Chapter 253: What about the spirit that you Dongying people are proud of?
"Yes, Chen Gengjun will come to Dongying soon," facing the incredulous gazes of these ministers in front of him, Kume Shizhi nodded affirmatively: "Accompanying Chen Gengjun is Takuji Yamada." β
It turned out to be the person in charge of Honda's North America who accompanied Chen Gengjun to Dongying?
Everyone subconsciously looked at the president's preference for Kawashima.
"That's right," Kawashima nodded affirmatively in the face of everyone's eyes: "Tomorrow, Takuji Yamada will accompany Chen Gengjun to Dongying." β
Hearing that it was the head of Honda's North America who came to Dongying with Chen Geng, the heads of each headquarters and even the two executive directors (managing directors) who attended the meeting not only nodded, but also immediately made a suggestion: "Chen Gengjun is our honored guest, and I suggest that we go to the airport to greet us at that time to show respect." β
The proposal of the two permanent directors was immediately unanimously endorsed by the ministers.
In terms of enterprise scale, the scale of the current Fernandez company is indeed not comparable to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., but from the perspective of automobile design level, Chen Gengneng is at least 18 streets behind Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
For the arrogant and highest-end car products that have not yet formed the "buy an engine and send the car" is just a Honda civida, although they are very good in the field of motorcycles, but in the field of automobiles, they are still only a late learner, and they can get the guidance of Chen Geng, a master of car design, that is their great honor, go to the airport to pick it up? That is the etiquette that should be fulfilled and must be fulfilled.
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The first-class sofa was wide and soft, and there was a glass of red wine on the armrest holder, but Yamada Zhuoji's mind was completely off the first-class sofa and red wine, he turned his head sideways and secretly looked at Chen Geng, who was sitting on his left - in fact, Yamada Zhuoji preferred to call Chen Geng by the English name of Chen Geng, Fernandez.
Mr. FernΓ‘ndez was looking at a document at the moment, occasionally turning his head and whispering something to Miss Mirren, who was sitting next to him.
Takuji Yamada was very curious about the information that Chen Geng had in hand, there seemed to be many pages in that stack of materials that were the design drawings of something, he was very curious about what the design drawings were, what kind of new car design drawings were there?
Probably......
Thinking that Fernandez actually snatched the project with Huaxia from the hands of Wolfsburg Automobile of Germany, Takuji Yamada looked at Chen Geng's eyes with some admiration: It is really Mr. Fernandez, the other party is Wolfsburg Automobile, which has a history of more than half a century and is recognized as one of the world's most recognized European automobile giants, was defeated by Mr. Fernandez in the competition?
It's remarkable.
After hesitating for a moment, he still got up cautiously, hooked his waist and came to Chen Geng, and bowed a few times humbly: "Mr. Fernandez, if you are not too presumptuous, can you allow me to sit next to you and have a few words with you?"
"Okay," Chen Geng nodded, his impression of Yamada Takuji was not bad, he nodded and motioned for Yamada Takuji to sit next to him: "Please take a seat, you say." β
This is the first class, and there are just a few vacant seats next to Chen Geng.
Mirren beckoned to the first-class flight attendant and whispered to her to get a drink for Takuji Yamada.
Takuji Yamada was suddenly a little flattered.
Now it's different from the past, when he dealt with Chen Geng before, Chen Geng was just a second-hand car seller and a modified car business, in front of Chen Geng at that time, Takuji Yamada had a natural sense of superiority, but now it's different, Chen Geng is already the world's top car design master that Honda needs to look up to, that's not a concept at all.
After sitting on the seat of the first class cabin, Takuji Yamada cautiously asked Chen Geng: "Mr. Fernandez, what are your thoughts on this cooperation......?
What he meant was that if you have any conditions that are too much to put forward on the spot or that may make everyone feel embarrassed, you might as well tell me first, and I will convey them to Your Excellency the President and Your Excellency the Vice President, so that you will not have any problems in the cooperation between the two sides because of the disharmony of the atmosphere for a while.
But Yamada Zhuoji's careful thinking was in vain, Chen Geng smiled and waved his hand: "Fernandez Company is different from other companies, other companies think about maximizing profits, but Fernandez thinks about how to make friends through a cooperation, so that everyone can make money, so that the cooperation between each other can go on for a long time......"
"Yes, yes," Yamada Zhuoji nodded repeatedly, although he disagreed with Chen Geng's words, but there was an expression of admiration on his face: "I admire Mr. Fernandez's sentiment very much. β
Yes, in fact, just a week ago, as the president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Kawashima Preference has received the concept map of the car sent by the Giugiaro Design Studio, as the founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.: Honda Soichiro's eldest disciple, the president who came out of the grassroots step by step, Kawashima Preference understands technology and design, just by looking at that concept map, he knows that the design of the Giugiaro Design Studio is very good, and it is definitely worthy of the price given by Honda, but ......
This is not a product that can compete with the Chrysler family, and the competitiveness of the two is not at the same level at all; I heard that Chen Geng also helped Ford design a car, and according to the information he received, Ford will make this car unveiled at the Detroit International Auto Show this fall.
For Honda Motor Co., Ltd., this car is a product that enhances the image of Honda and allows Honda to move upwards while consolidating its competitiveness in the North American market.
So after careful consideration and discussion with his teacher Soichiro Honda and his junior brother Kume Ischi, the three of them decided to hide this matter first!
The purpose of concealment is to persuade Chen Geng to find a way to let Chen Gengjun help Honda Technology Co., Ltd., and at the same time find a way to persuade Giugiaro Design Studio to let Mr. Giugiaro agree to turn this project, which was originally solely responsible for Giugiaro Design Studio, into a project that their design studio and Mr. Fernandez worked on - after all, this project was a contract signed between Honda Technology and Giugiaro Design Studio, and if Chen Geng wanted to get involved, it would not work without Mr. Giugiaro's nod.
Fortunately, everything went well, and Mr. Giugiaro agreed (Kawashima liked to think that Mr. Giugiaro also felt that there was a big gap between his design and Chen Gengjun's design, so he agreed so neatly?), saying that he was looking forward to cooperating with Mr. Chen Geng.
As for Chen Geng, it took a lot of effort for Takuji Yamada to convince the very unhappy Chen Geng (it's completely understandable that you were unhappy, at this time you thought of asking me for help? Why did you go earlier? No, look at what you did earlier) reluctantly agreed to talk to Honda......
That's why there was that meeting with Honda Motor Co., Ltd.'s top management.
To put it more thoroughly, it was simply a play that Kawashima and Kume were shown to the executives of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
After a pause, Chen Geng continued: "For this cooperation, money is not what I value, I believe Mr. Yamada should know that my company is now full of cash flow, I am not short of money, I can tell you clearly, I can also clearly tell President Kawashima and Vice President Kume, this time I came to Dongying, to help you, not only Honda Motor Co., Ltd., but the entire Dongying industry, machine tool manufacturing and precision processing industry." β
Look at your serious appearance, Lao Tzu almost believed it!
But we still have to admire the little devil's patience and superficial skills, in the face of this nonsense that he didn't believe at all, Takuji Yamada was able to nod his head and ask Chen Geng with great interest: "If that's the case, then of course it's good, then Mr. Fernandez, what are you going to do?"
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This question is also Kawashima preference and Kume is extremely curious......
"And what are you going to do, Mr. FernΓ‘ndez?"
Chen Geng didn't answer, but instead asked, "Mr. Kawashima, Mr. Kume, can I ask you a question?"
You say. Kawashima nodded fondly.
"Who did Honda Motor Co., Ltd. purchase the car line that Honda Motor Co., Ltd. used to produce the Civic, and how much did it cost to purchase the car line in the first place?"
This is not a sensitive issue, Kawashima is relieved: "Are you talking about the production line that exported Civic to the United States? Oh, in order to build this production line, my teacher, Mr. Soichiro, spent a lot of effort and borrowed about 30 million US dollars from the bank to purchase this production line from the German Krupp company.
We spent over $50 million on this line and that engine line, which was almost $50 million 10 years ago, which is almost hundreds of millions of dollars now, but it's all worth it......"
Speaking of this, he had a look of pride on his face: "With this production line, we can produce the best small displacement car engines in the world, and our Civic is one of the best small cars sold in the American market......"
So much so that Chen Geng had to interrupt Kawashima's boasting: "So, this production line was actually integrated by Krupp for you, right?"
"That's right. The interrupted river island preferences are a little unfinished, and some don't quite understand, why did Chen Geng suddenly mention this problem?
"I actually have a little doubt in my heart," Chen Geng said: "As far as I know, Dongying's machine tool industry, welding technology and automation technology are very advanced, and it can provide Honda Motor Co., Ltd. with all the equipment required for the four major process lines required for automobile production and various high-precision equipment required for engine production.
Shouldn't we help our compatriots make as much money as possible when we have the conditions to help them?"
"Uh......"
"This ......"
As soon as Chen Geng's words came out, not only Kawashima and Kume were stunned, but other executives of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. were also stunned: Yes, when we built the Civic production line, why did we not consider cooperating with our own enterprises at all, but did not hesitate to find the German Krupp company as if we were fascinated by the devil? Isn't it the tradition of Toei to cooperate with domestic enterprises as much as possible? Why didn't Honda Motor Co., Ltd. do it at this point?
It's completely incomprehensible.
At this time, Chen Geng's voice thought again: "I found out that not only did you Honda Motor Co., Ltd. do this, but Toyota, the boss of Dongying Automobile Industry, actually did it, Mazda, Suzuki, Daihatsu...... All the automobile companies in Toei ignored the fact that their own industrial sector can provide them with a full set of automobile production equipment and automation equipment, and chose American and European goods without hesitation.
Kume is Shiwa Kawashima preference's face was sweating profusely: What the hell, this question, if Chen Geng hadn't said it now, they wouldn't have realized it at all!
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"I actually have a little doubt in my heart," Chen Geng said: "As far as I know, Dongying's machine tool industry, welding technology and automation technology are very advanced, and it can provide Honda Motor Co., Ltd. with all the equipment required for the four major process lines required for automobile production and various high-precision equipment required for engine production.
As soon as Chen Geng's words came out, not only Kawashima and Kume were stunned, but other executives of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. were also stunned: Yes, when we built the Civic production line, why did we not consider cooperating with our own enterprises at all, but did not hesitate to find the German Krupp company as if we were fascinated by the devil? Isn't it the tradition of Toei to cooperate with domestic enterprises as much as possible? Why didn't Honda Motor Co., Ltd. do it at this point?
It's completely incomprehensible.
At this time, Chen Geng's voice thought again: "I found out that not only did you Honda Motor Co., Ltd. do this, but Toyota, the boss of Dongying Automobile Industry, actually did it, Mazda, Suzuki, Daihatsu...... All the automobile companies in Toei ignored the fact that their own industrial sector can provide them with a full set of automobile production equipment and automation equipment, and chose American and European goods without hesitation.
Kume is Shiwa Kawashima's favorite face sweating profusely!