Sail across the sea

Realizing that Bob was just pretending to be stupid, Gao Fan knew what he should do. He took Zhu Nian and took two steps to the side, and said in a low voice, "Director Zhu, isn't this arrangement in the province a little bit Too much movement?"

"How can this be considered a big commotion?" Zhu Nian said with some dissatisfaction.

Thinking that Bob is a foreign businessman introduced by Gao Fan, although Zhu Nian was reluctant, he still had to explain to him in a low voice:

"Xiao Gao, you may not know that Hatch Group is not a small company that can be treated casually. The Foreign Trade Department specially arranged someone to check the information. Good guy, do you know how much assets this group has? ?”

"It seems to be less than 200 billion U.S. dollars." Gao Fan replied lightly.

Bob told him this data, many of which are calculated based on the market value of other company stocks held by the Hatch Group. In the event of a stock market crash or something like that, it is possible for the assets to shrink by half.

In this era, an investment company with assets of 200 billion US dollars is considered to be very high even in the United States.However, Gao Fan's way of thinking is greatly influenced by the experience of later generations, and he always feels that a mere $200 billion is nothing more than that.Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the like in later generations seem to have trillions of dollars in assets.

Zhu Nian was choked by Gao Fan's tone, and it took him a long time to say with hatred: "Xiao Gao, Xiao Gao, let me tell you what is good about you. 200 billion US dollars, why does it look like 20 yuan to you?" of.

"Think about it, how much is the total industrial and agricultural output value of our province for a year? It's less than 200 billion in US dollars, okay? The assets of a company are higher than our annual industrial and agricultural output value. How much do you have?" Don’t you think it’s worth paying attention to?”

"No, no." Gao Fan also came to his senses.Today's China cannot be compared with future generations. A company with assets of 200 billion US dollars is at the level of a giant in China.

What's more, the U.S. dollar in 1983 is far more valuable than the U.S. dollar in 2023. Taking into account inflation, the 1983 billion U.S. dollars in 200 can be equivalent to hundreds of billions in later generations.

"Director Zhu, what I mean is that although the Hatch Group is a big company, we don't need to make it so grand. Bob is just a child sent by the Hutch family to China to train. With you..., uh, I mean, it's enough for us to send a director to greet you, why do you have to work for you department leaders?"

Gao Fan grunted, and almost said that it was enough to be accompanied by a small deputy director like Zhu Nian, but he wisely changed his words.

The last thing officials like to hear is to be belittled by others. Gao Fan understands this truth anyway.

Zhu Nian said: "Diplomacy is no small matter. Although Mr. Hatch is young, he may have been sent to China to practice as you said. But he represents the Hatch Group after all, and we should be more enthusiastic. The provincial leaders have formal instructions on this, and we cannot let the Hatch Group feel that we do not take them seriously."

"Director Zhu, you don't understand the international rules." Gao Fan said, "For foreigners, the rules are different from ours. We pay attention to how guests feel at home, and we always feel that when guests come, we must receive them better. .Foreigners don't talk about this, they pay attention to business.

"Doing business means that both parties are pursuing their own interests. What people value is whether they can make money, not how well we receive us. We are so enthusiastic, people think we have other plans."

Gao Fan is pulling a tiger's skin to make a big banner.He believes that whether it is New Year's greetings or other officials from the Provincial Economic Commission and the Department of Foreign Trade, they must not understand what the real international rules are.As long as he dares to fool around, the officials will be convinced.

In the eyes of Chinese people today, foreign countries are very advanced, so the rules of foreigners must be more advanced than China.When something happens, you just have to say "what about foreigners", and Chinese people will quickly introspect and check that they don't understand international rules.

Sure enough, as soon as Gao Fan said this, Zhu Nian's face became a little stiff.He pouted slightly in Bob's direction, and asked in a low voice, "You mean, Mr. Hatch has something to say about our welcome ceremony?"

Gao Fan nodded slightly, and said: "He didn't say it clearly, but I think so. Mr. Hatch told me that he came to Maolin this time to inspect the customs of Maolin and evaluate Investment Environment.

"If our arrangements are too diligent, he will not be able to get in touch with the real situation, which will have a great impact on his investigation work."

Zhu Nian hesitated and said, "However, Xiao Gao, you know the economic situation in our province. If Mr. Hatch is exposed to the bottom-level situation, will it damage the image of our country?"

Gao Fan said: "Mr. Zhu, you are overthinking. In the past, our country liked to slap swollen faces to pretend to be fat, for fear that people would lose face if they saw poor places. Now many economically developed provinces do the opposite, and take foreign guests to see those places. The poorest place, do you know why?"

"I've heard of this. It's mainly to get low-interest loans and donations from others." Zhu Nian said.

"That's right, that's exactly the case." Gao Fan said, "We are a developing country. Isn't it normal for us to be poor? Back then, when Snow went to Yan'an, the leader wore rough clothes and chatted happily with him. Do you feel ashamed?"

"This..." Zhu Nian was a little speechless, he always felt that Gao Fan was secretly changing the concept, but there was no evidence.How to receive foreign guests is not up to him, and now is not the time to discuss this issue with Gao Fan.So, he simply put aside the topic and said:
"Xiao Gao, there may be some truth in what you said, but now Director Wang and Director Liu have arrived, and the welcome ceremony and dinner at the Foreign Trade Office have also been arranged, and it is not appropriate to cancel it temporarily.

"Can you explain to Mr. Hatch that we are just having a ceremony to express our feelings. As for how Mr. Hatch will arrange during his inspection in Maolin in the future, it is not too late to discuss it after the dinner is over. What do you think? ?”

With Zhu Nian's words reaching this level, Gao Fan naturally couldn't babble any more.He knew that what Bob wanted was less restraint in the follow-up activities in Maolin, and he would not refuse the current entertainment.So he went back and whispered something to Bob softly.

Bob is a person with seven apertures and exquisite hearts. After hearing Gao Fan's introduction, he knew that his goal had been achieved, and there was no need not to give Zhu Nian and the others face.He nodded his head pretending to be reserved, and got out of the car with Zhu Nian.