Chapter 340: The Bitterness of the Republic (4000 Words)
During his visit to China, Chen Geng was treated differently than before: A leader at the level of deputy minister personally went to the airport to pick up Chen Geng and his entourage, and he was followed by Minister Huang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhang Yade, secretary of the First Heavy Corporation, Liu Benzhang, general manager of the First Heavy Corporation, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the First Machinery Department, and several sets of leading groups in the capital city.
This is basically comparable to the treatment of foreign guests who are crowned as "national leaders of country X".
There is no doubt that the specifications must be exceeded, but on the one hand, this is an illusion and attention to Chen Geng's old friend; on the other hand, the news from the embassy has really frightened many comrades in China:
Chen Geng's Fernandez company developed an off-road vehicle codenamed "hummer", which is the first off-road vehicle to pass all the test projects of the US Department of Defense, and has now received an order for a total of 12 test prototypes worth $600,000 in the second phase. What does this mean? This means that Chen Geng's Fernandez company has a very high chance of becoming a supplier of military vehicles to the U.S. military!
Second, the Fernandez company is in contact with AMC, but it is one of the four major automobile manufacturers in the United States, and the Willis Jeep they produce is the main light military vehicle of the US military, and even now, the US military is still equipped with a considerable number of M38 and M38 improved Willis Jeep;
Summing up the previous piece of information, this is very scary!
This shows that China did not pay enough attention to Chen Geng before!
And it's not enough at all, it's far from it, it's a big insufficiency!
The more I looked at it, the more I felt that Chen Geng was like fog, rain and wind, and at the same time, the domestic leaders consciously or unconsciously raised their psychological prediction of Chen Geng.
Everything was a standard procedure, and the reception dinner held at the State Guesthouse in the evening, early the next morning, the leaders of the capital city government were already waiting at the State Guesthouse: they were going to accompany Chen Geng to the car dismantling company of Fernandez to inspect it.
It's just that in the dismantling company, Chen Geng encountered a problem that he had never thought about before......
"Boss, some departments in the capital said they wanted to buy some cars from our company, this matter is ...... What do you think about it?" Chen Xiaoshan reported to Chen Geng in a low voice.
As for why he whispered, he was surrounded by leaders who were accompanied by the capital city, if his voice was too loud...... The dignified capital government department wants to come to the scrapped car dismantling plant of Fernandez Company to buy some scrapped cars, where will the face of the leaders go?
"Buy a car from our company?" Chen Geng said strangely: "Aren't our company's cars all scrapped cars waiting to be disassembled?"
"Oh boss, you don't know this," Chen Xiaoshan explained to Chen Geng: "The standards are different, according to the standards of the Americans, our company's cars are scrapped cars waiting to be disassembled, but in the domestic view, these cars are good cars, they can be used after repairing, two or three scrapped cars of the same model can be put together for a good car, and the quality is much better than the quality of our domestically produced cars." ”
"Hold the grass!"
Rao is Chen Geng is well-informed, and he couldn't help but burst out at this moment: Nima's can still play like this?! He immediately looked at Chen Xiaoshan with a vigilant face: "You didn't do that, did you?"
"No, no," Chen Xiaoshan hurriedly waved his hand, this job is not only easy, but also has a high income, and his status is higher than his original Animal Husbandry Research Institute, so he is not so stupid that he was fired by the boss for disobeying the will of the boss, and hurriedly explained: "Without your instructions, we definitely can't do this! But ...... But ......"
"But what?"
"However, we have built two buses, one for transporting our comrades to and from work, and the other for transporting students from schools in the capital that we have a cooperative relationship with," Chen Xiaoshan said cautiously: "These two buses were also put together by those students and our workers......
"That's it," Chen Geng didn't care when he heard that this was the students' hands-on production, and he said with great interest: "Take me to see it." ”
Hearing that the boss didn't blame themselves, Chen Xiaoshan and Lin Li breathed a sigh of relief, the two glanced at each other, and hurriedly said, "Here." ”
Seeing these two cars, Chen Geng found that it was not a bus, it was simply a canvas shed on the back compartment of the truck, specifically described, very similar to our military trucks covered with rainproof canvas, if you want to get on and off the car, you can only climb the carriage and climb up, and after 20 years, the traffic police found that you can be fined to death.
"You call this thing a bus?" Chen Geng said in surprise, pointing to the two things in front of him that were actually trucks at all.
"Hey, hey, hey......" Chen Xiaoshan scratched his head: "We put two benches on both sides, and a wide bench in the middle, and the carriage can sit more than 40 people. ”
"Then get on and off ......"
"It's all a stick boy in his teens and twenties, all of them are skinned like monkeys, and they don't seem to be playing when they get in the car? Even if it's our workers, they're all stick laborers, and they're not old men who need crutches, what's the point?" As for the problem that his boss was worried about, Chen Xiaoshan didn't think it was just a problem at all: "Those older teachers all sit in the front cab, if it's those old professors, we usually send a car to pick up and drop them off together." ”
In his opinion, sitting in the cab is VIP treatment.
Chen Geng was silent, and after a while, Chen Geng opened his mouth and asked: "What is the quality and reliability of these cars you have put together, and is it not easy to have problems?"
Chen Xiaoshan and Lin Li, who had been secretly observing their boss's expression, immediately breathed a sigh of relief: It seems that the boss didn't mean to be angry and blame himself, which is great.
Chen Xiaoshan hurriedly said: "No, no, there is no problem, these two cars have been in good shape for four or five months, and they have never been broken, even in the coldest time of winter, they are on fire, unlike Broken Liberation, there is no way to start the fire without baking for more than half an hour...... The engine is also strong, and the car screams when you step on the accelerator, and the Americans' car technology is amazing, and they are really unconvinced, they have been scrapped, and the performance is still so good......"
Speaking of this, Chen Xiaoshan cautiously said to Chen Geng: "Some time ago, someone asked if we could provide them with a batch of trucks with better performance, I think they seem to be people from the army, but how dare I promise them this kind of thing......
Chen Xiaoshan was still babbling, but Chen Geng's heart was suddenly sour!
He is also a soldier, in the last life, he graduated from college and directly entered the army, although there was already a Dongfeng 140 in the army at that time, but the old liberation CA10 occupies an absolute proportion, for a test car from the technology of the Second World War period, the quality and stability of the old liberation ...... Well, don't mention it.
Thinking that we are also fighting with the neighbor to the south now, I'm afraid that the army can't stand the temper of the old liberated young lady, right?
But if you can't say anything, you can't do anything, who makes yourself a "capitalist of a capitalist country with all evils"...... Well?
Wrong!
Chen Geng suddenly realized one thing, didn't Chen Xiaoshan say that some government departments in the capital wanted to purchase some cars from Zi, could it be that there was another hidden meaning in this?!
Realizing this, Chen Geng's mind suddenly came alive, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.
"As long as these units don't dislike that these cars are cobbled together from scrapped cars and can accept such performance, of course there is no problem," Chen Geng nodded.
"You agreed?" I didn't expect the boss to agree so happily, Chen Xiaoshan was suddenly overjoyed!
The leading comrades of the capital city who listened to the dialogue between Chen Geng and Chen Xiaoshan with their ears pricked up and accompanied Chen Geng were also overjoyed.
"If you have a business to do, why don't you do it?" Chen Geng shrugged his shoulders and said quietly: "No matter how cheap it is, it makes more money than selling scrap iron and second-hand parts, isn't it?"
"Hehehehe...... That's ......," Chen Xiaoshanguang smirked in understanding.
"In addition, these cars are imported into China in the name of scrap iron and steel, they want to buy, no problem, but they need to solve the problem of road procedures, we don't care. Chen Geng added another sentence, although this is a bit redundant, but it must be said clearly.
Chen Xiaoshan nodded again and again: "Boss, you can rest assured that when the time comes, you can just ask the customs people to issue a customs procedure for confiscating the car, which is very simple." ”
“......”
Chen Geng: Is it really good that you are so upright? How were these cars confiscated by the capitals of non-coastal cities?
But these have nothing to do with him, this kind of thing, of course, he is happy to turn a blind eye. just told Chen Xiaoshan: "I don't care about the specific operation of assembling scrapped cars, but there is one point, you must get me an official endorsement, and you can't trouble us because of this matter in the future." ”
"How come," Chen Xiaoshan couldn't understand his boss's worry at all: "Are we doing them a favor......" Seeing the boss's serious expression and definitely not a joke, Chen Xiaoshan immediately changed his words wisely: "Boss, don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter." ”
"That's good. Chen Geng nodded.
He is really worried that he will be detained in the future with the hat of "using scrapped vehicles to harm my heroic pla", do you say that I will not be wronged by then? Obviously, people took the initiative to come to the door.
"That'...... Boss, the price...... Look?" Seeing that the boss didn't mean to say the price, and felt the desperate look from behind him, Chen Xiaoshan couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to ask.
"The price is ......"
The price is really a problem, scrapped cars, the price is set too high, I feel sorry, set too low...... Chen Geng thought about it seriously, and finally gave a price range: "In principle, add 20% on the basis of the cost, well, the upper limit cannot exceed one-half of the liberation truck." ”
After hearing the last sentence "Well, it's no problem to settle with RMB", Chen Xiaoshan and Lin Li, including the leaders who accompanied the capital city behind, immediately realized one point: what kind of calculation they are playing here, in fact, they have long been seen through by Chen Geng, but they just pretend not to know and cooperate with themselves.
But if Chen Geng didn't say this, everyone can pretend not to know, but after Chen Geng's words came out, the comrades in the capital could not pretend to be deaf and dumb, and Director Wan of the Capital City Construction Bureau, who accompanied Chen Geng and had just been standing behind, walked over quickly, and bowed his hand to Chen Geng with a look of shame: "Mr. Chen, let you laugh, the current situation in China is indeed a little ......."
"Director Wan, I also want to thank you for giving us such a chance to make a fortune," Chen Geng stopped him with a smile, there are some things that everyone knows, but it's not interesting to say it, he asked with a smile: "I didn't know that the domestic demand for transport vehicles is so urgent...... Well, do you want a used car?"
"Used cars?" Director Wan was stunned for a moment.
"As you know, second-hand car trading is the backbone of Fernandez," Mr. Chen said, "and I can get some for you if you need them." ”
In fact, until the early 90s, the import of second-hand cars was allowed in China, and a certain female billionaire in the magic capital made a fortune by importing second-hand cars...... Very rich and very rich kind.
"Can you specify the type?" Director Wan's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Basically, no problem, as long as you don't ask me to find you a military transport vehicle for active duty in the U.S. military. Chen Geng said half-jokingly, half-seriously.
"That can't, that can't," Director Wan's mouth crooked with a smile, he didn't even think about the military vehicles on active duty in the U.S. military. After thinking about it, he asked tentatively, "Is it okay to pull the head of a heavy trailer for containers?"
"Yes, no problem. ”
"That'...... In terms of price?"
"Look at the year and mileage," felt that what he said was a bit general, Chen Geng thought about it and added: "Basically, the price of second-hand heavy-duty tractors with a mileage of about five years and a mileage of two or three hundred thousand kilometers is about 10,000 US dollars, and I will add 20% of the profit after removing all the costs." ”
"No problem!" Director Wan was overjoyed, lest Chen Geng would regret it, and he was so busy that he agreed: although Chen Geng increased his profit by 20%, it was a 20% increase in profit on the basis of cost, and Director Wan felt that Chen Geng's offer was so real that it couldn't be more real: those bastards who are engaged in the import trade of second-hand cars in China, such as Huaxia Automobile Import and Export Corporation, don't give you a 50%, they are willing to do it?
"Then it's settled...... By the way, in terms of payment methods, can you use RMB?" Speaking of this question, Director Wan blushed and was a little ashamed, and he himself felt that his request was a bit excessive.
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PS: 4000 words, brothers, pay it off.