Chapter Seventeen Unexpected Event

  "Not going down, cannot go down, resolutely will not go down!" Fu Xin's attitude was firm and emphasized three times that the price would not be lowered.

  Fu Xin saw that the profit of 258 yuan was not high, and foreign businessmen selling equipment to China were all cutting a knife. Now it's their turn to make more money, what's wrong with that? Moreover, this is still making money for his own country, not making money from outside, so he firmly disagreed to lower the price.

  "Alright, this is your company's internal affair, I don't want to interfere either. However, I still suggest that you at least reduce some."

  "Hmm, let me think about it!" In fact, Fu Zhenbang was unwilling to lower the price in his heart. The factory is a national enterprise, so the national subsidy is equivalent to no subsidy. If you still lower the price, wouldn't that be a loss?

  Fu Zhenbang, this "honest" civil servant thought that this was a waste of national property, causing the country's assets to be lost!

  ……

  The main entrance of the Flowery Road Exhibition Hall in Five Rams City, with Mr. Guo Moruo's handwritten "China Export Commodities Fair" embedded above the gate, and below it, a crowd of people from all walks of life gathered at the entrance, among them were Fu Zhenbang and his son.

  Fu Zhenbang and Fu Xin, as well as a man surnamed Guo, named Guo Zhenfeng, and a deputy factory director surnamed Liang, named Liang Youjin, who had just arrived with a truckload of newly produced Star Fire compound fertilizer, stood at the entrance of the meeting hall, watching the crowd of people passing by in front of them, their minds racing. Life or death, success or failure, it all depends on this one time!

  "Lao Fu, Lao Guo, and Xiao Fu, take a look at this, this is the venue of the Canton Fair. Our Xinghuo Compound Fertilizer will set out from here, break through Asia, and go global!" Liang Youjin, a talkative person, said with grandeur as he looked at the magnificent building.

  "It's now or never, success or failure, it all depends on this one time!" Fu Zhenbang was relatively calm and didn't say anything overly boastful. He believed in being down-to-earth, a quality that every researcher should have.

  This Guo Zhenfeng may have never seen a foreigner, and upon seeing people with white, black, and brown skin walking by, he asked Fu Xin: "Little Fu, haven't you been abroad? Tell me, are the foreigners you saw overseas like this?"

  Guo Zhenfeng was very interested in these people, and when he said that Fu Xin had been abroad, he was referring to the fact that he had fought in South Vietnam. This matter of Fu Xin's, although not everyone knew about it, almost all the leaders at the factory were aware of it.

  "Uh, I've only seen people with yellow skin and black skin, that's brown, haven't seen any others." Fu Xin replied truthfully. As for the others he hadn't seen, it was because he had seen them in his past life, but it was better not to bring this up, just in case...

  "But these people are really ugly, are they human?" Guo Zhenfeng also knew the impact, didn't dare to speak loudly, only using a very small voice to let a few people around him hear.

  "Hush, Uncle Guo, keep your voice down, don't let others hear you. But I suggest it's better not to say anything, just in case. They're all human beings! Alas, this matter is complicated to explain, let's go inside first!"

  Fu Xin suddenly thought of something and turned to Fu Zhenbang's direction, asking: "Dad, have you settled the price? I don't think we need to lower it!"

  The price reduction was something that Fu Zhenbang didn't dare to decide on his own, so he made a phone call back. Fu Zhenbang and others also didn't tell Fu Xin, so the latter wasn't very clear about what happened afterwards.

  "Hmm, don't worry about this, we've already fixed the price a long time ago. As you said, let's keep the original price unchanged!" Fu Zhenbang replied.

  Hearing that the price was unchanged, Fu Xin immediately exclaimed with joy: "Great!"

  After Fu Zhenbang reported back the information he got from Liu Zihui, Jiang Haiyang immediately convened a meeting of the factory leaders. In fact, at that time during the meeting, as soon as Jiang Haiyang explained the reasons for whether or not to lower prices, most people thought they should listen to Liu Zihui and lower prices, after all, he had experience.

  However, at this time, the original Lan factory director who was against Jiang Haiyang suddenly stood up and said a sentence: "The factory belongs to the country, even if the exchange rate is high, the money earned still belongs to the country."

  No one present was a fool, and after he said this, everyone fell silent. Yes! Even if the factory makes money, it's the country's money that's being made, not foreign merchants' money, so to say, it's still a loss.

  Finally, after a whispered discussion, everyone steeled themselves and listened to Fu Xin's new terms: no price reduction!

  "Come on, stop cheering, outsiders will see it and lose face for the country. Let's go in!" Fu Zhenbang patted Fu Xin's back of the head and ushered everyone inside.

  As they walked over, unexpectedly, they were stopped because they didn't have a work permit or a ticket and couldn't enter.

  The three deputy factory directors who participated in this exhibition for the first time were stunned, they didn't notice this small problem at all, thinking that as long as there were exhibits, it was okay to enter.

  Fu Xin, who knew about this matter, was speechless. He had originally thought that Fu Zhenbang and others were already prepared, but he didn't expect such a big misunderstanding to happen.

  At this time, Guo Zhenfeng, who was still looking around and observing the crowd, suddenly saw the figure of the Xijiang Province delegation.

  Everyone followed Guo Zhenfeng's indication and looked far away, and indeed, the Western Jiang Province delegation led by Liu Zihui was waiting for assembly in a corner position.

  Liu Zihui across the way also saw Fu Zhenbang and others, immediately waved his hand to indicate that he was here. When Fu Zhenbang saw this, he immediately called out to everyone to come forward.

  Just as they walked to the front of the crowd, Liu Zihui spoke up and said: "Fu Changzi, there's something I'd like to discuss with you." Since Fu Zhenbang was in charge of this exhibition, the two deputy factory directors beside him didn't have any opinions and simply stood quietly on the side, ready to listen to what they had to say.

  Fu Zhenbang saw that Liu Zihui's face was somewhat off, and his heart skipped a beat. He then asked: "Director Liu, is it about our participation in the exhibition sale...?" Fu Zhenbang stopped speaking here, as what followed wasn't auspicious and wasn't convenient to say out loud, believing the other party also understood what he wanted to say.

  "Hmm." Liu Zihui continued: "Director Fu, your factory's products participating in this exhibition and sale are no problem at all, it's just..."

  "What's going on?" Liu Zihui hadn't finished speaking when Fu Zhenbang immediately asked, the entire factory was deeply saddened by this Guangzhou Fair, and now that it's about to officially open, they can't afford to have any problems at this critical juncture.

  "Director Fu, don't be impatient, listen to me first." Liu Zihui didn't show any dissatisfaction about being interrupted and instead calmed down Fu Zhenbang's slightly agitated heart. He continued: "It's just that since you're participating in the exhibition as a group, we didn't coordinate with the conference organizing committee in time, so we couldn't arrange for your staff to have positions. So this time, your goods can be exhibited, but your staff cannot stand by and introduce them. This is our problem, Director Fu, sorry."

  Perhaps it was due to his own work mistakes that he felt apologetic, or perhaps it was other issues, Liu Zihui's attitude was very sincere and humble.

  "This... " Although Liu Zihui and he were at the same administrative level, for now, Liu Zihui was still his superior. Fu Zhenbang had a surge of anger in his heart, but didn't know how to vent it.

  "I'm really sorry, Director Fu. But please be assured that we will help promote your products well. Since the price has already been fixed, there's no issue in this regard. Here are five tickets to visit this trade fair, Director Fu, you can take a look around the various exhibition areas and also take some time off to relax and broaden your horizons. As for your products, please rest assured that we will definitely take good care of them."

  After finishing speaking, Liu Zihui took out five sets of tickets for this Guangzhou Fair from his own briefcase.

  "Oh, right, if you're still worried, you can also take this ticket to your exhibition area and watch, it's just that you don't have a work permit, so you can only watch and not participate." Liu Zihui added.

  "Alright! It can't be helped." Pai Tsz-bong said helplessly as he took the ticket from Liu Tzu-hui's hand.

  Liang Youjin was a hot-tempered person. Seeing Fu Zhenbang compromise like this, he finally couldn't help but shout: "Old Fu..."

  "Never mind, Lao Fu. We also have our own shortcomings in this matter. Who made us first-time participants without experience?" Fu Zhenbang patted Liang Youjin's shoulder and said with a full of resentment.

  Some units from Xijiang Province who were also participating in the exhibition sensed the strong resentment in Fu Zhenbang's tone, but they all didn't say anything. Firstly, speaking carelessly would offend people, and those with a bit of political awareness wouldn't speak rashly; secondly, Fu Zhenbang and others had reason to be resentful, and this matter was also understandable.

  Even Liu Zihui just smiled bitterly and didn't say much after hearing what Fu Zhenbang and others had to say.

  "Alright, let's go! It doesn't matter if we don't have a work permit. We can just go take a look at other people's things and broaden our horizons. Who knows, maybe we'll even learn something!" said Guo Zhenfeng, who had been silent until now, with an optimistic tone.

  ……

  "Dad, I want to go take a look at the import exhibition area." Seeing Liu Zihui and others walking away, Fu Xin broke the silence among the four people.

  "You go to the import exhibition area to see what, follow us to our exhibition area and watch, although you can't talk nonsense, but watching from the side is also necessary, otherwise you won't even know if you're being ignored." Fu Zhenbang said in disagreement.

  "Lao Fu, just let him go, the few of us are enough. To be honest, if I had to say it, actually none of the three of us need to go every day, one person going each day is fine, others can go and observe other people's things, learn a bit. Guo Zhenfeng was full of curiosity about everything at this exhibition, so he immediately stood up to persuade. In fact, he also wanted to take a look around, broaden his horizons."

  Guo Zhenfeng's words also moved Fu Zhenbang, who considered for a moment and glanced at Liang Youjin beside him, who was also somewhat moved. Fu Zhenbang suddenly felt that he could make a decision, so he said: "Okay, let's listen to Old Guo's suggestion. We'll take turns going there one day at a time, just to keep an eye on things, while the others go sightseeing. Today I'll go to our exhibition area and keep watch!"

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