Chapter 63: Matchmaking
To control Prawit means to control a part of Chiang Mai Province.
Although both Siam and Luzon are rotten boys, they are a little better than Luzon, at least there are not too many blatant secession of families.
Although the royal family of Siam is as arrogant and domineering as the big family, it still needs a little face, and the internal control is relatively good.
This makes the power of Ba Wei, the Fu Yin, not seriously restricted, of course, there is also a medium-sized family behind Ba Wei who supports it, and secretly controls the Snake Ring Gang.
Through Bavi's connections, Domino quietly wiped out the top brass of the Snake Ring and took down this small gang with 1,367 members.
Domino, through the Honsavaddy branch of Mengjiao, arranged a spider web manager in Chiang Mai to act as the behind-the-scenes control of the Ring Snake Gang, and asked Prawit to cooperate.
After arranging all this, Domino reverted to the appearance of an Oriental, and temporarily lived in Chiang Mai Province under the name Mu Qing.
After all, her task is to cooperate with Yang Mengjiao's side and completely infiltrate the Golden Triangle region, Yang Mengjiao is working on the Hongsavady side, and she is cooperating with Chiang Mai.
Chen Jianxiong naturally didn't have time to come over in person to do this kind of task, after all, he was getting busier and busier now, and he needed to deal with all kinds of things in the Security Department, so it was impossible for him to be stationed here in Bangkok for a long time.
Therefore, there is a high probability that the Siam intelligence station and the Golden Triangle strategy will be taken over by Domino.
June 16th.
Bavi accompanied Liu Zhifan to meet at the White Orchid Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province, and the two sides held talks about investing in the construction of the factory.
"Your company is willing to invest in the construction of the factory, on behalf of Chiang Mai Province, I welcome it, and at the same time, I can also provide some help to your company." Bawipi said with a smile.
Liu Zhifan also smiled: "Then thank you for your strong support, and I wish us a happy cooperation." ”
The two sides clink glasses gently.
The other members of the Bavi family, who were present, were also very happy at this time, because the beverage and canning factory will be operated in a joint venture, in which the Aoba Group will hold 67% of the shares, and the Bavi family will occupy 33%, and will undertake all the documents and the purchase of the factory land.
In addition, the sale of canned food and beverage products in Siam was also contracted by the Bavi family.
Liu Zhifan wants to enter Bangkok in Siam, but the problem is that there are too many big families there, and the imperial power group controlled by the Siamese royal family alone is not the kind of force that is easy to talk to.
So he took advantage of Domino's connections to focus on Chiang Mai, Siam's second largest city.
It is not difficult to build a canning and beverage factory, and Chiang Mai province has a tropical monsoon climate, and the local fruit production is quite large.
In particular, the Bavi family, one of the local snakes, is also a large landowner and can purchase local fruits to make cans and juices, and then import glass bottles from glass factories in Honsavady.
In fact, the cost of a bottle of beverage is the highest, which can account for 40~60% of the total cost, while the beverage itself only accounts for about 30~40%.
It looks like importing glass bottles from Honsavady is a very bad act.
In fact, in the glass factory of the Aoba Group in Honsavady, the cost of a 500ml glass bottle is only 0.012 US dollars after adding the cap.
The retail price of a 450ml bottle of Coca-Cola in Siam is 15 baht, which is equivalent to about 0.45 US dollars, but its production cost is only about 0.045 US dollars, of which the packaging cost is about 0.032 US dollars.
You can see the gap!
Even if the cost of glass bottles will increase by about 0.01 US dollars during transportation, the glass bottles of Aoba Group still have super competitiveness.
What's more, glass bottles have another advantage, that is, they can be recycled and reused for a long time, which can further offset the cost of transportation.
Therefore, the Aoba Group can kill other manufacturers by fighting a price war.
Don't look at the cost difference of just a few cents, sometimes business competition is so cruel, and the cost difference of a few cents means that there is a gap in the ability of the two sides to bear pressure.
Liu Zhifan doesn't plan to only make juice and canned food, carbonated drinks, tea drinks, and functional drinks will be involved one after another.
At that time, the 450ml coke of Chiang Mai soda will be sold directly for 10 baht a bottle, and the whole market will be directly played to death, as long as it does not lose money, it will be sold at the floor price.
The people on both sides of Ba Wei and Liu Zhifan are very satisfied with this cooperation.
In particular, although this cooperation was Domino's order, the Bavi family benefited a lot from it, which made him less resistant to the organization.
It's just that he doesn't know that the biochip in his brain is subtly revising his thoughts.
After the two sides reached a cooperation agreement, Liu Zhifan put an employee who was a spider web manager in charge of the work of the Chiang Mai branch.
He quickly returned to Honsavady.
By this time, the Honsavaddy Division's sphere of influence had expanded northward from the former Taninthari province to Mon, Kayin, Kayah and a small part of Shan State.
The nearest stronghold is less than a hundred kilometers away from the Golden Triangle.
To the north of the Qing Dynasty is the Golden Triangle region, and to the west is Kayin State and Mon State, which just happen to be connected.
Dawei glass products can be transported by sea to Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State, and then north through the Salween (Nu River) to Mai Sallang in Siam and then transported by road to Chiang Mai.
This route is only about 800 kilometers.
What's more, the Aoba Group has already planned to prepare a second glass factory near the port of Mawlamyine in Mon State, and the distance from the second glass factory to Chiang Mai will be further shortened to about 450 kilometers.
Therefore, Liu Zhifan stayed in Chiang Mai for two days, and then hurriedly returned to the Dawei headquarters and began to prepare for the second glass factory in Mawlamyine Port.
Immediately afterwards, he passed a board resolution to invest 10 million US dollars to dredge the lower reaches of the Salween River, so that the navigable length of the Salween River will be increased from the previous 90 kilometers to about 300 kilometers.
Of course, these 300 kilometers include some tributary waterways, and only 500-ton ships can be navigated.
If navigability is to be further improved, dams must be built to reduce the drop of the river, stabilize the water surface, and increase the depth of the river.
However, investing in the construction of the dam is not something that the Aoba Group can afford at this stage, and even if it secretly controls the finances of the three states, there is still no way to maintain such a huge project.
But this time the dredging will allow at least 500-ton transport ships to reach Siam, which will greatly promote the economic development of the two places.
The other side.
The Aoba Group's glass products and beverages are also rapidly blooming in the coastal areas of Honsavady.
Cheap and high-quality purified water, fruit juice and glass products have brought a huge impact to the already fragile industrial Honsavady market.
The local people, whose income is already pitiful, do not care what feelings and brands they have, and the prices in Honshawadi are very high, so the products of the Aoba Group are cheap and high-quality, and the products are in short supply as soon as they are listed.
Especially in the control area of the Aoba Group, once the products of other beverage factories overlap with the products of Aoba Beverage, there is basically no room for resistance.
Relying on this price war, the Aoba Group used its profits for expansion and mergers and acquisitions, and in June alone, it annexed three small local beverage factories.
In addition, through the relationship between black and white, through a joint venture merger, Aoba Beverage Company now has 12 beverage processing plants.
This snowballing expansion further strengthened the local power of the Aoba Group.
After all, processing plants need employees, and fruit provides a channel for local plantations and farmers, and once the system takes root, it will be difficult for outside forces to compete with the Aoba Group.