Chapter 16 Foothold

Feng Yuanda kept toasting at the wine table, deliberately wanting to make friends with Li Ming and Song Tao. In order to show sincerity, Feng Yuanda asked out a few old Maozi that night, in fact, these people were a local gang in Vladivostok.

They are all sons and nephews of the top brass of the Russian Pacific Fleet, the first one is in his early thirties, and he looks like a tiger, everyone calls him Anton, and his father is the deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Don't underestimate these local **, if you want to gain a foothold in Vladivostok, it would be much easier if you had their help, fortunately, these old Maozi like to drink very much, Li Ming and Song Tao are both time-tested soldiers, and they have drunk the amount of alcohol and turned the world upside down with these old Maozi.

After drinking this big drink, they all fell crookedly and slept in the private room of a nightclub, and after waking up the next day, they became real friends with wine and meat, and Li Ming and Song Tao also had the qualifications to continue to communicate with these old Maozi.

Anton is not bad, at least he is easier to get along with than the children of this family in Kyoto, and when Anton heard that the Far Eastern Company was going to invest $200 million in Vladivostok, he was stupefied.

To be honest, these local ** in Vladivostok really haven't seen any big money, and this time I finally saw Li Ming, a rich man, and I desperately wanted to make friends, so I almost pulled Li Ming to worship.

Li Ming is also generous, a few days to get acquainted with Anton's group, Anton once studied in the United States, can speak fluent English, Li Ming Song Tao when training, English is the main training language, Latin, Arabic and other Chinese languages can also be daily conversation.

So there is no language barrier when everyone is together, and they are all drunk, and their relationship can already say something to each other after a few days.

That night, Li Ming and Song Tao once again invited Anton and his group to drink, and when everyone was about the same, Anton's group of brothers, each holding a big Yanma back to the house to be naughty.

The three of them were the only ones left in the huge private room, smoking Cuban cigars, sipping fancy vodka, and sitting together and talking. Li Ming gave Song Tao a look, and Song Tao immediately understood.

"Anton, our company's investment in Vladivostok this time is very sincere, brother, do you want to participate in a share, there is no other meaning, just get along with each other for a few days, I think Lao An, you are a real person, worthy of our deep friendship."

When Anton heard Song Tao's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "No...... No...... Your investment is too big, I don't have that much money, haha......"

Li Ming pretended to be very angry, and said unhappily: "Lao An, you look down on our brothers, don't you, what kind of money do you talk to us, so let's do it, I'll give you five percent of the shares, you don't need to invest a penny, don't you get rich with our brothers." ”

Anton's heart suddenly sank, the investment of 200 million US dollars, the 5% is 10 million US dollars, but he knows that this money is not taken for nothing, although he relied on his father's prestige to get a lot of money here in Vladivostok, but it is not on the table.

If he asked for Li Ming's shares, if the other party asked him to sell national interests or intelligence or something, then even his father would not be able to protect him, and Anton was also a relatively patriotic person, so he was very cautious and did not answer immediately.

Anton thought for a while, raised his head and looked at Li Ming and Song Tao solemnly, and said sternly: "If I promise you, what do you need me to do." ”

Li Ming smiled and said lightly: "I am a businessman who just wants to make money, and I don't hide it from you, we need to quickly gain a foothold in Vladivostok, but if we have your help, then our work will be very smooth, and we also need to be at the beginning of the company, I hope that the local relevant departments can provide us with certain convenient conditions, so that our company can save some unnecessary costs." ”

After Li Ming finished speaking, he saw that Anton was still hesitating, so he smiled and said: "Lao An, don't worry, I won't let you betray the interests of the country, let alone let you sell military intelligence, you are afraid of a fart, do not do it, you give a quasi-word, don't act like a girl." ”

Anton thought for a while, raised his head and stared at Li Ming and Song Tao, and said gloomily: "We are friends, I am very grateful for you to make money, but let me say it first, if I let Anton betray the country, then even friends will not have to be friends." ”

Li Ming and Song Tao listened to Anton's words, and they both stood up and raised their glasses together and said, "Lao An, happy cooperation!" ”

The three of them slammed their wine glasses together, then raised their heads at the same time and drank them all, and then laughed at the same time, and they drank very well this night.

Anton certainly understood what Li Ming meant. Since he joined, he had to take practical actions to help the Far East Company, although 10 million was a lot, but if Anton did his best to help Zhang Luo, the Far East Company would inevitably get more. Of course, if the Far East company is a real investment.

The next day, Li Ming met with several other groups of company personnel who had arrived here in batches in a hotel in Vladivostok, and they held a meeting to study the next work plan and report on the recent progress.

Under the leadership of Qiao Haipeng, the personnel of the development department have inspected more than ten natural deep ports around Vladivostok, and finally selected the Golden Horn, which is about 7 kilometers long, as the most suitable. The width of the bay at the entrance is about 2 kilometers and the water depth is 20~30 meters, and the width of the bay is less than 1 kilometer, and the water depth is 10~20 meters. The bay is surrounded by low hills and hills, and the shape is very dangerous.

Qiao Haipeng first said: "This is very suitable as an early foothold for the company's base, and the Golden Horn is the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet, with many military facilities, it is best to find a foothold here for our company with the help of Guò Anton."

Companies can open wormholes here, send goods that need to be brought to another time and space, and even rely on the support of modern social resources in the Golden Horn in another time and space to do a good job in our infrastructure in the Golden Horn in another time and space. ”

A few other people then expressed their opinions, but everyone wanted the company to be a foothold in the Golden Horn as a foothold to enter another time and space, and it was too suitable as a base for the company's early days.

Can it not be appropriate, the original old Maozi's fleet was chosen to land on the Golden Horn, and he also built a fortress here, and changed Vladivostok to a Russian name character that disgraced all Chinese, and the Chinese meaning is the conquest of the East.

Now that the location has been determined, the next step is to communicate with Anton and ask him to help find a suitable place to store substances in the Golden Horn, as a place to open a wormhole and connect to another time and space. Once there is a suitable location, Li Ming will then lead everyone to form an early expedition team, open a wormhole near Vladivostok, and enter another time and space for field investigation.

Conduct on-the-spot mapping and reconnaissance of the hydrological conditions, geological structure, and distribution of local indigenous people in the surrounding environment, and grasp first-hand information, so as to have a detailed number when the company enters the Golden Horn.

The next day, Li Ming and Song Tao led Hu Wei and several other business elites of the company to formally meet with Anton's company and signed an agreement with him to officially transfer 5 percent of the company's shares in the Vladivostok branch to his name.

When Anton signed his name on the agreement, he was very excited, because he had read the company's investment plan, and this huge investment plan made his blood boil.

With a total investment of 200 million US dollars, the Far East Company plans to divide into two stages, the first is to set up a branch in Vladivostok to initially build the company's shelves, during which the company will take import and export trade as its main business.

The next step is to find a suitable location near Vladivostok, invest in the construction or renovation of a deep-water port, establish an international transportation and logistics hub in the Far East, and connect the international logistics center of Northeast Asia, China, North Korea, South Korea, Russia and Japan.

This is only the preliminary plan of the Far East Company, and the possibility of follow-up investment is not ruled out. If this plan is implemented, it will bring a good return on the investment of Far East companies in the future.

Anton immediately entered the state, repeatedly said that he wanted to make his own contribution to the initial construction stage of the company, Li Ming and Song Tao also got off the donkey, and proposed to him to find a cargo storage area in the Golden Horn Bay as a distribution center for the company's import and export trade.

After listening to Li Ming and Song Tao's thoughts, Anton immediately said that there was no problem, and this matter was on him, because the Pacific Fleet had many military facilities in the Golden Horn, and with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Russian Pacific Fleet was also declining year by year, and many facilities were abandoned.

The next night, Anton invited Li Ming and Song Tao to his house to meet his father and have a family banquet together. Li Ming carefully selected a heavy gift and gave it to Anton's father.

Anton's movements were fast, and a few days later, he chose several places, and led Li Ming, Qiao Haipeng, and their party to conduct field investigations of those places, and finally Li Ming chose an abandoned naval warehouse as their material distribution center.

This was originally the supply depot of the Russian Pacific Fleet, which has been vacant for several years, and the reason why it was chosen here is because the area here is large enough, 50,000 square meters, the warehouse has its own wharf, although all kinds of loading and unloading facilities are outdated, but the supporting facilities are very complete, and there is a special railway that can be driven directly into the warehouse.

All kinds of equipment in the warehouse can be used normally after simple maintenance and repair, because this is a military facility, the security measures of the whole warehouse are very good, there are no dead spots around, and there are several fixed sentry posts responsible for guarding around the warehouse.

Li Ming is very satisfied with this place, this place is simply too suitable for storing all kinds of materials of the company, and it can directly open a wormhole from here to transport the materials of modern society to another time and space.