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Chapter 151: A Million-Ton Stainless Steel Gamble! (Seeking Subscriptions)

"Mr. Chen, does your company have specific model numbers for these robotic arms? What's the approximate market pre-sale price?"

"If possible, our group plans to order a batch for trial use," the young secretary asked directly, her face filled with a 'want' expression.

Chen Jue noticed that the group of vice presidents and directors from Tsingshan Holding hadn't spoken, but instead pushed forward this young female secretary, so he curiously asked, "President Xiang, this is...?"

Xiang Qingshan laughed and introduced, "This is my daughter, Xiang Qingqing. She just returned from studying in Germany and is now working as my assistant. Young people are ambitious, I hope you don't mind, Mr. Chen!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Jue immediately revealed an 'I understand' expression.

Many bosses in Wen City have consistently favored the family business model for management.

They not only cultivate and support their children to take over the business, but also arrange for relatives with the same surname to work in their company, building a solid foundation.

As the saying goes, one should recommend talented people regardless of family ties.

In addition, the ancestral hall culture in Wen City is very developed. As long as one family in the village becomes wealthy first, they all adopt this model to operate their business, bringing the clan members into an industry for development together.

However, in the past, public intellectuals and keyboard warriors on the domestic internet criticized 'family businesses' in various ways, believing that this was a feudal, backward, and ignorant business philosophy.

But in reality, almost all of the top leading companies in the world's Fortune 500 adopt family-style management.

Like the famous world supermarket leader, the Walmart family, which has consistently topped the Fortune 500 list.

The Exxon Mobil company, founded by the Rockefeller family ranked 6th, and Toyota Motor, of the Toyota family ranked 9th, and so on.

Including those old wealthy families in Hong Kong, the ones responsible for taking over are always their own children.

Because once wealth accumulates to a certain extent, they spare no expense in providing elite education for their family members.

Such talent invested in the enterprise, and being trusted blood relatives, are by no means inferior to those career managers hired from outside who harbor ulterior motives!

When Chen Jue was lying idle in Chen Village after his bankruptcy, several relatives of the same clan wanted to give him a hand by having him assemble screws or operate a sewing machine.

If he hadn't encountered the MC system, he would probably have become a diligent little employee in a certain Chen family's small business by now.

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After learning the identity of this beautiful girl, Chen Jue began to talk nonsense, "The robotic arm seen in the video is actually the latest 'GAT-X105 Cube Arm' developed by our Fangkuai Technology. Its maximum lifting weight is 10 tons, and it can switch different types of hand modules for operation according to the needs of different work scenarios."

"Cube Arm?"

"The product name is aptly chosen!"

"Looking at the supporting equipment of these arms on the ship, water jets, winches, claws, buckets, aren't they as flexible and changeable as switching a Rubik's Cube!"

"If the 10-ton lifting weight can really be 100% realized according to the parameters, then our various downstream industry terminals, including the metallurgy department, can also utilize it!"

As soon as Chen Jue finished introducing the model number, the senior executives of Tsingshan Holding present began to discuss.

Xiang Qingqing muttered, "GAT-X105? Why does this model number sound so familiar?"

Seeing that the other party was about the same age as him, and a rare girl who liked industrial machinery, Chen Jue immediately realized that his second-dimensional attribute revealed by his nonsense was about to be exposed, so he quickly interrupted her train of thought and changed the topic, "Ahem... actually, 10 tons is just the upper limit parameter. The specific grabbing tonnage needs to be further tested by transplanting it from the ship to the workshop. Due to the influence of the installation environment, the load capacity will most likely be reduced by about half."

"Half the load capacity? That's still 5 tons!"

"If it can be as flexible and intelligent as in the video, then this robotic arm technology is one of the best in the world." Xiang Qingqing rubbed her hands, staring at Chen Jue with bright eyes and continued to ask about the price.

You should know that Chen Jue originally wanted to come to Tsingshan Holding Group to discuss a long-term stainless steel supply cooperation.

Seeing that this young lady was so interested in the MC modified robotic arm, Chen Jue simply spoke frankly, "The specific unit price has not yet been finalized by the sales department, but I can clearly tell you that the manufacturing cost of this Cube Arm will not be less than 20 million yuan per unit."

"Moreover, in order to prevent technology leakage, our company will also send someone to be stationed at the purchaser to supervise and maintain the equipment 24 hours a day."

Such a high price, coupled with such harsh technical confidentiality conditions.

If ordinary small business owners heard this, they would definitely sigh.

After all, the customized price of mainstream medium and large industrial arms on the market is only in the range of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, and there are discounts for buying more.

And the price of buying a Cube Arm is equivalent to buying 100 of someone else's.

The difference here is like comparing an ordinary household B-class car with a limited edition top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce!

"20 million is not too expensive, you can try ordering a few."

"If it doesn't work well, should it be possible to return it?" Xiang Qingqing blinked at Chen Jue.

Chen Jue nodded: "If there are quality and technical defects, unconditional returns are accepted within 90 days!"

As for the clause Chen Jue mentioned about sending someone to supervise the equipment to prevent technology leakage, this is not new in the field of mechanical processing.

In the past, when Germans sold domestically-made machine tool factories those castrated five-axis CNC machining centers with physical secret keys, they usually had to equip a foreigner to supervise them, the purpose of which was to prevent clever Chinese people from violently decoding and deciphering the programs in the CNC center.

After all, the so-called 'machining accuracy' that is praised to the sky is almost at the same level between Germany, China, and Japan, and even in some heavy equipment fields, Chinese people do better.

The only remaining gap is in material applications and the software driver programs that control the operation of the machinery.

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With Chen Jue's display and introduction of the actual case of resisting the typhoon, the senior executives of Tsingshan Holding became more and more interested in this 'Cube Arm'.

Especially for a super large enterprise with an annual revenue of 300 billion yuan, it has dozens of downstream processing plants invested in.

If all of them are replaced with this Cube Arm that can grab 5 tons of weight at a time, wouldn't the production and processing efficiency take off directly?

Although this Cube Arm is still just an internal test product, since Fangkuai Technology dares to pull it out to resist the typhoon and close the breach under many live broadcasts.

There is definitely no problem with the product quality.

Of course, the most important thing is that this large-tonnage robotic arm is the only one in the world that has it.

Even if those foreign manufacturers have this kind of technology reserve, the Chinese people will not sell it to you even if they pay more money.

A price of 20 million yuan per unit is simply cheap for Tsingshan Holding!

So, after visiting this advanced stainless steel and nickel alloy production workshop, Chen Jue finalized an order contract worth 2 billion yuan for 100 Cube Arms with Xiang Qingshan.

"Brother Xiang is indeed the world's Nickel King! Truly generous! In that case, our Fangkuai Technology must also express something."

With this 2 billion yuan order contract, Chen Jue can be considered completely open, and he began to call Brother Xiang Qingshan this big shot.

After preparing for so long, and spending so much effort to build Fangkuai Technology, it finally has a fist product that can be taken out, Chen Jue is naturally happy.

As for the subsequent MC technology leakage prevention problem, Chen Jue is not worried at all, because he has already designed two-handed anti-leakage preparations.

As long as the Cube Arm can be sold, a batch of specialists can be recruited to be responsible for the equipment 24-hour supervision and use.

The most important thing is that the Cube Arm that Chen Jue plans to sell to the market is not the original version of the arm that 100% uses MC materials, but a castrated version that sharpens the performance of key components.

For example, for the most core servo motor of the robotic arm, he plans to purchase a batch of high-strength stainless steel or other copper alloy materials from these head material suppliers such as Tsingshan Holding to replace the parts processed by MC [Iron Block] [Copper Block].

After this operation, Chen Jue has to go back and test one by one how much performance the castrated version of the Cube Arm can achieve compared to the original version.

Anyway, the parameters thrown out to the outside world are only barely 5 ~ 10 tons, and the Bug-level grabbing ability of the original Cube Arm has not been revealed, which gives Chen Jue a considerable amount of room for maneuver.

"Oh? Express something? I wonder what kind of stainless steel Chen wants to order from me?"

Xiang Qingshan also became interested, and asked a vice president in charge of sales to bring a product catalog over.

As the world's number one stainless steel supplier, Tsingshan Holding's product line is very wide.

Low-end can supply civil construction materials, high-end is used in automobiles, shipbuilding, aerospace, as long as the stainless steel specifications that can be found on the market are available in their home.

This is also the reason why Chen Jue took the initiative to seek cooperation.

In the case that MC materials are not convenient for selling to the market, he can only temporarily take high-performance substitutes from these head material suppliers.

However, while flipping through it, Chen Jue's face showed a bit of lack of interest: "Why are they all ordinary specifications of stainless steel? Austenitic 316L, O, these stainless steels can be used to make parts on ships, but they are still a bit lacking in strength for use on Cube Arms."

Upon hearing this, Xiang Qingqing, who was sitting next to her, immediately became a little uneasy.

As the eldest lady of Tsingshan Holding, she knows her products very well and has great confidence in the product.

Take the 654SMO austenitic stainless steel on the roster as an example. Its hardness reaches ≥ 290HB, yield strength ≥ 430MPa, and tensile strength ≥ 750MPa.

Compared with similar 654SMO performance on the market, it is a full 20% higher, and can be called the world's number one in the civil commercial field!

However, even such excellent parameters cannot satisfy this local boss who is so convinced.

This made Xiang Qingqing's face a little gloomy: "I don't know what specific performance parameters Mr. Chen needs? Judging from your tone, you seem to have used similar samples. Why not take them out and compare them? This way, we can easily develop a product plan for you."

"Okay!"

When Chen Jue heard that this girl actually wanted to play a show of skill with him, he immediately became interested.

He turned his head and gave Tie Laoliu, who was standing like an iron tower, a look, signaling him to take out a fist-sized iron-gray cube from his briefcase and hand it over.

Chen Jue took the small [iron block] that had been cut and processed, put it on the table, tapped it lightly with his hand, and said: "As long as your company can produce a product with half of 'its' performance, I will immediately place an order for 1 million tons! Without cutting a penny!"

As soon as these words came out, all the senior executives of Qingshan Holding present were excitedly gearing up.

What is the concept of 1 million tons of stainless steel?

You must know that even the most common 304 stainless steel has been炒 (speculated) to nearly 14,000 tons in the futures market!

If this order is really signed, the output value will be at least 14 billion.

What's more, judging from Chen Jue's posture, the purpose is to purchase high-performance stainless steel products, then the price will definitely be higher.

So the vice president in charge of sales saw this and immediately secretly gave his eldest lady a thumbs up, thinking: "This trick is good! This little Mr. Chen is still young, not sophisticated enough, far from being comparable to the eldest lady, and he revealed his trump card with a little provocation."

Even Xiang Qingshan, who was in the main seat, showed a satisfied smile at his daughter's trick.

He felt that sending Xiang Qingqing abroad to study had really learned a lot of business skills, and it should be stable to hand over the family business to her to manage in the future.

Don't look at the polite way the two parties talked about the Rubik's Cube arm order before, but that's because only Fangkuai Technology can provide this kind of large-tonnage domestic robot arm.

This is a monopolistic technology. You can't buy it even if you spend money to find foreigners. You must be polite.

But stainless steel, a raw material, is different!

Qingshan Holding is not the only one in the world doing this. Chen Jue can find many suppliers of alternative products as soon as he leaves this door.

It's just that now that he has made this bold statement, he has confirmed that as long as the product performance meets the standard, he will leave this huge order worth over 10 billion at Qingshan Holding.

Chen Jue is now a well-known Wenshi internet celebrity entrepreneur. What he says is a promise. He will definitely not do anything that slaps himself in the face.

As long as the order does not run out, even if it rots in the pot of Qingshan Holding, there will be soup to drink!

As for whether the product performance required by Chen Jue can be achieved, none of these vice presidents in charge of sales took it to heart.

After all, as the world's number one stainless steel company, in addition to the ordinary commercial stainless steel on this roster, Qingshan Holding also has a large number of laboratory stainless steel formulas that are being researched and tackled.

No matter how strong the cube material Chen Jue took out is, can it be compared with those experimental samples with super perverted parameters and performance in the laboratory?

When the test results come out, this picky little Mr. Chen will definitely lose!

However, just when these senior executives of Qingshan Holding thought they had the chance to win, a slightly older technical consultant sitting in the corner was wearing reading glasses and staring at the square that Chen Jue kept tapping with an incredible look, muttering: "No... impossible! It's clearly a metal material, how... how can it not make a sound when you tap it?"

Something delayed the update last night, and the second update was half-coded and not sent out.

I stayed up all night, and I can't hold on today. I need to take a good rest for two days.

First send a two-in-one big chapter, and by the way, I wish you all a happy National Day!