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He is also very proud to be able to make such a contribution to the country. Of course, all this is based on the premise that both parties can reach an agreement.

When the higher-ups received Zhou Tian's report, it immediately caused a sensation, especially in the Machinery Department. Everyone had become numb to the shocking actions that occasionally occurred in the machinery factory.

However, this report still shocked many people, and some even lost their voices.

A machine tool costs 6 rubles or even 30 rubles. They have never seen or even heard of such prices.

To this end, Xie Yuanchang quickly convened a large number of economists to discuss such prices.

In the conference room, Xie Yuanchang sat in the main seat, looking at a dozen economists with puzzled expressions below.

"We have called everyone to a meeting today. I'm sure everyone is curious as to why the Mechanical Department would call everyone here. After all, the Mechanical Department usually invites mechanical experts, right?"

Xie Yuanchang's words immediately made a group of economists laugh, and they also expressed everyone's thoughts.

"Okay, everyone, stop guessing. Here are the materials reported by the machinery factory. Everyone, take a look. I'm sure you will understand after reading it!"

As he spoke, Xie Yuanchang glanced at his secretary Xiao Yuan. Xiao Yuan quickly understood what the minister meant, took out a few documents from his briefcase and handed them to the economic experts below.

The economists below were very curious when they heard this, but since Xie Yuanchang said so, they did not ask any more questions. They took the documents from Secretary Yuan and started to read them in twos and threes.

"Impossible, how is this possible?"

When they saw the machine tool data on the document and compared it with foreign machine tools, they all stared and shouted in disbelief.

It's no wonder they were shocked. It's mainly because the data contrast above is too obvious. You know, in their impression, the country has just begun to transform from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

Whether it is the industrial level or the economic level, there is a huge gap compared with foreign countries. Now they have seen that their country's machine tools are comparable to the most advanced machine tools abroad.

No, it’s not comparable, but it has surpassed. Looking at the data, they suddenly felt extremely excited and shocked.

"Minister Xie, are the data above true?"

Although they don't understand the specific meanings of the data, they are very clear about the economic value contained therein.

"it is true!"

Xie Yuanchang met their disbelieving looks and nodded slowly.

"Great! I didn't expect that our country also has such advanced machine tools!"

"Yes, that's great. With such advanced machine tools, the rise of our country is just around the corner!"

The scholars spoke excitedly one by one, and some experts even couldn't hold back tears from their eyes.

As experts and scholars who have studied abroad, they are very clear about the significance of machine tools, which are the industrial foundation of a country.

It can be said that as long as the performance of machine tools gets better and better, the development of industry will naturally become faster and faster. The industrial mother machine is not called that for nothing.

"Okay, don't get excited yet, just keep reading!"

Xie Yuanchang looked at everyone crying and laughing, and although he felt extremely sad in his heart, he couldn't help but remind them.

Upon hearing this, everyone stopped their excitement and continued to read. When they saw that the price of a machine tool was 60,000 rubles, and even the price of the second machine tool at the back was marked as 300,000 rubles, more than a dozen experts fell silent in an instant.

They all looked at the prices above with disbelief.

"This is, the price is so high!"

“Oh my god, this price, are you serious?”

It was no wonder that they were surprised. The prices before them were simply too unbelievable for them. Not to mention the 300,000 rubles for machine tool No. 2, even the 60,000 rubles for machine tool No. 1 made them feel unable to believe the prices they saw before them.

Even in the Bald Eagle Country, machine tools are only a few thousand dollars at most, but now they see tens of thousands of rubles per unit, or even three hundred thousand rubles. Isn't this crazy?

And this is the price of domestic machine tools, which is really hard for them to believe.

"Minister, isn't this price a bit crazy?"

After a long while, one of the economics experts swallowed and looked at Xie Yuanchang.

"Yes, Minister, even the price of Bald Eagle's first machine tool is not that high now. It's only one tenth of this price. This is too high!"

Another expert followed suit.

After all, as a country that is one of the two levels apart from Big Brother, its industrial achievements are needless to say. However, at such a price, even if the Bald Eagle is exported to other countries, it would only be tens of thousands of dollars. But is this price of three hundred thousand a mistake made by the machinery factory?

“Do you all think the price is high?”

After listening to the words of the experts and scholars, Xie Yuanchang couldn't help but frown slightly.

A group of experts and scholars nodded.

"Never mind. It seems that it is a bit high. So what do you think is the actual price?"

Since even these economic experts and scholars believed that the price was a bit inflated, although Xie Yuanchang disagreed in his heart, he had to temporarily compromise and asked.

"this!"

A group of scholars and experts were immediately stumped by Xie Yuanchang's words and couldn't help but discuss in a low voice.

After half an hour of excited discussion, one of the scholars finally spoke up: "Minister, after our discussion, the best price for machine tool No. 1 is 10,000 rubles, and the best price for machine tool No. 2 is 30,000 rubles!"

"Is that so? Fine then, let's end today's meeting here. Everyone go back. Xiao Yuan, send all the experts back!"

After getting the answer he wanted, Xie Yuanchang didn't keep the crowd any longer and turned around to instruct Secretary Yuan.

"Ok!"

Secretary Yuan nodded and left with a group of experts and scholars. Only Xie Yuanchang looked at their departing backs with a hint of contemplation in his eyes.

"Could it be that Xiaotian's price is really a bit inflated?"

Having said that, he still went back to the office and called Zhou Tian to tell him the content of the meeting.

Zhou Tian received a call from Xie Yuanchang. After listening to the minister's words, he couldn't help but feel a little moved. Of course, he also knew that this price was indeed a bit high for this era.

But even though the price is inflated, it is impossible to ask him to lower the price. He already wants to make a profit from the other party, so he naturally won't be willing to lower the price.

Moreover, to be honest, perhaps the prices of these two models of machine tools are really high in the eyes of these experts and scholars, but in his mind, they are only partially high, and the actual prices are not that outrageous.

Haven’t you seen that the machine tools exported by the Bald Eagle country to other countries are all in the range of tens of thousands of dollars, and even the cheapest machine tools are thousands of dollars? In comparison, he does not think that the machine tools he is researching are worse than those of the Bald Eagle.

Otherwise, Wilson would not have been so obsessed with his machine tools and would not have given up even though the price of machine tool No. 1 was 60,000 rubles.