When will I have a long tassel?

"It is not difficult to develop a steel ball processing machine tool. The key is, what is the use of developing this kind of machine tool?" Tang Zifeng said, "We have evaluated in the past that the number of such machine tools purchased globally per year will not exceed 50. Calculated at US$300,000 per unit, that is a mere US$15 million in output value.

"Currently, Germany's Miran Company is the only manufacturer of this kind of machine tool. If we want to compete with it, the final result is estimated to be equally divided, each with a half share. In this way, the annual revenue is only 7.5 million U.S. dollars, less than It looks like 50 million yuan.

"For this mere US$7.5 million, we have to develop a separate set of technical standards and also involve after-sales services. It is really not cost-effective. Every product we make now has a much bigger market than steel ball machine tools. What is the need for us? Are you going to do this?"

This is a sign of deep wealth. I think back then, when Tang Zifeng had just followed Zhou Heng to come to Yiji to get out of trouble, a business of several hundred thousand yuan could make the whole factory ecstatic. But now, Tang Zifeng actually thinks that a business worth less than 50 million a year business is not worth doing.

The reason why Tang Zifeng said this was because Linji Group had many projects with much higher output values ​​that it could do, but it just couldn't spare enough manpower and other resources to do them. In terms of management concepts, the opportunity cost of taking on this 50 million business is much higher than 50 million. Of course Tang Zifeng is not willing to take it.

If you switch to a small machine tool company and there are not many business opportunities, it would certainly be good to seize this opportunity. However, developing this kind of steel ball processing machine tool involves a series of technical problems. For example, precision grinding of steel balls is a big obstacle. Ordinary small businesses really do not have the ability to do it.

"Why don't I know this truth?" Cui Shuo sighed. He is also a person who has been in management for so many years. There is no reason why he can't think of the reasons that Tang Zifeng can think of. He said: "This matter is an economic issue for your company. It is a political issue for our government.

"If Qi Muden hadn't made the noise and everyone didn't pay attention to this matter, that would be fine. Now Qi Muden directly claims that our use of imported machine tools is controlled by others, and even goes on to say that this is a manifestation of a lack of innovative spirit, saying that our local government only Focusing on GDP without technology content, we have no ability to engage in technological development. Think about it, can we withstand such great pressure?"

"You can't bear the pressure, so let us bear it for you? Why?" Tang Zifeng choked with a smile.

Cui Shuo said: "Old man, for the sake of brotherhood, can't you help the third brother? This matter is just a piece of cake for you, and you don't need to do it yourself. You give an order, Didn’t the people below make it for you?”

"Is it so easy for me to issue an order?" Tang Zifeng said, "Our company must consider economic benefits when doing things. You want us to build steel ball machine tools. Just pay the R\u0026D expenses first, 50 million, and we won't accept counter-offers. And it has to be paid in one lump sum.”

"50 million! You are taking advantage of the situation!" Cui Shuo said angrily, "Didn't you say that you have already studied it? The main technical obstacles have been broken through, just to integrate the technology, you dare to ask me for 50 million! "

"I don't want it in vain." Tang Zifeng said, "If you pay 50 million, I will give you free public relations worth 20 million, saying that Chunze City knows its shame and becomes brave, and does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to join hands with Linji Group to break through the technical bottleneck and break the international market. Blackmail..."

Cui Shuo said: "Stop, stop. We will naturally do the publicity and publicity thing after you develop the machine tool. By the way, we will also praise you when the opportunity arises. I just need you to help us develop the machine tool."

"The most we can pay is 20 million, and this money is not all for your research and development expenses. You also need to provide us with a batch of finished machine tools. Well, just a dozen or so machines will be enough."

"A dozen machine tools, according to the current price of imported machine tools, one is 300,000 US dollars, and a dozen machines are four to five million US dollars, which is at least 30 million yuan when converted into RMB. You bully me and you don't know how to settle the score?" Tang Zifeng revealed road.

"There are not more than a dozen, seven or eight will be fine." Cui Shuo changed his mind quite quickly. It's okay if government officials don't have such skills.

"Not even one!" Tang Zifeng said, "And 50 million, not a penny less. Let me tell you, this is still a friendly price. If it were anyone else, I wouldn't care about it if it was less than 100 million."

Cui Shuo looked at Tang Zifeng and felt that the other party did not seem to be joking, so he asked: "Zifeng, what do you mean? We also asked people to evaluate the number of 20 million. With your technical strength, , it should not cost 10 million to develop such a machine tool, right? I will give you 20 million, and you will return us a few machine tools, and you will not lose the money."

Tang Zifeng smiled and said: "Why not another plan? You offer 50 million, and we will pair up with you when the opportunity arises and sponsor 40 million to you, whether it is used to build Hope Primary School or to alleviate poverty, anyway I’m returning the money to you. After all, you won’t lose anything.”

"But why is this?" Cui Shuo asked in surprise.

Tang Zifeng said with a smile: "The secret must not be leaked. If it is leaked, it will not be fun. Doesn't Qi Mudeng want to play? Let's play with him and see who can't play in the end."

Cui Shuo scratched his half-bald scalp, puzzled. He really couldn't figure out what Tang Zifeng's suggestion had to do with Qi Mudeng, and how it could make Qi Mudeng unable to play.

At this time, Wang Zijie also came over. Cui Shuo knew that he had been with Tang Zifeng very frequently over the years, so he pulled him and told him the matter again, and asked him for advice, asking what Tang Zifeng meant.

Wang Zijie was stunned for a few seconds and then came to his senses. He patted Cui Shuo on the shoulder and said: "Lao San, just follow Lao Ba's advice on this matter. Since he promised to return you 40 million, you will definitely not suffer in this matter, right?" ?

"I can probably guess some of Lao Ba's thoughts, but if I say it now, it won't work. Lao Ba said that he should deal with Qi Mudeng, which makes sense. Think about it, Qi Mudeng just talked nonsense. In other words, we are going through a lot of trouble. If we let him get used to this problem, everyone will not have a good life in the future. Lao Ba’s intention is to draw out the firepower, but it’s hard to say what the effect will be. "

"It's really troublesome to deal with you intellectuals." Cui Shuo muttered, but stopped arguing, and turned to Tang Zifeng and said: "Old man, what you just said is that we will give you 50 million, and you will return it. You gave us 40 million, but actually only received 10 million, is that what you mean?"

Tang Zifeng pretended to be helpless and said: "So what if I didn't mean that? Who asked me to live in the same dormitory with you, Mayor Cui, for four years, and let you blackmail me? What good can come of it? However, this 40 million cannot be paid directly from our group. I will arrange for the group's affiliated companies to sponsor you in appropriate ways, and the total amount will be no less than 40 million."

"Why bother? It's not easy for you to pay, and it's not easy for us to pay. Isn't this just taking off your pants and farting?" Cui Shuo said.

"No way, Mayor Cui is so vulgar?" Tang Zifeng said with a smile.

"I'm rough on you, Tang Zifeng..." Cui Shuo swallowed the last words halfway through his words. Now was the time for him to ask Tang Zifeng for something, and it was really not the right time to greet Tang Zifeng's family.

50 million yuan is not a big deal for a relatively wealthy prefecture-level city. Cui Shuo brought Tang Zifeng's intention back, and the Chunze Municipal Government held an office meeting and settled the matter.

Subsequently, Chunze City and Linji Group jointly held a press conference to inform the public about the development of special machine tools for steel balls. Under Bao Nana's arrangement, a group of media reporters gave full play to their talent for sensationalism. The headlines of the newspaper articles became more and more horrifying, turning such an ordinary thing into shocking news:

"Chunze City joins hands with Linji Group to break the bottleneck of ballpoint pens"

"The small pen tip makes waves, Chunze City spends a lot of money to develop a special machine tool for ballpoint pen steel balls"

"To sink or to rise, what will happen to Chunze City in a rage"

…

“What does Chinese mean?”

In the office of the president of the German company Miran, President Puller looked at the briefing sent by sales director Duranti and felt confused.

Miran Company is a small machine tool company that only produces a few types of machine tools. Precision grinding machine tools for processing ballpoint pen steel balls are its most important products, accounting for more than 70% of the company's total output value.

Due to the small scale of the company, Miran has not opened any sales and service centers outside Europe, nor has it assigned dedicated personnel to pay attention to the dynamics of the Chinese market. The fact that Chunze City teamed up with Linji Group to develop steel ball machine tools was reported to Duranti by a client of Miran Company in China. That client also specially collected some newspapers reporting on the matter and mailed them to Duranti.

Duranty did not understand Chinese. After receiving the newspaper, he asked a Chinese student to translate the relevant content in the newspaper for him, and then formed a briefing report and sent it to Puller.

"According to these reports in Chinese newspapers, as well as reports from customers, this city named Chunze plans to spend 7 million euros to develop a steel ball grinding machine tool to replace Miran." Duranti reported.

"But why is this?" Puller said, "Steel ball grinding machine tools are a very niche product. It is enough for us to have only one supplier in this market. It is completely unprofitable for the Chinese to develop this kind of machine tools. Figure. After investing 7 million euros in such a product, I don’t think they can recoup this investment at all.”

“According to the newspaper, they seem to be worried that we will take restrictive measures on their export of steel ball machine tools. In their words, it is ‘stuck’.” Duranti said.

"This is completely a ridiculous guess. Why do we need to restrict the export of this kind of machine tools to China? If restricted, who will our machine tools be sold to!" Puller felt crazy.