When Liu Wen heard what everyone said, she immediately understood why Yang Ling took the commission directly when she went to sell steel. Although Wang Bin was embarrassed, he still agreed.
It turns out that the most fundamental reason is that the scrap steel refining technology is unique to Yangling.
Liu Wen was a little excited and felt happy for Yang Ling.
However, thinking that Wang Bin and others were plotting to exclude Yang Ling, she was a little worried.
"Liu Wen, go boil some water." Wang Bin said, his mouth going dry.
Seeing that Liu Wen's pestle hadn't moved for a long time, Wang Bin said again: "Liu Wen, go boil some water! You are absent-minded, what are you waiting for?"
Liu Wen said "Ah" and quickly stood up to pour water.
Liu Wen's mind was in a mess. She really wanted to tell Yang Ling about Wang Bin's meeting today and let Yang Ling be more careful.
But Liu Wen thought about it and felt that she and Yang Ling were not relatives.
Wang Bin at least gave himself a salary and pocket money every month. What did Yang Ling give him?
Thinking of this, Liu Wen resisted the impulse in her heart.
In the next few days, in addition to working in the steel factory, Yang Ling was also thinking of ways to deal with the foreign debt.
Because of his mother's illness, surgery and death, the Yang family borrowed a total of 20,000 yuan in foreign debt.
Among them, 15,000 were borrowed from Yu Laosan, the gangster leader in Jiangcheng, and the other 5,000 were borrowed from friends and Su Yi's family.
A teahouse outside the family area of Jiangcheng County Steel Plant.
The whole room was filled with smoke and smoke, and Yu Laosan was playing cards.
He took a puff of cigarette and looked at Yang Ling, a little surprised.
"I also asked Mazi to come to you in the past two days, but I didn't expect that your boy took the initiative to come to my door."
As soon as Yu Laosan threw away the cards, the younger brothers immediately surrounded Yang Ling and said with a smile: "Are you here to pay back the money today, or are you using things to pay off the debt?"
Li Dahai, Yu Laosan's accountant, began to settle the accounts: "Yang Ling borrowed 15,000 yuan on February 3, 1997, with a monthly interest of two cents. Today is July 15, 1997, and he needs to repay a total of 15,000 yuan in principal and 16,200 yuan in interest.
, a total of 31,200.
"Yang Ling, how much money are you going to pay back this time?"
Yu Laosan is a well-known local snake in Jiangcheng County, monopolizing several teahouses and some building materials businesses.
What he usually does is forced buying and selling, opening casinos, and loan sharking.
Of course, there are big and small businesses.
Around 1997, there was a wave of layoffs and employment, and many self-employed people emerged.
The big business is lending to local owners of factories and construction companies, while the small business is lending to ordinary people like Yang Ling who are in urgent need of money or gamblers.
Yu Laosan is not afraid that Yang Ling will not pay back the money. He has many tricks, not to mention that Yang Ling also has a real estate and a beautiful daughter-in-law.
Yu Laosan stopped playing mahjong. The younger brothers surrounded Yang Ling, and someone had already taken out a knife from his pocket.
These gangsters in Jiangcheng will definitely get a lot of benefits from following Yu Laosan as thugs and horsemen.
Yang Ling felt funny looking at these gangsters.
The current social environment is still very bad, but more than ten or twenty years later, these people, without exception, will be sentenced and jailed.
Including Yu Laosan.
In Yang Ling's memory, around 2020, Yu Laosan was sentenced to life for various crimes such as forced trading, starting a casino, intentionally injuring others, etc.
Yang Ling spread his hands and said, "No money."
"this!"
Yang Ling's arrogant attitude made Yu Laosan instantly angry!
The boys pushed Yang Ling to the table in one fell swoop. Yu Laosan put a knife against Yang Ling's waist and said coldly: "No money? How can you pay off your debts if you don't have money? Are you kidding me?"
Yang Ling was very calm and said: "Brother Yu, you just stabbed me to death with a knife, and I don't have the money to pay you back now. I came to you today because I have a big deal to discuss with you."
When Yang Ling said this, Yu Laosan's brothers laughed.
Everyone knows very well what Yang Ling's situation is. He is just a front-line worker at Jiangcheng Steel Plant, with a monthly salary of only three to four hundred yuan. Yang Ling's wife Su Yi is a great beauty, but she also works at Jiangcheng Steel Plant.
, more than four hundred yuan a month.
The couple makes a combined 900 yuan a month, which is pretty good. What kind of big business is that?
Yu Laosan smiled and said: "Yang Ling, you are just teasing me. What big business do you have?"
Yang Ling said: "It's a big business that will make you rich and whitewash!"
"Brother Yu, the nationwide crackdown movement in the 1980s is still fresh in your memory, right?"
"Isn't it because Chen Mantou was sentenced that you came to the position?"
"We are about to enter the new century. Do you think there will be another crackdown on organized crime? Do you think the businesses you have now can see the light of day?"
Each of Yang Ling's words pierced Yu Laosan's heart.
Yu Laosan has been in society for more than 20 years. Of course, he is not the kind of stupid young man who relies on his passion to fight and kill.
He talks about loyalty, is greedy for money, and is also thinking about his future.
They whitewashed the casino into a tea shop and opened a leather-based construction company. They all wanted to whitewash themselves and make their money clean.
Just like Yang Ling said, during the severe crackdowns in the 1980s, those "boss" who thought they were powerful sentenced people to jail, and often walked by the river without getting wet shoes.
But Yu Laosan is used to eating black money. If he wants to transform, it is not that simple.
Yang Ling struggled twice to get up.
Yu Laosan nodded and asked the younger brothers to release Yang Ling.
After Yang Ling stood up, he took out a piece of steel from his bag.
The boys thought that Yang Ling was going to be violent, so they were so frightened that they quickly held Yang Ling down.
Little did he know, Yang Ling took the steel out of the bag and threw it on the ground.
Yu Laosan picked up the steel very strangely. It was the most common rebar, and it was the kind used on construction sites.
Yang Ling said: "Brother Yu, I know you have steel business in several construction sites in the county. Do you often use this kind of rebar, right?"
Although Yu Laosan does not understand the mechanics of steel, he has been doing steel business on the construction site for the past two years (using threats and violence to force the contractor to buy his own steel), so he is relatively familiar with some types of steel.
For larger projects, people with Yu Laosan's status cannot intervene.
However, Yu Laosan still has a lot of small projects such as building public toilets, resettlement housing in the urban-suburban fringe, or farmers building their own houses.
The steel used in these small projects was definitely not bought by Yu Laosan from Jiangcheng Steel Plant or Jiangzhou Steel Plant.
Because the steel products from state-owned regular steel mills are expensive, Teacher Yu did not make much profit after taking it.
Yu Laosan usually gets it from some small steel mills in neighboring counties. Although the quality is poor, it can be used, there will be no safety accidents, the price is cheap, and the profit is high.
Yu Laosan was a little confused about what Yang Ling meant and said, "Yang Ling, what exactly do you want to say?"