Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 277 Good Opportunity (Please subscribe)

Open a well-known domestic search engine and search for "Country with the most frequent military coups". The first few pages displayed are basically content related to Thailand.

Thailand believes in Buddhism and is known as the most docile country. However, in more than 60 years, there have been more than 20 military coups, 27 prime ministers, and 52 cabinets.

There is a joke on the Internet that the South Korean president is the most dangerous profession in the world, because every Korean president ends badly in the end.

In fact, the Prime Minister of Thailand is no less generous. The President of South Korea was able to complete his term. Before the 21st century, Thailand did not even have a Prime Minister who could complete his term.

Instability at the political level will naturally affect the economy. If a country cannot provide a stable business environment, it will inevitably affect industrial production.

Moreover, frequent changes in government will also lead to a lack of sustainability in policies. The country's economic policy is one thing today, but will change to another thing tomorrow after the replacement. The uncertainty is too great, and businessmen are naturally unwilling to invest, lest their own policies change if the policy changes.

The money you invested was wasted.

Therefore, Thailand has an excellent geographical location and has received a lot of investment. However, after decades of development, it has never been able to become a strong industrial country. The instability that occurs every day is a very important reason.

Fortunately, Thailand has fertile land and a strong agriculture industry, so every time something goes wrong and the industry suffers a blow, it can always rely on agriculture to help the country gradually recover.

The growth of crops depends on sunlight, land and moisture, so no matter how unstable the political situation in Thailand is or how many people go on strike, crops will continue to grow and the output value of agriculture will always be stable.

In the 1990s, the reason why Thailand was able to attract a large amount of foreign investment and become one of the four Asian Tigers was not through industrial development but through loose and liberal financial policies.

The loose financial policy has made it easier for foreign capital to enter and exit Thailand, and it has indeed brought a lot of foreign capital to Thailand in a short period of time.

However, financial freedom succeeds and fails with financial freedom. Thailand's financial freedom has made Thailand a cash machine for international financial giants. During the Asian financial crisis, Thailand was the first to be attacked by international financial giants.

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After all, Li Weidong is a reborn person. He remembers that in late February 1991, Mr. Chachai of Thailand was ousted from power by General Shunthong.

So when Li Weidong knew that his only competitor was the Thai company Total, Li Weidong knew that he was sure to win.

What Nakano Co., Ltd. needs is a stable microwave oven production line that can supply Nakano Co., Ltd. in a timely manner. If the situation in Thailand is unstable, then Total will naturally be out of business.

Li Weidong began to think of ways to delay time. He invited Kenjiro Shimizu to travel in order to delay Kenjiro Shimizu's return to China. As long as he waited until late February, if something happened in Thailand, Total would not be able to obtain the microwave oven production line.

At this time, after Kenjiro Shimizu informed everyone about the news about Thailand, the conference room fell into a brief commotion.

The executives have all been persuaded by Takata Tsuchiya and have decided to support Total. Letting Li Weidong speak today is just a formality. They don't take Li Weidong to heart. No matter what Li Weidong says, these executives will not change their decision.

But now, the situation is completely different.

The situation in Thailand is unstable. It is not a wise move to dedicate the production line to Thailand at this time.

No one knows what the situation in Thailand will be like, whether it will get better or worse.

If the microwave oven production line is sold to a total company, it is still unknown when the production line will be debugged, when the employees will be trained, and when the microwave oven will be put into production.

If Thailand is in chaos for a few years, the microwave oven production line will not be put into operation for several years, and Nakano Co., Ltd. will have to give up the microwave oven business. This is not what Nakano Co., Ltd. wants to see.

Although the executives of Nakano Co., Ltd. have accepted Takata Tsuchiya’s Rolex, at this time, everyone still has to give priority to the strategic interests of the company. After all, everyone has shares in the company, and this is an investment of real money. No one will

Let yourself lose money for a Rolex.

At this time, Takata Tsuchiya also felt a little guilty.

Takata Tsuchiya doesn’t know what the specific situation is in Thailand now, and whether the situation is serious or not.

If the situation is not serious, it will at most have a slight impact on the economy. But if the situation is serious, there is still a question mark as to whether his total company can continue to operate.

Now Takata Tsuchiya no longer thinks about the microwave oven production line. He just hopes that his Totol company will not suffer too much losses.

At this point, the executives of Nakano Co., Ltd. had no other choice, and Li Weidong finally showed a winner's smile.

"Gentlemen, I just said that China can provide a stable business and production environment, but Thailand obviously cannot do this!" Li Weidong smiled at everyone and continued: "That's all I want to say.

, I hope all the executive directors can give me your precious vote!"

"At this point, do we have any other choice?" President Nakano thought to himself.

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The matter of the microwave oven production line has finally been settled.

Although this was a second-hand microwave oven production line, its price still reached one million US dollars, which was quite expensive at the time.

In 1992, Galanz imported a microwave oven production line from Japan at a cost of just over five million yuan, which was much cheaper than the production line imported by Li Weidong.

However, the Japanese production line introduced by Galanz did not include technical support, so the first batch of microwave ovens produced were not up to standard.

Later, Galanz recruited a chief engineer from the radio factory and hired him with money and a house, thus achieving stable and mass production.

The production line that Li Weidong spent one million US dollars to introduce has technical support. After all, Nakano Co., Ltd. has not given up the microwave oven business. They also hope that the production line can be put into production as soon as possible, and of course they will provide technical support to Li Weidong.

After all, this microwave oven production line is the technology of Hitachi Electric, coupled with the technical support of Japanese engineers, it is indeed worth the money.

One million US dollars in foreign exchange is not a small amount, so after Li Weidong returned to China, he immediately rushed to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and asked Ma Dexing to sign a note so that he could take the RMB to the Foreign Exchange Management Center to exchange for US dollars, and then pay to Nakano Co., Ltd.

Li Weidong had been to Ma Dexing's office many times. He walked to the door with ease, knocked on the door, and then pushed the door open and went in.

I saw that besides Ma Dexing, there were three other people in the room. They were all unfamiliar faces and should not be staff of the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau.

"Director Li is here, please take a seat first!" Ma Dexing pointed to the sofa and continued: "Let me introduce to you, this is Director Li Weidong of Qinghe, who recently negotiated a microwave oven production line from Japan!

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"Microwave oven production line? That's a money printing machine! Things that even money can't buy nowadays. Director Li is indeed young and promising!" one of the bald men said.

Ma Dexing then introduced: "This is Director Zhang from the Provincial Agricultural Machinery Factory No. 1, this is Director Wang from the Provincial Tractor Factory, and this is Director Zhao from the Taishan Agricultural Machinery Factory!"

After Li Weidong greeted the three of them, he sat on the sofa and waited.

I saw Ma Dexing take out three pieces of paper with red tips, write quickly, and then stamp the official seal on them.

"Director Zhang, Director Wang, and Director Zhao, the letters of introduction have been opened for you. I can only help you here, and then it depends on the Ministry of Agriculture to see if they will give you a chance!" Ma Dexing said.

A piece of manuscript paper was handed to the three of them.

"Thank you, Director Ma!" The three people quickly thanked them, exchanged a few words, and then left.

Ma Dexing sent the three people away and turned to look at Li Weidong: "The one million US dollars you want has been approved by the leaders, but you still have to stamp a few stamps. Don't worry, it's just a matter of going through the process. After all, the leaders have already approved it.

It has been signed, no one dares to block you!"

Ma Dexing said, walked to the desk and took out a document bag, which contained documents related to foreign exchange exchange.

"Thank you, Director Ma!" Li Weidong took the document bag and asked, "Are the three of you just now engaged in agricultural machinery? Are you planning to do agricultural machinery export business?"

"What are you asking them for?" Ma Dexing asked subconsciously.

"To be honest, I just took over the agricultural machinery factory in our district, so the three just now can be considered my colleagues!" Li Weidong replied.

"Those three are all provincial-level enterprises. You are an agricultural machinery factory in the district. How dare you be considered as peers with them?" Ma Dexing smiled and then said: "These three came to me to write a letter of introduction!"

"Introduction or something?" Li Weidong asked curiously.

"The Ministry of Agriculture is organizing a group to participate in agricultural machinery exhibitions abroad. The number of exhibitors is limited. These factories want to compete for it. Exhibiting abroad is considered an activity related to foreign trade, so they came to me and wrote a letter of introduction. They planned to

Go to the Ministry of Agriculture to register." Ma Dexing said.

"Which country holds the agricultural machinery exhibition?" Li Weidong asked again.

"It's run by Japan, it seems to be in Hokkaido." Ma Dexing replied.

"Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition!" Li Weidong nodded suddenly.

In the 1990s, the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition was the largest outdoor agricultural machinery exhibition in Asia. Not only did European and American agricultural machinery manufacturers participate in the exhibition, there were also many customers from European and American countries who came to purchase agricultural machinery.

The next second, Li Weidong suddenly realized that this was a good opportunity.

So Li Weidong immediately said: "Director Ma, why don't you also write me a letter of introduction? I also want to go to Hokkaido to participate in the exhibition!"

"Don't be ridiculous! This is an overseas exhibition, not our Canton Fair. What are you messing with!" Ma Dexing said.

"I'm not messing around, I really plan to participate in the exhibition!" Li Weidong paused and then said: "My agricultural machinery factory happens to have a product that is more suitable for making money from foreigners and can be exported to earn foreign exchange.

!If you’re lucky, you might be able to get an order worth millions of dollars.”

When he heard the words "export to earn foreign exchange", Ma Dexing's attitude suddenly became serious.

Li Weidong continued: "When it comes to earning foreign exchange through exports, when have I ever let you down?"

Ma Dexing thought about it carefully and realized that it was really the case. Li Weidong's performance at the Canton Fair was really amazing and very convincing.

Ma Dexing thought for a moment and said: "If you want a letter of introduction, I can give it to you, but the ugly thing is ahead. Whether you can go to Hokkaido to participate in the exhibition, I said it here does not count. The final decision lies with the Ministry of Agriculture.

!My letter of introduction is to allow you to enter the Ministry of Agriculture.

Moreover, those who applied for the Ministry of Agriculture are all large state-owned factories. Of the three you just saw, I am afraid that none of them will be selected by the Ministry of Agriculture. I guess the one who will be chosen to go to Hokkaido in the end will have to be a tow factory.

If you sign up as a county-level agricultural machinery factory, you won’t be selected!"

Li Weidong nodded: "I understand. You can open the letter of introduction for me first. As for the Ministry of Agriculture, I will figure it out myself."

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