Resource Tycoon Reborn

Accompanied by Qiao An, Fang Mingyuan, Lin Rong and other people walked around the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls, and even took a helicopter to take a look at the beautiful scenery of Iguazu Falls from the air. ∽↗ And when they returned

On the ground, a middle-aged Caucasian man was already standing on the tarmac waiting, and not far away, there were six escorts dressed in black and Fang Mingyuan, Joan Giboudo Fittipaldi's

The escorts stood together.

Seeing Fang Mingyuan and others getting off the helicopter and walking towards this side, the middle-aged man stepped forward with a smile on his face, stretched out his hand and said: "Hello, Chairman Fang, please introduce yourself, my name is Alfred

Di Stefanodo is the chief personal assistant of Minister Carlos Lorencino. I believe that the Minister has already greeted you. The Minister asked me to express my heartfelt thanks to you in person on his behalf and invite you.

At any time you travel to Argentina as a guest."

Qiao An was shocked. Carlos Lorencino is the former Argentine Minister of Economy and Public Finance and the current Argentine Minister of Finance and Finance. He is responsible for the six major economic sectors of finance, production, energy, transportation, employment and agriculture. He can

It is said that he is a powerful figure in the current Argentine government, inferior to others and superior to others. And this middle-aged white man named Alfredo Di Stefano is actually his personal assistant? He ran to Iraq

What to do with Fang Mingyuan in Guasu City?

"Thank you, Minister Lorencino, for your kindness. Assistant Stefano, I have already heard Minister Lorencino tell you about you. Please come all the way." Fang Mingyuan stretched out his hand to shake his hand and said, "Introduction.

Let’s take a look at the two people around me. This one is Joan Giboudo Fittipaldi of the Brazilian Fittipaldi family, my important partner in Brazil. This one is my assistant Lin Rong.

.”

"Mr. Fittipaldi, Assistant Lin!" Stefanodo greeted the two of them eagerly.

The tarmac was naturally not a good place for conversation. The group returned to the hotel which was not too far away. Naturally, Qiao An followed him without any sense. He casually found a reason and made an appointment with Fang Mingyuan for a dinner at seven o'clock.

He said goodbye and left. Of course, although he left, he was constantly wondering what Lorencino's purpose was in sending his assistant to find Fang Mingyuan.

"Chairman Fang, this is a small gift that Minister Lorencino asked me to bring you." Stefano asked his entourage to bring a small box, opened it, and said with a smile, "Your Excellency, Minister

He said that these are not valuable things and asked Chairman Fang not to refuse." Lin Rong took a look and let out a small cry. The small box was full of drop-shaped high-quality rhodolite with a red color.

It is as delicate as a rose, as moist as ice jade, and is like crystal pink water droplets placed in the box. There are two layers, upper and lower, with more than twenty drops.

Rhodochrosite, due to the red and white concentric lines on the crystal cross section, is as beautiful as a blooming rose. It was also known as the "Inca Rose" because it was first discovered in Argentina. It is the national stone of Argentina. Although rhodolite is

The hardness is far inferior to that of diamonds and rubies, and its output far exceeds that of chrysoberyl cat's eye. However, due to its beautiful color, it is also a very popular gemstone among consumers.

Fang Mingyuan glanced at it and said with a smile: "Since the Minister said so, I won't shirk it." Although these rhodolite stones are valuable, it depends on who they are for. With Fang Mingyuan's current net worth,

This box of rhodolite is indeed not a valuable gift.

Stefano was secretly relieved. He came here this time, but he was entrusted by the Minister. If Fang Mingyuan had not planned to go to Argentina, and the Minister could not escape, Lorencino would definitely come in person.

Meeting Fang Mingyuan. He has followed Lorencino for some years, so he naturally knows how much Lorencino values ​​Fang Mingyuan. At that time, Lorencino brought back a deposit of US$1.5 billion from Fang Mingyuan, although it was said that there was no

This changed the fate of the Argentine government that eventually collapsed, but Lorencino was successfully retained by the new government. In the following years, Argentina's export of soybeans to China became a major item in Argentina's foreign trade.

The companies owned by the Fang family import a large amount of soybeans from Argentina every year, and can be said to be China's important customers for importing soybeans from Argentina. Now that the previous agreement is about to expire, Minister Lorencino is anxious to meet with Fang Mingyuan.

, so as to agree on the future soybean import contract, and of course, there are other important things.

Stefano took out another envelope from his briefcase and handed it to Fang Mingyuan respectfully with both hands: "This is a letter that Minister Lorencino gave me to you."

"Oh?" Fang Mingyuan raised his eyebrows, reached out to take it, opened it and looked at it for a few times, and couldn't help but let out a light sigh. One of the letters from Minister Lorencino mentioned the continued soybean trade between the two parties.

Another thing is to invite Longxing Construction Group to participate in Argentina’s railway revitalization plan!

The issue of continuing the soybean trade was not beyond Fang Mingyuan's expectation. He never thought of putting all his eggs in the Brazilian basket. Otherwise, he would not have reached the agreement with Lorencino.

In the past few years, Argentina has generally fulfilled the agreement between the two parties. However... what happened to inviting Longxing Construction Group to participate in Argentina's railway revitalization plan?

"Assistant Stefano, can you tell me in detail the history and current situation of your country's railway system, and what this railway revitalization plan is about?" Fang Mingyuan asked after pondering for a moment.

Stefano said: "Okay, Chairman Fang. Our country has a very long history of railway development..."

Through Stefanodo's narration, Fang Mingyuan learned that Argentina's earliest railway line was built in 1859. In the following years, Argentina's railway network has been in development.

In the 1990s, Argentina's railway turnover reached 30 billion ton-kilometers. By the 1990s, Argentina's operating railway lines reached 35,000 kilometers, making it the eighth largest railway country in the world.

But the glorious past does not represent the present. Although the Argentine Railway has been regarded as a relatively developed railway transportation industry in Latin America and the world for a long time, due to the repeated setbacks in the Argentine economy in the past, the political arena has also not

The instability caused the domestic economic situation to deteriorate sharply, severe inflation occurred, the government's fiscal deficit continued to expand, and foreign exchange reserves continued to decrease. In addition, the Argentine Railway was later privatized, and both the government and enterprises lacked a long-term development plan.

, resulting in long-term insufficient investment in existing railway infrastructure by the government and enterprises. Lines and rolling stock are often in disrepair, causing many road sections to be nearly abandoned. Even if they are not abandoned, their utilization rate is low, and these road sections can still be used in operating conditions.

It is also very bad. On some sections of the road, the train speed cannot even exceed 15 kilometers per hour!

The Argentine Railway, which was originally very convenient and played an important role in Argentina's economic development, now has a declining market share in the transportation industry. It has changed from a transportation giant to only accounting for 7% of the total share and losing money.

It is even more serious. Every year, the Argentine government and companies have to pay more than one billion US dollars in subsidies for this.

Due to the low proportion of railway transportation, Argentina's domestic transportation relies heavily on roads, which makes the transportation cost of domestic goods in Argentina too high. This is also an important reason for Argentina's high economic inflation and declining export competitiveness. Therefore, after the Argentine government entered the new century,

It is determined to implement privatization reform of railway operations in the form of "franchising" to attract private capital to participate in railway operations, while maintaining the state's ownership of railway infrastructure, in order to achieve the purpose of reducing logistics costs and stimulating the economic vitality of inland provinces. However,

Several years have passed, and the privatization of railway operations has not seen much hope. A considerable part of the tens of thousands of miles of railway lines has fallen into disrepair, and various locomotives and supporting facilities have also fallen into obsolescence and need to be updated.

Therefore, the current president proposed the "Railway Revitalization Plan", intending to upgrade the existing railway system through various methods such as investment, construction and repair, thereby reviving the former glory of Argentina's railways. Lorencino is an Argentine financial officer.

The Minister of Finance, responsible for the six major economic sectors of finance, production, energy, transportation, employment and agriculture, naturally responded to the president's proposal and quickly launched the "National Railway Investment Plan".

It’s just that this plan is easy to propose, but how to implement it is a big problem. Although the Argentine government actively raises funds through various methods, the implementation speed of this plan is not very fast. This is mainly because although the Argentine government’s finances

There has been a considerable improvement, but the heavy foreign debt means that the Argentine government does not have much funds to invest in railway construction. And private enterprises, because the ownership of railway infrastructure belongs to the state, are not willing to invest in this area.

Seeing that this plan has been proposed for several years, but there is no obvious progress, the top leaders of the Argentine government are also worried, and the Argentine citizens are quite dissatisfied with it. Lorencino turned his idea to Fang Mingyuan.

"Chairman Fang, there was a major earthquake in your country a few months ago. We found that many buildings built by Longxing Construction Group in the earthquake area fell down during the earthquake, and there was no obvious damage. This makes us very concerned about Longxing Construction Group.

We have the most direct understanding of the project quality of Xing Construction Group. Moreover, we learned that Longxing Construction Group can not only undertake various construction projects in your country, but also build airports, railways and highways. So we hope that Longxing Construction Group

The group can join our railway revitalization plan," Stefano said.

"It is true that Longxing Construction Group can undertake the construction of modern railways, but can your country's finances provide sufficient support?" Fang Mingyuan asked rhetorically. In building railways, it can be said that every meter is paved with money.

.Given Argentina’s poor financial situation, how much money can be used? Longxing Construction Group is not a charitable foundation, so it is absolutely impossible to do business at a loss.

“If Chairman Fang is interested in participating in this plan, our country can use soybeans, beef and mutton and other products to deduct construction costs. As far as we know, Chairman Fang’s companies not only need a large amount of soybeans, but also beef and mutton.

, fishery products and many other commodities have a large demand." Stefano said with a smile, but at this time he was happy in his heart. Fang Mingyuan said this, which is obviously debatable. Although, these products are also

It is an important source of foreign exchange for Argentina's exports. However, as the subprime mortgage crisis has gradually affected the real economy, Lorencino believes that in the next two years, the global economy will face the risk of slowing growth or even stagnation and decline. In this way

First, it will have an adverse impact on Argentina's product exports. If an agreement can be reached with Longxing Construction Group, these products can be used in exchange for Longxing Construction Group to help Argentina rebuild or repair railways, which will be beneficial to maintaining Argentina's economic growth.

Speed ​​can have an important impact.

"Isn't this just a disguised exchange of agricultural, livestock and fishery products for railway projects?" Fang Mingyuan blinked and thought to himself. Although he didn't know about the "high-speed rail for rice" incident that became a big deal in his previous life, he felt that this matter was still

There is something to be done.

The quality of Argentina's agricultural products is still good. Due to Fang Mingyuan's involvement, although genetically modified soybeans have been planted in Argentina, the scale is far from being comparable to that of non-genetically modified soybeans. It can be said that Argentina is now

Non-GMO soybeans still account for more than 80% of production. Argentina’s beef is also world-famous. Due to open-air fence grazing, the beef produced in this natural way is tender and delicious, which is comparable to that of industrialized cattle in most countries.

Beef from cows fattened in sheds is not of the same grade at all. Even Brazil and Argentina, which are also major beef producers, are synonymous with high-quality beef.

Moreover, railway construction requires the use of a large amount of steel. If we can win the railway construction project in Argentina, even if it is only one-tenth of the total mileage, it will be 3,500 kilometers. The demand for various steel materials will also be huge.

A small number, this is also a good way out to resolve the excess domestic steel production capacity. If we can also take over the construction of railway vehicles, control systems and other supporting facilities... Fang Mingyuan pondered for a moment and said: "This is Loren

What are your thoughts, Minister Sino? Won’t this affect your country’s foreign exchange earnings?”

"This was proposed by Minister Lorencino, and it has been supported by many people, including our president." Stefano said, "We believe in Chairman Fang and also believe in Longxing Construction

The Group’s engineering quality.”