Rebirth in 1958: Getting rich starts from Nanluoguxiang

The middle-aged man's surname is Chen, and his name is Chen Weimin. He is 34 years old this year. He is the deputy director of the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Yangcheng is adjacent to the port and is responsible for the work of export trade.

However, the domestic economy has not recovered in recent years. There is nothing worth exporting. However, if we want to import products from abroad, we must use foreign exchange.

In 50, my country's foreign exchange reserves were only 1.57 million. In 52, the foreign exchange reserves decreased instead of increasing to only 1.39 million. Originally, there were agricultural and sideline products that could be exported to earn some foreign exchange, but this year there was a severe drought and the harvest of agricultural and sideline products was poor, which also cut off the export channel.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation began to assign foreign exchange earning tasks to various supply and marketing cooperatives and commercial bureaus along the coast, and even changed domestic consignment shops into Friendship Stores. In Friendship Stores, even paintings by Master Zhang and Master Xu were sold by the basket, just to earn a little bit of pitiful foreign exchange.

But this is just a drop in the bucket. The best way to earn foreign exchange is export. The exportable goods are either agricultural and sideline products or some minerals.

However, in order to generate foreign exchange, the country did not impose any restrictions on minerals at this time. In other words, anything could be sold as long as it could be exported to make money.

Just when the leaders of Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative were feeling depressed, a foreign businessman came to them. It was a foreign businessman from Country D named Hans. He came to them and wanted to sign a foreign trade export contract with Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

The leaders of the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling. After talking with Hans, they learned that fluorite mines had been discovered in Jianping, Minyue Province. According to expert measurements, the reserves of this fluorite mine were over one million tons.

Fluorite, also known as fluorspar, has a wide range of applications, especially in the military industry, where large quantities are needed. The discovery of the fluorite mine in Minyue was kept secret, but now it is being mined and processed. A man from D country got this information from somewhere and approached the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative to export fluorite, offering a very high price.

At that time, the country had no protective measures for minerals, and there were tax reductions on exports, so the leaders of the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative believed that this export could definitely earn foreign exchange.

Chen Weimin was young and energetic, and was appointed by his superiors to be the main person in charge of this work. Chen Weimin was also ambitious and determined to earn this foreign currency.

After his efforts, he finally signed an export contract with Mr. Hans. Hans also paid a one-third deposit. When 200,000 tons of fluorite were loaded onto the ocean freighter and the remaining foreign exchange was to be delivered, a small mistake occurred.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation suddenly sent a document to the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative, requiring the remaining foreign exchange to be deposited into the account of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Hans was not happy with this. The contract at that time stated that the payment should be deposited into the same account to facilitate tax exemptions. If it was deposited into another account, the tax exemptions would be lost.

In order to obtain tax exemptions, the original contract must be taken to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to be re-stamped. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation issues a red-headed document, which represents an already formed resolution and cannot be rejected.

D Guo Lao only gave Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative ten days. If these procedures were not completed within ten days, then according to the contract, Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative would be in breach of contract. Not only would it not pay the remaining amount, but it would also have to pay double the liquidated damages.

This means that not only did they not make any money from the 20 tons of fluorite, they also lost half of the money. However, the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative did not take it seriously. They thought that within seven days, they would have more than enough time to get the stamp from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and then submit it to the tax bureau for tax exemption.

This is the difference between state-owned enterprises and capitalists. If it is a capitalist, it will immediately become nervous and try every means to avoid breach of contract. Once breach of contract, the losses caused are immeasurable.

Not to mention the long-term consequences, no one can afford the international impact of this incident, especially since the penalty for breach of contract is so high.

State-owned enterprises don't care about that. What's the point of breaching the contract? What are you, a kid from the Eight-Nation Alliance, doing on our land? These leaders have forgotten that if you breach the contract, those foreigners won't sue you on your land. This kind of international lawsuit, not to mention in this era, is very troublesome even after the 90s. You will win less and lose more.

Even if they win the lawsuit, those foreign victims will try their best not to cooperate with the court's compensation. There is no other way. They are not a country. They only need to declare bankruptcy to avoid legal liability for compensation.

How could leaders of this era have such intelligence? In their impression, foreigners have low IQs, and are considered idiots. Just a few years ago, the multinational coalition was defeated by us. Now, can a mere piece of paper still stump us?

The leaders of the Yangcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative sent Chen Weimin to Beijing to get the official seals of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the State Administration of Taxation to obtain the tax exemption approval document. Business trips were commonplace for Chen Weimin. He packed two sets of clothes and a black leather bag containing the original contract, letter of introduction, and travel expenses, and took a sleeper berth to Beijing.

He thought signing and stamping was a simple matter, so he went to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation the next day after arriving in Beijing. However, it was nearly National Day, and all the leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation were busy preparing National Day gifts. How could they have time to deal with a small deputy director of a supply and marketing cooperative?

Chen Weimin waited for two days before he started to get nervous. Time was getting shorter and shorter. Countryman D had only given him ten days. Now, minus the two days on the road, there were only six days left.

Even if I take a plane back home, there are only five days left. If I don't hurry up, I will be in breach of contract.

Chen Weimin usually went to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation at around nine in the morning. There were few people on the bus at that time, and he was happy to have some free time.

Today, I was in a hurry and left early. I didn't expect to catch up with the rush hour. On the bus, Chen Weimin finally experienced what it means to be trapped in a steamer. He was squeezed into a corner and couldn't move at all.

When he finally got off the bus, he found that his black leather bag containing documents and money had disappeared. Needless to say, there must be a thug on the bus. A man like Chen Weimin, who was neatly dressed and looked like a leading cadre, and who also had a black leather bag, would definitely be targeted by various thugs. It would be strange if his things didn't get lost.

Chen Weimin was scared to death. He ran to the local police station to report the case. The local police station took it very seriously, but you also told him clearly that there was no way to find it.

The buses are mobile, and the people on them are even more mobile. There are so many thieves in Beijing, who knows which group did it? If they are roaming around, it will be even more difficult to investigate.

Chen Weimin left the police station in a daze. This time, it was all over. Even if he returned to Guangzhou to re-register the original contract, it would be too late. Thinking of the consequences of breach of contract, his heart was completely broken. He didn't know how he walked to Qinglong Bridge. He was so depressed that he jumped down...