Lin Yuan smiled, quickly stood up and patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Sit down, sit down, don't be angry, listen to me slowly explain my reasons." ”

Gopes shook his shoulders fiercely, shook Lin Yuan's hand away, and said angrily: "Okay, I'll give you ten minutes, if you can't convince me, we don't need to talk about it." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Listen to me, first of all, if you can't push the price of steel to fifty dollars a ton, Lin Yuan won't buy your steel, if you don't agree to my request, you won't get anything, and secondly, those scrap steel is pressed in your factory, you don't deal with it, and you have to take a lot of management costs, and it's no good for you to keep them, don't you say?" ”

"Whoever says scrap is useless, we can reuse it," Goppes said. ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't lie to yourself, will your factory really do that?" Scrap steel refurnace is theoretically feasible, but what about the cost? It is not as low as iron ore smelting, and the composition of scrap steel is not easy to control when it is recycled! So it's easy to produce substandard steel, I don't know if I'm right? ”

Gopez stopped talking, he knew that what Lin Yuan said was reasonable, Lin Yuan continued: "You sell this batch of scrap steel to me, you must not suffer a loss, you calculate, these steels are idle and idle, if you don't sell them, the income is negative, if you sell me at a price of fifty dollars per ton, you will definitely use a large cargo ship of 10,000 tons to transport these steels, and a ship can earn 500,000 US dollars, 500,000 ah!" You must have made a lot of money by removing the freight! ”

"As for the issue of commercial fraud, you don't have to worry, the contract was signed by me, and I will write on the contract that this is a contract for the sale and purchase of scrap steel, you are just faithfully fulfilling the contract, and you have no responsibility!"

Gopes asked, "What about you over there?" You write scrap contracts, and he won't be able to see it? Is he a fool? ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Lin Yuan has been very busy recently, you know, he fought a war with the Russians, and the negotiations are about to start recently, and he is so busy with those things that he is in no mood to take care of me here, so he will listen to whatever I say, let alone check the contract." ”

Gopez nodded and asked, "So what's the benefit of you doing this?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously and said: "I'll tell Lin Yuan that this batch of steel was purchased for fifty dollars, and the contract also says so, but in private, you give me a part of the money, and then I will take this money and fly away to a foreign country, where will Lin Yuan find me!" As long as you have money, you can be a master wherever you go! ”

Gopez thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I can give you five dollars per ton of steel, what do you think?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded hurriedly and said, "That's great, we have a particularly large demand for these scrap steels, I don't know how many of these steels you can provide us." ”

Gopez thought for a moment and said: "We have accumulated a large amount of scrap steel for so many years, how can the total amount be 30 million tons!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly said: "These are too few, we may need hundreds of millions of tons of such steel!" ”

Gopez thought to himself: "I deliberately said too much about 30 million tons, but in fact, the factory simply doesn't have that much scrap!" Since you want a lot, then I'll tell you more, anyway, the United States is developing a lot now, and scrap is everywhere. So Gopes gritted his teeth and said, "We can make up 200 million tons for you!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, it's just 200 million tons, let's just make up our minds!" I'll draw up a contract when I go back, and we'll sign it tomorrow! ”

Gopez also readily agreed, and when Lin Yuan returned to his residence, he saw that Shen Wanqing was already waiting for him in the house, and with a wicked smile on his face, he couldn't help asking, "Why are you looking at me like this?" ”

Shen Wanqing said with a smile: "You actually went to be a traitor, honestly, why do you want to buy scrap steel!" ”

Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "How did you know the Dao?" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled coquettishly, pointed at Lin Yuan's throat, and said, "I installed a bugging device in the voice changer on your neck, so I can hear everything you say." ”

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "Since you heard my conspiracy, then I will tell you my plan, we have the most advanced electric furnace steelmaking technology in the world, so we can smelt scrap steel that the Americans can't smelt, and after we buy these scrap steels, they will be melted into molten steel in an electric furnace, and after impurity treatment and alloying, they can finally be made into the rails we need." ”

"The reason why I want to buy scrap from the Americans is because the United States is now the fastest growing country in the world, and since the United States raised the tariff rate from 20 percent to 50 percent in 1860, the manufactured goods from Europe have lost their market competitiveness, and their steel industry has developed extremely fast."

"At this time, the U.S. steel industry is extensive, only pursuing output, and the quality requirements are not high, so there will be a lot of scrap steel, but he said that they have 200 million tons of scrap steel, I think they are purely fooling me, because in 1900 the United States steel production was only 10 million tons, where are they getting 200 million tons of scrap now?"

Shen Wanqing asked, "What should I do then?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's okay, with the drive of money, they will definitely go to all over the world to buy scrap steel, especially in Europe, their industry developed earlier, so there is more scrap steel!" And European countries, again, do not have such the ability to smelt scrap steel! When the opportunity is right, I will raise the price for him again, and they will definitely go to various places to buy scrap. ”

The next day, Lin Yuan went to sign a contract with Gopes, and when Gopez signed the contract, he proposed to raise the amount to sixty dollars per ton, and Lin Yuan knew that his guess was right, and Gopez must die to find scrap steel in various parts of the world, so he readily agreed.

Sixty dollars per ton, 200 million tons is 1.2 billion dollars, which seems to be an astronomical amount, but it doesn't matter, the payment of bulk international trade is rarely settled at one time, because both the amount of goods and money is too large, and both parties are unable to make it up at one time, so the installment settlement is clear.

With the level of ship transportation in this era, the largest cargo ship can carry 50,000 tons of goods at a time, and such a ship Yingkou Port can not stop, so Lin Yuan let them land in Dalian Bay, in modern China, Dalian is the largest port in Northeast China, and it is also the eleventh largest port in the country, so Lin Yuan also ordered people to build this place into a large port.

Lin Yuan returned to the Northeast again and decided to establish a production base for steel rails in Dalian, electric furnaces have always been a large consumer of electricity, fortunately at this time the Liaohe hydropower station has begun to use, and part of the electricity generated is supplied to the Fengtian Arsenal, and part of it is sent to Dalian; At this time, the coal mines are sufficient, which can ensure the demand for thermal power generation.

Lin Yuan called Liu Jinqiu, told him about his plan, and asked, "I don't know how our rolling speed is?" With so many rails, it will definitely take a lot of time to finish rolling. ”

Liu Jinqiu said with a smile: "You can rest assured that we will use the most advanced continuous casting machine and high-speed continuous rolling mill, which can definitely guarantee the speed." ”