As soon as Ming Yongbo said this, the little secretary of the office timidly pushed open the door and entered the conference room, came to Liu Shuo's side, and reported in a low voice: "Director Liu, the mayor of the city is here......

"Oh? Where has he been, and who else has come with him? Liu Shuo quickly stood up, and asked the little secretary while packing up the things in front of him. The mayor Mo mentioned by the little secretary is the deputy mayor in charge of industry in Quwu City, named Mo Kongchao, and Liu Shuo has also dealt with him in the past. Sha Renyuan had a good relationship with Mo Kongchao, and before he died, he asked Mo Kongchao to take care of his brother's ceramic factory. Mo Kongchao remembered the old relationship with Sha Renyuan, but he specially summoned Liu Shuo a few times, but he never came to the factory in person.

"With him, there are several bureau chiefs in the city, and in addition, there are two foreigners." The little secretary replied.

"Foreigner!" The people in the entire conference room felt that their eyes lit up, and when they contacted the question raised by Ming Yongbo before, a thought flashed in everyone's hearts: Could it be that foreign merchants came to the door?

Liu Shuo didn't care about asking anything more, gave a word to everyone, and hurriedly walked out, Huang Yanling, Ming Yongbo and others also stood up, followed him closely, and came to the outside of the office building. In the open space in front of the building, a medium-sized passenger car was parked, and seven or eight people were standing under the car, led by Mo Kongchao.

"Mayor Mo, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not welcome!" Liu Shuo strode forward and stretched out his hands from a distance.

Mo Kongchao smiled slightly, stretched out a hand and shook Liu Shuo, and said, "Director Liu, we are uninvited guests, you won't be unwelcome, right?" ”

"How dare you, Mayor Mo's big driver, we can't even invite it." Liu Shuo smiled all over his face, and turned his head to greet Mo Kongchao's attachés: "Director Gu, Director Hong...... Welcome, welcome! ”

He shook hands with the officials one by one. When he reached the end, two high-nosed Westerners appeared in front of him. His hand stretched out halfway, and then hesitantly stopped, he did not know whether foreigners were the etiquette of shaking hands, and he did not know how to greet each other.

"Director Liu, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Mike, Vice President of Roth in Belgium. This is Mr. Mike's secretary, Mr. Qiao Li, and this is Xiao Su from the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, who accompanied Mr. Mike and the others here. Mo Kongchao walked over and introduced Liu Shuo with a smile.

"Our VP's name is McClure, and my name is Jolleaf." The vice president's secretary, who was introduced by Mo Kongchao as "Mr. Joly," corrected in a stilted Chinese voice. He said this to Liu Shuo, and before that, he had corrected Mo Kongchao several times, but Mo Kongchao still couldn't figure out the correct way to say their names.

"Welcome, Mr. McClure. Mr. Joliffe. Liu Shuo stretched out his hand and shook hands with the two Belgians. The other party has a person who can speak Chinese, which is easy to do, and communication can reduce a lot of trouble.

After the greetings, Liu Shuo beckoned everyone to the conference room to discuss, he walked side by side with Mo Kongchao, McClure, and Jolliffe, while Huang Yanling and Ming Yongbo accompanied the other officials to follow behind. Cheng Huaping did not go back to the conference room with them, but trotted to the cafeteria. Instructed the purchasers of the canteen to hurry to the market to buy meat and fish, and prepare for a sumptuous wine banquet at noon.

Take advantage of this short meeting. The conference room has been cleaned up. Everyone entered the conference room, and the guests and hosts sat down, and Mo Kongchao sat down in the middle of the host's side, letting Liu Shuo sit next to him, and McClure and Joliffe were arranged to sit opposite them. As for the government officials, they sat on either side according to their status. Some play the role of the attaché of the Mokong Dynasty, and some play the role of the escort of foreign guests, which is exquisite and knowledgeable.

"I'll start with a few words." Mo Kongchao said, "Mr. Mike and Mr. Jolly made a special trip to our Quwu City to inspect the ceramic industry. According to their own introduction, their Belgian Roth company is the third largest seller of ceramic products in Europe, and has maintained a good cooperative relationship with our Chinese ceramic enterprises. This time, they came to our Quwu to learn about a kind of ceramic knife produced by our Quwu, Director Liu, do you know this situation? ”

Brother Ceramics Factory produces ceramic knives that are typical of the flowers inside the wall and the fragrance outside the wall. As a result of the press conference organized by Qin Hai, foreign newspapers have been hyped up about the matter, but the Quwu city government itself has no knowledge of the matter. Early this morning, Xiao Su of the Foreign Affairs Office suddenly came to Quwu with McClure and Jolliff, and caught Mo Kongchao off guard.

During the talks in the city, the other party repeatedly said that he wanted to know what was going on with the ceramic knife produced by Quwu, and Mo Kongchao brought in the people from the Economic Commission and the Second Light Industry Bureau, but no one could say what was going on. In fact, it is also to blame those media reporters for cutting corners when reporting, only mentioning that this magical ceramic knife comes from a city called Quwu in China, but did not say the name of the brother ceramic factory. There are several local ceramic factories in Quwu, and because the brother ceramic factory has always been a private enterprise for industrial ceramics, the city officials do not know much about it.

The two sides talked for a long time without saying a name, and finally Mo Kongchao couldn't help it and asked McClure how he knew the name Qu Wu. McClure took out a photocopy of a newspaper and showed it to everyone, who couldn't read the Dutch on it, but on the photos of the scene accompanying the news report, everyone recognized a vague figure, that is, Liu Shuo. Liu Shuo's trip abroad was reported in the city, and by linking this matter, Mo Kongchao could be sure that what McClure was looking for must be the Brother Ceramics Factory.

According to Mo Kongchao's idea, he planned to call Liu Shuo to come to the city government and meet with foreign businessmen. But McClure suggested that they would prefer to visit the factory in order to understand the reality of the ceramic knife. The foreign guests had a request, and Mo Kongchao naturally couldn't refuse, so he took two foreign guests and a group of officials and came directly to the Brother Ceramics Factory.

Liu Shuo didn't know the twists and turns in the middle, but when he heard Mo Kongchao talk about ceramic knives, he knew that McClure must have come to find him, because not to mention other companies in Quwu, even in the world, there is only one brother ceramic factory that can produce ceramic knives at present. He nodded with a slight smile and said: "Mayor Mo, the ceramic knife is indeed a product of our factory, this time Xiao Huang and I went to Brazil with the delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture to participate in the Agricultural Machinery Expo, and by the way, we showed the ceramic knife of our factory. ”

"Yes, yes, they brought a newspaper with your picture on it. Director Liu, why didn't you report such a big matter to the city? Mo Kongchao asked reproachfully. In the eyes of Quwu's officials, it is definitely a matter of great pride for Quwu's company to be able to show its face in foreign newspapers. Liu Shuo had such a beautiful thing, but he did not report it to the city government, which is a typical organized and undisciplined thing.

"Yan Ling and I have just come back, and we haven't had time to report the results of this time to the city." Liu Shuo hurriedly explained.

"Okay, let's not talk about it. Since the ceramic knife is your product, you can introduce it to Mr. McClure. Mokon commanded.

The Xiao Su from the Foreign Affairs Office had already selectively translated the content of the conversation between Mo Kongchao and Liu Shuo to McClure, who coughed lightly and couldn't wait to say to Liu Shuo: "Mr. Liu, we only learned through the guò newspaper that your factory has produced a very magical ceramic knife, but so far, we have not seen an actual sample. We came all the way from Belgium to learn about this kind of ceramic knife, and if possible, we hope to be able to become the agent of your ceramic knife in Europe. ”

After listening to the words relayed by the translator, Liu Shuo nodded, and said to Ming Yongbo: "Yongbo, you go and bring a few sets of our newly produced ceramic knives, and ask the two foreign guests, Mayor Mo and the leaders to appraise them." ”

Ming Yongbo agreed, walked out of the conference room, and after a while, he led two workers back with more than a dozen bags, each bag had a packaging box, and a set of 6 ceramic knives were placed in it. After obtaining Liu Shuo's permission, Ming Yongbo sent these bags to McClure and the officials respectively, one bag per person, and none of them were missed. According to the rules, when these officials leave, these ceramic knives can be taken with them, you know, it is the duty of officials to deign to "try" the products for the enterprise...... and rights.

"It's really a ceramic knife!"

"It's so beautiful!"

"Can this knife really cut vegetables?"

"I think it's okay, this knife is quite sharp, at least it's okay to cut fruit."

The officials opened the box, took out the knives, and all of them made a fuss and talked about it. As the deputy mayor, Mo Kongchao naturally had to be reserved, and it was inconvenient to open the box in person. Liu Shuo took the box and opened it, put the knives in front of Mo Kongchao the same, and introduced in detail the role of each knife and the characteristics of ceramic knives. Mo Kongchao listened quite seriously, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes.

The one who can really see the doorway is McClure. As soon as he got the bag, he unceremoniously opened the box, took out the knife and put it in front of his eyes to admire it carefully. Joliffe leaned his head over as well, and whispered an exchange of views with McClure as he watched. During the discussion, the two of them did not speak English, but Dutch, which even the translator Xiao Su could not understand.

After muttering for a while, McClure raised his head and said to Liu Shuo: "Mr. Liu, these ceramic knives are very exquisite, and the cutting edge is also very sharp to the touch, but I don't know how effective the cutting is." If you don't mind, can you please ask your people to find us some samples for cutting, we want to test them. (To be continued......)