industrial overlord

Chapter 549 Crazy Competition

Lin Zhenhua helped Du Xiangyang find a lawyer and promised to pay all the lawyer's fees. This is his kindness.But for Du Xiangyang, it is more difficult to accept this kind of kindness than to reject it.

Du Xiangyang knows that in the eyes of many people, he is a white-eyed wolf, ashamed of Lin Zhenhua's care over the years, and ashamed of the country's training for him.In the face of doubts from everyone, he can defend himself, saying that he just hopes to have a space to display his talents. It can be said that technology has no borders. It can also be said that the country is just a symbol, and there is no need to be patriotic.But standing in front of Lin Zhenhua, he knew that all these words were pale, and he had no face to defend himself.

Lin Zhenhua never asked Du Xiangyang for anything. When Du Xiangyang said that he wanted to stay in the United States after graduation, Lin Zhenhua also expressed his understanding.But just because Lin Zhenhua was so tolerant, Du Xiangyang felt even more guilty.

Due to working in Carter Company, Du Xiangyang has a relatively rich income.He has never been married, and the expenses of living alone are not large, so he has relatively more money.He began to imitate Lin Zhenhua and used his own money to help those Chinese students studying in the United States. He tried to use this method to alleviate the guilt in his heart, so that he could hold his head up in front of his friends .

This incident dealt a heavy blow to Du Xiangyang. It completely destroyed Du Xiangyang's good impression of the United States, and it also made him regret his decision to stay in the United States.At this time, he suddenly realized that what he owed Lin Zhenhua was not only the funds for studying abroad, but also the sincere persuasion.He suddenly understood that Lin Zhenhua wanted him to go back to China to work, not just for the sake of Hanhua Company, but also for the future of Du Xiangyang.After realizing this, Du Xiangyang felt even more ashamed to see Lin Zhenhua.

He came here for whatever he was afraid of. Du Xiangyang never expected that Lin Zhenhua would be in the United States at this time, and would come to visit him specially, and at the same time find a defense lawyer for him.How could Du Xiangyang accept this kind of help regardless of previous suspicions?
However, at this moment, Du Xiangyang also knew that he could not refuse Lin Zhenhua's help, nor was he qualified to refuse Lin Zhenhua's help.In front of Lin Zhenhua, if he refused the other party's kindness because of his poor self-esteem, it would only be a mistake.

"Brother Lin, I'm ashamed." Du Xiangyang said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Xiangyang, you don't have to say that. Since you call me brother Lin, then you are my younger brother. You and Ma Jie are both Xiaofang's classmates and friends. Although you did not become my brother-in-law in the end, you are my brother-in-law. In my heart, I have always regarded you as my relatives. Between relatives, what else do I need to say?"

Du Xiangyang said: "Brother Lin, in my heart, I have always regarded you as my elder brother. The three of us are classmates, and now Ma Jie and Xiaofang have become your right-hand men. They have not only done a lot for Hanhua I have also made a lot of contributions to the country. I am the only one who has done nothing for Brother Lin. Brother Lin said that because I am Chinese, you have to help me, but I myself... until today, I Only then did I realize that the motherland is a person’s last refuge.”

"Just know this." Lin Zhenhua didn't want to continue to provoke Du Xiangyang, he said, "Let's talk about the future. Xiangyang, I can't stay in the United States for a few days. Here, I entrust you to Mr. Xi Sai If there are any problems that cannot be solved, you can ask Mr. Xi Sai to help you contact Hanhua's office in the United States, and they will do their best to help you."

"I understand." Du Xiangyang nodded in response.

Du Xiangyang's case will not come to fruition within a day or two. Naturally, it is impossible for Lin Zhenhua to wait in the United States. After all, there are still a lot of things in the country that he needs to deal with.He paid Xisai a lawyer's fee and asked Xisai to represent Du Xiangyang in his defense, and then called Hornby, Belinda and others, asking them to provide help when necessary.That's all he can do. As for what kind of judgment Du Xiangyang will receive in the end, this is beyond the scope of Lin Zhenhua's knowledge. He can only wait and see.

Before leaving the United States, Lin Zhenhua visited Du Xiangyang again.During the conversation, Lin Zhenhua asked tactfully if Du Xiangyang would be able to escape from prison if the lawsuit was over this time, would he intend to return to China to work.Du Xiangyang just smiled and gave a noncommittal answer.

Lin Zhenhua's trip to the United States, except that the matter of Du Xiangyang is still pending, can be regarded as a great achievement.After comparing the plans, GM officially notified Hanhua that it had won the production contract for four stamping production lines, with a total contract value of 3.5 million US dollars.

Today's Hanhua has signed a lot of large contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, especially the orders for chemical equipment, which are often hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.But winning these four production lines is of great significance to Hanhua, because the orders received by Hanhua before are mainly from developing countries with relatively backward technology.But this time, it has undertaken an order from a well-known company in a developed country, and the symbolic significance of this is unparalleled.

Lin Zhenhua is a person who is good at taking advantage of the situation. Of course, he will not remain indifferent to such a major event.Long before he left the United States, he ordered Hanhua's US office to start hyping up the matter. He spent a considerable amount of public relations expenses to get several big news groups to use prime pages and prime time to publicize that Chinese companies won General company order thing.

There is a saying in journalism that says that a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is news.It is also applicable to the matter of Hanhua. It is indeed not news that developed countries provide production lines for enterprises in developing countries, but now, enterprises in developing countries have begun to provide production lines for enterprises in developed countries. Big news.

China's Hanhua provided production lines for GM in the United States. This incident naturally touched the sensitive nerves of those who "China threat theory". Some policy experts and scholars began to write articles, talking about how this incident reflects China's strength The rise of the world will lead to changes in the world pattern and so on.Some people even cited the example of Japan's acquisition of the US Empire State Building to prove how terrible this potential competitor is.

Under the suggestion of Lin Zhenhua, another faction represented by Xi Sai also became active, refuting the arguments of China threat theorists on various occasions, satirizing them as unfounded worries, and accusing them of speaking mainly for sensationalism in order to gain votes.

With both positive and negative views, the American public has fallen into confusion. They can't judge which view is correct, and they can only watch the excitement from the sidelines with a soy sauce mentality.As a result, the concept of China's threat did not spread, but the image of China Hanhua gradually grew in the hearts of Americans.

Taking advantage of such public opinion, Chu Hongyang, Schumann, Zuo Zhiyixiong and others in charge of overseas sales began to launch a new sales offensive. Taking General Motors as an example, they promoted the stamping machine designed by Hanhua Heavy Industry to global automobile companies. production line.It has to be said that the demonstration effect of General Motors is very large. Those car manufacturers in Brazil, India, and South Africa originally complained a lot about the high prices of the production lines in developed countries. Production line, how can you not be tempted.

As early as when Xihu lost the order of GM, it realized that this was not just a problem of an order, but that it might bring about a reshuffle of the global market.After Eiji Tanaka and his party returned to Japan, they immediately urged the company to step up efforts to consolidate traditional customers to avoid being cornered by Hanhua.In order to compete with Hanhua's products, Ryose Shoji worked hard for several months and came up with a brand new design plan.Yongzo Matsushita and other sales staff took this plan and the low price enough to make Xihu vomit blood, and flew to all over the world to stop Hanhua's attack.

The beneficiaries of this kind of competition between the two companies are naturally global automakers, especially those in the booming Chinese market.With the efforts of Matsushita Yongzo and others, Xihu Company has won some orders from auto manufacturers, but every time he gets an order, Matsushita Yongzo's heart twitches, because he knows that such an order is very important for the company. It's completely tasteless, the workload is not small, but the profit is minimal.

With the advantage of low labor cost, Hanhua can not only lower the price of the production line itself, but also promise to provide rich after-sales service.Xihu Company had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow up and give the same promise to customers.Matsushita Yongsan was sweating secretly, he didn't know whether the company could afford the resulting cost burden.

In addition to complete sets of equipment such as stamping production lines, Xihu has also been brought into the quagmire by Chinese companies in terms of single-piece machine tool products.A large number of cheap Chinese machine tools are flooding the market, lowering the psychological expectations of the entire market for machine tool prices.It is true that the performance and quality of most Chinese machine tools cannot be compared with the machine tools provided by Xihu, but you can't stand the astonishingly low prices of others.The customer directly took the quotation from the Chinese to the people of Xihu Company to negotiate the price: one machine tool for the Chinese is 3 US dollars, and one of yours is 30. Is this price reasonable?Do you dare to say that there is no huge profit in your offer?

There is no way, then we have to follow the price reduction. 30 units of equipment can no longer be sold, so it will be reduced to 25, 20.They no longer dare to think about things like recovering R&D costs. The senior executives of Xihu can only stare at the gross profit in front of them, and secretly calculate how long the Chinese manufacturers can last.

How do they know that the potential of Chinese manufacturers has not yet been fully displayed.

(End of this chapter)