Chapter 271 KFC is also Western food (two-in-one chapter)

Li Weidong walked to the phone and just picked up the receiver to call He Anan back when he suddenly felt that someone was staring at him.

When Li Weidong turned around, as expected, Zhou Yunxiu and Li Weimin both looked at him with gossipy faces.

"Mom, let me make a call!" Li Weidong said.

"I know, if you fight, I won't let you fight!" Zhou Yunxiu said with a smile.

"I have to talk about some work matters, which you can't understand even here!" Li Weidong continued.

"Oh, you think I'm in the way, okay, I won't listen, I'll go cook for you!" Zhou Yunxiu reluctantly left.

Immediately afterwards, Li Weidong looked at Li Weimin again, who was still standing there shamelessly.

In desperation, Li Weidong took out five yuan and said, "I'll give you five yuan and go to the game arcade to play!"

"Brother, you won't be able to play for too long with five dollars. Maybe I'll come back when I run out of coins halfway through the game!" Li Weimin said with a smile.

"You think I don't know that one dollar in the arcade at the corner of the street costs ten coins! Five dollars is enough for you to play all afternoon!" Li Weidong snorted coldly, and then said, "It's just five dollars, do you want it? Don't you want me?"

But I won’t give it to you!”

"Yes, can you?" Li Weimin quickly took the five yuan and ran away.

No one was watching him, so Li Weidong immediately called the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade.

After a while, the call was connected, and Li Weidong said: "I'm looking for translator He. My name is Li Weidong."

Soon, He Anan's voice sounded in the receiver: "Are you back from the mountain city?"

"Yes, I went to negotiate a business, and I called you back as soon as I got home!" Li Weidong then asked: "Do you have anything to do with me?"

"I can't come to you if I have nothing to do?" He Anan said.

"If you have nothing to do, come to me, I'll be happier!" Li Weidong replied.

The two chatted for a while, and then He Anan said: "The Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation usually collects the latest information on foreign companies, either from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or collected by local Chinese.

A few days ago I saw a message saying that Japan's Nakano Co., Ltd. was selling a microwave oven production line. I remembered that you make small household appliances, so I called you quickly. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Nakano Co., Ltd.?" Li Weidong thought for a while and said, "I remember they seem to be engaged in the machinery business!"

In his previous life, when Li Weidong was dealing in second-hand machinery and equipment, he had seen the products of Nakano Co., Ltd., but Li Weidong couldn't remember the specific products.

He Anan said, "I didn't expect you to know about Nakano Co., Ltd., you are right, the information here says that they make machinery and equipment, and their main products are rice production machinery and tuber vegetable planting machines.

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"They make agricultural machinery!" Li Weidong didn't expect to meet someone from his old profession.

Then Li Weidong asked: "Agricultural machinery and home appliances are beyond our reach. Why does this agricultural machinery manufacturer still have a microwave oven production line?"

"I don't know about that." He Anan replied.

Li Weidong thought for a moment and said, "Well, let me call my friends in Japan first and ask what's going on. If this microwave oven production line can be used, I will find a way to introduce it."

"Are you going to Japan then?" He Anan asked excitedly.

"If we really want to introduce a production line, we must go to Japan in person!" Li Weidong smiled and asked, "Do you want to go together?"

"That depends on whether I have time!" He Anan said.

Li Weidong knew that He Anan had agreed in disguise.

"How old is that girl?" A voice suddenly sounded from behind Li Weidong, and only then did Li Weidong realize that Zhou Yunxiu had quietly walked over again.

"Mom, you scared me!" Li Weidong said.

Zhou Yunxiu then asked: "Where is the girl from? How many people are in the family? Is she beautiful? Is she older or younger than you? In fact, it doesn't matter if she is older. The three treasures of a girl are holding gold bricks! It doesn't matter if she is tall, short, fat or thin, as long as she is older

As long as your butt is big, it will give me a fat grandson..."

Zhou Yunxiu was probably bored at home and wanted to be a grandma.

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Li Weidong found the contact information of Itokawa Katsuya, and he decided to ask Itokawa Katsuya to help inquire about Nakano Co., Ltd. and the microwave oven production line.

Sakurada Co., Ltd., where Katsuya Itokawa works, also makes machinery. Although it does not overlap with Nakano Co., Ltd. in terms of business, they are still half of the same industry. It should be easy to get such information.

At that time, ordinary landlines could not make international long-distance calls. If Li Weidong wanted to contact Katsuya Itokawa, he had to go to the telephone office.

The international long-distance call charge of 12 yuan per minute was definitely considered a sky-high communication fee at that time. A month's salary of an ordinary worker's hard work was enough to make an international long-distance call of more than ten minutes.

Li Weidong has a lot of international business, and this was not the first time he made an international long distance call. He dialed Katsuya Itokawa's phone number as he was familiar with the route.

Soon, Itokawa Katsuya's voice sounded, and the sound quality was quite clear: "Moxi Moxi, this is Itokawa Katsuya! Who are you looking for?"

"Mr. Itichuan, I am Li Weidong." Li Weidong immediately introduced himself.

"It turns out to be Mr. Li, have you come to Japan again?" Itokawa Katsuya asked.

"No, I'm still in China now." Li Weidong replied.

Afterwards, the two exchanged pleasantries for 36 yuan, and then Li Weidong asked: "Mr. Itokawa, do you know the company Nakano Co., Ltd.?"

"Nakano, they make agricultural machinery and are affiliated with Kubota!" Itokawa Katsuya replied.

"Kubota? Japan's largest agricultural machinery manufacturing company?" Li Weidong asked.

"Yes, large agricultural machinery companies like Kubota will acquire many small businesses, and Nakano Co., Ltd. is one of them." Itokawa Katsuya said.

"In addition to making agricultural machinery, does Nakano Co., Ltd. have other businesses, such as home appliances?" Li Weidong asked next.

"I'm not sure about this. But in the past few years, many Japanese companies have adopted a business diversification strategy, trying to get a share of the market in other industries! Many companies have achieved success, and of course there are many companies.

It failed in the end." Itokawa Katsuya said.

The 1970s and 1980s were the golden age of Japanese companies. At that time, many Japanese companies had excess funds, but their own business was stuck in a bottleneck. At this time, companies of course had to find new investment channels.

As a result, many companies chose to invest overseas and purchased a large number of assets around the world; some companies chose real estate, which caused the Japanese real estate bubble; and a large number of Japanese companies invested funds in other industries and adopted a diversified business strategy.

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Therefore, it is not impossible for Nakano Co., Ltd., which is engaged in agricultural machinery, to build a microwave oven production line and enter the household kitchen appliance market.

After listening to Itokawa Katsuya's words, he suddenly asked: "Mr. Li, why are you asking me about this? Is there something wrong with the quality of Nakano Co., Ltd.'s products?"

Sakurada Co., Ltd.'s hydraulic oil tank cut corners, and Li Weidong got caught. So Itokawa Katsuya naturally thought that Nakano Co., Ltd.'s products also had problems, and Li Weidong got caught.

Li Weidong did not hide anything. He replied directly: "I heard that Nakano Co., Ltd. has a microwave oven production line that it wants to sell. I want to buy it, so I want to inquire about the situation."

"I understand!" Itokawa Katsuya chuckled and said, "Nakano Co., Ltd. is an agricultural machinery company, so you are worried that there is a problem with Nakano Co., Ltd.'s microwave oven production line, right?"

"You guessed it right. I do have concerns in this regard. After all, the main business of Nakano Co., Ltd. is not kitchen appliances!" Li Weidong said.

"Mr. Li, your worries are unnecessary. We Japanese attach great importance to quality. The quality of our Japanese production lines is absolutely guaranteed!" Itokawa Katsuya said confidently.

"You still have the nerve to talk to me about quality? Your own hydraulic oil tank is just cutting corners!" Li Weidong couldn't help complaining in his heart.

Itokawa Katsuya continued: "Although Nakano Co., Ltd.'s main business is not kitchen appliances, their microwave oven production line should use Hitachi Electric's technology!"

"Oh? How did Mr. Itichuan know about it?" Li Weidong asked.

"I have said before that Nakano Co., Ltd. is a company owned by Kubota, and Kubota is part of the Fuji Foundation. Hitachi Electric is also part of the Fuji Foundation, so if Nakano Co., Ltd. wants to purchase a microwave oven production line, it should use Hitachi Electric's technology

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"In other words, the production line that Nakano Co., Ltd. wants to sell is actually a production line from Hitachi Electric?" Li Weidong was delighted.

"It should be like this." Itokawa Katsuya continued; "Mr. Li, if you can't trust Nakano Co., Ltd., you should trust Hitachi Electric, right? Hitachi Electric is one of the seven major electrical appliance brands in Japan!"

"Trust it, of course I can trust Hitachi Electric!" A smile appeared on Li Weidong's face.

Hitachi Electric's microwave oven technology is definitely not bad. It seems that this microwave oven production line is worth buying!

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In the future, microwave ovens will be priced at a bargain price by Chinese companies. Midea's profit from selling a microwave oven is only more than 2 yuan. LG's Chinese factory will still lose more than 10 million US dollars every year.

In the 1990s, when it came to household appliances with relatively large profits, microwave ovens were definitely one of them.

At that time, a microwave oven cost two to three thousand yuan, and the profit was several times higher.

Of course Li Weidong is very yearning for such a hugely profitable product.

However, the production of microwave ovens is different from that of small household appliances. The structure of small household appliances is simple, the technical requirements are low, and the production is not difficult. Therefore, the production of small household appliances uses ordinary assembly production lines, and only requires some workers who can twist screws and weld wires.

The production of microwave ovens is more focused on large appliances, which requires not only specialized production lines, but also technical support.

Just buying a production line in a single village without technical support will not make a microwave oven.

The simplest example is Galanz. At that time, Galanz introduced a microwave oven production line from Japan. However, due to the lack of technical support, many problems during the production process could not be solved. 20% of the first batch of microwave ovens produced were unusable, and the other 80% were unusable.

%, either the firepower is too strong, or the startup is too slow, the pass rate is almost zero.

Now that Li Weidong wants to buy a microwave oven production line, naturally he can't just buy a set of production equipment. He also has to buy the production technology of microwave ovens. This will directly affect whether Li Weidong can produce microwave ovens.

Li Weidong was immediately relieved to learn that Nakano Co., Ltd. used technology from Hitachi Electric.

After all, Hitachi Electric is one of the seven major electrical appliance brands in Japan, and its ranking is relatively high. There is no doubt about Hitachi Electric’s technology.

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To be continued...