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Chapter 412, A Big Order, a £2400 Bonus! (Please Subscribe!)

As Xiao Shan was leaving, Li Huaide gave him several buckets of tea and two bottles of Moutai.

Xiao Shan accepted these items without hesitation.

Compared to the gifts Li Huaide received, these things were nothing.

After get off work, when he went to pick up Ding Qiunan to go home together, Ding Qiunan was a little surprised to see so many things on Xiao Shan's bicycle and asked, "Honey, where did all these things come from?"

These teas and wines are clearly top-quality goods; you couldn't buy them even with a ration coupon.

Xiao Shan smiled and said, "Wife, don't worry, this is from Factory Director Li!"

Xiao Shan then explained why Li Huaide gave him the items.

After Ding Qiunan understood the key point, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Back home, Feng Chunlian, holding her child, was also surprised by the tea and wine.

After Xiao Shan explained again, he said to Feng Chunlian, "By the way, Mom, the factory workers are coming to install a phone in my house tomorrow or the day after. Remember to entertain them then."

"You want to install a phone here?" The surprise that had just faded from Feng Chunlian's face returned.

You have to understand that in this day and age, you can't just get a telephone installed just because you have money.

Xiao Shan smiled and nodded: "The factory specially installed it for me so that it would be easier for me to contact the company in John Bull!"

The reason the phone wasn't placed in the living room was because Xiao Shan figured he would usually talk to Allen at night, and it would be more convenient to have the phone in his room.

The following afternoon, Li Huaide called Xiao Shan over and confirmed the quantity of machine tools that needed to be purchased on his behalf.

One hundred units!

Their Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill accounted for twenty of them.

Because Li Huaide had already found some buyers for the old machine tools in the factory, he had enough money to buy another twenty machine tools.

Like Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, Yanshan Iron and Steel Plant also ordered twenty machine tools.

The other sixty machine tools represent the combined purchase quantity needed by more than a dozen other metallurgical plants in Beijing.

Although this number may not seem like much, it's just to be on the safe side, so everyone is ordering a batch to see how it goes.

If the results are satisfactory, they will naturally increase their purchasing efforts for Li Huaide.

"Xiaoshan, find some time to confirm the number of machine tools we need with John Bull!" Li Huaide instructed Xiaoshan. "Try to get them to ship the goods as soon as possible; those people are as anxious as ants on a hot pan!"

"By the way, your home phone should be installed by now. You can use it to contact the people at John's place when you get back!"

“Okay, I’ll contact John Bull when I get off work.” Xiao Shan nodded with a smile.

However, no matter how anxious the leaders of those metallurgical plants are, they probably won't receive these machine tools until the end of next month.

Even if Allen had enough stock, it would still take more than a month to ship it from John Bull.

When Xiao Shan got home from get off work that evening, he indeed found a telephone installed in his room.

Like the telephones in the communications department, they were the old-fashioned rotary dial telephones.

After dinner, Xiao Shan called Allen and told him that he needed a hundred machine tools for this batch.

"My God! Xiao, you're my lucky charm!" Allen on the other end of the phone sounded extremely excited upon hearing the news.

He never expected that the first order he received from Xiaoshan after returning to China would be so large!

Such a large order is rare even at John Bull.

Allen could almost hear the pleasant sound of the gold coins clinking together.

"Mr. Allen, our factory will transfer the deposit tomorrow. Please follow up on it," Xiao Shan said with a smile.

"No problem, no problem! I'll ship it to you as quickly as possible!"

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Shan did the math and realized that if the voice transaction went through, he would earn £2400.

£2400 is a considerable sum of money these days!

Unfortunately, this money is completely unusable in the country.

After all, the reform and opening up had not yet begun at that time, and individuals were not allowed to do business.

Therefore, Xiaoshan can only use this money during his next business trip.

Hong Kong is the best business trip destination!

If I go to Hong Kong on a business trip, using this money to buy a house or land there would be a good option.

By the end of November, the 100 machine tools purchased by Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill had finally arrived at Qingdao Port.

After confirming the quantity and quality of the machine tools, the people at Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill transferred the final payment to Allen.

After receiving the final payment, Allen immediately transferred the £2400 dividend to Xiaoshan's Swiss bank account.

After the various metallurgical plants in Beijing brought the machine tools they ordered back to their factories at Qingdao Port, they installed them immediately and put them into production.

Everyone realized after using this new machine tool that Li Huaide was not exaggerating at all.

The production record from August was genuine and accurate, without any falsification.

Seeing the surge in production after the new machine tools were installed, the leaders of various metallurgical plants began to regret their decision.

I regret not ordering more machine tools from Li Huaide!

Only Director Sun of Yanshan Iron and Steel Plant was very happy, so his plant ordered a total of twenty machine tools this time.

The reason why Factory Director Sun ordered so many machine tools at once was mainly because he had given Li Huaide a generous gift in order to purchase machine tools on his behalf!

Given the generous gift I gave, it would be unreasonable not to ask for more machine tools!

However, as it turned out, his decision was absolutely correct.

The production efficiency of the new machine tools far surpasses that of all the existing machine tools in the factory.

In the following months, Yanshan Iron and Steel Plant undoubtedly became the second-largest resource supplier in the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry.

After all, if we were to ask Li Huaide to purchase a second batch of machine tools, it would take some time.

Moreover, even if Li Huaide is efficient, Allen and his team don't have that many readily available machine tools!

At the same time, Xiaoshan's name also became well-known in the metallurgical system of Beijing.

After all, we should never forget those who dug the well when we drink the water. Everyone knows that Xiao Shan led the team and worked hard to bring down the price of this machine tool at John Bull Machine Tool Company.

The leaders were grateful to Xiaoshan for bringing huge benefits and revenue to their factory.

The factory's frontline workers expressed their gratitude to Xiaoshan for bringing them safety and convenience.

After all, this new machine tool completely surpasses the previous machine tools in terms of operational safety and ease of use.

Many veteran workers felt that they could be promoted one level in the year-end worker evaluation.

After all, this new machine tool is much easier to operate than the previous ones.

Chapter 413, The Ever-Expanding Swiss Bank Account! (Please Subscribe!)

Although most of these workers had never seen what Xiaoshan looked like, the name Xiaoshan was deeply imprinted in their minds.

There were even rumors that leaders from other metallurgical plants wanted to poach Xiaoshan from there.

After all, the machine tool company in John Bull only recognizes Xiao Shan. So whichever factory Xiao Shan goes to, that factory will collect the £12 handling fee per machine tool!

This is definitely a gold mine!

Xiao Shan didn't take these rumors to heart at all.

However, during the Lunar New Year in 1969, many metallurgical plants sent people to Xiaoshan to extend New Year's greetings.

They all hoped that Xiaoshan could put in a good word for them so that they could buy a few more machine tools in the second batch of purchasing agents.

Many people have already been in contact with Li Huaide, and it is likely that after the New Year of 1970, Li Huaide will purchase a second batch of machine tools from Allen.

In addition to the metallurgical plants in Beijing that wanted to continue purchasing machine tools, some metallurgical plants in the surrounding cities also contacted Li Huaide after hearing the news.

People in surrounding cities who want Li Huaide to help them purchase machine tools are not as simple as those who need help purchasing machine tools for the metallurgical plant in Beijing.

After all, Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and other metallurgical plants in Beijing belong to the same metallurgical system; they are all sister factories.

Even if Li Huaide were to consider the fact that they were from the same city, he couldn't deliberately make things difficult for these brother factories.

However, Li Huaide needs to be careful about the metallurgical plants in the surrounding cities!

So even before the quantity of the second batch of machine tools purchased on behalf of others was determined, Li Huaide received more gifts than the first batch!

In March of 1970, the second batch of machine tools that Li Huaide had purchased had arrived at Qingdao Port.

There are two hundred units in total!

After these machine tools were towed back to their respective metallurgical plants, more and more metallurgical plants requested Li Huaide to purchase them on their behalf.

The number of machine tools in this third batch of procurement is about to exceed three hundred!

When Xiao Shan reported this number to Allen and asked him to start preparing the third batch of machine tools, Allen was somewhat stunned.

Isn't it said that a certain major Eastern country is a backward agricultural nation?

Why do they have such a large demand for machine tools?

Despite his surprise, Allen immediately began preparing the third batch of machine tools.

With the arrival of the third batch of machine tools purchased on behalf of others at Qingdao Port, Xiaoshan's Swiss bank account received another dividend.

Moreover, as the number of subsequent purchases increased, the assets in Xiaoshan's account also increased.

Looking at the string of numbers in his account, Xiao Shan began to consider whether he should turn them into an industry.

After all, only when it is transformed into an industry can the money in the account generate more money.

By August 1970, many metallurgical plants in the north had adopted new machine tools from John Bull, resulting in a significant increase in production.

Moreover, because Xiao Shan often heard the workers say that the new machine tools were much safer than the old ones, he specifically mentioned to Allen the matter of trying to improve the safety of the machine tools.

Because the orders from Xiaoshan were plentiful and plentiful, Allen diligently followed up on everything Xiaoshan mentioned.

As a result, the safety of operating the latest batch of machine tools has been significantly improved.

That day, Xiao Shan came out of Li Huaide's office and saw that all the colleagues in the Foreign Trade Department had happy faces, so he asked them out of curiosity.

Xiao Shan then learned that the foreign trade department had recently received a group of customers from Russia who came to look at steel. If this deal was closed, the entire foreign trade department would probably receive a reward from the factory.

When this award was mentioned, everyone in the foreign trade department was beaming with joy.

After all, Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill has become incredibly wealthy since it started collecting handling fees for machine tools.

When the factory becomes wealthy, the employees naturally benefit as well.

Therefore, the people in the foreign trade department were really looking forward to the reward that the factory had promised.

After hearing about this, Xiao Shan smiled and nodded, then went back to the welding workshop.

This matter has little to do with him, after all, there are quite a few people who can speak Russian these days.

The next day, when Xiao Shan was riding his bicycle with Ding Qiunan to work, he found that a banner welcoming Russian customers to visit had been hung at the gate of the steel rolling mill.

It looks like the Russians will be arriving at the factory today.

At noon, while Xiao Shan was eating in the cafeteria, a sudden commotion arose upstairs.

Immediately afterwards, several waiters from the small canteen carried a person out.

Xiao Shan looked closely and realized that it was Zheng Xiding from the External Liaison Department.

Xiao Shan had worked in the External Liaison Department for a period of time back then, so he naturally knew those people in the External Liaison Department.

As Zheng Xiding was carried past Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan could smell a strong odor of alcohol.

Looks like he's had too much to drink!

Given that the Russians came to the factory today, could it be that Zheng Xiding was drunk by the Russians?

But that’s not right either!

How could Zheng Xiding, a purchasing agent from the World Foreign Affairs Department, be receiving Russians?

Xiao Shan then stepped forward and stopped one of the leaders of the small canteen: "Section Chief Chu, what's wrong with Zheng Xiding?"

Section Chief Chu sighed and said to Xiao Shan with a worried look, "Director Xiao, you have no idea, these Russians drink alcohol like it's water!"