After arranging the affairs of his subordinates, Ning Weimin finally no longer had to be distracted and began to concentrate on his own procedures for going abroad.
Since Pierre Cardin also has a branch in Tokyo, he applied for a business visa.
In addition, his Japanese proficiency is quite good, so he can contact the Pierre Cardon branch in Tokyo on related matters.
So things went smoothly.
On the contrary, Song Huagui was about to lead the eleven selected models out of the country to perform in Paris, and encountered a lot of troubles.
If nothing else, this trip abroad is under an official visa, which is regarded as a political mission. There are many units that require approval and sealing.
Each girl's family situation is different, so preparing documents and going through the political review is a rather troublesome task.
Wouldn’t it be a lot of effort to get a passport?
In addition, the superior also gave an additional instruction, requiring the models to be made into cheongsams to wear, hoping to blind foreigners with our classic national costumes.
That shoddy thing will definitely not work. It must be made of high-end materials and high-end workmanship, and it must be made quickly according to the different body shapes of each model.
So recently, Song Huagui has focused almost all his time and attention on this matter.
I was so busy that I didn't have much time to listen to Ning Weimin's work report before leaving.
Even when Ning Weimin offered advice to repay the company and persuaded her to exchange part of the company's working capital into Japanese yen, she didn't take it seriously.
So while waiting in the capital for Zou Guodong to return from Shanghai and take over, Ning Weimin could only take care of himself first.
He gathered together as much money as possible and planned to exchange it into Japanese yen as soon as possible through various channels.
And his main hope was placed on Zeng Xianzi.
As mentioned before, in early June, gold lighters were selling well.
Zeng Xianzi, who was overjoyed, not only reached a new cooperative relationship with Ning Weimin.
And in order to repay Ning Weimin, he promised to exchange a large amount of Japanese yen for him.
But after that, Zeng Xianzi has been running around in his hometown in the south, busy taking care of the prosperous business in Hong Kong City, Huacheng, and Shenzhen, and seems to have forgotten to fulfill his promise.
So at this point, Ning Weimin really couldn't wait any longer.
On the grounds that gold lighters need to be imported and arranged for production, Zeng Xianzi was urged to go north as soon as possible.
To be honest, his little thoughts were so obvious that Zeng Xianzi could tell at a glance that he was repaying a favor.
But the problem is that he is purely forced by the situation and has no choice.
You must know that foreign exchange in mainland China is not only scarce these days, but also difficult to exchange.
What's more, we are also caught up in the social turmoil of investigating "treacherous masters".
Nowadays, in the capital city, even those "scalpers" who usually hang around foreign-related places like flies every day have almost disappeared.
Seeing that the Plaza Accord was only two months away, how could Ning Weimin not be worried?
With so much cash in his hand, how much can he exchange just by chatting up foreigners?
Not to mention the domestic environment, the harder it is to exchange, the higher the price of foreign exchange will rise.
I heard that for people who want to go abroad recently, the black market price for exchanging U.S. dollars has jumped to 1 to 5.05.
If Ning Weimin really waited until after the Plaza Accord to exchange for Japanese yen, the principal would not have doubled, but would have shrunk by half for no reason.
Think about it, can he take such a big loss?
Where is the difference between inside and outside?
Why don't you die before you leave the army?
Therefore, Ning Weimin chose the lesser of the two powers, and could only appear to be a bit petty.
In this way, under Ning Weimin's invitation that "the drunkard is not interested in drinking", Zeng Xianzi woke up in time.
He quickly rushed to the capital with enough movements and raw materials to produce two hundred gold lighters.
Then, with the help of Ning Weimin, we quickly reached an agreement with the gold wire inlay factory in Beijing on the processing styles and production costs, and signed an OEM contract.
He finally had time to help Ning Weimin.
However, what happened next was a little different from what Ning Weimin thought.
Originally, Ning Weimin thought that Zeng Xianzi would use the convenience of his Hong Kong-funded company to operate this trip.
In this case, you can also make some profit from the price difference.
Unexpectedly, on the day of the currency exchange, Zeng Xianzi just called him and asked him to bring the check or bank deposit receipt to be exchanged and drive to the lobby lounge of the Great Wall Hotel to meet him.
It wasn't until the two parties actually met that Zeng Xianzi whispered to him face to face that he would go to a company upstairs to exchange currency for him.
The exchange rate between RMB and Japanese yen is one to sixty.
He also told him not to talk too much and to just listen to his own arrangements for a while.
Co-author Zeng Xianzi is just a middleman!
I have to say that Ning Weimin was quite surprised by this.
He didn't expect that Zeng Xianzi would actually make money without making money, and use it to help others.
But he had no worries about such a transaction.
If nothing else, he relies on the close cooperative relationship between Goldlion and Pierre Cardin.
To put it bluntly, if he was deceived, it would be equivalent to Zeng Xianzi personally destroying the basis of cooperation between the two companies, and the losses to both companies would be immeasurable.
No one can do such a stupid thing.
What's more, this exchange ratio is quite satisfactory. Ning Weimin silently calculated it and was overjoyed.
You know, the current international exchange rate of the US dollar against the Japanese yen is one to two hundred and four.
This is equivalent to Zeng Xianzi's promise that he can exchange RMB for US dollars at a ratio of one to four.
Although the current domestic official price of the U.S. dollar to the RMB is only 1:2.8, the adjustment price is 1:3.08.
But the question is, can people who have no way to exchange the official price and the adjusted price get it?
Not to mention that he brought three large checks in his hand, and this time he planned to eat a fat man in one bite.
He is not that greedy and knows how precious time is.
As long as it's cheaper than the black market price and he can redeem all the money he has, it's suitable for him.
Therefore, Ning Weimin followed Zeng Xianzi by taking the elevator to the executive floor of the Great Wall Hotel without saying a word.
Standing behind him without any doubt, she watched him knock on the door of a room with the nameplate "Gangcheng Xinjia Business Co., Ltd."
Inside this executive suite, it really looks like a Hong Kong-funded company.
There is no shortage of desks and chairs, telephones, fax machines, copy machines, and busy office workers. It looks very formal.
And it actually has its own security guard.
The person who opened the door was a tall man in a black suit, who was responsible for guarding the door.
He chattered a few words to Zeng Xianzi in Cantonese first, and seemed to have verified their identities before leading them inside.
When I walked to the door of the inner room, unexpectedly, there was another man in a suit holding the door.
It can be said that it is heavily fortified and heavily guarded.
But when the door of this room was opened, the scene inside made Ning Weimin immediately realize the necessity of this measure.
Because on the sofa in the corner of the room, there was a man and a woman, taking out fried chips from an open suitcase, counting and recording them attentively.
One person ordered U.S. dollars, and the other ordered Hong Kong dollars.
According to Ning Weimin's visual inspection, the amount of foreign currency in front of the two of them was not small, worth at least seven or eight hundred thousand yuan.
In mainland China, this is indeed worthy of someone taking the risk.
And obviously, this company seems to be quite prosperous and definitely not short of money.
What is even more surprising is that the real person in charge in this room is not the greasy middle-aged man Ning Weimin imagined.
Sitting behind the executive desk was a tall, intellectual beauty.
He is in his early thirties, wearing a business suit, glasses, and very fashionable makeup, and his image is very outstanding.
When the beautiful woman saw them, she stood up and greeted them with a smile.
He enthusiastically extended his hand and shook hands with Zeng Xianzi and Ning Weimin in turn.
However, the beauty did not say a word about the transaction to be carried out by both parties, nor did she introduce herself to Ning Weimin.
She just smiled and looked at Zeng Xianzi, her eyes full of content.
So Zeng Xianzi tacitly agreed.
Immediately, Ning Weimin was asked to take out his foreign bank account number and domestic checks and hand them over to this beauty.
Ning Weimin, by this time, had somewhat understood.
I vaguely realized that I had probably arrived at a shadow bank, also known as the legendary underground bank.
Of course, he remembered Zeng Xianzi's instructions in advance, and without asking any further questions, he quickly filled out a form and wrote down the name of the bank to which the other party needed to remit money and a long list of numbers.
This is the account number of French Credit Suez Bank that the master gave him.
The one million francs used to sell the patent for E-Rad is included in it.
The beautiful woman looked at the bank's name and account number, and nodded, indicating that there was no problem.
She said in Mandarin with a Hong Kong accent that Credit Suez Bank also has a branch in Hong Kong City and can remit it to the bank on the same day.
However, when she picked up the three checks handed over by Ning Weimin, she had an unexpected reaction and looked embarrassed.
"There are too many, I'm afraid I won't be able to get in. Our company's traffic in mainland China is limited. Unfortunately, I have already passed a lot of bills this month. Now, if I suddenly input so many RMB, I will withdraw so much."
Tickets will arouse suspicion."
Zeng Xianzi and Ning Weimin were stunned after hearing this.
Zeng Xianzi, in particular, glanced at Ning Weimin with an awkward look on his face, feeling that he had lost face.
"Don't be kidding. You guys specialize in this kind of business. How can you not be able to take it? We have an old relationship. Do you think the price is low and that's why you say that on purpose? At worst, I will give you a little more profit on the next business.
But I introduced you to this business, so you must give me face."
Perhaps Zeng Xianzi was so dissatisfied because he thought the beauty was using her excuses to evade him.
The beauty quickly explained nicely.
"Mr. Zeng, how can I not give you face? Our industry actually hopes that the customer's transaction amount is large. The bigger the transaction, the more profit. But the mainland is very tense now, and the current environment of our industry is very bad.
Okay. The sum of the several checks your friend brought is 7.5 million yuan. Even if it is converted into Hong Kong dollars at the black market price, it is 12 million yuan. This is not a small amount. Please don't make it difficult for us.
It was really overwhelming all of a sudden.”
"What? So many!"
Now it was Zeng Xianzi's turn to be surprised. Looking at Ning Weimin again, he was obviously hesitant.
"Brother, this...is this all your money?"
He originally thought that Ning Weimin's personal financial resources were limited and he could only exchange one to two million yuan at most.
Who would have imagined that it would be such a huge sum of money.
In Hong Kong City, 10 million is enough to buy a big factory.
It is indeed too easy to attract attention when such a large amount of money from the mainland appears in the accounts of Hong Kong-funded companies.
It’s not surprising that beautiful women have concerns.
"You can't say that. In fact, only some of them are personal to me, mainly public ones. You know, I only go out for public and private reasons."
Ning Weimin is actually humble.
The first two of these three checks were the personal income settled by China Audio and Video Company to him, which was as high as 5 million.
The remaining two and a half million yuan, although it is the capital raised by Tan Gong Restaurant's overseas stores, theoretically belongs to the public.
But don't forget that Ning Weimin still has a lot of cash earned from selling stamps.
I made five million in my own dark position, and the group's open position received more than half a million.
Not counting the money left in Shanghai and Huacheng that cannot be brought back temporarily, there is probably 4.9 million.
If we exclude the additional 2 million already used for the upfront cost of making the tapes and the 700,000 bonus as bonus for his subordinates, there would still be 2.2 million left.
Finally, plus the income from the clothing factory and three brand stores in the past two months, there is always around 3 million.
This doesn't even include the additional one million tapes produced, which will bring him profits in the future.
So in fact, Ning Weimin was just afraid of the trouble of cash and brought a check for convenience.
After he misappropriated the money from Tan Palace, he could have used his own money to make up for it, and then try to exchange it into Japanese yen through official channels.
But Zeng Xianzi was a real person and believed it as soon as he heard it.
He thought that because mainland China's financial controls were so strict, even public funds had to be exchanged and taken out using private accounts.
Naturally, he didn't want to disappoint Ning Weimin, so he tried to put pressure on the beauty.
"We have brought the check, are you going to let us take it back like this? Isn't it a joke that a restaurant owner is afraid of a big belly? Can you think of a way to digest it?"
"Mr. Zeng, I'm sorry. Our current check redemption capacity is really limited. The most we can cash is the three million one. The two million and the two and a half million, we have to wait until next month. If
If you are really in a hurry to use money, there is another way, which is not to settle the account. You have to be responsible for converting the check into cash and then handing it over to us!"
It would have been better not to mention this last method, but once mentioned, Zeng Xianzi became even more angry.
He felt that what the beauty said was simply unreasonable and completely inconsistent with normal logic.
"You put it lightly, what is the financial environment in mainland China? Is it possible to exchange so much cash from the bank, 4.5 million? Is it possible? We can do it, why do we need to ask you? Besides, even if we can exchange it, it's all
With a face value of ten yuan, how big is it? It’s almost the same as a mountain? How to move it? How to count it?”
However, the beauty is indeed at a loss.
"Mr. Zeng, I also know your difficulties, but this is really the only way. If you have a way to provide cash, I can even make the decision and exchange it with you today at an exchange rate of 1:65. It's just an apology.
.As for the work of moving and counting banknotes, please don’t worry. We are professionals and have our own ways of dealing with these problems.”
So Zeng Xianzi could only look at Ning Weimin with apology and let him make his own decision.
Who would have thought that it would play into Ning Weimin's hands.
He was not worried but overjoyed, and happily agreed, and what he said became more and more shocking.
"Okay then, let's cash one check for three million first. Next month I will send someone to ask you to cash the other two checks. Speaking of which, it will only take about ten days. But I have the cash.
There is indeed some in it, maybe three million. Can I redeem it if I bring it over?"
For this reason, Zeng Xianzi and the beauty were both surprised.
Nodding, "It can be exchanged, but for such a large cash transaction, we need to change places. Mr. Ning, a powerful customer like you. I hope to cooperate with you for a long time. If you don't mind, I will introduce you to our boss."
How about meeting?"
Another said, "Brother, are you kidding me? You can get three million cash at your fingertips? You have already caught up with the cash reserve of a branch..."