Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0342 A Flash of Inspiration
On the third day, good news came from Matsumoto Yosuke. He agreed to Nan Yi's conditions. Matsumoto Kiyoshi could pay 2 billion yen in advance for the purchase of goods to Nanko 010 Co., Ltd., and Nanko 010 Co., Ltd. would supply Matsumoto Kiyoshi for one year at a price of US$92.6 per bottle.
Taking into account the upcoming appreciation of the Japanese yen and the fact that the mainland prefers the US dollar, both the quotation given to Matsumoto Kiyoshi and the purchase price of Nanfang 010 Co., Ltd. from the Nanfang 010 factory are in US dollars.
The supply price of Nan Kwong 010 Factory to Nan Kwong 010 Co., Ltd. is US$90, and the normal external supply price of Nan Kwong 010 Co., Ltd. is US$118. The difference of US$28 is needed to cover Nan Kwong 010's global promotion and marketing expenses, as well as possible unexpected expenses.
In fact, not much of this money went into Nan Yi's pocket, and most of it had to be spent.
Again, Nan Yi set up so many layers of shells not to facilitate his own profit, he did it simply for the 1 billion yen, and also to add a few moats to ensure that his own interests would not be damaged.
After signing a letter of intent with Matsumoto Yosuke, Nan Yi took the letter of intent to find Takei Yasuo of Takefuji and borrowed 1.7 billion yen from Takefuji for a period of 4 months. Takei Yasuo gave a discount and had to repay 1.8 billion yen when the loan was due.
After getting the money, Nan Yi took out 1 billion to fill the hole of Swallowtail Butterfly, of which 500 million was remitted to Nanguan 010 Factory, and he also gave Hagiwara Sayuri the principal plus interest of 23 million yen. He still had 177 million left in his hands.
The investment in NanGuang 010 factory does not need to be in place all at once. As long as the funds can be continued, the construction of the factory should not be stopped.
The 500 million yen is still on the way. In Shanghai, the organizational structure of the Nanguan 010 factory has been completed, and the factory's board of directors has been established, including Chairman Zhao Ruijin, Board Secretary Xu Du, Chairman Secretary Shen Huai, Vice Chairman Lin Nanguan, Vice Chairman Akashi Arinobu, Financial Director Wu Qiuyue, and Deputy Financial Director and Japanese Representative Leng Yan.
After talking to Leng Yan and learning about the situation, Nan Yi shook his head helplessly.
There was a lot of activity at the NanGuang 010 factory. Most of the time at the first board meeting was spent on discussing how to allocate cars to board members, what kind of cars to allocate, how many cars to allocate, etc.
As the meeting was about to end, they took a few minutes of precious time to discuss where to introduce the production line.
Before the factory became a joint venture, Nan Yi had certain anticipations for possible problems, and these problems were all within his expectations.
Nan Yi thought it would be a good idea to put Leng Yan in that kind of environment to train her. In the future, Leng Yan would often have to deal with idealists.
The biggest characteristic of those who work in vain is that they are slow and unhurried. It is normal for something to be delayed for several years. Leng Yan is a little impatient, which is just right. She can adapt to the slow pace and experience what it means to hold a meeting and study. In the end, she will be able to adjust the pace of work at will.
December 5th.
Nan Yi accompanied Matsumoto Yosuke to Shanghai. When they arrived in Shanghai, Nan Yi handed Matsumoto Yosuke over to Akashi Arisuke and Leng Yan, and asked them to accompany Matsumoto Yosuke to visit the factory site.
All of this had to be kept secret from the members of NanGuang 010’s board of directors.
Nan Yi doesn't need to worry about the inspection, he now has to worry about his private money.
Excluding the miscellaneous expenses he needs to bear in the near future, Nan Yi still has 1.55 billion yen, equivalent to 6.5 million US dollars, which can be used flexibly within four months. After four months, he will have to repay the debt of 1.8 billion yen.
I ran to the gate of Jing'an Temple, found several pile-driving molds, and finally bought two bundles of electrical wires from a man. Then I ran to the First Department Store and bought five radios. Then I ran to the alley and bought several fishbone antennas from an electronics enthusiast.
Back at Fang Mansion, I pulled five wires from the living room to the roof, and then connected the fishbone antenna. The other end of the wire was connected to the antenna of the radio, so that the radio signal would be stronger.
In the living room, Nan Yi adjusted the radio, skipping the Voice of China, the Voice of Germany and the enemy stations on the other side of the strait. One radio received the Hong Kong Commercial Radio, one radio received the Japanese economic news channel, and one radio received the relay signal from Hawaii, so he could listen to China's economic radio station.
Another one is tuned in to broadcasts from the Middle East, and another one is from Australia.
Five radios were playing at the same time, and Nan Yi pricked up his ears to listen, hoping to hear some useful information so that he could make more money with his private money.
After listening for a long time, he didn't hear any information that was of any use to Nan Yi personally, but he did make a coil using the copper wire pulled out from the remaining electrical wires.
If you get some capacitors, high-impedance headphones, and some diodes, it's easy to put together a crystal radio that doesn't require a power source.
"Are you home?"
As Nan Yi put down the coil in his hand, Gong Xue's voice reached his ears.
"Just now..." Nan Yi was about to reply when the news he wanted to hear came from the radio, "Wait, don't talk yet."
Asking Gong Xue not to speak for the time being, Nan Yi turned down the volume of the other four radios, leaving only the one that received the Australian signal.
"This year, Africa has experienced the largest drought and famine in this century. Among the 55 countries and regions in Africa, 34 have suffered from severe droughts, 24 countries have suffered from severe famines, and 150 to 185 million people are threatened by hunger.
To date, a total of 15 million people in Africa have died from diseases caused by hunger or malnutrition.
Today, 150 to 185 million people in Africa are threatened by hunger. In areas severely affected by the disaster, rivers have dried up, fields have cracked, yellow sand has spread, and livestock have died. At least 10 million people have left their homes and are running around in search of food.
The Geneva Red Cross said that if the situation in Africa does not improve, more Africans will die of hunger next year..."
Nan Yi knew about the severe drought and famine in Africa. He also knew that Shennong Nanliang had already donated several thousand tons of food to Africa as a token of its appreciation.
However, Nan Yi was not very clear about some of the contents of the later broadcast.
“Since 1977, as many as 20 to 30 African countries have suffered from food shortages every year. Among them, there are 15 countries that often suffer from severe food shortages, namely Lesotho, Angola, Zambia, Cape Verde, Bojangwala, Comoros, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda and Chad.
The combined population of these countries accounts for almost 1/2 of Africa’s total population. It is precisely because of natural disasters such as rainstorms and locusts, agricultural problems, population explosion, political unrest, war and other man-made factors that have caused the disaster.
The drought demon swept across the thirsty African land, leaving thousands of miles of barren land wherever it went. The hunger demon followed closely behind, and terror enveloped Africa. Hundreds of millions of Africans were seriously threatened by the hunger demon.
Nan Yi disliked the English broadcast on the radio because it was too straightforward, so he even modified the language to make it more literary.
In Ethiopia, hungry people flocked to the Bati refugee camp, where 16,000 people were crammed into a tent the size of a football field, hoping for food from passing vehicles. About 120 people died tragically every day in this hope.
Ethiopia has a population of less than 46 million, but 7 million people are , 47% of whom are children under the age of 14.
In Uganda, the tragedy of cannibalism occurred. The desperate Kanamaozhuang victims had to eat each other in order to survive. A total of 100,000 victims in Uganda fell into starvation.
In Senegal, 1.5 million livestock alone died. The corpses of starving people and dead livestock were everywhere in the villages and on the roadsides. It was a horrific sight.
In Zimbabwe, 300,000 cattle are starving to death.
In Mauritania, 40% of cattle and sheep and 15% of camels died.
In Tanzania, 1,500 children die of starvation every day.
The once green Maasai region is now a barren wasteland covered in dust. The once picturesque East African Rift Valley is now barren and its flora and fauna are dying.
In Mozambique, hunger has claimed the lives of 100,000 people, and millions more are struggling on the brink of death.
In Niger, a little girl wrote in a letter appealing for help that her village had not seen a drop of rain for two years. The villagers had not eaten for more than two days, and her little brother had died of starvation.
In Mauritania, a severe drought turned 80% of the grassland into desert. Hungry farmers and herdsmen poured into the city, and their tents were everywhere along the road. After the food in the city was eaten up, the hungry people looked for small animals everywhere, dug deep into the ground, and ate beetles with shells to fill their stomachs. Some even ate the corpses of their own relatives.
In Chad, drought and the Sahara Desert are advancing together.
The fertile fields were swallowed up by the desert, the pastures on which people depended for survival disappeared, and the small nomadic villages were no longer populated.
The herders were driven from the 16th parallel north to the 14th parallel north, eating up their own herds along the way, and then began to eat dogs, cats, rats and other disgusting insects.
In the semi-desert areas, people were so hungry that they had to dig up the roots and rhizomes of plants and pick up leaves on the ground. Many people died because they could not digest the roots and leaves they ate.
The ground was cracked, the widest part of which was enough for a person's leg to fit through. Looking around, there was no trace of green.
On the road from Port Sudan to Khartoum, dust was flying. The hungry people were so hungry that only bones were left. They moved their feet weakly. From time to time, people fell down and never got up again. Their bodies were moved to the side of the road. Many starving people leaned on each other and waited to die.
Some African countries and local governments have begun to set up relief stations, and groups of disaster victims have rushed to the relief stations desperately, making the relief stations a drop in the bucket and unable to solve the problem. "
Today, only a few people know about the great famine in Africa, because there are relatively few reports on it in countries around the world, and even the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has not paid enough attention to it. Now this problem remains within Africa.
"Other African countries that have not suffered from drought are now also facing food shortages. Food prices in many African countries have begun to rise, and people's food security has been seriously threatened..."
In the large-scale broadcast content, Nan Yi only extracted the name of "Tunisia" from the list of countries that have never suffered from drought but have food shortages. If he remembered correctly, Tunisia has tens of millions of olive trees.
In the context of the great famine, he really couldn't bear to ask Nan Yi to provide more food aid. Moreover, Shennong Nanliang couldn't provide more food. All the farms were being integrated and could not produce much food at all.
Besides, if it weren't for humanitarian and advertising reasons, he really wanted to not give any food to those lazy people in Africa.
In his previous life, he invested in a factory in Africa. There were large amounts of vacant land outside the factory. When he went to inspect it one time, he felt it was a pity to waste the land, so he organized a group of workers to develop a vegetable garden.
Firstly, it can improve the food, and secondly, any surplus can be sold outside, so the workers can earn some extra income.
But when it came time to open up the vegetable garden, only workers from the mainland were willing to work, and those black African uncles just stood by and watched.
However, on the day when the vegetables were ripe, they held a "zero-yuan purchase" event the night before. Seeing how hard the workers from China worked, they helped move the vegetables to their homes.
Eating vegetables is so tiring, so they did the job for you.
But if we take this opportunity to exchange food for minerals in Africa, it would be too ugly and would easily lead to intentional or unintentional boycotts from people all over the world.
We can only implement this plan after the famine is over and the situation in Africa improves slightly.
Nan Yi tapped on the table, recalling Tunisia's information in his mind, "Tunisia has about 9 million hectares of arable land, 4.2 million hectares of cultivated land, about 7% of which is irrigated land, and the grain self-sufficiency rate can reach more than 60%.
The reserves of phosphate, oil, natural gas, and iron ore are not low, but the population is not too large, and the politics are relatively simple..."
Tap, tap, tap. Nan Yi's tapping speed was getting faster and faster. In a daze, an idea had formed in his mind: it seemed that his private money would fall into the hands of Tunisia.
Seeing that Nan Yi was immersed in thought, Gong Xue did not disturb him and walked towards the kitchen with the dishes in her hand.
"Fortunately, there are still two dishes I bought yesterday that have not been cooked. If we make do with them, it will still be enough for four people." Gong Xue thought as she walked towards the kitchen.
"Olives produce olive oil, and the largest exporter of olive oil is Spain. Other countries that export olive oil include Italy, Greece, Morocco, and Tunisia, which are all concentrated in the Mediterranean region. Its exports account for 8% of the world's total.
This amount is enough to control the rise and fall of olive oil futures. If it can absorb all of Tunisia’s olive oil exports next year, it will be able to reap two waves of dividends from olive oil futures.”
