When will I have a long tassel?

"I don't need a 160-square-meter house, just 80 square meters, which can accommodate me and my parents." Ge Yafei said anxiously.

Tang Zifeng was stunned: "You mean, your wife and children didn't come back to China with you?"

Ge Yafei said with a smile: "I have never been married."

"Oh..." Tang Zifeng responded, and then said: "In terms of housing, we can provide you with a 120-square-meter, three-bedroom apartment. The property rights of the house belong to the institute. This must be made clear in advance."

"That's for sure." Ge Yafei said.

"But..." Tang Zifeng drawled, and after whetting Ge Yafei's appetite, he said leisurely: "If you can promise to work in the institute for at least 15 years, then when the 15 years expires, The property rights of this house can be completely yours.”

"Really?" Ge Yafei's eyes lit up. These days, there are fewer and fewer units that can give him a house. If this institute can really give him a house, what does 15 years of service mean? In fact, he doesn't really like teaching in colleges and universities. Being able to develop machine tools in a research institute is more attractive to him. Not to mention that Tang Zifeng promised him a high salary and housing.

As for 15 years later, he will be 50 years old, so he probably won’t think about changing jobs anymore, right?

"I need to first understand the situation of the institute to see if it is suitable for me. If it is suitable, it is okay for me to sign a 15-year service contract with the institute." Ge Yafei said. When it comes to matters of vital interest, his words become slippery.

"Okay, deal!" Tang Zifeng reached out to Ge Yafei.

Ge Yafei also understood this ritual, so he stretched out his hand to shake Tang Zifeng's hand, which was equivalent to a high-five, and said: "Deal!"

Next, Tang Zifeng took Ge Yafei to the branch of Canglong Research Institute in Beijing, and asked him to meet with the engineers working in the branch and inspect the equipment of the branch. Ge Yafei is quite satisfied with the working environment. After chatting with several engineers, he confirmed that this institute is definitely not a grassroots team. The foundation behind it is still very deep and his talents will not be buried.

The next day, Tang Zifeng asked his assistant Luo Xiaolu to call the shipping company, make an appointment with Kang Zhichao, and then took Ge Yafei for a visit. Kang Zhichao was very happy to hear that Tang Zifeng had found a postdoctoral fellow in the United States who had designed heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools. He called over seven or eight of his engineers and started a technical discussion with Ge Yafei and Guan Yong in the conference room, and the conversation was lively.

Tang Zifeng sat at the corner of the conference table and listened for more than ten minutes before his eyelids drooped involuntarily. When he woke up from a long sleep, he opened his sleepy eyes and saw Kang Zhichao sitting next to him, with a rather depressed look on his face.

"Hey, Mr. Kang, I'm so sorry. Why did I fall asleep now? The main reason is... well, I was too late to discuss business with a client last night." Tang Zifeng opened his mouth to lie.

Kang Zhichao had nothing to do with him. After all, he was also the executive deputy director of a large state-owned factory. In theory, he was at the same level as him. If you can bring people over to talk about things during your busy schedule, what does it mean to take a nap when you are bored? He waved his hands and said:

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Director Tang has many things to do. We should be embarrassed that we are still delaying Director Tang's time like this."

Tang Zifeng looked around and found that everyone had left, leaving only Kang Zhichao and his assistant Luo Xiaolu. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "What, you have finished talking?"

"The conversation is over." Kang Zhichao nodded.

"What about Lao Ge and the others?"

"I asked Liu Zhen to take them to the information room to look for useful information."

"Oh. Mr. Kang, what do you think of your discussion?"

"Very good!" Kang Zhichao said with joy, "Director Tang, you are so amazing that you can find such an amazing person as Ge Gong. I heard from him that when he was in the United States, he was in charge of a heavy-duty crankshaft machine. The design of the machine tool. He told us the relevant parameters of the machine tool, which completely met our requirements. The easiest way now is to let him redo the design he did in the United States, which is very easy."

"Isn't that bad?" Tang Zifeng shook his head and said, "The other company has intellectual property rights for the work he did there. If he makes another one, they will sue us."

"How could this be possible..." Kang Zhichao said with some annoyance: "We built the machine tools and put them in our shipyard. No one was allowed to come and see them. Who would know that we copied other people's equipment? Besides, , Ge Gong said that the project was not carried out, and the U.S. Navy bought a crankshaft machine tool from Germany and stopped building it itself."

Tang Zifeng said: "That's not okay, we still respect intellectual property rights. Lao Kang,... uh, I mean, Mr. Kang, don't worry, since Lao Ge is in our hands, let's let him give it to us Design a better one, better than the German one, what do you think?"

"Of course that's good!" Kang Zhichao said, "But wouldn't it take a long time?"

Tang Zifeng asked: "General Manager Kang, when do you hope to get the machine tool?"

"Of course, the sooner the better!" Kang Zhichao said, "If it can be built next year, we don't have to wait for the Koreans to sell us the axis."

"Next year? It's not impossible." Tang Zifeng said, "Actually, once we have the idea and invest more money, it will be quite easy to design the machine tool."

"Yes, yes, this is the same as our shipbuilding." Kang Zhichao agreed. Now he was anxious to get Tang Zifeng to agree to build them a heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool immediately. Even if Tang Zifeng said that the sun came out from the west, Lao Kang would never deny it.

Tang Zifeng smiled and said: "Then the question is, where are the funds?"

"Uh..." Kang Zhichao was choked, and after a long while he asked calmly: "Director Tang, you don't want us to pay, do you?"

"What do you think, Mr. Kang?"

"We can pay part of the down payment, like 20%."

"50%, no two words at all." Tang Zifeng banged the stick. The landlord's family has no surplus food. The Canglong Research Institute's money has been invested in more than a dozen different projects, and funds are very tight. If he didn't take advantage of Lao Kang's anger when he was in a hurry, he would be sorry for the principal's signature on his undergraduate diploma.

"50%?" Kang Zhichao sucked in the air-conditioning as if he had a toothache and asked, "So, how much is your quotation for a machine tool?"

"There is no specific calculation yet, but a preliminary estimate is about 80 million." Tang Zifeng said. This price was not made up by him. Before coming to the shipping company, he discussed it with Ge Yafei, Guan Yong and others, and finally came up with this price.

Kang Zhichao's face immediately turned ugly: "No way? A German heavy-axis machine tool costs just over 100 million yuan, and our domestic machine tools cost 80 million yuan. Isn't this a lie?"

"How about I give you 100 million yuan and you buy a German one for me?" Tang Zifeng said.

Kang Zhichao immediately became speechless. It's not like they haven't thought about buying German machine tools, but they refuse to sell them. If the German is willing to sell it, why should he look at this young man's face here?

"The first one is 80 million; the second one is 60 million; starting from the third one, each one is 40 million. How about this price?" Tang Zifeng finally quoted the base price.

The former machine tools are expensive because he has to spread the research and development costs into the selling price. After the research and development costs are recovered, the later production will only be based on the drawings, and the cost will not be so much.

The cost of a machine tool is nothing more than material cost plus labor cost. There are three reasons why German machine tools are expensive. First, it involves part of the research and development costs. Second, German labor prices are high and the labor costs are shared more. The last one is the excess profits earned by relying on technological advantages.

If Linyi Machinery wants to build this kind of heavy-axis machine tool, the labor cost is much lower than that of the German company. It will naturally have to make excess profits, but after all, it will not be so bad, so the final price will be a lot lower than the German machine tool. cut.

Hearing the price, Kang Zhichao felt relieved. China builds ships with millions of deadweight tons a year, and the demand for crankshafts is huge, so we will not only purchase one crankshaft machine tool. If the subsequent machine tools only require 40 million units, it is still relatively acceptable.

"Okay, I'll make a report in a moment and allocate 40 million as an advance payment to you first. However, Director Tang, let's start with the dirty talk. If you allocate this 40 million, if you can't hand over qualified products within next year, I won’t give up on crankshaft machine tools.” Kang Zhichao said through gritted teeth.

"Don't worry, Lao Kang, when did I, Tang Zifeng, ever fall out of line?" Tang Zifeng said boldly.

Looking at Tang Zifeng's smooth chin and thinking about the old saying that "a hairless mouth means a weak work", Kang Zhichao really couldn't let go.

"Also, now that I have implemented the crankshaft machine tool for you, should your shipping company also fulfill its promise and give us the machine tool orders from its affiliated companies? To be honest, many companies in our Machinery 20 are also doing this this year. It’s not easy, I’m just waiting for you to give me a few projects so I can buy rice for cooking.” Tang Zifeng continued.

"This...I'll try my best to coordinate." Kang Zhichao's voice was filled with sadness. He remembered the bet he made with Tang Zifeng. At that time, he said that if Tang Zifeng could build a crankshaft machine tool, he would work hard to encourage his subordinate companies to give priority to purchasing domestic machine tools. Now that the machine tool matter is still unclear, Tang Zifeng asked him for a machine tool order. Is this considered cheating?

But he was cheating, what could he do?

"Lao Kang, we are partners." Tang Zifeng said proudly, and quietly changed his name to Kang Zhichao, "Developing crankshaft machine tools requires the concerted efforts of several machine tool factories. But you have to let everyone work together. , you have to give some material stimulation, right? Even if you are driving a donkey, you have to tie a carrot in front of the donkey's nose, right?"

"Come on, Director Tang, I'm convinced." Kang Zhichao held up his no-war card, "I'm a technician, and I don't have your mouth. Let's do this. Let's sign the contract for the crankshaft machine tool, and then you send a salesman. Come on, you can send a group of people. I will personally take them to various shipyards to get orders. Do you think that's okay?"