"Who is it at noon?"
Lu Xingchen went to open the door curiously.
"Hello, little comrade, do you remember me?"
Chang Songming was wearing an executive jacket, carrying a black briefcase, and standing at the door with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, looking at Lu Xingchen with a smile.
"Aren't you the official manager of the steel cable bidding in Yanjing? Come in quickly. The sun is blazing outside. I'm sorry for not welcoming you in person, leader..."
As Lu Xingchen spoke, he quickly invited Chang Songming in and poured him a cup of cold tea.
Chang Songming felt a little embarrassed when he heard Lu Xingchen's words, and cold sweat broke out in his heart.
"Luckily, this matter is not too important and not everyone knows about it. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing if it was exposed."
Chang Songming breathed a sigh of relief and walked into Lu Xingchen's workshop with a dignified demeanor.
Looking at the messy handicrafts in the room, Chang Songming was a little surprised.
"Director Lu, what's all this stuff in your room? Why can't I understand so much of it?"
Lu Xingchen laughed when he heard that.
"Hahaha, sorry to have made you laugh, boss. I don't really care about business. My main interest is in developing my own little inventions..."
As he spoke, Lu Xingchen also gave Chang Songming a detailed introduction.
"Look, Leader, we've already done a lot of research on this, like the long-range drone, the laser pruning device, the phased array radar..."
"This is a concept model, this is a space elevator, this is a helicarrier model, and this is a Star Destroyer, a model of a Stellar-class battleship..."
Seeing that Chang Songming, the fake manager, seemed to appreciate him very much, Lu Xingchen began to introduce him in a torrent of words.
Chang Songming was not interested in these things, but he didn't know how to talk to Lu Xingchen for a moment.
"Hey, Director Lu, I'd like to ask if you still have any steel cables?"
Lu Xingchen was originally introducing his concept product and was about to talk about the research and development theory and conditions of the water droplet when he was suddenly interrupted.
"What's wrong, boss? Is it that my sample doesn't meet the official standards?"
Chang Songming was originally struggling with how to start the conversation, but when he heard Lu Xingchen say this, he immediately became confident.
"That's the situation. I don't know if your sample passed or not, but there were multiple tests, so one might not be enough..."
Lu Xingchen was a little nervous at first and even suspected that the parameters of his cable were not enough.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I heard that.
"Oh, boss, you should have told me earlier. I have a whole warehouse full of these steel cables. If you need any experimental samples, just take them!"
Chang Songming was quite surprised when he heard this. Perhaps he didn't expect things to go so smoothly.
"Okay, give me ten samples first. I'll let you know when I have results after testing."
Lu Xingchen said it was a drizzle and immediately asked the smart butler to arrange it.
He also said indignantly that he would deliver the goods personally.
Chang Songming was very satisfied after hearing this. He said a few polite words and left quickly.
…
"They need ten of them for this experiment? What kind of testing are the officials doing?"
Lu Xingchen was a little confused and drove to the warehouse.
After carefully selecting ten, Lu Xingchen asked the housekeeper to prepare to load them.
"No, there might be a lot of companies participating in the trial. I need to make a brand mark to avoid confusion with others!"
As he spoke, Lu Xingchen used his intelligent robotic arm to carve a mark on the ten steel cables.
"That's it! The Star Logo!"
There is only a four-pointed star with two capital letters "L" inlaid in the middle. The two "L"s are symmetrical up and down and left and right.
After doing all this, Lu Xingchen packed ten steel cables, loaded them onto a truck and prepared to deliver them to the home.
At this moment, Lu Xingchen looked at the steel cable and suddenly remembered that he had not yet responded to the overseas buyer's message...
So I quickly opened the merchant platform.
"Hello, merchant. We need to order a batch of new steel cables. We are sending you the specifications now. Please check whether we can make them."
Lu Xingchen accepted the document with doubt.
"What's going on? They're actually asking for cables that can withstand a tension of one million Newtons."
"And the Yanjing authorities also need a steel cable with these specifications. Could it be that they have similar uses?"
Thinking about this, Lu Xingchen decided not to sell it for the time being.
Because confidentiality was emphasized during the official bidding process.
So Lu Xingchen decided to wait for news from the official side before considering the mysterious foreign customers here.
Lu Xingchen politely declined the foreign order.
"I'm sorry, sir. My steel cable is currently undergoing research and development, so I'm not considering exporting it for the time being."
But just after Lu Xingchen refused, the person on the other side seemed to have a seizure and sent an anxious voice message.
Lu Xingchen felt puzzled, and after hanging up, he sent a message asking what happened.
"Merchant, why don't you sell it anymore? Didn't we agree on this before? Why did you suddenly stop supplying?"
Lu Xingchen looked at the word "cut off supply" and fell into deep thought.
"What the hell? Aren't they used to fence off the airport? Could it be that something broke and they need to be replaced so soon?"
"Besides, these aren't daily necessities. Why would they be out of stock?"
Lu Xingchen decided to politely refuse and made up a far-fetched excuse.
"I'm sorry, you were the first to breach the contract we signed. We agreed to purchase on a steady basis, but it took you so long to place another order."
"And the rule that I can only sell it to you for 30,000 Chinese Yuan is really inappropriate. Not to mention I have to pay for shipping, customs duties, and return and repair fees. I really can't make ends meet..."
Lu Xingchen was actually making this up, because the manufacturing cost of this steel cable was very low, and there was a whole warehouse full of it, so if he just sold it, he would make a lot of money...
As a result, the way the other party behaved after receiving the news made Lu Xingchen feel that they were anxious.
"Merchant, can we redraft the contract? We'll cover all the travel expenses, and we'll also provide the knife! Thirty thousand knife sticks!"
When Lu Xingchen saw it, he was happy for a moment.
The more I thought about it, the more something seemed wrong.
"No, when did this American businessman become so easy to talk to? He was haggling fiercely with me before, but why did he suddenly change his attitude now?"
“Something’s wrong!”
Lu Xingchen thought for a moment, then smiled and raised the price as if jokingly with the other party.
“Too low!”
"Fifty thousand knife fun!"
“It’s still too low!”
"One hundred thousand knife joy!"
"not enough!"
"Fifteen thousand knife fun!"
“It’s not enough!”
"Three hundred thousand knife joy!"
“…”
Lu Xingchen raised the price as a joke, but the other party kept giving in.
Lu Xingchen thought about it over and over again, but he still had no idea what the other party was up to.
In the end, the price was raised to an exaggerated $5 million for one stick, and the other party actually gritted their teeth and agreed.
This made Lu Xingchen even more confused.
"Is this setting me up? Or is it possible that the leader is testing me?"
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