Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat Chapter 34

  Chapter 34 Recruitment

"I suggest that Mr. Director, if you have a suspicious target, don't alert the other party. You can try to catch big fish with a long line, maybe there will be unexpected gains!" Fang Lang saw that Director Hodges already had a target he suspected , is about to arrest people, quickly reminded softly.

  When Director Hodges heard it, Fang Lang's words immediately felt reasonable, and he was no longer eager to go back and arrest the spies. If more spies could be discovered through this spy, I believe the mayor would not have any objections.

"Fang, you are right. You have helped me a lot this time. Blackwell told me yesterday that your compatriots were targeted and humiliated by the Japanese in Sao Paulo. As the chief of police, I failed to do anything. It was my negligence. Don't worry, the Japanese will become unwelcome people in Sao Paulo from today onwards, and I will ask all the police to put them under residential surveillance, making it difficult for them to walk in Sao Paulo.”

  This is the main purpose of Director Hodges' visit this time. I hope that Fang Lang can express his apology for the failure of the St. Paul Police Department to stand up and deal with the bullying of the Chinese group in the past.

  Fang Lang understood that if it hadn't been for Colonel Teach telling Captain Blackwell to take care of his own safety this time, what happened last night would not have happened, let alone Mr. Director's visit to apologize today.

It seems that Brazil is a dictatorial country with a very serious bureaucratic style. It is not wrong for me to choose to stay in the army. After all, Brazil will have a military dictatorship that lasts for 21 years. I only have Holding power in the military can ensure that the interests of Chinese compatriots in Brazil will not be violated.

"Haha Director Hodges, what are you talking about? We are friends, and friends should understand each other. Let him get over the original matter! But I hope we can always be friends in the future, how about it! "Fang Lang got up and shook hands with Director Hodges cordially.

   "Okay, good friend, Fang, we are good friends from now on, if there is anything that needs my help, I hope you are welcome, I will spare no effort to help you achieve it."

"Haha Hodges, my friend, I will not be polite if I need your help! But you can rest assured that we Chinese will never let our friends help for nothing!" laugh it out.

   At noon, Fang Lang left Director Hodges and Captain Blackwell at home, had a hearty lunch with Fang Lang's family members, and introduced his family members to two friends one by one.

Especially Fang Lang's uncle, Fang Xinshui, knew Chief Hodges from the beginning, but the original relationship was not very close, but after Fang Lang's introduction, Chief Hodges directly stated that if Fang Xinshui had anything to do, he would go directly to the police station Find him, or call him, there is nothing he can't settle, the only difference is that he didn't directly say that he will be Fang Xinshui's umbrella in the future.

  After the guests left, the family members wondered why Fang Lang knew so many important people. For ordinary Chinese families, the chief of the garrison and the police chief of St. Paul can indeed be regarded as very big figures.

  Fang Lang smiled and said that he would be a bigger and bigger man in the future. The family members all rolled their eyes at him.

In the afternoon, while wandering around the village, Fang Lang was thinking about what to do tonight. He thought about it for a long time. Now he can only recruit everyone to do things for him, and he cannot directly expose his goals. To establish a secret organization, you need to come secretly, and you have to examine each member's belief, ability, and loyalty before you can invite him. If you directly set up an organization regardless of the three seven twenty-one, it will take less than two days. St. Paul knows it all.

Therefore, when many young people in the village came to Fang Lang's house at night, Fang Lang said that he wanted to recruit some crew members from Global Trading Co., Ltd. to train his own captain, and then he would go on the route from Brazil to the motherland. I hope that those who are interested will come He is here to report.

Many villagers were dissatisfied, thinking that it was a major issue related to the interests of all Chinese people to discuss, but they came to recruit crew members, and many people even turned around cursing and leaving, but Fang Lang didn't care, and even felt a little fortunate in his heart Fortunately, I didn't directly say that I want to set up a Chinese organization, otherwise, based on the situation of these people, I guess they will be called out soon after they come in, so there will be no secrets in this organization.

  However, Fang Lang still recruited more than 20 people, and three of them were Fang Lang's children. The reason why Fang Lang was able to recruit so many people is not that it is difficult to find jobs in Brazil. During this period, Brazil is in a period of rapid economic development and lacks human resources, so many people who came here this time actually have jobs . But to be honest, the welfare benefits of Brazilian workers during this period were very poor. Not to mention working more than 12 hours, the wages were pitifully low. The monthly salary of ordinary production workers was less than 20 dollars.

  This is also the reason why Brazilian President Vargas founded the Labor Party in March. He hopes to expand his political influence by creating the Labor Party and improving the treatment of workers. It's a pity that, as an authoritarian head of government, he began to let go of his power and hoped to use his influence to reverse Brazil's political ecology, which was obviously too naive.

  But the current president is still far away from Fang Lang. What he can do is to give his compatriots a monthly salary of fifty dollars plus a high salary with extra subsidies for going to sea to attract everyone to join his company. Although he won't tell everyone that this is his own company, many people will definitely know who the real boss behind this company is in the future.

   After telling everyone to go home and get ready to board the ship in Santos port a week later, let everyone go home. Grandpa couldn't understand why Fang Lang didn't organize everyone to set up a Chinese organization as he said. But he didn't ask, he knew that his eldest grandson was a very assertive person now. I am already old, and I have to believe in the abilities of young people.

  Early the next morning, Fang Lang sent a telegram to inform the three cargo ships in Rio de Janeiro to set sail for the port of Santos, and then sent telegrams to the branches in Italy and the United States to understand the current situation of the company.

  Mr. Cohens, who was having a headache being urged by the Gambino family, sent a long telegram as soon as he received Fang Lang's news. Generally speaking, the cigarette market is very hot. Mr. Boyan Gambino hoped to expand the supply, saying that with the fierce fighting, the supply of cigarettes began to fall short of demand. At the same time, Mr. Kerns also expressed concern that the company has only one downstream distributor in Gambino.

  Fang Lang didn't expect that the Gambino family would withdraw cigarettes worth more than three million dollars from Global Trade in such a short period of time. It seems that the speed of transporting cigarettes by himself will be accelerated.

  As for the question of adding new downstream distributors that Mr. Kerns considered, Fang Lang replied directly, asking Mr. Kerns to find downstream distributors of other commodities in Italy. The cigarettes are still handed over to the Gambino family, which is a plan negotiated in advance. At the same time, Kerns was also required to develop downstream distributors of cigarettes in France and Germany. Said he would soon have $20 million worth of cigarettes shipped from Brazil. I worry that too many quantities will have an impact on the price of cigarettes.

  Cohens listed a large list of goods that are currently scarce in Italy, mainly for people's livelihood, mainly grain, oil, sugar and seasonings. But the profits of these commodities are obviously not as high as cigarettes.

  But agriculture is the pillar industry of Brazil, and these products are also materials urgently needed by European countries after the war. They must arrange in advance, and have the ability to process these commodities while having strong transportation capabilities.

So in the next few days, Fang Lang started a frenzied investment and acquisition activity. He met Mayor Scalia through Director Hodges, and after learning that Fang Lang was going to invest tens of millions of dollars in Sao Paulo on behalf of American Global Trade, the entire market was shocked. The government began to help Fang Lang carry out acquisition activities, and acquired three cigarette factories, two sugar factories, a grain and oil processing factory, and a newspaper office for Fang Lang.

Because they are all small factories, after the acquisition, Fang Lang directly expressed the hope that the city government can sell a piece of land to allow Fang Lang to build a larger factory area, and purchase more advanced equipment from the United States to build more advanced factories. time centralized management.

  The city government was overjoyed, and started re-urban planning without saying a word, converting a 10,000-hectare piece of land in downtown Sao Paulo near Santos Port into industrial land, and began to resettle the residents on the land.

In order to thank the municipal government for its support, Fang Xinshui set up a real estate development company under Fang Lang's instruction to build a resettlement community for all the demolished households. However, the land in the resettlement community should not only be used to resettle the demolished residents, but also allow the development company to develop real estate by itself project. The municipal government readily agreed and tripled the land size of the original resettlement area.

  (end of this chapter)

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