Chapter 291: Little Michelin Old Man
When Lin Lao talked to Qin Feng at the beginning, Qin Feng gave a price of 40,000 yuan for a landing gear, in the past few months, although the prices of various commodities in the society are soaring, but since Qin Feng has promised, then he has to do what he says, besides, now 300m steel can be produced by himself, even if it is 40,000 yuan, he can earn half.
Be content.
Moreover, the landing gear of the fighter is very small, and it is no problem to use the scraps after the processing of the landing gear by Airbus to produce it, and there is not much cost at all.
At this time, hearing Qin Feng's words, Song Lao and Yang Gong were stunned.
How much do foreigners want? The design fee and consulting fee are more than 10 million US dollars, and if you entrust foreigners to process them, you will definitely have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars for a set, and the price given by Mr. Qin is only 40,000! It's so cheap!
When the research and development of Jian-10 is successful, we must give Mr. Qin the first credit! Song Lao secretly made up his mind in his heart.
"Two, we already have steel, the next thing is to modify the design of the landing gear according to our steel performance, and then make a mold, and first build a set of landing gear to try." Qin Feng said.
"Well, let's change it now!"
Song Lao and Yang Gong found an office to get busy, and Qin Feng and Zhao Lao took the freshly smelted blanks to the production workshop of the die forging press.
At this time, the die forging press was machining the landing gear for Airbus, and Belvexi watched the whole operation process carefully, and his heart was full of emotion.
With this 80,000-ton die forging press, it is too convenient to produce the landing gear, save raw materials, improve production efficiency, and Airbus's production cost is low, and the profit is high......
At this moment, he saw a group of people walk in, followed by a truck specializing in transporting materials in the field, and after entering, the overhead crane moved and lifted the goods in the car.
The cylindrical shape, shining silver, looks like a 300m steel column blank for the production of landing gear.
"Mr. Qin, what are you ......" Belvesi's eyes were puzzled, he asked while looking at the end of the blank, there was no word AMS6417 on it, and there was no steel stamp from the manufacturer.
"This is 300m of steel that we produce ourselves." Qin Feng said: "When this set of blanks is used up, we will use our steel to build an A320 landing gear." ”
"Your own steel?" Belvexi immediately shook his head: "No, no, Mr. Qin, absolutely not, the landing gear of the aircraft is very important, it is related to the safety of all passengers of the entire aircraft, if there is an accident on the landing gear, it will affect the reputation of our Airbus, and we are absolutely not allowed to use steel outside the regulations!" ”
"What if our own steel is better than other brands?" Qin Feng asked rhetorically.
"That can't be, absolutely impossible!" Belvexi said: "The level of steelmaking in your East is very low, and you can't smelt advanced steel at all!" ”
"Is ballpoint nib steel advanced?"
"Advanced."
"We can practice this kind of steel ourselves, and now domestic ballpoint pens use our nib steel." Qin Feng said: "Is the steel used on the US aircraft carrier blocking cable advanced? ”
"Advanced."
"They're buying steel cables from us." Qin Feng said: "Our overall industry in the East is backward, but we also have strong research and development capabilities, our Pacific Group's steelmaking plant, is one of the leaders, this is our steel inspection data, some indicators are higher than 300m steel." And, we do it for your Airbus. ”
"For us?" Belvexi took the inspection form, and looked at the data on it and was still skeptical.
"Yes, how much is a ton of these 300m steel imported from abroad?"
"Thirty thousand dollars a ton." Belvexi said.
"We only need $25,000 a ton of this kind of steel to produce." Qin Feng said: "One ton can save you five thousand dollars!" ”
If you want to seize the industrial product market in the West, you have to rely on price, although Qin Feng also knows that it is not good to fight a price war, but if you don't have a price advantage, then why should foreigners use your products?
Opening the market with low prices, then squeezing competitors, and then raising prices is the usual practice of international monopolies, and in later generations, memory wars often choose this solution.
At this time, hearing Qin Feng's words, Belvesi's eyes rolled: "Okay, then process a landing gear first, and then send it to our country for inspection, if the performance is up to standard, we will purchase it for a long time in the future." ”
After speaking, Belvexi added: "This processing cost should be borne by you, and you belong to the bidder." ”
"Absolutely."
Soon, the 300m steel produced by Dongfang was put into the die forging press, first hammered, and then began to be extruded, in the process of extrusion, it can be clearly felt that it is slower than the previously extruded pipe.
The greater the strength of the steel, the more difficult it is to extrude, and it seems that the performance of this steel should be good! Belvexi thought to himself, Airbus came to the East to seek cooperation, it seems to be the right choice, there are cheap labor, there are cheap raw materials, if a special aircraft assembly plant is set up here in the future, the production cost should be reduced a lot, and it can be sold back to Europe.
The autumn wind is already blowing in the north, and the rainy season has just ended in the south, but the light rain is still dripping.
Xia Xiaohe held an umbrella and walked slowly in the rain, as if she was feeling the rainy season, but her eyes looked inside the fence from time to time, where countless people in military uniforms were training, and several of them were still black-skinned, which was particularly conspicuous.
She walked and walked, and soon came to the main entrance, and the sentry standing at the door looked at her with great curiosity.
This girl will be outside every day, for a few days, they still suspect that this girl is a spy, but standing outside, it is impossible to spy on any information, but will be exposed, they investigated, only to understand: this girl is here for love.
Therefore, they did not come forward to interrogate, as long as the girl was not close to the cordon.
But today, Xia Xiaohe hesitated several times, and finally made up her mind and walked outside the cordon.
"Stop!"
"I, I want to find He Liang......" Xia Xiaohe said hesitantly: "Can you notify me and let him come out and say a few words to me before leaving." ”
"Freshmen who enter our Army Command Academy will undergo strict military training in the first month, and visitors are prohibited during this process, girl, you can come back next month."
He Liang and Hu Tianming both entered the school half a year ago, went to school directly, and did not catch up with the military training, so now the freshmen in September are enrolled and have to participate in military training.
Xia Xiaohe thought of He Liang running with a pair of mechanical legs, and his heart was inexplicably stung, Brother Liangzi is so strong! It's so distressing!
Although she couldn't go in, Xia Xiaohe didn't want to leave, and continued to look outside, hoping to find He Liang from a group of green-uniformed figures, and it wasn't until noon, when these people's training was over, that she returned to a nearby hotel.
As soon as she entered the hall, the waiter on the first floor called out to her: "Miss Xia, Miss Xia!" There is your telegram! ”
Xia Xiaohe took it, looked at it a few times, and suddenly his face changed: "Waiter, I need to check out immediately and help me book a train ticket or air ticket to the capital." ”
The waiter was stunned: "Order?" How to order this? You'll have to buy it yourself. ”
Xia Xiaohe realized that he thought he was in Europe, where he had to queue up to buy tickets and buy them on the spot.
The next day, Xia Xiaohe hurriedly returned to the capital and went straight to the capital airport, but fortunately, there was no delay and received a group of people from France.
A little old man appeared at the pick-up gate, compared to the tall Westerners, he was not very tall, with a round face, not very big, frivolous eyebrows, and eyes that often squinted, giving people a special sense of joy, as if he came out of a comic.
This old man with a smile on his face is not at all like the CEO in charge of a huge business empire of 110,000 employees, but such a person has a special cohesion that unites the huge Michelin business empire.
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"Monsieur François, welcome to the East." Xia Xiaohe hurriedly greeted him, and she admired this boss very much.
François Michelin was born in 1926, when his grandfather Édouard Michelin founded a tyre company that had been around for 37 years.
Five years later, his father was killed in a plane crash at the age of 34, and four years later, his mother died, and François was suddenly orphaned, not counting that, and in 1937, his uncle died again, so François, who was only 11 years old at the time, became the sole direct heir to the family.
Because he was too young at the time, in 1940, after the death of 81-year-old Edward Michelin, the Michelin group was taken over by Edward's son-in-law Robert Piser for a period of time, but this was just a transition, François graduated from university in 1951 and worked incognito in the group at the grassroots level, since then, François is this image: always smiling, like to listen to what others say, which makes François have a great affinity, and wait until 59 years, After he officially took over the reins, he carried out drastic reforms that plunged Michelin into economic crises several times, and he still relied on this method to save the day.
However, François's immediate goal has always been in the United States, he wants to take Michelin to defeat the American tire manufacturers and completely occupy the American market, and now, François has suddenly run to the East!
What did he come to the East for?
Xia Xiaohe was very curious.
"Well, Ms. Xia, you came to the East to open up the market, how is the situation?" After the meeting, François asked about the matter, which is also his style, and the work has always been done in a hurry, never delayed. Anyway, it was French, and no one else could understand it.
"I'm researching the market here and visiting various big cities,......" Xia Xiaohe was a little embarrassed, after all, she hadn't entered the working state since she came back.
"Do you have any contact with the Pacific Group?" François asked.
Xia Xiaohe nodded again and again: "Yes, I know Mr. Qin." ”
"Really? That's great, arrange it for me right away, I want to meet with him. ”
"Why?"
"Because if we don't hurry up, we will be preempted by Bridgestone." François said: "This Pacific Group is a private enterprise, the largest private enterprise in the East, and working with them is the best choice for us." ”
Cooperate?
Xia Xiaohe then remembered Qin Feng's proposal at the beginning, recently her mind has been on He Liang, Qin Feng's matter has not been reported to the company, but she didn't expect the boss to come in person!
"Monsieur François, I will definitely do my best to promote this cooperation."
In the afternoon of the same day, François and his entourage came to Jincheng, and Qin Feng was busy building the landing gear recently, and he never returned to the capital.
At the gate of the steel mill, Qin Feng personally came out to greet him, and when François, the little old man, walked out, Qin Feng also sighed with emotion, the image of this guy is really interesting!
"Monsieur François, I'm very sorry, but I asked you to come here in person, you just need to make a phone call, and I will go back to the capital, and we can meet in the capital."
Wang Fang worked as a translator next to Qin Feng and went back to his job.
"No, no, I took the liberty to come, hoping not to cause trouble to Mr. Qin." François said: "Also, it's said that it's working with Airbus to produce landing gear, so I wanted to come and see it too." ”
"Shall we visit first, or shall we talk first?"
"Let's visit first, I'll take a look at your 80,000-ton die forging press first."
This machine is the signboard of the Pacific Group, the first in the world, and it can improve the quality when it is said, and when he heard the other party's request to visit, Qin Feng immediately took them over and introduced them with great interest.
"According to Airbus, this new process can greatly save production costs and create more benefits." François said that he was also a technological reformer and was very interested in these technologies.
"Yes, it's not just about building airplanes, it's also about cars." Qin Feng said: "For example, the entire body of the car can be pressed out directly on the hydraulic press, which can save a lot of processes compared with traditional pressing and welding. In particular, the use of aluminum structure can greatly reduce the cost of automobile manufacturing. ”
Michelin also used to have an automotive business, and they were the majority shareholder of Citroën, but François sold all of these shares to Peugeot in order to concentrate on developing tires.
Now, when I heard Qin Feng say that the car was suppressed as a whole, I was even more stunned, what else could I do?
However, if you do this, you can significantly reduce costs.
Qin Feng smiled, the knowledge before rebirth is his greatest wealth, many electric vehicles in later generations play this kind of overall die-casting, which does save costs, but if it hits, the cost of maintenance is not ordinarily high.
"Mr. Qin, you are really thoughtful, by the way, do you have any novel insights on tires?"
"Yes."
"Listen up."
"Your radial tire is the most advanced automotive tire with wear resistance, long life and good handling, but it is very noisy." Qin Feng said: "It would be better if the radial tires could be improved to improve the quietness by a notch, especially for high-end cars, which need to be extremely quiet inside." ”
The tire is made of rubber, but only rubber is not enough, there is also a cord inside, including steel wire, fiber materials, etc., these cords are arranged according to the oblique, that is, ordinary slash tires, and so on François took control of the Michelin company, decided to invest heavily in the development of a new radial tire, just like the meridian of the earth, the layers of cord do not cross, the strength of the cord can be fully utilized, if the steel wire is used, as long as one layer is enough, the tread strength is high, the rolling resistance is small, the bearing capacity is strong, Good shock absorption.
However, the development of such a tire was not easy, and it almost bankrupted Michelin, but the effect was quite good: radial tires were recognized by the world's automotive giants, and a new tire revolution was triggered.
However, radial tires did not solve the problem of quietness, which is also the next difficulty for Michelin.
Qin Feng mentioned this defect at once, which made François's eyes light up: "So, how can we improve?" ”
"Ahem, well, let's wait until we get to the conference room."
This kind of technology can't be said casually, Qin Feng wants to use technology to change the factory, and the next tire production line will be there!
The stall of the Pacific Group is getting bigger and bigger, but Qin Feng also knows that the opportunity is rare now, and Michelin took the initiative to find it, can he not seize the opportunity?
The group's motorcycles and trucks all need tires, and brother units also need tires to build airplanes.
"Okay, let's go to the conference room now."
François led Michelin to become the number one in the world for a reason, and he did whatever he said he would, without delay.
Steel mill, conference room.
The strong smell of coffee permeated the entire conference room, and Qin Feng picked up the coffee cup: "Everyone should be thirsty, drink coffee first, let's talk while drinking." ”
The authentic coffee from the Red Sea coast delights the French with a few big sips.
"Michelin is a world-famous tire manufacturer, but it is not the largest in the world, if you want to develop to the first in the world, you have to pay attention to our eastern market, after all, we have a huge market potential here." Qin Feng said.
Of course, he knew what lofty ideals the smiling little old man in front of him had, and his opening remarks had to hit the nail on the head.
François frowned, of course he wanted to be the number one in the world, but he thought that the United States was the most suitable target, and only by winning the American market could he become the world's first, and seeing that Bridgestone began to buy local tire manufacturers in the United States, they also wanted to go to the United States to buy tire factories.
East, it's just that François wants to stir up trouble for Bridgestone, so he came over.
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