While sorting out the industrial and technical materials about East Germany on his desk, Ling Shizhe sighed in his heart, no wonder after reunification, Germany was able to maintain a rapid GDP growth of more than 10% for 15 consecutive years under the condition that the entire European economy was basically stagnant, and the root of it turned out to be here.

East Germany is worthy of being the most industrially powerful country in the socialist countries, after the reunification of the two Germanys, German enterprises absorbed and digested the technology of East Germany, and thoroughly established the international reputation of "Made in Germany", when China is still exchanging shirts, slippers and rare earth ores for foreign exchange, Germany's high-precision equipment is selling well all over the world.

These high-precision manufacturing equipment also gave the German automobile manufacturing industry a second spring, in the 70s, Japanese cars landed in Europe, due to the oil crisis this God-given opportunity, so that Japanese cars swept the European market, many European car manufacturing companies are dismal operations, of which the German Volkswagen was the most affected.

At that time, Volkswagen was not the Volkswagen that later specialized in the production of mid-to-high-end cars, and almost 90 percent of Volkswagen's profits in the sixties and seventies came from low-end cars. For example, the Beetle, golf, etc.

But since the arrival of Japanese cars, Volkswagen has been losing money every year, and how did it come back to life? No need to ask everyone on the earth knows that one Chinese market, the other is the improvement of Volkswagen's quality by Germany's unique precision manufacturing equipment.

After receiving Ling Shizhe's order, in order to rush to East Germany in the shortest possible time, Christopher directly got on Ling Shizhe's private jet 707-320C, and went with Foster and Andy. Grove.

Foster took the initiative to ask for help, he took the initiative to find the news after getting the news, he said to Ling Shizhe: "The introduction of electric locomotives to East Germany is not something that can be done in a short time, and now there is a new situation there, I think the company should send a senior executive with a strong enough status to sit in charge, to give the other party enough respect, and if there is anything to do, I will be there to deal with it." ”

As for Andy. Grove was requested by Foster on his own initiative, he is Foster's successor, and he is one of the future president candidates of the Ambrera Group (to succeed Alison), Foster will retire next year, and this year is his last term, so bring Andy. Grove's purpose is self-explanatory.

Andy has become more and more proficient in the company's various businesses over the years, and his performance has been highly praised by the group's management and employees. Grove knew what that meant, so he got on the plane with them without saying a word.

They arrived in Leipzig in the middle of the evening the next day, and when they entered the hotel, they did not care about the fatigue of the journey, so they hurriedly gathered everyone together for a small meeting.

First of all, he asked John. Martin and Navalli and others learned about the introduction of locomotives, which was the company's main event.

John. Martin, Navalli and Linus, who had just attended a reception held by the German United Locomotive Consortium, were covered in alcohol, and the three of them washed their faces with cold water, and Navalli first reported to Forster what they had seen the other day, and finally he snapped his fingers at Linus, who hurriedly handed over the information collected in the past two days to Foster.

Foster listened to Navalli's report while flipping through the information: "Yesterday afternoon, when we attended the banquet, we asked Heinrich Brown, the general manager of the Unified Locomotive Complex. Yoken. Adrias and Jurgen, chief engineer of the Railway Design and Engineering Bureau of the GDR, proposed the intention to introduce the technology of 242 electric locomotives and DBME standard double-decker and single-decker passenger cars, but the other party did not say that he refused or agreed. The official of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the GDR was always with me, asking me how many underbodies and noses I planned to buy, and I kept vague. ”

Forster asked, "Does that mean that they are willing to transfer technology as long as we buy trains?" ”

The two thought for a moment, and finally nodded their heads.

"Understood."

After Christopher asked the two about the automation control technology in East Germany and the relevant information about automatic machine tools, Foster announced the dismissal of the meeting.

After the meeting, he did not go back to the room directly, but first went to the service desk downstairs and used the long-distance phone in the hotel to call Ling Shizhe, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, to report what he knew.

Ling Shizhe on the other end of the phone thought for a while and said: "You can promise them to order two groups of passenger cars and 12 locomotives to build a group in the GDR, but half of the personnel involved in the manufacture must be ours, and the remaining eighteen cars will be made in Canada." The GDR sent experts to guide us in production and transfer all manufacturing know-how. ”

"12 locomotives? Isn't it too much? ”

Ling Shizhe said with a smile: "Not much, you must know that the Canadian government can help us digest at least 8 locomotives, leaving four for us to use for research." ”

"Boss, it's enough to keep two, four is a bit too much." Foster suggested.

"No, four locomotives are just right, from the information I have gotten, the degree of automaticity of the East German locomotives is still good, but they have not found a suitable bus, all the systems of the train are integrated, their automation in addition to the lack of a special industrial power computer, the whole design idea is not fundamentally different from the system we are developing.

The four locomotives I plan to use as a test bench for the train computer, Foster This is a difficult technical job, involving all aspects of locomotive manufacturing, it is one of the important parts of the entire intelligent railway management system, two locomotives are not enough to at least four. ”

"Boss, there are no electrified railways in Canada."

"I know I've already spoken to the Canadian government and they've promised to help me sell the train we bought from East Germany to British Rail."

"Britain has its own electrified railways, and they won't agree to that." Foster retorted.

Ling Shizhe laughed and said: "Britain has agreed, after receiving the relevant technical information of the East German train, I went to the Canadian government and asked them to tell the British that as long as they buy the train, I can share the train technology of East Germany with them." Their specialists had already looked at the train materials in the GDR, and they were also interested and willing to participate. ”

Foster shook his head and smiled: "This is equivalent to the British paying for the technology themselves, and they have to share it with us, they won't be so stupid." ”

"They are really not stupid, so the British only paid half of the money, that is, they bought a set of trains with double decker and a single deck, and we had to solve the remaining half ourselves."

"Who are you going to sell the rest to?"

"Hong Kong."

Foster was shocked: "This is impossible, Hong Kong wants subway buses, and this is an intercity bus with heavy rail, and it is useless for Hong Kong to buy it." ”

"I won't need it for the time being, but I will use it later, and don't forget that there is a continent to the north of it."

Foster: "I don't understand the boss, what does this have to do with the mainland?" ”

Ling Shizhe organized the language and said: "You have always been responsible for the Hong Kong side, Foster, you should know what kind of policy the mainland is implementing now, close the country!" Like the Qing government, this situation will not continue, and sooner or later they will open up, and then there will inevitably be a day of passenger railways between Hong Kong and the mainland, or electrification of the existing railways.

Foster, I'm willing to bet that this railway will definitely be electrified, and by that time we will pitch our locomotives to the Hong Kong government, and they will definitely be willing. ”

Foster stopped talking, according to Ling Shizhe's statement, if the mainland is really opened up one day in the future, it will definitely be a sure thing for Hong Kong and the mainland to directly build a passenger railway, and selling railway locomotives to the Hong Kong government is naturally the proper meaning of the topic.

And this has another advantage, that is, the locomotive technology in Chinese mainland is very backward, and the performance of the train invested by the Chinese government in this passenger line is certainly not comparable to the 242 locomotive, and when the mainland sees the train in Hong Kong, it will definitely have some ideas in mind, and when the time comes, it is naturally the right thing to sell our train to the mainland.

But the key is when will the mainland open up, will it be opened in 20 years, and will we wait 20 years?

"In a few years, the old Jiang has already hung up, and the one in the north is also soon, birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, no matter how much you shout long live, it will not be possible to really live forever. It's time for the chaos on the continent to end! Ling Shizhe sighed on the phone.

"Boss, if your words are known by the Hong Kong side, it will be another turmoil, and you will not please both sides, and they will say that you are a big rebel." Foster shook his head and smiled, he has not been in Hong Kong for nothing all these years, he knows what kind of urine the governments on both sides are, and it is strange that Ling Shizhe did not make a disturbance when he said just now.

Ling Shizhe said noncommittally: "Have I done less of all these rebellious things over the years? Birth, old age, sickness and death are obviously facts, but they don't admit it, long live, long live, long live, do you really think that you will never grow old? ”

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