As the translator of this exchange, Ni Zhihao immediately translated what Li Mingzhe said to Frank, and Frank did not hesitate, and immediately nodded and agreed.

However, because the following factory visit involved mostly technical exchanges, for the sake of insurance, Frank still asked his secretary to call a technician from Volkswagen's R&D department and asked Lee Mingzhe and his party to wait first.

After a while, the secretary ran over and whispered a few words in Frank's ear, Frank's face changed suddenly, but he quickly realized that Lee Mingzhe was still here, so he immediately adjusted again, stood up and said, "Sorry Mr. Lee, please wait a moment." ”

After Ni Zhihao translated this sentence to Li Mingzhe, Li Mingzhe nodded, "Mr. Frank, you are busy first." ”

After getting permission from Lee Ming-che, Frank hurriedly walked out, and asked the secretary in German in a whisper as he went, "You just said that Christian didn't want to come, why did that? Didn't you tell him that it was a high-ranking official from China who asked him to receive him?"

The secretary looked embarrassed, "I said, he originally went out with me, but as soon as I heard that it was related to China's cooperation project, I immediately said that I couldn't come." ”

"Let's go make a cup of coffee for Mr. Li and they, and I'll be back shortly." With that, Frank walked briskly to the R&D office.

In the R&D office, Christian was sitting leisurely, and Frank's secretary had just been sent away. Originally, he asked him to accompany him to visit the factory, and he had no opinion, but as soon as he heard that the other party was actually a Chinese in the Santana model introduction project, he immediately quit.

It's not because he is prejudiced against China, it's just that he feels that Santana, which he participated in research and development, is introduced into China, which is simply a waste, and with China's current industrial level, what can be used to ensure the quality of Santana?

"Didn't I ask you to come here? Why are you still sitting here? When Frank found Christian, he couldn't help but ask angrily.

"As I said, I will not participate in anything related to the introduction of mulberry cars. Christian replied.

"You're crazy! You're the most familiar with the Santana here, who are you not going to go? And do you know that the other party is a high-ranking Chinese official, and if you don't make trouble, there will be diplomatic problems!"

In Christian's deep eye sockets, his blue eyes rolled, but he was still reluctant to go, "The group is in a financial crisis stage, and there are different opinions within the group about this cooperation project, you don't need to scare me with diplomacy." ”

Regarding the introduction of the Santana project, China and Germany negotiated for several years, but because of the financial crisis of Volkswagen, considering that the domestic industrial base was not good at that time, Volkswagen was worried that the project would aggravate the company's financial crisis, so it decided to terminate the cooperation project.

Later, Rao Bin personally intervened, and Hahn, the president of Volkswagen at the time, conducted emergency negotiations and agreed to reduce the scale of cooperation to 30,000 vehicles per year, which kept the project.

But despite this, the public is still divided into two factions for the prospect of cooperation this time, and Christian belongs to the group that is not optimistic or even opposed.

"This project is agreed by the president, if you have any dissatisfaction, tell the president directly, now go with me to meet a few Chinese guests, if you resist again, believe it or not, I will let you be laid off tomorrow!" But he also knows that technical experts like Christian are not fired just like fire, and their competitors BMW and Mercedes-Benz don't know how many times they have poached him.

"I only accompany them to visit the factory and make some necessary technical disclosures, as for whether they can understand or not, then I don't care. In the end, Christian relented.

"Okay. But there is one thing, since you promised to go, the attitude is better, don't be like just now. Frank was not reassured, so he could only remind again.

"I know what to do. Christian stood up and said.

When the two of them came to the lounge, Lee Ming-che and the others were talking and laughing, not feeling angry at all because of the previous delay.

Frank couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, he didn't want to cause a diplomatic storm because of this little thing, after sorting out his thoughts, Frank walked forward quickly, "I'm sorry Mr. Li, I made you wait for a long time." ”

"It's nothing, can you take us on a tour of your company's factory?" After listening to Ni Zhihao's translation, Li Mingzhe asked with a smile.

"Absolutely. Let me introduce to you, this is our Volkswagen senior engineer Dr. Christian, is one of the main R&D personnel of the Santana model, when visiting the workshop, he is mainly responsible for giving you technical explanations. Frank pointed to Christian beside him.

When Lee Ming-che heard that the other party was the main R&D personnel of the Santana model, he hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, thank you for the Santana model you developed." ”

Although Christian couldn't understand what the other party was saying, the smile on Lee Ming-che's face was not deceiving, and he also stretched out his right hand and smiled symbolically.

Seeing this, Frank, who was on the side, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Christian would not give Li Mingzhe face and do something drastic, if this is the case, then they will really be finished.

Next, accompanied by Frank and Christian, Lee Ming-che and his entourage began to visit Volkswagen's production workshop after putting on labor protection equipment.

Because Volkswagen has many models and many production workshops, in view of the introduction of Santana models in China, the focus of this visit is the production line of Santana.

As soon as they entered the workshop, Zhou Jingming and others were shocked by the scene inside, the spacious and bright workshop, all kinds of equipment are installed there in an orderly manner, the beat of the production line is far faster than the domestic one, a car flows in an orderly manner on the production line, you can see all kinds of tooling everywhere, and the level of mechanization is far higher than that of the domestic one.

Zhou Jingming is okay, after all, he has the experience of his previous life, and no matter how good the workshop here is, it is not as good as the 21st century. But Luo Yuzhong is different, many of them are going abroad for the first time, how have they ever seen such an advanced production workshop, one by one, their tones are full of envy.

Christian, who was in charge of receiving them, saw all this in his eyes, he had been to China in 80 years, so he also knew China's current industrial level, in his opinion, Volkswagen introduced the Santana model into China, trying to use this car to enter the Chinese market, it was completely a wrong strategic decision, a country that does not even have a complete parts supply chain, what to take to assemble Santana?

The group started from the chassis line, visited in turn, and when they encountered something they didn't understand, they also asked Ni Zhihao to ask Christian for the first time, and Christian tried his best to explain to them, but because of the language barrier, plus only Ni Zhihao had one translator, it was really troublesome to communicate.

"By the way, Xiao Ni, can you take out their process documents and the design drawings of the car and take a look?" Luo Yuzhong said to Ni Zhihao on the side.

Ni Zhihao had just translated this sentence, but on the other side, Li Mingzhe, who was walking behind Frank, beckoned to him, and Ni Zhihao could only run towards him quickly.

Hearing that the other party wanted to see the process documents, Christian couldn't help but mutter, "Even if it's given to you, can you understand it?"