Volume XII, Chapter 47, Unscrupulous Profiteers

The high-ranking Zimbabwean officials tried their best to curry favor with Mr. Zhao, with ten horses and 50 servants in the manor, as well as a special pass to enter Zimbabwe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ/。 qΒ5。 All the daily expenses of the manor are taken care of by the Central Bank of Zimbabwe, and such a generous meeting ceremony surprised Xiao Feng and his group. Zhao Daxi could only accept the generous gift, and then called Yang Su to use a helicopter to bring Ji Lin and Lei Yongqiang to the farm to recognize the way.

An hour later, the police helicopter painted with the logo of the South African Police Force landed with a loud roar, and Ji Lin and Lei Yongqiang looked around and were all speechless, they had never seen such a large farm. Contrary to the image of barren Africa, this farm is full of life inside and out, with trees and water and a quiet river in the distance.

After Lei Yongqiang took a deep breath, he lost his voice and shouted: "This can't be in the national park, right?" ”

Zhao Daxi nodded slightly and grinned: "Congratulations, you are right, this is Bulawayo National Park, and that river is called Zambezi River." ”

Lei Yongqiang licked his lips and had nothing to say, being a man and living to this point should already be regarded as the peak of life.

Yang Su suddenly became interested, and also pursed his lips and smiled: "Linlin, do you want to go swimming with me?" ”

Ji Lin had long been shocked by the invincible scenery in Bulawayo National Park, and felt a little regretful: "Yes, but we didn't bring swimsuits." ”

Yang Su pursed her lips and smiled again, pulled her slender hand, and said two words with a smile, which made Secretary Ji blush instantly, so that Zhao Lei and the others saw their hearts beating wildly, and guessed what she said to Ji Lin, coming to this kind of natural and primitive resort, swimming in a swimsuit is too unemotional, this is the most suitable occasion for bathing.

Moments later, a pure white building.

Yang Ji and the two girls went to swim excitedly, leaving Zhao Lei and the two to sit in the living room for a while.

Lei Yongqiang suddenly became half a step shorter: "The Jinyuan system has already collapsed, and it makes little sense to be included in the rand index, what do you want to do with such a heavy gift from the Tianjin government?" ”

Zhao Daxi threw his hands helplessly at him: "You are a financial expert, you come to ask me?" ”

Lao Lei scratched his hair in embarrassment and meditated for a while, and suddenly his face changed: "I understand, the Central Bank of Tianjin wants to borrow money from us." ”

This time, Zhao Daxi was taken aback, and asked suspiciously: "No, the central bank of a country wants to borrow money from us?" ”

Lei Yongqiang subconsciously licked his chapped lips and explained in a low voice: "According to the exchange price of the free market a week ago, ten trillion jin yuan is about ...... Well, 30 US dollars, at the end of last year, the Reserve Bank of Tianjin approved about 1,000 stores, which can collect foreign exchange such as US dollars, as soon as this opening is opened, it will not be accepted, and the wishes of ordinary people can be ignored, but the military, police, and government civil servants also require the government to pay wages in US dollars or other hard currency, and what should you do if you are the president of Tianjin? ”

Zhao Daxi suddenly realized when he heard it, of course the people's requests can be ignored, and the salary of the army, police, and civil servants will be annoying once it is not solved.

I was a little skeptical of Lao Lei's opinion: "How do you know these things?" ”

Lei Yongqiang bowed his head and vaguely said: "Have you forgotten that at the end of last year, I was still the director of the State Council?" ”

Zhao Daxi's heart was even more abrupt, and he almost forgot about this matter, no wonder he knew the situation in Tianjin so clearly.

In the extraordinarily quiet African manor, Lei Yongqiang couldn't hide his excitement when he spoke: "So I'm sure that the Central Bank of Tianjin will borrow money from us in order to pay the salaries of the military, police, civil servants, doctors, teachers, and other social backbones...... To be exact, you want to borrow dollars from us. ”

Zhao Daxi also grabbed his hair unconsciously, and naturally raised his head and asked: "We can borrow US dollars, we have more US dollars in our hands, but what good do we have?" ”

After Lei Yongqiang took a deep breath, his eyes narrowed as he spoke: "Brother, there are many benefits, Zimbabwe is the world's third largest tobacco exporter, the fourth largest supplier of flowers in Europe, and the breadbasket of the entire southern Africa...... Brother, Zimbabwe was once the richest country in Africa, a jewel in the crown of the United Kingdom. ”

When Zhao Daxi watched him speak, the look in his squinted eyes was completely numb from head to toe, and he smelled the smell of money. After Lei Yongqiang finished speaking, he couldn't help but take out a delicately shaped flue-cured cigarette from the cigarette box on the table and light it for himself, and took two puffs beautifully, although Zhao Daxi had already quit smoking, he smelled the fragrance of tobacco and was still amazed, Zimbabwe's flue-cured tobacco really deserved its name, it was really fragrant.

His heart beat uncontrollably a few times before he cautiously asked, "Old Lei, how many dollars do we have in our hands?" ”

Lei Yongqiang smoked a cigarette and replied with a chuckle: "It depends on how much the central bank of Tianjin wants to borrow, according to my estimates, the total salary of Zimbabwe's civil servants in a year is probably only tens of billions of US dollars...... Brother, do you believe that pie will fall from the sky, anyway, I believe it now. ”

No matter how layman Zhao Daxi is, he has long understood that the US dollar is lent to the central bank of Zimbabwe, and the Zimbabwean government, which is unable to repay, can only offset the debt with minerals, tobacco and agricultural products. This also explains why so many international investment banks are shy away from such huge profits, Zimbabwe is a landlocked country, and the transportation, storage, including resale of agricultural products and tobacco are a big problem, and these profits are not easy to earn.

Lending tens of billions of dollars to the Zimbabwean government is a trivial matter, but the trouble is that the major investment banks with abundant US dollars are unable to absorb the agricultural products and minerals and high-quality tobacco that the Zimbabwean government uses to repay cash, so they can only salivate and fall away. However, Beishan Group is uniquely blessed, sitting on a large supermarket chain group such as the People's Chain, which already has a large-scale procurement team.

Even in the major port cities of South Africa, there are offices and warehouses to store purchased materials, and there are even two cargo planes that travel between China and South Africa every few days, and with the support of South African Home Minister Yang Su, the Levante family's inexhaustible cheap human resources in major mines, this huge profit that others can't make is simply easy to digest, too much is more than enough.

The two sat in the living room and looked at each other for a while, Zhao Daxi also took out a high-grade cigarette and held it in his hand, and Lao Lei smirked and hurriedly lit it for him.

Zhao Daxi took a sip beautifully, and Erlang's legs trembled again: "I said earlier, no matter what era you are in, it is absolutely impossible to do business." ”

Lei Yongqiang was convinced, nodded and bowed: "A match made in heaven." ”

At this time, the door opened, and Ji Lin and Yang Su, who had just come back from swimming, had ruddy faces, and covered their noses when they smelled the smell of tobacco in the living room.

It's rare for Yang Su to speak coquettishly like this: "Who allows you to smoke at home, go out to smoke." ”

Ji Lin also echoed: "That's it, it's too immoral." ”

Zhao Lei and the two big men looked at each other and laughed twice, and then each took out a flue-cured cigarette and lit it for each other, and after taking a deep breath, they both saw the ecstasy that could not be concealed from each other's eyes. Yang Ji and the two girls were disgusted for a while, and they also noticed that the atmosphere was unusual, and they also quieted down.

In the evening, the farm.

Yang Su figured out the truth and took a breath: "Building a road, even if you build a road from Zimbabwe to Cape Town, it is worth it, Zimbabwe's flue-cured tobacco is world-renowned, and you don't need to worry about sales at all...... I'm in charge of this, borrowing, borrowing as much as I want. ”

Zhao Lei and the others saw the strange light in her eyes, and laughed twice, wishing that she would ask for her own life.

Ji Lin also smiled, and said in a coquettish voice: "I still need the help of the Duke in this matter, what is the big deal about building a road?" ”

Zhao Daxi touched his chin and laughed twice, but what he thought of was another thing, it was time to invite Li Zhongshu, Secretary Li, to discuss big things, and grabbed the phone and called Li Zhongshu, asking him to come to South Africa for a vacation. Ji Lin listened to him talking and laughing with Li Zhongshu on the phone, but his face was a little tangled.

Secretary Ji struggled for a while, and finally had the courage to speak, and whispered: "I'm afraid that doing tobacco business will damage the good reputation that Beishan Group has always maintained, tobacco is not a good thing." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone could understand her worries, using imported tobacco to harm the people of the motherland, and her worries were not unreasonable, but they were a little naïve.

A few people glanced at each other, but Zhao Daxi grinned: "Do you know how much such a box of high-quality flue-cured tobacco from Zimbabwe will sell on the market?" ”

Lei Yongqiang also smiled and spoke at this time: "A kilogram of high-quality tobacco with a good taste like this is sold for ten US dollars, plus the cost of transportation, storage and processing, the retail price is definitely more than most domestic high-end cigarettes, how can the poor smoke it, this is a sky-high gift cigarette." ”

Ji Lin pondered for a while, and quickly relieved: "That's right, how can a poor person smoke such expensive cigarettes, as for who smoked these cigarettes...... Anyway, love will harm whomever it is. ”

Zhao Daxi laughed when she heard it, and pinched her beautiful little face: "Your mentality is not good, and the people who smoke sky-high cigarettes are also compatriots." ”

Ji Lin was pinched by him and stomped his feet a little unwillingly, and in the manor that night, the governor of the Central Bank of Tianjin and his party arrived as promised, and formally proposed to the Beishan Bank an agreement on the exchange of tobacco and agricultural products for loans, and hoped that the first loan of 3 billion US dollars could be in place as soon as possible, and the Tianjin government was willing to use high-quality tobacco at half the market price in exchange for these much-needed loan assistance.

Zhao Daxi and the others looked at each other quietly, of course they knew that the cabinet of Tianjin was in a hurry, and they were afraid that most of the public servants in the military and police system who were dissatisfied with the soaring prices were in a hurry, and they were a little sick and rushed to the doctor. Zhao Lei and the two have a tacit understanding, of course, it is impossible to agree so happily, they always have to shirk the sky-high price for a while, and do their duty as unscrupulous profiteers.

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