Chapter 52: The Old Fox and the Little Fox (Reward for the Boy 1993)
"But with such strict international regulation of capital flows, would Citibank take the risk of helping you do such a large cash exchange?" Rogan asked.
"If they don't even listen to their boss, then they're waiting to be fired. The cheque exchange is my business, you don't have to worry about it, I guarantee that you will receive the cash in your country's account tomorrow. Jia Lei said.
"This condition is really very good! Now our country is very short of money, and if you pay cash immediately, they will definitely be willing to sell you the plane! After all, it will take one or two years for other countries to complete the contract and pay the final payment from the time they negotiate the contract and pay the final payment. Some people simply can't wait that long!" Rogan said.
"I'm a private company, so of course I have to do much less formalities and less time than those government departments. Jia Lei said that basically as long as he agrees to this matter, it will be fine.
Now the changes in the Ukrainian government officials are particularly frequent, and they may have to be replaced in three or five months, and everyone in office wants to get a sum of money while they are still there, so as soon as Jia Lei's decision to pay cash immediately came out, the whole country agreed with the deal.
"After our difficult negotiations, our buyer from Huaxia was finally willing to pay an extra $10 million for our plane and boat, which is the result of the efforts of our officials. The state will use the money to buy grain and other scarce supplies......" Jia Lei read in the newspaper early the next morning the Ukrainian official's boastful words about the deal, and Jia Lei felt particularly speechless.
This kind of talk can only deceive ordinary people, who know how much the plane they sold is worth. This group of people even came up with such a high-sounding reason for selling their "ancestral property"! Sure enough, the mouths of politicians can bring the dead to life. Jia Lei said speechlessly.
"Don't complain here, the Ukrainian side has also prepared a signing ceremony for a global live broadcast, and you still have to go to it. Udist said speechlessly.
This group of people was afraid that Jia Lei would regret it, so they actually wanted to sign this contract in front of the whole world, and then collect cash!
"I hate to participate in this kind of occasion, why don't you go for me!" Jia Lei said speechlessly.
How could Jia Lei agree to broadcast this kind of thing live all over the world, do the Uzbeks want to let themselves accompany them and lose face to the world together?
"I'd love to attend the signing ceremony for you, but I can't get the money out of the check, so you'll have to do it yourself!" Udiste gloated.
"In fact, for everyone present today, the process and participants of this signing ceremony don't matter, what everyone really cares about is my check!" Jia Lei said angrily.
"Who doesn't care about a cash check worth $100 million? Don't you care?" Udiste asked rhetorically.
"Not only do I care, but I also feel distressed! If it weren't for this group of chaotic people coming to grab orders from me, would I have spent an extra $20 million?" Jia Lei said angrily.
10 million is the payment, and the other 10 million is a rebate for various clerks!
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Angry, but Jia Lei still had to attend such an important signing ceremony in person, and it would definitely be rude to wear sunglasses at this kind of ceremony, so Jia Lei took out a pair of flat glasses from his luggage.
"What can you do with your glasses? You will still be recognized by people when the time comes?" Udiste said speechlessly as he looked at Jia Lei wearing a wig there.
"Haven't you heard of the 18th change of the men's university, this group of people can only take pictures of what I look like now, but who can know what I will look like in ten years. Unless they X-ray the bones of my face, I wouldn't be recognizable walking down the street ten years from now. Jia Lei said proudly,
"Do you think X-rays of facial bones are difficult for intelligence services?" asked Udis.
"I'm such a big person here, anyone who wants to find it can find out! Those intelligence services are so powerful, even if I cover my face, they can find me, I just want to fool ordinary people. I don't want to be like those celebrities, who are surrounded by a group of people on the street and call Dad!" Jia Lei said speechlessly.
Didn't the national husband in his previous life be surrounded by the crowd and paparazzi when he went out?
The life of a rich person really has no privacy at all, and Jia Lei said that he doesn't want to be such a high-profile rich person.
After the ceremony began, Jia Lei really did what he said, he signed a cash check for $10 million for every plane that took off at the airport, and every ticket he signed would be held up to all the media.
The Ukrainian media showed great interest in this timely rain of dollar cash, and each check would be taken countless high-definition close-ups from all angles, and Jia Lei's eyes, which were accessories to the check, were almost blinded by the flash of the media present.
"Quick! Another plane has taken off, you sign it quickly!" Udiste reminded him carefully behind Jia Lei.
"Wait a minute, let me wipe my eyes first!" Jia Lei covered his eyes with a handkerchief in one hand, and signed crookedly on the check with the other.
"Be careful, don't put an extra zero on the check! Udiste looked worriedly at Jia Lei, whose eyes kept crying, and said.
"I think this is the conspiracy of the Uzbeians, do they really want to flash my eyes with a flash, and then make me write an extra zero on the check with a shaking hand?" Jia Lei complained.
"Perhaps, I've never seen anyone shine a flash into a person's eye before!" said Udis, speechless.
"Another plane has taken off, dear Mr. Jia Lei, please continue to sign the check, right?" said Mr. Kewen from the logistics department to Jia Lei with a smile.
"Okay!" Jia Lei nodded, and then he signed a check.
"Mr. Udister, please come over and have an important call for you!" Someone suddenly shouted from the sidelines, and Udist had no choice but to pass.
"I am very grateful to Mr. Jia Lei for their cooperation with our logistics department, this money is like charcoal in the snow for our country. It solves a lot of our problems, and I hope everyone will get to know this new friend of ours. Friends from the media, please take a picture of the two of us, okay?" said Kevin suddenly.
"Okay!" The people below agreed, and suddenly a series of flashing lights sounded, and Jia Lei suddenly felt blind.
Jia Lei's eyes were flowing with irritating tears, and two planes taxied into the runway side by side, and then flew into the sky with a roar......
"Okay, these are the last two planes, can you please sign the check? This time it starts with two, not one, don't make a mistake. Kewen smiled and stuffed the pen into Jia Lei's hand to remind him that Jia Lei subconsciously signed another check according to what he said.
"No! The number of planes that took off just now is wrong, you quickly send someone to find that foreigner back, if this continues, Jia Lei will be deceived to death." Zhang Wenwang stood in the crowd and frowned.
"Why do I think I was dazzled by the double image just now, and the two planes that took off at the end don't seem to look very different?" Jia Lei rubbed his eyes vigorously and asked.
In order to meet your requirements and increase the diversity of our products, although these product models are all Il-76, there are differences in other aspects. One of the planes we specially changed for you to be a passenger plane that can seat people, and if you want to pull cargo, you just need to remove the seats on it. Kevin said with a smile.
"Jia Lei, you signed the wrong check just now!" Udiste walked over with a pale face and said anxiously, and he was suddenly hung up when he went to answer the phone just now.
"You said you signed the wrong check, this is impossible? I have counted all the decimal points on the check, is that right?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.
"How much did you sign on the last check?" asked Udis, speechless.
"20 million US dollars! They said that they flew two together this time, so I signed two 20 million US dollars on the check! Wait, 20 million US dollars? It seems that there is something wrong!" Jia Lei also sensed that something was wrong when he said this.
"I remember that I only ordered four planes in total, how could it become five?" Jia Lei said this, and immediately turned his head in surprise to ask Mr. Kewen.
"The following reporters ask you to keep smiling, otherwise you will make the whole world see the joke!" Mr. Kewen said with a smile, not at all surprised by Jia Lei's question.
"You sent the wrong order, I ordered four planes, and you gave one more?" Jia Lei immediately reminded Mr. Kewen in a low voice.
"We're not wrong? Aren't we signing a $100 million sales contract today? The total price of the five planes is $100 million! That's not wrong at all. Kevin said with a smile.
"You remember wrong, I ordered four planes plus a logistics transport ship, and that's all the items in the 100 million order. You sent the wrong order to one more plane, and the $20 million is the money I used to buy the ship!" Jia Lei explained with a frown.
"Oh! I forgot to tell you yesterday that because countries M and E forbade us to sell warships, we offered to help you replace them with tankers. Mr. Kewen said with a smile.
"Why do I want a tanker? I only have four planes in total, where can I not refuel! What I want is an oil tanker, the kind of transport ship that can pull oil below and cargo above?" Jia Lei gritted his teeth and squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth.
The following multimedia staring is a global live broadcast, of course Jia Lei is embarrassed to turn his face with this group of cheeky Uzbeians on the spot, otherwise Jia Lei doesn't know what unreliable things this group of people will do.
"Aren't you afraid that I will turn my face now and stab this matter to the media?" Jia Lei said with a hideous smile and a vicious threat in a low voice.
"If you turn the other cheek now, then we'll get the plane back right away!" Anyway, the cash on the check has already been transferred to our country's account, and if you stop the contract now, we'll use it as liquidated damages!" Kevin said with a smile.
"Okay, you're ruthless, but you wait for me, we're not done with the ship. When the time comes, I will have to wait for the goods to arrive, and you will not want to get a penny of deposit from me in the future. Jia Lei said angrily.
"We're also sorry about the ship! But we can't help it, now that the people of country M are staring at us, you won't be able to drive this ship for a while, so you might as well change it to an airplane! Mr. Kewen said with special pride.
He never took the $2 million bribe proposed by Jia Lei to heart, all he thought about was looking for an opportunity to earn more money for his country.
He is a rare official in Ukraine who is willing to do practical things!
Kewen just used a few flashes and a small trick to tune the tiger away from the mountain, and Jia Lei was accidentally tricked into the pit by this old fox.
"I advise you not to write a check when you pay the balance later, our contract and external propaganda are all about signing a large order of 100 million US dollars, and the specific type of goods is never announced to the public because of confidentiality requirements! We can say that it is all airplanes, there is no ship at all, so even if you take the contract to fight a lawsuit, you can't win!" Kewen said with a smile.
Politicians will always play countless word traps on contracts, and a small businessman like Jia Lei is not as good as this group of old foxes in language arts.
The key is that this group of people is not only thick-skinned, they also dare to play scoundrels, and they often do things to raise prices and not make the right goods......