There is a famous Japanese food restaurant in the Imperial City Hotel, with a strange name: "Five People". It is said to be the earliest and largest Japanese food restaurant in the Imperial City.
To put it bluntly, it is Japanese food. It specializes in authentic kaiseki cuisine and various Japanese foods. The business is very good, and many locals come here because of its reputation.
In the private room, there is a Japanese screen style screen.
Watanabe from the Japan External Trade Organization knelt down behind a low table and glared angrily at Anderson Qin opposite him. Qin Hao also stared at little Japan opposite him, both of them angry.
Sitting next to the short table was a bearded foreigner, a German named Karl. This guy didn't have the seriousness of the Germans at all. He had a beer belly and couldn't sit down on his knees, so he could only squat on the tatami and complain repeatedly.
"Can you please calm down? The situation is very serious now. Several of my orders have disappeared. Those Chinese people seem to have suddenly disappeared, and several companies have not contacted me.
My monthly orders used to be very stable, and Chinese people would purchase from me regularly. But last night I suddenly had a nightmare. All Chinese customers had higher-end products. This jeopardized my survival."
For Carl, the situation is indeed serious.
Because of the suppression by France after World War II, Germany basically gave up on the aerospace and electronic information industries. They devoted all their technical manpower to machinery manufacturing.
In comparison, the industrial structure of Britain and France is more comprehensive than that of Germany, especially France, which has a very strong industrial power. But Germany does have great advantages in machinery manufacturing.
The idiot Karl comes from Walter, Germany, and is a long-established manufacturer of machine tool tools. It has dozens of subsidiaries around the world, and its product lines cover many industries such as turning, milling, and drilling.
But this time, there are problems with many of Carl's orders. Many of his customers in China have become less eager. Although they have not completely cut off contact, their enthusiasm for purchasing is plummeting.
Watanabe turned a blind eye to Carl's nagging. He only stared at Qin Hao, the second Japanese soldier opposite, and said in Japanese English through gritted teeth: "Apart from your ADI, who else can provide a full range of analog-to-digital conversion chips?
This time, Chinese import and export companies are extremely dissatisfied with our supply list and quotation. According to the information I received privately, they have other supply channels."
The Japan External Trade Organization was founded in 1958. This is an organization created by Japan after the war to comprehensively revitalize the country's trade. It is easy to understand it as a variant of the Black Dragon Society.
It has set up branches in almost every corner of the world, just to help Japanese companies do business. This time, business changes in many units in the Imperial Capital caught Watanabe, who was stationed in the Imperial Capital, by surprise.
Qin Hao suspected the Japanese, and the Japanese suspected ADI.
Both parties have strong capabilities in the semiconductor field, and each of them has a large number of related products on the embargo list. Once there is suspicion, they immediately point the finger at the other party.
Watanabe's accusation made Qin Hao furious. He slapped the table and spat at the other party, "You Japanese are the biggest suspects. You are the ones who transported embargoed machine tools to the Soviet Union.
Your Toshiba Machinery Co., Ltd. not only exports machine tools, but your Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. also sells sonar manufacturing equipment.
Your Tri-City Objects sells single-crystal furnaces, and your Konica sells high-definition photoemulsion manufacturing equipment.
Your Itochu Seiki also sold simulated centrifuges for training pilots. These were all done by you. You seriously violated the ‘Batum’ agreement.”
When it came to exposing the old man, Anderson Qin's mouth was like a machine cannon, blasting the old white-haired Watanabe until his face turned red, but he was unable to refute.
That's right, the above are all prohibited goods sold by Japan to the Soviet Union.
In fact, there are many cases of Western companies selling prohibited goods. For example, France is a habitual offender. After all, the bear has money and the KGB is powerful enough. But if others are caught, it will be fine, but if you are caught in the footbath, you will be unlucky.
Karl frowned and quickly comforted the two of them: "Don't argue. The key now is to find out the reason behind it. As for Anderson Qin, I can guarantee that it is not his problem."
"Why?" Watanabe, the old Japanese man, was a true Showa man. He looked sideways. He was short but had a fierce aura.
"Anderson's parents are natives who immigrated to the United States. He has a strong convert fanaticism and will never betray." Carl gave Qin Hao a guarantee.
After hearing this, Watanabe immediately looked at Qin Hao with admiration and let out a long "oh".
Qin Hao immediately corrected his identity, "I was born in the United States and am an authentic American citizen. This has nothing to do with my origin."
To solve the problem of identity, the three people in front of the Japanese short couple all faced the same problem. The three heads bumped together, wondering how to deal with it.
At the same time, the testing at the Imperial Capital No. 1 Machine Tool Factory continued. Only this time, instead of a few veteran technicians and researchers, leaders from multiple ministries and commissions came directly to the scene.
Next to him, Chen Mu introduced in detail the investigation into Tianyang, and also told all the details of his meeting with Zhou Qingfeng.
The leaders with four pockets were listening and talking to each other. They all had many years of experience in grassroots practice, and the processing effect of cubic boron nitride tools completely subverted all previous experience.
When processing ordinary high-speed steel, the processing speed of boron nitride tools is astonishingly fast. Looking at the workpiece debris constantly flashing on the machine tool, the leaders present were worried that the tool would chip.
When dealing with some special alloys, including cemented carbide, boron nitride tools are completely capable. When the workpiece on the machine tool is processed into a beautiful curved surface, everyone present can only marvel.
Some ministry leaders asked in a low voice: "We are also studying boron nitride cutting tools ourselves, how is the progress?"
This question... Which pot should not be opened and which pot should be raised?
Chen Mu suddenly felt ashamed, "Due to lack of funds and too many shortcomings, the product output is not satisfactory, and the quality is not as good as foreign products."
This is the truth. Except for the 156 incomplete industrial projects obtained from Mao Xiong in the early stage, domestic industrial development basically relies on itself.
Even if projects are imported from abroad, they have to tighten their belts to acquire some key technologies and then learn and digest them themselves.
Like Mao Xiong, who imports entire production lines from Italy or France at every turn, the country is simply reluctant to spend the money.
But you get what you pay for, and scientific research is a waste of money.
The industrial system is extremely large, and the management of many domestic state-owned enterprises is poor. One shortcoming often affects the entire system. Having shortcomings everywhere is completely despairing.
Few people understand the issue of industrial chain now, but a smooth industrial chain is a necessary factor for industrial development. But these all require time and money.
Especially money.
Money, money, money, life is connected.
In fact, it was not until the 1990s that China earned enough foreign exchange from foreign trade that it began to introduce technology on a large scale, update its industrial system, and cope with the rapid economic development two thousand years later.
A leader asked, "How many knives can we get?"
There were many people at the scene, so Chen Mu only said in a cryptic voice: "How much does the overseas side say we want, how much does it give?"
"So generous? What's the price?"
"The overseas side said that they can price it in soft sister currency and can supply it at any time. But he has some other requirements."
As soon as the request was made, several leaders waved their hands and drove away the irrelevant people.
Chen Mu whispered: "He opened a company in China and hopes to obtain the import and export rights for a series of products."
One leader nodded happily, "As long as he doesn't ask us for foreign exchange and don't export products that we ourselves are in short supply, he can import and export whatever he wants."
Chen Mu continued: "He also wants to engage in processing with supplied materials, provide key components, and let our factory produce machine tools for him."
Another leader smiled and said: "This is a good thing, it's totally fine."
"He also wanted to ask if he could contract the land in Tianyang. He said that his hometown was poor and poor, and the farmers were too miserable. He wanted to lead the elders in his hometown to get rich."