I stayed in the capital of this small East African country for another two days. After the completion of the first task, I started to start the second task, which is to establish the so-called "East Africa United Airlines".
The company's signboard seems to be very big, but this so-called "East Africa United Airlines" only exists on paper. The information shows that it is jointly invested and controlled by the government of country G and a Canadian investment businessman—me.
These are all handed over to professionals to operate. Ren Lei also came here to see me the next day. After that, his people arranged to operate all the work.
I started preparing to go back to Canada.
Of course... if all plans go well, maybe so.
Unfortunately, things went wrong on the third day!
On the morning of the third day, I just woke up from the hotel with a depressed face. Because the conditions here are really limited, especially the air conditioner in the room, the cooling effect is very poor, and the noise is very strong, the roaring noise gave me a headache all night. But it has to be turned on, otherwise it will be too hot to sleep.
When I got up, I still had a tired face, and I was probably a little out of bed. When I was having breakfast, Ren Lei came to the hotel to look for me.
"What's the matter?" I fiddled with the knife and fork in front of me, and said absent-mindedly: "Is it almost done? When can I go back? Anyway, I just stay here to sign a few documents."
"What's the matter? Didn't you rest well?" Ren Lei's face seemed to be that something was wrong, but I didn't notice it, but I was a little annoyed: "How can I rest well? I haven't slept well for two days."
"The conditions in East Africa are a little worse." Ren Lei casually said something perfunctory, then lowered his face, and looked at me: "Chen Yang... I'm sorry, I'm afraid you can't go back for the time being... Something happened unexpectedly."
"Accident?"
Ren Lei smiled wryly, with some worry in his eyes: "There was indeed an accident."
Under my gaze, he slowly told what happened.
Our original plan was to establish such a leather bag company called "East Africa United Airlines", and then purchase several aircraft technologies of Lockheed Corporation of the United States in the name of this leather bag company. Then, in the name of "East Africa United Airlines", these technologies were sold to China.
That's the original plan. The terms of avoiding technical barriers are all in the tacit understanding of everyone, and the Americans have also acquiesced to this point. It was originally an exchange of interests mixed with political color.
But now, it's different!
"The Americans are making trouble for us." Ren Lei smiled bitterly: "Although they acquiesced to this matter, and also got some benefits from us, they got our compromise in some aspects as an exchange. But the matter is coming, They still want to cause us some trouble. This is also their old tradition, even if it transfers technology, it will not make you feel better, and they will always find a way to disgust you."
I took a deep breath: "What happened?"
"Inspection." Ren Lei said with a wry smile: "In the terms of technology transfer, the prerequisite for the transfer of these technologies is that they are only allowed to be used for civilian purposes, and are not allowed to be used for any military purposes! Therefore, the other party must confirm that this 'East Africa United Airlines 'It's not a military aviation organization, it's a civil aviation company, and they have to…”
"What else?" I frowned.
"They will also send an investigation team jointly composed of members of Lockheed and government agencies to East Africa to conduct an assessment and investigation of our 'East Africa United Airlines'. To investigate the technical strength of this company, we must The operation of the company, as well as the fields involved, confirm that this 'East Africa United Airlines' is indeed a thorough civil aviation company, and the technology purchased will definitely not be used for military purposes... "
I widened my eyeballs and held back for a long time before I could not scold my mother. Finally, I choked my throat and managed to force out a sentence: "Evaluate the company? Evaluate the ghost! How to evaluate? This This company doesn't exist at all!!! What bullshit 'United East Africa', this company only exists on paper! Just an empty name! It's a bag company! How to evaluate?"
Ren Lei didn't speak.
The more I talked, the more angry I became: "What do the Americans want to do? Don't they know that this company is a leather bag company? Don't they know that this company is just a cover?!"
"I know." Ren Lei answered me very briefly.
"Know it and do it on purpose? Don't they want to go back on their word?"
Ren Lei sat down, sitting in front of me, and patiently explained: "This is a consistent American tradition. They will always find any and every possible opportunity to make it difficult for us! Always give us some problems... Deals that have been done, they're also going to try to screw us over the details ... it seems like they're not happy if they don't."
"Didn't your upper management communicate with the Americans?" I said loudly, "This company doesn't exist, how do you check it? How do you evaluate it?"
"The upper management must have made an agreement a long time ago, and they have reached a tacit understanding with each other. But the Americans are like this... they have always been like this. I don't think they want to go back on their word. After all, the relationship between the top and the things that have been decided, the other party will not easily go back on it So, we think, they probably just want to find something cheaper to go back. They deliberately make things difficult for us, and then get some benefits, or demonstrate against us, and get some evidence, so that when they have conflicts with us in the future, they can use this It’s their old habit to make a fuss about one thing. We have dealt with Americans a lot, and we have long been used to it.”
I spread out my hands: "Tell me what to do!"
"This..." Ren Lei smiled bitterly: "There is no way. Since they want to evaluate the company and investigate the company, then we will find out a company to check for them."
"Get a company out?" I didn't understand.
"Yes!" Ren Lei said slowly: "To build a fake company, as long as there is a shelf, they can't find any mistakes in the documents anyway. We just need to create a fake company to deal with them."
"Create a company?" I almost died of anger: "Dude... this is not a trading company! A trading company is very simple, you rent an office building, and then get a group of people to sit in the company and set up a few A computer, a few rows of file cabinets, and everything will look good! But... "
I tried my best to resist the urge to curse: "But it's an airline! Get it? An airline! Build an airline? That's easy for you to say! How much will it cost? How much time? Not to mention... our largest... Problem is, we don't even have a plane right now!! Airplanes! My man! An airline must have at least one plane!!!"
"There will be." Ren Lei's face was ugly, but he gritted his teeth: "We will find a way to get the plane... It's just that the time is a bit short, and the conditions are too difficult... So we can only make do and overcome it!"
"What about me?" I shook my head. If I didn't know Ren Lei very well, I'm afraid I would have regarded him as a lunatic: "What am I doing? What do you need me for?"
"It's very simple. You are one of the company's controlling shareholders and one of the company's bosses. So when the US representative comes to inspect, you must be present and present." Ren Lei was also a little embarrassed: "Besides, you have to accompany the US representative. On behalf of all inspection companies."
"Inspecting the company..." I groaned, and then said viciously: "You conjure up an airline company for me first!"
…
I finally understood what Ren Lei meant by "difficult conditions, we can only make do with it".
He didn't lie to me, he really "make do"! !
Ren Lei's energy is not small. In just two days, he got a few things done with lightning speed!
Now I bought an abandoned factory warehouse on the outskirts of the city, and quickly evacuated the warehouse and workshop of the factory, and mobilized a Chinese engineering team to build that row of warehouses in two days. out of the hangar...
Of course it's not a real hangar, it just looks like it.
Afterwards, just outside the hangar, the open space in the original aircraft factory was stretched several times abruptly, without even laying cement and asphalt, and then the mobilized road roller rolled back and forth for an afternoon...
"Look, does this look like a runway?" Ren Lei smoked a cigarette, pointing at the busy space below...
I was dumbfounded: "Like... a runway? Come on, I can still see the stones exposed on it!"
"As long as it looks flat enough." Ren Lei curled his lips: "It's not true that there will be a plane landing."
"Hmph! If a plane dares to land on this 'runway', it will crash in all likelihood!"
"You've seen the airport next to the mine in the sleepy tower... That airport is even worse than this." Ren Lei waved his hand indifferently.
A tall tower was quickly erected... but it was also a fake. You mustn't expect any signal lights from this tower!
Uh... technically speaking, it's a complete metal stand. It is said that Ren Lei's people collected 109 iron pipes from the scrap factory and temporarily welded them together. In order to save time, they didn't even have time to paint, so they directly welded those rusty iron pipes and stood them here.
Of course...there is a row of lights installed on it...in fact, there are only light shelves, and if you look closely, the bulbs in those lights are all broken!
"A lot of things are waste products." Ren Lei explained: "Our funds are limited, and anyway, we just pretend, so there is no need to spend a lot of money to buy real searchlights... The price of a set of signal searchlights at the airport is enough to buy several The car! We don’t have that much money.”
"Where's the plane?" I asked the most important question.
"You will see." Ren Lei looked at his watch: "It's almost here..."