Zhuang Yong and his colleagues surrounded a black bakery phone, looking forward to the moment it was opened.

They are all employees of the county oil pipe factory. They have been shutting down for almost a year and can only make a living by halving their salary of 20 yuan per month. When they see advertisements about Dahua Industrial on TV and newspapers, even the calm people can't help it.

There were only four telephones in the factory. Zhuang Yong and others found the old factory director, dialed the phone from the afternoon and continued until evening.

Everyone checked the phone number countless times, but never got connected.

A coworker was tired of transferring the position to Zhuang Yong and joked: "It's time to test you."

Everyone laughed in cooperation, and they were a little anxious and needed a moment of relaxation.

Zhuang Yong put up the phone and gently dialed the first number, without having to look at it. They had already dialed the number for a long time.

It's still busy.

Zhuang Yong is not surprised. Today's phone call seems to have only one tone.

After hanging up, Zhuang Yong started dialing the second number and laughed softly, "It will always be opened."

"You're lucky."

"I have always been lucky." Zhuang Yong shook his hand and was about to hang up the phone, but he realized that the voice was different.

Just at this moment, a sweet female voice came from the microphone: "Hello, Dahua Industrial."

Zhuang Yong coughed hard and said hurriedly: "Hello, our workers at Jiaming County Oil Pipe Factory, we want to work overseas, can we?"

The workers who were still joking all looked serious and quiet.

The sweet female voice said kindly: "Is it an individual or a group?"

"Group, count as a group. We have a total of 300 people."

"Okay, please tell me about my education, professional rank, and the job you are good at." The phone asked in detail. Compared to the travel expenses of hundreds of people, the phone bill is significantly cheaper.

Zhuang Yong listened and recorded, and the workers around him were all watching on tiptoe.

It took about five minutes before Zhuang Yong reluctantly hung up the phone and remembered half a piece of paper.

The person behind who could not see the record shouted, "What is it said?"

"There are so many requirements." Zhuang Yong picked up the paper, stood on the chair, and said, "First of all, we are from the oil pipe factory. Foreigners only need to lay oil pipes, not the oil pipes. Therefore, those who can lay oil pipes can pass the assessment, and those who build oil pipes must go through training to go. During the training, they only need to be fed and accommodated, and only 20 yuan is given... Then, workers who go abroad need to learn foreign languages. Those who cannot pass the "Class II" exam for half a year can only return to work..."

"The requirements for different jobs are different." Another worker shouted, "There are probably not many people who can go."

"We are working on machinery, can we learn how to lay oil pipes?"

Zhuang Yong looked up and saw that it was the big shot at the factory who repaired machine tools. He immediately said: "Mr. Liu has a senior professional title. After passing their assessment, he can go to work. However, people also said that foreign countries mainly focus on exploration, followed by engineering construction. Although there are also factories, there are very few, and finally they have to be handed over to foreigners to operate, so the demand is low, and it is possible to arrange work in China."

"How to calculate money for domestic jobs?"

Another worker said in surprise: "It's not necessarily somewhere, maybe it's Shandong, or maybe it's Xinjiang. So far away, you'll go too?"

"Why don't you go?" Liu Gong stared at him and said, "Xiaozhuang, how do you calculate money abroad?"

Workers who were once ashamed to talk about money had long been overwhelmed by the burden of life.

Zhuang Yong sighed and said, "100 yuan plus allowance. There is no allowance in the first year. In the future, it depends on whether you want to enter Dahua Industrial. If you go in, it will be 200 yuan a month."

The 100 yuan in 1989 is no longer as much as in 1987. The two consecutive years of inflation have caused the purchasing power of banknotes to drop by more than half. The wage increase in enterprises and institutions across the country is also carried out with inflation, but the speed is naturally much slower. Nowadays, the quality of life of people who receive wages is generally declining.

The oil pipe factory that was discontinued only costs 20 yuan per month. Liu Gong was still moved and said, "Go to 100 yuan, you can't just stay like this."

An older person advised: "Mr. Liu, you have old men and young men. What if you go too far?"

"How can I do it when I stay at home without money? I don't want to set up a stall?" I can still make some money by setting up a stall, but most workers can't hide their face.

Zhuang Yong looked at the person who gave up and shook his head and said, "You can go there if you want to. You still have to take the exam in China, and you have to wait until the foreign workers are finished and then choose domestic workers..."

Liu Gong was unmoved and said, "Where can you sign up?"

"It is said that you have to send your resume first. Once the resume is approved, Dahua Industrial will reimburse the round-trip fare."

"Reimbursement of car fares?" Everyone was excited.

State-owned enterprises have not recruited workers outside the factory for many years. Occasionally, there are several indicators for entering the factory. I only heard that applicants give gifts, but I have never heard that factories reimburse applicants for car and horse fees.

This formal approach immediately captured people's hearts, and in an instant, the people in the old factory manager's room ran away.

A few days later, piles of letters appeared in Dahua Laboratory. Zhong Zhigen led more than 100 trained researchers to review these resumes.

In addition, there are people who come to Dongying to take the exam without caring about the travel expenses. Dahua Laboratory still has to receive them.

The heaviest workload is naturally the unit that contracts the project. Although most people are not interested in advance, they can withstand quite low project quotations and settle in RMB. This is very important for Sucheng. He has 40 to 50 million yuan in assets, but the US dollar is almost all borrowed. The former's payment methods are naturally flexible than the latter.

Formosa Plastics and Evergreen also have to send accounting to verify fees.

Of course, the biggest thing is always material costs. The Setan area is a pure new oil field, and a high-standard shallow sea oil field. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is to rebuild a Shengli oil field.

With such a large scale, Formosa Plastics and Evergreen Group have prepared a total of US$300 million in funds. Sucheng has to find another way to raise US$200 million. According to the official exchange rate, this is RMB 2 billion, but in fact it is RMB 3.5 billion, which has exceeded the assets of Shengli Oilfield.

Such a big piece of cake, I took a selfie on CCTV for advertising, so that factories across the country would not be able to avoid it.

With RMB 1 million, you can broadcast advertisements on CCTV's first and second sets all day. As time goes by, there are more types of advertisements. The relevant factories themselves will consider: They have to have cranes, right? They have to have cables, right? They have to have lunch boxes, right? They have to have to wear shoes, right?

These state-owned or private factories do not care about the money of one or two train tickets. Taking advantage of the opportunity before the Spring Festival, countless people went straight to Dongying to give gifts. Some people were worried that Sucheng would not accept it, so they called friends to find the relationship between the local government or Shengli Oilfield, and then came to visit with gifts.

They were overthinking.

Sucheng is not a public family member, and the company's shares are 100% owned by him, so receiving gifts is not a problem at all. He even specially built a warehouse to display gifts from various units and record them on the record.

In addition, Sucheng is very friendly to every visitor. Especially large-scale state-owned enterprises, provincial-scale private enterprises, and department-level cadres are received by him personally.

When the Shougang people came, Su Cheng clapped the other party's hand and promised to buy special steel. This is an indispensable construction material for the oil field and is also the type of steel with the largest profit and the least sales volume of the steel plant.

When the people from the Second Automobile Manufacturing Factory arrived, Su Cheng took the other party's arm, promised to buy special vehicles and modified vehicles, and joined forces to build a natural gas transport vehicle.

When the Panda Electronics Group came, Su Cheng hugged the other party's shoulder and promised to purchase communication equipment and mechanical and electrical equipment integrated equipment...

When the people from the Shanghai Petroleum Corporation came, Su Cheng did not dislike the identity of Sinopec. He still drank with him and promised to purchase petroleum and petrochemical products and natural gas methanol production equipment...

Not only that, Sucheng also took the initiative to contact China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, China First Heavy Industry, China Second Heavy Industry Corporation, Harbin Steam Turbine Factory, China Construction Corporation and other ministerial-level enterprises to order equipment and services from them.

The Setan Oilfield uses a lot of heavy industrial products, and just three or five base drilling platforms cost hundreds of millions of US dollars. For ordinary small and medium-sized factories, Sucheng must pay RMB. For enterprises like China Shipbuilding and Yihe, Sucheng will tempt them with US dollars.

In just half a month, Su Cheng had already spent 400 million US dollars. The 50 million US dollars he raised was not enough to pay the deposit, so he asked Evergreen Group and Formosa Plastics Group to raise 50 million US dollars.

At this time, Su Cheng went to Beijing to accept an interview from the Ministry of Energy.

From 1988 to 1998, the Ministry of Energy was in charge of energy policies, and overseas investment in energy could not avoid the boulder. Although the Ministry of Energy always appeared in a coordinated manner in terms of specific implementation, once it received the support of its subordinate companies, the Ministry of Energy's deterrence is quite strong.

Minister Guo made this idea. Although he saw the advertisement of Dahua Industrial, he only thought it was recruiting employees and some small companies that saved money, and did not pay attention to it. In his opinion, as long as he received support from China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinopec and CNOOC, and the Ministry of Energy itself, four mountains were suppressed, Dahua Industrial would have to submit as long as it was still in China. He even visited the leaders of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and got a certain level of space.

In the past half month, Minister Guo has been busy and has been fully prepared. He has just pulled three deputy general managers of PetroChina, Sinopec and PetroChina to have a conversation with Sucheng.

The templates of the four deputy ministers, plus four or five accompanying officials, as well as the Shengli Oilfield and other enterprises who were interviewed at the same time, nearly 20 people appeared in the conference hall.

Minister Guo and three other officials sat at the chairman's table, and Su Cheng sat in a lower position facing them, and behind them were officials from Shengli Oilfield. It was better to say that they were questioning rather than interviewing.

Looking at Su Cheng who seemed calm, Minister Guo finally laughed and said, "We are here today to discuss the oil distribution issue in the Setan area..."
Chapter completed!