Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Li Weidong definitely did not want to participate in something like agricultural machinery evaluation.

It’s like bad students always hate exams!

The lawn mowers of Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory use all domestic parts. The performance and various indicators of domestic parts are far worse than those of parts from Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries. If they were evaluated together, they would definitely be impressed in seconds.

Not a single dregs remains.

So Li Weidong refused: "Thank you to the organizer for the invitation, but we are only a small company. How can we compete with large companies on the same stage, so agricultural machinery evaluation should be left to large companies!"

"The size of the company is not a problem. Many of our Japanese exhibitors are small businesses, and they all participated in the agricultural machinery evaluation," the staff member said.

"The performance of our lawn mowers is far inferior to that of other big brands, so it's better not to show off our shame!" Li Weidong then refused.

The staff member looked unhappy: "Mr. Li, since you are here to participate in our Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show, I hope you can respect our organizer's schedule! We do not welcome exhibitors who cannot abide by our schedule.

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The staff's words are already threatening, and the subtext is that if you don't participate in the agricultural machinery evaluation, you will leave the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Show!

The staff member also felt that the tone was a bit harsh, so he continued: "Of course our organizer will not make excessive demands! Participating in an agricultural machinery evaluation is not an excessive demand, right?"

Although Li Weidong doesn't like to be threatened, how can he not bow his head when he is under the roof?

After all, they are the organizers, and I am not an international agricultural machinery giant, and I have no ability to bargain with the organizers.

Thinking of this, Li Weidong had no choice but to say: "Okay, I will participate in the agricultural machinery evaluation."

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Agricultural machinery evaluation is obviously the most beneficial thing for Japanese agricultural machinery companies.

Japan's agricultural machinery industry is not inferior to that of Europe and the United States. Large agricultural machinery companies such as Kubota and Mitsubishi can fully compete with European and American agricultural machinery giants.

What's more, Japan is even ahead of European and American countries in terms of materials and technology. For example, some special steels cannot be made by American companies themselves and need to be imported from Japan.

Although Japan also has steel companies like Kobe Steel that have been focusing on counterfeiting for more than ten years, Japan's technology is truly the best in the world.

It is precisely because Japan is leading in material technology that they conduct an agricultural machinery evaluation at the agricultural machinery exhibition.

The so-called mule is like a horse being led out for a walk. Just talking about how good your product is is at best like selling melons. Only after actual testing will you know whose product is better.

Just like an ordinary turning plow, several brands of products are evaluated together. The turning plows of European and American companies can plow 800 hectares, but the turning plows of Japanese companies can plow 1,000 hectares. Doesn’t this prove that the turning plows of Japanese companies are better than those of European and American companies?

Enterprise’s flip plow is better!

What Japan wants is this effect, through on-site evaluation, to prove that its products are better.

This also illustrates the self-confidence of Japanese companies from the side. If there is no hard power, the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition will not conduct agricultural machinery evaluation.

The purpose of Japanese agricultural machinery evaluation is to prove that their products are the best. Naturally, they need some inferior products as foils. Otherwise, how can they highlight their excellence?

The agricultural machinery produced in China is technologically backward, and its materials and technology are far inferior to those of Japanese agricultural machinery. It is obviously a good foil. It is for this reason that the organizer requires Li Weidong to participate in the agricultural machinery evaluation.

How can I be embarrassed to say that I am a top student when I don’t have a few scumbag students to support me?

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Fifteen household lawn mowers were placed in front of several evaluation experts.

Not far away, several Japanese exhibitors gathered together, seemingly discussing the upcoming lawn mower tests.

"President Nakamura, Bell lawn mowers and MTD lawn mowers have always occupied the mainstream market of lawn mowers in the United States. This time, if our Japanese brand wants to win orders from the United States, it must beat Bell and MTD lawn mowers in terms of performance.

Machine!" said a man with a mustache.

"What Mr. Saiki said is absolutely true, but for your Honda lawn mower, it shouldn't be difficult to beat Bell and MTD in terms of performance, right? I heard that you have improved the lawn mower blades and used Kobe

Newly developed special steel!" President Nakamura said.

"Haha, President Nakamura is really well-informed. However, in terms of household lawn mowers, your Nakamura Co., Ltd. has always been Japan's top brand. We at Honda still need to learn from Nakamura Co., Ltd. when it comes to developing lawn mowers."

Saiki, the man with a mustache, said

"Saiki-kun, you're so kind. It's not easy to break into the U.S. household lawn mower market with Honda's technology!"

Nakamura paused and then said: "American lawn mowers are not a big deal. Their special steel is also imported from Japan. I am more worried about the Germans. This time, the German Bosch mowers

The lawn mower is also here to participate in the exhibition.”

"Bosch! That is the world's top mechanical and electrical company. Their technology is not inferior to our Japanese companies." Qi Mu said.

"Yes, in the past, the main market for German companies was in Western Europe. Now West Germany and East Germany have been unified, and Germany's national strength has also been greatly enhanced. With East Germany's talents and labor force, big companies like Bosch

Enterprises have begun to deploy globally, and Germany will inevitably become a strong enemy of our Japanese enterprises in the future!" Nakamura said.

"I wonder which Bosch lawn mower is?" Qi Mu said.

"That's the one with the black shell over there!" Nakamura said, pointing to a lawn mower.

Qi Mu looked at the Bosch lawn mower, and then said: "It is indeed a German product. It looks really good, with a sense of precision machinery."

The two people spoke in Japanese, which European and American exhibitors could not understand, but Li Weidong could.

"Even Bosch is here. It seems that a little shrimp like me really has no way to survive! After a while, when the lawn mower evaluation begins, I will be embarrassed!" Li Weidong frowned and began to feel sad.

Think about countermeasures.

"If that doesn't work, we can only use anti-routine propaganda methods!" Li Weidong thought to himself.

At this time, the evaluation of the lawn mower has finally begun.

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A stack of documents was sent to the expert group, which contained test data for fifteen lawn mowers, and the experts would score each lawn mower based on these data.

"Nakamura Co., Ltd.'s lawn mowers are the smallest in terms of noise! ​​Honda is not bad in this regard either."

"MTD's lawn mowers are not as noisy as our Japanese companies, but the engines they use are still very powerful."

"The German Bosch lawn mower is similar to the Honda lawn mower in terms of engine power and noise. However, the German lawn mower is heavier than the Honda lawn mower."

"American lawn mowers are also very heavy. They should use traditional materials, unlike our Japanese lawn mowers, which use a large amount of composite materials, so the weight is relatively light."

"From the previous data indicators, our Japanese lawn mowers still have great advantages! It seems that the U.S. lawn mower market will belong to our Japanese companies sooner or later."

"Don't worry, look at the test data of the blade, this is the key!"

"The blades of Bell lawn mowers are estimated to have a service life of 15 hectares!"

"MTD's lawn mower blades also have a service life of 15 hectares. It seems that this is the general level of lawn mowers in the United States."

"Both Nakamura's lawn mowers and Honda's lawn mowers have a service life of 20 hectares. Mitsubishi's lawn mowers have a service life of 18 hectares."

"In the product introduction, Nakamura and Honda's lawn mowers use special blades made by Kobe Steel, while Mitsubishi should use steel smelted by Mitsui. There is still a gap between the two!"

"The service life of the blades of German Bosch lawn mowers is estimated to be 18 hectares to 20 hectares, which is completely on the same level as our Japanese lawn mowers!"

"18 hectares to 20 hectares? The average is 19 hectares, which is still not as good as our Japanese lawn mowers, the blade service life is 20 hectares!"

"That makes sense!" Several other experts nodded.

At this moment, a surprised voice sounded: "Whose lawn mower is this? The service life of the blade is estimated to be only 7 hectares!"

"It's not 7 hectares, it's 6.8 hectares to be precise, or rounded up it's 7 hectares!"

"There are such inferior blades that can't even reach 10 hectares? Which company is it?"

"Let me see, the name of this company is 'Fukang', and it is a Chinese company!"

“Not only in terms of blade life, this Fukang lawn mower is the worst in every indicator, and it’s not even a bad one!”

"Haha, just looking at the evaluation data, it's just a piece of garbage!"

"It is normal for Chinese companies to have poor product quality! Such inferior products really should not appear at our Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition!"

"I think this is a good thing. Without such inferior products, how can we show the excellence of our Japanese lawn mowers!"

Several experts said and began to rate the lawn mower.

Japanese products naturally deserve high scores. For example, the Nakamura lawn mower was given a score of 98. The experts still wanted to show some respect and did not directly give a perfect score of 100.

Honda's lawn mower scored 95 points, Mitsubishi's lawn mower scored 90 points, and Germany's Bosch lawn mower also scored 90 points.

Two American brands, Bell and MTD, scored just over 80 points.

"How should we score this Chinese company? According to our current evaluation standards, it can't even get 50 points!"

"If I were to rate it honestly, wouldn't it be too embarrassing if I scored over 40 points?"

"Yes, if the score is too low, it will lower the grade of our Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. I suggest that we give him a passing score of 60 points!"

"I agree, 60 points is the lowest score anyway."

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The evaluation of the lawn mower was over, and Li Weidong was a little depressed waiting for the results to be announced.

Every time when papers are handed out after an exam, the bad students must be in the worst mood.

After a while, the organizer's staff posted an evaluation report card.

“The first place is Nakamura Lawn Mower, which actually got a high score of 98 points!”

"The second place is the Honda lawn mower, which is also very powerful and scored 95 points!"

"Mitsubishi and Germany's Bosch both scored 90 points! They're not bad either!"

Li Weidong ignored those high-scoring students and went directly to see the last one.

"Fukang Lawn Mower, 60 points, even a bastard like us can pass the test. Are the judges blind?"