To avoid putting his brother in a difficult position, Zhong Qiang went to great lengths to return to headquarters and obtain a letter of assistance.
This means requesting the Central Shandong Municipal Government to cooperate with the General Trade Commission in securing the goods, and, if necessary, to work with relevant departments to recover the goods.
Zhong Bin looked at the letter of assistance and thought to himself, "Honestly, my brother is really no good. Even with this document, he can't very well step forward."
There's no way to let your brother shoot himself in the foot, so with a single sentence, he said he was going to go and investigate.
When Zhong Qiang saw that his brother was hiding, he had no choice but to go to Wei Laisong. After all, it was a business matter, and Wei Laisong couldn't refuse to give the General Trade Department face.
If you offend the General Trade Commission, do your other companies still want to use export and import channels?
Wei Laisong took some time to meet with Qian Qiang. After they met, he said, "Qiangzi, have a seat! It's been years since I've seen you. How's it going at the General Trade Center?"
It might seem like I'm asking a question I already know the answer to, but what can I do when they're all a bunch of hypocrites?
“Not so great. This place is practically a bandit's den. They're holding onto our goods and won't give them back. That's why we've come to you to get them back. Take a look at this first.” Zhong Qiang took out a letter of assistance and handed it to Wei Laisong.
Wei Laisong retorted, "How dare you talk like that? If I didn't have this skin on my body, I would have slapped you twice already. What kind of trash is this! Helping you get back the rice and the goods that were seized?"
After saying that, he threw the letter at Qian Qiang and asked rudely, "You still have the nerve to call them bandits? I think you are one too! You're all a bunch of scoundrels. There was no reason why Da Mi withheld your goods. If there's a problem, look at yourself first. Don't act all high and mighty. Pay Da Mi the money and I'll help you solve this."
"No, he'll get the money. He has to follow the rules! Payment is always made after the goods are received and inspected. He asked for money before even seeing the goods; that's not how it works!" Qian Qiang said.
“Go back! Your brother’s already hiding, who else can you rely on! Go back and call someone who can make decisions. You’re nothing, you’re just a waste of time and annoyance.” Wei Laisong didn’t give this person with connections any face. His words were like a slap in the face to Qian Qiang.
Qian Qiang was thoroughly humiliated by Wei Laisong and couldn't stand it! He still couldn't find any leverage over Da Mi.
As for that letter of assistance, it's a joke in central Shandong.
Xing Baohua has a lot of chips in his possession, especially 286 chips. He keeps one-third for his own factory and has to find buyers to sell the rest.
So I took some time to call Zhao Shanhai and asked him to find someone to ask around in Russia. I told him that he had a batch of 286s, priced 10% higher than the international market price.
Russia is also in dire need of this stuff, and the demand is enormous.
I'm happy to accept a 10% markup compared to the international market price, considering that smuggled goods from Europe are marked up by 30%-50%, and the quantities are extremely limited.
These chips aren't very valuable, worth less than a million US dollars.
Xing Baohua has no shortage of money, especially this business worth over a million yuan. The question is how to maximize the profit from that million-yuan deal.
Then I thought of airplanes! Trading chips for airplanes. Then I called the head of the small team in Hong Kong to ask how the research on the selected aircraft was going, and which aircraft they were planning to order.
Buying cargo planes isn't easy either; there are only a handful of companies in the world that produce them. There's not much choice, not only in terms of price, but also in terms of delivery time, deposit amount, and so on.
The team is currently in talks in Rooster Country.
Xing Baohua instructed them to go to the Russians and negotiate with them using a combination of chips and cash. They wanted the largest and best aircraft in the world with the highest takeoff weight.
This guy probably guessed that the Russians had already developed the An-225 by this time.
The An-225, with its tumultuous history, was originally designed not for cargo transport, but for transporting space shuttles.
The initial plan was to build two, but the second one was canceled due to funding issues, leaving only one.
This last one didn't end well either.
Xing Baohua wasn't sure if he could successfully persuade them to buy it. It's said that Er Mao almost went bankrupt from the maintenance fees back then, offering $2.1 billion for this thing, which included the production line and workers.
Even if the asking price is 3 billion, Xing Baohua would still dare to buy it, and he would still have to smile and say it's cheap!
The annual maintenance cost for this thing is around $200 million, not even including fuel and other expenses.
It looks expensive, but it's incredibly powerful for transporting goods!
Xing Baohua gave the negotiation team the right to boast: as long as they could get the plane over, Xing Baohua could offer any terms, even in exchange for the ability to produce 386 lithography machines and related technologies.
Xing Baohua didn't have much hope for the largest aircraft. At this point, getting away with it was all about luck, since the aircraft was still mostly on paper, and at most, they could only build up the outline.
Negotiations take time; it's not like buying groceries where you just ask the price, pay, and take it.
While waiting for news, Xing Baohua returned to the laboratory to address the last few issues with the monitor.
Graphics are created using a graphics card in conjunction with a monitor.
The image was scanned and saved on the computer's hard drive. The image is quite large, a 1.3MB original image that has not been compressed and takes up most of the hard drive space.
This is because the original image size and format are maintained for testing purposes.
Design a editing software that's like a drawing board, with simple color and contrast settings.
It was incredibly laborious to continuously collect data to adjust the optimal color saturation of the display screen! Without any technical references, we could only proceed by trial and error.
Watching the hardware engineers and software programmers busy at work, Xing Baohua asked the other hardware team how their development of the digital camera he had brought back was going.
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