10,000 heavy trucks, 350 million US dollars (equivalent to 3 billion yuan) contract amount, such a large order on any car company is an absolute VIP customer.

But that's only half the amount!

There are also follow-up contracts of 3,000 buses, 5,000 medium-sized trucks, 40,000 diesel generators, 50,000 various mechanical engineering equipment, and a total of 600 million US dollars (equivalent to 4.8 billion yuan), which is enough to alarm Han Hao to come forward to inquire.

Such a bold customer is not from China, but from the Middle East, and is also one of Han Hao's acquaintances, a company under the Iranian government placed such a large order with Zhonghua Group at the auto show.

Of course, 30% of these products are required to be imported directly from China, and the remaining three years will be assembled and produced in Iran, which is one of the conditions that Iran insists on.

It stands to reason that such a large customer business does not need to be considered at all, and it can be agreed at a fixed price, but if the matter is really that simple, the Iranians will not personally go to China to purchase.

As we all know, Iran is being sanctioned by the United States, and many of the equipment needed for their industrial production are not allowed to be imported, because Western countries have imposed an industrial trade embargo on it. In particular, the key areas are forbidden areas in the oil, military, and nuclear industries, and the Americans are keeping a very close eye on them.

Unable to procure the equipment they needed from the West, the Iranians had to look to the East, and China, Iran's largest oil exporter, became the ideal target.

Sending oil to China and using the money to buy much-needed goods back to Iran looks like a win-win situation.

Compared with the Indian joint venture factory, the progress of Zhonghua Group's investment in Iran is slightly slow, because the United States has been watching it. It is precisely because of the threat of the United States that the French Renault Peugeot, which originally entered Iran, withdrew from the country's market, and the rest of the auto giants did not dare to enter rashly. In this context, opportunities are given to Chinese auto companies. There is no big problem in setting up a joint venture car factory, but this time, many of the products requested by the Iranian side can be directly used in Iran's national defense construction.

Shaanxi Automobile and Hongyan were both suppliers of Chinese military vehicles, and the mechanical engineering equipment exported by XCMG may be used in the construction of secret bases in Iran, which contains certain political risks. However, from the perspective of product nature, the products exported are all civilian products, and most of them are still used in civilian industries. For example, heavy trucks, bulldozers and pump trucks can not only build roads and high-rise buildings, but also be used by the Iraqi side to build secret military bases.

It was the Chunghwa Group that had dealt with the Iranian government, so this time the Iranian side directly approached Han Hao for a large purchase order, hoping that the Chunghwa Group would complete the transaction by one company.

The total order of 8 billion yuan in three years is equivalent to the amount of investment of Zhonghua Group in Iran, which is also the friendly strategy of the government towards Zhonghua Group and even China.

At this time, international trade is not only a commercial activity, but also involves international political relations, which is also an aspect that should be paid attention to in the internationalization strategy of China Group.

Han Hao did not agree to the Iranian request, but first asked someone for advice, and his mentor Hu Yiming was the most suitable candidate.

Of course, the Chunghwa Group wants to do this big business, but it has to take into account the reaction of the United States. If this superpower is annoyed, it will not be able to carry it by the China Group alone.

"U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, but it is also a real tiger. No matter what kind of tiger you are, it will eat people! Your prudence is very necessary, and the internationalization strategy is inseparable from changes in the international situation. ”

Hu Yiming listened to Han Hao's doubts and said unhurriedly.

"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world became a superpower, a world of many powers, whether politically, economically, or militarily, and the United States, the world's sole superpower, reached its most powerful moment in history. The fact that the United States is waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time and winning them proves that the United States has the most powerful comprehensive national power in the world.

Therefore, neither you, the China Group, nor our great motherland, can bypass the United States if they want to realize the strategy of going out. ”

When it comes to the United States, Hu Yiming believes that the other side's position of strength is indeed unshakable at present.

"The rapid development of our country's economy is actually the result of active integration into the Western economic system led by the United States. Whether it is attracting investment after the reform and opening up, or joining TO to become the world's factory, it is a manifestation of learning from the Western economic system.

Whether it is the Asian Tigers or the current world factory - China, it is the product of Western industrial transfer. The developed countries of the West, led by the United States, began to treat the whole world as a chess piece, transferring heavily polluting industries with meager profits to third world countries, while themselves firmly held the hegemony of the financial industry and high-tech industry, and in fact formed a division of labor in the global economic system.

Therefore, it is not shameful to put aside ideology to learn the knowledge of the developed countries in the West, so as to integrate into the globalized economic and trade system and start to catch up with the pace of industrial modernization. ”

From a national point of view, Hu Yiming's words can be said to hit the nail on the head, and he believes that China has chosen a development path that is very suitable for itself.

"The United States is essentially a financial country that relies on the dollar to exploit the world, as long as the dollar is the strongest currency in the world, and major international transactions such as oil, grain, and minerals are settled in dollars, every move of the global economy is in the hands of the United States.

For example, if China wants to develop its industry, it needs to purchase oil, which is known as the blood of industry, because we cannot be self-sufficient. The purchase of oil needs to be settled in US dollars, so how does the US dollar come from? Relying on China's many foreign trade factories to export goods to the United States and earn back US dollars to form an international trade surplus, which is what we often call foreign exchange reserves.

What if the country can't use up so many dollars after buying oil?

Clever Wall Street financiers came up with a brilliant idea to turn US Treasuries into a global financial product. The promise that U.S. Treasury bonds can maintain and increase in value and be freely circulated as a way to combat inflation and attract countries with foreign exchange surpluses in the US dollar to buy them.

If other countries lend their dollars to the United States without buying their Treasury bonds, then the United States will start the money printing press to print money to meet its own base currency issuance, and the result will be that the currency is over-issued and the dollar is devalued, and the assets that other countries have earned so hard by exporting continue to shrink.

This would be possible for other countries to buy large quantities of U.S. Treasury bonds to keep the dollar exchange rate stable and prevent the dollar and their own national wealth from depreciating.

In other words, we have toiled to bear the burden of environmental pollution, the consumption of human resources, and the export of products in exchange for dollars, and in the end most of it flows back into the hands of Americans. The cruel thing is that the United States only needs to turn on the money printing machine to print dollars to write off the national debt owed to us. What is even more bloody is that even if we recognize the truth of exploitation, today we are powerless to get rid of the world economic system led by the United States.

In short, the United States relies on political and military strength to maintain its global economic hegemony, relying on the scissors of the dollar to treat the world as a vegetable garden, ready to harvest a wave of other countries to maintain its competitiveness. ”

This was the first time that Han Hao looked at global issues from a macroeconomic perspective, and many of the clouds and mist that had wrapped around his head suddenly dissipated, and he had a deeper understanding of the true face of the United States.

"It turns out that the United States is the biggest capitalist in the world, and we in China and other countries are working for them!

When we do not have the strength to turn the table and start anew, we have to swallow our anger and accept such unreasonable international trade rules.

If our China Group is targeted by the United States, it will be difficult to realize its desire to enter the world in the future. If you want to go out and become an international giant, without the support of the state behind you, you can only spend nothing in the water.

This trade with Iran is indeed a bit sensitive, and if it is easy to attract US interference, I plan to give up such a large order. ”

Making a fortune in silence is a good policy that Han Hao has always adhered to, and now is the moment to build a wall of grain, once interrupted by external interference, it is not a good thing for the Zhonghua Group. Therefore, he made the consideration of possibly giving up the big order from the Iranian side.

"In fact, your every move has long been under the surveillance of the Americans, and it is not news that the Zhonghua Group has invested in a joint venture automobile factory in Iran, and the Americans must have recorded it.

However, the United States is not sure that it will win the third war at the same time, so the international situation on Iran's side should not deteriorate. As long as the state takes the lead in negotiating cooperation with Iran, your export trade will not be affected. After all, China, despite its limited strength, will not be left to the hands of the United States. PetroChina and Sinopec have all gone to Iran, and they will take care of your natural countries of the China Group.

Now that the United States is deeply involved in 'anti-terrorism' and cannot get out of it, your China Group must seize the favorable opportunity to develop, and this sentence is the same for our country. If you are strong, others will not dare to bully you easily. ”

Hu Yiming proposed a risk-averse plan to Han Hao, that is, to let Iran negotiate with China at the national level, and the Chinese government will purchase materials to settle or donate them to Iran, so as to realize state-to-state trade. As a supplier appointed by the Iranian government, Chung Hwa Group does not assume direct trade responsibility.

Nominally, it has changed dramatically, but it is still the same in nature, except that it will not be seized by the United States.

After communicating with the Iranian side and applying to the Ministry of Commerce, the state agreed to the solution proposed by the Zhonghua Group, after all, this is a major project to achieve a trade deficit between the two countries. China's rapid economic development needs more and more oil, and Iran's oil exports account for more than 10% of China's imports, resulting in a large number of our country's trade deficits.

Whether it is Shaanxi Automobile, Hongyan, or Yuchai and XCMG, I didn't expect that just after taking the giant ship of Zhonghua Group, I immediately harvested large orders from abroad, and the driving effect of leading enterprises is really unimaginable. The Iranian side trusts the signboard of the Zhonghua Group and directly handles the one-stop procurement.

In addition to Iran, one other country also ordered special vehicles to the Chunghwa Group. Libya, like Iran, is also suffering from sanctions from Western countries, and after seeing that Iran has received a large number of mechanical engineering equipment from China, it has also come to China to seek trade cooperation.

The first batch of their purchases is 3,000 new Huaxia pickup trucks, which are durable products that are very suitable for Libya's national conditions, and will be the vanguard of the Chinese automobile corps to set foot in the African market. In addition, it has also purchased products such as Yaxing Bus and XCMG Machinery to meet domestic construction needs.

With Iran as a bridgehead, the Chunghwa Group began to march into the vast African continent, continuing to use the countryside to surround the urban roads to achieve a counterattack on the international auto giants.