The 20 and 40 lathes mentioned by Li Xian refer to the electric car beds with a distance of 200 mm and 400 mm from the center of the spindle to the bed.

As the eldest son of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited a large amount of industrial heritage from the former Soviet Union. According to the current stock, it is enough for five or six years to squander, and the current Russian market is paralyzed by economic shock therapy, so most of the factories are in a state of shutdown.

Li Xian took Wang Tiecheng and Katya to make secret visits to factories in Chita in the past few days, and they couldn't even be said to be secret visits. Because often with a few cigarettes, sometimes even Katya two good words, you can swagger in under the leadership of the factory workers to watch wantonly.

The past few days have not been in vain, and the situation in Chita has made him feel thorough;

As an important production base in the Far East of the former Soviet Union, Chita machining factories have gone to sea. And the Leningrad and Tomkes 20,40 machine tools in various factories are even more numerous.

He knows these two series of lathes too well.

When he was in college before he came back, when the school organized a visit to a factory in Bingcheng, he saw a large number of Tomkes 20 machine tools.

In the factory he visited at that time, the lathe part had both domestic products from Zhonghua Shenyi Machine Tool Factory and RB Makino for high-precision machining. Therefore, that batch of Tomkes can only be used for rough turning.

What impressed Li Xian the most was an operation mistake at that time: a Tomkes 20 bed operated by an apprentice was rough turning a joint female buckle thread port.

Here we have to mention the dry humor of the industrial workers: a screw, which is made up of screws and nuts. The thread on the top of the screw is called the male buckle, and the thread inside the nut is called the female buckle.

Why? Because the male buckle is inserted into the female buckle!

The female buckle of the joint had to be drilled into the joint with a lathe drill pipe, and the apprentice in charge of processing at that time caused the cutter in front of the drill pipe to collapse because the amount of pass was too large.

If it is placed in the factory, Shen Yi or RB Makino's machine tool, in this case, the machine tool will generally be stopped directly. But the Tomkes, which has been in service for more than 20 years, did not!

Li Xian will never forget that situation for the rest of his life;

The old Tomkes processing table holds a long drill pipe against the deep female buckle of the joint machine, and the white and thick cutting fluid continues to gush out from the female buckle. Because the amount of tool pass is too large, the drill pipe is blocked by the metal processing parts in front, and the processing table shrugs one after another, making a huge vibration sound of clanging.

The entire machine shook as if it were about to collapse at any moment. But in the midst of this serious operation error, the Tomkes did not stop the whole process, and after five or six minutes, when the workers in the factory turned off the power of the machine tool, they were surprised to find that the drill pipe had drilled through the joint with half of the broken cutter head!

At that time, many female students in the department were scared and cried.

Now, when he saw those rough-looking Leningrad and Tomke driver's beds, Li Xian made up his mind. These two kinds of lathes are the largest in China, and they are also the most common lathes in major state-owned or private workshops in the north. Similar to spindles, bearings, connecting rods, joints, pistons and other main body machining parts, almost all of the first process is processed by lathes.

Among them, 20 beds are suitable for rough and finishing of various small parts, while 40 beds can be suitable for the processing of most of the tubular shells or bearing parts on the market.

As the most basic processing equipment in modern industrial machining. The lathe is a hard thing.

At this time, hearing that Li Xian actually wanted a machine tool, Alyosha and the others couldn't help but glance at each other.

These people are all members of the Chita City Economic Reform Committee.

Prior to this, when the government was carrying out the policy of "complete privatization", these people had already seized the ownership of a considerable part of the factories in Chita City through the purchase of vouchers in the hands of citizens.

In the reform of the economic system, this part of the people who have capital can be said to have taken advantage of it. Originally, these people who enjoyed the dividends of reform were the most staunch supporters of economic structural reform, but with the repeated obstruction of reform and the increasingly uncertain political environment, these people who hold a lot of wealth in their hands have begun to think differently.

After a whispered exchange with several people around him, Alyosha muttered to Li Xian.

"What did they say?" asked Li Xian to Katya on the side.

"Ah, they want to ask, ...... you company, at what price is it ready to acquire. ”

Hearing this, Li Xian stretched out a finger: "One thousand dollars per unit." ”

Hearing Katya's translation, several people present were stunned for a moment, and then laughed. It seemed to be mocking to Li Xian, and said a lot.

"They say your company is crazy, and it's about the same price to buy a grinding wheel. In the midst of everyone's ridicule, Katya was a little embarrassed to translate.

"Tell them that our company's finances have come to Russia in dollars, and if there is a machine tool to sell, it will be settled in cash. ”

After Katya finished translating, Li Xian clearly saw that the smile on Alyosha's face seemed to fade.

Half an hour later, Li Xian excused himself and left tomorrow.

Standing on the deserted street in front of the club, Katya couldn't help but shudder.

Seeing that there was no shadow of a taxi on the street, she looked at Li Xian and muttered, "Li, you are really a madman." I heard them say that a machine tool costs more than 2 million rubles! That is still the price of rubles when they are valuable, and if you convert them into dollars, it will cost about five or six thousand. ”

Facing Katya's blow, Li Xian smiled slightly, "Katya, your father is a Chinese, so you should know what it means to be called this time and that time." ”

Just as Katya expressed his familiarity with Chinese and ridiculed him with "people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants", the club door behind him made a creaking sound.

"Lee!"

Hearing that familiar voice, Li Xian didn't reply and smiled.

Katya turned around and saw Alyosha chasing him out while wearing an overcoat. Running in front of Li Xian, the blonde man stood still, put the scarf and gloves in his hand on his body indiscriminately, and said a lot of words.

As he spoke with a helpless expression, Katya's mouth grew slightly.

"What did he say?" Just as she was stunned, Li Xian pulled her back.

He ...... He said that 1,000 dollars for a machine tool is really unacceptable, but if you can convince the company to raise the price of 20 machine tools to 2,000 US dollars, and 40 machine tools to 2,000 US dollars, he has a lot of them!"

While Katya was translating, Alyosha raised his wrist, took something off it, and quickly stuffed it into Li Xian's hand.

"Drucker! help!" he said stiffly in Chinese, with a pleading face.

Seeing that Katya still had to translate, Li Xian waved his hand to show that he understood these two sentences. After examining the watch for a moment, and seeing the A.Lange & Souml sign through the dim street lamp, he smiled to himself and quietly kicked it into his pocket.

"Drucker!" he gave a thumbs up and patted Alyosha on the shoulder: "You, Drucker!

"Drucker, Drucker!"

Seeing Li Xian's heroic face of "That's not a thing", Alyosha was overjoyed and directly gave Li Xian a bear hug.

After leaving Katya with a phone number and contact address, Alyosha greeted Li Xian again and again and left.

In the evening, Huang and home.

Xu Maohe, who came back from picking up the goods, saw the watch that Li Xianzheng was fiddling with, his eyes lit up, and he dodged it: ", Lange, it's not cheap! This game should be taken off from the general's body when he was fighting with the Germans, or it was done from East Germany by means 90 years ago, but it has a big stake." But it's a fucking rarity. Where did you get that?"

Li Xian laughed and raised his eyebrows: "It was sent by a Russian friend." ”

Hearing this, Xu Maohe's brain short-circuited.

He couldn't be clearer about who Li Xian had handed over in the past two days.

Those Russian bureaucrats like to do the most is to blackmail the Chinese masters, and the bits they want to play with cards are six in China. In Chita, it has always been the Chinese who give gifts to the Russians, and the reverse has never happened!

"Urine!"

After being silent for a long time, Xu Maohe gave Li Xian a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart.

"It's the sun coming out in the west......"

Putting down his thumb, he added again.

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