Early the next morning, Qin Hai, Chen Hongcheng and the four of Honggang left the hotel together. Xiao Mengqin walked in the front, she habitually walked in the direction of the subway station, took two steps, felt that something was wrong, looked back, but saw that Chen Hongcheng had already taken Jiang Huanwen and them, and reached out to stop the two taxis.

"Get in the car." Qin Hai walked up to Xiao Mengqin, pointed to a taxi behind her and said to her.

"By taxi?" Xiao Mengqin's eyes widened, almost in disbelief. She had never taken a taxi when she was in China, and she didn't dare to think about it when she went abroad. In her mind, taking a taxi should be a very, very expensive expense, and the cost was completely higher than she could have imagined.

Jiang Huanwen and the other three followed Chen Hongcheng into the front car, and there were only Qin Hai and Xiao Mengqin in the latter car. Qin Hai sat in the front row and let Xiao Mengqin sit in the back row. After the car started, Xiao Mengqin touched the leather cushion and looked at the street scene flashing outside the window, both a little timid and a little excited.

"Qin Gong, these days, do you take a taxi out every day?" Xiao Mengqin asked Qin Hai.

"You call me Xiao Qin, I'm younger than you." Qin Hai said, "We do take taxis every day these days, mainly to be in a hurry. ”

"It's expensive to take a taxi, isn't it?" Xiao Mengqin asked in a low voice, as if she was afraid of being heard by the driver. In fact, she also knows that it is impossible for drivers to understand Chinese.

Qin Haidao: "From our hotel to Oso Company, it is estimated that it is eight or nine hundred pesetas, which is more than ten dollars." ”

"Ahh Xiao Mengqin was almost about to shout, and her reaction was the same as Chen Hongcheng before, "Isn't this a taxi that will cost me a month's salary?" ”

Qin Hai nodded and said seriously: "This shows that our salary is too low, and we can't even afford a taxi." ”

"But ....... But ......" Xiao Mengqin wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say. The cost of taking a taxi is paid by Qin Hai, and the realm of a rich person is not something that a salaried person like her can look up to. Can she accuse Qin Hai of extravagance? Or, can she pretend to be tall, pull the car door and get out of the car to take the subway?

There was a moment of silence. Xiao Mengqin finally spoke timidly: "Qin ...... Uh, Xiao Qin, do you have a lot of foreign exchange in your hands Mr. Chen? ”

"How do you know the way?" Qin Hai asked rhetorically.

Xiao Mengqin said: "I heard Huang Liwei say that she bought a lot of things, saying that she borrowed foreign exchange from Mr. Chen. There is a perfume that is particularly popular abroad, and she also said that the embassy's secretary Wang used that kind of fragrance. ”

In addition to a few officials' wives, the only single women in the delegation were Huang Liwei and Xiao Mengqin. So the two of them lived in the same room. In the past few days, Huang Liwei has accompanied Zhu Xiaofeng and other officials to visit and shop in Madrid, spending foreign exchange borrowed from Chen Hongcheng. What Huang Liwei wanted to buy the most was the kind of perfume that Wang Zheyi used, but the effort paid off, and she really bought it.

Xiao Mengqin is a skilled person, but after all, she is also a girl, so she doesn't like these luxuries. watched Huang Liwei show off the various goods she bought. Smelling the exotic perfume wafting from her body, Xiao Mengqin was so envious. I heard that Huang Liwei's foreign exchange to buy things was borrowed from Chen Hongcheng. Xiao Mengqin knew that she had no hope. Chen Hongcheng nodded to those officials all day long, and in front of them, there was a smirk that refused to be thousands of miles away, how dare Xiao Mengqin expect to borrow foreign exchange from him.

Qin Hai didn't understand these careful thoughts of the women, and when he heard Xiao Mengqin's words, he asked with a smile: "What, do you want to buy it too?" ”

"Hmm......" Xiao Mengqin replied in an inaudible voice. Even so, she felt her face flush.

"You should have said it earlier." Qin Hai didn't look back, and he didn't know that Xiao Mengqin was in embarrassment, he said: "After talking about the equipment, there should be a day or two to spare." You can go shopping around the shopping streets. It's hard to come out of it, and you should buy something you like. As for foreign exchange, you just come to me, and I'll lend it to you. ”

"Really?" Xiao Mengqin said happily, "Then you...... Can you lend me $50? ”

"$50 is enough, 500." Qin Hai promised with a big grin. The test of smelting die steel on Juanito's side has been successful, and Juanito will soon pay the rest of the payment, and Qin Hai is not short of foreign exchange in his hand.

"$500! I can't afford to borrow so much. Xiao Mengqin exclaimed, but what she was thinking in her heart was different from what she said in her mouth.

Talking and laughing all the way, two taxis came to the door of Oso one after the other. Everyone got out of the car, Xiao Mengqin ran forward and said a few words to the doorman, and the doorman waved them in. The group had been here several times before, and the doorman knew them.

When everyone came to the negotiation room of Oso Company, two business personnel from the other party had also arrived. Xiao Mengqin introduced to Qin Hai in a low voice, saying that one of them was the sales director of Oso Company, named Tony, and the other was his deputy, named Valentine.

Since both parties are already very familiar, after greeting each other for a few words, they went straight to the point. Jiang Huanwen introduced to Tony that Qin Hai was a procurement specialist at Hongyuan Iron and Steel Plant, and he had just come from other places to discuss the matter.

"Our attitude has been very clear, 20 million sets, this is a preferential price. We know that China is a developing country, and we hope to establish long-term economic and trade exchanges with China, which is why we will give such a preferential price. Tony stated his position in a long voice, his attitude with a hint of arrogance, obviously not taking the group of Chinese in front of him in his eyes.

Several of the Red Steel have set their eyes on Qin Hai, they have been dealing with Tony for several days, and they can be said to be poor in donkey skills for Tony's attitude, and there is no way to deal with it. Since Qin Hai is ashamed to say that he can negotiate the price, let's start now.

Qin Hai sat up straight, coughed lightly, attracted Tony's attention to his side, and then asked with a smile: "Mr. Tony, the discount you are talking about is to say that an electric furnace designed and finalized in 1968 is a product of 1978, and then sold to us at a level twice the market price, is that true?" ”

"Young man, don't speak in your own imagination." Tony sank his face and said to Qin Hai in a reprimanding tone. He was more than twice as old as Qin Hai, and he was qualified to call Qin Hai that.

Seeing Tony's bluff, Qin Hai smiled even more kindly, and he said, "Mr. Tony, which of my words do you think I said from imagination?" ”

"Our machine was designed in 1976, not the 1968 technology you said." Tony said coldly.

Qin Haidao: "Really? I don't think Mr. Baldomero, the chief designer of this electric stove, thinks like you. If I'm not mistaken, he retired in 1971, do you mean, he later came back to the company to design the furnace? ”

"How do you know Mr. Baldomero?" Tony's face changed suddenly, and there was nothing more embarrassing than being poked in front of him when he was lying. He originally thought that the Chinese did not know anything about European metallurgical technology, and as long as he bit and said that this set of equipment was from 1978, then the Chinese could not find any evidence to refute him. Who knows that the unusually young Chinese in front of him can not only tell the design age of this electric furnace, but even its chief designer has been verified.

Of course, Tony didn't know what to do, after Qin Hai read the information Xiao Mengqin gave him yesterday, he kept some details of the relevant techniques in mind, and then asked Gonet for verification. In the early 70s, the electric stove of the Oso company was quite famous, and Gonet was involved in its design, so I can remember the chief designer and some other circumstances at that time. Qin Hai is not a reckless person, if he wants to call out to the Oso Company, he naturally has to find out the other party's old background first.

In response to Tony's question, Qin Hai just smiled mysteriously, and he continued: "Mr. Tony, do you still insist that this electric furnace was designed and finalized in 1976? As one of Spain's most well-known suppliers of metallurgical technology, if it was still designing RP electric furnaces in 1976, I am afraid that it would be a joke, right? ”

"Of course, I admit that the design of the furnace body was completed before 1976 and uses the most sophisticated technology of Oso. However, the control part of the electric furnace, as well as the oxygen nozzle and other parts, all use the new technology that appeared at the end of the 70s, which Mr. Qin does not deny, right? Tony hesitated and began to look for other excuses.

Qin Haidao: "I don't deny that you have added some relatively new accessories to this old electric stove to make it look like a newly designed electric stove. But as a metallurgist, Mr. Tony thinks that the price of an electric furnace should be determined by the furnace body, or by these accessories? How much is a new set of furnace control modules worth in the European market? ”

"That can't be said, to integrate such a control module into an electric furnace, it still requires some technical skills." Valentine interjected, "The value of Oso is that it can perfectly combine these techniques into an electric stove,...... Even if the furnace body of this electric furnace is a little outdated. ”

"I recognize your value, but that value needs to be scientifically calculated. The price of your electric furnace is too high, if we can reduce it a little, we are very interested in introducing these two electric furnaces and the corresponding equipment. Qin Hai duly gave Tony and Valentine a step down from power.

"Mr. Qin thinks that the price of these two electric furnaces is more appropriate?" Tony asked bluntly.

"$14 million." Qin Hai said.

"One?" Tony asked.

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "No, it's two...... To be exact, there are two sets of equipment, including the electric furnace and all the continuous casting equipment. ”

"It's impossible!" Tony shouted red-faced. (To be continued......)