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Chapter 359 Unit price: 980 million yen!
Xia Muqing acted very quickly. A week later, she faxed the development materials of Dongying's unmanned plant protection machine to Zhang Qihang.

Only then did Zhang Qihang know that as early as 1983, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan put forward the request for the invention of a single-rotor unmanned helicopter for agricultural plant protection. Yamaha received the request and spent four years developing a helicopter with the largest payload. The 10kg unmanned helicopter R-50, Yamaha R-50 uses a specially developed 98CC water-cooled two-stroke twin-cylinder engine with a maximum power of 8.8KW and a maximum take-off weight of 68kg. While researching similar products, the Yamaha R-50 is the first unmanned plant protection helicopter that is truly put into agricultural spraying practice.

By 1991, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Dongying issued a document called "Promoting the Application of Plant Protection UAVs in Rice Fields", aiming to promote the wide application of plant protection UAVs in agriculture. As of last year, Dongying registered The number of unmanned plant protection machines has reached more than 200 units (frames).

The reason why there are so few is because in Japan, the price of unmanned plant protection helicopters is very expensive. How expensive is it?

一架雅马哈R-50无人植保机的售价就高达980万日元，以当前日元与美元之间115:1的汇率来算，一架R-50的售价相当于8.5万美元，约合71万RMB！

On the phone, Xia Muqing was very embarrassed and said to Zhang Qihang: "The price is too high, and the Japanese government has also included the unmanned plant protection machine in the list of products that are 'restricted from exporting to China', and we are not allowed to buy it, so... ..."

What is a bullied face?
This is called the face of being bullied. The so-called unmanned plant protection helicopter is, to put it bluntly, a large model airplane, but if you don’t have one, they won’t sell it to you!
Zhang Qihang felt emotional in his heart, but he said in surprise: "It costs 71 in RMB? So expensive?"

"It's just so expensive," Xia Muqing sighed, "otherwise, the number of unmanned plant protection machines in the entire Dongpu would not be just over 200."

To be honest, Xia Muqing was amazed when I heard from my friends that Dongying had already started to use drones to carry out pesticides. I felt that the people of Dongying were really amazing. We deserved to be a developed country. , people have already started using drones, but after what Zhang Qihang said before, and after knowing the price of Dongying's unmanned plant protection drones, she had only one thought in her mind: Is the heart of the little devil really special? black!It’s just a large model airplane, how dare you sell it for 71? !No wonder no one bought it!

In fact, Zhang Qihang also had the same idea: it’s just an unmanned helicopter, and the little devil dares to sell it for 71 yuan, which is more expensive than a Mercedes-Benz S-class abroad. After all, a “mosquito” that can only seat one person "The helicopter is only less than 3 U.S. dollars, you little devil is really black!"

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At the regular meeting the next morning, as soon as everyone entered the conference room, they saw Zhang Qihang as the model of the helicopter in front of them. They couldn't help but feel a little strange: what did Mr. Zhang do with such a thing?
At the beginning of the meeting, Zhang Qihang pointed to the helicopter in front of him and said to everyone: "Everyone has seen this thing in the mall, a remote control helicopter."

"I have seen."

"never seen it."

"I have seen."

"I have seen."

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I have seen that I don't know why my general manager suddenly "doesn't do business properly" mention this, but everyone still answers.

Zhang Qihang nodded, and continued: "I overheard a piece of news from a friend before, saying that Yamaha has launched an unmanned helicopter in Dongying for pesticide spraying. This unmanned helicopter looks like the one in front of me This remote-controlled helicopter is similar, it can carry up to 10 kilograms of pesticides to spray farmland at a time... Guess how much Yamaha sells for such an unmanned helicopter?"

When Zhang Qihang said this, everyone immediately lost their previous guess: the general manager of the company really has his eye on the new project.

Liu Jiang did not answer this question right away, but asked, "This unmanned helicopter from Yamaha is also made with motorcycle engines? What is the maximum take-off weight of this aircraft?"

"This question is on point," Zhang Qihang nodded and said, "The maximum take-off weight of the R-50 is 68 kilograms, and the maximum power of the engine is 8.8 kilowatts, about 12 horsepower."

When Liu Jiang heard this, he immediately said, "If that's the case, it can't exceed 2 yuan, right? I even think that in terms of cost alone, it shouldn't exceed 1 yuan."

How much does a remote control helicopter with a motorcycle engine, a maximum take-off weight of 68 kg and a payload of 10 kg cost?In Liu Jiang's heart, he even felt that the cost of 1 yuan was overstated by himself, but the actual cost might only be a few thousand yuan.

Zhang Qihang was noncommittal, nodded and looked at everyone: "What do you all think? Is it similar to Old Liu?"

"Yes, my opinion is similar to that of Comrade Liu Jiang."

"My opinion is the same as that of Comrade Liu Jiang."

"Me too……"

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Several people at the meeting nodded their heads, and everyone had the same opinion: such a simple thing can only be sold for 2 yuan at most, and the actual cost may be only a few thousand yuan.

Zhang Qihang was not surprised by this result. He nodded and said, "Then if I tell everyone, the price of Yamaha's R-50 remote control agricultural plant protection machine in Dongying is as high as 980 million yen, which is 71 yuan in RMB. Wan, what else do you want to say?"

As soon as Zhang Qihang's voice fell, everyone immediately exploded...

"71 million?!"

"Can't it?"

"Is this kid crazy?"

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It’s no wonder everyone’s reaction was so intense. It’s really that the price is not within everyone’s expectations. According to normal logic, it’s reasonable for you to sell more than 1 yuan for an item with a cost price of several thousand yuan. Even if it sells for 2 or 71 yuan, it is understandable, even if it is sold for [-] to [-] yuan, but it is understandable. Who would let someone say that it is a high-end product from Dongying, but you can sell something that costs several thousand yuan for [-] yuan? , It's not a matter of your heart being a little dark anymore, it's that your whole heart, liver, spleen and kidneys are completely dark!

"This..." Liu Jiang hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Manager, could it be that we miscalculated the cost of the Yamaha aircraft, and the actual cost of this aircraft is 40 to [-]?"

Yup!

It's not impossible...

As soon as Liu Jiang's voice fell, everyone immediately realized: Yes, could it be that the cost of the remote control helicopter of Yamaha is hundreds of thousands, so they didn't actually make much money by selling 71.

(End of this chapter)