After moving all the machines and drawings to a factory that had long since vacated the place, this was the last time small CNC machines were mass-produced. Bao Zixuan asked someone to buy a small mechanical processing factory less than 500 meters away from the company, mainly for when the MIT laboratory was inconvenient. It can be processed and produced in its own factory, and it is more laboratory-based, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today.

It is said to be a small factory, but the entire building area is 10,000 square meters. Ask someone to open all the boxes separately, take pictures and scan each drawing, he has to prepare in many ways, want to make the drawings into documents and photos in the computer, and will apply for customs declaration of the drawings, after all, it is best to move things to Xiangjiang according to the regular procedures.

After everything was arranged, Bao Zixuan began to work in the Black Cloud Factory in the United States. These days, I'm almost always working here, along with Bowman and Brumman, two of MIT's leading authorities on machine tools.

Hiroshi Hashimoto was sent to Germany by Bao Zixuan, and he went to Rheinmetall, and because of Professor Baumann's matchmaking, he quickly started negotiations with Rheinmetall's top management.

Rheinmetall is an established industrial manufacturing company founded in 1889 and produces tank guns used in many countries around the world. However, Germany was defeated in two world wars, and was once dismantled and fragmented, many weapons were not allowed to be produced, and the company could only transform to civilian products, which has not been very successful, although the technology is advanced but the lack of creativity and high cost make it less competitive in the market.

Bao Zixuan knows that this is an opportunity, if Rheinmetall successfully develops the Leopard 2 tank next year, then what equipment he wants to buy will be very expensive, and people will not necessarily pay attention to you. At this time, the critical period of formal Rheinmetall research and development is the time when there is the most lack of funds, so Bao Zixuan has to choose some cheap.

Hiroshi Hashimoto was introduced by Professor Bowman, and he is a representative of Kukumo. At Rheinmetall he met Oliver Lehard, Rheinmetall chairman. Rheinmetall was founded by his great-grandfather and was once part of their family, but as the Cold War intensified, the pressure on West Germany's defenses increased dramatically. In order to increase the cohesion of the company, the Lehard family was invited back to take charge of the company.

The two sides soon reached an agreement on the elimination of Rheinmetall's machine tools, and Heiyun has purchased 336 machine tools and supporting facilities from Rheinmetall at a price of 20 million US dollars, including 2 industrial machine tools, and hired 142 skilled workers with Rheinmetall's compulsory retirement, with an average age of 53.6 years.

Heiyun Company promises that all the pensions, medical expenses, and benefits of these workers will be borne by Heiyun Company in the future, which is why the machine tool will be sold to Heiyun at the price of cabbage. After all, these workers need to spend about 15 million ~ 20 million US dollars a year, and compared with their surplus value, Rheinmetall has thrown off a big burden. That's an overall expenditure that could amount to about $500 million

But when Blackcloud wanted to buy trucks and off-road vehicle patents and technology, Oliver Lehard hesitated, after all, this is not a burden to throw, it is also a project for them to make money, and they don't want to cultivate too many competitors in the world. So he directly offered a sky-high price of 200 million US dollars, just to scare the other party away.

Hiroshi Hashimoto said that he would report to the company, after all, the amount had exceeded the scope of his authorization. The two sides agreed to hold talks tomorrow morning.

After Hashimoto reported to Bao Zixuan by phone, Bao Zixuan thought for a while and told him that the payment of 1.2~150 million US dollars would be completed in 2 years, and if it didn't work, forget it. Moreover, with the R&D strength of Black Cloud in the automotive field, it is impossible to surpass Rheinmetall in the short term, and this is the last round of negotiations. At the same time, he was told to charter a plane, bring all these German workers to the United States, and return to Xiangjiang after completing the CNC transformation of the machine tools. If their family wants to be together, they can settle in Xiangjiang in advance. After all, by February, the required factories and dormitories will be completed.

Heiyun company is expanding and raw material storage these days, although the sales are very good, but the financial pressure is also very large, Bao Zixuan wants to build everything that can be built in 1978, as for 1979 is to hone internal skills, to cope with the opportunity in 1980.

The next day, Hiroshi Hashimoto said that the Black Cloud Company decided to buy the patents and technologies of Rheinmetall trucks (including all models of 1.5 tons ~ 30 tons) and off-road vehicles at a price of 100 million US dollars, which is another cabbage price, but trucks are not Rheinmetall's strong point, and the civilian version of off-road vehicles is not the main business. After bargaining, Black Cloud bought the patents and technology for $140 million. The payment is completed over 14 months, $11 million per month, and the excess is counted as interest.

This deal, which was criticized by many at the time, believed that Rheinmetall bought a rotten apple for the price of a high-quality watermelon. They got rid of their baggage, they could travel light, and they got much-needed money.

The Black Cloud Company spent a lot of money to buy a group of grandfather workers, what a trouble for themselves! And they have little time left to work. Basically, I went to Heiyun to get a pension. Trucks and off-road vehicles have been affected by the oil crisis, sales have been poor, there is almost no market, and it has cost Heiyun more than 100 million dollars. Even if you have money, you don't spend it like this. Many people say that Bao Zixuan has lacked father's love since he was a child, probably because he wants to recruit more older people to find his father's love. It has risen to personal attacks. But at this time, Bao Zixuan didn't pay attention to it so much, she directly chartered a hotel and waited for the old workers who arrived from Germany.

At this time, he suddenly received a call from Romansky, asking him to go back to school, and he was looking for him for something, and he said it very solemnly. After arranging for the engineers to work separately, Bao Zixuan returned to MIT, where he hadn't been back for half a month.

After returning to the dormitory, Romansky took Bao Zixuan to a café, and when he was on the way, he told him that he was an officer of the Soviet embassy who was looking for him to do business, and in order to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, it was most suitable in a crowded place like a café. There are already two people waiting for them here. Ratmansky made presentations on both sides. The older man's name was Andrei. The young lady's name was Natasha, two rotten Russian street names, but I don't know if it's true or not.

Andrei said in Russian that we would like to be able to export the sound and game consoles to the Soviet Union and treat them the same as other international trading companies. This is very rare, after all, there are only a limited number of companies that want to do business with the Soviet Union now, and they can get such treatment, which proves that the Soviet high-level has recognized the Black Cloud Company.

The struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union during this period was dominated by the Soviet Union, and it was seen that the United States was very rich in entertainment, especially the products of the Black Cloud Company were very suitable for children to learn and entertain. The leaders who thought that the USSR could get everything wanted to introduce. Enriching people's entertainment activities, and the Walkman is also a powerful tool for learning foreign languages, which is why the exhibitors and secretaries of the Soviet Embassy in the United States came to MIT to find Bao Zixuan in the hope of cooperating with this cooperation. The most important thing is that Heiyun is a Xiangjiang company, and from Ratmansky's mouth, he learned that Bao Zixuan himself is also a good young man who preaches equality for all, and he is the kind that can be won over.

After Andre finished speaking, Natasha translated it in English, and the two were waiting for Bao Zixuan to answer. Not far away, FBI personnel were also listening in on their conversations. After all, whether the Soviet embassy personnel came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the most important engineering school in the United States, had any ulterior secrets, they also had to investigate clearly.