Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

For Russia, where the ruble is depreciating wildly, the U.S. dollar is really a good thing.

Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia has adopted shock therapy, causing the economy to deteriorate and productivity to decrease year by year. The ruble can buy fewer and fewer industrial products. Naturally, it has declined in the international currency market and gradually lost its former status.

Coupled with this debt crisis, the credit of the ruble has plummeted. Even many Russians have begun to have a sense of distrust in the ruble. They are worried that the rubles in their hands will become waste paper.

Especially after inflation, rich and powerful people began to rush to exchange and store dollars. At this time, Zhao Jinshan used US dollars to open the way, and he was naturally successful.

A few years ago, Agafonov might not have been willing to open this warehouse to Zhao Jinshan even if he had given him US dollars for a box of red wine.

But now, Russia is heavily in debt and the ruble has devalued significantly. No one knows whether the bad situation like the disintegration of the Soviet Union will happen again.

People like Agafonov will inevitably find a way out for themselves. At this time, sending a box of US dollars is a real help in times of need.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia sold a lot of good stuff, and many people made a fortune from it. Now we have to face the same situation as before. There are many people like Agafonov who want to profit from it.

Zhao Jinshan is here to collect debts. He has 50 million U.S. dollars trapped in Russia. If he can get the 50 million U.S. dollars back, it would be worth spending several million U.S. dollars, not to mention hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars.

As a manager of a state-owned warehouse, Vlasievich has a guaranteed job, but his salary is not much, barely enough to support his family.

However, in recent months, prices in Russia have begun to rise again, but Vlasievich's salary has not increased, which has made his life even more stressful.

Warehouse managers are powerless to begin with, let alone in this abandoned and barren base on the outskirts of Moscow. With such a working environment and such a meager salary, Vlasievich had no intention of working and simply chose to lie down.

Originally, this was another day to drink cheap vodka and bask in the sun. However, the person in charge of the base arranged a job for Vlasievich to take a few Chinese people to the warehouse to select items.

Vlasievich's good mood suddenly disappeared without a trace. It would take a lot of time to look at so many warehouses one by one.

But Vlasievich had to carry out the orders from his superiors, so he looked impatient and took the Chinese people to visit the warehouse.

Until one of the Chinese got a box of cigars with a full thousand dollars in it!

The depression in Vlasievich's heart was immediately swept away. As a small warehouse manager, he usually had no money to make, but now he had received a bribe of one thousand US dollars. It was like winning a lottery.

The key thing is that what they send is US dollars, which is much more fragrant than the constantly depreciating ruble!

Vlasievich could not wait to hug Zhao Jinshan and kiss him twice, then take out his treasured vodka and take him to have a drink, along with two pickled cucumbers picked by his mother.

However, Zhao Jinshan was obviously not interested in vodka and pickles. He was more interested in the things in the warehouse.

So Vlasievich quickly opened the warehouse and turned into a tour guide to introduce the contents of the warehouse to Zhao Jinshan and Li Weidong.

There are several large pieces of machinery and equipment placed in the first warehouse. Perhaps because they have been stored for too long, they are already a little rusty.

Zhao Jinshan obviously knew nothing about these mechanical equipment, but Li Weidong could recognize them all.

"No wonder an old military base is used to store these mechanical equipment, and soldiers with live ammunition are used as guards!" Li Weidong sighed lightly.

"Are these things valuable?" Zhao Jinshan asked immediately.

"It should have been very valuable back then." Li Weidong replied.

"Back then? Does that mean it's worthless now?" Zhao Jinshan asked next.

"These are all metallurgical equipment, but they are a little backward."

Li Weidong pointed to one of the huge pieces of equipment, and then said: "Have you seen that forging machine? If it was ten years ago, if an average metallurgical company could have one of these, the factory director would be laughing in his dreams. Awake.

But now, many domestic companies have forging machines with similar power, and some forging machines are even larger than this, so this forging machine is no longer a rare item.

Other equipment is similar. Seven or eight years ago, they were all good things and you had to find connections to buy them. Nowadays, as long as you have money, you can order it casually and get a preferential price from the manufacturer. "

"That means these things are useless?" Zhao Jinshan asked.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said: "Although these equipment are a bit backward, it is more than enough to take them back to the small private metallurgical factories in China.

It's just that most of the small private metallurgical plants are small in scale and don't have sufficient funds. They can't spend a lot of money to buy equipment, so the equipment will not be sold at a high price when shipped back, and there is probably no profit.

Therefore, it is best not to touch these old metallurgical equipment unless you have to. Where to buy, first check if there are any good items in other warehouses. If there is really nothing left to buy, then consider these. "

"Okay, I listen to you, let's go to the next warehouse." Zhao Jinshan said.

Vlasievich enthusiastically took the two of them to the next warehouse. The warehouse manager was still very simple. After all, he had received 1,000 US dollars, so of course he had to provide attentive service.

"This is a three-cone drill bit used for oil extraction. The design of this thing is relatively mature, and there are not many technical difficulties. Our country can produce it independently, and there is no use buying it back."

"This thing is a monitor for natural gas transmission pipelines. It mainly uses the pressure in the pipeline to determine whether there is a natural gas leak. If a natural gas transmission pipeline is built, this kind of monitor must be purchased in complete sets on a large scale. We can only pull it back. Can be sold as scrap metal.”

"These small jars should be used in fertilizer plants, and the equipment is not complete. They should be part of the entire fertilizer production line. Most people build a fertilizer plant and buy a complete set of equipment. If they only take part of it back to society, they are afraid that It’s not easy to sell.”

I looked through the warehouses one by one, but couldn't find a suitable target.

Zhao Jinshan couldn't help but be a little anxious. If he couldn't find any valuable goods in these warehouses, wouldn't his fifty million US dollars be wasted again?

Vlasievich opened another warehouse, and Li Weidong looked around, finally smiling on his face.

"It seems that this warehouse is filled with mining equipment!" Li Weidong said.

"Is it valuable?" Zhao Jinshan asked subconsciously.

"If we measure it by value, it can only be said to be average." Li Weidong changed his voice and continued: "But we can use these things."

Li Weidong said, pointing to one of the mining machines, and continued: "Aren't we going to build a coal mine? We need these two mining machines. We can buy them back. When we buy the coal mine, we can use them directly." superior."

"Take it back for yourself, isn't it going out of the left pocket and going in the right pocket?" Zhao Jinshan muttered.

Li Weidong said, "Just think of it as an investment in our coal mine. Anyway, when you buy the coal mine, you will definitely have to buy or update new equipment, and you will have to spend money by then. Rather than doing that, it is better to replace it with equipment now." , which may save more than spending money on equipment later.”

"That's true." Zhao Jinshan nodded helplessly: "But I always feel like I'm at a loss."

"If you don't make any money, it's a loss!" Li Weidong laughed.

Zhao Jinshan then asked: "Weidong, don't you have a construction machinery factory? Can't you produce coal shearers there?"

"It's not that it can't be produced, but it's not cost-effective." Li Weidong continued; "In fact, the technical content of the coal shearer is not very high, it is just a few modules, but the market demand for this thing is not as big as it seems on the surface. "

"No, I went to inspect coal mines a few days ago. There are many large and small coal mines in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. How can there be no market demand for coal mining equipment?" Zhao Jinshan said.

"I mean the market demand is not that big. It's not that there is no market demand." Li Weidong went on to explain: "Although there are many coal mines in our country, the number of new coal mines is not large. Most of the coal mines are actually in the process of stage of mining.

The demand for coal mining equipment in the coal mines being mined is actually relatively limited. Many old coal mines and small and medium-sized coal mines are unwilling to update the coal mining equipment as long as they can continue to be used.

In the future, the country will rectify small and medium-sized coal mines, and then the demand for coal mining equipment will be further reduced. The threshold for this field is relatively low, and many companies will enter this field in the future.

The market for coal mining equipment continues to get smaller, but there are more and more manufacturing companies. The end result is more intense competition, which may lead to a fierce price war, and then there will not be much profit at all.

Therefore, Fukang Engineering does not count as entering this field. Let other companies compete. We will still make our construction machinery honestly! "

The technical content of coal mining equipment is actually not very high. As long as the materials and assembly are solved, most engineering machinery companies can produce mining equipment.

Therefore, the coal mining equipment market will be oversupplied in the future, and many domestic companies, large and small, will produce coal mining equipment.

The annual output of domestic coal mining equipment is about double the annual demand. This is the result of the elimination of some companies after fierce competition.

After the domestic market is saturated, the extra doubled production capacity can only be absorbed through overseas markets, so Chinese companies have gone overseas. Because Chinese products are of high quality and low price, coal mining equipment in third world countries is almost monopolized by Chinese companies.

Therefore, the production of coal mining equipment can only make some money in the next three to five years. When coal prices begin to increase, the rise of the coal industry will also drive the rapid development of the coal mining equipment manufacturing industry. By then, many companies will enter this industry. field, followed by fierce market competition.

Li Weidong didn't want to go into this muddy water, so he didn't plan to let Fukang Engineering produce coal mining equipment.

A few people came to the next warehouse, and Li Weidong saw four big machines at a glance.

"This is an off-highway mining dump truck!" Li Weidong said and walked forward. When he saw the logo of the mining dump truck, he suddenly smiled.

"Beelas' 7547! What a good thing!" Li Weidong said.

"Good stuff? Then this car should be valuable, right?" Zhao Jinshan hurried over. What he was concerned about was whether he could sell the goods for more money when they were shipped back to China.

This time, Li Weidong finally nodded: "It's valuable! This is Belaz's 7547 mining dump truck. The maximum load capacity is 45 tons."

"45 tons? It's not too much!" Zhao Jinshan looked at several mining dump trucks and then said: "Such a big guy can only pull 45 tons. Isn't it too little?"

At that time, the domestic transportation industry was seriously overloaded. Many freight vehicles were overloaded several times or even more than ten times. The load capacity of 45 tons was nothing compared to those overloaded large trucks in China.

Li Weidong explained, "This is a dump truck, which uses a hydraulic mechanical transmission device. It is different from the large trucks that pull goods on the road. It is very good to be able to dump 45 tons."

This kind of mining dump truck is very efficient. The domestic mining industry is relatively short of this kind of truck. If it is shipped back to China and sold in RMB, it will be a hot commodity. The Belas brand is very strong, and you may have to pay more to pick up the truck. .

The only drawback is that the car has been stored for too long, and the tires have become granulated, so it needs to be replaced with a new set of tires. This tire uses engineering tires. I will ask Fukang Engineering to order a few sets for you later! "

Belaz is the world's top mining company manufacturer, accounting for approximately one-third of the world's mining vehicle market.

This company is located in Belarus. It was formerly the Soviet Peat Machinery Factory and is also the largest mining transport vehicle manufacturer in the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belas became a Belarusian enterprise and a great legacy left by the Soviet Union to Belarus.

The world's largest mining dump truck in the future will be produced by Belaz. The vehicle weighs 800 tons and has a load capacity of 450 tons. One unit costs 40 million yuan, and demand exceeds supply.

In 1999, Belaz had begun producing the 7513 model with a load capacity of 130 tons, which was also the largest mining dump truck at the time.

It's just that such top-level models are often produced in small quantities and sold in small quantities. Therefore, Belaz's main models at that time were still the 7555 model with a load capacity of 55 tons, and the 7547 model with a load capacity of 45 tons in front of Li Weidong.

Among them, 7547 is a product of the former Soviet Union, so it is stored in a Russian warehouse.

Several people came to the next warehouse, and what caught Li Weidong's eyes was a huge rusty fan.

"This fan is so big! It should be able to blow people up, right?" Zhao Jinshan sighed.

Li Weidong stepped forward with a solemn expression and observed it carefully.

Then Li Weidong said: "We have to get this!"

"This big fan? It's all rusty." Zhao Jinshan said with disgust.

"It's not the fan, but the machine behind the fan." Li Weidong lowered his voice and continued: "That is a super-powerful axial flow compressor."

"Axial flow compressor? What does it do?" Zhao Jinshan asked.

"The core part of the wind tunnel." Li Weidong continued; "Take this thing back and you can build a wind tunnel!"

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