Chapter two hundred and eighty sixth enemy's road is narrow
In many African countries, chiefs are emperors of their tribes and have absolute authority in all aspects. Even today, although African countries have entered a legal society, chiefs still have great power in many countries. They are still daunting but mysterious figures on the African continent.
Even when the chiefs of the local king appear in public places, they often shout and rush forward and the ringing sounds, and the people bent down and kneeled down and worshiped them. They could not get up until the chief left.
Chiefs are generally divided into one, two, three levels, or large, medium, and small levels in Africa. First-class chiefs are often called the Great Earth King, with two or three hundred second-class chiefs under the jurisdiction of the second-class chiefs, and dozens or even thousands of third-class chiefs under the jurisdiction of the second-class chiefs. Many African countries have basically no management agencies at the county level, and things in towns and villages are often responsible for the second-class chiefs.
The iron mine that Fang Zibai mentioned is actually located in the mountain village called Kampu next to Gabe Town, and the local chief he mentioned is the chief of this Kampu village, that is, the village chief, which is equivalent to the village chief of a village in China. However, the power of the village chief is much more powerful than that of the village chief. He is the local king of the village. All matters in the village must nod and agree to pass.
Xia Yunjie is still driving, but Emu is leading the way.
I'm used to being in Xia Yunjie's car, and now Su Zhiyan can't stand the bumps when Eum is driving.
Gabe Town is not far from Remalan City, but Kambu Village is a bit far from Gabe Town. You need to drive over three earthen hills in succession, pass through a date groves, and then climb up to a earthen hill to see Kambu Village.
Kampu Village is a village with a strong primitive flavor. The houses in the village are almost all conical grass roofs and four walls made of soil. Only a few are built a bit like country villas. One of the ones facing the east is a two-story stone house, which looks the most grand.
There is a small square in the middle of the village, and the thatched huts in the village are surrounded by the square. In the center of the square, there is a mango tree at least twenty meters high, and a large umbrella is placed under it.
When Xia Yunjie and his friends drove, one was fat and black, wearing a gold necklace as thick as a thumb on their necks, six with gold rings inlaid with gems on their ten fingers. The black man, who was about forty, was enjoying the cool under a big umbrella. Behind him were three black women with almost naked upper bodies, some of whom were about the same age as him, and some were very young. However, whether they were old or young, they looked fat, with round butts like zebra's butts. There were eight or nine black children playing naked around the mango tree.
"That is Luku, the chief of Kampu Village. The three women around him are his wives, and the children who play around him should be his children. Chief A and Ya can marry more wives and take more concubines. Chief Luku only has three wives, which is relatively rare among the chiefs. It is said that in ancient times, there was a chief in the Kingdom of Abomei in Benin, Africa. He had more than 40 UU of concubines in his life." Seeing Chief Luku sitting under the mango tree to enjoy the cool air, Fang Zibai introduced.
I heard that there was a chief who had taken more than 4,000 concubines in his life. Xia Yunjie couldn't help but be irritated and thought that more than 4,000 were one, and that would take more than 10 years to sleep all over the world. Su Zhiyan didn't know what was suddenly nervous today. Seeing Fang Zibai talking about the African chief who was raising a wife and taking concubines, her eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Manager Fang, you must really hope that China will be like this, right?"
"Ahem, no, no." Fang Zibai didn't expect that President Su was more sensitive to this aspect, and said embarrassedly when he heard this.
"Must and wrong" Su Zhiyan said with a blank look on Fang Zi.
Fang Zibai smiled embarrassedly again, not daring to answer the conversation.
Fang Zibai had been here before. Luku recognized his car and saw Volkswagen off-road vehicle coming, and immediately stood up with shiny eyes.
As soon as Luku stood up, several black men in the village immediately ran up and stood on both sides of him.
"Kambu Village welcomes guests from afar." Luku stood up and greeted Fang Zibai and gave Fang Zibai a warm hug. Not only that, he also pasted his black face on both sides of his face, and frowned. But it was difficult to push away this overly enthusiastic Chief Luku.
"Chief Luku, this is my boss, Ms. Su Zhiyan." After finally getting rid of Chief Luku's vest gift, Fang Zibai hurriedly introduced Su Zhiyan to Luku.
Su Zhiyan was much smarter. Before Chief Luku could open his arms and put them on his own initiative, he had already stretched out his delicate hand to him.
Chief Luku obviously wanted to hug the beautiful Chinese female boss, but seeing that she had reached out to him, he had to reach out to him and shook her, "Welcome, beautiful Ms. Su."
When they didn't talk about money, Africans were still very simple and enthusiastic. After the two sides greeted each other, Chief Luku warmly welcomed Su Zhiyan and his group, personally took everyone to visit the village houses and grain workshops in their village, and even took everyone to visit the rooms of the three wives.
However, when it comes to investing in the Matishan iron ore in the back mountain of their village, Chief Luku showed the cleverness and cunning of Africans. When mining iron ore here, they not only have to pay up to about 40% of personal income tax to their country, which is what any company has to pay, but also pay shareholder tax, which is for foreigners. Shareholder tax is 25% of the profit. In addition to this, they also have to account for 30% of the stock.
Su Zhiyan asked him: "Wouldn't Mr. Luku be afraid of scaring away foreign investors with such high taxes? If investors don't come, how can the economy develop?"
Although Chief Luku was just a village chief, his answer was sharp and confident: "If you don't have money to make money, you won't come no matter how low the tax rate is. If you have money to make money, especially if you mine resources to make a lot of money. No matter how high the tax is, you will still come to invest as long as you have money to make money. To be honest, there is also a neighbor next door to China, and the Koreans also want to develop our ore."
Although Xia Yunjie's vision in business cannot be compared with Su Zhiyan, after hearing Chief Luku's words, he couldn't help but sigh that although the African tribes were backward, if they really regarded these black people as fools, they might become fools. In particular, Chief Luku said very well in his last sentence, which put Su Zhiyan in great psychological pressure.
Sure enough, Su Zhiyan, who was eager to implement the mineral project and returned to China early, saw Chief Luku say this, and the negotiation strategy changed significantly, and he made some conditional concessions in many aspects. Of course, Su Zhiyan is a top student at the University of California in the United States, so her business talent is naturally not comparable to Chief Luku who is closed in the mountain wou. Although she made some concessions, it was still within her plan.
After some negotiations, the two parties reached a preliminary intention for cooperation. It was just because of time that the specific cooperation matters and contracts needed to be discussed and signed in detail tomorrow.
After returning to the hotel, Su Zhiyan was a little tired after a day of running around and negotiating. After dinner, she went back to the bedroom to rest early.
The next day, it was another hot weather.
Su Zhiyan and her group came to Kampu Village again at the agreed time, but unexpectedly, someone came earlier than them. Moreover, one of them was known to Xia Yunjie, who was Choi Yongjun, a shareholder of the "Black Beauty" nightclub.
Those who accompanied Cui Yongjun were not only the black bodyguards that Xia Yunjie saw that night, but also a black man wearing a green robe, many colorful rings on his arms, and also wearing thick gold necklaces on his neck, holding a wooden stick with a golden rod in his hand.
The black man obviously has a high status. Not only are there two burly and tall black men with upper body standing behind him, but he also sat in the position of the master who originally belonged to Chief Luku.
When they saw Xia Yunjie and his group coming, the expressions of the people present were different.
Chief Luku looked embarrassed, and the black man wrapped in a green robe looked at Xia Yunjie and others with curious eyes. However, when his eyes swept over Su Zhiyan, the turbid eyes became obviously hot, and his eyes swept back and forth several times on her thighs and chest.
Cui Yongjun and others who had a marriage with Xia Yunjie saw Xia Yunjie's face turned gloomy and showed a fierce look in their eyes. However, when Cui Yongjun saw Su Zhiyan's pretty face, graceful and sexy figure, and noble temperament, a charming smile immediately appeared on his face, and he stretched out his hand at her and said, "Hello, I am Cui Yongjun, you must be Ms. Su Zhiyan, the boss of Weida Company that Mr. Luku mentioned before. I didn't expect that you are not only a beauty but also so young."
"Mr. Cui is too much." Su Zhiyan shook hands with Cui Yongjun coldly, but looked at Xia Yunjie with confusion.
Just now, Cui Yongjun and others looked at Xia Yunjie's fierce gaze, so they naturally could not escape her observation.
"Is this gentleman a private bodyguard for Miss Su? He is very skilled and very brave." Seeing Su Zhiyan look at Xia Yunjie, Cui Yongjun's eyes flashed with a cold look and said.
Su Zhiyan couldn't help but feel more confused when she heard this, but she didn't take the initiative to ask, but nodded without comment, then turned her eyes to Chief Luku and smiled and said, "Mr. Luku, we're meeting again. According to what we talked yesterday, I brought the same contract sample, you see..."
"Sorry, Ms. Su, Luku has changed his mind. His current partner is Mr. Cui Yongjun." Before Luku can answer, the black man in green robe sitting in the main seat waved his hand and said carelessly.
Chapter completed!