Hearing Klina's question, Feng Xiaochen smiled and pointed at Hotby, and said, "It was arranged by my friend Mr. Hotby, who said that your restaurant is the best Chinese restaurant in London, and he also said that he booked the table many days in advance." ”

"Oh, is it?" Klina glanced at Hotby with big beautiful eyes, and said softly, "Thank you, Mr. Hotby, for your compliments to our restaurant." ”

Hotby quickly stood up and said at a loss: "Oh, no, no, no, I didn't know that Madam and Mr. Feng had known each other for a long time, if I had known......"

At this point, he didn't know what to say next. He knew that he had put up an oolong, although he didn't know what the relationship between Klina and Feng Xiaochen was, but it seemed that he was obviously very close, but he didn't know anything about it, and he also talked about the origin of this restaurant in front of Feng Xiaochen for a long time. Of course, he was also glad that he chose Spring Restaurant, and he was full of praise for it, if he changed to another Chinese restaurant to feast on Feng Xiaochen and his party today, he might have made a mistake.

Feng Xiaochen waved his hand so that Hotby didn't have to explain, and then turned to Klina and said, "Klina, this Mr. Hötby is one of my most important partners in London, and he may often bring customers to your restaurant in the future, can you consider giving him a VIP black card and giving him a better discount." ”

"Oh, of course!" Klina agreed with a smile on her face. Feng Xiaochen introduced Hotby earlier, but did not say that Hotby had anything to do with him, so Klina would not take the initiative to give Hotby a VIP card. Now that Feng Xiaochen has brought it up, Klina has confirmed that Hotby is very important to Feng Xiaochen, so what is it to send a VIP black card?

She turned her head and whispered a word to the lobby manager who had accompanied her, and the lobby manager immediately turned around and went out, and when she returned, she already had a black card in her hand. Klina nodded to her, and the lobby manager respectfully handed the black card to Hotby.

"Oh, is this for me? I'm so honored! Thank you, Ms. Klinna, thank you, Mr. Feng!"

Hotby took the black card from the lobby manager with both hands, and the expression on his face was very exaggerated. The black card of the spring restaurant still has some status in the social circle, and being able to have the black card here will give people an unclear feeling of being a bull fork when inviting guests, which can give him extra points. Of course, the greater reason why Hotby felt excited was that Feng Xiaochen would actually make such an arrangement, he just complained that it was difficult to book a seat in the Spring Restaurant, and Feng Xiaochen asked someone to give him a black card, which showed that in Feng Xiaochen's mind, he Hotby had some status. It's like the leader suddenly gives you a box of cheap chocolates on your son's birthday, and the price is all floating clouds, and the most important thing is that the leader favors you. has a leader who favors you so much, can you still go to the trouble for him and stick a knife in both sides?

After sending away Hottby with a black card, Feng Xiaochen chatted with Klina again. Klina has to go back to China almost every month, and the last time she met Feng Xiaochen was half a month ago, and there really wasn't much to talk about between the two. Yang Haifan and Klina are also quite familiar, because Klina is Chen Shuhan's partner, and Feng Lingyu is Yang Haifan's subordinate, and the two families often move around on weekdays.

This episode made Hottby even more determined to work for Feng Xiaochen, and he found that Klina was also a little respectful in front of Feng Xiaochen, if he guessed correctly, there must also be Feng Xiaochen's shadow behind this spring restaurant. Being able to make a business into an industrial circle and enter the catering industry reflects Feng Xiaochen's strong energy, who knows how many other industries he has? In addition, the Spring Restaurant may also be one of Feng Xiaochen's eyeliner, if Hottby is half-hearted and has the mind of fooling Feng Xiaochen, people will definitely be able to see through it easily.

Serving such an energetic boss should be the right choice, Hotby said to himself.

Early the next morning, Hotby took his little follower Dobbins and led Feng Xiaochen and his party to an electronics company in London. The electronics company, Fidelman, specializes in the manufacture of industrial control modules and has previously worked with a number of Chinese equipment companies. However, in the early years, the cooperation between Chinese companies and Fidelman was mainly to directly purchase its ready-made industrial control modules, and Feng Xiaochen came this time to ask Fidelman to tailor modules for Luo Ye and Chen Yu Construction Machinery Company.

"Developing new modules?

As soon as the negotiations began, they went to the end of the rhythm. As soon as he heard Wang Weilong's request on behalf of Luo Ye, Fidelman's technical director Finney shook his head and made a categorical refusal answer.

"Mr. Finney, can you tell me why?" Before the Chinese could say anything, Hotby rushed to speak. He is an intermediary today helping Chinese find technology suppliers. Fidelman's company was something he had contacted a long time ago, and now that the chain had been dropped in front of Feng Xiaochen and others, Hotby certainly couldn't hold his face a little bit.

"Because it's completely unnecessary. "We already have three very mature modules that can be realized, namely FD301, FT5504 and NY4000. As long as the engineers of this gentleman's company study these three modules well, there will be no other requirements. ”

"We have used the FD301 in the past, and we have already purchased some of the other two modules and tested them in the lab. However, none of these three modules fully met our requirements, which is why we asked Fidelman to help us develop a new one. Wang Weilong explained.

"We have done market research on these three modules when they were developed, and they are perfectly suited to meet the needs of the market for this type of automatic control," Finney said. If you don't think these three modules are enough, there must be a problem with your product design, and I think you should ask your engineers to check their design. ”

"But, Mr. Finney, Mr. Wang has already said that they have used these three modules of yours, but they don't think they meet their requirements, shouldn't you modify the product from the customer's point of view?" asked Hotby.

"Sorry, we don't have such a habit. Finney shrugged his shoulders with a very underwhelming expression.

Huang Ming interjected: "Mr. Finney, according to what we know, the latest of the three modules you just mentioned was also designed in 2000, and now it is 2003, and there are many new concepts in the field of industrial control. Mr. Wang: What they are developing is a new product that is ready to be launched in 2005, and they want to use the latest industrial control technology, which should be reasonable, right?"

Finney looked at Huang Ming, nodded, and said: "Indeed, you are right, now there are some new concepts in the field of industrial control, and we are also developing a new generation of industrial control products, which is why we do not have time to develop special modules for this Mr. Wang's enterprise." If Mr. Wang's company is ready to use new industrial control technology, it can wait for our new product to be launched before making a choice. ”

"When will your new product be launched?" asked Wang Weilong.

"Our original plan was for October next year, but our design department just had some genius ideas to overturn the original design, which would delay the launch of the product until July 2005," Finney said. ”

Everyone's faces showed a mixture of helplessness and anger. Luo Ye plans to launch a new product in 2005, and the supporting industrial control module will not be available until then, is it too late?

Feng Xiaochen watched all this from the side, sneering in his heart. Hotby had already reported to Feng Xiaochen about Fidelman's company's operation, and the company had serious difficulties in its operation because of its lagging product development, and it was in a state of precariousness. If a large order can be obtained from a Chinese company, Fidelman could be brought back to life. On the other hand, if it does not get this order, Fidelman is expected to continue to lose money this year based on the demand in the European and American markets alone, and its shareholders can no longer allow it to lose money.

is obviously a lost dog, and he has to pretend to be an aristocratic face, and he drags the customers who come to the door like this, these declining nobles in Britain really should be rectified well.

"I just want to emphasize one thing, Mr. Finney. Feng Xiaochen said coldly, "We hope that your company will tailor a new industrial control module for us to meet the design requirements of our new products." If your company's module performance meets our requirements, the quality is feasible, and the price is within our acceptable range, we will order 2000 sets in the next three years. ”

"Uh-huh, so what?" asked Finney unmoved, in the same cold tone.

Feng Xiaochen stood up and said, "Our request has been stated to your company, and we will give your company a week to consider it." I remind Mr. Finney to report this to your President, who will decide whether or not to accept our order. ”

Without waiting for Finney to do anything, he pushed away the chair behind him, turned and walked out. As soon as he left, the other Chinese also got up and left with him, and Huang Ming sent an unfathomable smile to Finney.

Hotby also stood up, looked at Finney with a dark face, and said, "Mr. Finney, I suggest that you give a detailed report on this matter to Mr. Steyer, for I think he should have a different opinion on the matter. ”