Zhuang Yong and his co-workers gathered around a black bakelite phone, looking forward to the moment it got through.

They are all employees of the county tubing factory, and they have been out of production for almost a year, and they can only make a living by halving their wages of 20 yuan per month.

There were only four telephones in the whole factory, and Zhuang Yong and the others found the old factory director and dialed the phone from the afternoon until the evening.

Everyone checked the phone number countless times, but they still couldn't get through.

When a worker got tired, he gave up his position to Zhuang Yong, and joked: "Now it's time to test you." ”

Everyone smiled cooperatively, their mood was a little anxious, and they needed to relax for a while.

Zhuang Yong lifted the phone and gently dialed the first number, without looking at it. They've been dialing the number for half a day.

As usual, it is busy.

Zhuang Yong is not surprised, today's phone call seems to be only this one tone.

After hanging up, Zhuang Yong began to dial the second number, and laughed softly: "It will always get through." ”

"You're in luck. ”

"I've always been lucky. Zhuang Yong shook his hand, and when he was about to hang up the phone, he realized that the voice was different.

At this moment, a sweet female voice came from the microphone: "Hello, Dahua Industry." ”

Zhuang Yong coughed vigorously and said busily: "Hello, our workers from the Jiaming County Tubing Factory, we want to work overseas, is it okay?"

The workers who were still laughing all quieted down with serious faces.

The sweet female voice said kindly, "May I ask if it is an individual or a group?"

"Groups, sort of groups. There are 300 of us in total. ”

"Okay, please tell me about your academic qualifications, professional rank, and what you are good at. "The phone call was very detailed. Compared to the cost of traveling for hundreds of people, the telephone bill is significantly cheaper.

Zhuang Yong listened and remembered, and the workers around him were all tiptoeing to watch.

After about five minutes, Zhuang Yong reluctantly hung up the phone. I wrote down a small half of the paper.

The person behind who couldn't see the record shouted, "What's going on inside?"

"A lot of requests. Zhuang Yong picked up the paper, stood on the chair, and said, "First of all." We are a tubing factory, as long as we lay oil pipes abroad, don't build oil pipes. Therefore, those who can lay oil pipes can go through the assessment, and those who make oil pipes can only go after training, and during the training period, they will only be given 20 yuan for food and accommodation...... Then, workers who go abroad have to learn foreign languages, and if they can't pass the 'level 2' exam in half a year, they can only return to their home countries to work......"

"The requirements are different for different types of work. Another worker shouted. said: "There are not many people who can go. ”

"If we are engaged in machinery, should we also learn to lay oil pipes?"

Zhuang Yong glanced up, it was the master of the factory who repaired machine tools, and immediately said: "Liu Gong has a senior title." If you pass their assessment, you will be able to work. However, people also say that foreign countries are mainly for exploration, followed by engineering construction, although there are factories. However, the number is very small, and in the end, it has to be run by foreigners, so the demand is low, and it is possible to arrange to work in the country. ”

"How do you calculate the money for a job in China?"

Another worker was surprised: "It's not necessarily where it is, maybe it's Shandong*dong, maybe it's Xin*Xinjiang." So far, you're going too?"

"Why don't you go?" Liu Gong glared and said, "Xiaozhuang, how do you calculate money abroad?"

Workers who were once ashamed to talk about money have long been crushed by the burden of life.

Zhuang Yong sighed and said, "100 yuan plus allowance." There is no allowance in the first year, and it depends on whether you are willing to enter Dahua Industry in the future, if you go in, it will be 200 yuan a month. ”

The 100 yuan in 1989 was not as much as it was in 1987. Two consecutive years of inflation have reduced the purchasing power of banknotes by more than half. The wage increase in enterprises and institutions across the country is also carried out along with inflation, but the speed is naturally much slower, and the quality of life of people who receive wages is generally declining.

The suspended tubing factory is only 20 yuan per month, Liu Gong is still tempted, and said: "I will go for 100 yuan, I can't just stay like this." ”

An older one persuaded: "Liu Gong, you are also old and young, what if you go too far?"

"I don't want to set up a stall?"

Zhuang Yong looked at the retreating people, shook his head and said, "If you want to go, you can't go." There is also an examination in China, and it is necessary to wait for the selection of foreign workers before selecting domestic workers......"

Liu Gong was unmoved and said, "Where can I sign up?"

"It is said that you have to send your resume first, and if the resume is passed, Dahua Industrial will reimburse the round-trip fare. ”

"Reimbursement of fares?" everyone was excited.

State-owned enterprises have not recruited workers outside the factory for many years, and occasionally there are a few indicators for entering the factory, and I have only heard of the applicants giving gifts, but I have never heard of the factory reimbursing the car and horse expenses of the applicants.

This formal approach immediately grabbed people's hearts, and in an instant, the people in the old factory director's room disappeared.

A few days later, piles of letters appeared in the Dahua lab. Mr. Zhong, who led more than 100 trained fellows, began reviewing the resumes.

In addition, it is inevitable that some people will take the initiative to come to Dongying to take the exam regardless of the travel expenses. Dahua Lab still has to receive them.

The heaviest workload is naturally the unit that contracts the project, although most people are not interested in advances, but they can afford a fairly low price for the project, and it is settled in RMB, which is very important for Sioux City, he has 40 or 50 million RMB in assets, but the US dollars are almost all borrowed, and the former's means of payment are naturally more flexible than the latter.

Formosa Plastics and Evergreen also have to send accountants to verify the fees.

Of course, the biggest problem is always the cost of materials, and the Setan area is a pure new oil field, and it is a high-specification shallow sea oil field. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the reconstruction of a victory oil field.

For such a large scale, Formosa Plastics and Evergreen have prepared a total of $300 million in funding. Sioux City will have to find a way to raise another $200 million. According to the official exchange rate, this is 2 billion yuan, but it is actually 3.5 billion yuan, which is already more than the amount of assets of Shengli Oilfield.

Such a big piece of cake was selfie and placed on CCTV for advertising, so that factories across the country couldn't even notice it.

1 million yuan, can broadcast advertisements on CCTV one and two sets around the clock. Over time, the types of ads have increased. The factories themselves will also consider: they have to have cranes, they have to have cables, they have to have lunch boxes, they have to wear shoes, right?

These state-run or private factories don't care about the cost of one or two train tickets, and take the opportunity before the Spring Festival to go straight to Dongying to give gifts, and some people are worried that Sioux City will not accept it, so they call friends to find the relationship between the local government or Shengli Oilfield, and then come to visit with gifts.

They were overly concerned.

Sioux City is not a public family, and the shares of the company are 100% owned by him, so receiving gifts is not a problem at all. He even set up a warehouse to store the gifts of various units and keep them on record.

Other than that, Sioux City is kind to everyone who visits. In particular, he personally received state-owned enterprises above the scale of large enterprises, private enterprises at the provincial scale, and cadres at or above the department level.

When Shougang's people came, Su Cheng patted each other's hands and promised to buy special steel. This is an essential construction material for oil fields, and it is also the type of steel that steel mills have the most profit and the least sales.

When the people from the second automobile factory came, Sioux City took the other party's arm, promised to buy special vehicles and modified vehicles, and joined forces to build natural gas trucks.

When the people from Panda Electronics Group came, Su Cheng put his arm around each other's shoulders and promised to buy communication equipment and electromechanical integration equipment......

When the people from the Shanghai Petroleum General Plant came, Su Cheng did not dislike the identity of Sinopec in his family, and still accompanied him to drink, promising to buy petroleum and petrochemical products and natural gas methanol production equipment......

Not only that, Sioux City also took the initiative to contact China Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd., China First Heavy Industry, China Second Heavy Industry, Harbin Steam Turbine Factory, China State Construction Corporation and other ministerial-level enterprises to order equipment and services from them.

There are a lot of heavy industrial products to be used in the Setan Oilfield, and just three or five bottom-type drilling platforms will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. For ordinary small and medium-sized factories, Sioux City must pay RMB, and for enterprises like CSSC and Yizhong, Sioux City will throw out dollars to tempt them.

In just half a month, Su Cheng has already scattered 400 million US dollars, and all the 50 million US dollars he has in hand to raise money is not enough to pay a deposit, and he asked Evergreen Group and Formosa Plastics Group to raise 50 million US dollars.

At this time, Su Cheng went to Beijing to be interviewed by the Ministry of Energy.

From 1988 to 1998, the Ministry of Energy was in charge of energy policy. Although the Ministry of Energy has always appeared as a co-ordinator in terms of specific implementation, once it has the support of its subordinate enterprises, the deterrent effect of the Ministry of Energy is considerable.

That's what Minister Guo came up with. Although he saw Dahua Industrial's advertisement, he only thought it was to recruit employees and some small businesses to save money, and did not pay attention to it. In his mind, as long as he got the support of the China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinopec and CNOOC, plus the Ministry of Energy itself, the four mountains would be pressed down, and as long as Dahua Industrial was still in China, it would only have to be compliant, and he even met with the leaders of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and got a certain degree of space.

In the past half month, Minister Guo has been equally busy and consciously prepared, so he pulled the three deputy general managers of PetroChina, Sinopec and PetroChina to interview Sucheng together.

The template of the four vice ministers, plus four or five accompanying officials, as well as officials from Shengli Oilfield and other enterprises who were interviewed at the same time, nearly 20 people appeared in the conference hall.

Minister Guo and the other three officials sat at the chairman's table, Su Cheng sat in a lower position facing them, and behind them were the officials of the Shengli Oilfield, not so much talking about them as questioning.

Looking at Su Cheng, who seemed to be calm, Minister Guo finally laughed and said, "We are here today mainly to discuss the distribution of oil in the Setan area......

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