"The current situation has not been fully investigated, I will tell you the latest situation as soon as possible, by the way, maybe Mr. Luca's side, you need to inform him, this time is a mistake on the Chinese side, but we will definitely not let him be exposed, Muyang, try to keep this line." Zhou Hongxiang said.

"I see, I'll talk to Mr. Luca." Muyang Road.

Muyang hung up the phone, his fingers tapped on the table, but he thought of an incident that had happened before, the Toshiba incident.

In the early 80s of the 20th century, Japan's Toshiba Machinery Co., Ltd. sold high-precision CNC machine tools that could be used to process marine propellers to the former Soviet Union behind the back of the Paris Coordinating Committee, and this event that shook the international political arena was called the "Toshiba Incident". The background began with the competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union in nuclear submarine technology.

According to statistics, the former Soviet Union had 256 attack nuclear submarines, while the United States had only 96, but the United States' nuclear submarines were less noisy, and the Soviet Union's nuclear submarines were noisy. Under normal circumstances, American anti-submarine systems can detect and identify the characteristics of former Soviet nuclear submarines when they are 200 nautical miles away. Therefore, if the former Soviet Union does not try to clear the noise as soon as possible, in the event of a war, the former Soviet Union's nuclear submarines will be a pile of scrap metal. The noise of nuclear submarines is mainly caused by propellers.

In 1981, the former Soviet Union sought to import MBP-110 milling machine from Japan's Toshiba Machine Corporation. Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. was well aware that the export of this machine tool to the member countries of the Economic and Mutual Cooperation Commission was absolutely prohibited on the manifest of the Paris Coordinating Committee, so it applied for the export of the TDP70-110 machine tool in accordance with the Batumi regulations. The export amount is four MBP-110 milling machines with a total price of 20 million US dollars. It's equivalent to $5 million per unit, and the transaction took 83 years.

At the time of loading, Toshiba Machine Company played a trick. Deceived all the officials of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry and Customs, and even sent personnel to Leningrad to install and debug machine tools. The effect was soon shown, and the noise of the new Soviet attack nuclear submarine was reduced to one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the original level, and the American submarine had to get closer to within 20 nautical miles to detect it. For the United States to maintain its superiority, it must improve its anti-submarine systems, which is estimated to cost between $20 billion and $40 billion.

After the revelations, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced that it would ban Toshiba Machinery from exporting products to 14 countries for one year, which alone cost Toshiba $100 million.

The United States retaliated even more strongly against Toshiba Corporation, which forgot its "righteousness" for profit. Congress passed a bill to ban Toshiba Corporation's electronics from entering the U.S. market. In Japan, many parties have been arrested. The head of Toshiba Machinery Corporation and even Toshiba Corporation resigned one after another, and for a time Toshiba's stock price plummeted, and the company was in trouble.

Historically, it has been used for high-grade machine tools in the military industry. It's all strictly controlled by various countries. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a strategic material, even if one or two units are occasionally exported to China, the embassy of the other side will come to the door to register, and even conduct regular inspections, which must be written into the import treaty, that is, to avoid being used in the military industry.

The batch of machine tools secretly shipped back to China by Muyang, although there is no after-sales service, the price is still relatively high. But there is one of the biggest benefits, that is, it will not be monitored by the exporting country. This is also the most important point for the military.

I don't know how many people will be involved in this leak.

Two days later, Muyang called from China again, and the person who called was Vice Minister Li Yanping.

"Xiao Mu, what happened this time may involve you." Minister Li came up and directly told Muyang a bad news, perhaps, this is also the reason why Minister Li called Muyang directly.

"The matter has been basically investigated, an American spy who is very deep in the lurk, reported this matter to the United States, and the United States notified the German side, and then Germany and the United States put pressure on the country at the same time, although we pushed back, but this matter is not over." Minister Li said.

"Internally, the spy has been arrested by us, and at the same time, the relevant responsible persons have also been dealt with accordingly, this matter is very serious, the leader attaches great importance to it, and now the leader wants me to communicate with you to see if this line can be kept."

When Muyang heard it, good guy, the matter is not over yet, and he still wants to continue to buy, who does China love, but it is estimated that he has tasted the sweetness.

"Minister Li, I have communicated with Mr. Luca before, and the other party is a little disappointed in us, but since this transaction has been agreed, the other party said that it can continue to be completed, but this time the goods will not be directly transported in Germany, because that will definitely be seized by German customs, and they are ready to take another international route, but we need to pay additional transportation costs, and the price is not low." Muyang Road.

"Say yes." Minister Li replied very dryly.

Muyang has always felt that the country may feel that there is such an opportunity, I don't know if there is such an opportunity next time, I can buy it with money this time, and I may not be able to buy it with money next time.

"Okay, I'll contact the other party, as for the transportation, Luca said that he would notify me when the time comes, and I will contact the domestic one at that time." Muyang Road.

"It's better that way. However, Xiao Mu, this is a rare channel, very important, I hope you can seize this line, make friends with each other, no matter where you are transferred in the future, don't let go of this relationship, maybe you can buy other equipment through the other party in the future. Minister Li said.

Mu Yang's heart moved, Minister Li had something to say.

"Next, it's about you, you have not worked in the consulate in Munich, Germany for a long time, only more than a year, but the results are obvious to all, to us in the country to actively attract investment, but also the domestic thirst for high-end machine tool enterprises."

"I have also read the report you handed over some time ago on the acquisition of German machine tool companies by Chinese companies, and also reported it to Minister Yang, who also handed it over to the leaders above for review after reading it. I have to say that you have a lot of ideas, especially the analysis of German machine tool companies, which is very in place. ”

"Especially in that section, the German investment environment is excellent, the German machine tool enterprises are the world's top, but there is a hidden crisis, the machine is good, the price is high, the customer is gradually seized by the lower price of the enterprise, the analysis is indeed in place, the leaders are now considering, is not to carry out a large-scale acquisition of German enterprises."

"And in the construction of the country, you have also made achievements, the last machine tool procurement, you are all working to complete, many state-owned enterprises are now looking forward to it."

When Mu Yang heard these words, although he was a little happy, he realized more that there should be a turning point waiting for him.

Yes, you don't need to wait for Muyang to wait, just listen to Minister Li continue. (To be continued.) )