Xingchuan.

After the departure of the Central Working Group, there was no news. Gao Xuejian, the county magistrate, originally thought that the working group had made a trip and would find fault with it anyway, but after waiting for more than half a month, he did not see any first-level leaders greeting Xingchuan County, which made Gao Xuejian both a little surprised and relaxed.

The provincial propaganda department issued a document requiring cadres throughout the province to learn from Guo Qiushi's glorious deeds of sacrificing himself to save others. Various honors, such as outstanding party members and exemplary workers, are ready and are waiting for the right time to be commended. After Guo Qiushi was sent to the military hospital in the provincial capital, he received a high level of treatment and care. Wang Yue visited him several times in the provincial capital, and every time he asked when he would be discharged from the hospital, Guo Qiushi smiled but did not answer, as if he planned to stay in the hospital for a long time.

These things in the officialdom did not affect the more than 100 small iron and steel enterprises in the county in the slightest. During this time, there seem to be a little more customers who have come to Xingchuan to order steel than in the past, and most of them are appearing for the first time, except for a few familiar faces that they have seen before. The small bosses of the steel mills didn't care much about this, as long as they could pay, who cared if they were raw and regular?

Lu Dashuang recently received a good job, a businessman claiming to be from the Yangtze River Delta ordered 8,000 tons of steel from him, and asked for delivery within two months. Lu Dashuang roughly calculated, if this order is done well, it can at least bring him more than 2 million gross profits, with this money, he will not have any problems if he does not start work this year.

The merchant paid a 10% deposit in advance, and said that Lu Dashuang would deliver the steel to the designated delivery place in four times, and settle the cost of delivering the steel each time until the entire contract was finally completed. This condition is not risky for Lu Dashuang, the deposit paid in advance by the merchant is 1.5 million, and Lu Dashuang delivered 2,000 tons of steel for the first time. The cost is about 3 million, and you need to pay 1.5 million yourself. But Lu Dashuang doesn't have to worry about the other party's default, because there is a deposit of 1.5 million, if the other party defaults, Lu Dashuang can easily sell 2,000 tons of steel at a low price, and even earn more.

The merchant paid the deposit and left. Lu Dashuang did not dare to delay, and immediately contacted the suppliers who provided him with scrap steel in the past, and asked them to hurry up and deliver the goods to him. The supplier is also unusually happy, saying that as long as the payment is in place, the amount of scrap steel can be met at any time.

Some of the small steel mills in Xingchuan County have their own iron-making blast furnaces, which are made from molten iron. However, most of them adopt the so-called "short-process smelting", that is, the method of directly smelting scrap steel back to the furnace. The cost of making steel from scrap is much higher than that of pig iron, but the equipment is very simple. It is enough to have an electric furnace and a simple steel casting and rolling device. Lu Dashuang's Tongxin Steel Mill uses this short-process steelmaking method, so scrap steel must be used as a raw material.

Smelting 8,000 tons of steel in two months has exceeded the production capacity of Tongxin Steel Plant. Lu Dashuang is not worried about this, there are more than a dozen small steel mills in Dongdaogou Village, and the work he can't finish can be subcontracted to other steel mills, as long as some of the profits are paid to these steel mills. In the past. In this way, all steel mills subcontract each other, and those with business eat meat. The factory that has no business drinks soup, and everyone is already very tacit.

However, this time the situation is a little abnormal, when Lu Dashuang took the order to discuss the subcontracting with the bosses of several other steel mills, he was surprised to find that others also had large orders in their hands, and they were also anxious to cooperate with the factory.

"How many tons did you catch?"

These days. As soon as the small bosses of Dongdaogou Village met, they asked each other this question, some factories received thousands of tons, and some factories received hundreds of tons, and they all agreed to deliver the goods within one or two months. For this kind of situation of orders, the small bosses can be described as mixed. Naturally, there is a business to do, and such a hot business means that the future market is also very considerable. As for the worries, that is, whether their own production capacity can keep up, whether the price of scrap will rise as a result, and if all factories start at the same time, the power grid may also be difficult to bear.

In any case, it is a good thing to have business, and everyone happily enters the intense work. In addition to Dongdaogou Village, small steel mills in other villages also encountered similar good luck, and for a while, large trucks pulling scrap steel crowded the road to Xingchuan. Since all small steel mills had to advance funds to purchase scrap steel, Xingchuan's loan shark business also boomed.

"How can the steel business be so good lately?"

Gao Xuejian was a little surprised when he received the report below. The small steel plant in Xingchuan is an important source of revenue for the county, and Gao Xuejian is very clear about how much business volume there is a year. In just ten days, all steel mills have received orders, and the business volume has almost exceeded the total amount of the previous year.

"Could it be that the real estate in the south is booming, and the steel gap is big." Wang Yue guessed.

"If you don't come sooner or later, the central working group will leave on the front foot, and there will be so many merchants on the back foot to order steel, do you think there will be any connection between these two things?" Gao Xuejian asked.

Wang Yue thought about it, shook his head and said, "I can't see it...... It can't be that the central working group has advertised for us, right? ”

"What are you thinking?" Gao Xuejian reprimanded, "I mean, could this be the famous work group engaged in it?" ”

"You're saying that the working group wants to plant a stake in our county? Deliberately found us a business to do? Wang Yue said, "I don't think it's necessary, right?" ”

"Indeed, if they want to tidy up our county, there is no need to make such a big detour. Besides, looking at the situation reported below, these merchants have all paid deposits, and it is impossible for the working group to mobilize so much money in order to make trouble for us, right? Gao Xuejian analyzed.

This kind of discussion is destined to lead to nothing. Gao Xuejian asked Wang Yue to go to several small steel mills to investigate, and the answer he got was that the customer had a name and a surname, and the deposit paid was all real money, and it was impossible to be a liar. Besides, everyone can't see the point of such a scam, and it doesn't take much effort to catch the braids of small steel in Xingchuan County.

"Tomorrow is the time to deliver the first batch of goods, and when the time comes, I will send the goods over and ask the other party to transfer the money to the account in person, won't there be nothing?" Wang Yue, who came to inquire in both directions, said.

"Where is the delivery location?" Wang Yue asked.

"Dalun City." Lu Da Shuangdao.

Dalun is a port city in Yanning Province, in the past, the steel of Yanning Province will often be sold to other provinces and cities by sea, and the merchants ask Lu Dashuang to send the steel to Dalun, which is a very normal requirement. The delivery location was at the cargo terminal in Dalun, which was the place where the king's law was made, so there was no possibility of looting the steel.

Could it be that this is really an ordinary transaction? Wang Yue was puzzled.

Early the next morning, more than a dozen trucks with a load of 50 tons came to Dongdaogou Village, Lu Dashuang commanded the crane to load the rolled steel onto the car, and then personally sat in the front of the first large truck, escorting the convoy of steel transport on the highway and driving in the direction of Dalun.

"Boss Lu, there are a lot of goods delivered this time, have you made a fortune?"

The driver who drove the car was called Bai Wanxin, and he and Lu Dashuang were also old acquaintances. In the past, an order from Tongxin Steel Mill was hundreds of tons, and sometimes it was hundreds of tons, and only three or four trucks were needed. This time, Lu Dashuang asked Bai Wanxin to help find more than a dozen trucks, and said that he would transport them several times, which shows the large number of goods. Bai Wanxin is also a knowledgeable person, and if he estimates the number a little, he can guess how profitable Lu Dashuang is.

"Haha, so-so." Lu Dashuang said proudly, "This time a total of 2,000 tons will be sent, and there will be 3 more times in the future, a total of 8,000 tons." However, now there is no profit in steelmaking, that is, it is just to make hard money, it is really not as good as you to run transportation, there is no cost, it is all net profit. ”

Bai Wanxin said with a smile: "Boss Lu said that it was funny, we ran transportation for a year, and the money we earned was not even a fraction of yours." A cousin of mine is engaged in steel, he said that a ton of steel can earn at least 500 yuan, and your 8,000 tons is a full 4 million, which is still called so-so? ”

Lu Dashuang waved his hand and said: "Earn 500 yuan for a ton of steel?" When did this happen, and how can there be such a good thing now. This month, not only did my family get the business, but other factories also received the business, and the price of scrap steel has risen by more than 100 yuan, and I can't even earn 100 yuan per ton of steel now, and I have to pay how much money to dredge the relationship. To tell you the truth, I borrowed a loan shark to buy scrap steel this time, so I am waiting to receive the payment today, and I will hurry up to repay the loan shark money. ”

"That's right, the loan sharks are not easy to talk to, and the interest of repaying the money a day late is thousands of thousands." Bai Wanxin said sympathetically.

The two of them were talking, and they didn't realize that the convoy had already left the border of Xingchuan County and entered the Kangtai County next door. Turning a hillside, Lu Dashuang saw several cars parked on the road in front of him, and some people standing next to them, including a few policemen wearing big caps.

"Lao Bai, what's going on?" Lu Dashuang asked.

Bai Wanxin raised his eyes and looked at it, and said depressedly: "It is estimated that it is a temporary inspection, to check whether there is overloading, drunk driving, etc." Our cars are a little overrun, and it is estimated that we will have to pay a fine of 800 yuan. ”

"It's okay, didn't we say it in advance, the overload fine is mine." Lu Dashuang patted his chest and said. The overload request was made by him, so the fine could only be paid by him. Qian'er's fine of 800 yuan is a drop in the bucket for the expected profits, and Lu Dashuang doesn't care about it at all. (To be continued......)