industrial overlord

Chapter 39 The Lion Opens His Mouth
Ford stayed in the room, finally looking forward to working time, he hurried to the workshop, and stopped Lin Zhenhua at the door of the workshop: "Lin, Lin, I have something to talk to you about."

"It's working time now, and there are trained workers waiting for us." Lin Zhenhua pretended to be embarrassed.

"No, no, it's okay, you let each of them mill two spline shafts first to familiarize themselves with the performance of the machine tool, let's take this time to have a good talk."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements."

Lin Zhenhua went into the workshop to make arrangements, and then walked out.Ford pulled him to the side under the shade of a tree, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Lin, the program patch you gave me has been tested by our company, and it is completely correct."

"Oh, this is within my expectation." Lin Zhenhua said.

"Mr. Wilson, the chairman of our company, admires Mr. Lin's talent very much. He specially asked someone to call me and asked me to thank you."

"Well, this is what I should do." Lin Zhenhua replied lightly. Hearing that Ford made so many foreshadowings, he knew that there must be something inconvenient to say later.On this matter, he is not in a hurry at all, he just waits to see how the Americans perform.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Wilson said that the company is willing to pay for the remaining patches in your hands, but we still need to hear your opinion on the specific price."

"I don't ask too much. My program can save you from economic disputes and reputation losses, and you can just pay me 10% of these losses. You make a lot of money, and I make a small amount. ?”

Ford only felt his heart sink: the young man in front of him is not a rookie at all, his request is quite satisfactory, no matter where he puts it, it is reasonable.

"Mr. Lin, according to your estimation, how much should our company's loss be? The 10% you mentioned is roughly how much."

"Your company's MK800 currently sells about 1000 units, and the price of each unit, calculated based on the price sold to China, is 13000 US dollars, a total of 1300 million US dollars. Without my patch, all these devices need to be recalled, yours The loss should be the same number, right? For the sake of friendship, I don’t count the shipping and labor costs.”

"Maybe... not so many." Ford said with a smile on his face. "Actually, our sales volume is not so large. Besides, not all machines need to be recalled, so..."

"As far as I know, your company is also planning to launch several other CNC machine tools. Among them is a five-axis linkage machine tool, which cost more than 800 million yuan in the development cost alone. If the news about the BUG of MK800 spreads, you machine tools are still Can it be sold? Don’t tell me that you don’t know that the Japanese are competing with you for the machine tool market.”

Ford was completely defeated: "Mr. Lin, you are simply terrible. Our five-axis linkage machine tool is still under development, and you even know the research and development costs we have invested. I think, since you know Spischer The company understands this well, and should also know that our company is currently in serious financial difficulties. If you ask for too high a price, I don’t think the company can afford it.”

This is already very straightforward, which means that the price you offer is indeed reasonable, but we can't afford it, so you can figure it out.Poor Wilson thought he could threaten Lin Zhenhua, but he didn't know that the one who really needed to beg for mercy was him, the Spischer Company.

"I won't open my mouth like a lion. How about this? I'll give you another discount. You give me 100 million. Not only will I give you all the patches, but I can also give you an upgraded version of the control program. The production efficiency of MK800 has increased by more than 50%." Lin Zhenhua said generously.

"To be honest, Mr. Lin, our deputy general manager called me this morning. He said that the boss meant that we can only pay 2000 US dollars. There is a huge gap between the 100 million you asked for and the figure given by the boss. It's too big." Ford had no choice but to tell the truth, in terms of playing tricks, the Americans are really no match for the Chinese.In those years, the Chinese also suffered a lot from the economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States, but that was only because of a lack of understanding of the market economy.It is really unreasonable for Lin Zhenhua, who has experienced the market economy, to lose to the Americans.

Lin Zhenhua nodded: "I can understand what your boss thinks. In his eyes, Chinese people have never seen money. Having two thousand dollars is enough for me to realize the four modernizations ahead of schedule, so he decided that I would definitely Accept it, don't you?"

"exactly."

"Mr. Ford, please tell your boss what I mean. I am indeed poor, but the money I have seen is no less than his. If he is not willing to pay for the program in my hand, I can sell it. To the Japanese Xihu Company. It is very cost-effective for the Japanese to spend 200 million US dollars to buy a competitor's deadly handle."

"Okay, I'll make a long-distance call now and tell you exactly what you said." Ford replied dejectedly, "This side of the workshop...forget it, Lin, I'll leave it to you. The understanding of MK800 is far superior to mine. You don’t need to be an interpreter for me at all, but just be a trainer for everyone.”

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "Mr. Ford, you are wrong. The weight of the same sentence when you say it from your mouth is completely different from mine. I can tell you now, in fact, in these days During the training, there were a few things you said that were wrong, and I corrected them for you when I was translating, but everyone believed that it was your original intention."

"Lin, you are too smart, I don't want to become a competitor with you in the future." Ford sighed.

Lin Zhenhua shrugged: "Mr. Ford, we will always be friends. However, please believe that within 30 years, the Chinese will definitely come to the United States to compete with you. The world cannot always be dominated by one family. Only when there is competition. It would be better, wouldn't it?"

"I didn't believe it in the past, but now I believe it. Maybe within 30 years, Chinese products will overwhelm Americans. By then, the entire American market will be flooded with Made_in_China, just like today's Japanese manufacturing."

"You..." Lin Zhenhua hesitated to speak, he almost wanted to ask: You also came here through time travel, right?Know the legendary "Made in China"?
Ford ran to the post and telecommunications office, and the salesperson of the post and telecommunications office was the same woman from yesterday. When she saw Ford, she smiled so hard that her eyes closed, and quickly took out the long-distance call form for him to fill out.While filling out the form, Ford sighed with emotion: The realm between people is really too different.Look at this simple Chinese woman, I only gave her 10 dollars, and she is so happy.And that insatiable Lin Zhenhua actually opened his mouth for 100 million US dollars. I'm selling cakes, but he even said that he can't open his mouth like a lion. His mouth is almost as big as a hippopotamus in Africa.

When Ford called, it was past nine o'clock in the evening Eastern time in the United States, but Chairman Wilson hadn't come home yet, and he led a group of board members waiting for a call from China.In this way, the two sides of the ocean held a teleconference thousands of miles away. In the end, Ford successfully persuaded the bigwigs in the United States to let them know that the young man in China who can write program patches is by no means able to use a mere two thousand The dollar is fixed.

After obtaining the approval of the board of directors, Wilson solemnly authorized Ford to negotiate with Lin Zhenhua within the range of 50 US dollars. If it exceeded this range, he had to ask Lin Zhenhua to communicate with Wilson himself. .In order to mobilize Ford's enthusiasm, Wilson also offered a huge reward, within the range of 50, how much money Ford can reduce, one tenth of which can be used as Ford's bonus.

50, which is half of Lin Zhenhua's request, can Lin Zhenhua accept it?With a drum in his heart, Ford left the post office and ran to the workshop.In the past two days, he came and went at a trot speed, but his body has been exercised quite well.

(End of this chapter)