188 Hammer and the U.S.-Soviet grain trade

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Situ Nan looked at the young man in front of him, Aman? Hammer, with a pair of sharp and calm eyes, secretly praised in his heart, no wonder he could mix well in the Soviet Union.

Hammer was also looking at Situ Nan, secretly surprised by Situ Nan's youth, but he didn't expect that the big man he wanted to see turned out to be only a few years older than himself.

Neither of them spoke, their eyes exchanged in the air, and they both became interested in each other, and they both found similarities in each other.

Hammer's ancestors are Russians, his grandfather immigrated to the United States decades ago, and his father is an American, but also a capitalist who runs a small pharmaceutical factory.

Growing up in such a family, Hammer had a strong interest in Russia from an early age, and his attitude towards the Soviet Union did not hate the Soviet Union as much as that of the White Russians, whose families were ruined.

But he was still a capitalist after all. A few years ago, when Hammer was studying medicine at Columbia University, he was about to take over his family's bankrupt pharmaceutical company when he was a student, and his business talents were evident from there, and he was already a millionaire when he graduated.

This is a remarkable achievement.

Later, Hammer went to the Soviet Union, and actually went through Lenin's path, and went to the Soviet Union by pounding American grain, and began a legendary business journey.

In the face of the world blockade of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union urgently needed to open up foreign contacts, and Hammer was entrusted to import machinery, grain, and other materials that were in short supply in the Soviet Union from the United States, becoming an intermediary in the trade between the United States and the Soviet Union, and becoming the exclusive agent of many large American companies in the Soviet Union:

Among them, the American Rubber Company, the American Machine Tool Company, the IBM Company, the American Machinery Company, etc., the number is as high as 28, basically covering all aspects of American industry, and a large number of machines and equipment are exported to the Soviet Union.

After a while, it was Situ Nan who spoke first, and he smiled slightly: "Mr. Hammer, my assistant said that you have treasures from Russia. Want to sell to me? ”

"Yes, sir. The best Russian easter eggs, exclusively for royalty. Hammer laughed.

Situ Nan is one of the most generous collectors in the American collectibles market, and is known for his penchant for Russian eggs. It took Hammer a lot of effort to find Situ Nan, he happened to have a few Fabel eggs to sell, and the employer was naturally the Kremlin one.

After a while, a huge and delicate easter egg appeared in front of Situ Nan, the blurry color was indescribably dazzling, although it was not the first time to see such a beautiful easter egg, but Situ Nan couldn't help but smile and nodded.

Situ Nan stroked Fabel's easter egg. Some can't put it down. "Oh! Beautiful easter eggs, I like them very much, and I will give you a fair price. ”

Seeing that the easter egg moved Situ Nan, Hammer smiled slightly, and said with some pain: "If you can, I think the price of $10,000 is appropriate." ”

Ten thousand dollars?

Situ Nan looked at Hammer with some doubts, the price of $10,000 was a bit low, and the other party worked hard to transport this treasure to the United States. It must have taken a lot of thought, and if you are courteous to others, you must have something to ask for, right?

Don't send anything to your door in vain. It's relieving to take the national treasure of the Russians as your own! In addition to a few in the hands of the Kremlin, the Tsar royal family's baby Fabel Easter eggs are probably almost collected by themselves, right?

"Deal!" Situ Nan said briskly, and without saying a word, he signed the check to Hamer.

After buying the menu, Situ Nan watched the easter eggs on the sidelines and no longer paid attention to Hamer.

Hammer seemed to have something to say, but seeing Situ Nan's focused appearance, he couldn't interject for a while, and he couldn't leave, and it seemed superfluous to stay here, so he was secretly anxious: I didn't expect that guy to be so uninteresting? That??? How do you unfold the following topic?

Hammer's table Xiàn Situ Nan saw in his eyes. He was sure that there was something really going on with this Hammer, but he still left Hammer aside and watched the eggs with interest.

After a while, he turned his head and pretended to be surprised: "Huh? Mr. Hammer, are you still here? ”

"Yes. Mr. I have a business I want to discuss with you. Hammer smiled, but secretly scolded Situ Nan in his heart.

"Business? All right! Situ Nan said with a smile.

"That's right, I want to buy 500,000 tons of wheat from you. I know that your California agricultural company is hoarding a lot of grain. Hammer laughed.

"It turned out to be a grain business! No problem, take the liberty of asking, Mr. Hammer, what are you buying so much food for? Situ Nan asked, looking at Hammer with a smile.

"Shipped to the USSR. There is a shortage of food there, and the United States has a bumper harvest of food and very low prices. If it is good, I think next time, I will buy 1 million tons of grain. ”

Hammer thought. There is nothing to hide about this, as long as you go out and inquire, you will know that Hammer is the head of the US-Soviet trading company, and he has not been engaged in the US-Soviet grain trade once or twice. Every time grain was shipped to the USSR, the ship was filled with fur and caviar when it returned, and as soon as it changed hands, it was a profit.

"It turned out to be the Soviet Union!" Situ Nan suddenly realized, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I heard that the Soviet Union killed the landlords there, and they all killed the landlords, no wonder there is food!" ”

It seems that this gentleman has a bad impression of the USSR! Hammer thought to himself, this is normal, Situ Nan's attitude Hammer is not the first time he has met, all American capitalists do not like the Soviet Union, and maybe this includes Hammer.

When he was in Ukraine, he once saw trains full of corpses, all starved to death, basically in the East European Plain, starving everywhere, and the grain conscription team promised to harvest the last grain of grain, leaving only the desperate peasants.

It also strengthened Hammer's determination to do something to promote grain trade between the United States and the Soviet Union, which would be of great benefit to both the Soviet people and Hammer himself.

Regarding Situ Nan's disgust with the Soviet Union in his tone, Hammer pretended to have no opinion, and he said calmly: "Sir, this is a good business, isn't it?" ”

"Yes. Just business. Situ Nan smiled and nodded, businessmen shouldn't be restricted by other things, as long as there is profit, why not? It's not illegal.

The California Agricultural Company is one of the largest grain producers in the United States, after the First World War American agriculture was sluggish, the grain harvest was abundant, but the price fell for two years, but the California Agricultural Company became stronger and stronger, buying grain from American farmers (called farmers) at low prices, and selling it to Stoney Foods, which processed the grain into food for sale.

In addition, the rest of the grain is mainly exported to Asia, especially China, through the guò Meihua company, which can be exchanged for many previous things, such as furs, tea, silk, etc., and even population, mines, land.

Nanhua is implementing industrialization, and a large number of young and middle-aged people are sent to factories, construction sites, and farms, and these people consume a lot of grain every day, and even agricultural workers are mostly engaged in cash crop planting, and there is not much grain planted, and Nanhua's grain production has not increased significantly, so the pressure on grain is solved with American grain.

Speaking of which, what Situ Nan and Hammer do is actually similar, but the scale is larger than Hamer.

"Mr. Hammer, what do you think of the moonshine business? I have a lot of food in my hand, maybe you can—" Situ Nan suddenly laughed.

"Nope! It's not a good idea. Hammer hurriedly shook his head and said, looking at Situ Nan with some consternation, he didn't expect the other party to instigate him to engage in the moonshine business?

It's against the law!

"Haha! You are mistaken! Situ Nan shook his head and smiled, he meant, don't Russians like to drink? Why can't you sell liquor to the Russians? (To be continued) RQ

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