Having traveled all the way to West Germany, this business trip was certainly not just a meeting or two, and in the events of the following week, the people of the Draken company competently led Alice and others on a tour of their factories, R&D centers and other places throughout the country. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It must be admitted that Alice certainly didn't have the opportunity to walk into the factory in person before this, even if she had experienced the influence of the information explosion in her previous life, it was nothing more than a glimpse of it from a news movie. Therefore, the various visits on this trip are indeed refreshing her personal experience, and they are definitely not in vain.

As the strongest German company in the history of industrial manufacturing, there is no doubt about the production process of Draken, and it stands on the same level as the industrial manufacturing power of an entire country. In other words, although it is not yet possible for them to realize the ability to popularize CNC machine tools, it is already easy to cut and manufacture patented steel that cannot be produced by the world's factories in the 21st century.

In this way, the gap between different countries in basic industry is most intuitively displayed in front of Alice.

Thinking about that little ballpoint pen, thinking about that little ballpoint pen ball, is the most typical example. Of course, if you simply produce a small steel ball that costs a few yuan, it is naturally very easy, but the tungsten carbide material used in high-end ballpoint pen beads is enough to brush off all the factories in most countries. In addition, even if any country has mastered this process, the delicate structure of the ball seat that makes the pen ball run stably is currently only owned by Japan and Switzerland, and the relevant production can only be done by importing equipment from other countries.

This is also the same concept as the giant slurry of an aircraft carrier, as a slurry of that level, a whole curved steel plate four or five meters long has to be rotated thousands of times per minute. This requires that the grinding process must be accurate to the millimeter, and the strength and toughness must reach an extremely high level. Just one steel plate is enough to block the lives of many countries around the world.

After several days of visiting, Alice saw such a gap. The Draken doesn't produce small steel balls, of course, but the technology they use to sharpen the bits of giant drill rigs is enough to rank among the top three in the world even in the 21st century. It already has such exquisite craftsmanship, but it is still thinking about improving technology by various means, and is trying to expand to other fields, which really has to be admired, and the name of a century-old famous enterprise is well deserved.

Therefore, as a big man who took the initiative to come to the door of this large enterprise, the business that Alice would come into contact with would inevitably move closer to Draken's core secret. After a week's visit to all of the company's factories and the Munich R&D center in Ghana, it was time for an in-depth conversation.

"As a drilling rig company, your top priority when expanding your business is definitely the steel processing industry. In the intimate room, in the office of Chairman Naroud Wieland, there was no one else around, and Alice sipped her tea while analyzing the future of the business with the helmsman, who holds more than 10 percent of the company.

"And we only need to take a brief look at the history of modern science and technology development to know that many technologies were initially used in the military field, and then gradually expanded to commercial use and people's livelihood. As the founder of Cisco, I'm the most vocal on this. ”

Wieland laughed, it is true, the Internet was first born for military purposes, and it was not until the late seventies that the ARPANET was gradually opened to the public, which is a typical example. As for the manufacture of special steel, it is completely in line with this process, just imagine, which of the toughest and lightest metals was not first used in the field of military weapons?

"We at Draken are a very pragmatic company. He said, "Miss Wang, I wonder what you think of the current situation in East and West Germany?"

When it comes to such a problem, Alice immediately decided to be cautious: "Stability and variability coexist?"

Wieland smiled again, and he looked around, as if to check for bugs around him: "As a native of West Germany, as a director of the company in Draken, Miss Wang, I can tell you very bluntly that the Berlin Wall will not last long. ”

Prudence in words and deeds, caution in words and deeds, this kind of topic is really not something that Alice can say casually, she just grows her mouth in surprise and puts on a shocked look: "No? It won't last long? East Germany is going to invade you? Or is there something new about the Soviet Union? Mr. Wieland, where did you get your conclusion?"

Wieland sighed slightly: "Of course, I feel it from every day and every night, and now the situation is getting more and more tense...... In short, Miss Wang, have you ever wondered which camp Germany will be divided into when it is reunified?"

Of course, Alice's answer at this time will only be one: "NATO?"

"NATO, that's right, since Gorbachev came to power, the Soviet Union is now becoming more and more incompetitive. Wieland calmly said bad things about the leaders of the opposing camp: "But no matter which camp it is, as the one who provoked World War II, we will definitely be greatly limited in military development, just like the current Japan can only establish a self-defense force." If we want to transform, we have to take into account this context. ”

It turned out to be this reason, Alice nodded and said: "If Germany's military R&D capabilities are limited, it will definitely be difficult for the company's transformed business to reach the level of high-end military industry, so you need to transplant this field to other countries." The whole context of Europe is nothing more than a conflict between the two covenants, so you think of the development of the United States?"

It makes sense to say this, and Alice reflects on the various visits over the past week, and Wieland maintains a high sense of mystery throughout the whole process. In the initial meeting, he did not describe the direction of the company's transformation to Alice, but during the subsequent visits, he took her through the basic production capacity of the factory, especially in metalworking. Now it seems that he really just waited for himself to come to a similar conclusion first.

"American ......" Wieland seemed to smile: "Don't get me wrong, Miss Wang, we don't plan to compete with Lockheed and other companies for orders from the Ministry of Defense, we just started with drilling rigs." Rather than building fine steel for military aircraft and aircraft carriers, we are more interested in the field of people's livelihood. ”

"People's livelihood...... Yes, in the field of basic industries. Naturally, it makes sense to think about it this way, and the idea that the other party put forward at the beginning was to borrow Alice's supercomputer to improve the accuracy of basic industrial production.

"And then ......," Wieland continued, "Now that we have learned that Miss Wang, you have taken a stake in Mr. Li Ka-shing's industry in Hong Kong, and you are very interested in the infrastructure field and have a certain foundation, it must not be difficult to start a business in the United States, right?"

Sentence after sentence was all a routine, and Alice completely sorted out the order in an instant. Draken apparently investigated himself early and figured out his temper, so he used the computer as an excuse to hook her directly to West Germany, and when he took the initiative to propose further cooperation, the other party was not in a hurry to respond to some specific content, but first took himself to fully understand the strength of the company, and then put forward his own early preparation of cooperation ideas......

"Hmph~"

She smiled.

She was actually tricked invisible, but Alice also had to admit that Naruod-Wieland's move was indeed the right one. After all, a 100-year-old German drilling rig company wants to expand its business to other basic industrial fields, which is indeed her own conclusion, and it is indeed her own initiative to expand similar business in the European field after having some basic cooperation with Li Ka-shing.

Can you blame the other party for being cautious? Not at all, it was all Alice's own idea born in the British research institute.

It can only be said that Draken has really put a lot of effort into this cooperation and studied Alice well. A very simple trick - borrowing the computer of the research institute really hooked her up. Originally, he took the bait, but now he took the first step to explain Draken's strength in detail, and then heard Wieland's words......

"If you want to develop your career in the United States......" she nodded, "whether it is for people's livelihood or military, high-quality steel is of course extremely popular." Let's just build a branch office in Los Angeles, and I'll live there, and it's easy to take care of everything. And you should also be able to understand that the main business of Hutchison Whampoa in Hong Kong is also in the field of port logistics, and if the two of you land on the West Coast together and I take the lead in development, I believe the future will not be bad. ”

"Oh my god, that's a big, complicated project. The ghost knows that Wieland's exclamation was a little sincere, but it must be less than a third: "Of course I understand Hutchison Whampoa, when it comes to port logistics, wouldn't we be able to produce a batch of dock cranes for our friends and companies immediately?"

As soon as these words came out, the two people in the spacious room immediately burst into laughter. If there is no Alice as a matchmaker, one party will definitely have a number of long-term crane orders, and the other party will definitely have to buy from a third party at a high price, not to mention the joint entry into the US West Coast market.

Of course, Alice will definitely benefit from this, but now that the general direction has been set, the specific details are naturally easy to discuss. After all, she's not just a panacea job in a company like a "technical consultant" who stands on other people's shares.

“ok，ok。 Giggling, Alice got a cup of tea that Wieland had poured for herself: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation." ”

Wieland also smiled: "It's a pleasure to work together, but I would prefer that time pass faster, and now it's best to celebrate with champagne." ”

Drinking with an old man is not something to enjoy, Alice sipped her tea, rolled her eyes, and said, "By the way, Wieland, how much do you know about the business representative you sent to me in the first place, Vipl Pushkin?" (To be continued.) )