Sail across the sea

Chapter 243 Is Indeed a Talented Student at Harvard

This time at the Spring Fair, the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Group set a precedent. In addition to receiving a batch of foreign trade orders, it also harvested a foreign businessman.

That’s right, on the train back to Ruizhang from Yangcheng, there was a foreigner with a high nose and blue eyes in the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Group, and he called himself “Curious Baby” in Chinese .

The work efficiency of Kerry and Mike was high enough, and it only took one day to investigate the information about Gao Fan and Canghua Technology and Trade.This is not because they have a high-end database, but whenever they go to the relevant departments to find out what is going on, the relevant departments will try their best to find out for them. Everything that foreign businessmen did not think of was thought of for foreign businessmen.

After learning about Gao Fan's various performances, Bob strengthened his opinion that Gao Fan is definitely a rare and special person.Hatch Group wants to seize the upper hand in China, the most potential emerging market in the world, and establishing a cooperative relationship with Gaofan is undoubtedly an excellent entry point.

With this idea in mind, Bob came to the booth of Maolin Province to negotiate with Zhu Nian.He claimed that on behalf of the Hatch Group of the United States, he planned to invest 150 million US dollars to establish an enterprise specializing in the production of vitamin products in cooperation with Canghua Technology and Trade Company, and he owned 10% of the shares of this enterprise.

At first hearing Bob's words, Zhu Nian almost suspected that Bob was an international liar.Fortunately, he is not a time traveler, and in China in 1983, there was no concept of an international liar. In everyone's mind, foreigners must be gentle, virtuous, and honest. How could they be liars?
Zhu Nian turned all his questions to the translator. He felt that the translator must have made a mistake, otherwise how could such a weird thing happen.

Zhu Nian is very clear that the vitamin company that Gao Fan mentioned does not exist yet.The Hatch Group invested 150 million US dollars, but they only want to get 10% of the equity, which is unreasonable anyway.

When Gao Fan came out to testify, saying that Mr. Little Hatch did have such intentions, which had been negotiated between them, Zhu Nian turned and pulled Gao Fan aside, with a serious yet kind attitude. Ask him if he has said anything inappropriate to foreign businessmen, such as exaggerating the situation of his own company a little bit.

Zhu Nian's mood was very conflicted. On the one hand, he worried that the foreign businessmen had been deceived by Gao Fan. If any international disputes broke out, the responsibility would eventually fall on him, the team leader.On the other hand, he is worried that the cooperation attitude of foreign businessmen is real, and they really see the development potential of Canghua Technology and Trade.

If the investment intention of the foreign businessman was genuine and Gao Fan had not been deceived, it would be very inappropriate for him, as the deputy director of the Foreign Trade Department and the head of the Spring Fair exhibition group, to accuse Gao Fanxing.

You know, once Hatch Group's investment in Canghua Technology and Trade is implemented, Gao Fan's status in the province will rise to a higher level. Suspicion is also very passive.

For this question, Gao Fan did not answer himself, but kicked the ball to Bob.Bob had communicated with Gao Fan several times before, and the two sides had a tacit understanding. Hearing Zhu Nian's doubts, Bob talked eloquently, from Ricardo to Rockefeller, from Sino-US friendship to the global village.

The translators of the exhibition group were sweating and tired, and they couldn't translate half of Bob's impassioned speech.Zhu Nian was even more dizzy, but he confirmed one thing, that is, Bob's head has not been kicked by a donkey, and he really wants to invest in Canghua Technology and Trade.

"Mr. Hatch, you are really a good friend of the Chinese people!"

Zhu Nian finally held Bob's hand like this, and said excitedly.

"Now I believe that you are indeed a brilliant student at Harvard."

While Zhu Nian was leaving, Gao Fan teased Bob.

"Dear Gao, isn't the talent I showed you before enough to prove my identity?" Bob asked dissatisfied.

Gao Fan shrugged his shoulders: "No, you were too serious before. This is not the style of Harvard Business School at all. Your performance just now is in line with your businessman nature."

"What should be the nature of a businessman?"

"No profiteering, no business." Gao Fan said in Chinese.

"A traitor is not a business..." Bob imitated Gao Fan's Chinese pronunciation, and then asked in English, "What does this mean?"

Gao Fan then explained it in English and explained the meaning of each word.Bob nodded desperately: "Yeah, I remember, this is the No. 15 Chinese idiom I learned from you, goose sells cakes, Chinese is so charming, this idiom is really accurate. "

As early as the second meeting with Gao Fan, Bob revealed his identity, saying that he was actually a student of Harvard Business School.Gao Fan didn't believe it at first, thinking that there is no way this cute and cute American boy in front of him could be a Harvard student.

However, Bob quickly proved his IQ to Gao Fan. He has a super learning ability. In just a few days of interacting with Gao Fan, he has already learned hundreds of daily Chinese sentences, and even learned More than a dozen idioms can be used appropriately every time.

The Spring Fair ended, and the provincial pavilions went home.Bob sent two entourages back to the United States. He came to the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Group alone and asked to go to Maolin with them. The name was naturally to inspect the production conditions of Canghua Technology and Trade.After Zhu Nian expressed his welcome, he couldn't help being embarrassed again.

In the past two years, the country has become more open, and foreign guests can move more freely in the country. They don't need to be approved at various levels like in the past, and they need to be accompanied (jian) with (shi) wherever they go.

Bob wanted to return to Maolin with the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Group, but Zhu Nian didn’t have to worry about policy restrictions. What made him feel awkward was that Bob resolutely rejected Zhu Nian’s suggestion to book a soft sleeper ticket for him, and proposed Just sit on a hard seat with Gao Fan and others.

In this day and age, train seats must be graded.Zhu Nian is the deputy director and can buy hard sleeper tickets.But people like Gao Fan and Wang Yongxiang can only sit on hard seats.

Bob is a foreign guest, and he can enjoy the soft sleeper treatment with a passport, but he claims that he wants to know China better, so he is unwilling to take the soft sleeper, but wants to sit with Gao Fan and the others on the hard seat.

Zhu Nian tried hard to persuade him for a long time, and planned to persuade Gao Fan to persuade him, but Bob was very firm, and Gao Fan did not cooperate. It is not a big deal that foreign guests want to sit in hard seats. Foreign guests are also human beings. Sit on a hard seat.

In the end, Zhu Nian had no choice but to succumb. He watched Bob happily enter the hard-seat car, chatting and laughing happily with the onlookers in unproficient Chinese.

(End of this chapter)