Chapter 749 The Embarrassed and Panic Zhan Shengcai
Seeing Zhang Huaide walking up to Yao Yuan with a smile on his face, bending down slightly and extending his hand enthusiastically, Zhan Sheng noticed a detail. Yao Yuan was sitting, Zhang Huaide was standing, but Yao Yuan had no intention of getting up, so they just shook hands.
This is how subordinates meet their superiors.
Zhan Shengcai muttered, "A private entrepreneur has such a big family."
Liu Zhiyuan, who was in the front row, heard this and looked back at Zhan Shengcai, who quickly put his head over to listen.
Liu Zhiyuan said with a smile, "Dongfeng Group is not an ordinary private enterprise. It is a patriotic enterprise and has a very deep relationship with the Administration of Foreign Exchange and the Central Bank. More than half of the foreign exchange reserves last year were created by enterprises under Dongfeng Group."
"So awesome!" Zhan Shengcai was shocked.
Liu Zhiyuan pointed to Dongfang Petroleum and said, "You saw it just now. Do you know who took the initiative to greet Yao Yuan just now?"
"Those two foreigners are representatives of the Shell-Halliburton consortium." Zhan Sheng is the one who understands English.
Liu Zhiyuan said in his heart, you are going to start a war without even knowing the strength of your opponent. I really don’t know what to think.
That's right, although Liu Zhiyuan is the vice president of the Petrochemical Corporation, he is not from the conservative camp. Zhang Huaide has moved to the conservative camp. In other words, this time Zhang Huaide is on the conservative side, but Liu Zhiyuan is not, and his attitude is very ambiguous.
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He is only the vice president, so his attitude is not important at the critical moment.
In fact, Liu Zhiyuan supports diversified economic models. After working in state-owned enterprises for so many years, he is very clear about the shortcomings of state-owned enterprises. The advantage of private enterprises is that they have sufficient vitality, and they can in turn close down state-owned enterprises and develop.
To put it in a sentence that he still didn't understand, the diversified economic model is a win-win development model for state-owned enterprises and private enterprises.
But at a time when conservatives are gaining momentum, Liu Zhiyuan neither dares to express his attitude nor is he willing to stand in the ranks of conservatives.
In this sudden fog, Liu Zhiyuan believed that it was not easy for him to be alone.
He said calmly, "Those two foreigners are the president of Halliburton's Middle East region and the vice president of Shell. These two companies, one is the world's largest oilfield services company, and the other is the world's largest oil company. You see them
I don’t have any attitude toward Yao Yuan.”
Zhan Sheng was so surprised that he opened his mouth wide. He really didn't understand Halliburton and Shell Oil.
Liu Zhiyuan stopped talking, crossed his arms and continued to pay attention to the simple meeting between Zhang Huaide and Yao Yuan. He had only one doubt - could this Yao Yuan be the translator Yao Yuan?
One is the boss of a huge enterprise group and the other is a small translator. Could they be the same person?
Zhan Shengcai just felt that his brain was not full and there were too many issues to think about.
At Dongfang Petroleum, after shaking hands, Yao Yuan asked Zhang Huaide to sit down.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Huaide asked, "Mr. Yao, there is a translator in the business inspection team also named Yao Yuan, who looks very similar to you..."
"That's me." Yao Yuan said with a smile, "I have been working in the grassroots government agencies of Xinfeng County for a year. But this time I go back, whether I can keep my job is at stake."
Zhang Huaide was stunned for a moment, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's really you... Extraordinary people do extraordinary things, Mr. Yao, I admire you."
"You want to say that I am full, right?" Yao Yuan said with a hint of something in his words, "Now it seems that it is indeed the case. I originally set my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch. Anyway, if you don't leave me here, you will have your own.
Mr. Zhang, are you right?"
Zhang Huaide suddenly felt uneasy and asked, "Mr. Yao, what are you...what do you mean?"
"I have decided to completely withdraw from the domestic market. If I can't afford to offend, I can afford to hide. Mr. Zhang, don't fight with me about Kazakhstan's oil and gas operating concessions. Leave me a way to survive." Yao Yuan said sincerely.
If Zhang Huaide believed Yao Yuan's words, then he would be the biggest fool, and a fight was about to begin. Yao Yuan was obviously showing weakness. This was a psychological tactic, but he was wary of the words "complete withdrawal from the domestic market."
Would Yao Yuan really do this?
He was about to make some insinuation when the host announced the start of the meeting and Nazaryev was coming. He had no choice but to hold back and got up and returned to his seat at China Petrochemical Corporation.
"Mr. Zhang, are they the same person?" Liu Zhiyuan asked.
Zhang Huaide nodded slowly, "It's him. It turns out that he went to work in a grassroots government agency after graduating a year ago. I have never grasped this information."
"He, he just graduated!" Zhan Shengcai almost spit out his tongue. When he thought that the little translator he was calling around was actually the boss of Dongfeng Group, he couldn't help but tremble all over.
He is the deputy director of the Economic and Trade Commission Secretariat and the chief secretary of Du Zhiguo. He always has a sense of superiority in front of the mayor. However, in front of a giant like the boss of Dongfeng Group who can earn two to three billion US dollars in foreign exchange a year, he
Not even small shrimps.
Zhan Shengcai was very hurt and had the urge to dig a hole and bury himself in it.
Nazarev entered the venue and was greeted with a standing ovation.
His ministers followed closely behind, sitting in a row on the rostrum.
Nazarev was also a high-ranking official in the Soviet era. His style was very tough, somewhat like that of Vladimir Putin. Of course, the current Vladimir Putin is still in the development stage.
After a few opening remarks, he read out the requirements himself and then announced the start of the competition.
This method is like bidding, but the difference is that the bidder offers not only funds, but also other ancillary conditions, and the decision of which company will win is in Nazarev's hands, not the one with the highest bid.
Each oil company is well aware of the situation and has submitted its own plans in order. The plan has been submitted to Kazakhstan a long time ago. However, if additional conditions are not added to the original plan, it will be a "subscript". Even if
If there is a one percent chance, all oil companies will not let it go.
As expected, each company offered a new price, with the Shell-Halliburton consortium directly offering $500 million in free aid and providing a total of $5 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years.
Such a large-scale investment directly left other Western oil companies far behind, and even Yao Yuan was surprised, because the financial status of Dutch Shell Oil Company is not optimistic. The bigger the business, the greater the expenses. In addition, in recent years, Shell Oil
The company has not acquired an oil field above designated size, so the situation is not optimistic.
Therefore, Yao Yuan concluded that Shell Oil Company must be supported by the Dutch sovereign fund.
However, Nazaryev wants more than just funds, and Occidental Petroleum is not his favorite partner.
US$500 million in the 1990s was undoubtedly a huge amount of money, but compared to building a new capital with a population of one million, it was a drop in the bucket.
When Frank proposed new conditions on behalf of the Shell-Halliburton consortium, Nazarev's expression did not change. He just whispered a few words with his right-hand men on the left and right, and then asked the representatives of China Petrochemical Corporation to speak.
The last company to quote was Dongfang Petroleum Company. This arrangement obviously did a good job and gave Dongfang Petroleum Company enough time to think about countermeasures.
Zhang Huaide did not know English, so it was Zhan Shengcai who acted as a representative and read out the conditions of China Petrochemical Corporation according to the script...