Chapter 1493: Nakamura, you wouldn't want to

"Why did you suddenly think of intervening in the power system?" Katherine handed him his gloves and asked, "You only have a small thermal power station in Steel City."

"That's all, right?"

Li Xuewu put on his leather gloves with a calm expression, tightened his leather jacket, and strode onto the plane.

Katherine was also bold; she had only been learning to fly for less than three months, and she actually dared to follow him.

"I don't have any intention of looking down on the Steel City Power Plant, but it is a fact; you know that."

She was very afraid that Li Xuewu would misunderstand, so she took off her sunglasses from her chest and gently put them on him.

"Hmm, this is cooler—"

"I didn't say you looked down on Steel City Power."

Li Xuewu glanced at the console and executed the startup procedure in the order he had practiced long ago.

Katherine's originally worried mood instantly improved a lot; it seemed this guy wasn't bragging.

He actually knew how to fly a plane!

Men are most charming when they are focused on doing things, including flying planes.

"But you must have underestimated Steel City Power."

Li Xuewu put on his headset and pointed to the co-pilot's headset on the console, reminding her to communicate through the microphone.

After Katherine put hers on, he continued, "At least you underestimated the ambition of the General Manager of the United Energy Corporation."

"That new female BOSS?"

Katherine raised her eyebrows with a smile and said, "She is very interesting; we met in Beijing and had a pleasant conversation."

"She should completely fit the image of a strong woman in your mind."

Li Xuewu smiled, pulled the joystick, gestured to the command below, and slowly lifted the plane.

This was no longer the first time he had sat in the pilot's seat to control the plane; every time before, the instructor Wang Xiaonan had accompanied him.

Today was the weekend, and Katherine's sudden arrival in Steel City caught him off guard.

Not wanting to disrupt his arrangements because of her, he brought her to the test field.

"I don't worship strong women."

Katherine smiled sweetly, looked ahead, and said meaningfully, "I only worship and admire the strong."

"You're like a little rooster."

Li Xuewu didn't care about the deep meaning in her words and said with a smile, "Look below; perhaps your heart will be more spacious."

At this moment, as the helicopter climbed, the buildings on the ground gradually shrank and moved away from their line of sight, and Katherine suddenly became silent, watching below intently.

She didn't know how to describe her mood at this moment; this helicopter was different from taking a passenger plane. The takeoff of a passenger plane absolutely didn't have such an intuitive change in the scene before her eyes.

Some say that a noble lady born with a silver spoon in her mouth—what hasn't she seen?

With Katherine's family background, let alone taking a helicopter, even buying two and placing them at the door as town-house beasts wouldn't be a pressure.

Of course, Italians don't have the custom of placing town-house beasts on both sides of the door, and it's impossible to place two helicopters at the door.

But honestly, she was truly taking a helicopter for the first time in her life.

It wasn't that she didn't have the money to buy one, but the family rules didn't allow them to take risks.

Although there is no custom of town-house beasts, they also understand the principle that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, and helicopters are very dangerous.

Even though helicopters were widely used as early as World War II, and helicopter manufacturing technology has been advancing by leaps and bounds in recent years, it is still difficult to change the fact that if they fall, they will either die or be injured.

So Katherine's first time was given to this plane, and also given to Li Xuewu.

"Wow—it really—"

She was a bit tongue-tied, and it took a good while for her to recover. She turned her head to look at Li Xuewu, her eyes wide open, as if very surprised.

"Hehe—" Li Xuewu chuckled and didn't make any evaluation.

When he first sat in the co-pilot's seat, his mood was the same after going up to the sky, but Wang Xiaonan was sitting in the pilot's seat, and he could restrain his emotions.

"This little plane only costs 50,000?"

Katherine said incredulously, "I have never paid attention to it, and didn't even notice its price, really—"

"Do you want to buy one?" Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said to her, "Actually, it's very easy to learn; you'll know how as soon as you see it."

"How is that possible—"

Katherine shook her head slightly, looking at the scenery passing by below, her heart surging with excitement. It wasn't that she hadn't thought about buying one.

But what after buying it?

In Yingcheng, she didn't have the qualifications to fly into the sky; in Hong Kong, it was even more sensitive. If her father knew, he definitely wouldn't let her do this.

So this big toy was exciting enough, but she couldn't play with it.

Determining that she couldn't play with it, looking at Li Xuewu beside her, she felt envious.

After all, men can do whatever they want; even if they take risks, they are called brave, whereas she, as a woman, cannot.

Feeling the silence beside him, Li Xuewu lowered the altitude of the plane and flew from Steel Flight towards the fields.

The boundless black land at his feet made both of them deeply feel the shock of black and white.

The black land set off the white snow on the ground, and the white snow on the ground highlighted the black land.

Just like the two people on the plane now, although they have intersections, they are never people in the same circle.

It can even be said that they are not people from the same world.

Li Xuewu was just here for flight practice; there was no such thing as flying all the time, flying all day.

When the helicopter landed steadily on the training field, Katherine briskly took off her headset and leaned over to kiss him, which made Wang Xiaonan, who wanted to walk over to help her open the cabin door, stop in his tracks and even stiffly turn his head away.

Don't look at what you shouldn't look at; if you look, your eyes will grow needles. The leader is really something; what's so good about this yellow-haired woman, and she took advantage of him.

Li Xuewu thought the same, glared at Katherine, and emphasized, "I'm a serious person!"

"Pfft—" Katherine pushed open the cabin door with a smile and said to him, "Don't I know whether you're serious or not?"

The tone of the two people's conversation was full of flirting, but no one could understand it.

At least Wang Xiaonan, who was standing not far away, couldn't understand; the two were speaking a foreign language.

"The wind is not small today; there is resistance."

Li Xuewu jumped off the plane and said to Wang Xiaonan, who came to greet him, "Come back and try again when it snows; try to fly in as many weather conditions as possible."

"You are so busy with work and still so diligent; I feel pressure—"

Wang Xiaonan smiled and took the gloves thrown by the leader, complimenting, "In less than half a year, I really won't have anything to help you with."

He was so good at speaking; Li Xuewu asked him to be a coach, but he didn't acknowledge this layer of relationship.

The word "teach" is hard to say; he said "help."

Hey! Just by changing one word, he leveled the relationship between the two, and even lowered it.

Li Xuewu glanced at him amusedly, reached out and patted his arm, saying, "Don't learn these things from them; don't put the cart before the horse."

Wang Xiaonan didn't react, and by the time he wanted to catch up with the leader, it was already too late.

Zhang Enyuan, who accompanied Li Xuewu, saw him like this and raised his eyebrows. He waited a few steps behind for him to come up and took the initiative to say, "The leader quite appreciates your clean, neat, and crisp personality."

Wang Xiaonan was slightly stunned, and by the time he reacted, Director Zhang had already walked far away.

Is this the gap between the subordinates and the government office?

"Talking about foreign ship agency now?"

Li Xuewu glanced at her in surprise and said, "A bit early, right?"

Katherine emphasized very concernedly, "Not early at all; this is already late."

She stared into Li Xuewu's eyes and said, "I'm afraid that if I come late, nothing will be left."

"What kind of mess is this."

Li Xuewu smiled, sat in the chair, looked at her, and said, "There will be bidding and selection for the foreign ship agency business when the time comes; don't worry, you will definitely be notified in advance."

"How much in advance?" Katherine still asked relentlessly, "Will it be that you wait until you've decided internally before contacting me to accompany the bid?"

Damn, she even knows the word "internal decision"? This girl's Chinese wasn't learned in vain.

"How could there be any internal decision—"

Li Xuewu picked up the teacup and took a sip, saying, "This isn't an ordinary business."

"I don't believe it." Katherine shook her head slightly, her tone firm, "You Chinese people's brains are better than ours; I can't calculate against you."

"Hi—" Li Xuewu smiled, placed the teacup by his side, looked at her, and said, "There are only a few of you who can do foreign ship agency."

"What's there to do black-box operations for in this business? No one is more special than anyone else."

He stood up, walked to the tea cabinet, chose a box of tea, and brewed it again, while continuing, "Are you interested in doing shipping business? In the Northeast Asia region."

Actually, Katherine's family is in the shipping business; her father, Andrew, has shares and investments in multiple shipping companies in Hong Kong.

By Katherine's generation, although she hadn't touched this business, she was clear about where her family made their fortune.

At first, she was vague when Li Xuewu asked, until she heard Li Xuewu's supplement.

"Northeast Asia region?"

Katherine looked at him in surprise, then glanced at the door, and then asked softly, "Isn't someone already doing shipping in this part of the region?"

Who says foreigners don't understand human feelings? Look, isn't this little foreigner shrewd?

"Who is doing it? I don't know."

Li Xuewu walked back with the teacup and said faintly, "I'm asking if you want to do it; if you want to, we can cooperate."

"How to cooperate?"

Katherine was interested in Li Xuewu's suggestions; even if he lost money, he was willing to do it.

Why?

No reason; lose money here, earn money elsewhere; that's the principle.

Since it was a cooperation intention proposed by Li Xuewu, it must hide big profits.

"Why don't you talk about what you want to transport first?" Katherine asked curiously, "The relationship between you and several countries in Northeast Asia doesn't seem to be that harmonious, right?"

"True, but that doesn't delay us doing business." Li Xuewu said very frankly, "Since our ships can't run through, then change direction; if you can do it, you go."

"We can do it?" Katherine thought for a moment and said, "I have to go back and ask."

"Whatever you want, anything is fine."

Li Xuewu reached out and patted her toes away, saying seriously, "The agency business can't be talked about now, and no one will talk to you."

"However, the Group has the intention to release production capacity to the Northeast Asia region; if you make a decision early, you can catch this wind."

He said faintly, "The premise is that the ships must be ready, at least ten-thousand-ton cargo ships."

"Ten-thousand-ton?" Katherine walked towards him on tiptoe and asked in surprise, "Is this a project of the Santa Ya Group?"

It's no wonder she asked this; in the Northeast Asia region, the only enterprise that owns ten-thousand-ton cargo ships and has business dealings with the Red Star Steel Group is the Santa Ya Group.

And the Santa Ya Group's cargo ships are all built by the Yingcheng Shipyard; with this layer of relationship, if there really is this project, it should be the Santa Ya Group's priority.

Li Xuewu didn't answer her question but continued to emphasize, "If you want to participate in this project, you should have a complete transportation guarantee system; Yingcheng Port can only provide basic guarantee services."

"When will this project start?" Katherine grasped the key point, looked at him, and asked, "After Yingcheng Port is fully completed?"

"No, starting early next year."

Li Xuewu said seriously, "The Tianjin Trade Management Center will take the Group's industrial production capacity as the foundation, raise and allocate the excess production capacity of other joint enterprises to complete this goal."

"Targeting whom?" Katherine had already understood the deep meaning behind this sentence; was this going to be an economic war?

Li Xuewu pursed his lips, looked at her, and said, "The semiconductor industry in Japan and South Korea is rising, and there have also been breakthrough developments in the automobile and shipbuilding fields."

"Dumping isn't that simple to achieve." Katherine looked at him and shook her head slightly, emphasizing, "This is a behavior of hurting others without benefiting oneself, seriously destroying the economic environment."

"The economic environment has never been as good as it is today; I mean for us."

Li Xuewu said seriously, "But we can also clearly recognize that danger is coming, regarding the test of the future market."

"You see too far—"

Katherine shook her head slightly and said, "How do you know that the electronic industry in Japan and South Korea will rise in the future? They are now..."

The contempt in her eyes couldn't be hidden; "bullet-sized small countries" wasn't a joke.

"I didn't say definitely, but it is necessary to eliminate this possibility."

Li Xuewu stood up, his tone firm, and emphasized, "This time, the worldwide economic crisis started from the UK; it cannot stop at Hong Kong. I think it is necessary to share this world cake with Japan and South Korea."

"I don't think it's of any use."

Katherine still didn't agree with his thoughts and views, emphasizing, "You will only destroy the trade relationship between the two sides."

"We don't even have formal foreign affairs relations, so where would the trade relationship come from."

Li Xuewu chuckled and said, "Let's drag down their electronic industry first; we are prepared to lose eight hundred to kill one thousand."

"Is it worth it?" Katherine asked speechlessly, "What good results can a price war have?"

"No, our goal isn't to sell the goods." Li Xuewu looked into her eyes and said seriously, "Our goal is to sell the Group's goods further."

"If we don't hit them now while they haven't developed, are we waiting for them to become a climate and threaten us in turn?"

"But—I understand!"

Katherine still wanted to say more, but she understood Li Xuewu's look; she asked in surprise, "You have arrangements early on, right? A mole?"

"By the end of this year, Yazhi Electric will achieve absolute market share in the Southeast Asia region."

Nakamura Shuji poured a glass of white liquor for Li Xuewu and said with a smile, "Even in Japan, Yazhi Electric is a presence of high quality and low price."

"I can't say it occupies half of the appliance market, but it can be called second to none."

"How is the mid-to-high-end appliance market?"

Li Xuewu picked up a piece of food and looked at him, asking, "Is it dominated by foreign brands, or are independent brands very firm?"

"You know the economic situation of these two years." Nakamura Shuji sighed slightly and said, "Although it is said to be recovering, our market is still not as good as before."

"Is there a reason for market saturation?"

Li Xuewu looked at him and asked, "After all, appliances are saved and used; they won't be replaced within three to five years."

"No matter how saturated the market is, there will be replacement situations."

Nakamura Shuji looked at Li Xuewu and explained, "We have conducted a survey; it has to do with technological development."

"Our domestic enterprises are researching new technological products; you might not know that technology on the other side of the ocean is developing rapidly; if you fall behind, you will never have the chance to stand up again."

"You don't have—"

Li Xuewu picked up the wine glass and took a sip, saying, "Your economy and domestic aspects are all closely linked to the other side of the ocean."

"Even if you didn't stand up this time, there will still be opportunities to stand up in the future."

Nakamura Shuji glanced at him and didn't have any in-depth discussion on this topic, because there was no need for it anymore.

He just wanted to tell Li Xuewu about Yazhi Electric's market share in the distribution area.

This naturally had the meaning of showing off his achievements, and also the meaning of persuading the Red Star Steel Group to cherish the current market situation.

Starting from the second half of last year, Yazhi Electric in the Japanese private market was flooded; I don't know which channel it came from.

No need to think about it; it must have leaked from the source. The Yazhi brand appliances produced by the Red Star Steel Group's electronics factory in Steel City only had export tasks and no internal supply needs.

It was also starting from the end of last year that the Red Star Steel Group created the sub-brands Jiayue and Jiamei Electric.

The same spare parts, the same manufacturing process, just the exterior was differentiated in design, and the brand was changed to the Jia series.

The Jia series was not for export, which naturally distinguished export from domestic sales, and the channel characteristics were more obvious.

But all the appliances produced this year were the Red Star Steel Group's export products, but how many had they distributed through formal channels?

So the situation was excellent, and the situation was also very dangerous.

Nakamura Shuji represented the Sanhe Stock Company and came to Steel City to talk to Li Xuewu.

It's just that he hadn't prepared his mind yet, and it was inevitable that he would feel pressure when facing Li Xuewu.

Where did the pressure come from?

Starting from the second half of this year, many foreign businessmen had come one after another to the Binhai Resort in Tianjin.

The Red Star Steel Group had never hidden these situations; those who should know must all know.

And the activities responding to this close-range observation of enterprise production had also allowed the Group to harvest a large number of friendships and orders.

At the beginning of this year, the Sanhe Stock Company exported a large number of advanced appliance manufacturing technologies to the Red Star Steel Group.

Don't say this was a good intention to help the Group improve its technical level; this was also the result of Li Xuewu's threats.

If the Sanhe Stock Company could not provide advanced production technology, then in order to adapt to the requirements and needs of the international market, the Red Star Steel Group would naturally choose other cooperation objects.

Nakamura and the others naturally couldn't accept this reality; the Sanhe Stock Company relied on the Red Star Steel Group's production capacity to kill in the domestic and Southeast Asian appliance markets; how could they be willing to give up this position?

He respectfully placed the wine pot and looked at Li Xuewu seriously, saying, "Please don't blame my rudeness; I sincerely hope that Sanhe and Red Star can walk towards the future together."

Li Xuewu picked up the wine glass and looked at him, not rushing to refute, but waiting for what he had to say next.

He just wanted to see how the little devils were prepared to be rude.

Facts proved that the nation that keeps small etiquette but lacks great virtue always carries defects in the pursuit of interests, the kind that cannot be cured.

Otherwise, how could MacArthur say they were hopeless.

You thought the Yazhi Electric in the Japanese market were all shipped over by speedboat?

How could that be; the real pusher was actually sitting in front of Li Xuewu.

Sanhe also operated its own appliance brand, and it was precisely by using Yazhi brand appliances to disturb the Japanese appliance market and break the old solidified structure that they became one of the top distributors.

What is "a rake hitting back"? The dumping action of Yazhi Electric was borrowed and utilized by them, and now they turned back to find Li Xuewu to settle accounts.

Nakamura Shuji wanted to say this, but looking at Li Xuewu's unkind eyes, he swallowed the words in his mouth.

He naturally knew Li Xuewu hated him, hated them, hated all Japanese people.

If Li Xuewu was provoked at this time, and he was truly beaten up, no one would come to help him.

Moreover, just based on Li Xuewu's strength, if he truly moved his hands, he would lose consciousness in the first hit.

"Cough cough—" Nakamura picked up the wine glass and took a big gulp, using the alcohol to open his mouth and say, "I am truly sorry to face this situation today..."

"You can say it more bluntly."

Li Xuewu put down the wine glass, raised his eyebrows, and said, "I can fully understand your current mood."

What?

Understand my current mood?

Stop kidding—

Nakamura Shuji looked at him speechlessly; when did this one start actively understanding them? It was truly a pleasant surprise.

"Actually, there's no need to be too entangled; the Santa Ya Group is intending to intervene in the appliance sales work in the Southeast Asia region."

Li Xuewu said very bluntly, "As long as Sanhe sends us a letter, we will immediately organize a liquidation team to enter the field."

"Don't worry, we absolutely won't treat you unfairly."

He said very generously, "The liquidation team will also invite your staff to participate."

"No—I didn't mean that—"

Nakamura Shuji saw him steering the topic towards breaking up and hurriedly waved his hand to correct, "I didn't mean what you said."

"Then what do you mean?"

Li Xuewu emphasized seriously, "We Chinese people pay attention to 'even if the business doesn't succeed, the benevolence and righteousness remain'; if you don't pay attention to etiquette, it won't work."

He had long put down his chopsticks; at this moment, he was staring and saying, "You said the cooperation couldn't continue, so we cooperated with the liquidation; you said the project couldn't continue, so we cooperated with the correction."

He spread his hands and asked, "Whatever you want to say, just say it bluntly; there's no need to hide it; just say it openly."

How can this still be said—

Nakamura Shuji looked at Li Xuewu, his mouth twitching; he wouldn't reach out and beat me, would he?

"You won't say it? Then fine, I'll say it."

Li Xuewu narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Being able to break the monopoly of the steel market is a good thing for both Sanhe and Red Star."

He moved the wine glass aside, looked into Nakamura Shuji's eyes, and said, "Nakamura, you wouldn't want to see the fact that Japanese enterprises monopolize Australian iron ore, right?"

PS: I'll write up to here today; I'm truly too sleepy; I fell asleep several times in the middle, fell asleep sitting down, and I even heard myself snoring. ===== CHAPTER 1494 =====

He moved the wine glass away, looked into Nakamura Shuji's eyes, and said, "Nakamura, you wouldn't want to see the fact that Japanese companies monopolize Australian iron ore, would you?"

PS: I'll write up to here for today. I'm truly exhausted; I even fell asleep a few times in the middle. I fell asleep sitting up and could even hear myself snoring.