Today is New Year's Eve, and the phone has been ringing non-stop since the afternoon. Many people are using the phone to wish each other good luck.
Today's telephone operators are Sun Yuanyuan and Sun Dahe. They have already agreed that they will take turns and each will answer one call. Now it is Sun Yuanyuan's turn to answer the phone.
"Hey, happy New Year! This is the Sun family. Who are you? What can I do?"
Sister and sister Sun Yuanyuan specially asked Sun Dahai to teach them how to speak on the phone in the afternoon. Now it seems that they are quite proficient in memorizing it.
"Oh, sister Qiao, please wait a moment." Sun Yuanyuan covered the microphone with her hand and said to Sun Dahai: "Brother, the person who is looking for you is sister Qiao Wanting."
Qiao Wanting has been to the capital twice, so she has naturally met her little baby Sun Yuanyuan. Sun Yuanyuan has been calling Qiao Wanting sister after her brother.
Qiao Wanting has a feminine mentality and likes Sun Yuanyuan to call her sister. Sun Dahai has never understood this mentality. Sun Yuanyuan is 16 years younger than Qiao Wanting. He thinks that there is a difference in age, so the title should be different in generation.
Qiao Wanting was born in October 1961, and is more than eleven years older than Sun Dahai. Sun Dahai was born again, with a mental age of over 40 years old, so he naturally did not want to call a little girl aunt.
Sun Dahai insists on exercising, has good nutrition, and has a mature mentality. He does things calmly and calmly. He always looks calm and confident. Anyone who sees him will think that he is at least fourteen or fifteen years old.
After Qiao Wanting joined the company, Sun Dahai stopped calling her sister and directly called her by her first name. However, no one seemed to be uncomfortable with this, and even she didn't care.
Qiao Wanting is calling now to wish Sun Dahai a happy birthday on behalf of her brother and sister, as well as Zhou Haibing. They have now returned to Lamma Island and are preparing to celebrate the New Year in the Qiao family's new house.
Qiao Hongwei and Qiao Wanting have made a lot of money following Sun Dahai in the past two years.
The brother and sister discussed it and jointly contributed money to buy another piece of land behind their home. Then they demolished the old house and built two new two-story buildings with courtyards at the front and back.
It turns out that the Qiao family's house is a small courtyard, with a restaurant in the front and a kitchen and living quarters in the back. Now, the land area of the Qiao family has doubled, the building area has more than quadrupled, and the per capita housing area has suddenly entered the golden-collar class.
s level.
The parents of both parties have approved the matter of Zhou Haibing and Qiao Wanting. Because they are not very old and both are busy at work, they plan to get married in two years.
This year they all went to the Qiao family's new house to celebrate the New Year. Qiao Hongwei thought that it would be difficult to call Sun Dahai's family on the first day of every year, so on New Year's Eve, everyone came together to pay early New Year greetings.
After Qiao Wanting said New Year greetings, it was Zhou Haibing's turn. While saying New Year greetings, he told Sun Dahai that the mortgage loan applied for by the company had been received yesterday.
He has already paid US$100 million as the first payment for the office building project as agreed in advance.
The office building acquisition contract has been signed and implemented. As expected, Qiao Hongwei negotiated the price to US$2.5 billion, and the company will pay US$100 million to the original project investor in the first phase to complete the project acquisition.
The remaining amount is actually the project cost, which must be paid to the construction party Antai Real Estate one by one according to the progress of the project. This has nothing to do with outsiders.
The company had money in its account, but Sun Dahai was planning to make Japanese yen, so he used stocks worth nearly US$1.1 billion in the Japanese stock market to apply for a joint loan of US$700 million from Japan's Sumitomo Bank and Chiba Bank.
Sun Dahai told Zhou Haibing in advance that after the loan is received, the company will leave 200 million US dollars to pay for the upfront payment of the office building project. The remaining 500 million US dollars will be transferred to the account of the trading team before March 1.
spare.
Zhou Haibing’s words prove that this part of the work has basically been completed.
Finally, Qiao Hongwei answered the phone. After celebrating the New Year, he still had business matters to discuss, but instead of talking to Sun Dahai, he wanted to talk to Wu Dawei.
Sun Dawei asked Wu Dawei to answer the phone, but he did not leave. Instead, he sat curiously and listened to their conversation.
It turns out that the liquor business of Huanyu Trading Company has been extended from Central Europe to Russia. Wu Dawei grasped the situation and did not directly enter the Russian sales market. Instead, he shipped goods in Central Europe and wholesaled to agents with sales channels in Russia.
The agents there didn't have many U.S. dollars or Western currencies in their hands, so the cost of exchanging them was very high. But they chose to trade in rubles, but Wu Dawei was not interested.
Later, Wu Dawei asked for the opinions of many customers and decided to adopt a barter transaction, exchanging Su Bian for Russian steel, fertilizers and other heavy industry and chemical products.
Antai Real Estate is one of them. The steel they use in large quantities in the construction industry is the most cost-effective and is made from Russia. The steel used in the second and third phases of the Lan Kwai Fong project is made from Russia purchased by Huanyu Trading Company.
Antai Real Estate also placed an order with Huanyu Trading Company for the office building project acquired by Qiao Hongwei. However, due to debt problems, N issued an injunction and temporarily stopped the construction of the project. After several twists and turns, the owner of the project became Erection Future.
Huanyu Trading Company uses sea transportation, and the amount of steel in one ship is very large, which cannot be consumed by one office building. Therefore, Huanyu Trading Company also ships many commonly used types of steel on the same ship, and these need to be found another home.
Qiao Hongwei is now anxious to find Wu Dawei because his friend's company is also planning to purchase a batch of construction steel. He wants to ask Wu Dawei about the model and quantity of steel that has not yet been sold, so that others can quote.
When Sun Dahai heard this, he suddenly interjected: "Where does the steel used in our own buildings and dormitories come from?"
Sun Weiguo, who was sitting on the side, spoke: "Why do you care about this? The first phase of the project was constructed by an engineering team affiliated with China State Construction Engineering Corporation. Most of the steel is domestically produced and the price is internally allocated."
"Dad, how is the Russian construction steel? How does the price/performance ratio compare with our domestic products?"
"The quality of domestic steel is definitely not as good as that of Russian products, especially high-grade steel and special steel, which cannot be produced domestically yet and can only be imported.
As for cost-effectiveness, our country has been short of foreign exchange over the years and will never use imported goods when it can be replaced with domestic goods, so it is not easy to value."
"Okay, now Huanyu Trading Company happens to have a batch of construction steel being transported by sea. Uncle Wu will write down the data of this batch of steel. Let's ask the designer to study it and see if we can use Russian goods as much as possible."
Wu Dawei said: "No problem, I have records of the specifications and quantity of this batch of goods. There are still some leftover goods in the company's warehouse, which are commonly used types of construction steel. I have written down all the data. First
To meet our own needs."
"Dahai, will the final cost be too high in this case?" Sun Weiguo was worried that the price would be high and exceed the budget, and Sun Dahai would make up the money himself.
"Cost is not a problem." Sun Dahai and Wu Dawei said at the same time. They looked at each other and smiled knowingly.11
