Chapter 366: Cruton, an American businessman
The end of November is the day of Cheng Manli's departure to Russia, her passport has been prepared, and according to the arrangement, this group of employees will first arrive in Irkutsk and then fly directly to Kyzyl by helicopter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Tuva side was ready for greeting, new staff quarters were prepared, several new rows were built in the brand new "Khrushchev Building", and it was also equipped with heating. Expats from southern China will travel from the warm south of the Yangtze River to Siberia, where the climate is cold and dry, which makes Cheng Manli, who is going abroad for the first time, very afraid, but fights for money.
Before she left, the siblings' old friend Paul arrived in China, accompanied by a merchant named Cruton. He did bring American arms dealers over as agreed, so when he was in the United States, Paul and Cruton discussed for a long time that if it was not beautiful to open up an arsenal for international direct sales, then Cruton would be an important agent here.
The new American visitors, the brother and sister did not dare to slack off. It was a pleasure to have friends from afar, so they entertained Paul and Cruton with a Chinese meal.
The arms dealer, Cruton, was purely a middleman, and he valued the company Paul ran in the United States, and he was thrilled when Paul started selling the brand-new AK47. You must know that Soviet-style weapons are very popular among the American people, and at present, only one Kazakhstan factory is producing the AK47 that is a genuine brand in the world, and the products are all military.
But Paul was holding a new civilian version, with only a single-engine device, so he learned that there were new manufacturers on the shores of Lake Baikal and Tuva, and the more interesting thing was that the Chinese were the ones. A legendary Chinese businessman, a beautiful maiden and a teenager involved in the war. The combination of these elements seemed to be a dream, and when he heard that their boss had returned to China, he followed Paul.
"Oh, my Besika, we haven't seen you for more than a year, and you've grown a lot taller." Paul and star fruit hit it off at first sight, and the little girl in front of him was developing, and she was slowly passing through childhood.
"Mr. Paul is still the same, so what happened to my two sisters?"
"They're all good, and I sent them to a noble school."
"That's good, that's good."
Carambola is very unhappy with public education in the United States, and their community schools are purely manufacturing workers, so that the poor are always poor, and the culture of disgust is rampant and ignorance is great. The elites advocate elite education, children are busy every day, greedy for learning, and the two younger sisters who came out of the orphanage, they will also be the future elites.
Americans are still accustomed to talking about business in real offices, and Cruton holds back his mouth during dinner, and now he has the opportunity to ask.
"Your weapons are very good, and I would like to sign a formal contract with you." He got straight to the point.
"Absolutely, and we would like to get more orders." Da Ming said.
On the issue of commerce, the two sides hit it off, Cruton wanted money, the new weapons shipped to the United States would be quickly absorbed by the huge gun market, and the Ming wanted to expand production to earn back the wealth lost in the war.
In the Russian civil war in Tyumen, the volunteer army of Tuva performed very eye-catchingly, which Cruton and Paul knew very well, and the two children sitting here were witnesses, and even directly participated in the war.
In Cruton's mind, it was far-fetched to associate the little girl with long braids in front of him with the terrible war. This is a girl with big eyes and skin like mutton fat, and such a child can carry a gun to fight. But her brother is very interesting, a mature and courageous temperament that outsiders can feel. The two are not brother and sister, and their relationship should be a partnership that goes beyond ordinary feelings, as Paul said.
"So, do you have a weapons factory in China? It is important to know that shipping goods from Russia is actually no more convenient than in China. Cruton continued to ask.
Da Ming smiled, "Mr. said that it was a joke, China is only officially qualified to produce weapons, and we have no authority to produce them in China." Weapons companies are in Russia, and you can only buy from Russia as well. ”
"So what does your company in China produce? Your company is so big, I find it hard to believe that such a huge company is so dependent on two children that it is sustaining. It's clear that you have a large team running behind you. ”
"Sir is right, if you would like, you can visit our factory in China. Maybe you'll have a new desire to cooperate. Da Ming said.
The elder brother is very satisfied with this statement, and this guy is becoming more and more business-minded. The company's balance cars and electric vehicles are produced in the United States, but they were fined once by the federal government for excessive prices, and they have to maintain high labor wages and benefits, so the American factory is not very profitable. China is also producing this, and the production cost is much less.
This is not in Cruton's eyes, he is more concerned about the company's low-temperature batteries and computer accessories.
"The production method here is very similar to that in the United States, which completely breaks my perception of Made in China." Because of the insistence of star fruit, Mr. Kotori Yu spent a lot of money to buy advanced equipment from Japan and Taiwan, and now the company uses a robot assembly line to produce chips and memory cards. The core of the computer is the integrated circuit, and there are not many factories in China that have the strength to do this, among which the German new company has done a lot and well.
USB technology has long been around and DXN is currently the largest manufacturer of USB memory in China, and has also developed a large number of memory cards. SD card and TF card, Xiao Erbo's products are learned from Japan, and here is also Mr. Kotori Yu's great contribution. "Our production costs are very low, and we also have a talented designer, she is also a little girl like me, she is my sister, but she is in the capital."
Carambola took the opportunity to introduce Xu Liangyue, that is, she used her own talents, and now the storage capacity of SD cards and TF produced has reached 256M, which is unacceptable in the eyes of later generations, but in the current era when it is still a disk with a storage capacity of at most 1M, a small card with only one square centimeter has a storage capacity of 256 times that of a huge disk, which shocked Cruton very much.
Because of the existence of fully automatic machines, the production speed of U disk and all kinds of storage cards is very high, and more than 10,000 can be produced per day without increasing the scale of production at present, and the price of these products is more than 100 yuan, and the product is simply priced according to its storage capacity, so that the price of 256M is 256 yuan. Of course, the price doesn't seem like much when converted into dollars, and Cruton realizes that there is even more profit in it than weapons.
If the arms trade is to be engaged, this can also be done.
Carambola knows that now because the company basically adopts robot manufacturing, even the core program of manufacturing is coded by Xu Liangyue, and the power of science makes the production line only need one employee to stare at, and find a technician to repair the problem. Labor is used in the packaging part, and the output value of this item is more than one million per day, but the labor cost of the final packaging is only one ten-thousandth of the total selling price.
The Chinese company has done as much as the United States, but the wholesale price is incredibly low, and the star fruit has also said that the cost is actually only a tenth of the selling price. "In China, the prices of these products are very high, and although we have a huge difference in cost and selling price, this is also in line with Chinese law, after all, we are the only ones in the country who are producing in this way." Carambola proudly explained.
So Cruton signed a contract with Dexin Company, and the first batch of 100,000 USB flash drives with 256M memory were signed, and each one also brought a head exchange cable to deal with different computer interfaces. The wholesale price of each USB flash drive is ten dollars, so that one million dollars will be directly credited to the account, and the product can be withdrawn directly from the warehouse.
This temporary business did not disrupt Cruton's thoughts, and Paul lodged a small protest over the import of Chinese USB sticks, as he had never considered it. I am your biggest partner, so I am also your most trusted electronic product agent. Paul took star fruit aside to speak his mind because he was so focused on making electric cars that he neglected many other money-making products.
Under the difficulty of graciousness, the brother and sister got along with each other in a compromise way, and simply let these two people cooperate well, and everyone is a business partner. In this way, the three parties signed a treaty, and all products imported from the German and new companies and Pugachev Besika Heavy Industries were sold at the same price.