Chapter 307: Thirty Minutes Made a Millionaire
The price of the second fish produced in Oma Town is also very expensive, Bei Hai converted it to 185,000 US dollars, and this one is only 100 and 4 kilograms converted into pounds, that is, 230 pounds, such a small fish are 185,000 US dollars, this price makes Bei Hai both happy and sad, and directly this is a little mixed feelings in his heart.
If you want to say that you are not jealous, it is impossible, if such a big fish can be sold at this price, Bei Hai has already saved the money of a few islands, where is there such a tangling. But such an increase in the price will definitely drive the price of this part of the fish in their hands. It's like knocking down a five-flavor bottle, and I don't know what it tastes like.
Bei Hai turned his head and looked at Benny, the happiest of the three on his side, this old boy's face seemed to be blooming, and the corners of his mouth were almost to the back of his head.
"It's here!" Arai Toshinori said lightly to Bei Hai.
Hearing Arai Toshinori say this, Bei Hai couldn't help but straighten up and looked carefully at the sidelines. The largest fish of the year in Oma, the 176-kilogram North Pacific bluefin tuna, weighs about 390 pounds in the United States.
As the auctioneer standing on the wooden box rang the bell, almost everyone at the auction table over there raised their hands.
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A series of quotations rang out again and again in the auction room, and some people continued to open their mouths to say their prices, Bei Hai wanted to know how much money these people raised the price to every time they shouted, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Arai Rinori next to him.
It doesn't matter. Bei Hai immediately noticed Arai Rishinori's small movements, and the old man looked at the patter and nodded lightly at that side. Following the old man's gaze, Bei Hai found that there was an old man in his fifties on the auction stand, who was also looking at Arai Rishiro, and the man had two words written directly on the hat card on his head: Arai.
As soon as the eyes of the two made contact, the auctioneer in his fifties over there immediately raised his hand and shouted the price.
Old man, this is a linkage on and off the field. Bei Hai thought with a smile.
After this price was shouted, the whole auction room was immediately quiet, and the whole auction room suddenly changed from noisy quotations to quiet, which made Bei Hai and the others a little uncomfortable, and the entire auction room fell into this strange silence for more than a minute. Even Bei Hai felt like he could hear his own heartbeat.
A minute seems like a lot, but it seems like a lot! Suddenly, the silence was interrupted by the sound of a telephone.
"Mosi, Mosi!".
Although it was far away, because the whole auction was very quiet, the voice of the phone call guy was small, but the whole auction room was still heard clearly, and the two sounds of Mo Xi Mo Xi immediately woke everyone up. Most of the auctioneers sighed and shook their heads, and only a few people followed this example and started to dial the phone.
Suddenly, the auction room changed from quiet to noisy again, and soon the shouts sounded again in the auction room.
The whole auction seemed to have entered another atmosphere from one atmosphere in front, and there were no more hands raised like a forest on the scene, and now only five or six raised hands, but the competition was even more cruel, and every bid would be followed by a burst of phone calls.
And Arai Toshino makes eye contact with the staff of his auction house from time to time.
Another fifteen minutes passed, and as the auctioneer Suzu, who was standing on the wooden box, shook it again, and Bei Hai knew that Toshinori Arai next to him finally got his wish and photographed the 'largest' bluefin tuna produced in Omamachi this year's spring auction. Although this broken fish is only 390 pounds in Bei Hai's eyes, it is not a 'big' bluefin tuna at all.
"What is the winning bid?" Before Bei Hai could ask, Benny couldn't wait, so he immediately leaned back and asked Arai Rinori across Bei Hai.
"About $1,300,000!" Arai Toshinori didn't have much joy on his face, and he sighed and said, "Alas, the price of this advertisement is not small, it's six times more than last year's spring auction!" ”。
"One million and three hundred thousand dollars?" Bei Hai couldn't help but take a breath when he heard this. This price is estimated to be second only to the $1.7 million sold in the spring of '13, and the 13-year one weighs 220 kilograms, and now this one is only 167 kilograms. In terms of the unit price per kilogram, it is still slightly better than today.
Bei Hai patted Arai on the shoulder and said, "Congratulations, you have created a millionaire in less than half an hour, and it is calculated in dollars!" I remember reading a text called Million Pounds. You're not bad at all."
It is estimated that the price of $1.3 million will not be long before the headlines of the entire Japanese newspaper will be full of this news, and by the way, Arai's name will once again appear in front of the eyes of the Japanese public.
But when it comes to the happiest one, it's not Arai Trading Company. For Arai, this is just a publicity, and at most it is an extra $1.3 million in advertising costs. And a fisherman sold a fish for $1.3 million, if this heart is not good, he will be able to go straight to heaven with happiness!
In the muttering of the three of them, all eight fish produced in the entire town of Oma this month were sold, and none of them were sold for less than 185,000 dollars, and they were all after some scramble.
"If it used to be a scratch card for a fisherman in Oma, now every fish you catch is a big lotto!" Bei Hai took the price of all the eight fish in his heart, and said in combination with his own little black hand.
"In this way, there will only be more and more fishermen who do go to sea!" Arai said: "Although only eight fish have been caught in more than a month, I am afraid that there will be more fishermen going to sea as soon as this price comes out today!" ”。
Arai Toshinori understands very well that the temptation of human nature to get rich is not something that ordinary people can resist, otherwise there would be no lottery business. Hearing Arai Toshinori say this, Bei Hai quickly ignored it, catching a fish is enough to eat for a lifetime, this thing is crazy to think about.
After the price of one million and three hundred thousand dollars came out. Today, the price of all North Pacific tuna produced near Japan has risen again, and the 15 tons of tuna put on the market by the Mustang Fishery have soared by more than 21 percent compared with the original estimate.
It's less than five o'clock. The three of Bei Hai walked out of the auction hall, and although Arai Toshinori won the auction, the trading company also got the opportunity to publicize. However, for an old man, there is no interest in standing in front of the reporter's words. Instead, he waited for the auction to end and went to breakfast with Bei Hai and Benny.
The three of them casually went out of the Tsukiji Market to find an ordinary roadside noodle restaurant, and just walked in with a curtain and asked for three bowls of noodles.
The three of them chatted while eating noodles. Originally, Beihai didn't like to make a sound when eating noodles, but Arai Toshinori said that you must make a sound when eating noodles here, which is a compliment to the craftsmanship of the store. Under such strange customs, Bei Hai once again entered the countryside and followed the customs.
"When are you going back to the United States?" Benny asked as he ate quietly and faced Bei Hai.
"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Bei Hai said, taking a sip of noodle soup from the noodles in his mouth.
Arai listened and asked, "Why don't you wait for the bank's loan to come back to the United States?" ”。
Bei Hai's use of the catch as a counter-pressure does not mean that these catches will not be touched for a year, according to the agreement, there will be a corresponding repayment ratio for every certain percentage of the sale, although the contract is signed now, but the loan amount is 85 million US dollars, it is impossible to find out as soon as it is checked, and the bank is not so fast.
"No, it's not the same here to wait back in the United States, and besides, I don't have to pay for the hotel in the United States!" Bei Hai said half-jokingly.
"The money you have caught in the past few hours is enough to live here for a year!" Benny listened and looked at Bei Hai and said.
Arai said, "Then when are you going back to China?" ”。
"In a few days. In about ten days, I will be going from the United States to China," Bei Hai said, "What's the matter with you?" ”。
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask you about the fishing boat!" Arai said. After speaking, he looked at Bei Hai a little strange and said: "I have a friend who makes this machine and wants to take down the net machine on your ship."
Bei Hai said with a smile when he heard Arai Toshinori say this: "Not only look at the quality, I also look at the price, as for whether it can be used in the end, I can't guarantee you!" ”。
"Of course!" Arai Toshinori listened.
"You ask them to send the materials to Itamoto Yushi in Akiyama, and these things are all made by Akiyama's side," Bei Hai said.
Benny then turned to Bei Hai and asked, "You just let it go like this?" What if something gets weird in the middle? I'll talk about it first, although this person is recommended by me, but I don't need to say more about the complexity of human nature."
Bei Hai naturally knew that what Benny said was not only to extract his own family from possible mistakes in the future, but also to remind Bei Hai that the mechanical procurement of these two ships alone is more than 20 million US dollars, which is not a small amount! Enough to turn one from a criminal.
"I know!" Bei Hai said: "There is still no accountant here, even if the accountant is not good, there is still a firm that supervises finances!" Besides, it wasn't he who asked me to come in the end."
In Bei Hai's view, everything must be done by himself, so what do you do by yourself? I did it all by myself! Something inconsequential has to be put down. Bei Hai believes that a good system is much more shrewd than himself.
Benny also reminded Bei Hai, and when he heard Bei Hai say this, he changed the topic: "Then the next time I see your catch again, I'm afraid it will be this autumn."
"There's not enough fish in the warehouse for you to sell?" Bei Hai said with a smile.
"Why don't you take the time to go out to sea again! It's really hard to say how much the price has risen this year," Benny said.
"Looking at this market, I estimate that it would be good to be able to go up to more than 30 percent, and if it is higher, the interference at the government level will come," Arai said with a mental analysis.
"Thirty percent is enough!" 100 million more than 30 million, isn't that enough? If this wasn't enough, even Bei Hai himself felt a little too greedy.
Benny said: "I was the happiest to come to Japan this time! Where are we going to go later? ”。
"Forget it, I want to go back to the hotel and sleep now. If you're interested, go yourself," Bei Hai said.
"Then I'll play by myself and find a girl to lead the way," Benny said, looking at Arai Toshinori.
Arai Toshinori smiled and said, "Go by yourself, I want to go back to sleep too!" ”。
In this way, while eating and chatting, the three of them finished eating, and went to do their own things. Bei Hai returned to the hotel and immediately turned his head and made up for sleep.
Amid reports of $1.3 million tuna, Bei Hai left Japan.
At this time, even Bei Hai didn't feel that the first pot of gold in his true sense, or the primitive accumulation, had been completed. Bei Hai, a fisherman, is no longer a fisherman in a simple sense. It's a real rich man. Changes in net worth also bring about changes in concepts, or sometimes satisfaction can only be talked about at a certain stage. When you reach a higher level, you will find that everything is different.
Jumping from tens of millions of dollars to more than 100 million to 200 million dollars at once, Bei Hai has not yet become familiar with multimillionaires and has to learn to adapt to the life of billionaires. (To be continued......)