This is the story of a modern sailor who accidentally becomes a soldier in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, and, by relying on his foresight, eventually becomes the head of the largest financial ...
Seeing the expressions of Qi Qingshan and the two surveillance soldiers, Fang Lang understood the answer. No one would pay attention to such things.
"Today's incident is a reminder to us that when we monitor others, we must pay attention to the surrounding situation and not just focus on the head and ignore the buttocks.
We are keeping a close eye on the target, but what if the other party has insurance? As long as his insurance pays attention to the situation behind the target, won't we be exposed?
Also, in a situation like today, if the soldier we are following is discovered by the French officer who just followed us, then wouldn't we be exposed?
Maybe by then we won’t even know why we died.”
"Yes, boss."
Qi Qingshan bowed his head and admitted his mistake, obviously still frightened by the thrill of the incident.
“It is too early for us to draw conclusions about what the Frenchman’s relationship is with them.
Now we have to find a way to confirm the identity of this Frenchman first, and then see if we can analyze his purpose.
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Tell the brothers who are responsible for tracking this Frenchman to be careful. This is French territory now, and there is a certain risk in tracking an officer of the French occupation forces.
At the same time, let’s try to find out which company the jeep at the hospital entrance belongs to.”
This new clue made Qi Qingshan's eyes light up.
"Okay, boss, I'll arrange for someone to check it out right away."
Today's visit to the surveillance point was quite fruitful. Putting down the telescope, Fang Lang encouraged the two soldiers who were monitoring Paul before leaving the surveillance point.
On the way back to the hotel, Fang Lang carefully recalled what happened in the hospital today, and reviewed every detail in his mind again.
In the end, he still felt that this French officer should be in cahoots with Paul. As for why he was following Leo, it was still unknown.
However, it is indeed necessary now to find out the situation behind you. If you are being monitored silently by others, things will be troublesome.
If there were indeed other people watching Paul, it would mean that this Frenchman might really be Paul's enemy. Although this possibility was very small, Fang Lang still decided to confirm the answer.
After returning to the hotel, he asked Zhuang Xintian, who was on shift at the hotel, to arrange people to conduct a detailed check behind and around the soldiers who were performing tracking and surveillance tasks outside to ensure that everyone's backs were kept clean.
Each surveillance team is equipped with a safety layer to ensure everyone's safety.
Soon Fang Lang felt the trouble of insufficient manpower.
Fortunately, the recruitment work is now being coordinated by Fangyuan Group’s assistant team, and I am not planning to continue to explore new industries for the time being.
Shortly after returning to the hotel, Serrano found Fang Lang and said:
"Mr. Fang, I think the machine tool laboratory has enough personnel. Now we need some sophisticated machine tools to turn our designed drawings into machines.
However, after communicating with everyone, I learned that the equipment that meets our requirements in Germany has been dismantled and taken away, so I suggest that we go to Switzerland. "
Fang Lang had already thought about what Serrano said. After he dealt with Paul's affairs, he originally planned to go directly to Switzerland to purchase some high-precision machine tools and equipment and ship them to Brazil as industrial mother machines.
"You are right. I have also considered this issue. However, I cannot go to Switzerland right away. Can you arrange a few experienced engineers among the recruited personnel to go to Switzerland to purchase equipment accompanied by the company assistants?
You can make a list of the specific equipment you need and we will purchase it directly. After the purchase is completed, it will be shipped back to Brazil directly via Italy.
As far as I know, the quality of Italian machine tools is also very good. If Switzerland is not enough, we can also go to Italy to have a look. "
Feeling Fang Lang's trust in him, Serrano was very happy and nodded repeatedly:
"No problem, I'll go tell everyone right away. So when can the rest of us go to Brazil?"
"Have you finished recruiting so quickly? Don't just recruit laboratory personnel! We also need to recruit skilled workers with superb manufacturing skills."
"Don't worry, boss! We have already recruited more than 300 excellent technical workers, which is enough for our early production. We can directly recruit some auxiliary positions in Brazil."
Fang Lang felt relieved to see that although Serrano was very thin and looked very unhealthy, his spirits had obviously improved due to the work over the past two days.
As long as this guy doesn't have to follow him around every day, Fang Lang will feel relieved.
“Okay, have everyone pack up their valuables and give a specific list of personnel to my adjutant, who will be responsible for arranging your itinerary.
Do you need to go back to Belgium before returning to Brazil?"
Hearing Fang Lang's question, Serrano did not show any abnormality, but said very calmly:
"Forget it. There's no one at home anymore. What's the point of going back? Now I'm discussing knowledge about machine tool manufacturing with everyone, which makes me very happy and fulfilled.
Don't worry, boss, I'm fine."
Fang Lang looked at Serrano carefully, hoping that this guy was really okay. After getting to know other mechanical engineers over the past few days, he became more certain that this guy was indeed a genius.
The machine tool he designed for automatic gear grinding amazed the machine tool designers.
Because this machine tool can be considered a true automatic machine tool.
As a modern man, Fang Lang knew very well that the future of machine tools was automatic machine tools, and Serrano was actually a genius in this field. He was reluctant to let him lose his due value because of mental illness.
"That's good. If you need my help with anything, just come to me. Don't keep it to yourself, understand?"
Serrano understood what Fang Lang meant. After all, he was present when the doctor told him that he might have a mental illness. He was very touched by Fang Lang's concern, nodded with a smile, and took the initiative to leave Fang Lang's room.
Originally, Fang Lang planned to go to Bofors, Sweden as well, but because of the big moves in Germany, he had to stop and digest it temporarily.
Now he just wants to deal with the treasure on Paul's side as soon as possible, and then go to the United States to deal with the aircraft carrier issue.
The American Shata Company has received Fang Lang's telegram, and General Manager Jefferson has called back to start formal operations. I believe good news will come soon.
The other shareholders of Shata Company are also very concerned about this business.
At the same time, he also strongly supported Fang Lang's plan to purchase various types of transport aircraft from Shata Company on a long-term basis, modify them, and sell them to airlines as civil airliners.
Jefferson even said that shareholders could provide Fang Lang with several sets of aircraft overhaul lines and various supporting spare parts.
Fang Lang thought that the enthusiasm of Shata Company's shareholders was that someone had taken a fancy to his aircraft modification factory. However, after asking around, he realized that others simply looked down upon such a small business as modification.
Compared with the aircraft modification business that can only earn a certain amount of labor costs, the arms business that can earn high profits and price differences by selling the country's retired equipment is what they want.
In order to allow Fang Lang to purchase more military aircraft from them, these guys have begun to actively promote these modified aircraft to American civil aviation companies on Fang Lang's behalf.
Of course, there are also American businessmen who are interested in this modification business, but compared with the low labor costs in Brazil, American businessmen do not have much competitiveness.
Moreover, as a major shareholder of Shata Company, Fang Lang's cost of purchasing aircraft from Shata Company is of course lower than that of other small customers.
With all these advantages added together, Fang Lang's aircraft modification factory, which doesn't even have a factory building, has already received orders.
This is also the reason why Fang Lang asked Pollman and others to send them back to Brazil as soon as possible.
As for the location of the factory, Fang Lang did not make the decision himself, because aircraft manufacturing is the jewel in the crown of industry after all, and he does not understand it very well, so he should not intervene too much.
He did consider placing the modification plant in Natal, after all, the Natal Naval Base already had two aircraft overhaul lines.
Moreover, this place is very close to the United States and Europe. However, aircraft manufacturing certainly cannot be carried out here, after all, the supporting industries are too poor.
The fact that basic industries are almost zero will directly refute this idea.
The aircraft production line of Embraer was also located in Sao Paulo in later generations. Fang Lang estimated that after Pollman and his team had completed their inspection, it was most likely that they would eventually place the factory in Sao Paulo.
In this way, Fangyuan Group's influence in Sao Paulo in the future will be unparalleled. Now many domestic immigrants have landed at the Sanchez Port in Sao Paulo.
Directly entered the Fangyuan Group’s company in São Paulo.
Real estate companies are the ones that employ the most people. After all, the infrastructure work in the construction industry requires a lower level of cultural literacy among workers.
Because Fang Lang is now going to build a lot of factories and houses in Brazil. Although he is recruiting local workers in Brazil, compared to Brazilian workers, Fang Lang certainly prefers his compatriots.
However, in order to avoid causing dissatisfaction among local Brazilians with the influx of Chinese people, Fang Lang had to allocate construction workers in proportion.
According to what the assistant team reported to me, the number of my compatriots working in the construction industry in São Paulo alone has now reached over 10,000.
Thanks to the hardworking and diligent character of our compatriots, the construction of factories and houses progressed at a rapid pace.
Working together with local Brazilians also allows everyone to integrate into the local community very quickly.
According to what Fang Lang has learned, some of his compatriots are now able to use gestures and language to communicate with local Brazilians in a simple way.
In order to enable everyone to integrate as quickly as possible and improve their cultural level, Fang Lang opened night schools in areas where workers are concentrated. Both Chinese and Brazilians can go to school to study.
In addition to Portuguese courses, the classroom also offers Chinese courses.
Let everyone learn Chinese culture in a foreign country. Of course, most of the Chinese teachers are immigrants who have studied there.
In order to cultivate the Chinese middle class and stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for learning, Fang Lang asked Chinese people with strong learning abilities to take up management positions such as foremen in the company, preparing to train them to become contractors. As for whether it would eventually become a construction company, it would depend on their own luck.
Moreover, many of our compatriots who had learned mathematical knowledge such as abacus were assigned to the company's financial department to learn financial knowledge.
Before the advent of computers, the abacus was the fastest calculating tool. The emergence of this tool stunned the Brazilians. It was the first time they knew there was such a calculating tool. At one time, many Brazilians began to learn to use the abacus.