"We just conspired to cheat him yesterday, are you alright?" Zhao Di touched her face, it would be a lie to say she wasn't nervous.
“Trust me.” Ruan Xianxian found a pair of round glasses and put them on Zhao Di’s face. “He sees our faces much the same way we see theirs.”
It can cause face blindness.
Then, changing the subject, he said, "If Jeremiah recognizes you and asks, just blame it on Lao Lu. It's normal to temporarily raise prices and take products off the shelves."
Encouraged by Ruan Xianxian, Chen Zhaodi took the first step.
Moreover, their steps are becoming increasingly firm.
Jeremiah's threat to switch partners was not a threat, but his inherent competitiveness prevented him from immediately changing course. His determination to acquire lantern candy, or rather, its packaging, was also a major reason.
He shrugged at Zhang Li, speaking very bluntly: "Ruan is at least a competent businessman, while you are just a translator."
I'm sorry, but I'm deeply disappointed by your abilities.
Xiao Yun's eyes darted around. Zhang Li took a deep breath. Ruan Xianxian, it's Ruan Xianxian again. Is Jeremiah out of his mind? He's been deceived and he's still praising the other person.
In what way is she inferior to others?
"Is it that funny?" She suddenly turned her head to look at Xiaoyun, who was trying not to laugh, with a sinister expression.
I was originally planning to play along with this bastard, but Jeremiah caused the two of them to completely break off relations.
Just as the atmosphere was becoming tense, Chen Zhaodi, who was carrying documents and had a refined and clean demeanor, walked over slowly and spoke to everyone.
"Mr. Jeremiah, the sugar mill has agreed to your price request, but would you be willing to accept a different approach?"
"Oh?" He looked at the soft-spoken girl in front of him with interest, and Jeremiah pointed to the rest area next to him, meaning to talk over there.
Zhang Li naturally knew Chen Zhaodi, one of the inseparable trio, but she muttered with some puzzlement, "Isn't she Ruan Xianxian's good friend?"
They were speaking Chinese, which Jeremiah couldn't understand.
For reasons unknown, Xiaoyun replied in English, "Yes, you're not mistaken, she is Ruan's friend."
When he said this, he didn't get the result he had imagined. Jeremiah even looked at her with a puzzled expression. Was there any conflict between her being Nguyen's friend and her serving him?
Jeremiah's upbringing and education resulted in a social circle filled with business models, where friends were also business competitors.
Whoever gets the order does so based on their own ability, what does it have to do with friends?
Chen Zhaodi didn't expect Xiaoyun to be so wicked, and her heart skipped a beat. Fortunately, Ruan Ruan told her that foreign guests didn't care about this point, as long as the benefits were sufficient.
Chen Zhaodi's spoken English wasn't very good. If Ruan Xian were present, she would have directly asked Zhang Li to be the translator. However, Chen Zhaodi wasn't as eccentric as Ruan Xian, so she asked a teacher from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University for help.
The two sat down in the rest area, and Jeremiah raised his chin, "Tell me the results of your negotiations with the sugar factory."
Chen Zhaodi unfolded the document, circled the sugar factory's base price and the price after Jeremiah agreed to increase it by 1.5%, drew a line connecting the two, and wrote "Lantern Sugar" above the line.
Jeremiah was as astute as he was, and he understood immediately. His eyes flickered, and he leaned back on the sofa with his arms crossed.
"In other words, the price is still based on the sugar factory's offer, but they're willing to discount that 3.5% by selling lantern-shaped candies, right?"
The teacher repeated what she had said to Chen Zhaodi in its entirety, and Chen Zhaodi understood it roughly, nodding slightly: "Yes."
In other words, at that price, he bought 500,000 worth of cane sugar, of which 3.5% was lantern sugar.
Jeremiah pressed his fingertips against the document, then looked up to meet Chen Zhaodi's gaze. "May I ask the sugar factory's purpose in doing that?"
Meanwhile, Lu Dagang, inside a booth in the exhibition hall, was asking the same question.
"What's the point of doing this? Even if we follow Jeremiah's instructions, he'll buy cane sugar after buying the cane sugar, so what's the difference?"
Ruan Xianxian smiled meaningfully, "The difference is huge. Wouldn't you be happy if you spent 100 yuan and bought something worth 103.5 yuan?"
Lu Dagang clutched his chest and shook his head repeatedly, his voice filled with anguish: "I'm about to spend a hundred yuan, how can I be happy?"
Ruan Xianxian: ...
“Just wait, Jeremiah will not only be happy to feel like he got a good deal, but he will also place additional orders.”
Lu Dagang had no idea where she got this confidence from, and he looked completely unconvinced. He even wanted to give her some earnest advice.
Ruan Xianxian ignored him and lowered her eyes to ponder.
In her previous life, she overheard Chu Li and Wu Xueliang talking at the educated youth settlement this year, saying that the world would face a food and oil crisis in the second half of the year.
Given the changing market environment, it is inevitable that sugar prices will be affected.
Well-informed and astute merchants, such as Jeremiah, were already intentionally purchasing raw materials. Don't be fooled by their outward anger at the sudden price increase; they were probably already panicking inside.
Just wait, this is only one part of her plan; Jeremiah will be jumping up and down in the end.
The facts were largely as she had guessed: Jeremiah had been informed of the food and oil crisis, and the Jews were even behind the crisis.
He feared he wouldn't be able to purchase enough raw materials before sugar prices were fully raised, and he also worried that if prices rose in the north, they would only rise even higher in the south.
Once the north and south are connected...
Jeremiah shook his head. That was the inconvenience of China. He needed to go through layers of review to contact the Southern Sugar Factory by phone, leaving him with no privacy whatsoever and even exposing crucial information.
Chen Zhaodi smiled without showing her teeth, "This is what the higher-ups want, I'm not entirely sure myself."
She couldn't explain it, but Jeremiah himself figured it out: pressure from above and the sugar mill's eagerness to earn the foreign exchange meant they had to come up with this compromise.
In this way, he suffered no loss whatsoever; he bought sugar within the expected price range, and the extra 3.5% was entirely converted into lantern sugar...
After thinking it through, Jeremiah smiled. "When can we sign the contract?"
When the group arrived at the sugar factory's exhibition hall, Lu Dagang was already waiting there, smiling but feeling somewhat uncertain.
After confirming that Chen Zhaodi's statements were accurate, Jeremiah began to review the contracts, which were handled by the professionals he had brought with him.
There were no problems with the contract; Jeremiah believed that the Chinese, eager to generate foreign exchange, wouldn't try to pull any tricks on it.
He picked up the pen, about to sign...
Suddenly, he paused, as if remembering something, and looked up to meet Lu Dagang's gaze. He put down his pen and was the first to reveal a smile.
At that moment, Lu Dagang's heart jumped into his throat when he saw him put down his pen. Oh no, his little ancestor's methods had been seen through. Was what was coming to happen?
Jeremiah placed the contract aside, his smile still bearing a youthful air. "Sorry, this contract cannot be signed."
Before Lu Dagang could ask why, Jeremiah said, "I want to add another 300,000 to the existing 500,000."
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