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Volume 3 Aftermath 115 Behind the Kailuan Coal Mine

Liu Hongsheng left satisfied, fighting for the construction of China's largest match factory, and at the same time acting as a broker, helping the Meihua Company buy shares in the Kailuan coal mine from the Beiyang warlords and the bureaucratic capitalists who colluded with them.

Song Ziliang felt that he was playing soy sauce, but being able to participate in the negotiations between Situ Nan and Liu Hongsheng opened his eyes. Situ Nan's self-confidence, domineering, and strategizing made him admire.

After Liu Hongsheng left, he still looked at Situ Nan with admiration.

"Ding!" A crisp and pleasant metal crash sound shook Song Zi's conscience. Seeing Situ Nan take out a delicate lighter and leisurely light a cigar, his eyes lit up, and his eyes stayed on the delicate Zhibao lighter in Situ Nan's hand.

It's definitely a rare treasure! Better than the one in your pocket!

Song Zi thought in his conscience. He originally wanted to invest in a lighter factory, but was changed into a match factory by Song Ziwen, so he has a deeper understanding of lighters, especially Zhibao lighters.

"Like this?" Situ Nan looked at Song Ziliang's eager eyes and understood a little.

"Hmm!" Song Ziliang nodded.

Situ Nanmo rubbed the lighter in his hand, it had been used for a few years, and it was still as good as new, and after thinking about it for a while, he threw it to Song Ziliang.

"For me?"

"Hmm."

This lighter was one of the earliest in Zhibao, and it was worth at least $100, or even $1,000, for advertising. Situ Nan originally kept a batch, and later gave it to others one after another, except for the one that was sent into the collection room by himself early, this is only the last one in his hand.

Seeing Song Ziliang's love and affection, Situ Nan was a little funny, like a child getting a toy.

"Alright, let's go back and enjoy it slowly!" Situ Nan planned to Song Ziliang and said: "Although you only have less than two months of vacation, the match factory has your share after all, so I hope you will participate with your heart and ask if you don't understand." ”

Situ Nan admonished.

"Okay." Song Ziliang said seriously. For him, this is a rare opportunity, and the opportunity to participate in the preparation of the match factory will greatly improve his ability, and it will be easy to go back to school to write his graduation thesis.

But in a year and a half, I can come back and redevote myself to the affairs of the match factory.

Song Zi secretly made up his mind in his conscience to do a good job.

Situ Nan then assessed Song Ziliang and found that Song Ziliang's knowledge was not bad, and he couldn't help but admire the Song family's tutor and cultivated a really heroic.

Situ Nan knew that it was not only the Song family that was well educated, but more importantly, Song Jiashu had instilled in several children since he was a child the concept of striving to be the first and not being mediocre, so the Song family was very aggressive.

After Song Ziliang left, only Situ Nan and He Yongyuan were left.

"It's really a child, I hope I don't pull out the seedlings to help it grow." Situ Nan muttered.

"Ziliang is a high-achieving student in the United States, and his academic qualifications and knowledge are not bad, what he owes is just experience." He Yongyuan said with a smile.

"If you didn't have thoughts about other people's sisters, you wouldn't be so enthusiastic, would you?"

This sentence was what He Yongyuan thought in his heart, and he never dared to say it. However, the match factory is indeed a very small matter, and Situ Nan does not need to worry about it at all.

It's Christmas again in a blink of an eye, and Situ Nan can't help but sigh that time flies. The reason why he pays more attention to Christmas is that in addition to being influenced by Western customs, Christmas means that a year has passed.

It's a strange race against time, and at the end of the day, there's always a little regret that there's still a lot of things left undone.

Generally speaking, this year's harvest is quite large, the market of the United States and China Company, South China Grain Company, and Western Petroleum Company in China is getting bigger and bigger, and the rate of return on investment is not slow at all in the United States, no wonder those large international companies are busy coming to Shanghai to enclose land.

Whether it is a fox or a tiger, or a wolf's skin, in short, he has both privileges and connections, and Situ Nan is more and more eager to control or monopolize some of China's mineral resources.

"Yongyuan, do you think Liu Hongsheng will succeed?" Situ Nan asked.

"There should be some certainty. But whether he succeeds or not, in fact, we do, haven't we? He Yongyuan said with a smile.

"That's just as well." Situ Nan smiled and shook his head again. In fact, what he asked was how much ability Liu Hongsheng could make trouble.

He Yongyuan was right. Although Situ Nan was very polite to Liu Hongsheng, Liu Hongsheng was just the icing on the cake of Situ Nan's plan to seize the Luan Coal Mine.

Previously, Situ Nan told Liu Hongsheng that Meihua was negotiating with British businessmen to open the Luan Coal Mine, but in fact, the Kailuan Coal Mine had already become Meihua's bag. It's just that very few people know about it.

For the Kailuan Coal Mine, Situ Nan has been coveting it for a long time.

He first approached Hoover, one of the original shareholders, and offered a good price of $80,000 to buy Hoover's 5% stake in Merlin.

Merlin holds half of the shares in Kailuan Coal Mine. Of course, Hoover didn't know that Meihua came to open the Luan Coal Mine, but he was very cunning, and deliberately tried to raise the price at first.

Because he is now back in California, preparing to run for the Senate, and needs a lot of money, he wants to kill the company and ask for $150,000. Naturally, the representative of the Meihua Company refused, and the two sides were temporarily frozen.

However, representatives of the U.S.-China Company went back to investigate Hoover and found that Hoover now needed a lot of money to run for the Senate. That's not the point, the point is that Hoover's role in the Kaiping coal mine was very dishonorable, so he grabbed Hoover's sore feet.

As a result, when they came to the door again, the representative of the United States and China became very tough, not only lowering the price from $80,000 to $50,000 at once, but also threatening to shake out the ugly things Hoover had done in China if he did not comply.

Hoover was so angry that he jumped into the Buddha, defrauding the Kaiping Coal Mine was the most happy thing in his heart, after all, he made a fortune by that, but it was uncomfortable to be exposed nakedly.

But it can't be helped! He thought about getting rid of the shares in his hands, but he was always reluctant to make an annual profit. He knew that it was disgraceful to seize the coal mines of the Chinese with the British Merlin, and if he still retained the shares, it would become a stain on the attacks of political enemies and affect his development in political circles.

In desperation, he had to obediently offer the shares of Merlin Company. Under the "kindness" of the representative of the Meihua Company, Hoover had to take great pains to help persuade his partner Merlin to sell the Merlin Company to the Meihua Company.

Situ Nan heard about this later, he felt that the name Hoover was somewhat familiar, and when he looked back, he really found a big guy! This Hoover was really Roosevelt's sworn enemy, US President Herbert Hoover.

However, Hoover would also be Andrew's good friend, and the two became the most greeted people by all Americans during the Great Depression of 29. It's really hard to be a brother.

The representative of the Meihua Company made Hoover a little miserable, which made Situ Nan laugh. With his toes, he could imagine how the business representative, who had just graduated from school, had seized Hoover's sore foot and chased after him.

Poor Hoover, before he had time to make his mark, was threatened, that taste-

Snickering is snickering, Situ Nan felt that Mr. Hoover should still feel the warmth of Meihua, so as not to retaliate in the future. As a result, the representative of the Meihua Company found Hoover again, and the $30,000 that was lowered was no longer coming back, but the Meihua Company could help Hoover in the election.

In fact, the $30,000 Hoover lost was later donated by the U.S.-China Corporation to Hoover's campaign funds. In the newspapers, the money, and the launching of the Chinese-American vote, the American Chinese company helped Hoover a lot, making him a senator in California, and winning back the friendship of this political star.

Every time he thought of this, Situ Nan couldn't help laughing.

As for Hoover's partner, the Englishman Merlin initially rejected Hoover's sale of Merlin to Meihua, and after learning that Meihua had taken 5% of Hoover's shares, he scolded Hoover for being ungrateful.

At this time, the American mining giant Guben Energy also came to the door and joined the competition for Merlin. Then Merlin saw the hope of the fisherman's profit. So, he deliberately asked Meihua Company and Guben Energy Company to bid.

The price war was won by Guben Energy, which reached twice the assets of Merlin, $2.5 million! However, on the eve of Molin's heart to sign the contract, Guben Energy Company sued him that the company would no longer invest in Merlin because the company had discovered new and better coal mines in Australia.

Instead, it is ready to raise funds to develop coal and iron ore in Western Australia. The news is naturally genuine, and the rewards are visible. The company not only did not invest in the Merlin Company, but also raised funds from the Merlin Company.

This kindness made Merlin miserable. Because he has no money, he has to sell Merlin or sell the Kailuan coal mine, so that he can get a piece of the Australian investment.

Mo Linkong was overjoyed, and he hurriedly turned back to Meihua Company, but Meihua Company's attitude was much colder, and he was only willing to buy Kailuan Coal Mine at a normal price.

Toothache!

Thinking that he only spent 200,000 taels of silver to get the Kaiping Coal Mine, and now the Meihua Company is willing to pay 1.2 million US dollars, which has already earned several times, so Mo Lin gritted his teeth and sold the Kaiping Coal Mine in the hands of the Merlin Company to the Meihua Company.

With $1.2 million in funds from Meihua, Merlin vigorously invested in the mineral development of Western Australia led by Guben Energy.

Guben Energy Company found Cook of Wells Fargo Australia Branch as a partner of Merlin for Merlin, and after knowing that Merlin needed investment, he introduced the Australian Investment Company (referred to as Australian Investment), so Merlin Company had several new shareholders.

After receiving the joint capital injection of Guben Energy and Australian Investment, the asset scale of Merlin Company reached 3 million US dollars, Merlin himself is the largest shareholder, accounting for 40% of the shares, and Guben Energy and Australian Investment are both 30% of the shares.

In order to develop Western Australia's minerals, Merlin asked Wells Fargo for a loan of $2 million. It is used for the construction of railways from mines to ports.

After the launch of the Kailuan Coal Mine, Merlin Company fully launched China and fully entered the mining industry in Australia. Merlin himself was high-spirited and full of hesitation, and he didn't know that it was Situ Nan who was leading this qiē behind the scenes.

Guben Energy, Australian Investment, Wells Fargo, etc., are all in a gang, and it is a matter of minutes to annex Merlin, but Merlin himself does not suffer.

Investing millions of dollars in Western Australia's mining industry is not comparable to operating the Kailuan Coal Mine in Tangshan, China. He didn't know that Situ Nan thought that the shell of the Merlin Company was good, and that Merlin himself was also a little capable, otherwise there would be too many ways to bring down the Merlin Company.

Although Situ Nan is better at investment, rather than yin people.

How big of the potential of Western Australia is, no one but Situ Nan can know. In fact, Situ Nan really liked that Merlin was ruthless enough and could "deceive", and it was ideal for him to put him in Western Australia to help him develop the mining industry in Western Australia.

In addition to the mining industry in Western Australia, after obtaining the actual control of Merlin, under the instruction of Situ Nan, Guben Energy Company integrated all its coal and iron ore business in East Australia, South Wales and other places into Merlin, which further diluted Merlin's stake in Merlin.

However, he didn't care too much, because he was also the president of Merlin and could manage the company as he wished. He has good ability and manages the company in good order, so he is rarely disturbed by the board of directors.

What made Merlin a little unhappy was that the company that also developed minerals in Western Australia also had a company called Jinshan Mining, the two companies were of equal strength, and neither could eat anyone, which made Merlin feel pressured, and he had to put out twelve points of energy to surpass Jinshan Mining Company.

Although Merlin Company and Jinshan Mining seem to be very competitive, in fact, Situ Nan has already demarcated the sphere of influence for them, and the super iron ore mine in the Pilbara area is also quietly divided by these two companies, especially BHP Billiton in Eastern Australia After seeing that Western Australia is gradually hot, it also wants to get involved, but it is always boycotted by Merlin Company and Jinshan Mining Company, and finally has to sigh and obediently nest in Eastern Australia.

Dong'ao is also rich in resources, but from time to time it is subject to competition from the Merlin Company, and its development has not been too smooth. Until a hundred years later, among the three major mining giants in Australia, BHP Billiton always ranked last, and its position was a little embarrassing.

Unbeknownst to them, Situ Nan originally wanted to attack BHP, but several mergers of BHP Billiton that Cook carefully initiated were hindered by Barclays and failed.

After arousing the vigilance of the British shareholders in BHP Billiton, Situ Nan stopped pestering and simply set up another company to work against BHP Billiton.

As a result, a more interesting situation has emerged, often the boss Merlin Company provokes and suppresses BHP Billiton in Eastern Australia, while the second Jinshan Mining Company has been nesting in Western Australia, without quarrel with the world, silently investing, silently immigrating, and rarely robbing other people's orders.

When Merlin and BHP Billiton were competing for the markets of the United States, Europe and Japan, Jinshan Mining Company shipped the iron ore and coal mines produced every year to the South Seas in the north.

This situation made BHP Billiton very entangled, and it was also full of complaints about Merlin. In fact, Merlin himself was also very entangled, because he proposed to enter the mining market in Nanyang several times, but was unanimously rejected by the board of directors, and those Chinese companies in Nanyang had a very cold attitude towards Merlin and finally had to carry BHP Billiton.

The only thing they have in common is that the iron ore and coal sold to Japan are very expensive! Later, this made the Japanese ruthlessly manage the resources of the Northeast.

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