Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 669 The production line is back!
Li Family Courtyard!
Hearing the urgent call from the study, Li Yi immediately strode in and picked up the phone!

"I'm Li Yi, who are you?"

"Comrade Li Yi, I am Zhou Rui. Is it convenient for you to speak now?"

"Convenience, what's wrong Zhou Chu?"

"It's like this. The batch of equipment ordered from Corning has arrived in Pengcheng smoothly. It is expected to arrive in Yangcheng tonight and then be transported to Beijing by train."

Before Zhou Rui finished speaking, Li Yi said happily: "Hahaha, great, didn't they send a coast guard ship to intercept us this time?"

"Haha, do they dare? We don't want to make a big fuss this time. Otherwise, their behavior of boarding our official ship and forcibly searching it is enough to give us reason to sail the warship into Victoria Harbor!"

Then Zhou Rui continued: "As long as those foreigners don't get kicked in the head by a donkey, they will never dare to come out and look for trouble again. We have a hundred ways to deal with them at our doorstep!"

"That's good, now I can go back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year!" Li Yi said with a smile.

"Wait a minute, I called today. In addition to telling you that the equipment has arrived in Pengcheng successfully, there are a few things I want to tell you!" Zhou Rui said.

"What's the matter? Please tell me?"

"The first thing that happened was the technicians from Corning. When they arrived in Pengcheng and learned that their final destination was the capital, they collectively gave up their plans!"

Li Yi asked in a deep voice: "Where are they now?"

"Those people refused to leave after arriving in Pengcheng, and are now protesting at the accommodation we arranged!" Zhou Rui said.

"How did you do it?" Li Yi asked again.

"We acted with affection and reason, and asked them to go to the capital to help us install those production lines, but they refused to agree."

Before Zhou Rui could finish speaking, Li Yi interrupted him: "Your method is wrong!"

"Then what do you think we should do? You can't threaten them with a knife or a gun, right?"

"It's pointless to threaten us with knives and guns. It makes us look like bandits. Tell those people to install the production line properly when they get to the capital. Then we will give each of them a bonus of US$[-]."

Then Li Yi said again: "At the same time, tell them that if they go back now, we will not hold them back and will send them back to the other side immediately."

"But their failure to complete their commitment to install the production line is a major breach of contract. We will definitely hold them accountable. Not only will Corning lose money, but they will also lose their job. Let them make their own choice!"

"Then what if they insist on going back?" Zhou Rui said.

"Then send them back to Hong Kong Island!"

"Really?"

"What a gift!"

Then Li Yi said again: "Without Zhang Butcher, can we still eat pigs with hair on them? If it really doesn't work, I will find some engineers from other places and we can always install this production line. But I think we can wait until we finish talking." After those words, those guys may not dare to go back.”

Li Yi knows how bad the employment environment in Thieving Eagle is now. Since the economy there has been in a period of severe stagflation in recent years, a large number of companies cannot sell their products and have to close down in the end. The unemployment rate of workers has once been A terrifying 11%.

More importantly, the economy there is still in a state of severe high inflation at this stage, and the prices of all daily necessities, including food, are rising crazily.

Under such circumstances, I believe that the vast majority of workers will cherish their current job opportunities.

"Okay, I'll have someone convey what you just said to those people!" Zhou Rui said.

"Okay, anything else?"

Zhou Rui said immediately: "I just received a call from the comrades at Pengcheng Customs, saying that they found a large number of other items when unloading the ship, and asked us what to do!"

"What other items? Is there anything else besides those equipment?" Li Yi asked in surprise.

"Ok!"

"What's going on? Zhou Chu, did you ask Zhou Wen, who is so brave?"

"Comrade Li Yi, it's not what you think. I asked Awen, and he said those things were gifts given to you by Chinese businessmen and celebrities on Hong Kong Island. Or should they be said to be wedding gifts for your sister! "Then Zhou Rui said again: "If it were a small amount, the comrades at the customs would definitely not say anything, but this time the quantity is really a lot and it is worth a lot of money."

"Zhou Chu, I understand, what should I do now?"

Li Yi understood that it must be a friend on Hong Kong Island who knew that his sister was getting married, so he thought of sending some congratulatory gifts.

It is still quite troublesome to travel between the two sides now, not to mention it is not easy to carry a large amount of things into the customs, so Huang Lixing was asked to help.

Lao Huang took this opportunity to send the congratulatory gifts and the equipment together.

Fortunately, Zhou Wen was in charge of this operation, and he was Zhou Rui's nephew, otherwise this matter would have been really hard to explain.

Zhou Rui thought for a moment and said, "Logically speaking, in a situation like this, things would usually be confiscated by customs, but your matter is quite special, and it certainly cannot be handled this way."

"First of all, these things are wedding gifts given to your sister by the Hong Kong businessmen. They are not smuggled in for profit. If they are confiscated like this, it will hurt the feelings of the Hong Kong businessmen in Shanghai."

"Secondly, you don't know about this, and our people helped them transport the things back, so we are also responsible! So I plan to report to the superiors, explain the situation, and try not to do this again!"

Li Yi was silent for a moment, and then said: "Zhou Chu, how about this? How about you tell Pengcheng Customs that we pay the tariff on those things, so that they can be treated as normal imported items?"

"Then you have to report it to your superiors!" Zhou Rui said.

"it is good!"

"Okay, let's leave it at that. I'll call you when the equipment is shipped to the capital!"

"Row"

Afterwards, the two hung up the phone!

After ending the call, Li Yi felt somewhat helpless. This was a big deal.

Lao Huang and the others didn't know much about the situation in the country, so they thought it would be okay to take this opportunity to send some congratulatory gifts.

After all, in their eyes, Li Yi is the special envoy serving the country.

It wouldn't be a big deal to ship a large batch of equipment, let alone some gifts!

But what they didn't know was that the equipment was purchased for the Yanjing TV Factory. For the sake of revitalizing the economy, the higher-ups were naturally happy to see the results.

However, those gifts were given to private individuals, which was considered smuggling by the customs.

And it was worth calling Zhou Rui personally to tell him about it. Obviously, the gifts given by Huang and others should contain sensitive things. If they were just simple clothes and shoes, it would not be necessary to make this call to him specifically.

Of course, there is another possibility that Zhou Rui made this call mainly to remind himself.

After all, there will definitely be many things to transport materials and equipment in this way in the future. If this happens often, it will be difficult for them to explain.

Therefore, as expected, the things Lao Huang and the others sent will arrive in the capital together with the color TV production line, and it is unlikely that he will be asked to pay customs duties.

But if this happens again in the future, it will be difficult to deal with.

It seems that I have to take time to talk to Lao Huang and the others, and I can't save trouble in the future.

Of course, this also includes the eldest brother-in-law, Yan Guangming, Jin Junze and others, lest they also take advantage of the opportunity to travel between Hong Kong Island and Pengcheng to bring in messy things for profit.

Although this possibility is not very high, it is still necessary to prepare for a rainy day.

But there is no rush about this matter. The most important thing now is to tell his second brother Jiang Longyin that the color TV production line has returned to China.

After all, he paid for the equipment in advance, so he had to make it clear.

Thinking of this, Li Yi came out of the study, said hello to Jiang Xue, then called Zhang Ziqiang and left the house.

(End of this chapter)