Reborn Industrial Tycoon

In full view of everyone, Li Weidong walked into Mintai Foreign Trade Company and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Feeling the envious, jealous and hateful looks around him, Li Weidong sighed helplessly.

"I really don't want to pretend to be that way. You guys forced me to do that! I originally wanted to keep a low profile. If you hadn't blocked the door just now and wouldn't let me in, I wouldn't have to wait until now!" Li Weidong muttered in his heart.

Li Weidong walked into Mintai Foreign Trade Company. The person in charge of reception at the front desk was a young girl. The girl was looking in the mirror with her head lowered. Li Weidong walked in and saw through the reflection in the mirror that the girl's skin was not very good.

They are all acne.

"Hello, comrade, I'm here..."

"We don't accept RMB and foreign exchange certificates here! In addition, we don't accept rubles." The young girl interrupted Li Weidong without raising her head.

The girl's tone was very stiff, and Li Weidong could feel that the girl's attitude was not very good, and she did not behave like a receptionist at all.

Li Weidong didn't care how bad the other party's attitude was. In the 1980s, the waiters in state-owned hotels were cold and cold. For "good units" like foreign trade companies, there was no need to expect smiling service from the staff.

Li Weidong took out an envelope with a cashier's check of 10 million yen inside. Then Li Weidong said: "I have foreign exchange, it's Japanese yen."

"Japanese yen is fine, but you have to pay in cash!" The girl was still looking in the mirror.

"It's cashier's check, cashier's check. You can withdraw cash at any time." Li Weidong replied.

The girl finally raised her head, and it turned out that she had pimples on her face, her mouth was big and her eyes were small, her face was sallow, and she even wore pink lipstick. She looked like a monkey. She looked really ugly!

"I'm afraid this front desk was recruited by the landlady herself!" Li Weidong complained in his heart.

"Bring me the cashier's check, let me take a look," the girl said.

Li Weidong took out the cashier's check and handed it to the girl. The girl looked at the string of "0" numbers on it and returned the cashier's check to Li Weidong.

"Turn left, take the first door, and look for Manager Chen." After the girl finished speaking, she lowered her head and continued to look in the mirror.

Li Weidong didn't bother to argue with a receptionist, he just followed the direction the girl pointed, knocked on the door and walked in, where he met Manager Chen.

"Comrade, please sit down." Manager Chen pointed to the chair in front of him and continued: "Is this your first time coming to pick up goods from us, right? Show me your note first, and I will check which unit issued the note.

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Manager Chen regarded Li Weidong as an "official traitor" and would read the note as soon as he opened his mouth.

Li Weidong said: "Manager Chen, I'm not here to pick up the goods. I want to purchase a batch of imported equipment through your young master."

"Purchase equipment!" Manager Chen was slightly startled. Since he became the manager of this foreign trade company, he has been doing the job of reading notes and supplying goods. This is the first time that someone has come to ask for products.

Under normal circumstances, if a company wants to purchase imported equipment, it will go through the foreign trade department, write an application and submit it layer by layer, and then review and approve it layer by layer. In the end, the foreign trade department will complete the purchase.

Although trading companies import equipment, they can save the intermediate links, time and processes, but foreign exchange is really difficult to obtain. Even if companies want to find foreign trade companies, they can't get the foreign exchange to go to trading companies for procurement.

Manager Chen was a little excited when he encountered new business. He asked: "What equipment are you planning to buy?"

"Knitting machine." Li Weidong answered.

"What is it for?" Manager Chen obviously doesn't know much about machinery.

"It is mainly used in the textile industry. Our factory plans to use a braiding machine to make a core-filled braid for subsequent product processing." Li Weidong answered.

"It turns out to be a textile factory!" Manager Chen nodded with sudden realization. Although he didn't know what core braiding was, he still pretended to understand.

Manager Chen then asked: "What kind of knitting machine does your factory plan to purchase?"

"We have already conducted an inspection. It is best to use the XD90-8-4S knitting machine produced by Japan's Otsuka Precision Machinery Company, or the XD90-8-6 knitting machine." Li Weidong replied.

"Otsuka Precision Machinery Company?" Manager Chen looked confused.

"This company is in Osaka and is a precision machinery manufacturer that has mastered the core components of high-speed knitting machines." Li Weidong answered.

"Oh! It sounds pretty awesome." Manager Chen nodded, and then asked: "Comrade, which unit are you from? If you want to buy imported knitting machines, it must be a big factory in the textile industry!"

"Our factory is the garment factory of Qinghe District Transportation Company." Li Weidong answered honestly.

"Qinghe? Where is it? Transportation company? Are you engaged in transportation? Clothing factory? Why is it related to the transportation company again? Where is this all from!"

Manager Chen looked confused, and then he asked: "Comrade, what level of enterprise is your garment factory? National level? Provincial level? Could it be prefectural or municipal level?"

Li Weidong had no choice but to answer: "Qinghe Transportation Company is a municipal-level enterprise, and our garment factory is the tertiary industry of the transportation company."

"A tertiary industry worker from a prefecture-level enterprise came to me to discuss the purchase of imported equipment! What kind of place is this? Is it a vegetable market? I just walked over here when I want to buy vegetables!" Manager Chen thought to himself.

At this moment, Manager Chen wanted to yell: Get out of here!

Mintai Foreign Trade really has no business here. As long as anyone can get through this door, how can there be an ordinary enterprise? It can be said that there are as many high-ranking enterprises as dogs here, and there are also national-level enterprises. Occasionally, there are one or two prefectural-level enterprises.

The companies that receive the letters are all with strength and background.

To put it another way, ordinary companies cannot get approval slips to sell imported goods.

Nowadays, Qinghe Transportation Company, which I have never heard of, or its tertiary industry, came to discuss the purchase of imported equipment, which instantly made Manager Chen feel like he was being looked down upon.

"What is Xiao Liu doing at the front desk? Why are all the cats and dogs being put in there? A tertiary industry member of a prefecture-level enterprise can sneak in!" Manager Chen's face was ashen and he planned to see the guests off directly.

Li Weidong seemed to have anticipated Manager Chen's reaction, so he instantly took out the cashier's check, pushed it in front of Manager Chen, and said, "Manager Chen, I came here with money."

"One, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, ten million yen!" Manager Chen glanced at the cashier's check and counted the "0"s on it, with a look of disgust on his face.

, disappeared instantly.

This is also a man who is greedy for money.

"Is this a cashier's check from Fuji Bank? Ten million yen, according to the exchange rate, is about more than sixty thousand US dollars." After all, Manager Chen is engaged in foreign trade and has dealt with Fuji Bank. After a closer look, he recognized this person.

The Fuji Bank logo is on the ticket.

After the Plaza Accord, the yen continued to appreciate. Although it was not as crazy as the 20% surge in the first three months, the general trend was still rising. By 1987, the U.S. dollar against the yen was about

Fluctuating around 1:160, 10 million yen can be exchanged for more than 60,000 US dollars.

In 1987, if an ordinary businessman could get five thousand US dollars, he was considered strong. The ability of "official businessmen" was greater, but signing a note would only cost ten to twenty thousand US dollars. If it was more, the goal would be too big.

It is easy to be noticed by relevant departments.

Therefore, a purchase of more than 60,000 US dollars is also a big deal for Mintai Foreign Trade Company.

"Comrade, what's your surname?" Manager Chen finally remembered to ask Li Weidong's identity.

"My surname is Li, and my name is Li Weidong. I am the director of the garment factory of Qinghe Transportation Company." Li Weidong answered.

"It turns out to be Factory Director Li!" Manager Chen nodded, and then said: "Director Li, please wait here for a moment. I have to report to our general manager."

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About ten minutes later, Li Weidong met the general manager of Mintai Foreign Trade.

The general manager of Mintai Foreign Trade is named Xiao Yuanzheng. He is in his thirties, wearing a suit and tie, and speaks with a pure Beijing accent. His whole temperament is like an unsheathed sword, reserved but reserved.

Without losing its edge.

The moment he saw Xiao Yuanzheng, Li Weidong felt that Xiao Yuanzheng was definitely a high-ranking disciple.

"Director Li, please take a seat." Xiao Yuanzheng pointed to the chair in front of the desk.

Li Weidong sat down and glanced at the furnishings in front of Xiao Yuanzheng, and found that there were several Japanese advertisements placed in front of Xiao Yuanzheng's hands. A closer look revealed that they were all real estate advertisements.

"Many of the children of these high-ranking cadres are high-minded. They look gentle on the surface, but in fact they look down on ordinary people in their hearts. When dealing with such people, you have to get the upper hand!" Li Weidong thought of this, and he spoke.

Asked: "Mr. Xiao is interested in Japanese real estate?"

"Director Li still knows Japanese?" Xiao Yuanzheng asked.

"I know something." Li Weidong continued: "To be honest, the yen in my hand was earned from dealing with Tianfeng Automobile."

"Tianfeng Motors is a world-class enterprise." Xiao Yuanzheng said casually.

Li Weidong continued: "I also know something about the situation in Japan. If Mr. Xiao wants to invest in Japanese real estate, now is not a good time."

"How do you say this?" Xiao Yuanzheng asked.

"Japan's real estate has now created a bubble, and this bubble will get bigger and bigger, just like passing flowers around by beating a drum. When the bubble explodes, whoever gets the flowers will lose everything." Li Weidong said.

There was a hint of joking in Xiao Xiao Yuanzheng's eyes, and he obviously felt that Li Weidong was trying to please others. He said jokingly: "Director Li, your opinions are completely opposite to those of economists in the capital! Many economists in the capital

Everyone feels that Japan's economy is doing well. The stock market is rising, real estate is also increasing in value, and assets, both official and private, are increasing significantly. At this rate of development, Japan is likely to surpass the United States within ten years.

Become the world’s largest economy.”

"Japan's real estate is increasing in value, and stocks are indeed soaring. Some economists have calculated that if all the real estate in Tokyo is sold, the money can buy the entire United States!" Li Weidong smiled slightly and continued; "Mr. Xiao

Do you think one Tokyo is worth the entire United States? This is what I call a bubble, which is the expansion of asset prices."

"But now Japan's economy is indeed booming." Xiao Yuanzheng said.

"It's just the last craziness before the collapse." Li Weidong continued: "This year, the world's economy has experienced rapid growth, and there will inevitably be a round of inflation. Western countries will raise interest rates and attract funds back to the European and American markets.

Something inevitable.

But the United States may not allow the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates, because once the Bank of Japan raises interest rates, funds will not return to the European and American markets, and Japan will also be worried that more international capital will flow into Japan and promote the appreciation of the yen..."

Li Weidong began to talk endlessly about Japan's economic bubble.

Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s is no stranger to economists in the market. There has long been a consensus on the causes and consequences of the economic bubble, as well as the wrong decisions made by the Japanese government in dealing with the economic bubble.

However, at the beginning of 1987, most economists did not realize the seriousness of Japan's economic bubble. Even if some economists saw the hidden worries of the economic bubble, they would never have thought that popping the economic bubble would directly lead to

Japan has experienced two decades of economic decline.

At that time, there were not many people studying economics in China. Even those so-called economists, their research lagged far behind the world. When economists all over the world were advocating the rise of Japan's economy, the domestic economy

The scientists could only join in the booing.

What's more, in the mid-1980s, the economic pressure faced by the country was much more serious than that of Japan. The country's butt had not been wiped clean, so how could there be time to study foreign countries.

In his previous life, Li Weidong once enrolled in an MBA course at a business school and met several female celebrities and models who wanted sugar daddies.

When he was taking an MBA course, the professor once talked about Japan's economic bubble, so Li Weidong was no stranger to the causes and consequences of Japan's economic bubble, as well as its impact.

Now Li Weidong told these contents to Xiao Yuanzheng, which instantly aroused Xiao Yuanzheng's interest.

At that time, the children of high-ranking cadres in the capital were no strangers to national affairs and international situations. After all, they grew up in that kind of environment and had been exposed to them since childhood. Many high-ranking cadres who were fifteen or sixteen years old talked about national affairs in a clear and logical manner.

, the knowledge and vision are obviously several times higher than ordinary people.

If there are elders in the family who are older, the children of senior cadres can also have access to some internal reference materials, such as some local surveys, analysis by some experts, etc., which can also be seen by the children of senior cadres.

Xiao Yuanzheng is such a disciple of a high-ranking cadre. He has seen some economics professors in Beijing analyze the Japanese economy. However, the analysis of those professors is completely opposite to what Li Weidong said.

Of course Xiao Yuanzheng believed in the professor, so he dismissed Li Weidong. However, as Li Weidong slowly explained, Xiao Yuanzheng felt more and more that what Li Weidong said seemed more convincing!

The judgments and internal analysis of economists in the capital suddenly became wrong conclusions in Li Weidong's words.

Xiao Yuanzheng really wanted to find some loopholes in Li Weidong's words to overturn Li Weidong's conclusion. However, when Xiao Yuanzheng carefully analyzed Li Weidong's inference, he found that Li Weidong's inference was reasonable and perfect, without any flaws!

"What is this young man's background? Did he come back from studying abroad?" Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't help but start to look squarely at Li Weidong in front of him.