Fully understanding how seriously Huo Yanping attached importance to this matter, Ning Weimin did not dare to waste time at all.
Early in the morning the next day, before eight o'clock, he called Japan.
This is because the time in Tokyo is one hour ahead of the capital. Ning Weimin knew that before nine o'clock in the morning, President Beimao of Hanwa Industrial would be sitting at his desk, talking to the people in his financial department. Ten elites study and discuss strategies to deal with today's foreign exchange market.
As expected, as a major shareholder, he found Beimao in the financial management department of Hanwa Industrial as scheduled, and successfully got everything he wanted from Beimao.
Speaking of which, this is actually a blessing from Japan’s bubble economy.
Because now Kitashiro operates more than 100 billion yen in the international foreign exchange market in the name of Hanwa Kogyo every day.
His huge bets have made him the leader in the international foreign exchange market, almost as much as the Swiss Bank.
UBS is known as the "little devil of Zurich", and its Hanwa Kogyo is called the "little devil of Japan."
In fact, even though Hanwa Kogyo is a steel manufacturing company, it has With thousands of employees, its financial management department has only ten employees.
But under the leadership of Beimao, since the Plaza Accord, the returns from financial management have become higher and higher.
Nowadays, these few people have created profits several times that of the main business department, causing Satoshi Sumita, the current president of the Bank of Japan, to praise them full of praise.
Even in front of other larger steel companies, they will say without hesitation, "Hanwa Kogyo is a great company! It is the pride of the Japanese steel industry."
So here In this situation of abnormal imbalance between financial income and main business income, President Beimao has become completely obsessed with his success in the foreign exchange market.
As for the main business of steel manufacturing and steel wholesale, he is basically not interested anymore.
So Ning Weimin asked him about the inside story of the Japanese steel industry, and he answered all questions without reservation.
However, he obviously didn't have much interest in talking about these things, so after chatting for a while, he simply called his subordinate Shunzo Terada, who was responsible for steel sales at Hanwa Kogyo.
Ask Qi to contact Ning Weimin and ask him to provide all the information Ning Weimin needs.
Then he was polite to Ning Weimin on the phone and said that he had a chance to go to Ginza for a drink, so he handed the phone to Shunzo Terada and left.
To be honest, the attitude of this president of Beimao is completely worthy of awarding him a banner of "Children are not deceived".
Because of his words, Shunzo Terada, a subordinate, could no longer do anything about the relevant information for the benefit of the company, or even had reservations.
As a result, Ning Weimin not only fully understood all the relevant situations he wanted to know from his mouth, but also obtained the internal information of Hanwa Industrial, and these situations turned out to be more optimistic than he imagined.
In Japan, the domestic scrap steel supply has been stagnant, and now Japanese steel companies are worried about their increasing iron scraps.
Although Japan has been plagued by an "absolute shortage" of scrap iron for a period of time before and after the war, Japan, like us, regards scrap metal recycling as a very important measure for the national economy.
At that time, the iron filings from Japanese steel plants were regarded as good things and would not be leaked out at all.
The government has even promulgated special metal recycling regulations and established scrap steel storage institutions to cope with the shortage of production materials.
But with the rapid recovery of the post-war economy and the support of American fathers in international trade, everything was different.
Japanese steel companies have gradually begun to import high-quality iron ore from the international market.
With the increasing reduction of scrap steel resources, electric furnace steelmaking has since entered a stage of rapid development, gradually replacing open-hearth steelmaking as the mainstream of Japanese steel manufacturing companies, making Japan the forging of high-quality special steel Big country.
Especially after 1985, the Plaza Accord led to the appreciation of the soft yen, and the domestic scrap supply and demand situation in Japan underwent decisive changes.
Because of the high cost of labor, Japan has begun to increasingly dislike the secondary use of scrap steel, which requires a lot of labor costs to select, classify, and even purify.
In the current situation in Japan, reusing scrap steel as a means of production will only cause serious losses.
As a result, in recent years, not only the domestic scrap steel prices in Japan have been falling, but also the Japanese steel manufacturing companies themselves have gradually accumulated iron scraps and scraps caused by production and cannot sell them. They have to find ways to store them themselves, which is also very difficult. Headache.
As a medium-sized steel manufacturing company, Hanwa Kogyo has accumulated no less than 500 tons of iron filings and scraps.
In fact, at present, all Japanese steel manufacturing companies have a sense of crisis about the surplus of iron scraps.
Especially the steel companies in the Kanto region of Japan have taken the lead and are eager to go out and try to find overseas sales channels
Therefore, Shunzo Terada asked Ning Weimin about the price of iron filings and scrap iron, expressed his intention to buy, and acted quite positively.
He was directly given a base price of 1,200 yen per ton, which is equivalent to ten US dollars per ton.
There is no doubt that the other party is not seeking to make money, but only wants to empty the warehouse and save storage and transportation costs.
At this price, compared to twenty dollars per ton of iron ore, it is quite cheap.
So when Ning Weimin fed back relevant opinions to Huo Yanping, Huo Yanping was quite surprised. He immediately held relevant meetings with relevant personnel from the Ministry of Trade and experts from the industrial sector.
After three days of discussion and demonstration, all three parties agreed that this was a direction worth trying.
Because scrap steel is the only energy-carrying green resource in the steel industry that can replace iron ore for steelmaking, although it also has many shortcomings.
For example, scrap steel comes from used metal products. Its composition may not only contain various alloying elements and impurities, but there may also be defects such as cracks and pores inside.
These will affect the properties of steel during the steelmaking process, thereby affecting the quality of steel.
Secondly, the uncertain pollutants that may exist in scrap steel may cause potential pollution risks to the environment if not properly pretreated.
But the benefits are also obvious.
In addition to being cheap, the most important thing is energy saving and environmental protection.
After expert verification, using scrap steel to produce one ton of steel can reduce the consumption of 1.3 tons of iron ore, reduce the consumption of 350 kilograms of standard coal, and reduce the consumption of one ton of steel. Emissions of 1.6 tons of carbon dioxide and 4.3 tons of solid waste.
If you buy these 500 tons of iron filings at a price of ten US dollars per ton to produce steel, and calculate it based on the extremely low labor cost in China, even if it is based on the domestic national price of 700 yuan per ton. Look, even if you exclude tariffs and transportation costs, you will have at least twice the profit, which is perfect.
If calculated based on the market price of 1,200 yuan per ton, it would be five times the profit.
This is not a small savings. Whichever steel factory you give it to, everyone will be crazy about it. This really echoes Ning Weimin's words, others' drag is their treasure here.
The key is that Hanwa Kogyo is just a medium-sized steel plant in Japan, with so much raw material backlog.
If there are hundreds of steel plants in Japan, large and small, if this is the case, how much would the iron scraps and scrap steel be added together?
If I could buy a few thousand tons or tens of thousands of tons, it would really be of some use.
Even if these scrap steel and scrap iron cannot produce high-quality special steel, they can forge some ordinary steel.
It is always better to ensure that a few southern steel mills resume production first to meet some basic market demands than to have nothing at all.
Especially when the yen has appreciated sharply in recent years, how do the foreign trade departments know that the yen has basically appreciated and are very worried about taking on unexpected exchange rate risks.
Only by implementing this matter as soon as possible can they feel at ease. Otherwise, if there is a fluctuation, they will not know how many more dollars they will have to pay.
So this time, the relevant departments were sincere and unified, showing a high efficiency that is rare in the system. In just one week, they set the direction and goals, established a special trade group, and prepared for negotiations. Information and related contracts.
We even ordered suits and suitcases for the negotiation team.
The entire team members are all looking forward to going to Japan as soon as possible to conduct business inspections on this matter. They are all looking forward to signing a scrap steel trading contract with Hanwa Industrial as soon as possible and completing the tasks assigned by the leadership.
However, when the list of people going abroad was handed over to Huo Yanping, he wanted to add an additional person from outside the system, that is Ning Weimin.
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In his opinion, Ning Weimin took the lead in this matter.
He already has a certain foundation in Japan. Not only does he have friendship with Hanwa Kogyo, but he also has a certain understanding of the Japanese mentality and relevant laws.
The key is that this guy is so shrewd and good at doing business.
Having him participate in this matter will undoubtedly get twice the result with half the effort, and the final victory will be more guaranteed.
So for this reason, he made an unobtrusive phone call to find Ning Weimin at his home and held a mobilization meeting for him.
It’s just that he didn’t expect that what he thought was almost certain that Ning Weimin would definitely agree would be rejected in person.
"You don't want to go? Why?"
I couldn't help being surprised at first, and then asked Huo Yanping, "You don't care about feathers so much, do you? Are you still worried about whose contribution you will take away if you go? No?"
This was the only reason he could think of, so he persuaded with a smile, "It's not necessary if you are not a member of the system. No matter how great your achievements are, you can't take away from others. Opportunity, can't stop it You won't be envied if you follow someone else's path. I remember your achievements in my heart, which is totally different from your failure. Besides, it's not your turn to take responsibility. Then what are you worried about?”
“And I would like to remind you that this is a joint team composed of the backbones of the three ministries and commissions, and it is a groundbreaking event in foreign trade. Do you have to say that you have good qualifications? You are young and an extrovert, so you should cherish this opportunity and tap into your strengths in this area. Don’t miss out on such a good learning opportunity. I don’t need to explain it to you right now. Pack your things and prepare to go to Japan with the group. "
"Don't be complacent and just focus on the small results in front of you. I know you will make money and run several overseas restaurants very well. Okay, but is this all about your future? Reform and opening up complement each other. Now that the policy has been made clear, in addition to going abroad first, you should understand the other meanings above and design a longer-term path for yourself. What you lack most is vision and insight. You should do more far-sighted things. Don't always focus on the things you already have in your hands. That's useless..."
Needless to say, Huo Yanping had good intentions in trying to force Ning Weimin into this matter.
Because as long as Ning Weimin participates and shows his role, even if it is just a follower and auxiliary role, he will be remembered by these group members.
The key backbones of the three departments are all people with unlimited future prospects. This kind of incense will be of great benefit to Ning Weimin's future development.
Huo Yanping now knows better than anyone the importance of accumulating connections. From the perspective of supporting future generations, he can only do this if he has a biological son.
Of course Ning Weimin is not stupid, nor is he a ungrateful person.
So he quickly denied it, "Boss, you misunderstood. You support me so much and think about my future. It's too late for me to thank you."
But he also has his reasons, even though he thanked you in person right away, But I'm afraid I still have to live up to Huo Yanping's wishes.
"I just have to tell you something. I actually have something else to do with Hanwa Kogyo. I am a shareholder of this company. As you know, the Japanese stock market has been rising in recent years. So I also bought some stocks. Then I have to avoid suspicion. If I want to participate, it will become a related transaction. I am afraid that if other shareholders of Hanwa Kogye know about it, there may be something wrong. I will be dissatisfied with the low price of this transaction. Even in our country, if someone knows about this, I am afraid that my purpose in promoting this is to make it easier for people to get involved and seek personal gain from it.”
This reason was something Huo Yanping never expected. Besides falling silent immediately, he couldn't help but look at Ning Weimin with a mixture of strangeness, suspicion and surprise.
After a long time, Huo Yanping withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, but he couldn't help but ask, "If this matter is true, then it would be understandable for you to stay out of it. But Hanwa Kogye is not a medium-sized steel man. Factory? Even if you personally participate in stock investment, your share will not be too large, right? Will your participation in this matter really have such a serious impact?”
"Leader, you don't know something. In fact, not only myself, but also my wife, we are all shareholders of this company. In fact, our joint shareholding ratio has exceeded the 5% public disclosure line, so this matter If I were involved, Hanhe Industrial would have to make an announcement to shareholders in accordance with regulatory requirements. Otherwise, there would be setbacks. "
Huo Yanping was completely speechless this time, and it took a moment to slowly spit it out from his chest. Come in one breath.
He then revealed a smile that was hard to describe.
“You always surprise me. Five percent. This is five percent of a medium-sized steel factory! So, you have only been out for two years and you already have tens of millions. Are you a rich man? If converted into RMB, these shares should be worth tens of millions, right?"
Ning Weimin smiled guiltily and nodded somewhat awkwardly.
"It's not all mine, it's mine and Qingzi's"
Actually, it's more than that. To be honest, Ning Weimin just used his wife as a cover.
In fact, he personally holds more than 7% of Hanwa Industrial shares.
Based on Hanwa Kogyo's current market value of about 600 billion, his shares are worth more than 40 billion yen, which is more than 300 million US dollars.
Even with the leverage funds raised from securities companies, the shares he actually owns are worth US$200 million.
If Huo Yanping knew this, he would definitely be frightened.
But then again, Ning Weimin does know how to behave.
Although he had to stay out of the matter because he needed to avoid suspicion, he would never shirk anything he could do.
"Of course, don't worry, although I can't directly participate in it, I will do my best to help with this project. After all, it is to contribute to the country, and it is our duty to do so. You know, Japan's Tangu also has our special department Comrade, please tell me when our domestic comrades responsible for inspection and negotiation will come over. I will definitely arrange people and vehicles to coordinate with them. I will cover all your food, clothing, housing and transportation in Japan. Moreover, you don’t have to worry about your contacts with Hanwa Kogyo and even the Japan Iron Source Association. I guarantee that everything will be properly arranged for you. That’s right. These comrades must make their trip worthwhile and complete their mission.”
In just a few words, Ning Weimin cleared away the suspicion that he was afraid of difficulties.
He is generous and loyal.
Even Huo Yanping can't ask for more from him. (End of this chapter)