Mikhail didn't stay in New York for long, and Bill Gross didn't keep Mikhail waiting long, and he quickly agreed to join Bank of Colombia as head of bond investment.
As soon as Mikhail had the outcome of the matter, he reported it to Seryosha, who arranged for the staff of the Bank of Colombia in the United States to be responsible for handling the follow-up of Bill Gros.
After that, Mikhail flew back to Japan.
Mikhail hurriedly returned to Japan for no other reason than to expand Glencore's customers in the Japanese market.
Although Mikhail was a foreigner, he relied on his own ability to infiltrate the political and economic circles of Minister Takeshita.
Under the patronage of Minister Takeshita, Mikhail gradually gained a foothold in Japan and established relationships with some of Japan's largest manufacturing companies.
Mikhail has money in his hands, and the daily operation of those large enterprises is all maintained by bank loans, and building good relations with powerful banks is naturally a must for the survival and development of these enterprises.
However, well-known companies like Toyota, Matsushita Electric, behind them all stand Japan's old zaibatsu who have their own main correspondent banks.
Foreign banks, like Bank of Colombia, are just one complement to their source of funding.
However, Glencore is different, Japan is a resource-poor country, and all kinds of industrial raw materials have to be imported.
Although Japan is now a country where "real estate is prosperous, and industry is misleading", the demand for industrial raw materials has always been strong.
Glencore's current resource products from the Soviet Union, Iran and South Africa lacked a consumer market to eat them, and Japan now seemed to be the best dumping ground for raw materials.
The electrolytic aluminum exported from the Soviet Union through barter, the gold transported from South Africa, and the oil transported from Iran and the Soviet Union can all be bought at a good price in the Japanese market.
But Macridge didn't want to stop there.
Because horses have a better chance in front of them.
According to information from Glencore's investigators and traders in South Africa, the South African government is planning to send troops to Angola and Mozambique to prevent pro-Soviet factions in Angola's civil war from turning Angola into a second Cuba.
For South Africa's current ruling government, they are under unprecedented pressure.
The Angolan civil war in the north was fought between the People's Liberation Movement of Angola, supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union, and the white regime in South Africa and the United States-backed National Union for the Independence of Angola.
Now it is clear that the Movement for the Liberation of the People of Angola has the upper hand in the civil war.
One of the main reasons why South Africa has to withstand pressure from all over the world to maintain apartheid is that the black movement in the country is more or less influenced by ideological currents.
South Africa was sanctioned from all over the world because of apartheid, but arms were not on the sanctions list.
Now that South Africa has become the forefront of the Iron Curtain in Africa, the British released a batch of tanks procured by the South African government before the sanctions, and agreed to ship them to South Africa.
Glencore's subsidiary in Johannesburg has signed a larger fuel supply agreement with the South African Ministry of Energy, which wants to purchase petrol and diesel instead of crude oil due to the country's limited oil processing capacity.
Macridge needed a place to process the crude oil he smuggled out to meet the supply of the South African market.
Macridge's deputy, Green, ventured to Johannesburg again to personally coordinate the supply of fuel to the South African market.
Mikhail, on the other hand, will sell spot crude oil in the Japanese market and purchase finished gasoline and diesel to ship to South Africa.
Macridge, on the other hand, wants to ensure that a steady stream of crude oil can be safely shipped to Japan to maintain the triangular trade.
The stake is for Glencore's credibility, and if Glencore can maintain a steady supply of oil during South Africa's invasion of Angola, more and more sanctioned countries will look to Glencore as their most reliable trading partner.
Mikhail initially wanted to cooperate with Itochu Trading Company in Japan, but their president, Ryuzo Seshima, was not only a staff officer of the Japanese base camp during World War II, but also was captured by the Soviet Red Army and tortured in a labor camp in Siberia for 11 years, so as soon as he heard the name of the Russian, Ryuzo Sejima directly flipped the table.
Death also did not cooperate with Mikhail.
So Mikhail had no choice but to find the weaker Marubeni Trading Company to be Glencore's partner.
The agreement between Mikhail and Marubeni mainly includes the direct sale of oil, electrolytic aluminum, and Glencore's goods to Marubeni Trading Company, while Marubeni can settle directly with Colombian banks in Japanese yen.
This not only reduces the losses caused by the exchange of foreign currency, but also allows Marubeni to take advantage of the supply of oil and electrolytic aluminum in Japan.
Shortly after the idea of what was going on, the South African government officially announced that it would send troops to Angola to support the Union of Angolan (UM), which was losing ground in the civil war.
The South African army soon engaged in a fierce battle with the Cuban volunteers, who were also a foreign power, and the Cuban army sent tanks to teach the fledgling South African army a hard lesson.
In an encounter, the tanks of the Cuban Volunteers were powerless to fight back against the South African Army, and 14 South African soldiers were killed on the spot, and the South African troops swore revenge, and soon sent a special operations force of 1,000 people to attack the Cuban and SPLM coalition forces, annihilating most of the Cuban garrison in the southern city of Bisha, and bringing the war back to a state of parity.
Not to be outdone, the defeated Cubans, with the support of Castro, began to send more troops to the Angolan front.
And the Soviet Union also provided weapons and logistical support behind it.
The battle gradually began to escalate, and the South African government continued to buy more and more war materials from Glencore in gold.
Glencore was also happy to see this, and in order to obtain more oil, Glencore's grain trade had to continue to follow, and more and more grain was shipped from the United States to the Soviet Union.
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