It turned out that Mao Zemin had won the respect of the elder Ford for his outstanding business skills as early as the initial negotiations, and with the support of the largest shareholder, Mao Zemin, who came to the United States again, naturally became the general manager of Zhongfu Co., Ltd. Later, on the one hand, he fully explored the potential value of the patents that Hu Weidong had invested in as Jishu, among which the alkaline battery and ballpoint pen alone have accumulated profits of more than 100 million US dollars, and although the new nylon stockings have just been put on the market, they have already shown a far more "money scene" than them; On the other hand, he used these daily industries as collateral to borrow a large amount of money from the bank, thus obtaining an astonishing amount of valuable cash, and Mao Zemin then used this as the basis to actively use some of the later capital operation methods taught to him by Hu Weidong, so that Zhongfu shares in just over a year, the scale has been squeezed into the top 100 Shijie, and the turnover is expected to exceed the $2 billion mark in 1938.

"That's an exaggeration!" Hu Weidong exclaimed in disbelief, he had already understood how strong the purchasing power of the dollar is today, and it can develop to a turnover of more than 2 billion US dollars in less than two years, which is also amazing, you must know that in 1937, the total industrial output value of Japan was only 6 billion, and China was only 1.5 billion US dollars (because of the industrialization of the Central Plains border area, this value is slightly higher than in history). That's it, and sure enough, it was right to let Mao Zemin go to the United States, where both the industrial base and the market size are much larger than those in East Asia, and the upper limit of enterprise development is naturally much larger. And hugging the big tree of Ford for the time being is a more sensible decision. If there is no Ford company behind him, Mao Zemin has business talents, he has no background, and at the same time is foreign capital, and the country where he is located is still a weak country in danger of dying, how can he avoid the fate of being slaughtered, luck haode words. Maybe it's just shearing some wool, and if you're unlucky, you'll even have your bones swallowed

"Mao is really a business genius!" , Old Ford was full of praise for Mao Zemin in his words, and also told Hu Weidong a few examples. First of all, Zhongfu has explored more than 150 million tons of recoverable oil reserves in Germany and Austria. Instead of honestly extracting oil to make money, he sold all these small and medium-sized oil fields to the German government at a discount of $120 million.

150 million tons of crude oil, according to the current market. The total value is more than 2 billion US dollars, even if the exploitation cost of the German and Austrian oil fields is generally high, the potential profit is at least three or four hundred million US dollars, but this piece of fat has only been exchanged for more than 100 million US dollars, at first glance it seems to have suffered a loss, but it is impossible to exploit all these oils without more than ten years, not to mention that Europe has gradually been shrouded in the clouds of war, I am afraid that it is difficult to make money from oil production with peace of mind. As a result, Mao Zemin transferred it at a price equivalent to about one-third of the expected total proceeds. On the one hand, it avoids potential risks in the future, on the other hand, it obtains precious liquidity, which further accelerates the development of Zhongfu shares, after all, "time is money", which is undoubtedly a very correct decision.

And even old Ford didn't know that. Shortly after he left the United States, Mao Zemin began to look for a buyer for the Minas oil field, the largest source of income for Zhongfu shares, in order to avoid the risk of a future Pacific war. Not only is the Minas field much larger than the German-Austrian field, but it is also much cheaper to extract, so the expected profit is more than $15 billion, even taking into account the taxes imposed by the Dutch colonial government. And in any case it will not be less than $10 billion. If according to the pricing rules for the sale of the Deao oilfield, then the price will be as high as more than 3 billion US dollars, such a huge amount of money is not available to any consortium on Shijie today, even if the old Ford is unwilling to sell his shares out of American self-confidence, so that Mao Zemin can only unilaterally transfer 3% of the shares of Minas Oilfield held by Zhongfu International, that is, 1 billion US dollars, but this figure is also beyond the short-term payment ability of all the consortia on Shijie at present.

It is precisely because of this that Mao Zemin started to work on this matter only a few months after the Minas oil field was put into production, and he knows very well how strong the financial oligarchs in the United States are, although no one can eat it when they sell it in one go, but if they are sold in batches from now on, those huge crocodiles will definitely have a good enough appetite (for example, the old Rockefeller's assets were only two or three billion dollars at most, but the total amount of charity and donations in his life alone was as high as 2.5 billion US dollars, of course, this old immortal lived a little longer), And because of the competition, the price will definitely be higher

Another example is that Mao Zemin used the assembly line shipbuilding method taught by Hu Weidong to enter the American shipbuilding industry, and it only takes two-thirds of the time of its peers to produce similar ships, but the cost is reduced to a quarter of them (in fact, the labor cost in the United States is too high), how can other American shipyards compete? Originally, this is just a production management method after all, as long as others learn it, they can return to the same level, but Mao Zemin is not in a hurry to enter the shipbuilding industry, but first through the aforementioned methods to accumulate enough capital, only to suddenly enter in a big way, because of the abundant funds, there is a scale effect at the beginning, so that the advantages of the assembly line shipbuilding method are brought into full play, even if other shipbuilding companies succeed in stealing, they are still unable to compete with Zhongfu shares. Mao Zemin, on the other hand, unceremoniously took advantage of the situation to overwhelm others, and acquired dozens of shipyards in a row, rising to become the largest shipbuilding giant in the United States and even in Shijie in a short period of time

What is particularly rare is that Mao Zemin has a considerable understanding of the laws and policies of the United States, he did not seek to monopolize the traditional shipbuilding market in order to make huge profits, but decisively transferred most of the production capacity to the production of container ships, using the company's exclusive patent protection to avoid the accusation of "monopoly", but in fact almost completely monopolized the emerging container ship market, and the "money scene" is not inferior even compared with the profiteering nylon stockings

A similar situation also appeared in the same emerging petrochemical industry, Zhongfu shares because of Hu Weidong's requirements to buy a lot of important invention patents in advance, when the industry broke out in advance, it took the lead, Zhongfu shares have now monopolized more than half of the petrochemical production in the United States, and the use of emerging catalytic refining jishu squeezed into the lucrative and broad market refining industry ......)

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