May 1, Labor Day, is also a Sunday.

Chen Mingcheng, who was in the Lan side, was anxiously waiting for the news ahead.

After being inspired by Gu Kun the day before yesterday, he thought of a diesel business that could be "hoarded and sold after the official price increase".

Then, early the next morning, he had his men hurry up and make all kinds of preparations.

From financing, mortgage, to finding logistics and warehousing, and ensuring the purchase link.

If nothing else, several important points in his plan will be able to get a reply today.

The longitude of the Lan side is similar to that of Hailan and Vietnam, so the time is one time zone later than Huaxia time, and the work and rest time of the two sides is basically the same.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Mingcheng received the first good news.

His henchwoman assistant took a fax that had just been typed out and reported to him: "Boss, Manager Charles of HSBC Brunei, has agreed to your mortgage financing application, and he said that he will complete the mortgage/pledge procedures and disburse the loan as soon as possible."

I followed your instructions and gave him an extra RM300,000 in personal benefits...... He agreed to release the loan first, and then wait for your ship to return to the sea and apply for the pledge. ”

In order to hoard oil and resell, Chen Mingcheng needs as much capital as possible. But don't look at his claim to have assets of RM15 million, but most of them are fixed assets and cannot be quickly turned into cash flow.

As for the ship, if you go through the "mortgage" procedure, you can not borrow much money, and you have to make a big discount - because the "mortgage" handled by the bank for the car and ship does not detain the physical object, but only mortgages the title certificate of property registration, and the ship is still in the hands of the owner and can continue to operate.

If it's a car, it's nothing, because it's difficult for the car to run out of the country, and the risk of losing it is relatively low.

As for ocean-going ships, they can go anywhere in the world with just stretching their legs, and if they run to a country where the local laws are very complicated and the ship is detained and not returned, the bank will have no place to cry.

Therefore, if the business is official, Chen Mingcheng's two oil tankers with a unit price of RM3 to 4 million can only get about RM1 million by going through the mortgage procedures.

Of course, Chen Mingcheng couldn't bear this kind of cheap mortgage, so he chose another procedure - pledge.

The biggest difference between a ship pledge and a mortgage is that the ship is to be detained at the port designated by the bank. Because the physical object is controlled by the bank, you are not afraid of running away, and the loan that can be obtained through this procedure can reach as much as two or three times that of the non-detaining model.

However, Chen Mingcheng's ship is still at sea, and it will take another week or so to return to Lanfang, and he is very anxious to ask for money, and he will definitely not be able to wait for a week.

Therefore, if he is on business, it means that he either can't get enough money, or he gets the money too late and misses a big deal.

Chen Mingcheng's choice is: Then it is unofficial.

He gave the manager of HSBC's Brunei branch, Charles, a personal benefit of RM300,000 in exchange for the other party's illegal operation and some accommodation in all aspects.

Shell Oil was originally the number one customer of HSBC's Brunei branch, and when Chen Mingcheng took money from the other party, he tried his best to be clever, desperately boasting that he borrowed money this time "is just a short-term turnover, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a steady profit without losing money, and it is absolutely impossible to make HSBC a good deal with risks."

That eloquence is basically the same as the lines of Chen Daozai (Andy Lau) and Hua Liucheng (Wu Mengda) when they borrowed usury in "Blocking God".

Such rhetoric and the effect of the RM300,000 finally made Charles Lee dazed and decided to take responsibility for his illegal operation.

"It's not a big deal anyway, it's just a time difference. When the time comes, when his ship returns, make up the formalities, and spend a little money to get his subordinates to gag him, and he doesn't know it...... "I guess that's what Charles thinks."

……

After getting the HSBC bank, Chen Mingcheng's second and biggest problem is the supply of goods.

Half an hour after receiving the good news from HSBC, he received a not-so-optimistic message.

After receiving the report from the front, the female secretary panicked and informed: "Boss, Mr. Hu is unwilling to give you so many goods at this time, he feels a little sensitive and is afraid of taking the responsibility of insider trading." ”

Chen Mingcheng became angry when he heard it.

He even got HSBC to do it, how could the chain fall here!

This kind of leveraged business cannot be stopped after the flywheel at any end spins.

"Why don't you sell it? We have also bought more than 100,000 barrels of oil from him, right? Eastern Guangdong is a major economic province in China, and it is a dignified oil branch of a province, so will it be difficult to dispatch the supply of goods?" When Chen Mingcheng questioned the secretary, he felt that his temples were jumping.

Female assistant: "Listening to Manager Cai's meaning, Mr. Hu seems to think that we haven't been friends with him for a long time, and suddenly put forward such a big list...... I'm afraid that you were sent by a colleague to set him up. ”

Manager Cai, mentioned by the female assistant, is the liaison officer sent by Chen Mingcheng to the front of Guangdong, responsible for the public relations of PetroChina.

After Chen Mingcheng took a look, he roughly understood the other party's concerns.

Within large state-owned enterprises, the entanglement of people is also very complicated. People in high positions will inevitably get in the way of others, and of course they must be careful of being tricked by competitors in their careers.

After knowing the inside information that oil prices are about to rise sharply, and then getting stuck a week or two before the price increase, and hoarding large quantities, if this matter is leaked, it must be a big sin for the responsible and specific managers of state-owned enterprises.

The requirements of the national law are different for ordinary businessmen and the management of state-owned enterprises. What ordinary businessmen can do, state-owned enterprise workers may not be able to do.

If Chen Mingcheng is an old friend of the other party and is not afraid of leaks, it is estimated that it is nothing.

But Chen Mingcheng and the other party have only been friends for two or three weeks. Just tasted a little sweetness, and suddenly enlarged the scale of cooperation, everyone will be worried.

But Chen Mingcheng couldn't get around the other party.

Because he doesn't want thousands of barrels, tens of thousands of barrels, but at least hundreds of thousands of barrels.

If you don't buy normally, you will definitely not be able to buy so many goods.

Chen Mingcheng thought about it again and again, and asked: "Then there is no solution to this matter? What did Xiao Cai do? Mr. Hu is worried, do we have a way to eliminate his worries?"

Female assistant: "Listen to Manager Cai, Hu always asks you to go to Yuezhou in person, interview him, and finally trade in person." He wants to make sure you don't get rid of him halfway. ”

"Go to Huaxia, do you want to stay for a while?" Chen Mingcheng shrank slightly.

He didn't know much about the economic environment and business atmosphere in China, and he was still a little worried about staying all the time.

Although, he went there twice last month - at that time, it was to make some contacts with oil companies, including Mr. Hu, through Gu Kun, so he had to go. However, Chen Mingcheng was very thief, and felt that the atmosphere there was not very friendly to the protection of the capitalists, so he himself came back, leaving a horse boy to contact.

After thinking about it again and again, after all, it was the temptation of profit that prevailed.

However, with an old Jianghu like Chen Mingcheng, even if he decides to go to Guangdong to mediate in person, he will have to keep some back.

To this end, he urgently consulted many of his friends and partners, especially those who are more familiar with China's business environment, to do some risk assessment.

In the end, he summed up the opinions of all parties and came up with a set of methods that he thought were relatively safe: he himself would first take a plane to Guangdong, and then let his subordinates prepare a fast boat, and the kind of merchant ship with complete formalities would also go to the port of Guangdong or the coastal waters of the Special Administrative Region to stand by.

If you have any business banquets, you can invite guests to the boat to chat, and if the wind is not quite right, you can also get on the ship immediately.

If others don't know that he is on the ship, then quietly slip away and return to Lanfang through the open sea.

If others knew that he was on the boat, he could stretch his legs and run to the offshore waters of the Xiangjiang River. In 94, Xiangjiang was still under the control of the Bretanians, so it should be foolproof.

Chen Mingcheng, who thought he was perfect, asked his secretary to buy a ticket from Kuching to Guangdong on the same day, and went north to China!

……

The follow-up business negotiations went smoothly.

Two days after the Labor Day holiday, Chen Mingcheng took the lead in getting the money from the Charles manager of HSBC.

On May 5, he negotiated all the diesel purchase deals, and the official delivery was completed on the 7th.

Diesel and gasoline worth more than RM30 million, equivalent to about 90 million yuan, were only transferred to a certain wharf in Yuezhou Port, and the property rights were transferred, but they were not transported at all. Even the staff in Minato didn't notice that there was any transaction here.

(The previous transaction was to only buy diesel, because the Lan side only consumed more diesel, and the gasoline could not be sold if it was too much.) This time, because he didn't plan to transport it away, he wanted to resell it on the spot, so it didn't matter - the seller told him that there was not enough diesel, and he loved to buy gasoline or not. ）

A barrel costs 180 yuan, and 90 million is enough for 500,000 barrels, which occupies a large warehouse and can fill a large oil tanker with a capacity of 80,000 tons.

The name of the purchased document is still "sea vessel for its own use", although the amount is a little larger, but no one can explain it if no one checks it.

A Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier needs 14,000 tons of fuel to fill up (8,000 tons of marine diesel and 6,000 tons of aviation gasoline).

Another week passed after this restocking transaction was completed.

May 15th.

The Huayou Petroleum Corporation and the Guangdong branch officially announced the increase in fuel prices in the region - in fact, the documents issued by the head office, and the branches in other provinces, the price adjustment will be a few days earlier.

And in eastern Guangdong, it is already for the stability of prices during the Canton Fair, so thanks to a few days - it is said that there are many long-distance car owners, so when passing through eastern Guangdong Province, they have filled up the gas in the high-speed service area before leaving the province these days.

After the price was raised, Chen Mingcheng covered it for a while, about a week, waiting for the cheap fuel stock on the market to be consumed, and then looking for the owner who had sold it to him and shipping it in reverse.

The net profit per liter of oil is four cents, and the payment of 90 million yuan has risen directly to 120 million, and the gross profit is 30 million!

Excluding other financial costs and various expenses that are difficult to talk about, he personally has at least 25 million left!

However, just as he was about to collect the money and leave, an accident happened.

"Boss, the account you used to operate the transaction has been frozen!"

"I can't contact Manager Cai, is it because I am being controlled!"

Chen Mingcheng was shocked into a cold sweat, he hurriedly dialed a number, but he couldn't be contacted.

Run!

Let's wait and see!

This is the only thought in Chen Mingcheng's mind.

"Call a taxi to take me to the SAR immediately! Let the boat wait for me off the coast of SAR Bay!"