Chapter 252: Truly Predicting Things Like a God
Song Chu was always swift and decisive in every negotiation. She never lost out to foreigners in terms of imposing manner, and even more so, she always held the upper hand.
Previously, she even made a foreign businessman from the Japanese side, who deliberately wanted to lower the price, so angry that he stamped his feet. It was quite satisfying to watch. Usually, these people were very arrogant.
At first, Song Chu was ridiculed and attacked, but gradually everyone felt that she was indeed very principled. She was even stricter when dealing with foreign businessmen than with domestic companies.
Slowly, many people’s attitudes towards her changed. She was also representing the dignity of the Chinese people.
In fact, Song Chu could also understand everyone’s psychology. After all, the country was indeed lagging behind in terms of economy and technology.
But she wanted to change their deep-rooted ideas little by little. Pride cannot be lost, and the backbone cannot be bent.
Song Chu was already eloquent, and the reasoning she put forward left people unable to refute her.
More and more people were being brainwashed by her, and fewer and fewer people were watching her as a joke, instead, they stood on her side.
Therefore, she also met more people at the trade fair and made many friends who shared her values.
Of course, there were also people who did not agree with her theory, believing that the value of exports and actual benefits were greater, so why bother with those superficial faces?
In the blink of an eye, more than ten days of the trade fair had passed, and it would end in three days.
The people from the county had gone from initial nervousness, anticipation, and disappointment to no longer holding any hope for exports. They focused more on trading and cooperating with domestic enterprises.
Song Chu also let everyone go around and buy anything they wanted to take back. After all, in the last two or three days, all the booths would start selling the things they brought.
Clothes, bed sheets, quilts, textiles, etc., all did not require ration coupons, so they were very popular.
Many people who came to the exhibition also set their sights on Song Chu’s booth. Whether it was down jackets or cooked food, they were very interested and wanted to buy them to give to their families.
However, Song Chu did not let them start selling yet. She told everyone that they would sell everything on the last day, after all, the fish she wanted to catch hadn’t come yet.
Then, before everyone could wait for Song Chu’s side to sell off, the next day, the foreign businessmen who had been unwilling to compromise and wanted to deliberately string Song Chu along appeared at the trade fair one after another.
The two foreign businessmen who initially wanted to order down jackets came first. They did indeed want to put on airs before to lower the price or something. At the beginning, Song Chu rejected the price they offered outright.
They felt that the price she proposed was a bit high.
After all, they had also participated in the import and export trade fair here in previous years. As long as they took a fancy to something, the other party was more eager than them to facilitate the transaction, so the price could be lowered, and their profits could be multiplied several times after returning to their country.
But after waiting for so many days, they didn’t wait for Song Chu to come to them. Seeing that the trade fair was about to end, they became the ones who couldn’t sit still.
Seeing the foreigners take the initiative to find Song Chu, many exhibitors ran to the vicinity to watch the excitement.
Song Chu didn’t give the two foreign businessmen the cold shoulder. After all, the initial negotiation was still pleasant.
She had someone pour a few cups of tea, and they started to talk back and forth on the exhibition stage.
This time, the negotiation was still based on the initial price and conditions.
Song Chu didn’t take the opportunity to demand a higher price or add other conditions to gain leverage. After all, she felt that whether doing business domestically or internationally, it should still be based on integrity.
In the end, the cooperation was reached according to the price and conditions Song Chu initially proposed. The two foreign businessmen even brought contracts with them.
When they left that day, Song Chu gave each of them a down jacket without asking for money. They had been wearing them these past few days and had discovered the benefits of these clothes. They wouldn’t have to worry about sales after returning to their country.
They could also take them back to study how they were made. If they could imitate them, they would produce them themselves in the future.
However, they had good calculations, but Song Chu had also thought of this, so the contract required a minimum of three years, otherwise, no deal.
The two foreign businessmen then realized that they had underestimated Song Chu again. This young lady was very smart and capable.
Because they valued the down jacket project very much, after a battle of wits with Song Chu, the two were persuaded instead.
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Finally, they signed a contract that was very beneficial to the Nan County clothing factory.
The contracts they brought before were naturally not acceptable. Gu Yue added the additional terms and went to the office set up by the organizer to reprint them.
The two parties signed the agreement. Although the two were suppressed, they still admired Song Chu and praised her.
Director Luo was the one who signed the contract. Even after the two foreigners left, he was still in a daze.
“Our down jackets are really exported? And the price of each piece is so high?” He pinched himself and asked the people present.
It was like a dream.
The price of their down jackets sold locally was between twenty and thirty yuan a piece.
But the price Song Chu set for foreign businessmen, when converted to RMB, was about two hundred to three hundred yuan a piece, a full tenfold increase. It was scary.
How could Song Chu not see that he was shocked? She smiled and said, “The current exchange rate between foreign currency and RMB has a large gap. Although it is two or three hundred when converted here, the purchase price is still not high in their country.”
The prices of goods abroad were much higher than those in their country now.
“This is an equivalent exchange. Don’t think they are losing out. They will sell each down jacket for at least double the price when they take it back, or even two or three times.” She added.
Everyone present was stunned, “So high?”
Song Chu chuckled, “Of course, otherwise why would they come all the way here to do business? If there is no huge profit margin, why would they waste this energy?”
“That’s right. In fact, these foreign devils are still making more in the end.” After listening to Song Chu’s explanation, everyone felt that the other party was still more sinister.
Other exhibitors in the same exhibition area who also sold clothes were stunned to see that Song Chu had really negotiated an export deal, and that the foreigners had come back to ask for it.
The key was that not only did they follow all of Song Chu’s prices and conditions, but they even signed for three years.
In other words, the export of Nan County’s clothing factory was guaranteed for these three years. How could they be so lucky? They were so envious!
“Director Song, you are amazing. You actually predicted that they would come back.” After Director Luo recovered, he looked at Song Chu with excitement and gave her a thumbs up.
Everyone else was also smiling, “Yes, Director Song is truly a god of prediction.”
“I have never admired anyone before, but this time I really admire Director Song,” each of them said from the bottom of their hearts.
The director of the machinery factory was not happy, but rather anxious.
“Director Song, do you think our vacuum packaging machine can be exported?” He couldn’t help but ask.
Song Chu laughed, “Certainly, don’t worry.”
“Someone may come to talk about it this afternoon or tomorrow. Just sit and wait patiently, and don’t look like you can’t sell it,” she added.
Only then did the director of the machinery factory put away his anxious expression and forced a smile, “Okay, I believe in Director Song.”
Originally, he had already given up hope, but the matter of the clothing factory gave him a little hope again. It was not easy for him.
