Shencheng's supply and marketing office near the North Railway Station, is an old-fashioned building, the door is full of people coming and going, standing at the door you can see the North Railway Station freight yard not far away, there are more than a dozen trains parked inside, most of which are trucks, pulling coal, steel and cotton yarn and other goods, ten minutes will start the departure does not know where to go.

"With so much steel, I can't put together dozens of tons for us if I don't believe it?"

When he arrived here, Zhou Delu also put aside his apprehension and led his subordinates into the hall of the supply and marketing office.

There were a lot of people in the hall, people with all kinds of accents, either waiting in line at the counter, or muttering in small groups.

"Where can I buy it?"

No one has ever experienced this kind of thing, so Zhou Delu casually pulled someone over.

"This comrade, I want to buy steel, where can I buy it?"

The other party seemed to be a southerner, and when he heard the other party's inquiry, he hurriedly waved his hand and left in a hurry.

"Comrade, I want to buy steel, where can I buy it?"

Zhou Delu pulled someone over again and asked.

"There, there!"

The other party pointed to the counter in front of him with some impatience, and then turned his head and left.

After asking several people but not understanding, a few people decided to line up and ask the salesperson at the counter.

"Comrade, we want to buy sixty tons of second-class round steel, but we don't know how. ”

After a while, a few people arrived at the counter, and Zhou Delu asked in front of a small window.

"What do you do?"

The other party was a saleswoman and asked directly and unceremoniously.

"I am the director of Fucheng Bearing Factory, this is my letter of introduction!"

Zhou Delu took out the letter of introduction from the factory and wanted to hand it in.

"The letter of introduction from the factory, take it, what's the use of this? The steel is all given to you by the province, how can you come to us to buy it if you don't go to the city?"

The other party didn't even look at it.

"The city asked us to buy it from you. ”

Zhou Delu hurriedly explained.

"As I said, the province has already given you a quota for the city, and if the city doesn't have it, that's your city's problem, where do we have it? Unless you have the quota given by the province, if you don't leave quickly!"

"The provincial quota?

Zhou Delu and a few people were caught blind at that time, you look at me, I see you are at a loss.

"If not, leave quickly, don't stand here in the way, let's go!"

The other party directly picked it up.

"That's right! Let's go, if you want to buy steel, you have to ask for a quota, and you can't even buy a hair without a quota!"

A southerner in the back looked at them and said.

"Do you have a quota?"

Zhou Delu glanced at the other party and asked.

"Nonsense! What am I doing here without a quota?

The southerner was holding a red-headed document in his hand, on which was indeed the quota approval document of the Provincial Supply and Marketing Department, which said 100 tons of cotton yarn.

Several people couldn't get out of the counter.

"What the hell is this?"

Zhou Delu scolded, let's buy it ourselves, buy a fart!

"It seems that we can only go to the big leader and see if he has a way. ”

A few people were just about to leave, when suddenly a middle-aged man appeared on the side.

"How about I buy you a quota?"

The other party whispered.

"What? Do you have a quota?"

Several people were taken aback.

"Be quiet, be quiet, go, come with me and talk!"

The other man glanced at them, and then turned to leave.

Several people looked at each other.

"Director, is he a liar?"

A man asked warily.

"This .........! Let's take a look, there are several of us, what can he do to us alone? Besides, this is the supply and marketing office, who dares to rob money in public? You two protect me with the money!"

A few men cautiously followed.

The man came to a corner and stopped, looked around and found nothing wrong, and waved his hand at Zhou Delu and a few people.

"Do you have a quota?"

Zhou Delu came to him and asked.

"Of course there is, not to mention the steel quota, even grain, cotton yarn, and timber, how much do you want?"

"We don't need anything else, just 60 tons of second-class round steel!"

Zhou Delu replied.

"Sixty tons of second-class round steel, yes, yes, one ton is 700 yuan, and sixty tons is 42,000 yuan. ”

The other party said.

"Seven hundred yuan a ton!" forty-two thousand yuan?"

This price almost scared a few people in Zhou Delu.

Before he came, he had inquired clearly, the national quota of second-class round steel is 300 yuan a ton, he took 20,000 yuan, can buy more than 60 tons, these 60 tons of round steel is enough for them to produce for three or four months, but now I hear the other party say 700 yuan a ton, the price is far beyond his ability to bear.

"I said, isn't the second-grade round steel 300 yuan a ton? How did it become 700 yuan?"

Liu Donglai, who was on the side, hurriedly asked.

"Hehe, 300 yuan a ton is the government's price, you must have no raw materials to produce, it is because this steel is in short supply now, all over the country, first-class rebar is 1,500 yuan a ton, I have a way to get the quota, it took a lot of effort, 700 yuan to buy you is not much. ”

The other party replied.

"Are you lying to us? You can get a quota just by doing it?"

The other man was clearly unconvinced.

"Hmph, I don't believe it...... Smack!"

The other party clapped his hands, and three men walked out of an alley, all of them very strong.

"Old Five, let them see the quota file!"

A big man took out a document from his purse, and sure enough, it was a red-headed document from the provincial supply and marketing office, which said that the quota of 500 tons of first-class round steel was written, and the big red seal was also printed at the payment office.

"See, don't say it's 600 tons, even if it's 600 tons!"

The other party waved his hand, and the men put the documents back in their purses and turned to leave.

"And so it was!"

Liu Lang saw it clearly on the side, the previous assumption was right, they are the so-called "official down", these "official down" are all hand-eyed figures, the background is very deep, and some are even relatives of some high-ranking officials, they use their power to get approval, and then change hands at a high price, they can get huge returns without much effort, for example, this time, 300 yuan a ton of steel can be bought for 700 yuan immediately, more than double.

Of course, you can also not buy, but now the province is short of raw materials, a large number of raw materials must be supplied to those large enterprises, as for the bearing factory this kind of simply not lined up enterprises, you can not complete the task and how much impact? Who will care about you?

In addition, most of these raw materials are bought to those individual small enterprises in the south, because these small enterprises cannot obtain the government's quota of raw materials, even if the price of raw materials obtained through "official dumping" is very high, but because the cost of labor is very low, the products produced will definitely not be much higher than the price of state-owned enterprises, and there is no need for quota bills such as food stamps, so these products will be more competitive than state-owned enterprises, and they will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

But individual enterprises can spend a lot of money to buy these raw materials, the bearing factory does not have such strength, Zhou Delu to dare to buy 700 yuan a ton of round steel, enough not to say, this price to be known by the city, he must not be the director of the factory, if you don't get it will be sentenced, the price is too great.

"Seven hundred dollars a ton, we ......... We can't afford it, we can't afford it!"

Zhou Delu shook his head again and again.

"If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. ”

The other party obviously knows the situation in Liaobei Province very well.

"If you can't complete the task, you won't buy it, let's go, let's go!"

After Zhou Delu finished speaking, he turned around and left with a few people, and if he couldn't complete the task, he would be removed at most, and if he bought high-priced steel, he might go to prison.

"A bunch of poor ghosts!"

The other party pursed his lips, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, lit one, and ignored a few people.