Chapter 100: Chen Xuelong's predicament
From four o'clock in the afternoon to eight o'clock the next morning, Jiang Bo, who slept for more than ten hours, swept away the previous feeling of tiredness.
After taking a look at the gold, he went out for breakfast and then came back to start filling the pit.
Compared with excavation, filling in sand and soil is an extremely simple matter.
Due to the problem of the looseness of the soil, it is inevitable that when it is refilled, it is not as tight as before excavation.
Therefore, when Jiang Bo refills the hole he dug, there will inevitably be some fresh soil left on the ground in the backyard.
It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon on the 21st that Jiang Bo bulldozed the extra dirt to make it look less abrupt.
In fact, Jiang Bo is also a redundant move, after digging up the gold, just pull the gold and leave, there is no need to make more effort to fill the holes, either don't get it, or find someone to get it.
Anyway, the gold was gone, and after later exploration, no other gold was found here.
From the excavation to the discovery of gold, only he knows, and no one else knows.
Even if Wei Peng had some guesses, he didn't know what Jiang Bo was digging.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if someone knows that Jiang Bo has excavated gold in this courtyard, what can it be?
No one can treat him like this, which belongs to his personal property.
However, out of the beginning and the end, Jiang Bo is still used to doing things without leaving any trouble, which will give himself a more reliable psychological hint.
After a quiet night's rest in Songqiao Town, on July 22, when the sky was gray, Jiang Bo loaded the 24 pieces of gold into the BMW car and drove away.
At half past ten in the morning, after nearly five hours of driving, Jiang Bo finally returned to Shangri-La Hotel, Yangcheng.
Finding a cart, Jiang Bo quickly used the cart to transfer the gold in the cart to the presidential suite of the hotel, and then put all the gold into a safe that he bought when he entered the city.
After doing all this, Jiang Bo lay on the sofa and let out a long breath, and the big stone in his heart fell in half.
"The next step is how to sell the gold. ”
……
Yangcheng Chen's Jewelry Company.
Chen Xuelong was sitting in his office, reading the papers on his desk.
Knock knock.
At this moment, there was a knock on the office door.
"Come in. Chen Xuelong put down the document and said.
A middle-aged man in black overalls walked in, walked to Chen Xuelong's desk, frowned, and called Chen Xuelong 'Mr. Chen'.
Chen Xuelong saw that his expression was different, so he pointed at him and smiled: "Lao Wu, Lao Wu, I said that you don't have a sad face every day, you have crooked my emotions, spread your brows, be normal." ”
This middle-aged man is called Chen Wu, nicknamed Chen Laowu, Chen Xuelong's assistant, a veteran, and half of the bodyguard arranged for him by the old man in the family.
is not smiling, but not dull, and his style of doing things is very rigorous, and he is Chen Xuelong's right-hand man.
When Chen Wu heard this, his face did not change, and he continued to frown and said, "Mr. Chen, it's not that I want to be sad, but I really got into trouble this time." ”
Chen Xuelong was stunned, and also frowned: "What's the matter?"
Chen Wu said with a calm face: "Our domestic gold supply has been cut off, to be precise, it is the upstream suppliers who have terminated their cooperation with us. ”
"How many?"
"There's only one at the moment, but it's the biggest. ”
When Chen Xuelong heard this, his face was very ugly, he slapped the desktop, stood up and paced in the office.
Under normal circumstances, gold jewelry companies like Chen's Jewellery have their own additional channels in addition to purchasing goods from the government.
And these additional channels are the main channels for them to make profits.
Because, the price of gold sold by the government is generally high, and after buying it, it will not make much money at all when it is processed and sold, and it will even lose money.
And now, Chen's jewelry's largest gold supply in China has been cut off, which makes Chen Xuelong a little headache.
Now in the second half of 2019, Chen's jewelry inventory is running out.
According to the original plan, Chen's Jewellery will purchase 1 ton of gold from the largest source in China by August to ensure that sales in the second half of the season will not be affected.
Originally, the two sides had already negotiated half a month ago, and the handover began two days later.
But now, Chen Wu came to tell him that the supply of goods had been cut off and the goods could not be obtained.
This made Chen Xuelong so depressed that he wanted to scold his mother.
After walking around the office a few times, Chen Xuelong calmed down and asked, "Did the other party mention what the reason was?"
Chen Wu said: "They have cooperated with Zhou's Jewelry, and I heard that they have signed a long-term contract, but I don't know how many years it will be. ”
Hearing the words Zhou's jewelry, Chen Xuelong lost his temper on the spot.
Zhou's Jewelry is a giant in the domestic jewelry industry, which has been established for more than 100 years, with assets of 100 billion yuan and strong strength.
Chen's jewelry was founded by Mr. Chen after he retired, and it has only been more than ten years, and its assets are only billions of yuan, and the background is not thick, so it cannot be compared with Zhou's jewelry at all.
Therefore, now that the upstream supply channels have been snatched up by Zhou's jewelry, Chen Xuelong can't do anything except stare dryly.
After being depressed for a long time, Chen Xuelong sighed and asked again: "What about other channels, let's talk about the situation." ”
Chen Wu said: "The remaining channels in China, I have just contacted, if nothing else, can provide 200 kilograms of gold."
Abroad, in the gold markets of Zurich and London, old friends from the past are willing to provide us with about 500 kilograms of gold.
However, the cost will be slightly higher than that in China. ”
Chen Xuelong sighed: "The high cost is high, and there is no way, it is a big deal to make less money, and even if we don't make money, we must maintain our existing market quota, otherwise we will lose the market, and we will have a hard time in the next few years." ”
Don't look at the glamorous surface of Chen's jewelry, with billions of assets, but only insiders know that stripped of this gorgeous coat, Chen's jewelry is actually not doing well in today's turbulent gold jewelry market.
It's not enough to say that you are worried, but Chen Xuelong is really under a lot of pressure.
Chen Xuelong frowned and said: "With the channels at home and abroad, it is only 700 kilograms, and our budget for gold in the second half of the year is at least 1 ton, which is a lot of shortfalls, do we have to buy from the official?"
Judging from the current offer, purchasing goods from the official will not only not make money, but even lose money.
As a last resort, Chen Xuelong didn't want to take this move.
After talking with Chen Wu for a while, after he left, Chen Xuelong rubbed his temples with a little headache.
There is no contradiction between him and Zhou's jewelry, but their peers are competitors to each other, even if they have not been in contact, they are equivalent to enemies.
Zhou's jewelry's hand directly disrupted all his deployments and put him in a dilemma.
"Grandma's legs, what can I do......"
At this moment, his mobile phone suddenly rang, and when he took it out, he found that it was Jiang Bo's phone.