, at the same time, he may not be able to cooperate in the electronics industry, and other fields may not be necessarily, but he can't say that he knows the future, and he can't even say that the patent issue between Brazil and the United States has nothing to do with himself, and there is no need to get involved.

"Mr. Chen, as far as I know, your industrial chain in Hong Kong is also built by yourself, so go to Brazil, you can also copy a set, if it is a financial problem, our local bank can also help, or you don't want to invest in participation, it doesn't matter, we have a lot of electronic parts factories in Brazil, they can send people to Hong Kong to study, as long as you go to invest in a general factory, all kinds of suppliers, our government here to make overall arrangements." Tavaris said.

"It's a real way to reduce the workload on our side, but for us, there is no real benefit, at most we can sell a little more in Brazil, which is not very attractive." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and refused.

Even from the economic level, there is no point in going to Brazil, even if the Brazilian government can really build an industrial chain, then for himself, it will also get a few more Brazilian local customers, and it may be difficult to make millions of dollars more, tens of millions, for a few million dollars, he doesn't want to be so troublesome.

"So we hope that Mr. Chen will help our electronics industry in Brazil, and in return, we will give Mr. Chen something you need!" Tavaris said.

"Oh, what's that?" Chen Zhiwen asked quietly, he is not a fool to be a high-ranking official in Brazil, this kind of direct running to himself and saying that he wants to go to a place where there is no electronic industry base to build a factory or give orders, basically nine out of ten will not work, and it is the same for any other large company.

"We know that Mr. Chen's investment territory has a lot of farms and ranches, and we have a lot of such places in Brazil, if we can reach a cooperation, then we can consider selling some of the state-owned farms to Mr. Chen, I don't know what Mr. Chen thinks?" Tavaris said.

"Farm? It's a good thing, and I really need it. Chen Zhiwen generously admitted, but quickly said: "It's just that there are too many places in the world where I can buy farms, even Argentina is enough, not to mention the United States, Canada, Australia, Southeast Asia, and even parts of Europe. ”

There are indeed many farms in Brazil, but there are too many such things as farms, and there are many places to choose from, if the price is right, it is not impossible to buy, but there is no need to combine it with other conditions.

"In terms of price, we will definitely have a great discount." Tavariston paused, and then said.

"If there is a discount, I am naturally willing to cooperate, but this has nothing to do with the electronics industry, it is purely a farm transaction, how about it?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a light smile.

The sovereign debt crisis in South America is not over, including Brazil, foreign exchange is very tight, so the so-called preferential treatment, in fact, the Brazilian government is also very willing to farm transactions, which can directly earn foreign exchange, but this kind of transaction, Chen Zhiwen can cooperate, lower the price can also buy permanent land, it is still cost-effective.

But the electronics industry may be sanctioned by the United States in the next ten years, and the money invested in it is not equivalent to throwing it into the sea, and ten years later, Brazil's electronics industry has completely declined and has become a dumping place for European and American electronic products.

"This ......" Tavaris frowned and said, "Mr. Chen, if you are interested in the farm, of course you can invest in Brazil, but I still hope that we can cooperate in the field of electronics industry?" Why don't you say what you want? ”

"It is impossible for me to invest in electronic cooperation, but if you can make some simple parts and pass our internal audit, you can also become our supplier." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said, "The conditions I want are also very simple, I want to invest in a company in Brazil." ”

"Which one?" Tavaris hurriedly asked.

"Vale!" Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"Vale Mining?" Tavaris was stunned for a moment and said, "Mr. Chen, Vale is our state-owned mining company in Brazil, and the equity is not sold to the public. ”

"Yes, but as far as I know, Vale's largest foreign shareholder is Japan's Mitsui & Co., right?" Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

Although he doesn't like small Japan, Chen Zhiwen also has to admire them in the area of economic development, from textiles in the 50s to furniture in the 60s to steel in the 70s to cars and chips in the 80s, basically all kinds of beating the United States, and finally signed the "Plaza Agreement" under the threat of aircraft carriers, and in the field of traditional resources, Japan, which has no raw materials, sent a large number of domestic consortia to invest overseas.

A large number of mines in Australia and Brazil have been acquired by Japanese consortiums, a large number of mining giants have also been acquired, and even a large number of farms have been purchased for food, and the most active participant in this is Mitsui & Co., a subsidiary of the Mitsui Foundation. It is said that in the 90s, Mitsui & Co. alone became the world's largest asset company. Even more than 20 years later, the domestic iron and steel association negotiated with the iron ore giants, and there was the shadow of Mitsui & Co. behind this. Even 5 of the top 10 copper ores in the world are controlled by Japanese conglomerates.

"Mitsui & Co. is Vale, which was invested in a long time ago." Tavaris said.

(End of chapter)