Material Empire

Pan Shengjie received a call from Guo Ming, asking him to come to the office to discuss matters. He ran over excitedly, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Guo Ming's face as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Major Guo, what happened?" Pan Shengjie's smile froze on his face, not knowing what happened. When he left Guo Ming's office just now, Guo Ming was still beaming with joy. Why did the sun turn to rain all of a sudden?

"Xiao Qin, please tell Director Pan about the situation." Guo Ming pointed to Qin Hai who was sitting on the sofa, and said.

It was only then that Pan Shengjie discovered Qin Hai, and realized that Guo Ming's face change had a direct relationship with Qin Hai. He forced a smile, and said to Qin Hai: "Xiao Qin, did County Magistrate Guo tell you about your Japanese friend? Those two piles of slag from your steel plant have a place to go."

Qin Hai smiled and said: "Director Pan, I was wondering about this with County Magistrate Guo just now. You said that the Japanese helped us clean up the garbage. , why do you have to ship it back to Japan?"

"I asked about this, and they said it was transported back to fill the sea for land reclamation," Pan Shengjie said.

Qin Haidao: "This is taking off your pants and farting. From Pingyuan to Cenzhou port, there is a 200-kilometer railway transportation. Then change to a river ship, and then go to Pujiang to change to a sea ship. How much money will it cost? Japan itself has a lot of money. In a country with mountains, digging a mountain to fill the sea is not much better than transporting these wastes?"

"That's true..." Pan Shengjie scratched his head, "I used to wonder about this, but now the wagons are very tight. If we want to transport agricultural products in our county, we can't find wagons on the railway. The Japanese get these wagons, It doesn't matter how much effort it takes, but it seems a bit uneconomical just to transport these wastes."

"Since you are wondering, why didn't you say it just now?" Guo Ming reprimanded angrily. A simple truth, he had to wait until he was slapped in the face by Qin Hai to realize it, it was really embarrassing. The root cause of his embarrassment was that Pan Shengjie was too brainless.

Pan Shengjie said with a mournful face: "I always feel that the Japanese have plenty of money, and they are willing to do this for their own reasons. They can't do what we Chinese think. As for what they think, how can I guess?"

Qin Hai shook his head, and he didn't bother to correct Pan Shengjie's thinking. In that era, countless people in the country believed that foreigners were rich, and rich people must not need to consider logic when doing things. He said to Pan Shengjie: "Director Pan, County Magistrate Guo just talked to me and said that he was a little uncertain about the motives of the Japanese. I will go back immediately and arrange to test the slag to see if the Japanese have anything else. Attempt. What needs Director Pan’s assistance now is to delay the Japanese as long as possible, at least three days later, before discussing this matter, what does Director Pan think?”

"Three days is no problem." Pan Shengjie agreed, "The Foreign Affairs Office of the Province just notified me, and it may take a few days for it to be finalized. But, Xiao Qin, can you tell me the truth? What the hell is in these slags?"

"Before the matter is confirmed, don't spread these things to the outside world." Guo Ming intervened. Just now Qin Hai said that he noticed that Japan's motives were not pure. This is equivalent to putting gold on his face, and he really needs such a piece of gold leaf Come to cover up. If he told Pan Shengjie too much, I'm afraid Pan Shengjie would understand that these truths were beyond his comprehension by Guo Ming, and it was Qin Hai who really discovered the problem.

The three of them discussed the details again, and then Pan Shengjie hurried back to make arrangements. He had already informed the subordinate villages of Chengguan Town that they were going to arrange migrant labor, but now he needs to tell everyone that the matter has been shelved. As for the reason, that is not what Qin Hai needs to care about.

Qin Hai returned to the steel factory and introduced the relevant situation to Li Linguang. Li Linguang's face changed suddenly, and he cursed a few dirty words like "devil". Then he took two students to the slag mountain in the back to dig two large bags of slag, and rushed to the bus station to buy a ticket back to Hongze. Regarding the value of tantalum-niobium ore, Li Linguang knew more than Qin Hai. Hearing that the Japanese used such methods to defraud precious minerals, Li Linguang had no reason to be in a hurry.

Qin Hai didn't take this matter too seriously. When he thought about it, no matter what tricks the Japanese played, these slags were under his nose, and the Japanese could still dig them up in the middle of the night?

After two days like this, neither the Japanese nor Pan Shengjie had any news. Qin Hai couldn't bear it any longer. He picked up the phone and wanted to call the county economic committee, and asked Pan Shengjie directly about the progress.

"Oh, it's Xiao Qin." Pan Shengjie's tone was a little lazy on the phone, presumably because the lingering hatred of being reprimanded by Guo Ming that day has not yet been eliminated, he said: "Mr. Chuan Dao is in Beixi now, the Foreign Affairs Office said , After he finishes dealing with the matter over Beixi, he will come to the county below.

Xiao Qin, when I told you what happened last time, are you a little suspicious? Mr. Kawashima went to Beixi Iron and Steel Plant to discuss the matter of slag. Beixi Iron and Steel Plant had no objection, and even sent a large forklift to help with the shipment. We are a small Pingyuan County, and we still gossip about the motives of other Japanese friends, doesn't it seem too petty? "

"What, Chuan Dao went to Beixi Iron and Steel Plant?" Qin Hai's shock was no small matter. He suddenly remembered that besides Pingyuan, Beixi City also had an iron and steel plant, and the scale was larger than that of Pingyuan Iron and Steel. The factory is much bigger. In addition, there are seven or eight iron and steel factories in the districts and counties under Beixi City, some of which are still barely operating, and some, like Pingyuan Iron and Steel Factory, have been suspended for many years. However, all these steel factories have two things in common: first, everyone uses local ore from Beixi; second, they all leave a large amount of slag.

The little devil is really meticulous in his work.

Obviously, after Kunio Kishida discovered the waste residue of Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant, he immediately drew inferences from one instance, thought of other iron and steel plants, and arranged for a secret investigation. This time Ichiro Kawashima came to Beixi, and the picture was not the waste of Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant, but the entire Beixi.

Putting down Pan Shengjie's phone call, Qin Hai went straight to the Post Office, filled out the form and asked to be connected to Chai Peide of the Beixi Municipal Government. The phone was dialed, and it was neither Chai Peide nor Xu Yang who answered the phone, but a bewildered young man. After listening to Qin Hai's request, he replied: "Mayor Chai has gone out for a meeting, when will he come back...... I don't know."

"Where did he go for the meeting?" Qin Hai asked.

"Who knows, it seems to be the capital city, or... it's Pujiang." The young man said.

In the age when there were no mobile pagers, finding someone who was going on a business trip was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. Qin Hai patted himself on the head, and filled out two more call forms, this time calling Hongze.

After talking on the phone for 40 minutes, Qin Hai finally came out of the phone booth. The female salesperson in charge of handling business at the post and telecommunications office cast a look of extremely complicated emotions at him: 9 cents a minute for a long-distance call, and a dozen takes 40 minutes. What kind of local tyrant is this? No, it would be great if not... However, it seems that the age gap is too big to marry him, and let the girl marry him, er, it seems that the age gap is too big...

Qin Hai didn't expect that a single phone call could cause so many sex scenes. He settled the bill at the counter, then drove back to Qingfeng Factory, and went straight to Ning Zhongying's office.

"Director Ning, besides Mayor Chai, do you have other connections in Beixi City?" Qin Hai asked Ning Zhongying bluntly.

"Of course." Ning Zhongying said proudly, "I'm not bragging to you. In the entire Beixi area, I don't need to carry a penny with me. I won't starve to death in any county."

"Is there anyone who can talk to Beixi Iron and Steel Works?" Qin Hai asked again.

"Yes, Old Liu from the Municipal Economic Committee has friendship with me and is also Mayor Chai's soldier. It will definitely be useful for him to go to Beixi Iron and Steel Plant to speak." Ning Zhongying said.

"Okay, please introduce me, I have to go to Beixi now." Qin Hai said.

Ning Zhongying said: "You have been talking for a long time, but you haven't told me what it is. Why, your business has gone to Beixi Iron and Steel Plant?"

"It's not about business, it's about whether our country's mineral resources will be stolen by little devils." Qin Hai said.

Then, he told Ning Zhongying about Kunio Kishida, Ichiro Kawashima and the waste slag. Ning Zhongying's expression became uglier the more he heard it, and in the end, there was a little anger on his face.

"Mother's little Japan, I don't think that Kishida Kunio is a good guy! You people are so friendly, so friendly!" Ning Zhongying scolded.

Qin Haidao: "Director Ning, that's not what you said. We return one yard to one yard. The slag is slag, and Kunio Kishida is Kunio Kishida. Think about it, our rotary tillage blades have to rely on Kunio Kishida. Help us sell it?"

"That's true." Ning Zhongying suddenly returned to reality. After all, the waste residue of Beixi Iron and Steel Plant has nothing to do with him. It can't reach the point where it will bring disaster to the country and the people. In contrast, maintaining a harmonious relationship with Kunio Kishida is very important for Qingfeng Factory. This year Qingfeng Factory is still expecting to earn one or two million yuan from this business.

"You said that the Japanese want slag because it contains tantalum and niobium ore. Do you have any evidence?" Ning Zhongying asked. Make yourself invincible.

Qin Haidao: "I just talked with Professor Li on the phone. They are still doing analysis, and the results will be available soon. The top priority now is to let Beixi Iron and Steel Works suspend the cooperation with Japan first, and wait for the analysis results to come out. Now, everything will become clear. In fact, even if the Japanese don’t have malicious intentions, it’s okay to delay cleaning up the waste for a day or two, right?”

"Well, how about this, let's go to Beixi to find Lao Liu now. If you can't explain this kind of thing on the phone, it's better to talk about it face to face." Ning Zhongying said.

There may be another update at 10 o'clock in the evening...it hasn't been coded yet