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Chapter 879 Heading to Germany
It is said that the semiconductor company that Su Chen asked James to acquire is called Plessey, a British defense and technology company. Because the owners of Plessey company split, Shengshi received its avionics, radar and traffic control parts.

Renamed ****lessey.

The main business is still the previous ones, not to mention being able to bluff the British, even this company's business is extremely powerful.

Originally, Siemens also liked this company, but who made Shengshi now a creditor of the British government?

So it was operated in a dark box, and Shengshi wholly acquired it.

As soon as Su Chen left, Ambassador Ji came to look for him on the back, but it was a pity that he was in vain.

Su Chen on the plane has already focused on Germany's heavy industry, because Germany's heavy industry is very strong.

So there is a saying that the military industry of the United States and Russia, the heavy industry of Germany, and the light industry of Japan.

Everyone on the earth knows that Germany has an amazing craftsman spirit, such as rigor, standardization, and meticulousness, including the spirit of contract. The Germans stipulate that screws need to be screwed five times, and they will never screw four and a half times.

Whether it is an engineer or an ordinary technician, almost everyone has a unique skill, or even a technology passed down from their ancestors, but more skilled workers come from vocational schools, technical schools, and so-called universities of applied technology all over Germany.

It is worth mentioning that the technical training of German industry associations and field training within enterprises are also very common.

Because of the rigor of the Germans, they created a lot of awesome things, so that some people passed on the stalk of finding parts in the sewer, and the brainless advocacy made a group of netizens stunned for a while, and then they slapped their faces.

However, due to many factors such as World War II, in the high-tech field, the Germans alone cannot do many things. For example, the British can make aerospace engines, but the Germans cannot.

Airbus is also engaged in joint ventures with Britain and France, and cannot be done alone. As for military industry and nuclear energy, etc., it is even inferior to France, Sweden and other countries.

Even in the field of machine tools, Germany has strong comprehensive capabilities, but Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States and other countries are the best in terms of ultra-high-precision machine tools.

In Su Chen's mind, only Siemens, Zeiss and Waldrich Machine Tool Works are worth paying attention to.

Think about the others.

It doesn’t take too much writing to describe the awesomeness of Siemens and Zeiss. Just say that the Waldrich Coburg Machine Tool Factory is the largest machine tool factory in Germany. It is facing bankruptcy due to a series of reasons. improvement.

A few years later, the debt was 340 million marks, and a large number of employees were lost. It almost became a waste factory.

In 1986, the factory was acquired by the Ingersoll Machine Tool Works of the United States. Just when the Germans were ecstatic, the Americans let them down. After less than three years of operation, the Waldrich Coburg Machine Tool Works was facing bankruptcy again, at most next year can completely close down.

This is because the three machine tool factories in Ingersoll produce the same machines, forming self-competition, and various decisions in the factory are made by the parent company in the United States.

Driven by profit, the Ingersoll Machine Tool Factory in the United States always gives priority to promoting its own products in the country. Waldrich Coburg Machine Tool Factory has no autonomy at all, which directly makes life difficult for the factory.

At this time, the Germans were in a very disturbed mood. If they went bankrupt, they would have to lose their jobs.

Although it is not difficult to find a job now, who wants to keep looking for a job?

At this time, Germany is still divided into East and West Germany, and Zeiss is also divided into two. These two companies are not doing well now.
Because of Zeiss lens quality problems, hundreds of lithography machines delivered by GCA received widespread complaints from customers. Not only did customers replace so many G-line lenses that they could be loaded by trucks, even GCA went bankrupt.

The reputation of GCA and Zeiss was thus devastated.

Coupled with the turmoil in the semiconductor industry, Zeiss now urgently needs an injection of funds.

It takes an average of 6 to 10 years for a craftsman polishing a lens to hone the necessary skills and become a "golden finger", which determines that the number of this group of people is extremely limited.

As a result, Zeiss has been searching for several years, but has not found a suitable gold finger.

What's more, Zeiss' poor financial situation at this time, even though its central research department, the Optical Laboratory, has begun to develop the next-generation lens production technology intensively, but it is too shy to support its ideas.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like the rhythm of going bankrupt.

CEO Jobst Hellman's hair fell out in panic, waiting for a god-like figure to come down from the sky to save Zeiss.

However, Su Chen wanted to make Zeiss lenses exclusive to ASML by controlling Zeiss, which seemed like a match made in heaven.

However, how many shares can be acquired depends on how much Zeiss is willing to cut out. Anyway, the negotiation is all about you and me.

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First stop, East Germany.

It just so happened that today was the weekend, whether passing by the beach, lakeside, riverside or forest park, everything was bustling with people. Most importantly, there were almost naked men and women everywhere.

Swimming, basking in the sun, playing beach volleyball, throwing parties, or doing nothing but relaxing with a book.

Among them are young men and women, as well as family portraits, from infants to the elderly, except that they are not wearing clothes, and they are no different from the crowds that can be seen in other places.

This scene made several girls who just came from China blush.

Even Su Chen felt too much.

"Why don't these people wear clothes?" Xue Fang asked with difficulty. After all, in the hearts of most Chinese people, this kind of behavior is difficult to understand, and even indecent.

Su Chen explained: "Because this is a kind of their culture, it has a historical tradition in Central Europe, which can be traced back to the [-]th century at the earliest, and became a fashion in Germany at the beginning of the [-]th century.

And Germany is also the base camp of this kind of no-clothesism. Freikrperkultur in German refers to these specific clubs and organizations. "

"This is too exaggerated." Huang Ying said with a red face, "If I lived in this city, I would definitely not get used to it."

"Every place has its own customs." Su Chen smiled, "I originally wanted to show you the differences in this country, but now it seems that it is not realistic."

After all, as long as they are not people of their kind, they cannot accept their culture.

"I want to see the Berlin Wall." Xue Fang said, "I've only heard about it in books before, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes yet."

"We will go together at that time, but after the "shooting order" was issued, it became legal to shoot those who crossed the Berlin Wall. As of this year, about 50 people were shot dead by the border guards of the GDR for crossing the Berlin Wall."

Su Chen said, "It should be possible to look at it from a distance, but it is obviously impossible to go through it, unless we fly there."

Because this time I came to Germany to buy a part of the shares of Zeiss, and to send warmth to the Germans by the way. Shengshi has no business here, and needs to arrange everything by itself.

So first go to the hotel, arrange accommodation, and then have meals and so on.

After all this tossing, some people were so tired that they turned their backs.

Su Chen was planning to buy some good things from Germany, but Ms. He, who was far away in Hong Kong, ran into some troubles...

(End of this chapter)