At the desk, Minister Xu reviewed the secretary's report word by word.

The report was written in the name of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, and the content was to apply for priority use of exhibition resources. At the instruction of Minister Xu, the secretary did not explain exactly which resources it was, but just gave a few general sentences. If he did not read them carefully, he would easily misunderstand.

Just for these two sentences, the report has as many as 2,000 words, including both the text of the Ministry of Machinery Industry proving itself and the paragraphs that express the purpose of resources. The pen in the department took a whole afternoon to complete it, and standing at the desk, almost exhausted.

Minister Xu looked at it for a long time and then said seriously: "It is not good to not mention foreign exchange at all. At that time, the superiors may think it is a sudden attack. Well... Let's talk about the bank and say that we will hand over the fund account to us. Of course, we need to include foreign exchange, but don't say it is too specific, you can understand it, but you can't understand it too much. Do you understand?"

"I understand." The secretary of Wenzi's throat was dry. He knew it clearly, but despite writing many reports and accepting many strange requests, requests like Minister Xu are still difficult. It is like a trick to pick bones in eggs under the gaze of an old hen. The worst thing is that he can't break the egg shell and hurt the hen.

"Go and write." Minister Xu would be picky about writing, but would not give up his own ideas. With foreign exchange, he could import necessary equipment, with foreign exchange, he could purchase fine-grained foreign goods, and with foreign exchange, he could go abroad for inspection and travel... In terms of the international market, foreign exchange is real money, and the RMB is just a kind of exchange coupon. Although it is large in scale, its nature is no different from Q coins before entering the WTO.

A high-end, elegant and upscale man like Minister Xu, who once he gained power, would not be willing to just put Q coins in his pocket to get involved in the world? He is in the Ministry of Machinery Industry, a department that wants to be in line with the world, and a department that faces the challenges of joining the World, but not a self-sufficiency department in a small circle like the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture.

Minister Xu thought of all the ways to think of when the State Council wants foreign exchange, lends foreign exchange from banks, or intercepts foreign exchange from the following enterprises. At present, if the enterprises of the Ministry of Machinery Industry and Dahua Industrial share US$100 million or 200 million in foreign exchange, Minister Xu might be a little more reserved. However, the gap between zero to four and even zero to five is really big, so big that Minister Xu could not be stingy with one or two pens to death.

His secretary walked back to his office with heavy steps, pondered and pulled off thousands of hair, and finally added words such as "bank supervision" and "fund account" to the report.

To add something that is not formatted to the formatted statement, it must be unobtrusive, which is almost equivalent to rewriting the 2,000-word report.

Two hours later, while Minister Xu was still in the office, the secretary handed over the report.

It took him almost 15 minutes to read these two thousand words, then knocked his finger on the table, and said, "It seems that the fund account is not particularly clear. In this way, try to borrow funds and write them in. Don't use the word borrowing, but the core concept is to embezzle this fund for a period of time and embellish it. Do you understand?"

When the secretary of Wenzi fainted when he heard "I didn't understand very well" and thought to himself: Didn't you tell me not to understand what I wrote so clearly?

Minister Xu tapped the table with his finger and said, "After writing it out, I will give it to me immediately. I am all in the office today. How long will it take to make a correction?"

The secretary started pulling his hair: "It will take two hours."

"Start up, I'm waiting in the office."

"Yes." The minister was waiting, not to mention the secretary, who ran back to his desk, grabbed his hair with his left hand and his right hand with his pen.

Two heavy hours later.

Minister Xu knocked on the table and said, "It's really not good to borrow funds, so it's a little weakened."

Four heavy hours later.

Minister Xu knocked on the table and said, "The money issue should be implicit and cannot be completely regulated by the bank. Otherwise, those who eat people and don't spit out bones will not use the funds first."

After six heavy hours.

Minister Xu knocked on the table and said, "The exhibition group is an exhibition group, and the Ministry of Machinery Industry is a Ministry of Machinery Industry. We must clearly understand the exhibition group and the machinery industry."

After eight heavy hours.

Minister Xu knocked on the table... When the secretary of Wenzi, who had not been sleeping for a day and night, heard the sound, he fell to the ground neatly, and did not forget to pull his hair in a daze.

"This, send him a rest and let Xiao Liu write." Minister Xu sighed: "Hurry up, the exhibition will end in one day."

The secret secretary called out two people, dragged the secretaries on the ground and left.

The ill-fated report begins to receive a new round of baptism.

It was not until the thirteenth revision that Minister Xu was slightly satisfied and said, "This is the only way..."

Hearing this answer, the third secretary shed tears of joy. The more important the report is, the more it needs to be revised. This seems to be a convention. Despite this, the number of modifications reaches thirteen times, which is still haggard, especially in such a short time and such high requirements.

Minister Xu picked up the hot towel on the table and wiped his face, pushed away the chair, and said, "I want to return to China as soon as possible, as soon as possible."

"The exhibition will end tomorrow." The secret reminded him.

"It's too late to end the exhibition." Minister Xu sighed and said, "The news of my return must be kept confidential. Take an ordinary flight and buy tickets with cash."

...

On the last day of the exhibition, Dahua Industrial once again talked about placing an order for an LNG ship. Adding the previous orders, it would fill up Dahua Shipbuilding's production capacity next year. As one of the most complex system projects in the world, the construction of LNG ships has never been a company's business. It is necessary to cooperate with a fully equipped super-large enterprise like China Shipbuilding Industry to complete such orders. Therefore, in order to avoid breach of contract, ship managers such as Yan Xuecan paid great attention to the signing of orders and were more picky about the contract.

On the premise that the price is 10 yuan, the newly signed contract does not have a certain delivery time. However, this is also a custom of the ship industry and is one of the manifestations of large companies and big bullying of customers. Shipping companies usually guarantee delivery in order, but often do not guarantee the specific delivery time. On the one hand, the number of docks is limited and there are restrictions on raw materials, funds, etc. On the other hand, during orders of one or two years, ship companies often encounter many special problems, such as troubled unions. If the delivery time is set, the smart and shameless unions can take a full strike to plunder all profits of the shipyard, or plunder the above-mentioned profits.

One of the secrets for Chinese companies to succeed is that there is no union. Although the interests of workers cannot be fully protected, the companies have obtained great freedom of operation based on this, ensuring that they enter the international market under backward technology.

The unions of state-owned enterprises are just a false reputation. Apart from deducting 2 months of salary per month, they rarely take positive actions, which saves them a little bit of energy and helps them get some orders at relatively low prices.

Although it was less than Dahua Industrial's gains, dozens of state-owned enterprises gathered together and eventually received nearly US$200 million in orders, which brought the total orders of the exhibition group to US$700 million. This number far exceeded Director Lu's expectations. In excitement, he asked him to spend a lot of money and entrust the embassy to hold a banquet to invite familiar or unfamiliar political and business people.

At the same time, Minister Xu quietly returned to the capital and visited Mr. Fei.

Like many veterans, Mr. Fei allocated more time to think and less affairs to specific affairs. Therefore, it is quite difficult to meet Mr. Fei. Even ministerial-level cadres like Minister Xu need something that can be seen before they can be lucky enough to meet.

The stepping stone borrowed by Minister Xu was a report he carefully prepared. He also worked hard to deliver these two thousand words to Mr. Fei's desk.

As for how long it will take to get a response, Minister Xu actually didn't know, so he could only go home and worry about going home.

Fortunately, after only two days, Minister Xu received a notice of the fee.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Minister Xu, who was dressed up in a fresh manner, came to Mr. Fei's courtyard with full of courage and confidence.

The protection mode of loose outside and tight inside allows Minister Xu to slowly relax.

"Please come with me." The staff of the Fei Office smiled as if they had accurately measured it, standard and rigid.

Minister Xu didn't care about anything else, nodded slightly, and followed.

Under the eyes of the two black guards, the study room was in front and behind. Unexpectedly, there were not only Mr. Fei’s comfortable chair on the backrest in the room, but also two other people.

Minister Xu looked closely and shouted in surprise: "Old Su, Old Liu..."

The two nodded slightly and said nothing.

Minister Xu was nervous again and sat down next to the door.

"I have read your report. It seems that you want to use the income from this International Industrial Exhibition?" Old Fei's eyes were half open and half closed, and his little eyes were almost invisible.

"We just considered taking advantage of the opportunity of industrial exhibitions to use the funds and buy as much as possible with as little money as possible. This is a very good time..." Minister Xu replied carefully, not admitting that he wanted to misappropriate it.

Old Fei nodded and looked at the other two.

"Just watch the video directly." Old Su turned his neck back and chose a comfortable position.

With Mr. Fei’s consent, the staff turned on the TV in front of the diagonally.

The snowflakes flashed for two seconds, and an offshore drilling platform appeared on the screen.

It was like a mutated steel octopus, with limbs facing down, arched its body, raised its eyes, and stood on the blue sea, almost motionless.

Minister Xu heard the sound of the sea and the continuous noise of the engine, but only by looking carefully can you find that someone is running on the drilling platform. They seem to be small black dots, and they can barely see the shape.

The boring picture, accompanied by the boring sound, lasted for more than two minutes.

Just as Minister Xu began to wonder if he was looking at the photos, the engine sound on the TV suddenly changed from a continuous noise to an unstable roar.

The screen seemed to vibrate.

A few seconds later, Minister Xu suddenly realized that it was not the screen that was vibrating, but the only thing on the screen, the huge offshore drilling platform that was vibrating.

From bottom to top, its vibration amplitude is getting bigger and bigger. When it reaches the middle derrick, it is already swinging like a magnitude six or seven earthquake, and it is visible to the naked eye.

The noise is getting louder and louder, and it makes a "pop" sound of pinching cooked eggs.

"Look at it." Old Liu, who seemed to be asleep, slowly sat upright.

And just as he was speaking, the derrick, which was like a pendulum clock, suddenly paused for a few seconds.

Then, the derrick made of pure steel soared into the sky like a rocket being launched.

"Fly... go up?" A very unexpected voice came from the TV, and people around the camera were shouting.

Below the derrick, a black horse rose into the sky, pushing the derrick and other large pieces of steel to a height of fifty or sixty meters above the altitude before leaving it to fall freely.

Accompanied by the deafening shouts and screams of hoarseness, and the black spots running wildly on the drilling platform. They ignored the danger of falling objects from high altitudes and quickly gathered into the middle derrick section, trying to suppress the swelling oil injection. On the side where the camera was placed, the supervisor began to organize workers to "rescue".

"The excessive pressure on the oil layer and poor derrick fixation caused the accident. Fortunately, no casualties were caused. The good news is that we may have discovered an amazing oil field... This is a report sent by Dahua Industrial. It arrived yesterday afternoon." Mr. Liu's hair and beard turned white, and he trembled as he spoke.

Minister Xu's heart also trembled, and asked: "Has the oil field proved it?"

"The video is the best proof." Mr. Su said slowly: "The Petroleum Corporation and CNOOC have sent personnel to understand the situation. Regardless of whether it is an amazing oil field or not, the Dahua oil field in Azerbaijan needs to be developed immediately. The extension line of the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline will also make moderate adjustments based on the information..."

"So that's how it is."

"So, the application report of the Ministry of Machinery Industry will not be approved." Fei made a long pause and continued: "Not only that, we hope that the Ministry of Machinery Industry can actively assist Dahua Industry in building this oil field in Azerbaijan as quickly as possible. The demand for equipment, machinery and steel in oil field construction is very high, which is an excellent opportunity. However, any enterprise must complete the contract with quality and quantity, and cannot do anything to hold back."

"I understand." Minister Xu, who was full of courage and confidence, was like a colloid that was deflated, and had no strength. In 1993, China was a net importer of energy. China, which had a history of poor oil countries, had long realized the importance of energy stability. Whether it was the oil fields in Azerbaijan or the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline, they were extremely important national cornerstones. Compared with this, the requirements of the Ministry of Machinery Industry can really wait.

"Happy. If you really find an amazing oil field as Sucheng said, like Shengli Oilfield or Daqing Oilfield, it will play a good role in the economic stability of our country." Mr. Fei encouraged Minister Xu.

However, Minister Xu could only feel the deep, deep malice when he sat in this room.
Chapter completed!