But even though the US government tried every means to suppress it, it could not stop Fangyuan Machine Tools from going out of Brazil and into the world, becoming a high-tech product in the minds of machine tool industry practitioners.
Because, under Fang Lang's promotion, this machine tool factory was one of the first companies to combine electronic computers and machine tools to develop CNC machine tools.
Because of Brazil's world-leading position in the field of electronic computers, the CNC machine tools produced by Fangyuan Group are far ahead of other brands of machine tools in the world in terms of CNC.
This forced the United States to finally stop its efforts, but under such circumstances, Fangyuan Group's machine tool enterprises could not be too ostentatious, so they were not well-known outside the professional field. They even did not think about vigorously promoting the company's products.
The orders brought by the group's automotive brand expansion alone are enough to keep the machine tool factory full, and many customers who have used the company's machine tools recognize the company's products from the bottom of their hearts.
Because the company did not want to offend the Americans too much, the company did not sell its products to the Soviet Union. For this reason, the Soviet Union spared no expense and commissioned its own company to purchase the corresponding products from Brazil and then ship them back to the Soviet Union through its own company.
After using Fangyuan Group’s high-tech processing equipment, the factory in my hometown replaced the machining equipment of many key enterprises with those manufactured by Fangyuan Group.
In order to cooperate with Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company to manufacture more advanced aircraft, the machine tool manufacturing plant has also invested heavily in research and development, which greatly ensures that the technical strength of the machine tool processing factory is always at the world's advanced level.
It also made Fangyuan Machine Tool Factory a major and influential brand in the world machine tool industry.
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There is another company in Fangyuan Group that is as low-key as the machine tool factory, that is Fangyuan Pharmaceutical. This factory started out by manufacturing penicillin. In addition to supplying the domestic market in Brazil, most of its products were shipped to its hometown in exchange for a large number of laborers and immigrants.
Therefore, this company is not very prominent among the many industries of Fangyuan Group. However, with the liberation of my hometown, the business of the labor dispatch company and immigration company, which were very prosperous at the time, began to shrink on a large scale and undergo transformation. In addition to maintaining basic company operations, a large number of the company's employees were diverted to the import and export trade and tourism service industries.
The penicillin production line that Fangyuan Pharmaceutical had set up in exchange for population naturally could not be left to waste. At the same time, Fang Lang also knew what a huge blue ocean the pharmaceutical industry was.
Therefore, the products produced by Fangyuan Pharmaceutical's excess production capacity were put on the European and American markets at a relatively low price. During the entire Peninsula War, penicillin produced by Fangyuan Pharmaceutical also became an important drug for the United Nations Army.
To this end, Fangyuan Pharmaceutical also acquired a Japanese pharmaceutical company, moved a production line here, and expanded into the Asian pharmaceutical market.
At the same time, Fangyuan Pharmaceuticals established a large pharmaceutical research institute in Brazil and started the research and development of various antibiotics. In addition, because there are many Chinese people in Brazil, traditional Chinese medicine has a huge market in Brazil, which naturally led to the popularity of traditional Chinese medicine products in Brazil.
To this end, Fangyuan Pharmaceutical collected a lot of precious traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions from its hometown, ranging from Angong Niuhuang Pills to Huoluo Oil, and various medicines began to enrich Fangyuan Pharmaceutical's product line, allowing Fangyuan Pharmaceutical to transform from a penicillin manufacturer to a pharmaceutical giant.
In addition to medicine, Fang Lang also early on allowed Fangyuan Pharmaceutical to enter the medical equipment manufacturing industry. In addition to the most basic surgical tools, he also began to research some electrocardiograms, B-ultrasound machines, X-ray machines, and even some expensive medical consumables.
It not only promoted the rapid development of Fangyuan Medicine, but also made Fang Lang's wife Lilith's medical career a huge success. After all, the family not only has its own hospital, but also has a huge pharmaceutical group to support it.
When they wanted to have surgery, Fangyuan Medical could provide them with many equipment that they didn't have before or that they thought of temporarily. In many cases, Lilith only needed to propose a surgical idea, and the technicians in the equipment factory would take the initiative to start research around it.
This not only rapidly improved Lilith's medical skills, but also rapidly increased the strength of Fangyuan Hospital. A large number of medical masters began to emerge in the hospital. The number of medical papers published also began to increase rapidly.
New medical theories emerge one after another, gradually making this Fangyuan Hospital in Brazil a world-renowned hospital.
Comparable to the achievements in these industrial fields are the achievements made by Fangyuan Group in the energy industry. Among them, power plants in Brazil have developed the fastest, from medium-sized thermal power plants in the beginning to large-scale hydropower plants and wind power plants in the new energy field.
Under the integration of Fangyuan Power Group, Brazil's domestic electricity has completed a nationwide network, and the annual electricity output has completely solved Brazil's industrial needs.
Fangyuan Group's electrolytic aluminum plant continued to expand, and gradually became the world's largest aluminum manufacturer. It not only consumed all the bauxite resources of Northern Mining, but also consumed 70% of the raw ore from Guinea, which ranks first in the world in terms of bauxite reserves, across the Atlantic.
This will allow Brazil to completely get rid of its status as a raw material exporter of bauxite.
At the same time, due to the surge in industrial demand in Brazil and the backing of world-class iron ore resources such as Vale, Fangyuan Group's achievements in steel smelting have also attracted worldwide attention.
The steel produced can not only meet the needs of Fangyuan’s military industry, but also meet the needs of civilian automobiles, shipbuilding, infrastructure and other fields.
There is even a large amount of excess capacity spreading to the South American and African markets, making Brazil the country with the highest steel production in the world.
In today's international community, steel production is equal to a country's strength. Fangyuan Group's achievements in the steel industry have directly pushed Brazil's international status to a new height.
This has brought about a qualitative leap in Brazil's international status, and even the United States does not dare to provoke it easily.
On the other hand, due to the easing of relations with the United States, Fangyuan Group's actions in the world oil market have become more frequent and bold. It has not only taken up 80% of Angola's oil share, but has also actively intervened in the crude oil exploration field in Nigeria and Congo.
In the African oil market, Fangyuan Petrochemical has become a well-deserved leading enterprise and has a great say in Africa's oil production.
Logically speaking, Africa's oil resources are more than enough to meet Brazil's oil needs, but Fangyuan Petrochemical did not stop there, but continued to quietly extend its tentacles into the American bowl.
The two small countries in the Persian Gulf also obtained a considerable share of oil. The US government turned a blind eye to this and did not pursue it excessively.
Because at this time, Fangyuan Group has become a world economic giant, and its many subsidiaries are almost all Fortune 100 companies. Such a company naturally has very close cooperation with American capital.
If the U.S. government wants to take action against them, it will directly cause a chain reaction among a large number of American companies. In this case, unless the president of the U.S. government is crazy, he will not take action against Fangyuan Group regardless of the consequences.
Compared with Fangyuan Group's absolute dominance in Brazil, Global Group is much more low-key. Since it was worried that the Americans would take action against Fanglang's industry, Global Group began to transfer its assets from the United States and shifted its focus from the United States to Europe and Asia.
Of course, this transfer was also quite mild and did not cause dissatisfaction from the US government. On the contrary, Global Group reduced Fang Lang's influence in Global Group to a minimum by means of exchanging shares with other companies.
However, his control over the European and Asian branches did not decrease, but slightly increased, because the companies that exchanged shares with him in the United States were all powerful large capital consortiums.
Not only does it have a huge influence in the economic field, it also has a huge influence in politics. It almost reaches the point where it can decide the presidential candidate. This is why the Americans no longer dare to attack Brazil or Fangyuan Group.
Because if someone in the US government takes action against the Fang family again, it will not only affect the financial sponsor behind Brazil, but also the financial sponsor of the US president! Anyone with a clear mind will not do such a stupid thing.
Time passed unknowingly and it was 1959. After several years of all-out economic construction, Brazil's economy, driven by Fangyuan Group, achieved brilliant results.
The country's total economic output exceeds that of Germany and is slightly lower than that of the United Kingdom, ranking fourth in the world. Such an achievement has attracted the attention of people around the world.
The Fang family has also become the largest tycoon in Brazil and even in the world, and has considerable say in the world's economic and political fields.
It was also in this year that Fortune magazine in the United States attempted to list the Fang family as the most influential family chaebol in the world. Everyone in the Fang family was very excited about this.
But Fang Lang was very cautious about this and directly suppressed the matter through his influence. Everyone in the Fang family was very puzzled.
But Fang Lang knew that if a tree stands out in the forest, it will be destroyed by the wind. The Fang family was a little too high-profile now, which was not good news for them. Because it meant that everyone's attention would be focused on them.
Everyone knew that they were a piece of fat meat, and everyone wanted to take a bite. In order to avoid such a situation, Fang Lang quickly made a decision to let the Fang family slowly disappear from the front stage to the backstage, out of the sight of the world.
It is not difficult to do this, because many families in the world have already done this, especially those Jewish families who were severely harvested by the Germans during World War II. They did it very well.
What the Fang family needs to do is to learn from them, by setting up various investment companies in some countries and transferring the Fang family's shares to these companies through a series of means such as cross-holdings.
Then, gradually reduce the exposure of Fang Family and Fangyuan Group in the media, and reduce the number of companies named after Fangyuan.
Let Fangyuan Group and the Fang family slowly fade out of people's sight.
In particular, with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, when the world's attention was attracted by the war, the Fang family accelerated the pace of transformation. When the United States withdrew its troops from Vietnam in 1969, people suddenly realized that since some time ago, the scale of Fangyuan Group had shrunk to a size that could only rank within the top 100 among the world's top 500 companies.
It was also in this year that Fang Lang was officially appointed as the Minister of Defense of Brazil, completely controlling the military power of Brazil. He held the position of Minister of Defense for twenty years.
Under his leadership, the Brazilian army was completely transformed into a modern world power. He himself has appeared on the cover of Time magazine many times. Although he deliberately keeps a low profile, people still admire him very much.
Brazilian men in particular worship him because he single-handedly made Brazil pass a polygamous marriage law in an era when women's rights were gradually gaining popularity.
The stories between him and his five wives were also talked about by people. If Fang Lang had not strongly refused, the TV station would have wanted to put the stories of him and his wives directly on the screen.
What puzzles many people is that Fang Lang, a Chinese born in Brazil, seems to have an extraordinary love for China. Especially in 1989, when he stepped down as Brazil's Defense Minister, he immediately took his family on a special plane to China.
Moreover, the companies controlled by the Fang family began to enter the Chinese market in a big way at the first moment of reform and opening up. Not only did this enable the Chinese economy to achieve remarkable achievements in a very short period of time, it also brought the Fang family consortium back into the sight of world capital.
(End of the book)
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