A figure left the teahouse and entered an ordinary hotel. After making simple arrangements, he entered the room and stayed there for more than two hours until an attendant came in to report.
"The investigation has made it clear what the situation is."
"We have no set up here. The information is all obtained from the market. This company does exist, and its business scale is not small."
Although he believed that Zhu Xuefeng would not lie to him, for the sake of safety, he still asked someone to check Dongsheng Company.
“That means there is nothing wrong with this company. It is engaged in foreign trade transactions.”
“There is indeed nothing wrong with this company. It is now well-known in Xiangjiang and is mainly engaged in foreign trade transactions. The goods include motorcycles, radios, clothing, local specialties, timber, minerals, etc., with a wide variety of goods. In addition, they have been published in newspapers in Xiangjiang. The boss of this company has also cooperated with several consortiums to form an airline. The routes are expected to be It will be put into operation next year."
"Is the Hong Kong government so lenient with them? Can Huaguo people be allowed to come here?"
This news is great. To Heiying's surprise, he really underestimated the Huaguo people. In order to break the blockade, he also contacted many outside companies and opened up many channels. Because he wanted to avoid surveillance and sanctions, the amount was very small and it could not be solved at all. Despite the current difficulties, I never expected that Huaguo people in the same situation could not only buy large quantities of grain openly, but also cooperate with British capitalists to open up new routes.
“There must be something I don’t know about here, Yinghao, do you think we need to arrange manpower here to collect intelligence? I think this can also be a breakthrough for us. If our people want to survive, If the country wants to develop, this place is very important, and I am very curious about this company and where they can get it.”
He was very curious, and he has produced tens of thousands of tons of it. In addition to requesting payment on time, the other party did not raise any questions about bulk grain purchases or ocean freight. This proves that all their business activities are recognized by the Hong Kong government and have considerable energy.
Not everyone can do tens of thousands of tons of ocean freight, at least they can't do it now. Not to mention ocean freighters, even the navy was almost wiped out last time. It has not been relieved at all in these years. A new ship There is no ability to add ships.
“But we don’t have the funds. We have investigated and calculated that to maintain a team of twenty people here, the annual expenditure is about US$30,000.”
Black Shadow It's a headache. He has a sum of funds in his hand, about 1.2 million US dollars, but this is related to his fundamentals. It is the maintenance fund of the escort regiment he is in charge of, and cannot be misappropriated easily.
He was already twenty, and he had to make some achievements to stabilize his position. This was the main reason why he found a new way to come to Xiangjiang. Obtaining hundreds of tons of grain from flowers and fruits was indeed an achievement, but those Not his.
"First arrange for a team of five people to stay and allocate 8,000 US dollars per year to speed up intelligence collection and look for opportunities and directions for cooperation. We must create a breakthrough for us. Later, we will send several economic experts to inspect. We will consider how to operate it based on the situation, so let’s do it for now.”
Heiying thought twice and decisively decided to set up an intelligence team. If the Huaguo people can do it, he has no reason not to try it.
The shadow returned to the room again after a long time before walking out of the room. He looked at his manuscript again and handed it to his entourage.
"Yinghao, ask them to send this back quickly, and arrange for double duty tonight. No matter what time, report the news to me immediately."
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Jiang Yang In an office in the city, a middle-aged man looked at the emergency telegram he had just received. He habitually took out his pipe and took out a Cuban cigar...
The office was very quiet and it was completely dark. The man stood up and glanced at the stars that had quietly appeared outside the window. He had been weighing this for a long time.
"This idea is very interesting. I didn't expect that if the east is not bright and the west is bright, so many channels can't do anything, he can actually find a new breakthrough."
Put down the pipe and quickly draft a file and pressed the pager on the table.
"Here comes someone...".
The guards from the escort brigade appeared quickly outside. Ever since the big cleanup six years ago, he had always had a escort brigade around him. This was one of the reasons why he arranged a escort group for his son.
"Send this back quickly and inform Comrade Li Minghao to come see me immediately..."
…
"Okay, my family has agreed to my suggestion and I have full authority to entrust you with it. I started this negotiation and gave you strong support, which is great."
After reading the telegram, Heiying stood up excitedly and said, "Comrade Cui Yinghao, I order you now to wait until daybreak. Contact Miss Wu immediately, no no no! Wait!”
“It’s okay tonight, let’s go and get some rest. Let’s talk tomorrow.”
It is true that he was a little too excited. Heiying secretly reminded himself that the burden he shouldered was very heavy and he had to remain steady and wise. The impulsiveness of young people was not suitable for him. This was a negotiation involving tens of millions of people. He could not be impulsive. Change it to Hong Kong dollars. , the total amount can reach several hundred million.
Zhu Xuefeng, who had just completed a transaction of several hundred million yuan, had calmed down. The two cleaned themselves up and lay together again.
"Husband, if they come to your door again, I will really have to deal with it by myself."
"Of course, you are the person in charge of the trading company, and I am here to investigate. Student, it would be unreasonable for me to get involved in such a big business like yours.”
“Husband, you are such a person, you always like to hide behind and do bad things.”
Besides. The beauty's fragrance made his heart flutter again. Zhu Xuefeng turned Wu Qianqian over, hugged her from behind, and said with a wicked smile.
"Is that so? You don't like it!"
Wu Qianqian was so frightened that she couldn't help but beg for mercy, "I can't help it anymore, let's talk about business..."
"In On the bed, let’s get down to business...”
For a long time, the two of them hugged each other casually in peace again. Wu Qianqian no longer had the energy to ask about the subsequent arrangements, but Zhu Xuefeng was still in high spirits, but could do nothing but lightly Hug lightly.
"He will definitely come to you. Don't have any baggage. Just do it as an ordinary business. Do whatever you want. Being able to buy them food is a big help to them. So the money you should earn is legitimate. This family should There are still many gold and silver mines. From the tone of his words, he should be a little reluctant to give up. There is no need to force him."
"I understand, my husband is eyeing their gold mines."
< br>"I can't hide anything from you. It's not a good thing for a woman to be too smart."
"Then you can make me dumber. People say that a woman will become dumb as soon as she gets pregnant. It doesn't mean that she will become stupid once she becomes pregnant. "You have to be stupid for three years after giving birth to a child."
Yes, Wu Qianqian is not young anymore, two years older than Zhu Xuefeng. People at this time get married early, and most people of Wu Qianqian's age do so. My child, in the past few years, Wu Qianqian only wanted to climb higher at HSBC and did not consider personal matters. In the past two years, she has been following her, and there is no hope.
“Want to have a child?”
The man leaned down, looked into each other’s eyes, and asked gently.
"Husband, don't look at me like this. I just said casually, the company is so busy now and there is no one to replace it. I don't dare to have a child. I won't have time to accompany her and it will delay the child. "Growth." Although Wu Qianqian denies it, she has even considered the growth of her children. It is absolutely impossible to say that she has never thought about this issue, but now is indeed not the time. Wu Qianqian can realize that Zhu Xuefeng can only feel her own. Women are sensible.
“Husband, let’s not interrupt and let’s talk about business.”
"Well, you tell me, I'll listen." Zhu Xuefeng felt a pity in his heart. He supported his head with one hand and leaned over to caress Wu Qianqian's hair. Wu Qianqian felt the man's love and affection, and was a little emotional, but she still tried to keep it. wide awake.
“Husband, I’m not worried about those specialties. Korean ginseng is particularly recognized by the Fuso people, and those gems are also particularly favored by Europeans. There is also the caviar. There is no problem with these, but if he takes other I'm not happy about the mining.
Zhu Xuefeng seems a little out of sorts, and seems a little surprised. "Why are you not happy? Isn't it all about making money? "
"The price of minerals is low, and it also takes up a lot of transportation capacity. Now that the shipyard is not available, we have no fleet of our own. It is very tight to rely solely on Chen Dong's fleet, and you don't agree with entrusting it to others. "
Of course you can't entrust this kind of thing to others. The cargo ship has to be delivered to the other party's port, and it must be done by reliable people.
"Think about it, if it goes as you said, what if we If we can take over the steel plant, isn't it because the ore has found a ready user? There it needs to be transported and sold. Now there will be no problem. "
Wu Qianqian moved in the man's arms and found a more comfortable position to lean against.
"Husband, did you think of this earlier? "
"How is it possible? I knew I would meet him, and I knew he wanted to sell the ore. In fact, they also have a steel plant. You can ask them to rough-process it and then transport it. This is easier and more concealed. , come back only for finishing. "
"Well, that's good. After much thought, there are indeed some problems with the transportation capacity. We can't stop pumping food into the country. ”
Zhu Xuefeng slapped his butt angrily, "Then you don't have to ask. If we help him delay our own business, isn't that just sacrificing the good to the last."
"I'm not stupid, I'm just asking."
Wu Qianqian closed her eyes, turned over, and found a comfortable position to continue snuggling, "But there may be a real problem with the transportation capacity. If you hadn't agreed, I wouldn't have wanted to take over this business from him. In grain trading, middlemen make too much money. Young master, besides, there is no way to sell ore for the autonomous region. This thing takes up transportation capacity and makes no money. When Chen Dong and others go to dig up bird droppings, they will definitely take away several ships. Our own fleet is now in ruins. There will definitely not be enough big ships at that time, and transporting food to him will delay our own earning.”
Also, now we have to ship goods to Fuso, North America, and Europe every month, and they are all big ships. In order to avoid running empty, it is just right. He had to transport a lot of food back from the country. If he had to do this for him, all the cargo ships coming and going would have to squeeze out of the ship to transport goods for them. Chen Dong's fleet must be tight, and he doesn't have many big ships.
“Didn’t I say that they have their own smelting plant? Let them directly turn it into steel or iron billet and then transport it. Forget about the raw materials. It does take up too much transportation capacity and increases the cost. We will find it in a few days. Ask the Hong Kong government for another piece of land, or buy the current Xiangjiang Steel Plant directly. This should save a lot of transportation capacity without having to transport ore. "
"I think there is hope in buying a steel plant. In the past. Because they have demand for shipyards, the list of steel plants is okay. Without these demands in recent years, they live on the current demand for real estate. We can talk about it, but forget about asking the Hong Kong government to get the land. We got two The land has been only used for greening but not for development, and the Hong Kong government is keeping an eye on it.”
Ignoring the attitude of the Hong Kong government, and there is no legal provision that prohibits covering the land, I just keep staring. Everyone is like this, and there are some. A real estate company took the land and was anxious to get started.
"Don't worry about him, go and try it. It seems that it will be a matter of time to build a steel plant. If it is built, the autonomous region will also refine the iron embryos and send them over. It will save trouble. There will be no need for minerals in the future. It would be good to sell it to Fuso.”
In the past, the autonomous region had no smelting plants and could only sell minerals. Although Zhu Xuefeng requested that mineral exports be restricted, a lot of iron ore was still sold in order to have funds to develop the autonomous region. Now, Of course, once you have a smelter, you won’t be able to sell it anymore.
“If you send a telegram there, the wood in the future will also have to be processed into cubes and then sold. This will reduce the transportation capacity and also sell at a higher price. Now the lumber factory over there can complete the wood processing.”
"Well, I mentioned it to them last time. Selling trees is a big loss."
Fuso now imports a large amount of wood and keeps its own trees uncut. The autonomous region cannot compare. If it wants to develop, it can only rely on export resources in the early stage. to subsidize.
"Husband, you said they are so short of food. Can the autonomous region hire them to work with food? I heard that there is a serious shortage of labor for road construction there."
Zhu Xuefeng clapped his hands in excitement. Bai Huahua’s butt said, “Yes, you are such a considerate little cotton-padded jacket. This is a good idea. If there are ten or twenty thousand people to help build the road, I think Li Jun and the others can advance their Western Expedition a lot earlier. This is a good idea, Qianqian. , tell me what reward you want.”
Wu Qianqian closed her eyes in fear, “Husband, just reward me with a good sleep. Maybe someone will come to your door tomorrow, and you don’t want your own woman. Go see people listlessly, and you will lose face."
"Little goblin, I won't bother you, I just think that the current food output of the autonomous region will not be enough to support millions of people. If we can bear it, we have to let Song Yan and the others think of a way to bring some people over."
I don't know how the last arrangement went. This kind of remote control does not have the real-time communication method of later generations. It's really troublesome.
There are unrest and demonstrations in the south, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the autonomous region. There are also a large number of overseas Chinese in the south, more than the total number in the north. It is said that there are millions of overseas Chinese, and they occupy businesses and banks. , and a large number of factories and export industries, with great wealth. If these people can move here, the development of the autonomous region will definitely accelerate greatly.
The autonomous region is now seriously short of population, and we don’t have to worry about being able to feed them. After laying down Jiesha, we have acquired numerous sites that are suitable for being developed into fertile farmland. However, the labor force is insufficient. There is not much else in the autonomous region, but there are many mountains and minerals. There are many trees, land, and food, but the population is relatively small. ”
I have an immigration plan, and Zheng Xun is now implementing it, but it will still take three years, which is too long. There have been some achievements in diverting immigrants from the country, including those who took the initiative to stay and continue construction, which is about close to One thousand people, but for the current huge labor gap, one thousand people is still too few, and many of these one thousand people will go back after the construction is completed
If the south develops according to history, great changes will occur in a few years. These overseas Chinese who moved there early will lose their wealth and freedom and become second-class citizens.
This group of people is quite large, close to one million. Unfortunately, there is no way to attract them now. There is no shortage of talents of all kinds.
There is a long way to go! Zhu Xuefeng sighed, many things cannot be done openly now, "Qianqian, when you negotiate with them, you can do this..."
At noon, Wu Qianqian received a call, and the other party said that she wanted to negotiate with Dongsheng Company in detail. Talk about cooperation.
Zhu Xuefeng stayed alone in Repulse Bay, boringly perfecting the drawings. The drawings were not complicated, they were all mechanical and electrical things. This was originally prepared for shipyards and docks to improve loading and unloading efficiency. Taking off and landing equipment is not difficult, and the boxy ones are containers. Current shipping has not yet introduced containers. No one knows that the emergence of containers is an important milestone in changing shipping.
Zhu Xuefeng knows that now all shipping from North America is done by bulk carriers, and the transportation cost is extremely high. The cost of shipping one cubic meter of goods is about thirty to fifty dollars, but with the availability of containers, it can Turning into box-type shipping in later generations, the cost can be reduced to one-seventh, yes, that is, five to seven US dollars. This is Zhu Xuefeng's ultimate trump card when he acquires shipyards and wants to develop ocean shipping.
With containers and loading and unloading equipment, loading and unloading efficiency can be improved countless times, avoiding the waste of idle time. You must know that the waiting time between loading and unloading is sometimes longer than the shipping time.
Take a one-way shipment to North America as an example. The sailing time is affected by the climate. A sea voyage usually takes 14 to 16 days. It can usually take more than 50 days from loading to returning after unloading. There are many The more than 30 days it takes to come out are the biggest bottleneck restricting shipping costs.
With containers and supporting loading and unloading equipment, all this can be easily solved. At the same time, others can make one trip, while Dongsheng can make two and a half trips. No other shipping company can match this kind of profitability.
As for Xiangjiang's current loading and unloading capacity, despite the Wharf Terminal boasting that it can unload a 10,000-ton cargo ship in three days, the waiting time in line is usually seven to ten days, sometimes longer.
But even so, there are no large cargo ships to unload at the other two docks. It is not convenient for the increasingly large ships to dock. This is a flaw of the two docks. They have not kept up with the development of the times and have not updated and built suitable deep-water docks in time. reason for the berth.
The emergence of containers can also avoid various accidental losses during transportation, avoid commodity collisions and losses, and reduce seawater pollution of commodities. These are important factors that drive up the cost of ocean shipping. With compliance The space utilization rate of freighters and containers can also be greatly improved, and shipping costs can be reduced to a level that outsiders cannot imagine.
Originally, the negotiations failed, and these drawings should not be used for the time being, but Comrade Yuri's proposal to exchange iron ore for food aroused Zhu Xuefeng's interest, including loading and unloading equipment, various cranes, etc. , you can slowly produce this yourself.
(End of this chapter)