Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Seeing the expectant eyes of the leaders, Chen Changan did not hesitate and spoke directly.

“One missile costs 10 million, and we need 20 missiles in total, plus one for the test launch.

Two hundred and ten million dollars in total.”

As Chen Changan finished speaking, all the leaders in the conference room took a deep breath.

You have to know that in the past few years, the country faced natural disasters.

The country's foreign exchange reserves accumulated over many years amount to only US$100 million.

Faced with the food gap, the country imported millions of tons of food.

This was barely enough to maintain food security for the people across the country.

The investment cost $200 million, and the motorcycle factory will produce 100,000 motorcycles per year.

It helped the country earn back tens of millions of dollars. The country used its gold and silver reserves to make up for the remaining shortfall.

This was barely enough money to buy food.

The country arranged an evacuation operation but did not have large ships.

After spending a huge amount of money, they were able to bring back more than 200,000 people.

Most of the foreign exchange earned by the motorcycle factory is used here.

With the operation of Hong Kong Island, the motorcycles produced by the motorcycle factory have been obtained several times.

The materials worth several times the motorcycles were exchanged for just enough to sustain several national defense research projects.

As Chen Changan left the motorcycle factory, the factory began to decline.

The company could no longer earn foreign exchange, which led to the departure of several leaders.

If Chen Changan hadn't been working at the pharmaceutical factory and continued to earn foreign exchange with the quick-acting heart-saving pills, the foreign exchange reserves would have been gone long ago.

And after Chen Changan returned to the motorcycle factory and established the Sijiucheng Automobile Factory.

Foreign exchange reserves began to increase slowly.

Only at this time can several important scientific research projects be accelerated.

At that time, the foreign exchange was only over 100 million US dollars.

This time, just by selling twenty missiles, they can earn $200 million.

For the first time, several scientific researchers discovered that what they were studying could not only improve national defense, but also increase the country's foreign exchange reserves.

Needless to say, it will definitely be sold.

“Leader, on behalf of the scientific researchers, I assure you that as long as you give us some foreign exchange quota.

By purchasing some equipment and raw materials, we will soon be able to develop more advanced missiles."

At this time, all the supporters were smiling.

"What did I say before? The purpose of missiles is to strike important military targets.

It's only a few hundred kilometers away. The big players are far away in the Middle East and pose no threat to us at all.

By selling missiles, we can directly improve our other conventional equipment.

This is more than 200 million US dollars. Is it enough to build two tank factories?

Can we create our own steel torrent?"

It may be a bit exaggerated to want to create a steel torrent with this little foreign exchange.

But at this time, no one objected. It was really too much.

"Build more planes for the Air Force and more warships for the Navy.

Even if it's just for food, we can get millions of tons. Where can we find such a good thing?"

This leader was very angry at being criticized in the meeting before. Now he can finally feel proud.

Only with foreign exchange reserves can we have confidence.

Who knows if incidents like the evacuation of overseas Chinese will happen again?

Many things are unforeseeable. With foreign exchange reserves, at least they can appear and be solved at any time.

Just like the three years of natural disasters, when people went to buy food, at least the gold reserves would not be used again.

"Comrade Chen Changan, you have done a good job on the task assigned to you this time.

I think that in the future, your job as factory manager can be a part-time job.

Apart from anything else, his business negotiation skills are much better than when you were a factory manager.

If something like this happens again in the future, I will just point you out.

You can’t refuse like you did this time.”

Chen Changan waved his hands quickly and said.

"You think too highly of me. You don't understand the process of things.

When the big players asked me how much a missile cost.

I was completely dumbfounded. How would I know how much a missile costs?

I didn’t even know the cost price. I just thought I could break even if I made one million, and I would make a profit if I made ten million.

Just give the big investors a finger.

The big investors still have money, they directly offered me 10 million US dollars for a missile.

I didn't even think about the unit being US dollars. I just thought I was just a finger.

I didn’t mention the price, but if the other party offers too low, at least there is still room for maneuver.”

After hearing what Chen Changan said, he burst into laughter. Many people in the meeting also laughed.

"You young people are smart. One finger is worth 10 million dollars. Your finger is quite valuable."

There was another round of laughter in the conference room.

Uncle Nie also came over, patted Chen Changan on the shoulder and said.

"You are awesome, kid. I let you negotiate directly. And you succeeded.

If it were me, I wouldn't be able to think of your idea.

Anyway, I wouldn’t dare to say 10 million US dollars per coin.

I’m afraid I’ll scare people away.”

Seeing that everyone had laughed enough, I started to arrange work.

Missile production has begun in full swing, and preparations for test launches are now underway.

You set off a firework yourself, collect data, and someone pays for it.

For such a good thing, why don’t you prepare quickly and get things done quickly.

Chen Changan will not be needed for the rest. Professionals in their respective fields will be responsible for it.

On the way back, Chen Changan got into Uncle Nie's car.

The pickup truck driven by Chen Changan was driven back to the car factory by Uncle Nie's guard.

"I did a good job this time. But I was embarrassed in front of the leader.

It also brought honor to our entire department.

I'm a little scared now. I heard from my boss that he wants you to be transferred to another place."

Chen Changan understood what Nie Da meant.

I just don’t want Chen Changan to leave the car factory so soon.

Currently, the foreign exchange earned by automobile factories has accounted for a large part of the country's foreign exchange reserves.

Once Chen Changan leaves, no one knows what will become of the automobile factory.

But Chen Changan is so young, and young people are energetic and motivated.

The leader originally wanted Chen Changan to be promoted, but Uncle Nie suppressed Chen Changan and did not allow him to be promoted.

This is because they are afraid that Chen Changan may have some thoughts in his mind, so they come to comfort Chen Changan.

"Uncle Nie, you are overthinking. Our country has only established diplomatic relations with a few countries?

There are no diplomatic relations, and even the social status is not high.

Let me be frank. Apart from some mineral resources, we don't have anything that others would value.

In terms of agriculture, we don’t even have enough food to eat.

In terms of industry, China is also many years behind Europe and the United States.

We are still in the catching-up stage.

As for automobile manufacturers, they can only make a living in the overseas market by focusing on design and price.

If you want to transfer me to negotiate import and export affairs, I'm afraid I won't have many opportunities in a year or two."