There is no doubt that the Big Three are focused on acquiring rare earth concentrates containing neodymium.

However, the purchase price of Sumitomo Special Metals was actually lower than that of Hitachi Metals, which Zhong Bai did not expect.

It stands to reason that it was the NdFeB permanent magnet first discovered by Mato Sagawa of Sumitomo Special Metals, so the company should be the most used, and the sincerity of the acquisition should also be the largest.

However, the purchase price is not the highest, which means that their acquisition must not be as important as Hitachi Metals.

Of course, Zhong Bai does not rule out the possibility that the members of Sumitomo Special Metals' purchasing and selling companies are very capable and have a very good attitude, which leads to their larger acquisitions, but the possibility of this gap between the three major clubs is very small.

Then, the most likely thing is that Sumitomo Special Metals is not actually focused on the first-line office of the Baiyun Obo mining area, but on the second acquisition in RB China!

Although secondary acquisitions are a rare phenomenon among the highly competitive RB peers, the possibility cannot be completely ruled out.

At least according to the memories of previous lives, in fact, in the mid-to-late 80s, the company that had the most patented technology for NdFeB permanent magnets was not the first to discover its Sumitomo Special Metals, but Hitachi Metals.

Zhong Bai does not have the memory of the specific relationship between these two clubs, but as long as he works backwards from the facts, he can draw a conclusion that the two clubs must have cooperated at the headquarters of RB, and the degree of cooperation is not low!

Otherwise, how could such a bizarre phenomenon occur?

But in any case, preventing the three giants from completing the acquisition of rare earth concentrate is Zhongbai's primary goal at present.

Just when he was thinking hard about the specific method and had no clue, the waiter at the guest house knocked on the door and came in: "Comrade Zhong Bai, there is your phone." ”

"Okay, I'll go downstairs and pick it up right away."

Because the level of the guest house of the Urban Industrial Bureau is not high, it is not equipped with a telephone in every room like the guest house of the Ministry of Industry in Beijing, but a switchboard on the first floor, so Zhong Bai immediately put on his shoes and went downstairs.

"Brother Zhong, hello! I'm Fan Yuliang! You've found you! The young and excited voice on the other end of the phone immediately reminded Zhong Bai of the Chinese boy he met in his hometown of Nanyun Province before leaving Beijing University, that is, the one who was introduced to the "Mystery" magazine by himself.

"Ah, is it Fan Yuliang? How did you get your call here? What's the matter? Zhong Bai's voice was very surprised, obviously he didn't expect why Fan Yuliang would suddenly call him, and he still called here to find himself.

"It's a long story...... "When Fan Yuliang explained the reason to Zhong Bai clearly, he was a little surprised!

It turned out that after Zhong Bai asked Deputy Mayor Wei Haifan of the 35th Division last time to successfully help arrange for Fan Yuliang to go to the "Mystery" magazine for an internship, it was originally a rule that Fan Yuliang would not be allowed to go to Spring City until March after the year.

But things have clearly taken some unexpected turns.

"Mystery" magazine said that in February, they sent an industrial illustrated article, and they couldn't find an editor to do it in a short time, so they thought of Fan Yuliang, who was introduced by the Nanyun Provincial Association for Science and Technology, and hoped that he could go to Spring City immediately and come to the magazine to work.

"Mystery" is a national monthly popular science magazine, which is published on time on the 1st of each month to the major newsstands and post and telecommunications offices across the country, which means that the manuscript of the next month must be prepared and completed before the 15th of the first month, and then leave four or five days for review, proofreading, and typesetting before it will be taken to the printing house for printing.

Coincidentally, Zhong Bai had already given Fan Yuliang the materials that had been prepared for a long time and had a popular science article on NdFeB permanent magnets, and asked him to find an opportunity to write a good article.

Under these two coincidences, Fan Yuliang boldly agreed to the "Mystery" magazine, and after Zhong Bai left the capital, he also stepped on the train to Spring City to report to the "Mystery" magazine!

After going, the editor-in-chief told Fan Yuliang to ask him to take out this article as soon as possible, because the illustrations also need time for those masters to follow-up paintings, and time waits for no one.

But Fan Yuliang only read Zhong Bai's materials at that time, and he didn't have time to write a formal article, and the pressure from the editor-in-chief was too great, so he had to write a first draft and submit it within five days after the report.

As a result, the editor-in-chief came to the conclusion after reading it: the excavation is not deep enough, the perspective is too shallow, and the characteristics of this new type of permanent magnet are only expounded from a scientific point of view, and the depth and breadth of the manuscript need to be further improved.

This task is a bit too heavy for a young intern editor who has just been interning for less than a week.

Fan Yuliang spent another day and a night without sleep to change the second edition, but he was still criticized - after all, since the inception of "Mystery" magazine, it has taken the high-quality route, and it is definitely not the kind of stall literature that was popular back then, plus Fan Yuliang was recommended by the Provincial Association for Science and Technology, and the editor-in-chief and management of the magazine have high expectations for him.

In desperation, Fan Yuliang tossed and turned, and only thought of one way to break his scalp - that is, to find the author of this material, that is, Zhong Bai, for help.

Fortunately, Fan Yuliang remembered that the other party mentioned to him that he was in the research group of Professor Xu Guangxian of the school, so after making several calls to the Academic Affairs Office, he learned that the research group had gone to the Baiyun Obo mining area.

Because he didn't know which guest house Zhong Bai lived in, Fan Yuliang simply played the operation of looking for a needle in a haystack, called the local post and telecommunications office, asked about the phone number of each guest house, and then called one by one to ask if there was Comrade Zhong Bai.

There are more guest houses in Baiyun Obo mining area than ordinary county seats, and poor our classmate Fan Yuliang made more than ten phone calls, and his heart was a little empty, what to do if he couldn't find Zhong Bai, and finally contacted the other party in the guest house of the Industrial Bureau, and then told Zhong Bai about the trouble he encountered in writing the manuscript.

In the end, Fan Yuliang's tone was already a rhythm of pleading: "Brother Zhong, it's not that I don't work hard, but I haven't participated in the work after all, and I don't have such a deep understanding of your profession, this article ...... Can you guide me through a thing or two? The editor-in-chief said that he must be changed within five days, otherwise he will be given the impression that the leader is not working well, and I will not have a good time this year! ”

"There is no need for guidance, since you are so short on time and the two of us are not in the same place, then ......" Zhong Bai smiled slightly and said, "I will simply write this article!" I'll find a way to fax it to you after I'm done, you can use it directly, and there shouldn't be any problems on the editor-in-chief's side! ”

"Huh? You...... You personally helped me write it, ......?! ”

Fan Yuliang on the other end of the phone was so surprised that he almost didn't throw away the microphone!