"Chen Shu, if you have any ideas, just say it, I'm not afraid of your jokes, and it's not an exaggeration to describe me as the end of the road when I run out of food, or how can I come out to you to find a way out, or I see more peers in Tangshan, is it the willingness to buy shares or acquisitions. Li Canghai said what was in his heart this time.

"Has it really come this far?" Chen Shu asked very seriously, he never thought that the other party would come to this point. However, Li Canghai did not answer, but nodded silently.

"If it were my company, I would gradually abandon some industries that are seriously loss-making but have little prospects. At this time, if you don't have the courage of a strong man to break his wrist, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to be reborn in Nirvana, and only after passing this hurdle can you see hope. Chen Shu said seriously.

"I've thought about it too, but I'm a little reluctant, after all, I've done it bit by bit. Then there is the current steel market, which will only make my business cheap. Li Canghai said.

"I understand this, choose between life and death, I'm afraid you don't have any choice. Since you're here in Tangshan, it's better than selling to those who don't know how to sell at a price, right?" Chen Shu said, Li Canghai nodded helplessly.

"Now don't talk about the difficulties of your business, I'm afraid no company is better, except for those who have the support of banks for the word 'country', and then those listed companies can raise funds, how many can be spared?"

"Since the stock market boom last year, I have been paying attention to the stock market, knowing that I only turned my energy after the stock in my hand was sold. To put it mildly, if we use those funds, whose company is not better than those listed companies. ”

"If you look at their debt ratio, isn't it above 70 percent, and we can't raise 30 percent of the money. But how did we get our debts? Either we borrowed money at high interest rates from the private sector, or we borrowed money from banks through connections, but there were not a lot of favors and 'asking for directions' in any of the funds, which is why I did not dare to expand vigorously. ”

"We are raised by our stepmother, we can't afford to win and lose, and if we lose, the family will have no one to take care of, and we all have to go hungry. Chen Shu said.

When the company was developing, a bunch of people came to inspect the work, Xinhai Iron and Steel Group flourished under the leadership of XX, and the production profits were bumper, and the profits and taxes reached a new high of XXX billion yuan.

Now, who is looking for who is not there, asking who is busy with work and can't get out. What do you ask? Because when you develop, you can't ask for others, and the other party will only get glory from you, and now you really ask for the other party, and you are worried that you will get involved with yourself and make a "sass".

Behind the glamour is endless hardships, who would have thought that the huge Shanxi Xinhai Group has gone into decline, just because of financial problems to make such a large steel empire to the point of begging for people.

"Mr. Chen, the reason why I found you is not because I feel that I am young and easy to deceive, but more because you are now more courageous and thoughtful than when I was young, and I want to find my own way out from you. Li Canghai said.

"Are you disappointed when you see my current situation?" Chen Shu asked rhetorically.

"No, you are more capable than I imagined, I have to admire your vision and ability, really! A few years ago, when the steel situation was good, I really didn't care who it was, with an annual production capacity of 7 million tons of iron and 7.5 million tons of steel, I am afraid that I could not find a few private enterprises in the country that could compete with me. ”

"To be able to get to this point, it can be regarded as my own fault, I can't blame others, which factories do you think I should cut down the most?" Li Canghai hesitated, but still felt that it was better to ask Chen Shu's suggestion.

"You ask me?" Chen Shu was a little surprised, but he still said what he thought.

"I think you can make it independent, this is your local industry, you just intervened early, I'm afraid you won't be able to talk about your advantage in a few years, right?" asked Chen Shu.

"In the beginning, I was the most advanced, and there were few companies that could compete with me, and now I can only be considered average. Li Canghai said truthfully.

"The blast furnace must not be given up, it is too difficult to build a new blast furnace in Tangshan now, it is replaced by a ratio of 1.25:1 through demolition and replacement of the old with the new, and my new factory is a discontinued factory acquired according to this standard. ”

"Therefore, the next step that can be cut is rolling steel, there is no need to consider the low technical content, don't think about making money without differentiated products, which factory you need to cut you should have an idea, right?"

"Of course, I'm only targeting the steel industry, and I won't comment on your other industries. Chen Shu smiled and said.

After listening to Chen Shu's words, Li Canghai did have an idea, although Chen Shu said that his words were just a reference, in fact, what he said was not meaningless.

"Content, let's be fated to know Mr. Chen, thank you!" Li Canghai said.

"To be honest, you didn't look down on me when we met, and you talked to me so much at that time, and I was very grateful in my heart. If I hadn't met you, where would I have the courage to go directly to the three 1080 blast furnaces?" Chen Shu said.

At the beginning, Chen Shu regarded Li Canghai as a role model, mainly because he had little knowledge of blast furnaces at that time, and Li Canghai was indeed regarded as the object of his own learning and imitation.

It's just that Chen Shu walked out of his own way, and did not blindly copy it, but made his own characteristics.

After Wang Xizhu arranged all the things before returning to Chen Shu's office, Chen Shu introduced to Li Canghai at this time: "Mr. Li, this is our prosperous (deputy) general manager Wang Xizhu, originally Guo Huaiyi has always been in charge of this side, and now the new factory has transferred him there.

"Haha! it's all the same!" Li Canghai said.

"Let's go, I'll take you to our workshop to visit, if there is anything lacking, please ask Mr. Li to give comments or suggestions!" After speaking, he put on the helmet on the desk, and Wang Xizhu went back to his office and took out two hats.

I had already seen the layout of the office area and the production area upstairs, so I was not surprised to see the door between the two areas when I came downstairs.

Since he brought the other party over, Chen Shu has no intention of hiding it, if the other party has a day of regaining strength in the future, he may not be able to communicate with the company, especially in terms of technology. What's more, this is a good fate, which is why Chen Shu decided to take Li Canghai to visit.

A layman's visit is just to see a lively scene, but is Li Cang's overseas trip? It would be a joke if he was a layman, from the initial earthen kiln coking to the later machine coke, from the initial 300 cubic meters of small blast furnace to the later 1,380 cubic meters of blast furnace, all of which were slowly built under his single-handed command.

From the initial horizontal rolling strip steel, to the later multi-slice rolling rebar, all of them are the process of accumulating and broadening the technology and vision of the other party.

(End of chapter)