Chapter 33 Negotiation on the Fort
It should be said that the Mitsubishi chaebol has a very common relationship with many local governments in China. Iwaki Jun found many people to put pressure on Fan Wubing, hoping to make Fan Wubing surrender through the government's power.
However, when some local government officials found the companies under Fan Wubing, they found that they didn't take them seriously at all, and Fan Wubing's background was very strong.
In the end, Ion Qijun was cunning and sent someone to find Fan Wubing's father Fan Heng, saying that he would build 100 schools in Panshi City for free, and asked Fan Heng to say something to Fan Wubing to facilitate the meeting of the two.
Fan Heng didn't know what happened, but thought to himself when the little Japanese had a good heart. So he called Fan Wubing and asked about the incident.
"Oh, you actually found your dad? This Ion Qijun is not a fool!" Fan Wubing said with a nod.
"I feel inexplicably too!" Fan Heng was indeed confused.
Suddenly a Japanese man ran out and told him that he would build a hundred schools in Panshi. This matter was of course very strange. Fan Heng was also an angry young man back then. How could he believe the so-called Sino-Japanese friendship between Greater East Asia? Of course, he had to ask his son clearly first. After this question, he found out that his son Fan Wubing had a cold.
"Why did you catch a cold? I remember you are in good health?" Fan Heng asked with some concern when he heard his son sneezing from time to time.
Since Fan Wubing was a child, he has never had any illness. Even a cold has disappeared. Now he is almost adult, why does he suddenly catch a cold? Fan Heng knew that his son had skills and could see through the blue bricks when he was young. Now he has not known how far he has reached. In fact, he shouldn't catch a cold after taking a cold bath.
"It is urgent to strengthen environmental protection work--" Fan Wubing told his father Fan Heng about the whole story, and finally said with emotion.
"This matter--" Fan Heng felt speechless and finally asked, "What do you think about what the Japanese said? Iwakijoon is too stingy, only 100 schools, how much money can he spend? If he had known that it was such a big deal, he would have slandered him more!"
Fan Wubing thought for a while and said with a smile, "Just tell him that they don't need to help build, just cash out. When the money comes to your municipal government's account, I can meet him."
"What are the standards for discounting?" Fan Heng humbly asked his son for advice. Fan Wubing was an expert in this kind of thing, so he was right to ask him.
"Of course, the Japanese donate money according to the standards of Japanese schools. This is also an international practice. On this issue, you cannot follow the local customs." Fan Wubing specifically reminded his father Fan Heng.
"Haha, then I have to ask first how much it costs for Japanese to build a school - there must be a reference, right?" Fan Heng laughed after hearing this.
After some trouble, Ion Qijun finally got Fan Wubing's reply and agreed to hold a talk with him in Tianjin.
"Baga!" After seeing the bill that Iwaki Jun was spending, he couldn't help but feel a little blood surged.
One hundred schools knocked him a full billion yen. Although he was rich and did not care about this little money, it was also money! He could still see a drift in the water. When he threw it into China, he had nothing to do with him.
If it is a school that is aided to build, at least in the future, I can tell others that a certain school was built by I, I, I, Qijun, but now it has been discounted, it is a completely money transaction. Without any charity color, the Chinese will not receive this favor.
But in short, the money was spent on the point. Fan Wubing's father was indeed more effective than others. The money he had previously scattered on government officials everywhere had no effect. It would be better to make an idea of ​​saving money on Fan Heng earlier and be able to do things.
In mid-April, Iwakitsuki came to Tianjin quietly with a dozen subordinates and dozens of bodyguards.
He is an important business figure in Japan. When he went to Tianjin to see Fan Wubing, he felt a little like Li Hongzhang went to Maguan to sign a treaty of losing power and humiliating the country, so he didn't want others to know about it, after all, it was related to face.
This time Fan Wubing did not make any trouble for him, and he quickly agreed on the meeting place, which was on the Dagukou Fort, a famous cultural relics in Tianjin.
Iwasaki Shun really didn't know what this Dagukou Fort is made of. Even the initiator Fan Wubing had never been here. Therefore, when both groups of people arrived on time, they found that this place seemed to be really unsightly and was not a good place for business negotiations.
In the words of local people in Tianjin, it is just a local platform, a few iron cannons, and tickets are required, so there is no need to go in.
The car drove to the beachfront road and couldn't get through. The continuous heavy trucks crawled like stones and earthworms. There were no traffic lights. From the continuous roar of the engine, it could be heard that they had no intention of stopping and giving way. So everyone had to get off the car and walked over a few inches of floating soil. On the side of the road were cracked land and dense reeds. From a distance, you could see the towering fort and a large area of ​​lush green, which was calm and peaceful, completely different from the busy world around.
"Fan Sang, this is really not a good place for negotiations." Iwasaki Toshi frowned and said to Fan Wubing. He had already eaten a bit of a slut along the way. The glossy suit on his original body also became gray, and the group was covered in dust and described it as a mess.
"It's almost here, and the historical relics are always unique." Fan Wubing was calm and composed. He chose a yellow casual jacket, which was very inconsistent with Iwasaki and the others, and he could not show any color.
When I entered, the old man who was checking the ticket was lying on the table and was taking a nap. It was a kind of happiness to be able to doze on an ancient battlefield where artillery fire was once full of flesh and blood.
The Dagukou Fort was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Its original intention was to resist the Japanese pirates who were ready to move around the coast, but he did not expect to fight with Britain and France here later.
There are two rows of cannons that once participated in the battle, and the broken muzzles are blocked with a mixture of red soil. As for the row of imitation cannons next to them, it is even more sad. There are even shells blocked on the muzzles, and I don’t know what I want to express.
The first battle in Dagukou ended in just two hours, and the Qing government couldn't wait to sign the "Tianjin Treaty".
In the Second Battle of Dagukou, under the command of Senggelinqin, the Qing army built fortifications and reinforced the fortresses, and supported the Mongolian cavalry to fight fiercely with the British and French coalition forces for a day and night, ending with the Qing army's comprehensive victory.
The third Dagukou War was extremely fierce. Zhili Admiral Le Shan died in the Northern Fort, and all the soldiers guarding the Taiwan Strait died heroically. On the fifth day of the seventh day, the fort fell, on the eighth day, Tianjin fell, on the fourth day of the eighth day, Tongzhou fell, on the seventh day of the eighth day, Senggelinqin was defeated by Baliqiao, and the elite Qing army lost all its troops. On the twenty-twoth day of the eighth day, the Old Summer Palace was burned and looted, and on the twenty-nineth day of the eighth day, Beijing fell.
In two months, a huge empire that had been standing at the top of the pyramid for two thousand years allowed the British and French forces to enter the legendary dream of Beijing based on the map, and handed over a royal city that had been working hard for hundreds of years to others.
"Fan Sang, I already have a very good understanding of your background. I think we should talk openly and honestly." Iwasaki Shun felt that when negotiating with Fan Wubing, he should not talk too much nonsense. It was a waste of time in Yizhong.
He believes that as a world-class rich man with great energy, Fan Wubing should know how to maximize his interests, but this kind of maximization of interests should never be achieved by monopoly. Any leader of a mature business empire will understand the harm.
Monopoly can only make things worse without real benefits. A successful businessman cannot rely solely on monopolizing a certain industry to achieve his goal.
"Yes, our time is very precious. I will go to a dinner later to celebrate my friend's birthday." Fan Wubing nodded in agreement, "So, let's try our best to make the point."
Is it more important to be able to have such a big birthday dinner that is related to the division of interests between two large interest groups? Iwasaki Shun felt a little depressed. He felt that he and Fan Wubing were two types of people, and there was no comparison at all, although both of them also had huge business empires and countless material wealth.
"What price do I need to pay to get what I want?" Iwasaki Shun asked, staring at Fan Wubing's eyes.
"A reasonable price." Fan Wubing answered very skillfully.
The current export price of rare earths is very unreasonable. The export price of one kilogram of ore is only 18 yuan. Although this is already very high in the eyes of Chinese people, the price in the international market is 1,000 US dollars! It is actually a difference of more than 500 times!
Faced with the current situation of the Chinese people's cheap dumping of important minerals with extremely important strategic significance, Americans, who are also a country with rare earth resources, have stopped mining of rare earth ores in China and then imported ores from China, and then landed them in the offshore as strategic reserves.
Reasonable price! Iwasaki's eyes suddenly shrank, Fan Wubing's appetite was quite big! If the Japanese also used this price standard to acquire China's rare earth minerals, how much would it cost? Iwasaki Shun was shocked when he thought of the amount of rare earth used in Japan and multiplied it by this price.
"This is absolutely impossible!" Iwasaki Toshi roared.
Fan Wubing shrugged and said with some malicious intentions, "Well, there is indeed an insurmountable gap between us. I just mentioned a reasonable price, and didn't even talk about the specific price. You shouted and said that this was impossible. How can you continue to negotiate this business? Would you accept an unreasonable price?"
Chapter completed!