The room that the oil tycoon arranged for him was quite high-end, covering more than 200 square meters. It was considered a luxury house in China. It was a panoramic suite with a panoramic view of the Persian Gulf and the city of Dubai. It had all the facilities and was extremely luxurious.
An ordinary person would definitely not be so calm after walking through the door of hell, but Liu Handong was used to it. He carried a stack of dollars and went downstairs, first filled his stomach, and then exercised in the indoor swimming pool for an hour to keep up his exercise.
He was in such a hurry on this business trip that he only brought a change of clothes. On such a hot day, he would be sweating profusely after walking around outside, so it was urgent to buy some clothes. There was a store open all night in the hotel shopping mall, so he went to buy one
Arab robes and a pair of leather sandals, of course a headscarf is also essential. Coupled with the beard he deliberately grew, he looks a bit like a Middle Easterner.
When the sun rose the next day, Liu Handong was woken up by the ringtone of his cell phone. It was an unfamiliar voice. He asked him politely if he had arrived in Dubai. We are from Zhongyanhuang Middle East Branch. We are downstairs now. Is it convenient to come up?
Liu Handong quickly said sorry, I didn't stay at the Armani Hotel, now Burj Al-Arab, I will go over to meet you immediately.
"Director Liu, you don't have to come over, we can just go over there. What is your room number?" The other party was very polite and humble.
Liu Handong told them their room number, called for breakfast, ate it slowly and drank a cup of tea, when the doorbell rang.
Two Chinese people came, in suits and leather shoes, elegant and polite, with Zhongyan yellow badges on their lapels. The two saw Liu Handong wearing an Arab robe and a beard, and Da Ma Jin Dao sitting on the sofa.
Liu Handong was suddenly a little stunned, and the commissioner's momentum made them awe-inspiring.
"Hello, Director Liu, I am Tian Fei from our branch office, and this is our driver Li Song." The young man wearing glasses introduced himself. Liu Handong shook hands with them and said cordially: "Sorry
I made your trip in vain, but something unexpected happened and I changed the hotel temporarily."
"Are you okay?" Tian Fei asked with concern.
"It's been solved." Liu Handong smiled smartly, "Where to go next, I will follow your arrangements."
Tian Fei said: "That's right. There are two main reasons why we are so anxious to invite you to Dubai. First, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed us that the Prime Minister will visit the Gulf countries and inspect our Zhongyanhuang construction site, so we need to do this in advance.
Some work; secondly, some unpleasant things happened to the family members of the company's employees in Dubai, which require your coordination and resolution."
When talking about this, Tian Fei and Li Song both looked a little unhappy, obviously this incident made them very upset.
"What's going on? Let's talk about it in detail." Liu Handong said, "Sit down and tell me, what to drink, you can get it from the refrigerator."
Tian Fei sat down, and Li Song took three bottles of drinks from the refrigerator and placed them in front of everyone. Liu Handong noticed that his eye circles were a little red, as if he had cried.
"It's like this. Xiao Li's sister came to Dubai from China to travel. Unfortunately, she met a bad guy and was... insulted." Tian Fei coughed twice, looked at Li Song, sighed and continued: "After calling the police, the police not only
Instead of arresting the suspect, the victim was arrested, his passport was seized, and he was sentenced for having illegal extramarital sex. He might even be imprisoned in Dubai."
Liu Handong snapped at the crime and stood up: "Damn it, isn't this nonsense? How can you do this in such a retrograde manner!"
Xiao Li said bitterly: "That's right, it is clearly discriminating against us Chinese."
Tian Fei said: "The law here is like this. It is based on Islamic law. I checked the relevant cases and found that a European female tourist encountered the same incident and was also sentenced. However, their embassy is very powerful. Our diplomacy
The organization shrinks when it encounters this kind of thing, so I would like to ask Director Liu to think of a solution."
Looking at their earnest eyes, Liu Handong was a little speechless. He really didn't have any good moves. The International Public Relations Department was very famous. Its members were all carefully selected elites who knew the law and customs. They were fluent in foreign languages and chatted and laughed with local celebrities.
, going to the police station to hunt for people is like searching for something, at least in the eyes of Tian Fei and Li Song, I am not as good as them. At least I have been in the Middle East for a few years, dealt with Arabs, and am familiar with the local area.
human character.
But how could we stand by and watch when our compatriots were in trouble? Liu Handong picked up his travel bag and said, "Let's go to the police station to save people."
What Tian Fei brought was a white Middle Eastern Land Cruiser off-road vehicle. Xiao Li was the company's full-time driver and had good driving skills. He was speeding along the spacious two-way ten-lane expressway in Dubai. It was obvious that he was very worried.
In the prisons of Middle Eastern countries, no one will be at ease.
"Have you tried other methods, such as Chinese-style solutions?" Liu Handong asked.
Tian Fei made it clear, and he said with a wry smile: "Bribery is basically a common method all over the world, but it is not very effective in the Gulf countries. Dubai has a large immigrant population, but the government agencies are all locals, and the indigenous people of Dubai
But someone who is so rich doesn't care about that little bit of gray income at all. If you use money to bribe him, it's an insult to him, and you might even get caught."
"What did the embassy say?" Liu Handong asked.
"The embassy is in Abu Dhabi, so we can't bother them with this matter. Officials always say that you should do as the locals do, respect other people's religious customs, and it's not their business to work together to protect us Chinese." Li Song drove the car angrily.
Unfair way.
Tian Fei hurriedly smoothed things over: "The embassy is mainly responsible for diplomatic matters and cannot take care of it. The Consulate General in Dubai is mainly responsible here. I have gone there several times and the Consulate General has also tried hard to mediate, but with little success.
, what should be done has been done by others, the main thing is to rely on yourself.”
Xiao Li snorted and drove silently. Tian Fei gave Liu Handong an apologetic smile. He couldn't figure out Liu Handong's route, but generally speaking, people from the international public relations department would always have some connections in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Otherwise, how would they handle the affairs of the stationed residents?
In their opinion, Liu Handong is a complex talent with profound knowledge and superb eyes and hands. They rely on him to save the girl.
Liu Handong thought for a while. He was not familiar with the place and his Arabic skills were at a basic level. Going to the police station might not be able to fish him out. He would have to have a diplomat follow him. He asked Xiao Li to drive to the Consulate General.
The Chinese Consulate General in Dubai is a villa located on Umm Al Shif Road in District 2 of Safa. It has signs in Chinese and Arabic, and there are no police on guard. It is not as grand as the foreign embassies in Sanlitun, Beijing.
The consulate officials received them and once again expressed their inability to do anything. Liu Handong communicated righteously and inadvertently revealed his high-level connections. Not only was he a relative of Zheng Jeff, but he was also a close friend of senior military officials.
"Let's do this, you send someone to follow me as a translator, and I will negotiate with them." Liu Handong proposed a compromise plan, and the other party agreed.
The Consulate General sent a translator to follow them to the police station. The police station in Dubai is probably the most luxurious police station in the world. The green and white painted police cars alone are dazzling. The legendary Lamborghini police car is
In front of him, Liu Handong had no time to pay attention to him. He walked into the police station with his head held high. If there were not three Chinese people behind him, his momentum would make people mistake him for a proud prince.
Liu Handong wanted this effect. The police sent a police officer with three stars on his shoulders to receive him, but he ignored him at all. The UAE adopts a British-style police rank. Three stars means a director level. He cannot make a decision or decide the case.
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His arrogance and arrogance angered the police officer, and they threatened to break up. Just when Tian Fei regretted it, Liu Han said suddenly: "Tell him that I am a senior Chinese official and I want to see their director."
The translator was a young man. He pushed up his glasses and asked, "How high-ranking an official is?"
"You can do whatever you want." Liu Handong said, sitting upright with a stern look on his face.
The translator cleared his throat and negotiated with the other party in a business-like manner. Three Stars finally gave up and took them to see another senior police officer. At least one with a separate office. The Arabic writing on the glass Liu Handong reluctantly
I know him, probably a police superintendent or something.
This police superintendent is about fifty years old. He wears a khaki police uniform with a red ribbon under his arm. His epaulettes have crossed Arabian scimitars and an eagle badge. Judging from the British police rank style, he is indeed a senior police officer.
personnel.
When formal negotiations began, Liu Handong did not argue with the other party on Sharia law. He knew it was useless. He just told the other party that if this matter could not be properly resolved, China would discourage tour groups from traveling to Dubai, and you
will bear the consequences.
The police superintendent hesitated and said, "Okay, I can grant bail, but the bail amount is 300,000 dirhams."
Then he leaned back and looked down at Liu Handong like a winner, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.
The dirham is the legal currency of the United Arab Emirates. The fixed exchange rate is 3.65 dirham to one U.S. dollar. Three hundred thousand dirham is equivalent to 81,600 U.S. dollars, and the RMB is half a million.
Xiao Li immediately burst into tears. He was just a small driver. Even if he worked overseas with a generous salary, half a million yuan would still cost him three years' annual salary. Tian Fei couldn't afford that much money either. He licked his lips.
I touched my phone and prepared to ask the company for help.
Liu Handong stood up slowly, his tall body blocking the sunshine of the Middle East. He looked down at the police inspector, glanced at the name tag on his desk, and said: "Your Excellency Mohammed, should I take out three hundred thousand dikes now?"
Erhan, can you take people away?"
The police inspector nodded seriously: "Yes."
Liu Handong stretched out his hand: "My bag."
Xiao Li reacted the fastest and quickly handed over Liu Handong's travel bag. It was an inconspicuous military backpack that could hold many things. In addition to sunglasses, sweat towels, drinking water, and two hundred thousand US dollars in cash, it was.
Liu Handong took out ten wads of U.S. dollars, placed them on the superintendent's desk, stared into his eyes and said, "With the extra money, I will buy the perpetrator's information."
Inspector Mohammed looked at him for a long time. The air was so tense that it was about to explode. Tian Fei was frightened, fearing that the police would also arrest Liu Handong for bribery, which would really mean that the sky would not respond and the earth would not work.
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"I will issue you a receipt." Mohammed said, "As for the information of the persons involved in the crime, you have the right to know it. This does not cost money."
As he spoke, he turned on the computer and operated it. Three pieces of paper came out of the printer, with passport numbers and photos. The three perpetrators were not Emirati, but workers from Jordan, Palestine and other places. These three pieces of paper were all
It was collected by Liu Handong.
Mohammed quietly swept one hundred thousand dollars into the drawer, and he wrote a note to Liu Handong. With this note, he could go to the detention center and pick the person up.
"Thank you for your accommodation." Liu Handong shook hands with the superintendent politely and led the three of them out of the police station.
"Director Liu, you are so awesome!" Tian Fei praised.
"Director Liu, I don't know how to thank you." Li Song was a little at a loss, "I'll pay you back the money as soon as possible. You can't advance this money."
Liu Handong said: "Don't talk about money, it will hurt feelings. Get the person out as soon as possible and send him back to his country. Don't come to a place like this in the future."
Tian Fei said: "Then the bail money is not required?"
"I don't intend to." Liu Handong said.
"But the passport is still in custody at the police station." Xiao Li said.
"Isn't it easy to find a way to get a fake passport?" Liu Handong turned to look at the stunned translator, "What did you just say to them? How big an official am I?"
"I said you were the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs," the translator said, wiping away cold sweat. This customs commissioner from Zhongyan and Huang came from a completely wild background. He paid bribes, bought fake passports, and apparently wanted to retaliate against the perpetrator. There is such a guy living here all the time.
In the Middle East, the diplomatic agencies will wait to clean up his mess from now on.