area51novel Chapter 517 Cooperation with Southeast Market
Chapter 517 Cooperation with Southeast Market
Guo He sighed and explained
“There seem to be a lot of Chinese people in the southeast, but they are scattered.”
"More than five million Chinese are distributed in Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand and other countries"
"There are no more than tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in a single area."
"The indigenous and Western forces are heavily guarded, and the local Chinese merchants are all southerners, and military service is a problem."
"After the fall of the Lan Fang Empire, there was no longer any mobilization among the Chinese to gather together and fight for power."
"In the final analysis, this is our own fault."
Zhang Yun nodded and smiled bitterly.
"In fact, even though white people are not discriminating against us as much now, the resulting vigilance is stricter than in the past."
"In the past few years, even gatherings of more than ten Chinese people would attract the police."
"We are strictly guarding against Chinese people carrying guns"
"It is not easy to build a country"
Zhang Renkang shook his head and smiled.
"In the final analysis, it's nothing more than a lack of weapons and a lack of willingness to sacrifice blood."
"Hundreds of thousands of Chinese people can gather together and mobilize at least 10,000 guerrillas. Even if they are short of weapons, with proper preparation, it is impossible for the world to not be able to buy basic guns and ammunition."
"Even if they lack large heavy weapons, how much combat power can the Southeast countries have?"
"Gentlemen, don't you see that the Mesas are having a hard time in the rain forest?"
"Another thing is that military training is neither easy nor difficult."
"It shouldn't be difficult to organize thousands of people to go to South America, find a few training grounds, and hire a few military instructors, right?"
"The difficult part is whether you have the determination to sacrifice."
"Especially now, you can see clearly the world situation. The West can't last many years in the southeast. This is where their power is the weakest."
"As long as you are not aiming to establish a country in the direction of dominating the southeast and carve out a piece of Chinese land, I think this is easy to do."
"If Euro doesn't work, then look for Mesa. If Mesa doesn't work, then look for the North."
"The North has always dreamed of having access to the South's seaport. The only thing between the countries is an exchange of interests."
"First, we need to gain the Chinese roots in the Southeast. It won't be too late to seek strength and independence."
Guo He's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and he asked tentatively
"domestic"
Zhang Renkang shook his head and said
"Independence requires bloodshed, and only bloodshed can forge a solidified faith"
“No war is supported in the country”
"But we support the just liberation cause of people all over the world"
"You can see that the country is currently at a crossroads in its transformation and search for ways to develop foreign trade. At this time, we will not support any illegal forces."
Zhang Yun heard some meaning and smiled.
“What if it’s legal?”
Zhang Renkang smiled and said
"I believe that the country is happy to trade and cooperate with legal countries around the world."
Guo He nodded and said with a smile
"it is good"
"Then let's continue discussing legal trade matters."
"I wonder if Renkang has any opinion on the cooperation plan we proposed?"
Zhang Renkang shook his head and said with a smile
"Since Mr. Guo and Mr. Zhang have shown such great sincerity, we naturally have no objection."
"However, my opinion is that all profits belonging to Xinhua Automobile Group should be purchased from Mr. Guo at market prices and transported to Yangcheng by Mr. Zhang and Mr. Huo's fleet."
"In addition, I will try to persuade the country to ask the Chinese businessmen in the southeast to contact the sales channels to dispose of the batch of Soviet-made weapons we had in stock."
"Of course, we still need to exchange it for basic raw materials, such as sugar, rubber, grain, minerals, etc."
"Especially how about grain, sugar and rubber?"
"I am very optimistic about the market of sugar in the next three to five years"
"Mr. Guo may take advantage of the situation to prepare a batch. I think the market fluctuations in two years will be enough to make a huge profit."
"We can allocate a group of funds to support Mr. Guo in acquiring plantations and raw sugar, and wait for the opportunity to make a profit in the future."
Guo He was shocked. He didn't understand how Zhang Renkang judged that the price of sugar would rise. Judging from the current world sugar market, it was still as stable as water, without any obvious fluctuations.
Moreover, as a Southeast sugar merchant, one of the world's largest raw sugar and sugar refining merchants, and the so-called Asian Sugar King, he did not smell the fluctuation of sugar prices. Zhang Renkang said that there would be a big rise in the next few years.
This, this is impossible
Guo Hefu looked at Zhang Renkang with interest and smiled
"Renkang, what is the basis for your judgment?"
"Looking at the current market in the southeast, sugar prices remain stable"
Zhang Renkang shook his head and said with a smile
"I'm not looking at the present, but as the population grows, especially as China begins to enter the world, the demand for sugar will increase."
"In the next five years, there will inevitably be a big gap due to the current production of sugar beets and sugar cane."
“If we lay out the plantations now, there will be a golden period in the next few years”
"However, sugar is a daily necessity, and the technology is not difficult to replicate."
"So, after making profits, we will gradually sell the plantations at market prices."
"If Mr. Guo intends to monopolize the sugar price in the southeast and control the plantations, we can also sell them to Mr. Guo at a reasonable price later."
Zhang Renkang wanted to take advantage of this period to buy a group of sugarcane growers in the southeast. According to the timeline, the Americans were about to collapse, and because of the oil price crisis caused by the new round of war in the Middle East, the princes who made a lot of money had no place to spend their money, so they invested a lot of money in the sugar market. In addition, due to the weather in the north, the sugar beet was signed, and the supply of sugar would be in short supply in the next few years.
The profits of Xinhua Automobile Group are just dead money lying on the books. It is better to use them to create some value, even if it is just to exchange more food for the country.
Guo He nodded and said with a smile
"If Renkang is interested in the sugar market in the southeast, the Guo Group would be happy to help."
“But managing a plantation is not an easy task.”
"You are planning to"
Zhang Renkang said with a smile
"If Mr. Guo is willing, we can invest and cooperate to manage your Guo company."
"We share a profit according to the investment"
"In the future, we will sell the plantation to you first. Of course, if the Guo family doesn't need it, we will sell it to others."
Guo He nodded in agreement. He was the largest raw sugar merchant in the southeast market. Zhang Renkang was willing to invest money to help him consolidate his position. Why would he disagree?
Besides, this way, Guo's Sugar Industry can not only expand rapidly and control the largest number of plantations and raw sugar sources in the southeast, but also establish a huge cost moat.
Although Guo He still didn't understand how Zhang Renkang got the information about the development of the sugar industry to prove that the price of sugar would rise sharply in the future, the immediate benefits were enough for the Guo family to make a huge profit.
Zhang Yun even directly obtained the shipping order from Xinhua Automobile Group to the southeast market, and shared the profit margin of the transportation with Huo.
Moreover, they also got a big share of the distribution rights of the Southeast market of Xinhua Automobile Group.
Naturally satisfied
Huo Dong was even happier. It seemed that he had made the least profit from this cooperation, but the Huo family's roots were in Hong Kong Island, not in the southeast. Being able to get a part of the transportation orders was already a considerable profit.
More importantly, through this, Huo Dong proved his value and status
If it wasn't through him, would Zhang Renkang be able to meet the two Chinese businessmen from the southeast so happily?
This has an intangible value for the Huo family's status in the Southeast Chinese business circle. This is what Huo Dong values.
But none of them knew what impact today's conversation had.
Especially for the Southeast Chinese Businessmen gathering that Guo He and Zhang Yun attended after returning, when the idea of establishing an independent nation was raised again, with the conflict between the Malay natives and the Chinese, a new Chinese nation that was larger than the previous one was about to be brewed.
(This year, after I am fully prepared, I plan to write a novel about the founding of the nation by Chinese in the Southeast 44 years later)