After toasting, Qin Hai and Ning Zhongying returned to the main table, and apart from the two of them, the rest of the tables were the highest-ranking officials. I don't know if it's Qin Hai's big face or the big face of the Great Qin Group, these high-ranking officials who came to participate in the group's founding celebration did not leave after the celebration, but stayed to continue to participate in this dinner.

Seeing Qin Hai sitting back, the officials who were chatting about leisure all stopped, and looked at him with a smile on their faces.

A deputy director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense surnamed Bai looked left and right, and when he saw that no one initiated, he picked up his glass and said: "Since everyone is humble, let me give Chairman Qin a glass first." It was Qin Dong who respected us just now, and this cup is my respect for Qin Dong. Qin Dong, you can not drink other wine, you must drink this glass of wine, because this glass of wine is on behalf of hundreds of thousands of cadres and workers on our national defense science and industry front, thank you for your support to our national defense industry. ”

Qin Hai hurriedly raised his glass and said continuously: "Director Bai, don't dare to be, don't dare to be, Xiao Qin, I have not done enough, this glass of wine is still up to me to the loveliest people on your front." ”

"Haha, let's go together." Director Bai smiled, raised his glass, and drank a cup with Qin Hai.

Hearing the conversation between Qin Hai and Director Bai, Cui Hongchun, Vice Minister of Agriculture on the side, asked in surprise: "What, Director Bai, has Chairman Qin also helped you develop new products in the system?" ”

"That's right, a new product developed by Qin Dong specifically for our system has been sold to the United States, creating a lot of income for our system, which can be said to solve our urgent need. For this matter, I also had to make a special trip from the capital to thank Qin Dong. Director Bai said with emotion.

Qin Hai developed a new type of body armor for the 70X. At present, it has been put into full-scale production, and the first products have been shipped to the United States. The amount of this order is as high as 800 million RMB. It is worth the allocation of funds from the Commission of Science and Technology to more than a dozen research institutes, for such a thing. Director Bai didn't want to run once, he came to Pingyuan for ten or eight trips, and he was also willing.

"Xiao Qin is indeed very remarkable, at the beginning of our Pusang automobile localization has made a lot of efforts, last year he set up a material college, for our mechanical committee to solve more than a dozen important material research problems. The most commendable thing is that all these things he did did not make the state pay for them, but he himself bore the corresponding expenses. I rushed over today to say thank you to Xiao Qin. Yang Xinyu of the Machinery Committee continued Director Bai's words.

Cui Hongchun nodded and said: "That's right, Xiao Qin's help to our Ministry of Agriculture is also very great, our country's agricultural machinery products are the first to go abroad and rush to the world, which is Xiao Qin's credit." ”

As soon as a few of them started, others followed. Representatives of Linxi Province, Shannan Province and Pujiang City expressed their gratitude to Daqin Group for its investment in their provinces and cities, and hoped that Daqin Group would continue to expand its investment in their local areas, and promised to give preferential treatment to various policy scopes. As for Yang Xinyu, Cui Hongchun and other ministry officials, they naturally proceeded from the perspective of the system. It is hoped that Daqin Group will be able to tilt towards their system in terms of business structure in the future and provide them with more assistance.

Regarding the compliments and solicitation that flowed out of everyone's words, Qin Hai gave a warm response. A group of provincial and ministerial-level high-ranking officials who are unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people can put down their shelves and have a good time with him. is just called a brother, which also makes Qin Hai feel a little flattered. He knew that everyone was looking for it. It is the powerful financial resources of the Daqin Group, as well as his own unpredictable technology. I have to say. Officials sometimes fight hard for their own political achievements.

The banquet lasted nearly three hours. It is not until the guests and hosts have enjoyed themselves and most people are drunk that it is over. When everyone walked out together, Wang Hongsheng patted Qin Hai's shoulder and asked, "How is it, Xiao Qin, aren't you drunk?" ”

"It's okay, Director Wang, I'm not too drunk." Qin Hai replied with a smile, and after speaking, he added again: "I haven't usually drunk so much wine, but I'm probably happy today, and I played at a super level." ”

Wang Hongsheng said with a smile: "Super level performance is one thing, you mixed water into the wine bottle, I'm afraid it's the main reason, right?" Don't think I can't see it. ”

"Director Wang is aware of everything, and I really didn't hide this little trick from Director Wang." Qin Hai smiled and admitted the fact that he had cheated. In fact, at a banquet like this, the host must do something in the wine he drinks, mixing it with water at 50 degrees and diluting it to less than 10% concentration, so that the host's alcohol volume can increase to five times the original amount out of thin air. If he didn't do these tricks, how could Qin Hai be able to cope with such a big scene.

"Since you're not too drunk, why don't you come and sit with me and have some tea together?" Wang Hongsheng seems to be casually building yì road.

Wang Hongsheng's words sounded like asking for advice, but Qin Hai knew that this was actually equivalent to an order. The vice chairman of the Planning Commission invites you to have tea, and there is no room for you to hesitate. He replied with a smile: "I heard that Director Wang has to bring his own good tea on a business trip, I have always wanted to see it, and today I have seized the opportunity." ”

After explaining a few words to Ning Zhongying and Song Hongxuan, Qin Hai followed Wang Hongsheng to the hotel room where he was staying. After entering the house, Wang Hongsheng beckoned Qin Hai to sit down, and then instructed the secretary to start making tea.

Wang Hongsheng likes to drink tea, and always tells his secretary to carry tea and tea sets with him when he goes out. The secretary boiled a bottle of boiling water with the "hot fast" provided in the room, then took out a set of gongfu tea sets from the luggage, scalded the teapot and teacup with boiling water, and put Tieguanyin tea leaves in the teapot, starting a set of tedious tea-making processes.

"Xiao Qin, please come to the room, I want to talk to you casually." Wang Hongsheng looked at the steam rising from the owl on the tea set, and said to Qin Hai leisurely.

"If Director Wang has any instructions, just put them forward, and I will definitely study them carefully." Qin Hai said with a sincere and fearful attitude.

Wang Hongsheng waved his hand and said, "It's not an instruction, it's just to chat with you." Xiao Qin, I listened to the group's development goals you said at the ceremony today, and I feel that you have great ambitions. ”

"The market for materials is huge in itself. Steel alone, the world's annual output value is nearly 200 billion US dollars, and our group can now account for one-ten-thousandth, which can only be regarded as a small fight. Qin Hai replied.

"You want to occupy such a big market?" Wang Hongsheng asked.

Qin Hai said with a smile: "Of course it is impossible to occupy them all, but it is completely necessary to occupy a relatively large share of them." Without a sufficient share, I will not be able to make enough profits, and I will not have the money to conduct research and development of new materials. As you know, the development of new materials requires huge investment, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars of money are invested, and you may not hear a sound at all. ”

Wang Hongsheng asked: "However, now that the domestic steel market has shown signs of saturation, our Planning Commission is considering reducing steel production capacity, but you plan to expand the second steel plant in Cenzhou, are you not afraid of unsalable products in the future?" ”

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "Director Wang, domestic steel is still far from saturation." At present, our country's annual crude steel output is only 70 million tons, and I think that less than 500 million tons will not be enough in the future. ”

"500 million tons!" Wang Hongsheng felt that he had been thundered, and he said disdainfully, "I see that you Xiao Qin is also used to putting satellites, and you dare to talk about such numbers." Do you know how much crude steel production the world has a year, that is, a little more than 700 million tons, and a developing country like China dares to engage in 500 million tons of crude steel? ”

Qin Haidao: "China will not always be a developing country, we have to catch up with developed countries, and there are still many lessons to be made." We need to build roads, we need to build railways, we need to build houses for the people, and all of these need to use steel. In developed countries, these infrastructure projects have been completed, so the demand for steel is not as much as ours. The 500 million tons of steel a year I am talking about is not a brain fever, nonsense, this is the research department of our group has calculated. ”

Wang Hongsheng said: "The forecast of our Planning Commission is that by the end of this century, China's annual steel demand will reach about 100 million tons; By 2010, it will be able to reach about 200 million tons. This is already a relatively optimistic forecast, provided that China's economy can maintain the growth rate of previous years without major ups and downs. ”

Qin Hai opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but swallowed it back again. According to his recollection, in actual history, by 2000, China's annual crude steel output was 130 million tons, which is not a big gap with the figure Wang Hongsheng said. But by 2010, China was producing 600 million tonnes of steel a year, accounting for 45 percent of global production. The reason for this rapid growth is that after entering the new century, China's urban construction and road transportation construction have seen a spurt of growth, which has driven the demand for raw materials such as steel and cement.

At this point in 1991, it was difficult for people to foresee the situation more than ten years later, so if Qin Hai wanted to tell Wang Hongsheng about this situation, the other party would definitely not think so. Since this is the case, Qin Hai has no need to waste his words.

"The state now has a plan to gradually liberalize the prices of steel, chemical raw materials and other planned products in the next two or three years, what do you think about this?" Wang Hongsheng diverted from the topic just now, and instead asked Qin Hai a new question.

"It is imperative to liberalize the planned prices." Qin Haiying said, "At present, the prices of means of production are strictly underestimated, and the planned prices are related to the black market prices, which is not conducive to the development of the basic materials industry, so it is an inevitable choice to liberalize prices." However, I am worried that after the liberalization of the prices of basic materials, the overall price of the market will fluctuate significantly, and I wonder if the country is prepared for this. (To be continued......)