Material Empire

Early the next morning, Qin Hai, Chen Hongcheng and the four from Honggang left the hotel together. Xiao Mengqin walked in the front. She habitually walked towards the subway station. After taking two steps, she felt something was wrong. When she looked back, she saw that Chen Hongcheng had already led Jiang Huanwen and the others, and she reached out to stop two taxis.

"Get in the car." Qin Hai walked to Xiao Mengqin, pointed to a taxi behind and said to her.

"Take a taxi?" Xiao Mengqin's eyes widened, almost in disbelief. She had never taken a taxi when she was in China, and she dared not even think about it when she was abroad. In her impression, taking a taxi should be a very, very expensive consumption, and the high cost is completely beyond her imagination.

Jiang Huanwen and the other three followed Chen Hongcheng into the first car, and only Qin Hai and Xiao Mengqin were in the second car. Qin Hai sat in the front row and let Xiao Mengqin sit in the back row. After the car started, Xiao Mengqin touched the leather upholstery and looked at the flashing street scene outside the window, feeling both timid and excited.

"Qin Gong, these days, do you go out by taxi every day?" Xiao Mengqin asked Qin Hai.

"Call me Xiao Qin, I'm younger than you." Qin Hai said, "We do take taxis every day these days, mainly to hurry up."

"Is it expensive to take a taxi?" Xiao Mengqin asked in a low voice, as if afraid of being heard by the driver. In fact, she also knew that it was impossible for the driver to understand Chinese.

Qin Haidao: "From our hotel to the Ossur company, it is estimated to be eight or nine hundred pesetas, which is about ten dollars."

"Ah!" Xiao Mengqin was about to yell, and her reaction was just like Chen Hongcheng's before, "Isn't this going to cost me a month's salary for a taxi trip?"

Qin Hai nodded, and said seriously: "This shows that our wages are too low, and we can't even take a taxi."

"But..., but..." Xiao Mengqin wanted to say something, but didn't know how to say it. The taxi fare was paid by Qin Hai. The realm of the rich is not what a working class like her can look up to. Can she accuse Qin Hai of extravagance? Or, can she pretend to be innocent, open the car door and get off to take the subway?

After a moment of silence, Xiao Mengqin finally said timidly: "Qin... Uh, Xiao Qin, do you have a lot of foreign exchange in Mr. Chen's hands?"

"How do you know?" Qin Hai asked back.

Xiao Mengqin said: "I heard from Huang Liwei that she bought a lot of things and said they borrowed foreign exchange from Mr. Chen. There is a kind of perfume that is very popular abroad, and she also said that Secretary Wang of the embassy uses that kind of perfume." Fragrance type."

In addition to several officials' wives, the only single women in the delegation were Huang Liwei and Xiao Mengqin, so they lived in the same room. In the past few days, Huang Liwei accompanied Zhu Xiaofeng and other officials touring and shopping in Madrid, spending all the foreign exchange borrowed from Chen Hongcheng. The thing Huang Liwei wanted to buy the most was the perfume that Wang Zheyi had used, but her hard work paid off, and she really bought it.

Xiao Mengqin is a technical person, but she is also a girl after all, so there is no one who doesn't like these luxury items. Seeing Huang Liwei showing off the various products she had bought, and smelling the exotic perfume wafting from her body, Xiao Mengqin was so envious. Hearing that Huang Liwei borrowed foreign exchange from Chen Hongcheng for shopping, Xiao Mengqin knew that she had no hope. Chen Hongcheng nodded and bowed to those officials all day long, but in front of them, he put on a smirk that refused to be accepted thousands of miles away. How could Xiao Mengqin dare to expect to borrow foreign exchange from him.

Qin Hai didn't understand these petty thoughts of women. Hearing Xiao Mengqin's words, he asked with a smile, "Why, do you want to buy it too?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Mengqin replied in an inaudible voice, even so, she still felt that her face was flushed.

"You should have said it earlier." Qin Hai didn't look back, and didn't know that Xiao Mengqin was in embarrassment. He said, "After we finish talking about the equipment, you should have a day or two to spare. You can go shopping around. Street. It’s rare to come out, and you should buy something you like. As for foreign exchange, you just come to me, and I will lend it to you.”

"Really?" Xiao Mengqin said happily, "Then can you...can you lend me 50 dollars?"

"What is 50 dollars enough for? 500." Qin Hai promised carelessly. Juanito's experiment of smelting mold steel has been successful, Juanito will pay the rest of the payment soon, and Qin Hai does not lack foreign exchange.

"500 dollars! I can't afford to borrow so much." Xiao Mengqin exclaimed, but what she thought in her heart was different from what she said.

Talking and laughing all the way, two taxis came to the door of Ossur one after the other. When everyone got out of the car, Xiao Mengqin ran forward and said a few words to the guard, who then waved his hand to let them in. They have been here several times before, and the guards know them.

When everyone came to the negotiating room of Ossur, the two business personnel of the other party had also arrived. Xiao Mengqin introduced to Qin Hai in a low voice, saying that one of them was the sales director of Ossur, named Tony, and the other was his deputy, named Valentine.

Since both parties are already familiar with each other, after a few greetings, they directly entered the topic. Jiang Huanwen introduced to Tony that Qin Hai was the procurement specialist of Hongyuan Iron and Steel Works and had just come from other places to discuss this matter.

"Our attitude has been made very clear, 20 million sets, this is a preferential price. We know that China is a developing country, and we hope to establish long-term economic and trade exchanges with China, so we will give such a preferential price The price." Tony dragged his voice to state his position, his attitude was a little arrogant, and he obviously didn't pay attention to the group of Chinese people in front of him.

The members of Honggang all set their sights on Qin Hai. They had dealt with Tony for several days, and they were at their wits' end against Tony's attitude, and they had no way to deal with it. Since Qin Hai boasted that he could negotiate the price, let's start now.

Qin Hai sat upright, coughed lightly, and drew Tony's attention to himself, then asked with a smile: "Mr. , said it was a 1978 product, and then sold it to us at twice the market price, is that right?"

"Young man, don't speak according to your own imagination." Tony lowered his face and said to Qin Hai in a reprimanding tone. He is more than twice as old as Qin Hai, so he is qualified to call Qin Hai like that.

Seeing Tony's bluff, Qin Hai smiled more kindly, and said, "Mr. Tony, which sentence do you think I said out of imagination?"

"Our equipment was designed and finalized in 1976, not the technology you mentioned in 1968." Tony said coldly.

Qin Haidao: "Really? I think Mr. Baldomero, the chief designer of this electric stove, definitely doesn't think like you. If I remember correctly, he retired in 1971. You mean, Did he come back to the company later to design the electric stove?"

"How do you know Mr. Baldomero?" Tony's face changed suddenly. There is nothing more embarrassing than being exposed in person when lying. He originally thought that the Chinese did not understand European metallurgical technology at all. As long as he insisted that this equipment was made in 1978, the Chinese would not be able to find any evidence to refute him. Who knew that the extremely young Chinese in front of him could not only tell the design year of this electric furnace, but even its chief designer.

Of course Tony didn't know. After reading the materials Xiao Mengqin gave him yesterday, Qin Hai kept some technical details in mind, and then asked Gonet for verification. Ossur's electric stove was quite famous in the early 1970s, and Gonet also participated in its design, so he can remember the chief designer and other situations at that time. Qin Hai is not a reckless person. If he wants to challenge Osuo, he must first find out the other party's background.

Qin Hai just returned a mysterious smile to Tony's question, and continued: "Mr. Tony, do you still insist that this electric furnace was designed and finalized in 1976? As the most famous metallurgical technology supplier in Spain, if In 1976, the RP electric furnace was still being designed, I am afraid it will be a joke, right?"

"Of course, I admit that the design of the furnace body of this electric furnace was completed before 1976, using the most mature technology of Ossur. But the control part of the electric furnace, as well as the oxygen nozzle and other parts, all use Mr. Qin doesn’t deny the new technology that appeared in the late 1970s, right?” Tony faltered, and began to find other excuses.

Qin Haidao: "I don't deny that you have added some relatively new accessories to this old electric furnace to make it look like a newly designed electric furnace. But as a metallurgical expert, Mr. Tony thinks that an electric furnace Should the price be determined by the furnace body, or by these accessories? How much is a new electric furnace control module worth in the European market?"

"It can't be said that, it still needs some technology to integrate such a control module into the electric furnace." Valentine interjected, "The value of Ossur lies in its ability to perfectly combine these technologies into one On an electric furnace,... even if the furnace body of this electric furnace is a little bit outdated."

"I recognize your value, but this value requires a scientific calculation method. The price of your electric furnace is too high. If it can be lowered, we are very interested in introducing these two electric furnaces and the corresponding equipment." Qin Hai Well-timed to give Tony and Valentine a step down.

"Mr. Qin thinks, how much is the price of these two electric furnaces more appropriate?" Tony asked bluntly.

"14 million US dollars." Qin Hai said.

"One?" Tony asked.

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "No, it's two...to be precise, it's two sets of equipment, including the electric furnace and all the continuous casting equipment."

"That's impossible!" Tony yelled, blushing.