Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Mr. Risfall, your quotation is too high. If our company follows your quotation, there will be no profit at all." Sun Min looked at Risfall.

Sun Min works in a foreign trade company, and this time she represents the company in negotiations with Risfar.

Risfal is a giant in the shipping industry, but Risfal’s asking price is too high.

"There is nothing I can do about it. Oil prices have risen in the past six months. If I continue to maintain the original price, my company will also have no profit."

It's not that Risfar wants to embarrass Sun Min, but that business is difficult to do in this world.

Especially the shipping industry has always been constrained by oil prices.

If the price of oil is high, he will raise the price.

Why do oil prices determine almost all prices in the world?

Just because the price of oil determines the price of transportation, the price of merchants' transportation of goods increases.

Then they also need to increase the price of high-quality products to maintain their own interests.

In China, the property market also determines the prices of goods in the mainland.

In fact, the principle is the same.

Risfall has actually started investing in other industries recently.

For example, we cooperate with Dell in hotel management.

Now their first hotel can be said to be in full swing.

It can even be said to be very successful.

The huge profits made Risfal feel like immediately abandoning the transportation industry and turning to the hotel industry.

Of course, after calming down, Risfall thought more.

Although the success of the first hotel and the huge profits made him a little carried away.

However, the success of the first hotel does not mean that the second and third hotels will be successful.

And all of his connections and business were in the maritime industry.

If you transform rashly, you will abandon the business you are most familiar with.

Selling the most proficient maritime industry is a waste of money.

Although the shipping industry cannot currently make a lot of money.

But the advantage is also obvious, that is, it will not depreciate.

Herein lies the advantage of the transportation industry.

No matter what happens, you will never lose money.

Because no matter how high the price of oil is, what needs to be transported still needs to be transported.

But the hotel industry is different.

You make a lot of money, but once you lose money, it's a big loss.

Once a certain hotel suffers a big loss, it will either have to fight hard to hold on.

Or just sell the hotel at a huge loss.

"If this is the case, I'm afraid we won't be able to cooperate." Sun Min said.

Sun Min is threatening Risfal. After all, Risfal is not the only company in the shipping industry.

"Ms. Sun, among the freighters currently on the West Coast of the United States, only my company's freighters still have free space. The freighters of other companies are basically full of goods. And those shipping companies that are not as large as my company, their quotations are absolutely It is higher than my quotation, unless you are willing to transfer your company's goods to other ports, but in this case, your costs will increase again," Risfar said.

It can be said that Sun Min has few choices now.

It can even be said that her only choice now is Lisfar's company.

Sun Min pondered for a long time, then smiled and said: "Mr. Risfar, after your cargo ship arrives at the port in China, you don't want to come back empty, right?"

Risfall was stunned for a moment. Anyone in his line of business certainly knows that the cost of running an empty ship and transporting things offshore are different.

"Ms. Sun, even if your company has companies to transport, it is impossible to fill a 10,000-ton cargo ship."

Risfall's company's ships can each carry more than 10,000 containers.

The freight business that Sun Min can provide them can handle hundreds or even thousands of containers.

For Risfar, it can indeed save some costs, but this is far from enough to allow him to lower the price.

A cargo ship of about 100,000 tons must carry at least more than 6,000 containers to barely maintain its capital.

"Our company has a very wide network of contacts in the mainland. Don't forget that our company's main business is foreign trade. Many companies' products pass through our company, especially the foreign trade transportation of agricultural products. I can assure Mr. Risfar that if we If we can cooperate, then our company can provide your freighter with freight services of 3,000 containers at Chinese ports."

Lisfar was moved, and pondered for half the price: "If this is the case, I can reduce the price by 10%."

"10%? That's not enough, Mr. Risfall. We hope to get more discounts, and I think we can cooperate for a long time instead of a one-time sale."

Risfall was very moved by Sun Min's proposal.

"15% discount. If we can carry out more business cooperation in the future, the discount can be even greater."

Sun Min finally showed a satisfied smile. The 15% discount price had met her psychological expectations.

Then came the matter of contract signing, which only required her signature.

"Ms. Sun, I'm impressed by your shrewdness. Are all you Chinese so good at doing business?"

"Mr. Risfall, it's not that I'm smart, but we are not fools. We all know that only a win-win situation can make cooperation continue, right?"

"You're right... By the way, Miss Sun, I wonder if you are interested in coming to my company to work for me?"

"Sorry, I haven't considered this for the time being." Of course, Sun Min would not take Risfar's words seriously.

She hears this kind of compliment almost every day.

"Ms. Sun, there is a party at my house this weekend. I wonder if I am lucky enough to invite you to attend?"

"Of course, it's an honor."

Europeans and Americans expand their network through parties.

So the party culture is prevalent and there are parties for everything.

Just like Lisfar, there are two or three parties a month.

The Chinese have a wine-table culture. In fact, the two are similar in nature.

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"President, we have selected several scarlet missions, but we have not made the final decision yet. You can make the final choice," West said.

"Okay, I'll go over now." Chen Zhao immediately hung up the phone.

Recently, the association has been evaluating and selecting Scarlet Missions.

Every mission is not that easy.

There are even some tasks that no one knows how difficult they are.

This kind of task is usually eliminated directly.

Because not knowing where the difficulty lies means greater difficulty and unknown risks.

If you have to choose, choose tasks that at least have a traceable path to follow.

Of course, this is a task that everyone has heard of.

It may also be because it is too difficult, so it is famous.

Therefore, the choice of every scarlet mission needs to be done with caution.

Everyone hopes to go safely and come back safely.