Liu Zhongzhou has been going to the bank for a loan to buy copper ore in the past few days, but his feet are running thin.

He ran three banks in a row, and his mouth was worn out, but there was no substantial progress at all.

The bank asked him to provide collateral materials for the two copper mines before he could negotiate a loan. But without the bank's money, he couldn't get the two copper mines, how could he get the information as collateral? Isn't this a dead end?

The group's other relatively large assets have been mortgaged, and a considerable amount of assets cannot be used as collateral, and the bank will definitely not agree to such a large loan.

Seeing that almost a month has passed, there is no eyebrow at all about this matter, and if you don't get a loan as soon as possible, I'm afraid that the matter of buying these two mines will be yellow.

In desperation, he called Vice Governor Zhou, who was in charge of industry, and wanted him to come forward to help coordinate and help him think of a way.

It has been three days since Vice Governor Zhou's secretary received the call, and there has been no news at all.

In the past two days, he didn't dare to go to other places, so he waited in the office, for fear that he wouldn't be able to come back when Vice Governor Zhou summoned him.

Ma Tianming saw Liu Zhongzhou's car parked in the yard, hurriedly took the business plan he had prepared and came upstairs, and when he passed by Wuyunyu's office, he pointed to the chairman's office inside, meaning to ask if Liu Zhongzhou was there, and Wuyunyu nodded knowingly.

Ma Tianming walked to the door, knocked twice on the thick door, and after hearing Liu Zhongzhou's response, he pushed the door in.

Liu Zhongzhou was thinking about a bank loan, and when he saw Ma Tianming coming in, he asked, "What's the matter?"

Ma Tianming said: "Chairman, I will report to you the work plan for the new crushing season. ”

Liu Zhongzhou nodded.

Ma Tianming then sat in front of Liu Zhongzhou's spacious desk and introduced the work plan he had recently considered.

Liu Zhongzhou's mind was all about the acquisition of copper mines, and he had no time to take care of anything else.

In addition, he doesn't know much about the sugar industry, so after Ma Tianming finished speaking, he couldn't hear a reason for the shortcomings of this plan.

The scale of the original business of the sugar company is still too small compared with the non-ferrous metal business of the Southern Group. He didn't expect these businesses to become a new profit growth point for the group, as long as they could support themselves with these businesses and not drag the group back, he was very satisfied.

The group wants to become bigger and stronger, relying on its core business: non-ferrous metals.

Although there is no way to put forward specific opinions on Ma Tianming's plan, the cunning Liu Zhongzhou has his own way to deal with it.

Since he is a layman and has no way to guide Ma Tianming in business, he simply does not mention anything about the business, and directly uses the two most critical elements to control Ma Tianming.

"Your 40 million capital requirements are no problem, but at the end of the crushing season, the rate of return on funds cannot be less than 15 percent, which is the minimum requirement, and it is necessary to carry out job responsibility assessment. This has to be explained in advance, is there a problem?" Liu Zhongzhou said slowly.

Don't look at Liu Zhongzhou's level is not as good as Deputy Director Qiu of the Light Industry Department, but the atmosphere of the agency is completely different from that of the enterprise. In the light industry hall, Ma Tianming walked in and out of the office of the director and deputy director as if he were walking on the ground, and his mentality was very stable.

But since he entered the Southern Group, every time he entered Liu Zhongzhou's office, he was very nervous.

When Liu Zhongzhou said these words just now, he didn't even look at Ma Tianming, but those slow and logical words made Ma Tianming's back wet.

Fifteen percent of the return on funds, that's six million!

Ma Tianming has no bottom in his heart, he has never made so much money, and he is facing the ups and downs of the sugar market.

Such strict business requirements, he has never encountered in the Light Industry Department.

But Liu Zhongzhou's words are very clear, and there is not the slightest room for negotiation; if he agrees, he will not be able to meet the business targets by this time next year, and he will be taken down as the deputy general manager of the sales company.

Ma Tianming knows very well in his heart that the main business of the Southern Group is non-ferrous metals, and the businesses he is currently responsible for are like chicken ribs for Liu Zhongzhou.

From Liu Zhongzhou's point of view, if you throw away these businesses, the original workers of the sugar company will have to rely on the non-ferrous metal business to make a living, but it is unrealistic to think about it if you want to make a lot of money from this business, and it is better to make more efforts in non-ferrous metals to be cost-effective.

If you can't become the vice president, at most you can only mix a business manager within the current business scope, and there is absolutely no other way out.

I don't even think about non-ferrous metals, and I don't know anything about myself, so if I go there, I can only be a salesman.

This is not like the previous office in the Department of Light Industry, which is no longer good in this department, so I will find a way to accommodate it and transfer it to another department to continue to work.

He suddenly felt endless remorse in his heart, he really didn't know what he thought at the beginning, and gave up the light industry supply and marketing company to come to the Southern Group!

If you continue to be on the side of the light industry supply and marketing company, although the temple is a little smaller, you are the abbot anyway, and the pressure from above is not like now, how much more nourishing it is.

But now I'm scared all day long, alas!

He quickly analyzed the situation, now this is the last chance to fight, although it is slim, but he still wants to make one last effort, what if there is a turnaround?

He cleared his somewhat hoarse throat and said, "Mr. Liu, isn't the return rate of 15 percent a bit high?"

Liu Zhongzhou said: "How can this be high? Do you know what the interest on bank loans was during the same period? How much is the 15 percent profit after deducting the bank interest? If it is low, it will not even cover the wages and expenses, what else is this business doing? I also make such demands on other companies in the group, and if you don't want this standard, I will transfer the funds to other companies, and many people are waiting for these funds. ”

Ma Tianming had no way out, so he had to say, "Okay, I'll think about it." ”

Liu Zhongzhou said: "Come up with your opinion as soon as possible, you also said that the new crushing season is about to start, and this matter cannot be delayed." After the goal is set, I don't care what you do, when the time comes, you can just use the data to talk about it, okay?"

After saying this, Liu Zhongzhou looked at Ma Tianming expressionlessly, he didn't know how strong Ma Tianming's business ability was, and there were two reasons for him to be the deputy general manager:

First, it is to stabilize the military morale of the cadres and workers of the original sugar company. Ma Tianming is the original general manager, and if his position is lowered too low, other cadres and workers will be even more in danger.

Second, among the cronies within the Southern Group, none of them had ever come into contact with the sugar industry before, and they were all laymen in this industry. So within a year or two of the merger of the sugar company, if there is no better candidate, he plans to keep Ma Tianming for the time being.

He knows that this business can't be lost, but how long Ma Tianming can work in this position depends entirely on his own level.

If he is capable, it will not be a good thing, and this business will be thrown to him in the future, and he will save himself from sadness and fatigue.

If he can't, then replace it immediately and let his original cronies come over and take over. is also a sales business, find a reliable person to come over, give him two years, how can he find the way out.

In fact, when the two companies had just merged, he privately told Huang Hongliang, the general manager of the sales company, to pay more attention to the sugar business.

As soon as Huang Hongliang heard the chairman's words, he immediately understood the deep meaning of his words. This business is ostensibly under the jurisdiction of Ma Tianming, and Huang Hongliang will not interfere with it.

But with Huang Hongliang's many years of understanding of Liu Zhongzhou, he knows that Liu Zhongzhou will not easily trust people other than his confidants.

At this time, his instructions were obviously to prepare himself and take over Ma Tianming's business when necessary.

To be honest, Huang Hongliang is really not interested in Ma Tianming's business, not to mention the small scale of the business, the purchase and sales cycle and front are still very long, and the profit margin cannot be compared with his own sales of metal copper.

But since the chairman has already spoken, he still doesn't dare to slack off.

He knew that he remembered everything Liu Zhongzhou had explained, and he would never forget it, and no one could say when the result would be. But if you can't get the result when he asks you for it, then you're in trouble.

Huang Hong's appearance was familiar with Liu Zhongzhou's style of doing things, he didn't believe that Liu Zhongzhou would let him lose his business to replace Ma Tianming, after all, the profits he contributed to the group every year accounted for a considerable proportion, and Liu Zhongzhou should not be able to do anything that was sacrificed.

He pondered Liu Zhongzhou's words carefully, and realized that Liu Zhongzhou's meaning seemed to be to let him pay attention to finding someone who could replace Ma Tianming. This made him feel relieved, this should be what Liu Zhongzhou wanted him to do. After that, he began to pay attention to the performance of those business managers under Ma Tianming.

Liu Zhongzhou's cold gaze made Ma Tianming feel a chill.

Ma Tianming is not stupid, although Liu Zhongzhou didn't say anything, but the distrust revealed in his eyes still made Ma Tianming aware of it.

This kind of gaze is at strangers, at outsiders.

Liu Zhongzhou would not look at Huang Hongliang and Jiang Hua with this kind of gaze.

When Liu Zhongzhou was with Huang Hongliang, Jiang Hua and other cronies, he was dignified and easy-going, even if he would reprimand them with a few unbearable foul words from time to time, but after scolding, his eyes would never be as indifferent as this.

Ma Tianming is also a former CEO, he knows that this is the difference between intimacy and alienation, and he is obviously not within the scope of Liu Zhongzhou's circle.

Now that he has escaped from the jurisdiction of the Department of Light Industry, a superior like Deputy Director Qiu who could be relied on in the past can no longer be relied on, and everything in the future will have to rely on himself.

Thinking of this, he agreed again and again and walked out of Liu Zhongzhou's office.