Chapter 73: Purchasing Equipment (Seeking Collections!)

  After Li Jie transferred 1.56 million yuan to Duan Lei's account, Duan Lei finally felt that his backbone had hardened a lot!

  Since starting to cultivate 'swallowing melon', Duan Lei has gained nearly one million yuan, but now he has spent most of it and there is little left. The construction of the experimental base, the purchase of experimental equipment, the consumption of chemical reagents, and the expenses of the exhibition, each of which seems insignificant, but they add up to a large amount, and Duan Lei's funds rarely stay above six figures for long. During this period, in order to save money, he even stopped supplying diamonds to Dingding, and can only wait until he has more financial resources to continue.

  If it weren't for He Yuanzheng taking on the cost of over 10,000 small-leaf boxwood and delivery, Duan Lei would probably be penniless by now.

  Although in many literary works, money is described as a vulgar thing by some cynics, in this society, if you want to achieve something, without money, it's really difficult to move forward. Even if Duan Yue has the most advanced technology, without money to purchase equipment, he cannot convert his technology into productivity and create greater value.

  With this money, although it is impossible to establish an advanced production line, a small-scale pilot base will not have too many problems!

  "Old Jin, let's go! We're going to purchase equipment!" Duan Yue said to Jin Xin with great enthusiasm after receiving the notification of the funds arrival from the bank.

  Haicheng is a coastal city and the estuary of the Yangtze River, with well-developed shipping industry. Since the 1960s and 1970s, it has formed an economic pattern dominated by industries such as chemical, electronics, machinery, textiles, etc. In the past, Haicheng's daily necessities, watches, sewing machines, bicycles, clothing, etc. were all coveted by people from all over the country.

  After entering the 1990s, Haicheng vigorously developed new industries such as finance, computers, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, network information, and communications, becoming a very important financial center in Asia and even globally, a high-tech city. However, the chemical industry with deep roots in Haicheng did not sink into it, but instead showed new brilliance under the new situation.

  As the coastal city government began to restrict some heavily polluting chemical industries, many general chemical enterprises moved to inland areas with less environmental pressure, while large local enterprises in Haicheng started to develop towards more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient directions. Gradually, Haicheng formed an industrial pattern dominated by high-end chemical products and supplemented by fine chemical equipment production, still occupying a commanding height in the national chemical industry market.

  Shanghai is the largest import and export trade hub in China, and all kinds of advanced chemical instruments imported or smuggled can be found here. As a result, Haicheng's chemical equipment and reagent market has become the largest and most comprehensive market nationwide.

  Like this time, Duan Lei's intermediate test base needs high-pressure distillation towers, high-speed centrifuges, constant temperature treatment cabinets and other equipment. It is really not easy to find them in other cities. Only in the chemical market of Haicheng, as long as you have money, even instruments stolen from foreign laboratories can be bought.

  Carrying a password box filled with 500,000 cash, Jin Xin followed Duan Yue through the chemical market, his palms sweating nervously as he constantly looked around, afraid that someone would rush over and snatch the huge sum of money!

  Five hundred thousand! In the past, even if Jin Xin worked hard for a year, he could only save up to 100,000 yuan. The cash in the box was something that Jin Xin would have to spend half a century to earn! When he saw Duan Lei putting stacks of red 100-yuan bills into a password-protected safe deposit box in the VIP room of the bank, Jin Xin's eyes were even a little bloodshot.

  However, Jin Xinsheng's innate kindness and the rationality he had developed in the army still allowed him to suppress his greedy thoughts and face it calmly.

  Duan Yue managed to save himself under the hands of 'Hei Long Bang', and now he is revealing his secrets without reservation, which makes Jin Xin feel somewhat strange. Jin Xin, who didn't read many books, doesn't know that this feeling can be expressed in words as 'a gentleman would die for one who knows him'. However, this doesn't hinder Jin Xin's recognition of Duan Yue and his loyalty!

  At the bank's VIP room, Duan Yue also quietly observed Jin Xin's change in expression, watching his eyes go from fervent to bewildered and finally back to clear-headed, only then did he feel completely at ease with Jin Xin. This wasn't Duan Yue being narrow-minded, after all, money can move people's hearts, and there may be even more financial transactions in the future, if the people around him couldn't be trusted, how could the company continue to operate?

  "Hey, Old Jin, don't worry!" Seeing Jin Xin's tense expression, Duan Yue patted Jin Xin's shoulder and said: "Look around, there are many people carrying password boxes like you, they're all carrying cash too!"

  Following Duanyue's line of sight, Jinxin discovered that there were not a few burly men carrying password boxes similar to his own identity. It was only then that he understood that this was the local custom. However, Jinxin still had some doubts - wasn't it said that bank transfers were very popular now? Why did Duanyue still bring a large amount of cash here for the transaction?

  Duan Yue didn't have the mind to consider Jin Xin's mental activity, he was familiarly shuttling between various shops in the market, purchasing the equipment he needed.

  During this period, Duan Lei has purchased a large number of chemical reagents and experimental equipment in the chemical market, and has become a regular customer of many stores. After several months, Duan Lei has transformed from a novice who knew nothing about chemistry to an expert in the chemical market, knowing which store's products are most suitable, priced fairly, and have the best reputation.

  For chemical market operators, Duan Yue is the kind of customer they welcome most. Although he haggles over prices every time and always pushes them to their limits. There are two types of customers that business people like best: one is rich but foolish, easy to take advantage of; the other is knowledgeable about the industry and makes quick decisions. Those who half-understand and are slow in transactions, like a long and smelly foot cloth, have never been very welcome.

  A small-scale trial base involves a wide range of equipment, which cannot be provided by one or two stores. Duan Lei had long been mentally prepared for a protracted war. According to the plan given by Dingding, Duan Lei started selecting the instruments he needed from store to store according to the list of equipment, leaving the address of the experimental base and letting the stores deliver the goods uniformly.

  Although fellow vendors are rivals, the shops in the chemical market cooperate with each other quite well, after all, no one can swallow all the orders. As a result, as long as Duan Lei lists out the list, there will be bosses of shops who take the initiative to come and seek transactions. Some equipment needed in the pilot base are still relatively niche and may not be easy to find.

  When Duan Lei used the swipe card method to complete transactions with these stores and purchased most of the intermediate equipment, the 500,000 yuan he brought finally came in handy!

  That's the transaction of the underground black market!