After District Chief Yang received Lin Yi's call, he thought for a moment and picked up the phone to call the provincial leader in charge of overseas Chinese friendship and trade.
"Leader, I have something to report to you in person."
"You do it."
Leadership offices.
District Chief Yang repeated Lin Yi's words, and the leader nodded after listening: "This method is not bad. Our purpose of earning foreign exchange through export is also to use foreign exchange to buy the materials we need domestically."
"Last year, the country imported more than two million tons of chemical fertilizers, but these proportions are simply not enough for each province. Our country is now vigorously building chemical fertilizer enterprises, which mainly produce ammonia fertilizer, and the gap in urea is very large."
"Exchanging materials for materials is equivalent to exporting our goods and importing needed goods, but the materials are fixed as fertilizers."
District Chief Yang said: "Boss, Xiaolin said that this batch of fertilizers was produced in the Soviet Union. Do you think there is anything wrong with it?"
The leader smiled and said
"Is there any problem? Didn't we start a dialogue at the diplomatic ambassador level last month? It has eased a lot. Besides, the supplies are supplies. We bought them from the Hong Kong free market. According to international business rules, we can have
what is the problem."
With the leadership, District Chief Yang was finally relieved.
When I returned to my office, I called the unit in charge of seeds and fertilizers in the district and asked their person in charge to come over and inquire about the price of fertilizers.
The national import price of a ton of urea is 320 yuan, and the price obtained from the following is 340 yuan. The 20 yuan is the additional cost, and they also sell it for 340 yuan.
"How much fertilizer do you think our province can consume?" District Chief Yang asked.
The person in charge said, "Boss, you can eat as much as you want. Now there are purchase restrictions. The villagers want to sell more, but the quota for each household is 10 jins. This is not enough. But these 10 jins,
It’s only enough for two or three acres of land, and it’s very economical.”
After understanding the situation, District Chief Yang felt confident and dialed Lin Yi's long-distance number again.
"Xiao Lin, how many tons of fertilizer can you get there?" District Chief Yang asked.
"5,000 tons."
District Chief Yang was a little excited when he heard this figure. Originally he thought one or two thousand tons would be good, but five thousand tons is really a lot.
"what price?"
"160 US dollars per ton." Lin Yi suddenly increased from 120 per ton to 160 per ton. His own trading company also wants to make money, and it is not a public enterprise.
District Chief Yang calculated in his mind that according to the current international exchange rate, 160 U.S. dollars is equivalent to 288 yuan.
This price is more than 30 yuan cheaper than importing from Japan.
"Did the other party say they wanted any goods in exchange?" District Chief Yang asked.
"Not yet. I gave the other party a list of our products. The other party is making selections and the specific details still need to be negotiated," Lin Yi said.
"Xiao Lin, the superiors have agreed to carry out this transaction. In this way, you will have full authority to complete the preliminary work. If there is any progress, please contact me in time."
"Good leadership."
Lin Yi came to Luo Man's trading company. Luo Man's trading company was much larger than Lin Yi's Yi Shida, and the general manager's office was also very luxuriously decorated.
"Lin, do you want wine or coffee?"
These Russians drink wine just like water, but last time Lin Yi drank with this guy, he really didn't scare him away.
"Forget the wine, give me a cup of coffee."
The coffee pot is simmering, and the aroma is wafting out.
"Lin, do you agree?" Roman asked.
"Yes, I agreed, so I came to find you to prepare for the next step." Lin Yi said with a smile.
"What price?" Roman asked concerned, because it involved how much he could earn personally.
"The price I quoted to our side is $125."
Roman calculated in his mind, 125 US dollars per ton, 5,000 tons is 625,000 US dollars. According to their export price, 120 US dollars per ton is 600,000 US dollars, and he can get 12,500 US dollars for the extra 25,000 US dollars.
Roman is very satisfied with this income.
You must know that although he was in charge of import and export before, he didn't make much money.
"Roman, can you lower the prices there so that we can make more money?" Lin Yi said.
Roman frowned slightly.
"This price is a subsidized price, which is much cheaper than the price of urea in the international market. It is already the lowest price allowed."
Lin Yi spoke slowly and in a low tone:
"Fertilizers are more susceptible to moisture, especially during shipping. It should be normal for some of them to be damaged and sell at a lower price."
That batch of fertilizer was already doomed to get wet at sea before it even got on the ship. Some things are really destined.
As for who is God.
It's hard to say.
Roman looked at Lin Yi.
"Lin, you are more suitable to be a businessman than me."
"I'm doing it for our benefit." Lin Yi said with a smile.
Roman nodded, "Yes, this batch of fertilizers got a little damp during transportation. The customer originally planned to return it, but with my efforts, he finally agreed to purchase it at a price of US$110 per ton, which earned foreign exchange for the country and avoided a bigger problem.
Loss."
Lin Yi extended his thumb.
He originally thought that it would be good for Roman to press $5 per ton, but he did not expect that he would be more ruthless and directly press $10.
In this way, each of them will have a profit share of 37,500.
"Roman, have you selected the supplies you need?"
"Already picked,"
Then he handed an order to Lin Yi, which contained towels, cotton socks, cotton gloves, large-size vests, tin fruit cans, lighters, matches, toothpaste and toothbrushes, soap, washing powder... more than twenty kinds in total.
Originally, I selected them according to the catalog, so these products are available in Hu Province.
"Okay, I'll take it back right now and let them prepare supplies." Lin Yi said.
"I'll also notify Vladivostok and ask them to put the goods on the ship and ship them over as soon as possible," Roman said.
...
After bidding farewell to Roman, Lin Yi did not go back, but came to Baker McKinsey Law Firm, which he had already visited twice.
"Mr. Lin, we meet again." David greeted Lin Yi with a smile.
Lin Yi can be regarded as his high-quality customer.
"What's the matter with your visit this time, Mr. Lin?"
"Help me register two more companies, a commercial company in Cayman, a trading company in Hong Kong, two offshore companies in Cayman with cross-shareholdings, respectively controlling the two trading companies in Hong Kong, and open two more secret Swiss bank accounts
." Lin Yi said his intention directly without any nonsense.
Lin Yi registered a new company just for this transaction with Roman.
He used to think that two companies were enough, but now he found that it was not enough at all. No wonder there are many bosses in later generations. One person is the CEO of more than 400 companies, and even his secretary has hundreds of companies.
"No problem." David agreed simply, which was his strength.
"I hope it's faster this time."
"The fastest is three days, but you need to pay an extra fee."
If you want to be quick, there is a quick way. There are many shell companies on the market. After acquiring them, they can become yours. It is much faster than newly registered companies. It can be completely completed in three days. It is just that the price is higher.
"How many?"
"Total eighty-eight thousand."
Lin Yi didn't do any ink and just nodded in agreement.
It was 30,000 more than last time, but getting the company and account he wanted as soon as possible was much more important than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.
"I'll contact you when it's done," David said.
...
Back at the trading company, Lin Yi called District Chief Yang, "Boss, we just negotiated with the other trading company and talked about the specific details."
"Oh, how did the discussion go?"
"5,000 tons of fertilizer, with a total price of 800,000 US dollars. The other party did not plan to buy that much goods. They prepared a purchase order of 550,000 US dollars. The extra 250,000 US dollars required the price difference to be paid and settled in US dollars."
"We still have to pay a sum of foreign exchange." District Chief Yang murmured.
Domestic foreign exchange is extremely tight now. Every foreign exchange expenditure needs to be sought from the provincial or even higher level for instructions. He cannot make the final decision at all.
"Xiao Lin, can't you exchange everything with goods?" District Chief Yang asked.
He doesn't care about selling more goods, he really can't bear to part with foreign exchange.
"Well, how about I negotiate with the other party again?" Lin Yi said hesitantly.
"Well, let's negotiate carefully."
Lin Yi found Roman again, "Roman, our government has prepared 800,000 U.S. dollars of goods. Why don't you eat them all, except for the 550,000 U.S. dollars in fertilizer deductions, and how about you pay me in cash for the remaining 250,000 U.S. dollars."
After saying this, Lin Yi lowered his voice and said, "There is also a commission on this transaction. I will make up to US$50,000 for you."
You can earn $50,000 in one transaction.
Roman was a little excited.
"No problem, our company still has more than 600,000 US dollars in funds in its account. We should indeed prepare more supplies for the Soviet Union in China."
The two held out their hands.
Happy to work with.
As for Lin Yi.
In this transaction, he lowered the price on both ends and made profits on both ends, and ultimately gained a net profit of more than 200,000 US dollars.
$200,000,
Even if you exchange the foreign exchange rate at 1:1.8, you can get 360,000 RMB. Because of the dual-track system now, the foreign trade exchange rate is 1:2.8, which is 560,000 U.S. dollars. And if you exchange it on the black market, 1 U.S. dollar can be exchanged for five or six yuan.
In RMB, this is more than one million.
Earn 1 million from one business.
Lin Yi was very happy.
It took him more than half a year to make his last one million, so the channels and platforms for making money are very important.
The next day.
Lin Yi called District Chief Yang again.
"Boss, the other party agreed to purchase all the goods with a payment of 800,000 yuan."
District Yang is happy to have grown up.
"Well done Xiao Lin, I'll come back and give you credit."
a few days later,
Lin Yi and Roman signed a formal contract,
certainly,
The contract does not indicate barter, but settlement in U.S. dollars.
After going through the accounts of several foreign trade companies, fertilizer orders jumped from 110 to 130, and finally the domestic export price jumped to 160 US dollars per ton.
The orders coming from China also went through several trading companies, and the price increased little by little, finally reaching a price of US$800,000.
It is the most normal business practice for a foreign trade company to increase the price. No one can fault it. As for the separate order of US$250,000, Roman directly transferred the full amount to Lin Yi's company's account. Within a few days, Lin Yi issued an invoice to Roman.
There was an extra $50,000 in cash in his Swiss bank account.
Why is it opened by Lin Yi and not Luo Man himself? Because the censorship in Luo Man's country is much stricter than that in China, and it is safer for Lin Yi to open it.
Only Lin Yi and Luo Man know the account, and the password is in Luo Man's hands. Even Lin Yi cannot take it away. It is very safe. Luo Man is very satisfied with the first transaction between the two parties. Now he and Lin Yi are already close friends.
Lin Yi was specially invited to go to the best KTV in Hong Kong to drink, sing, dance and pick up girls, and had a lot of fun.
The friendship between the two deepened again.
With the first cooperation, will there be less cooperation in the future? This means that their money will continue to roll in and flow into their pockets.
Lin Yi was drinking, holding a girl in his arms, thinking in his mind.
In fact, I am not harming the country. After all, the fertilizers I import are much cheaper than those they import from Japan, Canada and other countries. Moreover, they are bartered, which can be regarded as saving a lot of precious foreign exchange for the country.