Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 367: Short-sightedness cannot achieve great things

Chu Xiangqian had previously invested too much in opening a five-star hotel in London, and the return on investment was indeed not as high as opening a large hotel in Hong Kong Island.

Then the idea of ​​opening a hotel in Knightsbridge was abandoned.

Now there are people like Bridge who are eager to join the team. Each of them spends 50 million pounds, and can easily raise 500 million pounds.

If I invest another 100 million pounds as a lead investor, this project can easily be launched.

And as a project initiator, my shareholding ratio will definitely not be small.

Chu Xiangqian would naturally not let him go if he had an advantage.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Give me one night and I'll make an investment budget. Let's get together at the Peninsula Hotel tomorrow night?"

"No problem", Ge Bai and others were overjoyed.

This group of people didn't really trust Chu Xiangqian's investment vision.

But they also know that when they open a hotel in London, if people like Margaret and Norton are willing to hold banquets in the hotel from time to time, their reputation will suddenly increase.

With a famous hotel, it is difficult not to make money.

After saying goodbye to Bridge and others, Chu Qianqian took Linda directly to the Peninsula Hotel.

As for Linda's father, brother and others, after the auction ended, they greeted Chu Qianqian and returned to the hotel.

But before these people left, Chu Qianqian could see their loss, disappointment and envy.

After all, the total amount of this auction reached 121 million pounds, which alone was more cash than all of them combined.

And Chu Xiangqian was only 20 years old. Singer looked at Chu Xiangqian with eyes full of envy, jealousy and admiration.

When he arrived at the hotel, Chu Xiangqian told Zheng Sufen that he wanted a private room to play cards tomorrow night, and when no one was paying attention, he hugged the woman and kissed her a few times.

Zheng Sufen was both excited and afraid of being seen.

But the more this happens, the more exciting it feels.

After Zheng Sufen became dazed by the kiss, Chu Xiangqian let her go.

When we got to Bhagwal and Singh's room, we chatted for a while, looked at our watches, and then took them to have some backbone.

When they arrived at the place, Bhagwal, Singh and others felt that they had some backbone at first, which was more than one level worse than the Peninsula Hotel.

But when I saw the waiter, Duan Hongchun and others dressed and served in British style, I immediately became cautious again.

When a beautiful English-speaking waiter in the restaurant introduced the 16 dishes of the Quanhu Banquet, as well as 8 pre-dinner and post-dinner desserts, a group of wealthy locals exclaimed that the dishes were beautiful and delicious.

Duan Hongchun is indeed a veteran. When introducing the dishes, the waitress needs to translate them into English.

But he hinted several times that the four or five tigers consumed by the restaurant every month were all hunted by Chu Qianqian's hunting team.

It was also hinted that these tigers were all Bengal tigers.

As long as Bagwa and others are not stupid, they will know that the hunting team in Chu Xiangqian's hands is not only well-equipped, but also must have a large network of connections in South Asia.

Basically, everyone will be cautious and fearful when dealing with people like him who have armed forces in their name.

If Alisa hadn't been sitting next to Chu Qianqian, and Linda, the girl, was also being pulled by Alisa and was sitting on the left side of Chu Qianqian, Bagwal and the others would definitely not have been able to let go of the meal.

As for the question of whether the two sisters were captured by Chu Xiangqian, to be honest, since Bagwal, the father, couldn't control the sisters in his hometown, he was even more unable to control them in Hong Kong Island now.

And subconsciously, Bhagwal and Singh actually preferred their sisters to go out and have a career.

In this way, they don't have to prepare a sufficiently generous dowry just because they get married.

When Alisa came to Hong Kong Island, her biggest wish was to save enough money for her dowry.

Therefore, the more limelight Chu Xiangqian brings to their sisters, the more they will stay by his side.

Not to mention that Chu Xiangqian promised to give them a commission.

A relationship that is both a lover and a collaborator is most likely to be stronger than a simple support relationship.

The next morning, there was a formal discussion about food.

It only took more than ten minutes to negotiate a purchase agreement for 440 Hong Kong dollars per ton of rice, and Bagwal and his team were also responsible for transporting the grain to Hong Kong Island.

5 tons is 220 million Hong Kong dollars.

Then Chu Xiangqian began to introduce salmon and salmon.

The former costs 2560 Hong Kong dollars per ton, while the latter costs 2080 Hong Kong dollars per ton. However, Chu Xiangqian is also responsible for the sea freight, and he is responsible for any accidents before arriving at Paradip Port in Orissa.

The first batch of marine fish trade includes 300 tons of salmon and 150 tons of salmon every month, which is equivalent to ordering all the marine fish produced in Xinshou Village every month.

Chu Xiangqian quickly realized that the price of HK$2560, which was 160 pounds, was definitely too low.

But if you think about it carefully, the price of 160 pounds per ton is already the wholesale price of seafood merchants in Hong Kong Island.

The purchasing price of local seafood merchants on Hong Kong Island will definitely be lower. At 160 pounds per ton, it is already slightly higher than the market price.

After all, the principle that the more you want, the cheaper it is, is universally accepted.

30 tons of salmon costs HK$76.8 per month. 15 per month for 31.2 tons of salmon.

The total is only 108 million Hong Kong dollars, and 5 tons of rice costs 220 million per month.

He will have to pay 112 million Hong Kong dollars to Bagwa and others in the future.

Although China was short of food for only two or three years, the Indians earned 1344 million Hong Kong dollars every year. Chu Xiangqian felt unhappy when he thought about it.

Of course, if the food is given to the Celestial Empire, Chu Xiangqian will not give it in vain.

But Chu Xiangqian was already unhappy if he didn't make money from Ah San, let alone letting them make money all the time.

The contract was officially signed, and Standard Chartered was recognized as the settlement bank. Chu Xiangqian thought about it again and again, and finally brought up the Arabian horse.

After watching yesterday's auction, Bagwa and others were actually envious of it.

But what surprised Chu Xiangqian was that in just one night, the group turned their attention from Arabian horses to sweat horses.

Chu Xiangqian thought about it for a moment, and soon understood that it was most likely because of that lusty and sweaty horse.

The seven Indians who were able to make the decision planned to cooperate and buy three blood horses, one male, two females, and return home. When Chu Xiangqian heard this, he guessed that they wanted to breed their own blood horses.

If you are lucky and the three horses selected from a group of sweaty horses are the same as yesterday's smooth horses, you will make a lot of money.

Even if they fail to select a track horse, the price of a stallion worth 7 pounds would only be 7 pounds each if shared among seven families.

Even if a horse dies of illness midway, the loss is not huge.

Not to mention that food is actually cheaper in their hometown.Otherwise, the price quoted to Linda would not have been 3.2 pence per pound from the beginning.

Three sweat horses cost 21 pounds, which is equivalent to 336 million Hong Kong dollars.

Chu Xiang Xiang has to pay HK$112 million every month before, which means that within the first three months, the business between Chu Xiang Xiang and these Indians only requires the exchange of goods.

However, for the sake of business security, both parties agreed to pay Standard Chartered a 5% guarantee fee.The guarantee fee and settlement fee previously raised by Standard Chartered were 7% in total, but Chu Xiangqian always bargained, and this time both parties paid them guarantee fees.

After talking for a while, we finally settled on 5%.

220% of 5 million is 11, and Chu Xiangqian did not hesitate at all.

Bagwa and others were still hesitant, but people from Standard Chartered were not that easy to talk to.

There were vague hints, even threats, and the faces of Bagwa and others couldn't help but look ugly.

Bagowo rolled his eyes, looked at Chu Qianqian and said, "Stark, we use food to offset the guarantee fee that needs to be paid to Standard Chartered.

How about you help us pay for this? "

Chu Qianqian, the people from Standard Chartered, and Huang Weixin and Huang Dazhuang were stunned at the same time. They looked at each other and secretly thought that these Indians didn't know whether they were really stupid or too stingy.

Chu Xiangqian agreed without hesitation.

Although it may seem that Chu Xiangqian suffered a small loss, in fact, all the guarantee fees on both sides were paid by Chu Xiangqian. On the one hand, he got more food.

Secondly, this money was paid by Chu Qianqian to Standard Chartered, so Standard Chartered will definitely favor him in the future.

After all, 22 a month is 264 million Hong Kong dollars a year, which is already a huge profit.

It can even be said that it can definitely account for several percent of the annual net income of the Hong Kong Island Standard Chartered branch.

Chu Xiangqian will definitely be a major customer that Standard Chartered focuses on in the future.

After all the contracts were signed, Chu Xiangqian gave Linda and Alissa 5 Hong Kong dollars and asked them to take a large group of people shopping to buy gifts to take back to their hometown.

As for the rosewood, 5 tons was only HK$8. Chu Xiangqian didn't take it to heart at all and let Linda handle the business by herself.

And with grain as a major factor, I believe that India will not sacrifice a small amount for a dozen or dozens of tons of red sandalwood.

Then he murmured to Lu Anjie of Standard Chartered, who was also the person in charge of Standard Chartered personally appointed by Chu Xiangqian, “Help me pay more attention to what Odisha is lacking.

Otherwise, I would have to pay them HK$112 million every month, which makes me feel uncomfortable just thinking about it. "

Lu Anjie was stunned. He had already seen that the sisters were already Chu Sheng's people.

Unexpectedly, this young rich man turned around and wanted to make money from the other party.

But if you think about it seriously, exporting goods to Odisha is just legitimate business.

As long as he is not playing dirty tricks or acting rogue, no one can accuse him.

"Understood, Chu Sheng, I will find out what goods are lacking in Odisha as soon as possible."

After saying that, he took out a document bag from his briefcase and said, "Chu Sheng, we have bought the 100 million pounds of gold you requested for you.

However, it takes about a month for the gold to be shipped back to Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong Island. "

Chu Xiangqian was overjoyed. 2.424 tons of gold could be regarded as a backup for himself.

At the same time, it is only made for the outside world to see.

With this gold as a guarantee, others do not need to worry too much about running out of money when doing business with them.

Chu Xiangqian took the document bag and looked at it for a while, and then he felt relieved after confirming that Standard Chartered was guaranteeing 2.424 tons of gold, not 100 million pounds of safety and insurance.

The price of gold will definitely rise in the future.

The value of 2.424 tons of gold would be 1 million pounds.

Even when the pound exchange rate falls, it will rise to almost more than 6 million pounds at the peak.

After Chu Xiangqian read the guarantee agreement, he thought about it and handed the confirmation letter to Attorney Huang.

Five or six minutes later, Huang Weixin, who had read it twice, nodded, "Sheng Chu, no problem."

Only then did Chu Xiangqian take Huang Weixin’s pen to sign.

Immediately, he handed the check of 114 million pounds received today to Huang Weixin, "Dahuang, you and Manager Lu go to the bank to cash the check and put it into my special account."

Then he looked at Lu Anjie, "I still had 43 pounds in Standard Chartered before. After this check of 114 million pounds is credited, I will buy another 100 million pounds of gold."

"This, this", Lu Anjie stuttered after hearing what he said, and it took him a while to calm down and nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, Mr. Chu, we will handle it properly."

Even if Chu Xiangqian bought another 100 million pounds, he would still have 57 pounds in Standard Chartered.

This amount of cash and gold reserves, converted into Hong Kong dollars, has reached 4112 million Hong Kong dollars.

Anjie Lu dared to say that even the top ten Chinese tycoons in Hong Kong did not necessarily have as much cash flow as Chu Xiangqiang.

After separating from Lu Anjie, Chu Xiangqian went to the racecourse and drove a trailer out.

After wandering around outside, with tits as surveillance cameras, to make sure no one was following me, I took 10 sweat horses back to the stables of the racecourse.

Three horses are going to be traded to Bagwa and others. Chu Xiangqian plans to keep the other seven horses in the stables first, and when the opportunity is right, they will be chartered by Sanjiangshui or transported to the mainland by sea.

In the evening, Chu Xiangqian went back to Feifei's place. When the girl saw him coming back, she hurriedly brought him slippers, and then ran to the kitchen to cook happily.

As for Linda and Alyssa, after sending all their relatives and friends back to the hotel, Alyssa returned to her new home in Yau Ma Tei and complained while lying on the sofa.

"Linda, have we lost our minds?"

Linda shook her head helplessly. The limelight had indeed come out, but she had used the more than [-] Hong Kong dollars her man had given her.

But even so, my father and brother were not grateful at all, but felt that everything was as it should be.

Linda sighed, "My dear, you should have seen what my father and brother were thinking, otherwise you wouldn't have left your hometown and come to this strange place like me."

Alyssa nodded angrily, "I don't plan to take them to play or go shopping tomorrow."

Linda thought about it and realized that she actually didn't want to accompany her father and Xingge, but in the end she was still worried about Chu Xiangqian's business.

However, this time she made up her mind that no matter whether it was something her father or Xingge liked, she would not pay another penny.

Early the next morning, Chu called Xiangqian and asked her to take Bagwal and others to the Jockey Club to see the sweat-blooded horses.

When a group of Indians arrived at the stables, their eyes shone when they saw Chu Xiangqian getting 10 more sweat horses.

According to yesterday's auction price, 10 sweat horses cost more than 90 pounds.

The unit price they paid for the horses was 7 pounds.This alone made Bagwa and others feel that they had taken a big advantage.

It took a while for Bagwa and others to select three horses, but they wanted to transport them away, let alone the stable boy.

Even Linda herself didn't agree.

It was clearly stated that unless the food was shipped to Hong Kong Island, or money was spent to buy it first, no one would be able to bring any bloody horse with them.

Linda even threatened to hold a second auction on her side if they did not abide by the contract.

Auction all these horses.

(End of this chapter)