Fang Xinshan is of course very happy that his son has handed over such an important industry to him, but at the same time he is a little worried that he will not be able to do well. After considering the people around me, it seemed that there was no one else I could entrust to my family, so I had no choice but to take it on.
"Okay! I'll look after it for you first. If you have any questions, you can take over at any time!"
Fang Lang also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that his father was willing to take over.
Now his property is scattered here and there, and it's time to sort it out urgently, otherwise it will be a mess and you won't know when it will go bankrupt.
"Let's do this! Dad, take some time recently to sort out our industries in Brazil and integrate all the industries that can be placed under Fangyuan Group.
If you can't put it in, see if you can take it out and set up a separate group company to manage it. Otherwise, it would be too chaotic now. When the time comes, that branch will be taken over by someone, and we won’t even know.
Now I don't have to fight everywhere, but it's not convenient to check the factory situation every day. Therefore, I need to have a team of assistants around me to manage all my industries in categories.
I only need to listen to the assistant's report every day to understand the latest situation of each company. And use the assistant to remotely control the operation direction of each branch.
Only in this way can effective management be achieved without chaos. "
"You should have done this a long time ago. You don't know that after you asked me to establish this Fangyuan Group, I saw that so many industries are the first and the second.
I am also planning to have a good talk with you when you return to Sao Paulo! "
"I can't help it. It was really inconvenient to deal with these things some time ago. Don't worry, I will handle it myself after the assistant team is established."
While Fang Lang was discussing the future plans of the family business with his father in his office, Qi Qingshan had already led a company of soldiers to a remote village far away from Natal after a morning of trekking through mountains and rivers.
Since the terrain of Brazil is only low-altitude plains along the coast, less than a hundred kilometers inland turns into high-altitude Brazilian plateaus, except of course for the Amazon jungle.
The village where Qi Qingshan and others are now located is in a small canyon between two peaks on the Brazilian plateau.
"Sir, this is what you are talking about
A local policeman was looking at Qi Qingshan nervously at this moment. He didn't understand why the army suddenly asked him to lead the way to this remote mountain village.
"Do you have police officers who come here often?"
Qi Qingshan stared hard at the middle-aged Indian policeman, as if telling him that if you lie, you will be dead.
"This place is too remote. If no one reports the crime, we will never go to this ghost place again.
In my impression, there seems to be no police report from anyone here in the past seven or eight years! "
"Are you sure, do you know who lives here?"
"This is included in our household registration information. The people living here are local farmers. There are only 20 families in total. They mainly rely on growing corn and sugar cane as their source of income."
"Are there any Japanese residents in this place?"
"Japanese? I've never heard of Japanese here!"
"Okay, get down there!"
Qi Qingshan looked at the quiet little village in front of him and was puzzled. If the policeman didn't lie, why did the Japanese confess that they transported laborers here?
It's hard to tell if there are no crime reporting records in 1978. After all, in some places, most cases that are not criminal cases are solved by the village itself.
"Scout, please come closer to me for investigation. Don't let the locals discover you. Let's see what's going on in this village."
"yes!"
More than a dozen soldiers walked out of the queue, trotted into the woods on both sides, and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Qi Qingshan found a commanding height,
Use the telescope to look at the direction of the village from a distance.
Not even one of the villagers working in the fields was found, which made Qi Qingshan feel very strange.
About an hour later, the scout finally brought back the information.
There was no one in the village in front, and everyone was concentrated in a mine behind the village.
It looked like they were mining, and there were armed guards with guns at the edge of the mine.
Qi Qingshan looked at the middle-aged policeman with a fierce look in his eyes:
"How dare you lie to me? This is the peasant village of twenty households you mentioned. What kind of mine is being opened here?"
The middle-aged Indian policeman was obviously confused at this time, and he quickly waved his hand and said:
"I've never heard of this! In my impression, this is just a small village where a few farmers live!"
Qi Qingshan's eyes widened and he ordered:
"Let me capture him first, and then wait until we resolve the situation in the village."
Next, Qi Qingshan gathered with the company platoon leader and others of the first company to formulate a combat plan based on the intelligence sent back by the scouts.
Half an hour later, a raid on the village was launched.
The operation went very smoothly, although the personnel guarding the mine resisted.
However, all the guards have been clearly detected long ago. Therefore, they were the first to be dealt with.
With a burst of fierce gunfire, the battle ended in less than ten minutes.
When Qi Qingshan walked into the mine, he saw a large group squatting on the ground with his hands on his head. There were about 2,000 people, many of whom had obviously Asian faces, and some were of Indian origin.
These people were dressed in rags and looked malnourished.
Obviously, they were forced to work.
In front of a row of wooden houses outside the mine, nearly a hundred people were kneeling. Judging from their clothes and faces, they were obviously either supervisors or mine owners.
At this moment, he was surrounded by soldiers with guns.
"Who among you is the talker here? Come out and have a chat with me."
No one responded for a long time.
Qi Qingshan spoke again:
"If no one comes out, kill them all."
I don’t know if no one understands Portuguese or what, but everyone looked at Qi Qingshan nervously.
There was no way Qi Qingshan repeated it in English, but there was still no movement.
Qi Qingshan was so angry that he directly picked up the Thompson submachine gun in his hand, pulled the bolt, and was about to hit the crowd.
A short, fat man in his forties raised his hand.
Two soldiers rushed over and dragged him out.
Without saying a word, Qi Qingshan hit him in the face with two rifle butts, causing several of his front teeth to fall out on the spot.
The short and fat man was directly hit to the ground. He held his head with both hands and quickly begged for mercy in Portuguese:
"Please stop fighting, I surrender, I surrender."
When Qi Qingshan heard that he could speak Portuguese, he went up and kicked him in the abdomen, making him bend over and retching, with tears streaming down his face.
"You damn well understand what I'm saying. If you don't answer, you're looking for death, right?"
"Sir... have mercy on me! I... don't dare... anymore!"
The man said intermittently.
"Tell me! What are you little Japanese mining here?"
"Sir, we are at the tantalum mine."
"What the hell? What the hell is tantalum?"
"How do I explain this? I can't explain it for a while. I can take you to see it."
"You are the person in charge of this mine, right?"
"Sir, yes, I also discovered this mine."
"Then what do everyone else here do?"
"There are engineers, mine protection teams, and smelting technicians."
"Oh! Then I understand!"
Qi Qingshan turned back to the first company commander and said:
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Bind everyone here and imprison them. "
Soon the pudgy Japanese brought Qi Qingshan to a large wooden warehouse.
Two soldiers stepped forward, smashed the lock on the door with a rifle butt, squeezed in, and quickly came out and nodded to Qi Qingshan.
Taking a look inside, they were all steel-gray metal blocks.
After just one glance, Qi Qingshan lost interest.
He said directly to the Japanese:
"Do you have a mining license?"
"this....."
"It's just not there? Take it away!"
When Qi Qingshan returned to the base, it was already past eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, so he did not bother Fang Lang.
After work the next morning, I knocked on the door of Fang Lang's office.
"How was your harvest yesterday?"
"Sir, after the overnight interrogation last night, it has been clarified. It was a Japanese man named who discovered tantalum ore in the mountain village, so he notified the Japanese consulate.
Later, the Japanese took control of the people in that village and began to secretly mine and transport it back to Japan. Unfortunately, the output was too low. In order to expand production, Japan mobilized 2,000 workers from their hometown to mine.
Because Mizuno Nobuyin's brother was short of people in the salt farm here, he intercepted a group of workers from this group. It was originally planned to transfer manpower there when the mine was further expanded.
After Japan and the United States went to war, traffic between Brazil and Japan was cut off. They had no way to transport the refined tantalum ore back to Japan. They could only continue to organize mining while waiting patiently.
They didn't know Japan had surrendered until we occupied the mining area. "
"Did they say what this tantalum ore is made of?"
"This Mizuno Nobuyin said it was used to make capacitors, but I don't know what it is."
"Are you sure that neither the Natal government nor the police know about this?"
"Based on the current situation, it is more likely that I don't know about this mine. If these officials know about it, they will get a share of the pie.
As for the police, I have also interrogated them. They have not been to that remote mountain village for seven or eight years.
However, some people knew that there were illegal workers in the saltworks. "
"Then first transport the tantalum ore back to the warehouse and seal it, and bring those who illegally mined the country's mineral resources directly to court and follow normal procedures. Remember to notify reporters to follow up and interview.
As for the small roles such as the mine protection team, let them dig a hole and bury it! "
"Yes, boss!"
Fang Lang doesn't care about the value of tantalum ore now. Because even if this tantalum ore is valuable, Brazil does not allow private mining. The most he can do is swallow a batch from already smelted materials.
In Fang Lang's mind, it was more important to further discredit the Japanese among the Brazilian people.
This group of workers from their hometown was also a surprise to Fang Lang.
