As the saying goes: planting a plane tree attracts a phoenix.
As long as Santiago is controlled in his hands, even if J Morgan does not take the bait, Li Mu can find other partners.
Of course, J Morgan is willing to cooperate with Li Mu is the best, and there is no need to be familiar with it, J Morgan and Li Mu have successful cooperation experience, both of them have a certain understanding of each other, and have established basic trust, in this case, there is really no need to find new partners.
"My idea is to vigorously develop the sugar processing industry and mining industry in the short term, and then use the profits generated by sugar and ore to build a steel mill in Santiago, and when the steel mill is completed, we can produce all kinds of living materials and production materials to supply to all the countries along the Caribbean Sea, if they can't afford to pay for the goods, it doesn't matter, they can use all kinds of raw materials to compensate, and then we will ship the raw materials back to Santiago, and after rough processing, we will sell them back to the Caribbean countries, and even to the United States and Europe."
Li Mu has a preliminary plan, of course, this still needs to be discussed with J Morgan.
"Perfect San Diego is a transit point, there are definitely cheaper human resources here than the United States and Europe, so our products will be quite competitive, it will only take 20 or only 10 years, and San Diego will definitely become the industrial center of the Caribbean coast."
J Morgan is confident that the point is that the investment in this plan does not sound high.
Li Mu currently has mines and plantations in San Diego, and he only needs to expand the scale of production, so he can produce more cane sugar and ore, use the profits from operating cane sugar and ore to build a steel plant, and then use the steel produced by the steel plant to supply the Caribbean coast region, and then exchange it for production raw materials from the Caribbean coast area, this is a near-perfect supply chain, no need to verify, J Morgan can imagine how strong the vitality of this idea will be.
"So, if we cooperate, now it's a matter of investment ratio, I'm a San Diego investment company here, you're the Morgan family, how much money are you going to invest and how many shares you want" Li Mu talks about money doesn't hurt feelings, this kind of thing, or it's better to say in front.
The San Diego Investment Company, which was established by Li Mu's "five-person group of five to share the spoils", because Li Mu invested plantations and mines in addition to cash, and Li Mu was also responsible for running them, Li Mu held 60 percent of the shares, and the other four people each held 10 percent.
This ratio makes everyone very satisfied, before this, Li Mu and the other five people have divided up five million dollars worth of precious metals and antique oil paintings, to be honest, this money has made George Dewey and them satisfied, as for the company's shareholding, they don't care, after all, they are shareholders waiting for the penny, is there anything more comfortable than this To tell the truth, Li Muken gave each of them a 10% share, it was already for the sake of their future achievements, for now, strictly speaking, Li Mu is the boss, they are just Li Mu's employees, it is said that they are not qualified to take shares from Li Mu.
"Please forgive me, such a big investment is definitely not something I can decide with a word, so I need to discuss with other family members, tomorrow no, the day after tomorrow, I will give you the answer the day after tomorrow."
J Morgan didn't respond in a hurry, this kind of thing really has to be discussed first.
Now J Morgan is indeed the helm of the Morgan Group in the United States, but the global financial center in these years is actually London, so the Morgan consortium in the hands of J Morgan is just a branch of the Morgan family in the United States, and investing in San Diego is not a trivial matter.
Two days passed in a flash, on June 6, Li Mu and J Morgan resumed negotiations, this time J Morgan came prepared and came up to propose a distribution plan.
"We have a rough estimate of the resources of the whole of San Diego these days, if we want to reach the level you said, our first investment will be at least about 20 million US dollars, this money includes the expansion of plantations and mines, and the cost of expanding the port of San Diego, of which the cost of expanding the port accounts for 70 percent, we have to understand one thing, the scale of production can be expanded at any time, but the port cannot be renovated casually, once it is put into use, it can only be repaired and repaired, and it is impossible to expand on a large scale.
Therefore, if the San Diego Investment Company takes a stake in the plantations and mines it controls, then it can be valued at $1.5 million, and then we can determine the proportion of the shares in the proportion of the investment."
In addition to Li Mu, Benjamin, Nelson, Raul, and a white man named Auguste Longman participated in the negotiations.
Auguste Longman is a professional manager hired by Li Mu to specialize in the investment projects of the San Diego investment company, this guy has a brilliant resume, he worked as an investment company manager under Jackcock, who committed suicide a few months ago, and Jackcook's bankruptcy stems from his own self-determination and misjudgment of the current situation, and has nothing to do with August.
After Jaycock's suicide, August fell into a state of unemployment, and professional managers like Auguste didn't have to worry about finding a job, but unfortunately, this year was 1873, the year of the outbreak of the economic crisis, and the entire financial industry in the United States fell into a trough, so Li Mu was able to hire an elite talent like August.
That's right, with the suicide of Jaycock, the economic crisis inevitably spread, and the Pacific Rim Railroad was spun off, causing the share price of the Pacific Rim Railroad to plummet, and now the value of the Pacific Rim Railroad stock is less than half of what it was two months ago, which became a fuse and detonated the entire financial market, and now New York is in mourning, and the stock price of the entire industry has fallen by 40 percent, of which the stock of the railway company is the worst, and the price has fallen by 60 percent.
J Morgan's arrival in San Diego at this time has a lot to do with the downturn in the New York stock market, J Morgan is the spokesperson of Wall Street tycoons, so J Morgan wants to find a better investment path for the tycoons, and now it seems that investing in San Diego is obviously a wise choice.
With someone like August as a staff officer, Li Mu must also know the current situation in New York, so Li Mu is also ruthless in cutting prices: "First of all, the value of the plantations and mines controlled by the San Diego Investment Company is seriously undervalued, not to mention how many plantations there are at present, I want to explain that in Guantanamo, there are still more than 100,000 acres of land waiting for us to reclaim, and within five years, sugar cane will be planted everywhere, and then our cane sugar production will be several times that of now."
In addition to this, there are mines, the value of the Maestra and Pugliar is immeasurable, in terms of the current level of development, the utilization rate is not even one percent, these two mountains alone are worth more than one and a half million, or even more than five and a million thousand, I don't know what kind of information Mr.
Ricardo gave you, but if you don't change your mind, then we can't reach any agreement. ” Ricardo was originally Morgan's spokesman in Cuba, and after the establishment of the United States of Cuba, Ricardo was appointed by Sylvester as Minister of Finance, and J Morgan wanted to value the assets of the Santiago Investment Company, and Ricardo must have been involved.
Ricardo is also one of the negotiators, belonging to J Morgan's side, hearing Li Mu's statement, Ricardo pouted and grimaced, saying that it has nothing to do with me.
"In that case, let's not talk about the plantations and the mines, let's talk about the port of San Diego" J Morgan had expected it, and he did not dwell on this matter, and if there was a dispute, he put it aside and immediately moved on to the next topic.
"Regarding the Port of San Diego, the rights to operate the port for the next 50 years belong to the San Diego Investment Company, so we can completely divest this piece, and the San Diego Investment Company can authorize the new company to try it for free, but the Morgan family will have to bear the cost of expanding the Port of San Diego."
Li Mu also has a good abacus, and the future San Diego Port will definitely not be used by more than a new company, Li Mu is borrowing chickens to lay eggs.
"It's impossible, the cost of expanding the port of San Diego is a multi-million dollar investment, and if the return is just a free right to use, the manager who decided to invest in the project should be judged."
J Morgan also did not agree with Li Mu's proposal.
Well, in fact, this is all expected, tens of millions of dollars of investment projects, it is not so easy to negotiate, Li Mu and J Morgan are ready to fight a protracted war.
While Li Mu and J Morgan were bargaining, the reconstruction of San Diego was progressing gradually according to plan, and the task of widening the main road of the central axis was completed within a week.
The action in the port area is also very fast, Li Mu transferred a total of 3,000 construction workers before and after, compared to the construction team in the main city of San Diego, Li Mu's hands are professional construction workers, their skills are more skilled, and because Li Mu will pay these construction workers salaries, these construction workers are more motivated, just within a week, they completed nearly half of the work tasks, at this time the technicians entered the site, began to plan the road in the port area, and after the road planning was completed, Construction workers will start the construction of the port area by excavating the sewers.
That's right, it's the sewer, Li Mu, who likes the 007 series and the Mission Impossible series, is deeply impressed by the sewers in New York, which can't be described as sewers, it's a huge underground city
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