Soon, there was a strong wind in the Brazilian political and military circles against Brazil's participation in the peninsula conflict. Naturally, this wind quickly reached the ears of President Scalia.
He also quickly understood the Fang family's attitude on this matter, and his original thoughts of getting involved were quickly extinguished.
But even so, he still took the initiative to invite Fang Lang. After all, making a decision on such a matter after communicating with Fang Lang face-to-face is completely different from making a decision after just hearing a little bit of news.
Who knows if Fang Lang can understand what he means.
Just when Fang Lang was busy trying to persuade others to support his idea, an unexpected guest came to his home.
Fang Lang, who had been running around all day, had just returned to his manor in Rio de Janeiro. When he was about to have dinner with several women in his family, he saw the concierge running into the restaurant quickly and facing the direction slightly hurriedly. Langdao:
"Sir, there is a gentleman outside who claims to be the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and is here to visit."
Hearing this, Fang Lang couldn't help but frown. Needless to say, he could guess the purpose of the US ambassador's visit at this special moment.
The other party asked the president to push Brazil to join the United Nations Army, but he immediately jumped out to sing the opposite, and also made connections with everyone, making it clear that he did not want to get involved with the Americans. I guess this guy is very angry with him now!
However, Fang Lang didn't care what this guy thought. Even if he had a temper, he couldn't take it out on himself. As a small U.S. ambassador to Brazil, he could give face if he wanted to. If he didn't want to give face, he could just ignore him.
But Fang Lang is not a reckless person to get to this point, so he just pondered for a moment, then showed an apologetic expression to Audrey Hepburn and sisters Yingchun and Xichun who were dining with him. With an apologetic smile, he turned to the concierge and said:
"I understand, please ask the guests to wait in the front hall! I will come over after tidying up."
He was not familiar with the American ambassador, so it was impossible for him to invite him to have dinner with him. Besides, it was obvious that the other party had bad intentions when he came this time. Fang Lang was already giving a huge favor by being willing to meet him.
The concierge listened to his instructions, nodded in agreement, and walked out quickly.
Audrey Hepburn waited for the concierge to leave before speaking to Fang Lang:
"Honey, are you okay?"
Seeing Audrey Hepburn's worried look, Fang Lang smiled casually and said:
"What can happen to a little U.S. ambassador to Brazil? I'll treat him to a cup of tea if I want to give him face. If I don't give him face, I won't let him in."
Audrey Hepburn, who already knew her man's strength very well, heard this, smiled slightly, put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hands and said:
"Then go and do your work first! We'll wait for you to come back and eat together."
After hearing this, Fang Lang stood up and walked to Hepburn, put his arm around her shoulders and kissed her delicate cheek, and then said softly:
"You have a bad stomach. You can't go hungry. Eat well. I'll go and deal with this annoying guy first."
After saying that, he kissed Yingchun and Xichun respectively, and walked out of the restaurant with a satisfied look on his face.
The three sisters were left looking at each other in the restaurant, then shook their heads helplessly and started eating quietly.
Mr. Fang, on the other hand, walked towards the living room with unhurried steps. As soon as he walked out of the restaurant, the butler Fu Bo took two quick steps to Fang Lang and said:
"Sir, do we need to prepare another dinner table for this guest?"
Hearing this, Fang Lang glanced sideways at the other party and said with an indifferent expression:
"Let's see then! With this kind of uninvited guest, who knows if he came here after dinner."
With just one sentence, Fu Bo understood that Fang Lang did not want to see the American ambassador, so he nodded lightly and said:
"Understood. Then, if necessary, I will instruct the kitchen to make arrangements."
After saying that, the two wandered to the front hall and saw two white men in suits and leather shoes, sitting on the master's chair in the front hall and looking around at the layout of the front hall.
When they saw Fang Lang and the others in casual clothes coming out, they quickly stood up to greet them with smiles on their faces. Seeing this, Fang Lang forced a smile on his face, stretched out his right hand from a distance and said:
"Your Majesty is here, but you are welcome from afar! I am Fang Lang."
Opposite me, a tall, thin, blond white man in his forties, held Fang Lang's outstretched hand very enthusiastically and said:
"Hello, Mr. Fang! I am Cyriaco Reina, the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. I am taking the liberty of visiting today. I am very rude, so please forgive me!"
As soon as he heard this, Fang Lang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Good guy, you still know that you are very presumptuous! However, the American ambassador actually knows the false politeness of his hometown.
It seems that this old boy has either stayed in his hometown or studied himself specially! It seems that I have to be more careful.
Fang Lang greeted the other party with a smile on his face and said:
"Welcome, welcome, Mr. Reina's visit has made the humble house look brighter! Why dare you say so?"
After the two exchanged pleasantries, Mr. Siriacco Reina pointed at the young man behind him who looked to be in his early thirties, with curly hair, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and introduced:
"This is my secretary, Penry Connelly."
Fang Lang also greeted the other party very politely, and then everyone took their seats respectively. Without waiting for the other party to express his intention, Fang Lang asked knowingly:
"Mr. Reina, I am the Deputy Minister of the Navy of Brazil. I rarely interact with people in the diplomatic department. I wonder why you came here this time?"
His meaning is very clear. I am just the Minister of the Navy. You should not come to me if you have any problems. Even if you come to me, I can't help you.
Hearing his words, Siriacco Reina, who was opposite, did not show any dissatisfaction on his face. Instead, he said with a smile:
"Haha... Mr. Fang is joking, you are not just the Minister of Navy of Brazil. Long before I came to Brazil, our former Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. George Marshall, told me that he had a very good friend in Brazil. friend.
If you encounter something that cannot be solved in Brazil, you can go to him. I believe that for his sake, this friend will definitely lend a helping hand. "
Hearing this, the expression on Fang Lang's face couldn't help but froze. He didn't expect that this guy didn't follow the routine and directly moved out of George Marshall.
But it was obviously impossible to make him change his position based on his relationship with George Marshall. Therefore, he just smiled and changed the subject:
"Oh! It turns out that Mr. Reina and Marshall know each other, haha... You should have told me earlier! I wonder if Mr. Marshall's health is okay recently?"
Of course, Fang Lang is still aware of George Marshall's situation. The old guy had resigned from his position as Secretary of State as early as 1949. This is why Siriaco Reina just said that he was the former Secretary of State.
But Truman did not let him rest. Instead, at the beginning of this year, he was reappointed as the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Therefore, Marshall is now one of the big bosses of the U.S. government.
Seeing that Fang Lang did not shirk his friendship with Mr. Marshall, Siriacco Reina breathed a long sigh of relief.
Before going to work in Brazil, when he, as Marshall's old subordinate, went to say goodbye to Marshall, he didn't care when Marshall told him that he had such a friend in Brazil.
After all, Marshall did not explain Fang Lang's specific situation to him, but only told him that Fang Lang was a Brazilian rear admiral. Therefore, he did not take the rear admiral to heart.
First of all, as Fang Lang said, he is a diplomat, and it is somewhat inappropriate to have private contact with naval officers of another country.
Secondly, he did not think that a Brazilian rear admiral would be of much help to his work in Brazil, so he never thought of having too much contact with General Marshall's friends.
But this time President Truman asked him to push Brazil to join the United Nations Army and intervene in the Peninsula War together. Things that were already a sure thing, but because of the appearance of this humble Deputy Minister of the Navy, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The president, who initially agreed with the situation, soon changed his attitude, and the military and political circles in Brazil began to emerge that the Peninsula War might lead to the intervention of the Soviet Union, and the risk of eventually turning into a nuclear war.
This put his work directly into trouble. At this time, he had to go back and carefully check the information of the young Deputy Secretary of the Navy.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it. It turns out that this humble Minister of the Navy has such a powerful background. Not only did he become a Vice Admiral of the Brazilian Navy at the age of twenty-five, he also served as the Deputy Minister of the Navy with absolute real power.
What shocked him even more was that this young man also had a huge influence in the United States. Not only was he closely related to the Morgan and Rockefeller Groups, but he was also the boss behind the newly rapidly rising American Global Group.
At the same time, their Fang family's Fangyuan Group in Brazil is also the largest consortium in Brazil and controls the lifeline of Brazil's industry and agriculture. No wonder the other party has such a huge influence on the Brazilian president.
If others are holding back his push for Brazil to join the war, he can also use his influence to deal with the other party and let him know how powerful the American father is.
But this person is obviously not someone he can influence through his influence. If he really does this, he, the US ambassador, may be directly influenced to step down.
Therefore, he had to urgently come to visit this real and unassuming boss in person.
"I'm sorry for your concern, Mr. Fang. Mr. Marshall is in very good health. This time, he asked me to bring you a small gift for him!"
After saying that, he glanced at his secretary, who lifted the briefcase next to the chair, opened it on his lap, took out a gift box and handed it over.
Hearing this, Fang Lang couldn't help rolling his eyes. Mr. Marshall was in good health, and Fang Lang believed it. After all, he still had eight or nine years to live. But Fang Lang didn't believe it at all that he would entrust this guy to bring him any gifts.
Because it has been almost two years since the U.S. ambassador came to Brazil to serve. If it was really a gift brought by Marshall, would it be too late for you to send it over at this time?
However, since the other party gave him a gift, he couldn't delve too deeply into the issue. He just smiled and motioned to Uncle Fu to go forward and take the gift box handed over by the other party's secretary.
After Fu Bo handed it to him, he opened the package without hesitation and saw a very exquisite pipe inside. What was interesting was that this pipe was the same as the one he used when Fang Lang saw Marshall last time. The pipes are very similar. Maybe it was actually a gift from Marshall.
But if this is the case, it would be a bit interesting that the gift-giver only delivered the gift two years later.
This caused an unknown smile to appear on his face.
"Haha... General Marshall is too polite. I would also like to trouble Mr. Reiner to go there in person."
This seems to mean that the purpose of Rena coming here today is to help General Marshall give gifts. Seeing this situation, Siriacco Reina knew that the young man in front of him was not ordinary difficult to deal with.
If you can't get straight to the point, maybe the other party will make a roundabout way around the world. As a dignified American ambassador, he had no time to waste with the other party here, so he stopped going around the bush with Fang Lang and went straight to the point:
"Mr. Fang, in addition to giving you a gift for General Marshall this time, I also want to ask your help for something!"
Seeing that the other party was impatient, Fang Lang also knew that he would have to face it sooner or later, so he waved to Uncle Fu beside him and said:
"Uncle Fu, let me serve the guests two cups of tea."
After speaking, he turned to the American ambassador and said:
"Mr. Reina is not mistaken! You are the ambassador of the United States to Brazil, and you represent the powerful United States. Is there anything in this world that you can't handle? If you can't handle it, I must be powerless!"
Even a fool can feel Fang Lang's shirk.
But the American ambassador opposite him pretended not to understand what he meant. Still spoke:
"Haha... Mr. Fang may not be able to do anything else, but I believe General Fang will be able to do this."
When Fang Lang heard this, he understood that the other party would not leave unless he got a clear answer here today. It must be said that these diplomats are really thick-skinned.
"Oh! Since that's the case, I'm really interested in hearing what it is that even Mr. Reina can't handle, but I, a Brazilian soldier, can handle it."
Hearing this, Siriaco Reina smiled slightly and said directly:
"I heard that during World War II, General Fang took the initiative to apply and led his fleet to the Pacific to participate in the Pacific War.
Now that a new war has broken out in the Pacific, we would like to ask General Fang to once again lead his fleet to the Pacific to make contributions. And I assure General Fang that as long as you can facilitate this, our US government will fully support you to take a further step in the Brazilian military community. . "
As soon as these words came out, Fang Lang's eyebrows stood up in an instant, and he looked at the Ambassador Siriaco Reina in front of him with cold eyes, and said every word:
"If I understand correctly, what Ambassador Reina means is that you, the United States, are prepared to intervene in the management of our Brazilian army, right?"
Ciriaco Reina knew that Fang Lang was a bad choice as soon as he saw Fang Lang's expression and tone. Now he might have said the wrong thing. He rolled his eyes and quickly made up for it:
"Haha... General Fang misunderstood, how could we interfere in the management of your Brazilian army! I mean, I can promise you on behalf of the US government, as long as you can facilitate this.
We can open the sale of some high-precision equipment to the Brazilian military, such as our latest jet fighter. I believe that with the blessing of these equipment, the combat effectiveness of your fleet will be stronger. When the time comes, you will The navy's position will surely become more stable. "
(End of chapter)
