When I came to the old village committee, there were a lot of steel of various specifications piled up in more than a dozen acres of ping. Guo Zhiping greeted him from the office building of the village committee, warmly shook hands with several people, and welcomed them into the office. This is his temporary office location, and he didn't find tea, so he poured boiled water for a few people, and then introduced his recent work.

"After we received the company's instructions to purchase steel, we sent several people out of the country to purchase, and now there has been information feedback from all roads. The steel companies in this province have purchased 200,000 tons, their annual output is only about 3 million tons, and they can only supply so much before the Spring Festival, if we still want to purchase after the Spring Festival, we can continue to find them, they are willing to establish long-term business contacts with large customers like us, and supply about 500,000 tons per year, but to settle at market prices. At the big steel company in the neighboring province, we purchased 800,000 tons. ”

Guo Zhiping smiled, and then said: "This is a big cow, I went to take a look, in the warehouse, in the big ping, there are piles of steel everywhere." Their steel quality is the first class in China, is the first choice for national key projects and high-rise buildings in central and southern provinces, we purchase 800,000 tons, for them, just a small customer, and said that if the Three Gorges Project was prepared for steel a few years ago, such a little sales volume will not be put in the eyes at all. The purchase price and freight of the steel purchased from this company are about 3,200 yuan per ton, which is about 300 yuan higher than the cost of purchasing from the steel company in this province. In addition, we have also purchased 200,000 tons of 6 mm and 8 mm steel wire, as well as 300,000 tons of steel bars of various specifications in several small steel mills and steel mills in the city. This is the kind of thing that is piled up in the flat now, and some of it has not been brought back. ”

"Isn't that beyond our plans?" Wu Fang asked.

"Yes. The number has exceeded 50% of the company's plan. I'd like to report on this in particular. It just so happens that several bosses are here today, so I'll report my thoughts. ”

Guo Zhiping continued: "It can be seen from the process of our trip to purchase steel that now is the best time to purchase steel. At present, the real estate industry is about to heat up and has not heated up, governments at all levels in order to boost GDP, will definitely allow or even secretly encourage real estate developers to increase housing prices, our company will build houses in the future, it is bound to compete with real estate developers for building materials, land, etc. There is no way to deal with the land now, because after the auction is in hand. If we don't build a house for three years, the government will take back the land, and we can only work on building materials such as steel and cement. We are building the cement plant ourselves, so we don't have to think about the cement thing. The steel purchased in the city's steel mills is of poor quality, and buildings with more than 3 floors cannot be used, but we will definitely have a large number of buildings in the future that need to use these steels, and the purchase price and freight of these steels are only 2,200 yuan per ton in Pingli. The price of gold produced by our company will definitely rise, and the price of the wine we buy will definitely rise, but it is still unknown whether the price increase can catch up with the price increase of steel. I dare to assert. Within 3 years, the price of steel will definitely more than double. In about 5 years, the high quality will reach 8,000 yuan per ton. These steels in the city will also reach 6,000 yuan per ton. So, I decided to stock up on more. ”

"In your opinion, how much steel should we buy this year and next?" Grandpa Zhang asked.

"I think we should purchase another 1 million tons next year on the basis of exceeding the procurement plan this year." Guo Zhiping replied.

"What do you two think?" Grandpa asked Wuyang and Wu Fang again.

Wuyang said: "According to the situation just analyzed by Manager Guo, as long as we have the premise of capital allowing, we should purchase as much steel as possible, which involves the problem of our business direction." The current situation is that the plan is not as fast as the change, and our plan cannot be set for too long, but the business direction for the next year can be determined. I think we have four investment directions within the next year: first, the construction of the manor, with an investment of about 2 billion; Second, the construction of office buildings and comprehensive buildings, with an investment of about 500 million; 3. Purchase stores, expand gold stores and build liquor wholesale departments; Fourth, the procurement of steel. The first two require 2.5 billion dollars, and the last two cannot be estimated. ”

Wu Fang said: "Do you calculate how much income you will earn next year? ”

"Next year, our income will mainly have three major blocks: one is the income of tungsten ore, which is about 800 million yuan for the whole year, the second is the income of gold mines and gold stores, which is about 3.5 billion yuan for the whole year, and the third is the income of the cement plant, which will be put into operation in April, and the output will be about 1.3 million tons next year, according to the net profit of 100 yuan a ton, there will be 130 million yuan, and the total annual income will be about 4.5 billion yuan."

Grandpa said, "Tell me about your vision for next year's investment." ”

Wuyang straightened out his thoughts, and then said: "I think that the money of the next year's income will be invested in the next year and the next year, and the general direction is the manor and steel, and the arrangement and use of funds should give priority to these two, 2 billion for the estate, 5 billion for steel, 3 billion for the purchase of wine, 2 billion for the purchase of machinery and equipment and vehicles, 2 billion for the purchase of the façade, 5 billion for the purchase of land and real estate plus construction funds, and 5 billion to set up a foundation, which is my father's wish. He'll have an opinion. ”

Grandpa Zhang said with a smile: "Your income is only 9 billion in two years, and your expenditure is 19.5 billion, and there may be some good projects that must be invested at that time, so do you have to take out a loan to do things?" ”

Wuyang smiled: "Grandpa, we can't borrow so much, if we want to use money, we can only think of a way in terms of jadeite." There is no carving master yet, and Xiaobao may be able to produce and sell objects when he returns. It's really not good, just sell some jadeite. ”

Grandpa Zhang said: "You want to sell it to someone to buy it, don't you?" My idea is that alcohol should be sold while buying, and more investment can be made in the purchase of land, and the construction of houses should be postponed if it is not urgently needed, in short, the capital chain should not be broken. ”

"Wuyang, I also have some ideas." Wu Fang said: "I don't think our income comes in all at once, so we can't say what to prioritize and then arrange in terms of funding arrangements. For example, if we have the intention to invest in other cities, and those cities happen to produce steel, then we can buy the land first. Then buy the steel. After the purchase of steel, it is placed on these plots. First of all, it reduces the cost of transportation, and when you use it in the future, it saves the cost of moving back and forth, don't you think? ”

Guo Zhiping said: "Since the company has set a plan for the purchase of steel, then we will start to act at the beginning of the year and send personnel to purchase, but the batch is not too large, and all the funds will be occupied at once." At the same time, personnel were dispatched to participate in the bidding of land in various cities. After the land is photographed, it is placed on the ground, and when it is not photographed, it is shipped back without delay. ”

Wuyang said: "We can also take the method of paying and invoicing at the steel company first when we have funds, and not picking up the goods for the time being, so as to prevent price increases." We have to buy steel before the price increases by 50%, and if the price increase reaches 50%, it should be stopped. ”

"If we haven't completed the procurement plan before the price increase is 50%, it means that we have not done our job well. Of course, what we are buying now is the backlog and recent production of steel by major steel companies, and if our procurement plan is completed, our large purchases may also cause price increases. This requires a very flexible approach. Grandpa said.

"Manager Guo, I'll call you the day after tomorrow. I'll call you. Next year, you will continue to do a good job in the procurement of steel and machinery and equipment companies, and I will arrange personnel to arrest the matter of bidding for land in other places, and Wu Fang will be responsible for checking it, and you will be responsible for the settlement and payment of the money for the purchase of land, so that the use of funds can be taken into account as a whole. Wuyang said.

"Okay, I'll wait for your call. Shall I take you outside now? Guo Zhiping said.

Several people followed Guo Zhiping to the pingli, Guo Zhiping pointed to the steel on the ground and said: "Strictly speaking, these steels are substandard products, and it doesn't matter if the 6 mm and 8 mm steel wires are used, they will not be used as load-bearing materials, but those rebars are different." The carbon content of the small steel mill is uneven, if it happens to contain a large piece of carbon on a section, the steel bar is easy to break, and its appearance is wrapped with a layer of steel skin, so it can never be used in high-rise buildings. For example, the foundation of our office building is laid in one piece with steel bars, and then cast concrete to form, so that the steel bars laid on the ground floor can be used for them. In addition, the single-storey plant and warehouse of the cement plant are used in about 3,000 tons, and the price difference is only 1,000 yuan, which is 3 million, which is also a lot of money. With the rise in steel prices, the price difference will widen, if all 500,000 tons are used up, the savings will be hundreds of millions. ”

"It's really not like I don't know the way, I'm scared." Wu Fang said with a smile.

Therefore, the ancients said: You can't eat poorly, you can't use poorly, and you can't calculate how poor you will be in a lifetime. From this incident, we can see the importance of careful budgeting. Grandpa said.

"It can be seen that the use of talent is important. If it weren't for Manager Guo, where would we know about these things. Wuyang said.

"Xiao Li, don't praise me, in fact, there are many people who know about this matter, but it's not about other people's business, no one says it, I have been in the army for a long time, and many things are not as good as others." Guo Zhiping said.

Coming to the construction site of the office building, the foundation of the ground floor has been laid, and there are more than a dozen workers on the bottom floor of the underground garage who are installing molds and tying steel bars, ready to cast concrete. Wuyang asked a worker, why are there so few people here for construction? The workers said: They all went to the cement factory next to them for construction. The high-grade cement needed here is difficult to buy, and the price has risen from 280 yuan per ton at the beginning of the year to 400 yuan. ”

Wuyang asked again: "Is the price of cement rising like this every year or this year?" ”

"Prices are low at the beginning of each year, and they rise in the second half of the year, but in the past three or four years, this year has been the highest," the worker said. ”

The cement factory was built just outside the small stone hill to the left of the old village committee building. Yuan Zhi had already called Wuyang and said that he had bought more than a dozen acres of mountain land here, 30,000 yuan a mu, less than 500,000 yuan. The office sent someone to measure the big stone mountain, and set the scope of the stone that can be mined one kilometer away from the house, so that the area of the stone mountain is more than 5 square kilometers, and the height of the stone is 280 meters on average, plus the small stone mountain next to the village committee, the stone can be mined about 13 million tons, which can be enough for the cement plant to produce for about 7 years, and pay 700,000 yuan at one time. The district government will issue a document, recognize the ownership, and apply for a land use certificate. and came forward to coordinate the relationship with the villagers. Wuyang agreed to pay the money at that time. Let Yuan Zhi handle it. Let the finance transfer. In this way, the area of the stone mountain is more than 5 square kilometers, the amount of quarrying has increased by about 5 million tons, and the opening time of the cement plant can be extended by 3 years.

The two discussed at the time, and it is still difficult to say what will happen ten years later. When the time comes, if the cement factory is doing well, then it will continue to open, anyway, the ground is full of stones, and digging down is nothing more than an increase in cost; If business is not good, or if the city is not allowed to open a cement plant. For real estate development, how many houses can be built in 10 square kilometers. In fact, this is a good thing for the government, the company, and the nearby villagers, otherwise it would be useless to leave a stone mountain.

A few people went to the construction site of the cement plant, where four bulldozers were pushing the stones lower, and more than 100 people were working. Some people are using air drills to make blast holes and install detonator explosives, and some people are using bucket trucks to pave a road connecting the original highway, the roadbed is very wide, and it is estimated that there will be four lanes after repair. The factory is repaired at the lowest level. The prototype of the cement plant has come out, and it is divided into 4 steps.

Zhilu Dao Yuan Zhi went out to purchase equipment. Wuyang asked the head of the building of the construction company and asked: "Why do you want to build a stepped shape?" ”

The head of the building replied: "It is the need for the production of the cement plant." The highest floor is the same height as the village committee's large ping, which is the raw material layer, the ball mill is installed on the second layer, so that the raw materials such as stones and slag can be directly poured into the ball mill, the third layer is the site and warehouse for filling cement, and the fourth layer is the place where the car carrying cement is parked. ”

Wuyang asked again: "When will you start building a house?" ”

replied: "As long as the road is repaired, you can enter cement, sand and gravel, and red bricks, and it is estimated that construction will start on New Year's Day." ”

He asked, "Will the road from here to the city be built so wide?" ”

He replied: "It will definitely be repaired, and yesterday the district government drew a red line on the stone mountain and the road." However, it will not be repaired now, one is that the roadbed will be compacted after it is paved, and the other is that it will not be repaired until the road cement is produced, and the boss will allocate money. ”

"It's okay, thank you." Wuyang smiled, and returned to the village committee after speaking. When he arrived here, Wuyang said that he would go back to his hometown to see, and after saying goodbye to Guo Zhiping, the car drove towards his hometown.

The wall of the hometown has been built, and I can see the newly repaired courtyard gate from a distance, with a large stone on it, engraved with 4 large characters painted with red paint: Stone Villa

Wuyang smiled, and grandpa asked, "Did you laugh when you saw the four words of Stone Villa?" ”

Wuyang said: "Yes, these 4 words are both appropriate and easy to understand, I don't know who has such a high level?" ”

Grandpa also smiled, "The name is my name, it's good to be easy to understand, I think it has a deeper meaning, that is, the true qi in your body is obtained from the stone, you can't forget the stone, and when this place is built, you better come back to live." ”

"Well, I also think that only when I get here, I feel like I am coming home." Wuyang said.

After getting out of the car, Zhou Dian, the head of the building here, came over, and after calling Grandpa Zhang, he shook hands with Wuyang, "I won't come back for a month, this place is almost built for you, do you want to invite me to have a glass of wine today?" ”

"It's hard to say if you drink, we'll leave later." Wuyang said with a smile.

"I'm kidding you, I can't win if I want to go. Let's go, I'll show you around. Zhou Dian took Wuyang's hand and left.

First arrived at the villa with wool in Wuyang, Zhou Dian said: "You pulled back so many cars and things last time, Xie Daxia didn't let our workers unload the car, and those drivers unloaded it, but they didn't let our people get close, what kind of good things are they?" ”

"It's nothing good, it's the same jadeite wool as last time, and who knows if there is jadeite in it. But these things were bought at a great price, so it's better not to let your workers know the truth, so that they don't have to worry, you have a lot of things here, and they are also very hard at the end of the day, right? ”

"They don't even think about it, your house, there is a locked vault door inside, a wooden door outside, and an anti-theft door, who cares about the broken stones inside?"

The 4 villas have been walked all over, and they are basically the same, the stone walls downstairs are polished, the upstairs is also scraped melamine, and the doors and windows have been installed. Every room was inhabited, and in the winter the temperature was low, and the workers no longer lived in sheds. Zhou Dian said that it would not be renovated until July or August next year, otherwise the house would not have dried out.

All the workers are working on the villa designed for Wu Fang, and the third floor of the main building has been built. The roar of a stone cutter can be heard in the distance. A few people walked in to see that the stone room outside had been completely completed. The basement is also completely cut. The hallway at the back of the room has also been cut and polished. What I saw was a smooth and smooth wall, and I checked it with the true qi of the afternoon sun, and there was no small crack at all. There are 6 gem houses that are cutting stones, and Zhou Dian told him that 12 have been cut, and these 6 are just a matter of a few days.

Wuyang said: "Brother Dian, your speed is so fast, I thought it would take a few months." ”

Zhou Dian smiled and said, "You don't know what to do." First of all, when cutting the 4 villas, the speed is much slower, now the workers are more and more skilled, plus we use the piecework wage system, 200 yuan per 1 cubic meter, cut down the stone, broken by themselves to move out, we sent someone to move away, this trick is really smart, not only the speed is fast. The molded stone is also significantly more. On average, these 12 workers can earn about 1,000 yuan a day. But it's not really a human job. ”

"Brother Dian. I would like to ask you to cut this stone house into it a little more, it is 20 meters now, and I want to cut another 2 or 30 meters, anyway, the further you go in, the higher the mountain above, there should be no problem, but if you hit a crack, you will not cut the stone inside, stop and reinforce. You're also very good at stone polishers here, and you can see that the walls are cleaned, but it's really good. Wuyang said again.

"It's okay to cut inward, anyway, we are doing everything to make money, and we will do this project this year, so we don't have to open a new venue. That's right, after we cut these 6 rooms, we cut the front 20 meters, and then cut it inside when we have time before the New Year. I don't think it is necessary to limit ourselves to how many meters to cut, as long as the geology allows, and the stone cutting will not affect the construction of the house now, we will continue to cut until your uncle arranges for us to have a new job. ”

Wuyang said: "Okay, that's how it will be arranged." Brother Dian, this stone is so beautifully rubbed, who wiped it? ”

"This stone is a father and son 3 people, all of whom were born in stonemasons, and their skills are not mentioned. They used to open a stone shop, although they didn't lose money and didn't make any money. Later, he worked in a marble mine, and his two sons were about to get married and start a family when they were older, and they were going crazy to make money. Zhou Dian said.

"Please go find out their father, and I'll talk to him."

A strong man in his 50s walked over, and Zhou Dian introduced: "This is Master Xia, this is Li Wuyang, you can talk." ”

Wuyang stretched out his hand, "Hello Master Xia." ”

Master Xia hurriedly wiped his hands on his pants before reaching out to hold them, "Hello boss." "He called the boss not because he knew the identity of Li Wuyang, but because he had been working for a long time, he would call the boss when he met someone.

"Master Xia has been in this business for decades, right?" Wuyang asked.

"Back to the boss, I've been doing it since I was a teenager, more than 30 years." Master Xia said.

"What about your two sons?"

"They study like granite, they don't get a junior high school diploma, they start learning stonemasonry at the age of 13 or 4, and the younger ones have been working for 8 or 9 years, and these two boys can do this. Boss, you see the walls they wipe, it's almost the same as my old guy's, and you can also carve stones. ”

"Master Xia, where are you going to go after you're done here?" Wuyang asked again.

"Not necessarily, you can go wherever you have something to do." Master Xia replied.

"How much do you get paid now?"

Zhou Dian replied on the side: "3 people eat and live for 300 yuan a day." ”

"Master Xia, I'll discuss with you. After the Chinese New Year, I want you to continue working here. The same food and shelter, I add 50 yuan a day per person, specific work, you still rub stones, what about your two sons, I want them to learn to carve jadeite with my cousin, which is usually called jewelry. The skills of carving jewelry are similar to those of carving stones, mainly the mastery and proficiency of tools, relying on ingenuity. Let them study for 3 months first, and you can see if this piece of material is it. If you can, continue to study, when you can become a teacher, when you can get 5,000 yuan per month, and then your skills will be improved, and it is possible to earn a monthly salary of 12,000 yuan, because there is a shortage of such masters in the whole country now, of course, you can also learn by yourself; If not, you can help me finish polishing the stones, and then I will find another job, and the salary will not be less than your cent, what do you think? Wuyang said a lot, and I don't know if Master Lu Daoxia understood it.

Master Xia smiled, "Of course it's good to have such a good thing, and you can get a salary after learning skills." Boss, I would like to ask, will 3 months be too short, and if you learn it, will you ask them to work with you? ”

"Of course I'll ask them to do things, otherwise what would I do with all this effort to train them? You just said that they are ingenious, then they should be able to learn in 3 months, they mainly change the style of doing things, now when the stonemason does rough work, in the future to carve jewelry to do fine work, the rest is the same. My cousin used to carve stamps, and he started to study in October, and now he has become a teacher, and his skills are quite good, and he can teach his brothers when he comes back, and then your son will study with his brothers, and he will come to this villa after the Spring Festival. ”

"Okay, boss, I'll come with the two boys after the New Year." Master Xia smiled and went in to work again.

When I arrived at the pingli, I saw the big stone that had been placed behind the house in the afternoon. The stone is a cone, and the bottom of the cone is the largest place where the afternoon sun used to lie in practice, and it was originally the tip of the cone standing in the dirt. Thanks to Grandpa's painstaking efforts to preserve it, he benefited a lot.

In the past, when the True Qi had just been cultivated, the True Qi had been observed by the eyes, but it was impossible to see through it at all. Now I can't help but try it. Through the scab on the surface, the inside is densely packed like a pomegranate full of crystalline particles, which seem to have been seen somewhere, by the way, on the Internet, it is said that the hexagonal diamond called "Langsdale" in the collection of the National Museum of the United States is called. It's unlikely, right? People are so precious that they want to put them in a museum collection, how can there be so many? Wuyang suppressed the wild beating in his heart, and carefully looked at it from the cone head to the cone tail, confirming that there was such a thing inside, but not all, there were still some stones mixed in it. There are still a few more on the surface, which is not good, in case one day it is discovered and dug up by someone with a heart, especially if the secret of the whole stone is exposed, it will be terrible. I wanted to dig them up, but now that there are so many people, it's hard to get rid of, anyway, after being here for so long, no one has touched it, maybe someone will definitely touch it in the future? Forget it, anyway, now that only I know the Tao, let's treat it as if there is no such thing.

When he went home for dinner, Xiong Gangqiang had already notified Guo Zhiping, Li Tianye, and Xie Jiliang to come over for a meeting. Xiong Gangqiang explained the approval of the municipal government and asked everyone to discuss the implementation rules. Everyone was thinking and not speaking. Xiong Gangqiang gave everyone a pen and paper, asked everyone to write it out, and then discussed everyone's opinions. There were exactly 7 people at the meeting, and the minority obeyed the majority. In the end, only one opinion was written by five people and submitted to the city hall as the only opinion. What is this opinion? (To be continued......)