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Lin Yuan chuckled, stood up and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "Sit down, sit down, don't be angry, listen to me explain my reasons slowly."

Gopes shook his shoulders violently, shook Lin Yuan's hand away, and said angrily, "Okay, I'll give you 10 minutes. If you can't convince me, we don't need to talk."

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Listen to me, first of all, if you can't lower the price of steel to fifty dollars a ton, Lin Yuan won't buy your steel, and if you don't agree to my request, you will pay for everything. If you can’t get it, secondly, you don’t dispose of those scrap steels in your factory, and you have to pay a lot of management fees, so it’s no good for you to keep them, don’t you think?”

"Who said steel scrap is useless, we can recycle it back into the furnace," Gopes said.

Lin Yuan couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said, "Don't lie to yourself, will your factory really do that? It is theoretically possible to recycle scrap steel into furnaces, but what about the cost? There is no iron at all. The smelting of ore is low, and the composition of scrap steel is not easy to control when it is returned to the furnace! So it is easy to produce unqualified steel, I don’t know if I’m right?”

Gopes stopped talking, he knew that what Lin Yuan said was reasonable, Lin Yuan continued: "If you sell this batch of scrap steel to me, you will definitely not suffer a loss. Do the math, these steel scraps are also idle. If you don’t sell it, the income will be negative. If you sell it to me at a price of 50 US dollars per ton, you will definitely use a 50-ton large freighter to transport these steels. A ship can earn [-] US dollars, [-]. ! Excluding the shipping fee, you must have made a lot of money!"

"As for the issue of commercial fraud, you don't have to worry. I signed the contract. I will write on the contract that this is a scrap steel sales contract. You are just faithfully fulfilling the contract. You have no responsibility at all!"

Gopes asked: "What about Lin Yuan? If you write a scrap steel contract, he won't be able to see it? Do you think he is a fool?"

Lin Yuan laughed loudly and said, "Lin Yuan is very busy recently, you know, he fought a battle with the Russians, and the negotiations are about to start recently, he is so busy with those things that he is not in the mood to take care of me, so He will listen to what I say, let alone check the contract."

Gopes nodded and asked, "Then what good do you do?"

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously and said, "I'll tell Lin Yuan that this batch of steel was purchased with fifty dollars, and it's also written in the contract, but you'll give me a part of the money in private, and I'll take the money when the time comes Money, fly away, go to a foreign country, where will Lin Yuan find me! As long as you have money, you will be a master wherever you go!"

Gopes thought for a while and said, "Well, I can give you five dollars per ton of steel, what do you think?"

Lin Yuan nodded quickly and said, "That's great. We have a huge demand for these scrap steels. I don't know how many such steels you can provide us."

Gopes thought for a while and said, "We have accumulated a large amount of scrap steel over the years, how can the total amount be 3000 million tons!"

Lin Yuan quickly said: "These are too few, we may need hundreds of millions of tons of such steel!"

Gopes thought: "I said 3000 million tons too much on purpose. In fact, the factory does not have that much scrap steel! Since you want a lot, I will tell you more. Anyway, the United States is now developing rapidly, and scrap steel is everywhere. It’s all.” So Gopes gritted his teeth and said, “We can make up [-] million tons for you!”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, it's [-] million tons, we'll make a deal like this! I'll draw up a contract when I get back, and we'll sign the contract tomorrow!"

Gopes also readily agreed, and when Lin Yuan returned to his residence, he saw Shen Wanqing was already waiting for him in the room with a smirk on his face, and couldn't help asking, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Shen Wanqing smiled and said: "You actually went to be a traitor, tell me honestly, why did you buy scrap steel!"

Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

Shen Wanqing smiled coquettishly, pointed to Lin Yuan's throat, and said, "I installed a bug in the voice changer around your neck, so I can hear everything you say."

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "Since you have heard my plot, I will tell you my plan. We have the most advanced electric furnace steelmaking technology in the world, so we can smelt steel scrap that Americans cannot smelt. We After buying these steel scraps, they are melted into molten steel in an electric furnace, treated with impurities and alloyed, and finally can be made into the steel rails we need.”

"The reason why I want to buy scrap steel from Americans is because the United States is now the fastest growing country in the world. Since the United States raised the tariff rate from 1860% to 20.00% in 50.00, the manufactured goods from Europe have been lost. Without market competitiveness, their steel industry has developed extremely fast."

"At this time, the U.S. steel industry is extensive. It only pursues output and does not have high requirements for quality, so there will be a lot of scrap steel. However, he said that they have 1900 million tons of scrap steel. I think they are purely fooling me. Because the steel production in the United States was only 1000 million tons in [-], where can they get [-] million tons of scrap steel now?"

Shen Wanqing asked: "Then what should I do?"

Lin Yuan said: "It's okay. Driven by money, they will definitely go to all over the world to buy scrap steel, especially in Europe. Their industry developed earlier, so there are more scrap steel! European countries also do not have the ability to smelt steel." Scrap steel! When the opportunity is right, I will raise the price for him, and they will definitely go to various places to buy scrap steel."

The next day, Lin Yuan went to sign the contract with Gopes. Gopes proposed to increase the amount to [-] US dollars per ton when signing the contract. Lin Yuan knew that his guess was right. Gopes must go to find scrap steel all over the world. , so he readily agreed.

Sixty U.S. dollars per ton, 12 million tons or [-] billion U.S. dollars, seems to be an astronomical figure, but it doesn't matter. Payments for large international trade are rarely settled at one time, because neither the goods nor the amount of money are settled. It's too big, and neither party has the ability to make it all up at once, so the installment settlement is clear.

With the level of shipping transportation in this era, the largest cargo ship can carry 11 tons of cargo at a time. Such a ship cannot stop at Yingkou Port, so Lin Yuan asked them to land in Dalian Bay. In modern China, Dalian is the largest port in Northeast China. It is also the No.[-] largest port in the country, so Lin Yuan also ordered people to build it into a large port.

Lin Yuan returned to the Northeast again and decided to build a steel rail production base in Dalian. Electric furnaces have always been a big consumer of electricity. Fortunately, the hydropower station in Liaohe has started to use at this time, and part of the electricity generated is supplied to Fengtian’s arsenal, and part of it is sent to Dalian; at this time There are sufficient coal mines to meet the demand for thermal power generation.

Lin Yuan found Liu Jinqiu, told him his plan, and asked, "What about our rolling speed? With so many rails, it will definitely take a lot of time to finish rolling."

Liu Jinqiu said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, we will use the most advanced continuous casting machine and high-speed continuous rolling mill, and the speed can definitely be guaranteed."