Chapter 366 . Ding Liugen's approach
Ding Liugen, as a veteran rich man and a leader in the foreign trade industry of the provincial capital, does not know how much more powerful than Huang Wenbin in terms of connections. But what can he do in Burma? If you want to talk about Europe and the United States, Ding Liugen may still know people, and his main customer base is over there. Or South America and the Middle East, there are also certain customers. But Myanmar? Neither the origin of raw materials nor the location of customers, how can Ding Liugen know people.
"Of course I know people." Ding Liugen said, "General Ava, I also had dinner with him." ”
"Won't it?" Huang Wenbin was unimaginable, "That Ava Commander in the Jade Mining Area." "Could it be that Awa is a common name in Burma, and there are many commanders, so there are many Awa commanders? Just as there are countless mayors in China, county-level cities are mayors, prefecture-level cities are mayors, municipalities directly under the central government are mayors, and countless deputy mayors are also mayors.
"yes, it's the one in the mines." Ding Liugen took out the phone, "I still have his phone here." ”
"Really?" Huang Wenbin asked.
"Of course it's true." Ding Liugen dialed it, and pressed the hands-free button, and after a round of music played, the connection was disconnected, and he didn't dial at all, "It seems that he is not available, maybe he is in a meeting or something." Ding Liugen said with some embarrassment, "It doesn't matter, he will call back when he is free." ”
Don't be so frivolous, you have to say that calling Mayor Hou may be like this, yes, calling a Burmese warlord! "Boss, how did you know Commander Ava?"
"He's the safety director of the jadeite mining area, and jadeite is only liked by Chinese people, so he likes to make friends with Chinese people." Ding Liugen said, "A few years ago, the Burmese government set up a development zone to attract us to use their cheap labor to open factories. At that time, there were dozens of people who went with us, and the last meal before returning home was invited by this Commander Ava, who sold us jadeite. ”
"Is jadeite unsalable now? How do you still sell jadeite? Huang Wenbin asked, is it good that jadeite sales are obviously very hot.
"It's not unsalable, it's direct." Ding Liugen said, "Commander Awa feels that the current sales model, middlemen make too much money, and he wants to directly from the origin to the consumer, reducing the intermediate links." The idea is good, but our gang has never made jadeite at all, and we don't have the ability to process jadeite, you give me a piece of jadeite rough, what can I use it for? It's not that you have to find someone to process it, and the processing fee is not less than that charged by the middleman. ”
"Myanmar has its own processing plant, right?" Huang Wenbin asked.
"Myanmar's processing capacity?" Ding Shishi snorted, "It's too far from China, and the craftsmanship and equipment are all there." What a piece of jade, the people they can do are not like people, ghosts, ghosts. The rough stone, which was originally worth 10,000 pieces, was only 5,000 pieces left after they processed it. ”
Huang Wenbin has also heard of this, "Can't they recruit good processing masters from China?" ”
"Yes, as long as you can afford it." "If you want to leave your hometown and go to Myanmar, you must at least double the job of the same job in China." It is also necessary to open up sales, establish brands, and find customers, and it may take more than ten or twenty years to start making money at a loss, who is willing to do this kind of long-term investment. Myanmar is not a particularly stable place. ”
"Find a partner in China and hand over the jadeite to the partner for processing?" Huang Wenbin asked.
"Instead of trusting a partner thousands of miles away, it's better to sell the rough directly." Ding Shishi said, "Originally, a piece of rough stone was worth 10,000 yuan, and it was transported to be processed, but people said that there was a piece of cotton in it that had to be removed first. You can't say anything yet. ”
"I see." Huang Wenbin said, "Where is the most basic trust between people...... this seems too hypocritical, "so boss, you have actually only met General Ava once, right?" "I also pretended to be very familiar, and I really pulled the flag as a tiger skin.
"Of course not." Ding Liugen said, "Later, I had a few times, I have a friend who makes jewelry and jade, General Ava is very enthusiastic about cooperation, and sent people to him many times to talk about cooperation, every time he comes, he has to visit our bosses who have been to Myanmar together, and he also sent me a lot of jade rough stones, all of which were taken away by Shishi." ”
"It's all very ordinary jadeite." Ding Shishi said, "That is, thousands of yuan, which people use as scraps." ”
"We're not the target, a few thousand dollars is not bad. Thousands of miles to send goose feathers, the gift is light and affectionate. What's more, this is also jade. Ding Liugen said, "It's not okay to accept other people's things and dislike them." ”
In short, he didn't have any actual friendship with General Ava, and Huang Wenbin was originally shocked. At this time, Ding Liugen's phone rang, and he glanced at it, "Ah, General Ava called back." Press the answer button and say loudly, "Hey, hello...... Kindness. He turned on the speakerphone, and a foreign language of unknown meaning came out, "Which of you can understand?" ”
Huang Wenbin and Ding Shishi both shook their heads, "I don't understand." ”
"This is troublesome, obviously the envoys sent at that time will say Chinese......" Ding Liugen said, "I knew that I would hand in a Burmese translator first, by the way, how much is an hour for a Burmese translator?" Does the foreign Chinese college in our provincial capital teach Burmese? ”
"Boss Ding?" Suddenly someone was talking over there.
"Yes, yes, it's me." Ding Liugen hurriedly said, "General Ava? ”
"No, General Ava doesn't use this number now, I'm his subordinate." Said over there.
"Oh, I see." Ding Liugen was a little embarrassed, "Can I talk to General Ava?" ”
"I don't know, I'm just a translator." The man said, "I can help you ask the superiors, the superiors maybe, I mean, they should report to the general, it's hard to say when there will be a response, the general is very busy right now." Who are you, and what do you want to do with the general? ”
"I'm Lao Ding, don't you know my name?" Boss Ding felt a little strange.
"The phone shows the caller number Boss Ding." Said over there.
"Uh......" Ding Liugen was even more embarrassed, "You just say it's Huaxia's old Ding, and General Ava will know who it is." It was inconvenient to talk about the specific things on the phone, so I talked to him in person. ”
Huang Wenbin couldn't help but complain in his heart, he didn't have any friendship, and he even got the phone number wrong, so don't be so big. However, this is also difficult to do, and you can't tell the ins and outs of the matter in front of the translator, it will be too cheap.
"Shall I just say that?" The translator asked.
"Of course, that's what you say." Ding Liugen said.
After hanging up the phone, Ding Liugen also said, "Xiao Huang, don't worry, General Ava should reply soon." ”
In this way, you can rest assured that there will be ghosts. If it's a business, that's certainly enough. The business field is about planting a wide range of crops and harvesting a small harvest, and wherever there is a little possibility of doing business, it is not in the way to ask about anything. But this is murder, is it really good to have such a loose relationship.
"I think we're going to figure it out on our own, Dad, you're not reliable at all." Ding Shishi said.
"What is unreliable, which eye of yours sees that I am unreliable!" Ding Liugen said, "Do you think I only have this way!" I was so underestimated. He picked up the phone and looked for another number, "Hey, Ansheng, I'm Lao Ding...... And which old ding! Nonsense, of course it's me. Aren't you very familiar with the Burmese general Ava who makes jade? I have something very important to ask you, come to me immediately, 100,000 urgent. ”
Ansheng's full name is Gou Ansheng, and he is a predator in the jewelry and jade industry in the provincial capital - this was several years ago, because he disliked that the market in the provincial capital was too small, he had already put his main energy in the south, leaving only two shops in the provincial capital, and his influence was not as good as before. I don't usually stay in the provincial capital, but I just happened to come back to do business during this time.
"Hello Boss Ding." Gou Ansheng is in his fifties this year, his face is pale and beardless, and his soft voice can't help but make Huang Wenbin wonder if he will know his cousin, "Miss Ding is good, Boss Huang is good." A few people called me over in such a hurry, what happened to me? ”
"Aren't you very familiar with that General Ava in the Burmese Emerald Mining Area?" Ding Liugen said.
"General Ava? I'm not familiar with it. Gou Ansheng said.
"How can you not be familiar, he wanted to cooperate with you a few years ago, and he has been back and forth many times." Ding Liugen said, "And you often buy goods from him, last time I remember you told me that you got a very large rough stone from General Ava, and opened an ice green jade or something, and made tens of millions." ”
"Ice is ice, but violet." "He's the mine commander and the safety supervisor, but he's not in charge of jadeite sales. However, he overwhelmed people with his power, and forced to grab some of the quarried rough stones and sell them himself, so as to fill his own pockets. Dealing with someone like General Ava can sometimes make a fortune, but it's also very likely to get into trouble. I am a legitimate businessman, and I buy rough stones from auctions hosted by the Myanmar government, which is a bit more expensive, but it saves worry and effort. ”
"Anyway, it's knowing, right?" Ding Liugen said.
"General Ava is too ambitious, and he is bent on getting promoted and getting rich, offending many people and enemies, and he, the commander of the mine, was snatched from others. I didn't dare to get too close to him, lest I be implicated by him. As soon as I look at my name, I know that I like to live in secret, and I never do dangerous things, and he asks me to talk about cooperation, and I just deal with it casually, and I don't dare to talk about it in depth. Gou Ansheng said, "What is the matter with coming to me?" ”
Enemy? Huang Wenbin had a flash of inspiration, and it was not necessarily General Ava who killed Chang Zhen, but more likely his enemy. Chang Zhen's identity in Myanmar is the big boss who bought the jadeite rough. The killing of Chang Zhen in broad daylight in a hotel where foreigners gather angered the Burmese upper echelons, and it was impossible to say that General Awa would be unlucky. Even if it doesn't work, General Ava will definitely not be able to get the rough stone back, and he is destined to lose face. And the cost of this qiē is only three gunmen.