After chatting with Sanjiangshui on the phone for a few minutes, Chu Xiangqian shook his head helplessly, he completely ignored Ah San's tradition.

In the past life, I always heard in the news that when India purchased arms, the purchase price was often several percent higher than the actual sales price.

It's not impossible to even double it.

Everyone knows that the extra money goes into the hands of the procurement staff and the people behind them.

Singh's family and the other 7 families in Odisha are not considered to be the top families in Odisha.

But I also know a lot of big people.

Singh had a simple idea: a £12 bike, £3 cheaper than the cheapest island bikes sold in Orishha.

It's a whopping £8 cheaper than the cheapest English bike.

There's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

And since Chu Xiangqian's bicycle is a new OEM brand, it means that no one knows this brand at all.

Ship the bike back to Orisha and register a bicycle company in England and change it to your own brand.

These bikes became the bikes of England.

Moreover, the actual controller of the company is the Indians themselves.

At that time, let alone £15, even £20 can be sold on the market.

If you look for a relationship and engage in government procurement, the entire government and police system in Odisha can consume tens of thousands of bicycles.

And watches, radios, and sewing machines will sell better than bicycles.

Unlike Chu Xiangqian's imagination, Chu Xiangqian believes that bicycles are a means of transportation and a necessity.

But in Singh's eyes, watches, radios and sewing machines are necessities that are a matter of face.

The distribution of watches and radios to the police, local forces, and government personnel will surely be unanimously supported by these people.

With the support of the people below, the more stable the position of the top officials in Odisha will be.

In the future, Singh's status in Odisha can also rise rapidly.

Maybe with a little more money, it's possible to be a mayor, a police chief, or something.

This is the difference between a bureaucratic mindset and a businessman.

Chu Xiangqian thinks about interests, and Singh thinks about power and interests.

The next day, Chu Xiangqian deliberately did not go to Singh, and after the kid sobered up, he really ran to the post office and sent a telegram to his father Bagwo Hajak.

Listening to Sanjiangshui, the father and son sent telegrams back and forth, and actually communicated for a full morning.

The telegraph fee alone cost more than 700 Hong Kong dollars.

Then, in the afternoon, Singh took the initiative to come to the door.

A contract for 50,000 bicycles, 50,000 watches, 50,000 radios and 20,000 sewing machines was requested.

As for the price, at first Singh wanted to lower the price, but Chu Qianqian said that he gave him a rebate of 5% of the total cargo volume, and immediately asked Singh not to mention the price again.

£12 a bike, and £10 a bike for the other three.

Although Chu Qianqian ordered 100,000 bicycles from the mainland, the purchase price in the mainland was only £6.45.

The watch and radio are the same as the one ordered by Singh, which is 50,000.

However, the unit price of mainland shipments is only 2.5 pounds per piece.

The sewing machine was £3.25, Chu Xiangqian purchased 10,000 pieces, and Singh directly asked for 20,000 pieces.

Even if 50,000 bicycles were left in the warehouse and rotten, the business was still profitable.

And it's a big profit.

Chu Xiangqian could not change the 100,000 bicycle production task that had been arranged in the mainland, so he could only persuade Singh to purchase 20,000 bicycles in the first month.

If the sales of bicycles in the first two months are good, then increase the number of purchases from 50,000 to 100,000 units.

If the sales of the bicycle are not satisfactory, the extra 50,000 units, Chu Xiangqian plans to dump them at a low price.

Or sell to Southeast Asia and other countries.

He also excused himself that sewing machines were not so easy to buy, and he could only be given 2,000 units in the first month.

When the first batch of 20,000 bicycles, 10,000 watches, 10,000 radios and 2,000 sewing machines arrived on Hong Kong Island, Chu Xiangqian could earn 274,500 pounds directly.

According to Singh, who was drunk again after signing the contract, broke the news in a daze.

After this batch of light industrial products is shipped back to Orisha, it will earn at least more than 300,000 pounds from government procurement alone.

After Chu Xiangqian listened, he said secretly, you Ah San will play.

274,500 pounds is converted into Hong Kong dollars, which is 4.392 million Hong Kong dollars, which is 2.082 million Hong Kong dollars more than the 2.31 million Hong Kong dollars of the previous first batch of 5,250 tons of grain.

In other words, he can not only maintain the purchase of 5,250 tons of grain per month by using light industrial products such as bicycles in the mainland, but also earn 2.082 million Hong Kong dollars.

Singh, who woke up the next day, was willing to pay the 2.082 million Hong Kong dollars to Chu Xiangqian, needless to say, it was natural to increase the supply of food.

In short, Singh's meaning is obvious, he wants to take money from me, no way, but he can use food instead.

The reason is very simple, buying grain from the interior of India is cheaper than 0.22 Hong Kong dollars a catty.

You can make a difference in the price by selling grain, and you can make a difference in the price of light industrial products when you import them.

Instead, Chu Xiangqian himself stood in Singh's point of view, just being a middleman, he could eat the difference between the two ends, and a fool would not do it.

2.082 million Hong Kong dollars, and an additional 4,731 tons of rice.

Coupled with the previous 5,250 tons equal to 9,981 tons, Chu Xiangqian directly asked Singh to send 10,000 tons of grain to Hong Kong Island every month.

According to the five-month supply contract signed with the mainland, he can also provide 50,000 tons of grain to the mainland.

But in fact, the accounts cannot be calculated in this way, as long as 5,250 times the 26,250 tons of rice in five months are given to the mainland, which has already offset the total purchase price of light industrial products such as bicycles.

The extra 23,750 tons naturally had to ask the Celestial Empire for money.

Moreover, Qian Guotai said before that the Celestial Empire wants to purchase 1.5 million tons of grain by the end of the year.

This batch of grain is purchased with real money, and there is no reason to find someone else to purchase it, so the Celestial Empire will give money.

They dragged on and refused to give the grain they procured.

If you want to use the goods to deduct it, you can do it, but you have to put the money in Standard Chartered first.

Every time I get the goods from the Celestial Empire, I transfer them back to the Celestial Empire's account from the special account.

lest you owe money for a long time, and you will inexplicably not owe it.

Moreover, Singh used the name of the English company, but let Chu Xiangqian not worry, someone would boycott the light industrial products he provided.

As soon as the contract was signed, he went to Qian Guotai and asked Lao Qian to contact him, and no Chinese was allowed to appear in bicycles and other things produced in the future.

Then the position of the trademark was deliberately left without a brand, and even for the convenience of Singh, the trademark of the watch was deliberately designed into the Sanskrit of Hajak.

As soon as Qian Guotai heard this, he realized that Chu Xiangqian sold bicycles and other things to India.

couldn't help but give Chu Qianqian a thumbs up, "What we couldn't have imagined before was easily done by you." ”

Chu Qianqian pursed his lips and said secretly, that is because you didn't find the right person, and you didn't use the right way.

After getting the contract with Singh, Chu Xiangqian didn't plan to care about it anymore, and threw it all to Linda.

Linda is not tired and troublesome at all, just for the total business of 4.39 million Hong Kong dollars, she can get a commission of 43,900 Hong Kong dollars by 1% of the total amount.

If this lasts for a year or two, it will lead to financial freedom.

Of course, keep the money in your hands, and in 10 years, hundreds of thousands, nearly one million Hong Kong dollars will depreciate by at least half.

If you can change it to a house or store, then you will really have to eat and drink for a lifetime.

In the future, he will be able to leave a large and large inheritance to his children.

Chu Xiangqian didn't tell Qian Guotai that the rice had changed from 5,250 tons to 10,000 tons.

In the second month, 10,000 tons of rice will be shipped back to Hong Kong Island, and it will not be too late to say more.

Moreover, when the people of the Celestial Empire went out to negotiate with big grain merchants, they found that it was difficult for capitalists to deal with, so they paid more and more attention to themselves, and they could get tens of thousands of tons of rice without paying attention.

Two days later, when Singh returned to Orishha, he not only took the two Mao Mei with him, but also because of the first batch of 5,250 tons of grain, Chu Xiangqian did not pay.

At the strong request, take away two sweaty horses, one male and one female.

Then it was promised that when the second batch of 10,000 tons of grain arrived, an additional 2,545 tons would be shipped to buy a third mare.

However, all the funds are still in the Standard Chartered account.

Chu Xiangqian also gritted his teeth and paid 220,000 to Standard Chartered.

Fortunately, the first batch of 5,250 tons of grain of 2.31 million Hong Kong dollars, after being transported to the Celestial Empire, the bicycles and other goods exchanged for were sold to Singh, which was a double profit.

In this way, the commission of 220,000 yuan is not only nothing, but also ensures the normal operation of the transaction and the safety of funds.

As for the 5% rebate for Singh, it will naturally have to wait until the second batch of grain is delivered.

After giving Linda and Alisa 23,100 Hong Kong dollars, the sisters were excited, pulled Chu Xiangqian and went home to mess around all night.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian is a comparison in the end, otherwise he would really resist the passion of the two sisters and fighting two games in a row.

When I went to Standard Chartered the next day, I first paid them 220,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Subsequently, not only did Juan, the big class, appear in front of Chu Xiangqian, but the members of the bank's board of directors, who were on Hong Kong Island, also participated in this closed-door meeting on the stake in Standard Chartered.

The ghost guy still has a lot of thoughts, and after agreeing to Chu Xiangqian's request to buy shares, he is only willing to let him take a stake in Standard Chartered Bank on Hong Kong Island.

In other words, even if he became a shareholder and a director, he was only a member of the board of directors of the Hong Kong Island branch.

Chu Xiangqian doesn't mind this at all, as long as he lets himself enter the game, he will slowly wait for various financial crises to appear in the future, and his hand will be able to reach into the entire banking system little by little.

And don't look at the British pound's headquarters in London, but in fact, Hong Kong Island is the most important source of revenue, both now and in the future.

And this bank was also the only note-issuing bank on Hong Kong Island before the 90s.

The other one, of course, is HSBC.

But compared to HSBC, Standard Chartered's market capitalization can only be said to be conservative, or extremely lacking in pioneering spirit.

But it's not all bad to be conservative, at least when the crisis comes, there will be a lot less trouble.

After talking about it for three days, even going to London to watch the second game of the Champion Cavaliers was delayed.

However, as soon as Margaret heard that Chu Xiangqian was talking about taking a stake in Standard Chartered Bank, she immediately asked him not to rush to London.

For Europeans and Americans, bankers are synonymous with high class and status.

However, Chu Xiangqian seriously disagreed with the shareholders' valuation of the bank at 100 million pounds.

If memory serves, in '77, Standard Chartered's market capitalization was only £300 million, which translates to $460 million at the time.

And he is still a branch on Hong Kong Island as a shareholder.

If you really want to approve the valuation of 100 million pounds, you are definitely a big fool.

directly cut it to 20 million pounds, and then the shareholders stopped doing it.

Even if it is cut in half, it is 50 million, which is too much difference from the 20 million pounds that Chu Xiangqian said.

Don't look at Standard Chartered a long time ago, it opened many branches in Xinjiapo, Malay, and San Francisco.

However, in terms of profit, these branches together are not as good as the Hong Kong Island branches that are qualified to issue notes.

And with the increasingly fierce competition and more and more cross-border transactions, Standard Chartered's market share in Europe and the United States will become smaller and smaller.

forced them to stick to the Asian market.

So just talking about the valuation of the Hong Kong Island branch, it took two days to talk, and in the end it was still stuck at 40 million and 45 million pounds.

Chu Xiangqian is adamant, the Hong Kong Island branch is worth 40 million pounds.

However, in the end, if the talks have not been reached, Chu Xiangqian will not really give up the opportunity to buy shares because of 5% of 5 million pounds, that is, 250,000 pounds.

In his eyes, even if it is valued at 60 million pounds, it is worth it in exchange for a board member.

Juan is basically on Chu Xiangqian's side now, after all, it is not surprising that Chu Xiangqian will be one of the bosses of the Hong Kong Island branch in the future.

And Juan knew very well that the shareholders on the scene were willing to sit down and talk, and really pushed the price to 45 million pounds.

All I thought about was that Lachu would go forward and join the gang, and then get on his big boat and make money.

In other words, as long as Chu Xiangqian is really willing to pull them to make a fortune together, he will definitely have a great say in the Hong Kong Island branch in the future.

And as he earns more money, shareholders such as Malay Official, Standard Chartered, Royal Bank of England, PricewaterhouseCoopers and PricewaterhouseCoopers will definitely get closer to him in the future.

By the way, PwC and Coopers are still two independent accounting firms.

It won't be merged until '98 to form one.

And the power of the board of directors is not just about who has more and how little shares they have.

Capable people are often able to easily lobby other shareholders to agree with their own suggestions and decisions.

Maybe with only 5% of the shares, you can become the chairman of the board of directors.

Not to mention, Juan himself was just a senior at the Hong Kong Island branch, and he didn't care about the other branches.

It is even eager to suppress and compress the profits of other branches.

"Gentlemen, a valuation of 40 million, or 45 million, on the premise of a 5% stake, is only a difference of 250,000 pounds.

I think it's just that Mr. Chu is willing to deposit the funds of his newly built project and the wharf project in our bank.

And hiring a bank as a settlement bank, the money that can be earned in a year should be more than 250,000 pounds. ”

This is a reminder to shareholders that instead of fighting over the trivial matter of £250,000, it is better to take the opportunity to consider how to get a stake in the dock and luggage company.

The Champion bag has been registered, and £1.07 million in funds is also in existence with Standard Chartered.

Juan can know about this company, Chu Xiangqian is not surprised at all, but this guy dares to predict the profit prospects of the champion bags, and his vision is indeed excellent.

Chu Xiangqian thought about it and simply suggested taking a fifteen-minute rest.

Then ask Wong to prepare the documents and copies of the patent copies.

(End of chapter)