Zhou Yang never expected that Deputy Director Wang would be shocked by just a casual question.
In fact, the reason why he knew this was entirely related to the working environment in his previous life.
You must know that the scope of the Fourth Third Plan is very wide, not only agricultural-related fertilizers, but also involving many fields such as steel, chemical fiber, aircraft, and military industry.
Unfortunately, Zhou Yang participated in work in several of these fields.
Although most of them were projects he participated in in the late 1970s, they also gave him the opportunity to have a deeper understanding of this huge industrial upgrading plan.
"Comrade Zhou Yang, how do you know that our Saibei Province was not considered at the beginning?" Deputy Director Wang suddenly asked.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang was stunned.
Yes, with his current identity and status, he should have no chance of accessing these secrets.
But he soon calmed down and said, "I analyzed it myself!"
"analyze?"
"Well, chemical fertilizers mainly serve agriculture, so the first choice for fertilizer factories should be those provinces that produce large grains, not provinces like our Saibei Province, which are old, small, bordering and poor!"
Then Zhou Yang continued: "In addition, our Saibei Province does not have other conditions to build a large-scale fertilizer plant, such as talent reserves. A Lucheng Steel Plant requires the top to make concerted efforts to build Lugang. Is it possible that we have to ask us to build it again?" Call us to work together to build the Saibei Fertilizer Plant?"
As far as Zhou Yang knows, during the April 3rd Plan, my country introduced a total of 13 sets of large-scale fertilizer production equipment.
Thirteen fertilizer plants have been built, including Cangzhou Fertilizer Plant, Liaohe Fertilizer Plant, Daqing Fertilizer Plant, Qilu Second Fertilizer Plant, Qixiashan Fertilizer Plant, Anqing Fertilizer Plant, Hubei Fertilizer Plant, Dongting Lake Fertilizer Plant, and Guangzhou Fertilizer Plant.
These thirteen fertilizer factories cover all major agricultural production provinces in our country, and they certainly do not include Saibei Province.
After hearing Zhou Yang's explanation, Deputy Director Wang smiled and said nothing.
Zhou Yang's analysis just now did make some sense, but Deputy Director Wang didn't completely believe it because he was too casual and too sure when he said that sentence before.
This is obviously not a conclusion drawn from speculation or analysis, but he already knew about it.
But that's not the point!
Moreover, since he learned that the simultaneous interpreter invited this time was Zhou Yang, he specially asked someone to retrieve Zhou Yang's files.
He also made a special call to Zhong Hai and asked about Zhou Yang.
Although these understandings are still superficial, it can be seen that Zhou Yang is no ordinary person.
"Comrade Zhou Yang, our Ningshi Fertilizer Factory was brought to the capital by the provincial leaders in person. It is said that the request went directly to the highest level before it was approved. It can be said that the people of our province have been waiting for it for decades. opportunity."
Then Deputy Director Wang continued: "In order to build this fertilizer plant, the province spent a lot of money. Not only did it allocate more than two million yuan to us, but it also mobilized more than 3,000 educated youths with junior high school education and above from across the province. and workers, although it can’t be said that the people of the whole country supported us in building the fertilizer plant, it can be said that the people of the whole province worked together to build this plant!”
"Now it has taken us two years to complete the construction of the factory building that originally took three years to complete. Now we are just waiting for the equipment from the beautiful country to arrive. The difficulties we experienced during this period are unimaginable."
Zhou Yang nodded to express his understanding, and then said: "Director Wang, tell me, what can I do?"
Deputy Director Wang immediately said: "Comrade Zhou Yang, actually the people from Beautiful Country brought a translator, and the commercial department in Beijing also prepared a translator for us!"
"Then why does the city still want to come to me?" Zhou Yang asked puzzledly.
“On the one hand, it’s because there aren’t many people here who understand English, so I’m worried that there’s something wrong with the reception!”
Then Deputy Director Wang said again: "On the other hand, we are more worried that something will happen when they install the equipment, so we invited you here!"
"Are you saying that the other party may make things difficult for us at critical moments?" Zhou Yang frowned.
"Um!"
Then Deputy Director Wang continued: "So in addition to your usual simultaneous translation and translation of the instruction manual, you also have additional tasks!"
"What extra tasks?"
"Someone will be looking for you then!"
Zhou Yang immediately said: "Please rest assured, Director Wang, I will fully cooperate!"
"I believe in your ideological consciousness, and I also know that you are a good comrade. I already know what you are doing in the production team. When things here are over, I must go to your production team to have a look!" Deputy Director Wang said with a smile. .
"Then I will wait for your arrival at Babaoliang Brigade, Director Wang!" Zhou Yang also laughed.
"By the way, I fought for you. The city will subsidize part of your remuneration during your time as a translator, and the translated documents will be extra!"
Zhou Yang's eyes suddenly lit up. He originally thought this was voluntary labor, but he didn't expect that he could earn extra money from this mission.
"Thank you, Director Wang!"
"Thank me and complete this mission!"
"Promise to complete the mission!"
...
After coming out of Deputy Director Wang's office, Zhou Yang realized that this mission was unusual.
At the same time, it also reminded him of some of the dirty transactions of beautiful Chinese companies in his previous life.
The overlord clause is just a routine operation. There are worse things than this, which are leaving a backdoor, and some are taking advantage of both sides.
For example, the beautiful country exports radar equipment to my country, but during debugging, it requires detailed maps of the shooting range!
You must know that the shooting range map is a highly classified military map. According to principle, it is impossible to show it to foreigners.
But the equipment debugging still depends on the experts from the beautiful country. If he is annoyed and gives up in anger, no one will really be able to play it.
But the other party ignored our emotions at all and still stated firmly that if they don't give me the map, they can't guarantee the normal operation of this equipment!
In desperation, we had no choice but to compromise, and in the end this military map was handed over to the other party!
This is just the most inconspicuous of many cases, and there are countless such phenomena.
This is why the city government attaches so much importance to this matter and must find its own translator instead of a translator brought by a beautiful Chinese.
This fertilizer plant project is related to the overall agricultural production in Saibei and several surrounding provinces and cities, and cannot be taken carelessly.
If those people from the beautiful country calculated it, the loss of money would be a trivial matter.
The most terrifying thing is that it affects tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people, which is a big deal.
So after returning to the hotel, Zhou Yang locked himself in the room, picked up the materials sent by Section Chief Feng again, and read them carefully.
Just look at it and it lasts an afternoon!
Because he looked more carefully, Zhou Yang quickly grasped the situation of this company that sells fertilizer production lines to China.
However, just as Zhou Yang put down the documents, he heard a rapid knock on the door outside the room.
When he opened it, he saw Section Chief Feng standing outside the door with an anxious look on his face.
After seeing Zhou Yang, he immediately said: "Comrade Zhou Yang, we just received news that two engineers from Beautiful Country have arrived in the provincial capital and are on their way to Ning City. Director Liang and Deputy Director Wang please come over quickly!"
After hearing this, Zhou Yang didn't dare to neglect, immediately locked the door and left the state-owned hotel with Section Chief Feng!
