The schedule seems to be fixed, and the tour to Michigan is just in time for the "Alma Mater" celebration.
Famous Asian graduates and Li Min, Michigan, naturally couldn’t attend the celebration, held a small fund-raising activity, thanked "his alma mater for giving him knowledge to win several humanitarian positions" and rushed back to Detroit to meet in Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
It is worth noting that the principal, professors and alumni officially changed the name of the school during the activities.
Michigan University of Agricultural Sciences is about to become Michigan State University. Many professors have changed their business cards, but a public university needs the approval of the Michigan State Assembly to officially change its name.
He is a science student, neither a doctor nor a big professor, and he doesn’t need a loud diploma to find a job. Li Min is not interested in changing the name of the school. He arrived at the headquarters of Ford Motor Company with Liu Jiachang and Chen Shiguo according to the list of people he had to visit.
Robert S. McNamara, the current president, has seen the movie "Freedom Road", been invited to attend the "Freedom Road" concert, and attended the investment promotion meeting of Vietnam Industrial Village Investment Company. The film recognition and music are good, but investing in Vietnam is too risky, especially for automobile manufacturers like Ford.
I have been invited for three times, and now I can’t help but receive it.
McNamara specially went to work and invited the three people into the reception room in person, and planned to personally accompany the Vietnamese guests to visit the nearest factory to the headquarters.
Attracting investment needs the same shameless spirit as pursuing the right girl.
After thanking Ford for its warm hospitality, Li Minmen said in the mountains, "Mr. President, if you travel to Saigon once, you will find that Vietnam’s automobile market is not small. In addition to the demand, it can also radiate to Laos, Cambodia and Thailand like South Africa radiates to all Africa."
The young king of Cambodia and several princes of Laos, Saigon, received primary or secondary education. Saigon lived for a long time but received French education. Most of their importers from Saigon came from Europe, especially France. "
Chen Shiguo took out a street photo album from his bag and introduced it to him while flipping through it. "Mr. President, Saigon has more than 2,000 cars. If we count cities such as Hue, Da Nang, Touton, Bianhe, Boliao and Dishi, it may exceed 5 cars. With the national independence and the plan of industrial villages, I believe that the demand for cars by our government, companies and individuals will increase, which is a very potential emerging market."
It’s a French car. There are very few American cars.
McNamara smiled with his arms around him and asked, "Gentlemen, does this mean that Ford should be in a car dealership in Saigon?"
"if you like"
Li Min smiled and said bluntly, "But we hope to get help from your company. For example, we have cheap labor to train skilled workers in auto parts procurement. If some parts are put into production in China, it will definitely greatly reduce the overall production of your company."
More importantly, China is rich in rubber, and many rubber parks have enough raw materials to produce automobile tires on the spot. If Mr. President is willing to invest in an automobile assembly plant in China, we will be more welcome and grateful. "
McNamara is an elite of the Ivy League University of Harvard Business School after attending the two-year overdue reserve officer training at the University of California, Berkeley, high flyers. He is called the "smartest person" in the United States.
In fact, he is really clever.
During World War II, the size of the US Army air fleet expanded rapidly. During the flash war, Germany launched a total of 1000 planes and five pilots. When Germany invaded France, President Roosevelt issued an appeal to the United States to produce 50,000 fewer planes every year.
After taking over the army, I found that they were trying to manage the largest and most complicated "enterprise" in the world. I didn’t know how to manage and arrange it, so I had to lend a helping hand to Harvard.
Harvard Business School signed a contract with the US Army Air Force, including his "Congren" team, which quickly helped the Army establish a preliminary management system and also helped the Army train statistical and management officers.
It didn’t take them long to record some basic information, no matter where the US Army plane flew to place workers in various units.
For example, pre-war preparation, maintenance, breakdown and other aircraft conditions, training types, casualties, supplementary needs and other personnel conditions, flight times and types, attack targets, success and loss of personnel and equipment, etc. The commander can see the latest map for the first time to record the bamboo weaknesses of the US Army Air Force around the world.
After entering the Ministry of War, the newly-appointed non-military consultant was awarded the post of officer.
Henry Ford II greatly appreciated his performance in the war. He sent an invitation to be the president of Ford Company as soon as World War II ended, and in just a few years, Ford turned losses into profits and was praised as a "prodigy".
McNamara is so clever that he doesn’t know that investing in Vietnam can be a win-win situation, but a man who has experienced war knows better what political instability means to investors.
Gentlemen, this doubt is a good suggestion key. How can I convince shareholders that investing in Vietnam is safe?
"I think the president has promised."
"Domino effect?"
"It was very dangerous to occupy the whole Southeast Asia in a short time after World War II, so that Australia and India almost joined forces with Germany in the Middle East. Now the situation is more severe than that during World War II, and the Soviet-Russian camp is stronger than the Axis countries. As you know, the whole free world helps us, and no one wants to see South Vietnam occupied by the Viet Cong."
It is impossible for McNamara to make such an important decision easily, so he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "How many refugees did Mr. Li’s Freedom Road Operation save?"
However, Li Min, the executive chairman of the Joint Conference on Refugee Relief, grasped the first-hand data and said with a dignified face that "by 5 pm yesterday in Saigon, more than 146,000 people had been evacuated. This figure does not include those who voluntarily evacuated to the south and remained in the Haiphong refugee camp."
"Does this mean that the general election will not be so easy to lose in two years after the population of the North and the South is equivalent?"
It turned out that he was worried about this.
Li Minle was caught off guard and analyzed, "Mr. President, there are several main reasons why the people of North Vietnam fled south. First, the Vietnamese League has controlled some rural areas in North Vietnam since 1946, and they have slaughtered people who opposed them in the occupied areas. Many people are afraid of their policies;
The second reason is well known that the Catholic people living in North Vietnam are worried that the Vietnam League will force them to give up their faith, and there is a reason to be so worried. Third, the cruel land reform movement carried out in the occupied areas of Viet Nam persecuted many ordinary farmers crazily according to the ratio of one thousandth;
They are very opposed to the bloody cleansing of political opponents in French colonial rule, such as the leaders of the Kuomintang, the Viet Nam Party, the Fu * * party member Hoa religion, the Gaotai religion and other sects. Although theoretically speaking, the Japan-Vanuatu agreement stipulates that North and South Vietnam will hold a re-merger general election in 1956, everyone knows that the possibility of re-merger is almost. "
Liu Jiachang chimed in while the iron was hot. "Mr. President, Viet Nam’s understanding of the terms of the Zhiwa agreement and the understanding of the free world are completely different. Although they agreed to these terms, these terms are completely inconsistent with Stalin’s extremist dogma. Even after the signing of the Zhiwa agreement, the massacre in the northern countryside continues today."
"It’s terrible. We should save more Koo people."
"We are working hard."
McNamara Gu said that he just didn’t invest in Vietnam and finally donated $100,000 on behalf of the Ford Foundation.
Liu Jiachang and Chen Shiguo were very disappointed, while Li Min thought that today’s meeting was very successful.
It doesn’t matter whether you can attract funds or not. What matters is to leave a deep impression on the future US Secretary of Defense. The next thing to do is to keep in touch and deepen, and it is best to become friends.
Only by doing well with "rising stars" like John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and him, can the industrial investment company better cope with the future situation.
Chapter one hundred Developing rich island
Fuguo Island is like a pure land. There is no noise in the city, no bright lights, no crowded people, and there are weeds everywhere, fresh air, Zhan Ran sky and blue sea.
When Huang Du arrived at the island in the early Qing Dynasty, he really felt like a paradise.
He is the warden in name only, and the anti-French alliance here has released the prison in accordance with the Zhiwa Agreement, with him as the warden and more than 30 guards.
There are more than a dozen aborigines stranded here on the island, and there are 212 veterans of the Kuomintang First Corps in total, and they are very scattered. Every day, they can wander around the airport and the dock, which makes people feel panic and become a prisoner.
The short silence was soon broken.
First, the new government’s "Refugee Committee" officials, volunteers from the International Red Cross, the Catholic Church, the Youth League and the Youth League, and a large number of refugees arrived to make corresponding preparations;
Immediately afterwards, a group of Chinese prisoners were sent by the captain of the Foreigner Management Police Brigade and the former Touy. Just after the prisoners were settled, they were organized to build roads and carry out labor reform. The Foreigner Police Brigade, the Bund Five Clubhouse, the Hoi An Five Clubhouse and the Huaqing Association sent another group of addicts.
He, the warden, has become the director of drug rehabilitation in a muddle. There are not enough prison guards, and there is no limit. Increasing manpower can let the guards watch the prisoners and let the prisoners watch the heavy smokers. They can’t run away if they want to.
It was not until Fuguo Island Industrial Village Branch, an industrial investment company, officially entered the camp to guard fewer prisoners and more drug addicts that the situation changed.
Gu Jianhua, deputy director of the security department of the industrial investment company and the security captain of Fuguo Island Industrial Village, took over the defense. More than 100 officers from the Nong army and Vietnam recruited security guards from the Vietnam Youth Association and the China Youth Association to form six squadrons to quickly take over the perimeter defense of the airport and dock prison and set aside a mobile squadron to maintain law and order on the island.
From December 12th to now, ships full of refugees and resettlement materials arrived one after another.
The handling capacity of the small dock is limited, and many personnel and materials have to be just allocated to the security team to ferry or barge mountains of machinery and equipment, which are imported from abroad by industrial investment companies with real money and cannot be left out in the sun and rain, including all the warehouses requisitioned by the French construction department of the prison.
No matter prisoners, heavy smokers or refugees arriving one after another, including him, the warden can live in wooden houses or tents.
Fuguo Island is different from the general refugee settlement. It belongs to the planned heavy industry base and export processing zone, and everything is decided by the industrial investment company, where the industrial investment company is the government.
The branch has representatives from the quayside refugee committee, representatives from the joint conference on refugee relief, American consultants, media reporters and staff of the Bank of East Asia. There are six rows of tents surrounded by barbed wire and tents with high antennas. Jeeps are parked outside the field and armed security guards patrol nearby.
Huang Duqing accompanied Qian Xinlin, Gu Changgeng, Gui Qingshan, Tian and others who came here last night. While walking to the No.1 resettlement site, he smiled and said, "Manager Qin is very capable of arranging so many people and such a big company in good order. No matter we farmers or Vietnamese, even American consultants and volunteers respect him."
Qin Nanjian, a 39-year-old Hakka, is young and has received higher education.
During the French colonial rule, Ceng He held a public office. It is rare for a Chinese to participate in politics in Vietnam like him. The only fly in the ointment is that he is not a member of the Vietnam Literature and Art Research Association. It is important to listen to what he says and observe what he does.
Qian Xinlin and others came to Fuguo Island to learn about the resettlement of Nong villagers on the spot, and to talk to him and find out his position. It has been proved that the environment can change the people’s theory, and his position is intentionally inclined to the Chinese in conversation or in actual action.
Qian Xinlin made up his mind to arrange a time when Li Min came back to talk openly with him and formally recruit him into the "Yue Hua Literature and Art Research Association"
Roads, roads, leveling the land, bulldozers and trucks carrying all kinds of materials are deafening, and there are people around the whole construction site. It is inappropriate to talk about these now.