Chapter 1578
Chapter 1578
Chapter 1578
Hearing Luo Hong's words, he was struck by lightning. He really couldn't believe that the Dutchman, who had been weak in the previous five bidding events, was able to beat him to the point where he was powerless in the last one.The other party only took one round of bidding opportunities, and completely crushed himself off the court. What kind of courage and determination is this!
Although Luo Hong has already won the previous five projects, it can be said that he is the big winner of today's competition, but he is not happy at this moment.Luo Hong thought that the 300 million offer he had prepared was enough to make Su Keyi leave the venue in disgrace, and went back to Batavia with a zero score to plead with his red-haired boss to admit his mistake, but it was obvious that the other party had already prepared the script and was waiting It was only when this moment came that he finally took a blow and gave himself a heavy blow. The words he had prepared to laugh at the other party were blocked in his throat.
Bex got up and turned over the bidding card on the wall belonging to the East India Company. Luo Hong finally saw the amount written on it: three million five hundred thousand yuan.Yes, Su Keyi's offer was 50 more than Luo Hong's final offer. This was only the first round of bids. Luo Hong couldn't even imagine how much the other party had prepared for these Haihan warships.
Of course, what Luo Hong could not have imagined was that Haihan gave Su Keyi great preferential terms. Among the 350 million quotations, 200 million belonged to Haihan's special loan, and the East India Company only had to repay half of it afterwards. That is 100 million.If not, it would be impossible for Su Keyi to borrow such a large amount from Haihan.With a loan of 100 million, he can still try to explain to the governor and council of Batavia, but with 200 million, he may have to go back and plead guilty. After all, this amount has even exceeded the total annual income of the East India Company.
However, this shady scene will probably never be made public. Both parties involved have benefited greatly from it, and no one will take the initiative to expose these shady tricks.All Luo Hong could see was Su Keyi who was sitting across from him with a calm face. He didn't even know that he had been plotted against by the Haihan people and the Dutch.
After the results were announced, it was time for complicated procedures and settlement.The representatives of the two parties returned to their respective lounges, and someone specially assigned to them went through the relevant procedures.The gold bricks Luo Hong brought to Sanya this time can only be discounted by about 300 million yuan, so although he failed in the last round of bidding and did not spend any money, the first five bids cost 400 million yuan. In the end, he still had to ask Haihan A loan of one million can be completed.The same is true for his opponent Su Keyi, who also owed Hai Han a huge sum of millions in the end.
Judging from the results, both parties owed Haihan a debt of 100 million, and the bidding price of the two parties was [-] to [-]. It seemed that Mata Lam had a clear upper hand.But in fact, because of the failure to grab the last key project, the role of the several projects previously bid by Matalam in the military confrontation will be greatly reduced.
The East India Company paid a lot of money to buy a fleet without weapons, which seems to have suffered a big loss, but if you think about it the other way around, if this fleet is bought by Mata Lan, then the East India Company really only We can pack up and leave Batavia ahead of schedule.The money spent actually bought an insurance for Batavia's safety. As for whether these ships could form combat power in a short period of time after getting these ships, Su Keyi actually didn't think too much about it.
This is why Haihan boldly sold these equipment to him. Even if the Dutch got these ships, in the absence of Haihan's guidance and training, they had to rely on their own comprehension to digest these warships and prepare for them. Using it for yourself is not something that happens overnight.What's more, the Dutch didn't even buy the original weapons on the ship. If they equipped some local cannons on the ship, the combat effectiveness would naturally be greatly reduced.
Although the bidding has ended and both parties have obtained arms purchase contracts, the actual delivery period for these goods is still not short.Among them, the spot quantity of weapons and equipment has not reached the number in the contract, and weapons such as firearms and artillery need several months of delivery time to complete.As for the 24 warships purchased by Su Keyi on behalf of the East India Company, there are only two in stock, and it will take one to one and a half years of delivery to complete all the contents of the order.This is because Su Keyi failed to grab the ship's weapons, otherwise the construction period would have to be extended by at least one more month to complete the deployment and installation of the ship's guns.
Regarding such a long delivery period, the people of Matalan and the Dutch could not urge Haihan, because these details were clearly written in the contract content shown to them in advance, and these goods need to be delivered after the order is confirmed. Start organizing production shipments.Therefore, although the representatives of both parties were very eager for the delivery, their urging did not have any effect on Haihan who was doing things at his own pace.
Of course, considering the principle of fairness, since Haihan can't deliver the arms and equipment to the buyer at one time, the buyer doesn't have to repay all of the million-dollar loan owed to Haihan immediately, but repay it in installments according to the delivery cycle. Capital and interest.The Netherlands and Haihan currently maintain relatively close trade relations, and Mataram will rely heavily on Haihan's technical support in the military field in the future, so there is no need to worry about them maliciously defaulting on this loan.
The representatives of the two countries had their own concerns, and they politely declined the dinner prepared by Haihan. They planned to go back to write a report and report the current situation to the rear as soon as possible, so that they could start preparations for receiving weapons and equipment as soon as possible.They can't wait until Haihan has fully delivered the order content before starting the training of the troops. The sooner they form combat effectiveness, the more threats they can pose to their opponents.
So the dinner became the executive committee's celebration banquet. Haihan Xi proposed an arms order with a total amount of nearly 650 million yuan, and the gross profit was at least 500 million yuan. It was indeed a happy event worthy of celebration.At this time, it has only been more than half a month since the Matalan Mission came to Sanya to request for arms purchases. Haihan officials only played a role in smoothing the process. It can be said that this arms deal is a windfall. , It is simply a gain outside the official plan.
The ability to operate such a large-scale arms sales project in such a short period of time is due to the efficient collaboration and cooperation between various departments.Although the division of labor and the bureaucratic system of Haihan's current functional agencies are much more complicated than those of a few years ago, fortunately, when there is a major event, the special authority of the Executive Committee can mobilize the resources of the entire country to achieve the goal in the shortest possible time. This is exactly the means of governing that other countries of the time lacked.
Take this arms sales project for example. Although the military, arsenal, foreign ministry, and commerce department all have their own interests and political attitudes, under the coordination of the executive committee, all departments can be integrated quickly. , making efforts in one direction, this is really the benefit brought by the system.
The game between countries does not seem to have a significant direct impact on the people. With the entire bidding meeting kept in high secrecy, the people of Haihan didn't even know about the money that was regarded as a hot topic a few days ago. The brick incident was actually resolved in such a secret way.The "Sanya Express" after the resumption of publication did not follow up and report on this matter. The public's attention will not always be kept on the incident of foreigners showing off their wealth more than ten days ago, but has long been attracted by other new social news. Ran.
But the life of the instigator who caused this incident to attract social attention has undergone tremendous changes.Xu Zhengye, the editor-in-chief of the express, was interviewed alone the second day after the backstage boss Li Nai arrived in Sanya, and then he was transferred from the newspaper, and his position was taken over by another editor.Li Nai had already read the newspapers for those two days at the first time, and he didn't blame Xu Zhengye for making such a big mistake, but this incident aroused the attention of the executive committee. As the backstage boss of the newspaper, Li Nai always wanted to It is only necessary to show a little remorse to the Haihan official, and it is probably the simplest and most effective way to resign the person in charge.And there are many businesses under Li Nai's name, so it's not difficult to arrange another job for Xu Zhengye.
As for the other person involved in the matter, Xun Pengcheng, the reporter who was in charge of writing the article at the time, had already gone through the resignation procedures on his own initiative.In the eyes of colleagues in the newspaper office, Xun Pengcheng took the initiative to leave because he didn't want to be fired by the boss, which is considered a very backbone.And Li Nai didn't care too much about the resignation of this small employee, he was just a talent who could write, and it was not difficult to recruit someone with similar ability from the new immigrants to replace him.The editor-in-chief Xu Zhengye couldn't protect himself, so naturally he couldn't take care of Xun Pengcheng who was implicated by him.
But the inside story of Xun Pengcheng's resignation was not what they thought. In fact, before and after the whole incident, the individual who benefited the most from it might be Xun Pengcheng.When Luo Hong, the envoy of Matalan, came to visit, Xun Pengcheng gave some random pointers for the sake of money, and accidentally promoted the subsequent bidding activity, so Luo Hong fulfilled his promise and privately gave Xun Pengcheng a Big money as compensation.
For Luo Hong, this was nothing more than a reward for an insider, but for Xun Pengcheng, it was a huge sum of money that could change the course of his life.After receiving the gold from Luo Hong, Xun Pengcheng didn't dare to keep the gold at home, but hurriedly sent it to Haihan Bank to exchange it for official currency that could be used freely in Haihan.This is because gold and silver transactions are rarely used directly in Haihan, and the gold bricks and gold coins sent by Luo Hong can't be used outside at all. Instead, they can be conveniently deposited in the bank's personal account and withdrawn at any time after being converted into official currency.
It is no exaggeration to say that the money Luo Hong sent is enough to make Xun Pengcheng live comfortably for the rest of his life, and he can also try to do some things that he once thought about but was unable to achieve.After completing the bank deposit procedures, the first thing Xun Pengcheng did was to resign from his job as a reporter.He doesn't want to waste his life on this kind of mediocre work anymore. Now that he has become a rich man, he should enjoy the life of a rich man.
But Xun Pengcheng is also worried that his sudden wealth will attract unnecessary attention. You must know that people from the Ministry of Security came to visit him a few days ago. , I'm afraid that life will not be easy in the future.So Xun Pengcheng intends to leave Sanya and look for another place to stay. He heard that Haikou, Danzhou and other places are also developing well. If he can go to those places to buy property and become a planter, it may be a good idea. arrange.Of course, if you can find opportunities to become an official in other places, that would be the best. Xun Pengcheng has never given up on the dream of being an official.
Xun Pengcheng's main asset in Sanya is the small apartment he lives in now. Before leaving Sanya, he has to sell this apartment first.Xun Pengcheng found a dental firm to post the information about the sale of the house, but within two days, the dental firm brought buyers to the door to negotiate the price.
Xun Pengcheng sold the house and moved into an inn in the port area for a temporary stay.The next thing he had to do was to set a sailing schedule and leave, but it happened that the sea was very windy and rough these days, almost all the ships were sheltering in the port, and there were no passenger ships leaving the port at this time.Xun Pengcheng had no choice but to wait patiently at the inn for the weather to improve.
After staying in the inn for five days, the weather finally started to improve. Xun Pengcheng, who had been waiting a little anxiously, immediately went to the port, found the passenger ship he had already contacted, and asked the captain when he would be able to leave.After confirming that he can leave Sanya in three days, Xun Pengcheng finally let go of a big stone in his heart.Just as he was about to go back to the inn, he heard someone calling himself: "Brother Xun, long time no see!"
Xun Pengcheng turned his head to look in astonishment, and greeted himself that this man was wearing a green shirt. He looked about thirties, and his face was a bit impressive, but he couldn't remember who it was, so he had to bow his hands in embarrassment. , Your Excellency is..."
"Brother Xun is really a noble man who forgets things. Back then we took the exam in the same subject and were a scholar in Guangzhou together..." The man saw that Xun Pengcheng was still in a daze, so he had to introduce himself: "Brother Xun, Wang Hao, a native of Qingyuan, You and I traveled together in Guangzhou for three days, do you remember?"
Xun Pengcheng suddenly said: "I remember! Someone in Brother Wang's family was an official in the Guangzhou government, and later left you in Guangzhou. After these years, Brother Wang has become more and more imposing, so that I dare not recognize each other! "
Wang Hao said with a smile: "Brother Xun has won the prize! I never thought that I would meet an old friend as soon as I came to Sanya. It is really fate! If Brother Xun is free, why don't you and I find a place to sit down and talk about the past?"
Xun Pengcheng is now a rich and idle person, of course he is free, and he has ample money, so he doesn't mind treating his old friend to a light meal.Immediately, he hailed a rickshaw at the pier and took Wang Hao to the city.
(End of this chapter)
Hearing Luo Hong's words, he was struck by lightning. He really couldn't believe that the Dutchman, who had been weak in the previous five bidding events, was able to beat him to the point where he was powerless in the last one.The other party only took one round of bidding opportunities, and completely crushed himself off the court. What kind of courage and determination is this!
Although Luo Hong has already won the previous five projects, it can be said that he is the big winner of today's competition, but he is not happy at this moment.Luo Hong thought that the 300 million offer he had prepared was enough to make Su Keyi leave the venue in disgrace, and went back to Batavia with a zero score to plead with his red-haired boss to admit his mistake, but it was obvious that the other party had already prepared the script and was waiting It was only when this moment came that he finally took a blow and gave himself a heavy blow. The words he had prepared to laugh at the other party were blocked in his throat.
Bex got up and turned over the bidding card on the wall belonging to the East India Company. Luo Hong finally saw the amount written on it: three million five hundred thousand yuan.Yes, Su Keyi's offer was 50 more than Luo Hong's final offer. This was only the first round of bids. Luo Hong couldn't even imagine how much the other party had prepared for these Haihan warships.
Of course, what Luo Hong could not have imagined was that Haihan gave Su Keyi great preferential terms. Among the 350 million quotations, 200 million belonged to Haihan's special loan, and the East India Company only had to repay half of it afterwards. That is 100 million.If not, it would be impossible for Su Keyi to borrow such a large amount from Haihan.With a loan of 100 million, he can still try to explain to the governor and council of Batavia, but with 200 million, he may have to go back and plead guilty. After all, this amount has even exceeded the total annual income of the East India Company.
However, this shady scene will probably never be made public. Both parties involved have benefited greatly from it, and no one will take the initiative to expose these shady tricks.All Luo Hong could see was Su Keyi who was sitting across from him with a calm face. He didn't even know that he had been plotted against by the Haihan people and the Dutch.
After the results were announced, it was time for complicated procedures and settlement.The representatives of the two parties returned to their respective lounges, and someone specially assigned to them went through the relevant procedures.The gold bricks Luo Hong brought to Sanya this time can only be discounted by about 300 million yuan, so although he failed in the last round of bidding and did not spend any money, the first five bids cost 400 million yuan. In the end, he still had to ask Haihan A loan of one million can be completed.The same is true for his opponent Su Keyi, who also owed Hai Han a huge sum of millions in the end.
Judging from the results, both parties owed Haihan a debt of 100 million, and the bidding price of the two parties was [-] to [-]. It seemed that Mata Lam had a clear upper hand.But in fact, because of the failure to grab the last key project, the role of the several projects previously bid by Matalam in the military confrontation will be greatly reduced.
The East India Company paid a lot of money to buy a fleet without weapons, which seems to have suffered a big loss, but if you think about it the other way around, if this fleet is bought by Mata Lan, then the East India Company really only We can pack up and leave Batavia ahead of schedule.The money spent actually bought an insurance for Batavia's safety. As for whether these ships could form combat power in a short period of time after getting these ships, Su Keyi actually didn't think too much about it.
This is why Haihan boldly sold these equipment to him. Even if the Dutch got these ships, in the absence of Haihan's guidance and training, they had to rely on their own comprehension to digest these warships and prepare for them. Using it for yourself is not something that happens overnight.What's more, the Dutch didn't even buy the original weapons on the ship. If they equipped some local cannons on the ship, the combat effectiveness would naturally be greatly reduced.
Although the bidding has ended and both parties have obtained arms purchase contracts, the actual delivery period for these goods is still not short.Among them, the spot quantity of weapons and equipment has not reached the number in the contract, and weapons such as firearms and artillery need several months of delivery time to complete.As for the 24 warships purchased by Su Keyi on behalf of the East India Company, there are only two in stock, and it will take one to one and a half years of delivery to complete all the contents of the order.This is because Su Keyi failed to grab the ship's weapons, otherwise the construction period would have to be extended by at least one more month to complete the deployment and installation of the ship's guns.
Regarding such a long delivery period, the people of Matalan and the Dutch could not urge Haihan, because these details were clearly written in the contract content shown to them in advance, and these goods need to be delivered after the order is confirmed. Start organizing production shipments.Therefore, although the representatives of both parties were very eager for the delivery, their urging did not have any effect on Haihan who was doing things at his own pace.
Of course, considering the principle of fairness, since Haihan can't deliver the arms and equipment to the buyer at one time, the buyer doesn't have to repay all of the million-dollar loan owed to Haihan immediately, but repay it in installments according to the delivery cycle. Capital and interest.The Netherlands and Haihan currently maintain relatively close trade relations, and Mataram will rely heavily on Haihan's technical support in the military field in the future, so there is no need to worry about them maliciously defaulting on this loan.
The representatives of the two countries had their own concerns, and they politely declined the dinner prepared by Haihan. They planned to go back to write a report and report the current situation to the rear as soon as possible, so that they could start preparations for receiving weapons and equipment as soon as possible.They can't wait until Haihan has fully delivered the order content before starting the training of the troops. The sooner they form combat effectiveness, the more threats they can pose to their opponents.
So the dinner became the executive committee's celebration banquet. Haihan Xi proposed an arms order with a total amount of nearly 650 million yuan, and the gross profit was at least 500 million yuan. It was indeed a happy event worthy of celebration.At this time, it has only been more than half a month since the Matalan Mission came to Sanya to request for arms purchases. Haihan officials only played a role in smoothing the process. It can be said that this arms deal is a windfall. , It is simply a gain outside the official plan.
The ability to operate such a large-scale arms sales project in such a short period of time is due to the efficient collaboration and cooperation between various departments.Although the division of labor and the bureaucratic system of Haihan's current functional agencies are much more complicated than those of a few years ago, fortunately, when there is a major event, the special authority of the Executive Committee can mobilize the resources of the entire country to achieve the goal in the shortest possible time. This is exactly the means of governing that other countries of the time lacked.
Take this arms sales project for example. Although the military, arsenal, foreign ministry, and commerce department all have their own interests and political attitudes, under the coordination of the executive committee, all departments can be integrated quickly. , making efforts in one direction, this is really the benefit brought by the system.
The game between countries does not seem to have a significant direct impact on the people. With the entire bidding meeting kept in high secrecy, the people of Haihan didn't even know about the money that was regarded as a hot topic a few days ago. The brick incident was actually resolved in such a secret way.The "Sanya Express" after the resumption of publication did not follow up and report on this matter. The public's attention will not always be kept on the incident of foreigners showing off their wealth more than ten days ago, but has long been attracted by other new social news. Ran.
But the life of the instigator who caused this incident to attract social attention has undergone tremendous changes.Xu Zhengye, the editor-in-chief of the express, was interviewed alone the second day after the backstage boss Li Nai arrived in Sanya, and then he was transferred from the newspaper, and his position was taken over by another editor.Li Nai had already read the newspapers for those two days at the first time, and he didn't blame Xu Zhengye for making such a big mistake, but this incident aroused the attention of the executive committee. As the backstage boss of the newspaper, Li Nai always wanted to It is only necessary to show a little remorse to the Haihan official, and it is probably the simplest and most effective way to resign the person in charge.And there are many businesses under Li Nai's name, so it's not difficult to arrange another job for Xu Zhengye.
As for the other person involved in the matter, Xun Pengcheng, the reporter who was in charge of writing the article at the time, had already gone through the resignation procedures on his own initiative.In the eyes of colleagues in the newspaper office, Xun Pengcheng took the initiative to leave because he didn't want to be fired by the boss, which is considered a very backbone.And Li Nai didn't care too much about the resignation of this small employee, he was just a talent who could write, and it was not difficult to recruit someone with similar ability from the new immigrants to replace him.The editor-in-chief Xu Zhengye couldn't protect himself, so naturally he couldn't take care of Xun Pengcheng who was implicated by him.
But the inside story of Xun Pengcheng's resignation was not what they thought. In fact, before and after the whole incident, the individual who benefited the most from it might be Xun Pengcheng.When Luo Hong, the envoy of Matalan, came to visit, Xun Pengcheng gave some random pointers for the sake of money, and accidentally promoted the subsequent bidding activity, so Luo Hong fulfilled his promise and privately gave Xun Pengcheng a Big money as compensation.
For Luo Hong, this was nothing more than a reward for an insider, but for Xun Pengcheng, it was a huge sum of money that could change the course of his life.After receiving the gold from Luo Hong, Xun Pengcheng didn't dare to keep the gold at home, but hurriedly sent it to Haihan Bank to exchange it for official currency that could be used freely in Haihan.This is because gold and silver transactions are rarely used directly in Haihan, and the gold bricks and gold coins sent by Luo Hong can't be used outside at all. Instead, they can be conveniently deposited in the bank's personal account and withdrawn at any time after being converted into official currency.
It is no exaggeration to say that the money Luo Hong sent is enough to make Xun Pengcheng live comfortably for the rest of his life, and he can also try to do some things that he once thought about but was unable to achieve.After completing the bank deposit procedures, the first thing Xun Pengcheng did was to resign from his job as a reporter.He doesn't want to waste his life on this kind of mediocre work anymore. Now that he has become a rich man, he should enjoy the life of a rich man.
But Xun Pengcheng is also worried that his sudden wealth will attract unnecessary attention. You must know that people from the Ministry of Security came to visit him a few days ago. , I'm afraid that life will not be easy in the future.So Xun Pengcheng intends to leave Sanya and look for another place to stay. He heard that Haikou, Danzhou and other places are also developing well. If he can go to those places to buy property and become a planter, it may be a good idea. arrange.Of course, if you can find opportunities to become an official in other places, that would be the best. Xun Pengcheng has never given up on the dream of being an official.
Xun Pengcheng's main asset in Sanya is the small apartment he lives in now. Before leaving Sanya, he has to sell this apartment first.Xun Pengcheng found a dental firm to post the information about the sale of the house, but within two days, the dental firm brought buyers to the door to negotiate the price.
Xun Pengcheng sold the house and moved into an inn in the port area for a temporary stay.The next thing he had to do was to set a sailing schedule and leave, but it happened that the sea was very windy and rough these days, almost all the ships were sheltering in the port, and there were no passenger ships leaving the port at this time.Xun Pengcheng had no choice but to wait patiently at the inn for the weather to improve.
After staying in the inn for five days, the weather finally started to improve. Xun Pengcheng, who had been waiting a little anxiously, immediately went to the port, found the passenger ship he had already contacted, and asked the captain when he would be able to leave.After confirming that he can leave Sanya in three days, Xun Pengcheng finally let go of a big stone in his heart.Just as he was about to go back to the inn, he heard someone calling himself: "Brother Xun, long time no see!"
Xun Pengcheng turned his head to look in astonishment, and greeted himself that this man was wearing a green shirt. He looked about thirties, and his face was a bit impressive, but he couldn't remember who it was, so he had to bow his hands in embarrassment. , Your Excellency is..."
"Brother Xun is really a noble man who forgets things. Back then we took the exam in the same subject and were a scholar in Guangzhou together..." The man saw that Xun Pengcheng was still in a daze, so he had to introduce himself: "Brother Xun, Wang Hao, a native of Qingyuan, You and I traveled together in Guangzhou for three days, do you remember?"
Xun Pengcheng suddenly said: "I remember! Someone in Brother Wang's family was an official in the Guangzhou government, and later left you in Guangzhou. After these years, Brother Wang has become more and more imposing, so that I dare not recognize each other! "
Wang Hao said with a smile: "Brother Xun has won the prize! I never thought that I would meet an old friend as soon as I came to Sanya. It is really fate! If Brother Xun is free, why don't you and I find a place to sit down and talk about the past?"
Xun Pengcheng is now a rich and idle person, of course he is free, and he has ample money, so he doesn't mind treating his old friend to a light meal.Immediately, he hailed a rickshaw at the pier and took Wang Hao to the city.
(End of this chapter)