When Qin Hai and Chen Hongcheng returned to the hotel, they found that everyone in the delegation had gone out. It was not until dinner time that they came back exhausted but enthusiastically one by one, exchanging shopping experiences while walking. Chen Hongcheng came there on an excuse.
He walked around several rooms, then returned to the room he and Qin Hai shared, closed the door and whispered to Qin Hai: "Xiao Qin, there is something I want to discuss with you."
Qin Hai was looking through a phone book he had just borrowed from the service desk, trying to determine where to visit next. Hearing Chen Hongcheng's words, he asked with a smile: "What's going on? It's so mysterious?"
Chen Hongcheng said: "Xiao Qin, can you lend some of the foreign exchange we earn to Director Zhu and other division directors? If we want to do foreign trade in the future, these people will be needed."
"Borrow money?" Qin Hai was a little surprised, "Why, did you tell them about the foreign exchange we earned?"
"No, no, how can you say that?" Chen Hongcheng quickly denied it. He didn't want to leave an impression on Qin Hai that he was lax. This is the most taboo thing for business people. He explained: "I
They didn’t say that we have foreign exchange on hand, but when I went to chat with them just now, they were all muttering that they didn’t have enough foreign exchange on hand and couldn’t buy what they wanted to buy.”
When Chinese people go on business trips abroad, they cannot pay in RMB and must use foreign exchange. According to national regulations, each cadre on a business trip can have a few dollars of foreign exchange as pocket money every day. This number is fixed and cannot be changed. All personnel who go abroad
, are reluctant to use the foreign exchange casually, and they often save it in order to buy a foreign electrical appliance and take it back home.
Some cadres with connections can exchange for some extra foreign exchange through certain channels. When they go abroad, they will have more money and can buy some small gifts to give back to others. But most people do not have such connections.
Unless you go to the black market to exchange foreign exchange at a ratio of 10 to 1 like Chen Hongcheng did. Who is not a businessman willing to exchange this kind of black market foreign exchange?
Just now, everyone in the delegation, led by Huang Liwei, went around the surrounding commercial streets and saw countless dazzling exotic products. Every one of them was dazzled. It is embarrassing to say that the most exotic products in foreign stores are
An ordinary plastic cup, a ballpoint pen, etc. are all extremely beautiful things in the eyes of the Chinese. The price of these things is not expensive, but they are equivalent to dozens or one or two hundred pesetas.
But everyone in the delegation was just envious, and no one was willing to take out precious foreign exchange indicators to buy it.
When Chen Hongcheng went to the room of Zhu Xiaofeng and several other division directors to chat, he listened to them talk with regret about how exquisite a certain product was. How he wanted to buy one for his wife, children, grandchildren, etc. at home but couldn't get it.
He couldn't help but feel moved when he wanted to pay foreign exchange. He thought of the best way to connect with the officials, which was to lend them foreign exchange.
These officials are all short of money, and it is not difficult to come up with hundreds or even thousands of RMB. All they lack is foreign exchange. If Chen Hongcheng lends them foreign exchange now and asks them to return the RMB at the foreign exchange rate after returning to China, then it will not count.
It's a bribe, and the officials will definitely remember Chen Hongcheng's benefits and open the door to him in various matters in the future.
Thinking of this, he rushed back to discuss it with Qin Hai. After all, Qin Hai earned the money, and he couldn't control it unless Qin Hai nodded.
After listening to Chen Hongcheng's explanation, Qin Hai almost burst out laughing. He felt that he was absolutely right in choosing Chen Hongcheng as his partner. This man was good at speculation and had no mental barriers to doing things like flattering others, which happened to be
It can complement Qin Hai in terms of ability. Qin Hai also has a few people on hand, such as Heizi, Ning Mo, etc., but they are still young and have insufficient experience. How can they compare with Chen Hongcheng's sophistication. If Qin Hai wants to achieve something,
Things are really not going to work without a partner like Chen Hongcheng.
"Old Chen, you are really too sensitive. This is a very good idea." Qin Hai praised, "Our foreign exchange is all in your hands. If you think you should use it, just go and use it. Who should you lend it to?
How much you pay is up to you, there is no need to discuss it with me."
When Chen Hongcheng heard Qin Hai agreed, he immediately became energetic and said:
"How can that be done? This kind of thing must be discussed. Xiao Qin, my idea is this, I wish the director, we can lend him 50,000 pesetas, which is almost 1,000 US dollars; a few
As for the chiefs, each of them will cost 10,000 to 20,000, depending on who has greater use; and there are some other people. When we break the money tomorrow, each of them can borrow one or two thousand pesetas.
Calculated this way, if we lend out 100,000 to 150,000 pesetas, we can make everyone in the group have a good impression of us, and it will be easy to do things with them after we return home."
"Let me think about it..." Qin Hai thought for a while and said, "It doesn't matter to us if we lend hundreds of thousands of pesetas. But if people ask us where our foreign exchange comes from, what are you going to do?
How to explain it?"
"Isn't this simple?" Chen Hongcheng glared and said, "I just said that our Red Sea Company has partners in Europe, and this is exchanged with our partners. Don't worry, no one will care about this, they know
The less you get, the less risk you have, and only a fool would dig into it."
"Well, okay, since you are sure, go ahead and do it." Qin Hai nodded.
That night, Chen Hongcheng kept going in and out of various rooms. Every once in a while, Qin Hai could hear someone sending Chen Hongcheng out of his room with a smile. Everyone said some secretive greetings to each other, with a tone of voice.
Qin Hai could feel his kindness even through the door panel.
When having breakfast buffet in the restaurant the next morning, Qin Hai even saw the connections that Chen Hongcheng had cultivated overnight. Almost everyone in the delegation enthusiastically invited Chen Hongcheng to share a table with them for dinner. Chen Hongcheng just hated it.
I was so busy that I didn’t even know whose invitation to go to.
"Have you checked the route?"
Qin Hai was laughing and watching Chen Hongcheng's performance when he suddenly heard someone at the same table asking questions. He turned around and realized that not everyone was paying attention to Chen Hongcheng. The four people in front of him were obviously thinking about his own
matter.
Qin Hai recognized them as the ones sent by Hongyuan Iron and Steel Plant to purchase steel-making equipment, including factory director Jiang Huanwen, financial section chief Yao Guojie, technical section chief Zhu Shouhe and technician Xiao Mengqin. The latter was a recent graduate.
A female college student, the main reason for bringing her out is that her English level is the best in the factory.
Yesterday, Chen Hongcheng went to everyone's room to discuss lending foreign exchange, but he did not go to these few people. In Chen Hongcheng's eyes, they were just people in the company and had little use value.
Just now, Xiao Mengqin was holding a map of Madrid in Spanish and English, studying a route. Her eyebrows were wrinkled into a knot, and she looked very embarrassed.
The person who asked her was the factory director Jiang Huanwen, a muscular man in his forties. On the way from China, Qin Hai had a brief chat with him and found out that he had a technical background.
, it was also through the spring breeze that the cadre team became more knowledgeable and younger that he became the director of the factory. His experience is somewhat similar to Wei Baolin of Qingfeng Factory. However, he is a little more practical than Wei Baolin.
He spent a lot of thought on the issue of steel equipment.
"Xiao Mengqin, where are you going?" Qin Hai asked casually. We were all in the same group and were considered acquaintances. Seeing Xiao Mengqin's troubled look, Qin Hai felt that he should help her.
Xiao Mengqin raised his eyes and looked at Qin Hai, and said calmly: "Oh, we want to check a company we are going to visit today."
"Which company? Maybe I've heard of it." Qin Hai asked again.
Xiao Mengqin snorted softly and said, "omt, have you heard of it?"
"Oso Metallurgical Technology Company... Let me think about it, it should be on Ellinton Street. There is a subway at the door. It is more convenient for you to take the subway." Qin Hai said calmly.
"You...how did you know!" Xiao Mengqin stared at Qin Hai in surprise, his mouth wide open.
Xiao Mengqin knew that Qin Hai and Chen Hongcheng were in the same group, they both belonged to an obscure trading company, and they came to Europe to sell foreign meat on the back of their delegation.
Hongyuan Iron and Steel Plant originally wanted to arrange seven or eight technical personnel to negotiate this introduction project, but was told by the superior department that funds were tight and the quota must be reduced. However, its own technical personnel were reduced, and there were a lot of people in the group who were related to the introduction project.
Officials who had nothing to do with the project made Xiao Mengqin, who had little social experience, feel furious.
Xiao Mengqin had no chance to despise the officials of the Foreign Trade Department, the Provincial General Office, the Metallurgical Department and other departments. They simply did not take her as a little technician in their eyes. As two businessmen with little power, Chen Hongcheng and Qin Hai became
became the target for Xiao Mengqin to vent his dissatisfaction.
When Qin Hai greeted her just now, she followed the principle of not hitting the smiling person and did not say anything unpleasant. But when Qin Hai further asked her which company she was looking for, she sneered in her heart. She said it deliberately.
It's the abbreviation of the company, just because you want to slap Qin Hai in the face: Aren't you just a bad guy who is good at building relationships and using the back door? Do you know what omt is?
What Xiao Mengqin never expected was that when Qin Hai heard the abbreviation of omt, he immediately reported its full name, which is the so-called Oso Metallurgical Technology Company. Not only that, he could also directly tell the company without looking at the map.
He told the location of the company and even knew that there was a subway in front of the company. You know, Xiao Mengqin knew the street where OMT was located in advance. He just checked the map for a long time before finding out that it could be reached by subway. The young man in front of him,
How do you know so many things? (To be continued...)