Chapter Fifty-Seven Behind me was nothing but a chair

  Ye Haodong: "Behind my back? He turned his head, turned around and smiled: Only the chair back is left, on my side it's a one-man show, I'm the only one who has the final say. The condition I gave is like this, if your family can't accept it, then I can also consider the first plan. I can give you a good price, 1.5 billion US dollars, but I need time to raise this money, no later than Spring Festival in 2002. But if you are willing to follow the plan I just proposed, 800 million US dollars, I will settle everything within three months. The first payment of 200 million US dollars I will pay on the day we sign the contract, and no later than half a month I will prepay 500 million US dollars."

  Su Wan Tong found it somewhat hard to believe and, still holding onto the idea of trying to revive a dead horse, asked: "Do you have any requirements for us?"

  Ye Haodong stretched out three fingers: "Within three months, the potash mine will be put into production. For other industries of the Su family that belong to strategic resource-based mining enterprises with unsatisfactory profitability, the sales rights will be uniformly handed over to my trading team. After the mine's funds are recovered and enter a normal track, the mine will implement limited mining and sales."

  Su Wan Tong considered for a moment, then politely nodded at Ye Hao Dong: "I'll report to the elders in my family right away. It may take some time to make a decision."

  Ye Haodong nodded, made a fist and bid farewell: "I don't have a mobile phone, if you want to find me, just contact Liu Jiasheng or come directly to my place of residence, which is at No. 6 Cornwall Street seaside villa, I'm always available to talk."

  Russia, Moscow. Evening.

  Zhang Tianpeng had just left the Jelena Exhibition Center and got into his customized Lincoln. Behind him, several fully armed security personnel and more than a dozen exhibition staff members carrying boxes followed, and the driver opened the trunk door. These people carefully placed the boxes in the car one by one. Zhang Tianpeng looked at the dozens of antiques behind him with satisfaction, but he was thinking of his former girlfriend who had been working in archaeology for many years. She was called his ex-girlfriend because she thought they were not meant to be together and dumped him early on. However, he still couldn't forget her, and he thought that if Wen Haizhen saw the treasure he got today, she would definitely throw herself into his arms.

  After Zhang Tianpeng's car left, a light gray Volga quickly turned around from the street corner and followed far behind. Inside the car were two bald tattooed Russian men. It was clear that they were following Zhang Tianpeng.

  Zhang Tianpeng had just returned to his office when he received a call from Ye Haodong.

  From years ago to now, Haotian Clothing and Hualong Daily Chemicals have occupied most of the market share of Huaxia commodities with their huge cost advantage and policy advantage. From Christmas to Easter to Shrove Tuesday, Pengcheng Commercial Building and St. Petersburg Branch and other four branches have maintained a high peak of passenger flow, with the highest daily sales reaching an astonishing 800 million rubles, equivalent to over 200 million RMB. Although sales are not equal to profit, the price advantage can bring such a huge sales momentum, which makes Zhang Tianpeng admire Ye Haodong's business talent even more. Now Haotian Clothing and Hualong Daily Chemicals are two golden basins that absorb gold, making Zhang Tianpeng extremely dissatisfied with the fact that he only holds 10% of the shares of each of these two factories.

  On the other hand, the profitability of Haotian Energy Development Sales Co., Ltd. in the Far East region over the past year has made Zhang Tianpeng even more regretful. He and Ye Haodong jointly hold 70% of the company's shares, but he only holds 20%, while Ye Haodong alone accounts for half. This shareholding ratio was also agreed upon by Zhang Tianpeng after Ye Haodong repeatedly persuaded him to participate in the investment out of friendship.

  Hao Tian Energy currently has 179 self-injecting wells and over 100 high-yield management wells, with an estimated annual output of over 10 million tons, equivalent to 629 million barrels. The current international crude oil price is $49 per barrel. The Republic of Huaxia is Hao Tian Energy's largest customer, and they basically take whatever they want. In other words, Hao Tian Energy only sells crude oil, with an annual sales revenue of $3 billion. After deducting policy costs, export tax costs, labor costs, equipment costs, water and electricity costs, etc., the annual profit level of Hao Tian Energy's crude oil business is around $1.3 billion. Calculated at Zhang Tianpeng's 20% stake, that means he can earn $260 million by June this year. This result does not even take into account the income from the coal mining industry. According to the industrial outlook analysis report based on the current situation of the coal mine, the coal mine's profitability is slightly lower than that of crude oil due to high labor costs, but it still reaches 80% of the profitability of the crude oil industry. Thinking about this, Zhang Tianpeng can't help but get a headache - why did he focus so much on trade speculation back then?

  Ye Haodong's phone call brought him a surprise. Ye Haodong needed money and was willing to sell 10% of his shares in Haotian Energy, 10% of his shares in Haotian Fashion, and all 39% of his shares in Hualong Daily Chemicals. The price was $900 million.

  Zhang Tianpeng's mood can be described as ecstatic. However, after calming down, he couldn't help but feel that he was being a bit unscrupulous. The 10% stake in Haotian Energy and the 39% stake in Hualong Daily Chemicals already exceeded this price by a lot. It can be said that the 10% stake in Haotian Apparel was given to him by Ye Haodong, and Ye Haodong's only requirement was that the funds must be received within three months. Among them, the initial $500 million must be received within one week. Brother Zhang was eager to use the money, and he took advantage of the cheap price, wasn't it a bit too much? Fortunately, Ye Haodong repeatedly emphasized to him that as long as he could raise this amount of money within the specified time, it would be a great help to Ye Haodong.

  The Zhang family had a sum of money deposited in a Swiss bank, totaling one billion US dollars. It was the family's risk-free fund for over 100 people from both political and business circles as a precaution against any eventuality. However, with Zhang Tianpeng's industry growing bigger under the sun, the significance of that risk-free fund became smaller. After receiving Ye Haodong's faxed authorization letter for stock transfer, Zhang Tianpeng immediately contacted Pauli Gang to put this matter into practice. He then transferred all the funds from his family's hidden Swiss bank account to Ye Haodong's designated Royal Bank of Canada account.

  With this sum of money, Ye Haodong is considered to have officially entered the ranks of billionaires. Although his actual total assets had already reached this number, in fact, the funds he could dispose of before did not exceed tens of millions of US dollars.

  The Chamber of Commerce joint meeting ended two days later.

  Canada, Vancouver, Yang Junhu's home. In Zhang Tianpeng's words, the owner of this villa is actually Tiger, and it was given to him by Tianpeng as a gift for his marriage, and now Ye Haodong is just a freeloader.

  Su Wan Tong and Su Jia Bei sat in the living room, opposite them was Ye Hao Dong holding a pen and signing his name.

  51% of Su's industry shares, 8.5 billion US dollars, at least 5 billion to be paid within a month, and the remaining amount to be settled within three months. The other terms were basically written into the contract as requested by Ye Haodong. After signing the contract, Ye Haodong immediately fulfilled his promise and transferred the first 5 billion directly in front of him.

  "Heh heh, just got back home and arrived just in time." Ye Haodong casually played with the pen, his eyes secretly staring at Su Tiantian's plump and white thighs, saying nonchalantly.

  Su Haoran and Su Wantong looked at each other, both thinking that this business was a bit too casual. Such a large transaction was actually signed in just two days and one early tea time. The young man in front of him had cashed out such a large sum of money with ease, which had been giving the Vancouver Chinese Chamber of Commerce a headache.