Chapter 23 Turning Trash into Gold and Ingots

When Liu Minggang first communicated with the islanders on the phone, the price was 20 per ton. However, there was no currency unit at that time. At this time, Qin Tao mentioned US dollars, and Wang Mingyuan, who was sitting next to Governor Kawaguchi, was immediately annoyed. "Twenty yuan, RMB, not U.S. dollars! Be careful, don't be a lion! Finally, a big boss from an island country wants to buy your worthless blast furnace slag. Don't push yourself too hard. You really think you have these things." Anything valuable?”

 The current exchange rate is not high. The exchange rate between RMB and U.S. dollars is 3.7659. This also means that if you change from RMB to U.S. dollars, you will have to pay several times more money.

Qin Tao glanced at Wang Mingyuan: "I'm asking Mr. Kawaguchi, don't interrupt this irrelevant person."

Wang Mingyuan's role was to act as a translator. Now, Qin Tao speaks fluent Japanese and does not need to be translated by Wang Mingyuan at all.

Since they were all speaking in Japanese, Liu Minggang didn't know what these people were talking about. However, looking at Wang Mingyuan's attitude, he knew that there must be something wrong with the translation. Maybe it would be the same as the Mingzhou Garment Factory. You are setting a trap for yourself!

“Director Liu, can this person represent your factory?” Wang Mingyuan switched to Chinese and asked Liu Minggang.

“Yes, what he said means what I said.” Liu Minggang nodded.

 “Hmph! Just wait and cry!”

 “Okay.” Governor Kawaguchi actually agreed.

In international commerce, US dollars have always been used. Now, since the other party has asked for twenty dollars, it is not too much, and Governor Kawaguchi agreed.

Wang Mingyuan glanced at Governor Kawaguchi in surprise. The price had suddenly doubled several times, but he still agreed? This kind of behavior of raising prices is clearly a profiteer. Shouldn't Governor Kawaguchi turn around and leave?

 Spend twenty dollars to buy a ton of blast furnace slag?

“However, we think the price of twenty US dollars is a bit too low.” Qin Tao continued: “It needs at least two hundred US dollars to truly meet their value.”

 Two hundred dollars!

 This time it has doubled again!

"Hey, you are going too far. Mr. Kawaguchi came here to do business with you personally. He is looking up to you. Now, do you really think you are holding a gold ingot in your hands?" Wang Mingyuan couldn't bear it anymore: "You are like this If you do it, you will get nothing! Just let that pile of blast furnace **** continue to rot outside your factory!"

After finishing speaking, Wang Mingyuan looked at Governor Kawaguchi again: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Kawaguchi, the people here don't have the slightest sincerity. I apologize to you on their behalf. We..."

"Apologise? Why are you apologizing on our behalf? Have we done anything wrong?" Qin Tao said to Wang Mingyuan: "What we have in our hands is obviously gold ingots. Does it have to be treated as rubbish?"

After finishing speaking, Qin Tao looked at Governor Kawaguchi again: "Your Excellency Kawaguchi, am I right? Our blast furnace **** is worth two hundred dollars a ton."

“Sir Kawaguchi, let’s go. There are still many steel plants across the country, and there is a lot of blast furnace slag.” Wang Mingyuan said.

Governor Kawaguchi was still sitting there, his face still normal, but his fingers kept tapping on the mottled table.

 Liu Minggang was a little nervous.

 What are they talking about? Why is Mr. Kawaguchi like this? Is this business going to blow up? If that doesn't work, the price can be easily negotiated. Ten yuan a ton is fine...

“Excuse me, how do you know that these blast furnace slags are worth two hundred dollars a ton?” Governor Kawaguchi asked Qin Tao, with confusion in his eyes.

“Because, there is a rare metal scandium in it.” Qin Tao finally exposed it.

"Nani? How did you know?" Governor Kawaguchi looked at Qin Tao in surprise.

"Of course we know that you plan to refine it and use it in your rockets. These blast furnace slags are very important to you, so two hundred US dollars per ton is a more reasonable price. Mr. Kawaguchi, what do you think? Woolen cloth?"

“Okay, then two hundred dollars a ton.” Governor Kawaguchi nodded.

Wang Mingyuan was completely dumbfounded. The blast furnace **** that was originally worth 20 yuan per ton was actually charged 200 US dollars per ton. In this way, the total price was 2 million US dollars! This is the largest contract he, as a foreign affairs department officer, has ever signed while accompanying foreign guests!

If it is a large enterprise in Huating City, a contract of two million US dollars is nothing. In a small place like Mingzhou, some shabby blast furnace **** that no one wants can be sold for such a sky-high price? Also, what exactly is this scandium?

Wang Mingyuan's mind was full of doubts.

A smile appeared on Qin Tao's face: "Your Excellency Kawaguchi, we also hope to use this money to order some steelmaking equipment from you."

Governor Kawaguchi’s eyes lit up. In this way, he, a merchant, could make money again. It is in his best interest to make money on both sides.

 “Of course, what do you want?”

“The same steel plate hot rolling equipment as Huating No. 1 Steel Plant.” Qin Tao said.

 After the opening of the country, we saw the gap with the world. Therefore, improving the domestic industrial level through introduction is a major way. Huating No. 1 Steel Plant introduced a complete set of steelmaking equipment from the island country.

The country came forward and used a large amount of foreign exchange reserves. Now, Mingzhou Shipyard has not spent a penny. It is equivalent to using these used blast furnace **** to directly replace a complete set of equipment.

 As for the price, Qin Tao had calculated it and it was just right.

“You just asked for two hundred dollars per ton, just for this set of equipment, right?” Governor Kawaguchi asked.

 Qin Tao smiled but said nothing.

 “Okay, we can agree.”

"You can transport the equipment directly to Mingzhou by ship. While we are installing the equipment, we will send the blast furnace **** to you on the ship. The equipment has been installed and debugged and is running normally. All the blast furnace **** has also been shipped. How about that?" Qin Thao continued to propose.

This is to prevent the other party from making mistakes. If something unexpected happens when installing the equipment, the remaining blast furnace **** will definitely not be loaded onto the ship. If you want to ask for extra money, no way!

 After all, islanders are the shrewdest and can make any mistakes.

 “Okay.” Governor Kawaguchi agreed.

 The contract was drafted on the spot, three copies each in Japanese and Chinese. When he saw the Chinese contract, Liu Minggang's eyes widened.

 Two hundred dollars per ton? Two million US dollars to import a complete set of steel plate hot rolling equipment? That's from the island nation's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries! Originally, they only planned to buy a set of domestic second-hand equipment. Now, they can buy brand-new equipment, which is the same as the Huating No. 1 Steel Plant!

 In the future, they will also be able to produce the same steel plates as Huating No. 1 Steel Plant!

Thinking of this, Liu Minggang looked at Qin Tao with grateful eyes.

 (End of this chapter)