1200 Level

"How long will it take for your ship to be overhauled?" Judy's father asked with the last glimmer of hope.

The manager shook his head, "I don't know. The inspection may take two or three days. If there are no problems, it can be put into use."

Before Judy's father could become happy, the manager added, "But if there is a problem, no one knows how long it will be stopped."

"What about other ships? Have any returned to port in the past two days?"

The manager took out a notebook from the table and flipped through a few pages. "The ship will return to the port in four days. It will take about two days to load and unload. It will be able to leave the port around this time next week."

Next week, I really can’t wait until next week when the ashes are cold!

Judy's father couldn't help but curse. He also knew that the transportation company could not be blamed. Things like hitting a reef happened from time to time, but this time it was too unlucky.

He looked at the manager, who immediately realized something and took a step back, raising his hands as if to resist something, "We will not refund the deposit..."

Yes, the deposit is non-refundable. If you want to order a warehouse, you must have a deposit. No matter whether the party ordering the service continues to perform the contract, the money will not be refunded.

And it wasn't too little. Judy's father realized that he might have to bear the money himself, so he cursed and left the room.

Fortunately, he can still recover some of his losses. He can contact other people who want to transport goods and transfer the positions he ordered at a low price, so that he can get back at least one or two thousand yuan.

He left here and went to other places to inquire, but unfortunately, when others heard what company he came from and what his name was, they all expressed their inability to do anything about his request.

He ran all day without any company to help him, and some people suggested that he go somewhere else.

But the problem is... if he now pulls the goods from one warehouse to another place, the transportation costs of the land transportation, the labor costs of moving into the warehouse, and the rental of the warehouse will be a huge expense, and time allows him to do this. Do.

He was now in a dazed state. It seemed like everything was normal yesterday, but everything changed overnight.

He returned to the original shipping company and came to the manager again. He looked at the manager with a strange expression.

An adult is still a successful adult in the eyes of ordinary people, without so much childishness and innocence.

He gave the other party a cigarette, sat on the sofa, lowered his head, and smoked.

After a while, he asked, "Am I being targeted?"

He had cooperated with this communication company for several years, and the relationship between them was very harmonious. The manager looked at his old friend and hesitated to speak, not knowing how to speak.

The Federation's shipping is in the hands of a few major shipping kings. These people can be said to occupy 90% of the shipping market. They each have their own territory and do not conflict with each other.

Sometimes they can cooperate with each other. This industry is like all industries. Once a monopoly group is formed internally, it will be difficult for outsiders to enter.

These small transportation companies are like middlemen in a sense.

They rent cargo ships from shipping kings and then run their own business, which is what most shipping companies do.

They cannot support the expensive production and maintenance costs of freighters. Rather than buying a freighter themselves and bearing huge costs to operate it, it is easier and easier to rent a ship.

Some people may say that if you rent a boat, a lot of money will definitely be made by others.

Yes, that's what they say, but the money they spend to buy one boat is enough for them to rent five or even ten boats. If ten boats run together, it may not take long to earn back the money of one boat!

Capital is never stupid. If there is no profit, no considerable profit, no one needs to tell them that this industry is not profitable, they will quit on their own initiative!

Today, the shipping king in this area told the following contractors that they are prohibited from pulling goods from a certain company within a week, otherwise they will end their cooperation.

In this era of frequent international trade, ending the cooperative relationship is worse than killing these transportation companies!

Just one phone call completely cut off the idea of ​​Judy's father.

"I don't know what's going on. Maybe... you have offended someone you shouldn't have offended. In short, don't think of your belongings going out to sea during this week!"

Judy's father returned to the company with some uneasy speculations. He reported these things to the board of directors. Surprisingly, the board of directors did not intervene, but asked him to fulfill the contract as soon as possible.

The company's response was lukewarm as it would hold him personally liable if the company suffered losses due to his heavy losses.

We are not fools. Business was doing well in the past, but suddenly because a senior partner’s daughter targeted Lynch, the shipping king imposed an embargo. Isn’t this already obvious?

Judy's father also realized that things were just as he had guessed, except for despair, there was only despair!

When he realized that Lynch was doing something, he had completely lost hope. For Lynch, it might just be a phone call or a statement that could ruin his life so easily.

He couldn't even accuse Lynch angrily. It was his daughter who did the wrong thing first. This was just Lynch's counterattack.

In the evening, the somewhat haggard male owner drove back home. He sat in the car and was unwilling to get out.

It seemed that sitting in this small space made him feel unexpectedly safe. He hugged the steering wheel and wanted to cry.

I sat in the car for more than half an hour and smoked several cigarettes before I got out of the car.

When he returned to the study, he immediately opened the safe and saw the contract.

He is a senior partner, and in a sense he is a partner in the factory. The two parties are no longer one.

This contract is in his hands.

He still remembered his excitement when he won this order through his own connections. One party to this agreement was a foreign company, and the other party... was himself.

He quickly turned to the last page, which revealed a liquidated damages of 150,000 yuan and a daily compound interest of 3% until the transaction was completed.

Judging from the current situation, if this batch of goods is delayed until next week for shipment and then sent over, it will be at least five to six days overdue.

Calculated based on five days... He wrote and drew on the paper for a while, more than 170,000.

Damn...!

He sat in his chair as if dead.

At dinner that night, in order not to worry his family, he took a bath, changed his clothes, and pretended to be in good spirits.

It was only when he sat in the restaurant that he realized that his wife also had a sad look on her face.

"What's wrong?", he asked.

The hostess opened her mouth and was about to say something. When Judy came out of the room, she closed her mouth again.

Judy thought that her parents would continue to preach to her, and she was ready to leave immediately. But what was unexpected was that her parents did not continue to preach to her.

But the atmosphere of this dinner was very depressing. Both the host and hostess lowered their heads, thinking about their own things, and the air was almost solid.

Judy couldn't stand the atmosphere. She sat there for a while after the meal. She thought her parents would say something to her, but no one spoke. She got up and left, and no one called her to stop her.

This atmosphere made her very uneasy. She didn't know what was happening and her heart was beating fast.

After dinner, the couple did not watch TV. Instead, they went back to the room. They lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling. No one spoke for a long time.

For about ten minutes, the man of the house said, "Tell me first, what bad thing happened today?"

The hostess also realized something, and she sighed, "I'm hosting a project recently, you know."

The male host nodded. He knew that his wife worked in a financial company, was also a partner, and belonged to the upper middle class.

"Today the bank refused to grant us a loan and claimed that our assessment was wrong. In addition to holding the assessment company accountable, it also wants to take back the loan that has been issued."

"I wrote the project book myself, and I decided on the specific content. Now the board of directors thinks I messed up this big business, and they are going through the process."

The hostess sighed heavily again, "I will probably be fired by the weekend at most. If they are unwilling to bear the losses themselves, they may also hold me accountable."

It’s very frustrating. People in the financial industry know very well that it is not terrible to lose money on a financial project. No one can ensure that every project is profitable.

The scary thing is that the project was directly destroyed due to personal reasons. Some people now suspect that she has a behind-the-scenes deal with the appraisal company. With the bank's intervention, she is on the red list in this circle.

Ordinary companies will no longer use her. She must face the choice of changing careers, and her future will be ruined.

In fact, she didn't feel too desperate at this time. After all, her husband still had a very good job. If she could handle the subsequent investigation, she would have a chance to re-enter the industry.

But when she saw her husband at the dinner table, she realized that all was lost.

"It's your turn..." She tilted her head and looked at her husband, who told him everything that happened today and told his wife his guess.

"This matter definitely has something to do with Lynch. Only he has such great energy to make us trapped at the same time."

The wife nodded and asked, "If you pay the compensation, how much money do we have left for emergencies now?"

The husband turned around and sat up and took some documents from the study. After calculating all their wealth, he felt a little decadent. "If they don't hold us accountable, there will probably be less than 50,000 yuan left in the end."

"Our monthly bills now are more than 3,000 yuan. With daily expenses, we can only support it for half a year at most."

The wife was silent for a while and said, "You can sell my car first. It's worth some money."