Chapter 290: Profiteers
The two people sitting cross-legged next to the small table are now a little blind to Bei Hai's fishing ability, whether it is Arai Toshinori or Benny who heard the other words that came out of Bei Hai's mouth, they are very sensitive to the matter of fishing, although they have never seen Bei Hai catch fish with a purse seine before, but for a captain, these don't need to be known, as long as the boat is brought to a place where there are fish, the next work can be done by the coolies below.
The two of them have no doubts about Bei Hai's ability to find fish, and they are still fishing tuna. These tuna are a little bit of a reflection of the fact that the sea can be harvested in the Atlantic, and naturally it can also make a difference in the Pacific. Although the Atlantic population is different from the Pacific population, it is still tuna and has not jumped out of the five suits.
Hearing the moment Benny said that he wanted to participate in the shares, Arai Toshinori's heart was also bright, waiting for Bei Hai to nod with his eyes open, looking forward to the stars and the moon, so that he could also mention the matter of participating in the shares, but unfortunately Bei Hai directly avoided this question. Although they didn't have a stake in the shares, Benny and Arai Toshinori were not big disappointments, this is normal for both of them, why should the meat that people can swallow in one bite give it to others? I don't want to do it myself!
"When are you going to ask for a boat!" Arai Toshinori asked Bei Hai.
"Of course, the sooner the better, and there is one more thing, that is, where to store the caught fish is also a problem" Bei Hai turned his gaze to Benny after speaking: "Your company also has a place to work in Japan, ask if there is a suitable cold storage, I am going to store all the fish caught there." Rent it for me for a year."
Hearing Bei Hai's request, Benny nodded directly without thinking about it: "There's nothing wrong with that." If you need it, I can rent a 1,000-ton freezer in a week, and it's easy on the Japanese side, but your ship will have to dock at Tsukiji Port. It's hard to find such freezers in other places, and even I am not familiar with them."
"That's fine!" When Bei Hai heard that his problem was almost solved, he happily patted his thigh, and picked up the tea cup in front of him: "I'll replace the wine with tea first, thank you two."
Killed the tea with a snort, Bei Hai put down the cup and said: "The tea is good, the tea is also very good, but it's a pity that it's a little tired to drink like this!" βγ
Hearing this, Arai Toshinori laughed, and Benny shook his head happily. Arai Toshinori didn't think there was any rudeness on Bei Hai's side, it can be said that Arai Rinori has been thinking about this since he intersected with Bei Hai, and there is no push between businessmen to go to the clouds and mountains. It's so nice to talk about things.
The three of them drank tea around the small table, and from time to time they had a small snack and began to chat. What can the three of them talk about? Talking about girls? One is in his sixties, one in his forties, and one in his twenties, this kind of age composition is not suitable, and besides, Benny, the least rich of the three, is now estimated to be millions more than the annual price, what is there to talk about the girl.
Arai Toshinori pinched a small bean and put it in his mouth, then reached out and waved his hand at the kimono woman next to him to signal her to retreat, and then said: "The New York store is doing well, and the stores in Boston and Los Angeles are about to start operating, and the top-quality and high-grade fish are basically no problem now, but the mid-range fish is a little troublesome."
Bei Hai listened to Arai Toshinori say this, glanced at Benny and quipped: "You should expand your business!" Don't keep staring at Gloucester! βγ
Sushi restaurants don't just have one kind of tuna that can hold up, such as squid and sea urchin. Mackerel and the like are available, and these cheap fish are consumed in a lot more than tuna, so the so-called main course is just one or two dishes, and the side dishes are all over the table. This is almost the same in the Arai store.
"Why don't you get another boat to catch squid or something?" I can also worry less about this here" Arai Toshinori said to Bei Hai with a smile: "Anyway, the season of squid fishing does not conflict with the fishing season, and there is no limit!" βγ
"Don't do it!" Bei Hai's answer was simple.
As for the reason, not to mention Arai Toshinori, the two of them also guessed, it was nothing more than a small amount of money! For a captain like Bei Hai, who catches tuna in tons, four or five ships down is more than 20 million US dollars. Naturally, he is not happy to let him make squid money again, especially Bei Hai is still a little lazy.
Benny suddenly said to Bei Hai with a straight face: "Hull." Arai. Do you have any interest in taking stock if my company is going public? I want to give up 38% of the shares! βγ
"Why do you sell shares if you have a good job?" Bei Hai couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Benny say that he wanted to sell his shares.
"The company's growth has reached a bottleneck, mainly due to the lack of funds...... Benny explained as he stretched out his finger on the small table.
Don't look at Benny's small company, the faΓ§ade is not big, but there are really a lot of fixed assets. Not to mention the other 20 or so frozen transport trucks, which are worth two or three million, and then there are fixed cold storage or something, which all cost money.
"I don't have much spare money to squeeze out now, at most three or four million," Bei Hai said, "Any more will affect my plans."
In fact, it's not that Bei Hai can't come up with more money, but Bei Hai doesn't have much interest in investing in Benny's Mustang Transportation, which is not appetizing for Bei Hai's slow investment and long investment cost recovery time. Not to mention the money invested in Cayman, there are still nearly 20 million US dollars lying in Beihai Bank.
Benny didn't think about how much Bei Hai invested, he just hoped that Bei Hai could take a stake in the company, of course, the shares couldn't be too little, I didn't feel it.
Think about who your company would compete with a company that has nothing to do with you? The blind know how to choose. As a businessman, Benny's hand seems to have divided his shares, but it can actually be the big tree at the source of Beihai, and then he carried the big tree at the end of Arai, in short, no matter how you look at Benny's business, he will not suffer.
It's also good for Beihai and Arai Trading Company.,It's a real deal to not explain the extra money!
In this way, the business was naturally discussed quickly, and it took less than five minutes for the three of them to negotiate the investment amount and listen to Benny's development plan for the next year.
"Why don't you build one or two purse seine boats," Arai Toshinori suddenly said to Bei Hai's side.
"Shipbuilding?" Bei Hai was a little confused by Arai Rinori's words. Talking about how the shares of the wild horses were involved again, let themselves build a purse seine boat.
didn't think much about it, Bei Hai cried first: "Come to the money!" This ship is precious". The main reason is that now Bei Hai is bent on buying the island and doesn't want to get any purse seine boats, so he doesn't have much interest, and now Bei Hai is thinking about raising fish.
"I can lend it to you. You don't have to pay for it, as long as we have the right of first refusal to buy and sell the fish we catch," Arai said, looking at Bei Hai.
"You're serious!" Bei Hai now understands that Arai Toshinori really has this idea, not a joke.
Arai nodded and said, "There are fishing restrictions in the United States, but not in the Pacific!" If you're confident that you can catch big fish with a purse seine. Why not jump from Japan to the whole Pacific Ocean to ......".
Listening to Arai Toshinori's words, Bei Hai felt that it made a lot of sense, not only did it make sense, but it was also quite easy to implement, Bei Hai had considered this problem before, but it was arranged to buy the island. Now Arai Toshinori has proposed to borrow money without interest, Bei Hai is not interested, and the things have to be eaten one by one, and it will be two years late. It's better to get rid of the big fish near Oma Town first, and at least keep this 'nameless' village away from the top tuna, so that your half-sized juveniles can be sold for hundreds of pounds of adult fish.
"Catch the offshore first!" Bei Hai thought for a moment and said.
"Of course!" Arai Toshino was not a little conscious, and he suddenly exposed the nature of a businessman. If in the eyes of some little devils, Arai is a traitor.
"The price of fish in Oma is really disheartening," Arai Toshinori is also very complaining about the fish in Oma, not to mention anything else, the mercury content is almost not in the sea now, and the good fish from Oma are a little inferior to the big fish produced in Oma Town, but fortunately, Oma Town is a little off fire this year. For Arai Toshinori, Oma Town is good if it doesn't produce fish, and as for what the fisherman's livelihood has to do with his fish seller, that's the government's business.
This trick that Bei Hai came up with is obviously very much in line with the interests of Arai Toshinori, and for Bei Hai's plan, Arai can't wait to raise his hands and feet in favor, because if Oma Town does not produce big fish, it is undoubtedly extremely beneficial for Arai Trading Company, not only saving a sum of money for Oma Town's fish production, but also occupying the most advantageous competitive position. Arai's pollution-free fish is the best tuna.
When it came to noon, Arai Toshinori was not able to persuade Bei Hai to lend his money to build a ship, the old man's heart didn't know how depressed he was, he felt that this thing was strange today, and he wanted to lend the money out, and people didn't want it!
Bei Hai naturally didn't want to owe Arai any more affection. Now that Bei Hai has divided the relationship between himself and Arai into ordinary friends, a small number of fishing boats of about two tons or so is a little too much, and this kindness is better not to accept.
Syllable! Bei Hai patted his leg and said, "Okay." Then let's talk about it today, and if you have any news over there, tell me quickly. We're going to get to work too! βγ
As he spoke, he stood up and prepared to take his leave.
"Let's stay for lunch at noon, I just happened to have sushi prepared here. At eleven o'clock, some suppliers will come, so let's get to know each other," Arai said immediately as he saw that Bei Hai was leaving.
Bei Hai waved his hand: "Next time, Li Weiwei is still waiting for me at home."
Arai nodded when he heard this, and also stood up and prepared to send Bei Hai out.
"Don't worry about this!" Bei Hai wanted to let Arai not send it here, but unfortunately Arai Rinno still sent Bei Hai to the door.
"This old man!" Bei Hai looked at the figures of Arai Toshinori and Benny standing at the door from the rearview mirror and couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, then suddenly remembered, and immediately slapped the steering wheel: "Damn!" I'm here today to ask Arai to help me find a way to rent a boat, why did I throw out millions of dollars all of a sudden and become a shareholder of Mustang now! βγ (To be continued......)