The day after Daystar and the European Space Agency officially signed the contract, the first batch of contract funds went to Daystar Technology's account.

The first batch of Starlink satellites from the European Space Agency was officially airlifted to Yangcheng, ready to be launched a week later.

These arrangements are all announced on the official website of the European Space Agency and the official WeChat account of Daystar.

In Europe, after Cao Yang participated in the signing event of Daystar Technology, he signed a super large order with Volkswagen for the purchase of gearboxes.

In the next five years, Volkswagen will purchase more than 5 million units of 6AT, 8AT and 10AT automatic transmissions from Nanshan Transmission worldwide, with a contract value of more than 50 billion yuan.

These actions have come out one after another, which has brought a huge impact to many enterprises.

"Okumura, Volkswagen has completely walked with Nanshan Gearbox, and actually signed a large order to purchase 5 million gearboxes in 5 years."

Hisato Yoshikawa looked at the news of Volkswagen and Nanshan Transmission reported on Yahoo Toei's website, and his heart was quite heavy.

In the past, Aisin was also a supplier to Volkswagen, and even in the American market, Volkswagen has recently been communicating with Aisin to prepare to use Aisin's transmissions on some models.

But this scale is definitely not as much as 1 million units a year.

More often than not, Volkswagen's purchase of transmissions from Aisin is part of a diversified supply system, and it does not really want to cooperate with Aisin in depth.

Otherwise, Volkswagen would not have signed such a strategic cooperation agreement with Nanshan Transmission.

On the Aisin side, Volkswagen has never mentioned signing such a thing.

"Volkswagen's market distribution determines that it is impossible for them to give up the Chinese market, after all, it is their largest market outside of Germany."

"The parent company of Nanshan Transmission has a strong influence in the Huaxia automotive industry, and even Volkswagen's two partners in Huaxia have a very close relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group."

"In this case, if Volkswagen wants to develop smoothly in China, it can't always offend Nanshan Gearbox."

"Their choice is not so much that the Nanshan gearbox has defeated us, but that the Huaxia market has defeated the Dongying market."

Okumura is the head of Aisin's sales headquarters and is responsible for global sales.

He is very familiar with the ideas of various OEMs.

To some extent, his analysis cannot be said to be unreasonable.

"The Huaxia auto market is already the largest in the world, and it is still growing every year."

"In this case, we really can't compare with their market influence."

"But we can't let the Nanshan gearbox continue to develop, otherwise our situation will become more and more troublesome."

Hisato Yoshikawa sensed a crisis in the cooperation between Volkswagen and Namsan Transmission.

Ford Motor and General Motors will continue to use their own transmissions in the future.

Honda and Nissan, the two car companies, are also basically using their own transmissions.

Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW basically rarely use Aisin's transmissions, and people consider more ZF and Nanshan transmissions.

As for the Korean car companies, they also have their own transmission companies and will not purchase them from outside.

As a result, Aisin can basically only do Toyota's business.

Despite Toyota's size, the business of this company alone can make Aisin a world-renowned transmission company.

But Hisato Yoshikawa is definitely not willing to simply supply Toyota.

"If you want to compete with Nanshan gearbox, you must have enough advantages in cost."

"Otherwise, it will be difficult to attract various car companies to change their minds."

Okumura knew that compared to technology, Aisin and Nanshan gearboxes did not have any special advantages.

As for the quality, there have been no major problems with the products of Nanshan Gearbox over the years, not to mention that the quality is better than Aisin, at least it will not be worse.

Then the only thing that can be compared is the cost.

If this point is compared with European and American companies, Aisin will definitely have an advantage.

But compared with the Nanshan gearbox as a Chinese enterprise, it is completely insufficient.

In Toei, a worker in his thirties can earn more than 3 million yen a year.

Around 2013, when the value of the yen was relatively high, one yuan could only be exchanged for about 13 yen, and even exaggerated for 12 yen.

In later generations, 1 yuan could be exchanged for 20 yen, or even 21 yen.

In this way, the annual salary of Dongying's workers has gone to more than 200,000 yuan, close to 300,000 yuan.

In Huaxia, companies with an annual salary of 100,000 yuan for front-line workers are definitely conscientious enterprises in the industry.

Even in 2013, workers were able to get an annual salary of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, which was already very good.

There is a big difference in labor costs, and there will be a big gap in the processing costs, management fees, and development costs of parts.

Even this will lead to a series of things such as raw materials and purchased parts that you buy are higher than Huaxia, and the final production cost is higher than Huaxia, which is a normal thing.

"If you want to reduce costs, you can only build factories on the ground where labor costs are relatively low."

"In the future, all the gearboxes we supply in the Huaxia market will be produced in the Huaxia factory."

"The gearboxes supplied in other markets will be produced in Southeast Asia or Mexico as much as possible to reduce production costs to the greatest extent."

Hisato Yoshikawa was forced to make a difficult decision.

For many Dongying enterprises, all parts are produced locally in Dongying and then sold all over the world, which is the situation they want to see the most.

This is also the most trouble-free situation for them.

It's just that in the fierce market competition, this situation is destined to be unsustainable.

Unless you produce products that have their own unique advantages on a global scale, others have to choose to buy from you all the time.

Otherwise, in the end, this kind of enterprise that is unwilling to go abroad must not be able to continue to develop and grow.

"Raw materials, components, equipment and other things have to be purchased locally from the production plant in an all-round way to fully reflect the cost advantage."

"Especially in Huaxia, we have to achieve the same cost level as Nanshan gearbox as much as possible, or even lower cost."

Okumura specifically emphasized the situation in the Huaxia market, which made Hisato Yoshikawa a little depressed.

Because everything is produced in China, this is actually not in line with the development strategy that Aisin has formulated internally.

However, the situation is stronger than people, and if Aisin does not make some changes, it will be very difficult to get more orders in Huaxia in the future.

Unlike the internal entanglement of Aisin, BMW Huaxia is much more optimistic about the agreement signed by the headquarters and Nanshan Transmission.

"Vondel, the headquarters has completely figured it out this time, so our situation in Huaxia should be much better."

"At least Nanshan Automobile Group shouldn't be targeting us."

Strauss has been frightened in recent months.

Affected by the DSG gearbox, the sales of the entire Volkswagen in China fell by 30% this year compared with last year.

Although sales have stabilized in the last month and have not continued to decline, there is no sign of recovery.

Faced with this situation, Strauss was very depressed.

Now I finally see some hope

"This is indeed very good news for our Huaxia branch."

"For some other parts in the future, we can also increase cooperation with Nanshan auto parts and thoroughly integrate into the Chinese market."

Even the core parts such as the gearbox choose to cooperate with Nanshan gearbox, and other parts do not have too much tangled meaning.

Anyway, if you don't buy from Nanshan auto parts, you have to buy from other parts companies.

The final cost may be even greater.

In this case, it is better to consider Nanshan Auto Parts, maybe a car on Nanshan Automobile Group's parts share has increased, and the other party will find a way to help Volkswagen increase sales in China.

At least when Volkswagen faces competition from Toyota, GM and other car companies, the other party is likely to be on its side.

"Well, I think so too."

"Now Ford and General Motors are going to make their own gearboxes, which will definitely have a certain impact on the cooperative relationship between Changan Ford and Modu GM and Nanshan Automobile Group."

"With the elimination of one and the other, our relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group can be taken to a higher level."

"Chuncheng Automobile Group and Modu Automobile Group must still hope that our sales can continue to increase."

"When the time comes, you can also communicate with them more and see how we can strengthen the cooperative relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group."

In the past, Vondel had always refused to admit defeat, and felt that Nanshan Automobile Group was nothing remarkable.

But now that he has been beaten so many times, his attitude can be regarded as a complete change.

"Why don't we find a time to visit Nanshan Automobile Group, on the one hand, to visit the Nanshan transmission factory, and on the other hand, to communicate with their senior management, as much as possible to establish some trust relations."

"Although the Huaxia market is already the world's largest automobile market, everyone believes that the scale of this market will continue to expand."

"In the future, maybe the second, third and fourth companies in the market will not be able to compare with Huaxia alone."

When Strauss said this, Vondel couldn't help but nod.

Now that they have chosen to bow their heads, let's make the relationship better.

That's how you can maximize your benefits.

……

Volkswagen's change, as the same German car companies Mercedes-Benz and BMW, are also in the eyes.

BMW has always had a good relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group over the years, and now the relationship between the two sides has deepened because of the development of electric vehicles.

So Phillips and Amoha are just paying attention to the cooperation between Volkswagen and Nanshan Automobile Group, and they don't have any special anxiety.

But on the Mercedes side, the situation is a little different.

"August, if we want to get the same growth rate as BMW in China, then it is necessary to have a good relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group."

"Not to mention letting the other party support our development in Huaxia, at least they can't often take the initiative to jump out and oppose us."

"That's the long-term solution."

Yang Ming has been the sales director of Mercedes-Benz Huaxia for many years.

Over the years, he has not contributed at all, after all, it can be regarded as a continuous increase in sales with Mercedes-Benz.

But everything is afraid of comparison.

Not to mention compared with other car companies, just compared with BMW, Mercedes-Benz Huaxia's sales are much behind BMW Huaxia.

Looking at the world, the sales volume of the two of them has always been relatively close, and their positioning is relatively similar.

This situation must be unacceptable to many people within Mercedes-Benz Huaxia.

Why am I not as good as others?

It's not normal.

"Nanshan Automobile Group has not achieved the point of covering the sky with one hand in Huaxia, right?"

"They are nothing more than a few brands such as Xingchen Automobile, Jaguar Land Rover, Future Auto and Nanshan Hongqi."

"The global sales of these brands are not at all the same level as Mercedes-Benz's global sales."

August was clearly still a little downcast.

Let him bow to a Chinese company, it is really more difficult than killing him.

This made Yang Ming very depressed.

When he encounters such an iron-headed boss, he doesn't know what to do.

He had even already thought about reporting to the headquarters to see if he could replace Auguste.

In that way, Mercedes-Benz's sales in China may be able to go to the next level.

"Although it can't be said to cover the sky with one hand, it may be a little difficult for people to make you more successful, but they have enough strength to make you a failure."

"August, I'm sure you don't want to see the failure of Mercedes-Benz in China, right?"

"Ten years ago, who would have thought that the car market in China would be what it is now?"

"In Huaxia, everything is really possible."

Yang Ming's words directly silenced Auguste.

But fortunately, he is also a reasonable person, and he knows that what Yang Ming said makes sense, so even if he is very unhappy in his heart, he does not lose his temper at Yang Ming.

If it were replaced by some people from Dongying or Goryeo, I'm afraid it wouldn't be the same thing.

"Volkswagen's cooperation with Nanshan Automobile Group this time also takes into account these factors you mentioned?"

Volkswagen's status in Germany is higher than that of Mercedes-Benz, or its influence is greater.

So in response to the changes in Volkswagen, August is naturally also in the eyes.

Now that Yang Ming is discussing this topic with himself, it is inevitable that he will discuss this aspect of the content.

"Although there is no evidence, I think the probability is very high."

"On the one hand, Volkswagen's self-developed DSG does have such and such problems, so it is impossible for them to insist that all models use their own transmissions, which will definitely lead to more consumer complaints and recalls, which is something that Volkswagen cannot accept."

"So it was inevitable to change the gearbox of some of these models to an automatic transmission."

"In the field of AT gearbox, the QCD comprehensive level of Nanshan gearbox is the strongest, and it has a special influence in China, so it is inevitable that Volkswagen chooses to cooperate with Nanshan gearbox."

"On the other hand, after Huaxia 3.15 exposed the problem of Volkswagen's DSG, many local car companies and media in Huaxia jumped out to deal with Volkswagen, among which Autohome and Weibo had the most negative news."

"And these two platforms are all industries under the Nanshan system, and they are completely under Cao Yang's command."

"There's no way Volkswagen doesn't know this."

Yang Ming said it so bluntly, August naturally understood.

At this time, he also felt that he needed to think about the development of Mercedes-Benz in China.

In the past, Mercedes-Benz cars were very arrogant, thinking that no matter what it was, they had to go according to their rhythm.

But now the competition in the Huaxia luxury car market has also begun to become fierce.

Centron Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, and Audi all performed better than Mercedes.

Lexus and Cadillac are also in hot pursuit, and Ford's Lincoln is also preparing to be produced in China.

Coupled with brands such as Porsche and Volvo, which do not sell badly, the situation faced by Mercedes-Benz is actually not so optimistic.

If you don't pay attention, in a few years, maybe the sales of Mercedes-Benz cars will not even be able to keep the position of the top 5 luxury cars.

This was certainly not something that Auguste could accept.

"We also have a good report with the headquarters, and we will try our best to have a good relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group in Huaxia."

"Some parts don't have to look for Bosch and Continental, and it is also possible to find Nanshan auto parts, which also makes Bosch have a sense of crisis."

Once you've figured it out, some decisions are easier to make.

"Well, if that's the case, then it's good for our development in Huaxia."

……

If all car companies see the cooperation between Volkswagen and Nanshan Transmission to reflect on how they will develop in China in the future, then the formal cooperation between the European Space Agency and Daystar Technology has completely stimulated the relevant departments in the United States.

In particular, the day after the contract was officially signed, the two sides announced that the European Space Agency's Starlink satellite will use Daystar 9 for its first launch within next week.

This speed made the American side feel the crisis.

They will never accept that both China and Europe have built the Starlink system before them.

In addition, the relevant departments in the United States have also been grasping some secret news about Daystar Technology in recent times.

Therefore, many people have begun to plan how to give Daystar Technology a ruthless blow.

Since the United States and China were still at the tail end of the honeymoon period in 2013, the relationship between us was not so stiff.

Therefore, the relevant departments in the United States were still relatively restrained in the subordinate enterprises of Nanshan Group as a whole, and they did not do too much.

However, the United States found that there was no way to completely contain the development of the Nanshan Group by this method, so it naturally began to think of some new methods.

"John, I think the five/corner/building must correctly recognize the huge threat brought to us by the rapid development of Daystar Technology."

"Whether it is the R&D and production of various UAVs and the construction of the Starlink satellite system, it is very unfavorable for us."

"The most critical thing is that I got the news that Daystar Technology is in contact with Persia and North Korea and is preparing to launch reconnaissance satellites for them."

Gryffin, as NASA's director, is now disgraced.

Since the polar bears fell and regrouped, NASA's highlight moment is over.

Without such sufficient funds, it is much more difficult for he, the director, to make money through various means.

But the most important thing is that now his old face is a little out of place.

The dignified aerospace industry in the United States is actually about to be surpassed by a private enterprise in China.

This is absolutely intolerable.

Just like a Hollywood blockbuster, it must be the heroes of America who save the planet.

The most developed and technologically advanced aerospace industry must be the American enterprises.

Any competitor who challenges this conclusion must be suppressed.

Even the development of the space industry in Europe has been suppressed by the United States, let alone other countries.

"Daystar launches reconnaissance satellites for Persia and North Korea?"

John was taken aback when he heard this, "Is this news accurate?" ”

As an important member of the five/corner/building responsible for contacting various enterprises and other institutions, John's information is also very well-informed.

But what Gryfin said, he had apparently heard for the first time.

"The news is very accurate, these two satellites will be officially launched this year."

"If Daystar's side moves fast enough, maybe next quarter we'll see the news of them using Daystar 9 to help those two evil targets launch reconnaissance satellites."

Gryfin replied in the affirmative.

This time, it is not the opinion of NASA to deal with Daystar Technology.

The companies in the aerospace industry chain in the United States all hate Daystar Technology.

"If that's the case, then we really have to find a way to stop the rapid development of Daystar technology, or maybe next time they will directly help North Korea and Persia develop missile technology."

Missile technology and rocket technology are interconnected.

It is impossible for a country with very good rocket technology to have very poor missile technology.

Both John and Gryfin knew this very well.

Even when North Korea developed ICBMs, it was carried out in the name of developing rocket technology.

Even some test launches were carried out in the name of rocket launches.

"That's what I mean, too."

"As long as the development of Daystar Technology can be suppressed, I think it can be used no matter what the means."

"Everyone must open their minds and force Daystar Technology directly to the dead end!"

Gryfin expressed his opinion categorically.

As a result, the attitude of the American side has naturally changed dramatically.

(End of chapter)