Chapter 274 (1/2)
Originally, this was a very happy thing. Bao Yugang, Dong Haoyun and Huo Yingdong were excited to hear that the deal was reached. Baozixuan changed so many industrial equipment with only a pile of soil. It seems that the value of this soil is really great. Germans are not fools. They must see the important value before they decide to exchange. This makes all three people very optimistic about the future of baohuodong company, and the future must be bright.
Bao Yugang came to the UK after his successful talks with Shen Bi about the loan. This time, he will visit his enterprises in the UK and order several cargo ships. Trading with the Germans requires a lot of transport capacity. Even if the two ship kings work together, they may not be able to adjust it. I was in a good mood during my stay in Britain, but it didn't last long. There was an accident in Xiangjiang. It can be said that there was a fire in the backyard.
The story took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The protagonists were all famous local tyrants at that time. Bao Yugang, male No. 1, was the world ship king and one of the most powerful local tyrants in Xiangjiang. He was firmly in the first place of the world's top ten ship kings in 1978 and the first Chinese director of British funded HSBC. He was knighted by the queen of England in 76. Male No. 2 Jardine Matheson (and its land acquisition company), one of the four major foreign firms in Hong Kong. Male No. 3 li Superman.
1： Story background
Before the big play, explain the background.
First, Lord Bao; Born into a merchant family in 1918, his father Bao Zhaolong has been doing business in Hankou all year round. Sir Alex studied in Shanghai at the age of 13 and entered Wusong Merchant Shipping College to study shipping, a popular major at that time. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he moved to Chongqing and worked as a clerk in a bank. He returned to Shanghai in 38 years and worked in the insurance Department of the Central Trust Bureau. He has a bright future from an ordinary employee to the vice president of Shanghai stock exchange bank. In 1949, the sun and the moon changed. Sir Alex and his father took hundreds of thousands of yuan of savings to Xiangjiang to break into the world.
Sir Alex, who had just arrived in Xiangjiang, started a small business and saved some money. Sir Alex is from Ninghai. He grew up by the sea. He is deeply in love with the sea and proposes to engage in sea transportation. Although his parents objected, Sir Alex was determined and didn't have enough money for his friends. He made $700000 and went to Britain to buy a used cargo ship, dragged it back for renovation and named it ”Jin'an”. Shipping began! The global shipping group was established in 1995.
At that time, the shipping industry generally adopted the method of short rent. One voyage was settled once, the charge was high, and the price could be raised at any time (shipping was very popular at that time). Sir Alex has a unique insight and adopts the method of long-term rent. He rents the ship to others in installments of 3 years, 5 years or even 10 years, and collects the rent on a monthly basis. Although the rent is low, the risk is small and the cash flow is stable. Relying on his steady business model, Sir Alex has become a leader among Chinese businessmen and the first in shipping in the world.
But flowers don't turn red. In the 1970s, due to the fourth Middle East War and Iran's civil strife, there were two oil crises. The old men in the West began to dig oil fields in their own land, and the North Sea oil fields in Europe and Texas oil fields in the Americas produced oil one after another. RBS began to hoard oil in the early 1970s. At the end of the 1970s, the pots were full, and began to significantly reduce oil imports. The shipping industry suffered a huge impact. Sir Alex's business sea has fluctuated for decades, and the old driver, Seeing that the signs were wrong, he immediately began to withdraw. In the late 1970s, at the beginning of the shipping depression, Sir Alex decided to sell his oil tankers at a large price. Before the huge wave of ship disaster hit, he rushed to the beach and was ready to land.
Let's talk about jiulongcang. The history of Kowloon warehouse can be traced back to 1871. The British businessman Paul Standard Chartered established Hong Kong Wharf and warehouse company in Hong Kong. Due to the land restriction in Wanchai, it moved to the west of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon in 1875 and was later renamed Hong Kong Kowloon wharf and warehouse Co., Ltd., hereinafter referred to as Kowloon warehouse. In addition to the founders, the major shareholders also include Jardine's and other ocean banks. After Standard Chartered hung up, jiulongcang fell into the hands of Jardine's kaiserk family.
Li Chaoren was the first one to kill.