Zhang Guangmao coughed, and his tone sounded very embarrassed: "Forget it, let's talk again after meeting, I am now attending a meeting in Zhouguang, and I will go to your factory in three days, and by the way, I will bring an old friend of yours to meet you." ”

After Zhang Guangmao finished speaking, he hung up the phone, making Niu Xiaoqiang confused: "What happened to him? Also, who is the old friend he is talking about?"

Since Zhang Guangmao didn't want to say it, Niu Xiaoqiang couldn't call to ask. He rolled his eyes, "It sounds like he's here to ask me to solve the problem, I might as well take this opportunity to pull orders directly from Jiangbei Oilfield, which can just solve the problem of insufficient production capacity." ”

At present, all the machining orders of Asia Machinery Factory are received from Qingjiang Petrochemical Machinery, which can create a profit of about 150,000 yuan for the factory every month. The processing volume of the order is not very large, and it is far from meeting the capacity needs of Asian machinery factories.

If more orders can be pulled, the workers in the factory will not have to be idle, even if they do not build cars, they can return to the old business to engage in machining, so that the manpower can be fully utilized without causing a trace of waste.

After making up his mind, Niu Xiaoqiang continued to review the salary statement. When it was time to eat at noon, he found Fang Dongping and made a report on the situation.

Fang Dongping hadn't seen Zhang Guangmao for a long time, and his sense of Zhang Guangmao was very good. Although this person is a bit of an official fan, he is still very open-minded and has helped Asia Machinery Factory a lot.

Hearing that Zhang Guangmao was coming to investigate, Fang Dongping seemed very happy: "Since old friends are coming, we must receive them well, you go and explain to the logistics department, let them prepare more local specialties, and you must greet old friends when the time comes." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang said with a smile: "Master, don't worry, I have already explained it, and I promise that I will not drop the chain." ”

Fang Dongping smiled and showed a curious expression: "Strange, what does he want to talk about?"

The answer was revealed three days later, and on the evening of the fourth day, Zhang Guangmao arrived at the wharf of Aoshan Town by passenger ferry with more than a dozen entourage.

The two sides had exchanged specific itinerary in advance, and Niu Xiaoqiang took the management of the factory to line up at the dock to greet him, and specially made a banner with the words "Warmly welcome the leaders of Jiangbei Oilfield to visit Asia Machinery Factory".

After the passenger ship docked, Niu Xiaoqiang and Fang Dongping walked quickly to the exit, Zhang Guangmao just showed his head, and the two of them were full of smiles and greeted each other in unison: "Hello Secretary Zhang, welcome, welcome!"

Zhang Guangmao looked a little fatter than before, and he walked quickly to the front and shook hands with the two warmly.

Before Niu Xiaoqiang could say a few words to Zhang Guangmao, he saw Zhou Hongbao walk out later. Although the relationship between the two is relatively close, they are not very good at acting too close in front of everyone, and the two sides tacitly exchanged glances, and then they were very formulaic and polite.

"Cow, it's nice to see you again!"

When Niu Xiaoqiang was greeting Zhou Hongbao, a voice sounded at the exit. The man spoke English, and as soon as he spoke, he attracted the attention of all the management of the Asian Machinery Factory.

In this era, foreigners are more common in coastal cities, but rarely in inland cities, let alone the remote mountain town of Aoshan. Everyone turned their heads to look at the English-speaking foreigner with astonishment.

Niu Xiaoqiang turned his head to look, and then he was stunned. He always felt that the foreigner in front of him was a little familiar, but he just couldn't remember who the other party was.

The foreign man was white, but his complexion was tanned and his skin was rough, and he looked like a construction worker who had been working on a construction site for many years.

He saw Niu Xiaoqiang looking at him with puzzled eyes, and couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly: "I know that you can't recognize me, I used to wear a suit and leather shoes, and my skin was much whiter than now, but now I am not much different from a miner, no wonder you can't recognize me." ”

When Niu Xiaoqiang heard the word miner, a light flashed in his mind in an instant, and he blurted out: "You are Smith!"

This dark-skinned white man was Smith, and because he had changed too much from before, Niu Xiaoqiang didn't recognize him at the first time.

The reason why Niu Xiaoqiang guessed the correct result with the word absenteeism was mainly because among the foreign men he knew, only Smith's family was a mine, and the two sides had also signed an order for fifty heavy trucks, so he was very impressed by Smith, and he recognized it with a little reminder.

The two shook hands warmly, and their mouths kept chatting in English. The management of the Asia Machinery Factory almost dropped their jaws, and everyone was shocked in their hearts: When did Secretary Niu learn a foreign language? And the level is still so high? There is no problem at all in communicating with foreigners!

Niu Xiaoqiang laughed and said: "Mr. Zhang Guangmao told me the day before yesterday that he wanted to bring an old friend to meet me, I thought about it for a long time and didn't think of who it was, and after we met, I realized that the old friend he was talking about turned out to be you, Smith, you don't seem to have a good time for most of the year, look at your skin, how did you get like this?"

Smith sighed deliberately: "My father bought a piece of land to explore for oil, I was transferred to the newly formed oil department, in order to be able to exchange the exploration of oil into money as soon as possible, I had to supervise the construction progress on the construction site, you should know the weather in Africa, even if I applied sunscreen, I could not withstand the scorching sun, in just three months to become the current appearance." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang was dumbfounded when he heard this, and thought to himself: Your family is really lucky, the rented mountain has dug up mineral deposits, and the purchased land has been explored for oil, and it is completely possible to lie down and count the banknotes in the future!

Some people are like this, they are luckier than others in everything, just like the Smith family, their luck is so good that they can easily become billionaires, and they are better than Niu Xiaoqiang, a poor entrepreneur, I don't know how many times stronger.

After being stunned for a moment, Niu Xiaoqiang laughed and joked: "Congratulations, I didn't expect your family to expand a new business so quickly, oil is a strategic resource, as long as you have a high-yield oil field, you don't have to worry about anything in the future, it's really enviable." ”

Smith laughed dryly: "The main purpose of my visit to China this time is to seek support in oil production equipment and technology, although the equipment and technology in the West are better, but the price is very expensive, I don't think it is cost-effective, there are also large oil fields in China, the relevant equipment and technology are relatively mature, but the price is very low, so I came to investigate." ”