Become a super arms dealer with the workshop system

Chapter 155 Field Trips
Han Feng looked around, and there were indeed more and more onlookers gathered because of the commotion, and apart from the few agents who rushed out just now, it seemed that there were still no other policemen present.

"Okay, just wait a moment, I'll go and pay." Han Feng nodded, took out his wallet and went to the store to swipe his card.

When he came out again, a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter had already parked on the side of the road.

After Han Feng took Leila into the car together, he observed that the special service personnel next to him were obviously relieved, and the right hand that had been inserted under the left armpit just now finally stretched out.

"Huh..." Han Feng glanced back at the street that was still in chaos through the rear window of the car: "I didn't say that, this place should still be the center of Algiers..."

The implication is that you can be robbed in broad daylight in the core area of ​​the capital, and I don't dare to think about other places.

The man next to him obviously heard Han Feng's implication.

Under normal circumstances, the secret service personnel should not have too many conversations with the protected object, but he knew very well that Prime Minister Majib valued this businessman very much, so he hesitated and explained: "Mr. Han, what do you want?" I don’t know, although this is the urban area of ​​Algiers, it is only one block away from the refugee area, so the security situation will indeed be affected.”

"Refugee area?" Han Feng glanced at the other party curiously.

"You should know what happened in Tunisia and Libya a few years ago?"

Han Feng nodded: "Of course, the so-called Arab Spring."

"During that round of turmoil, many people from these two countries became refugees, and a large part of them came to our country. After all, only a very small part of them were able to smuggle into Europe, and most of them could only stay. it's here."

As a country that has no other pillar industries other than oil and gas extraction, Algeria's domestic job opportunities are already not optimistic, let alone provide employment for these refugees.

Perhaps this is the reason why the Algerian government is eager to develop the manufacturing and construction industries—not to mention other things, these two industries can absorb a large number of young and middle-aged labor force in a short period of time.

According to the plan finalized during the meal just now, Leila left Algeria by plane the next day, and since Prime Minister Majib arranged to go to Ilizi one day later, Han Feng decided to go to CAF after thinking twice. He made a phone call and asked Popov, who is good at holding shields, to fly to Algeria with Leng Jianfeng.

Either way, it's still too dangerous to be alone.

Yilizi City is the capital of Yilizi Province, where more than half of the province's population of less than 4 lives.

Although the city itself is located between several deserts, perhaps due to the influence of three large oases nearby, the climate of Iliji is not as windy and sandy as Han Feng imagined, but rather looks like an ancient Egyptian city in the movie. Except for some necessary municipal facilities and natural gas pipelines, there are not many traces of modern technology.

Since Prime Minister Majib himself has to attend a series of foreign affairs activities in the past few days and it is inconvenient to leave Algiers, a deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry accompanied Han Feng and his party to Yilizi.

When the plane landed on the only runway at Ilizi Airport, Belsen Mokhtar, a senior official and mayor, had been waiting here with the heads of several important departments of the city hall for quite a while.

As a new senior official who has just taken office for less than two years, Mokhtar’s luck is not very good. The original core industry of Ilizi Province is oil and gas extraction and refining. In the past few decades, a considerable part of the natural gas extracted in Algeria has The pretreatment is carried out in the processing plant jointly operated by the local BP company and Statoil before it can be transported to Europe through pipelines. Iliji, which has a population of less than 4, can make a good living by relying on this business.

However, shortly after Mokhtar came to power, Algeria's national oil company began to introduce technology, build a completely independent new natural gas processing plant, and gradually withdraw the exploitation rights of the Ilizi oil and gas field, which caused dissatisfaction with foreign companies, BP Petroleum The company has resolutely given up its local business a year ago. Although Norwegian Petroleum is still persisting, the scale of operation is getting worse day by day.

So Mokhtar had to find new industries for his province.

About two months ago, relying on some of his connections in Algiers, Mokhtar learned that a businessman from Cyprus was preparing to build a factory in Algeria, and the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of industry, Majib, was very concerned about this matter. Very concerned.

Originally, this kind of good thing would only happen to big coastal cities like Algiers or Oran, but this time, due to the special nature of the factory, Prime Minister Majib seems to have plans to put the factory inland .

Therefore, Mokhtar offered extremely favorable conditions almost without hesitation.

The land, the factory building, and the labor for the initial construction are also given away for free. Even if the factory can find people from other places to work locally, he will use money from the city hall's budget to subsidize it.

All in all, hard work pays off, this time when the businessman came to choose a site for the factory, Yiliji was the first one to come.

"The plane is already landing, let's go to the apron." Mokhtar watched the passenger plane appearing from the sky and descending, took a deep breath, and prepared to walk out of the terminal with a few people behind him.

"Mr. Senior Official, isn't it a little inappropriate to make such a big battle for a businessman?" Behind Mokhtar, a bald man in a suit but without a tie asked cautiously: "And you are too A weak attitude may also cause criticism from some local families, when you offered preferential terms before, there were already voices of dissatisfaction."

"Matavi, I know what you mean." Mokhtar stopped, and glanced back at the man who had just spoken, who was also his deputy: "Currently this person can only provide us with a few hundred jobs, and I haven't got any firm orders yet, but I'm not just for this factory. In addition to the possible follow-up investment, you have to know how much Prime Minister Majib attaches to this matter. If we can Satisfy him, then it is possible to get a tilt in national investment in the future."

"This... I didn't expect this." The man called Matawi seemed to be convinced, and then followed in Mokhtar's footsteps.

"It's normal if you didn't think about it..." Mokhtar looked up at the sun hanging high in the sky and frowned: "Because you don't know, the reason why Ilizi Province has continuously invested in this round of national oil company's investment I can’t even eat bread crumbs because my predecessor got too close to the Gaul forces in Libya and offended President Bouteflika.”

At this time, a group of people have arrived near the scheduled parking position, just waiting for the plane to land and taxi here.

"So that's the case?" Matawi showed a surprised expression: "No wonder you changed the entire administrative organization after you came up. You are really wise..."

"Okay, okay, you are all my cronies, just know about this matter, don't say it." Mokhtar waved his hand and interrupted Matawi's compliment: "And that matter is not that simple, although I The heads of many key organizations have been replaced, but in Yiliji, which has 4 people, there are only a few tribes and families with influence, so there is no way to dig deeper. This is why I want to introduce a new force secondary reason."

While Mokhtar and Matawi were talking, the plane that Han Feng and his party were on had slowly stopped in front of everyone, and an airport ramp car drove over quickly, aiming at the cabin door near the nose.

After Han Feng got off the plane, the first thing he saw was the skinny man standing at the gangway.

The main ethnic group in Algeria is the Arabs, but they do not have the custom of wearing robes and beards, so they look no different from Europeans at first glance.

"Mr. Han, I finally met you. I am Belsen Mokhtar, the person in charge here." Mokhtar and Han Feng shook hands: "I have arranged a meeting at the city hall, and There will also be a small welcome banquet there tonight."

"Thank you for your hospitality, Mayor Mokhtar." Han Feng is also used to seeing big people now, and after shaking hands, he walked side by side with Mokhtar skillfully: "But I hope the schedule can be more compact. The first time I came here was to inspect the location of the factory, so I hope I can go there directly to have a look.”

Mokhtar was taken aback for a moment by Han Feng who played out of common sense. According to his previous itinerary, Han Feng only arranged a brief retreat meeting and dinner on the afternoon of his arrival, and the next day was to inspect Yiliji City According to the overall situation, the third day is to visit the abandoned factory building in the suburbs, which is the place that is going to be handed over to Han Feng to build the factory.

However, since Han Feng didn't care about the exhaustion of running all the way, Mokhtar felt that there was nothing wrong with changing the schedule, so he went back and called his deputy.

"Matawi, there is no need to prepare for the meeting for the time being. You can go directly to the city hall to arrange the welcome banquet in the evening. I will accompany Mr. Han and the delegation to the factory directly."

After giving the order, Mokhtar turned back to Han Feng beside him: "Mr. Han, the location of the factory is relatively far from the urban area, about an hour's drive away. Let's get in the car first. I will explain the details to you on the way."

(End of this chapter)