In fact, this has to do with everyone's perspective. In Ji Wanchang's eyes, Fang Lang's advice to him was to help the Malayan Chinese community, and everyone should remember his contribution.
It would be best to promote it vigorously and establish Fang Lang's image. In the future, Fang Lang will help them with more advice and suggestions.
In the eyes of Fang Lang, Fang Xinshui and others, as we are all Chinese, if you want to fight for an independent new country for the Chinese in Malaya, we will fully support it.
It's only natural for me to give you advice.
But now your enemy is the British. Although they have declined, their influence is still there. If they knew that their Brazilian generals were actually helping the anti-British forces, they might put pressure on the Brazilian government.
This affected Fang Lang's position in Brazil.
Therefore, neither Fang Lang nor Fang Xinshui wanted the British to discover their existence.
Although Ji Wanchang didn't understand why Fang Xinshui didn't want people to know about Mr. Fang's existence, but now that he needed help from others, he could only hold his nose and allow the other party to threaten him.
"Master Fang, please rest assured! Since you think we should keep Mr. Fang's existence a secret, I will strictly enforce it.
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However, our business still needs Mr. Fang's guidance. If we encounter problems that we cannot solve, I hope you can help me contact Mr. Fang and answer our questions.
Ji will definitely reward you handsomely in due time."
Fang Xinshui naturally would not refuse this. Without thinking too much, he nodded and agreed to the other party's request.
At the same time, Fang Lang had already returned to the Overseas Chinese Village. He went out to practice martial arts early in the morning and went to Hongyi Hall to discuss things in the afternoon. Fang Lang had no time to accompany his girlfriend.
So, after talking about business, he hurried back to the village to accompany his girlfriend.
"Oh my goodness! Honey, is our hospital so big?"
Before it got dark, Fang Lang took Lilith and Vivian to the hospital construction site to inspect the hospital's construction progress.
After seeing the hospital's plan, Lilith couldn't believe her eyes. She thought Fang Lang just wanted to build a small hospital.
But who would have known that Fang Lang had actually built it based on those famous large-scale tertiary hospitals in later generations.
Therefore, both the building area and the scale of the hospital were far beyond Lilith's expectations.
Hearing Lilith's sigh, Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Haha... honey, this is just the beginning. What I want to build is not an ordinary small hospital, but a large-scale research-based comprehensive hospital.
Treating patients is only its basic function. I hope to make it a medical institution that integrates teaching and research.
In the future, many medical laboratories will be set up here for doctors, experts, and professors from all over the world to conduct medical experiments.
These will all be left to you to manage.”
When Lilith heard this, she felt a huge pressure and stuttered:
"Ah! But...but I'm still just a student! I'm still learning even the most basic medical knowledge!"
Fang Lang heard this and smiled:
"Don't worry! I'm not asking you to start management right now. Aren't you still learning?
Besides, managing a hospital doesn’t require you to have a high level of medical skills.
Besides studying, you can ask Olivia Berger for some management knowledge. He is a top student who graduated from a related major. We should learn to fully exploit his surplus value. "
Upon hearing this, Lilith rolled her eyes at Fang Lang and said:
"What are you talking about!"
Vivian, who was standing by, smiled as if she had been caught by me:
"Okay, honey! I'm going to tell Olivia that you want to drain her dry."
When Fang Lang heard this, he felt as if something was not right. For a moment he didn't know how to respond.
Instead, Lilith patted her sister on the shoulder, signaling her not to talk nonsense.
He turned to Fang Lang and said:
"Honey, do you think Olivia will be bored in Rio de Janeiro alone? Should we arrange for someone to bring her over?"
Fang Lang looked at Lilith helplessly, thinking that bringing two girlfriends home this time had already made his father very unhappy.
If I bring Olivia Berger back, when my family asks me about it, I guess no one would believe me if I say I'm an assistant at Universal Studios.
She might even think she was his third girlfriend. Although he didn't mind having Olivia be the third one, Olivia's uncle was now the vice president of his media company.
It would be bad if he knew about it, so I said nonchalantly:
"She came here to visit her uncle, how could she be bored?"
Lilith glanced at Fang Lang with a half-smile and said:
"Do you think she really came to see her uncle?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Lang looked at Lilith with a puzzled look and asked:
"What else?"
The girl Vivian was already standing by, and she spoke without hesitation:
"My dear, you are so hypocritical. I don't believe that you have no feelings for Sister Olivia!
Otherwise, you would let such a beautiful sister be your personal secretary.
Humph! Hypocrisy! "
These words made Fang Lang look embarrassed. This time, Lilith on the side also looked at Fang Lang with a smile on her face, wanting to see how he was going to answer.
As soon as Fang Lang looked towards Lilith for help, he saw an expression that looked like she was enjoying a good show.
I could only shrug helplessly and say:
“Okay! I admit that Olivia is beautiful, but I promise that I only love you guys!
Besides, what does this have to do with whether she came to see her uncle or not?"
Weiweian nonchalantly hugged Fang Lang's right arm and said jokingly:
"My dear, the elders always say that a man has roses in his mouth, but it is not true at all!
If you say you love us, I believe you! But if you say you only love us, I don’t believe it!
hey-hey……"
Lilith also said:
"Well, dear, you are really dishonest. Whether Olivia is here to see her uncle or not, since you are in Brazil, you should show your hospitality."
After hearing this, Fang Lang thought seriously for a while, and then said to Lilith with a serious face:
"Yes! What Lilith said makes sense. Hospitality is our Chinese tradition.
A friend has come from afar to my hometown, and it is really necessary for me to give her a warm welcome.
Then I will have someone buy him a ticket to Sao Paulo tomorrow morning."
Lilith rolled her eyes at Fang Lang in annoyance. Vivian, who was holding Fang Lang's arm, pinched Fang Lang's arm and said unhappily:
"Humph! What a hypocritical man!"
Fang Lang looked ahead as if he was unaware of anything and continued to discuss the hospital's future construction plans and development blueprint with Lilith.
Vivian and Lilith did not continue to argue, but instead looked at their men who were commanding with admiration.
Of course, it is impossible for Fang Lang to have a complete vacation this time.
Fang Lang, who had a rare chance to return to São Paulo, arrived at the artillery factory early the next morning accompanied by Qi Qingshan and other guards.
The factory is located in a very remote area, nearly three hours' drive from the city.
When Fang Lang and others arrived at the factory, the chief engineer of the artillery factory, Girard Bull, had already been waiting at the door of the artillery factory.
The moment they saw Fang Lang coming, they went to greet him without hesitation. The two shook hands and complained:
"Boss, you finally came to see us.
I thought you were very dissatisfied with my work! That’s why you dislike our artillery factory!”
Upon hearing this, Fang Lang shook hands with the other party and patted his arm with his left hand.
“How is that possible? Although I don’t have time to visit you at the factory, I have heard a lot about you.
Well, I just heard that your 155mm howitzer has been finalized, so I came to take a look during my vacation.
I heard that our model is nearly 100 kilograms lighter than its prototype, the American M1A1 model? "
Speaking of his products, Girard Bourna said with pride:
“Yes, Boss!
We have replaced the materials of some non-essential steel parts on the artillery with lighter aluminum alloys.
Although the weight of the artillery has been reduced, its performance has not been affected at all.
The military representative on site was very satisfied with the artillery we produced ourselves and has submitted a report to the Ministry of National Defense.
Once the Ministry of National Defense has completed the inspection, we can start supplying the military.”
Fang Lang nodded after hearing this, and the two of them walked into the artillery production workshop accompanied by a large group of people.
Girard Bull walked in front and kept introducing the production process and processing equipment of artillery to Fang Lang.
Although some of the equipment looks second-hand, it is obvious that there is no impact on its use.
Among them, there are also many brand-new processing equipment.
In his previous life, Fang Lang had only heard of electroslag remelting, but this time he saw the real thing in the factory.
According to Girard Bull, he used his own connections to obtain this most advanced processing equipment from the United States.
After visiting the entire manufacturing process of the factory, Fang Lang finally understood why the artillery produced by the artillery factory could reach the performance level of the original.
It turned out that in addition to the equipment that Fang Lang shipped from Japan, the factory also purchased a large number of more advanced equipment from the United States.
Most of the workers in the factory are American. No wonder the products can achieve the current performance level. It’s no different from being produced in the United States!
This is not what Fang Lang wants, so after visiting the artillery's shooting limit experiment.
After returning to Girard Bull's office, Fang Lang spoke directly:
“Girard, I am very satisfied that you were able to quickly enable the artillery factory to have real artillery production capabilities and to carry out improvements and innovations.
But I noticed that many positions in the factory use technical workers hired from the United States, which will greatly increase our management costs.
I believe the cost of the artillery we produce now is definitely higher than that produced in the United States, right?"
Girard Bull, who thought he would continue to be praised, did not expect that the first question his boss asked in the office would be the cost issue that he was most reluctant to mention.
However, this is indeed an unavoidable fact, so he could only bite the bullet and say to Fang Lang:
“Yes, our production costs are 15 percent higher than those of American factories.
Among them, labor costs accounted for 5%, and the other 10% was because we used new materials to reduce weight.
In addition, we are currently only producing small batches for testing and acceptance, so the cost is relatively high.”
When Fang Lang heard this, he thought, "It's true!"
He knew that this would take a process and it would not be possible to achieve it in one step, so he smiled and said:
“It’s okay. I understand that what we need to solve first is whether there is a problem or not. If the cost is a little higher after the innovation, it is acceptable.
However, you have to understand that our factory's target customers are not just the Brazilian military. You have to know that the Brazilian military alone cannot support such a large artillery factory.
If we want to survive, our products must go global and compete with products from Europe and the United States. If our costs are higher than theirs, it will be detrimental to our sales.
American skilled workers are very useful, but the cost is too high.
So, I hope you can find a way to train more cheap local skilled workers for us.
To reduce our production costs. Do you understand what I mean?"
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