Chapter seven hundred and twentieth eight encounters a hard stubble
"parking!"
A policeman stood in the middle of the road and stopped the convoy.
Bai Wanxin stepped on the brakes, poked his head out of the car window, and asked with a smile on his face: "Comrade police, I have a business license, and there is no overload. I always run this route, and our Kangtai Traffic Police Team
Captain Zhang, Captain Liu, they all know me, Lao Bai. You are new here, so let’s go have a drink together some other time.”
"I don't know Captain Zhang or Captain Liu." The policeman pointed at an open space next to him with a dark face and said, "Drive all the cars over there and don't block the road."
"Don't you know Captain Zhang?" Bai Wanxin was stunned, "Aren't you from the Kangtai Traffic Police Team?"
"Stop talking nonsense and drive over!" The policeman was annoyed and waved his hand, "You and the cars behind you, please drive over and park, turn off the engine, get out and wait for inspection."
Bai Wanxin was confused, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions. He could only obey the police's instructions and drive into the empty yard next to him. This was an abandoned freight yard, big enough to park hundreds of large trucks.
When Bai Wanxin drove the car into the cargo yard, he saw some vehicles parked in front of him, and a group of uniformed people were checking something in the car.
When the drivers behind saw Bai Wanxin's car entering the cargo yard, they also drove in one after another, parked in several rows, and then turned off the engine and got out of the car as the police said, waiting to be inspected.
"What's on the car?" A staff member walked up and asked Bai Wanxin.
"Rebar." Bai Wanxin replied.
"Who is the owner of the cargo?" the staff asked again.
"It's me." Lu Dashuang raised his hands and replied. Unexpectedly, his heart was beating violently. Thinking of the large order that had come to his door for no apparent reason, he suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"Certificate, test report." The staff stretched out a hand to him and said.
"Certificate, test report?" Lu Dashuang's eyes widened. He has been in the steel business for so many years. He has never issued any certificate. These steels are all inferior strip steel, and the word "qualified" cannot be relied on at all.
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"Comrade, we used to transport steel, but we never issued a certificate. Our steel... must be qualified. Otherwise, can the customer accept it?" Lu Dashuang pretended to be stupid, and at the same time wondered if there was anything wrong with it.
room for maneuver.
"The State Economic and Trade Commission documents stipulate that in order to ensure the quality of building materials and protect the safety of the people, a nationwide steel quality inspection will be carried out from now on. All steel materials that do not meet the quality requirements will be temporarily detained and shall not flow into the construction market. For
For steel products that fail to provide a quality inspection report, use on-site inspection methods. If the inspection passes, it can be released, if it fails, it will be temporarily detained." The staff said to Lu Dashuang with a straight face, like an endorsement.
"When was this regulated? How come I haven't heard of it?" Lu Dashuang was anxious. How could he still not know the quality of this batch of steel? There was no need for any complicated on-site testing, as long as he took two pieces
If the steel materials are knocked against each other, it will be clear at a glance. If it does not break immediately, it is considered good. As for obvious cracks, scars, etc., it goes without saying.
"This is a document that has just been issued, but the notice on controlling and phasing out inferior steel production was issued as early as the year before last. As a steel factory owner, wouldn't you know this?" the staff member asked coldly.
"I..." Can Lu Dashuang say that he doesn't know? There are so many small steel plants in Xingchuan County. Which one doesn't know that the country has such a policy? But everyone firmly believes that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.
I didn't take these policies seriously either. But the situation is different now. More than a dozen trucks and nearly 800 tons of steel fell into the hands of the inspectors. This simply cost Lu Dashuang his life.
"Comrade, I don't know about this document. Our customer is in a hurry to use this batch of steel. How about I send the steel over first and then send you the certificate of conformity later. What do you think? I promise not to do this next time. As for this time, it should be
You have the final say on how much the fine will be." As Lu Dashuang spoke, he winked at the staff member desperately. He felt that his hint was very obvious. If the other party was interested, he would definitely agree on a "send" with him.
"Certificate" place, as to whether the certificate will be sent there or something else, that is a matter that God knows.
Unexpectedly, the other party ignored Lu Dashuang's problem at all. He pointed to the front not far away and said: "Go over there and go through the formalities. Unload all the steel. How many tons are there in total? What's the work over there?"
The staff will issue a receipt for you. At present, the country has not determined the final disposal method for these inferior steel products. We are only temporarily detaining them. Whether it will be confiscated or ordered to be reworked and re-smelted depends on the national policy."
"But...we signed a contract with the customer, and if it was delivered one day late, the customer would have to claim compensation." Lu Dashuang argued.
The staff member glared and said: "The contract your customer signed with you is to purchase substandard steel? How about you find your customer, as long as he dares to say that what he wants is substandard steel..."
"How about that?" Lu Dashuang felt there was a glimmer of hope.
"We arrested him directly," the staff member said decisively.
"Ju..." Lu Dashuang was dumbfounded. The contract he signed with the client was in the briefcase he brought. Of course he remembered that they clearly stated quality requirements in the contract. Things like strip steel itself are
It was tacitly understood by both the supplier and the seller, but it was impossible to directly declare in the contract that they would accept inferior products. The staff member asked him to call the customer to the scene for confrontation, which was clearly forcing someone to do something difficult.
"You are breaking the law! You are..." Lu Dashuang shouted. Things worth more than 1 million have been seized, and everyone will be anxious if they put it on them. The most important thing is that if this batch of steel is seized,
The steel that has not yet been shipped will definitely not be shipped out. If the steel cannot be shipped to Dalun Terminal, he will not be able to get the payment. The deposit paid by the customer in advance is only 1.5 million, and his consumption in purchasing scrap steel and smelting has already been spent.
After paying more than 3 million yuan, who can make up for this shortfall?
Some time ago, Lu Dashuang demolished his family's old house and rebuilt it into a four-story foreign-style building. He had spent all his savings over the years, so part of the advance cost this time came from the county town.
We can talk about the supply of goods to customers, but the interest on loan sharks can't be delayed even for a day. There are dark forces behind the loan sharks, and Lu Dashuang can't beat them if he asks for it.
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"What are you yelling about? Do you still have a reason to sell strip steel?" the staff member said angrily. Obviously, Lu Dashuang's reaction did not exceed his expectations. Which cargo owner who has had his steel products detained would not yell a few words
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"Everyone came here to comment. In the past, we never mentioned that we would check any evidence. Now we are suddenly attacked. Isn't this a deliberate attempt to make things difficult for us? Isn't it easy for us to do some business? By doing this, is the government not letting us survive?"
While Lu Dashuang continued to shout, he used his eyes to look for other cargo owners and truck drivers in the freight yard, hoping that they could make noise with him and put a little pressure on the other party.
What he didn't expect was that the other people in the goods yard didn't respond to him at all. Instead, they all looked at him with complex emotions. There was sympathy, pity, sympathy for the same fate, and more.
Helpless. Before Lu Dashuang, everyone had already made a fuss, and the ones who made the biggest fuss had been taken away by the police to drink tea. The rest of the people didn't want to drink the free tea, so they could only accept it dejectedly.
It's fate.
After a lot of trouble, Lu Dashuang finally knew that he was in trouble. The people who set up a checkpoint to inspect steel here were not law enforcement officers from Kangtai County, or even from Yanning Province. Bai Wanxin was among those enforcing the law.
I saw a few familiar faces among the staff, but these people were obviously in a position of making soy sauce. The ones who really meant what they said were a bunch of officials who came from nowhere.
Lu Dashuang stood on the side of the road and observed carefully, and found that these law enforcement officers only inspected vehicles transporting steel and paid no attention to other vehicles. In other words, they came just for him. This suddenly reminded him of the central government's announcement a month ago.
Rumors from the working group.
It turns out that the central working group is not silent, but is waiting for everyone here. What they want is not only to close down their small steel mills, but also to sink them into deep debt and no longer have the ability to turn around... I thought
Here, Lu Dashuang suddenly felt a chill.
All drivers and cargo owners whose goods were seized were arranged to stay temporarily in a nearby guest house. Their communication tools had been confiscated when they got off the bus, so they did not even have the opportunity to inform their families and colleagues.
For three days, Lu Dashuang watched helplessly as truck after truck of strip steel was stopped on the highway. One cargo owner after another experienced begging, clamoring, threats, and then fell into despair.
Lu Dashuang knew some of these people and knew that they had spent all their money working day and night to produce those sudden orders. No matter how stupid Lu Dashuang was, he could have imagined that these orders were clearly given by his working group.
It was my own bait. It was ridiculous that no one noticed it at all. Many colleagues were happily talking about their dreams of building a house and buying a car after completing this order.
Yes, the cost of the bait they put in was very high, and the advance payment Lu Dashuang received alone was as high as 1.5 million. But they didn't have to worry, these advance payments had already been paid to the scrap steel supplier, and he had been withheld
The goods, if recycled as scrap steel, can be worth millions. If the whole thing is a trap, then from the customer to the scrap steel supplier, everyone must be from the other party, or even...
usury!
A more frightening thought flashed into Lu Dashuang's mind. Could it be that the loan lenders in the county were also recruited by the central working group? He thought carefully about the process of borrowing money, and the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became.
Who is so ruthless? Is this still the government’s way of doing things? (To be continued.)