Lao Fengxiang, Yuyuan Group, Jinyu Group, Hehe Jade, Heyuyuan, Beiyu Group, Zhou Liufu, Zhou Taisheng, and Ciyuan Pavilion.
The heads of the top ten jade dealers or jewelry stores in the country have all arrived in Huadu.
However, before heading to Lingnan Hall, these ten business leaders held a meeting first.
In the conference room of a five-star hotel, the smoke concentration had reached a level that warranted a fire alarm, and the staff had to urgently bring in several fans to expel the smoke outdoors.
Manager Kong from the purchasing department of Jinyu Group served as a representative and introduced to several CEOs what he saw and heard in the Lingnan Hall warehouse.
Following Manager Kong's introduction, all ten company CEOs looked worried.
Mr. Li from Yuyuan was the first to speak:
"Old Kong, are you sure Lingnan Hall really has that much Hetian jade? Were we deceived by them?"
Manager Kong smiled bitterly and said:
"Mr. Li, we all saw it with our own eyes, including Manager Hu from your Jinyuyuan. I even had someone from Lingnan Hall open the box and verify it. Guess what happened?"
Everyone at the scene was silent, and no one supported him.
Manager Kong didn't care and continued:
"The box was very tall, taller than me. I had to climb up the escalator. It was full of seed materials of various sizes. Yes, you heard it right, all seed materials, and there were at least hundreds of boxes like this."
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All ten CEOs present felt their teeth starting to hurt.
Manager Kong continued at this time:
"This is a serious matter, so we dare not make a decision. Lingnan Hall's Director Lin wants our respective bosses to negotiate in person. If all ten bosses come forward to negotiate, I'm afraid the final transaction amount will be very shocking."
Zheng Hongjun, the chairman of Beiyu Group, is relatively young and has just taken over from his father, so he is quite energetic:
"We can talk, but we can't be threatened by him.
The fact that one gram of Hetian jade seed material can be speculated to 20,000 or 30,000 yuan is all thanks to everyone here, and it is also the result of years of operation by major jade companies. How much money and manpower have we invested in this?
Now that the price of jade has gone up, it is time for us to enjoy the fruits. But now Lingnan Hall wants to intervene and try to reap the fruits?
I don’t agree to this, I insist on not agreeing to it.
Lingnan Hall sells ginseng and cordyceps. It is too rude for them to come to the jade shop to make money for no reason.
Do you think there's something wrong with the source of these jades? Should we mobilize the forces of the White Path to seize them?"
The thinking of the second generation of young people is so simple and honest.
What business war? The easiest and most effective way to deal with the other party is to use public power.
Dai Yun, the owner of Ciyuan Pavilion, was a native of Huadu. However, he smiled wryly and shook his head.
"Mr. Zheng, you might not have listened carefully just now. This batch of jade from Lingnan Hall has various legal certificates, proving that it was legally mined in the 1960s. Furthermore, there are documents documented from mining to transportation to sales, so the source is correct."
As for wanting to use the local forces in Huadu to seal off Lingnan Hall, it is even more impossible.
Lingnan Hall's tax payments this year alone exceeded 4 billion yuan. Do you understand this concept? Without the approval of the top leader of Huadu, who would dare to touch this God of Wealth?
Dai Yun couldn't stand these young people. When discussing things, everyone should come up with a solution, not fight and kill.
"Have you ever thought about this? The initiative is no longer in our hands. Mr. Lin actually gave us some face by notifying us in advance. His purpose is nothing more than to let the top ten companies take over.
If he doesn't give us face, or if we anger him, he will dump all of his thousands of tons of top-grade jade materials into the market, ready to fight to the death. The jade industry will then collapse, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Lingnan Hall doesn't sell jade, but ginseng and cordyceps, so the loss won't be too great. But for all of us here, it's a disaster. I'm afraid that in the blink of an eye, we will all go bankrupt and become worthless.
Of course, if he dares to crash the market, the thousands of tons of jade in his hands will become worthless, and the loss will be equally huge.
But what if? What if he opens a jewelry store? He rents a store in a certain city and sells ginseng and jade at the same time. His jade is cheap and high quality, and he then dumps it at a low price. Should we follow suit or not?
Zheng Hongjun was unconvinced and said, "Then we have no way to deal with him?"
Dai Yun smiled bitterly: "From the perspective of business warfare, he is already invincible."
At this time, Zhou Lingbo, the owner of Zhou Taisheng Jewelry, spoke in broken Hong Kong Mandarin:
"Let's not talk about conspiracies and intrigues. Lin Sanqi of Lingnan Hall is very cunning and only conducts business activities in Huadu, so we have no way to encircle and suppress his business."
The most important tactic in business warfare is for the enemy to defeat your industries one by one.
For example, if your group has multiple branches in other places, then they will attack one of your branches and force you to withdraw all the company's funds to support it.
When you have enough funds and are ready to start a big business, and other branches are being drained,
The enemy will turn around and continue to suppress your other branches in order to consume all your working capital, eventually breaking your capital chain and changing hands.
Lingnan Hall has five branches in other places, but the problem is that these five branches are like mysterious dragons that are hard to find. Do you have the ability to unite all the ginseng and cordyceps merchants and refuse to sell them to Lingnan Hall?
Is it useful?
The real source of Lingnan Tang's goods is not in this area, so you are like hitting cotton with your fist.
Dai Yun also added at this time:
"Another key point: Lingnan Tang never takes out loans. They're very profitable selling ginseng and cordyceps. However, Lingnan Tang has recently suffered a series of investment failures. The Southern Pharmaceutical Factory they acquired suffered huge losses, and their foreign trade business alone has lost over 2 billion yuan."
Lingnan Hall also made another stupid move. They cooperated with Huadu Medical University on several projects to tackle hepatitis B and cancer, with a total investment of US$500 million. It is said that this money was raised from overseas, but the specific borrowers are unknown.
Tell me, isn't this a foolish move? Hepatitis and cancer are both incurable diseases. If they were so easy to cure, the Americans would have already conquered them. I think this $500 million will be thrown down the drain.
Therefore, Lingnan Hall must be short of funds now, and they had to sell all the jade in one go.
But we have no way of easily cutting off their funding chain. The owner of Lingnantang is very cautious and has been using the money from ginseng sales to subsidize several other branches.
If Lin Sanqi were present, he would definitely be in tears at this moment.
His reputation as a prodigal son had finally spread. Now everyone knew that he had made many stupid moves, and Lingnan Hall had reached the point of selling off its assets.
Zheng Hongjun was a little crazy:
"This won't work, and that won't work either. What should we do? Are we just going to accept Lingnan Hall's blackmail?"
The meeting room was silent. Everyone was actually trying to think of a solution, but faced with a "hedgehog" that protected itself so well, they really didn't know where to start.
Zhou Lingbo, the boss of Zhou Taisheng Jewelry, sighed:
"What else can we say? Everyone should prepare a large sum of money. Lingnan Hall dares to call us over, so I'm sure they won't kill us all. They want our money, not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
So I don't think you need to worry about the price. The only concern is that Lingnan Hall has an enormous amount of jade material, hundreds of tons, thousands of tons. The capital required is at least hundreds of billions, which is going to cost us our lives."
A piece of Hetian jade seed material the size of a mango is worth millions.
If there are tens of thousands of seeds, how much would it cost? It's scary to think about it.
At this time, Sun Zhejie, the boss of Guoyu Group, put out his cigarette and said:
"Whether it's a blessing or a curse isn't certain, but the only thing we can be sure of is that we must secure this batch of jade from Lingnan Hall, otherwise none of us will survive. The rest of the negotiations will be all about money."
Guoyu Group is the boss in the jade circle. Because of its state-owned background, everyone gives it some face.
The other CEOs sighed upon hearing this: "Okay, then we'll follow Chairman Sun's lead and move forward and retreat together."
"Yes, Mr. Sun will be the representative. We must unite and not be defeated one by one by the Lingnan Hall."
"I agree."
"I agree."
Sun Zhejie slammed the table and said, "Okay, it's settled. Let's all unite." (End of this chapter)
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