They all want to collaborate with you and have asked me to help introduce them.
As for how they negotiated, Andrei didn't care; he just wanted to make a referral fee.
Komsomolsk-on-Amur was a city that emerged during the Big Brother's first Five-Year Plan.
To build shipyards and aircraft manufacturing plants there, a group of Komsomol volunteers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Ukraine were sent there, and the city was established in 1932.
Therefore, the area is mainly focused on military industry, producing steel for warships, tanks, and even airplanes.
Sheng Xiping chatted with Ivanov for a while and gained a general understanding of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
However, they didn't discuss business directly, as it was a sensitive topic and it was better to talk about it privately.
At this point, the waiter began serving the dishes, and everyone stopped talking and began to focus on tasting the food.
The Russian food at this restaurant was really good, and Andrei and the others were very satisfied.
Sheng Xiping and his group couldn't tell the difference between good and bad, but they found it quite novel to try different flavors occasionally.
How could such an occasion be complete without fine wine?
This restaurant claims to serve high-end vodka imported from Moscow, and Andrei waved his hand and brought out several bottles.
Russians are all heavy drinkers; when they start drinking, most people can't compete with them.
Fortunately, Sun Jinggang and the others had all trained in the military and had a good tolerance for alcohol. So everyone drank quite heartily at this meal.
At first, everyone was quite civilized, but as the drinking progressed, they started talking and singing. The restaurant staff, probably used to it, didn't bother to intervene.
After the meal, Sheng Xiping became much closer to the group and even discussed the details of their collaboration.
Taking a moment to slip a piece of paper into Ivanov's hand.
There was a passage written in Russian on it, which meant that if Ivanov could facilitate the deal for special steel, Sheng Xiping could exchange five percent of the profits for US dollars and deposit them into a bank account designated by Ivanov.
There's no way around it; special steel is extremely difficult to obtain. Without spending a lot of money, people won't risk cooperating with you.
Having finished discussing everything and drinking enough, Sheng Xiping and his group had to return to Heihe.
In fact, their transit procedures allowed them to stay in Buenos Aires for a few days, but Sheng Xiping did not intend to do so.
The Far East region has a harsh environment and used to be a place for exiling criminals, where underground forces were rampant.
The area is currently poorly managed and has a bad security situation. Sheng Xiping and his group are foreigners, making them too conspicuous and easy targets.
Although Sun Jinggang and the others were quite skilled, and Sheng Xiping could hold his own for a while, they were in a foreign country after all, so safety was the top priority.
Therefore, Sheng Xiping and his group did not wander around aimlessly. Instead, Andrei's subordinates drove them to the border and then they returned to Heihe.
Two days later, Ivanov arrived with the delivery truck, met Sheng Xiping in person, and saw Sheng Xiping's warehouse. He immediately agreed to Sheng Xiping's terms.
He will help transport a large quantity of special steel from Gongqingcheng.
Of course, this stuff is much more expensive than industrial steel.
Sheng Xiping traded steel with Andrei; five cases of liquor could be exchanged for one ton of stainless steel, while other steel could be exchanged for one ton of liquor with four cases of liquor.
However, there was nothing comparable to this special steel, so Sheng Xiping gritted his teeth and agreed to exchange eight cases of wine for one ton of special steel.
Other supplies will also be converted to the same value as the liquor. Of course, the benefits promised by Sheng Xiping will still be valid.
The two sides reached an agreement, with Ivanov promising to immediately prepare for the steel project upon his return to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
It was already the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, just a few days before the Lunar New Year. Border trade was suspended during the Spring Festival and would not resume until the 16th day of the first lunar month.
So Sheng Xiping and Ivanov agreed that the first transaction would be scheduled for the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
Ivanov will need to spend some time preparing steel and transportation when he returns, but twenty days should be enough.
And so, Ivanov returned to the other side with great satisfaction, and then immediately set off back to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Meanwhile, Sheng Xiping also began making arrangements for the Chinese New Year.
After a month of trade exchanges, there are not many goods left that were originally stockpiled in the warehouse.
Of course, Sheng Xiping had already ordered a large quantity of goods from elsewhere, which would be delivered gradually after the New Year.
Moreover, there are still seven or eight days left in the pre-Lunar New Year trading period, and we can't miss this opportunity. Therefore, we still need to keep quite a few people here.
After thinking it over, Sheng Xiping decided that those who had wives should go home for the New Year, while those who were unmarried should stay this year.
Trade will be suspended for a while while we wait for the ice on the river to thaw, and then we can go home.
No one seemed to have any objections to this. As long as there was money to be made, why couldn't they go home the next day? As for the Lunar New Year, that was a minor matter.
To reassure everyone that they could stay and celebrate the New Year in peace, Sheng Xiping simply had all the accounts from this period compiled and distributed the profits in advance.
The trade here is an investment by Sheng Xiping and Wu Yucheng.
Although it operates under the name of a trading company, it doesn't actually use company accounts, and its profits don't need to be handed over to Shenzhen. It's essentially an independently accounted branch.
When the money was initially invested, Sheng Xiping, Wu Yucheng, and Liu Yuhe took the lion's share, while Chen Weiguo and others also invested over 100,000 yuan. Even Sun Jinggang and others invested money.
During this month, the retail business brought in about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan almost every day, and the total profit was about 1.6 to 1.7 million yuan.
As for large-scale trade, all the timber was transported back to the processing plant by Sheng Xiping, and the profit needs to be calculated at a discounted price.
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