Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

"Security Section? Why are the Security Section looking for me?"

Although full of doubts, Cao Zhiqiang quickly walked over and answered the phone.

"Hello, I'm Cao Zhiqiang, who are you?"

"Are you Manager Cao from Hongguang Publishing House? I'm Section Chief Zeng from the Security Department."

"Oh, Section Chief Zeng, yes, yes, I heard it, haha, what's the matter?"

"Manager Cao, can you come to the security department right away?"

"What's wrong? What did I do?"

"Don't get me wrong, the situation is like this. We just caught a group of thieves, but they said they were not thieves, and they came to collect goods with your permission. Well, the details are very complicated, and I can't tell you clearly. Anyway, you can

Come for a visit, okay?"

"Oh, I got it, then you wait there for a moment, I'll go right away."

After hanging up the phone, Niu Shufen next to me immediately asked: "What's wrong? Why are the people from the security department looking for you?"

"I didn't say anything on the phone, I just said I would go there." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Well, Sister Niu, I'll go check on the situation. You can keep an eye on it here. If you have anything to do, call the security department."

"Okay, you go ahead." Sister Niu nodded, "I'm here, so you can rest assured."

Speaking of this, Sister Niu said uneasily: "How about calling Factory Director Li first to ask about the situation?"

"No need." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "Everyone knows my relationship with Director Li, and I have nothing to do with the security department.

Since they called me specifically and were so polite, they probably weren't targeting me.

It's better to check the situation first. Don't just go to the leader if there's nothing wrong. That's not good.

Okay, that’s it, I’ll go first.”

"Wait a minute." Sister Niu stopped Cao Zhiqiang again, "Manager, are you just walking like this?"

"Ah, what else?" Cao Zhiqiang was stunned.

"Really." Sister Niu shook her head, "Although our publishing house is not far from the factory, it is still a long way to walk. Just wait."

Having said this, Sister Niu lowered her head and took out a key from the drawer: "Well, manager, this is my bicycle key. You can ride my car and ride fast."

Cao Zhiqiang blinked and took the key with a smile: "Thank you, Sister Niu."

"Thank you." Sister Niu smiled and shook her head, "You, on the other hand, don't even ride a bike when you go to work. I really don't know what you think."

Cao Zhiqiang laughed again and said nothing.

Should I tell her that every time I come to work, I take a three-wheeler? When I leave, I also take a three-wheeler?

In fact, if Sister Niu hadn't been so enthusiastic in giving the keys to the bicycle, Cao Zhiqiang had originally planned to take a tricycle.

Although this place is remote, there are also tricycles, and there are many tricycles on the roadside.

It can be said that in the old Beiping City in the early 1980s, what was really cool were all kinds of tricycles, both human-powered and motorized.

However, within the second ring road, there are mostly human-powered tricycles, while outside the second ring road, there are more motorized three-wheelers, or fuel-assisted three-wheelers.

Outside the Second Ring Road, there are not only motorized three-wheelers running on the streets, but also various horse-drawn carriages, mule carts and donkey carts. In fact, the transportation is quite convenient.

But now that I have a bicycle, I can no longer take a taxi.

And taking a taxi is really not free enough.

After all, it's time to buy a motorcycle.

When traveling in urban areas, it is more convenient to have a motor vehicle.

In this way, Cao Zhiqiang rode Sister Niu's bicycle, walked slowly to the Hongguang Machinery Factory next door, and went straight to the Security Department.

As soon as he arrived at the Security Section, he was immediately startled because he saw many armed security personnel forming a circle around a group of outsiders who were obviously not workers.

There seemed to be more than 20 outsiders, with an average age of about thirty. They were all men, no women, and their clothes were relatively fashionable.

Most of them are young people with afros wearing classic bell-bottom pants, and a small number of them are young people with oily heads wearing suits and ties, with a briefcase under their arm.

Anyway, once you look at this group of people, you can tell that they are young people from society and have absolutely nothing to do with the working class.

This group of social youths just squatted or stood in place, some gathered together to smoke, some gathered together to chat, and most of them looked very calm.

After taking another look at the group of people, Cao Zhiqiang entered the security department's office and found Section Chief Zeng.

When Section Chief Zeng saw Cao Zhiqiang coming, he immediately stood up and greeted him with a smile.

There is no way, as the section chief of the security department, I must know who is the famous person of the factory leader.

What's more, the security department has also experienced a lot of benefits from what Cao Zhiqiang has done recently, so of course it likes to get close to Cao Zhiqiang.

After Section Chief Zeng served tea to both parties and exchanged pleasantries, he called the three people over and started talking about business.

Among these three people, one is the warehousing clerk of the printing office, that is, the one who looks after the warehouse.

The other one is a middle-aged man guarding the gate.

The clothes of these two people are similar, and they are both employees of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

The last one is different. He is a young man in his early thirties wearing a suit and tie, named Zhang Qianjin.

After the three people came in, they started talking to themselves.

It was Section Chief Zeng who slapped the table and frightened the three of them, and then he started to call them by name and asked them to speak one by one.

After the three of them finished speaking in turn, Cao Zhiqiang borrowed the security department's phone number and called Shen Zhenhua, who was still working at Wangfujing Bookstore, and finally figured out the whole story.

It turns out that it was all a misunderstanding.

The thing is like this, yesterday, Cao Zhiqiang issued a purchase restriction order and a wholesale order.

The meaning of the purchase restriction order is that in the future, anyone who purchases the "Journey to Jianghu" series at Xinhua Bookstore can only buy one book per person per day, and cannot buy more.

Obviously, this is a strategy to restrict second-hand dealers.

It's just that this kind of restriction only restricts medium and large-scale second-tier dealers with huge appetites. It has limited effect on ordinary uncles and aunts who just want to make some cheap money.

But for those second-rate dealers, the wholesale order gives them a clear path.

The so-called wholesale order means that if someone wants to buy books in large quantities, they must go to the publishing house to buy them, and the minimum purchase quantity is 1,000 books. Don't go if they are less than 1,000 books.

The wholesale price is eight yuan a copy, which is much more cost-effective than buying it from Xinhua Bookstore.

However, Cao Zhiqiang only gave the order at the beginning, and when the executor, Shen Zhenhua, went to speak, he changed the address of the wholesale point to the printing office of Hongguang Machinery Factory instead of the office building of Hongguang Publishing House.

This is normal, after all, the office building is just a place to work, not many books.

The printing house itself has a warehouse, and the inventory of "Jianghuxing" printed there is basically stored in the printing house's warehouse.

It's normal for wholesalers to go directly to the warehouse to pull goods.

What’s more, this kind of thing is ultimately easier to do than easy to say.

After all, strictly speaking, publishing houses wholesale to ordinary people, which is actually a disguised form of encouraging others to resell books.

As we all know, in this day and age, it is illegal for private individuals to resell public property, including books.

In other words, it is not illegal for you to buy books from Xinhua Bookstore.

But it is illegal for you to buy a book and sell it to someone else at a higher price to make the difference.

In theory, publishers can also sell books directly to individuals, and there are no legal provisions prohibiting this.

But you are a publishing house that does not sell books to the public Xinhua Bookstore, but sells them in large quantities to ordinary individuals at reduced prices...

Anyone with a discerning eye knows what this is for!

Although Cao Zhiqiang said that he has a strong background and is not afraid of this, as the specific executor, Shen Zhenhua, he does not want to be too obvious.

After all, Shen Zhenhua comes from a different background. He has been doing odd jobs in the streets of Beijing since he was a child, and he has never seen anything happen.

Therefore, when he issued the wholesale order, he changed his rhetoric and told him that if he wanted to buy books in large quantities, he should talk to him privately.

In fact, what Shen Zhenhua meant was that if something happened, he could take the blame.

In this case, neither Cao Zhiqiang nor the publishing house has any responsibility. Everything is Shen Zhenhua's personal doing.

And based on Cao Zhiqiang's character, if Shen Zhenhua really does something for him, Cao Zhiqiang, there is no way he will die without saving him. Even if there is nothing he can do in the end and Shen Zhenhua will go to jail, he will definitely take good care of Shen Zhenhua.

family.

No matter what his intentions were, when Shen Zhenhua told the outside world, he did say so. He did not explicitly say that he would go to the publishing house to buy books, but only said that he would talk to him privately.

As a result, after Cao Zhiqiang finished delivering the book that day and returned to Jin Xiuying's place to rest, Shen Zhenhua was surrounded by a group of people, who then collectively acted as hosts and invited Shen Zhenhua to a banquet.

At the banquet, Shen Zhenhua told the situation.

What he said was not to ask them to go to the publishing house to buy books, but to go to the printing house to buy a batch of "defective products."

During this period, because all printing was done with type, defective products would inevitably appear when printing books.

Generally speaking, the more advanced the equipment, the fewer defective products, and most of the defective products will be disposed of as garbage.

If we let this group of people deal with defective products, the problem will be much smaller.

In this way, if this group of people is caught as speculators, whether it is a printing office or a publishing house, they can easily get rid of the relationship.

Otherwise, who knows what?

For those second-rate dealers who want to buy books in large quantities, you have to tell them directly that it is the publishing house that tells them to buy the books directly. They may not be willing to believe it, and they may even think it is a fishing case for law enforcement.

But if you have a "high-level figure" inside and say that you are disposing of defective products at a low price, then they will believe it.

After all, Shuo Shu is more believable in this era.

So, after everyone agreed on the strategy, they raised funds together, first paid half of the money to Shen Zhenhua, and then took the note from Shen Zhenhua. Early the next morning, they sent a group of people to the printing office to pull goods.

As for the printing office, because Cao Zhiqiang called in advance and Shen Zhenhua, the secretary to the general manager, wrote the note, they all knew it well, so they paid as much as they wanted to these outsiders who came to pull goods.

Opened.

Of course, these people are responsible for unloading and loading the goods. The warehouse staff of the printing office do not care. They only check the quantities.

Everything was going smoothly at first, but something went wrong just as he was leaving the gate.

It turns out that the printing office and its warehouse are both within the factory area of ​​Hongguang Machinery Factory. If you want to enter the printing office's warehouse to purchase goods, you must first enter the factory gate.

Because there are a lot of valuables in the factory, the factory gate guards work round-the-clock shifts.

The problem was that the person who was watching the gate had already said hello, so he easily let the trucks of the second-rate dealers in.

But when the second-rate dealers were loading goods in the printing house's warehouse, the person guarding the gate changed.

The replaced janitor didn't know that the new guy didn't know these things, so he didn't explain much.

So, when the second-rate dealers had enough goods and drove away, they were stopped by the newcomers guarding the gate.

No matter what the second-rate dealers said, the new gatekeeper didn't believe it and blew the whistle and called the security department personnel.

The security department personnel didn't know anything. They really thought they were a group of thieves, so they took them to the security department for custody.

When the matter came to Section Chief Zeng, Section Chief Zeng saw that he had a note signed by Shen Zhenhua in his hand, and the printing office warehouse manager he called also said that Cao Zhiqiang had already said hello before, so he called Hongguang.

The publisher would like to find Cao Zhiqiang to confirm the situation.

"Chief Zeng, they are not thieves." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "This is actually a misunderstanding!"

"Yeah yeah."

The representative of the second-hand dealer, the man named Zhang Qianjin, immediately said in a loud voice with dissatisfaction:

"How many times have I told you, we are serious people! We are not thieves!

We paid money and got permission to sell goods. How could we be thieves?

How could a thief come in a car with so many people in broad daylight?

You, what you are doing is simply deceiving others!"