Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

  Chapter 69 Buying Coal

  Transportation on commission is a blank area in the policy. The policy does not explicitly allow this behavior, nor does it explicitly stop it.

   Engaging in transportation and consignment sales becomes eating crabs. The first person to eat crabs will find that the taste of crabs is really delicious, and then feast on it and enjoy the highest nutritional value of crab paste. And the person who ate crabs last can probably only pick up the crab legs that others have gnawed, and take a bite of the taste.

  Yu Zhengcheng obviously doesn't want to be the first person to eat crabs. After all, eating crabs is also risky. If one is accidentally caught by crabs.

Yu Zhengcheng is about to retire in two years. At his age, he no longer pursues "forge ahead and innovate" anymore. After the last two years can be passed safely and safely, he will retreat safely. Zhengcheng's highest wish.

Therefore, as far as Zhengcheng is concerned, the tasks assigned by the superiors will be meticulously completed, and he will be the last posture. If there is any opportunity for recognition, Yu Zhengcheng will do his part to show his face, except for this. Wai Yu Zhengcheng will never assume any additional responsibilities.

  In the view of Zhengcheng, the policy of consignment sales by shipping is not clear. Since the policy does not explicitly allow it, then don't do it. Do not seek merits but seek no demerits, so as not to bear responsibility in the future.

Among the transportation companies, the one who most hopes Yu Zhengcheng will take on responsibility is of course the general manager Zhu Shicong.

  If Yu Zhengcheng made any mistakes, in all likelihood, he would retreat to the second line ahead of schedule. When the time comes, Zhu Shicong, the company's second-in-command, will naturally be promoted to the first-in-command.

  If the transportation agency is very successful and can bring profits to the transportation company, then everyone is happy, and Zhu Shicong has no loss.

  If the transportation agency fails to do so, especially if it encounters policy problems, the top leader Yu Zhengcheng will be the biggest beneficiary, and Zhu Shicong will be the biggest beneficiary, and it is possible to become the top leader of the transportation company two years in advance.

  After calculating this account, no matter how stable profit is not lost, Zhu Shicong showed strong support for Yiyun's agency sales plan.

  Yu Zhengcheng can of course also see Zhu Shicong’s calculations, so the more Zhu Shicong supports the shipping agency plan, the more Yu Zhengcheng opposes it, and things froze like this.

   After learning of this result, Li Weidong was quite helpless, but this kind of thing is not new in state-owned enterprises. If the leaders of state-owned enterprises are pioneering and enterprising, then there will be a wave of state-owned enterprises’ failures.

  However, Li Weidong does not intend to give up the big crab of "shipping on commission", because the profit of shipping on commission is so impressive.

  Moreover, using the advantage of mastering information to engage in consignment sales is also the last way for a state-owned transport company to get rich. If you miss consignment sales, even Li Weidong, the rebirth secretary, can only let the transportation company gradually decline and die.

  The transportation enterprises under the state-run system cannot compete with the individual transportation industry. This is an inevitable economic development and cannot be solved by one person.

Li Weidong pondered for a moment, and then said: "Director, since the company's leadership is still arguing about consignment sales, we might as well start a small-scale pilot. When the results of the pilot are available, it can also be used as a decision-making process for the leadership. Basis. If the results of the pilot are good, then try large-scale promotion. If the results of the pilot are not good, the immediate suspension will not cause much loss."

   "If it is only a small-scale pilot, we don't need to alert the company leaders, our freight department can implement it." Zhao Guodong nodded, and then asked, "Do you have a specific plan?"

  "I have already thought out a general plan. I think we can start the pilot project with coal transportation and consignment sales." Li Weidong replied.

  Zhao Guodong pondered for a few seconds: “Coal is a good choice. It is in great demand and easy to store. Even if it cannot be sold in the end, it can be brought to our company’s briquettes factory and made into briquettes for personal use.”

Li Weidong opened his mouth and said, "Director, we have to find expensive places to sell. I have collected information on this. If the price is high, it has to be the Dongdao Port Authority. Let's pull the coal to the Dongdao Port Authority. Go, you will definitely make money by selling it to them."

  Dongdao Port Authority is good at handling, storage and transfer of bulk commodities. In the future, the largest oil import throughput port and the largest iron ore import throughput port in China will be Dongdao Port. In contrast, the southern ports are mainly engaged in container trade.

Zhao Guodong is the director of the freight department. He is naturally well aware of the supply and demand of goods in various places. He pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Dongdao Port Authority needs coal, but what they need is good coal. Just our Qinghe. The coal produced by the coal mine may not meet the requirements of the Dongdao Port Authority."

  There are also several coal mines in the Qinghe area, but they are all small mines. They have been mined since the 1950s. By the 1980s, most of the coal mines in the Qinghe area had been mined. At that time, the annual coal output of Qinghe barely reached 500,000 tons, which basically supplied Qinghe's local demand.

  Moreover, Qinghe’s local coal is of poor quality, high in sulfur, has a big burning smell, and has a relatively normal calorific value. This kind of coal is burned on its own and sent to the Dongdao Port Authority. People don’t want it at all.

Li Weidong had already figured out the countermeasures. He said, "Director, we can pull coal from Yankuang and sell it to Dongdao Port Authority. The quality of Yankuang's coal must be excellent, and Dongdao Port Authority will definitely do it. receive."

  "This is a good idea. The coal from Yankuang will go to the East Island, earn a freight, and then earn a price difference. This plan is feasible." Zhao Guodong nodded in agreement.

"Director, if you think it's feasible, then let's do it, but we have to contact Dongdao Port Authority and Yankuang in advance. Dongdao Port Authority should be no problem there. As long as it is Yankuang coal, they will definitely do it. The key to the harvest is Yankuang. If you buy coal from Yankuang, you have to find a relationship." Li Weidong said.

  Zhao Guodong thought for a while, and said, “There is a director Huang who is in charge of safety production at Yankuang. He is my comrade-in-arms. Then I can find him to match and talk with Yankuang about buying coal."

  Zhao Guodong said, took out a small slap-sized notebook with him, and found the phone number of Director Yankuang Huang in it.

  At that time, there was not even a mobile phone, let alone such things as a mobile phone address book. In order to remember the contact information of a friend, many people would bring a small book with them to record the phone number.

  For people who often run business, this small book with a phone number recorded is much more important than an ID card, and contact business depends on it.

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  Yan Mine is not a mine.

  In the 1980s, the official name of Yankuang was Yanzhou Mining Bureau, which was an administrative agency responsible for the management of the coal industry. However, Yanzhou Mining Bureau is also a national super large enterprise specializing in coal production. Therefore, Yankuang is both an administrative unit and an enterprise.

  The reason for this situation is that the scale of Yankuang is large enough, so the state has set up a mining bureau for Yankuang as the superior management agency of Yankuang. Since the Yanzhou Mining Bureau specializes in the management of Yankuang, and it can only manage Yankuang, it is better to merge the two together, so this kind of mixed administrative unit and enterprise has appeared.

  There were many similar situations at the time, when the eight largest coal bases in the country used this management model.

  Qinghe is not far from Yankuang, only less than 200 kilometers away, because there was no high-speed kilometer at that time, it was time to arrive in the morning.

  At noon, Zhao Guodong and Li Weidong had arrived at Yankuang. The old comrade of Zhao Guodong directly hosted a banquet in Yankuang’s guest house to entertain Zhao Guodong.

  Zhao Guodong’s old comrade-in-arms is called Huang Aihua, a dark-skinned middle-aged man, a little older than Zhao Guodong, he is a director of Yankuang's safety production department, and is also a middle-level cadre of Yankuang, with a little bit of power.

  After three drinks, Huang Aihua asked: "Guodong, you said on the phone, you want to come to me to buy coal? How many cars do you plan to have?"

   "How many cars are enough! I want to sign a long-term supply agreement with you Yankuang, don't you want to find you to help matchmaking?" Zhao Guodong said.

  "Long-term supply also has to be counted?" Huang Aihua then asked.

   "How can I get five thousand tons in a month? If the situation is good, I will add more later." Zhao Guodong replied.

  "Five thousand tons a month? Sixty thousand tons of coal in a year?" Huang Aihua looked embarrassed.

  "How can your Yankuang produce five or six million tons of coal a year? I want 60,000 tons, not much." Zhao Guodong said with a smile.

In 1985, Yankuang's relatively large mining areas, one was the Xinglongzhuang Coal Mine with an annual output of 3 million tons, the other was the Beisu Coal Mine with an annual output of 1 million tons, plus other scattered mines. It can reach five or six million tons.

  Later, Baodian Coal Mine, Yangcun Coal Mine and Dongtan Coal Mine were built and put into production one after another, and Yankuang's output rose to more than 10 million tons.

  Before the 1990s, domestic coal mining technology was backward, and many coal mines still used manpower to dig coal, so the annual output of 10 million tons was already the top coal mine in China. Of the several large domestic coal mines, which one does not produce hundreds of millions of tons of coal per year.

However, Huang Aihua showed a look of embarrassment. He drank a sullen wine, and then said: "Guodong, if it is the case before, I will talk to the leaders of the bureau to say good things, and I will give you 5,000 tons of coal a month. It's approved. But it doesn't work now. We really can't get so much coal from the mine."

   "I can't get 5,000 tons of coal in a month? Isn't it? You guys are Yankuang!" Zhao Guodong looked incredible.

Huang Aihua looked conscientious, and said: "Guodong, is it possible that I would lie to you? If you only need a few carts of coal, I now think of a way to get it for you, but it costs five thousand a month. Tons, unless our chief approves it, the deputy directors can't approve it either."

  Zhao Guodong knew that Huang Aihua would not be slanderous to himself, so he asked: "Old Huang, what is going on? You don't want to sell it."

"Then I will tell you the truth. Our Yankuang's current additional production capacity has been taken away by Wujiang Foreign Trade Department. If other units want to pull coal, they are just a few scattered trucks." Huang Aihua replied. .

  "Wujiang Foreign Trade Department?" Zhao Guodong frowned and said, "Wujiang doesn't have any important ports. Can their Foreign Trade Department manage your Yankuang?"

   "They can't control our Yankuang, but they have foreign exchange." Huang Aihua said this, with a depressed expression on his face.

  Zhao Guodong quickly understood, and he asked, "You need foreign exchange in Yankuang, so you went to Wujiang Foreign Trade Department, and then used coal to exchange foreign exchange from Wujiang Foreign Trade Department?"

"You guessed it." Huang Aihua nodded and began to introduce: "In the first two years, we imported a batch of mining equipment from foreign countries. Malfunction is the kind of situation where it is repaired and broken, and repaired when it is broken."

   "That may be a product design problem, you can find the manufacturer to deal with it." Zhao Guodong said.

   "We looked for it, and the manufacturer said that it was because our coal mining technology did not meet the standard, and the environment in the mine was too poor, which caused equipment pollution, so it often failed." Huang Aihua went on to explain:

   "If we want to solve the problem, the first way is to let us improve the coal mining technology. They suggested that we follow the standards of the Argentine coal mine and carry out the overall transformation of the coal mine."

  "Argentina's coal mine standards? How is this possible! According to the Argentine standards, if you sell your Yankuang mine, you will not be able to transform a few mines." Zhao Guodong said with a smile.

  Huang Aihua nodded in sympathy: "Isn’t it, Argentina is so developed, we can’t compare. Even if we want to change, we don’t have the capital. This method will definitely not work."

  In 1985, Argentina had just lost the Falklands War, but its per capita GDP was 3,000 U.S. dollars, and it was considered a middle-to-high-income country. Coupled with abundant domestic resources, basic industries are relatively sound, and they are regarded as representatives of newly industrialized countries.

  In contrast, China’s per capita GDP is less than three hundred US dollars, which is one-tenth that of Argentina. Therefore, in the eyes of the Chinese, Argentina is a wealthy developed country.

  "What is the second method?" Zhao Guodong asked.

"The second method is to upgrade the existing equipment. The manufacturer has prepared an upgrade plan for Yankuang, but if you want to upgrade, you have to spend money. You know, foreigners don’t charge RMB, so we Only foreign exchange is needed." Huang Aihua replied.

   "How much does it cost?" Zhao Guodong asked immediately.

Huang Aihua broke his fingers and said, "A device is 30,000 US dollars, and there are hundreds of devices that need to be upgraded. This is 3 million US dollars. At this time, where are we going to get 3 million US dollars? Foreign exchange! In the end, we could only ask Wujiang Foreign Trade Department for help. Wujiang Foreign Trade Department helped us raise foreign exchange. In exchange, our three million tons of coal production capacity was taken away by Wujiang Foreign Trade Department."

  "This Wujiang Foreign Trade Department is dark enough. Even if I borrowed you some foreign exchange, it would have to take away 3 million tons of coal mine production capacity. You are not repaying this foreign exchange!" Zhao Guodong said very dissatisfied.

"It's not true, but we can't do it if we don't agree. If the equipment always fails, we will not be able to produce normally, and the loss will be even greater. That is why, for this reason, 5,000 tons of coal a month, our Yankuang is I really can't give it to you." Huang Aihua said.

  Zhao Guodong nodded helplessly: "I can understand, come, Lao Huang, I toast you a cup!"

  At this time, Li Weidong next to him suddenly said: "Director Huang, are you importing this batch of equipment from West Germany or from RB?"

  "How did you know that it was RB?" Huang Aihua asked in surprise.

"Although the machinery and equipment of West Germany and RB are very sophisticated, they are also very spoiled. The working environment is not up to standard, and it is normal to malfunction. If the equipment from the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe is not so precise, it is definitely very porcelain and not suitable for the working environment. I almost picked it up." Li Weidong paused, and then asked: "May I know what equipment is malfunctioning?"

  "They are all hydraulic equipment, which can only be found in the mining industry. They are not in this business. I have never heard of those equipment." Huang Aihua replied perfunctorily.

  Huang Aihua obviously felt that Li Weidong, a young man, was just Zhao Guodong’s attendant, and there was no need to give him such details.

   "RB's hydraulic equipment?" Li Weidong thought for a moment, then asked, "Director Huang, this equipment manufacturer, isn't it Sakurada Co., Ltd.?"

   Huang Aihua's expression was shocked, and he secretly said: "How did he know?"

  　This chapter is 4,500 words. I wanted to change this chapter today, but yesterday there were a lot of big guys who gave rewards. In order to thank you for your support, I will add another chapter in the evening. Ask for recommended votes!

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