Chapter two hundred and eighty seventh came two foreigners
As soon as Ming Yongbo said this, the secretary in the office timidly opened the door and entered the conference room, came to Liu Shuo, and reported in a low voice: "Director Liu, Mayor Mo is here..."
"Oh? Where is he? Who else came with him?" Liu Shuo stood up quickly, packing up the things in front of him, and asked the little secretary. The little secretary said that Mayor Mo was in charge of industry in Quwu City.
The deputy mayor was named Mo Kongchao, and Liu Shuo had dealt with him in the past. Sha Renyuan had a good relationship with Mo Kongchao. Before he died, he asked Mo Kongchao to take care of the Brothers Ceramics Factory. Mo Kongchao thought to himself
Due to his old relationship with Sha Renyuan, he summoned Liu Shuo several times, but he never came to the factory in person.
"He was accompanied by several city bureau chiefs and two foreigners." The secretary replied.
"Foreigner!" Everyone in the conference room felt their eyes light up. In connection with the question raised by Ming Yongbo before, a thought flashed in everyone's mind: Could it be that foreign merchants came to visit?
Liu Shuo didn't care to ask any more questions. He gave instructions to everyone and hurriedly walked out. Huang Yanling, Ming Yongbo and others also stood up and followed him closely to the outside of the office building.
In the open space in front of the building, a medium-sized bus was parked. There were seven or eight people standing under the bus. The leader was Mo Kongchao.
"Mayor Mo, I'm sorry, I'm so far away from you!" Liu Shuo strode forward and stretched out his hands from a distance.
Mo Kongchao smiled slightly, stretched out a hand to shake Liu Shuo's hand, and said, "Director Liu, we are uninvited guests. You won't welcome us, right?"
"How dare you? We can't even invite Mayor Mo to serve." Liu Shuo smiled with a smile on his face. He turned to greet Mo Kongchao's entourage: "Director Gu, Director Hong... welcome.
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He shook hands with the officials one by one and greeted them one by one. At the end of the shake, two Westerners with tall noses appeared in front of him. He extended his hand halfway and then stopped hesitantly. He didn't know whether foreigners were in favor of the etiquette of shaking hands.
I don't know how to greet the other person either.
"Director Liu, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Mike, the vice president of the Belgian Roth Company. This is Mr. Mike's secretary, Mr. Qiaoli. This is Xiao Su from the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, who is accompanying Mr. Mike and the others.
We came together." Mo Kongchao walked over and introduced Liu Shuo with a smile.
"The name of our vice president is McClure, and my name is Jolliff." The secretary to the vice president, who was introduced as "Mr. Jolly" by Mo Kongchao, corrected him in a low voice in blunt Chinese. He was referring to Liu Shuo.
He said that he had corrected Mo Kongchao several times before, but Mo Kongchao could never figure out the correct way to pronounce their names.
"Welcome, Mr. McClure, Mr. Jolliffe." Liu Shuo stretched out his hand and shook hands with the two Belgians. One of the other Belgians can speak Chinese, which makes things easier and can reduce a lot of trouble during communication.
After the greetings, Liu Shuo greeted everyone to the conference room for a discussion. He, Mo Kongchao, McClure, and Jolliff walked side by side at the front, while Huang Yanling and Ming Yongbo followed behind with other officials. Cheng Huaping
Instead of going back to the conference room with them, he trotted to the canteen and told the canteen's buyers to go to the market to buy meat and fish to prepare for a sumptuous banquet at noon.
During this short period of time, the conference room had been tidied up. Everyone entered the conference room. The guests and hosts sat down, and Mo Kongchao sat in the middle position on the host's side without hesitation, letting Liu Shuo sit next to him.
After sitting down, McClure and Jolliff were arranged to sit opposite them. As for the government officials, they sat on both sides according to their different status. Some played the role of Mokon's attaché, and some played the role of foreign guests.
The identity of the escort is very particular, and the knowledge is very profound.
"Let me say a few words first." Mo Kongchao said, "Mr. Mike and Mr. Qiaoli made a special trip to our Quwu City to inspect the ceramic industry. According to their introduction, the Belgian Roth company where they work is the third largest ceramic company in Europe.
Product sellers have also maintained a good cooperative relationship with our Chinese ceramic companies. This time, they came to our Quwu to learn about a ceramic knife produced by our Quwu. Director Liu, you know this situation
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The production of ceramic knives by Brother Ceramics Factory is a typical example of what is happening inside the wall and what is outside the wall. Due to the press conference organized by Qin Hai, foreign newspapers have made a fuss about the matter, but the Quwu City Government itself has no knowledge of it.
.Early this morning, Xiao Su from the Foreign Affairs Office suddenly came to Quwu with McClure and Jolliffe, catching Mo Kongchao by surprise.
During the talks in the city, the other party repeatedly said that they wanted to know what happened to the ceramic knives produced by Quwu. Mo Kongchao called in people from the Economic Commission and the Second Light Industry Bureau, but no one could tell the truth.
In fact, it is also my fault that the media reporters cut corners when reporting. They only mentioned that this magical ceramic knife came from a city called Quwu in China, but did not specify the name of the Brothers Ceramics Factory. There are several local ceramics factories in Quwu.
Because Brothers Ceramics Factory has always made industrial ceramics and is a private enterprise, city officials do not know much about it.
The two sides talked for a long time without coming up with anything. In the end, Mo Kongchao couldn't help it and asked McClure how he knew the name Qu Wu. McClure took out a photocopy of a newspaper and showed it to everyone, but they couldn't understand it.
The above is in Dutch, but in the photos of the scene accompanying the news report, everyone recognized a vague figure, that is Liu Shuo. The matter of Liu Shuo going abroad was reported to the city.
After connecting the two things, Mo Kongchao was certain that what McClure was looking for must be Brothers Ceramics Factory.
Following Mo Kongchao's idea, they planned to have someone call Liu Shuo to come to the city hall and meet with foreign businessmen. However, McClure suggested that they would rather go to the factory to have a look in order to understand the quality of ceramic knives.
False and true. When foreign guests made requests, Mo Kongchao naturally could not refuse, so he took two foreign guests and a group of officials directly to Brother Ceramics Factory.
Liu Shuo didn't know the twists and turns in this process, but when he heard Mo Kongchao talk about ceramic knives, he knew that McClure must have come to find him, because not to mention other companies in Quwu, even in the world, they can currently produce
The only company that sells ceramic knives is Brothers Ceramics Factory. He nodded with a smile and said, "Mayor Mo, ceramic knives are indeed products of our factory. This time, Xiao Huang and I went to Brazil with a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture.
When I attended the Agricultural Machinery Expo, I showed off the ceramic knives from our factory. These two foreign guests must have come here after reading the reports at the exhibition."
"Yes, yes, they brought a newspaper with your photo on it. Director Liu, why didn't you report such a big thing to the city?" Mo Kongchao asked slightly reproachfully.
From the perspective of Quwu officials, it is definitely something to be proud of for Quwu's company to be featured in foreign newspapers. Liu Shuo had such a glorious incident but did not report it to the city government. This is typical
There is no organization or discipline.
"Yan Ling and I have just come back and haven't had time to report the results to the city yet," Liu Shuo quickly explained.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Since the ceramic knife is your product, then you can introduce it to Mr. McClure." Mo Kongchao ordered.
Xiao Su from the Foreign Affairs Office had already selectively translated the conversation between Mo Kongchao and Liu Shuo to McClure. McClure coughed lightly and said to Liu Shuo impatiently: "Mr. Liu, we
It was through the newspaper that I learned that your factory has produced a very magical ceramic knife, but so far, we have not seen the actual sample. We came all the way from Belgium just to learn about this kind of ceramic knife.
If possible, we hope to become the agent of your ceramic knives in Europe."
After listening to what the translator said, Liu Shuo nodded and said to Ming Yongbo: "Yongbo, go and get a few sets of our newly produced ceramic knives and ask the two foreign guests, Mayor Mo and other leaders to evaluate them.
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Ming Yongbo agreed and left the conference room. After a while, he led two workers back with more than a dozen bags. Each bag contained a packaging box containing a set of six ceramic knives. After getting
After Liu Shuo's permission, Ming Yongbo delivered these bags to McClure and other officials respectively, one bag for each person, without any omissions. According to the rules, these ceramic knives can be taken with them when they leave.
Take away, you know, it is an official's obligation...and right to condescend to "try out" products for businesses.
“It’s really a ceramic knife!”
"beautiful!"
"Can this knife really cut vegetables?"
"I think it's okay. The blade of this knife is quite sharp. At least it can cut fruits without any problem."
The officials opened the packaging box, took out the knives, and everyone started talking in a fuss. As the deputy mayor, Mo Kongchao naturally had to be more reserved and would not open the packaging box himself. Liu Shuo took the packaging box, opened it, and took out the knives.
They placed them all in front of Mo Kongchao and introduced in detail the functions of each knife and the characteristics of ceramic knives. Mo Kongchao listened very seriously, with a look of surprise in his eyes.
The one who could really tell the secret was McClure. As soon as he got the bag, he opened the box unceremoniously, took out the knife and put it in front of his eyes to appreciate it carefully. Jolliff also leaned his head over and looked at it.
He exchanged views with McClure in a low voice. During the discussion, the two of them did not speak English, but Dutch, which even the translator Xiao Su couldn't understand.
After muttering for a while, McClure raised his head and said to Liu Shuo: "Mr. Liu, these ceramic knives are very beautifully made and the blades feel very sharp. I just don't know how the cutting effect is. If you don't mind, can you
Ask your people to find us some samples for cutting, we want to test them."