Zhuang Jianye frowned when he heard this, picked up the coffee just brought by the waiter, took a sip and asked: "You are so unfavorable to our Ascendas Group?"
¡°It¡¯s not that we don¡¯t have a high opinion of your Ascendas Group, but that we don¡¯t have a good view of your entire country?¡±
As Liszt spoke, he raised his chin towards the floor-to-ceiling window. Zhuang Jianye looked over and saw countless people swarming in outside the door of a state-owned department store not far away. The bills in their hands were poured in as if they were free. The salesperson stuffed it in his hands, and then swept away the contents of the container without caring whether the contents were useful or not.
There are countless young people walking on the street carrying color TVs and washing machines, aunts with baskets filled with cabbage and salt, and even children with pockets filled with matches and rubber bands.
¡°In fact, it¡¯s not just these passers-by. Even Zhuang Jianye¡¯s home is like a warehouse. His wife Ning Xiaohui and father-in-law Ning Zhishan are so full of them like hamsters that Zhuang Jianye doesn¡¯t know where to put them when he comes home.
The two families were not satisfied with this, so they asked Aunt Li next door to collect enough toilet paper for three years. Uncle Wang upstairs made two snakeskin bags of edible salt and made a lot of money. It¡¯s still too little. I¡¯ll have to buy more when I wake up tomorrow morning.
That's all. Ning Zhishan handed the coffin book worth more than 5,000 yuan to Zhuang Jianye and asked him to see if he could get big items like color TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines. No matter how expensive or expensive the flowers were, Better not to have any money left.
In addition, the old man also called Ning Xiaodong and Ning Xiaoxue, brothers and sisters, and issued the strictest instructions after retirement. The central idea was just one sentence: spend all the money in your hand, use it up, use it up.
Fortunately, these brothers and sisters have seen the world and did not follow the old man's words, otherwise this family would be really crazy.
But there was nothing that could be done about it. Entering 1988, the tenth year of reform, many things had entered a new stage. Reform projects that had been briefly attempted in the past had to make new adjustments, and some areas even had to be changed. .
¡° Among them is the most sensitive price reform.
Due to the long-term implementation of the planned economy, domestic prices have always been in accordance with the national guidance prices, but this has also led to excessive administrative intervention and lack of flexibility.
So starting in 1984, the state proposed a "dual-track price system" reform in which prices were guided by the state within the plan and market adjustment mechanisms were implemented outside the plan.
At first, the effect of this gradual reform was quite good, but soon some people with a keen sense of smell discovered the huge loopholes in the dual-track price system and started a business of buying and selling. Soon this trend intensified in the country, and the extreme "trash man" became a phenomenon. The term "rich era" appeared at that time, and the people also made up the joke of "one billion people, 900 million are down, and there are 100 million still looking for it." Behind this, many vicious cases inevitably spawned.
So from the end of 1987, the country proposed price reform. In 1988, it even called for the abolition of the "dual-track system", comprehensive liberalization of prices, and the implementation of a "one-stop price breakthrough".
The starting point of the reform is good, but this "one step to get it done" obviously underestimates the economic law, that is, the long-term planned economy has caused goods to operate at low prices for a long time, and inflation has been artificially suppressed.
This is like a pressure cooker. The fire of economic laws is constantly burning. The artificial lid is held down until it is nothing, but once it is suddenly opened, the entire pot will explode to the sky.
This was the case for Russia and Eastern European countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They were ready to completely liberalize prices and embrace a market economy in one step. The result was that the Soviet Union¡¯s decades-old foundation was completely blown away.
¡°Before them, there was also such a bombing in China in 1988.
Prices shot up like a rocket, and the banknotes in people's hands soon became worthless. In comparison, various products were more valuable, so a large-scale panic buying trend swept across the country.
The economic chaos caused by this is self-evident. Although Ascendas Group has not been affected by the panic buying trend, the prices of raw materials have continued to rise, and the funds in hand have plummeted in value, which has also caused Ascendas Group to encounter unprecedented financial difficulties.
This is because Zhuang Jianye has been continuously reducing the scale, divesting the main non-business, reducing the scale of debt, and continuously increasing the liquidity of the company, so that he can barely maintain the current basic market.
¡°If like other factories, they expanded aggressively, borrowed money to operate, and fell into a triangle debt trap, would Zhuang Jianye still be able to drink coffee here now? My mouth was already full of anxiety.
Despite this, Ascendas Group¡¯s cash flow is still tight. The higher-level ministries and commissions are not worried, but the money that can be used has depreciated before it is sent to the company. In addition, the prices of various raw materials are soaring andWith this kind of shortage, even if companies get the money, it will not be of much use.
But what about introducing other hard currencies?
It seems to be one of the feasible ways, but international capital
"Zhuang, since I left McDonnell Douglas, I have focused on investment in China. Putting everything aside, we only talk about economic interests. At this time, China is not a good investment destination because there is great uncertainty here. , we don¡¯t know how long the inflation here will last. The investors behind me are very rich, but as you Chinese people often say, their money does not come from the strong wind. We also invest to make money. If the time is good, of course we will vote, but now"
Looking at Zhuang Jianye who had been looking out the window, he put down the coffee in his hand and said something that seemed to be sincere but was actually extremely cruel. At the end, he shrugged helplessly, saying that now was not a good opportunity to invest.
Zhuang Jianye turned his head and looked at the capital broker opposite who had recently resigned from McDonnell Douglas and began to focus on representing American capital in investing in China. He smiled slightly and said, "Then when is a good opportunity for you?"
"Let's observe it for at least another half year, because the uncertainty caused by severe inflation is so great that ordinary people can't even imagine it. Of course, Ascendas Group has always been the target of my introduction, and your ability has also been With the approval of the investors behind me, as long as you agree, we can inject capital into Ascendas Group at a premium of 30% on top of the US$400 million quotation."
¡°In exchange for 20% of the shares?¡±
"No Zhuang, it's 40%, 10% of which is for you." Liszt shook his head, quite like a capital boss.
Zhuang Jianye didn¡¯t expect the other party to be so generous. Not only did he spend hundreds of millions of dollars in real money, but he also gave himself 10% of the shares. What was he doing? Train yourself to become an oligarch in the domestic aviation industry?
For a moment, Zhuang Jianye was filled with emotions. That is to say, in China, if he were in Russia, he might have nodded and called Capital Dad "Ula~~".
"How's it going, Zhuang? Do you want to think about it?" Liszt looked at Zhuang Jianye across from him playfully, and Zhuang Jianye nodded with a warm smile: "Yes, I will seriously consider it."
"Okay, I have a meeting later, so I'll leave first." Liszt greeted politely, stood up, picked up his coat, passed Zhuang Jianye, and strode away in the blink of an eye.
And Zhuang Jianye, who had his back turned to Liszt, the smile on his face gradually dissipated, and the depths of his eyes were full of coldness
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