Chapter 634 A Very Important Card

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Seoul.

Xu Cun's residence.

Looking at Cui Zhenzhen, who was kneeling between his legs and speaking proficiently, Xu Cun couldn't help thinking: "If those Koreans who tout the truth to the sky see their national goddess serving me like this, with their fragile bearing Ability, don't collapse on the spot!"

"I can't do it anymore, who will replace me for a while?"

Li Yingai and Shen Yinhe glanced at each other, then Shen Yinhe, who had been trying her best to express herself in front of Xu Cun, gritted her teeth and said, "Let me do it."

actually--

There are quite a few women who came to Japan and South Korea with Xu Cun this time—among the women, except for those who are still on tour in the Mainland, those who have jobs and cannot leave, as well as the pregnant Wang Zuxian, Ge Weiru, Zhou Huimin, Yang Ziqiong, Lan Jieying, Except for Zhu Baoyi, Maggie Cheung, Noriko Sakai, Wang Fei, Chen Baolian, Wu Wanfang, Monica, Sachiko Uchi, Kim Hye-soo, and Song Yuner, almost all of them came with Xu Cun this time, including Li Ruotong who Xu Cun had just adopted.

But--

Now, they are all traveling in Japan, and they did not accompany Xu Cun, who only came to Korea for two days. Therefore, the only ones who can accompany Xu Cun in Korea are Cui Zhenzhen, Li Yingai, and Shen Xin who participated in the promotion of "My Sassy Girlfriend" in Korea. galaxy.

Therefore, Cui Zhenzhen, Li Yingai, and Shen Yinhe suffered...

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This time Xu Cun came to South Korea mainly for two things:

The first thing is naturally to attend a very important promotion of "My Sassy Girlfriend" in South Korea, and by the way, brush up the popularity of Mr. Xu in South Korea.

The second thing is to talk to South Korean President Roh Tae-woo and other shareholders of Korea National Petroleum Corporation, and urge them to start building oil and gas pipelines as soon as possible to connect with the 'Canada-Pacific' oil and gas pipelines. During the months of My Sassy Girlfriend, Xu Cun and Xu Cun’s public relations team did a lot of public relations in South Korea, and gave South Korea tangible benefits. Xu Cun's refueling motion. When entering the 1990s, the international situation will change suddenly, the Soviet Union disintegrated, the European Union was established, the United States became the world hegemony, Japan's economy retreated, China began to rise, etc... These may affect Xu Cun's two Construction of pipelines. Therefore, Xu Cun had to run through these two pipelines before the arrival of the 1990s, making them a very important card in Xu Cun's hand.

Honestly--

The purchase of Xu Cun's oil from South Korea is actually a foregone conclusion.

The reason why Xu Cun came to South Korea was because he was afraid that Roh Tae-woo and the people from KNOC would postpone the pipeline repair because they were busy with the Seoul Games--Xu Cun didn't want their efforts to fall short because of their slack.

Now, the real trouble is Japan - not that Japan is unwilling to buy Xu Cun's oil, but because Japan's oil and gas market is so big that Xu Cun has no chance to monopolize Japan's oil and gas market, and it is even difficult to obtain a larger market share in Japan's oil and gas market.

To be honest, this is also normal. Oil and gas have been more than just commodities since the days when oil was pegged to the dollar - since the advent of the petrodollar, and arguably since the collapse of Bretton Woods, oil and gas have become very politically important The bargaining chip, moreover, as time goes on, this bargaining chip will become heavier and heavier, and within a few years, this bargaining chip will be so heavy that it can influence the political orientation of a country, and even so heavy that wars will be launched for them.

And Japan has always been playing with oil politics—now Japan, including Japan in the future, when buying oil and natural gas, the first thing to look at is political relations. As for oil prices, that is a second consideration.

Today's Xu Cun can definitely be regarded as an international hero, but no matter how awesome Xu Cun is, he is just a person, not a country. How could Japan offend so many national leaders just because of Xu Cun? political allies?

This time, Xu Cun's main purpose in coming to Japan is to open up Japan's oil and gas market.

Q: Does Xu Cun have a way to open up Japan's oil and gas market?

A: Of course, otherwise why would Xu Cun come?

Unlike China and South Korea, where oil and natural gas are monopolized by the state, a very large part of Japan's oil and natural gas is privately won. This is the way for Xu Cun's oil and gas to enter the Japanese oil and gas market - find a powerful oil and natural gas company to cooperate with, and then build an oil and gas pipeline in the name of the cooperative company to connect with the 'Canada-Pacific' oil and gas pipeline.

At present, there are dozens of companies specializing in oil and natural gas in Japan, but none of them are Xu Cun's choice. From the beginning to the end, Xu Cun has only one choice - Mitsubishi Petroleum under the Mitsubishi Group.

Founded in 1931, Mitsubishi Petroleum is one of the top three major oil companies in Japan.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons why Xu Cun chose Mitsubishi Petroleum. In addition, there are three reasons why Xu Cun chose Mitsubishi Petroleum:

First, Xu Cun has a good relationship with the Iwasaki family, the controlling family of Mitsubishi Group, and it is easier to discuss cooperation.

Second, the Mitsubishi Group has an extremely deep background in Japan-the name of the Iwasaki family's "Japan's No. 1 Family" is by no means a vain name.

The third and most important reason is that in the last life, in 1999, Mitsubishi Oil and Nippon Oil merged to form Nippon Oil, which was the largest oil importer and marketer in Japan in the previous life. It is also the largest oil refiner in Japan. It has nine oil refineries with an oil refining capacity of more than 1.3 million barrels per day. It has a 23% market share in the Japanese gasoline market and operates more than 13,100 gas station.

but--

Although Xu Cun chose Mitsubishi Petroleum and wanted to cooperate with Mitsubishi Petroleum, in fact Mitsubishi Petroleum did not want to cooperate with Xu Cun at all - Mitsubishi Petroleum has been established for 50 or 60 years, and has long had stable oil and gas supply channels, and In the five or sixty years of cooperation, Mitsubishi Petroleum and those distributors have already formed a tight and complicated interest network. If these interest networks are all torn apart and a new interest network is woven with Xu Cun, it will be very difficult for Mitsubishi. In terms of oil, there is actually no benefit at all.

In addition, what Xu Cun wants is not simply to sell his own oil to Mitsubishi Petroleum, Xu Cun also wants to take a stake in Mitsubishi Petroleum-this is what Mitsubishi Petroleum refuses the most!

At present, Mitsubishi Petroleum is operating in a good condition, and it is backed by the Mitsubishi consortium, so there is no need for Mitsubishi Petroleum to let Xu Cun put his hand on his plate.

This is the main reason why Xu Cun's public relations team failed to open up the situation until now, so Xu Cun had to come forward to talk to Iwasaki Masakazu in person.

It was precisely because of this important matter that after participating in the publicity event, he met with President Roh Tae-woo and several shareholders of Korea National Petroleum Corporation and agreed on the start date of the pipeline. Xu Cun took Cui Zhenzhen , Lee Young Ae, and Shen Yinhe flew to Japan...

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