Zhou Hao, Situ Li and the others soon arrived at Shuohua Village. They also saw that many people had gathered under the archway at the entrance of Shuohua Village. Dai Zhong, the mayor of Shuohua Village, was also there, including Xiangcheng City Party Committee Secretary Xiao Yu.
A group of government officials inside were chatting with a few men in suits and ties.
The men were generally not tall, their hair was combed meticulously, and they were very particular about their appearance. Zhou Hao guessed that those men must be from Sumitomo Metal Industries.
After getting off the car, Zhou Hao followed Gao Houlu and Situ Li to the archway of Shuohua Village. Xiao Yu, secretary of the municipal party committee, immediately smiled at the majestic-looking middle-aged man next to him and said, "They are here." Next to the middle-aged man
A young man quickly approached him and said a few words, probably translating Xiao Yu's words for him.
Xiao Yu looked towards Zhou Hao, and at the same time winked at Gao Houlu and asked about the outcome of their negotiation. Gao Houlu shook his head very slightly at Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu immediately frowned when he saw it.
"Mr. Zhou." Dai Zhong walked up and said hello to Zhou Hao. As the head of a small village like him, he would never have the chance to meet officials like Xiao Yu and Gao Houlu on weekdays. This time it was considered a good chance to meet him.
It happened to be a meeting, and I couldn't talk to him at all just now. Now I finally saw someone I knew coming, so I naturally came over to chat immediately. However, Dai Zhong looked very annoyed.
"Village Chief Dai, how are you doing these days?" Zhou Hao smiled enthusiastically.
But Dai Zhong sighed and said in a low voice: "It's very bad. Now the villagers are complaining about me. Alas, I hate myself too. Why were I in such a hurry to sell the land to you at that time?"
You know, when the city government took over the remaining half of the land, it gave us five million, alas..."
"Haha, there's no point regretting it now. We signed the contract in black and white." Zhou Hao said: "But I can't do any better. Now the government and the Japanese want our land, but my partner
I don’t want to sell it at all, and now I have to figure out how to negotiate with them.”
Dai Zhong scratched his head and said, "I can't understand what you businessmen are doing, so go get involved yourself."
"Zhou Hao." At this time, Xiao Yu, who had talked for a few words, waved to Zhou Hao.
Zhou Hao smiled at Dai Zhong and walked over quickly, while Xiao Yu also extended his hand to Zhou Hao and said with a smile: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, the last time we met, it was you who fought bravely against drug dealers. Gao and I
The mayor is going to the hospital to visit you on behalf of the government."
"Yes, I feel very honored too." Zhou Hao held Xiao Yu's hand.
"Come, let me introduce you." Xiao Yu led Zhou Hao to the middle-aged Japanese man. "This is Mr. Kazuo Koike, the executive director of Sumitomo Metal Industries, and the others are also Sumitomo Metal
Industrial managers. As for this..." Xiao Yu pointed to the young man in his thirties next to Kazuo Koike, "This is Kazuo Koike's translator, Mr. Toshihiko Inoue."
Zhou Hao noticed that when Xiao Yu introduced the translator named Toshihiko Inoue, the look on his face was a little unnatural. Specifically, Zhou Hao saw a hint of contempt flashing through Xiao Yu's eyes. Look at Toshihiko Inoue again.
, Zhou Hao immediately guessed in his heart that this guy might be
The so-called "Japanese Chinese". Looking at Xiao Yu's disdainful look, Inoue Toshihiko is obviously not the kind of "Japanese Chinese" who has Chinese ancestry but was born and raised in Japan. Instead, he was born in China and later went through numerous procedures.
A person who has acquired Japanese citizenship and immigrated to Japan.
Even his name was changed to Japan. Zhou Hao also glanced at Toshihiko Inoue, feeling ashamed of his ancestors.
At this time, Sumitomo Metal Industries' Executive Director Kazuo Koike looked at Zhou Hao slightly and whispered a few words to Toshihiko Inoue who was beside him. Toshihiko Inoue nodded repeatedly and showed great respect to Kazuo Koike. Then, he said with a very
Speaking in pure Mandarin, he said to Zhou Hao: "Mr. Xiaochi asked you if you are the owner of that land." He pointed to the land where several factory walls were built, showing an arrogant expression to Zhou Hao.
Zhou Hao didn't speak, but just glanced at him lightly. When Kazuo Koike looked at him just now, he didn't have that annoying arrogant expression. On the contrary, Toshihiko Inoue, who was acting as the translator, acted aloof, a typical fox pretending to be powerful.
Ignoring Toshihiko Inoue, Zhou Hao said to Kazuo Koike: "I heard that in Japan, many successful businessmen or employees of large companies can speak English, so you should be able to do it too, Mr. Kazuo Koike."
As soon as he spoke, Xiao Yu, Gao Houlu and Situ Li were all stunned. Even Koike Kazuo was surprised because Zhou Hao spoke extremely fluent English.
In his previous life, in order to increase his competitiveness, Zhou Hao not only passed the CET-4 exam as required by the university, but also passed the CET-6 exam through hard work. Later, when he was working in Huangshi, he also studied English hard due to business needs. Although
He cannot apply for the CET-8 professional examination, but his self-assessment level will not be worse than that of English professionals who have passed the CET-8.
Kazuo Koike quickly regained his composure, showed a smile to Zhou Hao, and said in fluent English: "Now it seems that we can communicate directly in English, which is good." Indeed, as Zhou Hao said,
, the vast majority of successful businessmen and employees of large companies in Japan know English, because they often do business with people from European and American countries, so English has become a necessary skill.
Toshihiko Inoue was also stunned, and at the same time he felt resentful towards Zhou Hao, feeling that he had lost face in front of everyone.
"You are probably Zhou Haojun." Kazuo Koike said to Zhou Hao: "Are you the owner of the other half of the land?"
Zhou Hao shook his head, "No, but I can represent their opinions."
Kazuo Koike nodded, then stretched out his right hand to make an invitation gesture, "Let's go over and have a look."
"Okay." So, the group of people walked to the large wasteland next to Shuohua Village. The more than 7,000 acres of land that Zhou Hao bought has three large factories. They are called factories, but in fact they only have outer walls and
It was just a simple iron roof. In addition, the more than 8,000 acres of land taken over by the Xiangcheng City Government had all the weeds cleared away, exposing bare flat mud.
Kazuo Koike stood there, looking at the vast land in front of him, "We, Sumitomo Metal Industries, plan to build a large-scale production base here to produce various agricultural machinery, automobile engines and other spare parts. The sales network will also cover the entire China.
." He looked back at Zhou Hao, "And I also believe that if our production base is built, its influence will radiate to the entire Guangdong Province, and the economy of your city will also be boosted."
Zhou Hao nodded and said with a smile: "I know all this, and I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to your group for investing in our Xiangcheng."
"However, your factory has hindered the development of Xiangcheng City and even the entire Guangdong Province!" Kazuo Koike's tone suddenly became stern, and he was smart enough not to say that Zhou Hao was against their group, but was hindering the development of Xiangcheng City and even Guangdong Province!
development.
Zhou Hao was not frightened by him, but sneered: "Mr. Xiaochi, what a big hat. It is undeniable that if your production base is built, it will bring good development opportunities to our city and even Guangdong Province.
But Mr. Koike, you should also know that China has been reforming and opening up for many years. The opening up of our economy is not only for foreign investors like you, but also for our domestic investors.
Private enterprises, let’s put it this way, in principle, the status of our private enterprises is the same as that of foreign-funded enterprises like yours.” In fact, Zhou Hao himself knew that this was not realistic. Even in the future, the status of foreign-funded enterprises will actually be
It is also much higher than domestic private enterprises. However, domestic policies cannot always explicitly state that the status of domestic private enterprises is lower than that of foreign-funded enterprises. This will cause an uproar.
"Besides, your production base can bring development opportunities to Xiangcheng and even Guangdong Province, can't we do the same? Mr. Koike, are you looking down on us too much?" Zhou Hao showed no sign of weakness.
Kazuo Koike was also a little speechless by Zhou Hao's words. This is China after all, and he can't brazenly say that Japanese companies are much better than Chinese companies.
And Xiao Yu and others over there also learned about the conversation between Zhou Hao and Kazuo Koike through those who knew English. Xiao Yu said to Gao Houlu: "Old Gao, Zhou Hao is doing great things this time. He talks the truth.
The same thing, even that old fox Kazuo Koike
We can't get any benefits." These people had been in contact with Kazuo Koike before, and they knew that Koike Kazuo was an old fox who didn't want to take anything hard, so now that they saw him shrinking in front of Zhou Hao, they felt relieved, and at the same time
He admired Zhou Hao endlessly.
At this time, I heard Kazuo Koike say to Zhou Hao: "Your government has just said that they can't expropriate your land, so if we really want to build a production base here, we have to negotiate with you ourselves." He hurriedly said.
Keeping a close eye on Zhou Hao, "So Zhou Haojun, if we want to buy this piece of land from you, how much will it cost?"
"Xiao Hao!"
Just as Zhou Hao was about to report the price, he heard Zhao Yuqin's call from behind. He quickly turned around and saw Zhao Yuqin in a professional suit walking towards him. He shouted happily: "Sister!"
At the same time, Xiao Yu's secretary came to him and handed him a big brother, "Secretary Xiao, I have a phone number for you."
Xiao Yu frowned, but still took the call, "Who is it? Don't you know I'm receiving foreign businessmen?"
His secretary quickly said: "I told him, but that person, he said he was Zhao Dingzhou from the Guangzhou Military Region."