Reborn in the red age

Chapter 376 Bidding Meeting

"It's very simple. We directly sign a commercial contract with them and bring them into the company as teachers to teach our technicians. The employment period is six months."

“After their fourth month on the job, we can set a bonus. The first person to propose an improvement to the production process can get a generous bonus, but we won’t announce the name or the improved process to the public.”

"By doing this, we don't have to worry about employees being dissatisfied with unequal pay for equal work, and we can also make these Japanese people suspicious of each other, making it easier for us to get all the production technology."

After hearing Xie Wanmin's plan, the conference room fell silent, followed by a round of applause.

Li Qingfeng clapped his hands and looked at Xie Wanmin with admiration. The group of Japanese technical talents that had given Li Qingfeng a headache were easily dealt with by Xie Wanmin.

Civil servants in the government are truly the country's real elites, and most of the country's best talents are concentrated in the ranks of civil servants.

Whether they can get things done depends mainly on whether they want to do it and whether they have the conditions to do it.

Li Qingfeng looked at Xie Wanmin sincerely and said, "Secretary Xie is indeed an old comrade with many years of work experience. You are so experienced. The Japanese technician who has troubled me for many days was solved by you so easily."

"What's the big deal? My personnel relationship has been transferred to 'Huaxin'. I receive a salary from 'Huaxin', so of course I have to work hard for Huaxin," Xie Wanmin waved his hand and said modestly.

Xie Wanmin is extremely satisfied with his current life. Although his power is not as great as when he was in the state-owned enterprise, he has more free time and the company pays him a high salary. Naturally, Xie Wanmin is willing to help Huaxin.

The decision was made at the meeting and Ni Guangnan, who was still in Tianjin, was notified on the same day.

Ni Guangnan had no objection to the company headquarters' decision and sent several letters to Japan that same day.

A month later, Ni Guangnan, who was installing the production line at the headquarters in Sijiu City, received letters from Japan one after another.

Without exception, all seven people accepted Ni Guangnan's invitation and expressed their willingness to come to China to work for a short period of time.

After resolving the issue of introducing Japanese technicians, the people at Huaxin turned their attention to the installation of the production line.

The installation of a chip production line is not an easy task and it cannot be completed without three months.

While the production line was being installed, some equipment that had been planned long ago began to be purchased one after another.

The chip industry is really money-burning. Just the large computers used in chip design cost more than one million dollars each.

"Teacher Li, IBM's quote for our mainframe computer is relatively high, hundreds of thousands of dollars more than other quotes," Xu Yuanming found Li Qingfeng and said angrily.

Li Qingfeng, who was reading a storybook in his hand, asked casually without even looking up, "What's the price you offered us?"

"One million and eight hundred thousand. IBM quoted one and a half million dollars for the same machine purchased by other companies."

"It's only $300,000. It's more than that. Give it to him."

"Ah? Why?"

"No reason. In the field of mainframe computers, can you find any other suitable alternatives besides IBM?"

As he spoke, Li Qingfeng put down the story in his hand and looked at Xu Yuanming with a smile: "Old Xu, you are not unaware of the grievances between our Lemon Company and IBM. They started when we first started making personal computers, and we also had constant struggles over the operating system later on."

"That is, in addition to our investment, Huaxin International also has 35% of official shares. Otherwise, IBM might not be able to sell it to us."

"Three hundred thousand is three hundred thousand, it's not a big number. They finally managed to control us, why can't we let them vent their anger?"

Xu Yuanming thought about the feud between the two companies over the years, sighed deeply, went back to the office to sign the contract, paid the money, and reluctantly accepted IBM's control.

Money makes things easier. After a series of purchases, 20 million US dollars were spent and all the necessary equipment was purchased.

In the following period of time, Li Qingfeng did not participate in any of Huaxin's affairs and completely let Xu Yuanming and Academician Wang take charge.

After all, everyone has their own expertise. When it comes to computer software, Li Qingfeng is an absolute expert, but when it comes to integrated circuits and semiconductors, Li Qingfeng knows nothing about them.

While the production line was being installed, Li Qingfeng met with Mou Qizhong who came to Sijiu City for a meeting, hoping that he could help him go to Moscow to urge Big Brother about the automobile production line.

In the Nanfang Deutsche Bank's office in Beijing, Li Qingfeng met Mou Qizhong, who was wearing a neat suit.

It is true that people feel refreshed when good things happen. Mou Qizhong's face is now glowing, without the vicissitudes of life in the past, and he looks full of energy.

As soon as the two met, Mu Qizhong opened his arms and greeted him warmly: "Hey, brother, you have done something earth-shattering. You have introduced the first 1.5 micron chip production line in China. I admire you."

"My little thing is nothing, just a production line. In terms of influence, it is nothing compared to your Nan De's canned food exchanging for airplanes. There is a huge difference. Your feat is not comparable at all."

The two of them were in the office, and after exchanging some business boasts, they sat down.

Mou Qizhong was in a hurry as he had to meet a leader later. So, as soon as he sat down, he went straight to the point: "Brother, there is no problem with Moscow. I was planning to go there during this period to discuss a business deal with Moscow. I will help you urge them to reach an agreement as soon as possible."

"Thank you so much, Boss Mou. I'm really embarrassed to say that we need your help in coordinating our company's affairs many times," Li Qingfeng said apologetically.

"What's the big deal? You helped me a lot in exchanging materials for planes. This is what I should do." At this point, Mu Qizhong asked doubtfully, "Brother, your Lemon Company is very powerful internationally. Why don't you go to Moscow in person? Will you be more effective than me?"

"Brother Mou, you don't know that you have never done business in America, so you don't understand the ins and outs of it. For various reasons, neither I nor Lemon Company can go to Moscow. When doing business with Moscow, the name of Lemon Company cannot appear on the surface."

Li Qingfeng's words were very obscure, but Mou Qizhong immediately understood the meaning.

"R his ancestors board"

Mou Qizhong slammed the table so hard that he even spoke in Sichuan dialect in anger: "These bastard Americans are so overbearing. It's simply unreasonable. They talk about democracy and freedom, but actually they practice hegemony. Last year they directly seized the fighter jets we were upgrading, and now they are targeting our Chinese companies. They are so shameless." "It's normal. Isn't that how the Americans are?" Li Qingfeng shrugged and said.

Mou Qizhong said indignantly: "Humph, the American sent me an interview invitation two days ago, and I was planning to agree, but now forget it, I won't go."

"No, just go if you have to. Once you go, the Americans will definitely give you some sugar-coated bullets. When the time comes, take the sugar-coating and fire the bullets back at them."

"What's so good about the sugar-coated bullets of imperialism? I would rather starve to death than eat the sugar-coated bullets of imperialism."

Mou Qizhong's secretary had been pacing anxiously outside the door. The two did not talk much. After checking the departure time, Li Qingfeng said goodbye and left.

A week later, Li Qingfeng sent Zhang Yapeng and Mou Qizhong to Moscow again, but the difference this time was that their standards were higher.

If you want to go to Moscow, you don’t have to take a long train ride. Instead, you can go directly to the Sijiucheng Airport and take a direct flight to Moscow.

After the third contact with Moscow and spending one million dollars in lobbying funds, significant progress was finally made.

Moscow agreed to provide various materials in exchange for Volga Automobile's full set of patented technologies and a full set of production equipment including engines and gearboxes currently being used by the Volga Automobile Plant.

After obtaining authorization from Li Qingfeng, Zhang Yapeng signed a purchase contract with the other party in Moscow.

The complete set of automobile patents and production equipment, light industrial materials valued at 1 billion RMB, were prepared by both parties and shipped simultaneously by sea six months later.

After picking up Zhang Yapeng who had returned from Moscow at the airport and seeing the contract signed with Moscow, he immediately took action.

The two sides split into two groups. Zhang Yapeng didn't even go home. He came out of the airport, went straight to the train station, bought a ticket back to his hometown in Northeast China, and negotiated with the local authorities about the establishment of the automobile factory.

Li Qingfeng stayed in Sijiu City, asking his superiors for policies and car license plates, while trying to find a way to purchase enough supplies for delivery within half a year.

For ordinary people, it is indeed difficult to obtain a private car production license, but for Li Qingfeng, it is just a matter of making a phone call.

I spoke to Secretary Qian on the phone on Friday, and the automobile manufacturing company's business license, along with the production license plate, was delivered the following Wednesday.

Seeing the name 'China Feichi Automobile Industry Group Co., Ltd.' on the paper business license, Li Qingfeng's mouth twitched.

What a shitty name, a speeding car? I'm speeding through life!
You just named my company for me without even asking me?
When Li Qingfeng called Secretary Qian to request a name change, one sentence from him made Li Qingfeng give up the idea.

'Flying Car' was a name that an old man personally gave to Li Qingfeng after he learned that he was going to introduce technology to build cars. It cannot be changed.
After learning who had chosen this name, Qingfeng Li took out the business paper again, looked at the company name on it, and murmured to himself quietly: "Flying Auto, Feichi Auto, not bad, not bad, a very domineering name."

After obtaining the automobile business license, Qingfeng Li turned his attention to purchasing supplies.

Compared with the business license, Li Qingfeng felt that purchasing 1 billion worth of supplies was more of a headache.

There are so many factories in the country, and it is impossible for Li Qingfeng to visit each of them to place purchase orders. After much thought, Li Qingfeng decided to hold a bidding meeting, publish the news of his purchase in the newspaper, and let the manufacturers who have goods come to him.

"Brother, you hurriedly asked me to come to Sijiu City with the business license of the trading company to help. What happened?"

Chen Defa, who had just rushed over from Wuxi, respectfully handed the file bag in his briefcase to Li Qingfeng, and then asked why he was asked to come.

Li Qingfeng opened the file bag and checked it. After confirming that it contained the business license of the trading company, he nodded with satisfaction: "Nothing, there is just a bidding meeting, and it is not convenient to show up in the name of my company, so I asked you to send a business license over."

"Tender meeting? What does that mean?"

"Oh, I want to purchase 1 billion worth of materials and ship them to Big Brother. I'm too lazy to run from factory to factory, so I'll just put the purchase information in the newspaper and let interested manufacturers come to me. I called you here to hold this bidding meeting in your name."

"A lot, a lot, how much? One billion?"

When Chen Defa heard about the 1 billion worth of supplies, his eyes widened. Even though he had seen many big scenes over the years, he was still shocked by the 1 billion worth of supplies purchase.

Seeing Chen Defa's expression, Li Qingfeng laughed and said teasingly: "You look so surprised. It's only 1 billion yuan, not a lot of money."

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After calling Chen Defa back from Wuxi, Li Qingfeng felt much more relaxed. He simply became a hands-off boss and let Chen Defa take care of things on his own.

After these years of experience, Chen Defa has become very mature in doing things. After understanding the specific situation, he prepared all the preliminary work in just three days and was able to publish the bidding information in the newspaper at any time.

During the inspection before the interview with the newspaper, Chen Defa suggested to Li Qingfeng: "Brother, this is what I think. Our bidding will be open to hundreds of thousands of factories across the country. Once the bidding information is released, there will definitely be a lot of calls for consultation. We will need at least a dozen phones to answer the calls."

"It is difficult to find more than a dozen telephones for consultation in a short period of time. I plan to rent a dozen rooms in the hotel and hire a few short-term operators to provide telephone consultation."

"The phone is not a problem. We can just go to the chip factory. There are plenty of phone lines there. Not to mention a dozen, thirty or forty will be no problem." Li Qingfeng pondered for a moment and continued, "We don't need to find an operator. There are plenty of clerks there. We can just borrow them for a few days."

Chen Defa nodded: "It would be great if this problem can be solved, then I don't have to hire operators."

After inspection and confirmation that there were no omissions, Chen Defa contacted all newspapers nationwide and published the bidding information prepared in advance in the best advertising positions.

The content published is very simple and crude.

"We are purchasing 1 billion yuan worth of various materials from all over the country, including canned food, warm clothing, daily necessities and other 80 categories of materials. We welcome all capable manufacturers to come to bid at the bidding time, address and phone number."

As soon as the news of the bidding came out, it instantly caused a huge wave across the country.

The purchase of materials worth 1 billion yuan is undoubtedly a huge surprise for domestic factories that currently have excess materials and inventory backlogs.

(End of this chapter)