The schedule seemed to be calculated, and the tour to Michigan happened to be in the anniversary of the "almaster" school.

As a famous Asian graduate and happening to be in Michigan, Li Weimin naturally could not be absent. He participated in the celebration and held a small fundraising event. After thanking him for "the knowledge that he could compete with several humanitarian positions now", he rushed back to Detroit to meet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

It is worth mentioning that the principal, professor and alumni formally proposed to change the school name during the event.

The Michigan University of Agricultural and Applied Sciences is about to become a Michigan State University. Many professors have changed their business cards, but as a public university, it needs to be approved by the Michigan State Legislature.

He is just an undergraduate student, neither a doctoral student nor a university professor, nor a loud diploma to find a job. Li Weimin was not interested in changing the school name. According to the previously planned list of people who must visit, he rushed to the headquarters of Ford Motor Company with Liu Jiachang and Chen Shiguo.

The current president Robert S-McNamara has watched the "Road to Freedom" movie, was invited to listen to the "Road to Freedom" concert, and participated in the investment promotion meeting of Vietnam Industrial Village Investment Company. She believes that the movies and music are good, but the risk of investing in Vietnam is too high, especially for automobile manufacturers like Ford.

I have invited you three times, but now I have to visit you and you can't help me.

McNamara gave up her work and went downstairs to invite the three of them into the reception room. She planned to accompany Vietnamese guests to visit a factory closest to the headquarters.

Attracting investment is like pursuing a girl you like. It requires a shameless spirit, a shameless spirit.

Thanks to Ford's warm hospitality, Li Weimin said straight to the point: "Mr. President, if you travel to Saigon once, you will find that the Vietnamese automobile market is not small. In fact, in addition to local demand, it can also radiate to Laos, Cambodia and Thailand like South Africa radiates to the entire Africa.

The young Cambodian kings and several princes of Laos all received primary or secondary education in Saigon and lived in Saigon for a long time. They only received French education, and most of the goods imported from Saigon by their country came from Europe, especially France."

Chen Shiguo took out a street photo album from his bag and introduced it while searching for him: "Mr. President, Saigon has more than 2,000 cars in Saigon. If cities such as Hue, Da Nang, Vung Tau, Bianhe, Boliao and Di Shi may exceed 5,000 cars. With the launch of the national and industrial village plans, I believe that the demand for cars by our government, companies and individuals will increase, and it is a very potential emerging market."

All are French cars, and few American cars.

McNamara asked with her arms in her arms and smiled, "Gentlemen, does this mean Ford should open a car sales store in Saigon?"

“If you want.”

Li Weimin smiled and said bluntly: "But we hope to get help from your company, such as in the procurement of auto parts. We have cheap labor and can train skilled workers. If some parts are produced in our country, it will definitely greatly reduce the cost of your company's vehicle.

More importantly, my country is rich in rubber, with many rubber plants, and has enough raw materials to produce car tires on site. If the President is willing to invest in a car assembly plant in my country, we will be more welcome and grateful."

McNamara is a top student at the University of California, Berkeley. She participated in two years of preparatory officer training while at school. Later, she was admitted to Harvard Business School. She was an elite in the Ivy League school and was called the "smarttest person" in the United States.

In fact, he is indeed very smart.

During World War II, the size of the US Army's aviation fleet expanded rapidly. When Germany launched a blitzkrieg, the army had a total of 1,800 aircraft and 500 pilots. When Germany invaded France, President Roosevelt issued a call, requiring the United States to produce at least 50,000 aircraft each year.

After taking over the army, they discovered overnight that they were trying to manage one of the largest and most complex "enterprises" in the world. They were helpless and did not know how to manage and arrange, so they had to extend a hand to Harvard for help.

Harvard Business School signed a contract with the U.S. Army Air Force, a team of "smart people" including him, quickly helped the Army establish a preliminary management system, and also helped the Army train statistics and management officers.

With their efforts, it took no time for staff to record some basic information no matter where the US Army planes flew to.

For example, before the war, preparation, maintenance, failure and other aircraft conditions, training types, casualties, supplementary personnel situations, as well as flight missions and types, attack targets, success levels and losses of personnel and equipment. The commander can see a latest chart as soon as possible, which records the US Army Air Force's bamboo movements and weaknesses around the world.

At first he entered the War Department as a non-military consultant, and later he was even appointed by the military officer.

Henry Ford II admired his performance in the war very much. He issued an invitation as soon as World War II ended. He was the president of Ford for just a few years and turned Ford into profits and was known as a "child prodigy".

McNamara is so smart, how could she not know that investing in Vietnam can be a win-win situation, but as a person who has experienced war, he knows better what political instability means to investors.

"Gentlemen, this is undoubtedly a good advice. The key is how I can convince shareholders that investing in Vietnam is safe."

“I think Mr. President has promised it.”

“Domino effect?”

"During World War II, Japan occupied the entire Southeast Asia region in a short time, and even once dangerous to Australia and India, almost meeting with Germany in the Middle East. The situation is now more serious than during World War II, and the Soviet camp is stronger than the Axis powers. As you know, the entire free world is helping us, and no one wants to see South Vietnam be occupied by the Viet Alliance."

McNamara could not make a decision easily for such a big deal. She pretended to weigh the pros and cons, and suddenly asked: "Mr. Li, how many refugees did the Operation of Freedom save?"

Li Weimin is the executive chairman of the "Joint Meeting on Refugee Rescue". He has first-hand data and said with a serious look: "As of 5 pm yesterday, more than 1.486 million people have been withdrawn. This number does not include those who retreated to the south by themselves and still stayed in the coastal defense refugee camp."

"Does this mean that the population of north and south is comparable, and that the election will not be so easy to lose in two years?"

It turns out that he is worried about this.

Li Weimin was happy and caught off guard and analyzed: "Mr. President, there are several main reasons for the people of North Vietnam fleeing south. First, the Vietnam League has controlled some rural areas of North Vietnam from 1946 to the present. They have massacred people against them in the occupied areas, and many are very afraid of their policies;

The second reason is well known that the Catholic people living in North Vietnam are worried that the Viet Union will force them to give up their faith, and such concerns are justified; the third is that the Viet Union has carried out a cruel land reform movement in its occupied areas, and persecuted many ordinary farmers in a crazy life in a proportion of one thousandth;

They even bloody purged political opponents in opposition to French colonial rule, such as the Vietnamese Kuomintang, the Great Vietnamese Party, the Reconciliation Party members and reconciliation, the Gaotai Church and other sect leaders. Although theoretically speaking, the Geneva Agreement stipulates that the North and South Vietnam will hold a re-merger election in 1956, everyone knows that the possibility of a re-merger is almost zero."

Liu Jiachang ran aside while the iron was hot and said: "Mr. President, the Vietnamese understanding of the terms of the Geneva Agreement is completely different from the free world. Although they agreed to these terms, these terms are completely incompatible with Stalin-style extreme-rightist dogmas. Even today after the signing of the Geneva Agreement, the massacre in rural northern continues."

"It's so scary. More innocent people should be saved."

“We are working hard.”

McNamara said with all the same words that he didn't mention investing in Vietnam, and ended up donating $100,000 on behalf of the Ford Foundation.

Liu Jiachang and Chen Shiguo were very disappointed, while Li Weimin believed that today's meeting was very successful.

Whether it can attract funds does not matter. What is important is to leave a deep impression on the future US Secretary of Defense. What we need to do next is to maintain contact, deepen relationships, and be best to be friends.

Only by establishing good relationships with John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and "Stars of the Future" like him, and only by obtaining their support can the Industrial Investment Company better deal with the future situation.
Chapter completed!