Chapter 646: Old fritters

"Tan Xisheng Nong is good!"
When Tan Zhenhua finally met Werner Michael Blumenthal, the former U.S. Minister of Finance, under Soros’s recommendation, the first words this 50-year-old said when meeting him It was actually a pure Modu Word.
Tan Zhenhua smiled. He stretched out his hand and shook Warner lightly, and replied, "Werner is good at giving birth."
This is one of Tan Zhenhua’s small strengths. He is originally from Yonggang, and Yonggang and Modu belong to the typical Chinese Wuyue language family. Their pronunciation is basically not much different, but the Modu dialect is softer. .
Wonaha shook his hand and laughed: "So Eric, you can speak Mordu too?"
Tan Zhenhua replied: "Not too good at it, just a little bit. In fact, what I just said should be the Yonggang dialect, but it is very close to the Modu dialect."
Hearing this answer, Werner sighed as if he was thinking of something again: "People from Yongkang, I remember, when I lived in the magic city, my landlord was from Yongkang. Yes, their family speaks for you. With the accent just now, when I had the opportunity to go to the magic city again, I wanted to find their family to greet them and pay off my debt by the way. Unfortunately, I didn't find them."
Tan Zhenhua asked curiously: "Debt? Why does Mr. Warner still owe their family money?"
Werner said: "Yes, that is a warm little story, Eric, are you interested in listening?"
Tan Zhenhua nodded.
Werner invited him to sit down, and then began to tell, his voice was soft, but it penetrated the dust of history:
"I was born in the Weimar Republic, and my family even went to the battlefield for Hans in the First World War. Although we lost the war, our entire country was not reconciled to this defeat. And working hard to accumulate strength. We used to believe that one day we will break the shackles that others have imposed on us and take back all that we have lost. At least, my father and mother taught me this way. I can It can be seen that they regard Hans as their homeland and love it deeply."
"But everything has changed when the mustache came to power in 1933. It was a painful history. We became poorer and poorer, and we became less and less respected. We even got our personal safety. Without basic guarantees, we, all Jews, live trembling, and this fear has accompanied me for almost my entire childhood."
"On November 9, 1938, after the infamous "Crystal Night", the Nazis began to systematically arrest all Jews, confiscated their property, and put them in concentration camps. Regardless of whether there was a crime or not, the blood in our body was Our original sin, and my father sensed the danger, we decided to flee."
"As you know, we were lucky enough to get a visa, even though the visa allowed our destination to be in the far east, a city completely alien to us."
"In 1939, our family finally reached the magic city through hardships and found a small shelter with the help of my father and friends. I can still remember our house number-59 Zhoushan Road, Hongkou District. It's a small alley, and the house is a bit dilapidated, but there is a feeling that I have been missing for a long time—safe."
"Nothing. It is something more precious to us wandering Jewish refugees than security. If we must find something, I think it should be warm. What I mean is that the spring sun shines on. You, Eric, can you understand the feeling that makes you alive from the inside out?"
Tan Zhenhua nodded, and Werner continued: "Our landlord and grandmother are such a warm person. They treat us like all other tenants without any difference, as if we are all her friends and children, Eric Ke, you must know that when we first arrived in the magic city, the long journey had exhausted our savings. We were almost penniless. If it weren’t for the landlord’s grandmother who generously agreed to repay the rent in installments a year later, we One family almost sleeps on the street."
"I don’t have to go into details in the days to come. My parents got a job, we got some income and started to pay off our debts slowly. However, their income is not high, and they have to provide for me and my brothers. Going to school, so, until our family left the magic city and came to the United States in 1947, we were unable to repay the debt. The old lady didn’t mention it until we left, as if she never cared about it. ."
"This is really a warm little story, so Mr. Warner, how much is this debt that you owed for decades?" Tan Zhenhua asked.
"If it is converted according to the price level at the time, I think it might be worth $100, but Eric, you must know that the significance and impact of this incident on me is by no means as simple as $100."
Tan Zhenhua nodded to express understanding, while Warner smiled and said: "Then Eric, you have finished listening to my story, can you talk about yours now?"
"Yes, Mr. Warner, I am preparing to do this." Tan Zhenhua said: "I actually bought 12 British Aerospace "Sea Harrier fighters", but the airborne fire control radar that should have been equipped for it could not be delivered on schedule. Goods, so I negotiated with British Aerospace Corporation and decided to choose Issa’s ELTA system products. However, this transaction is now encountering some difficulties, because someone in your U.S. government does not want me to get this product from ELTA."
"Fighter? Airborne radar?" The expression on Werner's face has changed a bit. Obviously he knows what this means. "With all due respect, Eric, this is not easy to handle, and you want these things personally. What do you do? Are you an arms dealer? But Soros told me you are a financier? Although your age surprised me a bit."
"In fact, I am not personally signing this contract. The official purchaser in the contract is Pakistan Railway." Tan Zhenhua explained: "As for why I personally want to buy these things, please forgive me for not telling you for the time being, I believe you can Is that correct? But what I can guarantee is that these things will never have any adverse effects on the national security of the United States."
Werner nodded and expressed his understanding. A private person wants to buy fighter jets. This is an extraordinary thing in itself, and once they buy 12 planes, then the young man must be planning something extraordinary. This is of course. Need to be highly confidential.
So he pondered for a moment before he said, "Eric, since you have found me, then I will do you a favor. In our "U.S. Jewish Federation", the one who is best at handling such things should be "U.S. "Israel Committee on Relations", they have very good communication with the government departments of Israel and the United States, and you are actually not demanding about this matter-according to my understanding, our government has not come forward to interfere strongly in this matter. It’s that some of them have raised objections for what purpose, but I think this opinion does not represent the final attitude of our US government at the moment-Eric, you may be a little hard to understand what I say, but you just need Know one thing, the United States does not have only one government."
Tan Zhenhua really understands this. The political system of the United States is like this. The head of the federal government is the president, but the president’s opinions may not necessarily represent the United States. His proposal must be approved by the Senate and House of Representatives before it can be formally implemented. It is rare for the Democratic and Republican parties in the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives to be able to unite, but they accounted for the majority when they were forced to each other. Not long before Tan Zhenhua was reborn, the US government also made a fuss because it could not pass the president’s proposal to improve The temporary proposal of the debt ceiling caused the federal government to have no money to pay its employees and then had to close the door.
Seeing Tan Zhenhua nodding, Werner continued: "Since you understand, then I can make it simpler. After all, this thing did not happen in the U.S. After all, what you want to buy is not U.S. equipment but Issa. Then, I The idea is that what we have to do is not to get the U.S. government to agree to the deal, but to keep him silent-so you can understand?"
Tan Zhenhua nodded again, and Werner said again: "Then things become simpler. We only need to do two things: First, let the US-Israeli Relations Committee know and be willing to support you. Business; second, let some U.S. politicians who already know about your deal remain silent. Please note that I am talking about certain politicians, not the U.S. government."
Having said this, Werner looked at Tan Zhenhua with a smile, and Tan Zhenhua suddenly became clear after standing still for a while, and he secretly praised that Mr. Werner in front of him is worthy of being the Minister of Finance of the United States, and he is indeed a long-sleeved dancer. Old fritters!