After the central working group left, there was no news. County Magistrate Gao Xuejian originally thought that the working group would make a trip and find something wrong anyway, but after waiting for more than half a month, he did not see any first-level leaders Xiang Xingchuan.
The county greeted him, which made Gao Xuejian both surprised and relieved.
The commendation for Guo Qiushi came very quickly. The Provincial Propaganda Department issued a document requiring cadres across the province to learn from Guo Qiushi's glorious deeds of sacrificing himself to save others. Various honors such as outstanding party members and model workers were prepared.
Waiting for the appropriate time to commend him. After Guo Qiushi was sent to the military hospital in the provincial capital, he enjoyed high-level treatment and care. Wang Yue visited him several times in the provincial capital, and every time he asked when he would be discharged from the hospital.
Guo Qiushi smiled but did not answer, as if he planned to stay in the hospital for a long time.
These matters in the officialdom have not affected the more than 100 small steel companies in the county at all. During this period, there seemed to be more customers going to Xingchuan to order steel than in the past. Except for a few familiar faces that they had seen before,
Most of them appear for the first time. The small bosses of the steel mills don't care much about this. As long as they can pay, who cares whether they are strangers or familiar customers?
Lu Dashuang recently received a good job. A merchant who claimed to be from the Yangtze River Delta ordered 8,000 tons of steel from him and required delivery within two months. Lu Dashuang made a rough calculation. If this order is done well,
, it can at least bring him a gross profit of more than 2 million yuan. With this money, he will have no problem if he does not start work this year.
The merchant paid a 10% deposit in advance and agreed that Lu Dashuang would deliver the steel to the designated delivery location in four installments and settle the cost of the delivered steel each time until the entire contract was finally completed. This condition was very important to Lu Dashuang.
There is no risk. The deposit paid by the merchant is 1.5 million. Lu Dashuang delivers 2,000 tons of steel for the first time. The cost is about 3 million, and he needs to advance 1.5 million. But Lu Dashuang does not have to worry about the other party breaking the contract, because there is 1.5 million
With a deposit of 10,000 yuan, if the other party breaks the contract, Lu Dashuang can easily sell the 2,000 tons of steel at a low price, and even earn more.
The merchant left after paying the deposit. Lu Dashuang did not dare to delay, and immediately contacted the supplier who had provided him with scrap steel and asked them to deliver the goods to him as soon as possible. The supplier was also unusually happy, saying that as long as the payment was received,
We have as much scrap steel as we need, and we can meet your needs at any time.
Some of the small steel plants in Xingchuan County have their own iron-making blast furnaces and use molten iron to make steel. But most of them use the so-called "short-process steelmaking", which is the method of directly using scrap steel to return to the furnace for smelting.
The cost of making steel from scrap steel is much higher than that of using pig iron, but the equipment is very simple. It only requires an electric furnace and a simple steel casting and rolling device. Lu Dashuang's Tongxin Steel
The factory uses this short-process steelmaking method, so scrap steel must be used as raw material.
Smelting 8,000 tons of steel in two months has exceeded the production capacity of Tongxin Steel Plant. Lu Dashuang is not worried about this. There are more than a dozen small steel plants in Dongdaogou Village. The work that he can't finish can be subcontracted to others.
For steel mills to do it, they just need to pay some of the profits to these steel mills. In the past, various steel mills subcontracted each other like this. The mills with business eat the meat. The mills without business eat the soup. Everyone is already
Very tacit understanding.
However, this time the situation was a bit abnormal. When Lu Dashuang took the order to several other steel mill bosses to discuss subcontracting, he was surprised to find that others also had large orders in their hands.
Factories eager to collaborate.
"How many tons did you receive?"
These days, the small bosses in Dongdaogou Village always ask each other questions like this when they meet. Some factories have received thousands of tons, and some have received hundreds of tons, and they have agreed to deliver the goods within one or two months. For this kind of
With the huge number of orders, the small bosses can be described as having mixed feelings. What they are happy about is that there is business to be done, and such a hot business means that the future market is also very promising. As for what they are worried about, it is whether their production capacity can
If we cannot keep up, will scrap steel prices rise as a result? Also, if various factories start operations at the same time, the power grid may not be able to bear the load.
In any case, having business is a good thing after all, and everyone happily entered into the intense work. In addition to Dongdaogou Village, some small steel mills in other villages also encountered similar good luck. For a time, they pulled scrap steel
Large trucks crowded the road leading to Xingchuan. Since each small steel mill had to advance funds to purchase scrap steel, the loan sharking business in Xingchuan also became prosperous.
"Why is the steel business so good recently?"
Gao Xuejian was a little surprised when he received the report from below. The small steel factory in Xingchuan is an important financial resource for the county. Gao Xuejian is very clear about how much business there is in a year. In just a few days, various steel plants
Orders have been received, and the business volume has almost exceeded the total volume of the previous year. No matter how you look at this kind of thing, there is something evil about it.
"Could it be that the real estate industry in the south is booming and the steel supply gap is large?" Wang Yue speculated.
"If it comes sooner or later, the central working group will leave, and so many merchants will come to order steel. Do you think there is any connection between these two things?" Gao Xuejian asked.
Wang Yue thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I can't see it...it couldn't be that the central working group made the advertisement for us, right?"
"What are you thinking about!" Gao Xuejian scolded, "I mean, could this be the work of the working group?"
"Are you saying that the working group wants to frame our county? It deliberately finds business for us to do?" Wang Yue said, "I don't think it's necessary?"
"Indeed, if they want to rectify our county, there is no need to take such a big detour. Besides, looking at the situation reported below, these merchants have all paid deposits. It is impossible for the working group to mobilize so many people just to cause trouble for us.
Money?" Gao Xuejian analyzed.
This kind of discussion is destined to be fruitless. Gao Xuejian asked Wang Yue to find several small steel mills to investigate, and the answers he got were that the customers were named and the deposits paid were all real money.
It can't be a liar. Besides, no one can see the meaning of such a scam. If you want to catch Xiao Gang's pigtails in Xingchuan County, you don't need to expend such effort.
"Tomorrow is the time to deliver the first batch of goods. Then I will deliver the goods and let the other party pay the money to the account in person. Then nothing will happen?" Lu Dashuang said to Wang Yue who came to ask.
said.
"Where is the delivery location?" Wang Yue asked.
"Dalun City." Lu Dashuang said.
Dalun is a port city in Yanning Province. In the past, steel products from Yanning Province were often sold to other provinces and cities by sea. It is a very normal request for merchants to ask Lu Dashuang to send the steel products to Dalun. Say yes.
The delivery location is at Dalun's freight terminal, which is a place with royal laws, so there is no possibility of plundering these steel materials.
Could it be that this is really an ordinary transaction? Wang Yue was puzzled.
Early the next morning, a dozen large trucks with a load of 50 tons arrived at Dongdaogou Village. Lu Dashuang directed the crane to load the rolled steel onto the trucks, and then personally got into the front of the first large truck and escorted them.
The convoy transporting steel rolled onto the highway and headed towards Dalun.
"Boss Lu, the goods delivered this time are quite a lot. Have you made a fortune?"
The driver's name was Bai Wanxin, and he was an old acquaintance with Lu Dashuang. In the past, an order from Tongxin Steel Plant would be around a hundred tons, sometimes hundreds of tons, and only three or four trucks would be needed.
Once, Lu Dashuang asked Bai Wanxin to help find more than a dozen trucks, and they agreed to transport them several times, which showed the large number of goods. Bai Wanxin was also a knowledgeable person, and he could guess the quantity after a little estimation.
Lu Dashuang's profits are huge.
"Haha, just so-so." Lu Dashuang said proudly, "This time a total of 2,000 tons will be delivered, and there will be three more deliveries in the future, a total of 8,000 tons. However, there is no profit in steelmaking now, it is just a hard-earned money.
It’s really not as good as you running the transportation business, it costs nothing and it’s all a net profit.”
Bai Wanxin said with a smile: "Boss Lu is joking. We have been doing transportation for a year and the money we earn is not even a fraction of yours. A cousin of mine is engaged in steel. He said that we can earn at least 500 yuan per ton of steel.
Your 8,000 tons is a full 4 million, is this still so-so?"
Lu Dashuang waved his hands and said: "Earning 500 yuan per ton of steel? When did this happen? How can such a good thing happen now? This month, not only did my family get business, but other factories also received business, including scrap steel.
The price has increased by more than 100 yuan. I can't even make 100 yuan per ton of steel now, so I have to spend a lot of money to smooth the relationship. To tell you the truth, I borrowed a loan shark this time to buy scrap steel.
I’m just waiting to receive the payment today and quickly pay off the loan shark.”
"That's true, those loan sharks are not easy to talk to. One day's delay in repaying the money will cost thousands in interest." Bai Wanxin said with sympathy.
As the two people were talking, they didn't realize that the motorcade had left the boundary of Xingchuan County and entered Kangtai County next door. Turning a hillside, Lu Dashuang saw a few cars parked on the road ahead and some people standing next to them.
There were also a few policemen wearing big hats mixed in among them.
"Lao Bai, what's going on?" Lu Dashuang asked.
Bai Wanxin raised his eyes and said depressingly: "It's probably a temporary inspection to check whether there are overloads or drunk driving. Our car is a little over the limit, so we'll probably be fined a thousand or eight hundred yuan."
"It's okay. Didn't we agree in advance that the fine for overloading is mine?" Lu Dashuang said, patting his chest. He made the request for overloading, so he can only pay the fine.
The fine of RMB 10,000 was only a drop in the bucket in terms of the expected profit, and Lu Dashuang did not take it to heart at all. (To be continued...)