<h4>Chapter 401: Land Remation?</h4>


    Trantor: _Min_ Editor: Caron_


    A middle-aged woman in a blue suit stood at the door of the mansion. Her sharp business outfit looked professional. From thebel on her briefcase, Jiang Chen could tell she was from Nethend’s BMA Construction. They were currently responsible for the infrastructure development and tourist resource development projects on Pannu Ind.


    The purpose of her trip, Jiang Chen could guess, was to ask for money.


    This situation was rather embarrassing. Based on the contract, at thepletion of every phase, the tender should be transferred to the constructionpany. But since Jiang Chen hadn’t been in the modern world for a while, the payments couldn’t be signed off, hence payment was dyed until now.


    When they finally found out Jiang Chen had returned, BMA sent someone out in hopes of resolving the matter of the dyed payment. Since Future Technology was the guarantor, they weren’t afraid that Jiang Chen would scam them, butte payments seriously challenged their cash flow.


    Jiang Chen didn’t make her wait long as he opened the switch to the metal gate and greeted her outside personally.


    When she saw Jiang Chen, thedy did a light bow and introduced herself.


    “Hello, Mr. Jiang Chen. I’m Hanna Cavillian, manager of BMA’s European division.”


    “Pleasee in.” Jiang Chen smiled and weed her inside.


    Hanna nodded and came inside.


    Following Jiang Chen to the mansion’s door, she asionally checked her surroundings. Dense subtropical nts bloomed neatly along the sides of thewn while wide-leaved trees were like mini huts making the entire mansion resemble a castle guarded by trees.


    This was a beautiful mansion, but she felt something was odd.


    “What are you looking for?” Jiang Chen smiled.


    “Mhmm…” Hanna gave it a thought and suddenly realized the problem. “Why are there no gardeners working at your mansion?”


    Due to business reasons, she visited the Middle East multiple times. She saw many simr castles there and all had gardeners who tended to the nts throughout the day. Judging by the well-keptwn, this ce certainly looked like it was well-taken care of, but she didn’t see any gardeners here.


    Jiang Chen smiled. “Meticulous observation, but my mansion doesn’t need gardeners.”


    As he said this, he waved his hand towards a bush on the side.


    A disc-shaped drone flew out of the bush and hovered beside his hand. From a single nce, the drone itself wasn’t a shocking piece of technology, so Jiang Chen didn’t bother hiding anything.


    But Hanna widened her eyes in disbelief. Words only came out after a long pause as she eximed, “Drone gardening? What a stunning piece of technology. Although we have been following the progress in this field, it’s the first time I’ve seen an actual product… Could I ask whichpany it’s from?”


    Jiang Chen waved his hand to send the drone back as he joked, “Bill Gates loves to modify his own mansion. Why are you certain apany made this?”


    Hannaughed.


    “You are a funny person.”


    After inviting her inside the mansion, they sat on the sofa as Ayesha poured a cold beverage for both of them.


    In this kind of weather, cold orange juice was the most wonderful refreshment.


    Shelving the small talk, Hanna took out some documents from her briefcase and ced them in front of Jiang Chen.


    “I am here about the Pannu Ind tourism area and basic infrastructure development projects. The projects are 50%pleted and are expected to bepleted by December of this year. Here are the details of the work. Based on our contract, we have alreadypleted two phases - could your party please process the payment for these two phases?”


    Jiang Chen only scanned the document briefly before he said nonchntly:


    “Of course, please give me the documents.”


    Hanna nodded and took out two other documents from her briefcase.


    The two phases totaled 4 billion USD. After he confirmed that the number wasn’t amiss or had an extra zero, Jiang Chen signed the paperwork.


    When she saw Jiang Chen’s signature, Hanna’s anxious heart finally settled down as she felt relieved.


    To be honest, she was afraid that Future International would dy payment even further. Although under their agreement they agreed to pay by phase, an auditing process still existed. If the tendering side didn’t recognize that theypleted the projects or dragged out the auditing phase for some time, that couldplicate things. It was a gamble to do business internationally. Hanna prepared over one hundred ways of convincing him to pay before she arrived.


    But this scene surprised her as Jiang Chen agreed on the payment without any mishaps as if he didn’t just sign over 4 billion USD but merely the cost of a restaurant bill.


    Both parties each retained one copy of the paperwork. Hanna put away her copy into the briefcase in front of her, feeling reassured.


    “I have to admit: before I came, we thought you were avoiding us because you didn’t want to pay. I apologize for our rude assumptions.”


    Hanna then stood up and bowed to Jiang Chen.


    “No problem.” Jiang Chenughed it off and made a funnyment, “If someone owed me 4 billion, you bet I would be afraid that he would disappear.”


    Perhaps it was the joke that made herugh or perhaps it was Jiang Chen’s broken English, but Hanna chuckled.


    “Also, can I ask something?”


    Since she sessfully secured payment for thepany, Hanna’s mood was obviously pleasant. “Of course.”


    “Does BMA have expertise in building artificial inds?”


    A famous quote goes: “God created sea, the Dutch creatednd.” From the 13th century, this country began its massive journey innd remation. Over 20% of the Nethend’snd was created artificially by filling in the sea. The hills were all dug out and the entire Frind province was created through remation.


    Although Pannu Inds had an expansive sea territory, itsnd area had always been limited. While it looked like it had a low poption density, this was because the total poption was twenty thousand. Once immigration policies opened up without affecting tourism resources, Jiang Chen estimated that a maximum of one hundred thousand people could fit in the country. Yet in Hua, any town alone had more than half a million people - one hundred thousand people was clearly not enough.


    Jiang Chen always thought that the Nethends had highly advancednd remation technology. Since BMA was a renowned Dutchpany, Jiang Chen thought it would be good to ask.