Material Empire

Qin Hai made a move, so naturally he wouldn't just give everyone a $50 coupon. Although 50 US dollars is already a large amount of income for these diplomats, Qin Hai's profit this time is really too big. If he only gives each translator a mere 50 US dollars as a labor service, he himself feels a bit conscientious disturbed.

Secretary Guo distributed the shopping coupons in the envelopes to everyone. Everyone was blinded by the denominations on the shopping coupons, and all of them laughed so hard that they couldn't even close their mouths. They couldn't remember the hard work during the day. Everyone said to Secretary Guo: The affairs of domestic companies are the affairs of diplomats like them. No matter how tired they are these days, everyone will never discredit foreign affairs.

When Qin Hai sent out the coupons, he could already foresee the effect. Right now, he is in Cui Hongchun's room, reporting today's sales results to Cui Hongchun.

"Xiao Qin, I only now know that I, an old man, was deceived by you." Cui Hongchun laughed and said to Qin Hai.

"Minister Cui, why did you say that? I've always been honest." Qin Hai pretended to be aggrieved and said.

Cui Hongchun asked the secretary Li Yang who was sitting beside him: "Li Yang, do you think Xiao Qin is an honest person?"

"Well..." Li Yang was embarrassed. His boss was teasing others, and he didn't agree or refute. How could he catch up? At this time, pretending to be dumb is probably the best choice.

"You keep saying that you are serving our agricultural machinery system, and you have developed a thermal spraying process to deal with the basic parts of agricultural machinery of our enterprises. But in fact, you used our products to advertise your thermal spraying machine. We Not only did you not receive advertising fees, but you were also paid processing fees. Tell me, are you a profiteer?" Cui Hongchun questioned.

Qin Hai shook his head desperately: "Minister Cui, you misunderstood. I really asked Professor Li and Professor Yue to help us with this thermal spraying process so that we could win awards at the expo. I didn't expect this thing to have With such a large market, I am still worried about losing money. You know, in order to develop this technology, I have invested tens of millions."

Qin Hai spitting casually exaggerated the investment of several million by ten times. However, even investing millions, from the perspective of others, it is an extremely risky thing. Before today, Li Linguang and Yue Kun had always been uneasy about this matter, for fear that they would not be able to earn back the money they had spent.

Cui Hongchun was already immune to Qin Hai's nonsense. He knew that Qin Hai would never talk nonsense in business matters, but when he was joking, he never said a word of the truth. He said with a smile: "You said you invested tens of millions, who would believe it? If you need to invest tens of millions for such a small piece of equipment, then why don't we invest hundreds of millions or tens of millions when we develop large tractors?"

Qin Haidao: "Minister Cui, I can't agree with you when you say that. How much something is worth has nothing to do with its size. You see, our thermal spraying machine is not big, but its value is not less than a tractor. Besides, can our tractors enter the international market? Our thermal sprayer has registered purchase intentions of more than 400 units today, which is incomparable to our tractors, right? "

"There are only more than 400 units." Cui Hongchun said indifferently. Before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that thermal spraying machines are different from basic parts, and the prices of the two are completely different. He sat up straight, looked at Qin Hai, and said in amazement: "No, you can actually sell more than 400 units? Let me do the math, one of your machines costs more than 200,000 US dollars, and 400 units is... 8,000 Ten thousand! Can there be so many?"

Seeing Cui Hongchun's expression of disbelief, Qin Hai secretly sighed, organized his words in his mind, and said, "Minister Cui, you made a mistake, our machine is priced at 2.2 million US dollars each. So... ..."

"2.2 million! Then... isn't that 800 million? How is this possible!" Cui Hongchun was completely dumbfounded. He said earlier that a thermal spraying machine costs more than 200,000 US dollars, which is actually the result of some psychological hints, that is, he thinks it is impossible for such a small thing to earn so much foreign exchange. Even so, a figure of more than 80 million still shocked him. Unexpectedly, the number Qin Hai told him was actually 10 times higher than that, which is already an unimaginable astronomical figure.

"Minister, I remember that Xiao Qin's thermal sprayer was said to be 2.2 million US dollars at the beginning." Li Yang saw the astonishment and suspicion of his boss, and reminded him softly.

"A company of yours actually signed a deal worth 800 million dollars?" Cui Hongchun's heart was churning, and he didn't even know how to talk to Qin Hai. Not to mention that in the past, even in the 21st century, it is shocking enough for a private company to be able to sign a large order of 800 million US dollars at an expo. The leader of such an enterprise also has the capital to be proud in front of a ministerial-level cadre.

"It's just an intention." Qin Hai desperately wanted to make this matter more low-key.

Qin Hai would not have revealed the truth to Cui Hongchun if he couldn't hide it. In one day today, foreign businessmen registered purchase intentions at their booths totaling more than 440 units, and the total amount was not 800 million US dollars, but 1 billion US dollars. Among these merchants, some have only registered, and the other has even paid the deposit. If the payment of the deposit is used as the basis for securing the bag, there will be more than 100 units in total, with sales of nearly 300 million US dollars.

Qin Hai is very clear about the cost of thermal spraying machines. According to the most relaxed standard, it is more than 400,000 RMB, which is equivalent to 100,000 US dollars. With a cost of US$100,000 and a selling price of US$2.2 million, the profit of a piece of equipment has reached as much as US$2.1 million. It can almost be said that most of the sales are profits. He made a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars all at once, not to mention Cui Hongchun, even Qin Hai himself felt dizzy.

"Xiaoqin's thermal spraying machine is now receiving a deposit in advance, each of which is 100,000 US dollars, and it will be credited into the account of our delegation. I just went to ask about the finance, and today they received a deposit for the thermal spraying machine , a total of 13 million US dollars." Li Yang provided a figure to Cui Hongchun in due course.

"13 million...that is to say, the deposit for 130 sets of equipment has been received. 130 sets, calculated at 2.2 million US dollars per set, is..." Cui Hongchun began to count with his fingers.

Li Yang's mind was extremely active, and he answered right away: "It's 208.6 million."

"It's nearly 300 million." Cui Hongchun said, he looked at Qin Hai, saw that the other party was sitting upright, without any look of arrogance on his face, he nodded and said, "Xiao Qin, I can't think of such a thing as you guys. There is such a big market for thermal spraying machines... I now understand why you insist on selling thermal spraying machines abroad. The foreign exchange income of 300 million US dollars is more than the basic parts sold by so many of our agricultural machinery factories. Well, this is indeed something worth doing.”

Qin Haidao: "Actually, what we are fighting is a time lag, because foreign countries have not yet realized that thermal spraying can be applied so widely, so there is insufficient investment in scientific research, which allows us to seize the opportunity. After today, I believe all countries will increase their efforts. With a large investment in this field, based on the industrial and technological foundation of developed countries, it will be very fast to produce better thermal spraying equipment than ours.

Taking advantage of the lack of such equipment in foreign countries, let's make a fortune first. When they come up with similar equipment, our sales will definitely drop, and the price will have to be lowered. By then, it will be too late to regret. "

"Your thinking is very correct!" Cui Hongchun said, "I support you. By the way, I heard that it took Professor Li and Professor Yue several months to build one device. You have received 130 devices now. Deposit, can it be produced?"

"We must establish our own production base. However, there are still some difficulties. When we return to China, we may have to ask Minister Cui for help." Qin Hai said.

Li Linguang and Yue Kun's first thermal spraying machine was basically a laboratory product, and only some parts were entrusted to the factory to help process. After the prototype was finalized, Qin Hai found two machinery factories in Beixi through Ning Zhongying for production, and finally assembled it in Qingfeng Factory, with an output of about 20 units a month.

As for the sales volume of thermal spraying machines, Qin Hai had made some estimates in advance, and thought that two to three hundred units a year would be more realistic. Based on this calculation, the current OEM model can also handle it. But looking at the performance of those foreign merchants today, Qin Hai began to feel that there was something wrong with his assumption.

One of the problems, of course, is the low estimate of demand and insufficient capacity preparation. This problem is actually not troublesome, as long as we find a few more factories to cooperate with, it can be solved.

The key problem is that the sales are too appalling. A business of hundreds of millions of dollars can be made by relying on only a few machinery factories in the county town, which inevitably makes people have various ideas. As an OEM company, Qin Hai has no binding force on them, nor can it guarantee that technical secrets and commercial secrets will not be leaked. Once something went wrong in the middle, Qin Hai would really want to cry without tears.

Thinking of this, Qin Hai had to ask Cui Hongchun for help. He even thought about it. After returning to China, he would ask Yang Xinyu, Yang Yihe and others to come out to help. Although he had friendship with these people in the past, it was still inconvenient to ask them to do things for him. But now, he believed that he already had such a qualification, a large business that earned hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign exchange, which was enough for the provincial and ministry leaders to take care of it carefully.

"It should be!" Cui Hongchun agreed without hesitation. Among the many large state-owned agricultural machinery enterprises under his command, none of them can achieve a turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars. Much more than Qin Hai's request. What reason does he have to refuse Qin Hai's request?