Chapter 869: Don't pity them!

Gou Zirong's reception work had gone wrong and didn't satisfy Li Huai De, but the accommodation made everyone's eyes light up.

Yangcheng was not short of good hotels. Compared to Jingcheng, there were many more tall buildings left behind here.

Why choose here to hold the trade fair? It was because of its unique geographical location and different cultural environment.

From the tropical plants on the street and the red skirts that flashed by from time to time, one could see that this southern city was much more "open" and "inclusive" than Jingcheng.

After the truck convoy entered the city, the scenery on the street flashed before their eyes, making the "Jingcheng folks" in the truck bed overwhelmed.

Finally, the four trucks drove in sequence into a self-contained guesthouse.

What made everyone's eyes light up wasn't how luxurious this guesthouse was, nor how complete its services were.

It was the flowers and scenery in the courtyard, and the beach that could be seen by standing on the truck and looking over the wall.

Do not look down on Northerners for having a narrow perspective; having seen too many high mountains and vast plains, and having endured the bitterness of harsh winters and biting winds, they harbor an unusual yearning for the sea and warm sunshine.

The cadres of the Steel Rolling Mill who jumped down from the truck bed were all shouting about the heat, really wanting to change into swimming trunks and run out to play.

Li Huai De stepped into the courtyard, took a look at the surrounding environment—two-story small buildings surrounding a circle, spacious and quiet—a rare comfort.

He really wouldn't be used to staying in those high-rise buildings, especially with so many people and such important work tasks.

Hearing the explanation from the cadre in charge of reception, this guesthouse had been completely booked by them until the end of the trade fair next month.

Speaking of the time of the trade fair, the cadre in charge of the preliminary contact first informed Li Xuewu about the rules of the trade fair.

First was the trade fair time of more than a month. The early stage was mainly responsible for recommending products to foreign guests, and during this period, they also had to receive visits and negotiations from other units.

After the half-month external trade fair ended, they also had to display to the advanced elements and progressive teachers and students of Yangcheng.

As for why this content was added, the cadre in charge of contact didn't know, and Li Xuewu was too lazy to explore it.

From the figures of the little bastards passing by on the streets of Yangcheng from time to time, he knew that the waves here were not calm.

A self-contained courtyard was really suitable. They brought many people and many exhibition products; they couldn't all be stored in the trade fair warehouse.

Especially the publicity materials and the periodic updates in the later stage, which needed to be kept secret.

The remaining content was irrelevant—what to attend the closing banquet on the 16th of next month, what to attend various banquets organized by foreign businessmen during the period, etc.

And about the products brought by the Steel Rolling Mill needing to coordinate with the Trade Fair Reception Office to agree on the selling price.

Li Xuewu took the time to find Li Huai De for this work; he needed him to find connections in advance.

Because many of the Steel Rolling Mill's products were new-style, if they followed the Trade Fair Office's pricing process, they would definitely suffer.

Did a toolbox really only account for a few tools plus an iron box?

Did that egg-shaped bomb only account for gunpowder and a layer of iron skin?

Under the guidance of the guesthouse attendants, everyone settled in according to the established room arrangements.

Li Xuewu's luggage was arranged by Sha Qizhi. He and Li Huai De and others went to the conference room to listen to the report from the person in charge.

Subsequently, discussions and research were launched on some work that needed immediate docking.

This hotel, called the Dongfang Tire Factory Second Guesthouse, provided three meals a day. Everyone ate their first meal after landing with the fatigue of their bodies and the surprise of the new environment.

There was no time to rest at noon. Li Huai De was quite excited. After sitting for a while after the meal, he set off to the venue to check the trade fair site.

Li Huai De was anxious, which was as it should be. Today was the 13th, and it would open on the 15th. They had come from afar and could be considered to have caught the last train.

So the time set for the invitation letter was late, and the preparation was not sufficient.

People wished they could get the exact news a month in advance, but who told the Steel Rolling Mill not to have participated in this kind of meeting before?

Li Xuewu called Zhou Yao and asked her to organize security forces. Except for a few people responsible for safety here, the rest were to get on the trucks.

Some products and exhibition materials in the early stage had to be sent to the exhibition hall warehouse, and security forces were also needed to maintain order during the exhibition hall layout period.

Although the introduction materials stated that the exhibition hall would be equipped with security forces, Li Xuewu had just arrived here and really didn't trust the so-called safety of the other party.

It was already the last train; if something went wrong again, their trade fair expenses would be down the drain.

It didn't matter if the money was gone, but letting Li Huai De go back with a gray face was a work error.

Now the factory was investigating the line problem; if Li Huai De did something wrong, he would be grabbed by the tail.

So there could be no mistakes; only success was allowed, no failure.

Besides arranging security to get on the trucks, he also called the heads of relevant groups and backbone forces to go see the site together. The head of the engineering group didn't need to be mentioned; he had already taken his tools and got on the truck.

Two large trucks drove out of the courtyard again, heading straight for the exhibition hall.

The venue for this Yangcheng Export Commodity Trade Fair was set at the Zhuhai Square Chen Lieguan, which was also the largest exhibition hall building in Yangcheng at present.

Speaking of the Yangcheng Trade Fair venue, there was really too much to say. It had to change places every few years, not because the venue was broken, but because the scale was getting larger every year.

More and more people came, and more and more units participated in the exhibition. Every time, the place wasn't enough.

So many exhibition halls were built, and every time it wasn't enough, large buildings were built—large exhibition hall buildings.

The first and second Export Commodity Trade Fairs in 1957 were held at the Zhongmao Friendship Building in Yangcheng.

The third to fifth trade fairs in 1958 and 1959 were chosen at the Qiaoguang Road Chen Lieguan.

And the Zhuhai Square Chen Lieguan had been hosting since the sixth session in 1959.

Speaking of high-rise buildings, the crowd from Jingcheng hadn't seen them, but they still felt that the Yangcheng city scenery, with green trees and shade, scenery as before, and spring all year round, was very fresh.

If they were here for sightseeing, or visiting relatives and friends, they might still have the mood to stay and watch.

But now everyone carried missions and tasks. As soon as the large truck stopped in front of the exhibition hall warehouse door, everyone jumped off the truck actively.

The organizer of the Yangcheng Export Commodity Trade Fair had prepared several large warehouses for the participating units.

There were no compartments, no segments; whoever had more things occupied more space.

The Steel Rolling Mill arrived quite late, and it was hard to find an empty space at the door.

Gou Zirong escorted the goods from the train station and arrived here first. He didn't eat lunch and was now sweating profusely from exhaustion.

Maybe it was the weather in Yangcheng, or maybe he was deliberately putting on a show in front of Li Huai De. Seeing him in this state, Li Huai De didn't give him a hard time anymore.

Li Xuewu organized everyone who got off the truck to help. Everyone reached out to unload the truck, and he himself actively went to help unload the goods. The scene was hot and lively.

The office staff managing the warehouse watched coldly, without any intention of coming forward to help.

The crowd from the Steel Rolling Mill didn't care about these people's attitudes and just did what they had to do.

Li Huai De was anxious to see the site and instructed Gou Zirong to prioritize the handling of materials on-site, arrange them early, and not delay proper work.

Materials and exhibition products had already been packed in boxes according to the front and back order and needs during assembly in Jingcheng, and the item catalog was marked.

So loading and unloading were very easy to distinguish. Following the leader's requirements, Li Xuewu directed everyone to prioritize the handling of materials and exhibition stand materials.

Afterward, he called Zhou Yao to arrange for a few security personnel to be stationed here, watching day and night without leaving.

It was called a warehouse, but in Li Xuewu's view, it was a rainproof shed.

If someone really wanted to do something bad, they couldn't even prevent a half-grown child. It really wasn't reassuring not to have their own people there.

And hearing his arrangements, as well as the arrival of security personnel, the warehouse management staff who had been staying out of it were not happy.

"We don't allow outsiders to stay here."

"We are not outsiders; we are security."

Zhou Yao saw that Li Xuewu didn't pay attention to the other party and took the initiative to stand out and block the warehouse manager's sight.

The warehouse manager saw these people were arrogant and said unconvinced, "The warehouse has security!"

"Thank you, but our goods are very precious."

Zhou Yao didn't waste the foreign affairs rhetoric she learned on the train. She didn't see foreigners, but she used it on the warehouse manager first.

No matter what the other party said, she pushed back neither softly nor hard, and didn't delay giving tasks to the security.

Li Xuewu naturally wouldn't pay attention to the other party. If such small things required him to do it himself, then work couldn't be done.

Opportunities for people below to take action shouldn't be stingy; one should believe that young people were capable enough to handle this challenge.

He threw the trouble to Zhou Yao and accompanied Li Huai De and others along the back door to the exhibition hall.

Because Li Xuewu and Li Huai De had communicated in advance, Li Haiyang went to the exhibition hall side first to coordinate with the docking office, including exhibition stands and pricing issues.

The Steel Rolling Mill arrived late, so don't think about having good places left for them.

Li Huai De felt that he had found connections in Jingcheng and had a hard background, so he could walk sideways when he came here.

But what he didn't expect was that the other party didn't give him face at all, and the arranged exhibition stand was already very far back.

The cadre who came to dock was only at the deputy section level, which made Li Huai De's face very awkward.

Li Haiyang was only responsible for coordinating; what face did a little secretary have?

Looking at the Wang cadre who came to dock, showing embarrassment but actually ignoring him, he didn't know what to do.

"I'm really sorry, Director Li. Our leaders also said that your news came really too late. The positions were all arranged in order. This..."

Wang cadre seemed to be trying his best to explain. The leader in his mouth might have been greeted by Li Huai De's relationship.

But it looked like the other party didn't buy it at all. This scale of exhibition was all connected to the sky, and the relationships involved were countless.

Li Huai De, as a factory leader—and a bureau-level one at that—naturally had no status to speak of here.

Wang cadre was giving him a slope to go down. Li Huai De was full of anger when he saw that small exhibition stand, and he didn't want to provoke him either.

"There are really too many units participating in the exhibition, all of them are leaders and advanced in various provinces and industries. We who do service are really in a dilemma."

What else could be said? Li Huai De pursed his lips and couldn't say a word.

People said it was arranged in order, and the position arranged for the Steel Rolling Mill was already quite early in the tail section.

The implication was that our leaders had already taken good care of you; don't be ungrateful.

Especially when the other party picked out a few big ones from the provincial participating representatives, it suppressed Li Huai De so much that he couldn't speak.

Being angry was inevitable. He had used great effort for the relationship in Jingcheng, but he didn't expect the effect to be so bad.

Now, let's not talk about it for now. When he went back, he must have a good talk about it.

He didn't believe it. Yangcheng cadres didn't go to Jingcheng to do things, and the cadre in charge of this industrial exhibition stand allocation wasn't a big figure.

Why say don't offend a gentleman, don't offend a villain?

Li Huai De never denied that he had a villainous side, especially when the other party didn't give him face.

He didn't speak now, but it didn't mean he wouldn't speak when he went back. At least the one who was entrusted with the relationship had to be informed.

Taking his benefits and not getting things done, and giving him such a big embarrassment, the other party had to give him an explanation.

What is an explanation?

An explanation is that Li Huai De was about to carry the Steel Rolling Mill's promotion prestige to jump to the ministry. Who would want to offend a rising cadre?

Either the other party compensates Li Huai De enough for his losses, or let the cadres here at the exhibition hall come to apologize and compensate for the losses.

There is no fair reason in the world; the position is justice, it is the truth.

The leader is angry, so the secretary naturally has to express an opinion.

Especially since the cadres and workers from the Steel Rolling Mill were watching, Li Haiyang took the lead to express dissatisfaction to Wang cadre.

Regarding the exhibition stand, one had to fight for it. He had a big heart and pointed to a large exhibition stand in the corner, asking the other party to coordinate.

The crowd watching the fun was chattering, and the small talk became uglier and uglier.

This side was noisy, and the units that had already arranged their exhibition stands also came out to watch the fun.

Especially since the crowd from the Steel Rolling Mill was still holding colorful materials, which gave them more to say.

This layer of onlookers was layer upon layer, saying everything, and their eyes revealed strange emotions.

Let's put it this way: every trade and industry has a contempt chain, including level and regional differences.

Local enterprises in Yangcheng look down on those from outside, group key ones look down on provincial ones, and provincial ones look down on city-managed ones.

Dividing it more absolutely, southern light industry looks down on northern heavy industry, and northern giants look down on southern small fry.

The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.

Excellent units from all over the country came to participate in the exhibition. Literature has no first, martial arts has no second.

This is the industrial commodity exhibition area. Although it was not clear what the Steel Rolling Mill was here to sell, listening to the factory name, one knew the management level and product characteristics.

The position arranged by the exhibition stand person in charge was also a concentrated area for steel rolling products. Peers were naturally full of naked hatred.

The onlookers were mostly representatives of southern light industry, or representatives of southern steel rolling enterprises. Seeing the city-managed enterprise from the north playing special, they naturally attacked in groups.

Units that were arranging or had already finished arranging had people starting to talk small talk, and the noise was really lively.

Just as this side was making trouble, someone suddenly came over, about a dozen people, led by exhibition staff, also coming to coordinate exhibition stands with the person in charge.

The position the Steel Rolling Mill didn't like was liked by others. The other party might have learned about the contradiction here, and opened their mouths saying if you don't want it, we want it.

Li Huai De was about to explode with anger. This was bullying people too much!

He hadn't gotten the exhibition stand he wanted, and someone was eyeing the one in his hand.

The exhibition stand person in charge was also a person who liked trouble. Not only did he not coordinate, he didn't suppress the matter, but stood aside and watched the fun.

The Steel Rolling Mill side was not a soft persimmon either. Seeing the leader's face was wrong, those with fiery tempers had already walked to the front and were about to move their hands.

The other party was obviously a local enterprise. Although their mouths were arrogant, they didn't dare to rush forward when they really wanted to move their hands.

One side was: if you can argue, don't move your hands!

One side was: if you can move your hands, don't argue!

Obviously, this fight couldn't be fought~

Li Xuewu was not satisfied when he came to this exhibition stand, but because of Li Huai De's face, he didn't speak.

He saw Li Haiyang coordinating with the other party and went to turn to the back position.

In his preset layout, the exhibition stand needed product exhibition stands, and also needed a stage position. Such a small place was enough to display products, but there was no place for performances.

Especially since steel rolling products were so concentrated, the characteristics couldn't be displayed at all.

When he left, it was polite coordination, but when he came back, he found that they were about to move their hands.

Especially seeing the exhibition stand person in charge's fake smile, he knew he had met a black fan.

"Alright, alright, the people from the Steel Rolling Mill step back!"

Li Xuewu stood beside Li Huai De and shouted at the crowd from the Steel Rolling Mill who were about to move their hands.

If they really moved their hands and made a big scene, it wouldn't be good for anyone. First of all, the Steel Rolling Mill that moved their hands first would definitely be in the wrong.

Instead of being targeted, it was better to put work first.

Hearing Li Xuewu's words, the few standing in front closed their mouths with gloomy faces and obediently retreated into the crowd.

The local unit that came to grab the position saw someone from the Steel Rolling Mill stand out and also turned their gaze to Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu didn't pay attention to the other party's provocative behavior, but pointed to Wang cadre who was responsible for coordinating the exhibition stand and said, "What do you say?"

"I have no way."

Wang cadre pushed it away, pretending to be bitter and said, "You guys came and picked this and that. This won't do, that won't do. What can I say?"

"Fine, you won't say it, then I'll say it."

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said, "We reported the exhibition stand size requirements in advance, right? You didn't arrange it well, so you have no responsibility, right?"

"You don't need to explain this!"

Li Xuewu didn't want to listen to his defense either, raised his hand to stop what the other party wanted to say, and said, "This matter is not over. We will file a complaint with the trade fair competent department in the name of the Steel Rolling Mill."

Li Haiyang was also furious. Seeing Li Huai De's gloomy face, he stood aside and said fiercely, "Even if the lawsuit goes to Jingcheng, we will pursue it to the end!"

Hearing Li Haiyang say this, Wang cadre's face lost the ease of watching the fun and became ugly.

He was just a deputy section-level cadre. It was okay to trip someone up in business, but if he really got serious to the top, he would definitely be the one to get hit.

Especially since Li Huai De was still standing there without moving, which meant the other party was truly angry.

A big cadre not speaking didn't mean he wasn't angry; it was because he didn't want to argue with him now, which would lower his status.

The secretary said he wanted to settle accounts, so this matter concerned the issue of face.

Everyone knew that the Chinese cared most about face. Li Huai De was embarrassed; if he didn't pinch a few to death, he wouldn't be happy.

"I am responsible for coordination, and the position wasn't decided by me."

Wang cadre still wanted to quibble, but the tone of his speech had weakened.

The local unit that came to grab the exhibition stand also realized that the Steel Rolling Mill was not easy to provoke and chose to stand aside and watch.

The onlookers further away naturally didn't think it was a big deal. There were those discussing, those making trouble, and those teasing.

Li Xuewu didn't pay attention to Wang cadre's nonsense, pointed to the exhibition stand assigned to them and said, "This place is too narrow, our products can't be spread out. Coordinate a larger place for us."

"That's great, you think it's narrow, we don't."

The person in charge of the local unit saw Li Xuewu say this and took the conversation very protectively of Wang cadre.

Li Xuewu didn't like the other party in the first place. Before he finished speaking, he pointed at the other party and scolded, "Shut your mouth. If you want to lick, wait until we leave. It's disgusting to watch."

"How are you talking!"

The person in charge was not happy. Seeing Li Xuewu was young, he thought he was a secretary or business staff, and shouted at Li Huai De's direction dissatisfiedly.

Li Xuewu crossed his chin, the scar on his face began to tremble, stared at the other party and said, "If you're not convinced, let's go out and practice. Believe it or not, I can play you to death!"

"If you have the guts, report your name. If I let you appear here tomorrow, I'll call you Grandpa!"

Seeing Li Xuewu playing the hooligan, the other party breathed hard and didn't dare to speak again. This scar-faced man had already walked in front of him, looking like he was really going to move his hands if he spoke again.

Southerners have a natural psychological pressure when seeing northerners. Not to mention anything else, this height was pressing on him.

He was one meter sixty-something, Li Xuewu was one meter eighty-something. When they got close, he had to look up to talk.

Especially Li Xuewu's fierce aura, the big scar on his face didn't look like a serious good person.

And reporting his name—isn't this a typical hooligan~!

Only a fool would report his name, waiting to be stabbed in the middle of the night when he couldn't sleep!

In this era, don't talk about accidental death; even if you were stabbed, what could you do? The probability of the case being solved was fifty-fifty at best.

Someone gave you a knife, and when they turned around, they got on the train back to the north. Where would you go to find them?

So after Li Xuewu told him to shut up, and then stared at Wang cadre with his eyes, it was naturally much easier to talk.

Wang cadre looked at his eyes that were about to move his hands, grabbed the document folder in his hand, and replied with some hesitation: "There are no extra exhibition stands now..."

"I'll say a position, you look at it."

Li Xuewu didn't wait for him to finish, pointed to the direction of the corner of the exhibition hall, which was the last position of all exhibition stands, and said: "Over there by the toilet, is it okay?"

"Ah?"

Not only Wang cadre was dumbfounded, but the onlookers around were also confused.

What kind of routine is this? They don't want this position, but choose the place at the very end. They aren't fools, right!

Li Huai De also looked in the direction of Li Xuewu's gesture, his brows still furrowed.

But out of habitual trust in Li Xuewu, he didn't ask at this time, and everything was decided by Li Xuewu.

Wang cadre looked at the tail end and confirmed again with some disbelief: "You mean... really?"

"Less nonsense."

Li Xuewu pointed to that position and said: "We don't want this place. We don't care who you maintain, but the entire area over there must be given to us."

Wang cadre heard Li Xuewu finish speaking, and then he reacted. It turned out that what Li Xuewu wanted wasn't the area bordering the exhibition stand, but an area including the rest area.

Just say this person isn't a fool. How could he do a losing business, exchanging buttocks for body.

"That place is..."

He just wanted to say that it was a rest area, a place for everyone to eat lunch and talk and rest, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Li Xuewu staring.

He himself was being threatened by the Steel Rolling Mill, and was held by Li Xuewu on his shoulder and couldn't move. He curled his lips and could only nod in agreement.

"Can't block the toilet door!"

The workers of the Steel Rolling Mill saw Li Xuewu make a decision and obediently carried the materials to that side.

Actually, everyone could see that there was not much position left to fight for here.

On the contrary, the position Deputy Team Leader Li said, although it was in the corner, after dismantling the rest area, it became the size of four or five exhibition stands, which was completely enough.

Going out, one still has to be hard when one should be hard, and soft when one should be soft.

Li Xuewu arranged it this way, and everyone had nothing to say. Coming to Yangcheng from thousands of miles away wasn't for fighting. If work went wrong, it wouldn't be good for anyone.

Especially since the Steel Rolling Mill arrived late, time was tight. They had a day and a half to arrange the exhibition stand, and they had to leave time for the publicity and work groups to organize and rehearse.

Everything for work, endure it first.

Everyone persuaded each other, ignoring the peers around them who didn't have good intentions, and each started the layout work.

Li Huai De, Jing Yunong, and Li Xuewu walked at the end, both looking at the platforms on both sides with worry.

"This place is already very far back. Can anyone come to see it?"

"The mountain is not high, there is an immortal, then it is famous."

"The water is not deep, there is a dragon, then it is spiritual."

Li Xuewu said with a bitter smile: "Who told us that the time is not sufficient? We can only start the backup plan."

At this time, naturally, one couldn't sprinkle salt on the leader's wound, saying that his coordination work wasn't done well, so one could only say objective reasons.

"Obviously, that Wang cadre is trying to trip us up, and the group of people who jumped out to grab the position might have been prepared long ago."

"Hmm."

Li Huai De heard Li Xuewu say this, responded with a gloomy face, and looked back. That Wang cadre was whispering with that group of people, which proved Li Xuewu's words.

He was already angry, and at this moment, he agreed with Li Xuewu's point of view of changing positions.

Li Xuewu lit the fire on this side and started to stir up trouble: "Let's not talk about him for now. Just looking at the position we were assigned, anyway, it's already very far back. It's better to change to a larger space."

Several people walked to the corner at the very end, looking at the spacious space, and listening to Li Xuewu's explanation, it seemed to be the case.

Li Xuewu didn't care about the eyes of the people around him, didn't follow the rules of the line at all, and called the engineering group to dismantle the rest area, move chairs, and build enclosures.

Yes, the first step of arranging the exhibition stand is to build enclosures to block the sight of peeping from outside.

There was this procedure itself, and now that they were treated unfairly, Li Xuewu had to guard against them even more.

"The larger the place, the more we can toss."

Li Xuewu stood beside Li Huai De and introduced to him and Jing Yunong: "Don't look at us being at the very end. When we get it going, who knows who is the head and who is the tail!"

"Good! This sounds inspiring!"

Li Huai De gave Li Xuewu a thumbs up, and at the same time expressed his attitude to the workers doing work on-site: "People who come out of our Steel Rolling Mill have a spirit of not admitting defeat wherever they go!"

"Wait until autumn, September 8th, after my flowers bloom, a hundred flowers will be killed."

"The fragrant array of rushing to the sky permeates Changan, the whole city is covered in golden armor."

"It's not convenient in Yangcheng. When we return to Jingcheng, I will hold a celebration drink for everyone!"

"Good!!!"

The workers who were working and helping applauded and cheered one after another, ignoring the people around them watching the fun, and each encouraged themselves.

Li Huai De smiled and watched the workers busy, listened to Li Xuewu reporting to him what he wanted to do, turned his head and nodded to Li Xuewu: "You can always come up with some new tricks for me!"

Li Xuewu's new tricks were far more than that!

What those people around could see was that this unit from Jingcheng didn't set up the exhibition stand first, but built enclosures first.

Especially the security group that arrived first, with pistols on their waists, standing with their hands behind their backs, looking like cold-faced door gods, very afraid of others peeping.

What they couldn't see was inside the enclosure, where engineering group personnel were connecting wires, laying floors, arranging stages, lights, and sound systems.

The engineering group did the foundation, and the sales group and atmosphere group were placing display cabinets, placing products, debugging lights, and hanging colored strips and banners.

Posters, in particular, were a form of propaganda that had existed since the Shanghai era, and Li Xuewu naturally knew that foreigners were more receptive to them.

So under the glass display cabinets, on the sides, and on the exhibition boards, naturally, posters and publicity pages in multiple languages had to be posted.

The exhibition hall and exhibition products had to be prominent, and the atmosphere had to be full. First attract attention, then guide attention to participate, and finally fall on the products.

The exhibition stand used cardboard and wooden strips as a frame, supplemented by a steel skeleton as the main body of cage packaging, wanting to form a semi-enclosed exhibition hall, focusing on the national style.

Of course, even if it was national style, one had to pay attention to design elements and couldn't be stained with the Fourth Uncle.

Li Xuewu watched the dismantled rest area materials being thrown aside, first invited the leaders to sit down and rest, and then arranged for personnel to arrange an additional rest area.

Because the Steel Rolling Mill's exhibition stand occupied the original rest area, Li Xuewu didn't care about Wang cadre's feelings and took his words as a banner.

He used these rattan chairs and tea tables to arrange a guest area belonging to the exhibition stand.

What does it mean? It was originally a public rest area, but now it was ordered by Li Xuewu to be dismantled. After dismantling, it was waste-utilized, and the exhibition hall materials were used to save another rest area for their own use.

Wang cadre stood at the original exhibition stand, watching Li Xuewu shout his name to do such dog things, and his back teeth were about to be bitten off.

Are people from Jingcheng all playing hooligans like this?!

There were also units from Jingcheng participating in the exhibition who shouted injustice. We have never seen such shameless ones. Listening to his accent, it seems to be from the Northeast. Why don't you check again?

Obviously, the local unit that came to grab the exhibition stand was arranged by Wang cadre. Now that the relationship account was frustrated, they naturally wanted to help.

"Young man, don't know the height of heaven and earth!"

"Little hooligan, don't talk about martial arts!"

"Blocking the toilet, really think you can come to many people! Still surrounded!"

Li Xuewu heard it and pretended not to hear it. He was wearing a white shirt now, so naturally, he couldn't be a mud-legged person.

Playing a hooligan to scare them was fine, but if he really wanted to play tricks, he didn't bother to do such sordid things anymore.

Haven't been a hooligan for many years!

The exhibition hall layout here was orderly, so Li Xuewu didn't spend much more thought, and accompanied Jing Yunong to the reception office to talk about pricing.

Li Huai De suffered a loss here, so naturally, he wanted to find his face back. When he arranged the venue just now, he left with Li Haiyang.

He didn't say what he was doing, but Li Xuewu thought he should have gone to scold people.

Like him, he couldn't play hooligans and move his hands now. Li Huai De was also a leader and couldn't be the same as Wang cadre.

But Wang cadre was a small fry, and the leader behind him might not be.

The calmer Li Huai De was at the scene, the more it could represent his anger.

Li Xuewu accompanied Jing Yunong and the economic and trade group to the office side and didn't see Li Huai De, but felt a different enthusiasm than just now.

Old Li still had connections. If he didn't get angry, they would treat him as Hello Kitty!

Obviously, Old Li's relationship worked. Li Xuewu and others were warmly received by a section chief named Lin.

There are many people named Lin in Yangcheng and Fuzhou. They are large clan surnames with a history of hundreds or thousands of years.

This cadre surnamed Lin was in his forties and spoke very politely. Upon hearing the introduction that Xiang Jingyu Nong was a deputy bureau-level official and Li Xuewu, this young man, was a deputy division-level official, he secretly thought to himself that those who came from the capital were indeed different.

Knowing that both of their levels were higher than his, it was better to speak nicely.

Listening to his introduction, the conference set up the first, second, and third reception offices.

The first office was responsible for receiving foreign businessmen (except Japanese), the second office was responsible for receiving Japanese businessmen, and the third office was responsible for receiving overseas Chinese businessmen, Hong Kong, and Macao businessmen.

From here, one could actually see that although some changes were taking place in the country, the foreign economic and trade and exchanges were not actually affected too much.

From the overall economic situation, the growth rate had slowed down. Although there was a regression, it did not affect the trend of rapid development.

Because of this strong driving force of economic growth, in today's Yangcheng, one could still see some trendy things.

After all, it was too close to Hong Kong. In the words of Wen Saner, it was just a fart away.

Lin cadre reiterated the meeting spirit of the leaders above on how to hold the trade fair, emphasizing unified external, unified operation, unified quotation, unified negotiation, unified transaction, and unified signing of contracts for the same commodity by a trading group or general company.

The explanation is: you sell bombs, and he also sells bombs. At the trade fair, your bombs and his bombs must be at the same price.

This doesn't count. You can exhibit, but you can't sell, because sales work must be handed over to the bomb trading group or export general company to handle.

The trading group or general company says how much your bomb can be sold for, that's how much. They will quote, negotiate, and conclude the transaction for foreign businessmen.

You don't even have the qualification to participate in signing the contract, because this is external. You are only responsible for production. When the time comes, don't think about foreign exchange; how much profit you can get depends on the general company's face.

Unfair?

But this is the big environment. Export pricing power was the focus that Li Xuewu and Li Huai De had been discussing and researching before coming.

Li Huai De also used great effort, but did you see him succeed?

This is not a problem of whether you use effort or not, nor is it a problem of whether you have connections, but the situation is like this, and the rules are like this.

If you have the ability, find customers yourself; if you have the ability, engage in export trade yourself!

Hey! Li Xuewu just had this thought!

After coordination with Li Huai De failed, the two bad eggs got together and started playing small tricks.

Li Xuewu said that the Five Abundance Bank in Hong Kong would come to be the "donkey leader." Don't expect them to bring many orders, just open a channel.

Li Huai De let Li Xuewu play boldly, and he would support him. As long as it didn't involve matters of principle, the Steel Rolling Mill was now in a stage of great development, and the above wouldn't hold them accountable to death.

So, coming to Yangcheng to do a trade fair, how many big fish could be caught depended on the atmosphere on-site and the value that could be created.

Of course, these were all behind-the-scenes means and couldn't be taken out now to smash the trade fair's rice bowl. In other people's territory, the rules that should be kept still had to be kept.

Good, now he was a person again, not the little hooligan who played hooligans with Wang cadre.

First of all, because the Steel Rolling Mill's products were strange things, even if they were classified into hardware products, pricing was really inconvenient.

You say a hammer has a price? Yes!

But Li Xuewu also explained that our new multi-functional demolition hammer uses special new materials, has many functions, and is not sold alone, so it doesn't fit ordinary hardware tool hammers.

It's also true. It's the same selling coal. Can you put Datong block coal and yellow mud coal balls together at the same price!

Lin cadre was also listening to the instructions from above and didn't care about the Steel Rolling Mill side. He took the quotation list given by the Steel Rolling Mill and randomly selected a few items for them to change.

Saying it was changed, Li Xuewu pointed his finger and let the sales staff only change it by one cent.

This stinginess made Lin cadre only curl his lips.

Li Xuewu also pretended to be heartbroken and explained: "Our factory is really unable to open the pot. One cent for one cent of goods, absolutely no more!"

Lin cadre looked at his clumsy performance and undisguised deception, and really had no way.

Just this sheep-horn hammer, Li Xuewu insisted on calling it a new multi-functional demolition hammer, and put it in a box with various small gadgets called new-style heads.

Not to mention how much technical content this thing has, can it be sold!

Hey! Li Xuewu didn't care what the other party thought. He counted the cents with the other party like counting brick seams, and didn't want to lower the price at all.

Jing Yunong didn't have eyes to see at the end and took the initiative to help, which made the other party make a concession.

Lin cadre also kept muttering, saying that considering the Steel Rolling Mill came from afar and it wasn't easy, and it was the first year of participating in the exhibition, and it was a "bankrupt" enterprise, according to the policy, they had to give tilt and give policy.

Jing Yunong listened and felt it was cold. When did the Steel Rolling Mill become bankrupt? Was it necessary!

Li Xuewu didn't care anyway. What Lin cadre said wasn't for them to hear, but for the people in the office to hear.

The unit that the above said to take care of, if you don't mention a few reasons, can you justify it?

They were all old oil sticks. Li Xuewu naturally understood the other party's routine, and when he left the door, he squeezed two drops of tears and loudly thanked the other party.

After leaving the door, Jing Yunong patted his arm and only said it wasn't easy, hard work, hard work.

Li Xuewu could hear that she was teasing him.

"Be careful, don't pity them, and don't feel cold!"

Li Xuewu's eyes were bright, and he said: "As long as you come to the south, you have determined that they are smarter than us, and it is right to do business!"

"Why?!"

Jing Yunong looked at Li Xuewu with amusement and asked: "Are southerners so powerful?"

"Think about it carefully."

The matter was finished, Li Xuewu's nerves were also relaxed, and he was in the mood to chat with Jing Yunong: "In the Ming Dynasty, how many forces went smuggling from here?"

"Qing Dynasty, Thirteen Hongs, after the Qing Dynasty died, what was the situation here?"

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said: "It's as if all the people in the country who can do business have come here!" ===== CHAPTER 870 =====