Early the next morning, Qin Hai, Chen Hongcheng and the four from Honggang left the hotel together. Xiao Mengqin walked at the front. She walked towards the subway station as a habit. After taking two steps, she felt something was wrong and looked back.
, but saw that Chen Hongcheng had already led Jiang Huanwen and others, and reached out to stop two taxis.
"Get in the car." Qin Hai walked to Xiao Mengqin and pointed to a taxi behind him and said to her.
"Take a taxi?" Xiao Mengqin opened her eyes wide and almost couldn't believe it. She had never taken a taxi when she was in China, and she didn't dare to think about it when she went abroad. In her impression, taking a taxi should be a
This is a very, very expensive consumption, and the cost is completely beyond her imagination.
Jiang Huanwen and the other three people all followed Chen Hongcheng and got into the front car. In the back car, there were only two people, Qin Hai and Xiao Mengqin. Qin Hai sat in the front row and let Xiao Mengqin sit in the back row. After the car started to drive,
Xiao Mengqin touched the leather seat cushion and looked at the passing street scene outside the window, feeling a little timid and a little excited at the same time.
"Qin Gong, do you take a taxi every day these days?" Xiao Mengqin asked Qin Hai.
"Call me Xiao Qin, I'm younger than you." Qin Hai said, "We do take taxis every day these days, mainly to rush for time."
"Is it expensive to take a taxi?" Xiao Mengqin asked in a low voice, as if she was afraid of being heard by the driver. In fact, she also knew that it was impossible for the driver to understand Chinese.
Qin Haidao: "The trip from our hotel to Oso Company is estimated to be around 100 pesetas, which is about ten dollars."
"Ah!" Xiao Mengqin almost shouted, her reaction was the same as Chen Hongcheng's before, "Isn't this one taxi ride going to cost me a month's salary?"
Qin Hai nodded and said seriously: "This shows that our wages are too low and we can't even afford a taxi ride."
"But...but..." Xiao Mengqin wanted to say something, but didn't know how to say it. Qin Hai paid for the taxi, and the realm of rich people was not something that a working-class person like her could look up to. She could
Can she accuse Qin Hai of being extravagant? Or, can she pretend to be noble, open the car door, get out of the car and take the subway?
After a moment of silence, Xiao Mengqin finally spoke timidly: "Qin... uh, Xiao Qin, do you, Mr. Chen, have a lot of foreign exchange in your hands?"
"How do you know?" Qin Hai asked.
Xiao Mengqin said: "I heard from Huang Liwei that she bought a lot of things, saying she borrowed foreign exchange from Mr. Chen. There is a kind of perfume that is very popular abroad. She also said that Secretary Wang of the embassy uses that kind of perfume.
Fragrance type.”
Except for several official wives, the only single women in the delegation were Huang Liwei and Xiao Mengqin. So they lived in the same room. In the past few days, Huang Liwei accompanied Zhu Xiaofeng and other officials to visit, shop, and spend time in Madrid.
The money was all foreign exchange borrowed from Chen Hongcheng. The thing Huang Liwei wanted to buy the most was the perfume Wang Zheyi used, but her hard work paid off and she was actually allowed to buy it.
Xiao Mengqin is a technician, but she is also a girl after all. How can she not like these luxury goods? Watching Huang Liwei showing off the various goods she bought. Smelling the exotic perfume wafting from her body, Xiao Mengqin
I was so envious. I heard that the foreign exchange used by Huang Liwei to buy things was borrowed from Chen Hongcheng. Xiao Mengqin knew that there was no hope for him. Chen Hongcheng nodded and bowed to the officials all day long, but in front of them, he looked like he was a thousand miles away.
Smiling, how dare Xiao Mengqin expect to borrow foreign exchange from him.
Qin Hai didn't understand these little thoughts of women. When he heard Xiao Mengqin's words, he smiled and asked: "Why, do you want to buy it too?"
"Well..." Xiao Mengqin replied in an inaudible voice. Even so, she still felt her face turned red.
"You should have said it earlier." Qin Hai did not look back, and did not know that Xiao Mengqin was in embarrassment. He said: "After we finish talking about the equipment, we should have a day or two free. You can go shopping around the businesses.
On the street. If you rarely go out, you should buy something you like. As for foreign exchange, just come to me and I will lend it to you."
"Really?" Xiao Mengqin said happily, "Then...can you lend me $50?"
"Fifty US dollars is enough, 500," Qin Hai promised carelessly. Juanito's experiment of smelting mold steel has been successful, and Juanito will pay the remaining payment soon.
Qin Hai does not lack foreign exchange.
"500 US dollars! I can't afford to borrow that much." Xiao Mengqin exclaimed, but what she was thinking was completely different from what she was saying.
Talking and laughing all the way, the two taxis came to the door of Oso Company one after another. Everyone got out of the car, Xiao Mengqin ran up and said a few words to the guard, and the guard waved them in. They and their group
We had been here several times before and the doorman knew them.
When everyone came to the negotiation room of Ossur Company, two business staff from the other party were already there. Xiao Mengqin introduced to Qin Hai in a low voice, saying that one of them was the sales director of Ossur Company, named Tony, and the other one was him.
His deputy is called Valentine.
Since both parties were already very familiar with each other, they exchanged a few pleasantries before getting down to business. Jiang Huanwen introduced to Tony that Qin Hai was the procurement specialist of Hongyuan Steel Plant and had just arrived from other places to discuss the matter.
"Our attitude has been made very clear, 20 million for a set, which is a preferential price. We know that China is a developing country, and we hope to establish long-term economic and trade relations with China, so we will give such a preferential price
Price." Tony stated his position in a long voice. There was a hint of arrogance in his attitude, and he obviously didn't take the Chinese people in front of him seriously.
Several people from Red Steel have set their sights on Qin Hai. They have been dealing with Tony for several days. Regarding Tony's attitude, they are at their wits' end and have no way to deal with it. Since Qin Hai boasted that he could
Negotiate the price and start now.
Qin Hai sat upright, coughed lightly, attracted Tony's attention to him, and then asked with a smile: "Mr. Tony, the discount you are talking about is to buy an electric stove designed and finalized in 1968."
, said it was a product from 1978, and then sold it to us at twice the market price, is that right?”
"Young man, don't speak based on your own imagination." Tony's face sank and he said to Qin Hai in a scolding tone. He is more than twice as old as Qin Hai, so he is qualified to call Qin Hai this way.
of.
Seeing Tony's bluff, Qin Hai smiled even more kindly and said, "Mr. Tony, which of my words do you think was based on imagination?"
"Our equipment was designed and finalized in 1976, not the 1968 technology you mentioned." Tony said coldly.
Qin Haidao: "Really? I think Mr. Baldomero, the chief designer of this electric stove, will definitely not think like you. If I remember correctly, he retired in 1971. You mean,
Did he later come back to the company to design this electric stove?”
"How do you know Mr. Baldomero?" Tony's expression suddenly changed. There is nothing more embarrassing than being exposed in person when lying. He originally thought that the Chinese did not understand European metallurgical technology at all.
As long as he insists that this set of equipment was made in 1978, the Chinese will not be able to find any evidence to refute him. Who knows, the unusually young Chinese in front of him can not only tell the design year of this electric stove, but even
Even its chief designer has verified it.
Of course Tony didn't know that after Qin Hai read the information Xiao Mengqin gave him yesterday, he kept some relevant technical details in mind, and then asked Gonet for verification. This electric stove from Osso Company was very popular in the early 1970s.
It has some reputation, and Gonet also participated in its design, so he can remember the chief designer and other circumstances at the time. Qin Hai is not a reckless person. If he wants to challenge Ossur, he must first take advantage of the other party's
I've figured it all out.
In response to Tony's question, Qin Hai just responded with a mysterious smile and continued: "Mr. Tony, do you still insist that this electric furnace was designed and finalized in 1976? As the most famous metallurgical technology supplier in Spain, if
If you were still designing an RP electric stove in 1976, it would probably make people laugh, right?"
"Of course, I admit that the furnace design of this electric furnace was completed before 1976, and it uses the most mature technology of Ossur. But the control part of the electric furnace, as well as the oxygen nozzle and other parts, all use
New technology emerged in the late 1970s, Mr. Qin doesn't deny this, right?" Tony hesitated and started to find other excuses.
Qin Haidao: "I don't deny that you added some relatively new accessories to this old electric furnace to make it look like a newly designed electric furnace. But as a metallurgical expert, Mr. Tony thinks that an electric furnace is
Should the price be determined by the furnace body, or by the accessories? How much does a new electric furnace control module cost in the European market?”
"You can't say that. Integrating such a control module into an electric stove still requires some technology." Valentine interjected from the side, "The value of Ossur lies in its ability to perfectly combine these technologies into one
On the electric stove...even if the furnace body of this electric stove is a little bit outdated."
"I recognize your value, but this value requires a scientific calculation method. The price of your electric furnace is too high. If it can be lowered, we are very interested in introducing these two electric furnaces and corresponding equipment." Qin Hai
Provided Tony and Valentine with a step to step down at the right time.
"Mr. Qin, do you think the price of these two electric stoves is more appropriate?" Tony asked bluntly.
"14 million US dollars." Qin Hai said.
"One?" Tony asked.
Qin Hai shook his head and said: "No, it's two... to be precise, two sets of equipment, including electric furnaces and all continuous casting equipment."
"This is impossible!" Tony shouted with a red face. (To be continued...)