Ando Co., Ltd. has been very unpeaceful recently, and their president is called Momofuku Ando, and he is facing a very big decision recently.

Is it to keep the instant noodle factory? Or keep the properties you invested in?

On the one hand, the serious shortage of grain reserves, and the high international food prices, have made him reluctant to order wheat easily.

In fact, it is not easy to order, he no longer has enough funds in his hands, and the bank loan has not been in place for a long time.

On the other hand, the property market continues to rise, if we say that we sell some industries to supply instant noodle factories, then this crisis is nothing.

However, there is a choice here, is it to let the instant noodle factory reduce production? Or sell a property that is rising?

Momofuku Ando is very distressed, and sometimes, he wants to sell the factory directly! I also don't have to worry about this.

To be honest, starting a factory is really not an easy job, and the profit is not very good, much worse than the real estate market.

"President, there is an investment firm from the United States that wants to visit you, and they have already called and wanted to make an appointment. Are you thinking of meeting them? ”

"Companies in the United States? Do you know what they do? ”

"They said it was a guy called Pacific Rim Investments, and I looked it up, and it was registered in the United States."

"Oh, I see! Then promise them, about tomorrow morning. Momofuku Ando said.

Early the next morning, Hou Dalin walked into Ando Co., Ltd. with three students, a lawyer, and two economists.

"Are you Chinese?" As soon as Momofuku Ando saw Hou Dalin, such a sentence came out.

"Isn't Mr. Ando the same?" Hou Dalin replied directly.

It turned out that this Momofuku Ando was a Chinese who immigrated to Japan in his early years, but now he doesn't use his original name anymore, but has the surname Ando.

"That's right, then our conversation can be a little simpler, how about we use Chinese?"

"Of course, no problem, I can do it." Hou Dalin replied in Chinese, and then continued: "I have been in the United States for a long time, and I am used to going straight, please don't mind Mr. Ando." ”

"Mr. Hou, please just talk about it."

"Okay, Mr. Ando, we're here to buy your instant noodle factory."

"Hahaha, young man, you're really direct. Do you know how much it's worth? Did you know that I am the inventor of instant noodles? Isn't it too whimsical for you to come to me to talk about acquisitions at this time? Ando's expression was very relaxed, but there was no dissatisfaction in his words.

"Of course I know, and I also know how many loans Ando's instant noodle factory owes now, and what difficulties it is facing."

"Young man, you're thinking too simply. I have a special affection for Ando's factory, let's drink tea, let's not talk about the acquisition. Ando made a gesture of please, and then picked up the teacup to himself.

"Mr. Ando, it was with you in mind that you were the inventor of instant noodles that we were the first to find you. I also don't want to see Ando, the inventor of instant noodles, disappear from the shelves of convenience stores. ”

Hou Dalin was not polite, the old man still played this trick of lust and indulgence with him! He's not going to get used to him.

"You're so confident!"

"No, it's not me, Mr. Ando, it's capital that has self-confidence. You Ando can't get through this difficulty anyway, you only have two choices, one is to watch Ando's instant noodles disappear. The second is to sell her to us, and we will continue to carry her forward. ”

"Why do you say that?" Ando was a little concerned, and he also wanted to see what hole cards this Pacific Rim Investment Company had.

Hou Dalin did not speak, but motioned to the economist on the side and showed the hole card in his hand.

One was a wheat futures contract in the hands of Pacific Rim, and the price on it deeply stung Ando's eyes.

The other is the authorization given by Wells Fargo and Chase to Pacific Rim, and while it doesn't prove how much money Pacific Rim can mobilize, it can show the relationship between the two banks and the company.

This is not something that a small instant noodle business can compete with.

In fact, he didn't even have to look at the second one, but the first thing already made Ando desperate.

If there is no foreign capital involved, then Ando and other instant noodle manufacturers will join forces to form a price alliance and have no chance to survive this crisis.

But when a company like Pacific Rim gets involved, then the price alliance is a joke! They will use capital and low-cost food to defeat any instant noodle factory.

They don't even have to do this, as long as they don't let Japanese banks lend them money through the channels of the banks, they can only admit defeat and eventually go bankrupt.

This is an instant noodle factory, to put it bluntly, a grain processing enterprise, and their debt bearing capacity is very low. It doesn't take too much, twenty percent is enough to kill them!

But how many of them are there now? I'm afraid it's more than 50 percent, right?

It can be said that in fact, they are already insolvent, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are insolvent after counting the depreciation of equipment and subtracting the inventory of grain.

In this way, Hou Dalin only paid more than 700,000 US dollars in cash to win the largest instant noodle processing enterprise in Japan.

Of course, this company can't be worth such a small amount of money, and the reason why Hou Dalin didn't use cash is because he took all of Ando's loans.

So why would Japanese banks agree? Because it was an investment company from the United States that took over the instant noodle factory!

The loans they have issued before can be directly converted into various financial products that can be circulated around the world through the rich countries or chase behind Pacific Rim. It's real money collateral, and it's worth a lot more than any broken piece of equipment.

Now is the take-off stage and golden stage of the financial industry in the United States, Hou Dalin's kind of things, the cost is not high, through this operation, Hou Dalin paid the 700,000 US dollars in cash, and through the financial channels to find back more than 300,000 yuan.

In addition, the grain in his hand can not only have a good buyer this time, but also sell it at a good price!

Not to mention others, the few students brought by Hou Dalin really opened their eyes this time. Business can still be so fun! Is this the capitalist market economy? It's horrible!

These people, including the banks of Japan, are like fools, knowing that it is a trap, but they just drill into it, and they don't let the drill people be unhappy!

"You only see the appearance, not the substance!" Hou Dalin preached to the students.

"Teacher, what is the essence?" Liang Peng asked eagerly.

"The essence is that Japan's banking industry is not controlled by the government. They only have profits in their eyes, not the interests of the state.

Everyone knows that the prosperity of a country's economy requires all industries to go hand in hand. However, once the banking industry loses this belief and only cares about its own interests, then it loses its greatest role and deviates from the original intention of establishing a bank. ”

"Our country must not do this! This thing is horrible. One student sighed.

"You don't have to choke on food, the most important thing is to control." Hou Dalin added that he didn't want to really scare his students too conservatively.

"Remember, in war, dcommand the gun. In times of peace, d will command finance. If you have this string in your head, things won't turn out like Japan. ”

Everyone nodded, all thoughtful.

In the evening, these people did not go out to hang out again, but stayed in the hotel room together, seriously summarizing what they had seen, heard, felt, and learned during this time.

The next few days became simpler, Hou Dalin used the same method to win two more instant noodle companies, as for other manufacturers, he didn't want it. Someone has to be someone else's way forward, isn't it?

In China, the instant noodle factory set up in the special zone has completed the infrastructure construction at this time, and is waiting for the equipment to arrive at the factory.

At this time, although the newly ordered production line has not yet been made, the old one can be dismantled!

It is enough for these enterprises acquired by Hou Dalin to retain only half of their production capacity, and all the remaining equipment will be dismantled to China.

With the arrival of grain and equipment, the first large-scale food enterprise in the Special Economic Zone, Lihua Food Factory, was officially put into operation.

In fact, this factory is not a large factory, with a monthly production capacity of just over 10,000 tons, that is, the production capacity of 200 million packs of instant noodles.

Subsequently, in February 80, the second, third and fourth factories of Lihua in Yangcheng, Shanghai and Tianjin were put into operation one after another, and Lihua suddenly had a monthly production capacity of 1.2 billion packs of instant noodles.

Most of these instant noodles were re-exported to Japan, occupying the vacant market in Japan.

Many years later, Liang Peng, one of Hou Dalin's students, described Hou Dalin's operation in detail in one of his books, showing how he occupied the Japanese instant noodle market step by step.

But this did not set up a good image for Hou Dalin, and most people felt that Hou Dalin did not hesitate to stir up the wind and rain in order to make money, destroy the world food prices, and bring so much suffering to the people of the world.

But this is all for later, but even so, Hou Dalin does not regret it. Competition is like this, and his agitation has also given a wake-up call to the country and raised people's understanding of international grain speculators.

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