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Text Chapter 582 Big Shot¡¯s Business

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    The spring breeze is warm by the West Lake, and the willow branches are floating with new teeth and green.  ([] )

    During this period of time, there have been many happy events in the Republic of China. First, the Ministry of Finance released the latest economic data.  By the end of last year, the country's GDP exceeded 120 billion, reaching 121 billion, which is equivalent to 60.5 billion U.S. dollars (88 billion in the United States during the same period)!  It has maintained an annual growth rate of 7% despite major natural disasters for three consecutive years.  The country's total industrial output value has also increased by 15% for three consecutive years, approaching 16 billion yuan, and its proportion of the world's industry has increased from 5% in 20 years to 6%.  Steel output exceeded 4.5 million tons (self-produced), crude oil 700,000 tons, rubber 450,000 tons, cement 15 million tons, fertilizer 2 million tons The fastest growing is coal, from 10 million tons three years ago  tons has soared to 67 million tons now.  In addition to power generation, communications, etc., which have long investment cycles, many projects in the second five-year plan are close to expectations, and optimistic estimates are that they will be completed half a year ahead of schedule.

    Secondly, the manufacturing industry is developing towards the private sector. Last year alone, 2 private steel mills and 11 private tractor and automobile factories opened nationwide.  Light industry exploded again after surviving the post-European downturn. Industries such as soap, matches, cotton spinning, garments, and silk reeling grew rapidly. Private capital accounted for more than 70% of the country's total light industry.

    At first, everyone was still worried, because industrial development is closely related to purchasing power, and they were afraid that the goods would not be sold after they were manufactured.  But it turns out that the country is still in a seller's market. The land problem has been alleviated after the Chengcheng Act. The land value-added tax has allowed a large amount of land to be sold and converted into circulating currency. In addition, after the silver crisis, the ability of gold and silver to be abolished as currency has been eliminated. Long-term peace is foreseeable  The period has encouraged investors and citizens to dare to consume. The current situation is even similar to that in the early years of reform and opening up in a parallel world, where the national demand for goods is several times greater than the manufacturing capacity.  Taking the walking tractor as an example, after a year of nationwide demonstrations and farmers' association leasing and other promotion activities.  There are 350,000 immigrant families in the Northeast alone who have the idea of ??buying a walking tractor.  However, the factory can only produce 50,000 units per year. Even if the automated cylinder production line is put into operation, it is far from keeping up with demand.

    But there are many shortcomings. The biggest problem is that the proportion of high value-added industrial products is still very low.  It is less than one-fifteenth of that in Europe and America.

    Overseas, Gulf Oil Company¡¯s Sumatra oil field has entered the track of construction, and the wave of Nanyang Chinese buying national bonds or returning to the country for investment continues.  Even Bei Zuyi sent back the news.  During the franc crisis that broke out in February, SDIC made its first move to short the franc. After making profits, it took advantage of the opportunity when Morgan and the French government started negotiating to go long. In just three months, it made a huge profit of US$200 million!  Although this incident aroused protests from the Jewish group and expressed dissatisfaction with Yang Qiu's robbery through Jacob, because they planned to follow behind to make some money and did not touch the core monetary rights interests, the Jewish chaebols  In the end, they had no choice but to let it go.

    Precisely because of the initial results of the reforms in the past ten years, the industry has fully blossomed overseas and domestically.  Coupled with the huge population and market, a visit from US Secretary of Commerce Hoover became inevitable.

    Yang Qiu hosted the guests at the West Lake Hotel, with the beautiful West Lake outside the window.  Hoover was a businessman with an almost paranoid passion for mining.  Therefore, in the early years, most of China's activities were in Tianjin, Guangzhou and other places.  This time I was attracted by the beautiful scenery of West Lake for the first time, and praised: "Thank God. This place is so beautiful. I really hope to live here all my life."

    "It's a great idea, but President Coolidge will probably have a headache because he can't find another Secretary of Commerce as good and capable as you."

    "Ha ha"

    The witty words made the meeting full of laughter from the beginning. Hoover also took the opportunity to explain his purpose of coming. He hoped that Yang Qiu would help him go to Kazakhstan and other Central Asian regions to check the famine situation in the Soviet Union. He also hoped to further deepen the business cooperation between the two countries, and hoped to bring the northwest  Certain investment projects are open to the United States to promote business exchanges between the two countries.

    Both China and the United States are in the good post-war era, and the economies of both countries are growing at a rapid pace.  The situation in China is that the market is large but the output is small, so there is enough room for development.  The United States has a large manufacturing industry but a small market. It was unable to get a share of the European and British and French colonial markets that it had been hoping to get when it entered the war, so it had to take the opportunity to rebuild the Soviet Union. Japan is also a traditional dumping ground for American manufacturing.  On the contrary, China had previously brought some difficulties to the entry of U.S. goods due to its rapid growth and the fact that imported goods no longer had a price advantage after tariff independence.

    Entering Central Asia is a sensitive topic. Soviet Russia has strict restrictions on the Karaganda iron mines, not to mention protecting US government ministers from entering the region.  But thinking that Hoover would become the president of the United States in a few years, and if he wanted to take advantage of the economic crisis in the United States, he would have to rely on his help, so Yang Qiuxiang agreed and said, "Mr. Hoover, I can order the military to protect him."  You are going to Karaganda. In addition, I would also like to thank you for your concern for the northwest region of our country. I am very willing to open up the northwest region for investment by your country, but this matter requires the approval of the Congress and the Presidential Palace. Of course, our country also hopes to open up the northwest region to your country for investment.  More rubber production in Luzon region?Mining investment.  "

    Yang Qiu¡¯s promise to protect the trip to Karaganda made Hoover very happy, which meant that the core area of ??inland Asia would be open to the United States, but exchanging Luzon for the northwest made him not very satisfied.  As China's influence grows and the status of the Nanyang Chinese improves, opening up Luzon to China for more investment will inevitably affect the local political structure, so this matter needs to be very cautious.  However, Hoover himself was very willing to promote the idea of ????exchanging the Northwest for Luzon, because he felt that the United States' position in Luzon was unshakable, and unless China sent troops, it would be impossible to break the United States' long-term control of Luzon.

    Yang Qiu will not miss this opportunity in vain. On the grounds of insufficient construction, he requires the United States to increase the annual export of 200 tons of scrap steel to 3 million tons, increase the proportion of high-melting point steel, and purchase two sets of electrolysis plants with an annual output of 50,000 tons.  Aluminum equipment, and also focusing on the introduction of electronic product manufacturing technology.

    Hoover frowned inadvertently.

    Increasing the purchase of scrap steel shows that Yang Qiu continues to suppress Japan, but he is very confused about electrolytic aluminum.  Because electrolytic aluminum is not a new technology, large-scale industrial aluminum smelting equipment is far less complex than steel plants. From a technical point of view, the Republic of China has the ability to manufacture a complete set of aluminum smelting equipment. It is probably because the industrial manufacturing speed cannot match the demand that it is forced to purchase from the United States.

    The question is, why does Yang Qiu need so much soft aluminum?  100,000 tons per year, this is a huge output!  You must know that the world's largest electrolytic aluminum production is currently in the United States, and the annual output of Alcoa, controlled by the Mellon Consortium, is only about 80,000 tons.  The UK only has 20,000 tons.  Germany has about 30,000 tons.  France has less than 5,000 tons.  Isn't it a joke that a country with a serious shortage of electric energy wants to increase its annual output of electrolytic aluminum to 100,000 tons?

    But in Yang Qiu¡¯s view, this number is inconspicuous.  Not to mention the astronomical output in later generations.  Once a breakthrough is made in aviation engines alone, the amount of aluminum used in aviation will surely increase exponentially.  At present, the annual domestic output of electrolytic aluminum is less than 3,000 tons, seriously lagging behind actual demand.  What's more, China is an "iron-poor" country.  Aluminum is very important as an irreplaceable complementary metal.  As for electricity, he is not worried anymore, because he has decided to build two large-scale hydropower projects and a thermal power plant in Beihai Province, which is rich in bauxite, coal and water resources. It can not only support the electricity consumption of several northwestern provinces, but also use the excess  There is no problem at all with an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons, and Guangxi, another electrolytic aluminum base, has abundant water power, so it is not too much of a problem.

    As for civilian electricityit is not unacceptable to popularize it in a few years.

    Before they finished visiting West Lake, the two quickly reached an agreement.  Yang Qiu promised to open more opportunities to the United States and escorted Hoover to Karaganda to check on the Soviet Union's disaster relief situation.  Hoover promised to sell two sets of 50,000-ton electrolytic aluminum equipment to China, and also won large turbine contracts for three hydropower plants.  At the same time, it promised to increase the amount of scrap steel exports to China, but did not immediately respond to the final plan to exchange the northwest to Luzon market because this matter was too important.  He needed to report to President Coolidge.

    In general.  China and the United States, which are in the honeymoon period, have strong complementary capabilities, so everyone had a great time talking about business negotiations.  After returning to the hotel.  The exquisite Suzhou and Hangzhou delicacies made Hoover happy again. Looking at him, Yang Qiu slowly put down his chopsticks and raised his eyebrows unnoticed: "Mr. Hoover, I heard that you have rich experience in mining. I wonder if you would personally consider it.  What about investing?¡±

    Hoover did have an unusual passion for the mining industry, because he made his fortune in the mining industry in his early years.  However, he now has a special status. As a U.S. government minister, continuing to do business will bring many disadvantages to his career. He regretted: "Yes, I am very interested, but as a U.S. government worker, I think"  "

    Hearing that Hoover was about to refuse, Yang Qiu immediately interrupted: "It's a big deal with a total value that may exceed US$700 million!"

    "Ahem" Hoover almost choked after stuffing a shrimp ball into his mouth, and looked at Yang Qiu with wide eyes in disbelief.  A $700 million contract?  God, has China discovered a second Sumatra oil field?  If it's that big, all the risks are worth it.

    "It's not oil, it's manganese ore. It's a world-scale manganese mine. Because of its special location, I need a partner." Yang Qiu downplayed it, deliberately not naming the location.

    Thinking that just now Yang Qiu wanted to exchange Northwest for Luzon, and now he needs a "partner", Hoover couldn't help but secretly scratch his head, it couldn't be Luzon, right?  It would be difficult to deal with it in Luzon. After all, manganese ore is a high-value mineral deposit, and world-class manganese ore is enough to trigger a war.  Moreover, after the Sumatra oil field, all countries have stricter controls in this place, and the United States will not allow such a large manganese mine to be controlled by China.  So he asked: "Your Excellency, Vice President, if it is Luzon or Nanyang, please forgive me that I can't do anything."

    "Of course not Luzon. It was discovered by a company under my private name, in Australia."

    Hoover moved his mouth and finally understood why Yang Qiu wanted to "cooperate""Partner". Although Australia has become independent, it is actually still controlled by the British. If you want to go there to mine such valuable mineral deposits, you cannot go around the British government. But if you join forces with him, facing the background of the Chinese and American governments,  I'm afraid Downing Street has to turn a blind eye.

    Seeing Hoover's bright eyes, Yang Qiu knew that he was moved, and smiled: "You don't need to come forward in person, as long as you help me obtain the mining license and reduce interference, I can give you 30% of the shares. Of course.  , if you need money in the future, you can also sell the shares to me for cash What do you think?"

    ¡°As long as you use your words to help obtain the mining license, you can get 200 million U.S. dollars in shares.  Especially the latter one, it is even more exciting to be able to sell the shares to Yang Qiu for cash if necessary!  You know, Hoover didn't want to be the Secretary of Commerce for the rest of his life. He would definitely need a lot of money when he ran for president in the future. Having these equity stakes would mean that he already had one foot in the White House!

    Yang Qiu is also very happy.

    Australia¡¯s Groote Island is rich in manganese ore resources, and the survey team has also located two mineral sources.  If you go to mine alone, you should have no problem convincing the Australian government. If you really can't do it, you can just spend some money and bribe it, but the British cannot get around this.  But it's different when Hoover is brought in. Even the British Empire can only pinch their noses to recognize the vague background of the Chinese and American governments. As for the shares worth 200 million, it is still a generous gift to Australia, let alone being able to bring Hoover over.  Get on board and there will be plenty of opportunities in the financial crisis a few years later.

    The two quickly reached an agreement.  Yang Qiu and Hoover registered a mining company in their respective countries, and then worked together to form the Bei'ao Manganese Mining Company based on the Sumatra oil field model.  Yang Qiu is responsible for all investments, while Hoover is responsible for dealing with the Australian government and, if necessary, sending letters to "unfriendly countries" in the name of the U.S. Department of Commerce stating that Bei'ao Manganese Mine Company is an overseas asset of U.S. citizens.

    After the agreement was signed, Yang Qiu magnanimously transferred a company from the 103rd Division to protect Hoover and go to Central Asia, while he returned to Nanjing to discuss with Lu Bicheng the establishment of a manganese mining company.  Lu Bilian was very interested in this big deal and immediately took over all the follow-up work.  However, she did not come forward in person. Instead, she established a new company through equity participation by Huachen Petroleum Company and Zhigongtang Haihua Trading Company on a 60-40 basis. This company then cooperated with Hoover's company to form the Bei'ao Manganese Ore Company.  .  There are two advantages to doing this. First, Zhi Gong Tang has a deep foundation in Australia, and second, Yang Qiu's current status is no longer suitable for him to come forward directly.

    Yang Qiu continued to be the hands-off treasurer, handing over the work of the Bei'ao Manganese Mining Company to Lu Bicheng, and then went to find Jacobs, because the Ministry of Finance needed to use the Jewish banking network to get back the US$200 million that Bei Zuyi had earned.  After paying a "favor fee" of US$10 million, Jacob agreed to help SDIC transfer the money.  But the money was not returned to China but transferred to the United States. Bei Zuyi began to buy a large number of high-quality stocks as planned, quietly waiting for the "turning day" that Yang Qiu called

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