Chapter 2586 Economic and Political Benefits

Before Jarrier came, Chen Kangjie had already planned a case of cooperation with Matthew De, or Afghanistan in his heart. In other words, even if the president is not Matthew De, he can still cooperate to achieve mutual benefit.

Chen Kangjie has a businessman background, so he naturally has a businessman personality. What businessmen are best at using is economic means to solve problems.

But Chen Kangjie is not a simple businessman, so his plan is more strategic. It can even be said that he is thinking about this matter from the perspective of the country. However, if his method is successful, the government will ultimately lead the way to make a big plan.

Economics and politics complement each other. Without political means completely, emergency measures will lack guarantees.

"Young man, what do you mean is that you plan to make large-scale investments in Aguo? Do you think it is the right time to enter now? Although the big battle has ended, small-scale conflicts still occur from time to time, and local security still exists a big problem." Zhao Zhibang sat in his small reception room and chatted with Chen Kangjie.

Chen Kangjie took the initiative to ask for an audience with Zhao Zhibang after Jarrier and his friends returned. Since becoming the supreme leader, it is difficult for provincial and ministerial levels to meet Zhao Zhibang. Even if they meet, the time will be shortened. After all, Zhao Zhibang is now very different from before. He has been busy with all kinds of things all day long, and all three aspects of the party, government and military have to deal with. China is such a big country, and governance is very difficult.

However, Chen Kangjie is not subject to the constraints of the system, he is a very special person. As long as Chen Kangjie wants to meet, unless Zhao Zhibang really has something special and cannot find the time, otherwise, as long as Secretary Qin reports, he will make arrangements.

After listening to the meeting between Chen Kangjie and Jarrier, Zhao Zhibang did not expect that Chen Kangjie would decide to invest in the extremely poor and backward Aguo at this time.

"Of course there are difficulties and dangers, but the benefits are not gone. Even if done well, I think the benefits will be much higher than the expenditure." Chen Kangjie said calmly.

Today I came to meet Zhao Zhibang. Chen Kangjie hoped to tell Zhao Zhibang about his plan and then the government would lead the way to promote it. Of course, Zhao Zhibang would probably ask the relevant departments to evaluate its feasibility. However, Chen Kangjie was still very confident in his ideas, and he also believed that Zhao Zhibang would be interested in the end. If this step is done well, it will be of great benefit to the country's development strategy.

"Although I'm not a businessman, I also know that the current place is really not conducive to investment, and I really don't understand what the profit you are talking about." As the supreme leader, Zhao Zhibang cannot have no idea about the situation on Aguo side, let alone the foreign minister left the capital, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to send him a briefing.

"This cannot be simply calculated by economic interests. At present, the reason why many large companies in Western countries have not entered is because they focus on calculating economic interests. The interests I calculate also include political interests and strategic interests."

"Oh? Political interests and strategic interests? Tell me, I really want to know where political interests and strategic interests come from?" As a national leader, Zhao Zhibang is indeed very sensitive to the eight words political interests and strategic interests, and shows a strong interest.

"I'm saying this for a long time. Do you always have this time? Director Qin told you just now that it only took half an hour, and now, ten minutes have passed." Chen Kangjie raised his watch and looked at it, and said mysteriously.

Secretary Qin is currently the director of Zhao Zhibang's office when the deputy director of the General Office meets Zhao Zhibang. Almost everyone has to go through Director Qin's hands first. Director Qin arranged this meeting, but he also reminded and reminded Chen Kangjie in advance. Half an hour later, Zhao Zhibang would have a work meeting on employment to attend.

"Don't withdraw these, hurry up and say, you don't have to consider the time issue." At the same time, Zhao Zhibang called the staff around him in, meaning that he would ask them to ask the Executive Vice Premier to attend the employment work meeting, so he would not go.

Zhao Zhibang's actions really made Chen Kangjie a little flattered. In order to talk to him, Zhao Zhibang changed his work schedule. Faced with such a leader, it would be really hard to explain if Chen Kangjie didn't bring out some goods.

"Then I'll just say it."

"Tell me, I'll listen carefully." Zhao Zhibang, who had been busy for almost a day, untied the hole in the suit and got completely close to the sofa, so that his tired body could be properly prepared.

"Okay, then I will start with the economic interests. I know that the copper ore in Afghanistan is very large. With the further development of our country's economic construction, especially the large-scale construction of various infrastructures, the demand for copper will become increasingly greater, and we will even become the world's largest copper consumer. If we can take over the copper ore resources of Afghanistan, we will reduce our dependence on some countries in the future. Moreover, my prediction is that the price of copper products will increase in the future, so as long as you can mine copper ore from Afghanistan and transport it back to the country, this business will be profitable without losing."

"Let's come back, Afghanistan still has a certain amount of natural gas and oil reserves. Both of these are also energy urgently needed by our international community. As long as it can be transported back to the country, it will be profitable."

"But you should know better than me that whether it is copper mining or oil and gas mining, the investment involved will not be hundreds of millions or billions, or at least tens of billions of dollars. Secondly, what you said is that those things must be transported back. If they cannot be transported back, no matter how much they say, it will be useless. I think the big Western companies hesitate to this country, which is because they cannot solve this problem. I believe that the local transportation infrastructure is very dilapidated by the damage caused by more than 20 years of war." Zhao Zhibang said with his right hand knocking on the armrest of the sofa.

"This is certain. If Afghanistan was a coastal country, those people would have flocked to me long ago, and they would have waited for me. Transportation is indeed the most difficult part of all links and the least easy part to solve in a short period of time. Those people were blocked by the transportation cost. If investment in Afghanistan, the transportation cost was at least three times that of other countries. As long as enterprises with limited economic interests would be deterred. However, why don't we turn this unfavorable condition into a favorable factor?"

"Haha, can this be detrimental to become beneficial? I really want to hear how you have a big brain and how to reverse it in the opposite direction."

"Just because of the poor transportation, I can get a lot of benefits from Matthew when investing, such as investment years, taxes paid, resource transfer fees, etc., and maybe a thirty-year cooperation period can be negotiated for fifty years. Anyway, others are unwilling to go, only I am willing to, and he has no room for bargaining. To put it bluntly, as long as I am willing to spend 50 billion US dollars there, I am afraid he will give me whatever I want. Everyone knows that it is a country with only 50 billion US dollars in GDP." Chen Kangjie is not the kind of person who suffers losses.

"If you say so, it will be really unfavorable."

"I particularly emphasize that our geographical relationship with Afghanistan is not available to other so-called advanced countries. We are bordering neighbors. There are many things that others cannot do, and we will appear to be relatively easy to do."

"Although we are neighboring countries, we basically don't have good direct traffic connections on the road, and there is not even a decent road on both sides of us."

"There is no road, you can repair it." Chen Kangjie was very direct.

"Repair? You said it lightly. We are across the Hindukus Mountains. Is that road so easy to repair?"

"We have built roads on the plateau on the roof of the world. What's wrong with the Hindukus Mountains? Could it be that it's really a natural danger that can't be overcome?" Chen Kangjie didn't think this was a problem.

"It seems that you really don't know how difficult it is to build those roads. Do you know how long it took to build the road from Tianfu to Nigu, how much money it cost, and how many people died?" Before entering Beijing, Zhao Zhibang worked in Nigu, governing the province with the smallest population and the highest altitude. Of course, he knew how difficult it was to build a modern road at an altitude of three or four thousand meters, four or five thousand meters.

"It's hard, it's definitely difficult. I don't deny this. However, we have experience in building infrastructure in high-altitude areas. Moreover, today's technological level is always much better than decades ago. At least large machinery can be widely used. Of course, I said that road construction is not just about to be built immediately. Such a road will not be repaired within three to five years. So in the early stage, there must be appropriate alternatives."

"What alternative? I really can't see any alternative. The best thing is to go south from Pakistan to borrow the port of Pakistan. However, it is also very difficult to go from the mainland to the port of Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. There is another thing you may not know. Pakistan lacks that kind of large freight port, so what should I do?" Zhao Zhibang sat there, as if he was pouring cold water on Chen Kangjie, and as if he was taking the exam to compete with Chen Kangjie, but it was faint and a bit like he wanted to know Chen Kangjie's alternative answer.

"I'll put this aside for a moment, let's talk about political interests. The geographical location of Afghanistan is very important. I believe I don't need to say that you understand better than me. Americans send tens of thousands of people to fight such a battle, but they don't want to leave after entering. What do they value? Isn't it because of their strategic position? The only superpower in the United States, they can use force to smash in. We can't use that move, and that is not in line with our basic national policy to the outside world, but we can use economic means to infiltrate. Americans use military kidnapping that country, so we can also use economic kidnapping. The methods are different, but the effect may not be inferior."
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