Now it is much easier to do sales than when I was in the sugar company, there is no need to travel to run outside the province, customers inside and outside the province are crowded in front of the door to ask for goods, and it is the norm to take customers to the warehouse to see and pick up the goods.

The hardest part is to go to the factory to buy goods and have to run back and forth with the car. This is simply too easy for Gao Hui, who has long been accustomed to running around the country.

That's not all, the salary is much better than when I was in the sugar company, and when I think about the time when the sugar company was insolvent, I was running around looking for a job, as if it was yesterday.

Fortunately, I took a step forward and did not resign to go to another company, otherwise, I would have missed the good opportunity in front of me.

Unlike Huang Hongliang and others, looking at the rising copper prices, Liu Zhongzhou, who had just returned from the smelter inspection, was thinking about another thing in his heart.

Now, the Southern Group, which has controlled the two major mines as expected, has changed the main contradiction from the shortage of raw materials to the lack of production capacity.

If the smelter's capacity is doubled and the supply of raw materials is not problematic at all, the group's profits will be multiplied.

However, this problem is easy to think about, but it is difficult to implement, and its difficulty is even more difficult than the difficulty of acquiring mines to solve the problem of raw material supply.

It is almost impossible to expand on the basis of the original factory.

If another factory is built, then it is impossible to see benefits in terms of site selection, environmental protection, equipment, technology upgrading, etc., without two or three years and more than one billion yuan of capital investment.

Not to mention that this idea is still only in his mind, there is still a long way to go from the specific implementation, even if he can start building a factory at this time, there is still a big problem hanging in his heart, so that he can't see whether he can make money by investing in building a factory to expand production capacity.

The question that worries him is: Now that the price of copper is rising, who can say what the price of copper will be like in two or three years? Now that the price of copper has risen for two or three years, the cost of building a plant at this time is no longer the concept of building a smelter ten or twenty years ago.

If a new smelter is invested more than 100 million yuan at this time, the copper price will not continue to rise on the basis of the current 30,000 yuan per ton in two or three years, but will fall back to the level of more than 10,000 yuan per ton a few years ago, and the new plant will face the situation that it will not even be able to recover its capital.

Liu Zhongzhou gradually realized that whether he could see the trend of copper prices in the next few years was a big question related to whether the Southern Group could develop smoothly.

Even if we do not consider investing in expanding production capacity, we can have a more sober understanding of the trend of copper prices, which is also of great forward-looking significance to the current production and sales of the group.

He has always had a vague worry recently, now that the rise in copper prices has broken through the all-time high, will it continue to rise in the future? How much will it rise? Everyone has no bottom in their hearts.

In the current situation, including production enterprises such as the Southern Group, everyone seems to be pushed forward by a mysterious force, following the price in the market.

But when will such a price trend end, even a veteran in the industry is at a loss, and those who follow the trend in the market are estimated to be even more unclear.

This worry has been haunting him, lingering, and he doesn't know when an unexpected situation will arise.

It's like driving on the highway, as long as you can see the road clearly, it's only a matter of time before you reach the end.

However, it can be dangerous if you suddenly break into a fog while driving, and whether you continue to drive or stop, you are in danger of overstepping the road or being hit by another vehicle.

Regarding the future trend of copper prices, Liu Zhongzhou also discussed with Vice Chairman Xue Chenzhi, General Manager of the Sales Company Huang Hongliang and other senior executives of the group.

But for this problem, even Xue Chenzhi, who has been the director of the smelter for so many years, can't say why.

Huang Hongliang even answered the question: "Chairman, what are you worried about in a few years? Now according to your arrangement, how much Vice President Xue can produce, I will step up sales, take advantage of the price rise, seize the opportunity to make money, the most important thing, hehe." ”

Liu Zhongzhou, who was puzzled by this problem, was right when he thought about it, what Huang Hongliang said was also the truth, since he couldn't see it clearly, let's take one step at a time, and take care of the present first.

On this day, Liu Zhongzhou, who was full of worries, met Li Xin in the corridor and walked over, he couldn't remember the young man's name for a while, until Li Xin approached and nodded to him to say hello, he suddenly remembered his name and said, "That...... Li Xin, how is it going?"

Li Xin asked him so thoughtlessly, he couldn't figure out what he was referring to, he didn't know how to answer, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's okay, the work arranged by the above has been going on all along." ”

Liu Zhongzhou asked, "How familiar are you with the copper-related situation?"

Li Xin scratched her head and said, "This work has been done, but there are still a lot of things I don't understand. ”

Liu Zhongzhou instructed: "If you don't understand, ask others more, and you should become familiar with this matter as soon as possible." ”

Li Xin said, "Okay. ”

Just as Li Xin was about to leave, Liu Zhongzhou seemed to suddenly remember, and said, "Eh, I remember you said a few months ago about a stock, how is the price now?"

When Li Xin heard it, he thought: You didn't think it was true when I told you at the time, but now it's been so long before you remember to ask, really!

"Oh, you're talking about the stock of Rainbow Electric, it's going up pretty well now, and the price is more than thirty-two yuan. Li Xin replied.

Liu Zhongzhou was deeply impressed by Li Xin's performance when he was talking to everyone in Jiang Hua's office, but he didn't care too much about the stock recommended by Li Xin. Now that a few months have passed, he vaguely remembers such an incident, but he has no memory of what the price of that stock was when Li Xin recommended it, so he asked, "What was the price at that time?"

Li Xin said: "It's more than seven yuan." ”

When Liu Zhongzhou heard this, he was a little surprised: "More than three times?"

Li Xin said: "Yes. ”

Liu Zhongzhou now recalls some of the circumstances at that time, and he remembers that Li Xin said that the stock could rise by two or three percent within a year. He didn't take such an estimate seriously at all.

But now that he heard that the increase was more than three times, he didn't dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly asked: "Did you buy and sell it?" Do you think it will rise again?"

Li Xin said: "It hasn't been sold yet, and I think it will rise again." ”

Liu Zhongzhou said: "I remember you said that this manufacturer produces home appliances, right?"

Li Xin said: "Yes, it's a TV. ”

Liu Zhongzhou's mood at this time was a little complicated, it seemed that he had a lot of things to talk to Li Xin about, but he didn't know where to start for a while. His appearance of wanting to speak and stopping made Li Xin a little embarrassed to stand aside, and he didn't stay or stay.

A few seconds later, Liu Zhongzhou waved his hand and left without asking anything.

Liu Zhongzhou, who turned to leave, thought in his heart along the way: When they met for the first time, he felt right about this young man, and he saw the problem much more deeply than others. This stock is an example of this, and he was right again, and he has to take a closer look at this stock when he goes back.

Zhu Fangzheng waited for several days and didn't see Gao Hui's movement, and he was so anxious that he hurriedly called Gao Hui: "Manager Gao, did you reflect our opinions to Mr. Huang last time, what does he mean?"

That day, Gao Hui told Huang Hongliang about Zhu Fangzheng's opinion, and after knowing Huang Hongliang's attitude, he wanted to tell Zhu Fangzheng the result.

But after thinking about it carefully, tell him now, maybe the next thing is to grind with him endlessly, and he doesn't have this idle time.

It's better to do what Huang Hongliang said, dry him for a few days, and tell him when he calls in a hurry, which saves a lot of trouble.

It didn't take long for Zhu Fangzheng to call to ask, Gao Hui understood in his heart that the cable factory was bargaining, but in fact, it was empty in his heart.

They must have been counting the days, wondering when they would be able to pick up the goods in the worst case scenario if the price could not be negotiated.

Otherwise, Zhu Fang would not have been in such a hurry to call.

Because if according to the original price policy, the cable factory is in cash, and the next batch of goods can be negotiated at the end of the month.

In the past, he used to buy goods at the end of the month, and this kind of performance can only show that they have not found other purchase channels, and they still have to rely on the Southern Group.

So Gao Hui said: "Manager Zhu, didn't I tell you at that time? This price policy is set by the group, Mr. Huang's opinion is very clear, just implement this policy, I have no way at all, or you can talk to Mr. Huang again." ”

Zhu Fangzheng felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, in fact, such a result had long been expected by him, but the factory director Hou Gui asked for this, so he had no choice but to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Now that this road is blocked, he can only hang up the phone quickly, and he does not dare to delay for a moment, and go to the factory director's office to report the results to Hou Gui to see how he arranges.

Even if the advance payment is made at this time according to the requirements of the Southern Group, the delivery time is also the end of the month, if it is delayed for a few more days, the raw materials are interrupted, and the production line stops, and I can't afford to take this responsibility.

What's even worse is that the instructions of the factory director Hou Gui at the beginning were that only one-third of the goods were ordered in the Southern Group, and the other two-thirds had not yet been settled.

Hou Gui listened to Zhu Fangzheng's report, and he also made a mistake in his heart.

Completely agree to the request of the Southern Group, I am really panicked. If you don't agree, you will immediately face a situation where you will have no rice to cook next month.

This turmoil arose, and it took a quarter for the plant to recover from the change in raw material suppliers. If the follow-up raw material supplier often has some problems, the production in the factory will fluctuate greatly.