Chapter 77: Clash with the Japanese

Zhou Hao and Situ Li soon came to Shuohua Village, and they also saw a lot of people gathered under the archway at the entrance of Shuohua Village. Dai Zhong, the head of Shuohua Village, was also inside, including Xiang City Party Secretary Xiao Yuzai. A group of government officials inside are chatting with a few men in suits.
Those men are generally not tall, their hair is meticulously combed, and they are very particular about their appearance. Zhou Hao guessed that those men should be from Sumitomo Metal Industries.
After getting off the bus, Zhou Hao followed Gao Houlu and Situ Li to the archway in Shuohua Village. City Party Secretary Xiao Yu immediately smiled at the majestic middle-aged man next to him: "They are here." A young man next to the middle-aged man hurriedly approached him and said a few words, which should be translating Xiao Yu's words.
Looking from Zhou Hao's side, Xiao Yu winked at Gao Houlu and asked them about the results of their negotiations. However, Gao Houlu shook his head very slightly to Xiao Yu. When Xiao Yu looked at it, his brows instantly frowned.
"Mr. Zhou." Dai Zhong stepped forward and greeted Zhou Hao. Originally, as the head of a small village like him, he would never have the opportunity to meet officials like Xiao Yu and Gao Houlu. It was the meeting, and I couldn't catch up at all just now, and now I finally saw someone I knew came, so I naturally came over to chat immediately. However, Dai Zhong looked very upset.
"Mr. Dai, how are you doing these days?" Zhou Hao smiled enthusiastically.
But I saw Dai Zhong sighed and whispered: "It's not good. Now the villagers are complaining about me. Alas, I hate myself, so why did I sell the land to you in such a hurry? You know, the city government gave us five million when it collected the remaining half of the land, oh..."
"Haha, it's useless to regret now. We signed the contract in black and white." Zhou Hao said, "But I can't get any better. Now the government and these Japanese people want our land, but my partner is my partner. I don’t want to sell at all, and now I have to see how to negotiate with them."
Dai Zhong scratched his head, "I don't understand what you businessmen are doing. You can mix it up by yourself."
"Zhou Hao." At this moment, after talking to Xiao Yu, he beckoned to Zhou Hao.
Zhou Hao smiled at Dai Zhong and quickly walked over. Xiao Yu also stretched out his hand to Zhou Hao and said with a smile: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, when we met last time, you were still fighting drug dealers. I and Gao The mayor will visit you in the hospital on behalf of the government."
"Yeah, I also feel very honored." Zhou Hao held Xiao Yu's hand.
"Come on, let me introduce you." Xiao Yu brought Zhou Hao to the middle-aged Japanese man just now. "This is Mr. Koike, the executive director of Sumitomo Metal Industries, and there are several others who are also Sumitomo Metal. Industrial managers. As for this..." Xiao Yu pointed to the young man in his thirties next to Kazuo Koike, "This is Kazuo Koike's interpreter, Mr. Toshihiko Inoue."
Zhou Hao discovered that when Xiao Yu introduced the interpreter named Toshihiko Inoue, the expression on his face was a little unnatural. Specifically, Zhou Hao seemed to have a flash of contempt in Xiao Yu's eyes. Looking at the Inoue Toshihiko, Zhou Hao immediately guessed in his heart that this guy might be the so-called "Japanese Chinese". Looking at Xiao Yu’s disdainful look, Toshihiko Inoue is obviously not the kind of "Japanese Chinese" who has Chinese ancestry but was born and raised in Japan. He was born and born in China, and then he obtained Japanese nationality through numerous procedures and moved to Japan. people.
Even the name has been changed to Japanese. Zhou Hao also glanced at Toshihiko Inoue, feeling ashamed of his ancestors.
At this time, Kazuo Koike, executive director of Sumitomo Metal Industries, looked at Zhou Hao slightly, and whispered a few words to Toshihiko Inoue beside him. Toshihiko Inoue nodded repeatedly, showing respect to Kazuo Koike. Then, he said to Zhou Hao in very pure Mandarin: "Mr. Koike asks if you are the owner of that piece of land." He pointed to the land where there were several factory buildings on the outer wall, showing a kind of arrogance to Zhou Hao. Emoji.
Zhou Hao didn't speak, but just glanced at him lightly. Just now Kazuo Koike didn't have that boring expression of arrogance when he looked at himself. Instead, Toshihiko Inoue, who acted as a translator, acted aloof, a typical fox and fake tiger.
Skip Toshihiko Inoue directly, Zhou Hao spoke to Kazuo Koike: "I heard that in Japan, many successful businessmen or employees of large companies speak English, so you should be fine, Mr. Kazuo Koike."
As soon as he spoke, Xiao Yu, Gao Houlu, and Situ Li were a little dumbfounded. Even Xiaochi Kazuo was surprised because Zhou Hao spoke extremely fluent English.
In the last life, in order to increase his competitiveness, Zhou Hao not only passed the CET-4 test at the request of the university, but also passed the CET-6 test through hard work. Later, he also studied English because of business needs while working in Huangshi. He can't apply for the eighth professional exam, but he asks that his level is not worse than that of an English professional who has passed the eighth level.
Kazuo Koike quickly recovered his calm and smiled at Zhou Hao. He also said in fluent English: "Now it seems that we can communicate directly in English, which is very good." Indeed, as Zhou Hao said , In Japan, most successful businessmen and employees of large companies understand English, because they often do business with people in European and American countries, and English has become a necessary skill.
Toshihiko Inoue was also stunned, and at the same time he felt resentment towards Zhou Hao, feeling that he had lost his face in front of everyone.
"You are probably Zhou Haojun." Kazuo Koike said to Zhou Hao: "Are you the owner of the other half of the land?"
Zhou Hao shook his head, "No, but I can represent their opinions."
Kazuo Koike nodded, then stretched out his right hand and made a please gesture, "Let's go over and take a look."
"Okay." So the group walked to the large wasteland next to Shuohua Village. Zhou Hao bought three large-scale workshops on the 7,000-acre site. Said they were workshops, they only had exterior walls and simple iron roofs. In addition, the more than 8,000 mu of land that was taken over by the Xiangcheng City government had also cleared all the weeds at this time, exposing bare, flat mud.
Kazuo Koike stood there, looking at the vast land in front of him, "We at Sumitomo Metal Industries intends to build a large-scale production base here to produce various agricultural machinery, automobile engines and other spare parts. The sales network will also cover your entire China. "He looked back at Zhou Hao, "And I also believe that if our production base is built, the influence will radiate the entire Guangdong Province, and the economy of your Xiangcheng City will also be driven."
Zhou Hao nodded and said with a smile: "I know all of this, and at the same time, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to your group for investing in our Xiangcheng."
"However, your plant has hindered the development of Xiangcheng and even the entire Guangdong Province!" Kazuo Koike's tone suddenly became severe, and cleverly did not say that Zhou Hao was against their group, but hindered Xiangcheng and even Guangdong. development of.
Zhou Hao was not scared by him. Instead, he sneered: "Mr. Koike is such a big hat. It is undeniable that if your production base is built, it will bring a good development opportunity for our city and even Guangdong Province. But Mr. Koike, you should also know that we have been reforming and opening up in China for many years. The opening up of our economy is not only for you foreign investors, but also for our domestic private enterprises. Let’s put it this way. In principle, the status of our private enterprises is the same as that of foreign-owned enterprises like you.
In fact, Zhou Hao himself knew that this is not realistic. Even in the future, the status of foreign-owned enterprises will actually be much higher than that of domestic private enterprises. However, domestic policies can never expressly state that the status of domestic private enterprises is lower than that of foreign-funded enterprises. This will cause an uproar.
"Furthermore, your production base can bring development opportunities to Xiangcheng and even Guangdong Province, can't we? Mr. Kochi, are you too underestimate us." Zhou Hao did not show any weakness.
Kazuo Koike was also a little confused by Zhou Hao's words. After all, this is China. He can't say that Japanese companies are much better than Chinese companies.
And Xiao Yu and others over there also learned about the conversation between Zhou Hao and Kazuo Koike through the people who knew English. Xiao Yu said to Gao Houlu: "Old Gao, Zhou Hao is not a big deal this time. It's reasonable to talk about it. One set, even the old fox of Koike can't ask for a bargain." These people have been in contact with Koike before, and they know that Koike is an old fox with a hard head, so now I see him eating in front of Zhou Hao. After being deflated, he felt a sigh of relief and admired Zhou Hao at the same time.
At this time, I heard Kazuo Koike say to Zhou Hao: "Your government has just said that they can't expropriate your land, so if we really want to build a production base here, we have to negotiate with you ourselves." Staring at Zhou Hao, "Then Zhou Haojun, if we want to buy the land in your hand, how much do we need?"
"Xiaohao!"
As soon as Zhou Hao wanted to quote the price, he heard Zhao Yuqin's call from behind. He turned around and saw that Zhao Yuqin in a professional suit was walking towards him, and he shouted happily: "Sister!"
At the same time, Xiao Yu's secretary came to him and handed him a big brother, "Secretary Xiao, I will call you."
Xiao Yu frowned, but still answered the phone, "Who is it? Don't you know I am receiving foreign businessmen?"
His secretary quickly said: "I told him, but that person, he said he is Zhao Dingzhou of the Guangzhou Military Region."
"Zhao Ding...General Zhao?" Xiao Yu was startled.