"Stop yelling about Factory Zhou. I'm the assistant to the factory director. If others hear it, they'll think I'm trying to seize the class and seize power." Zhou Jing turned around and looked at Wang Shaoqing who came to pick him up angrily.
"It's only a matter of time, how's it going? Is the journey going well? I've been waiting for you for a long time, and then I went to the bathroom and almost didn't pick you up when I came back. What a sin, haha."
Wang Shaoqing is the deputy director of the Steelmaking Office 1 of the Equipment Purchasing Department of Sanhai Steel Engineering. He is a few years older than Zhou Jing. He worked with Zhou Jing for more than a year on the No. 4 continuous caster renovation project of the headquarters. The two have a close relationship.
Still getting along well.
Moreover, Zhou Jing is at the senior section level, and Wang Shaoqing is at the deputy section level. They are about the same level, and they are colleagues in the same company, so they often joke with each other. This time, Wang Shaoqing is the leader of the drawing conversion team to lead the technical development of each equipment manufacturing plant.
The team came to the United States to work and have been here for almost two months.
"It's not bad. Why did you, the chief director, come to pick me up in person today? I'm a little flattered." Zhou Jing was really a little surprised that Wang Shaoqing showed up at the airport to pick him up in person.
"As I said, you are the leader of the project team. Our engineering equipment department only serves the owners. Stop talking nonsense. Let's leave quickly." Wang Shaoqing enthusiastically took Zhou Jing's suitcase and pushed it all the way.
Zhou Jing walked outside the airport.
Looking at a black GMC Business Star parked on the roadside, Zhou Jing looked at Wang Shaoqing in surprise.
"I said, Director Wang, your team is quite luxurious. You are treated like this when you go out. Why do I remember that this car is used as a nanny car by big celebrities?"
"No way, the leader is coming over soon. This is a temporary rental, and the rent of this car is not expensive here. There are no cars like Coaster here. I can't get a bus to pick up the leader.
Okay, get in the car quickly, it's quite cold outside." Wang Shaoqing pushed Zhou Jing into the car.
The driver was an overseas student hired locally temporarily. He helped put the luggage and then drove away from the airport.
"Let's just say that you, Lao Wang, are good at flattering and fixing things. What's the matter, are you ready to make further progress? I heard that there is a vacant office director at Guomao. You must have an idea." Zhou Jing looked at Wang Shaoqing with interest.
joked.
"Forget it, I'm not interested in Guomao. Maybe they will be stationed overseas. My children are still young and can't leave." In fact, Wang Shaoqing knows that Guomao is a gathering place for the group's elites. Doctors who have returned from overseas
There are a lot of them, but I am really not qualified to go there.
Zhou Jing took out two red Zhonghua cigarettes from his bag and handed them to Wang Shaoqing. Zhou Jing bought them at the airport duty-free shop. Most people who work in engineering are heavy smokers. The biggest difficulty for them when going abroad is not the problem of food, but the problem of food.
They are basically not used to smoking foreign cigarettes.
"This is for the brothers. I have no choice but to bring more. You can save some and smoke." Zhou Jing took out a cigarette and handed one to Wang Shaoqing.
"The troops will bring a large amount of reinforcements later. It is said that they have also brought several boxes of good wine to reward you."
"Thank you, leader. It's a pity that drinking to drown my sorrow made me even more miserable." Wang Shaoqing threw a lighter to Zhou Jing, and the two of them lit cigarettes and puffed away silently. The atmosphere in the car seemed a little dull for a while.
Zhou Jing opened the car window slightly to get some air, and looked out the window at this strange country and strange city, but he didn't feel the slightest sense of excitement. The emotion in Wang Shaoqing's words made him more determined. This time, his early arrival was
There is a reason.
Such an enthusiastic reception showed that they had great expectations for his arrival, so there must have been a problem with this transformation mission, and he was regarded as a firefighter by them.
Wang Shaoqing chatted absentmindedly with Zhou Jing in the car. The confusion on his face looked like he was constipated, which made Zhou Jing feel funny.
Zhou Jing knew very well in his heart that although the leader had not explained anything before he came, he must have been ordered to solve the problem at the critical moment. It would be better to tell him sooner than later, so he decided to break the current deadlock first.
"Is your drawing conversion work going well this time?" Although it sounded like a casual inquiry, Zhou Jing looked at Wang Shaoqing with a very serious look at this time.
Although Zhou Jing is an easy-going and even lively person in daily life, once he gets into work mode he becomes very serious.
Wang Shaoqing did not answer Zhou Jing's inquiry immediately. Instead, he took two puffs of cigarette silently and carefully organized his speech. Then he raised his head and said to Zhou Jing: "The early stage of the drawing conversion work was very smooth. At present, the entire workload has been completed.
90%, but..."
"But what?" Zhou Jing couldn't help but sit up straight.
"There were some problems with the material conversion, um... The talks with SBS are a bit stalemate at the moment." Wang Shaoqing carefully gave Zhou Jing a brief introduction to what happened.
There really was a problem. It turned out that when negotiating with foreign companies on the sub-delivery of equipment and materials, the technical staff of the manufacturing plant defaulted to the common domestic Q345A steel as the main material of the core equipment on the platform based on their consistent experience, ignoring that the foreign companies at that time
In the technical information provided, there is a suffix letter after the material grade of this model.
Now the difference appears. The former is commonly used structural steel, while the latter is special shear-resistant steel for construction, commonly known as "Z-direction steel".
In previous cooperation projects with foreign investors, when faced with the same problem, foreign investors would agree to the material modification plan proposed by the manufacturer. Therefore, there was no early clarification of this material in the early negotiations of this project, and it was directly classified as domestic supply.
.
Now during the contract execution period, SBS Company firmly disagreed with the material conversion plan proposed by the manufacturer and insisted on using the material grade in the original design, so the problem was exposed. According to Wang Shaoqing's understanding, it is speculated that it may be related to the main products produced by Pittsburgh Steel Plant
It’s related to this grade of steel.
Zhou Jing did not speak immediately after hearing the situation. He lit another cigarette and thought silently. After a while, he asked Wang Shaoqing, "If this batch of steel needs to be imported from the United States, how much will it cost?"
"We have already inquired about the price. The cost of the material itself is also second. The main reason is that the freight is too high. The overall estimate is about... 3 million euros."
"What? 3 million euros, isn't that almost 30 million yuan?" Zhou Jing exclaimed in surprise when he heard this number, and the cigarette in his hand almost fell to the ground. Although he had been mentally prepared before, when he heard this amount of money, he
It still made Zhou Jing feel angry.
"What kind of airplane are you doing? Who can afford such a huge expense?"
Faced with Zhou Jing's anger, Wang Shaoqing remained silent, lowering his head and smoking silently.
"Where are we going now?" Zhou Jing asked after calming down a little.
"Let's go to the hotel. You just got off the plane and need to catch up on the jet lag."
"What kind of hotel are we going to? Can I sleep in the hotel at this moment? Let's go to the conference room immediately."
“The conference room is also in the hotel.”
"Stop talking nonsense. Immediately notify the team leaders and technical leaders of the relevant manufacturing plants to gather in the conference room. No one will sleep until this problem is solved." After saying this, Zhou Jing leaned on his seat and closed his eyes.
But my heart was shaking, it seemed like I was really in a bad fight this time.