industrial overlord

Chapter 541 Suspicious Clouds
After the visit, Song Dingxiang invited Scott and his party to a conference room, and at the same time called several Chinese officials, and the two sides conducted closed-door consultations for more than an hour.

When the door of the conference room was reopened, both Song Dingxiang and Scott had smiles on their faces. The two sides shook hands warmly and said something like happy cooperation, which seemed to be a win-win result.However, if anyone observes carefully, he will find that Song Dingxiang's smile comes from the heart, while Scott's smile is somewhat forced, as if forced out.

"Mr. Scott, you have helped us a lot. If it wasn't for Carter's helping hand, we would go on our own way, and I'm afraid our efforts would be in vain in the end." Song Dingxiang said to Scott in a grateful tone.

Scott still had a polite face: "Mr. Song, I think that although Carter has promised to provide you with multi-axis high-speed machining centers, you might as well carry out some research work yourself. What Mr. Hu and the others have done, It might still work.”

He said that even though he said this, the teasing tone clearly implied Song Dingxiang: Don't be stupid, you will not succeed.Now that we have provided you with equipment, you can give up.

Song Dingxiang seriously replied: "Carter's technology is unparalleled in the industry. Since Mr. Scott thinks there is a problem with our direction, I think we should let the engineers start with the basic work. We Our time and funds are limited, and we will not continue doing things that are obviously fruitless."

"Let me declare that this is just a family statement," Scott said.

"We respect the words of Mr. Scott's family very much." Song Dingxiang promised.

"Thank you, otherwise, let's say goodbye here."

"Okay, bye."

"Goodbye."

Watching the Americans walk away, Song Dingxiang stood at the door of the institute with a teasing smile on his lips.Hu Jin appeared from nowhere, stood beside Song Dingxiang and asked, "Director Song, how is the situation?"

Song Dingxiang smiled and said, "According to Xiao Lin, it's settled!"

"Really!" Hu Jin was overjoyed, "I didn't expect this trick to be really effective. This Xiaolin is really amazing, he can figure out the psychology of Americans so accurately."

Song Dingxiang said: "I told Scott that we have already invested 1000 million US dollars in this project, and we plan to continue to invest 1000 million US dollars in the future. In short, when will the equipment be manufactured and when will we stop. He immediately said, You can sell us two multi-axis high-speed machining centers at a price of 500 million U.S. dollars. You know, in the past, we asked middlemen to ask them to quote a price, and they planned to sell one to 1000 million U.S. dollars, but they refused to sell it to us. .”

"This is what Kobayashi said, as long as they realize that we are researching something and it is possible to produce results, they will quickly sell this thing to us, so that we will not be interested in continuing to study it." Hu Jin said.

"Isn't it?" Song Dingxiang said, "I hinted to Scott that we only have 1000 million, and we can either buy machine tools or build machine tools ourselves. Obviously, he is afraid of us making the latter choice."

"Director Song, you didn't really make the previous choice, did you?" Hu Jin asked cautiously.He and Yang Wenjun have discussed that after this incident, they will join forces to jointly develop a military-grade multi-axis high-speed machining center, which requires funding from the Science and Industry Committee.He was really afraid that Song Dingxiang would no longer care about this matter after he got the Carter company's equipment.

Song Dingxiang laughed loudly: "Don't worry, Lao Hu, the research funding will not be reduced by a penny. The Carter company sold us the equipment, and we just use it for emergency. In the future, we still have to rely on our own equipment. The director said, We can't be controlled by people."

"It's more or less the same. Don't make the fake come true. It's really wasting our own scientific research." Hu Jin said.

Here Song Dingxiang and Hu Jin were proud of the successful layout, but Scott and his party on the other end were full of helplessness, and everyone was sullen and silent.After walking a long way, Kevin broke the silence and asked Scott: "Mr. Scott, I don't understand, haven't we always banned multi-axis high-speed machining centers from China? Why? After visiting their lab today, you promised to sell them two?"

Scott said: "Isn't this a very simple question? Don't you realize that the Chinese have gone very far in this field. If we let them continue, they will build this kind of machining center by themselves sooner or later. .”

Roy said: "Not necessarily? I have some doubts. The things they showed us today are just a game. The purpose is to make us believe that they have such abilities."

Scott shook his head: "I don't think so. Maybe the Chinese have such an idea, but the things we visited today are not just some deception. At the very least, the algorithm of the knife strategy they proposed, It's very similar to the algorithms we already have. If you give them some time, they can solve this problem."

The so-called expert stretches out his hand and knows if there is one.Scott and the others have visited all the way just now, and what they saw is real. Although some places seem immature, there are no obvious common-sense mistakes, which fully proves that the Chinese people are indeed There are indeed some things that have been mastered in this regard.Without these things to back him up, Scott is not so gullible.

It was difficult for Lin Zhenhua, Hu Jin and others to come up with such a situation that could be fake enough to be true. Thanks to the internal information of Miyang Company sent by Yang Wenjun and Chen Ying, this added a bit of realism to the situation.It took Lin Zhenhua and others a week to set up all the things that Scott and others saw in the laboratory.In order to make the experimental equipment and materials look more old, Lin Zhenhua even found some antique dealers and asked them to help point out how to make them old.These methods may not be enough to deal with antique appraisers, but they are more than enough to deal with a group of technical nerds.

Now it seems that this game was indeed very successful, making Scott and others convinced of China's strength.

"I see, you promised to sell them the machining center just to make them give up further research?" Kevin asked.

Scott said: "I really think so. From my observation of the Chinese official surnamed Song, I think he is just an administrative bureaucrat and not very interested in technology. If he can get processing from us Center, he will definitely not be willing to invest more funds in their laboratories. The Chinese are still very poor, and their funds are very tight. Also, Chinese officials value immediate political achievements, and they are not willing to invest in Putting energy into long-term research."

"I hope so," Kevin shrugged.

Scott frowned into a pimple, and he said: "I have been thinking about one thing just now, how did the Chinese master these technologies. As far as we know, at least half a year ago, we hadn't heard of it. What kind of research has the Chinese done in this area? However, what we see today cannot be accumulated in just half a year. I think they must have gotten some inspiration from other channels. This channel should be It has something to do with our Carter Company."

"You mean, the Chinese sent technical spies to our Carter company?" Kevin asked.

"Maybe it wasn't sent temporarily, but has been lurking for a long time." Roy said, "Haven't you seen such a movie, the Chinese sent some spies, pretending to be very loyal employees, lurking in a family In a large enterprise, the core intelligence of this enterprise is finally obtained and used for their military."

"Is this just the imagination of Hollywood screenwriters?" Kevin said suspiciously, "It's not easy to encounter spies."

Scott said: "I doubt it from the fact that they have mastered the circumcision strategy. I have carefully read their strategy, and many of the details have very obvious traces of Carter's company, which shows that they must have come from something. The channel obtained Carter's technology. And these technologies have always been highly confidential in our company."

"As far as I know, there are not many people who have access to these technologies, right? Only people in the core laboratory can see these materials, and those who can enter the core laboratory have passed the loyalty test." Kevin said .

Roy said disdainfully: "The so-called loyalty test used to be very strict, but it has become more and more formal in recent years. Now there are all kinds of people in the core laboratory, and there are even Chinese people."

"That's right, that's what I thought of. Allowing Chinese people to enter our core laboratory is a very dangerous decision. Today's incident may be enough to wake us up. After returning to the United States, I will report to the The board of directors made a proposal that from now on, our core technology can only be in the hands of Americans, and foreigners should not be allowed to touch it, especially to prevent Chinese people from touching it,” Scott said.

"So, what if it's a Chinese American?" Kevin challenged.

Scott said: "That's not acceptable, as long as it is related to the Chinese, it is not acceptable. Even those Chinese who have become American citizens, their loyalty is not reliable."

"Mr. Scott, your views will be criticized, and they will think that you are racially discriminatory." Roy said.

Scott said: "I am very willing to accept such allegations, if they can afford a lawyer."

"I think we won't give them a chance to accuse us. We will go one step ahead and send them to prison." Roy said viciously.

(End of this chapter)