Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Husky Li Weidong left the Ministry of Agriculture with a helpless expression.

Facts have proved that, given the size of Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory, it is indeed not feasible to register through official formal channels.

This was completely within Li Weidong's expectation, and he had already formulated a second plan.

It is very difficult for domestic agricultural machinery manufacturers to participate in the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. To be qualified, you must be an industry-leading enterprise like the First Tow Factory.

However, for Li Weidong, it is not difficult to attend the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition.

Because one of the organizers of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show is Kubota Co., Ltd., which is basically the largest agricultural machinery company.

The Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show was originally an exhibition set up to display Japanese agricultural machinery. As the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in Japan, Kubota is naturally the biggest beneficiary of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show and is also the largest sponsor of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show.

Nakano Co., Ltd., which was negotiating with Li Weidong before, is a subsidiary of Kubota Co., Ltd.

Nakano Co., Ltd.'s main business is rice production machinery and tuber vegetable planting machinery, so it is bound to participate in the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show.

Li Weidong planned to ask for a small booth through Nakano Co., Ltd.

As a subsidiary of the organizer and major sponsor Kubota, Nakano Co., Ltd. should have this ability.

So Li Weidong dialed Kenjiro Shimizu's phone number.

"Mr. Qingshui, I am Li Weidong! Fortunately, you haven't gone to Hawaii yet, otherwise I wouldn't be able to find you!" Li Weidong said.

"Mr. Li, I plan to apply for a vacation after finishing the work at hand, and then take the whole family to Hawaii for vacation!" Kenjiro Shimizu replied.

Before leaving Tokyo, Li Weidong gave Kenjiro Shimizu four travel vouchers to Hawaii, so that Kenjiro Shimizu could take his family to travel to Hawaii. For Kenjiro Shimizu, this was a very affordable gift.

Japanese people have a chain of contempt for travel. The bottom of the chain is Hokkaido, the middle is Okinawa, and the top is Hawaii. Japanese media conducts surveys every year to find the most popular tourist destination among Japanese people, and Hawaii ranks first all year round.

Therefore, the Hawaii travel voucher sent by Li Weidong really touched the heart of Kenjiro Shimizu.

As the saying goes, eating people has a short mouth and taking people has short hands. Kenjiro Shimizu accepted Li Weidong's gift. At this time, Li Weidong was looking for Kenjiro Shimizu to do something, which made it much easier.

Li Weidong then asked: "Mr. Shimizu, are you, Nakano Co., Ltd., preparing to participate in the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show?"

"Yes, the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show is held only once every few years, and it will be the focus of our work every time! Our onion planting machines are still very popular in Europe." Kenjiro Shimizu replied.

"To grow onions, you need to develop a special agricultural machine! It is indeed precision agriculture, but is it cost-effective?"

Li Weidong sighed in his heart, and then said: "Mr. Qingshui, I have something to ask you. It's about the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition."

"What's going on?" Kenjiro Shimizu asked.

"I happen to own an agricultural machinery company, so I wanted to participate in this Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, but I couldn't get a booth, so I asked Nakano Co., Ltd. to help me get a booth," Li Weidong said.

"How big of a booth do you want?" Shimizu Kenjiro paused and then said, "If the booth is small, I can help you get it, but if the booth is too big, it will be difficult!"

"Thirty square meters is enough!" Li Weidong thought, a place of five meters by six meters would be enough!

"What? Thirty square meters?" Kenjiro Shimizu sounded a little surprised.

"Is it too big? If it doesn't work, twenty-five square meters will do." Li Weidong said.

But Kenjiro Shimizu laughed: "It's not too big, it's too small! Mr. Li, the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show is an outdoor agricultural machinery show. Our venue is so big, 30 square meters, that we can't even fit a combine harvester!

"

Domestic harvesters are often relatively small, but in foreign farms, a combine harvester of nine meters by five meters is not very big. If you calculate it this way, a combine harvester alone on display would take up to fifty square meters.

Li Weidong wanted 30 square meters of space, so he could put a larger tractor.

Just listen to Kenjiro Shimizu continue to say: "Mr. Li, at our Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, it is really hard to find a thirty-square-meter one. The aisles are bigger than this. How about this? I found a fifty-square-meter one for you."

booth, this is probably the smallest booth I can find!”

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The Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition is an outdoor agricultural machinery exhibition. The advantage of the outdoor agricultural machinery exhibition is that the venue is not restricted. You can place some large agricultural machinery and add a few more booths, which is just an expansion of the exhibition venue to the outside.

For Nakano Co., Ltd., asking for a fifty square meter booth is just a matter of words. How can an outdoor agricultural machinery exhibition care about this mere fifty square meters!

In fact, Li Weidong could have requested a booth directly through Nakano Co., Ltd., which was convenient and fast.

However, after careful consideration, Li Weidong decided to register through formal official channels first. When registration through official channels failed, he would go to Nakano Co., Ltd. to ask for a booth.

The reason for doing this is to avoid giving false evidence in the future.

If in thirty years' time, Chinese companies have the ability to participate in foreign exhibitions, this will be a good thing, and the higher authorities will definitely give their full support.

But it was 1991 after all, and the policies were not that open yet. A Chinese company might make a mistake by going to a foreign exhibition without the approval of its superiors.

What's more, this time the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, Chinese companies participated in a group, and Li Weidong was independent from the Chinese exhibition group. It was inevitable that he would be regarded as breaking away from the group and acting without authorization.

It will be very troublesome if there is that kind of jealous villain again, who deliberately causes evil behind his back and puts a little shoe on Li Weidong.

So Li Weidong took the letter of introduction and went to the Ministry of Agriculture first to register for the exhibition through formal official channels.

Li Weidong certainly knows that his township enterprise has no chance in front of many large state-owned enterprises. And this is exactly what he wants.

If registration through official channels fails, then it would be reasonable for Li Weidong to participate in the exhibition through his own connections. Even if someone wants to pursue the case later, Li Weidong will have sufficient excuses to defend himself.

At that time, Li Weidong can say, I signed up through formal channels, but if you don’t want me, I will have to find a way to participate in the exhibition on my own! You have failed me, but I have not failed you!

…

It is not enough to secure a booth. If you want to participate in the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, you must have exhibits.

An agricultural tricycle is really inappropriate for the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show.

It is estimated that none of the customers who came to visit the agricultural machinery exhibition were from poor countries. Agriculture in poor countries relies entirely on manpower and they do not have access to agricultural machinery. They are even less likely to buy machinery such as onion planting machines. It is not enough to grow some onions.

Therefore, the customers at the agricultural machinery exhibition are at least middle-income countries, and these countries generally no longer need agricultural tricycles.

What's more, Shen Congzuo of Shancheng has not yet made a suitable agricultural tricycle engine. Li Weidong can't take a semi-finished product and go to the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show!

Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory’s other agricultural machinery products are completely ineligible to go to the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show.

After all, China's agricultural machinery technology was backward at that time. Even a company like Yituo Factory, which could make military orders, had backward products at the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. The products of Li Weidong, a county-level agricultural machinery factory, were not shown at the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. Go up, I guess people will laugh out loud.

So Li Weidong could only find another way.

…

Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory, Li Weidong walked into the technical department pushing a household lawn mower.

"Director, what did you get? It looks like a trolley!" Du Jiahai asked.

"This is a lawn mower. I asked someone to bring it from Hong Kong Island. It's American!" Li Weidong pointed to the lawn mower in front of him and said, "Lao Du, take someone to dismantle this lawn mower. Let’s see if we can copy it!”

Du Jiahai nodded, called a few people, took out tools, and dismantled the lawn mower into eight pieces.

Li Weidong looked at the parts on the ground and asked: "How about it, can we copy it?"

"Is this engine made in the United States? The workmanship is really good! We may not be able to make this kind of engine even if we are given ten years." Du Jiahai said.

"Who asked you to make an engine? Just use a domestic engine to replace it!" Li Weidong paused and then said: "A domestic single-cylinder engine is not able to drive a lawn mower!"

"That's right." Du Jiahai continued: "And this shelf, so light, must be made of aluminum alloy! Our aluminum alloy material cannot reach this level."

"Then weld a frame with iron. If you are afraid of rust, paint it thicker!" Li Weidong said.

"We can't make this grass-cutting blade. It's an alloy material. Our country's steel mills don't have the ability to produce this alloy material. We have to import it from Japan!"

Du Jiahai picked up the saw blade and continued: "And even if we have this kind of alloy material, we may not be able to process this kind of saw blade. You can see that the shape of the saw teeth has been specially processed, and the surface is also made of special materials. coating.”

"Replace with domestic blades!" Li Weidong said without hesitation.

Du Jiahai shook his head: "Director, this is not possible. Other parts can be replaced with domestic materials. But if this blade is replaced with domestic materials, the resulting lawn mower will really not meet product standards. Already.

The service life of our domestic blades is far worse than that of imported blades. For example, this kind of lawn mower, for example, the imported blades can cut two thousand acres of grass, and the domestic blades can cut six to seven hundred acres, which is good, but not as good as others. one third!"

"What about the price? How much is the difference?" Li Weidong asked immediately.

"Of course, the price difference is more than three times!" Teacher Du Jiahai replied.

"That's right!" Li Weidong laughed and continued: "As long as the price is cheap, our product tenet is not to seek the best, but to seek the cheapest!"

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