The business manager asked, "Mr. Ma, how long does it take to sell these sugars in the futures market?"

Ma Tianming said: "The key is the price, as long as the price is right, it is a matter of minutes to sell." ”

The business manager asked, "At what price are you going to sell?"

Ma Tianming glanced at him and said, "So I asked you to quickly count the transportation costs that may occur in the future delivery, and the final cost can't be determined, how to sell it?"

The business manager hurriedly said: "I understand, Mr. Ma, I will come up with the data as soon as possible." ”

Ma Tianming put a piece of stewed bullwhip into his mouth and chewed it, thought thoughtfully for a while, as if talking to himself, and as if answering the question of the business manager just now: "The price can't be too high, just leave when it's almost over, go in and out, so as not to be trapped." ”

Ma Tianming is also crossing the river by feeling the stones to do this cane sugar business, he is not too sure of the price, and the financial manager is even more unable to intervene on this issue.

But when he heard this, he glanced at Ma Tianming, who was a little distracted, and echoed: "Mr. Ma, you are right, I also think that this money cannot be pressed in the futures market for too long, and it should be fast-in and fast-out." ”

In his opinion, the company's funds are not abundant, and Ma Tianming temporarily intends to let himself raise this money for other purposes, and he is very worried that this move will affect the company's financial arrangements, after all, this is not a small number. But Ma Tianming just said that to that point, he didn't dare to disobey, so he could only temporarily put aside the worries in his heart and promised to come down.

At this time, seeing that Ma Tianming's own words were also full of worry, he hurriedly persuaded him.

Another point is that Ma Tianming got so much sugar without using a penny in the company's account, which made him secretly surprised. At the same time, he also had a huge question in his heart: no matter how this batch of sugar came from, sooner or later the payment will have to be given to the sugar factory, when will this payment be made?

The sugar is worth tens of millions of yuan, and the company can't get this money out of its accounts. Ma Tianming knew this situation very well, and he was in a hurry to sell this batch of sugar in the futures market, and it was estimated that he would also quickly cash it out.

The financial manager himself has never been in contact with the sucrose sales business, but he took the company's past business volume to roughly estimate that it would take two or three months for such a large batch of goods to be sold out.

Coupled with the time for the payment to arrive, it is estimated that it will have to be extended by at least another month. In other words, it will take about four months from now to have the money to pay the sugar factory. If the sugar factory had come to urge the payment before, I, the financial manager, would have no way at all.

After Ma Tianming returned to the office after eating, his waist and knees were sore, and he lay on the couch and planned to take a lunch break, but he couldn't sleep anyway.

Distraught, he now has two stalks in his heart: First, how much will the price rise? Will the market give him a chance to get out of the way in the next two months? Second, the payment time agreed with the sugar factory is coming soon.

As for the second question, he has now gradually made up his mind, since he can't catch up with the time, he has no choice but to let go of this old face, and he can delay it as long as he can. The sugar factory had no choice but to say more good things, and it had to find a way to delay until after mid-May before there could be funds.

I and they are also brother units in the same system, which is still a little different from the relationship between sugar factories and ordinary distributors that are completely business partners, and the relationship should not be stiffened because of this matter, right?

But he is becoming more and more unsure about the price.

Today, a large amount of extra freight has made the cost rise a lot. Based on the futures price I learned yesterday, it is estimated that it will be just the same as my own cost.

If the price of sugar continues to rise in the next two months, then everything will be fine, and it will be possible to pay the sugar factory until mid-May.

But if the price of sugar falls in the future, everything will be difficult.

After Liu Zhongzhou, chairman and general manager of the Southern Group, came out of the light industry hall, he took Jiang Hua, the accompanying office director, and asked the driver to drive directly to the sugar company. He came to the Light Industry Department this time to learn more about the specific situation of the sugar company.

After the car stopped in the compound of the sugar company, he and Jiang Hua got out of the car, looked around left and right, and then followed the stairs to the second floor.

Southern Group is a large mining and metallurgical group company, whose main business is the mining and smelting of copper ore. This is one of several companies that the Department of Light Industry has intentionally contacted in the process of merger and reorganization of sugar companies.

With the rapid expansion of the company's business in recent years, Nanfang Group urgently needs to set up a sales company in Jiangcheng. After learning about the situation of the sugar company through the matchmaking of the Light Industry Department, after some understanding in the early stage, they believed that the geographical location and operation of the sugar company still had some merits, so they had several rounds of contact with the Light Industry Department.

Unlike several other companies that came to learn about the sugar company, the Southern Group was not scared away by the sugar company's huge net worth of tens of millions of yuan, and they considered the problem from a different angle.

In the view of Liu Zhongzhou, the CEO of the group, the sugar company has a large area of office land in the core of Jiangcheng City, and the company's office building is also one of the few landmark buildings in the surrounding area, and the life of completion is not long.

I want to set up a sales company in Jiangcheng, and in the long run, it is very unrealistic to rent an office building.

If you buy land and build an office building in a good area of the city, it will take at least two years to complete and put it into use. Just counting the cost of buying land and building a house, it is estimated that it is not much different from the debt to take over the sugar company.

Judging from the presentation, the usable area of the sugar company's building is quite large, far exceeding the needs of a sales branch. If you take over, with a little decoration in the future, you can even move the group's headquarters from the factory far away from the provincial capital to Jiangcheng.

In the past two years, with the expansion of business and the need for foreign exchanges, he often feels the inconvenience of the company's headquarters in a remote corner.

In terms of external publicity and communication, the whole group has no office location in the provincial capital, and the overall image is greatly reduced. In the eyes of customers outside the province, the company is still an enterprise in a small county.

It is also because the whole group is located in a remote county, including many management personnel, and there is a short-sighted phenomenon of frogs at the bottom of the well among the employees. It is believed that the company is a large local profit and tax company, and the salary income of employees is second to none in the local area, and the phenomenon of not wanting to make progress in work and being satisfied with the status quo is very serious.

This is also one of the reasons why he came up with the idea of establishing a window in the provincial capital, and then moved the group's headquarters from the county seat to the provincial capital. If the company is going to develop in the future, this step will have to be taken sooner or later.

If the takeover of the sugar company this time can meet the hardware conditions for the establishment of a sales branch and the relocation of the group headquarters, it will be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, and this transaction will be very cost-effective.

Liu Zhongzhou walked upstairs and downstairs, and gradually had a more intuitive understanding in his heart. The company's hardware conditions are basically consistent with the introduction on the information, which is also the most valuable part in his eyes.

As for the company's original business, judging from what I just observed on the second floor, it has been completely stagnant, which is not surprising for a company that has broken the capital chain.

He also had a detailed understanding that the company's major businesses originally accounted for a considerable proportion of the industry, as long as there are new funds to enter the business, not to mention whether it can still have as many advantages as before, at least it should not be a problem to support the company's original employees.

This solves the problem of personnel placement after taking over the company, which has always been one of the problems faced in the merger and reorganization of enterprises.

After he went downstairs, he told the driver, "Go back to the hotel." Then he said to Jiang Hua: "You inform the Minister of Finance and the legal adviser to come to Jiangcheng tomorrow, and I will wait for them here, I have something to discuss." ”

He thought, since he had to do it, he had to move quickly. The next step is to immediately implement the asset status of the sugar company and check the relevant legal documents, which is a big deal, and no step can be sloppy. After this is implemented, it is good to have actual contact with the other party and discuss the conditions for the next step.

Jiang Hua agreed, called back immediately, and asked the people in the office to arrange for the finance minister and legal counsel to come up tomorrow. After doing this, he said to Liu Zhongzhou: "The building of the sugar company is really magnificent, and from the outside, I can't imagine how this company can lose so much." ”

Liu Zhongzhou said: "Now is a market economy, as long as it is an enterprise, poor management may come to this point, and there are many such examples around us." ”

Jiang Hua said: "Mr. Liu, do we really want to take over this company?"

Liu Zhongzhou asked rhetorically, "What do you think?"

Jiang Hua said: "I can't say it either, but I always feel that this company owes so many debts, is it cost-effective for us to do this?"

Liu Zhongzhou said: "Then what do you think is a good deal? When looking at a problem, we should not only look at the surface, but also look at the essence behind the appearance. If the company hadn't been dragged down by debt, it would have been difficult for outsiders to have a chance to take over them entirely. ”

Jiang Hua listened to Liu Zhongzhou's words, and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Liu, you are right, I am just a layman, just watching the excitement, how can I compare with you, you are sharp-eyed!" After speaking, he thought to himself: Look at what Mr. Liu means, this matter is about to be decided?

More than a month ago, a friend of Jiang Hua went to his house to look for him after learning from him that the Southern Group was going to set up a window in Jiangcheng and might buy land and build a building in Jiangcheng. said that he had a relationship in his hands, as long as Jiang Hua could match the bridge to facilitate this transaction, he could give him a commission of one percent.

Jiang Hua himself calculated in his heart that according to this ratio, he could get two or three hundred thousand yuan at least!

But now Liu Zhongzhou seems to be more inclined to merge with the sugar company than to buy land and build a house in another location. If this is the case, the line in your hand will not have a chance.