Xu Zhiyuan's guess is correct, the reason why European and American companies such as Blanc and El are willing to support China to develop the ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process is indeed to let Chinese companies compete with Japanese companies, so that they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Japan is a rising industrial country, and in the fifties and sixties, Japan was similar to China in the eighties, and it also relied on a large number of Western technologies to form its own equipment manufacturing capacity. The Japanese had a strong learning ability and low labor costs, and soon became a strong competitor in the international equipment market, and began to encroach on the equipment business, which traditionally belonged to Europe and the United States, including the chemical equipment business.

Europe and the United States have passed the stage of making money by making money by making great efforts and sweating profusely, and they are doing high value-added businesses by virtue of their technological advantages. The equipment they sold was quoted at hundreds of millions of dollars, of which less than one-third of the expenditure was on raw materials and other expenses, and the rest was added value, which was used to pay high salaries for workers and managers and high dividends for shareholders. Relying on technological monopolies, the people of Europe and the United States were able to live an easy and prosperous life, but at the same time, they looked at the people of developing countries with amazement, wondering why they got up early and worked greedily late but still did not have enough to eat.

The rise of Japan has cut a huge slice of the global profit pie, and European and American companies feel threatened. The technical level of the Japanese is slightly inferior to that of Europe and the United States, but it has the advantage of low cost and low price. In the U.S. market, Japanese cars are the representative of inferior and cheap cars, but it is precisely this kind of inferior and cheap cars that has grabbed the share of many old American automakers and put them in business difficulties.

The same is true of the international chemical equipment market, the earliest chemical equipment made by the Japanese is relatively low-end, the profits are low, and it belongs to the market that the Europeans have planned to give up, and the Japanese have occupied this market, and the Europeans are not dissatisfied. But who would have thought that the Japanese would use the profits earned from the low-end market to constantly develop their own technology and gradually put their claws into the plates of Europeans, which made these European masters angry.

The Japanese have a very simple means of competition, and that is to fight a price war. Although Japan is already a developed country, it is a very hard-working developed country, so much so that such things as "death from overwork" are not uncommon. The developed countries in Europe are all real developed countries, with a six-hour shift a day, a month's holiday in the summer, and all kinds of benefits, so the cost of production remains high.

When there was no Japanese to stir up the situation, the Europeans sold the equipment a little more expensive, and others had no choice but to pinch their noses and admit it. Now the Japanese are coming to sell cheap equipment, and if the Europeans still insist on the original high prices, the market will be completely pried away by the Japanese. But if the Japanese reduce the price together, the profits that European companies can get will be greatly reduced, and the shareholders, executives, white-collar workers, blue-collar workers, etc., are all waiting to share the money, and the profits are less, how can the companies explain to them?

The emergence of Chinese enterprises has given Europeans a revelation. Since the Japanese can pry our market, why don't we encourage the Chinese to pry the Japanese market? China's labor cost is lower, and if we work with the Japanese in the low-end equipment market, the Japanese should be very embarrassed. The low-end market is the ATM of Japanese companies, and once this market goes wrong, Japanese companies will not have enough funds to support their competition in the high-end market, and European companies will be able to regain lost ground and return to the good life of eating and drinking.

Regardless of what other companies think, that's what the executives of Brown and El think. When Feng Xiaochen sent people to contact these companies and ask for some of the key technologies for synthetic ammonia in their hands, they readily agreed. Their purpose is very clear, that is, to train China in order to compete with Japan and hold the Japanese back.

As for the fact that if China develops, it will enter the mid-to-high-end equipment market like Japan and compete for the market share of European companies, this concern is superfluous in the eyes of Europeans. China is such a backward country, how can it be capable of challenging Europe?

When Feng Xiaochen was in Munich, he had a conversation with some European brokers who were employed by Bao Chengming, and these European brokers said that in the minds of the vast majority of Europeans, the technological gap between China and Europe is at least a dozen Japan, and it will take at least 50 years for China to develop into a traditional market that can threaten Europe.

50 years from now, who cares if it's flooding?

Feng Xiaochen didn't say these words to Xu Zhiyuan in detail, he just briefly prompted him, and Xu Zhiyuan realized it himself.

The rest of the matter didn't need Feng Xiaochen to operate it personally. Haganer took a tour of China and saw several large fertilizer plants, some of which are under construction and some that have already been completed and put into operation. All of these large fertilizer plants are built by China and are running well, which fully proves that China has the ability to independently build large-scale equipment with an annual output of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia. In the subsequent equipment bidding, the Chinese company defeated the Japan Chemical Equipment Association with excellent technology, good service commitment and low price, and obtained orders for four sets of large fertilizer equipment in Argentina.

Under the auspices of the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture signed a contract with the North China Chemical Machinery Factory and the Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery and Equipment Factory, with two Chinese enterprises as the general contractors to build four large-scale fertilizer plants for Argentina, among which the synthetic ammonia process adopts the ruthenium catalyst process with independent intellectual property rights in China.

After the contract with the Argentine side was signed, the equipment company came forward to organize Beihua Machinery and Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery to sign subcontracting agreements with hundreds of domestic equipment manufacturing enterprises, and distributed thousands of pieces of equipment to these enterprises for manufacturing. Among the enterprises that undertake subcontracting tasks, in addition to some state-owned backbone enterprises, there are also a large number of private enterprises such as Quanfu Machinery Company. Many companies have a wealth of experience in subcontracting equipment and overseas installation work for Japanese companies such as Iketani Manufacturing in the past, and now they are able to steal business from Japanese people, and it is a challenge for apprentices to take on teachers.

Cao Zhiyuan's Global Center for International Economic Exchanges played a role in providing information and helping to contact in this business, and Feng Xiaochen did not break his promise, and asked Beihua Machinery and Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery to pay a total of 12 million US dollars in information fees to the Global Center, which is not a foreigner. Because of this, Cao Zhiyuan was highly praised by the leadership of the center, and was finally appointed as the deputy director of the center, and was no longer the director of the department who "enjoyed the treatment of deputy director-level".

Another "meritorious man" in this business is Zhao Xinwei. After learning that the Chinese had used the six-month buffer period to develop a new ammonia synthesis process, Uchida unilaterally interrupted negotiations with the equipment company and returned to Japan with a black face. Before leaving, Zhao Xinwei went to the China office of Iketani Manufacturing to explain to Uchida, saying that he had no knowledge of this matter, but Uchida did not give him this opportunity.

Feng Xiaochen kept his promise of "returning to Zhao after the end of the battle", returned Zhao Xinwei to Cao Zhiyuan, and personally wrote him an enthusiastic appraisal, saying that Zhao Xinwei endured humiliation and burdened the burden in the negotiations with the Japanese side, and successfully completed the task of luring the enemy delivered by the equipment company, paralyzing the opponent and delaying time.

The appraisal written by Feng Xiaochen made Wang Genji very angry. According to Wang Gengji's meaning, the Chinese company won four sets of large fertilizers in Argentina, according to the bet with Zhao Xinwei, Zhao Xinwei should draw a few Wang Ba on his face and go all the way to the equipment company. Now Wang Ba hasn't painted yet, and the equipment company still writes appraisals to praise him, what is this?

Feng Xiaochen is open-minded, he sent Zhao Xinwei to negotiate with Uchida You, in fact, he regarded Zhao Xinwei as a Jiang Gan who stole books, making him smart but being mistaken by cleverness. Now that the matter has come to light, presumably Zhao Xinwei also understands Feng Xiaochen's intentions, and his heart is running wildly in an alpaca. Writing him a positive appraisal at this time is equivalent to sprinkling salt on his wounds, and the effect is much higher than painting Wang Ba on his face. Xiao Feng is a civilized person, and he will never do such a tasteless thing as painting Wang Ba on other people's faces.

The appraisal written by Feng Xiaochen did not help Zhao Xinwei, because the day before Zhao Xinwei returned to the Global Center to report on his work, the center received an anonymous report, claiming that Zhao Xinwei had frequent private communication with the Japanese representative Yu Uchida during the negotiations with the Japanese side, accepted some gifts from the Japanese side, leaked some information, and had the experience of going in and out of entertainment venues such as "a certain room" with the Japanese representative.

The events described in the materials have a clear time and place, and a number of photographs are attached, which cannot be denied by Zhao Xin. Zhao Xin was stunned for the first time when he saw this material, because there were only two parties involved in some of the things mentioned in the material, one was him, and the other was Uchida You. It is naturally impossible for him to divulge these information himself, so who instructed him to write this report letter, and does he need to explain?

Zhao Xin didn't bother to greet the women of Uchida Yu's family, and he tried his best to explain the matter to the leader. He claimed that his relationship with Yu Uchida was out of work needs, and even went to "so-and-so" to confuse the other party and had to sacrifice his life. Heaven and earth conscience, that time, although he and the beautiful waiter spent the night alone in the room, they have been discussing the true meaning of life, and there is no illegal behavior.

The leaders of the Global Center were also reasonable, and did not kill Zhao Xinwei because of an anonymous report letter. Zhao Xinwei was not only transferred from his current position, but also became a deputy director in the central data room, in charge of data translation, which can be regarded as worthy of his profession.