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Half a month later, after Zhang Weiguo's hard work and spending 4.8 million US dollars, Zhang Weiguo successfully purchased the required machine tools from three German companies.

The negotiations with Schiess Machine Tool Works and Germany's Trumpf Group on the purchase of machine tools went very smoothly. Zhang Weiguo only spent 3.5 million US dollars to purchase enough machine tool equipment from the two companies.

But when he was negotiating with the Gillette Group, Zhang Weiguo was disgusted. The conditions proposed by the other party were really disgusting.

Not only did they require the Zhonghua Group to deposit $1.5 million into the Gildemeister Group’s account before delivery, they also required the Zhonghua Group to use their machine tools only when Gildemeister Group’s technicians were present. The Zhonghua Group also had to pay for the technicians’ wages.

What made Zhang Weiguo want to curse even more was that after the Zhonghua Group agreed to these conditions, the other party suddenly raised the price, saying that due to factory reasons, the price they had negotiated was not suitable, and that the Zhonghua Group must pay 2 million US dollars to buy the machine tools it wanted from their Gildmeier Group.

Of course, Zhang Weiguo would not indulge the other party's bad habits. He originally wanted to buy the machine tool back first. As for the technicians of the Gitmeyer Group, Zhang Weiguo would have the final say when they arrived in Hong Kong Island. If he wanted to make decisions, did he really think his Flower Planting Group was a small company?

But the other party's sudden price increase completely annoyed Zhang Weiguo, so Zhang Weiguo went directly to their arcade agent in Germany, Senator Kaiser.

Zhang Weiguo directly gave Caesar 500 million US dollars and promised to give him priority in the future.

In this way, Zhang Weiguo bought the equipment from the Gildemeister Group directly through Caesar's purchasing agent for only 1.3 million US dollars.

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Two days later, Zhang Weiguo and his group flew back to Hong Kong Island from Germany.

After a month's business trip, Zhang Weiguo spent a few days at home with his wife and children and then came to the Zhonghua Building again.

Not long after Zhang Weiguo sat down, Meng Cheng came quickly to Zhang Weiguo's office holding an exquisitely shaped watch.

"Boss, get it out, get it out."

"??"

Zhang Weiguo was speechless after listening to Meng Cheng's words.

"Meng Cheng, why do your words sound so uncomfortable to me. What did you come up with?" There was some speechlessness in Zhang Weiguo's tone.

"Oh..., Boss, it's my fault, my fault." Meng Cheng seemed to realize that his words just now were a bit ambiguous, and changed his words: "Boss, look at this, our quartz watch research was successful."

"Success!"

Zhang Weiguo took the watch handed to him by Meng Cheng and began to look at it carefully.

The watch's overall body is deep metallic black, which looks calm and noble. The watch mirror adopts a unique teardrop arc design, and its edge cleverly transitions to the case and is closely connected to the elegant Bessel curved back cover. The entire shape seems to have been carefully carved, with a slightly thick middle part and gradually narrowing edges, like an exquisite natural pebble.

At the same time, the dial diameter is about 40mm, which fits the wrist perfectly. The metal pointer rotates lightly on the dial, and the metal light flashes as it rotates. It seems that every rotation of the pointer brings an indescribable enjoyment, making people intoxicated.

Zhang Weiguo put down the watch in his hand and asked, "Have you applied for a patent?"

Meng Cheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Boss, we brought the samples to you as soon as they were produced. We haven't had time to apply for a patent yet."

After hearing what Meng Cheng said, Zhang Weiguo stood up and kicked Meng Cheng on the butt, "Why don't you apply?"

"Oh, I'll go right away." Meng Cheng rubbed the place where he was kicked by Zhang Weiguo, and was about to turn around to apply for a patent.

"Don't be afraid of spending money. You must get the global patent for quartz watches for me within three days." Zhang Weiguo instructed Meng Cheng who had not yet left the house.

"I know, boss."

In fact, it is no wonder that Zhang Weiguo is anxious. The first quartz watch was made by Switzerland in July 1967. However, they failed to achieve mass production. Instead, in 7, Fuso Seiko launched the world's first mass-produced quartz watch.

In addition to applying for a patent for the mass production process of quartz watches, Zhang Weiguo also had to quickly organize the production of quartz watches. He had to make their flower-growing quartz watches famous before Fuso.

After all, people always only remember the first place and don’t care about the second place.

After thinking for a few minutes, Zhang Weiguo called Lin Qing over and said, "Lin Qing, I'm going to tell you a few things now. Write them down and do them as soon as possible."

Lin Qing opened her notebook and said, "Boss, go ahead."

"First, hurry up and purchase a batch of button batteries."

While Lin Qing wrote down what Zhang Weiguo said, she asked, "Boss, do you have any quantity requirements?"

Zhang Weiguo thought for a moment and said, "20!"

Considering the low price of quartz watches, 20 pieces might not be enough.

"Second, you must inform Meng Cheng and ask him to work at full capacity. He must produce a quartz watch for me within a month."

In fact, if Zhang Weiguo had not been concerned that this was the first time for the workers to produce quartz watches, he would have required at least 10 pieces to be produced per month.

You have to know that these few years have been the period of the most rapid economic development in Japan, and it is also the time when Japanese people are shopping all over the world.

This quartz watch will be snapped up by Japanese people in less than two weeks after it enters Japan.

After all, the price difference between quartz watches and mechanical watches can be more than ten times, and in a few decades the difference can be hundreds or thousands of times.

Although Japan's economy has been developing rapidly in recent years, few people are willing to spend several months or even a year's salary to buy a mechanical watch. Quartz watches are different, which can be bought with only a week's or half a month's salary.

For the Japanese people who often need to check the time but are reluctant to buy mechanical watches, there is no better deal than this.

“Third, send people to keep a close eye on Swiss watchmaking companies, and after our quartz watches are released, closely acquire their companies.”

"Mainly companies such as Baida Jade, Breguet, and Langyi."

"I know the boss."

After Lin Qing left, Zhang Weiguo continued to think.

The first appearance of quartz watches would certainly deal a severe blow to the Swiss watchmaking industry and even bankrupt many watchmaking companies. Zhang Weiguo could take this opportunity to acquire many future famous watchmaking companies at bargain prices.