When Liu Minggang first communicated with the islanders on the phone, the price was 20 per ton. However, there was no monetary unit mentioned at that time. At this time, Qin Tao mentioned US dollars, and Wang Mingyuan, who was sitting next to Governor Kawaguchi, immediately became annoyed.
He said: "Twenty yuan, RMB, not US dollars! You should be careful, don't be a lion! Finally, a big boss from an island country wants to buy your worthless blast furnace slag. Don't push yourself too hard. You really think these things are yours."
Anything valuable?”
The current exchange rate is not high. The exchange rate between RMB and U.S. dollars is 3.7659. This also means that if you change from RMB to U.S. dollars, you will have to pay several times more money.
Qin Tao glanced at Wang Mingyuan: "I'm asking Mr. Kawaguchi, you, an irrelevant person, please don't interrupt."
Wang Mingyuan's role was to act as a translator. Now, Qin Tao speaks fluent Japanese and does not need to be translated by Wang Mingyuan at all.
Since they were all speaking in Japanese, Liu Minggang didn't know what these people were talking about. However, looking at Wang Mingyuan's attitude, he knew that there must be something wrong with this translation. Maybe it would be the same as Mingzhou Garment Factory.
He's setting up a trap for himself!
"Director Liu, can this person represent your factory?" Wang Mingyuan switched to Chinese and asked Liu Minggang.
"Yes, what he said means what I said." Liu Minggang nodded.
"Humph! Just wait and cry!"
"Okay." Governor Kawaguchi actually agreed.
In international trade, US dollars have always been used. Now, since the other party has asked for twenty US dollars, it is not too much, and Governor Kawaguchi agreed.
Wang Mingyuan glanced at Governor Kawaguchi in surprise. The price suddenly increased several times, but he still agreed? This kind of behavior of raising the price is clearly a profiteer. Shouldn't Governor Kawaguchi turn around and leave?
Pay twenty dollars for a ton of blast furnace slag?
"However, we think the price of twenty dollars is a bit too low." Qin Tao continued: "It needs at least two hundred dollars to truly meet their value."
Two hundred dollars!
This time it has doubled again!
"Hey, you are going too far. Mr. Kawaguchi came here to do business with you personally. This is because he thinks highly of you. Now, do you really think you are holding a gold ingot in your hands?" Wang Mingyuan couldn't bear it anymore: "You are like this
You won’t get anything if you do it! Just let that pile of blast furnace slag continue to rot outside your factory!”
After saying that, Wang Mingyuan looked at Governor Kawaguchi again: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Kawaguchi, the people here are not sincere in the slightest. I apologize to you on their behalf. We..."
"Apologise? Why are you apologizing on our behalf? Have we done anything wrong?" Qin Tao said to Wang Mingyuan: "What we have in our hands is obviously gold ingots. Do we have to treat it like dirt?"
After saying that, Qin Tao looked at Governor Kawaguchi again: "Your Excellency Kawaguchi, am I right? Our blast furnace slag is worth two hundred dollars a ton."
"Sir Kawaguchi, let's go. There are still many steel plants across the country, and there is a lot of blast furnace slag." Wang Mingyuan said.
Governor Kawaguchi was still sitting there, his expression still normal, but his fingers kept tapping on the mottled table.
Liu Minggang was a little nervous.
What are they talking about? Why is Mr. Kawaguchi like this? Is this business about to be scrapped? If that doesn't work, the price can be easily negotiated. Ten yuan a ton is fine...
"Excuse me, how do you know that these blast furnace slags are worth two hundred dollars a ton?" Governor Kawaguchi asked Qin Tao, with confusion in his eyes.
"Because, there is a rare metal scandium in it." Qin Tao finally exposed it.
"Nani? How did you know?" Governor Kawaguchi looked at Qin Tao in surprise.
"Of course we know that you plan to refine it and use it in your rockets. These blast furnace slags are very important to you, so two hundred US dollars per ton is a more reasonable price. Mr. Kawaguchi, what do you think?
Woolen cloth?"
"Okay, then two hundred dollars a ton." Governor Kawaguchi nodded.
Wang Mingyuan was completely dumbfounded. The blast furnace slag that originally cost 20 RMB per ton was actually charged at 200 US dollars per ton. In this way, the total price was 2 million US dollars! This was the largest contract signed by him as a foreign affairs department officer accompanying foreign guests.
A contract!
If it is a large enterprise in Huating City, a contract of two million US dollars is nothing. In a small place like Mingzhou, some shabby blast furnace slag that no one wants can be sold for such a sky-high price? Also, this scandium
What exactly is it?
Wang Mingyuan's mind was full of doubts.
A smile appeared on Qin Tao's face: "Your Excellency Kawaguchi, we also hope to use this money to order some steelmaking equipment from you."
Governor Kawaguchi's eyes lit up. In this way, he, a merchant, could make money again. It was in his best interest to make money from both ends.
"Of course, what do you want?"
"The same steel plate hot rolling equipment as Huating No. 1 Steel Plant." Qin Tao said.
After the country was opened, we saw the gap with the world. Therefore, one of the main ways to improve the domestic industrial level was through introduction. Huating No. 1 Steel Plant introduced a complete set of steelmaking equipment from the island country.
That was because the state came forward and used a large amount of foreign exchange reserves. Now, Mingzhou Shipyard has not spent a penny. It is equivalent to using these used blast furnace slag to directly replace a complete set of equipment.
As for the price, Qin Tao calculated it and it was just right.
"You just asked for two hundred dollars per ton, right, just for this set of equipment?" Governor Kawaguchi asked.
Qin Tao smiled and said nothing.
"Okay, we can agree."
"You can transport the equipment directly to Mingzhou by ship. While we are installing the equipment, we will send the blast furnace slag to you on the ship. The equipment has been installed and debugged and is running normally. All the blast furnace slag has also been shipped. How about this?" Qin
Thao continued to propose.
This is to prevent the other party from making mistakes. If something unexpected happens when installing the equipment, the remaining blast furnace slag will definitely not be shipped to them. If you want to ask for extra money, there is no way!
After all, the islanders are the shrewdest and can do anything.
"Okay." Governor Kawaguchi agreed.
The contract was drafted on the spot, three copies each in Japanese and Chinese. When he saw the Chinese contract, Liu Minggang opened his eyes wide.
The price of two hundred US dollars per ton? Two million US dollars to import a complete set of steel plate hot rolling equipment? That belongs to the island country Mitsubishi Heavy Industries! Originally, they only planned to buy a set of domestic second-hand equipment. Now, can they buy brand-new equipment?
The same equipment as Huating No. 1 Steel Plant!
In the future, they will be able to produce the same steel plates as Huating No. 1 Steel Plant!
Thinking of this, Liu Minggang looked at Qin Tao with grateful eyes.