"It seems that we do have a foundation for cooperation," Van Quekenbourne was very satisfied with Lin Zheng's answer. He patted his hands and said to Lin Zheng: "I have studied your ancient culture and am very fascinated by some of your ancient philosophical thoughts. There is a saying that says, "When it comes to interests, even brothers must figure it out clearly. Only in this way can family affection be maintained for a long time." I agree with this sentence very much."

Which bastard translated this? How come a good sentence "Brothers settle accounts clearly" becomes "When it comes to interests, even brothers must calculate it clearly"? Lin Zheng felt a little whispered in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face: "That's right, so I'll ask you a risky question. How much does it cost to solve our current trouble?"

Van Quikenboon offered the price without any reservation: "$2.5 million!"

The PR fee of $2.5 million cannot be said to be cheap anyway. How much can a company with a net profit of $2.5 million per year? Lin Zheng has money, but he cannot accept this price. How much does it cost to acquire Bangqi Power?

He turned his head and looked at Eric McGraw, and saw Eric McGraw shook his head slightly, meaning that there was a lot of room for discussion at this price, so he smiled at Van⊕↑Quikenborn and said, "It's a fair price, but I want to know if there is room for discussion at this price?"

As he said that, Lin Zheng took out a check and put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Van Quekenborn.

After glanced at the numbers above, the smile on Van Quikenborn's face suddenly became brighter: 50,000 US dollars? Very good!

Although Van Quekenborn is nominally a billionaire, with luxury cars and mansions in and out. There are many servants and beauties accompanying you all day long. But as someone else's white gloves, Van Quekenborn is actually like a person who knows how to drink water. He has a lot of wealth, worth 400 million to 500 million US dollars, but basically all of this money is not his. Even this mansion with his name is not his. Van Quekenborn is just a role in custody. To put it bluntly, he is the butler and accountant of a big man.

50,000 US dollars is definitely not a small amount. What makes Van Quikenborn even more excited is that he knows that 200,000 US dollars is definitely not the final number. How much he can get depends entirely on how much benefits he can get for the other party within the scope allowed by the boss.

Putting the $50,000 openly, Van Quikenborn said: "2 million US dollars."

"2 million US dollars is still too high," Lin Zheng shook his head without hesitation: "Mr. Kenborn, let's all get some fun and give me a minimum price and your benefits."

"Mr. Lin is really a pleasure," he heard Lin Zheng say this, Van Quekenborn smiled: "OK. The price is $1 million, I need 300,000."

I'm sorry, it's dropped from 2.5 million to 1.3 million. Van Quikenborn, the white glove, is really qualified.

At this time, Eric McGraw had to speak. Not only did he have an obligation to maintain the "market", but more importantly, he would protect the interests of his boss. Looking at Van Quikenburn, Eric McGraw said in a deep voice: "Kenburn, I think this price is still not honest enough. 300,000 US dollars can do a lot of things, you should understand. Not everyone can come up with 300,000 US dollars."

Even in a highly affluent country like Belgium, 300,000 US dollars is definitely not a small amount. As a native native of Belgium, Lin Zheng may not know the market, but how could Van Quekenborn not know? The price of Van Quekenborn is not only high, but also ridiculously high!

This is $1.3 million, not 1.3 million yen, but just saying a few words within his authority. There is no illegal or irregular behavior. If the exchange of interests of this level costs $13 million, can everyone still do business happily in the future?

This is not doing business, it is destroying one's own way.

Doing business, it’s not that you don’t open for three years and you have to eat for three years. As a politician, how long do you have to have a political life? Seriousness is to maintain the continuous stream of "business" in your limited political life... Otherwise, why do you say that this thing has formed a set of effective norms?

Van Quekenborn was a little embarrassed and covered up his tea cup and took a sip of black tea.

He did treat Lin Zheng with the attitude of slaughtering fat sheep. Anyway, Lin Zheng is not a native of his country, so what if he slaughtered him this time? Anyway, no one will deal with him again in the future, but he forgot that Eric McGraw is a native who is so native.

Brother, this is... almost slaughtered as a fat sheep? Lin Zheng looked at Van Quekenborn and Eric McGraw, but he still didn't understand what was going on?

Van Quikenborn was uncomfortable when Lin Zheng and Eric McGraw saw it, and raised his hands, "Okay, it was just a joke just now, Lin, $700,000, my boss $600,000, and I $100,000... Eric, you should be very clear that the price is fair."

Is it fair? Lin Zheng turned his head and looked at Eric McGraw, asking for his opinion, but his heart was like millions of grass mud horses galloping by: If Brother Nima had just agreed to the conditions of a bastard Van Quikenboon, would there be six big words "Silly, have more money, come quickly" on his forehead?

Eric McGraw finally smiled on his face and said to Lin Zheng: "Yes, this price is indeed fair."

Since this is the market, there is no problem. Lin Zheng took out the blank check book, but did not fill it in immediately. Instead, he asked Van Quekenbourne: "Mr. Kenbourne, I need to know clearly, can I be sure how long will it take to get a reward after I pay this money?"

"2 months, up to 2 months!" Van Quikenbourne said without hesitation.

Can I get all this in two months? Lin Zheng immediately looked at Fan Quikenbourne with a suspicion. It wasn't that he didn't believe this guy. It was because of the difficulty of this matter that gave Lin Zheng a feeling that it didn't seem to be able to get it in two months. With the soaring level of this incident, my buddy thought that it was impossible to think about it without three or five months.

Looking at Lin Zheng looking at him with suspicious eyes, Van Quekenborn felt that his professional reputation had been greatly insulted, and he almost jumped up. He pointed at Eric McGraw and said to Lin Zheng: "Mr. Lin, you should not believe in our professionalism. You can ask Mr. Eric for this."

Is it really that powerful? Lin Zheng subconsciously turned his head to look at Eric McGraw.

Eric McGraw gave Lin Zheng a positive answer: "Lin, I believe that the professional level of these guys is the politicians who do this. If there is no German here, it will be done in one month."

600,000 USD, in 2 months, a deputy prime minister and budget minister came forward to help you with such a big deal? Lin Zheng finally couldn't help but have the sharp thought in his heart. A classic national curse surged out: "I bought a watch last year!"

"What?!"

There is no doubt that both Van Quekenborn and Eric McGraw couldn't understand what Lin Zheng said in Chinese, and they looked at Lin Zheng in confusion.

Of course, Lin Zheng would not tell these two people that he originally thought that the domestic officialdom was enough, but he did not expect that these countries that claim to be free and democratic are actually even more so. Even if they understand the price of such things, what else are they afraid of doing? He said casually: "It's nothing, I just feel very moved. Maybe I should have met you earlier, so maybe we can have more opportunities for cooperation."

However, when Fan Quikenbourne heard Lin Zheng’s words, his face was filled with surprise: “Mr. Lin, are you willing to invest in Belgium? That’s great. Believe me, of course we have more opportunities for cooperation.”

Hum? Lin Zheng raised his eyebrows.

"Lin, maybe you don't know much. As one of the most economically developed countries in the world, Belgium's infrastructure is very complete."

Of course, Lin Zheng admitted this. He had even personally experienced that Belgium's infrastructure construction was so complete that it was very caring for people, but the question was...why are you talking to me about this?

Van Quekenborn said to himself: "As one of the most developed countries in Europe, Belgium's network construction is also the best in Europe, and the speed of home broadband has reached 4mbps. The government is planning to increase the network speed to 8 to 10mbps in the next two years;

Mr. Hermann is one of the shareholders of Belgium's mobile communications proximus, a subsidiary of Belgium Telecom. I think this is very abnormal, as the most vital online live chat software in the world today, but there is no separate branch to manage it in Belgium."

I understand, Herman Van Longpei is actually targeting icq?!

Is it strange? Actually, it is not surprising at all. After all, Belgium is a small country with a population of only over 10 million. The total population is not even as large as that of some prefecture-level cities in China. Although such a large country, despite its developed economy, for the need to control costs, icq did not set up a branch in Belgium, but asked the German branch to supervise Belgium's business.

As a global user today, it has exceeded 2.2 billion live chat software, and it is so popular that a fool can see that as long as you join icq, you can make a lot of money. Hermann Van Longpei is also an economic worker. Of course, he knows that if he joins icq, it will become a steady source of wealth for him in the future. With this source of wealth, even if he is as honest as water, he will become a huge source of wealth.

Well, Belgium has no such statement that officials are prohibited from doing business. Not only Belgium, but almost all governments in the world do not restrict government officials from doing business, so we can see that many senior government officials are big businessmen themselves.

Unexpectedly, Van Quekenbourne would actually help his boss make such a request. I'm afraid this request is Hermann Van Longpei's real purpose? It's really hard for him. He had been holding it in for so long. After pondering for a while, Lin Zheng slowly said to Van Quekenbourne: "Mr. Kenbuen, Mr. Van Longpei has too many conditions, right?"

"If you agree to the second point, our previous agreement will be invalid immediately." Van Quekenborn said without hesitation.

This is almost the same. If Hermann Van Longpei dares to stick to the first requirement, Lin Zheng will consider whether he should leave immediately.

"I need to think about it," Lin Zheng did not agree, nor did he agree: "You know, this requires balancing many aspects of interests, and I also need to fully consider the business situation of IQ in Belgium."

"Of course, I understand your decision very much, and I look forward to your good news." Van Quekenbourne nodded. He really understood that this was equivalent to digging a piece of meat from the Germans. There was no need to compensate the Germans. Of course, there was nothing to say. In order to show his sincerity, this guy even returned the check that Lin Zheng had just given him to Lin Zheng.

Of course Lin Zheng would not want it, he couldn't afford to lose this person.

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"Lin, what are you hesitating?" On the way back, Eric McGraw didn't understand why Lin Zheng didn't refuse Van Quekenborn: "Business is business, you don't have to worry about Mr. Hermann and Van Longpei's carelessness in helping you handle this matter. If you agree to his second condition, you will suffer too much."

Lin Zheng waved his hand: "It is always relative to the loss and making cheap things. If this Mr. Hermann Van Longpei is worth my investment, it would be fine to cooperate with him in Belgium's business, but I need to determine whether this Mr. Hermann Van Longpei is a good partner."

When he said this, Lin Zheng sighed in his heart. The international community of Belgium is too small, and its influence in the international community is outrageous. Anyway, he has no memory of what happened in Belgium that has caused a sensation in the international community in the next ten years. The only thing he remembers is that there was a great shock in the Belgian political arena after about 2011, and the prime minister was not elected for a long time.

Well, in addition to this, it seems that Belgium has also produced a president of the EU summit?

Fan Longpei!

A news flashed through Lin Zheng's mind that was almost forgotten by himself: Hermann Van Ronpei, the first president of the European Council, was successfully re-elected.

In an instant, Lin Zheng trembled excitedly. The first president of the European Council, Herman van Longpei, is this Belgian Federal Government Deputy Prime Minister and Budget Minister Herman van Longpei? If Herman van Longpei is really the first president of the EU, then...

I bet! Even if it is only 1% possible, I bet!

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ps: The third update is here, why is this chapter 4,000 words? Because I only updated 4,000 words yesterday, and I still owe you 2,000 words, so I will pay 1,000 first today and 1,000 tomorrow. (To be continued...)

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