Similar to Dragon Country's Eleventh Engineering Group, Dragon Country's Tenth Engineering Group is also a quality customer of Lugong Group.
Liu Zhen naturally had to maintain good relations with both sides.
Liu Zhen pressed the answer button and said in a tone of delight, "President Xu, hello."
Liu Zhen's delighted tone was not fake. After all, he had just completed a huge deal and cleared a lot of inventory.
Xu Tongge directly stated, "Excavators and loaders. How many do you still have at Lugong Group? We'll take all those with a height below 7 meters and a width less than 3.5 meters."
Liu Zhen was very surprised. The Eleventh Engineering Group had just taken all the excavators and loaders. Now, the Tenth Engineering Group was also here. And both major engineering groups had the same requirements.
Liu Zhen said, "President Xu, I'm sorry. The inventory has already been sold to the Eleventh Engineering Group. We have no excavators or loaders that meet your requirements in stock."
"What? All sold? That's a shame. By the way, has it been shipped yet? Just ship it to us directly. Our Tenth Engineering Group will offer you a higher price."
The Xu Tongge of the Tenth Engineering Group did not dare to quote too high a price, as the Tenth Engineering Group was a state-owned engineering group of Dragon Country.
Liu Zhen also wanted to earn more money. But the inventory of excavators and loaders had all been sold to the Eleventh Engineering Group. The contracts had already been signed and faxed over.
"President Xu, I'm very sorry. All the loaders and excavators in stock have been sold to the Eleventh Engineering Group. However, we can start production immediately. How many excavators and loaders do you need?"
The head of Dragon Country's Tenth Engineering Group needed time. Since there were none here, Xu Tongge only needed to look elsewhere in the market to find enough excavators and loaders.
Xu Tongge said, "President Liu, is that so? Then we'll cooperate next time."
Liu Zhen felt confused. Why were both major engineering groups so eager for excavators and loaders?
Before he could recover, another phone call came in. This time it was the head of Dragon Country's Ninth Engineering Group.
"We need a large number of excavators..."
When Liu Zhen heard this, it was exactly the same as the previous two.
Liu Zhen had no choice but to reluctantly state that there were no more excavators or loaders.
After dismissing one caller, another head of an engineering group called.
It was still the same request.
Liu Zhen had to continue to dismiss them.
After four or five consecutive calls requesting excavators and loaders, Liu Zhen finally understood that there must be some reason for this.
"Could it be that some super project has been launched?"
Liu Zhen quickly contacted his competitors.
"President Li, how are your excavators selling recently?"
"Our inventory sold out today."
"What a coincidence, our group's excavators are also sold out. By the way, do you know why these engineering bigwigs are buying so many excavators? Is there a super engineering project about to start construction in Dragon Country?"
"I wanted to ask you the same thing."
...
Liu Zhen made several more calls to his old friends but got no answers.
However, Liu Zhen knew that a super large project must be under construction.
Liu Zhen searched online but found no useful information.
...
Meanwhile, the engineering groups that were sweeping the market were continuously snatching up domestically produced engineering machinery across Dragon Country.
In addition to excavators and loaders, there were also various types of engineering machinery and trucks.
Inside the Eleventh Engineering Group building, Shu Yongchang was sitting in the middle of the open-plan office area. A large group of staff members were around him.
After finishing a phone call, Shu Yongchang immediately said, "Quick, quickly pay the deposit to Shanyi Heavy Industry. The task is completed. I didn't expect Shanyi Heavy Industry to have so much engineering machinery. According to the plan, the quantity of engineering machinery is sufficient. Everyone, prepare for the delivery of the engineering machinery."
"President Shu, the deposit has been paid..." said the finance person beside him.
This was happening in the dozens of largest engineering groups in Dragon Country.
The ordinary employees of these engineering groups did not know why they suddenly needed to purchase so much engineering machinery. Only the highest levels of the engineering groups knew. And to prevent leaks, Dragon Country had specifically protected their information. This procurement of engineering machinery was also the same. They were required to purchase only domestically produced engineering machinery, not foreign ones. And the degree of domestic production of the engineering machinery had to be high.
After completing the machinery procurement, Shu Yongchang was not done yet. He still had many things to do, one of which was selecting personnel.
Next, the Eleventh Engineering Group would send more than one-third of its personnel into the dinosaur world. In this regard, secrecy had to be maintained. If the security work was not done well, even Shu Yongchang would have to go in and eat prison food. Therefore, he naturally had to supervise and participate personally.
The same thing was happening in other major engineering groups.
Yuan Liguo was an ordinary contract excavator operator for Dragon Country's Eleventh Engineering Group. During this period, due to the great famine, his work had decreased, and he had been idle at home for the past month. Although he received a salary when he was not working, it was only the basic salary. Although Dragon Country implemented quota sales of food, ensuring people wouldn't starve, it was difficult to eat one's fill, especially for people like Yuan Liguo who worked in construction. If they were working, the engineering group would provide some food. Yuan Liguo wanted to work precisely for those meals.
After waiting for so long, Yuan Liguo was finally called back to work for the group.
Yuan Liguo thought he would be sent directly to a construction site. Instead, he was called to the conference room in the office building to watch promotional videos about Dragon Country's anti-espionage law and confidentiality laws.
We're just ordinary excavator operators, what use is it to watch these things? We don't have access to Dragon Country's secrets. With this thought, Yuan Liguo watched the videos for a whole morning, and his mind was filled with images of certain Dragon Country citizens leaking state secrets and being imprisoned, or certain Dragon Country citizens acting as spies for foreign countries and being arrested, and so on.
After watching, there was even an exam. This busy day made Yuan Liguo feel more exhausted than a day of operating an excavator. Fortunately, lunch was provided, and it even included crocodile meat. This made Yuan Liguo quite satisfied.
Just as Yuan Liguo was wondering why all this was happening, the next day, they finally got to the main topic.
In a conference room, a person in military uniform directly told them, "Next, a major project requires you. Joining is voluntary. However, you will need to sign a confidentiality agreement after joining."