1627 Rise of the South China Sea

The two large-scale projects mentioned by Li Nai at the dinner were not aimless, but the result of careful discussions between him and Maliko beforehand.

With his many years of friendship with the members of the Executive Committee and Fu Ruifeng's past performance, it is not difficult for these two projects to be approved.However, some other important information can be deduced from the attitude of the Executive Committee towards these two projects.

Whether the ruling philosophy of the new executive committee is inward or outward is a matter of great concern to Maliko and Linai.But if you ask this directly in person, not only is it abrupt, but most likely you won't get a clear answer.

However, the statements made by the members of the Executive Committee just now made Li Nai and Maliko's explorations have already yielded some results.

Whether it is building a trade route leading westward to the Indian Ocean, or assisting the Luzon region to develop mineral resources, it can be seen that Haihan still attaches great importance to the development of overseas regions, and even in order to involve non-governmental organizations such as Freedom, specially The entry barriers for certain state-run industries have been relaxed.

From the perspective of Linai and Mariko, they will understand this as the policy of the Executive Committee to continue to expand abroad.

Because it is much more difficult to implement this kind of long-term project overseas than it is between the two major parties, and the money that Fu Ruifeng invested may be wasted, unless the official will provide strong support and guarantee in the future.

In other words, whether Freerich can make money on such projects depends on whether Haihan will continue to implement the development strategy of external expansion.As long as Haihan can continue the expansion momentum of the past few years, it will be very easy for Freedom, which has taken the initiative to invest, to profit from these large-scale projects.

At the end of the dinner, Li Nai made the last request, which had nothing to do with trade, but his personal wish, that is, he hoped to go north to Hangzhou with the executive committee.

"Last year and the year before the National Day event, I couldn't go to Sanya to watch the ceremony because of family matters. I don't want to miss it again this year!"

The reason Li Nai gave didn't sound like much weight, but it was kind of close, and he regarded himself as a member of Haihan.

Tao Donglai said with a smile: "Thanks to your kind hospitality today, how about letting you take a ride with the wind in return?"

Li Nai smiled and said, "Then I will be disrespectful."

After dawn, Li Nai took his entourage and luggage and went to the port with the members of the executive committee.

After getting off the car at the pier, Li Nai saw the envoys from Portugal and the Netherlands who were instructing his subordinates to pack the tents, and he couldn't help being a little surprised.

He was familiar with Su Keyi and Thomas, so he took the initiative to ask, "Why don't you stay in a hotel, and sleep on the pier overnight?"

Su Keyi smiled wryly and said, "The nearby hotels are full, and there is no way to stay. If you go to a farther place, you are worried that you will not be able to make it in the morning, which will delay your trip, so you will spend the night on the pier."

Li Nai said in astonishment: "There is such a thing? If I knew this, I should have invited you to my manor to rest."

Li Nai's words were originally from the heart, but to the other party's ears, they couldn't help but feel a little yin and yang.After arriving in Hong Kong yesterday, all members of the Executive Committee went to Li Garden for a banquet, and none of them foreign envoys were invited. Now that Li Nai said such sarcastic remarks, wasn't he deliberately making fun of them?

However, after Su Keyi has been doing diplomacy for so long, his emotions and anger have long since faded away, and he said with a dry smile: "Brother Li, you are welcome, I will bother you for a few days when I come here next time."

Seeing that Li Nai's entourage was unloading large and small bags from the carriage, Thomas asked him, "Master Li, are you planning to go to sea and north?"

Li Nai replied: "I was planning to go to Hangzhou for a while, and it happens that there is a boat with the wind, so it will save trouble."

Li Nai has a very close personal relationship with Haihan's senior management, which is incomparable to Thomas and Su Keyi, so they can only watch him board the ship gracefully.

As soon as Li Nai left, Thomas immediately turned on the taunting mode: "Master Su, look at his calm and peaceful appearance, and then look at you. After a few days of sailing, you will show it off, isn't it amazing?"

Su Keyi could speak eloquently, but how could he lose the upper hand in his words, and immediately counterattacked: "I stayed on the ship for a few days anyway, and discussed many issues with the adults of the executive committee. Unlike some people, even the There is no chance for the ship, so I can only seek self-comfort by talking about it."

Thomas said: "It seems that your communication is not very smooth, otherwise, why would you be kicked off the boat halfway, and you didn't receive an invitation to connect with Fengyan!"

Su Keyi snorted, not wanting to waste any more saliva with Thomas.He could see that the other party's mood was really anxious, maybe he had received some rumors from other places. After all, the closer Holland and Haihan got, the more unfavorable it would be for Portugal.

Two days ago, Su Keyi conveyed the Dutch side's diplomatic intentions to Haihan's senior management face to face, and the purpose of this trip has actually been half achieved.If the Netherlands and Haihan can formally establish diplomatic relations at the national level, Su Keyi, as an envoy, will definitely take the lead, and such a significant event will definitely be recorded in the history books.

As a competitor, the Portuguese will definitely not be happy to see such a situation.Su Keyi has no doubt that as long as there is an opportunity, the Portuguese will try their best to disrupt the diplomatic process between the Netherlands and Haihan.

So during this trip, in addition to continuing to lobby Haihan's senior management to accept the diplomatic proposal from the Netherlands, he also had to guard against sabotage by his old opponent, Portugal.

Fortunately, so far, the Portuguese don't seem to have taken any chances, and Haihan's senior management is not enthusiastic about it.

The more anxious the Portuguese was, the more relieved Su Keyi was.

When the Portuguese's attitude becomes calm, then we really need to be more vigilant.

Watched by a large number of people, the huge fleet left the port in batches and headed east along the coastline.

Although this visit to Hong Kong is very short, it is indeed a high standard in recent years.Although the Executive Committee has left, many people are still speculating about the purpose of their trip.

There is a widely circulated saying that the Executive Committee will further increase investment in Hong Kong to improve the trade environment here, so that it will replace Guangzhou in some fields and become the most important trading port in the Pearl River Basin and the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi.

It is unknown where this statement came from, and there is no reliable evidence, but there are quite a few people who believe this statement, so that after the Executive Committee left, the land price in Hong Kong has risen again. cut.

Two days later, the fleet sailed to the Fujian Strait, where it joined the local armed fleet that had come to serve as an escort.