Chapter 232: Kikwete's Ambition
When the plain slowly unfolded in front of him, Wang Ye couldn't help but look back, that was his hometown, the existence of the bottom of the "Four Provinces of Mountains and Rivers" in the future, and he felt a lot of emotion in his heart for a while.
It is said that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, the northern Hebei Province relies on Yanjing, the Central Plains Province is located in the plain, the population is large and the agriculture is developed, the industrial manufacturing industry in Luqi Province is remarkable, only the Shanjin Province is located in the Taihang Mountains, except for the coal seems to have nothing, the farmers have little other livelihood except for the labor facing the loess with their backs to the sky, even if it is Wang Ye, looking at his hometown, in this era of opportunities everywhere, he can hardly think of any strategies and programs that can be developed.
"Alas!"
In the end, only a sigh remained.
On the contrary, Wang Ye's parents were full of expectations for this trip, and their eyes were full of brilliance, after all, except for Shanjin and Liaoshen Province, they had never been to other places seriously.
Meanwhile.
Just when Wang Ye was lamenting the development of his hometown, Kikwete, who was thousands of miles away, was also lamenting the development of Tanzania.
Nowadays, with the advancement of the small industry package, the arrival of the first batch of equipment has caused quite a stir in Tanzania, especially in the capital and more prosperous coastal areas.
In the past, even the vast majority of Tanzanians had never heard the word "industrialized".
After all, in the past, Tanzania was the most backward among the agricultural countries, and almost all seeds, fertilizers and pesticides needed to be imported.
However, thanks to the better geographical conditions, the official promotion and development of the agricultural field in recent years, Tanzania can achieve food self-sufficiency for most years, unlike many African countries, which rely heavily on food imports, so that if the international situation and food prices change slightly, they will starve to death.
Even, with those small industrial equipment in place, along with the start of trial production, there are now some stores on the market with signs such as "domestic self-produced agricultural tools", and the products sold in them are the content of these small industrial equipment, the simplest is some hoes, shovels, pickaxes, picks, sickles and other agricultural tools.
"Not enough! That's not enough! ”
"But if you want to go further, it is also extremely difficult, there is a shortage of coal, iron ore is insufficient, and the power supply is insufficient, and there are many problems that need to be solved."
In the office, Kikwete looked at the papers in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.
In the past, Tanzania's independent industry was almost a blank, and almost all the domestic industries related to industry had something to do with Western countries and giants such as the Soviet Union and the United States.
Therefore, Tanzania naturally has little experience in industry.
It is precisely because of this that with the arrival of these equipment, the arrival of Huaxia engineers, and the initial start of production, all kinds of problems have emerged, and in order to solve these problems, countless people have been busy recently, resulting in the overall progress of small industrial development is not optimistic.
"But anyway, at least we're getting started, we're working hard."
"Problem, you can find a way to overcome it!"
In the end, Kikwete had to comfort himself so much in his heart, and at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of "Tuk Tuk", and Kikwete subconsciously shouted:
"Come in!"
Then the staff pushed open the door and came in, and said with a smile:
"General! Message from the Red Star Complex! ”
"But it's not a telegram, it's their staff who brought it over through their luggage when they came from Yanjing!"
When he first heard the news that it was the Red Star Consortium, a flash of joy instantly appeared on Kikwete's face, but when he heard that the news was brought by hand, he frowned and his eyes sharpened.
Obviously, when a message cannot be conveyed by a more convenient telegram, there is only one reason, which means that the message is very important, and even needs to be kept secret to a certain extent!
"Bring it and I'll take a look!"
Hearing Kikwete say this, the staff had already handed over an envelope, and after a brief check of the seal, Kikwete carefully opened the envelope, and there were only a few pieces of paper inside.
"Kikwit, my friend, hello!"
"I have received your telegram from earlier"
The letter was not too short, and Kikwete read it for ten minutes for the first time, and the staff stood respectfully and quietly waited, and after reading it for the first time, Kikwete seemed to have not read it, and turned to the first page again, and read it again at a slower and more careful pace from the beginning.
Even he reads, stops, and thinks.
Finally, when more than half an hour passed, he breathed a long sigh of relief as if he had just finished diving, and finally said to the staff with a slightly complicated face:
"Report to the General, I need to have a secret conversation with the General!"
The staff member's expression did not change, nodded and said:
"Yes!"
Moments later, Kikwete appeared in the General's office, and after a long wait, the General finally read the letter in detail from beginning to end.
In the office, there was silence, and after a long silence, the general looked up and asked:
"Kikwete, what's your opinion?"
"Tell me what you think!"
At this moment, there were only three people in the office, the general sitting in the front, Kikwete sitting opposite, and the senior secretary sitting on the side, and the general added to the secretary after speaking:
"Record!"
The secretary nodded, and Kikwete's expression was unusually solemn, and he could see that there was a thought in his eyes struggling, and finally he sighed and said:
"From a personal emotional point of view, I don't agree with this collaboration at all."
"We have just experienced a great war in which countless of our soldiers lost their lives, and now we have finally ushered in our peace, and they should have enjoyed a peaceful life, instead of going to other countries to fight for other people for some money, and finally giving their precious lives again.
"If it is for the sake of Tanzania's freedom and future, I have nothing to say, but I feel very sad to sacrifice for the sake of money on the land of another country!"
After Kikwete finished speaking, the scene was silent again, only the sound of the secretary tapping on the mechanical typewriter echoed, the general nodded slightly, and then he asked again:
"What if you remove personal feelings and stand from the perspective of the country and interests?"
Faced with this question from the general, Kikwete showed a slightly bitter smile on his face, nodded and said:
"Then I have to admit that this is a win-win cooperation, whether it is us, Wang Ye, or Saudi Arabia, each party has got what it wants."
"As far as we are concerned, now that our war is over, and we are going to start developing the economy and even industrialization, we must reduce the number of our fighters to a certain extent, which is so large that it consumes a lot of our financial expenditure."
"The more critical question is"
Speaking of this, Kikwete hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice:
"Redundant fighters can't handle it."
"The slightest mistake can cause even more trouble!"
For the country of Tanzania, the first sense of belonging of the vast majority of people is not the country, but the tribe, the region, and finally Tanzania.
In this way, one can imagine why it was so easy for those two generals to rebel in the first place, because for their soldiers, they only knew the generals and not Tanzania! Anyway, it's all about making money, who is going to earn it? What Tanzania? Sorry, we don't know! Haven't heard of it! You're the one who did it!
It is precisely because of this situation that there are big problems in front of its realization of today's Tanzanian Ministry of Defense.
That's layoffs!
In order to confront and exterminate the rebel armies on both fronts, the continuous recruitment and expansion of the army led to the current huge scale, and for those soldiers, who now have regular jobs, are separated from the status of peasants, and are obviously unwilling to return to the life they once had, then the contradiction naturally arises.
Either maintain such a large scale of fighters, or lay off employees at risk!
"And if we accept this cooperation, it will be much easier."
"After all, according to the description given in my friend's letter, their employees will be paid a lot of money, and I don't think the fighters should have any opinion."
At last Kikwete sighed and added, and the old general nodded, took a sip of coffee from his cup, gestured and said:
"You go on!"
Then Kikwete pondered his words before continuing:
"This plan first solves the two most important problems we are currently facing."
"One is fiscal expenditure, and the other is a large number of personnel."
"In addition to this, there are several other intuitive benefits of this solution."
"First, the economic benefits."
"According to the description in the letter, in the future, this security company will be located in our country, as a normal enterprise, then it will pay us normal business taxes in accordance with the corresponding laws, I think with the ability of my friend, the income of this company will not be very low, and this money will naturally be a lot."
"Secondly, the letter said that if we are willing to hand over the mature warriors directly to them, they will also give us a certain amount of financial compensation directly according to the number of people, and if the scale is according to the scale described in the letter, then they will need at least 30,000 to 50,000 people, which I think should also be a lot of wealth."
"Finally, after the establishment of this company, we can also get some shares, and these shares will be a steady stream of financial income in the future, and what we need to pay is just some land, some policies, and some related ancillaries and supporting personnel, which is not a bad thing for us at all, or even a good thing."
"After all, it is equivalent to the security company providing us with a large number of ordinary job opportunities, and their existence will further activate the local economy, because the soldiers' salaries are very high, and the spending power is naturally very strong, and even we can exaggerate a little bit that around their base, there will be a prosperous city!"
In the face of such wealth, Kikwete said with a little excitement in his tone, and his expression looked quite excited, as if the "emotion" just now had been forgotten by him, as for the general, he also smiled, nodded slightly in approval, and then Kikwete continued:
"Second, the benefits of safety."
"When this company is founded, according to their size, it will be a force to be reckoned with on the entire African continent, and the main body of this force is we Tanzanians, and it is rooted in our Tanzanian soil, plus we have a small number of shares, can we think that their power is also our strength? Or is this the case for targets that hate us? ”
"In other words, when this security company is formed, do we have a strong strategic threat?"
"Third, the military benefits."
"This last point, my friend described very clearly, in the future, they will use a large number of instructors, with the requirements of the world's first-class troops to train these soldiers, and then go through a lot of actual combat, I think these soldiers will definitely become the best soldiers, then after they retire, we will hire them back as instructors of our troops, so that we are equivalent to obtaining first-class military training and command team?"
"This, I think, is the most important thing, with the help of this security company, we in Tanzania can create the most powerful and invincible elite troops on this land!"
Finally, Kikwete shook his fist heavily, showing his determination and will, and at the same time said in a very excited and excited voice.
At that moment, the general sitting opposite nodded with a smile and said:
"That's good, Kikwete, you're growing fast."
"It's so gratifying!"
In the face of the general's praise, Kikwete quickly showed a humble expression and said:
"Thank you for your recognition and praise for me, I will continue to work hard."
Then, the general looked at the secretary next to him, and saw that the secretary had already "clicked" everything Kikwete had just said.
"Kikwete's opinion is my opinion."
"One more, though!"
Faced with the general's supplement, the secretary nodded, ready to tap the input again, and then the general muttered for a second and said:
"Now, the United States has abandoned us, and the Soviet Union has abandoned us."
"And across the continent, the situation is becoming more and more chaotic, and people can't see the future, no hope."
"But the only thing we can see is that behind all this chaos, it is the United States and the Soviet Union, they are carrying out some secret operations, supporting, provoking, treacherous, and immoral, for their interests, setting off one conflict after another and wars, gunfire and blood, endlessly on this continent."
"In such a situation, we want peace, we want development, we want to rise, it is an unattainable dream."
"But we can't give up because of difficulties, and in order to chase this dream, we can't do it on our own, we need a firm ally, we need a strong ally, we need to use the strength of allies to achieve everything we want, and now in my opinion, who this ally is, it goes without saying."
"So we have to agree to this cooperation and give the highest level of care and support."
"Because they will be our most important allies for the next few years, more than a decade, or even decades! Without them, we would be in the constant chaos of this land, let alone economic development, even the most basic peace would not be maintained, and war could break out again at any time! ”
In the end, the general sighed, as if saying such a thing made him feel very uncomfortable, Kikwete understood the general's pain, but Kikwete also understood that what the general said was the truth, and now Tanzania can't even make a bullet from beginning to end, so how to protect its own safety when the two giants refuse to sell arms?
This world is so cruel!
"This is my opinion."
"Present it to Mr. President!"
Finally, the general waved his hand and said so, the secretary nodded, and ended the typing action of "da-da-da", at this moment outside the window of the office, the sun was shining, and the breeze was not dry.
Just when Kikwete was looking forward to Wang Ye's visit.
Wang Ye and his parents, after more than two days of Mercedes-Benz, finally returned to the Red Star Consortium, when they arrived at the gate of the factory, Wang Ye's parents were directly stunned!
"It's too big!"
"It feels bigger than the scale of the mine, huh?"
"Yes, yes, everything in the mine is in the mine, but not here!"
"The key is neatness, hygiene, and people's spirit!"
"No wonder it's on the radio, it's amazing!"
"My son is really promising!"
Sitting in the slowly moving car, Wang Ye's parents poked their heads out of the left and right windows, constantly watching, constantly amazed, and sighed that this place was different.
At this time, it is less than a week before the Chinese New Year.
In the next few days, Wang Ye still has endless official duties, endless meetings, and endless design drawings every day, but even so, he will find time to accompany his parents.
But fortunately, Wang Ye's parents are not afraid, especially Wang Ye's mother, who is simply self-cooked, plus this is the mother of the factory director, and soon got together with the aunts in the factory.
And the combination of this period of time made Wang Ye feel that there was a New Year's flavor and no New Year's flavor, because the decorations such as red lanterns had been hung, and there was no New Year's flavor because the adult laborers in the factory were crazy about production, and there were only some old people and children left at home, and it was not lively at all.
Soon, time flew by, and it was the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve.