Although Leyang Industry has the word "industry", it is completely different from the huge factory in the imagination. It's just a small five-story white building that stands in the Science and Technology Park of Jiading District, Shanghai.

Huang Ligong stood next to Zhang Wenfeng, in the laboratory of Leyang Industry, watching the software engineers busily debugging products in front of the computer. He suddenly remembered the profound art of naming in China: there is no wife in the wife's cake, there are no ants in the ants on the tree, there is no fish in the fish-flavored shredded pork, there is no Buddha in the Buddha jumping over the wall, and there is no lion in the braised lion's head...... The well-known Leyang industry should really be called "Leyang Technology" or "Leyang Software", why do you have to pull on "industry"?

However, this is obviously what Leyang Group meant. Leyang Group, the parent company of Leyang Industries, is headquartered in a provincial capital city in northern China, 1,100 kilometers from Shanghai, and is the star of the local area, with three 33-storey buildings forming a precise triangle and towering over a prime location in the heart of the city. Therefore, there is a joke on the rivers and lakes that the big boss of Leyang is from a mathematics background, and he knows that the triangular relationship is the most stable, and without him, three points determine a plane.

Before coming, Huang Ligong did his homework in the office, inquired about information, and inquired about his peers. Leyang Group has total assets of about 150 billion yuan and holds three listed companies. Leyang New Materials, focusing on the R&D and manufacturing of new energy vehicles, as well as the industrial application of graphene; Leyang environmental protection, focusing on smart energy and environmental protection; The third is Leyang Industry, focusing on industrial software and system integration, helping enterprises to establish digital factories, through big data and AI, the orders, customer locations, factories, costs, machine performance, production line capacity, etc., are connected in real time and completely, and simulation is realized to build a future-oriented digital production.

These are all imaginative fields. On the official leaflet, Leyang Group also stated that it takes the revitalization of the national industry as its own responsibility and is determined to become a respected pioneer of China's real industry. In the future, we will continue to improve the ability of independent innovation in key technologies as the core development goal, based on industry, lead development with innovation, expand and strengthen advantageous industries, work hard, stand side by side with the industry, and walk with the country.

The more Huang Ligong looked at it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't wait for Zhang Wenfeng to be in front of him and give him a big hug, even if the hug was full of coldness and ridicule. Such an avant-garde and forward-looking company with an investment philosophy, a future strategic investor, and an ambitious entrepreneur like him who is brewing a long-lasting business, are simply a partner made in heaven. Zhang Wenfeng's introduction of such an appropriate enterprise into strategic investment is obviously a thoughtful and discerning vision.

After stepping into the Leyang Industrial Office Building, everything I saw was, from a realistic point of view, a breath of cold air, blowing a little cold. From the perspective of attracting investment, it is in his expectations.

Leyang Industry sent product director Lao Fang to accompany him. Lao Fang is not cold all the way, he introduces great achievements in a stereotypical but decent manner, and his words are full of grand narratives that change the world. He repeatedly cited a case study to help a company build a complex and prolific global manufacturing system, with six factories producing and shipping more than 75,000 SKUs from more than 20 product lines, and meeting 600,000 global orders per year; More than 1,000 sets of factory equipment, dozens of continuous assembly lines, similar products in different origins have given different product "formulas" and have different "souls", which is the qualitative change created by Leyang Industrial Software for enterprises......

Huang Ligong didn't seem to understand it, but he didn't care, he didn't listen carefully. What he cares about is that after walking around the three floors, the historical exhibition area, R&D, testing and scene laboratories have all been seen, and Niu Zhaoxu, chairman of Leyang Industry, has not yet appeared. The appointment time was 10 a.m., but 10 a.m. passed, and there was no official notice that the time or itinerary would be changed. Lao Fang just mentioned casually that Niu Zhaoxu was in a meeting. What is this signal? Changed your mind and are not interested in Ruili Technology? Looking at Zhang Wenfeng, who was not indifferent to him, Huang Ligong suppressed the suspicion in his heart.

When it was close to lunchtime, Lao Fang took them to the small conference room, only to see Niu Zhaoxu hurrying over.

In the media materials of listed companies, Niu Zhaoxu is full of black hair, although he is a post-70s generation, he has a reverse growth appearance of the post-80s, and there is not even a wrinkle on his face. When I sat opposite Huang Ligong, Huang Ligong smiled secretly in his heart, a big man, the photo still needs to be beautified. Niu Zhaoxu's hair is sparse, his head is lined with four or five lines, and his crow's feet are contrasting, but his eyes are quite sharp, which is very in line with the image of a professional manager. Although he is the chairman of Leyang Industry, he does not hold many shares, and he was poached by Leyang Industry from the last listed company.

After a few polite greetings, Huang Ligong immediately found that the atmosphere was a little wrong. Niu Zhaoxu in front of him spoke, claiming to be discussing and discussing, but in fact, he was using a magnifying glass, picking bones in eggs, all kinds of pickiness, between offense and defense, each with its own advances and retreats.

The topic of offense and defense was triggered by the reducer.

"High-precision RV reducer, you dare to do it?" After listening to Huang Ligong's eloquent introduction, Niu Zhaoxu squinted his eyes and asked casually.

The spring in Huang Ligong's heart suddenly tightened. In the process of telling, he has been paying attention to Niu Zhaoxu's expression, always nodding his head, with a smile, his eyes shining from time to time, with a look of approval and even encouragement. He was greatly encouraged by this, his expression was high-spirited, and he was a little more depressed than usual, but Niu Zhaoxu's first sentence went straight to the point. It's a cliché to talk about, and it's not unconventional, Huang Ligong has been repeatedly sniped on different occasions. However, the problem is different from the problem, and Huang Ligong keenly captures one word, "dare". The word has an unusually rich subtext, almost mockery and pity.

"Oh...... I don't dare to touch this, how can I stand side by side with the industry and the country? Huang Ligong resisted his impulse and replied dryly.

The atmosphere in the field suddenly became solemn. Niu Zhaoxu pretended not to hear the last two familiar words, and even showed an innocent look on his face, met Huang Ligong's eyes, and said, "China has not yet produced a qualified nail clipper, and such a small thing needs to be imported from Japan and South Korea, so how can the market believe that it will produce high-precision reducers?" Its requirements for precision, rigidity and stability are not a little higher than those of nail clippers. ”

"Oh? Cows are always the news interpretation that they watched ten years ago, right? Huang Ligong smiled and continued, "This kind of situation has existed in China, but it was more than ten years ago. We could have made it a long time ago. ”

"A company, on the one hand, shouting that it can supply independently, on the other hand, the vast majority of it is still importing, Mr. Huang, which side do you say the market will believe?"

"It's so absolute. The real reason why we still have to import from abroad is that the market size is too small, and enterprises have no incentive to produce. It is impossible for China to produce everything, and only through division of labor and cooperation and global supply chain can it develop in an orderly manner. ”

"Listen to what you mean, all products in all industries, China can make them. That's true, but being able to make and making well are two different things. Niu Zhaoxu tapped his fingers lightly on the table and said, "Stability is not good, the performance of the product fluctuates too much, it can't stand the test of time, and I'm afraid it won't be competitive if it's made." Let's just say two gadgets, the tip of the ballpoint pen, we couldn't make it at first, and then carried out scientific and technological research, and a small number of products entered the market for inspection in the past few years. The data is there, and the defective rate of Japanese material processing nibs is 1 in 10,000; The defective rate of domestic materials is 1 in 1,000, and the initial defect rate even reaches 2 to 3 percent. There are also zippers, which can be made in China, and a lot of them have been made, but 60% of the global market and 90% of the patents are in the hands of a Japanese company, monopolizing the high-end market. These realities cannot be crossed over by shouting two slogans. ”

Huang Ligong almost wanted to stare at Niu Zhaoxu, was this a defense or a talk about investment. He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Niu, then let's talk about nail clippers." Nail clippers are a small thing, but from the perspective of the production process, it is indeed the epitome of Made in China, and the reducer is similar. He realized that Niu Zhaoxu has a lot of research on technology and industry, and he is not the kind of goods that will be confused in the black words of the industry, so he pulled the topic back and took it seriously. The production of nail clippers, as with many mechanical products, is all about precision and carbon content control. There are two lifeblood of precision, one is material and process. No matter how small the nail clippers are, the material used is carbon steel, if the carbon content of each roll of steel is not the same, when the quenching heat is hot, there will be uneven hardness, although it is very small, and it is refracted to the finished product, that is, the stability of the product is not good. ”

Niu Zhaoxu leaned back in the chair, stretched out his hands, and said, "Mr. Huang is on point." I have a friend who opened a nail clipper factory and started to try domestic carbon steel, and the carbon content span is too large, compared with the tolerance level of Japanese steel, it is more than doubled. In the end, it had to be imported entirely from Japan. ”

Huang Ligong shook his head unceremoniously, "Mr. Niu, industrial things are not inferred like this. You must know that compared with the carbon steel of nail clippers, bearing steel is more difficult and more demanding, and it must be resistant to high temperatures, high pressures, and various corrosions. But in this area, the level of domestic production has caught up, you look at the automobile market, less than 300,000 cars, many of them are made of domestic bearing steel. Nail clippers cannot be extrapolated to cars, let alone RV reducers. ”

Niu Zhaoxu remained silent, "The most important thing for bearing steel is to resist fatigue, there is no way, just like the boss, it is always rotating in a continuous shaft." Wherever there is a fragile impurity, even a little bit that is not visible, it will crack from there, causing the entire machine to spiral out of control – and the life cycle will be drastically shortened. Sweden's SKF company, the king of bearing steel, has been able to achieve the oxygen content of bearing steel infinitely close to zero. I'm afraid the requirements for RV reducers are the same, not less than 300,000, right?! ”

Huang Ligong finally glared at Niu Zhaoxu fiercely. "Mr. Niu, listen to me first! There's a second lifeline. ”

"Oh?"

"Low-price competition, low-threshold competition. Chinese love to talk about good quality and low price, and the consumer market is like this, but we all know that modern large-scale production, from the material and process can be squeezed out of the cost is not even fly meat. Therefore, in the end, low-price competition will become cutting corners and shoddy, so as to have a price advantage. Since you have a friend who makes nail clippers, you will know that in the past, China was also a big producer of nail clippers, and there were hundreds of them. However, most of them are cheap and cheap, and now they are all out of business, and the inventory products can be sold for ten or eight years, and they are all sold on the flyover. ”

"Isn't this what I call a vicious circle?"

Huang Ligong stretched out his index finger, poked it on the table, and said unceremoniously, "Shoulder to shoulder with the industry and the country...... With all due respect, Mr. Niu, your understanding of industrial investment is very superficial. ”

Niu Zhaoxu looked normal, "Then I'll listen to Mr. Huang's profound insights." ”

"Your understanding of industrial entrepreneurship is fundamentally wrong. Do you think that industrial entrepreneurs should stay in the factory every day, staring at materials and machine tools, eager to polish parts and assemble products by themselves, just like farmer entrepreneurs, they should roll up their trouser legs and plant rice in the field, otherwise they will not be qualified?! Do you think that to break this vicious circle, you can only focus on the hardness of materials and processes, otherwise there is no way out?! ”

"Or else?"

"In our era, in this market, without the determination to overtake in corners, we can't kill at all. This is what Chinese entrepreneurs really want to focus on. Huang Ligong stared at Niu Zhaoxu, just like staring at the doubts and disdain he had encountered in the past, "If the materials and processes are blocked again, we will always find a way to get in." I can't do this thing, what kind of business can I create? With the same materials and processes, we will create products that are more powerful than them. As long as you rush up and bring the market up, materials and processes will follow. ”

"Those who used to make reducers also thought the same way."

"That's because they didn't run fast enough! If you can't overtake the car, you'll be thrown off the track. Whether the Kunpeng robot runs fast enough or not is visible to the market. As for the cow, whether you can see it or not depends on whether you want to see it or not. Huang Ligong had lost his patience, pressed his hand on the table, and stood up, "In the difficulties and desperate situations, what critics see is that there is no hope, and entrepreneurs see how to break through." To do a business, at the beginning of the thought of all kinds of impossible, before the leg was frightened, such a person is not suitable for entrepreneurship, not suitable for business. We just have to carry the bag of explosives, turn the impossible into the possible, find hope through the cracks, and see the dawn and light from the dark night. You don't agree, no problem. Time will tell! One day we may meet again, and we may cooperate, but when the time comes, we will consider whether to vote for you, not for you. Hopefully, you'll give me hope when the time comes. ”

Huang Ligong turned around and left the conference room directly. Niu Zhaoxu's face was expressionless, his eyes stared at Huang Ligong leaving, and it took a long time to turn to Zhang Wenfeng. Zhang Wenfeng was looking at him, also expressionless.

Zhang Wenfeng was actually a little puzzled in his heart. Niu Zhaoxu is not such a person, he doesn't talk much, he is quite urban, and he rarely likes to be angry, let alone aggressive. When Zhang Wenfeng met him, he was still in a listed company in industrial manufacturing. After jumping to Leyang Industry, he saw that the company's performance was beautiful and its competitiveness was not bad, so he planned to expand upstream and develop intelligent manufacturing and automation. Zhang Wenfeng knew that it was a shortcut to persuade him to acquire a target with a certain scale and potential. The two hit it off, and so there was this investment meeting. Unexpectedly, it became a debate competition.

Niu Zhaoxu showed a hint of a smile, "You buddy is okay, you can get things done." ”

"And you're still annoying him? It's almost time to fight. ”

"I didn't expect him to have such a character. It is not easy to do business in China; It is even more rare to have a character and get on the right road. ”

"That's going down?"

Niu Zhaoxu nodded.

"I've never seen you dig to the bottom like this?!" Zhang Wenfeng said with a smile, and the stone in his heart fell.

Niu Zhaoxu looked up at the ceiling, seemed to be relieved, and said, "I always have to find out, it's not a small amount." You're right, vote for him, no matter what angle you look at, we'll be safe after all. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled.