Fully understanding how seriously Huo Yanping attached importance to this matter, Ning Weimin did not dare to waste any time.
Early the next morning, before eight o'clock, he called Japan.
This is because the time in Tokyo is one hour ahead of the capital. Ning Weimin knew that before nine o'clock in the morning, President Beimao of Hanwa Industrial would be sitting at his desk, studying and discussing with the ten elites in his financial management department.
Strategies to deal with today's foreign exchange market.
Sure enough, as a major shareholder, he found Beimao in the financial management department of Hanwa Industrial as scheduled, and successfully got everything he wanted from Beimao.
Speaking of which, this is actually a blessing from Japan’s bubble economy.
Because now, under the name of Hanwa Kogyo, Kitashiro operates more than 100 billion yen in the international foreign exchange market every day.
His huge bets have made him a leader in the international foreign exchange market, almost as much as the Swiss Bank.
UBS was called the "little devil of Zurich", and his Hanwa Industrial was called the "little devil of Japan."
In fact, even though Hanwa Kogyo is a steel manufacturing company with thousands of employees, its financial management department only has ten employees.
But under Beimao's leadership, since the Plaza Accord, the returns from financial management have been getting higher and higher.
Today, these few people have created profits several times that of the main business department, causing Satoshi Sumita, the current president of the Bank of Japan, to praise them full of praise.
Even in front of other larger steel companies, they would say without hesitation, "Hanwa Kogyo is an awesome company! It is the pride of the Japanese steel industry."
Therefore, in this situation of abnormal imbalance between financial income and main business income, President Beimao has become completely obsessed with his success in the foreign exchange market.
As for the main business of steel manufacturing and steel wholesale, he is basically not interested anymore.
Therefore, Ning Weimin asked him about the inside information related to the Japanese steel industry, and he answered all questions without reservation.
However, he obviously didn't have much interest in talking about these things, so after chatting for a while, he simply called his subordinate Shunzo Terada, who was responsible for steel sales at Hanwa Kogyo.
Ask him to contact Ning Weimin and ask him to provide all the information Ning Weimin needs.
Then he was polite to Ning Weimin on the phone and said that he had a chance to go to Ginza for a drink, so he handed the phone to Shunzo Terada and left.
To be honest, the attitude of this president of Beimao is completely worthy of awarding him a banner of "Children are not deceived".
Because of his words, Terada Junzo, a subordinate, could no longer do anything about the relevant information for the benefit of the company, or even had reservations.
As a result, Ning Weimin not only fully understood all the relevant situations he wanted to know from his mouth, but also obtained the internal information of Hanwa Industrial, and these situations turned out to be more optimistic than he imagined.
Unfortunately, in Japan, the domestic scrap supply has been stagnant, and now Japanese steel companies are worried about their increasing iron scraps.
Although Japan has been suffering from an "absolute shortage" of scrap iron for a period of time before and after the war, like us, it regards scrap metal recycling as a very important measure for the national economy.
At that time, the iron filings from Japanese steel plants were regarded as good goods and would not be leaked out at all.
The government has even promulgated special metal recycling regulations and established scrap steel storage institutions to cope with the shortage of production materials.
But with the rapid recovery of the post-war economy and the support of American fathers in international trade, everything has changed.
Japanese steel companies have gradually begun to import high-quality iron ore from the international market.
With the decreasing scrap steel resources, electric furnace steelmaking has since entered a stage of rapid development, gradually replacing open-hearth steelmaking as the mainstream of Japanese steel manufacturing companies, making Japan a major forging country of high-quality special steel.
Especially after 1985, the Plaza Accord led to the appreciation of the soft yen, and the domestic scrap supply and demand situation in Japan underwent decisive changes.
Because of the high cost of labor, Japan has begun to increasingly dislike the secondary use of scrap steel, which requires a lot of labor costs to select, classify, and even purify.
Based on the current situation in Japan, reusing scrap steel as means of production will only cause serious losses.
As a result, in recent years, not only has domestic scrap steel prices in Japan been falling, but Japanese steel manufacturing companies themselves have also been facing a huge headache due to the gradual accumulation of iron scraps and scraps caused by production. They cannot sell them and have to find ways to store them themselves.
As a medium-sized steel manufacturing enterprise, Hanwa Kogyo has accumulated no less than 500 tons of iron filings and scraps.
In fact, all Japanese steel manufacturing companies currently have a sense of crisis over the surplus of iron scraps.
In particular, steel companies in the Kanto region of Japan have taken the lead and are eager to go out and try to find overseas sales channels.
Therefore, Shunzo Terada asked Ning Weimin about the price of iron filings and scrap iron, expressed his intention to buy, and acted very positively.
He was directly given a base price of 1,200 yen per ton, which is equivalent to ten US dollars per ton.
There is no doubt that the other party is not seeking to make money, but only wants to empty the warehouse and save storage and transportation costs.
At this price, compared to 20 US dollars per ton of iron ore, it is quite cheap.
So when Ning Weimin fed back relevant opinions to Huo Yanping, Huo Yanping was quite surprised. He immediately held relevant meetings with relevant personnel from the Ministry of Trade and experts from the industrial sector.
After three days of discussion and demonstration, all three parties agreed that this was a direction worth trying.
Because scrap steel is the only energy-carrying green resource that can replace iron ore for steelmaking in the steel industry, although it also has many shortcomings.
For example, scrap steel comes from used metal products. Its composition may not only contain various alloying elements and impurities, but there may also be defects such as cracks and pores inside.
These will affect the properties of steel during the steelmaking process, thereby affecting the quality of steel.
Secondly, the uncertain pollutants that may exist in scrap steel may cause potential pollution risks to the environment if not properly pretreated.
But the benefits are also obvious.
In addition to being cheap, the most important thing is energy saving and environmental protection.
After experts' demonstration, using scrap steel to produce one ton of steel can reduce the consumption of 1.3 tons of iron ore, reduce the consumption of 350 kilograms of standard coal, and reduce 1.6 tons of carbon dioxide and 4.3 tons of steel compared with using iron ore to produce one ton of steel.
Discharge of solid waste.
If you buy these 500 tons of iron filings at a price of ten dollars per ton to produce steel, and calculate it based on the extremely low domestic labor costs, even if you look at the domestic national price of 700 yuan per ton, even if the tariff is excluded
And transportation costs, there will be at least twice the profit, which is perfect.
If calculated based on the market price of 1,200 yuan per ton, that is five times the profit.
This is not a small savings. Whichever steel factory it is for, everyone will be crazy about it.
This really echoes Ning Weimin's words, others' drag is their treasure here.
The key is that Hanwa Kogyo is just a medium-sized steel plant in Japan, and it has so much raw material backlog.
If there are hundreds of steel plants in Japan, large and small, and this is the case, how much would the iron scraps and scrap steel be added together?
If I could buy a few thousand tons or tens of thousands of tons, it would really be of some use.
Even if these scrap steel and scrap iron cannot produce high-quality special steel, they can forge some ordinary steel.
It can always be guaranteed that a few southern steel mills will resume production first to meet some basic market demands, which is much better than nothing.
In particular, the yen has appreciated sharply in recent years. How did the foreign trade department know that the yen's appreciation has basically been achieved? They are very worried that they will bear unexpected exchange rate risks.
Only by implementing this matter as soon as possible can they feel at ease. Otherwise, if there is a fluctuation, they will not know how many more dollars they have to pay.
So this time, the relevant departments were sincere and unified, showing a high efficiency that is rare in the system. In just one week, the direction and goals were set, a special trade group was established, and negotiation materials and related contracts were prepared.
We even ordered suits and suitcases for the negotiation team.
The entire team members are all looking forward to going to Japan as soon as possible to conduct business inspections on this matter. They are all looking forward to signing a scrap steel trading contract with Hanwa Industrial as soon as possible and completing the tasks assigned by the leadership.
However, when the list of people going abroad was handed over to Huo Yanping, he wanted to add an extra person from outside the system, that is Ning Weimin.
In his opinion, Ning Weimin was the one who took the lead in this matter.
He already has a certain foundation in Japan. Not only does he have friendship with Hanwa Kogyo, but he also has a certain understanding of the Japanese mentality and relevant laws.
The key is that this guy is so shrewd and good at doing business.
Having him participate in this matter will undoubtedly get twice the result with half the effort, and will further guarantee the final victory.
So for this reason, he made an unobtrusive phone call to find Ning Weimin at his home and held a mobilization meeting for him.
But he didn't expect that what he thought was almost certain that Ning Weimin would definitely agree would be rejected in person.
"You don't want to go? Why?"
He was involuntarily surprised at first, and then asked Huo Yanping, "You don't cherish feathers so much, do you? Are you still worried about who else will take the credit if you go?"
This was the only reason he could think of, so he persuaded with a smile, "There's no need to do this. You're not a member of the system. No matter how great your achievements are, you can't take away other people's opportunities or block other people's way.
You won't be jealous. I remember all your achievements in my heart, and this is two different things. It's probably impossible for you to fail, not to mention it's not your turn to take the responsibility. So what are you worried about?
"
"And I would like to remind you that this is a joint group composed of the backbones of the three ministries and commissions, and it is responsible for a groundbreaking event in foreign trade. Needless to say, it is important? You have good qualifications, you are young, and you are still
As an extroverted talent, you should cherish this opportunity and explore more of your own advantages in this area. Don’t miss such a good learning opportunity. What are the specific benefits of participating in it? You don’t need me to explain it to you? Hurry up and pack your things and get ready.
Going to Japan with the group."
"You, don't be complacent and just focus on the small achievements in front of you. I know you can make money and run several overseas restaurants very well, but is this all your future? Reform and opening up, the two complement each other.
.Now that the policy has been made clear, you have no choice but to take the first step
When going abroad, you should understand the other meanings above and design a longer-term path for yourself. What you lack most now is vision and knowledge. You should do more far-sighted things. Don't always put your energy in your hands.
If you don’t control the jars and jars, it’s called worthless..."
Needless to say, Huo Yanping had good intentions in trying to force Ning Weimin into this matter.
Because as long as Ning Weimin participates and shows his role, even if it is just a follower and auxiliary role, he will be remembered by these group members.
The key backbones of the three departments are all people with unlimited future prospects. This kind of incense will be of great benefit to Ning Weimin's future development.
Huo Yanping now understands the importance of accumulating connections better than anyone else. From the perspective of supporting future generations, he can only do this if he has a biological son.
Of course Ning Weimin is not stupid, nor is he a ungrateful person.
So he quickly denied it, "Boss, you misunderstood. You support me so much and think about my future. It's not too late for me to thank you."
But he also had his own reasons. Even though he immediately thanked him in person, he might still have to live up to Huo Yanping's wishes.
"I just have to tell you something. I actually have something else to do with Hanwa Industrial. I am a shareholder of this company. As you know, the Japanese stock market has been rising in recent years, so I also bought some
stocks. Then I have to avoid suspicion in this matter. If I want to get involved, it will become a connection.
I'm afraid there are many things wrong with this transaction. If other shareholders of Hanwa Kogye knew about it, they might be dissatisfied with the low price of this transaction. Even in our country, if someone knew about this, I'm afraid they would also suspect that I facilitated this.
The purpose of the matter is to make it easier for people to get in and out of it and to seek personal gain from it."
This reason was something Huo Yanping never expected. Besides falling into silence immediately, he couldn't help but look at Ning Weimin with a mixture of strangeness, suspicion and surprise.
After a long time, Huo Yanping withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, but he couldn't help but ask, "If this matter is true, then it would be understandable for you to stay out of it. But isn't Hanhe Industrial a medium-sized steel factory? Even if you are an individual
If you participate in stock investment, your share should not be too large, right? If you participate in this matter, will it really have such a serious impact? "
"Leader, you don't know something. In fact, not only myself, but also my wife, we are all shareholders of this company. In fact, our joint shareholding ratio has exceeded the 5% public disclosure line, so this matter
If I were involved, Hanwa Industrial would have to make an announcement to shareholders in accordance with regulatory requirements, otherwise there would be setbacks."
Huo Yanping was completely speechless this time, and after a moment he slowly let out a breath from his chest.
Then he showed a smile that was hard to express what he was feeling.
"You, you always surprise me. Five percent. This is five percent of a medium-sized steel factory! So, you have only been out for two years and you are already a multimillionaire? Convert to RMB
If so, these shares should be worth tens of millions, right?"
Ning Weimin smiled guiltily and nodded somewhat awkwardly.
"It's not all mine, it belongs to both me and Qingzi."
In fact, it was more than that. To be honest, Ning Weimin was just using his wife as a cover.
In fact, he personally holds more than 7% of Hanwa Industrial shares.
Based on the current market value of Hanwa Kogyo, which is around 600 billion, his shares are worth more than 40 billion yen, which is more than 300 million U.S. dollars.
Even with the leveraged funds raised from securities companies, the shares he actually owns are worth US$200 million.
If Huo Yanping knew this, he would definitely be frightened.
But then again, Ning Weimin does know how to behave.
Although he had to stay out of the matter because he needed to avoid suspicion, he would never shirk anything he could do.
"Of course, don't worry, although I can't directly participate in it, I will do my best to help with this project. After all, it is to contribute to the country, and it is our duty to do so. You know, Japan's Tan Palace also has comrades from our special department. When will our country
Please tell me when this group of comrades responsible for inspection and negotiation will go over. I will definitely arrange it.
I will arrange people and vehicles to coordinate with them. Anyway, I will cover all your food, drink, food, clothing, housing and transportation in Japan. Moreover, you don’t have to worry about the contact with Hanwa Industrial, or even the contact with the Japan Iron Source Association.
I promise that everything will be properly arranged for the comrades. These comrades must make their trip worthwhile and complete their tasks."
In this way, with just a few words, Ning Weimin completely eliminated the suspicion that he was afraid of the situation.