This gathering was proposed by Si Mingyu, who hoped to find connections in oil imports.
Now that summer has arrived, Europe's demand for natural gas has reached its lowest point. While the launch of several LNG ships under construction has increased shipping capacity, European gas storage tanks are already preparing for the next winter.
Now, except for ships from the fifty states, the natural gas prices from other sellers are no longer as violent as before.
Even many ships from non-fifty-state companies are stranded for a long time offshore the port due to the limited unloading capacity of European ports. Every extra day of detention means a huge maintenance cost.
Si Mingyu's four ships had long since switched to sailing from Australia to China. Previously, the four ships could earn $400 million per month, but now their net profit is only around $100 million per month, a reduction of several dozen times.
East Asia Mingyu Hongming Industrial is a Hong Kong-based company, naturally with its own shipping company and fleet. Si Mingyu's idea is to expand overseas trade, exchanging Chinese manufactured goods, especially small appliances, for oil.
For oil-producing Third World countries, they can pick up foreign garbage from developed countries for clothing, but not small appliances. They can patch up a hole in their clothes and wear it anyway, but they can't even fix a broken radio. When it comes to quality and affordability, Chinese products have always been unrivaled.
But the pursuit of a better life is unstoppable. After watching TikTok, the overseas version of Douyin, African brothers will not be able to concentrate on watching a hippopotamus baring its teeth.
As for no electricity or internet? Huaxia's photovoltaic products are dirt cheap, and China's promising base stations are also affordable. To improve the living standards of our African brothers, we can provide aid projects and services, and even develop local gold, silver, copper and iron mines for you.
When the time comes, you can use the ore to offset construction loans, without having to repay the money or worry about not having a market for the ore, and you can just sit at home and count the money. This wave is like Qin Shi Huang riding a rocket and winning to the moon.
So Si Mingyu wanted to invest more in oil exploration overseas, especially in third world countries. He mentioned this to several brothers and sisters, and they recommended Wang Yuantao and Li Jian, which led to this gathering.
The three generations present here all have their own jobs, so this gathering can only be arranged on weekends.
Wang Yuantao rushed back from another place and has to catch a plane back tomorrow.
Shi Wenshan did not come this time because he held a major leadership position in a third-tier city and could not travel back easily.
The others were fine, as their units were either in the capital or nearby cities, otherwise they would have had their work cut out for them. It would have been even more difficult for the third-generation workers who had been sent abroad to return if something happened.
Is it possible to just put a name on the family business or start your own company and then do nothing every day? That’s for people like Si Mingyu who don’t have much ambition. The brothers and sisters present here are busy every day.
Family members who are capable but have no desire to go into politics can go into business, but apart from having a little more freedom in spending money, that's all they can do.
On the contrary, those in the family who are of no use can just put their names on a job in a small private company and live there for the rest of their lives with a salary that is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
But no matter what kind of behavior, they can't cause serious trouble for the family, otherwise they will not be forgiven. It's not to show fairness and justice, but if the family rules are not strict, how can the family continue? When the family is there, it can protect everyone. Once the family is gone, it can be forgotten by everyone. It is the result of several lifetimes of good deeds.
This is a bit off topic.
Not every company can participate in foreign oil exploration. Without official endorsement, losing all the money in investment is considered good enough. Even if people are kidnapped by extremist organizations, it is nothing.
The intelligence department of the Fifty State Federation secretly subsidized these organizations with a special fund. Their sole purpose was to dig up oil that no other company could. Any unaffiliated company that dared to collaborate with the local government in oil exploration would face certain ruin. It was for this very reason that Si Mingyu had to rely on the connections of Wang Yuantao and Li Jian's family.
He told the two of them his thoughts and told them to say whatever they thought. At their level, there was no need to hide many things.
"Mingyu, do you own 10% of the shares in an oil and gas field in Africa?" Although Li Jian asked this in a questioning tone, his meaning was affirmative.
"Yes, a 10% stake." Si Mingyu guessed that maybe the oil and gas field in which he holds shares is one of the ones managed by Li Jian's father.
"Before I came here, I discussed it with my family elders, and they had this suggestion. One is to expand oil and gas production in this country, but you can't increase your stake in the oil and gas company, otherwise it would be a loss of state-owned assets. So you can set up your own company to conduct production. Another suggestion is to help you contact Qatar and have the oil and gas shipped over for sale."
When inviting two people over, they must inform each other in advance what the matter is, so don’t look at the fact that it is Li Jian who is coming, but whether it is suggestions or whether Si Mingyu’s request can be agreed to, the Li family has made plans for several possible situations.
"There's no problem with me. Our petrochemical company can purchase products of the same quality as long as the price is no higher than the market price." Wang Yuantao said straightforwardly.
There is a shortage of oil in China, so Si Mingyu must sell the oil and gas he extracts abroad to China in exchange for official protection. The simplest, most convenient and least problematic way is to sell it to the two domestic oil companies.
As long as the price is reasonable, no one can find fault with it. My private oil supply to the country is worthy of encouragement.
"Brother Jian, I'm going to do both of these at the same time." Since I've troubled him once, I might as well do something big.
Li Jian was not surprised at all. When the family discussed this matter, they felt that Si Mingyu would most likely want both. After all, the other party was not short of money or people, so of course they would choose the approach that maximizes their benefits.
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