Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat Chapter 571

  Chapter 571 Türkiye's Oolong

Xin Shiliang knows Fang Lang's current political stance. It can be said that he and President Dutra are on the same boat. Now I hear that Fang Lang decisively chose to find new supporters because Dutra chose to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. It was sloppy, so after thinking about it for a while, I decided to keep it.

   "Boss, President Dutra's term is still three years away, are we in too much a hurry?"

   Fang Lang shook his head resolutely when he heard the words:

"I don't believe you don't understand how unwise it is for President Dutra to take the initiative to stand in line. In his opinion, with the support of the Americans, he can ignore the Soviet Union. He doesn't know that this is giving the United States People act as gunmen.

  With the American scumbag peeing, he will definitely have nothing when he licks it to the end.

  Although his behavior may bring short-term prosperity to Brazil's economy, anyone with a little political vision will understand the serious political consequences of doing so, plus he is not a politician and does not belong to any political party.

  The reason why he ascended to the presidency is only because he has military power in his hands. The Social Democratic Party and the National League need him to face the counterattack of former President Vargas' forces.

  With him becoming president, plus the Army's failure to encircle Brother Eddie's rebels. The high-level Ministry of the Army has undergone a purge, and the current Ministry of the Army is no longer the original Ministry of the Army.

Now that he has taken such a bad move, the Social Democratic Party and the National League will definitely abandon him directly, and the Labor Party has actually absorbed part of the Soviet Communist Party's theory. Many of them are pro-Soviet factions. You think they will support a A president who voluntarily demanded to sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union? "

  After Fang Lang's analysis, Xin Shiliang also instantly lost his confidence in President Dutra. From this point of view, it is indeed difficult for President Dutra to be re-elected.

   "Then shall we try to persuade Mr. Dutra to give up this idea while the policy has not yet been implemented?"

   Fang Lang's hand holding the microphone paused for a moment, as if he was also engaged in a psychological struggle, and finally sighed:

   "Forget it, the news has already spread, even if he listens to our advice and gives up this idea, the bad influence that should be formed has already taken shape.

Besides, this matter is obviously not his opinion alone. There must be a large group of pro-American capitalists behind him who support this opinion. Our Fangyuan Group can also be regarded as a representative of the pro-American faction. It is not appropriate to stand up and sing the opposite at this time, it is easy targeted by Americans.

  You still follow my request, hurry up and find a new presidential candidate! "

  Xin Shiliang, who was on the opposite side of the phone, also understood Fang Lang's thoughts after listening to Fang Lang's words. After nodding, he said directly:

   "Yes, Young Master, then I will start looking for suitable candidates among the three political parties now."

   Ending the call, Fang Lang sighed helplessly, and leaned on his desk for a long time without speaking. Speaking of which, President Dutra still respects him very much. After all, he has a very close relationship with the US military.

In addition, when Mr. President took office, he took the initiative to send troops to join the battle, which also made Dutra, who was born as the Secretary of the Army, look at him differently as an admiral. It also made him promoted to the rank of major general at a young age and controlled Brazil. Half the naval power of the navy.

   Without the support of Dutra, these would not be so easy to achieve. You must know that there are many people in the navy who are very dissatisfied with his current status. If it weren't for the fact that he led the fleet under his command and won two military exploits in peacetime, someone might stand up.

   It's a pity that he made a wrong step, and he didn't know what the Americans said to him, or the signing of the "Rio de Janeiro Treaty" made him feel that he had found a backer. Even Fang Lang felt a little pity for him for him to suddenly come up with such a stupid trick.

The development of the matter was as expected by Fang Lang. On October 20, 1947, the Dutra government officially announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. For a while, public opinion was in an uproar. Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo even broke out twice with thousands of people. demonstrations.

But all of this has nothing to do with Fang Lang. He just hid in Natal and quietly observed the changes in the current situation, and took the opportunity to ask the companies under the Fangyuan Group to seize the time and take advantage of this US-Pakistan honeymoon period to get money from the Americans. Get more technical support.

At the same time, the Brazilian Development Bank and asset management companies were ordered 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 the northwest of Natal, officially starting to set foot in energy field.

  With this power station, the power shortage problem of the electrolytic aluminum plant that Fang Lang wanted to build was immediately solved. Immediately afterwards, the Fangyuan Group built the largest electrolytic aluminum plant in the Americas in Macao, a city in northern Natal.

  The bauxite produced by the large-scale bauxite mine located in Aurihimina on the north bank of the Amazon River in the state of Para, Brazil, by the Brazilian Northern Mining Company, no longer needs to directly sell the original ore raw materials. After all, as a shareholder of Northern Mining Company, Fang Lang still has the right to prioritize the purchase of bauxite.

  Of course, what the 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, the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is the world's largest bauxite-producing area, Guinea in West Africa.

  Fang Lang's construction of the electrolytic aluminum factory here shows his great ambitions. He is confident that after several years of development, his Fangyuan Aluminum Industry can become the leader in the world's aluminum products industry.

  The aircraft and automobile manufacturing industries under the Fangyuan Group are large consumers of aluminum. If you want to support the early development of this aluminum factory, these companies alone are more than enough.

  At the same time, what Fang Lang values ​​more is the opportunity to take the opportunity to master the development technology of hydropower stations and enter the basic energy field in Brazil. Because I am the owner of Caterpillar, the hydropower equipment installed in the hydropower station is purchased from my own company.

  In order to further develop hydropower technology in Brazil, Fang Lang directly arranged for Caterpillar to set up its own branch in Brazil, and began to invest heavily in research and development of advanced hydropower equipment. At the same time, it built a construction machinery manufacturing plant in Brazil.

   Pave the way in advance for the construction machinery orders needed for the upcoming European reconstruction plan. Of course, all of these require a process. Just opening a factory requires a long process from land acquisition and demolition to completion of factory construction and formal operation.

   Fortunately, although the European reconstruction plan has been basically finalized, it will take some time before it is officially implemented, and everything is still too late.

   After all, European countries are still fighting for how much aid they should get! These obviously have nothing to do with Fang Lang.

Now his Global Group in the United States has set up a professional expert team to enter Europe in advance to inspect some valuable industries and factories with core technologies. As long as the aid plan officially starts, he can pass the BIS Special status for aid investment in these enterprises.

   Just when Fang Lang thought he could continue to sit on the sidelines and wait for the opportunity, Yasini Hartung, the boss of the Pan-European Highway Management Company, approached him.

  Fang Lang met the other party at a small farm built outside the Natal Naval Base. Looking at Yasini Hartong who flew over from Turkey in a hurry, Fang Lang asked a little strangely:

   "Mr. Hartung, I don't know why you are looking for me in such a hurry?"

Yassini Harton is a middle-aged white man with a delicate mustache. He looks very elegant in a straight suit. This is not the first time Fang Lang has met him. When he came to interview the CEO of the Pan-European Highway Management Company Fang Lang was deeply shocked by the scholarly temperament shown in him.

  After some understanding, the other party turned out to be a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The reason why he came to this company for an interview was because he fell in love with this highway that would make him famous in history.

For his purpose, Fang Lang didn't mind. With such a talent, the employees in the company just happened to be able to learn more from him. In addition, in the route planning of the expressway construction, with this guy's participation, it really went smoothly a lot.

  However, the current Yassini Hartung seems to have been hit a bit, and the whole person does not look very happy. 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 taken aback by what he said. The Pan-European Highway Management Company was established by his Universal Group, the Morgan Consortium, and the Rockefeller Group. Unexpectedly, the first project just started encountered resistance.

   "Oh! Tell me about the specific situation?"

  “The Turkish government stated that highways belong to government infrastructure, and there is no problem in building highways locally, but they must own shares.”

  Fang Lang didn't feel angry when he heard the words. In his opinion, such a request was not too much. After all, each country has its own policies. When the hometown is re-opened, doesn't it also require the joint venture to allocate shares? Besides, the land belonged to the other party, and it was not unacceptable for the other party to ask for shares.

   "It doesn't matter! We are in business, as long as we can earn money, it doesn't matter if we bring their local capital with us!"

  “However, they only intend to invest in the land needed to build the expressway, but they require an absolute controlling stake, and they have put forward their own requirements for the planning and operation of the highway.

  If we implement according to their requirements, we will have no possibility of making any profit at all, and the whole 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, Yassini Harton touched his nose in embarrassment and said:

   "Boss, Turkey is not a belligerent country, and the war did not take place on their land. Therefore, the country has not been affected much by the war, and the infrastructure is intact."

   Fang Lang was taken aback by what he said. He really didn't know much about Turkey. He didn't expect that the war didn't break out on Turkey's soil. What kind of **** luck was this?

   "No! Turkey was one of the victorious countries in the European War! During the war, Turkey's western neighbors, Greece and Bulgaria, were both occupied by the Axis powers. How could Turkey not be a belligerent country?"

   After hearing the words, Yassini Hartung coughed twice, and then opened his mouth slowly with a little embarrassment. It seemed that Fang Lang didn't even know this and felt a little ridiculous.

   "Boss, Turkey has always been a neutral country during the war. It was not until February 1945, when the war was about to end, that they hurriedly announced that they would join the Allies and declare war on Germany.

  As far as I know, there is also a very interesting little story. At that time, British Prime Minister Churchill told the Turkish Prime Minister that they only accepted 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. The members of the Turkish Parliament were resting and could not vote to declare war on the Axis powers. In the end, Mr. Prime Minister had all the members brought to the parliament and reported the situation. explained.

  Then, on Sunday, the MPs unanimously passed a resolution to declare war on the Axis powers. This is why Türkiye will become the victor. "

   "I'll go, there is such a thing, these politicians in Turkey are amazing!"

After Fang Lang heard this, he didn't mean to look down on Turkey. On the contrary, he admired Turkey's operation very much. You must know that Turkey's position is very important. The Turkish Strait in his territory is an important traffic artery connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea , Known as the throat of the world.

  I think that the big boat my hometown bought from Ukraine was stopped by these **** in this strait.

He really didn't expect that Germany and the Soviet Union did not control the strait during World War II, but allowed Turkey to maintain neutrality, but thinking about it, maybe it was because this traffic artery was too important that Germany and the Soviet Union did not do anything Bar!

This group of politicians in Turkey has been able to keep calm, did not join any party, firmly maintained neutrality, and benefited from both sides. Needless to say, Fang Lang could have imagined that the Allies and the Axis powers wanted to win over the Black Sea throat. How much benefit does a neutral country need to pay.

   No wonder now that I want to build a highway in Turkey, the other party is still a little bit indifferent and asking for a lot of money!

  If this is the case, the highway plan in Turkey really needs to be carefully considered. After all, others have no pressure to rebuild, so how could they be willing to let them make money easily?

However, Fang Lang soon thought that when the peninsula war was about to break out, Turkey, a country that did not even participate in World War II, actually sent an army of more than 5,000 people to join the so-called United Nations Army. I was very upset.

  The number of troops dispatched is ranked fourth, only a few hundred fewer than Canada. Of course, in the end they also became the country with the third largest casualties, and retreated to their hometown in embarrassment.

  Thinking of this, and facing the current situation in Turkey, Fang Lang really didn't want to get involved in aid to Turkey at all.

  Now the business of the God's Whip military contracting company under his command has not been launched in Turkey, because there is no war in Turkey now, and all they need is various military material support.

  The reason why the Americans strongly support Turkey is because Turkey's position is too important. After the war, the father of steel in the north put forward the request to build a military base in Istanbul.

  For the Turkish government, this is simply a violation of their sovereignty, so they will not hesitate to throw themselves into the arms of Europe and the United States.

  Actually, now that Fang Lang thinks about it, if the father of steel does not make such a request, maybe Turkey will remain neutral in the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony just like it did in World War II.

  (end of this chapter)

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