After a morning of disputes, we barely reached an agreement on most issues. The more controversial one is still the technology transfer. German and American manufacturers firmly disagree. Swedish manufacturers think that German and American are right, but Japanese manufacturers have not expressed any clear attitude and have to go back and discuss.

Considering that the staff composition is too complicated and eating together seems too strange, Duan Youwei did not leave everyone for dinner, and the manufacturers left with the materials. This is actually not a good day to carry out work. The Christmas holiday in Europe and the United States has just ended, and China is busy celebrating the Spring Festival again. It is not known how long it will take to delay. The Japanese are really fighting. Watching a red and white song party on New Year's Day and enjoying fireworks in August, I am satisfied this year.

During lunch, it was still Zhang Yifu, Qin Yue, Wen Tianming and Jia Luansong. These four people are already core groups and there is no grudge between them. It is right to unite around Zhang Yifu. Especially after today, most of the staff felt that Wang Shuo could not be on the table. They were not good at asking questions or answers, but Zhang Yifu still grasped the key and controlled the overall situation in just a few words.

Zhang Yifu didn't think about taking over resources and power, but just hoped to get things out of the meeting as soon as possible and hold a few fewer meetings. If he didn't go to the meeting, he might be getting longer and longer.

"Which manufacturer do you think is more reliable?"

No need to think about it, it must be Qin Yue who asked such a brainless thing.

"I can't tell you, each has its own advantages and disadvantages." Zhang Yifu answered unbiasedly.

"But from the scene, at least Siemens' attitude is not very good, right?"

"It's normal." Zhang Yifu is more rational. "From another perspective, if we go to Vietnam to discuss cooperation, wouldn't those people be just a bunch of Vietnamese monkeys? Now the foreigners think we are probably similar, they are nouveau riche in the East."

"How can we compare with Vietnamese?" Qin Yue said dissatisfied.

"Haha, I think that's what Director Zhang means." Jia Luansong interrupted. "They think we don't understand very well. They are thinking about how to coax us well, just like making money from nouveau riche. Whether you do things well is not that important. The key is to make the nouveau riche happy."

"Yes. This is on the point." Zhang Yifu smiled, "So you see, in today's negotiations, several other manufacturers are fooling around and coaxing them. Only Siemens people really care about how to implement things. There must be conflicts between the A and B. I personally appreciate the person who came up with them more."

"You are more inclined toward Siemens?" Qin Yue was not interested in the process at all. She just stared at Zhang Yifu and asked the result.

"Luan Song, what do you think?" Zhang Yifu decisively turned the blame.

"I don't understand even more." Jia Luansong shook his head with a smile, "But I always feel that our opinions are limited, and in the end we have to look at the bid evaluation results and use product technology to talk about it."

"Lan Song is right, but I have always been unable to understand something here." Wen Tianming frowned and asked, "Look, our supercritical technology is almost equivalent to none. Since we don't understand, what should we use to judge others? Where do we get the standards?"

These words made everyone feel silenced.

After a brief silence, Jia Luansong suddenly laughed: "The problem of dawn reminds me of Volkswagen's entry into China. At that time, our government was seeking international cooperation. That is, what happened ten years ago, we first tended to cooperate with Japan's Toyota and GM. However, neither of us could accept our conditions. Later, we set our sights on Germany. After all, we had received technical assistance from Germans before. At that time, the core technology was produced by Mercedes-Benz, and had this foundation. So in the late 1970s, the then Minister of the Ministry of Mechanical Industry led a team to Stuttgart to visit the Mercedes-Benz headquarters."

"Wow! How old were we at that time?" Qin Yue gestured with her fingers, and it was the most interesting to listen to political gossip from Jia Luansong.

"I don't remember anything anyway. It's also what happened later. What happened later was particularly interesting." Jia Luansong also said more and more. "The minister went to Stuttgart like this. Then he walked on the street and accidentally found that the cars running on the street were almost invisible to see Mercedes-Benz, all of which were of another brand of cars. He suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with our judgment of the German manufacturer, so he grabbed a Stuttgart citizen and asked. The citizen told him that the car was produced by Volkswagen of Wolfburg. Although Mercedes-Benz is famous, Volkswagen is more practical. Then the minister didn't think about it and temporarily changed the itinerary and led the team to Wolfburg."

"Is this true?" Qin Yue asked in surprise.

"It should be a real thing. After the minister retired, I told me that he taught me to seize the day and be determined."

Well, I have moved out, I have to believe it.

Jia Luansong continued, "What happened later was even more interesting. There was no communication before. The minister himself wore a Zhongshan suit and came to the entrance of the Volkswagen headquarters. He told the guard that I was the Minister of the Ministry of Machinery Industry of China and wanted to talk to your person in charge. Seeing that this gentleman was very arrogant, the guard quickly asked the manager to welcome the minister from China."

"It's so amazing!" Qin Yue asked excitedly, "And then everyone hit it off?"

"No." Jia Luansong shook his head, "I have been talking intermittently for six years. After all, we have asked for a lot of technical sharing and want to set up a joint venture in China, etc. They have a lot of concerns, but in the end they have reached the negotiation. So the foreign cars we are running on the road are almost the only ones in Volkswagen. Some time ago, Volkswagen's Audi was introduced as a government car."

"Wait..." Qin Yue suddenly thought, "If the minister doesn't go to Volkswagen, wouldn't it be that the streets are full of Mercedes-Benz now?"

"I'm afraid it's difficult. In fact, I've also talked with Mercedes-Benz. They can't accept our conditions and are too arrogant." Jia Luansong said to his favorite place and said vividly, "Until now, Toyota people are crazy and regretful. They have contacted our government many times, hoping to cooperate and have offered very superior conditions, but we have cooperated well with Volkswagen and no longer need them."

"Sure enough, it's similar to what's happening right now." Wen Tianming seemed to have absorbed something, "If we didn't insist on so many conditions that would be beneficial to us when we communicated with Toyota at the beginning, and let Toyota enter our market with very low costs and high profits, then it would be a completely different scene now."

Jia Luansong added: "It's not just that. The key is technology. Volkswagen has shared a lot of technology with us, which has benefited many domestic manufacturers. The mechanical technology can even benefit other industries in my country, but Toyota will never provide these."

"Huh..." Wen Tianming gasped. "It's really a technical job to negotiate with foreigners. It's not in vain for six years."

"So at the moment, I think Director Zhang is right." Jia Luansong finally said, "This cooperation is likely to be a long-term supercritical cooperation. We must choose the party who is most willing to contribute and most skilled. Instead of spending money foolishly and being led by others."

"So you'd better not choose Siemens?" Qin Yue forgot everything in the middle.

"Sister Yue... we can't talk." Jia Luansong scratched his head in pain.

Zhang Yifu looked at the two of them and laughed, without making any judgment, and only ate his own meal.

At that time, when reform and opening up happened, people were full of longing for nothing to be done. The minister wearing Zhongshan suit must have thought about how to strengthen the country, not personal interests. Driven by this firm belief, he kept his position, chose the best object, and strengthened his country's industry through cooperation.

Whether the current rulers can keep that original intention needs to be questioned.

Shortly after lunch, Yao Xinyu came to visit. He learned the results of the solo exam through internal channels and came to report the good news as soon as possible. In the small negotiation room, he kept congratulating Zhang Yifu.

"Director Zhang, you are the first place in the re-examination this time! Even Teacher Ma passed the qualifier!" Yao Xinyu owed Zhang Yifu in his heart, and his mouth was naturally full of enthusiasm. "There is also Xia Xue, who is well deserved to be the second place in the re-examination. Just recruit two of you, both of you have passed. Wait for the notice to report to Professor Yue."

"Xia Xue has passed the exam too..." Zhang Yifu shook his head awkwardly. He actually didn't want her to go too.

"What's wrong?" Yao Xinyu asked with his eyes wide open. "You... can't be..."

"Well, I haven't contacted much recently."

"Oh...ah..." Yao Xinyu reacted for a moment before tentatively tentatively, "Is it still impossible to accept her temperament?"

"That's right."

"That's right! Even men can't accept it!" Yao Xinyu seemed to have found a soulmate, "Let me tell you that I had a conflict with her before, and it was really wrong. Director Zhang, as her man, you have taught you a lesson, but we can't say that there is no problem with her in this, right? Otherwise, who can cause trouble for her if you are full?"

Well, Yao Xinyu really spared no effort to flatter people and was shameless!

Seeing Zhang Yifu's slightly dissatisfied expression, Yao Xinyu quickly turned around and said, "I understand Director Zhang's vision, Xia Xue still has quite a few highlights... Let's not mention this, I'll come here this time and talk about other things by the way."

"Um?"

Yao Xinyu pulled Zhang Yifu down and said slowly: "I won't go around the corner. My leader wants to understand the negotiations with several manufacturers."

"Shouldn't you ask Director Duan?"

"Isn't this inconvenient? Everyone knows that your brain is the best." Yao Xinyu called out.

"Just tell me clearly, which leader is it?" Zhang Yifu didn't go around the corner, and there was nothing to do with Yao Xinyu.

"Then I have made it clear that the production is under the jurisdiction of Minister Huang now? Director Qin asked me when Director Qin asked me."

"Oh..." Zhang Yifu turned around and asked, "Is there a missing Ou Wei in the middle?"

"This... I have been reporting work directly to Director Qin recently, and Director Ou seems to be transferred."

"This is cultivating you." Zhang Yifu smiled, "Congratulations."

"I can't talk about it, just get along." Yao Xinyu quickly regained the main topic, "Since this is the case, I'll say it clearly... The department has always had close cooperation with ABB, and there are also major projects to hand over to ABB."

"Yeah, I understand." Zhang Yifu made a gesture and let Yao Xinyu stop, "Don't say that he understands so much..."

"Haha, doesn't this care about efficiency?" Yao Xinyu said with a flattering smile.

"I just can't understand it at all." Zhang Yifu asked with a frown, "These things should be decided by future bid evaluation experts and people from the bid evaluation leadership group. I'm just a little bit, right?"

"No, Director Zhang, don't belittle yourself. The opinions are not so unified when evaluating bids. In addition, Director Dun of the Preparatory and Construction Department here is not easy to communicate, so the leader still attaches great importance to your side."
Chapter completed!