Chapter Ten Using American Oil to Earn American Money (Part 1)
() After seeing off the two businessmen who came to negotiate the establishment of a refrigerator factory on the east coast of the United States, David lit a cigar and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the tall factory buildings outside the city. He felt a sense of accomplishment.
It happened spontaneously. Ever since I took the boat alone with hundreds of boxes of small pills,
It only took a little more than 10 years for me to return to my hometown in the UK and now have more than 10 factories, hundreds of specialty stores and this company headquarters building. And these achievements are inseparable from one person, and that person’s letter is lying there
It's in my safe, I just received it today.
The letter is very long, and it mainly has two meanings: 1. He has become the president of Taiwan, and his congratulatory gifts should be sent there as soon as possible; 2. He makes a suggestion to David. If the money is kept in the bank, he will not have babies, so he can just sit at home and count the babies.
Money is the most useless person, so you need to invest your money in a more profitable industry, and this industry is an oil company.
David is no stranger to oil companies. At high-end cocktail parties and gatherings of congressmen, he met John Davidson Rockefeller, the head of "Standard Oil", and his son, John Davidson Rockefeller Jr., more than once.
He also had a good personal relationship. Since the "Standard Oil Company" accounted for 80% of the oil share in the United States at that time, it was being attacked by the U.S. government's antitrust laws. As the actual monopoly of household appliances, David also stood with the Rockefeller family.
While waving flags and shouting.
John Davidson Rockefeller's father was a miraculous medicine seller. When David came to the United States to sell medicine, the Rockefeller family specially invited him to their home, probably out of sympathy for his peers.
However, although his personal relationship is good, if David wants to seize a piece of territory from the Rockefeller family, it will undoubtedly be a risky move. What's more, most of the oil wells and refineries in the United States are owned by the Rockefeller family. David cannot think of how he can
How to forcefully squeeze into this oil empire?
However, Liu Fu's letter said that David did not need to worry about how the oil company would start, and that the new oil company would be managed by another person. All David had to do was to use his connections in the United States to eliminate some obstacles for the establishment of the new company.
If he is willing, he can also invest part of the capital, but it cannot exceed 20%. According to Liu Fu's original words: If you guard the refrigerator and do nothing, you can become one of the richest people in the world. Money cannot
I let you earn it, now I need the money more than you.
When Liu Fu's representative, Carl Schneider, the manager of Future Petroleum Company, came to David's office, David couldn't help but be happy. This Carl Schneider and David had known each other before, when David was in Europe
When Liu Fu was looking for engineering and technical researchers, Schneider was poached by David from a machinery manufacturing factory in Germany with a high salary.
Carl Schneider, a 49-year-old native of Hamburg, Germany, has been working in a research institute in Taiwan. His main research direction is cars and motorcycles. At the beginning, he led a group of researchers to carry out the research on cars and motorcycles on the Liu Fu fishing boat.
After that, Liu Fei gradually discovered that the German engineer's talent was not in mechanical research, but in leadership and business inspiration.
Since Liu Fu didn't want to pin all his wealth on David alone, the task of setting up the oil company was handed over to the German engineer. Of course, not only Schneider's family had settled in Taiwan, but also
Along with Schneider, there were two employees from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They were nominally Schneider's senior assistants, but in fact they were monitors representing Liu Fu's interests.
Schneider had no objection to these. After contacting Liu Fu in the past few years, he found that his boss was a very, very mysterious young man. You will find many strange things around him, and in his mouth,
You get a lot of cryptic theories, and it turns out, he
They are all right. This time he was asked to serve as the manager of an oil company, and Schneider readily accepted it. He himself felt that he did not really love experiments and research, but he was more interested in transforming the results of experiments and research into what everyone needs.
things, at this point he should be said to be a businessman.
Since David and Schneider knew each other, there was not so much strangeness that needed to be reconciled. Schneider, adhering to the rigor and single-mindedness of the Germans, got off the boat and came to David's office, and started discussing it without saying a few words.
The oil company has made detailed arrangements.
In Liu Fu's plan, David first had to help Schneider register a company called "Daqing Petroleum Company" in Texas. As for why it was named this, Schneider didn't know. The name was determined by Liu Fu himself.
Then, David also needs to use his connections and connections to buy several large pieces of land shown on the map at the right price. It is up to David to understand what the right price is. Map of buying land
In Schneider's bag.
Then it is necessary to cooperate with Schneider to recruit local workers and technicians to conduct exploration on the purchased land, and a certain degree of confidentiality and legality are required to ensure that the oil fields will not be plundered and litigated by others after they are discovered.
Finally, after the valuable oil was discovered, David came forward to contact the oil giants in the United States to jointly invest in the development of this oil field and establish a refinery for production. In addition to a fixed part of the petroleum products produced,
Ship it to Taiwan, and the rest will enter the market and be sold by you.
David took Liu Fu's plan and chewed it. If this plan were shown to any investor, without reading the second page, it would be thrown into the trash can as a middle school student's essay or a crappy novel. And that picture
The map was obviously drawn by someone who had never studied cartography, and there were still traces of alterations on it. What David couldn't accept even more was that, except for the scale and other features, the map of Texas was actually drawn wrong.
, it’s not the same as David’s map, but the difference is not too big.
"Is this drawn by Liu?" David asked Schneider, holding up the maps.
"..." Schneider shrugged, expressing his helplessness. In the eyes of a person who has studied professional cartography, these maps are not even comparable to a beginner's draft paper, but the person who drew them is himself.
Boss, I have no idea myself.
"He just wants to use these treasure maps to get diamonds and oil? Does he think oil exploration is that easy? Does he think Americans are all fools!!!" David raised his voice.
"I'm sorry, Mr. David. As the person in charge assigned by the president, I don't like your tone towards the president." The accompanying staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs standing aside protested to David expressionlessly.
"..." David stared, ready to get angry. In recent years, even American congressmen and bankers have not dared to speak to him like this, but this little guy who was obviously only in his 20s dared to accuse him face to face, and
The tone is very unfriendly.
"David...listen to me..." Seeing that David was about to get angry, Schneider quickly stepped forward, held David's shoulders, and winked at David as he spoke.
David seemed to understand something. He held back the anger that was about to burst out and turned his back on the young man who had been standing by the door since he entered. Since his wife has also been working in Taiwan for several years, he mentioned it several times in his letters,
There are some young people under Liu Fu, very, very young, but very, very ruthless.
.These young people only obey the orders of Liu Fu, no one else can command them, and their methods are very harsh. As long as a problem is discovered and the problem is serious enough that Liu Fu needs to intervene, as long as Liu Fu gets
With their consent, these problematic people will have only one fate: to disappear forever.
At the beginning, many foreign technicians protested to Liu Fu about this very inhumane practice. However, when Liu Fu presented conclusive and very serious evidence of violation of regulations, those foreign technicians had nothing to say.
, for these reasons, some foreign staff did not renew their contracts and left Taiwan after their employment period expired.
However, Helena's letter also said that these "cold children" do not use their rights casually. If you are not familiar with them, you will think that they are just a group of children who have just come out of school, but they are very silent and unsociable.
