I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 349 "We Can Enter Now"

After arriving in Shanghai at noon and checking into the Binjiang Xinjing Hotel, Fang Qingye treated the father and son to a meal at the hotel. After resting for a while, they went to the Shanghai International Financial Center Building after 2 p.m.

Fang Qingye's arrival was naturally accompanied by Li Li, the vice CEO of Tuofang Technology, and Xu Mei, the temporary head of Tomorrow Cube.

The two of them then showed Miao Hongbin and his son around the company.

Fang Qingye naturally wouldn't explain Miao Hongbin's specific identity, only saying that he was a friend.

Li Li enthusiastically explained that although he had met Miao Hongbin once, two years ago when he represented Tuofang Technology at the founding ceremony of Yuxiang Natural Gas Company, he didn't remember him much.

Xu Mei looked at Miao Hongbin, recognized his identity, and quietly said to Fang Qingye who was following behind, "Isn't this County Chief Miao from Nanxin County?"

"Yes, Miao Wei is his son."

"If Miao Wei comes, will the salary he's offered be a bit low?" Xu Mei asked with some concern.

"That's enough. Too high is not good. We can increase it gradually based on his performance. There's no need to tell others about this relationship," Fang Qingye reminded him.

“I understand.” Xu Mei nodded.

After showing Miao Hongbin and his son around the office building, we went to the Ele.me company.

Fang Qingye knew that once Miao Wei saw Tomorrow Cube, he definitely wouldn't go to Ele.me anymore, since the office environment here was much better than Ele.me's.

After walking around the Ele.me office building, Miao Wei immediately decided to work at Tomorrow Cube.

Miao Wei hasn't graduated yet, but he doesn't have much to do at school. He has finished his graduation thesis and is just waiting to defend it. So Fang Qingye suggested that he come to Tomorrow Cube for an internship now and participate in the work of Wei Xinghua's team.

Although Wei Xinghua didn't know Miao Hongbin or his relationship with Fang Qingye, when she saw Fang Qingye personally bringing an undergraduate student and his parents to visit the company, she immediately realized that this student who graduated from Shanghai University was somewhat special, so she readily agreed.

Although it's only a bachelor's degree, which is a bit low, it's still a 211 university.

She understands this basic social etiquette.

Seeing that his son had found a job with a pretty good working environment, Miao Hongbin was quite happy. The next day, he happily left Shanghai and rushed back to Nanxin. Fang Qingye didn't leave; he wanted to find Shi Guangrong.

Before Fang Qingye could make the call, Shi Guangrong called first.

"Qingye, in Nanxin?"

"No, I'm in Shanghai," Fang Qingye said lazily, lying on the bed and holding her phone.

"You've come to Shanghai? Perfect timing, I need to talk to you about something."

"Okay, I'm in room 605 of the Bund Riverside Xinjing Hotel."

"Okay, I'll be right over."

With nothing much to do, Fang Qingye opened her laptop, made a cup of tea, and began to observe the Shanghai rubber market over the past two days.

Almost an hour later, Fang Qingye heard a knock on the door, went to open it, and saw Shi Guangrong standing at the door.

"I thought you'd stay at the hotel downstairs from your company," Shi Guangrong said, glancing at the room's layout. "Seriously? It's a double room?!"

Fang Qingye naturally didn't mention that she was accompanying Miao Hongbin and his son, and since they had booked a double room for them, she couldn't very well book a deluxe room for herself.

Ignoring Shi Guangrong's complaints, he asked, "What do you want from me?"

Shi Guangrong didn't bring up the topic again. Suddenly, he noticed the laptop screen on the table, went over to look at it, and burst out laughing.

"Great minds think alike." "What, you've also got your eye on Shanghai rubber?" Fang Qingye asked.

"Yes, that's what I was talking to you about too. Since you're also interested, I won't waste any more words. I think the Shanghai rubber futures have fallen enough, so we can enter the market."

Fang Qingye didn't answer immediately. Instead, she held her teacup, sipped her tea, and pondered something. After a while, she suddenly asked, "Have Ge Weidong and the others made any moves lately?"

"Ge Weidong and his two companions suffered a crushing defeat in Zhengzhou cotton futures trading earlier this year. It is said that each of them lost about one billion yuan, which severely damaged their financial situation. Ge Weidong went to the United States to prepare to trade New York futures, while Fu Haitang and Lin Guangmao have not made any moves. I heard that Lin Guangmao even returned to Yanjing."

Fang Qingye was a little surprised: "So you've just given up like that?"

“I don’t know about that,” Shi Guangrong shook his head. “But I think these people have been in the futures market for over a decade and have seen a lot. They probably won’t give up so easily. Maybe they’re looking for an opportunity, just like us.” Shi Guangrong analyzed.

Fang Qingye nodded after hearing this.

This is indeed possible. This year's futures market is not as good as last year's. Both futures and spot prices for commodities are in a downward trend, and the rebound is relatively weak. If you want to go long, you need to seize the opportunity very well.

"Then let's start building our position now. However, Glory, you have more connections in Shanghai, so pay close attention to market news, especially about those few people. I have a bad feeling about them."

"A bad feeling? You mean they'll target us?" Shi Guangrong immediately understood what Fang Qingye meant.

"I'm not sure." Fang Qingye pondered, "They did lose a lot of money on Zhengmian, and we were partly to blame for that, otherwise Lin Guangmao would have threatened to deal with us."

Shi Guangrong nodded.

Fang Qingye's analysis makes a lot of sense; otherwise, he would have gone to Nanxin earlier this year, claiming he wanted to go fishing with Fang Qingye, but actually he wanted to get away from Shanghai for a while.

Cutting off someone's livelihood is like killing their parents. People sometimes do crazy things when they are irrational, so we must be vigilant.

"I doubt they're likely to do what gangsters do, but there's still a possibility they'll sabotage us or even go against us in the futures market. We should be careful."

Fang Qingye suddenly asked after analyzing the situation, "Guangrong, do you know anyone inside the futures company? Can you find out about these people's positions?"

"Yes! But it will take some effort to find out the details," Shi Guangrong said honestly.

Fang Qingye naturally understood what Shi Guangrong meant by "spending some effort," which included not only energy but also money.

So he said, "If you need to spend money, count it in for me."

"No need, no need, this little bit of money is nothing," Shi Guangrong quickly said. "Just wait for the news!"

Since that was the case, Fang Qingye did not insist any further, and the two agreed to start building up their positions gradually.

"Which month's contract should we trade? I think it's best to trade quickly, like the July RU1107 contract," Shi Guangrong suggested.

According to the Shanghai Rubber futures regulations, the delivery date for Shanghai Rubber futures is the 15th of the odd-numbered month. Now that it's the end of April, it's naturally more appropriate to speculate on the July contract.

The trading unit for Shanghai rubber futures is 10 tons per lot, with a margin of 8%. The two individuals decided to each buy 1 lots. Based on today's Shanghai rubber futures price of 29000 yuan/ton, this means each of them would invest approximately 2.3 million yuan.

The Shanghai rubber futures market is larger than the Zhengzhou cotton futures market, with recent trading volumes around 300,000 lots. So, it only took two days to buy up all the 20,000-lot contracts.

Fang Qingye is preparing to return to Nanxin tomorrow.

"Glory, this time you must pay close attention to the news circulating in the market, especially about those few people!"

In the afternoon, Fang Qingye made sure to give Shi Guangrong some instructions over the phone.

(End of this chapter)