"This, old Jiang, you are very familiar with this smelting company?"

Jiang Dajun, the director of the Institute of Rare Earths, is now in his early 50s, he has dark skin, five big and three thick, he should have been engaged in field work for a long time, and he has a rough temperament all over his body, not at all like the director of any scientific research institute.

However, people can't look good, and Lao Jiang is a high-achieving student of the "Kazakhstan Military Industry" back then, a real material expert, and has participated in a number of secret projects. Now it is the situation that the entire domestic environment is not good, which forced him to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and deigned to run to this ravine to attend the wedding of two villagers.

To be honest, the arrival of Lao Jiang was really a little embarrassed by Li Huayong himself, so he used the title of "Lao Jiang", wanting to use it to get close to the other party.

Hearing Li Huayong's inquiry, Jiang Dajun grinned, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he revealed that intellectuals like him did not understand the essence of long-sleeved dancing.

"This.... Actually, I don't know them very well. ”

Li Huayong smiled: "Then this red envelope ......"

"Xiao Li, you may not know, if you really want to talk about it, our company and theirs are also a system, so I ...... it"

Li Huayong listened to Lao Jiang's introduction of the smelting company with a smile, and of course Li Huayong understood what he said, "It was originally a system".

There are dozens of smelting and construction companies in China, and the number is also more than 20 like the Railway Engineering Bureau, and among so many smelting and construction companies, some of them belong to the Ministry of Metallurgy in the early years, and some of them belong to the Nonferrous Metals Corporation.

But no matter what department it belongs to, as an industry construction company, the smelting company is inextricably linked with metals, and everyone knows that rare earth is actually a metal. Although Li Huayong still can't figure out what kind of metal it is, there is no doubt that it is definitely a metal.

And this is what Lao Jiang means when he says "it was originally a system", presumably Lao Jiang's rare earth research institute must have had a business intersection with this smelting company before, and even the relationship between the two is not bad, so this time he will help the other party bring a red envelope.

Sure enough, Lao Jiang began to introduce their relationship with this smelting company, Li Huayong was not interested in others, and when talking to Lao Jiang, Li Huayong just asked casually:

"This smelting and construction company, it should be very difficult now, right?"

Old Jiang was silent, and after a long while, he nodded silently.

Li Huayong was equally silent.

In his previous life, although Li Huayong only joined the work in the new century, as an old bird in the industry, he also heard about the "sad life" of this brother unit. When Li Huayong first joined the work, among the dozens of domestic smelting and construction companies, there were almost no ones who had a very good life, and there were actually not many that could maintain normal operation, while most of the others were already struggling with difficulties and large-scale losses.

The reason for this situation, Li Huayong still thinks that it can be summed up in one sentence: the general environment.

Since our country has been implementing a planned economy before, this has caused most of the industry construction companies, their rise and fall and the entire industry is closely related, the industry is good, the market is good, then their tasks are relatively full, life can go on. And once the industry is not good, it is the construction companies in these industries that bear the brunt of it.

In today's era, whether it is the Ministry of Metallurgy that still exists, or the non-ferrous metals corporation that is about to be established, their life is certainly not easy, which also causes most of the smelting companies to have a hard time.

In addition, there is another characteristic of the smelting and construction company, that is, due to the problem of our country's industrial layout, a large number of "third-line factories" were built in the early years, which caused many smelting and construction companies to be hidden in the depths of the mountains and in a poor countryside.

This is a big problem, especially for a construction company, which is even a flaw, a fatal flaw. Li Huayong believes that it may be precisely because of these two objective reasons that the life of the smelting and construction company is generally sad in this era.

Compared with a unit like the Railway Engineering Bureau, the difficult conditions are almost the same, but the task is certainly not as full as that of a family. Compared with units like Huajian Ninth Bureau, the metallurgical construction company has suffered a loss in not occupying a good territory, which is the current situation of the metallurgical construction company.

"Alas, it's embarrassing too......"

Li Huayong pinched the red envelope in his hand, and sighed silently in his heart. Li Huayong even knows that although the current life of the smelting and construction company is sad, the saddest day has not yet come, to paraphrase a vulgar saying, the "longest winter" of the smelting and construction company, it will have to wait until a few years later when Lao Maozi disintegrates.

As we all know, Lao Maozi has always been a country with a fairly developed heavy industry, and it is also a country with very rich mineral resources, and its disintegration, during those years, had a huge impact on the mineral resources industry, and in the international market, the prices of various heavy metals fell sharply.

At that time, it will be the real winter of the smelting and construction company. In the previous life, there were many smelting and construction companies, but they did not withstand this wave of impact, and they all came to the verge of bankruptcy, and those who could withstand this wave of impact were basically Phoenix Nirvana, and they lived a very nourishing life in the future after reorganization.

"This company, this company.... Hehe, you can really find the temple gate with a pig's head, and you have a future......"

Li Huayong pinched the red envelope and continued to think there. Of course, he knows why he has this red envelope in his hand, because a few years ago, he asked Lin Yingbiao to send out a bidding invitation, and there was precisely this smelting company.

Li Huayong is not the kind of real indignant youth with a strong sense of justice, let alone a virgin, although this kind of behavior is suspected of "drilling camps", but this is not a certain leader who uses power for his own personal interests, so in Li Huayong's view, this is actually human nature, and the nature of this behavior is actually no different from Xia Minghuan and others deliberately going to Lijiaao.

Even in a sense, Li Huayong still has a little appreciation for this kind of behavior. Why do you say this? Because Li Huayong himself has a deep understanding of it, he himself had engaged in quite a lot of bidding work in his previous life, and people like Li Huayong are often faced with the confusion of "carrying a pig's head and not finding the temple gate."

If this red envelope is compared to a pig's head, then the size of the pig's head is another matter, at least people can find themselves here, which is the real "finding the right temple gate".

It is precisely for this reason that Li Huayong wants to sigh "promising"!

Of course, although Li Huayong lamented that the metallurgical construction company was "promising" and sympathized with their situation, there was no change in his heart.

Finding a good construction unit for such a big project is a big deal, and this project is so critical to him and closely related to his future, so as a mature person, Li Huayong will certainly not change his original idea because of a red envelope. Therefore, at this time, Li Huayong still believed that the project was carried out by Huajian Ninth Bureau.

It's a pity that a few months later, Li Huayong still changed. Of course, the reason why Li Huayong made the change was not because of the red envelope, but because of another thing that the smelting and construction company did.

Perhaps it can be said that it is precisely because of this smelting and construction company that it can be regarded as really finding Li Huayong's "temple gate".

The time came to April 1987, and the whole project is now progressing smoothly, and with a few months of construction, an industrial park has begun to take shape.

At this time, the construction of the ceramic factory was also on the agenda, and in late April, the tenders produced by the five companies were finally concentrated in the Nam Giang Provincial Construction Committee.

"Director Xiong, can you let me take a look at those bids first? Yes, I'll take a look at those technical bids first. ”

"Okay, Xiao Li, you can take it first......"

Li Huayong is on behalf of the owner Lin Group, in the words of later generations, he is similar to "one of the members of the bid evaluation committee", and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the boss of the bid evaluation committee, he wants to see the bid first, which of course there is no problem.

Li Huayong made the change after reading the bid, and when he saw the tender made by the smelting company, he fell into deep thought.

After thinking about it for a whole night, the next day, Li Huayong first dialed the phone number of Pengcheng Huajian Ninth Bureau:

"Hey, I'm Li Huayong, may I ask Zhang Yongping if Mr. Zhang is there.... Oh, Mr. Zhang is still in Hunan Province, that's okay, then I'll find Mr. Xia.... Yes, Chief Engineer Xia of the Third Company, if it is convenient for him, please ask him to come to Nanjiang immediately...... Well, I know the bid will be opened in a week, and I'm asking him to come early..... Okay, okay, can you tell him or ask him to give me a call.... Okay, okay, thanks. ”

Now Li Huayong is a bit weighty no matter what he says, so his words still have some effect, and on the afternoon of the second day after making the phone call, Li Huayong met a group of people from Huajian Ninth Bureau in Shimen County.

It's just that after seeing the people who came with Xia Minghuan, Li Huayong was still startled:

"Cai, Mr. Cai, why did you come in person. ”