Chapter 725: Influence



Fang Lang absolutely did not believe that the United States would give up interfering in Brazil's internal affairs again, but after the rebellion, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs did make solemn representations to the United States and protested against the matter at the United Nations General Assembly.

The US government has made its position very clear. If it does not want to completely fall out with Brazil, it should indeed learn to stop.

After all, after this incident, public opinion in other countries put tremendous pressure on the US government. In addition, during this period of the US-Soviet rivalry, the United States did not gain an absolute advantage and was even at a disadvantage.

The Soviet government's clear attitude of supporting Brazil in this matter, as well as the rapidly warming diplomatic relations between the Brazilian and Soviet governments, have put tremendous diplomatic pressure on the US government.

For this reason, the US Ambassador to Brazil even visited Fang Lang again in a low-key manner, repeatedly emphasizing the deep friendship between Brazil and the United States, and explicitly and implicitly reminding Fang Lang of the US government's strong support for Global Group's industries.

Fang Lang also made his attitude very clear to the other party. He strongly condemned the shameless behavior of the US CIA in trying to subvert the Brazilian government. He also recognized the deep friendship between the two countries, and also expressed his good impression of the United States and the position that both sides belong to the capitalist social camp.

Finally, he said that if the US government could re-examine and recognize Brazil as an ally of the United States, he would find a way to maintain the normalization of the relationship between Brazil and the United States. Of course, the US government also needs to pay a small price for this. And these prices are mainly in the exchange of advanced science and technology between Fangyuan Group and American high-tech enterprises.

From the beginning to the end, Fang Lang never mentioned asking the US government to admit their mistakes, nor did he ask the US government to openly compensate Brazil. Because this was simply impossible, and everyone knew this.

Fang Lang proposed the exchange between Fangyuan Group and American high-tech enterprises. In the eyes of Americans, this was the price the US government had to pay to persuade Fang Lang to promote policy changes in the Brazilian government. And this price was too simple for politicians who were good at exchanging interests.

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This also allowed them to see a new way to control Brazil. After all, the Americans were well aware of Fang Lang's family's influence on Brazilian politics, otherwise he, the American ambassador, would not have come to communicate with Fang Lang.

Afterwards, the Brazilian government did not continue to investigate the matter. The US government further confirmed the influence of the Fang family on the Brazilian government. For this reason, they began to adjust their direction and strengthen the cooperation between American companies and Fangyuan Group to bind Fangyuan Group, thereby achieving the goal of indirectly influencing Brazilian politics.

Fang Lang turned a blind eye to this. Apart from reminding Fangyuan Group to be more vigilant against Americans, he did not refuse such cooperation.

This brought huge benefits to the Fang family. The first to benefit was Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Although the United States had its own advanced military fighter jets, it had no interest in the fighter jets that Fangyuan Group was developing.

However, the jet airliner developed by Fangyuan Group surprisingly obtained the US airworthiness certificate easily. With the US airworthiness certificate, the European airworthiness problem was naturally solved. Then, the commercial airliner orders produced by Fangyuan Group began to soar rapidly in Europe and the United States.

At the same time, the G3 assault rifle and MP5 submachine gun developed by Fangyuan Military Industry Group have also been favored by a part of the US military, and a number of orders have been placed with Fangyuan Military Industry Group, which makes the Brazilian government very excited.

In the past, Brazil purchased military equipment from the United States, but now the United States is purchasing it from Brazil. What does this mean? It means that the equipment produced in Brazil is more advanced than that of the United States. The national self-confidence of Brazilians is unprecedentedly high, and their sense of identification with Fangyuan Group has reached an unprecedented level.

With the precedent set by the Americans, Europe naturally did not want to lag behind. Everyone paid attention to Brazil, an emerging military equipment powerhouse. The trainer aircraft, fighter jets, transport aircraft, helicopters developed by Embraer, and even the Tiger 1 tanks that the army had just begun to equip, as well as the navy's destroyers and conventional-powered submarines, all entered the sight of governments of various countries.

Compared to the high prices of American equipment and the political conditions attached to it, Brazil's products are obviously much purer. Not only are they cheap and of good quality, but they are also available in large quantities. There are no additional conditions at all. As long as you pay, they will sell. This has allowed Brazil to rise rapidly in the world arms market and obtain a large number of orders.

Fangyuan Group's military-industrial group also received a large amount of research funds as a result, and the progress of equipment research and development has been significantly accelerated. The most obvious thing is that various missiles have been finalized, and even the Americans couldn't help but look sideways.

After achieving such results, the relationship between Fangyuan Group and the military naturally became closer, and Fang Lang's influence in the military also increased with the end of the rebellion. Gradually, the Brazilian army even had a vague feeling of being the bodyguards of Fangyuan Group.

In addition to the military industry, Fangyuan Group's greatest achievement is in the field of electronic computers, especially the development of silicon crystals based on Bell Laboratories in the United States, which has brought transistor technology to a whole new level.

It is precisely because of the successful research on silicon crystals, coupled with Fang Lang's full support and huge investment in electronic computers regardless of cost, that Brazil has taken the lead in becoming a world leader in the field of electronic computers.

The breakthrough in transistor technology, in addition to bringing huge benefits to the electronic computer industry, has also made the performance of electronic equipment on Brazilian missiles and aircraft leapfrog, making these products far more competitive in the market.

At the same time, because Fang Lang was a shareholder of Bell Labs, he knew that Bell Labs had developed a groundbreaking mobile phone technology at the same time as the transistor. Perhaps others were not sure about the prospects of this technology.

Fang Lang, who came from the future, was very aware of how huge the communications market would be in the future. Therefore, he immediately obtained technical authorization for related products from Bell Labs.

A mobile communications technology company was established in Brazil, the United States and Europe respectively. Of course, the company was not large in the early stage, and it did not directly research future mobile phones at the first time. Instead, it developed the most popular pager technology in the 1990s.

They planned to reap the benefits of BB machine technology first, and then enter the mobile phone era. Because with the guidance of Fang Lang, who was far-sighted and visionary, the communication technology company would naturally avoid many detours.

With the transistor and mobile communication technology, Fangyuan Group naturally took the lead in the world in the field of electronic technology. Fang Lang believed that as long as he did not make any big mistakes, the income from this area alone would guarantee the Fang family's wealth for a hundred years.

Of course, in addition to the European and American markets, Fang Lang has not forgotten the Asian market. After all, Japan and the South Peninsula, two of the future four Asian tigers, have made considerable achievements in the electronics industry.

It can even be said that the leading position of the electronics industry will provide tremendous support for the products of these two countries to become so famous in the world in the future. Just look at the famous Samsung and Sony in later generations to get a glimpse of the situation.

However, with the emergence of Fang Lang, the two countries' technology in transistors was restricted from the beginning. If they wanted to produce such equipment, they could only purchase core parts from Fangyuan Group and assemble them locally.

Fangyuan Group also banned them from conducting research in this area. Once any company wanted to conduct research in this area, they would encounter various obstacles. In the end, these companies either went bankrupt or were acquired and split by Fangyuan Group. They were completely reduced to assembly plants of Fangyuan Group.

In the field of automobile manufacturing, the three automobile factories under Fangyuan Group also began to expand their technology under the guidance of Fang Lang. After Porsche Brazil became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fangyuan Group, it was renamed Fangyuan Automobile.

Mass production of the Beetle and Fangyuan vans began. These two models quickly occupied the low-end civilian car market due to their simple structure, stable performance and low price.

Fang Lang then began to learn the development models of Volkswagen and Toyota, and began to expand Fangyuan Automobile rapidly around the world. He expanded the influence of Fangyuan Automobile on a large scale by establishing joint ventures with powerful capitalists in other countries.

Fangyuan Automobile quickly became popular all over the world because of its affordable price, squeezing out and swallowing up the market of other automobile brands. Because Fangyuan Automobile took the lead, even Volkswagen of Germany was suppressed and had no power to fight back.

Finally, it was directly acquired by Fangyuan Automobile Group and became Fangyuan Automobile's joint venture factory in Europe.

The Fangyuan automobile factory in Asia naturally does not need a joint venture, because long before the outbreak of the Korean War, the Global Group had already taken complete control of a series of automobile factories including Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi, taking advantage of the cold winter period of the Japanese automobile industry.

During the Korean War, these factories produced a large number of military trucks for the United Nations forces. Unfortunately, unlike in history, the factory owners are no longer Japanese, but the American capital giant Global Group.

After the end of the Peninsula War, Global Group directly reached a cooperation agreement with Fangyuan Group. After integrating these factories, they directly became the Asian factory of Fangyuan Automobile Group.

In the U.S. market, Fangyuan Group, with the help of Global Group and Rockefeller Foundation, directly established a local automobile factory, allowing Fangyuan Automobile, a Brazilian brand, to directly enter the U.S. market.

Ultimately, Fangyuan Automobile became a global civilian automobile brand.

Unlike Fangyuan Auto, Mercedes-Benz Brazil has chosen the mid-range route. Of course, Mercedes-Benz itself does not admit that they are a mid-range car brand, but at least they are a high-end car brand. And the models they design and produce are indeed worthy of the positioning of high-end models.

Among them, the most successful representative works are naturally the Mercedes-Benz 190SL named Mercedes-Benz-Rudolf by Fang Lang, and the tiger-head Mercedes-Benz model with Fang Lang's handwriting.

It has to be said that the appearance of these two models really amazed the entire automotive industry, and instantly made Mercedes-Benz Brazil rank among the world's high-end automobiles. The products produced were sold out immediately, making Mercedes-Benz Brazil earn a lot of money.

Later, Mercedes-Benz Brazil, like Fangyuan Motors, entered the era of global expansion and directly merged with its original parent company, Mercedes-Benz of Germany, becoming another world high-end automobile brand.

Unlike the previous two car companies, Fang Lang did not push the Aston Martin car brand towards global expansion. Instead, he divided Aston Martin into three factories: one for luxury customized business cars, one for super sports cars that pursue extreme speed, and the other for military off-road vehicles that are not very eye-catching but have a large output.

These three factories have one thing in common, that is, except for the R&D base in the UK, they only produce in Brazil. If other countries want to buy models of this brand, they can only choose to import them completely.

Although this will greatly restrict the development of the Aston Martin factory, Fang Lang does not care much about it. The reason for doing so is to maintain Aston Martin's top luxury car brand image.

After all, he, who came from the future, knew that the real top luxury brands such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley would never produce these real top luxury cars in other countries.

What he wanted was to maintain the image of top luxury customization, and in order to maintain the normal profits of the factory, he also entrusted them with the production of military jeeps.

Of course, the specific design and production of luxury cars are not entirely completed in Brazil, because the Aston Martin factory in the UK, although mainly engaged in design and research and development, also needs to survive. Sometimes some orders are also given to them for production.

With the rapid development of these three automobile brands, not only has Brazil's automobile industry been pushed to the world's leading stage, but it has also pushed a car event that Fang Lang casually arranged to an unprecedented height.

The special plateau terrain of Brazil makes this track extremely difficult. In addition, Fangyuan Group has deliberately arranged that any passenger car must be tested on this track before it is put on the market, and the vehicle will be scored based on its lap performance.

The ability to score high on this track was used as a selling point for the vehicle, which gradually promoted this humble track to the world. Later, other brands were almost embarrassed to sell their cars unless they achieved a good score on this track.

This has made this originally inconspicuous track a world-famous track. For this reason, the Brazilian government cooperated with Brazilian TV to hold a car racing competition on this track every March and April.

With the participation of the three major automobile giants under Fangyuan Group, it is impossible for this event not to be influential. The events held here every year alone have brought huge profits to the local government, and both the tourism and service industries have achieved extraordinary achievements.

Compared with the high profile of the three automobile groups under Fangyuan Group, the high-precision machine tool industry of Fangyuan Group is much more low-key. To say that it is low-key does not mean that its product quality is not good. On the contrary, its product quality and precision are world-leading in the specific field of machine tools.

If it had not been for the secret sale of high-precision machine tools to its hometown, which had led to it being targeted by the United States and then strongly suppressed by the United States around the world, this machine tool brand under Fangyuan Group would have already become world-famous.

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