Great Power Technology.

Chapter 231 Difficult Journey to Africa

While Ye Zhou and Chen Hao were looking forward to their plans for the energy structure, 1 kilometers away, a plane landed at the dilapidated airport against violent wind and sand.

This is Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, but this airport is as backward as the bus stations in slightly larger counties in China.

The periphery of the airport is littered with some long-decommissioned planes. Those planes have witnessed the country's past glory, but hint at its current decline.

After getting off the plane, Li Mingchu frowned and looked at the sky full of yellow sand outside the window of the arrival hall, silently took out the dust mask and put it on.

This is not the first time he has come to Sudan, but every time he comes, his feelings are completely different.

Or to put it bluntly, every time he felt that the country was worse than the last time he came.

A series of reasons such as melee, constant armed conflicts, declining imports and exports, and severe inflation have brought this country step by step into the abyss of irreversibility, and on the edge of this abyss, there is still a giant with a hypocritical smile.

The giant's hand was stretched out, seemingly trying to pull the fallen man up, but in fact it was just adding strength to his back and pushing him deeper into the abyss.

It doesn't want to save anyone at all, it's just grabbing its own interests under the guise of saving.

Li Mingchu sighed, walked out of the arrival hall, and took the special car that was already waiting in front of the door.

Sitting in the back seat was a middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life. When he saw him coming up, he immediately said:
"At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, I have been waiting for you for a long time. How is it? Did the flight go smoothly?"

Li Mingchu shook his head and said helplessly:
"It's not going well. The EgyptAir plane doesn't even provide lunch now. Is there any food in the cafeteria? Let's go and have some food."

"Our cafeteria has been closed long ago. There are only a few people left here, and they all cook at home. Why don't you go to my house for a bite? Or go to the cafeteria of Huaji's representative office here."

"Then let's go to Huaji, Brother Song, how is the situation now?"

The man next to him is Li Rusong, who is the Sudanese regional business manager of a domestic energy company called "Curve Point", and is currently in charge of photovoltaic projects in this country.

Hearing Li Mingchu's question, Li Rusong shook his head and replied:
"It still doesn't work. They can accept our plan, but they just don't want to sign the contract. They have to see the actual results before they are willing to let go. We have no choice but to make concessions."

"In the next week, we plan to deliver a photovoltaic project experimental bureau to them. The main equipment has already arrived, and now the UPS is missing. Originally, we planned to use Huaji's UPS to top it up first, but they didn't accept."

"So, the current situation is that we can only wait for the new batteries from Ningde in China to be in place. The news I received is that they will first manufacture a batch of experimental prototypes within a week and send them over, and then use them in the experimental bureau , as long as the performance can meet expectations, basically it will be done.”

Li Mingchu nodded and continued to ask:

"What is the opinion of SPLM and SPA?"

"Basically everything has been negotiated. Anyway, this national-level project is only beneficial to all forces and has no disadvantages. They also assured us that as long as the project is in existence, they will never do anything to the project's infrastructure."

"That's good, so the only difficulty now is the Experimental Bureau? Is it possible to sign an agreement with them through our own relationship before the Experimental Bureau succeeds? They can afford to wait, but we can't afford to wait."

Li Rusong sighed deeply, looked at the dilapidated buildings passing by outside the window, and said helplessly:
"That can't be helped. The other party is a big boss in the military. We can't use many methods of migrant workers on them. We can only talk about friendship and interests with them. What's more difficult is that during this time You know what happened to them, many of our original key contacts have been washed away, and all customer relationships have to be redone, which is very troublesome."

"So didn't you get transferred here? You are the first group of management personnel here. You have a solid foundation and are familiar with the situation. I will work hard for you in the past few days and see if we can achieve our goal ahead of schedule. .”

"Understood. I'll go to SPLM's Hurley in the afternoon, and then I'll meet with SPA's Sammy tomorrow. If the two of them are settled, it shouldn't be difficult to sign the contract basically. What about the official side? Have you settled?"

"There is nothing wrong with the authorities, they are all puppets anyway."

Li Mingchu nodded thoughtfully and stopped talking. A few minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance of the cafeteria of Huaji Representative Office. Li Rusong took him in with ease and greeted the chef. The glutinous rice noodles were served in front of them.

Li Mingchu couldn't help sighing while eating the noodles:
"Should I say it or not, Huaji is still rich. I heard that their chef's salary here is as high as [-] yuan?"

Li Rusong smiled and replied:

"That's normal. One person serves dozens of people for dinner a day. Occasionally, Chinese-funded enterprises such as us come over for a meal. Sometimes we feel sorry for it. Occasionally, they don't accept people who bring drinks. We can only write Write a letter of thanks and ask Huaji to raise their wages."

"It can be regarded as borrowing flowers to offer Buddha - but there is no way, this place is like this, the conditions are too difficult, let's hug together to keep warm. This is not the last time their station in the area was smashed by someone, and we sent them security."

"Well, this is also very good, the resource allocation is optimized. How is the situation here recently?"

"Very stable. Occasionally there will be parades, but the scale is not large, and there is no chaos. I haven't fired a gun for a long time. At most, I just hit rocks or something."

"Where's our security? Why don't we arrange security to follow now?"

"The two drivers are, they have guns - but they dare not use them unless it is absolutely urgent, it will easily cause unnecessary trouble, you know what I mean?"

"Understood, let's eat, hurry up and go, our time is too tight."

Both of them stopped talking, and after the noodles in the bowl were finished, Li Mingchu stood up and said goodbye to the chef, and then walked straight out the door.

He was still consolidating the information he had obtained in his mind, and at the same time, he was planning what he needed to say and the strategy he needed to use when he met the director of SPLM.

The criticality of this project has been emphasized to him countless times by his leader before he got on the plane. If the photovoltaic project cannot satisfy the other party, then there is no need to discuss the follow-up cooperation in the oil field.

The other party will not hesitate to fall to the ugly country, because the ugly country has indeed provided them with extremely credible, tangible and tangible benefits.

And photovoltaics?
In the short term, there is no possibility of making a profit, only a huge amount of investment.

Even though most of these investments will be realized through Huaxia Development Bank's double-excellent loans, it still makes them feel uneasy.

Because if the project fails, they will still be burdened with huge debts, and this kind of debt is likely to make the country's economy worse.

They can't afford to gamble, but they must be persuaded to gamble.

Therefore, the only way is to show them all the chips in the pool.

They have to be made greedy first to arouse their desire to bet.

Thinking of this, Li Mingchu silently recorded these fragmented thoughts in his small notebook, and gradually formed a perfect logic.

His expression has also become more and more confident. He has been in Africa for many years, and he has never failed.

So how could it fail this time?
But immersed in his own thoughts, he didn't notice that there seemed to be more and more people on the road.

Li Rusong looked outside nervously, even the driver took his right hand off the steering wheel.

This Lu Xun has been bulletproofed, and stray bullets in small-scale riots are not afraid, but if it is blocked by a crowd on the road, the situation will be very serious.

Li Mingchu, who noticed the abnormal atmosphere, raised his head, glanced out of the window and asked:

"So unlucky? We happened to meet?"

Li Rusong shook his head and replied:

"It's not bad luck. In fact, we often encounter it. There may not be a problem, but it's just troublesome when we encounter it."

However, before he finished speaking, a stone flew from a distance and hit the side window of the car directly!
Debris flew everywhere, and the situation suddenly escalated!
(End of this chapter)