After hearing Fang Lang's words, Mayor Dursley calmed down and said, "I'm a bit embarrassed.
"I'm sorry, Colonel, I'm so excited. If you have anything to ask, just tell me and I'll do my best to help you."
Regarding Mayor Dursley's performance, Fang Lang smiled slightly and said:
"I have just said that the group plans to set up a bank in Natal. I need the mayor to allocate a piece of land in the city center for the construction of a bank building."
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Mayor Dursley stood up and walked to the window of his office, pointing to a two-story corridor opposite the Municipal Square:
"Colonel, take a look at the location across the street, opposite the City Hall and the Parliament. That two-story building was originally a cotton trading center built during the Portuguese colonial period.
There are two large warehouses at the back, which can be used as a bank."
Fang Lang also stood up and walked to the window, looking at the two-story building across the square. It was right on the side of the road, facing the City Hall and the Parliament, and the location was absolutely perfect.
"So this trading center is no longer in use now?"
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"The trading center is a brick and wood structure. It is too old and has become a dangerous building. No one trades here anymore.
The city government wanted to rebuild it a long time ago, but there was no suitable project, so it has been abandoned. It is the perfect place to build a bank building. "
"Okay, I'll have the person in charge of Fangyuan Group come to the city government tomorrow to discuss the land purchase."
Seeing that the issue of the bank's land had been basically settled, Fang Lang was ready to leave, but he saw that Mayor Dursley seemed to be a little conflicted and hesitant to speak.
Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Mr. Mayor, do you have anything else to say?"
Dursley clenched his fist as if he had made up his mind.
"Colonel, I heard you just say that you still want to open a salt works, right?"
Smiling and nodding, Fang Lang said strangely:
"Yes! As far as I know, sea salt has always been a dominant industry in Natal! What's wrong?"
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Dursley took two steps in the room, turned around and came to Fang Lang and whispered:
"If you want to open a saltworks, that's fine, but I would like to remind you that Natal salt can only be sold through the Natal Salt Company."
Fang Lang's face changed immediately after hearing this. What did he mean? Forced buying and selling, or threatening me?
Seeing Fang Lang's expression, Dursley was startled and quickly whispered:
"Colonel, please don't be angry. Let me tell you this! Natal is a small place with a small population. Some big families have strong roots in Natal and are very difficult to deal with!
Our Natal Salt Company is the property of one of these powerful families. The salt company has been established for more than two hundred years and the owner is a nobleman from the Portuguese period.
They all have certain connections in Congress. They are very low-key and never participate in the mayoral election or speaker election. However, no matter who the mayor or speaker is, they will be the deputy speaker or deputy mayor.
On top of that, there are a lot of them in the police station. Some people call them the underground mayors of Natal.”
This news surprised Fang Lang. He didn't expect that someone was already playing like this.
Isn't this the routine I prepared for myself? Someone has already started playing it before me.
Although he didn't know whether what Dursley said was true or false, or what his purpose was, he was very familiar with this routine!
Fang Lang smiled playfully and said:
"Oh! Is Mr. Mayor Dursley afraid of them too?"
This made Dursley look a little embarrassed. He smiled to cover it up before saying:
"Well... our family has been in Natal for many years, so we have some connections with this family."
Fang Lang touched his nose and said with a smile:
"Oh! Then why did Mr. Dursley tell me this? Isn't he afraid that I will tell them?"
This time, Mayor Dursley was not embarrassed, but said sincerely:
"Because I can feel that the Colonel really wants to do good for Natal and wants to change the current situation in Natal!"
After looking at the mayor with amusement, Fang Lang stood up, straightened his clothes and said:
"Then I'll go back first. I'll ask the person in charge of Fangyuan Group to visit the mayor tomorrow."
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the door. When he was about to open the office door, he suddenly seemed to remember something and turned back and said:
"Mr. Mayor, I think you haven't told me the name of this family yet!"
Mayor Dursley said in a voice that Fang Lang could just hear:
"The Yakub family, their head is Theodore Yakub."
Hearing the name, Fang Lang nodded, said nothing, opened the office door and walked out.
The guards standing on the left and right of the door followed immediately.
Sitting in the car on the way back, Fang Lang kept analyzing what Dursley said.
In fact, there is no need to worry about whether it is true or false, because if it is a lie, it will not stand up to investigation.
This family must have been real and must have had considerable influence in the Natal region.
This kind of thing is inevitable. Under normal circumstances, Fang Lang actually prefers to do business with such families because they are both low-key and powerful.
Get twice the result with half the effort.
But if you are not careful, they might devour you without leaving even a bone.
But in Natal, Fang Lang would not allow anyone to be more powerful than himself.
At this moment, Fang Lang suddenly wanted to have his own intelligence agency. At least he wouldn't end up in a place where he couldn't figure out the situation and was easily taken advantage of by others while helping them count money.
Thinking of intelligence agencies, Fang Lang remembered his friend Major Blackwell in the Intelligence Bureau.
I don’t know if they have this information about the country. There’s no point in thinking about it. Just make a phone call and ask.
Fang Lang returned to the office and called Major Blackwell directly.
"Blackwell? I'm Fang Lang!"
When Fang Lang introduced himself, hearty laughter came from the opposite side.
"Fang, I heard that you made a great contribution this time!"
"How can I hide my achievements from you? It seems that you are on General Dutra's side this time!"
"Hey! How can we choose sides? This intelligence agency sounds impressive, but after entering here, I found that we are not welcome at all. It is not as refreshing as the army."
"That's not right! Your intelligence agency is the largest intelligence agency in Brazil, how can it be unpopular? Doesn't the president need intelligence?"
"Of course Mr. President needs intelligence, but we won't give it to the President!"
This made Fang Lang stunned. Is there an intelligence agency that doesn't provide intelligence to the president?
“Doesn’t the Brazilian intelligence agency report to the president?”
"Of course not! Our Brazilian Intelligence Agency was established two years ago by the Ministry of National Defense. It is a military intelligence agency and will definitely not be accountable to the President!
Hey! We are brothers, and you are also a senior officer in the army, so there are some things I will not hide from you. However, there are some things I tell you, and you must not tell anyone else. "
"Don't tell me if it will have a bad influence on you. I don't want you to lose your job."
"That's definitely not the case. Let me tell you this! Don't be fooled by the fact that our department seems to be very powerful. In fact, we have only been established for a short time and have not even found our work direction yet.
The entire Brazilian Intelligence Agency is just a regimental-level unit, and the highest leader is our director, whose military rank is lieutenant colonel.
Before he became the Director of Intelligence, he was the Intelligence Staff Officer of the Army Department. And the reason why I was promoted to Major and joined the Intelligence Bureau was because I uncovered a Japanese disc in Sao Paulo.
I wanted the intelligence chief to think that I had experience in counterintelligence work. However, we brothers all know this matter very well. What counterintelligence work experience do I have?
After entering the Intelligence Bureau, I was very nervous! It was not so bad before, I just sat in an office and read the briefings sent in by various regions. However, after this Japanese mob incident!
The director asked me to set up a counterintelligence department, and I couldn't even refuse. He insisted that I had experience. What can I say?
If you hadn't called me, I would have taken some time to go to your place to avoid the limelight. Who would do this kind of counterintelligence?"
Now it was Fang Lang's turn to be dumbfounded. As a Chinese who came from a country that had already had intelligence agencies since the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
It was simply incomprehensible that a country's intelligence department would play such a joke. After thinking about it, I couldn't help but ask:
"You mean that our Brazilian Intelligence Agency, a military intelligence agency established after the start of World War II, is not accountable to the president?"
"Of course, although I don't know exactly which countries' military intelligence we are going to collect, we are responsible for collecting military intelligence."
At this time, Fang Lang finally remembered the news he saw on the Internet later, saying that Brazilian intelligence agencies had monitored the president's phone calls.
Fang Lang didn't understand it before, but now he finally understood. It turns out that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency has always served the military. No wonder the president didn't even get wind of such a big thing.
Fang Lang couldn't help but laugh when he heard Blackwell say that he didn't even know which countries' military intelligence he should collect.
No wonder the Brazilian Intelligence Agency is not so famous in later generations, because it seems that it really has no enemies, and its only competitor is Argentina in South America.
The only war between China and Argentina in South America was the one that broke out in 1825 over Uruguay.
Of course, Brazil lost this battle. But at that time, Brazil had just gained independence from Portugal. It was not yet a United States, but an empire. The first emperor was the son of the Portuguese emperor.
Perhaps, it was precisely because Brazil had no enemies in South America that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency later focused its main efforts on collecting internal intelligence!
No wonder the Brazilian military has always been so arrogant in Brazil, able to launch a coup and overthrow the president at any time.
Think about the Americans’ CIA, FBI, and so many other agencies, but none of them can directly ignore the president!
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