Sail across the sea

Chapter 285 That’s his personality

Ya's here to cause trouble.

At this moment, Xu Ying had such a thought in her heart.She turned to look at Liang Guodong and Ji Yulin, and saw the same displeasure in their eyes.However, when she glanced at the face of Wu Yawei, who was sent by the Provincial Economic Commission, she found that his smile was very sweet, yes, it was just silly and sweet.

Yang Jinglin's face was also a little confused.

That's right, everyone is talking about "introducing advanced foreign technology" now. It is a well-known fact that foreign countries are advanced and China is lagging behind.In other words, if the United States is not considered to be more advanced than China, why would the Chemical Industry Agency work so hard to promote a joint venture between Mao Chemical Machinery and Odin Factory?
However, I don’t bring slaps in the face like you.

If you say that our equipment is old or backward, I will accept it.

You first said that our lathe is the same model your grandfather used, and then that our grinder is the model that you threw away 15 years ago. In your eyes, we are just a bunch of barbarians, right?
Thinking this in his heart, Yang Jinglin didn't have the courage to confront Dampier yet. He just said with a bit of seriousness:

"Mr. Dampier, China is still a developing country, and its technological level is certainly not comparable to that of your country. This is why we want to learn from your country.

"The models of our equipment are a little older, but they are still sufficient for general chemical equipment manufacturing. The 8S12.5 ammonia compressor and A100 vertical worm gear reducer produced by our factory have been certified and have reached It has reached the international technical level in the mid-70s, with reliable performance and stable quality. It has just won the Silver Award for Product Quality issued by the Ministry of Chemical Industry."

"General Engineer Yang, Mr. Dampier didn't mean that."

Before translator Ge Zhiliang could finish translating Yang Jinglin's words, Wu Yawei on the side spoke first.

Yang Jinglin glanced at Ge Zhiliang, who was still translating, then turned to Wu Yawei and asked: "Chief Wu, what do you mean?"

Wu Yawei said: "I don't think Mr. Dampier means to look down on us, he just has a more straightforward personality. Americans are different from us Chinese. We are more concerned about face, and Americans always say one thing and another." To put it bluntly, it’s a person’s personality.”

"Personality?" Yang Jinglin snorted from his nose, "Americans also want to eat whole grains, right? Going to other people's factories and gesticulating, is this called personality?"

Wu Yawei was originally a deputy director of the Cangtang County Planning Commission. Not long ago, he was transferred to the Provincial Economic Commission through unknown connections and became the section chief of a section under the Industrial Department.

Mao Chemical Machinery is a provincial enterprise, and Yang Jinglin, the chief engineer, is at the deputy department level, so naturally he will not take Wu Yawei, the section chief, seriously.There was also deputy director Xu Ying present at the scene. Even Xu Ying clearly showed some dissatisfaction. However, Wu Yawei said that this was just an American personality, so Yang Jinglin couldn't help but choke him.

However, despite all the choking, Yang Jinglin really couldn't find any powerful words to say.

It is also the consensus of the Chinese people nowadays that Americans have a straightforward character.When those people who have "seen the world" talk about this, they often express emotion, saying how the Chinese people's character does not match the world trend, lacks self-confidence, lacks courage, etc.

If you hear this kind of thing too often, you will be fooled by it. Faced with the so-called "frankness" of foreigners, you will always feel a little ashamed of yourself.

While they were exchanging words, Dampier had already completed a round of communication with Ge Zhiliang. Ge Zhiliang began to translate Dampier's opinions to everyone:

"Mr. Dampier said that he understands China's current technological level, and his visit this time is to bring over the advanced technology of the Odin Factory. The Odin Factory is planning to build a precision machining workshop in Maohua Machinery and dispatch 15 workers from the United States. An experienced technical worker came to take charge of the production of this workshop. The current workshop can undertake traditional ordinary precision processing work." He also said that after such transformation, the Maohua machine should be able to undertake the vitamin C production commissioned by the Hatch Group. More than 80% of the mechanical manufacturing tasks in the installation. "

"That's great!" Factory Director Guo Jiahua praised.

Yang Jinglin did not follow the cheers, but glanced at Xu Ying.

Xu Ying hesitated for a moment and then said to Ge Zhiliang: "Xiao Ge, ask Mr. Dampier how large the precision processing workshop he mentioned is... uh, how many workers are needed?"

Ge Zhiliang and Dampier murmured a few more words, and then replied to Xu Ying: "Director Xu, he said that the size of this workshop does not need to be too large, because it is mainly responsible for precision machining tasks. It is about a dozen machine tools."

"Where are the number of people?" Xu Ying asked.

"In terms of number of people, in addition to the technicians sent from the United States, only a dozen general workers are needed to do some auxiliary work. By the way, he also emphasized that the workers they sent are all generalists, and one person can operate several types of operations. Different machine tools." Ge Zhiliang said.

"Does this mean that the Odin Factory's assumption is that their people are responsible for precision machining tasks, and our people can only do rough work?" Yang Jinglin asked the key to the problem.

Ge Zhiliang did not translate this sentence immediately because he could also feel the smell of gunpowder in this sentence.He turned his attention to Xu Ying and waited for Xu Ying to express her position.

Xu Ying thought for a moment, shook her head, and said: "Xiao Ge, don't rush to confirm this question with Mr. Dampier, Chief Engineer Yang. We have just visited the metalworking workshop, and there are several workshops behind it. We have finished them all." , it’s not too late to communicate with Mr. Dampier.”

Ge Zhiliang nodded, casually made up a few polite words to deal with Dampier, and then the group walked through the metalworking workshop, went out through another door, and walked towards the casting workshop at the back.

After this episode, the atmosphere in the entire team became less harmonious.

As the chief engineer, Yang Jinglin, no matter how unhappy he felt, still had to put on a smile and explain to Dampier the layout of the factory, the division of labor in each workshop, and the equipment status.

Xu Ying and others were originally following Dampier closely, ready to answer some of his inquiries at any time.But now, everyone was no longer interested, so they took a few steps back and started whispering.

Among the group of people, only Wu Yawei still had a silly and sweet face, and everyone could even feel that he was more excited than at the beginning.When Yang Jinglin was explaining to Dampier, Wu Yawei always followed Dampier on the other side, interjecting from time to time.

As a translator, Ge Zhiliang heard Wu Yawei speak. Although he felt that the other party was a bit troublesome, he had to translate for Dampier for him.After going back and forth, Dampier became somewhat interested in Wu Yawei. He found that this young man had a very humble attitude and spoke well, as if he was well-educated.

Well, when Dampier talks about good education, he means Western-style education.

(End of this chapter)