Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

Soon, about two hours later, at nine o'clock in the morning, Zhou Tian, ​​who was studying the tunnel boring machine in the office, looked down at the time and felt that it was about time, so he got up and walked out of the office towards the door.

"Hello, director!"

The two soldiers standing guard at the door saluted Zhou Tian the moment they saw him.

"Hello!"

Zhou Tian smiled and nodded to the two of them, then looked around. Ever since the last time the enemy spies attacked the machinery factory, the entire gate of the machinery factory had been taken over by the guard battalion.

The entire front of the gate had already changed into a different appearance. From the outside, it looked like there was a huge courtyard on the left side of the gate.

In the courtyard, the sounds of the guard battalion's training could be heard from time to time. At the door, four soldiers stood upright with rifles in their hands, forming a protection zone for the entire machinery factory.

In front of the gate of the courtyard, there is a plaque with several bright red characters "Security Department of the Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory" hanging in front of the gate, which makes people feel awe when looking at it from a distance.

The area surrounding the entrance was paved with cement, forming a cement road that led to the distance.

Just as Zhou Tian was looking around at the door, a car horn sounded, and then a black car drove along the concrete road, followed by two jeeps.

"coming?"

The moment Zhou Tian saw the three cars, he straightened himself up and stood at the intersection with a smile to welcome everyone.

Soon, when the black sedan stopped directly next to Zhou Tian, ​​a young soldier got out of the car and ran to open the back door of the sedan.

A middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit got out of the car, followed by two middle-aged men in suits with blond hair and blue eyes, who looked extremely casual and proud.

"Hello, I guess you are Director Zhou. I am Yue Changshan from the Foreign Trade Department!"

After getting off the car, the middle-aged man hurried forward and shook hands when he saw Zhou Tian.

"Hello, Minister Yue, I am Zhou Tian!"

Facing Yue Changshan, Zhou Tian did not dare to neglect him and responded with a smile. He knew that even though the other party was only the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, all domestic products that wanted to be exported had to go through the Ministry of Foreign Trade before they could obtain export qualifications.

Moreover, he also planned to enter the Western home appliance market after the home appliance factory was established, so naturally no one would dare to underestimate him.

"Director Zhou, let me introduce you to Comrade Wilson and Comrade Zales, the chief engineers of our big brother Steyr Company!"

As Yue Changshan spoke, he turned around and introduced the two Westerners behind him to Zhou Tian.

"Hello, I'm Zhou Tian!"

Zhou Tian glanced at the two of them and was not very enthusiastic. Instead, he felt that the other party's company, Steyr, sounded very familiar. But in a blink of an eye, a hint of understanding flashed across his eyes. Wasn't this the company that produced the inline 4-cylinder 5.3-liter 85-horsepower diesel engine that he first thought of when he copied the engine?

I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.

"Hello, Director Zhou Tian!"

Wilson smiled at Zhou Tian and stretched out his hand to shake his hand. As for Zales behind him, he said in a rather stiff tone: "Director Zhou, your Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory is dishonest. The original price was clearly 10 million RMB per machine tool, but you raised the price fivefold!"

Yue Changshan and the others, who had smiles on their faces, were stunned when they heard what Zars said, and then their faces turned ugly.

Obviously, they did not expect that the other party would attack them directly before they even entered the gate of the machinery factory. This made Yue Changshan and others regret bringing them here.

After all, they knew that Director Zhou Tian was no simple person. Seriously speaking, his status in the country was higher than his. Not to mention that he was just a small deputy minister, even if the minister came, he would have to show a certain respect to him.

Think about the other party's achievements and contributions to the country. This big brother, a small company chief engineer, cannot insult them.

"Oh, Mr. Zales, I seem to remember that the ex-factory price is the ex-factory price, but shouldn't the cost be taken into account when selling? For domestic use, we are a state-owned enterprise, so naturally we won't raise the price, but for foreign use, shouldn't the cost price of the workers be taken into account?"

Zhou Tian was not surprised when he heard what Zales said, but asked back.

"If I remember correctly, the equipment you sold to our country was not sold at the factory price, and the price markup seemed to be more than ten times. Can you raise the price, but we can't?"

Faced with Zales's questioning, Zhou Tian naturally did not take it seriously. He knew very well that although Big Brother was nominally providing aid, in fact, the selling price of the equipment was more than ten times, or even dozens of times, its original price.

It is also because of this that our country has a hard time repaying debts when disaster strikes.

But now the other party actually complained that their machine tools were too expensive. What's the logic? What's more, Zhou Tian only increased the price five times, which he thought was already very kind.

If the higher-ups were not unwilling to destroy the friendship between Big Brother and our country, Zhou Tian would even want to increase the price by hundreds of times.

"This, this, you have to know that we are countries in the same camp. By doing this, aren't you digging into our own corner?"

Faced with Zhou Tian's aggressiveness, Zales couldn't come up with a reason to oppose for a while, and could only use his domestic methods to deal with the opponent.

"This is Comrade Zales' fault. What do you mean by poaching our own talents? Comrade Zales, isn't the price your country pays us for equipment higher than our machine tools? Or are you trying to take advantage of your brothers in the same camp?"

Zhou Tian naturally would not fall into the trap set by the other party. Instead, he compared it with the export equipment of their country. This made the other party speechless for a while.

"Okay, Zales, don't forget what we are here for?"

Seeing that Zals was losing ground against Zhou Tian, ​​Wilson stood up and scolded him.

Then he turned to look at Zhou Tian and said meaningfully, "Please forgive me, Director Zhou. It's Zals' fault. This guy is a well-known taciturn person in the company, so I apologize to Director Zhou on his behalf!

After saying that, he bowed to Zhou Tian.

"Hahaha. Comrade Wilson is too polite. It's Zhou who is a little petty. Come on, everyone, stop standing there. Let's go into the office and talk!"

Zhou Tian looked at Wilson's performance and couldn't help but become alert.

"Good boy, it seems this foreigner is not easy to deal with!"

You know, in his impression, generally speaking, although Westerners value the spirit of contract in their bones, in fact, this is also a mental confinement used by the upper class to deceive the lower class.

He didn't believe that the other party would be so easy to talk to, but before knowing the other party's true intentions, Zhou Tian would not show any unfriendly attitude.

Under Zhou Tian's leadership, everyone entered the machinery factory. The moment they entered the machinery factory, several older technicians looked at everything in the machinery factory with shining eyes.

Especially when seeing the oxygen top-blown converter, a technician suddenly uttered a shocked sound.

This attracted all the attention of Zhou Tian's staff to the oxygen top-blown converter. Even Wilson and Zales had a glimmer of greed in their eyes when they looked at the oxygen top-blown converter.

"Dear Zhou, where is it?"

After coming to his senses, Wilson pointed directly at the oxygen top-blown converter and asked.