Chapter 3204: Best choice

In order to acquire a suitable food processing enterprise as soon as possible, Li Yalin let the AI analyze the list of all regular food processing enterprises in Morocco, and then according to their registered addresses, combined with satellite images of the skyline, to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each food processing enterprise.

One of the biggest advantages of AI is that it can think, so Li Yalin didn't need to guide it step by step, but directly informed it of his needs, letting it find from these enterprises one that had poor business conditions, but the scale of its land and buildings could hide thousands of people, and its geographical location was far from densely populated areas.

So, the AI immediately selected five enterprises that met the needs for him.

These five enterprises are distributed in relatively remote areas of Morocco. One of them is not far from Duke Mining, only about 100 kilometers away. What is more perfect is that this enterprise is less than 50 kilometers away from the coastline. If you want to settle people here to wait for transfer out of the country, then this is the best choice.

So, Li Yalin separated from Ye Chen temporarily early the next morning and went to that enterprise alone to find out.

As for Ye Chen, he stayed in the hotel room sitting on the floor, continuing to review that set of hand seals, while slowly accumulating the Qi in his body.

Ye Chen is now very obsessed with this set of hand seals, just like a wool-gathering addict. As long as he has time, he must practice with this, and exchange for extra Qi by continuously repeating that set of hand seals.

After a three-hour drive, Li Yalin finally arrived at the town where the food processing enterprise was located.

This enterprise is located in the suburbs of the town. More than 300 employees basically come from this town. The town is about 30 kilometers away from a fishing port on the northeast coast of Morocco. Because it is not directly along the coast, the people in this small town have no chance to become fishermen.

When fishermen along the coast rely on fishing to improve their living conditions, the villagers in this small village can only go to the surrounding seafood processing enterprises to work. And the enterprise Li Yalin chose is a private enterprise specializing in the production of seafood processed food, especially sardine cans.

Morocco is the country that exports the most sardine cans in the world. There are at least hundreds or thousands of large and small enterprises in the country that rely on the production of sardine cans and other seafood products to survive. Although Morocco's GDP has increased because of sardines, most of these enterprises that produce sardine cans are not living easily.

Because it is only primary food processing, their threshold is relatively low, and because the threshold is low, the competition among peers is also very fierce. New enterprises want to stand firm, often relying on price wars to obtain orders. Over time, everyone suppresses prices, leading to the continuous decline of the profit space of the entire industry. Nowadays, many enterprises are struggling on the survival line.

The enterprise Li Yalin chose is like this.

It was established by a former municipal civil servant in the local area. After more than ten years of continuous development, the scale has indeed become larger and larger, but because of backward production technology and low efficiency, the business situation here is also gradually declining. The boss of the enterprise is old and gradually loses his ambition, only thinking about continuing to create meager profits by relying on this enterprise. It is precisely because of this idea that he has not invested funds in upgrading and expanding the enterprise in recent years, so that the competitiveness of the enterprise is getting worse and worse.

More importantly, such old enterprises are very difficult to sell. The industry profit is not high, and the cost required for upgrading and renovation here is a huge expense. If you are not careful, you may fall into a loss. No one wants to take this risk.

And Li Yalin also took a fancy to another natural advantage of seafood food processing enterprises, that is, they must have vehicles transporting raw materials constantly shuttling between the factory and the wharf. Once Ye Chen wants to transport those dead soldiers away silently, the sea route is the only reliable choice. Then, through the disguise of the seafood food processing factory, you can use the vehicles going back and forth to the fishing port to continuously send people away.

So overall, this enterprise is the best choice.

When Li Yalin came to the gate of this food processing enterprise, he found that this enterprise didn't even have a security guard. The dilapidated gate was always open. Looking from the outside, the scale of the factory building was large, but it was indeed a bit old, and the whole looked relatively dilapidated.

The area that entered the door first was an open space of about three or four thousand square meters, parked with an old Fiat car, and various bicycles, and a small number of simple motorcycles modified to be unrecognizable.

The right hand looks like a loading and storage area, because there is not only a loading platform that is convenient for loading, but also a single building with good sealing. Li Yalin speculated that it should be a cold storage, used to store raw materials. A truck happened to be parked in front of the loading platform, and several loading workers were moving fresh seafood covered with ice from it and moving it into the cold storage behind;

Behind the cold storage is connected to the largest single factory building, which should be the processing production line. On the left hand, there is a similar loading platform, and the back of this loading platform is also equipped with a closed building. Li Yalin speculated that this should be the storage area and loading area for finished products.

When Li Yalin came to the door of the largest factory building in the middle, the roaring sound inside was already deafening. Because of the need for heating production and heating sterilization of cans, the huge doorway was constantly rolling out humid heat waves.

It wasn't until Li Yalin walked into the factory building that someone finally noticed this strange face, so someone stepped forward and questioned him vigilantly in the local language. Li Yalin saw that he looked like an ordinary worker, so he took out a ten-dollar bill and handed it to him, saying in English: "Where is your boss? I want to see him."

The other party didn't understand English or French, but he had heard the word Boss. So he immediately understood that Li Yalin wanted to see his boss, and the other party was quite generous, ten dollars was higher than his daily wage, so he immediately flattered Li Yalin with gestures and enthusiastically took him to his boss's office.

The boss's office is located in a two-story house supported by a steel structure on the side of the factory building. Here, all four sides are glass, and the situation of the entire factory building can be seen at a glance.

Seeing the employee bringing a stranger, the boss was also a little surprised, so he began to look at Li Yalin from afar.

Li Yalin, who was disguised, although people couldn't see his true face, was still an Asian face, and this factory and its upstream and downstream were almost all local Moroccans, so seeing Asians here was indeed very rare.

Li Yalin had investigated the boss's background before coming. He was already sixty-one years old this year. He was originally a civil servant in the local government who went out to work in a higher-level city. Later, because he felt that the seafood processing industry had prospects, he resigned and went to the sea, returning to open a canned factory near his hometown.

Because he was a local, and he had accumulated a lot of contacts when he was a civil servant in the city, his return to build a factory received a lot of favorable policies. Not only did he get a large piece of land, but he also got a lot of low-interest loans, and the scale could be considered larger and larger.

However, because he started from scratch, in the many years since the beginning of his business, his actual income was not high. The money he earned was either used to repay loans or used to deal with relationships.

In the seven or eight years since the loans were paid off, his income level should be considered quite good, with an annual profit of about 200,000 US dollars, which is considered very much in the local area.

But the situation has been much worse in recent years. His annual profit has now shrunk to only a meager 30,000 to 50,000 US dollars.

Because he knew that the other party had a civil servant's resume, Li Yalin was sure that he understood French, and there was definitely no problem with communication.

The employee led him to the door and said something in the local language, and the boss inside waved to the two through the glass.

The employee pushed the door in and informed the boss that Li Yalin wanted to see him. Li Yalin didn't hesitate and asked him directly in French: "Are you the boss here? I want to acquire your factory."

When the boss heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He knew that Asians were rich, especially Asian businessmen who came out to do business, who were generally quite wealthy. He had long wanted to sell this factory, but no one had asked for it for several years. Now that an Asian businessman had taken the initiative to come to the door, his dream of cashing out and leaving and enjoying retirement life was immediately ignited, so he hurriedly stood up and said to Li Yalin: "Welcome, welcome! Please sit down, please sit down!"

As he spoke, he hurriedly sent his employees away, took the initiative to take out a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Li Yalin, and said with a smile: "We are just thinking about selling here. As long as the price is appropriate, everything here can be sold."

Li Yalin didn't want to appear too eager to buy, but said with a smile: "People in our country have recently become popular with sardine cans, so I have the idea of setting up a factory in Morocco. By then, the sardine cans produced will be exported directly to our country point-to-point. I have also inspected many factories along the way. Please introduce your situation to me, as well as your advantages."

The boss hurriedly said: "We have a total of five production lines here, four of which are used to produce sardine cans, and the other is used to produce other seafood food. The annual output is about 4,000 tons."

Li Yalin frowned when he heard this and sighed: "Five production lines, only 4,000 tons a year. As far as I know, large Moroccan canned enterprises have a daily output of 100 or 200 tons."

The boss hurriedly said: "My production lines here are mainly relatively old, so production efficiency is relatively low. However, we have a large place. If you are willing to invest in upgrading and renovation, we are fully qualified to become a large enterprise."

As he spoke, he hurriedly introduced: "The cost of workers near us is very low. Most workers' monthly salary is within 2,000 dirhams, not exceeding 200 US dollars, and they work hard. I have 300 workers here now. If you have needs in the future, you can recruit 500 skilled workers from nearby towns at any time."

Li Yalin smiled and said: "All enterprises have room for upgrading, but everything is nothing more than a cost problem. Let's do this, you give me a price, and I will consider it."

The man thought about it again and again and said: "5 million dirhams, or 500,000 US dollars."

Although the factory still has a profit of 30,000 US dollars a year, the profit has begun to decline continuously, and the boss knows very well in his heart that he can only persist for another ten years at most. In the next ten years, it would be good to have a profit of 200,000 US dollars.

As for his factory, those equipment are already very old, and even in a country like Morocco, they have passed the elimination cycle and belong to a state of strong support. It is really difficult to sell, and it is estimated that it is only a little more expensive than scrap iron.

Because the factory building is old, the price is also difficult to go up. After all, it is on the edge of a remote small town, and even the land is not worth much.

Therefore, let alone 500,000 US dollars, even 300,000 US dollars, he would sell it without hesitation.

Li Yalin didn't rush to talk to him about the price, but asked him many detailed questions, and asked him to take himself to visit everywhere. Behind this factory, there is also an employee canteen and several warehouses. Although the factory's worker scale is only 300, it is very easy to hide thousands of people if you really want to hide people here.

In addition, there are about 15 tons of canned products in the finished product warehouse waiting for shipment. According to the market price, it is about 40,000 US dollars.

After looking at it as a whole, Li Yalin said to the boss: "Let's do this, I have also seen your situation here. To be honest, it is indeed older than I imagined. The cost of renovation, reconstruction, and upgrading and renovation is at least several million US dollars. I don't like to grind and grind when doing business, so I will give you two quotes and two choices. As long as you can accept either one, we can reach cooperation. If neither is accepted, then I will look at other choices."

The boss hurriedly said: "Please tell me."

Li Yalin said: "The first quote is to pay you 250,000 US dollars at one time, buying out all the facilities that can be seen and touched here, including land, factory buildings, production lines, and other equipment. Oh yes, there are also all raw materials and finished product inventory in your warehouse;"

When the boss heard this, his expression was a little helpless and said: "To tell you the truth, our raw materials and finished product inventory are worth at least 50,000 US dollars."

Li Yalin smiled and said: "The second quote, I will pay you 300,000 US dollars, but I can only pay you 200,000 first, and the remaining 100,000 will be paid to you after I put it into production. Other conditions are that you have to help me maintain these workers well. I may need two to three months to upgrade the equipment here. During this period, you must ensure that these workers do not defend their rights, do not make trouble, and do not cause me any trouble. At the same time, they must wait honestly at home. When I start work, they will come back to work."

The boss said awkwardly: "I really can't guarantee this. They all have to support their families. During these two or three months, they have no income, and their families may not be able to eat. In that case, they will definitely look for other jobs."

Li Yalin said: "Their wages will be paid during this period, half will be paid monthly, and the remaining half will be paid in full on the day they arrive at their post."

The boss breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and hurriedly said: "Then there is no problem. If you don't work and still have money, they will definitely agree."

Li Yalin reminded: "In order to ensure that they do not disclose my situation here to the outside world and do not disclose my trade secrets, these things must be done by you. You must let them think that you are going to upgrade here, not someone else, and then let them go home and not tell anyone about the situation here. Once the trade secrets are leaked, the salary will stop being paid, and the remaining half will be directly voided."

The boss thought without thinking and said: "These are no problem, my prestige can still be achieved."

Speaking of this, he rubbed his hands and smiled: "It's just this price... it's really a bit low for me. It's only 300,000 in total, and there are 50,000 goods in it. It's reasonable to be at least 450,000 US dollars..."

Li Yalin said: "Let's do this, as long as you handle the things I explained, so that I can fully promote the upgrading and renovation, after the upgrading is completed and the work is successfully started, I will pay you another 200,000 US dollars. In this way, the total target is 400,000 US dollars."

When the boss heard this, he was suddenly overjoyed and said without hesitation: "Deal!" ===== CHAPTER 3205 =====