Fang Xinshan was of course very happy that his son had handed over such an important business to him, but at the same time he was a little worried that he would not be able to do a good job. After counting the people around him, it seemed that there was no one else he could entrust the job to, so he had to bite the bullet and take it.
"Okay then! I'll help you watch it first, and you can take over at any time if you have any questions!"
Hearing that his father was willing to take over, Fang Lang breathed a sigh of relief.
His business is now in a state of disarray, and it is time to sort it out urgently. Otherwise, it will be a mess and he won’t know when it will go bankrupt.
"Let's put it this way! Dad, please take some time recently to sort out our industries in Brazil and integrate all the industries that can be placed under the Fangyuan Group.
If it can't be put in, see if we can take it out and set up a separate group company to manage it. Otherwise, it's too chaotic now, and if that branch company is embezzled by someone, we won't know about it.
I don't have to fight everywhere now, but it's not convenient for me to check the factory every day. So I have to have my own assistant team around me to classify and manage all my industries.
I only need to listen to the assistant's report every day to understand the latest situation of each company, and remotely direct the operation direction of each branch through the assistant.
This way we can manage it effectively and avoid chaos.”
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"You should have done this a long time ago. You don't know that after you asked me to set up the Fangyuan Group, I was overwhelmed by seeing so many industries.
I'm going to have a good talk with you when you return to Sao Paulo!"
"I can't help it. It was really inconvenient to handle these things some time ago. Don't worry, I will handle it myself after this assistant team is established."
While Fang Lang was discussing the future plans of the family business with his father in his office, Qi Qingshan had already led a company of soldiers to a remote village far away from Natal after a morning of trekking through mountains and rivers.
Because Brazil's terrain is that there are only some low-altitude plains in the coastal areas, and less than a hundred kilometers inland, it becomes the high-altitude Brazilian Plateau, of course, except for the Amazon jungle area.
The village where Qi Qingshan and others are now located is in a small canyon between two peaks on the Brazilian Plateau.
"Sir, this is the address you mentioned."
A local policeman was looking at Qi Qingshan nervously at this moment. He didn't understand why the army suddenly asked him to lead the way to this sparsely populated mountain village.
"Do you have police officers who come here often?"
Qi Qingshan stared at the middle-aged Indian policeman with his eyes, as if telling him that if he lied, he would be dead.
"This place is too remote, and we will never go to this damn place unless someone reports the crime.
As far as I can remember, I haven’t received any reports of crimes here in the past seven or eight years!”
"Are you sure? Do you know who lives here?"
"This is all in our household registration information. The people living here are all local farmers. There are only 20 households in total, and their main source of income is growing corn and sugarcane."
“Are there any Japanese residents in this place?”
"Japanese? I've never heard of Japanese people here!"
"Okay, go down now!"
Qi Qingshan looked at the quiet little village in front of him and became puzzled. If the policeman was not lying, why did the Japanese confess that they transported the laborers here?
It is hard to say why there has been no record of reporting a case for seven or eight years. After all, in some places, most non-criminal cases are resolved by the village itself.
"Scouts, get close enough to investigate. Don't let the locals find you. Find out what's going on in this village."
"yes!"
More than a dozen soldiers walked out of the queue, trotted into the woods on both sides, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.
Qi Qingshan found a commanding height and looked towards the village from afar through a telescope.
Even the villagers working in the fields didn't notice any of them, which made Qi Qingshan feel very strange.
About an hour later, the scout finally brought back the information.
There was no one in the village ahead. All the people were concentrated in a mine behind the village.
It looks like they are mining, and there are armed guards with guns at the edge of the mine.
Qi Qingshan looked at the middle-aged policeman with a fierce look in his eyes:
"How dare you lie to me? This is the peasant village of 20 households you mentioned. What kind of mine is being opened here?"
The middle-aged Indian policeman was obviously confused at this time, and waved his hands quickly:
"I've never heard of this! In my impression, this is just a small village with a few farmers living here!"
Qi Qingshan opened his eyes wide and ordered:
"Catch him first, and we'll deal with the situation in the village later."
Next, Qi Qingshan gathered together with the company's platoon leaders and others to formulate a battle plan based on the intelligence sent back by the scouts.
Half an hour later, the raid on the village was launched.
The operation went very smoothly, although the people guarding the mine put up a resistance.
However, all the guards had already been detected clearly, so they were the first to be eliminated.
With a burst of fierce gunfire, the battle was over in less than ten minutes.
When Qi Qingshan walked into the mine, he saw a large group of people squatting on the ground with their hands on their heads. There were about 2,000 people, many of whom had obvious Asian faces, and some were of Indian descent.
These people were dressed in rags and looked malnourished.
Obviously, they were forced to work.
Nearly a hundred people were kneeling in front of a row of wooden houses outside the mine. Judging from their clothes and faces, they were obviously either supervisors or mine owners.
At this moment, he was surrounded by soldiers with guns.
"Who is the boss here? Come out and talk to me."
No one responded for a long time.
Qi Qingshan spoke again:
"If no one comes out, we'll kill them all."
I don’t know if no one understood Portuguese or what, but everyone was looking at Qi Qingshan with a nervous look on their faces.
There was no way Qi Qingshan could repeat it again in English, but there was still no response.
Qi Qingshan was so angry that he picked up the Thompson submachine gun in his hand, pulled the bolt, and prepared to fire a burst of bullets at the crowd.
A short and fat man in his forties raised his hand.
Two soldiers rushed over and dragged him out.
Qi Qingshan hit him in the face with two gun butts without saying a word, and several of his front teeth fell out on the spot.
The short and fat man was knocked to the ground, holding his head with both hands, and begged for mercy in Portuguese:
"Please stop hitting me, I surrender, I surrender."
When Qi Qingshan heard that he could speak Portuguese, he kicked him in the abdomen again, causing him to bend over and retch, with tears streaming down his face.
"You fucking understand what I'm saying. If you don't answer, you want to die, right?"
"Sir... spare my life! I... will never... dare to do it again!"
The man spoke intermittently.
"Tell me! What kind of minerals are you little Japs mining here?"
"Sir, we are at the Tantalum Mine."
"What the hell is that? What the hell is tantalum?"
"How can I explain this? I can't explain it in a short time. I can take you to see it."
"You are the person in charge of this mine, right?"
"Sir, yes, I also discovered this mine."
"Then what do the other people here do?"
"There are engineers, mining protection teams, and smelting technicians."
"Oh! I understand!"
Qi Qingshan turned around and said to the company commander:
"Tie up all the people here and lock them up."
Soon the short and fat Japanese brought Qi Qingshan to a large wooden warehouse.
Two soldiers stepped forward, smashed the lock on the door with the butt of a rifle, squeezed in, and came out quickly, nodding to Qi Qingshan.
I took a look inside and saw nothing but steel-gray blocks of metal.
After just one look, Qi Qingshan lost interest.
Directly to this Japanese:
"Do you have a mining permit?"
"this……"
"That's it? Take it away!"
When Qi Qingshan returned to the base, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, so he did not disturb Fang Lang.
The next morning, after work, he knocked on Fang Lang's office door.
"How was yesterday's harvest?"
"Sir, after last night's interrogation, we have figured it out. It was a Japanese named who discovered tantalum in the mountain village, so he notified the Japanese consulate.
Later, the Japanese took control of the people in that village and began to secretly mine and ship the minerals back to Japan. Unfortunately, the output was too low. In order to expand production, Japan mobilized two thousand workers from their hometown to come and mine.
Because Mizuno Nobuyoshi's brother was short of staff at the salt field here, he retained a group of workers from this batch of workers. He was originally planning to transfer the staff over when the mine was further expanded.
After the war between Japan and the United States broke out, transportation between Brazil and Japan was cut off, and they had no way to transport the refined tantalum ore back to Japan. They could only continue to organize mining while waiting patiently.
They didn’t know Japan had surrendered until we occupied the mining area.”
"Did they say what this tantalum mine is used for?"
"This Mizuno Nobuyoshi said it was used to make capacitors, but I don't understand what it is either."
“Are you sure that the Natal government and the police are not aware of this matter?”
"Based on the current situation, it is more likely that the mine is unknown. If these officials knew about it, they would definitely want a piece of the pie.
As for the police, I have also interrogated them and found out that they have not been to that remote mountain village for seven or eight years.
But some people know that there are illegal workers in the salt fields.”
"Then first transport the tantalum mine back to the warehouse and seal it up, and bring those who stole the country's mineral resources directly to court and try them according to normal procedures. Remember to notify the reporters to come and follow up for interviews.
As for the minor characters like the mining team, let them dig a hole and bury themselves!"
"Yes, boss!"
Fang Lang didn't care about the value of the tantalum mine at the moment. Even if the tantalum mine was valuable, private mining was not allowed in Brazil, and the most he could do was take a batch of the already smelted materials.
In Fang Lang's mind, it is more important to further discredit the Japanese reputation among the Brazilian people.
This group of workers from his hometown was also a surprise for Fang Lang.
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