The bidding meeting finally became a quota competition. The foreign companies in Britain, France and Russia joined forces to compete for market quotas and squeeze out the market quotas of Germany and Austria. Andrno, the owner of the German Foreign Company, was not a good person. He even offered to sell orders for the German Logistics Department to purchase food from the German Foreign Company, and joined hands with the Swiss Dagu Foreign Company to start competing for the markets of Britain, France and Russia. Finally, the two sides compromised Andrno and Dagu Foreign Company as they wished and won the general agency rights of the German and Austria markets.

Anderno followed Li Changgeng's advice and had re-registered Dehua Foreign Company in Switzerland. He even completely settled his nationality in Switzerland. After the bidding meeting, Anderno found an opportunity to communicate with Li Changgeng in private and shook hands with Li Changgeng for a long time. "Li, in Chinese terms, you are my nobleman. If it weren't for your advice, I would not only be passive in this bidding meeting today, but I believe it would be even more troublesome in the future."

"Mr. Anderno, you can follow my advice, which means that you are a smart person. Smart people will never suffer any loss. Most of your industries are in China, and your nationality is in Germany. Your identity will of course have great advantages in peacetime. But now Europe is in a war. Once the Chinese government's policies turn to an Allied country, the impact on you will be devastating. Switzerland is a permanent neutral country, and you can use this identity to expand your business. Think about the war until now, and the materials reserved before the war in the Warring States have been consumed, and now everything is lacking. With your channels in China, this will become a huge advantage. There is nothing easier to make money in war."

"Li, you are a very visionary person. Now my industries are concentrated in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hankou, and Tianjin. I want to transfer some of my business to Harbin. I don't know if you have any suggestions."

"Anderno, I have to say that you are also a very visionary businessman. Now it is the best time to enter Harbin to develop. Of course, you must also be prepared to change your mind. Dumping products in the past will not work. As for what industry to choose, it depends on your ideas. It is best to communicate first. I don't want your investment to compete with my industry, but what you should think most now is to be a qualified trader."

"Don't worry, Li, when I think about what industry to do in Hal, I will definitely talk to you first. And I'm here to tell you this time that your ordered machinery has already passed through the Strait of Malacca and can reach Shanghai in less than half a month. What do you want to do?"

"Well, I have to unload some of the machinery in Shanghai. The canning factory in Shanghai has almost done it. Then I will let the ship go north to Lushun Port and get off the ship all there."

"Okay, I will do it, but do you want to send someone to accept it?"

"Mr. Anderno, what I lack the most now is manpower, and what I lack the most is manpower. I believe you, first use your Dehua Foreign Company people to help with this matter. At least you can make me trust it very much now."

"Thank you for your trust. I will definitely do things to satisfy you. Another thing is this. I heard that you just borrowed a huge sum of 20 million yuan from Russia's Daosheng Bank. You know that I am also one of the shareholders of Deutsche Bank. Although Germany is currently in war, Deutsche Bank still has the ability to provide you with a loan of the same amount or even more. They also believe in your repayment ability. I am entrusted by the board of directors to talk to you about this matter."

After hearing this, Li Changgeng got up and moved around the house. Germany was also a defeated country. After the war, the German Mark depreciated like waste paper. But at this time, Dehua was very good at taking out a large amount of money to lend him. Obviously, his purpose was not simple. To put it bluntly, these capitalists were pursuing profit-oriented. They must be borrowing loans to discuss eliminating funds. There was no stupid person who was playing with capital. It was impossible to use Mark to repay a few times. But in general, it was profitable to use these money to gather materials at this time.

Li Changgeng stopped and sat down again and said, "Anderno, you should know that I don't need a loan. In addition to the 20 million bank loan from Daosheng Bank, Japan Zhengjin Bank also requested a loan to me. Although I already had an intention, I was not in a hurry to discuss the details with the Japanese."

You should know that Harbin has not a large population and its wage standards are not high. Once too much hot money enters here, it will depreciate the local currency and cause serious inflation. The only way is to invest this money in infrastructure construction. However, infrastructure construction, the amount of funds invested, the capital turnover time is long, and the profits are not very generous, which is not in my interest.

"Li, you can invest this money in the factory. Your instant noodles factory can use this money to quickly expand the production line."

"Mr. Andorno, you have also seen that it only takes a few dollars. It is not impossible to invest in a factory, but unless it is a large heavy industrial factory or even a certain industrial system, it can digest such a large amount of money. However, such investment also faces the same situation as basic investment, which is the long return on investment cycle and high cost. Another fatal problem is that China does not have so many talent reserves now. Even if the factory is built, production cannot be operated."

"Li, talking about business with you is like communicating with a scholar. Your knowledge is so rich. Although you have told me so much, I believe you still have a solution, right?"

"Mr. Andernor, of course, there is a solution. As far as I know, Germany just promulgated, the Hindenburg Program was to intervene more severely in the industrial structure and production, and to close all or partly the factories that were not related to war. And heavy industrial factories such as German shipbuilding were also in a state of suspension.

My requirement is that all the loans provided by Germany to me will be turned into factory equipment and some idle workers. I want Germany's most advanced industrial machine tools, the most advanced engine manufacturing technology, and the most advanced ordnance industry."

"This is impossible? Lee, these are the most important things in Germany and it is impossible to sell them to you."

"Anderno, as a businessman, there is no impossible commodity in the world that cannot be traded. If Germany can provide me with advanced engine technology, then I can make a large number of engines in Harbin. This kind of thing has no sales in China, so I can only buy it for Germany. Germany is equivalent to selling a fishing net. You don't have to fish by yourself, and you can buy fish on the beach. If you may not agree at other times, because you have to consider the interests of German fishermen. But now it is wartime, Germany needs to make more aircraft, more cars, and more engine reserves. Do you really don't believe that Chinese workers cannot produce the most advanced engines without understanding culture?"

"Li, do you mean, agree to accept the loan?"

"Someone is willing to borrow money. Will I still have more spare money? But I have requirements. The loan period is ten years, and the annual interest rate must not be higher than four cents. The current pressure on silver to proliferate is too great. This money will be loaned out of the same amount of mark before the war, and the repayment will be the same number of marks for customers. And I have to meet the above conditions. In fact, Germany does not have to worry about these parts-free technologies that flow out to China. China only gets production lines and existing technologies. Without talent reserves, China can only achieve the production link and has no innovative capabilities for technology. How many years can these technologies maintain their value? Five years or ten years. The longest is only fifteen years. These technologies will be eliminated after fifteen years. As far as I know, Germany has only been updated with five years."
Chapter completed!