Leo was about 50 years old, very tall, with a figure of more than 1.9 meters, and a very strong body, but he was dressed very casually, with a wide trench coat and skinny jeans, which looked very new in front of a group of Chinese officials in suits and leather shoes and jackets.

He stretched out his big hand to shake Li Yi, and his left hand climbed on Li Yi's shoulder and hugged him gently.

"Mr. Leo, please." Li Yi made a gesture of please, and walked upstairs to the Jiangzhou Hotel side by side with Leo.

On the third floor of Jiangzhou Hotel, there is a special banquet hall, which is used by Jiangzhou Municipal FU to entertain superior leaders and important guests.

In order to be grand, Li Yi transferred the banquet originally set in the ordinary box on the second floor to this banquet hall.

The soft and heavy scarlet carpet, the entire wall-sized ink paintings, and the one-meter-eight-high porcelain purchased by Jingdezhen decorate the banquet hall luxuriously and classically.

The simple and heavy red nanmu combination dining table and chairs look classy, and it also looks very formal and grand.

Leo sighed softly: "Mayor Li, today's reception is of a very high standard!" ”

Wei Sicheng translated on the side.

Li Yi smiled and waited for him to finish translating before talking to Leo: "Of course, Mr. Leo is the president of the German Wetzger Machinery Group Company, and he deserves such a courtesy as our political fu." ”

After listening to Wei Sicheng's translation, Leo smiled and said, "There is a saying in your country, called ugly words in the front. I am also going to say ugly things in front of me today, but this time I came to talk to Mr. Mayor about the investment environment, and I have not made up my mind to invest in your Jiangzhou City. Don't regret receiving me with such a high standard afterwards. ”

After listening to it, when Wei Sicheng translated, he translated the later sentence as: "You received me with such a high standard." You will definitely regret it afterwards, because I have no intention of investing in your Jiangzhou at all. ”

After He Zhengyu, Lu Yantong and others heard this translated sentence with a great change in meaning, their faces immediately became gloomy, and they thought that Secretary Li had entertained this German with great fanfare this time. I'm afraid that it's a meat bun beating a dog again, and there is no return! Looking at the behavior of this German guy, he doesn't look like the president of a group company!

In the past, when Leo came to contact the leaders of Jiangzhou City, he only said that he was a representative of a German company and came to the mainland for inspection. Trying to find a suitable place to invest, it is not stated what his specific identity is.

As soon as Li Yi saw Leo's face, he directly broke his true identity, which made Leo a little curious, although he was a celebrity in Europe, but in Asia, especially in the mainland of China, he was a full face. Li Yi, a young political official, recognized his identity as soon as they met, which made him have a strong interest in Li Yi.

And political officials such as He Zhengyu and Lu Yantong, on the one hand, are strange that Li Yi Weishenme knows the true identity of this Leo, and on the other hand, they are skeptical of Leo's true identity. Because no matter how Leo looks at it, he is an ordinary foreign old man, without a bit of president style.

Political officials are accustomed to seeing the kind of group presidents and company bosses with deep pockets in China, and when they see this simple and simple foreign president, they feel that it is too fake.

And in fact. Only Li Yi knows that this Leo is the president of the largest machinery manufacturing company in Europe, the Witzger Machinery Group Company!

The WITZGER Maschinenbau Group has three production sites worldwide. One is in Germany in Europe, one is in California, the most industrially developed state in the country, and one is in Australia.

Now, President Leo has come to Asia to find the most suitable investment base!

Li Yi studied in Germany in his previous life, and after graduation, he worked in a steel company under the Witzger Machinery Group!

Therefore, he is no stranger to this wealthy but low-key president of Leo.

After Li Yi heard Wei Sicheng's translation, his face sank. I thought to myself, what kind of German expert this is! In Mr. Leo's words, he did not say that he must not invest in Jiangzhou, but not necessarily in Jiangzhou! And this tone is exactly the usual style of Mr. Leo's speech, with a little humor in his sincerity.

It's a pity. This Wei Sicheng does not very haode understand, this specious translation. It is easy to cause misunderstanding between the two sides, and it is estimated that when Zhang Zhenggui talked to Leo in the past, he was also a translator made by Wei Sicheng, right? No wonder Zhang Zhenggui and others mistakenly think that Mr. Leo is a foreign liar who eats and drinks!

Jokes, people are worth tens of billions! How can it be a liar? Still flew all the way to Huaxia to cheat and eat and drink? Do you have nothing to do when you are rich, and you are looking around for fun?

Li Yi frowned slightly, and said to Wei Sicheng: "Mr. Wei, there are some problems with your translation, and you don't accurately understand Mr. Leo's meaning. ”

Wei Sicheng's old face turned red, in front of so many people, he was reprimanded by Li Yi for his poor translation, how could he be embarrassed?

Although he is a German expert, he is not good at Chinese, a translator who has only learned foreign languages, but has not understood his native language, and the things he translates are limited, no matter how good they are!

What's more, the Chinese civilization is broad and profound, and the meaning may be the same when different words are spoken, but as long as there is a difference of one word, it is a thousand miles wrong. It's like saying "I defeated you" and "I beat you", foreign friends often think it's incredible, you won or lost?

Wei Sicheng said: "Secretary Li, I am an expert in this area, I am responsible for all the German translation work in the city, and no one has said anything wrong with the things I translated." ”

Li Yi said: "But you just translated it wrong!" "I am very disgusted with Wei Sicheng's mistakes and not correcting them, thinking that although you are a German expert, you have to correct your mistakes, this is not a joke! It's a big investment!

Witzger's production bases around the world are carefully selected and strictly inspected before they are launched, because this kind of heavy machinery production base, once invested, is a huge amount of investment, and it will not be easily relocated. They must consider factors such as the convenience of raw material supply, the accessibility of freight export channels, the quality of workers, and the support of local government officials.

Li Yi remembers that in order to invest in the construction of a Disneyland in China, Disney Company has been inspecting for more than ten years! Long-term investigations have been carried out in Hong Kong, Haidu, Jiangchuan, Lingnan, Binhai and other places. In order to mention this investment, the country's prime minister also personally received two Disney presidents!

Now, a God of Wealth has come to the door, but these officials are in frequent situations! In this case, Leo will undoubtedly be completely disappointed with the domestic investment environment and turn to Japan or South Korea!

Since this matter has happened to Li Yi, he will never let it go, he said to Wei Sicheng in a deep voice: "Mr. Wei, I have always respected intellectuals very much, but if you make such a low-level mistake again, I will wonder if you are indiscriminately filling up the numbers!" ”

He Zhengyu, Lu Yantong and others couldn't understand German, and they didn't know whether Wei Sicheng's translation was correct or not, thinking that everyone was old, and they had eaten more salt than your Secretary Li had eaten, how did you know that the translation was wrong?

Wei Sicheng also had such doubts and confidence, he questioned: "Secretary Li, do you know German?" How do you know I've mistranslated? ”

Li Yiyi said lightly: "I know German, but out of respect for your work, I didn't use German to communicate directly with Mr. Leo." ”

Although the words are plain, the meaning is profound, and it is like a sharp knife poking into Wei Sicheng's heart.

"Oh, Secretary Li actually understands German? Where did you learn it? Could it be that you graduated from the College of Foreign Chinese? Wei Sicheng said in an obvious questioning tone.

"No, I graduated from the Chinese Department of Southern University, but I like to learn Chinese foreign languages since I was a child, and in my spare time, I have learned a few foreign languages, and I have learned this German so-so, so I know a little bit." Li Yi said calmly: "Although I am not very proficient, at least I can understand and speak to each other, at least I won't distort the meaning of others!" ”

The meaning of this is: He only studied a little in his spare time, and he is even more powerful than Wei Sicheng's major!

"Secretary Li, you are a bigger official than me, I dare not offend you, but what you said just now is obviously insulting my professional level and fooling my IQ! I don't believe you can really understand German? If you can really speak German fluently, I'll crawl out from here, pretend to be a dog, learn to listen to dogs, and have fun with you and your leaders! Wei Sicheng's temper came up, and he actually gambled with Li Yi.

In Wei Sicheng's mind, even if Li Yi used his spare time to learn German by himself, it was impossible for him to be proficient. Because language is nothing else, if you don't practice and speak with someone who knows German, you can't learn to be proficient, let alone speak.

English is hard enough to learn, and German is known to be one of the hardest languages to learn on Shijie!

Most German words are derived from the languages of the Indo-European Germanic language family, with a few words coming from Latin and Greek, and some from French and English.

Although the rules of pronunciation in German are simple, it is difficult to pronounce them accurately. The German word is divided into yin, yang, and medium, and there is no certain pattern. German grammar is framed, with too many variations and too many restrictions. Moreover, it is said that Germans speak very quickly and have many "dialects". In particular, the German language is a complete manifestation of the rigor of the Germans, without the comfort and freedom of speaking English.

Li Yi is a guy who works behind closed doors, can he speak German that Germans can understand?

Based on this self-confidence, Wei Sicheng dared to say this bet on learning to crawl.

Of course, Li Yi is a big leader, and he doesn't dare to be presumptuous to the point that if Li Yi loses, he will learn to bark.

Li Yi smiled, waved his hand, and said, "Mr. Wei, since you are so sincere and willing to pretend to be a dog to tease our German friends, then I will be ugly!" ”

Mr. Leo looked at a few Chinese officials who were arguing happily, and although he didn't understand what they were saying, he laughed when he saw Li Yi laughing