"Brother Shouren." Just as Wang Shouren was about to tease his daughter again.
The person in front turned around and greeted Wang Shouren.
Wang Shouren was taken aback: "Qin Tian? What are you doing here?"
Qin Tian, Qin Shou's older brother.
He's considered a pillar of the Qin family. Judging by the time, it's about time he went down to work.
“My younger brother sent a message home, but he didn’t explain himself clearly. He just wanted us to come over. He said there was some foreign exchange involved. The family is taking it very seriously. I remember, didn’t he take a batch of motorcycles from your place a while ago? Do you have any information about that?”
"Could he have smuggled it out?" Wang Shouren frowned.
These days, smuggling is nothing new.
In the Guangdong area, my favorite thing to do is go to Hong Kong. You can easily find a job there, and the pay is quite high. Also, there are some people in Hong Kong who specifically transport goods back to sell. However, there are relatively few people who actually transport goods out of Hong Kong. Oh, I mean, transporting high-tech items like motorcycles.
People in Hong Kong still prefer basic supplies from the mainland.
Cheap and reliable.
Qin Tian: ……
Wang Shouren: ...
The two exchanged a glance, both realizing that this possibility was not entirely out of the question.
That guy Qin Shou, there's nothing he wouldn't do.
Moreover, his family connections can help him fill this hole.
"Sigh." Qin Tian sighed, "It's all because of foreign exchange."
Upon hearing this, Wang Shouren was speechless.
Good grief, so you weren't planning to go find your brother, you came to find me.
"Hey, Shouren, what a coincidence, you're on this plane too..."
At this moment, a man sitting next to him also looked at Wang Shouren with a smile.
"Shouren, where are you planning to go..."
To be honest, everyone on the plane was someone I knew.
The flight attendants had to come out and tell everyone not to stand up unnecessarily, as it would affect the flight, and only then did things quiet down.
Qin Tian's expression was no longer as natural as before.
Ultimately, officials these days weren't as shameless as those of later generations. During this period of development, everyone was focused on expanding the country's influence outwards, working tirelessly for the greater good. There wasn't time for internal strife, and people's intentions were relatively pure. Even a chance encounter on a plane was enough to test one's shamelessness; unexpectedly, this chance encounter involved a whole plane full of people.
This is somewhat embarrassing.
What's the difference between this and being caught red-handed?
"If you ask me, foreign exchange should be used where it's needed. If it were given to our Ministry of Metallurgy, Shouren, you know your factory would eventually hit a bottleneck. You've improved the efficiency of our Ministry of Metallurgy. You were also in the Ministry of Industry before, so you should know the difference."
"Bullshit! The stuff you're taking from your little country costs 380 million US dollars. How much can Shouren even get on this trip? Not even a fraction of that! What good is it to you?!"
"Well..." After being choked by someone's words, the person hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Then we'll take whatever we can get."
"Wait... hot rolling mill?" Wang Shouren grasped the key point: "With the small daily rolling mill?"
“Yes, Shouren, you know that our country spends 3.4 billion US dollars a year on imported steel. Suddenly the higher-ups said they would reduce our funding resources, or we would have to find a way ourselves. There’s a shortfall of 40 million US dollars. I’m not going to pretend anymore. When I heard you had some, I came here. I talked to Minister Li, and he said that you’re just starting out and we shouldn’t put so much pressure on you.”
Fun fact: In 1980, China's total import and export trade volume was 38.14 billion US dollars, and its foreign exchange reserves were negative 1.296 billion US dollars. Therefore, it's true that 380 million US dollars was spent on a set of equipment. Additionally, in 1981, China imported 3.32 million tons of steel, with a total value of approximately 1.7 billion US dollars. (Purely for debunking).
However, there is actually a lot of inflated figures in this trade volume.
The things we buy from outside, like this set of "Little Life" products, are often heavily overpriced. Because our experts couldn't understand the content of "Little Life," they were badly ripped off—it was all tuition fees. Hearing them mention this suddenly reminded Wang Shouren of this incident.
"If I remember correctly, I vaguely recall this technique. Here's what we'll do: hold on for now, and I'll come over to your place later."
"No, are you serious? That thing is priced at 380 million, not a few million or tens of millions?" The person in charge was stunned for a moment.
"Heh, you don't know who he is, do you? He was the talent the institute desperately wanted to recruit back then. Mind mapping, and those machines used in steel rolling mills all over the country now, they were all improved by him. Without him, we would have had to import a lot more stuff," someone explained.
Wang Shouren knew about this project, the 1780 rolling mill. Back then, China was ripped off by this project.
Some might say that the fault lies with the experts at the time; they couldn't understand it, causing losses to the country. But you can't really blame them. People might not understand a concept. That entire set of equipment, just the blueprints alone weighed over four tons.
There aren't that many experts in China to conduct this research.
Some of the things Wang Shouren later researched at the steel rolling mill were derived from this entire system.
However, it wasn't put into practical use until later, when they began comprehensive optimization. And now, they've started building their own factory.
He's on his own, and he doesn't have the energy to mess around with a whole set of equipment.
But if this equipment costs 380 million, then that's a different story.
Why did Wang Shouren oppose buying this set of items? Because Xiao Rizi's set of items was utterly shameless to the extreme.
Besides the 1780 equipment, this set includes other things, and some small items added to it. To be more specific, it includes a flush toilet.
This is pure bullying.
Back then, the plan provided by Xiao Rizi was very detailed, covering everything from the power supply system and cranes to the arrangement of workstations, and so on. Everything had to be done according to their plan.
When we thought about it, something didn't seem right. We can't do it this way, can we?
At least, we can manage to shuffle things around like workstations, power distribution, and cranes ourselves.
But what did they say?
They asked, "Do you understand?" Then they casually asked a question that we couldn't answer. The final result was: either do it our way, or you figure it out yourselves.
As the buyer, we feel so frustrated.
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