Imagine the world

Chapter 507
To arrange this visit, the diplomats of the two countries, especially those from the Jili country, have been preparing for more than half a year. What to talk about and who will talk about it are all agreed in advance.

Some projects that can be finalized have actually been finalized before Shire's departure, and the signing ceremony was completed during the talks to show the results of this visit.

There are still many projects that have not yet been finalized and need further negotiation and communication.This also involves a series of specific tasks such as epidemic prevention, security, and reception, which are very trivial and complicated.

Dongguo pursues a foreign policy that all countries are equal, but Dongguo is an important country in the world after all, and Jiliguo is probably one of the most neglected countries. It is really not easy for Charles to visit this time.

Shire brought a visiting team of more than 100 people, and Dongguo's closed-loop reception was quite troublesome. Fortunately, Wang Fengshou had laid the groundwork for communication a long time in advance, and tried to arrange everything properly.

This is the largest visiting mission in the history of Jili Kingdom. Charles is also the youngest head of state in the world. However, his trip was very low-key and he did not make any publicity reports. Jili Kingdom officials just sent a simple message notice.

The Dongguo official also just issued a news announcement, reporting that the president of the Jili Kingdom, Charles, was invited to visit, just a few lines.After the talks are over, the two countries may issue a more detailed joint announcement or something.

Such a low-key visit would not have caused any disturbances, but the unofficial media abruptly heated up the matter, reporting and analyzing and judging the visit from various angles.

Overseas media focused on criticizing the Dongguo government, claiming that the upcoming talks between the two countries represented Dongguo's ambition to expand its influence on the Black Desolate Continent and disrupt the world order.

The specific content of the cooperation has not been disclosed, but it has been described as a cultural and economic invasion of Dongguo.

In Dongguo, many self-media organizations made voices out, dubbing Shire's team as a begging group or a group of foreign monks, mocking them for begging and seeking alms from Dongguo.Its main purpose is to criticize Dongguo.

As for how Jiliguo will feel, not many people care about it.

In all fairness, the status quo of many countries in the Black Desolation Continent is indeed a little lower, and the final results of many cooperation projects are quite absurd and magical.As for the Jili Kingdom before the establishment of the new alliance, it was even harder to find a lower limit.

Of course, Charles is very clear about these situations, so he lowered his posture this time, and he has already given enough promises in advance.

He knew very well that this was the best or even the only choice to really pull Jiliguo from the bottom of the valley to the upward channel. If he missed it, he would not be desperate in the future, but many things would become extremely difficult.

As for other options, they have all been tried a long time ago, which constitutes the modern history of Jili Kingdom.

This time, he will discuss cooperation in aid and construction of more than 70 projects in [-] fields.It is indeed a construction aid, because Guliguo itself does not yet have the technical reserves, construction teams, material production and supply capabilities for these projects.

It can even be said that the vast majority of countries in the world do not have it.

However, Jiliguo has another advantage, that is, there is a stable environment, including the political environment, public security environment, and living environment, which can provide various guarantees for construction projects.

Dongguo has sent several small delegations in the early stage, and was invited to conduct field investigations in Jiliguo, otherwise it would not have reached this point.

From the very beginning, Guliguo didn't just want some economic assistance, but wanted all-round cooperation.

Dongguo's large-scale infrastructure construction capabilities are unparalleled in the world at this historical stage.However, the large-scale infrastructure construction in Dongguo has gradually reached a bottleneck in recent years.

However, the team of skilled workers, including the entire infrastructure industry chain, needs continuous new projects to maintain, and Jiliguo provides a huge demand in this regard.

Roads and bridges, power stations, mineral mining and processing, logistics, information flow, and energy flow networks are all key projects, and cooperation can basically be divided into three categories.

The first category is the order project, where Jiliguo places the order directly and pays the agreed payment in installments.This is the safest and safest way of cooperation for Dongguo, which is equivalent to exporting personnel services and technical equipment.

The second category is loan-aided construction projects. Dongguo provides special loans to make up for the lack of funds in Jiliguo.The loan has a special supervisory account, which is only used to pay for the construction aid project contract, and Jiliguo may not even have access to cash.

The loan needs to be secured and mortgaged, and the specific form is to be discussed by both parties.

The third category is direct investment projects. After completion, it is equivalent to a sole proprietorship or joint venture established by Dongguo in Jiliguo. In fact, it also means owning or controlling the country's economic resources to a certain extent.

When both parties have a good reputation, the latter two types of cooperation are more beneficial to Dongguo, which can absorb excess capital and production capacity at the same time, but the risks are also greater, so a careful balance is required.

For example, in the road and bridge project, the first model is adopted in Huanxiang Tebang; while in other parts of Jiliguo, the second model is almost always adopted.Similarly, there is also the construction of transmission and transformation grids.

Another example is the hydropower project, which is the area of ​​cooperation where the two sides can most agree.The Luofugen Hydropower Station has been completed to generate electricity, and the Banyuan River Hydropower Station is under construction.

Hydropower is limited by natural resources, and there is not much room for development in Dongguo. In recent years, some small hydropower stations that affect the watershed environment have even been dismantled.However, as a country with very special meteorological and climatic conditions, what is most needed is water conservancy construction.

Water conservancy and hydropower projects are a mixture of the above three types, and their planning can continue for many years.

Of course, the government of Jili State lacks funds, so it needs to apply for an aid loan.And many self-funded projects are basically Huanxiang Industrial Investment, so Feng Zibin came with the delegation, which can be regarded as escorting Shire.

Feng Zibin is here, of course Hua Zhenxing will be seconded.The Guliguo embassy also posted many group photos of the visiting personnel on the website, all of which are large-pixel high-definition photos.

In the group photo and another small-scale group photo, you can see Feng Zibin and Hua Zhenxing at the same time.This was also specially arranged by Hua Zhenxing, and his realm of illusion magic is now also rising with the tide of cultivation.

This kind of group photo can be flawless, and even the people on the scene can't find the clues, and those who know the inside story are all their own people, so it can be regarded as a cooperative collective cheating.

Feng Zibin is a special business representative appointed by the president. In fact, he does not appear on many occasions and does not participate in specific negotiations. The most important task is to finally nod and confirm when certain projects are involved.

Huang Fengye's project team traveled back and forth between Pingjing and Wucheng during this period, and stayed in Wucheng most of the time. At the end of April, everyone rarely returned to the office in Pingjing, because they will officially move into the dormitory in two days.

Just after going to work this morning, Lin Hongshan suddenly exclaimed: "Old Huang!"

Huang Fengye was taken aback, turned his head and said, "What's wrong?"

Lin Hongshan: "Do you know Xiaohua's background? He almost became the ambassador of Jili Kingdom to Dongguo. He is the son of the president of Jiliguo. He wore open crotch pants and played with mud together since he was a child! He is not from Dongguo..."

Just now, she was scrolling through the news about President Jili's visit and found a group photo.

There are less than ten people in the photo, including Charles, the president of Jili Kingdom, Wang Fengshou, the ambassador to Dongguo, and Feng Zibin, the actual controller of Fangguan Development... there is also Hua Zhenxing.

If in the past, Lin Hongshan would not have paid attention to such news at all, and would have just slipped past it when she saw it, but now she has entered the development of the house after all, and there are two acquaintances, Luo Hongyu and Hua Zhenxing, who are seconded to the Jili Kingdom Mission side to help.

Lin Hongshan saw the photo of Hua Zhenxing and the "big men" of Jili Kingdom, and searched for keywords, and a bunch of links popped up, which were basically old news from last year, which shocked her.

Everyone gathered around after hearing the words, and they were amazed. The new team members lamented that they came late, and regretted that they did not see Xiaohua with their own eyes.

It is no wonder that Huang Fengye and others were surprised. At the beginning, Qi Yichao introduced Hua Zhenxing to the project team for an internship. He only said that Hua Zhenxing was a freshman student at Chunhua Jianyuan, and did not explain anything else.

Hua Zhenxing gives people the impression that he is a boy from the Eastern Kingdom. He may have a strong family background, but he did not expect that he is an international student from Jili Kingdom, and he is not the kind of immigrant who only changed his nationality for the college entrance examination.

After understanding the situation, Huang Fengye was not surprised.

In the same group, there is another Luo Feiyu from the headquarters of the Jili Kingdom. I will not talk about it. I heard that she is originally a Chinese from the Eastern Kingdom, and the chairman Xia Yading I met two days ago is an out-and-out black waste. Aboriginal.

But Chairman Xia gave him the feeling that he grew up in a small town in the Eastern Kingdom. If he covered his face, at least Huang Fengye would not be able to detect that the other party was a native of the Black Desolation.

Xia Yading is very fluent in Dongguo, and even has a little dialect accent. It sounds like Director Chen Weihu is from the same place.

Huang Fengye heard right, his observation ability is considered very strong.Xia Yading did speak with an accent from the Eastern Subei region, because when he first learned the Eastern language, his teacher was Chen Weihu, who was also a slave laborer in the plantation.

Not to mention that Huang Fengye and others felt this way, the representatives from Dongguo who participated in the project cooperation negotiations between the two countries also felt this way. What about domestic meetings?

How to describe it, like the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development... held a special meeting to discuss the development plan of which place.Although there were many diplomats at the scene, there was no need for an interpreter. Everyone spoke Dongguo.

In addition to the natives of the Black Desert such as Shire and Xia Yading, there are a large number of Chinese from the Eastern Kingdom in the Jili Kingdom delegation, such as Wang Fengshou, Li Jingzhi, Shen Sishu, He Guang, Luo Feiyu and so on.

This kind of talk has less sense of ritual, but more intimacy, and it is very convenient to speak.

Jili has designated Dongguo language as the official legal language, and it can be said that it is the only country overseas with Dongguo language.Such a country actually appeared in the Black Desolate Continent, which made people feel a little weird, even absurd.

Before the arrival of Western colonists, Dongguo language used to be the official language of the countries in Dongzhou, and Dongguo characters were also used throughout the continent of Dongzhou in history.

In some overseas areas today, although some residents still use Dongguo language and Dongguo script, they have not designated it as an official legal language like Jiliguo, let alone the only official language.

Speaking of this, there is another episode.I think that after the establishment of the New Guli Kingdom, Yin, Lanxi and Dongguo were all determined as the official legal languages, and Dongguo was used in actual work.

Someone is planning a coup in the capital in an attempt to overthrow the fledgling Shire government.The result, of course, was quickly extinguished, and the government of Jili State immediately investigated the attempted coup.

The conclusion of the investigation is very absurd. Some overseas forces paid out 100 million rice gold in "military action funds", and the remaining amount was less than [-], which was provided to the remnants of local armed forces in Mowang City.

The most important request of the planners to support the coup d'état forces is to abolish the legal status of the Dongguo language.

Shire was very angry, so he crossed out Yin and Lanxi, and Dongguo became the only official language in Jili Kingdom.The young man who grew up in the neighborhood gang is also very temperamental.

Although he didn't come here for alms, Shire also knew very well that he was here to ask for help this time. It is the greatest sincerity for Jili to become a country that speaks Dongguo.

This represents that Jili Kingdom is willing to accept the cultural traditions and lifestyles of Dongguo, and more importantly, it is willing to accept Dongguo's industrial system and technical standards to connect with Dongguo's industrial structure.

The first key topic of the talks went smoothly, because there was really no reason for it not to go well.The two parties determined that the Dongguo currency is the currency for trade settlement, and Jiliguo joined the Dongguo currency international settlement system and accepted the digital Dongguo currency.

Guinea is not a member of the current WTO, so this is a unilateral negotiation between it and Dongguo, and the results of the talks will not be automatically followed by a third party.

This issue is of great significance, which means that Jiliguo has recognized the status of Dongguo currency as an international currency, and also regards Dongguo currency as the main body of its foreign exchange reserves.

Jiliguo did so, of course, after careful consideration in many aspects.In this way, Dongguo's assistance to Jiliguo has become much simpler.

With the current level of development of Jili Kingdom, Dongguo can provide all the products and services it wants to import.If there is not even Dongguo, either other countries cannot provide it, or the cost performance of the substitute is extremely low.

Dongguo lacks resource products, and these are exactly what Jiliguo itself has, but it doesn't have the ability to mine and process them.

For example, two oil fields have been discovered in Jili State, one is in the Wage Desert, and the other is located at the northernmost tip of Huanxiang Tebang, but they have not been exploited.

Jiliguo itself cannot be exploited, and overseas capital is not interested in it, because Jiliguo is very close to the world's major oil producing areas, where there are cheap and high-quality crude oil, and the rate of return for new oil fields in Jiliguo is too low .

In fact, Guli has been importing refined oil these years because there are no refineries in the country.At the beginning, Dongguo assisted in the construction of the heavy oil power plant in Feisuo Port, and also specially built a supporting wharf, mainly for importing heavy oil.

This cooperation also includes the oilfield exploration project. The northern oilfield is fully invested by Huanxiang Industry, including the supporting refinery, and signed a long-term agreement with Dongguo.

The Wage Desert Oilfield is fully invested by Dongguo and owns [-]% of its output.This is a special cooperation method different from the general joint-stock system, which is mainly seen in mineral mining projects.

These two oilfield projects do not seem to be economical in the short term, but Jiliguo mainly considers it from the perspective of national strategic security.In the unlikely event that the surrounding situation changes and the country of Jili is blocked, the supply of basic crude oil in the territory must be guaranteed.

If crude oil is cut off, all kinds of large-scale construction vehicles, especially agricultural machinery, will have to lie down, industrial and agricultural production will be greatly affected, and people's livelihood and safety will not be guaranteed. These two projects must be arranged first.

Its production capacity does not have to meet all the needs in normal times, and it is supplemented with certain imported oil products, but in special times, it can guarantee to meet the country's strategic needs.

There are many cooperation projects to be discussed between the two countries, basically all of which have the above characteristics.Jiliguo's direct investment projects are okay, but how to ensure investment safety in loan-aided construction projects and Dongguo direct investment projects?

There are some things that Dongguo can't say directly, but Jiliguo can understand hints.

For example, the Shire government has collapsed in two years, and this is a situation that must be taken into account given the urgency of the black and wild countries. So what about the project discussed today?
What else could Charles say?We can only try to dispel the other party's doubts through various means, such as military cooperation.

On the other hand, Huanxiang Industry's investment in Dongguo is also a guarantee. For example, its subsidiary Fangguan Development has already spent tens of billions, which can be regarded as a certificate of investment.

For cooperation in the military field, Jiliguo declined the proposal to send military officers to Dongguo Military Academy for training.Although the cooperation between Dongguo and Heihuang countries often takes this form, Li Jingzhi believes that this is not what Jiliguo needs most at present.

The army building ideas and tactical command taught by the Dongguo Military Academy are of course extremely high-level, but senior commanders often find it difficult to use them when they go back.

This is also normal. What kind of troops did the Dongguo military officers command, and what kind of troops did they go back to command?
Li Jingzhi hoped that Dongguo could help Jiliguo, so he set up a non-commissioned officer training school there, mainly to train grassroots non-commissioned officers and improve the construction of the military system.

Li Jingzhi even hoped that Dongguo could send a grassroots military officer training group to help Jiliguo directly practice field troops.

Another measure that goes hand in hand with this is Huanxiang Industry, through housing development, to employ veterans and demobilized soldiers in an organized way, including commanders and fighters at all levels... These are not included in the content of this meeting.

Jili Kingdom will also provide a supply port for the Dongguo Ocean Escort Fleet. It is too sensitive to be called a military base, so let's call it a supply base.

According to Hua Zhenxing's instruction, Li Jingzhi drew out an island on the northern coastline of Jili Kingdom, which was the supply base for Dongguo.

Ports, especially large natural ports, are greatly restricted by natural conditions.Although the coastline of the Jili Kingdom is long, there are not many such places, and this island is just right.

It covers an area of ​​more than 20 square kilometers and is more than ten kilometers away from the land. It is located in Huanxiang Tebang in the north of Jili State, which happens to be the middle part of the Huanxiang Tebang coastline.

There are no artificial facilities there now, and it is still an undeveloped no-man's land, and only pirates have appeared in history.

Feng Zibin nodded, named the island Shuangyong Island, and gave Dongguo a 50-year lease with free rent.However, the facilities on the island had to be built by Dongguo himself, and he had to be responsible for helping to train the Jiliguo navy in the future.

However, Dongguo also needs basic facilities for construction. At least the water and electricity supply must be guaranteed, right?This involves other cooperation projects, and the cooperation between the two countries is a complete system.

Shuangyong Island happens to be located at the mouth of the planned Zhenhang River, which does not yet exist.But with the experience of building the Beiluo River Basin, the construction of the Zhenhang River Basin runs through the construction plan of Huanxiang Tebang in the next few decades.

The first step is to build the Zhenhang River Hydropower Station upstream, which is twice the size of the Luofugen Hydropower Station.

In the entire Zhenhang River Basin, one hydropower station is not enough, and a complete set of water conservancy system is needed in the upper mountainous area and the middle and lower reaches of the wetland. In the long-term plan, the large and small gradient hydropower stations in each tributary reach double digits.

At the estuary of the Zhenxing River, a city will be built in the future. It is one of the six main cities planned by Huanxiang Tebang, tentatively named Changhe City.

In addition to the six main cities, Huanxiang Tebang has also planned [-] towns equivalent to the county seat, and only three towns have been built so far, which are the three towns in the agricultural reclamation area.

Even if the Zhenxing River hydropower station is built first and the main channel of the Zhenxing River flows continuously all year round, the construction period may be close to ten years.

So what to do in the short term?The port of Gaoqiao Town is also leased to Dongguo free of charge, and the lease period is tentatively set for 20 years.

This port, or a special wharf, was actually built by the Dongguo engineering team. There are ready-made oil depots and various storage depots on the shore. As long as they are slightly rebuilt, they can be used as a temporary supply base, but the scale is limited.

The lease term of 20 years is Huan Xiang Tebang's promise. In fact, how long this temporary base needs to be used depends on how fast the construction of Shuangyong Island in Dongguo is progressing.

Jili Kingdom is located on the east coast of the Black Desolation Continent, its outer sea is close to the busiest shipping line in the world, and further north is the canal connecting the Basin Sea.

The Dongguo Ocean Escort Fleet cruises in this area in shifts all year round, so it is in great need of such a supply base.

This is not only a military cooperation project, but also a comprehensive project related to water conservancy, electric power, and urban construction.In addition, the army of Jili Kingdom will also be uniformly equipped with standard weapons produced by Dongguo.

The high quality and low price of Dongguo weapons is only one factor. The outsourcing of military command and equipment systems is, in a sense, equivalent to paying a kind of protection fee.

Especially the purchase of modern high-tech weapon systems, doing so is equivalent to not defending the country that produces the weapons and equipment.

Military equipment is too expensive, especially modern advanced weapons, which are simply gold-swallowing beasts that cannot be fed enough. With the economic capacity of Jili Kingdom, it is necessary to take it slowly and maintain a stable long-term development idea.

Among other things, Jili Kingdom's current naval power is about zero, and its air force only has two general-purpose helicopters for both military and civilian purposes, plus a batch of drones.

Even with Huazhenxing's financial resources, Dongguo Pingjing's tens of billions of communities can be bought at will, but it is still difficult to equip a modern army.Fortunately, the military forces around Jili Kingdom do not pose any threat at present.

Some of the projects discussed by the two countries can be started tomorrow after signing today. Most of them are long-term intentions in the future, which can be adjusted at any time according to the cooperation situation, and involve huge budgets.

The budget that Huazhenxing can use here will range from hundreds of billions to trillions of Dongguo currency every year in the next seven or eight years, depending on how well Yue Gaole, Bai Shaoliu, and You Fang can do it.

With the support of Huanxiang Industry represented by "Feng Zibin", Jiliguo is not blindly asking for assistance, at least for the projects that have been negotiated, the scale of direct capital investment is also very large.

Therefore, the talks went relatively smoothly, basically in line with prior expectations.

What Linghua Zhenxing did not expect was that a small project that seemed inconspicuous but had a great potential impact encountered obstacles.

Shen Sishu was in charge of negotiating in the field of educational cooperation, which was relatively difficult, especially the cooperation intention between the Ministry of Education of Jiliguo and the Wucheng Branch of Fei University of Technology, which was actually rejected!
(Typos are corrected first and then corrected)

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