What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 495 Sending Out High-Quality Talent

North Sulawesi, Wanya County

As a relatively prosperous area in the province, Wanya County has fairly good infrastructure.

Initially, the two ships sent by Gekin to Mioas were withdrawn to Biton County, but it was only a small town and not easy to accommodate so many people, so they were transferred to Man'a.

Although Wanya's expenses were higher, no one complained:

All expenses were paid by Mr. Sergio, or rather, Drawa.

Strictly speaking, they are responsible for paying the crew's wages, which includes a whole host of other expenses such as basic wages, overseas allowances, high-temperature allowances, and delay compensation.

This was indeed in Gaijin Company's own financial plan, but Wu Long also raised the salaries of those hundreds of Hong Kong employees to this level, so Sergio had no choice but to pay it.

However, these Hong Kong employees were still undergoing a period of learning and reform, and apart from necessary living expenses, the rest were kept free of charge by the company.

Wu Long, a veteran and powerful general manager, was already unhappy about being sent to Southeast Asia to do nothing. He also remembered the two-month limit and desperately exploited Sergio to get rid of him.

He didn't know English, but he found the most upscale hotel in the area and booked it for two months. His daily work consisted of constantly experiencing the local culture, and occasionally he could even mix in some foreign culture from Mao's country.

Each bill was put on Sergio's head, but the old man endured it for over a month, which Wu Long found somewhat incomprehensible.

Tang Wen also told him to pay attention to the movements of the people on Miangas Island. Logically speaking, Serginho should have been able to quickly resolve the issue of covering the expenses of the people stranded in Gekin, but he did nothing except send some supplies to the people still holding on the island to maintain his presence on Miangas Island, or launch a protest internationally.

that's it.

Wu Long didn't know much about the financial crisis, nor did he know how significant the military intervention was. He only knew that the quality of the local cultural heritage had recently improved.

However, in the afternoon, when he went out for his usual walk, he ran into Sergio as soon as he left the hotel. The old man smiled and said as soon as he saw him:

"Wu, I think you won't have to stay here so bored for long."

Wu Long's face lit up with joy. Was this a signal to kick him out?

Great! He needs to hurry back and check if the subordinates he's helped have been bribed. Otherwise, his authority as a leader will be gone.

“Mr. Sergio, tell me the time, and I’ll book the tickets right away… This time, I won’t charge you; I’ll pay for it myself.”

Sergio laughed twice before correcting his misunderstanding:
“No, I mean Mionas Island will soon resume mining.”

"You wiped out all the Luzon people up there?"

"No, no, no, actually we reached a very smooth agreement. Their people will be leaving soon, and we have to thank you all for that."

Sergio's words revealed a heartfelt sentiment:
"If it weren't for your official mediation, I don't think it would have gone so smoothly."

……

"What mediation?"

When Wu Long told Tang Wen the news, the latter was also completely confused.

He painstakingly planned the Mionas Island, and it's one thing for the two players who got caught up in it to give up, but why is there also something going on back home?

Since it was inconvenient for Zhao Hande to contact people in Europe, he went to ask Lao Zhang for information and gradually found out what had happened:

Under normal circumstances, the oil and gas resources on Mionas Island would undoubtedly become the trigger for conflict between the two groups of monkeys.

However, under the financial crisis, it would be detrimental to both sides to provoke another dispute. For the two weaklings with their limited main combat equipment, even if they wanted to take action, they would find it difficult to bear the economic and international pressure. Therefore, they just engage in verbal sparring or carry out some small actions in secret, and neither side is willing to confront the other directly.

After dragging on for more than a month, the exchange rate of the Cawawa currency could no longer be maintained, meaning that Southeast Asia had completely succumbed to the scythe of financial giants. Coincidentally, the University of Tokyo was eager to join the WTO and its main focus was on dealing with the West. Its attitude towards the surrounding groups of stars was still relatively good, and it was still willing to help the economies of various parties to prevent them from continuing to decline. From a domestic perspective, this was only a small amount of money and did not require too much effort.

In addition, considering other factors, they also planned to send a fleet abroad in December. When the opportunity arose, the Wawa immediately took the initiative to extend an invitation and signed a number of commercial contracts with an aid nature.

Then Sergio turned around and used the East as leverage, with the media focusing on several visits by the domestic fleet, and boldly speculating that the lineup might even include aircraft carriers and battleships.

Under such clumsy pressure tactics, Luzon naturally... gave in, willing to withdraw from Miãos, but still demanding a certain share of the economic benefits from Miãos oil.

Faced with such an unreasonable demand, will Zhuawa agree?

They agreed.

This is the whole story of the "mediation," but because it had just happened and was not significant on the international stage, Tang Wen was unaware of it for the time being.

"I also felt something was off. How could a monkey admit defeat so willingly?"

After speaking, Lao Zhang also expressed his doubts. It was really surprising that his attitude changed in less than a month.

"After all, they tried several times in the Spratly Islands, but this time it doesn't seem reasonable. There may be other factors involved."

But after a moment's thought, Tang Wen suddenly understood:
When Luzon seized Mionas Island, it did not destroy Geigin's oil production base. Instead, it hired an American company to continue oil development, but the result... is predictable.

They must have tried everything but failed to extract oil, so they simply gave up on occupying the area and started making a scene to demand profits.

Sergio was a formidable opponent, and the fact that he agreed to something like this was truly...

After figuring out the whole story, Tang Wen couldn't help but facepalm. The performance of these two, Zhuge Liang and Feng Xiao, had completely messed up his plans and exceeded his expectations of their bottom line.

If the Atlantic naval battle is a top-tier instance and the South Pacific is a second-rate instance, then the South Pacific is probably equivalent to a toilet-cleaning quest—please, all the NPCs, at least act like human beings.

With this pair of brilliant minds complementing each other, Gai Jin's situation has become somewhat awkward:

If we continue mining, wouldn't we just be giving them money for nothing?

Tang Wen thought to himself that he was almost a master of the ocean, yet he was being held back by two clowns.

The withdrawal of investment and equipment was a done deal, but he still had some lingering reluctance, so he gave Wu Long another task.

……

A group of Hong Kong trainees from the training course were gathered at the pier to listen to Wu Long's impassioned speech:

"Great news for day students!"

The first sentence made the former "big shots" below lose their temper. They were all older, stubborn students who were considered incorrigible. However, in order to distinguish them from the students in the closed training program at the school, they were called "day students".

Whenever they hear this name, the "big shots" grit their teeth in hatred.

After arriving in Zhuawa, they were also assigned to study in the dock area, with no chance to escape. Only a few skilled individuals managed to get away.

Wu Long was well aware of their ulterior motives, and then continued reading Principal Tang's supreme instructions:
"Given your outstanding performance recently and the fact that you have already achieved the initial results of the first stage of correction, the principal has decided to send you, these outstanding talents, to society to benefit the outside world. You are allowed to find your own social practice internships in your local area and come back to report your experiences and learning outcomes a year later!"
I reiterate, there is no time limit for the internship, and the follow-up visit after one year is entirely voluntary. The school does not charge any fees; it all depends on your self-discipline!

The older students below couldn't believe it. What was the difference between this and letting them go?
Within a year, with their abilities, they would have made a comeback long ago!

Many people were already thinking about going back to properly "repay" Principal Tang, but Wu Long seemed to have known this all along, and then said:
"We only have a small request: in order for everyone to experience the hardships of normal life and endure some hardship, internships for the next year are only allowed to be conducted abroad. If anyone secretly runs back home to sponge off their parents, the school will force them to re-enroll once discovered!"

(End of this chapter)