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Chapter 92: A toad yawning – what a big breath! (Seeking subscriptions)

Inside Shenji's reception room, Zhou Yunxing, the head of the group's sales department, sat down on the sofa opposite Chen Jue with a smile on his face.

When he learned from his subordinates that two guests from the South planned to order a batch of expensive high-end CNC machine tools from Shenji, Zhou Yunxing hurriedly put down the meeting he was in and rushed over.

However, when Zhou Yunxing sized up Chen Jue, seeing him dressed in casual clothes and not wearing any high-end brand-name watches or other accessories, he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive: "What big business can such a young client negotiate! A second-generation factory owner from the South?"

On the contrary, Lao Shang, who was sitting beside Chen Jue and remained silent, gave Zhou Yunxing a mature and steady impression, looking more like a qualified and successful businessman than Chen Jue.

Because Lao Shang was wearing that valuable imperial green jade 'no-thing'牌 (牌 pái: plaque) around his neck.

Seeing the other party sitting there calmly, the intense, unyielding green color in front of his chest almost dazzled Zhou Yunxing.

"This old guy looks the part!"

"Is he the elder of this young man?" Zhou Yunxing thought to himself.

After all, for those in sales, judging people based on their appearance is a basic skill, and they study the details of customers' clothing and accessories thoroughly.

If every random customer required him, the general manager, to receive them, wouldn't he be swamped to death?

Therefore, Zhou Yunxing, who believed he had figured out the priorities, asked with a smile: "Just now, Xiao Liu should have taken both of you to see Shenji's flagship products for external sales. I wonder which type of machine tool President Chen is planning to purchase this time?"

Chen Jue flipped through the product brochure in his hand, and finally closed it and placed it on the table: "The future direction of Cube Technology will focus on building materials and mechanical processing and manufacturing. The industrial park has just been completed, so please, President Zhou, help us come up with a comprehensive industrial machine tool solution!"

As he spoke, Lao Shang beside him took out a purchase agreement from his briefcase, as well as detailed dimension parameters of each workshop of the Cube factory.

"A comprehensive solution?"

Zhou Yunxing took the purchase agreement and looked at it.

He found that this was a very template-like agreement, which could be downloaded online and slightly modified. The header for Party A was Cube Technology, and Party B was left blank.

However, when he saw the intended purchase amount on this agreement, Zhou Yunxing's eyes widened!

"An intended purchase amount of 2 billion for machine tools?"

"President Chen, you… you really have a grand plan!"

Zhou Yunxing looked surprised and uncertain, and even began to suspect the background of these two people in front of him.

This customer who suddenly came to visit without prior notice wanted to buy 2 billion worth of machine tools, which would make anyone worry that there was something fishy going on.

After all, this Cube Technology is not well-known in the manufacturing industry. Until now, it is only somewhat famous in Ruixian and Wenshi, and basically no one outside the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions knows about it.

Of course, Shenji also has its own sales model.

Many large companies that seek cooperation with Shenji do not emerge out of thin air.

Generally, there is a network of cooperation to be found. Smaller companies would not even bother to come to Shenji's headquarters, but would directly buy machine tools from the second- or third-tier distributors below.

Who would suddenly show off by taking out 2 billion like this without saying a word?

"You can rest assured about the funding. These 2 billion were earned by my old cousin Shang from the grain and oil import and export trade. He plans to support me, a young member of the family, in starting a business." Chen Jue began to make up stories when he saw that the other party had some concerns.

Lao Shang, who was sitting beside him and remained silent, also smiled and said: "Manager Zhou, is a mere 2 billion a lot? For our Red Star Trading, it's just a matter of selling a few ships of soybeans."

"Go to Rizhao Port and ask around, who doesn't know our Red Star Trading!"

The master and servant sang in harmony so convincingly that even an old fox like Zhou Yunxing was fooled, thinking: "Treating 2 billion like it's nothing? Where did this toad yawning come from, what a big breath!"

However, upon hearing that this old brother playing with the imperial green jade was actually in the port import and export grain and oil business, Zhou Yunxing couldn't help but start to imagine things.

As a Northeasterner who grew up on the black soil, who doesn't know that those who do grain business have basically made a fortune in the past few years?

When the Big Mao and Second Mao started fighting, the economy of the entire East was revitalized.

Even Shenji is the same. The originally half-dead business has also begun to improve in the past two years.

After understanding this, Zhou Yunxing quickly dispelled his concerns and began to take a rough look at the internal structure framework of the Cube factory.

The square, super-large workshops and the assembled prefabricated metal building structure immediately made Zhou Yunxing, the sales department manager who had transferred from a technical position,'s eyes light up.

"President Chen, your factory area is built so beautifully!"

"I have seen this kind of super factory in large enterprises such as Shenfei, Sinopec, and FAW Hongqi before."

"It makes an old machine tool man like me want to work for your company!" Zhou Yunxing praised Chen Jue with a look of admiration.

After seeing the real-time video of the Cube factory, his impression of these two Southern customers changed even more.

After all, if they were really swindlers with bad intentions, they would not be able to produce such a modern factory built with huge investment.

"So-so!"

"In terms of civil engineering infrastructure, our Cube Technology still has a bit of skill." Chen Jue spread his hands and exchanged pleasantries with the sales manager.

… …

After a brief exchange and learning about Chen Jue's intentions, Zhou Yunxing asked, holding the purchase agreement: "It seems that President Chen is planning to engage in industrial mother machines in his own factory!"

He thought it was a small, spur-of-the-moment order, but he didn't expect that these two guests from the South would open their mouths and ask for such a large purchase amount.

You should know that the current Shenji is not as glorious as it used to be.

During its peak, Shenji's annual sales of machine tools could easily reach an incredible 100 to 200 billion.

However, after several bankruptcies and reorganizations, and ST in the stock market, Shenji's current total assets circulating in the stock market are less than 12.6 billion.

Shenji's sales in the past six months have barely exceeded 700 million, which can be said to have plummeted all the way from its peak, so much so that even a mute can open his mouth and shout 'Dad'!

If it hadn't been acquired by General Technology, a state-owned enterprise, and transformed from a local enterprise into a national team, starting to do internal channel business for central state-owned enterprises, it is estimated that this broken Shenji would have closed down and dissolved long ago.

Suddenly catching a large potential customer like this would be a boost for everyone at Shenji.

"Almost!"

"Cube Technology is currently a blank sheet of paper, and we plan to have independent production capabilities for manufacturing ships, industrial robots, automobiles, etc. in the near future. Industrial mother machines must be the first to be implemented."

"If Shenji has a mature comprehensive solution, then I won't have to run around outside anymore."

"I heard that Kode CNC, Huaming Equipment, and Zhejiang Hede Man are also doing well with their five-axis and six-axis machine tools." Chen Jue smiled slightly, revealing a bit of composure.

The reason why he came to Shenji to purchase machine tools was mostly due to feelings, and it was because Shenji used to be the cradle of domestic machine tools.

Just like Chen Jue's previous bulk planting of soybeans, planning to allow all Chinese people to eat healthy non-GMO soy products.

If he doesn't get the desired results here at Shenji, it wouldn't be a big deal to switch to several companies specializing in domestic machine tools.

After all, that's how the business world is. Party A, who holds the funds, dominates in most cases. Except for lithography machines, F22s, and other things that are strictly controlled and embargoed by the West. If you don't sell the next level of industrial mother machines, there are people who will sell them.

Zhou Yunxing immediately became serious when he heard Chen Jue's words.

Take Kode CNC, which Chen Jue mentioned, for example. In the past, it was just a small tail following behind Shenji.

In the past few years, it has relied on market financing, absorbing the experience of the little devils and the technical personnel lost by Shenji, and has gradually developed into a leading position in the domestic private machine tool industry.

If such a large order, which was proactively delivered to their door, was snatched away by competitors, then their Shenji sales staff would not have to mess around anymore and should go home to farm the land as soon as possible.

"President Chen, you can rest assured about the industrial mother machine! Our Shenji will definitely show the greatest sincerity!"

"Except for some high-precision equipment that is not allowed to be sold externally according to regulations, Shenji can meet the needs of any 10-micron precision machine tool that is allowed to circulate on the market."

"Especially for the 0 to 1 industrial comprehensive solution, we have many mature sales cases on hand."

After Zhou Yunxing finished speaking, he asked Liu Qing, who was making tea and pouring water beside him, to turn on the projector and display several internal comprehensive cases that Shenji had done externally in recent years.

"10 microns?"

"This precision is barely usable!"

Seeing that many well-known domestic enterprises were among the cases being displayed, Chen Jue's face showed a bit of interest.

According to this Manager Zhou's introduction, the precision of CNC metal cutting machine tools has several distinct dividing lines.

From the millimeter level to 10 microns, and then from 10 microns to 2 microns, this is the highest peak that the mechanical quality driven by linear motors can reach.

In the past, many mainstream private machine tool factories basically reached their peak after breaking through the precision to 2 microns.

Because the difficulty of continuing to break through from 2 microns to 1 micron is like a chasm.

This involves not only the problem of mechanical structure, but also the 'thermal expansion and contraction' of the production equipment and the subtle vibrations generated during motor drive.

High-end machine tool manufacturers like Shenji prefer to build their core production workshops underground.

Besides ensuring constant temperature and humidity in the core workshop, the purpose is to utilize the Earth's rotation to balance the inevitable subtle vibrations during motor operation.

In the past, the Chinese were always held back in this area by Germany and Japan because they hadn't figured out the principles involved.

Now that they've thoroughly grasped this technology, strategic-level industrial mother machines with a positioning accuracy of 30 nanometers and a surface roughness of 1 nanometer can be manufactured in minutes.

After reviewing these comprehensive solution demonstrations, Chen Jue tapped the table with satisfaction and said, "President Zhou, these solutions can indeed meet the basic needs of our Cube Technology."

"However, before placing an order, I have a request."

"Please, go ahead!" Zhou Yunxing straightened up immediately upon hearing this.

Then, glancing at the robust bodyguard behind Chen Jue, he watched as the bodyguard, at Chen Jue's signal, took out two square concrete blocks from his bag and placed them on the table.

The six surfaces of these two concrete blocks on the table were exceptionally smooth, including the exposed cross-sections of the steel bars, all without any burrs, clearly processed with professional equipment.

"President Chen, are you planning to personally test Shenji's technical skills?" Zhou Yunxing frowned upon seeing this, knowing the real show was about to begin.

"That's right!"

Chen Jue nodded, not concealing his intention, and said, "These two concrete prefabricated components are Cube Technology's future flagship products, with the six faces processed by waterjet cutting."

"Before I place an order and sign a contract, please have your factory do some surface finishing on them. I don't care what precision machine tools you use, as long as the two concrete blocks can be stacked together and generate a certain amount of suction like suction cups, then this 2 billion order is yours."

"If you can't do it, then I can only apologize for the trouble!"

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