"Large warehouse?" Lao Wu was a little puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask more.

"Actually, you don't necessarily need it, but you still have to be prepared." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said, "Old Wu, go find two more professionals who are proficient in firefighting, and I may use this warehouse in the future." ”

"Okay." If you can't figure it out, then you don't want to, so Lao Wu agreed.

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Unlike the protagonist in later online novels who was reborn or busy becoming a dog after crossing over, Chen Zhiwen has always been very leisurely, and in the first year of travel, except for the layout of Land, he basically didn't do anything serious, he was playing everywhere, arranging flowers and raising birds, and he was so uncomfortable.

During this period of time, Chen Zhiwen still often played poker with Zhang Yunxue and others, and occasionally came to fight the landlord, once, Zhang Yunxue accidentally brought one more person, and Chen Zhiwen also taught a few people to fight tractors.

After a period of time, the poker players played more times for a long time, and they became familiar with each other's tricks and routines, so they felt bored, and Zhang Yunxue changed a group of people and started again.

Playing poker can be said to be a lot of fun, and only those who can't find someone to play with will find mobile phones more interesting.

While you are young, of course, you have to play more, and as for your career, it is impossible not to do it, but it just so happens that during this time, there is no good direction, and even if there is, it is also a preparatory stage, and it will not be very busy, and in July, things have ushered in a turnaround, because the first oil crisis is coming.

Due to some international reasons, a few months later, the international oil price will rise directly from $3 a barrel to $11 a barrel, which may be very small in the face of the price of oil that is often $100 a barrel in later generations, but the impact in this era can be said to be groundbreaking, and all governments around the world, including OPEC, know the power of oil for the first time.

After the first oil crisis, industrial production fell by 14% in the United States and more than 20% in RB, and productivity growth slowed significantly in all industrialized countries. In 1974, the economic growth rate was -0.5% in the United Kingdom, -1.75% in the United States, and -3.25% in the RB.

To put it simply, the global inflation that began in the 70s and lasted for more than ten years, relying on the Federal Reserve's interest rate increase to nearly 20% and the initial achievement of globalized trade, was suppressed because of the two oil crises, the oil crisis caused a lot of changes in the living habits of Europeans and Americans, and change means opportunity.

This is also the time for Chen Zhiwen to develop the manufacturing industry to wait, the sharp rise in oil prices will have a serious impact on Hong Kong's manufacturing factories, and the change in demand in Europe and the United States will inevitably cause a gap in the market for some products.

But it's a pity that there are no oil futures in this era, even in 1978, when the second oil crisis came, there were still no futures, and it was impossible to do long oil prices, there was no such way at all, but oil, as an important industrial raw material, played a very many roles, and its role gave Chen Zhiwen the opportunity to take advantage of.

With three months to go before the oil crisis, it's time to prepare.

Hengyi Plastic Factory has begun to negotiate with the Hong Kong government to buy the land next door, the Hong Kong government is now short of money, although the meat is relatively small, but it is better than nothing, it is estimated that the price can be slashed and then the deal can be made, and the headquarters of the central office building, Li Haonan began to contact several headhunters, recruiting in Hong Kong and even Wanwan, interviewing one by one, and consulting Chen Zhiwen if the conditions are met.

The time soon came to August, Hengyi Plastic Factory had bought the nearby industrial land, Chen Zhiwen directly arranged for Lin Yanming to find a construction company to build a large warehouse, the internal fire level was built according to the level of the hazardous chemicals warehouse, but did not apply for the storage of hazardous chemicals, Chen Zhiwen will not place hazardous chemicals, just for the sake of fire protection and careful consideration, after all, it will only cost tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.

The team at Galaxy Holdings' headquarters is also gradually moving towards the most basic improvement, finance and administration have been put in place, and Chen Zhiwen has recruited more than a dozen professionals, and the whole team is currently doing an analysis of manufacturing factories in Hong Kong in order to make acquisitions or other ways of cooperation in the future.

When the basic preparations were completed, Chen Zhiwen personally invited a guest to meet in the presidential suite of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

"Mr. Chan, although I have been in Hong Kong for more than 10 years and have stayed at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel many times, this is the first time I have come to the Presidential Suite, and I would like to thank you very much for your generosity." An old white man said with a smile in very standard American English.

Chen Zhiwen smiled and said, "What kind of person to talk to, what kind of occasion you naturally have to choose, right, Mr. Smith?" ”

"I'm just taking advantage of Dow Chemical's light, and the others are just ordinary people." Old man Smith said with a chuckle.

"Mr. Smith is modest, Dow Chemical is one of the top 20 business giants in the United States, and few people in Hong Kong know about it." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

Today, Chen Zhiwen invited the head of Dow Chemical, the largest chemical giant in the United States, in Hong Kong, although Hong Kong is not large, but the manufacturing density is very large, and the plastics industry is one of the main industries, therefore, Dow Corning, Dow Chemical and other giants also have offices here, specifically responsible for the sale of plastics and other chemical products.

Those who know these are basically people in the industry, and other Hong Kong people don't know what Dow is. However, it is not surprising that in the Internet era of later generations, these giants are very low-key, and unrelated people are not clear, but it is these giants that produce non-direct civilian products that have mastered a large number of basic materials and technologies, which are the cornerstone of the industrial development of a large country.

Smith nodded and said, "Mr. Chen, I don't know if there is anything I can help you with asking me to come here today?" ”

Chen Zhiwen also said quite formally: "Mr. Smith, I want to buy a batch of plastic particles, the varieties are here, please take a look first." ”

"Plastic pellets?" Smith felt very strange when he heard it, just buy plastic pellets and go directly to his company, even if the amount is larger, you can also talk in the company, and it is too luxurious to make an appointment with this presidential suite of thousands of Hong Kong dollars a day.

However, when he saw the list on the note, his face changed, and he said in disbelief: "Mr. Chen, do you want to buy 20,000 tons of plastic pellets?" ”

"Yes, 20,000 tons." Chen Zhiwen said very formally.

There is no way to speculate on oil, and its main derivatives, diesel and gasoline, cannot be hoarded, they are all flammable products and are also strategic materials, and the Hong Kong government will not agree to hoard them, the cost is also outrageously high, and the danger is very high, and even if the Hong Kong government agrees, even if there is infrastructure to reserve, but in the follow-up oil crisis, Western "civilization" people come to "borrow", are you moved?

But plastic is different, this thing is solid, easy to store, no pollution, and plastic is also one of the main synthetic products of petroleum, the industrial value is great, automobiles, household civil, household appliances are not able to leave plastic, the most important thing is that the type chosen by Chen Zhiwen is a variety that is difficult to burn, and the danger is low.

In the past, after the outbreak of the oil crisis, the price of oil rose by 3.6 times, while the price of plastic rose by about 3.3 times.