"So, Mr. Tang, what should we do?" asked Han Weichang.

Regarding Xia Zhenfa's true thoughts, Han Weichang has actually realized it, at best, it is only one or two beats slower than Tang Zifeng. He pretended to be ignorant just now, just to create an opportunity for Tang Zifeng to show his wisdom. Sometimes, subordinates have to appear stupid in order to contrast the wisdom of the leader. If you want to be in front of the leader in everything, and see more clearly than the leader, you are in danger.

Xia Zhenfa's incident was provoked by Han Weichang. Tang Zifeng made a special trip for this, but he turned out to be gray, and he must be unhappy in his heart, maybe he will take this unhappiness out of his body Han Weichang.

In this case, Han Weichang must coax Tang Zifeng well and make himself happy, so as to reduce the negative emotions he brings to the leader. As for accidentally exposing the dark truth in the leader's heart because of this, Han Weichang didn't expect it, but fortunately, Tang Zifeng is not the kind of person who cares.

"It's no longer possible to cooperate with Xia Zhenfa. Unless Honghua Company really can't do it anymore, Xia Zhenfa is desperate and has to come to us. But I can guarantee that even if this guy cooperates with us, after completing the superhard surface project, he will definitely start a new stall and flash us. Let's not want this kind of cooperation. Tang Zifeng said.

"Yes, this man is a white-eyed wolf, and he can't cooperate. Alas, fortunately, Mr. Tang came in person, and if it were us, I really couldn't see through the essence of this guy, maybe I was deceived by him. Han Weichang said.

Tang Zifeng slapped Han Weichang on the back with a smile and said, "Come on, Old Han, you should keep these sycophantic words and tell Zhang Jianyang." I still don't know you Lao Han, in terms of conspiracy and trickery, the three Xia Zhenfa are tied together, and they are not your opponents, can you still see his intentions?"

Han Weichang smiled awkwardly: "Hehe, I know that my set is a class axe in front of Mr. Tang, and the three of me Han Weichang are tied together, and they are not as good as Mr. Tang." I'm not used to sales, it's like this when I speak, no way, no way to ......"

Tang Zifeng didn't bother to deal with Han Weichang anymore, the scale of the group was large, and his position was also high, so he had to accept this situation of being unbearable from a high place. Not to mention Han Weichang, now even an upright person like Qin Zhongnian will subconsciously bring a little respect when he speaks in front of him, which is indeed something that cannot be helped.

"Lao Xia is still a person who has merit. Tang Zifeng returned to the topic, frowned and said: "He is technically sensitive, has some business acumen, and is a good entrepreneur." If he can cross the hurdle in front of him, the future development prospects of his Honghua company should be very considerable, and it is indeed a pity if it collapses because of a gap of 10 million or 20 million funds. ”

“......”

Han Weichang was silent, Tang Zifeng's painting style turned too fast, and he couldn't keep up. Just now he said that it was impossible to cooperate with Xia Zhenfa, how could he think about it for him again? Could it be that Tang Zifeng has not given up on this issue?

Since he couldn't figure it out, Han Weichang didn't speak, in case he said something wrong and contradicted the leader's opinion, wouldn't he be making trouble for himself?

Tang Zifeng didn't expect Han Weichang to come up with any ideas, he said to himself: "Lao Xia's incident gave me an inspiration. In the machine tool industry, there are many companies like Honghua Company, these companies are very promising, as long as they can give some money to support, the future is likely to become a competitive hidden champion in a certain market segment.

"The concerns of these companies, I guess are similar to those of Honghua, they are worried that they will be eaten up if they cooperate with large enterprises, or they will lose their independence. Enterprises like this should let other funds invest, and we should not get involved in Linji Group. ”

"Other funds, Mr. Tang, what do you mean?" asked Han Weichang.

Tang Zifeng said: "It should be a fund dedicated to venture capital in the machine tool industry, and I haven't thought about it yet." In this way, Lao Han, you go back and contact Lao Xia again, and say that he should not worry, there should be a new opportunity soon. I went back to the capital to discuss with Lao Zhou and see how to set up such a fund. ”

"Hey, this is no problem, I will contact Xia Zhenfa once when I go back, and he will still listen to my words. Han Weichang responded.

Tang Zifeng's original arrangement was to go directly to the capital after the meeting in Jingnan and come over to see Xia Zhenfa, but it was just a incidental thing. Now that Xia Zhenfa has seen it, the cooperation has not been negotiated, but a new idea has been generated, and Tang Zifeng took this idea back to the capital by plane.

"Are you saying that the state should come forward to establish a fund dedicated to supporting innovative enterprises in the field of machine tools?"

Zhou Heng listened to Tang Zifeng's report in his living room and asked him.

This is already the second day after Tang Zifeng returned to the capital, and after he returned to Beijing, the first thing he would do was to go home to reunite with his parents, wife and children, which goes without saying. Regarding the matter of the machine tool investment fund, he chose to discuss with Zhou Heng first, because Zhou Heng still holds the title of chairman of the joint meeting of machine 20, and he still has a high prestige in the industry.

Hearing Zhou Heng's inquiry, Tang Zifeng explained: "It should be the state that takes the lead and absorbs some private capital to participate." Purely asking the state to pay for it, I am afraid that the amount is limited, and it will not solve too many problems. ”

Zhou Heng smiled: "What a big breath." The state's contribution is just a drop in the bucket, how big do you plan to get this fund?"

Tang Zifeng said: "At least, forty or fifty billion, this is only one phase, there should be two or three phases in the future." ”

"Forty or fifty billion, isn't the movement a little too big?" Zhou Heng questioned.

Tang Zifeng said: "Four or five billion is not too much, right? Converted into US dollars, that is, more than 500 million, those foreign machine tool giants, which annual R&D investment is not billions of dollars, is it too much for us to take out four or five billion yuan in the country?"

"This account can't be counted like that. Zhou Heng said, "You also have R&D funds within the Linji Group, and the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, right? The fund you mentioned is only for entrepreneurial enterprises, and it would be good for an enterprise to invest one or two hundred million, four or five billion, which is what hundreds of enterprises mean, can we have so many start-up enterprises with investment value?"

Tang Zifeng said: "This is not necessarily. If the project is good, it is okay for a company to invest 100 million. Now the threshold of high-end machine tools is getting higher and higher, we have to compete with foreign giants, if the investment is insufficient, there is no power to fight.

"Like Xia Zhenfa's superhard surface cutting project, he himself invested more than 20 million yuan in the early stage, and now according to his estimates, at least another 10 million will be invested to see the effect. The results he said are only partial substitution of imported products in the domestic market, and they cannot achieve comprehensive substitution, let alone compete with foreign enterprises in the international market.

"Our goal is to cultivate a group of internationally competitive rookies in the machine tool industry, without billions of foundations, I am afraid it will not be. ”

"Shouldn't participating in international competition be something that a very large enterprise like Linji does? Why do you pin your hopes on these small start-ups? Could it be that you lack confidence in Linji?" Zhou Heng asked.

Tang Zifeng said: "It's not, our Linji Group has never given up research and development, and we have always taken foreign giants as imaginary enemies." However, small businesses like Honghua also have their advantages. Their mechanism is more flexible, the incentives are more direct, if you focus on one market segment, maybe you can do better than us big companies.

"There are a lot of professional machine tools in the international market, which are manufactured by very small enterprises. These enterprises have only done this kind of machine tool for hundreds of years, constantly improving technology and forming their own technical advantages, which are difficult for others to imitate.

"When I came into contact with Xia Zhenfa, I felt that he was very much like those skilled craftsmen in Europe more than 100 years ago. These people have a few unique secret skills in their hands, and then they rely on these skills to start a company, and for more than 100 years, they have been passed down from generation to generation to form a monopoly.

"What Europeans can do, we Chinese can also do." I hope that 100 years from now, Honghua will still exist, and it will still make superhard surface cutting machines. Enterprises all over the world that need this kind of machine tool are purchased from Honghua Company. To do this, the top priority is to inject capital into Honghua to help it tide over the current difficulties. ”

"You're aiming for a big goal. Zhou Heng smiled and commented. However, he also admitted in his heart that the scene described by Tang Zifeng was indeed very attractive.

With the development of industry, the division of labor tools is becoming more and more detailed, and there are some types of machine tools, and the global demand for a year is only a few dozen units, with sales of eight million US dollars. It is impossible for machine tool giants like DMG and Mazak to work on this kind of professional machine tools, because the profits earned from these machine tools are not enough to cover their management costs.

The manufacture of this kind of professional machine tool is still left to small enterprises, which is more efficient. The managers of small enterprises are also the owners of the enterprises, and the money they make is their own, so they will naturally have more enthusiasm to do a good job in research and development, so as to occupy this market segment for a long time.

Zhou Heng is also a knowledgeable person, and when he heard Tang Zifeng, he knew that this truth was valid, and then Tang Zifeng's proposal to establish a special fund made sense.

"You say, what is going to be done with this fund. ”

After thinking about this, Zhou Heng asked Tang Zifeng directly:

"On the national side, I asked Xu Lao to come forward and apply for a start-up fund from the treasury, which should be promising. However, it would be nice to have one or two hundred million dollars of money that the treasury can come up with. You said that you want to make forty or fifty billion yuan, so how are you going to raise the rest?"

"Well, I'll talk to someone about it later. Tang Zifeng replied.