Chapter 702 Buying Seafood in Tianjin 3

Chapter 702 Buying Seafood in Tianjin 3

Jin Yongshun, the manager of Gutang Fishery Company, who was only a grassroots cadre enjoying the treatment of a section-level official, had only heard some rumors about Lin Yu from hearsay. He knew that the other party was the deputy secretary and deputy director of the Jingcheng Municipal Bureau and concurrently the secretary of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. He was less than 30 years old and was already a senior leading cadre at the bureau level.

It is often said that housewives like to get together to gossip about their wives and spread some gossip, but in fact, the men are also very keen on discussing some national affairs and official rumors together.

You should know that Lin Yu's parents both used to work in Tianjin. In the minds of some local cadres, they naturally regarded this promising young senior leader as half a Tianjin native.

Jin Yongshun was very excited to see Lin Yu, the man who has always been talked about by many people, with his own eyes today. However, when he noticed the six young men in black Zhongshan suits and with serious expressions scattered around Lin Yu, he immediately realized that these people should be the guards responsible for the protection mission. He must not act rashly and cause misunderstandings. At the same time, he couldn't help feeling a little surprised. Although the weather in Tianjin is not yet cold enough to freeze water, it should definitely be below zero degrees today. Not only was he, Jin Yongshun, wearing a blue cotton coat, even most of the people who came from the capital were wrapped in thick military coats, but these six guards were only wearing black Zhongshan suits.

Jin Yongshun warmly invited everyone into a meeting room that had been prepared in advance. After the two female comrades poured tea for everyone, they left the room directly.

Looking at the people sitting across from the conference table, Jin Yongshun felt his palms sweating. In addition to Consultant Lin sitting in the middle, on his left was Li Huaide, deputy director of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, and on his right were Guan Dajiang, deputy director of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, and Sun Yong, assistant secretary.

Restraining the nervousness in his heart, Jin Yongshun began to introduce the current inventory of Gutang Fishery Company and the prices of various marine fish and shrimps to several Beijing leaders opposite him.

The predecessor of Gutang Fishery Company was the Tianjin Oriental Fishery Company, which was once controlled by Dai's JTJ. At that time, the company had three cold storages that could accommodate hundreds of tons of marine fish. Now these three cold storages are still in normal operation. Currently, the cold storages store hundreds of tons of hairtail and more than 200 tons of yellow croaker, sea bass and large prawns.

Now the nearby fishermen are organized by the village to go fishing every day. Among the catches, the larger fish and shrimps will be purchased by the fishery company, while the small ones can only be brought back to the village for processing.

However, because there are too many small fish and shrimps, cooking them is not only very troublesome, but also requires a lot of cooking oil. In addition, coastal fishermen can eat various seasonal seafood almost all year round, and every household pickles a lot of sea fish. In the eyes of these coastal fishermen, various seafood are not necessarily more popular than flour and cornmeal.

Therefore, apart from some of the remaining small fish and shrimp being pickled and used as feed for chickens, ducks and pigs, the rest are mostly buried directly for fermentation and used as fertilizer for fields in the following year.

Listening to the price quoted by Jin Yongshun, the manager of Gutang Fishery Company opposite him, Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Perhaps he didn't pay special attention to the prices of other marine fish, but in later generations, he could often hear reports about the capture of wild yellow croaker on the computer network. The incredible and sky-high prices were simply jaw-dropping.

A wild yellow croaker weighing 106 kilograms was sold at a sky-high price of three million yuan. Even a wild yellow croaker weighing more than ten kilograms has a market price of one hundred thousand yuan. Even the small fish that are now used as feed by fishermen will be very expensive in the future. A wild yellow croaker weighing two or three taels will cost more than one hundred yuan per kilogram, and those weighing about four or five taels will cost three or four hundred yuan per kilogram. A single one weighing enough kilogram will cost thousands of yuan, and the bigger it is, the more expensive it is. It is said that a fisherman in Zhejiang Province went out to sea and caught a wild yellow croaker weighing 4.8 kilograms, which was sold for 26,600 yuan.

However, even though Lin Yu was mentally prepared for the price offered by Jin Yongshun, the manager of Gutang Fishery Company, for yellow croaker, he was still shocked. It was not that the other party's price was too high, but that the price was extremely low.

In the cold storage of Gutang Fishery Company, the smallest yellow croaker weighs more than two or three kilograms each, and is sold at a price of only 48 cents per kilogram. Even if a single yellow croaker weighs more than ten kilograms, it is only sold at 55 cents per kilogram.

Manager Jin Yongshun quoted a price of 43 cents per pound for sea bass, 66 cents per pound for large prawns with six to eight heads (six to eight prawns weigh one pound), and less than 0.2 cents per pound for hairtail.

Of course, the prices quoted by Jin Yongshun were all based on the unplanned prices uniformly formulated by the Tianjin City. Although he was the manager of the Gutang Fishery Company, he did not dare to openly violate the regulations of his superiors.

Lin Yu whispered a few words with Li Huaide and Guan Dajiang, and immediately agreed on the types and quantities of seafood needed. So Li Huaide smiled and said, "Manager Jin, our Beijing Red Star Steel Rolling Mill needs 25 tons of hairtail, 10 tons of large yellow croaker, and 5 tons of large prawns; the Security Department needs 5 tons of hairtail, 10 tons of large yellow croaker, and 10 tons of large prawns. Do you think it's possible to ask the finance department to directly issue the invoice and settle the payment?"

Jin Yongshun couldn't help showing a hint of excitement after hearing this. Although Deputy Director Sun called last night and said that the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill needed a lot of sea fish, he didn't expect that they would actually buy 65 tons at a time. You know, all these goods were sold at unplanned prices, which were almost one-third higher than the planned transfer price. This transaction alone would allow Gutang Fishery Company to have a good year this year.

So Jin Yongshun agreed immediately and asked the company's financial director to issue the invoice quickly.

Li Huaide smiled and said, "Manager Jin, as you know, our Red Star Steel Mill currently has nearly 10,000 cadres and employees. The country is currently facing a shortage of supplies, so we need to purchase a large amount of unplanned materials to make up for the shortfall. Our Red Star Steel Mill would like to sign a long-term supply contract with your company to guarantee at least 30 tons of marine fish supply every month. I wonder if Manager Jin agrees?"

Jin Yongshun was almost knocked unconscious by this pie in the sky. He originally thought that the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill was just a one-time purchase, but he never expected that they would want a long-term supply. He quickly and excitedly agreed.