Rebirth of the Tech Madman

As the relationship with Malaysia is also complicated, Brunei and Singapore, two small countries, naturally have a sense of closeness, and the relationship between the two sides is the closest in Southeast Asia.

For example, the currencies of Brunei and Singapore circulate at the same value, Brunei provides military training bases for Singapore, and Singapore helps Brunei train officers.

Tang Huan knew something about Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei. After all, in time and space, the other party was a super rich man with a gold-plated toilet and a great reputation. Counting the queen, the royal wealth she owns is simply incomparable with others.

However, this kind of understanding did not allow Tang Huan to visit directly. Between him and Hassanal Bolkiah, a referrer was needed, so he called Li Xianlong.

The crown prince became the youngest brigadier general in Singapore history in 1983. He entered the political arena in the next year and was appointed as the acting minister of the Ministry of Trade and Industry this year. His weight is definitely enough.

Originally, Qiu Deba was a little apprehensive about self-introduction, but after seeing Tang Huan's travel lineup, he felt relieved. The debt-collecting sultan dared not act recklessly.

The fact is also the same. Hassanal Bolkiah attached great importance to Tang Huan's visit and took the royal family members including his younger brother to greet him in person. After Silicon Valley One landed at Brunei International Airport, it was arranged to use the royal terminal dedicated to Brunei Sultan flights.

During the exchange of greetings, the attitudes shown by everyone were different: Tang Huan was a businessman with a pleasant smile, Li Xianlong was a mature and prudent upstart in the political arena, and Charles had a little arrogance of the former suzerain royal family.

In fact, although Brunei has become independent, the defense agreement it signed with the United Kingdom is still valid, and it is still a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

This is how a small oil-rich country like Brunei does things. Although it and Singapore have reached the standard of developed countries of the United Nations, it does not mean that its national strength can be compared with Malaysia and Indonesia, which are inferior in this regard. If one day there is a dispute with Malaysia over a certain piece of oil-rich sea area, its own power can provide a very limited right to speak, and it must borrow from the outside.

Therefore, Charles' condescending sense of superiority is very confident, and even Hassanal Bolkiah is used to it. And it could be seen that he was very happy that Tang Huan, a celebrity with worldwide reputation, came to Brunei, a tiny place.

It is easy to understand such hospitality and enthusiasm. In order to maintain their long-term status, this small royal family that monopolizes all the resources of the country needs to enter the mainstream world to ensure that they are not unknown people.

Back then, Prince Rainier III of Monaco married the Oscar-winning actress Grace Kelly, not only to simply embrace the beauty, but also to make his small city-state world-famous all of a sudden, and even France is very fond of this little girl under her nose. Tax havens are dissatisfied, and it is not easy to be reckless.

Now that the richest man in the United States and the crown prince of the United Kingdom have come to Brunei, it will undoubtedly give this small country another chance to be noticed by the world's mainstream media. How can Hassanal Bolkiah be unhappy?

Of course, the richest man can’t come to the door empty-handed. Silicon Valley One has brought a large number of luxury gifts, the most conspicuous of which are the three golden technology platforms of gold laptops, gold game consoles, and gold mobile phones, which fully satisfy the tastes of local tyrants.

Tang Huan specifically pointed to the three major items and said, Your Majesty, if your country adopts these high-tech technologies, it will definitely be rich and advanced.

I have seen the positive effects of these high-tech products in Singapore. Hassanal Bolkiah replied with a smile.

Next, of course, everyone went to the Nuloiman Palace, which cost 1.5 billion U.S. dollars and was completed in 1984. It has 1,788 rooms, including 5 swimming pools, 257 bathrooms, a banquet hall that can accommodate 5,000 guests, a mosque that can accommodate 1,500 people, and a huge garage.

To put it more bluntly, the Nuloiman Palace has an area of ​​200,000 square meters, four times that of Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom.

At the grand banquet, Tang Huan took the time to say to Charles, It seems that this time is the right time.

Charles nodded and asked, How long do you plan to stay here?

Isn't it true that your random flowers are becoming charming? Tang Huan shook his head slightly with a smile.

No matter how luxurious this remote place is, he didn't want to waste too much time here, so he found an appropriate time to bring up the issue of Qiu Depuat's debt that Lee Hsien Long had communicated in advance.

The solution is simple and clear. Just hand over 100 million pounds, and the remaining two-thirds will be repaid within a few years according to the rules of the bank loan. The guarantee is the richest man, and the eldest son of the Qiu family needs to be released immediately. .

Glancing at Qiu Deba who appeared from among Tang Huan's entourage, Hassanal Bolkiah laughed, Actually, you are worrying too much, I am really very hospitable.

Speaking of this, the debt-collecting sultan waved his hand, and the eldest son of the Qiu family, who was under house arrest, was quickly brought here. Apart from a slightly terrified expression, there was no serious problem.

This kind of financial dispute, as long as the creditor understands that repaying the money is nothing, the conflict will disappear. What's more, Hassanal Bolkiah, a local tycoon who is not short of money, has a very sincere heart to make friends with Tang Huan and Charles.

After the matter was happily revealed, the atmosphere became more relaxed.

Tang Huan's value is naturally worthy of Hassanal Bolkiah's friendship. After a casual chat, a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars around oil trade and infrastructure construction was reached.

On the third day, Tang Huan refused to stay any longer, took the reluctant Charles to leave, and took the gift full of local tyrants from Hassanal Bolkiah, and returned to Xiangjiang on Silicon Valley One—— Japan can afford to delay.

Diana stayed in Xiangjiang, and she was not bored, and the content of the activities was very rich. In particular, the annual Xiangjiang Tennis Open is coming again. The high prize money has attracted the first-line players in the world's professional tennis world, thereby ensuring the level of the competition, which just caters to the taste of the Princess of Wales who likes tennis very much.

However, as the saying goes, there are many people who are popular, and the Xiangjiang Tennis Open also caused troubles because of its popularity, and reported it to Tang Huan who had just landed.

The cause of the incident was related to a contestant named Hu Na. In 1982, at the age of 19, she participated in the Confederations Cup held in California, USA as the Chinese national team, but on the day of the second round against Germany, she suddenly disappeared and left the team. Lost to the German team.

In the next year, Hu Na, who lived in the United States, applied for political asylum to the U.S. government and was granted permission. China therefore lodged a strong protest to the United States and announced the suspension of the 1983 Sino-U.S. sports exchange.

After obtaining American citizenship, Hu Na began to represent the United States and participated in the Women's Tennis Federation competitions. She became a professional tennis player last year and was able to compete in the WTA. Her results were around the top 50 in the world. This year she also came to the Hong Kong Tennis Open.

Originally, as long as no one mentioned this matter, it would have passed quietly, but Baodao still poked it out triumphantly, and then started a war of words, adding unexpected pressure to the Xiangjiang Tennis Open.

Tang Huan, who had the perspective of decades in the original time and space, became tired of hearing it. The commercial Xiangjiang Tennis Open is a tool for gaining reputation. How could he be entangled in such disputes!

Martina Navratilova, the queen of tennis who is about to end Steffi Graf's reign, also traveled from Czechoslovakia to the United States in the same way.

In the final analysis, the rules of the game, as well as the related people and events, have nothing to do with the organizers of the event, and it is absolutely unworkable to drive people away.

If she has the ability, she will become the second Martina Navratilova, win the championship heroically, and let the world calm down. Tang Huan, who made no secret of his impatience, ordered so with subordinates.

With this instruction, the Hong Kong Tennis Open Organizing Committee finally stabilized.

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Tang Huan stopped staying and rushed to Japan for an official visit at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

After Silicon Valley One landed in Tokyo, Tang Huan couldn't help complaining, In the future, don't rub against my Silicon Valley One, and now you don't know whether those people outside are here to welcome you or me.

Why don't you go ahead? Charles, who had already arranged his image and put his arms around Diana, asked casually.

Tang Huan glanced at Charles' entourage, and then waved his hands, Then you go first. The mouse pulls the wood, with the big head behind.

In fact, Charles and Tang Huan came together to show up, which made Japan think a lot about how to receive them. In the end, they simply came up with a hodgepodge, bringing together foreign affairs personnel who received the British royal family and business people who were interested in the richest man. Come and greet together, and the result is a spectacular scene.

After Tang Huan met with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, he was surrounded by Japanese financial circles rushing to send money. The reason is nothing more than the prospect of the California high-speed rail project, which has been completely cleared with the dust of the mid-term elections in the United States.

Just at the beginning of November, the American political arena was once again in turmoil. The cause was that on November 2, a Lebanese magazine named Sailing disclosed the incident in June this year that the US President's National Security Affairs Assistant McFarlane went to Iran for activities, and the Iranian Speaker also confirmed the report on November 4. , thus exposing a political scandal not inferior to the Nixon Watergate incident in the 1970s-Iran-Contra.

It turned out that Hezbollah in Lebanon has kidnapped many American hostages, and Iran has close ties with it. Through Israel’s matchmaking, William Casey, then director of the CIA, learned that Iran, which was mired in the quagmire of the Iran-Iraq War, was willing to play its role as long as it could obtain parts of American aircraft and arms such as anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles. own influence.

Under this logic, the McFarlane plan to exchange the hostages with the conditions of selling arms to Iraq was secretly introduced and implemented.

At the same time, the CIA also used part of the money from selling missiles to support activities to subvert the Nicaraguan regime.

In a word, these daring guys have violated a series of related bills approved by the US Congress, and they have undoubtedly broken the law. After the Dongchuang incident, the Republican Party was completely defeated in the mid-term elections in the United States, and the Senate and Representatives of Congress were all controlled by the Democratic Party.

In this case, the political obstacles mainly from the Republican Party have disappeared, and the California high-speed rail project is about to land.

The Japanese bankers intend to follow the example of Pacific Bell and continue to cooperate with Tang Huan. The amount involved in opening and closing their mouths is completely in the unit of 100 million, which is not comparable to Brunei they have contacted before.

I have to say that although Hassanal Bolkiah is rich, he looks a little puffy in front of Japan.

The profit forecast of California High Speed ​​Rail is actually not as straightforward as that of Pacific Bell. The enthusiasm of the Japanese stems from the grand ambition of exporting their own new high-wire technology. The political needs in it are not even a problem to make a loss and make a profit, which suddenly suppressed the competitiveness of Europe.

When Tang Huan's accompanying reporter sent this grand event back to the United States, it immediately aroused heated discussions that the yen knocked down Tang's richest man.

Observers can see very clearly that in the competition for California's high-speed rail, in addition to the basic card of technology, Japan also has to play the expansion card of financing.

After more than a year of fermentation, the effect of the appreciation of the yen against the US dollar has become more and more obvious. The Japanese have become richer, so it is natural to use the enhanced package.

At the same time, Tang Huan praised the design of Japan's Shinkansen to resist earthquake disasters, and it seems that he is also faintly giving off a tendency.

Like the Japanese archipelago, the west coast of the United States is also located in an earthquake zone. In history, San Francisco experienced a major earthquake that caused serious losses. Therefore, it is very necessary for Tang Huan to pay attention to this point. ⑧± Miao (.*) pen ⑧± Pavilion ⑧±, o

There are indications that the Japanese, who plan before moving, are beginning to lead the Europeans.

So what is Tang Huan thinking? To be honest, he was really overwhelmed by the yen, and he was a little dizzy lying on a lot of preferential terms.

Technology is not absolutely perfect, and in many cases, compromises have to be made for money.

Tang Huan’s driving force for implementing the California high-speed rail plan is his need for personal merit. He wants to put his own physical label on the western United States, and the attitude of the Japanese is that as long as you use our Shinkansen, all problems will be no problem !

According to the evaluation of the team under his command, the preferential terms offered by the Japanese can greatly reduce Tang Huan's medium and long-term financial pressure, which is simply impossible for the European side.

Although the richest man doesn't care about this, but if you have more money, you can do more things! In particular, the unique design of the Shinkansen to resist earthquakes is more in line with his wishes.

If you were knocked down by the yen, then let's knock it down. Tang Huan began to spread rumors about his tendencies through Masako Hetian and other people around him.