Wang Sheng transferred to Hong Kong to Shanghai as fast as possible.

Formosa Plastics has set up a reception center in the local area and sent a trolley to the airport to pick up the airport. When Wang Sheng got into the car, he saw several newspapers inserted in front of the seat.

He casually unfolded a copy of the "Morning News" and saw a photo of Pudong printed on the front page, written in bold letters in the horizontal row: Pudong real estate market launched.

Wang Sheng sat up all of a sudden, looking down word by word.

Formosa Plastics' attention to Dahua Industrial began as early as the bidding for the oilfield, and Wang Sheng and Su Cheng met many times, and there was an agreement on the construction of methanol equipment. This is a very important verbal agreement for Formosa Plastics, because Dahua Industrial owns a world-class oil field, and if the two parties can cooperate, this is the best risk management.

In addition, Formosa Plastics' investment of 7 billion US dollars is mainly to solve the problem of Taiwan's 246th chapter directly opening the production of raw materials for the construction of plastics, and Wang Sheng's invitation to Sucheng to invest can also reduce its own costs, which is a double win. However, the $7 billion project is so huge that the mainland's enthusiasm cannot withstand the cold eyes of the Taiwan government, and the investment has never been able to reach a substantive solution.

Wang Sheng read the newspaper carefully, hoping to get some hidden information from it. He didn't notice until the car came to a stop.

"Mr. Wang, the twenty-fourth floor has arrived. The driver opened the door lightly.

Wang Sheng raised his head and saw the nameplate of "Shanghai * Hai International Hotel", so he put the newspaper in his arms, handed the driver a tip, and said "thank you".

Shanghai International Hotel is the oldest hotel in Shanghai, built in 1934 with 24 floors, known as the tallest building in the Far East, witnessing the last prosperity and decline before World War II. Until the 80s, the 86-meter-high International Hotel was the tallest building in Shanghai, and was called the 24th floor by the old Shanghainese people. In the era when buildings of more than 100 meters were about to be called skyscrapers, the gray and heavy international hotels always made people doubt the decay of capitalism.

Wang Sheng didn't like the International Hotel very much, thinking that its decoration was too old, the furnishings were too complicated, and it was easy to remind people of the old hotel that was built directly in Taiwan in Chapter 246. However, the International Hotel is located on Nan*Jingxi Road, facing the People's Park, the transportation is very convenient, and there is a good dining room, which is very convenient for business travel. Therefore, every time he comes to Shanghai, he still lives here.

This time I came to the International Hotel, but it was the choice of Sioux City.

When you enter the Fortress Building, you will see Sioux City as if a hillbilly has entered the city, restlessly observing the very historical Italian silverware, German tiles, and old-fashioned menus......

Wang Sheng smiled, and the scene when they were bidding together at Kempinski also came to mind.

"Su Dong. With a smile on his face, Wang Sheng walked quickly towards Sioux City.

"Mr. Wang is here. Sioux pushed away his chair and greeted him.

Seeing that he didn't grasp the identity of "Su Dong", Wang Sheng was in a good mood and said with a smile: "I heard that Su Dong is going to be a real estate tycoon, so I can't swallow it." Did you buy it?"

Su Cheng bowed his head and said, "A total of 5 square kilometers." ”

5 square kilometers is about 7,500 acres, which is the campus area of a good key university. As far as the location of Pudong at this time is concerned, it is equivalent to the demarcation of a new university campus.

Wang Sheng thought of the price of land in Pudong, and his heart tightened for a while, and asked, "Have you paid?"

"Paid the deposit. ”

Wang Sheng's heart was cold, and his good mood disappeared without a trace, and said: "It seems that Su Dong is going to give up the petrochemical base of Formosa Plastics?"

Su Chengqi said: "Why?"

Wang Sheng looked at his expression and said with a smile: "5 square kilometers of land, it costs one or two hundred million US dollars." Formosa Plastics' petrochemical base is about to be launched, with an initial investment of more than $1 billion, can Su Dong find other investors?"

At the heart of Formosa Plastics' $7 billion plan is to build a 450,000- or 600,000-ton ethylene project, with surrounding projects either built in-house or handed over to supporting factories in Taiwan. Because of the natural gas, Sioux City chose an equally important methanol project. But if he can't come up with the money, Formosa Plastics won't be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for him.

Wang Shengxian regretted it: "In the past year, we have paid 27 million US dollars just for the purchase of technology. There are core technologies involved in projects such as oil refining, light oil cracking, artificial paper mills, BP plants and low-density polyethylene plants with an annual output of 240,000 tons. If Dahua Industrial joins the Haicang plan, these technologies can be shared. But I estimate that it will only take half a year at most until the official launch of the plan. Alas...... Why did Su Dong suddenly want to buy real estate?"

"You're mistaken. Su Cheng laughed twice and said, "The real estate in Pudong only needs to pay a deposit, and the rest will be talked about after 5 years." I'm going to use it as the headquarters and Dahua laboratory residency. ”

Wang Sheng clutched his chest, turned his worries into joy, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Su Dong, you scared me to death, so you have plenty of cash in your hand?"

"When you get officially launched, funding is not an issue. Sioux City suddenly laughed a little and thought: Maybe only I will know how difficult it is to start the Formosa Plastics Petrochemical Base.

Wang Sheng didn't know what Su Cheng was thinking, he was already excited, patted his thigh and said, "That's great." Mr. Su, I have been formally appointed by the Board of Directors of Formosa Plastics as the liaison for the methanol project. Now that the land allocated by Xiamenhai and Cangcang has begun to be leveled, I have privately heard that there are also mechanized engineering units of the military involved, and the scene is grand, which shows that the will of the upper strata of the mainland is very resolute. ”

Su Cheng nodded and said with a smile: "People are more popular than people, you Chairman Wang said a word, and the government allocated 10,000 hectares of land free of charge, so it is 100 square kilometers for free." ”

Mr. Deng said that if the 10,000 hectares are used up, another 5,000 hectares of land can be allocated from neighboring Zhangzhou, so the total is 150 square kilometers. In order to stabilize Sioux City, Wang Sheng said in a high-profile manner: "We have the market, technology, and high-level support, so why can't the 'Haicang Plan' be implemented." ”

It is a pity that there is no political support in Taiwan. Su Cheng didn't say anything in his mind.

He has his own ideas, regardless of whether the historical "Haicang Plan" is successful or not, the benefits of implementation are immediate, it not only means huge profits and industry status, but also has a strong role in promoting a country's petrochemical industry. If this were not the case, the national leaders of the "China" countries would not have repeatedly met with the Formosa Plastics delegation and offered extremely preferential proposals, and Taiwan's political circles would not have torn their faces and must stop the "Haicang Plan".

For such a large project, success or failure is both inevitable and accidental.

Even if it failed in history, Sioux City wanted to "save it."

With such an idea, Su Cheng cooperated: "The funds and raw materials for the methanol project are naturally prepared by me, and in terms of technology, can Formosa Plastics help me?"

"It should. Let me think about it, is Su Dong still going to use natural gas as a raw material to produce methanol?

"More than 100,000 tons. "This scale, in 1990, was absolutely advanced. However, large-scale industrial production must be developed in consideration of the start of construction in 1990, and if it goes well, it will take a year or two, and if it does not, it will be possible in five or ten years. There are countless such examples, and Formosa Plastics finally gave up the Haicang plan and built its own "six light" project in Taiwan, which also waited for nearly 10 years. Moreover, projects with an investment of hundreds of millions or even billions will take twenty or thirty years, to say the least, and the scale is too small and the yield is too low, and it is easy to be eliminated.

The characteristics of large industry determine its non-speculative nature. Therefore, petrochemical enterprises are obviously looking at the price of petrochemical upstream raw materials such as ethylene, and few people are going to build.

If the scale is small, it is meaningless, unless there is an absolute advantage in some aspect, and it is purely a loss based on economic theory. When the scale is large, the investment is large, and the risk increases.

Formosa Plastics would not have dared to leverage the $7 billion heavy investment plan if it were not for tens of billions of capital. In fact, PetroChina and Sinopec in 1990 were not too small, and neither of them dared to make such a large investment in their own country, so you can imagine the risks.

Wang Sheng has always admired Su Cheng's handwriting, and encouraged with admiration: "It is worthy of Chairman Su, such a scale is a perfect match for the Haicang plan." Well, methanol equipment is actually relatively simple, 100,000 tons of methanol, the main technology is concentrated in the synthesis tower, how about outsourcing?"

"I can only buy out, but I tend to buy the technology at the same time, that is, a set of 100,000 tons of methanol equipment, and transfer the relevant technology at the same time, so that we can produce it ourselves to reduce costs. "This is the consistent practice of China, and it is also one of the most useful solutions for market for technology.

Wang Sheng was not surprised, and said: "I'll sort out a copy of the information of the methanol equipment manufacturer for you." Over the years, Formosa Plastics has also had a relatively in-depth understanding of the industry, and we have some information, which is still more useful. ”

He was talking about his own intelligence system, and the petroleum and petrochemical companies, like other large conglomerates, pay attention to intelligence. After a long period of accumulation, there can be many benefits, such as which company will be willing to transfer technology, and how much value the transferred technology is, which must be analyzed by oneself to get a conclusion, and the manufacturer's own propaganda must be unreliable.

Of course, this information is not espionage-like intelligence. Instead, the company's expatriate department mainly collects public information, cooperates with some private information exchanges, as well as its own analysis and collation, and finally forms data.

The intention of cooperation was determined, and both parties relaxed.

Su Cheng clapped his hands and called the waiter, asked Wang Sheng to order, and said with a smile: "I brought my girlfriend here, she is still resting in the room, I asked her to come down." ”

"Gee, let's order when she comes. ”

"No, just a little bit of weight. Sioux motioned for the waiter to call.

Wang Sheng ordered a full table of dishes and asked for drinks and red wine.

After a while, Shu Lan jumped out of the elevator. She wore a knee-length skirt and a white broken huā shirt, which was unconsciously foreign, but had an unconcealable youth and innocence, surrounded by a relaxed atmosphere.

"Mr. Wang is good. Shu Lan screamed sweetly, and whispered in Su Cheng's ear, "Brother Su is good." ”

Half of Sioux City's body was soft.

Shu Lan sat up straight at this time and began to study the dishes, and at the same time poured wine and drinks for everyone, which was pitiful and well-behaved.

Wang Sheng was surprised by Shu Lan's youth, and after thinking about it, Su Cheng was only in his 20s. This thought made him shake his head, and he looked up at Su Cheng carefully, and he couldn't tell his real age.

If it's too calm, the temperament will be different.

The Chinese food ended quickly, and Shu Lan conquered the restaurant and the guests with her amazing appetite and slender figure.

After Su Cheng was full, he poured tea for Shu Lan leisurely, and said slowly: "Since the methanol project has been decided, I am ready to put it into construction as soon as possible." ”

The tone is leisurely, and the semantics are abrupt.

Wang Sheng choked on the light green tea, coughed again and again, and said, "The main negotiation of the Haicang Plan has not yet ended, why is it being built?"

"Negotiation is negotiation, preparation is preparation, don't you also buy technology with money? Didn't the government also send troops to level the land? I can buy equipment at the same time, do a good job in plant construction, and after signing the agreement, after simple hoisting, it can be put into production." "Sioux City is setting up an operating table for "rescue". In the future, the Haicang plan did not reach the implementation stage, and not only Formosa Plastics completely withdrew, but also the domestic upper echelons quietly retreated. Since Dahua Industrial is involved and committed to rescuing it, in addition to finding a way to keep Formosa Plastics, it is also necessary to find a way to retain the benefits of the 901 project. He didn't want to wait for the end of the Haicang plan and another two years of marathon negotiations.

The project that didn't die, tossing around like this, it had to die too.

Wang Sheng was stunned: "The Haicang plan has been discussed for two or three years, and I don't dare to guarantee how long it will take to enter the substantive stage." If you build a methanol project, and the supporting ports, thermal power stations, water plants, environmental protection, and accommodation do not have time to keep up, then what will you do? ”

"If you just wait half a year, that's okay. If it doesn't work out, I'll build a 100,000-ton methanol project on my own, and I can expand my production. 100,000 tons have been built, and it will be no problem to put on the 200,000-ton one. "The 100,000-ton methanol project, placed anywhere in the country, is considered a large project, and only supporting the Haicang plan will be a bit inconspicuous.

Wang Sheng understood a little, but also said a little incomprehensibly: "Su Dong, your temperament ...... It's too urgent. ”

"Time is running out. Sometimes, when the material preparation is too adequate, the otherwise adequate political preparation becomes weak. Su Cheng blinked and said, "I still want to ask Mr. Wang to contact you and establish the location of the methanol project first." ”

Wang Sheng's lips moved twice, and finally turned into a heavy sigh: "Okay, I'll go back in the evening and contact the head office." ”

Before he came, he was still worried that Su Cheng would give up participating in the "Haicang Plan", but now, he was worried because Su Cheng was too active. The ups and downs of the mood made Wang Sheng sad.

Su Cheng patted Wang Sheng on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

In order to rescue the "Haicang Plan," it is necessary to change its operational inertia. In the case of Sioux City, Formosa Plastics' hesitation was an important factor in the final outcome.

Because the Haicang plan has touched the hearts of the highest levels on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, in the absence of the right to speak, direct construction is the safest and most exciting plan that Sucheng can think of.

No party will turn a blind eye to a $200 million project.

This is also a solemn vote cast by Sioux City.

Maybe not decisive, but influential.

…… (To be continued.) ！！！