Chapter 31 - Step by step
Yu Jun said to Xu Daoqian to do it slowly, in the eyes of many people, it has nothing to do with the word slow at all, and even Australian Prime Minister Howard has a feeling. Liu Xi relied on loans to raise $20 billion, of which $6 billion was used to prepare for the acquisition of a series of iron ore mines in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Most of these iron ores are small mines, and together, the annual iron ore production capacity can reach 20 million tons, and in 2002, the iron ore production capacity of the whole Australia is only 180 million tons, accounting for 1/9, and Liu Xi is the world's new richest man under the mineral banner enterprise, any action will attract the attention of the Australian government.
But the $6 billion investment is very hopeful for both Australia and Perth, after all, this is only about buying iron ore. The total reserves of these iron ores reached 300 million tons, which is only $20 per tonne, but these are all unmined iron ore, and if they are to be mined, they will need to be reinvested......
But the entire Australian iron ore is 1.3 billion tons.
In terms of mines, the price is neither high nor low. The most important thing is that Liu Xi's Xu Daoqian said that after the acquisition is completed, he will provide up to 2 billion US dollars of investment in these iron ores, including the construction of a railway from the mining area to the wharf, and discuss with the Perth government whether it is possible to add more berths on the wharf, and the berths will also be invested by the rapid logistics of the Xiling system, and will be built by the Silversea Group, which will be an investment of 1 billion US dollars.
These will bring at least 3,000 jobs to Perth, and the sale of iron ore will take only one month to negotiate.
With Yu Jun's newly baked golden signboard, many mine owners are willing to cooperate with Liuxi, and the important thing is that those who are not willing to sell in the form of sale can also enter the newly established Liuxi Australian Iron Ore Company in the form of shares......
With the remaining $11 billion, Liu Xi will make a large-scale investment in iron ore in Ukraine.
Among the proven economically significant iron ores, Australia and Brazil, which have the largest share and are very popular, or India, but Ukraine, in cooperation with Moscow University, Xiling also has a good relationship with the Russian government, and also has some contacts with the Ukrainian government.
Ukraine accounts for 21% of the world's iron ore resources, and if Liuxi can develop Ukraine's mining industry on a large scale, it will obtain rich resource reserves in the next few years, and at the same time can get huge profits.
Yi Mingyao's layout in the iron ore futures market has also been launched, and when the mining reaches a certain time and occupies some share in the spot market, he will start in the futures market......
The two sides can only get the final control of the two sides together, this set, many companies in Xiling are very proficient, and they don't need Yu Jun to point it out, they know what to do.
The two major companies, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are desperately opposed to this series of acquisitions, and in Ukraine, they are powerless, while in Australia, they are using government connections to make Liuxi's acquisition a success or failure, and ultimately not get the government's approval.
Howard felt the pressure of the opposition parties to speak for the two parties, he was the leader of the Liberal Party, while the largest opposition party, the Labour Party, was fighting for the greater good of the two parties.
After all, Liangtuo is Australia's giant, although in essence these two are British companies, but Australia is a Commonwealth country, and Australia's largest enterprises are undoubtedly these two, at most one more News Corporation, but since Murdoch carried out the United Kingdom and the United States, it can no longer be regarded as a complete Australian enterprise......
The most important thing is that Liangtuo provides enough jobs in Australia.
Even Howard would not dare to offend them lightly, but as far as the local Perth and Western Australian governments are concerned, they are willing to accept Liu Xi's investment, after all, 3,000 jobs are also a high number.
Even if it is Liangtuo, there is no time to invest billions of dollars at one time without blinking, and Yu Jun also said with a smile in an interview with the Sydney News Agency: "If Liangtuo is willing to sell all the iron ore mines in Western Australia, I am willing to ......accept them all."
Absurd! When the senior management of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton heard this, the first feeling flashed in their hearts.
But then they couldn't laugh, if all the companies in the Xiling system did their best, it was not impossible. In addition, Yu Jun is a madman in their eyes, a big madman.
It is not uncommon to be able to become a billionaire in a few years from scratch in the Internet era, but to become the richest man in the world, and also have a market value of more than one trillion yuan, and its companies are almost in the top three in many branch industries, which cannot help but make people sweat coldly.
Even Bill Gates back then was far inferior to him.
What's even more frightening is that if you put aside Liu Xi's loan this time, most of the companies in Xiling have an asset-liability ratio of no more than 5%, and many of them are even 0, is this possible?
If anyone has the courage to eat all the iron ore in Australia, it is Yu Jun, a madman......
Yu Jun even spent $100 million on a piece of land with a farm in the suburbs of Perth, where he had several famous horses given to him by Tao Zhujun, as well as the small pony he bought for Sun Yuhao.
Howard felt an unprecedented headache, if only Yu Jun were an ordinary person, it would be nice if he had a state-owned enterprise in China, but his business was all over the world, and he was not a state-owned enterprise, so if he wanted to accuse him, he needed to find a very suitable excuse.
And Xiling's strong public relations ability also made Howard dumbfounded, after a councillor spoke for Liangtuo, there were councillors who immediately spoke for Liu Xi, and talked about Liu Xi's contribution to the world in the parliament......
Hell, Liu Xi controls 80% of the world's supply of willow soil, and just pinching his neck and waiting for the price increase has greatly increased the cost of material production in many countries, and now he doesn't even supply willow soil ore on a large scale, only for practical use, and all of them turn to export various types of new materials.
This alone will make Liu Xi indisputably one of the world's top 10 mining groups in 2003.
Not calculated by new materials, according to the average export price of rare earth ores, 50,000 US dollars per ton, Liu Xi is expected to export 60,000 tons in 2003, domestic consumption of 20,000 tons, the total value here is 32 billion, and to calculate according to new materials, to increase the price by more than 10 times, that is, 320 billion yuan......
10 times is a very conservative estimate, and Liu Xi in 2003 reached a total sales of 400 billion yuan without any difficulty.
This is the harvest of Yu Jun's layout over the past few years, and when the rare earths of the United States, Russia and other countries enter the market, it may decline slightly, but in the long run, it is not impossible for Liu Xiguang to rely on new materials to achieve tens of thousands of sales.
Rare earth materials are the most profitable industry, and they have been occupied by foreign companies before, especially Japanese and South Korean giants such as Samsung Heavy Industries and Mitsui Heavy Industries.
Yu Jun's plan is to work step by step, and now Liu Xi has become a towering tree, with the capital to fight with Rio Tinto, so Xu Daoqian came to Australia to give it a try.
And now is not the time for iron ore to rise sharply, and the top management of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton can judge the future, but ordinary mine owners can......
In fact, the purchase price reported to them by Liu Xi is already very high, and now the FOB price of iron ore is only 18 US dollars per ton, and the price of unmined ore reserves is 20 US dollars per ton.
In 2010, the price of iron ore per ton was $200, which was the price of bulk cargo, and at that time, the price of bulk was cheaper than the price of long-term cargo.
He can remember these things completely because Wang Bing's girlfriend at that time worked in an import and export trading company, and every time he would bring some information to mention these at the party.
Every time she looks distressed, Wang Bing cheekily said that she likes her like this, but she hates her to death......
What kind of work do we talk about at the party?
In the next few years, iron ore will rise on a large scale, and although the money will be less from mining now, Yu Jun did not think about selling it now, but was ready to let Liu Xi stock up on the goods first, and then sell them in 06 and 07.
The Japanese know about reclaiming the sea with coal, but don't the Chinese know about filling the lake with iron ore?
And when Xu Daoqian was fighting with Howard, Rio Tinto, and BHP Billiton, Yu Jun was sitting on the farm riding a horse, and it was Xi Lei who was in charge of guidance.
"My grandfather's house was in Tennessee, and there was a huge farm there, and I could not only ride horses, but I could ride them very well." Xilei said proudly.
Yu Jun looked at her undulating and jumping on horseback, and felt that this was the case, but because the cost of raising horses was too high, people had no place to live, how could there be a place for horses to live, in addition to some ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia and other places, there were also some people from the horse gang, and it was rare to see the horse.
Especially in the city, it is all reinforced concrete, and when Yu Jun was young, there was a carriage pulling asbestos boards, and now he has long since disappeared.
Jumping off the horse, Yu Jun saw Qin Haitong coming from a distance with a groom, so he waved his horsewhip and smiled: "You also come to try?" "
Qin Haitong shook his head with a smile, walked up, and whispered: "Jun Shao, I received reliable news that Mitsui Jian has come to Western Australia." "
Yu Jun showed a playful smile on his face: "He put down Mitsui Hanako's matter and ran to Western Australia, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton must have spent a lot of work." "
Mitsui Hanako's matter has not yet come to fruition, the poison in her is very strange, and that kind of poison is usually difficult to see, so you need to find a pharmacist in a Chinese medicine shop to match, or like the Koreans say, the Korean medicine master in a Korean medicine shop to match.
But Lee Jae-chan asked people to go to all the Korean medicine shops in Seoul and couldn't find any clues, and it seemed that there were really no clues left. This made him very faceless in front of Zen in Mitsui Ken.
And Mitsui Hanako is still in a coma, I heard that the doctor said that she had a brain injury, and she came to Western Australia in this situation, and Liu Xi's actions made Mitsui very uneasy.
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