Except for a very few people in the world who know that Toshiba is secretly selling five-axis machine tools, only Chen Xia knows it best.
However, he didn't dare to get involved in such major affairs between countries. If he dared to tell anyone, he would never be able to leave Japan and would be thrown directly to Fukushima to suffer from nuclear radiation.
Chen Xia looked at the five-axis machine tool in front of him with an indescribable feeling in his heart. Unfortunately, the machine was under very strict guard and was in public in the hall, so he had no chance to "steal" it.
Just when he was feeling regretful, Chen Shuqin waved her hand, motioning him to come over.
"Aunt, what's wrong? Have you finished talking?"
Chen Shuqin looked unhappy: "We agreed on the deal, but we couldn't agree on the price. They wanted $5 million for one production line. Even when we asked to buy five production lines, they still insisted on the same price."
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Chen Xia felt a toothache when he heard this. Five fully automatic production lines would cost 25 million US dollars, not including the construction costs of other supporting equipment and factory buildings. This means that a pharmaceutical factory would need almost 200 million Hong Kong dollars just to purchase equipment.
The semi-automatic production line purchased by Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals was only US$600,000 each. How could the price have risen to such an outrageous level in just over a decade?
Pumpkin Teng simply cannot come up with such a large amount of money. If he were to apply for a loan from a bank, it is estimated that they would not lend money to a small pharmaceutical company that has just been established.
This is a dilemma, this little Japan is too dark.
But there is no way. It is China's own fault for not living up to expectations. It has to please others and endure the frustration even when buying a production line equipment.
"Auntie, Vice President Ye, besides Sanlin's production line, can you also consider other companies' production lines?"
Ye Shirong smiled bitterly. "We've been collecting information and found that other companies' quotes for the same fully automatic production line are more expensive than Sanlin's. In comparison, Sanlin's is the cheapest."
After acquiring Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals, Pumpkin Vine does not have much cash reserves. It does have quite a bit of jade and a few boxes of gold, but this is simply not enough.
Chen Xia scratched his head. How was he going to get so much money? Was he going to rob a bank?
Putting aside the risk, even if they managed to steal the money, what would happen? With so much cash, once they took it out and compared the numbers on the notes, they'd be exposed immediately, and they wouldn't know what had happened.
Chen Shuqin was also very helpless. "Xiao Xia, what should we do? With the current funds of Pumpkin Vine, we can only buy one production line."
Chen Xia couldn't think of a good solution for a moment. Now it seemed that there was only one way. Since they wanted to raise prices by monopolizing, don't blame him for using underhanded tactics.
"Don't worry, aunt, I have my own way. I will ask my friends in Japan for help."
"Ah! You have friends in Japan?"
Not to mention Chen Shuqin, even Chen Chun was surprised. When did this guy make friends abroad? And anyone who could greet the top executives of Sanlin Company must not be an ordinary person. This was strange.
"Hey, hey, what's your opinion? I'm so handsome and elegant, how can I not have a few friends? By the way, Vice President Ye, I have a question. If we buy these production lines and don't have technical guidance from Sanlin, can you operate them?"
"That's no problem. Even though their equipment has been upgraded, the basic principles remain the same. We can study it ourselves and get started right away. Besides, if it really doesn't work out, we can secretly hire their engineers to do the work privately. That's what we did before."
"Fuck, you can still do this?"
"It's an unspoken rule to take private jobs. Unless it's a major component replacement, we'll hire engineers to repair minor issues privately, and the cost is less than one-fifth of the original cost."
Ye Shirong's answer was very straightforward, which made Chen Xia feel relieved. If this production line was stolen and someone didn't know how to operate and maintain it, it would be a waste.
"Okay, everyone has worked hard today, so let's go back. I'll stay here alone and try to find some connections."
Although Chen Shuqin and Chen Chun were a little skeptical that he could find any connections, they had no choice but to give it a try.
After everyone went back to the city, Chen Xia wandered around other exhibition halls alone for half a day in the afternoon. When the halls were about to close in the evening, he quietly slipped into the toilet and then hid in the space hospital.
It was not until midnight that Chen Xiaozei finally came out of the bathroom, changing into black clothes, putting on a mask and a hat, and fully armed.
The early 1980s were not like the later times. There were no cameras and the exhibition hall was very quiet. All the security guards were setting up checkpoints outside the exhibition hall and did not patrol the exhibition hall at all.
Yes, the equipment on display here are all large-scale. Even if someone wants to steal them, they can’t take them away, so the security department is relieved.
This made things convenient for Chen Xia. He bought all the machines in the exhibition hall that he thought were most important, just like buying vegetables at the market, including the five-axis machine tool and several Toyota SUVs on display.
Moreover, he not only packed up Sanlin's five-axis machine tools, but also packed up and took away five-axis machine tools from other companies such as Toshiba, Okuma, Komatsu NTC, etc. These are all great treasures that you can't buy even if you want to.
In addition, Chen Xia packed up all the tools needed to manufacture integrated circuits, such as photolithography machines, wafer production lines, scanning electron microscopes, etc., regardless of whether they were useful or not. He would rather take the wrong ones than miss them.
He even saw many new materials, such as aviation titanium alloy, carbon fiber, etc., which were all stuffed into the underground parking lot of the Space Hospital without any hesitation.
After he had been busy for a long time, he looked at the half-empty exhibition hall and suddenly discovered a problem.
"Damn it! He was so busy stealing the CoCom embargo that he only managed to get one production line for his own pharmaceutical factory, and it's just a prototype for the showroom. What's he going to do?"
At this time, there were still lights on in the warehouse area not far from the exhibition hall, and you could hear a lot of trucks coming in and out, apparently transporting machinery for the exhibition.
Chen Xia knocked on the lock, slipped out of the exhibition hall, hid in the dark and observed for a while, and found that many trucks had the words "Mitsubishi Group" sprayed on them. These were transport trucks of the Sanlin Group, so they must be returning to their warehouse.
Chen Xia hid in the space and attached himself to the car. Sure enough, he followed the truck to the Sanlin import and export cargo warehouse at the nearby seaport. After the truck loaded the goods and left again, the warehouse door was closed heavily.
The Sanlin warehouse was deserted in the second half of the night. Security was also concentrated within the factory area, and there was no one in the warehouse.
Now, Chen Xia rushed into the supermarket like an old lady and started shopping.
Because he had done his homework beforehand, he first found the production line he needed. The wooden boxes were all coded. Chen Xia didn't know how many of them were what he needed, but he didn't care. It would be a waste if he didn't take them, so he packed them all up and took them away.
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