Material Empire

Xiao Dongping led Wang Xiaodong and Yu Yong to travel around the European continent, visiting those interested customers one by one, and introducing the cooperation policy of Daqin Group to them. Some of these European manufacturers, like Marmon, are willing to exchange cooperation in patents and technology for low supply prices, while others hold a skeptical attitude and only agree to sign a cooperation intention with Daqin Group, specific cooperation The method needs to be observed for a while.

During the entire sales process, Xiao Dongping and others could clearly feel the superiority of European companies over Chinese companies. If they hadn't held the world's only graphene product in their hands, these European companies might not have given it to them at all. What kind of face do they have. Regarding this situation, Xiao Dongping and Wang Xiaodong could still remain calm, while Yu Yong was a little angrily.

"These European devils, what are you arrogant about? No matter how arrogant you are, isn't we the first to produce graphene?" After leaving a company, Yu Yong couldn't help complaining.

"He has always been more technologically advanced than us, so it's normal to be a little arrogant." Wang Xiaodong patted Yu Yong on the shoulder and taught in a big brother tone.

"No matter how advanced they are, can they make graphene?" Yu Yong said. When he said this, he himself was a little bit lacking in confidence. He is Nie Sen's student, and he knows very well what happened to the discovery of graphene. Nie Sen has mentioned to his assistants and students more than once that without Qin Hai's foresighted choice of this direction, and his foresighted proposal of several research ideas, it would have been impossible for him to discover graphene. Today, Daqin Group has some first-mover advantages in graphene, which are actually derived from Qin Hai's golden finger.

This kind of advantage based on an outstanding person is indeed incomparable with Europe's hundreds of years of technological accumulation. Daqin Group is only able to take the lead in a few products, and it is still far behind European companies in most aspects.

Xiao Dongping persuaded: "Yu Yong, you have to be content. Anyway, we still have some products that can interest European companies. You know that when we were supporting Pusang Automobile, there was a gap between us and foreign countries. How big is it?"

Yu Yong has heard Xiao Dongping talk about these things many times. Because of this, he was able to understand why Xiao Dongping was not as angry as he was. For Xiao Dongping's generation, the technology of European and American countries is a level that is out of reach. More than ten years ago, they never thought that they could be on an equal footing with European and American companies. To this day, although the goal of equal status has not been achieved, at least he already has some weight when negotiating with the other party. This state is already very rare in Xiao Dongping's view. What else is he dissatisfied with? ?

"Anyway, I just can't get used to their faces." Yu Yong muttered, "I want them to transfer some patented technology, and seeing how awesome they are, I wish we could kowtow to them."

Wang Xiaodong smiled and said, "Didn't they all agree in the end?"

"That's because we have graphene in our hands, so they have to agree." Yu Yong said, "I admire Mr. Qin more and more now. Other bosses only know how to make money, but our Mr. Qin spent so much Qian set up the Anhe Institute of Materials. Now it seems that doing scientific research is the most promising thing. With our own technology, the European devils have to bow to us."

"You know how powerful Mr. Qin is!" Wang Xiaodong said, "I already knew about it more than ten years ago, when he... Hmph, you don't even understand it."

Xiao Dongping laughed at the side, Yu Yong didn't know about Wang Xiaodong's misdeeds back then, but Xiao Dongping knew it well. When Wang Xiaodong was in high school, he only knew how to skip classes and play games all day long, and he frequently reached out to his sister Wang Xiaochen for money. He was basically a typical problem boy. After Qin Hai found out about this, he brought Ning Mo to beat Wang Xiaodong up, and then used high pressure to force him to study hard, so that Wang Xiaodong was finally admitted to a technical secondary school, and this is how he got his status today.

Wang Xiaodong didn't hold any grudge against Qin Hai's violence back then, on the contrary he was very convinced. Among the group of young people who entered the company before and after, Wang Xiaodong had the strongest admiration for Qin Hai, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe him as a fan.

Sometimes, Xiao Dongping would ask himself what kind of attitude he had towards Qin Hai. Back then, when Qin Hai was a young worker who had just entered the factory, Xiao Dongping was already the deputy chief of the sales department in the factory, and he was an elder in front of Qin Hai. Over the years, he watched Qin Hai build the Daqin Group from scratch, and he himself changed from Qin Hai's leader to Qin Hai's subordinate. He felt that he didn't have the slightest disdain for Qin Hai that the elders had for the young, but was full of appreciation and admiration.

Xiao Dongping's former partners Xiang Jiyong, Leng Yuming and others are now executives in the company, in charge of some important parts. When Xiao Dongping chatted with them in private, he found that their views on Qin Hai were different from his own. The astonishing resemblance, that is, to this young man's heartfelt admiration.

"Xiao Qin's vision is incomparable to those of us old men." Xiao Dongping said to Wang Xiaodong and Yu Yong with emotion, "If you follow him, your future future is limitless. With people like Xiao Qin, foreigners There won't be too many days to be arrogant in front of us, I believe that one day Xiao Qin will make these foreigners bow their heads to us."

Yu Yong said: "I have believed in this for a long time. Not to mention the long-term, regarding the graphene matter this time, Mr. Qin will definitely make the Japanese suffer a lot."

"You mean Xinzuka Chemical?" Wang Xiaodong asked.

"Hee hee, Brother Wang, this can't be said, the secret must not be leaked." Yu Yong smiled and played sloppy eyes. When he thought about it, it was Qin Hai who specifically told him about digging a hole to frame Xinzuka Chemical, and he couldn't say it casually.

Xiao Dongping and others are selling graphene in Europe, but they can't hide it from Xinzuka Chemical. The biggest project of Xinzuka Chemical is graphene, how can it not be concerned about the whereabouts of Daqin Group.

With the efforts of Gen. Yoshida, the process of mass-producing graphene by organic synthesis was quickly developed. After small tests, the results obtained were satisfactory. Saburo Hanagu immediately ordered the transformation of an existing carbon material production facility to mass-produce graphene. It is necessary to seize the largest possible market before the Daqin Group expands its production scale.

Yoshida Gen is not very satisfied with the set of crafts he developed. The key point of this process is to synthesize polyphenylene resin with phenyl organic supermolecules that have a similar structure to graphene, and then generate graphene molecules through cyclodehydrogenation. This method can produce graphene, but the cost and the purity of the finished graphene are not satisfactory.

If Yoshida Gen can be given more time, he can find some more ideal polymer reagents to replace the currently used phenyl materials. The new reagent can effectively reduce the cost, improve the purity of the finished product, and facilitate the modification of graphene.

However, this wish cannot be realized at present, because the Daqin Group has launched products to the market too fast, and Xinzuka Chemical cannot tolerate the slow improvement of the process. Saburo Hanaya requested to realize the mass production of graphene within three months, which is completely beyond Yoshida Gen's ability. What he can do is to make some repairs on the original carbon product production process for the production of graphene. As for the cost and quality issues, he can't think so much for the time being.

"The modification of the largest reactor has been completed, and we will be able to try to produce graphene in the next week at most. The initial output is about 20 kilograms a day. If the trial production goes well, then the follow-up will be able to reach more than 200 kilograms per day. Production capacity." Gen Yoshida reported to Saburo Hanaya.

"The speed will continue to increase." Saburo Hanagu frowned, "Time is very precious to us."

"This is already the limit of our speed." Yoshida Gen replied with some emotion. In the past three months, he and his subordinates almost forgot to sleep and eat, first developing the process, and then modifying the equipment. This is why the Japanese have such a spirit. If they were replaced by pampered Germans, they would never accept this kind of job requirements.

Of course, Saburo Hanaya also knew about Gen Yoshida’s efforts. He smiled and said to Gen Yoshida: “Mr. Yoshida, the company has seen your hard work. Our graphene can be mass-produced, and you are the biggest contributors.” , the company will not treat you badly. However, the pressure we are facing now is indeed very great. Do you know that the Chinese have sent a sales team, led by the sales director of Daqin Group, to promote their graphene in Europe? .. for every day we're late, an old customer is snatched away by them."

"With their daily output of 5 kilograms, how can they promote it?" Yoshida Gen asked disdainfully.

"Yoshida-kun, your news may be outdated." Saburo Hanaya said, "According to what Morioka Yoshiki learned from some customers, Daqin Group promised them that they can supply more than 20 kilograms of graphene per day."

"Total?" Yoshida Gen asked.

"No, it's every company." Saburo Hanaya said, "According to Morioka's statistics, Daqin Group's promised daily supply exceeds 200 kilograms, and this does not include some companies that did not disclose relevant details to us."

"How is this possible?" Yoshida Gen was surprised, "They simply don't have such production capacity."

Saburo Huagu said: "I guess the Chinese have already woken up and realized the scale of the graphene market, so they have expanded their production capacity. However, the news we have so far is only their sales intention, which does not mean that they really have such a plan. capacity. So, we have to speed up and not let their wishes come true."

"But..." Yoshida Gen's face turned dark, "If they intend to expand their production capacity, it means that their production costs will be greatly reduced, and we will face brutal competition."