Xin Shiliang knew Fang Lang's current political stance. It could be said that he and President Dutra were in the same boat. Now, when he heard Fang Lang decisively choose to find a new candidate to support because Dutra chose to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, he still felt that it was a bit hasty. So after thinking about it, he decided to try to keep him.
"Boss, President Dutra still has three years left in his term. Are we being too hasty?"
Fang Lang shook his head firmly upon hearing this:
"I don't believe you don't understand how unwise President Dutra's active choice of sides is. In his opinion, with the support of the Americans, he can ignore the Soviet Union. Little does he know that this is just a pawn for the Americans.
Given the scumbag nature of Americans, if he continues to lick, he will end up with nothing.
Although his actions may bring short-term prosperity to Brazil's economy, anyone with a little political acumen will understand the serious political consequences of doing so, especially since he is not a politician and does not belong to any political party.
The reason why he ascended to the presidency was because he held military power in his hands, and the Social Democratic Party and the National Alliance needed him to face the counterattack from former President Vargas.
With his becoming president, coupled with the army's failure in suppressing the Eddie brothers' rebellion, the top brass of the Army Department underwent a purge, and the current Army Department is no longer the original Army Department.
Now that he has made another bad move, the Social Democratic Party and the National Alliance will definitely abandon him. The Labor Party has actually absorbed some of the Soviet Communist Party's theories, and many of them are pro-Soviet. Do you think they will support a president who actively demands to sever diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union?"
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After Fang Lang's analysis, Xin Shiliang instantly lost his confidence in President Dutra. It seemed that it would be very difficult for President Dutra to be re-elected.
"Should we try to convince Mr. Dutra to give up this idea before the policy is implemented?"
Fang Lang paused for a moment while holding the microphone, as if he was having a psychological struggle. Finally, he sighed and said:
“Forget it, the news has already spread. Even if he listens to our advice and gives up this idea, the negative impact has already taken shape.
Besides, this matter is obviously not just his opinion. There must be a large group of pro-American capitalists behind him who support this opinion. Our Fangyuan Group is also a representative of the pro-American faction. It is not appropriate to stand up and sing a different tune at this time, as it will easily be targeted by the Americans.
You should follow my request and hurry up and find a new presidential candidate!"
After Xin Shiliang on the other side of the phone heard Fang Lang's words, he also understood Fang Lang's thoughts, nodded, and said directly:
"Yes, Young Master, I will start looking for suitable candidates among the three political parties now."
After ending the call, Fang Lang sighed helplessly and leaned on his desk for a long time without saying anything. To be honest, President Dutra still respected him very much. After all, he had a very close relationship with the US military.
In addition, his initiative to send troops to join the war when the President took office made Dutra, who was a former Army Minister, look at him differently as a naval general. He was promoted to the rank of major general at a young age and controlled half of the Brazilian Navy's naval forces.
Without Dutra's support, it would not be so easy to achieve these. You know, there are many people in the navy who are very dissatisfied with his current position. If he had not led his fleet to win two military merits in peacetime, someone might have stood up.
Unfortunately, one wrong step led to another. It was unknown whether it was something the Americans said to him or the signing of the Rio de Janeiro Treaty that made him feel that he had found a backer. He suddenly came up with such a stupid move, and even Fang Lang felt a little sorry for him.
The development of the matter was exactly as Fang Lang had expected. On October 20, 1947, the Dutra government officially announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Public opinion was in an uproar for a time, and there were even two demonstrations involving thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
But all this had nothing to do with Fang Lang. He was just hiding in Natal and quietly observing the changes in the situation. He took the opportunity to ask the companies under Fangyuan Group to seize the time and take advantage of this honeymoon period between the United States and Brazil to obtain more technical support from the Americans.
At the same time, it ordered the Brazilian Development Bank and the Asset Management Company to increase support for small daily chemical products factories, while Fangyuan Group invested in the construction of a medium-sized hydropower station project on the Piranhas River in northwest Natal, officially starting to enter the energy field.
With this power station, the power shortage problem of the electrolytic aluminum plant that Fang Lang wanted to build was immediately solved. Then Fangyuan Group built the largest electrolytic aluminum plant in the Americas in Macao, a city in northern Natal.
The bauxite produced by the large bauxite mine of Brazil's Norte Mining Company located in Orijimina on the north bank of the Amazon River in Pará State no longer needs to be sold directly to the outside world. After all, as a shareholder of Norte Mining Company, Fang Lang still has the right to purchase bauxite first.
Of course, what this largest electrolytic aluminum manufacturing plant in the Americas wants is not only to absorb and digest the cheap bauxite from the northern mining industry, but more importantly, across the Atlantic Ocean is the world's largest bauxite producing area, Guinea in West Africa.
The fact that Fang Lang built an electrolytic aluminum plant here shows his huge ambition. He is confident that after several years of development, his Fangyuan Aluminum will become the leader in the world's aluminum products industry.
The aircraft and automobile manufacturing industries under Fangyuan Group are both major consumers of aluminum. These companies alone are more than enough to support the early development of this Dianjie Aluminum Factory.
At the same time, Fang Lang was more concerned about the opportunity to master the development technology of the hydropower station and enter the basic energy field in Brazil. Because he was the boss of Caterpillar, the hydropower equipment installed in the hydropower station was purchased from his own company.
In order to further develop hydropower technology in Brazil, Fang Lang directly arranged for Caterpillar to establish its own branch in Brazil, and began to invest heavily in the research and development of advanced hydropower equipment. At the same time, he built an engineering machinery manufacturing plant in Brazil.
This is to pave the way for the construction machinery orders needed for the upcoming European reconstruction plan. Of course, all of this takes a process. Just opening a factory requires a long process from land acquisition and demolition to factory construction completion to formal operation.
Fortunately, although the European reconstruction plan has now been basically determined, it will take some time before it is officially implemented, so there is still time for everything.
After all, European countries are still fighting over how much aid they should get! This obviously has nothing to do with Fang Lang.
Now he has set up a professional team of experts in the Global Group in the United States, which has entered Europe in advance to inspect some valuable industries and factories that possess core technologies. As long as the aid plan officially starts, he can make aid investments in these companies through the special status of the Bank for International Settlements.
Just when Fang Lang thought he could continue to sit on the sidelines and wait for the opportunity, the president of the Pan-European Highway Management Company, Yasini Hatun, came to him.
Fang Lang met him at a small farm built outside the Natal Naval Base. Looking at Yasini Hatun, who had flown over from Türkiye, Fang Lang asked curiously:
"Mr. Hartung, I wonder why you are in such a hurry to see me?"
Yasini Hatun was a middle-aged white man with an exquisite mustache. He looked very elegant in a well-tailored suit. This was not the first time Fang Lang had met him. When he came to interview the CEO of the Pan-European Highway Management Company, Fang Lang was deeply shocked by his scholarly temperament.
After some understanding, it turned out that the other party was a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The reason he came to this company for an interview was because he was attracted by this highway that would allow him to go down in history.
Fang Lang didn't mind his purpose. With such a talent, the employees in the company could learn more from him. In addition, with this guy's participation, the route planning of the highway construction was indeed much smoother.
However, Yasini Hatun seemed to have suffered some setbacks and looked unhappy. Sure enough, the other party's answer later confirmed Fang Lang's guess.
"Boss, our highway construction plan in Turkey may be ruined?"
Fang Lang was stunned by these words. The Pan-European Highway Management Company was jointly established by his Global Group, the Morgan Consortium, and the Rockefeller Group. He did not expect that the first project he had just started would encounter resistance.
"Oh! Can you tell me what happened in detail?"
“The Turkish government said that highways are government infrastructure and that there is no problem if they want to build highways locally, but they must own shares.”
Fang Lang didn't feel angry when he heard this. In his opinion, such a request was not excessive. After all, every country has its own policies. When his hometown was reformed and opened up, didn't it also require joint ventures to distribute shares? Besides, the land belonged to the other party, so he could accept the other party's request for shares.
"That doesn't matter! We are here to do business. As long as it can make us money, it doesn't matter if we bring in their local capital!"
“However, they only intended to invest in the land needed to build the highway, but demanded absolute controlling rights and put forward their own requirements for the route planning and operation of the highway.
If we follow their requirements, we won’t be able to make any profit at all, and the entire project will become a free aid project.”
As soon as these words came out, Fang Lang frowned.
"Have you made it clear to him that this project is not an economic aid project of the US government, but a commercial project of our company to help them restore traffic as soon as possible."
When Fang Lang said this, Yasini Hatun touched his nose awkwardly and said:
"Boss, Türkiye is not a belligerent country, and the war did not take place on their soil. Therefore, the country was not affected much by the war, and the infrastructure is intact."
Fang Lang was stunned by these words. He didn't know much about Türkiye. He didn't expect that the war did not break out on Turkish territory. What a stroke of luck.
"That's not right! Türkiye is one of the victorious countries in the European war! During the war, Türkiye's western neighbors Greece and Bulgaria were occupied by the Axis powers. How could Türkiye not be a belligerent country?"
After hearing this, Yasini Hatun coughed twice and then spoke slowly with a bit of embarrassment. It seemed that he felt a little ridiculous that the other party didn't even know this.
"Boss, Türkiye was a neutral country during the war until February 1945, when the war was about to end, when they hastily announced that they would join the Allies in declaring war on Germany.
As far as I know, there is a very interesting story here. At that time, British Prime Minister Churchill told the Turkish Prime Minister that they would only accept countries that declared war on the Axis Powers before March 5, 1945 to join the Allies.
It was already the end of February and it happened to be Sunday, so the members of the Turkish Parliament were on vacation and could not vote to declare war on the Axis powers. Finally, the Prime Minister had all the members of parliament brought to the parliament and explained the situation.
Then, on Sunday, the parliamentarians voted unanimously to declare war on the Axis powers. That’s why Türkiye became the victorious country.”
"Oh my god, there is such a thing. These politicians in Türkiye are really powerful!"
After hearing what happened, Fang Lang did not mean to look down on Turkey. On the contrary, he admired Turkey's action very much. You know, Turkey's location is very important. The Turkish Straits in its territory is an important transportation route connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and is known as the throat of the world.
I remember that the big ship my family bought from Ukraine was blocked in this strait by these bastards.
He had never expected that during World War II, neither Germany nor the Soviet Union controlled the strait, but allowed Turkey to remain neutral. However, thinking about it, perhaps it was because this transportation route was too important that neither Germany nor the Soviet Union took action!
These Turkish politicians have been able to remain calm, not join any side, firmly maintain neutrality, and get benefits from both sides. Needless to say, Fang Lang can imagine how much benefits the Allies and the Axis powers have to pay in order to win over this neutral country that controls the throat of the Black Sea.
No wonder now that I want to build a highway in Türkiye, the other party is somewhat indifferent and asks for an exorbitant price!
If this is true, Turkey really needs to think carefully about its highway plan. After all, other countries have no pressure to rebuild, so how could they be willing to let them make money easily?
However, Fang Lang soon thought of the upcoming Peninsula War. Turkey, a country that did not even participate in World War II, actually sent more than 5,000 troops to join the so-called United Nations Army. This made Fang Lang feel very uncomfortable.
This number of troops ranked fourth, only a few hundred less than Canada. Of course, in the end they also became the country with the third largest casualties and retreated back home in embarrassment.
When he thought about all this, and considering Türkiye's current situation, Fang Lang really didn't want to get involved in providing aid to Turkey at all.
Now the business of the Whip of God military contracting company under his command has not been expanded in Turkey, because there is no war in Turkey at present. All they need is various military supplies support.
The reason why Americans strongly support Turkey is simply because Turkey's location is too important. After the war, the iron father in the north proposed to build a military base in Istanbul.
For the Turkish government, this is simply an infringement of their sovereignty, so they threw themselves into the arms of Europe and the United States without hesitation.
In fact, Fang Lang now thinks that if the Iron Father had not made such a request, Türkiye might have remained neutral in the US-Soviet rivalry, just like it did in World War II.
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