In an unlisted courtyard on the outskirts of Tangshan, there are already hundreds of people bustling outside the gate. At the beginning, few people knew that this courtyard belonged to the newly established Dafeng Iron and Steel Foreign Office. However, with the constant emergence of Soviet imported steel, more and more people have become aware of it.

A few strong security guards stood guard at the door until a professionally dressed girl with glasses walked out. As soon as someone appeared, the crowd immediately swarmed up, and the girl took a step back in fright, and was slightly relieved to find that the security guards had formed a human wall to block the crowd.

"Comrade, I'm from the Northern Cable Factory. If we can't buy this batch of steel, our factory will stop production, and more than 3,000 people will have to drink the northwest wind. ”

"We are built by the province and have national key projects. Let me in, we are all fellow countrymen, we have the approval of our superiors!"

"What's the use of no money?

"Give me, give me, don't pay attention to those poor people, we can raise the price!uh? Who hit me in the head? Get out of the way to labor——!"

“......”

The abolition of the dual-track system has brought about inflation for several consecutive years. Wages rose from a few dozen yuan to a few hundred yuan, but the workers did not feel happy, and their actual purchasing power did not increase much. However, they still enjoyed the fruits of reform and opening up to some extent.

This is also due to the fact that more than 10 years of reform and opening up, the production package to households and the vigorous development of township enterprises, there are more and more non-staple food and light industrial products. At least eat a few more meats and buy a few more pairs of leather shoes.

Heavy industry, however, has always been a no-go zone. Not only is it an absolute ban on domestic private capital, but even foreign capital is a big obstacle. Heavy industrial products such as metallurgy, machinery, and minerals are all indispensable raw materials and means of production. There are more and more light industrial products, and there is always a need for sufficient supply of raw materials, right?

As a result, a pair of contradictions was formed, and heavy industrial products became extremely scarce. Moreover, because of inflation, heavy industry enterprises have suffered large-scale losses. If you think about it, the cycle of heavy industry production is generally relatively long. After the contract was concluded in the first few months, the price of raw materials rose sharply during the production period, which often led to a situation in which the amount of production was lost. Therefore, in the end, even the production power of heavy industry enterprises is not very sufficient.

Of course, there are other reasons, and it's not that simple. For example, there is a serious investment gap in capital construction and technological transformation projects, resulting in a large amount of arrears in payment to production enterprises and construction enterprises; for example, enterprises are seriously losing money. The loss of the enterprise should have been closed, but at that time, it could not be done for various reasons, and it still had to produce, and if it could not borrow money, it could only be in arrears; for example, the products were not marketable or had no market at all, resulting in a serious backlog of products.

So it didn't take long for another stubborn disease to form - triangular debt!

At that time, the triangular debt was already frenzied. Enterprises owe each other and settle it on their own, and the government basically does not intervene. Almost every business has a lot of IOUs, and it is also a lot of debt. Most of the energy of sales work is used to collect debts, and the gate and train of enterprises are full of debt collection armies. In order to collect debts, eighteen kinds of martial arts were used, and ...... scene was more exciting than Hollywood blockbusters.

At this time, the whole country has no credit, no one pays attention to credit, and it is delayed if it can be delayed, and it is owed if it can be owed. In order to demand debts, some people use their connections to get the local police to arrest people for thousands of miles. And some people use their connections in order to repay their debts...... It also allowed the local police to arrest people for thousands of miles. Anyway, local protectionism doesn't matter if you're in debt or a creditor, you might be picking up soap for no reason.

Later, the state saw that it was wrong, its public image was too bad, and it was a miasma, so it ordered the police to arrest people in other places, and the police were not allowed to intervene in economic disputes. That's what makes ...... At least there is some sense of security in debt collection. However, it is not without sequelae, it is by no means a washing of the ground, and the usury and naked loans that often appear recently are often those criminals who are very cunning and fake them into economic disputes, causing the police to be helpless at first. There is no way, it will be cut across the board! I can only persuade them to go to the court to settle the matter. But does that work for the loan sharks?

Of course, the most bullish ones are those big enterprises -- they will never pay off their debts and will resolutely not pay them back! No matter if you play hard or soft, can you play with them? Therefore, when Jing Jian "persisted" in the Education Bureau looking for Wei Yingzhi at the beginning, he went to those big enterprises to ask for debts in his previous life. Perseverance, but never pestering scoundrels to find trouble, and not letting those who handle them have the slightest bad feeling. Otherwise, those large enterprises have security departments, even enterprise police stations, militia and machine gun anti-aircraft guns, will they be afraid of a few scoundrels in you?

As a result, steel has become extremely scarce, and steel mills are reluctant to tap their own production capacity (although the dual-track system has been abolished, there is still a price limit for important means of production such as steel). Therefore, it is still produced at a loss, or it is still produced with a large number of IOUs), and it cannot be imported in large quantities, resulting in a situation where supply exceeds demand in the market.

Especially the issue of imports. At that time, ordinary enterprises did not have the right to import and export, and needed to import and export through the national professional foreign trade company. How can the country, for something like steel, which can be produced in large part on its own, use its precious foreign exchange?

Therefore, there are only two ways to obtain unplanned steel, that is, to buy steel from the market: one is to get the approval from the person with the energy, and the other is to buy the steel with the approval from the black market at a high price.

Unexpectedly, there was suddenly an exception in Tangshan, Dafeng Steel. Dafeng Iron & Steel is a foreign-funded enterprise with its own import and export rights. If other foreign-funded enterprises want to import steel, unless it is for their own use, other countries will not approve it at all. If you have foreign exchange in your domestic bank, the bank will not send you money abroad at all, even if you have three heads and six arms, it will be fine. And foreign steel mills, if you don't give money, he won't export them to China with brains, right?

But Dafeng Iron and Steel is different, and the steel he imports does not need to remit foreign exchange from China first. Of course, in the future, this large export quota will definitely be used for the export of domestic goods. In other words, from the perspective of domestic regulation, it is to arrive first and pay later.

In this way, there is no restriction on Dafeng Iron and Steel importing steel from the Soviet Union. If you have not used foreign exchange, what reason do the regulatory departments have for carrying out any foreign exchange balance? Isn't it good that so much steel has been shipped to China for your use? Therefore, with the import of batches, Dafeng Iron and Steel has soon become a well-known hot spot in the circle.