A team from the Ministry of Commerce and a team from the Reform Commission quickly gathered around Qi Yiming. Although Qi Yiming has only traveled for more than a year, it can be regarded as "experienced in a hundred battles". For large-scale or relatively important economic and trade negotiations, Qi Yiming is still capable than the bureaucrats of this era. International practices and related skills are relatively familiar, if it is placed in 20 years, Qi Yiming's level is also an ordinary miscellaneous, but in the 80s, there is a lack of talents, there are smart people but the understanding of foreign countries is still limited, so the Ministry of Commerce is very accustomed to pulling Qi Yiming together in major economic and trade negotiations.

Since Qi Yiming's visit to the United States last year and an agreement of intent was reached, the two sides have begun to reduce tariffs on each other, and China has also opened up a number of American capital to enter for investment and joint ventures.

At this time, there was no problem of intellectual property infringement or cyber attacks, and many American companies cut their heads to enter China, and many American companies wanted to transfer a large number of labor-intensive industries to China.

Industrial transfer is not a matter of Qi Yiming, in general, it is welcome to enter and treated differently. Textiles, food processing, stationery and sports supplies and the like are more and better, and there is not much pollution, so it is naturally the best to solve employment. What glass, papermaking, chemicals, steel and a series of other easy to cause serious pollution, do not meet the environmental protection standards and are not allowed to enter.

Imagine that the enterprises that Qi Yiming has arranged for his country are built in accordance with the highest environmental standards, although it is a little slower, and the cost may be a little higher, but there is no lack of morality, and it will not be in the future when the smog will change and a large number of rivers will be polluted.

As a result, domestic enterprises are concentrated and developing rapidly, and they are basically concentrated in light industry and a small number of heavy industries. Iron and steel, chemicals and the like are also growing, but not as fast as other industries. This has also caused a gap, many companies have a strong demand for steel, plasticized products and other materials, such as the site of the car, the car driving, the shell of household appliances, all need these things, but the domestic industry can not meet so much. Especially in some advantageous industries, which have received a large number of export orders and the huge domestic market, it is simply impossible to create so many products.

Therefore, in order to ensure the production of these advantageous products, China has to import steel, plastics and other primary industrial products and raw materials to the United States, the world's largest industrial power, at a time when the development speed of high-polluting enterprises is pressed by environmental standards.

Fortunately, the United States is also interested in buying some of the products produced in China, so that the two sides can avoid meeting their respective needs through barter when China's foreign exchange is still insufficient, and the governments of both sides settle in their own currencies, and their respective companies get the products they want, which is a win-win situation.

An official of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade explained to Qi Yiming that he was like an assistant for the fighters before going to the boxing ring: "At present, the main entanglement is that the United States wants to reduce the price of our industrial manufactured products through the hijacking of large-scale entry and raw material imports. We think that the price we give is good enough, at least 20% cheaper than similar products in the world, and a series of products such as integrated circuits, personal computers, VCD machines, etc., are also our own intellectual property rights. ”

Qi Yiming took a sip of tea and rinsed his mouth, and said with a smile: "So both sides have their own advantages, let's see who compromises more." ”

Entering the negotiation room, it was still according to the usual practice, people on both sides were either bargaining, or looking through the information, anyway, it didn't seem to be very peaceful, Qi Yiming also entered the battle mode, and began to listen to opinions and quickly analyze. This meeting, which was tantamount to bargaining in a vegetable market, finally exhausted Qi Yiming, although the result was not entirely in line with his final vision, but it was not a loss.

China will exchange a large number of integrated circuits, PCs, automobiles, light industrial textiles, processed food, and some handicrafts for hundreds of thousands of tons of agricultural products, chemical fertilizers, steel and other alloy materials, and primary shape plastics from the United States. The entire trade deal is about $4 billion, which is a good economic stimulus for both sides.

If a large number of US agricultural products enter China's circulation market at will, it will certainly be very helpful to solve the situation of China's grain shortage, but it will be a huge blow to the relatively backward domestic farmers in terms of production level, so in addition to a limited amount of them will be put into the market, most of them will be processed into various non-staple foods, and some will even be re-exported after processing, and most of them may be turned into snacks such as potato chips and shrimp crackers, and then returned to the United States.

China, on the other hand, has received a large amount of raw materials from the strong basic industries of the United States, which can be further used in high value-added industries such as automobiles, shipbuilding, aviation, and machinery, which have technological advantages, mainly to meet domestic demand, and some of them can also be exported to earn foreign exchange. After the 70s, the traditional industry of the United States has slowly declined, and it is by relying on the take-off of the electronics industry that it has stabilized its position as an industrial power and won the title of an innovative power.

Qi Yiming's promotion of such trade is actually compressing the development of emerging industries in the United States, even if it cannot kill the electronic technology industry, it is necessary to weaken them, at least concentrate the upstream chains of the wafer industry in their own hands, and fiercely compete in the finished product market. At the very least, the computers sold in the United States are certainly not as technically high as those of domestic computers. Chinese products also have a price advantage, which naturally makes these companies sad. Moreover, at this time, these industries have not yet formed a solid interest group, and it is difficult for them to have enough political status to influence government decision-making like steel and energy companies.

Even in the face of such a thing as an anti-dumping investigation, Qi Yiming can mobilize resources to match these emerging industry groups in the United States.

Qi Yiming, who had completed the business negotiations, was about to leave the Canton Fair, but he didn't expect another American businessman to stop him.

"Hello Mr. Qi, I'm Jameston, from the Pentagon......"

Qi Yiming was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "May I ask why you are contacting me privately?" ”

The Pentagon representative invited him: "If possible, please join us at a dinner, maybe it will be a more appropriate place to talk." ”

"Okay, I'll be at the dinner party." Qi Yiming couldn't figure out the meaning of this person, and left first after promising to do so. He quickly found the personnel of the company's business intelligence department for questioning, but found nothing, so he had to call Liao Huairen to ask him about the situation.

After Liao Huairen answered the phone, he was not ambiguous, and told him: "The Americans want to do an arms business with us. ”

The United States, which has a strong military industry, is not without precedent for purchasing weapons, in fact, a large number of internal parts come from its own allies. Qi Yiming asked, "What do they want to buy?" ”

"It's not to buy, they want to rent two of our 039A submarines for training. Well, you must also know that there is a captain named Li Chun in the Navy, who killed all sides in the Rim of the Pacific joint military exercise, killed several ships in a row with a submarine, and even severely damaged an aircraft carrier, not only the Americans, but also Australia, Canada, and even small Japan are interested in our submarine. The Americans were the first to put forward the idea of building all-nuclear-powered submarines, and building conventional-powered submarines is not in line with the Navy's development strategy. On the one hand, I want to be an imaginary enemy, and on the other hand, I want to learn our AIP skills, which is really shameless. ”

Qi Yiming nodded, not surprised at all. In fact, in the original plane history, the first AIP submarine to be completed was the Gotland, built by the Swedes using Stirling engines, and the Americans rented the AIP submarine in the same way for three years. Sweden, a country, naturally did not have the ability to resist the demands of the NATO leader, so it had to give the submarine to the Americans for study for three years. The Swedes then engaged in the Visby-class stealth corvettes, and the Americans had a lot of interest. This kind of thing happens repeatedly, and there are many techniques in the United States that are definitely not a serious way to go.

The monthly rent of the Gotland is 1.5 million US dollars, and it is more than 50 million after three years of renting, which is actually a lot of money, if you do not consider the leakage of technical skills.

Qi Yiming pursed his lips, it was too cost-effective for him to simply lease to the Americans, and he rented his active ships to the United States, Qi Yiming did not trust the US imperialists so much. He thought for a while and asked Liao Huairen: "Are there any countries that want to buy submarines through official channels?" ”

"I heard that Canada has a relatively strong interest, they themselves only have two submarines in service, and they are both old goods made in Britain in the sixties, and their combat effectiveness is very poor, and the ability shown by our 039A makes them very eager to get her, and it is estimated that now they are discussing how to obtain it, and the transfer of technology should be part of it." Liao Huairen said to Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming smiled and said, "This is no way, I don't plan to spread the AIP's technique out of the AI for a while." 039A is our own guy, for other countries may be a little bigger, we have more than 2,000 tons of submersible displacement of the S20 foreign trade submarine, the performance is naturally lower than 039A, but compared with similar products are still much more advanced. ”

Liao Huairen asked again: "Then how do you plan to reply to the United States?" ”

Qi Yiming said with a sly smile on his face: "If I am willing to rent someone else's house, I plan to design a contract to sell two S20s to Canada, and the United States can choose to rent Canadian submarines." ”

"This is a way to prevent our own active ship skills from leaking out, and Canada is the closest follower of the United States, so it doesn't matter if the Americans peep at it. But aren't you afraid of leaking secrets to the United States? ”

Qi Yiming said: "It's a little bit, but the United States can't build it even if it learns it, and building diesel-electric submarines will have an impact on the layout of the navy's all-nuclear submarines." And we are not the best AIP technique, and we will also have newer and better techniques in the future. What's more, our main submarine is also a nuclear submarine force. ”