Audis stopped, revealing eight white and neat teeth, and smiled and said, "It's just a very simple and ordinary meeting gift. In order to reflect our sincerity in strengthening cooperation, it does not mean too much. I believe you will like it."

In terms of such a small matter, Xia Dirui did not need his father's statement. He nodded and took it, saying, "Thank you." He turned his hand and handed it to the secretary behind him.

Audis hurriedly said, "Miss Xia, don't you open it and take a look?"

According to the restrained personality and customs of Chinese people, gifts given by others are generally not opened in public. Otherwise, if the gift seems too "humble", it must be bad when others are in person. Foreigners do not think so. They think that opening the gift in person is respect for the parties involved. It may not necessarily have a better concept, it is just a difference in cultural concepts.

Xia Dirui smiled, her eyebrows and eyes bent slightly, her lips curled up playfully, and her facial expressions combined together like blooming peonies, elegant and luxurious, and it was hard to say that Audis was lost for a moment.

Since the gift giver requested, he always had to do it. When he picked up the gift box, he saw that seven or eight fine rubies were inlaid with water droplets, and a large number of gold and silver threads were wrapped around it. The craftsmanship was complex and gorgeous, like the Italian "Palkak" style that was popular in the 19th century, which seemed to be very old.

The value of this box alone is so extraordinary, and I don’t know how valuable the things inside are.

Xia Dirui gently pressed the sash below, and the lid slowly rose up.

The light above his head shot straight down and fell into the box, and a dazzling and colorful light suddenly rose. The secretary behind him even squinted his eyes unconsciously.

It was a string of diamond necklaces with a gorgeous appearance. The most eye-catching one was a water droplet-shaped emerald diamond in the middle, slightly larger than peanuts, cut at multiple angles, and reflected a rainbow-like light under the light. As Xia Dirui's fingers holding the edge of the box moved slightly, it flashed with various brilliances.

This emerald diamond is set in a series of platinum patterned platinum necklaces. The stamens are circled one after another, and continue until the upper part gradually shrinks. The pattern design is very exquisite and complements the diamonds.

The necklace is neither long nor short, just matches Xia Dirui's neck, which is as slender as a swan, and everyone present can't help but imagine what a beautiful picture it would be if the necklace was worn on her neck.

Audis bowed slightly and smiled, "This is the 'Tears of Liberia' that appeared at Sotheby's Auction in Paris in 1996. My father bought it and hid it at home and couldn't find a lady with its temperament. But I think Miss Xia is no longer suitable, I hope you like it."

Tears of Liberia! This is a diamond that can reach 200 places on the diamond list. The auction price was 9.59 million US dollars. After twenty years of increasing inflation, it is probably worth much higher.

Liberia is the top ten diamond production areas in the world. In the 19th century, it was a European colony. They plundered wealth locally, and after leaving, they were all poverty, war and disease. This "Tear of Liberia" is no longer vivid in the word "Tear of Liberia".

Xia Dirui's eyes did not stay on the diamond necklace for more than two seconds and said, "It's very beautiful, thank you for your kindness, Mr. Audis."

Audis swallowed secretly and smiled reluctantly, "Miss Xia, you are so beautiful, making my soul, soul, soul..." I couldn't think of that complicated idiom for a moment, and couldn't continue to say it. The translator had to help him add it: "The soul is gone..." Thinking about it, I felt something was wrong, and corrected it: "The soul is absent, yes, it is absent, Mr. Audis meant that."

Audis nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, your beauty makes me lose my mind. I want to bring this necklace for you with my own hands. Do I have this honor?"

When we met for the first time, we gave us a diamond necklace worth 60 million to Huayuan. If we used this money to recruit prostitutes, even if we spent 2,000 yuan a night, we would have no other remedies for women who had slept from 20 to 80 years old, and there would be 16.2 million yuan left.

What I have obtained with this necklace now is just asking to wear it for the beauty with my own hands, and the request is still a handsome guy with classical temperament and aristocratic demeanor. How many women in the world can refuse?

Xia Dirui closed the lid and raised his chin slightly. The pride in his eyes was undoubtedly revealed: "NO, I'm very sorry, we in China do not have this etiquette."

Audis seemed very disappointed and somewhat unwilling. The translator quickly explained to him in English. Xia Dirui was proficient in five languages ​​in England, France, Germany, Portugal and Japanese, so he could understand it. The translator said: "Mr. Audis, in China, unless he is the husband of the lady, the intimate action of wearing a necklace for her will be regarded as a serious offense."

"OH, OH, SORRY, SORRY..." Audis waved his hand repeatedly and said, "Miss Xia, forgive me for not intentionally offend me. My impression of your country only comes from movies and the Internet, and I don't know much about your etiquette."

Zhu Qingshen coughed and said, "Okay, dear Andre, let's talk about how to cooperate." He changed his words and changed his title, and he deserved to be the cunning leader of the Zhu family.

The first high-level contact between the two sides and the meeting gift worth tens of millions of US dollars is enough to show the other party's sincerity. Zhu Qingshen has begun to consider the feasibility of this cooperation.

Someone knocked on the door and was the mayor's full-time secretary. Li Xingyun smiled apologetically and said, "You guys talk first, I'll go out."

He had a good grasp of the timing of leaving and introduced it to both sides. When the atmosphere in the venue improved and started to get to the point, he left and did not get involved too much. Everyone was satisfied with this attitude.

Houston said: "It's like that. Dear Your Excellency, our two companies have overlapping parts in their businesses in too many places. We have competed for this, causing great waste of resources and consumed a lot of energy. Instead, we give other forces an opportunity to take advantage of it. In your old saying, it is a battle between snipes and clams, and the fisherman will benefit. I think this is something no one wants to see."

Zhu Qingshen asked with interest: "Since we are snipes and clams, I want to know who the fisherman is."

The translator conveyed this, Houston paused for a moment and said, "Dear Your Excellency, the current world situation is very clear. Since Russia has fallen, the only one superpower in the world is left, and China is recognized as a 'quasi-superpower'. One foot has entered the threshold, or it is in the process of becoming a superpower. This process has become irreversible."

Zhu Qingshen nodded. The feeling of becoming a superpower is better than everyone imagined.

Houston said: "The supergroups and super families in the world can only be produced in these two countries, and you and I are one of them. Don't think that the Mitsui Consortium, how big is Samsung, its own country size fundamentally determines that they will never become supergroups. In front of us, they can only be considered third-rate goods. The Rockefeller family has been a symbol of American wealth and glory since its inception, and there are no decent rivals. What we need to do is to work together and control the world economy more conveniently. I know you are buying stocks of crop companies. The Rockefeller family's "Blue Nest Venture Capital" owns 10% of the crops. Mr. Anthony believes that it can be transferred to you all."

Blue Nest Venture Capital holds 10% of the stake in the crop company, plus 30% of the current Hongwu Group and their follow-up actions, as expected, Hongwu Group will soon gain control of the crops. Houston's proposal is extremely attractive.

"Then what I want to do?" Zhu Qingshen knew that there was no pie that fell out of thin air in the world.

Houston said in a deep voice: "I hope to cooperate with you in the project of aqueous lithium battery, preferably to acquire patents for this technology."

Zhu Qing smiled on his deep face, and the show was indeed coming.

Mobil made a fortune by oil, and later merged with Exxon to form ExxonMobil. Nissan Oil has 6.4 million yuan and an annual turnover of 450 billion US dollars. In Fortune magazine, the soaring energy prices pushed Mobil to the top of the top 500 companies in the United States, and it is one of the important money-making tools of the Rockefeller family.

The dollar wealth that has accumulated higher than the Empire State Building, a large part of which comes from the automotive industry. The booming automobile industry, which has not stopped for more than a hundred years, has brought energy prices to a climax of renewal, almost one step a year.

The power of a car mainly relies on diesel and gasoline extracted from oil, and the maintenance of automobiles and machinery requires a large amount of oil derivatives. This is the most untouchable benefit.

Once a fundamental change in the power of a car, for example, electric engines replace diesel-gasoline engines, the consequences will be easy to imagine.

Xinyuan's two-wheel and four-wheel electric vehicles have opened up sales in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and even southern Europe, proving that their technical means have the strength to replace cars. Now, it has developed a more powerful aqueous solution lithium battery engine, coupled with the huge financial support of Hongwu Group, which will have a more terrifying impact on the traditional automobile industry than a nuclear explosion, and the result is likely to be devastating.

According to the United States' technical strength, advanced power engines have long been studied. Why hasn't they developed into a new industry? It's nothing more than the energy group led by Mobil is trying hard to stop it. This is the capitalist method. They do not allow the new industry to steal their jobs.

It is necessary for Mobil to obtain patents for this revolutionary technology to prevent it from spreading.

Zhu Qingshen looked at his daughter. Xia Dirui replied: "Mr. Houston, although 10% of the shares of the crop company are very touching, the water solution lithium battery engine technology is one of Xuande Industry's core technologies. We have successfully developed it. Perhaps this summer, the new models will be put on the market. I will give you a few to play."

Houston smiled faintly: "Transfer of 10% of the shares of the crop company is just one of the conditions for our cooperation. We will have more cooperation projects in the future. For example, the iron ore in Australia, the rainforest of Brazil, the diamond mine in South Africa, the oil in Libya, the banks of Iceland, and the ports in Greece. We are all very interested in developing it with you."

Many conditions have been put forward, many of which were not involved in Hongwu Group. Some of them were just used to make up for the numbers. For example, after Iceland, which started with the financial industry, went bankrupt, the banks were full of holes and were not worth mentioning.
Chapter completed!