Material Empire

In the summer of 2001, Linshui City, the capital of Haidong Province.

A black Mercedes Benz drove smoothly into the city hall compound and stopped in front of the office building. Several officials who had been waiting at the entrance of the building walked forward quickly, ready to open the door and welcome the distinguished guests to get off the car. Before they came to the front, the front and rear doors of the car were already opened from the inside, and three young people, two men and one woman, got out of the car. The leader was Qin Hai, the chairman of Daqin Group, followed by Tian Ruzhi, the deputy general manager of the group, and Wang Xiaodong, the deputy director of the sales department of the group.

At the turn of the century, Daqin Group has also completed an epoch-making transition from old to new. Ning Zhongying, Qin Minghua, Fu Wenbin, Xiao Dongping and a group of veterans all retreated to the second line and replaced them with a group of young men headed by Song Hongxuan.

Song Hongxuan, who has been tempered for more than ten years, took over the post of general manager of the group and is responsible for the overall coordination of the entire group. Ning Mo, Tian Ruzhi, and several other young people served as deputy general managers, each in charge of one aspect of business. Wang Xiaochen succeeded Fu Wenbin as the dean of the School of Materials Science and Technology, and Sun Yuzhi and Zhang Yating respectively served as the vice deans. Others such as Yu Haitao, Miao Lei, Xia Yangjie, Xu Xiaoqi, Heizi, etc. have served as department directors or general managers of lower-level group companies.

Today's Daqin Group owns steel, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, semiconductors, ceramics, glass, cement and other major industries, as well as many businesses derived from the material industry, such as material machinery, rare earth permanent magnet motors, and audio equipment. , sportswear, etc., the total fixed assets have exceeded 100 billion yuan, and it is like a huge industrial empire.

Three years ago, the electric vehicle project promoted by Qin Hai achieved success. Daqin Group and Hongyuan Automobile Company jointly established Daqin Automobile Company, which specializes in the production of pure electric passenger vehicles. Daqin Automobile uses a self-produced permanent magnet motor as power, and a graphene supercapacitor with all intellectual property rights as an energy storage component. Military expert Zhou Linlei organized a team to help develop a complete set of electronic control systems. It is said that many electronic control technologies used in military aircraft were used in it. According to Zhang Daiwei's estimation, its level has reached the standard of world-class electric vehicles.

The car's appearance, chassis suspension and other designs were completed by a professional team from Europe. Qin Hai believed in the principle that there must be a brave man under a reward, so he offered five times the high salary and transferred the team from their old club. Dig over and specialize in the design of Daqin electric vehicles. After numerous tests and a huge amount of money was spent, Daqin electric vehicles from economy to luxury series were born, and won praises from experts in the industry at several international auto shows held in Paris, New York and other places.

It is not enough for a model to be developed, and going to the market is the ultimate success. Given that the promotion of electric vehicles is the top priority of the entire group in the near future, Qin Hai, the chairman, also took on the role of a salesman without hesitation. The purpose of going to Linshui this time is to open the door to this megacity on the eastern coast.

"You are Mayor Li, aren't you?" Qin Hai saw who was the chief official among the several officials who came forward, and walked straight to the middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes with a pleasant smile. reached out to him.

"Yes, yes, I am Li Dongyuan."

That man was Li Dongyuan, the deputy mayor of Linshui City. Qin Hai had contacted him beforehand when he visited Linshui City this time.

According to past experience, when a wealthy businessman like Qin Hai visited a certain city, the local mayor and even the secretary would personally greet him. Although Linshui is a super-large city, it will not neglect investors of Qin Hai's level. Even if a deputy mayor is greeted downstairs, at least the main job should be for nothing, taking a bath and fasting, sitting in the office and waiting .

However, the situation this time was a bit different. On the way here, Qin Hai received a call from Li Dongyuan, saying that the mayor and the secretary could not get away because of some urgent and important matter, so what. Of course, Qin Hai would not believe this explanation. Government departments would have important matters at any time, but as long as they wanted to arrange, they could always find time. The two principals chose not to greet Qin Hai at the first time, expressing an attitude, that is, there was some resistance to what Qin Hai wanted to talk about.

"President Qin, I'm very sorry. Secretary Song received a temporary notice and went to report to the provincial party committee; Mayor Liang couldn't come to welcome you because he had an important reception for foreign affairs. They asked me to express to you repeatedly. Sorry, the city government will hold a banquet to entertain you tonight, and then Secretary Song and Mayor Liang will be there in person to toast Mr. Qin and everyone."

Li Dongyuan said to Qin Hai that the word "sincerity" was written all over his face, although Qin Hai knew that what he said was just an excuse.

"It's okay, I'm sorry to delay your work." Qin Hai shook hands with Li Dongyuan with a smile, and also pretended to be candid, as if he believed in Li Dongyuan's explanation.

Qin Hai introduced Tian Ruzhi and Wang Xiaodong to Li Dongyuan, and Li Dongyuan also introduced his entourage, including Zhang Fan, Director of the Municipal Development and Planning Commission, Wang Xuemei, Deputy Director of the Government Office, and so on. The guest and the host briefly exchanged a few pleasantries, and under Wang Xuemei's warm reminder, Li Dongyuan repeatedly said that he was rude, and welcomed Qin Hai and his party into the office building and to the small meeting room.

Li Dongyuan delivered a short welcome speech, Qin Hai expressed his thanks, and then got straight to the point, saying: "Mayor Li, Director Zhang, we are here this time mainly to discuss with Linshui City about the electric Some cooperation matters in the promotion of automobiles, and some related ideas have been clearly introduced in the materials sent to Mayor Li before, and I don’t know how Linshui City thinks about it.”

"This question..." Li Dongyuan dragged his voice, "After we received the materials from your group, we immediately reported to Secretary Song and Mayor Liang. Secretary Song attached great importance to this matter and instructed to Treat it as an important task, earnestly reciprocate, and actively cooperate. Mayor Liang attended the meeting in person, listened to the report of the Development and Planning Commission on the promotion of electric vehicles, and ordered the establishment of a special team to be responsible for docking with Daqin Group. The docking team Mayor Liang is the team leader himself, Director Zhang and I are the deputy team leaders, and Director Zhang is in charge of the daily work, so I would like Director Zhang to give a detailed introduction to Mr. Qin about the specific situation."

The secretary instructed that the mayor be the team leader, the deputy mayor be the executive deputy team leader, and the director of the planning committee be in charge of daily work. This rank is worthy of Daqin Group's status in the domestic economic field. However, judging from the bunch of nonsense Li Dongyuan said, Linshui City's attitude towards this matter is definitely thunderous and rainy. This pretentiousness is purely aimed at Qin Hai's identity. If it were someone else , it is estimated that it is difficult to see Zhang Fan, let alone Li Dongyuan.

Qin Hai was thinking deeply when Zhang Fan spoke. He first repeated the important instructions of leaders at all levels at length, then highly affirmed the application prospects of electric vehicles, and finally entered the substantive content:

"Mr. Qin, in the plan you submitted, you proposed that you hope to build an environmentally friendly city with Linshui City, and hope to replace more than half of the city's motor vehicles with new energy vehicles in 10 to 15 years, so as to basically solve the city's motor vehicle exhaust pollution. This goal is very ambitious and attractive, and our Development and Planning Commission fully affirmed this goal in the report submitted to the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.

However, with regard to your company's request to build 2,000 charging stations in Linshui City within a year, after repeated demonstrations, we believe that there are still some difficulties and cannot be implemented for the time being. "

"What kind of difficulty is it?" Qin Hai asked.

"Well...it's more complicated to say." Zhang Fan began to hesitate.

Tian Ruzhi smiled slightly, and interjected: "Director Zhang, our group has also conducted a demonstration in advance about the construction of charging stations. In terms of funds, the hardware investment of each charging station does not exceed 10,000 yuan, and 2,000 charging stations are 20 million yuan. This part of the fund will be fully provided by our group at the beginning. After recovering all the investment, we will hand over all the charging stations to Linshui City for free, which means that Linshui City has obtained this asset out of thin air. This condition should be Very favorable."

"Yes, yes, the issue of funds... is indeed not a problem." Zhang Fan nodded in response.

"The second is the problem of venues, because our electric vehicles use fast charging technology, it takes less than five minutes to fully charge a car, and the charging station is different from the gas station, it is not dangerous, so there is no need to According to the requirements of the isolation zone, as long as there is a temporary parking space, it can be built. I don’t think Linshui City can’t build a charging station because of the site, right?” Tian Ruzhi continued.

Zhang Fan hesitated for a moment, then said: "In terms of the venue... it cannot be said that there are no difficulties at all. Of course, this difficulty can also be solved."

"Funding is not a problem, and the venue is not a problem, then we don't understand. What is the difficulty that Director Zhang said?" Tian Ruzhi asked Zhang Fan with a gentle smile.

"Mainly, there are many reasons..." Zhang Fan frowned slightly, as if he was very embarrassed, and said: "First, the planning department put forward an opinion that the construction of charging stations needs to be included in the planning before it can be built. The city It is also the requirement of the central government that construction should be planned first. The planning department believes that it is necessary to scientifically calculate the distribution of electric vehicles and determine the best layout plan for charging stations, so as to avoid unnecessary waste caused by adjustments after problems are found in the future. "

"This..." Tian Ruzhi knew that Zhang Fan was talking nonsense, and she couldn't help opening her mouth to refute. Qin Hai, who was sitting next to her, raised his hand slightly, stopped her, and then said to Zhang Fan with a smile: "Director Zhang, please continue talking, and which departments have any comments."