Author: Mahjong Jun

Xiangjiang area, Rong family villa.

"In 1963, I had just bought my fourth boat. Because the shipping business was gradually booming, some customers were very anxious to rent a boat from me, so I tried every means to buy this boat."

"But because I just bought my third boat not long ago, I didn't have enough funds at that time and didn't buy insurance for this boat in time."

Okay, at this point, Zhao Wenmu has roughly guessed the plot that will follow.

Shortly after the ship was delivered to the customer, it sank in a storm at sea.

And the main reason for the sinking of the ship was the illegal operation of the crew.

After the crew cleaned the ship, they forgot to close the water inlet hatch at the bow of the ship, and the waves on the sea that day were just big enough to cover the bow of the ship.

When a ship sails on the sea, it rises and falls with the waves, so sometimes the bow of the ship will be submerged under the water, or in high waves.

This is normal.

Of course, the entire hull is not submerged in the water.

Every time the bow of the ship is submerged in a wave, dozens or hundreds of tons of seawater will wash up, and the huge water pressure will pour a large amount of seawater into the sealed cabin of the ship's bow that should be sealed.

It was late at night, and the crew on duty did not notice in time that the ship's attitude had gradually become abnormal.

When the problem was finally discovered, everything was irreversible.

Later investigation results confirmed that at least 5,000 tons of seawater entered the ship at that time.

For a supertanker with a carrying capacity of 120,000 tons, 5,000 tons is originally a small number, but that is for the cargo warehouse.

Rather than a watertight sealed cabin in the bow.

This greatly damages the ship's balance and structural pressure distribution.

Finally, under the impact of another big wave, the bow and hull of the ship were directly broken apart, and the entire ship was quickly submerged into the water with an extremely tragic cut in half.

The only good thing is that most of the crew members abandoned the ship in time and escaped in lifeboats.

In other words, for a ship owner, what is even more fortunate is that the ship was empty at the time.

Otherwise, he would still need to pay for the 120,000 tons of oil.

The most critical thing is that the cleanup of ocean pollution caused by these 120,000 tons of oil will be an astronomical amount.

Unfortunately, the crew members were all dispatched by Rongshi Shipping Company.

"In that accident, the shipping company was judged to bear full responsibility."

Rong Renyi said quietly.

"The most important thing is that the company has no other ships. Although breach of contract with customers does not require a lot of compensation, it will cause great losses to customers. After all, their business cannot be carried out without ships."

"That time I sold all my family property and other properties. Your aunt even sold her wedding ring. Finally, I raised the funds to buy a new boat and deliver it to the customer, and the matter finally came to an end."

I have to say that Rong Renyi is indeed courageous.

At that time, he could also choose to breach the contract, and at worst he would lose some money. I believe this would be just a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of buying a new boat.

But breach of contract will chill the customer's heart.

A person cannot stand without trust, especially a businessman. If he breaches the contract, the reputation of Rong's Shipping Company may never be restored.

"Misfortune lies on the back of good fortune, and good fortune lies on misfortune. This accident was a blessing in disguise for Rong's Shipping, which suddenly gained wide recognition from the market. Cargo owners were more willing to rent my ship, and were even willing to prepay part of the funds."

"With this part of the capital, and using it to leverage large loans from HSBC, the shipping company was able to expand rapidly."

Rong Ren chuckled.

The ancients often said that suffering a loss is a blessing, and I will not deceive you sincerely.

"Uncle Rong, it's all because of your charisma that you have impressed everyone. Customers trust Rong's Shipping and can do business with you with confidence and boldness!"

Zhao Jing was deeply touched by the behavior of Rong Renyi's wife selling off her ring. She put herself in Zhao Wenmu's shoes and imagined that if Zhao Wenmu encountered difficulties, she would definitely give up everything to support him without hesitation.

"Uncle Rong, why are the Rong family so active in reducing ships? Although the oil crisis has indeed had a great impact on the shipping business, as far as I know, Global Shipping has sold many ships before this, right? Why do it now?

How about continuing to sell ships on a large scale?"

In the 1970s, the world encountered an oil crisis. Due to certain geopolitical factors, oil production was significantly reduced, resulting in countless ships having no business and staying in ports for a long time.

Many shipping companies went bankrupt as a result.

Global Shipping had already disposed of a large number of oil tankers before this, and therefore hardly suffered much losses.

Looking back afterwards, the Rong family's decision to reduce the number of ships to land was indeed a very wise decision, but Zhao Wenmu was still very curious as to why Rong Renyi and his son made this decision.

After all, Rongren had been dealing with shipping for half his life, and suddenly he abandoned the ship in a drastic manner. This drastic change must have a deeper reason.

"Amu, Global Shipping sold a large number of ships in the past few years. To tell you the truth, one of the reasons is that Abang and I both had a premonition that there was going to be a problem with the oil. At that time, the conflicts between several countries in the Middle East became more and more intense. I was in the UK

The Federation and the Beautiful Country have some friends who have already received the news in advance that the war may start at any time."

Rong Renyi's "some friends" may not even have a low rank.

Therefore, before the conflict broke out, Rong Renyi had basically determined that war was highly likely to be inevitable.

Based on the premise that war is inevitable, and combined with the principle that beautiful countries will inevitably support Israel, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion:

The beautiful country wants to turn against the tycoons of the Middle East.

Naturally, the followers of the beautiful country will inevitably have enemies with the local tyrants.

The sheikhs in the Middle East do not have the ability to retaliate against the beautiful country at the military and political levels. The only weapon they can use is oil.

This war is bound to be tied to the oil crisis.

The oil crisis will inevitably lead to a depression in shipping.

These series of propositions are natural and logically smooth.

Later it was proved that this was indeed how the plot progressed.

This oil crisis prompted the United Kingdom to develop North Sea oil fields and the United States to re-develop local oil fields. At the same time, oil fields in Asia and Latin America were put into production one after another.

The world's dependence on Middle Eastern oil is gradually decreasing, and more and more oil tankers are being idled.

"Another reason is that Shen Bi replaced Pittman as the chief executive of HSBC Bank."

After Rong Ren finished speaking, he slapped the table casually and looked at Zhao Wenmu.

Zhao Wenmu understood it clearly, the boss was trying to teach himself.

"Shen Bi has taken office as a new official. If he wants to establish his authority and intimidate everyone, the easiest way is to control Uncle Rong?"

he tried to ask.

"On the one hand, Shen Bi wanted to establish his authority, but on the other hand, he was really not optimistic about the shipping business. So HSBC stopped granting me new loans, and even secretly asked Global Shipping to repay the previous loan as soon as possible."

This time it was Rong Zhenbang who made the explanation.

He continued:

"Shen Bi wanted to squeeze his father out of the HSBC board of directors, but his father resisted the pressure and quickly sold the oil tanker and further increased his holdings of HSBC shares."

"To a certain extent, Shen Bi is also a nobleman of the Rong family, haha!"

Indeed, Shen Bi's method of suppressing the Rong family pushed the Rong family quickly away from the depression in the tanker business caused by the oil crisis.

The Rong family is indeed a family with great fortune.

"Uncle Rong, then why do you continue to sell ships now? Global Shipping does not have many ships in hand now, right?"

Zhao Wenmu continued to ask.
Chapter completed!