At the same time, Chen Geng was being complained about: "Brother, you are not authentic, why don't you tell me about such a good thing as getting rich?" ”

"Brother," Chen Geng couldn't laugh or cry, for this matter, Comrade Ren specially used a satellite phone to complain about himself, which also made people speechless: "Just this shabby place in Zambia, do you know how poor it is?" Ordinary people can't even afford electricity, not only can't afford electricity, even oil lamps are reluctant to use electricity, they go to bed as soon as it's dark, and the entertainment of the two is to make villains...... Who can you sell your stuff to? ”

But Comrade Lao Ren resolutely disagreed with Chen Geng's statement: "Brother, you are wrong to say so, yes, Zambia is a little poor, but it is precisely because of poverty that we have a chance to Huawei, right?" Zambia's situation is even slightly better, will they still choose Huawei? They have long chosen international telecom giants such as Motorola, Alcatel, Nokia or Siemens, so what about us? Countries like Zambia are just the right place to train us......"

"Yes......" Touching his chin, Chen Geng also reacted: Well, what Lao Ren said does have some truth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

According to normal logic, the international telecommunications market has no Chinese share, even if it is a country with a little money, it is impossible to let Huawei such a raw melon egg in the telecommunications market to provide telecommunications equipment for itself, but Zambia is different, this country is poor, so poor that for Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Alcatel, these international telecommunications giants telecommunications products only look at drooling, as for buying? I'm sorry, but I really can't afford it.

As for the question of whether Huawei's telecommunications products are good or not, objectively speaking, there must be a huge technical gap with Motorola, Ericsson and other international giants, which is the truth, there is nothing to hide and not admit, but in recent years, backed by Chen Geng's continuous financial support, they have developed rapidly, and have quietly occupied a place in the telecommunications market at the township level that Ericsson, Nokia and other telecommunications giants do not look down on. It's a good idea to find a small country to practice your hands first.

And one of Huawei's advantages is that they are very familiar with the operation of the township-level market, and to be honest, unless it is a big city, Zambia's cities are not much better than China's better developed towns, but in any case, it is not a bad thing to come out and see.

After making up his mind, Chen Geng immediately said: "As long as you think you can do it, then come and have a look, but let me tell you first, the Zambian government is poor, but there may not be money to pay you, and as far as I know, their national foreign exchange reserves do not exceed 10 million US dollars." ”

"Money is a trivial matter," with Chen Geng's words, Lao Ren's mouth was about to laugh crookedly: "It doesn't matter if they don't have money, coffee, sugar, these things can be used to offset the money, these are all trivial things, as long as the Zambian government has the idea of developing its own communications industry, there are always more ways than difficulties - brother, then we can make a decision, and you will have to ensure our power supply at that time." ”

This is the big truth, no matter how good the telecom is, the power department has pulled the electric switch for you, and you will be blind in an instant, not to mention that you can generate electricity by yourself, don't you know how much it costs to generate electricity? It's okay for a day, and you can stick to it for a month, but if you are allowed to generate electricity every day to supply the telecommunications room, believe it or not, it will kill you?

After hanging up the phone, Chen Geng stretched his waist, looked up at the time, and couldn't help but be a little stunned: It's already more than 11 o'clock in the morning? After thinking about it, he simply walked and raised his legs, and walked to Old Man Xie's room.

Old man Xie was actually on the phone, and it seemed that he was also answering the phone, seeing Chen Geng, Old Man Xie made a wry smile, and finally hung up the phone, then he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Chen Geng with a wry smile: "I didn't do anything else this morning, I answered the phone." ”

"Who isn't," Chen Geng also felt concerned when he thought of the process of dealing with the phone all morning: "My brain hurts when I answer the phone this morning, and the battery of the satellite phone is two large pieces, and I still want to go to you to hide and relax, but I didn't expect your old man to be busy with his feet on the ground." ”

The two glanced at each other and smiled wryly at the same time.

"Okay, don't talk about this," Shaoqing, Old Man Xie waved his hand: "I've been thinking about one thing for the past two days: since we plan to take root in Zambia, is it a bit of a waste to stay in a hotel all the time?" ”

Chen Geng immediately nodded and said, "I also want to tell you about this, should we get a command center?" If you make it bigger, you can not only work, but also live in people. ”

Runhua industry to Zambia is not one, two people, but a team of up to dozens of people, in the future and other projects officially started, here engineering and technical personnel, management personnel are probably not less than five or six hundred people, if these people come after all live in the hotel, the monthly hotel cost alone is a huge expense, but this expenditure is completely unnecessary.

"Let's think of going together," Chen Geng would have such an idea, Old Man Xie was not surprised, although Chen Geng is not a person who is used to frugality, but he will not waste it senselessly, he is not worried that his proposal will be opposed by Chen Geng: "My idea is to get a batch of prefabricated houses from China, or the kind of ...... that is converted from containers"

"Forget these two, just the climate of Zambia, whether it is a board house or an air-conditioned modified container, it is simply fatal," before the old man Xie finished speaking, Chen Geng shook his head and denied this suggestion, the current floor room is still a single-story structure, just a thin layer of iron sheet, the whole house is supported by a steel structure skeleton, the sun is shining, the temperature inside is more than ten degrees higher than the outside, and when the wind blows in winter, the inside of the house is colder than the outside, and it is not inhabited at all:" I heard that there is a kind of floor room with thermal insulation in the middle in the United States, and the effect of thermal insulation and insulation is similar to that of our ordinary housing, and you can also assemble air conditioners according to the needs of customers, but I don't know how much the price is. ”

"Really?" Old Man Xie suddenly became interested, how could he not know that whether it is a traditional single-storey board house or a container-converted van house, it is not suitable for the climate of Zambia? But isn't there no way, if there is a board house with a thermal insulation layer in the middle that Chen Geng said, it would be a great thing: "Then find someone to ask." ”

Who to look for? Chen Geng's mind almost instinctively thought of Comrade Lao Jin.

Comrade Lao Jin really knows this thing: "The kind of board house you are talking about? I know, it's expensive. ”

"Expensive?" Chen Geng was taken aback, if he remembered correctly, it shouldn't be expensive, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see this thing on construction sites all over the country, how can you listen to Kindler's meaning, it seems that this thing is not cheap?

"Well, it's quite expensive, and I don't know exactly how expensive it is, but I've heard from a friend that the thermal insulation material sandwiched between the two layers of thin plates is a composite material, which is very costly, and it also needs to be painted with a high-tech coating...... Anyway, it's very expensive, I heard that it's more expensive than the wooden planks used in the villa! ”

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More expensive than the planks of a villa? Chen Geng's tongue almost stuck out.

Foreign residential houses are usually what we call small villas, but the materials of this kind of villas are not the brick and concrete structures commonly used in our country, but are assembled with wooden planks like building blocks. Of course, these planks have undergone special process treatment, which is not only not easy to deform, but also has the function of heat preservation and heat insulation, and at the same time prevents insects, moths and corrosion. Of course, having said that, it also needs regular maintenance, such as regular painting or something, otherwise it will also attract termites.

Of course, the reason why Americans like to build villas with treated wooden planks instead of the reinforced concrete and red bricks that are more common in our country is not at all what some experts say, what is environmentally friendly, emotional, and traditional...... No, in the final analysis, it's just one thing: cheap!

That's right, it's cheap, foreign labor is expensive, a wooden villa, that is, the so-called "house", can be completely installed in place in only a week, and how long does it take for a two-story villa with a brick and concrete structure in China? From excavating the foundation to drying it all and being able to live in it, you will be suspected by the owner of the house if you are cutting corners in a month, as for the American-style wooden villa, no one will suspect that their house has been cut by the builder - how to reduce it, it is a few pieces of wood and pieces of wood, and you can't even find a few steel bars, and you can't reduce it if you want to, or you can't reduce it a long time ago.

It's a bit far, but a broken board house used on a construction site is actually more expensive than a wooden plank house, which makes Chen Geng a little unacceptable: Is it really a fool to be a buddy?

Old Man Xie was also a little annoyed, the two of them combined, forget it, since it's so troublesome, let's just build a house ourselves, calculate how many rooms we need to build, how many building materials are needed, and just find a boat to pull all the materials over, how much trouble? The only problem is that for the convenience of work, everyone has to continue to stay in the hotel for a while.

When he thought of this, Chen Geng couldn't help but think of Zambia's poor industrial base: such a big country doesn't even have a cement factory, and if you want to use some cement, you need to import it from abroad, what do you call it?

"Boss, Mr. Xie, Chief Engineer Shen and Liu Gong are here, look at ......" Li Lihua came in and reminded that Chen Geng had said before that Senior Engineer Liu Jie from the State Geological Survey would tell him after he came.