After hearing Fang Lang's words, Mayor Dursley calmed down a little embarrassed and said:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Colonel, I'm too excited. If you have anything to do, please just give me your instructions and I will do my best to help you get it done."
Regarding Mayor Dursley's performance, Fang Lang smiled slightly and said:
"I have just said that the group plans to establish a bank in Natal. I need the mayor to allocate a piece of land in the city center to build a bank building."
After Mayor Dursley heard what Fang Lang said, he stood up and walked to the window of his office, pointing to a two-story small corridor opposite the municipal square:
"Mr. Colonel, what do you think of the location opposite, just opposite the City Hall and Parliament. That two-story building was originally a cotton trading center built during the Portuguese colonial period.
There are two large warehouses in the back, which can be used to build a bank. "
Fang Lang also stood up and walked to the window, looking at the two-story building across the square. Right on the side of the road, opposite the City Hall and Parliament, the location is absolutely incredible.
"So this trading center is no longer in use?"
"The trading center is a brick and wood structure. It has been too old and is too old. It is almost becoming a dilapidated building. Now everyone no longer trades here.
The city government had long wanted to push it for reconstruction, but there was no suitable project, so it remained abandoned. It couldn't be more suitable for building a bank building. "
"Okay, tomorrow I will ask the person in charge of Fangyuan Group to come to the city government to discuss the land purchase in detail."
Seeing that the bank land had been basically negotiated, Fang Lang was about to get up and leave, but he saw that Mayor Dursley seemed a little entangled and hesitated to speak.
Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Mr. Mayor, do you have anything else to say?"
Dursley clenched his fist as if he had made up his mind and said:
"Mr. Colonel, I heard you just said that you still want to open a salt farm, right?"
Fang Lang smiled and nodded, and said strangely:
"Yes! As far as I know, sea salt in Natal seems to have always been a dominant industry! What's wrong?"
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Dursley took two steps in the room, turned around, came to Fang Lang's side and whispered:
"If you want to open a salt farm, no problem, but I would like to remind you that Natal salt can only be sold through the Natal Salt Company."
These words made Fang Lang's expression change immediately. What does it mean? Forced buying and selling, or threatening me.
Seeing Fang Lang's face, Dursley was startled and whispered quickly:
"Mr. Colonel, please don't be angry. Let me tell you this! Natal is a small place with a small population. There are some big families whose strength is deeply entangled in Natal, which is very difficult to deal with!
Our Natal Salt Company is an industry owned by one of the powerful families. The Salt Company has been established for more than two hundred years, and its boss is a nobleman from the Portuguese period.
They all have certain connections in Congress. They keep a low profile and never participate in mayoral or speaker elections. However, no matter who the mayor or speaker is, they will be the deputy speaker or deputy mayor.
The most important thing is that there are many people in the police station. Some call them the underground mayors of Natal. "
Fang Lang was stunned by this news. He didn't expect that someone would already be playing like this.
Isn't this the routine I prepared for myself? Someone actually started playing before me.
Although he didn't know whether what Dursley said was true or false and what his purpose was, this routine was very familiar to him!
Fang Lang smiled playfully and said:
"Oh! Is Mr. Mayor Dursley afraid of them too?"
These words made Dursley look a little embarrassed, and he smiled to cover it up before saying:
"Well... our family has been in Natal for many years, so we have some relationship with this family."
Fang Lang touched his nose and said with a smile:
"Oh! Then Mr. Dursley
Why are you telling me this? Aren't you afraid that I'll tell them? "
This time Mayor Dursley was not embarrassed, but said sincerely:
"Because I can feel that Mr. Colonel really wants to do good for Natal and wants to change the current situation in Natal!"
After giving the mayor a funny look, Fang Lang stood up, straightened his clothes and said:
"Then I will go back first and ask the person in charge of Fangyuan Group to come and visit Mr. Mayor tomorrow."
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the door. When he was about to open the office door, he turned around as if he suddenly remembered something and said:
"It seems that Mr. Mayor hasn't told me the name of this family yet!"
Mayor Dursley said in a voice just loud enough for Fang Lang to hear:
"The Yakub family, their head is Teodor Yakub."
Hearing the name, Fang Lang nodded, opened the office door without saying anything, and walked out.
The guards standing on the left and right outside the door followed immediately.
Sitting in the car going back, Fang Lang kept analyzing what Dursley said.
In fact, there is no need to worry about the truth or falsehood, because if it is a lie, it will not stand up to the investigation.
This family must be real and must have quite a strong influence in the Natal region.
This kind of thing is inevitable. Under normal circumstances, Fang Lang would actually prefer to do business with such a family, because they are low-key and powerful.
Get things done with half the effort.
It's just that if one person is not good enough, they may swallow him down to the bone.
But in Natal, Fang Lang didn't allow anyone to be more awesome than himself.
At this moment, Fang Lang suddenly wanted to have his own intelligence agency. At least he couldn't always let himself go to a place and not understand the situation, so he could easily be taken advantage of and help people pay money.
Thinking of the intelligence agency, Fang Lang thought of his friend Major Blackwell in the intelligence agency.
I don't know if they have this kind of domestic information. It's useless to think about it. Just call and ask and it will be clear.
Fang Lang returned to the office and made a direct call to Major Blackwell.
"Blackwell? I'm Fang Lang!"
When Fang Lang announced his door, hearty laughter immediately came from the other side.
"Fang, I heard that you made a great contribution this time!"
"How can I hide my achievements from you? It seems that you are on General Dutra's side this time too!"
"Hey! How do we have the right to choose sides? This intelligence agency sounds impressive, but when I came in, I found that I was not welcomed at all. It was not as refreshing as before in the army."
"That's not right! After all, your intelligence agency is the largest intelligence agency in Brazil. How can it not be welcomed? Doesn't Mr. President need information?"
"Of course Mr. President needs information, but we won't give it to him!"
This made Fang Lang stunned. Is there an intelligence bureau that doesn't provide intelligence to the president?
"Isn't the Brazilian Intelligence Service responsible to the president?"
"Of course not! Our Brazilian Intelligence Agency was established by the Ministry of Defense two years ago. A military intelligence agency will definitely not be responsible to the president!
Hi! We are brothers, and you are also a senior officer in the army, so I will not hide some things from you. However, after I tell you some things, you must never tell them. "
"Don't say anything if it will have a bad impact on you. I don't want you to lose your job."
"This is definitely not the case, let me tell you this! Don't listen to the sound of our department seeming to be very powerful. In fact, we have only been established for a short time, and we have not even found the direction of our work.
The entire Brazilian Intelligence Agency is just a regiment-level unit. The top leader is our director, and the military rank is lieutenant colonel.
Before serving as Director of Intelligence, he was the Intelligence Staff Officer at the Department of the Army. And the reason why I was promoted to major and joined the Intelligence Bureau was because I cracked the Japanese disk in Sao Paulo.
Let the intelligence chief think that I have counterintelligence work experience. However, we brothers all know this matter clearly. What kind of counterintelligence work experience do you think I have?
After entering the intelligence bureau, my brother was very panicked! It turned out to be okay. After I came in, I just sat in an office and read the briefings sent by various regions. However, after this Japanese mob incident!
The director asked me to set up some counterintelligence department, but I couldn't even refuse. He insisted that I have experience. What can I say?
Brother, if you don't call me, I will take time to go to your place to avoid the limelight. Who can do this kind of counter-espionage? "
Now it was Fang Lang's turn to be dumbfounded. As a Chinese, coming from a country that had intelligence agencies since Jinyiwei and Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty.
It is simply incomprehensible that a country's intelligence agency can be so playful. Thinking about it, I still couldn’t help but ask:
"Are you saying that our Brazilian Intelligence Service, a military intelligence agency established after the start of World War II, is not responsible to the president?"
"Of course, although I don't know exactly which countries we want to collect military intelligence, we are responsible for collecting military intelligence."
At this time, Fang Lang finally remembered the news he saw on the Internet later, saying that Brazil's intelligence agency monitored the president's phone calls.
It turned out that Fang Lang still didn't understand. Now that he said this, Fang Lang finally understood. It turned out that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency had always served the military. No wonder the president didn't even get wind of such a big thing.
Hearing Blackwell say that he didn't even know he wanted to collect military intelligence from those countries, he couldn't help but make Fang Lang laugh.
No wonder the Brazilian Intelligence Agency is not so famous in later generations, because it seems that he really has no enemies, and his only competitor is Argentina in South America.
The only war in South America with Argentina was the war that broke out in 1825 to compete with Argentina for Uruguay.
Of course, Brazil lost this battle. But at that time, Brazil had just become independent from Portugal. It was not yet a United States, but an empire. The first emperor was the son of the Portuguese emperor.
Perhaps it was precisely because Brazil had no enemies in South America that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency later focused its main efforts on the collection of internal intelligence!
No wonder the Brazilian military has been so arrogant in Brazil that it can launch a coup and overthrow the president at every turn.
Think about the CIA and FBI that the Yankees have. There are a lot of this bureau and that bureau. There is no saying that that bureau can directly reject the president!
