Chapter 1724 Heart Knot

At this time, the senior executives of Thailand Zhengda were speaking about the problems encountered when investing in various Asian countries. Although the topic was very broad, it also attracted Feng Yiping's attention.

He verified what this person said with the investigation reports he received.

Today, the trend of economic globalization is becoming more and more obvious, today we are fulfilling more and more of our commitments to the WTO, today more and more of our industries are open to foreign investment..., the internationalization of all major business areas of Forex is no longer Feng Yiping's personal wish, but has become a matter of increasingly urgent practical significance.

Many guests at the meeting looked at Feng Yiping, who was listening carefully and taking notes from time to time, with a different look from before.

Their previous impression of Feng Yiping was that he was indeed a very humble young man, especially considering that he had achieved such great success.

Of course, he seemed a little less enthusiastic and alienated from everyone, but that was not incomprehensible. You can't expect such a person to be enthusiastic and caring to you when they are not familiar with you. They can't do such a thing themselves.

However, anyone who has communicated with him will feel his affinity, which is really extraordinary.

This may be mainly because of his unpretentious and people-friendly style.

This people-friendly style is reflected in many aspects. The most important point is that when you communicate with him, you will find that he really does not care about his status.

And this is exactly what makes so many people who are several times older than him, but not as successful as him, like him the most.

In addition to his age, for example, now he is sitting here listening to the lecture and taking notes, just like a college student still studying in school.

This really makes it easy for many people to ignore his other characteristics.

But the interview just now, which was not long but still very enjoyable to watch, gave everyone a new understanding of him and saw another side of him that he rarely shows to the outside world.

Not only did he react quickly and think clearly, and responded to the obviously malicious questions without any leaks, but he also focused on a higher point and successfully turned the interview that was originally intended to be unfavorable to him into a good opportunity for publicity.

Moreover, he was confident enough, and he showed no mercy to well-known media such as Nikkei News.

This allowed everyone to get a glimpse of his edge. It turned out that he also had such a side.

At this time, they looked at this young man who was no different from before, but they obviously felt that he was a little different from before. They could see the thing called "power" in this young man.

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"They prepared midnight snacks. Do you want to join us?" Feng Yiping asked Lao Ma after the dinner.

"Why don't you take the free midnight snacks in such a high-cost place?" Lao Ma followed immediately, "But I have requirements for midnight snacks. I won't do it if the food is not good."

As we all know, similar dinners are always not enough to fill the stomach. In addition to the busy schedule of the whole day, the stomach is really a little empty at this time.

"I can't guarantee this,"

But in fact, the midnight snack is not only very Swiss, but also very good.

There are cheese salad, pickled beef, Basel flour soup, mixed meat platter, crown lamb chops, bread with cheese, polenta, potato pancakes, chocolate..., and absinthe, which can be regarded as a catch-all for Swiss delicacies.

For example, this marinated beef is made by mixing the best quality beef with special herbs and spices, and drying it in the fresh air of the mountains for 10-15 weeks. Pick up a thin piece and put it in your mouth, and the unique mellow fragrance will spread from your lips and teeth to your heart.

There is also a mixed meat platter, which is a huge plate piled with grilled sausages, beef tongue, lamb shoulders, etc., exuding an attractive aroma. It feels like a dish that can be directly placed in the Juyi Hall of Liangshan Marsh. It is a dish that will make you feel comfortable as soon as you see it on such a cold winter night...

Everyone should have spent a lot of brainpower today. While communicating lively, they feasted with enthusiasm that is rare in normal times.

It’s just that the ladies like Sandberg and Zheng Jiayi will be a little miserable. It’s okay if they don’t eat, and they will get through it after a while, but everyone is eating so happily that they can’t help it.

At this time, they can only eat potato cakes and polenta-French fries made of corn.

However, watching them excitedly communicating and eating meat, and dipping polenta in sauce, I hoped that the sauce would taste meaty.

Zuck obviously gained a lot today. He said the same thing as Ma while holding a glass of wine, "I must come next year."

Feng Yiping could understand his excitement.

Even if he is a genius, such a platform that brings together the world's business elites will obviously allow him, who has just entered the society, to absorb a lot of nutrition.

For some things, no matter how talented you are, you can't get the right answer. Only after the baptism of time can you understand.

And here, there is no shortage of such people.

Because only in high-tech companies in the Internet field can there be people like Zuck who are not young, in our common saying, are young boys, to serve as independent executives.

Ma looked at this young man who shared the same views as him and smiled. He took a sip of pure absinthe and hissed with some satisfaction.

Feng Yiping looked at him with some admiration.

Although he was also drinking absinthe, he was drinking absinthe that had been mixed with water and turned milky white in color.

This kind of wine is distilled from several kinds of herbs and high-purity alcohol. The taste when you drink it is really hard to describe, but since the name has bitterness in it, and think about the more than ten kinds of herbs, it is definitely bitter. At the same time, there is also a subtle and persistent sweetness in it, which makes you remember it for a long time even if you don't like it immediately.

So it's appropriate to call it "men's wine".

As for the pure drink Lao Ma drank, because it was so strong, Feng Yiping felt that it would be more appropriate to call it "men's wine".

Of course, when it comes to drinking, he has always been timid due to his limited ability.

So he ignored Lao Ma's somewhat proud and showy demeanor at this time.

Hum hum, if you have the ability, you can drain that big pot.

At this time, everyone's stomachs finally felt a little better, and they began to talk more. "I really didn't expect that Kato, as a reporter from a well-known news agency, would have such thoughts in interviewing you," Lao Ma said.

"It's not surprising when it comes to them," Feng Yiping said.

"Look at this annual meeting, why are so many people paying so much attention to our overseas mergers and acquisitions? I personally feel that they are a little wary, or in other words, they feel pressure,"

"Yes, that's understandable," Lao Ma said. "This will definitely make them realize that we have made great progress and have risen in some areas."

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions were originally something companies from developed countries would do when entering the markets of some countries, but now, the Chinese have begun to do this too.

And their moves are not ambiguous, they are all large-scale investments worth more than ten to two billion US dollars.

They will naturally be seriously concerned at the thought of facing yet another new force in the global market.

"But for Kato and the others, this has a different meaning." Feng Yiping took a sip of his absinthe mixed with water, and this time he seemed to taste the taste of medium metal in it.

"Other countries will be wary of our rise at best, but Kato and others may already be a little afraid,"

"Fear?" Old Ma was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding why Feng Yiping used this word.

"Just listen to what the family says," Feng Yiping tidied it up and whispered, "Kato and his country began to rise after the Meiji Restoration, but their real rise was based on finally defeating the defeat of the people in the past hundreds of years. , after China, which has always been ahead of them,"

"From then until now, their success has always been based on suppressing us militarily and surpassing us economically,"

"But now, in just over 20 years, we have been catching up economically. Although our GDP last year was only one-third of theirs, if this trend continues, we will reach this point. In the first decade of this century, it is very likely that our total GDP will exceed theirs,"

"As the economy develops, our national defense construction will definitely make great progress,"

"So you see, the two foundations of their current success may no longer exist in a few years,"

"We also have to consider that no matter how many people admit it, there are still a lot of people who, at least deep down, feel guilty,"

"Do you think, under such circumstances, facing our economic rise, deep down, would they feel afraid?"

"You are indeed very knowledgeable," Lao Ma nodded, "So, as the most famous economic figure in our country, they will subconsciously cause trouble for you."

Not just for individuals? As long as we have achieved very good achievements in some fields, such as our economic growth, our military industry, our aerospace, our high-speed rail... and even our sports, our neighbor who is only a few meters away from us will always take great pains to He spared no effort to find many faults with us - of course, there is nothing wrong with saying that he is pouring cold water on us.

What about bad bank loans that may bring down our economy? What about warships that are all integrated with other people’s things and have no core technology of their own and are not fireproof? What about aerospace that is all dominated by the military and will endanger space security? What about high-speed rail investments that are too big and cause eye-catching losses? To the best of my ability, the Shinkansen is the best and the best... and so on.

They are really worried about our country.

But such unfounded worries are entirely caused by themselves, and once again show the inherent stinginess of their island nation.

"According to your inference, then," Lao Ma thought for a moment, "as long as they can't get rid of the knot in their hearts," he shook his head, "it's not that easy to get rid of this knot in their hearts,"

There is no way to get rid of this knot. Just learn from Germany. But looking at their appearance, how can they be like Germany?

Considering that we will also have knots in our hearts, "then our relationship with them will not be very good for a long time in the future,"

"I think that will be the case," Feng Yiping agreed.

That is to say, when the outside world was still very poor, so poor that it would not put them under pressure whether in the economic or military fields, then our relationship with them was pretty good.

As for the future, at least until Feng Yiping is reborn, we and them will still rarely live in harmony, and the times will be dominated by many twists and turns.

“But I also think that such an unsmooth relationship between the two countries will not have a significant adverse impact on economic exchanges. After all, we are each other’s most important trading partners, and neither of us is replaceable,”

Lao Ma thought for a while, “I feel much more relieved this way,”

“But also because of this, SoftBank’s investment is a problem we must solve,”

“I think we can find a solution,” Lao Ma said.

“Feng, will you attend the Africa conference tomorrow?” Cummins came over with a glass of wine.

“I’d better not go. Facts tell us that the more guests there are, the less exciting it may be. I’d better go to other discussions,”

The Africa conference tomorrow morning will be attended by former US President Clinton, British Prime Minister Blair, South African President Mbeki, Nigerian President Obasanjo, Bill Gates, and U2’s lead singer, Irish singer Bono.

With so many guys on the rostrum, it’s probably difficult to perform well.

“Oh, I see,” Lao Ma laughed, “You are going to attend another event, the one about the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, right?”

The long title he mentioned refers to Angelina Jolie.

"Brother, I didn't expect you to be so gossipy," Feng Yiping said to him in Mandarin.

"But, given the significance of Africa to us, I will participate in other discussions on Africa,"

What does Africa mean to us? Cummins was a little puzzled.