Chapter 530

Mikhail did not stay long in New York, and Bill Gross did not let Mikhail wait too long. He soon agreed to join Columbia bank as head of bond investment. Mikhail immediately reported the result of the incident to shariosha, who arranged the staff of CBS in the United States to deal with the follow-up of Bill Gross. Then Mikhail flew back to Japan.

The reason why Mikhail came back to Japan in a hurry is nothing else but for Glencore to expand its customers in the Japanese market. Although Mikhail was a foreigner, he penetrated into the political and economic circles of minister Takeshita by his own ability. Under the protection of Takeshita's relationship, Mikhail gradually gained a firm foothold in Japan and established a relationship with some large Japanese manufacturing enterprises.

Mikhail has a lot of money in his hand. The daily operation of those big enterprises depends on the loan from the bank. Naturally, it is necessary for these enterprises to have a good relationship with powerful banks for their survival and development. However, well-known companies like Toyota and Matsushita are all backed by Japan's old chaebols, who have their own main banks. Foreign banks like Columbia bank are just a supplement to their sources of capital.

However, Glencore is not the same. Japan is a resource poor country, and all kinds of industrial raw materials have to be imported. Although Japan is now "prospering the country with real estate and losing the country with industry", the demand for industrial raw materials has always been very strong. Now Glencore's resource products from the Soviet Union, Iran and South Africa are short of a consumer market to eat these resources. Now it seems that Japan is the best dumping place for raw materials.

The electrolytic aluminum exported from the Soviet Union through barter trade, 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. Most importantly, because these countries are facing blockade, the import cost of Glencore can be kept very low, and the profits can be very considerable.

But mark Ritchie doesn't want to just do that. Because there will be a better opportunity in front of us. According to information from Glencore investigators and traders in South Africa, the South African government is planning to send troops to Angola and Mozambique to prevent the pro Soviet factions in Angola's civil war from turning Angola into a second Cuba.

For the current ruling government of South Africa, they are facing unprecedented pressure. The two sides of the civil war in Angola in the north are the people's liberation movement of Angola supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union on one side, and the White regime in South Africa and the National Alliance for the complete independence of Angola supported by the United States on the other. Now, it is clear that the people's liberation movement of Angola has an advantage in the civil war.

One of the main reasons why South Africa has to resist the pressure from all over the world and maintain the apartheid system is that the domestic black movement is more or less influenced by the Communist trend of thought. Because of apartheid, South Africa has been subject to sanctions from all over the world, but arms are not on the sanctions list. Now South Africa has become the forefront of the iron curtain in Africa, so Britain released a number of tanks purchased by the South African government before the sanctions and agreed to transport them to South Africa.

Glencore's branch in Johannesburg has signed a larger fuel supply agreement with South Africa's Ministry of energy. Because South Africa's domestic oil processing capacity is limited, the South African government hopes to purchase gasoline and diesel instead of crude oil. Mark Ritchie needed a place to process the crude oil he smuggled out to meet the supply of the South African market.

Mark Ritchie's deputy, green, once again ventured to Johannesburg to personally coordinate the fuel supply of the South African market. And Mikhail will sell spot crude oil in the Japanese market and purchase finished gasoline and diesel for South Africa. Mark Ritchie, on the other hand, has to ensure that a steady stream of crude oil can be safely transported to Japan to maintain the triangle trade.

If Glencore can maintain a stable oil supply during its deployment to Angola in South Africa, more and more sanctioned countries will regard Glencore as their most reliable trading partner.

At the beginning of his stay in Japan, Mikhail hoped to cooperate with Itochu, but their president, ryunosan setima, was not only a staff officer of the Japanese base camp during World War II, but also was caught by the Soviet Red Army and tortured in the labor camp in Siberia for 11 years. As soon as he heard the name of the Russian, ryunosan setima directly raised the table. Death doesn't work with Mikhail. So Mikhail can only find a weaker Marubeni company to be Glencore's partner.

The agreement between Mikhail and Marubeni mainly includes oil, electrolytic aluminum, and the goods of Glencore can be sold directly to Marubeni, while Marubeni can settle accounts with Columbia bank directly in Japanese yen. This not only reduces the loss of foreign exchange, but also allows Marubeni to take the lead in the supply of oil and electrolytic aluminum in Japan.

Soon after all this had come to a head, the South African government officially announced that it would send troops to Angola to support UNITA, which had been losing ground in the civil war.

The South African Army soon fought a fierce battle with the Cuban volunteer army, which is also a foreign force. The Cuban army sent out tanks to teach the fledgling South African Army a painful lesson. In an encounter, the tanks of the Cuban volunteers beat the South African Army with no ability to fight back, and 14 South African soldiers were killed on the spot. The South African troops vowed revenge, and soon sent thousands of special forces to surprise Cuba and the coalition forces of ANP, annihilating most of the Cuban garrison in the southern city of Bisha, bringing the war back to a state of equal strength.

The failed Cubans were not willing to be outdone. With Castro's support, they began to send more troops to the front line in Angola. The Soviet Union also provided arms and logistical support behind the scenes. The battle gradually began to escalate. The South African government used gold to buy more and more war materials from Glencore.

Glencore is also happy to see its success. In order to obtain more oil, Glencore's grain trade should continue to keep up, and more and more grain is transported from the United States to the Soviet Union. Just then, several new York Times reporters pretended to be college students and boarded an ocean going freighter sailing from New York to Somalia, Africa. This freighter is the Athena goddess belonging to the Mediterranean Shipping Company（ Tickets for tourists are sold on ocean going cruise ships and cargo ships, which are much cheaper than cruise ships. They are the first choice for many young people who love to travel abroad.)