The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Feng Xiang shrank his neck and said, "I'm not afraid."

"The main reason is that I always feel that we are not as strong as the other party."

"If the other party is willing to compete with us on price, will we be defeated?"

Wang Haoran shook his head and said, "Don't worry about that."

"In terms of cost control, we still have an advantage."

"I can say that if we compete on price, they are the ones who are afraid, haha!"

"Because they are just individual businesses, they have profit margin requirements."

"Even if we quote at cost, we can still hold out better than them."

"After all, we have the country to back us up."

"Moreover, even if we quote at cost price, we have trained workers and supported a lot of industrial chain factories."

"And if the other party has to pay millions or even tens of millions of dollars to take over a ship, they can't afford it."

In the past, when the Lizards attacked the Dragon Country's market, they would use ultra-low-price dumping to kill off the national industry. After killing off Dragon Country's opponents, they would restore the products to the original prices and make huge profits.

Take the late 1910s as an example. Dragon’s domestic textile industry once experienced a period of prosperity.

At that time, the weaving cost of one zhang of cloth for Rong's Weaving Factory was 0.6 yuan, while the cost of one zhang of cloth for John Bull's Jardine Matheson was 0.3 yuan.

In order to eliminate the Rong Weaving Factory, Jardine Matheson began to engage in dumping at low prices.

They sold one meter of cloth for 0.5 yuan, so the price was lower than Rong's cost.

The result was that Jardine Matheson only lasted half a year before the Rong family could no longer hold on and their factory went bankrupt.

Jardine Matheson then restored the price to 1.2 yuan per zhang and continued to reap high profits.

Almost all national industries of that era were destroyed in this way.

By the time Baldy ran to the island, Long Country had basically no industry and couldn't even produce matches.

This is also the main reason why almost all industrial products on the market, such as matches, foreign cigarettes, foreign cloth, etc., are named with the word "foreign" in their names.

In market competition, what we are most afraid of is that when our technical strength and production efficiency are lower than those of our opponent, the opponent will resort to low-price dumping against us.

If they continue to play like this, few factories will be able to survive.

Generally speaking, when an independent country encounters market dumping by its competitors, it will basically introduce policies to protect domestic national enterprises.

But at that time, not only did the Baldies not have any relevant policies, they even cooperated with the foreigners to suppress the national industry.

This is actually the true nature of a comprador.

Because, as compradors, they made money by acting as dragnets for foreigners.

They don't care about the life and death of their own companies.

Wang Haoran could also understand Feng Xiang’s lack of confidence.

After all, the shipbuilding industry is really weak now!

He didn't quite believe that his country's shipyards could compete with foreign ones.

Soon, Camel Ambassador Abdullah came over.

He did not come alone, there were several other people including the chief's ambassador Ibrahim.

Camels are still very appealing in the desert.

Abdullah was very excited when he saw Wang Haoran. He shook Wang Haoran's hand and said, "Mr. Wang, I have heard of you for a long time!"

"I've ridden on the Starship passenger plane you led the development of many times!"

“It’s just a great ride.”

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency Abdullah."

“You are our customers and supporters, and we are willing to serve you wholeheartedly.”

Abdullah said: "I saw the news about your giant oil tanker launching, and we also happen to be interested in ordering new ships."

He pointed to Chief Ambassador Ibrahim and others and said: "All of our countries want to build and expand their transport fleets, and the number of tankers needed is still large."

"In the past, we had no choice but to hand it over to the shipyards that were either good or bad."

"But they were really arrogant, and the prices they offered were also quite high."

“So we are very excited to see that your country is also capable of building large tankers.”

"I don't know. Are you accepting orders for shipbuilding now?"

Abdullah spoke a little cautiously.

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Mr. Abdullah, we are good business partners."

"If you have needs, we can certainly meet them."

"I don't know, how many ships do you want to order?"

Feng Xiang, who was standing aside, was almost drooling at the sight of these big guys with white cloth wrapped around their heads.

Because, with a piece of cloth on my head, I am the richest person in the world, and this is not just a joke.

He is really rich.

Moreover, they have more money than they can spend.

Seeing that Abdullah brought so many big guys at once, if the business is successful this time, he should be able to receive orders for ten or eight large ships, right?

This means that Dalian Shipyard can now earn foreign exchange.

Dalian Shipyard has always been very strong in China.

However, they mainly meet domestic bulk carrier orders and orders from the Longguo Navy.

They are large in scale, but their efficiency is only average.

Abdullah took a breath, held up five fingers, and said, "If your tankers are really reliable, we can order five 5-ton tankers first."

What? Five ships ordered at once?

Feng Xiang's heart almost jumped out of his throat.

This, this is too damn generous, right?
That’s $5 million?!

It’s enough to work at Dalian Shipyard for two years.

However, he didn't know whether he could get this order.

After Abdullah finished speaking, Chief Ambassador Ibrahim immediately said: "As long as the quality of the tankers can be guaranteed, we will also order five!"

Several people who came with Abdullah expressed their opinions one after another.

All together, there are orders for as many as 19 giant oil tankers.

Of course, they actually have doubts about the manufacturing level and technology of Longguo's giant oil tankers.

Otherwise, the premise of “as long as there is no problem with the quality” would not have been added.

Wang Haoran said confidently: "Your Excellencies the Ambassadors, our first 20-ton tanker was just launched this morning. Now, it is moored at the outfitting dock of Dalian."

"We at Longguo are very rigorous and focus on quality."

“We put all our efforts into this ship, striving for safety and performance.”

"This first giant ship was built for our own domestic shipping company. We will never joke about our reputation. Please rest assured!"

"Also, Your Excellency the Ambassadors can organize their own technical personnel to come to our ship for inspection!"

"We will definitely fully cooperate with your testing!"

Abdullah was very satisfied with Wang Haoran's statement.

Because Wang Haoran’s credibility is absolutely strong!
He is already the greatest scientist and industrialist in the world.

He has successfully launched too many excellent products.

“Can we really organize a technician to go and see your ship?” Abdullah asked.

In fact, the orders that Abdullah and others just mentioned are all intention orders.

They know that their country needs these ships.

However, they actually have no say over which country's companies these orders are placed with.

They need to report to the country. However, countries like Camel are all princely countries, and those who can come to Long as ambassadors are basically nobles of a very high level.

Their statements are actually close to the attitude of the top leaders.

Camel and other desert countries are indeed moving towards the east now!
"Well, can we leave your contact information? We hope to arrange for our personnel to visit the scene in the next few days," said Abdullah.

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "No problem!"

"Let's keep in touch at all times."

So, everyone left their contact information with each other.

Feng Xiang also exchanged business cards with these people.

Several bigwigs left.

Feng Xiang held up several golden business cards and couldn't believe it: "Are their business cards all made of real gold?"

Wang Haoran weighed the business card in his hand and said, "It is definitely real gold, there is no doubt about it."

Feng Xiang shook his head and said, "Isn't this too rich?"

“Business cards are made of gold.”

Wang Haoran laughed and said, "Their toilets are made of pure gold! Their cars are also decorated with gold."

"As a human being, when you have too much money, you start to worry about not being able to spend it all. What should you do? You can only squander it as much as you can."

"These business cards are worth a lot of money."

"Comrade Feng Xiang, let's save all the contact information into our cell phones and hand it over."

A gold foil business card must weigh more than 20 grams of gold.

Although gold is not expensive now, one gram costs more than one hundred yuan.

Therefore, these business cards cannot be owned by you.

That's a mistake.

Feng Xiang nodded and said, "I understand."

"Comrade Haoran, I'm thinking about one thing. We didn't talk about the price with them just now."

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "What price are you talking about?"

"It's still a long way to go."

Feng Xiang said: "I really want to finalize the order right away."

Wang Haoran said, "Don't worry. I calculated these orders and I think they can't run away at all."

"Whether it's a stick or a foot basin, they simply can't compete with us."

Feng Xiang said: "I still hope you can come when we discuss the contract, otherwise I'm worried that something might go wrong."

"It seems that they decided to give us these orders just because of you."

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "You, mainly because you have no experience."

"No problem. I'll go over when they go to Da Lian to visit our ship."

Feng Xiang was a little embarrassed: "It's New Year's Day, and I have to trouble you for our matter. I'm really sorry."

Wang Haoran waved his hand and said, "It's all for the country."

Wang Haoran returned home that night.

No matter what, he has to go back to spend the New Year with his family.

However, this year is destined not to be a peaceful one.

Because the desert tycoons are obviously very anxious.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Abdullah called Wang Haoran and said that he had already communicated with his country. The Camel King was also very interested in the giant oil tankers of the Dragon Kingdom.

Because now Long Kingdom is Camel's largest oil importer, and Camel is also trying its best to get closer to Long!

Therefore, it would be great if a big order like this could be finalized earlier so that we can continue to deepen our relationship with Longguo.

His Majesty the King ordered that cooperation be negotiated as soon as possible.

In fact, there are not many technical talents on the camel side.

What they called a visit and inspection actually just meant a few members of the royal family going over to take a look.

Camel and other desert countries have already held internal meetings to discuss this.

Everyone agreed that dragons are reliable.

Since Long said that he had successfully developed it, and that the first giant ship would be used by the country itself, it meant that there was no problem.

Now, in the eyes of the Camel Royal Family, the dragon is also an absolute superpower.

Moreover, Long was very humble and respected them very much.

Unlike Yusa, who says he treats you as a partner, but actually treats you as a sucker and wants to control everything about you.

On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Abdullah called Wang Haoran and said he wanted to go to Dalian to take a look.

Prepare to pass the third day of junior high school.

Wang Haoran naturally agreed.

So, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Haoran accompanied the nobles of the Desert Kingdom on the journey to Dalian.

After arriving at Dalian, Feng Xiang had already prepared a warm welcome ceremony to make these desert bosses feel respected as much as possible.

The bosses were very satisfied with the reception they received.

In the afternoon, Wang Haoran and Feng Xiang accompanied these bigwigs on board the first domestically-produced 20-ton oil tanker, which was still undergoing outfitting.

The tanker is very large and has a total of 6 oil storage compartments.

The reason for this design is mainly to weaken the free surface effect, improve the stability of the hull and prevent crude oil leakage.

Wang Haoran personally introduced to these princes the new safety measures adopted on this huge oil tanker. In short, all kinds of unexpected situations were taken into consideration.

Moreover, the materials used in manufacturing oil tankers are all top-grade ultra-strength alloy steels, which have extremely strong hardness, corrosion resistance and other properties.

Wang Haoran also compared the materials used in the Bangbang and Jiaoben oil tankers, and told Abdullah and others that the shipbuilding materials used by Longguo were at least one level more advanced than the other two.

Abdullah asked: "Mr. Wang Haoran, may I ask, have you tested the effect after loading crude oil?"

Wang Haoran smiled calmly and shook his head, "No."

"However, we have conducted rigorous simulation tests and the ship's performance is still quite excellent."

"The ship will be outfitted soon, and after that, we will soon conduct real crude oil transportation tests."

"Your Excellency Abdullah is welcome to come and visit in person when the time comes."

"I can guarantee with my character that there will be no problems with this ship."

Abdullah quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, sir, I don't distrust you."

"I'm just doing my duty."

Next, Wang Haoran took these people to visit other parts of the ship.

The design of the entire ship is very reasonable and the electronic control system is very advanced.

Even such an oil tanker is equipped with advanced active phased array radar, and sensors are installed at key positions on the ship. As long as any problem occurs, it will be displayed on the central control screen, which is very important for eliminating danger.

Abdullah and others visited it carefully.

In fact, they also had a comparison when they visited.

After all, they have collaborated with Bang Bang and Jiao Ben many times before.

Although they did not understand the technology, based on their intuitive feelings, they believed that no matter whether it was a stick or a foot basin, the technology for building their giant oil tankers was far behind that of the dragons.

After the visit, all the visitors were very satisfied.

After getting off the big ship, Feng Xiang and Wang Haoran talked for a few words as they walked.

Feng Xiang said: "I think they should be quite satisfied, right?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "We can definitely get the order."

"But I'm afraid you'll have to work hard next." (End of this chapter)