Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 355 It’s your turn to sacrifice

"Why did Li Weidong get up there!"

It was Cai Qianjin who made this exclamation.

Following Cai Qianjin's shout, people who had not noticed Li Weidong at first now saw Li Weidong who had just stepped onto the big stage.

"It's really Li Weidong! The award ceremony is being held now. What is he doing there?"

"Does it mean he won the award? There is really someone in our exhibition group who can win the award!"

"Did any of you pay attention just now? What kind of prize is this?"

"I listened, but I couldn't understand it. The host spoke German."

"I vaguely remember that what is being awarded now seems to be called a special prize!"

"Special prize, wouldn't that be awesome!"

Everyone in the exhibition group immediately started talking.

On the stage, Li Weidong had already received the certificate of honor from the presenting guest.

At this time, everyone in the audience had confirmed that Li Weidong had really won the award.

"Who brought a camera? Take a picture quickly!" Sun Xinmin shouted as if he was just waking up from a dream.

Sure enough, someone brought a camera with him. He immediately picked it up, faced Li Weidong on the stage, and pressed the shutter frantically.

At the same time, Sun Xinmin asked the translator next to him: "What kind of award is this?"

The translator immediately replied: "I just heard the host say that this is the special prize of the Cologne International Home Appliances Show."

"Special prize!" Sun Xinmin suddenly beamed. Although he didn't know how valuable this award was, at least it sounded very high-end and classy.

At this time, Sun Xinmin was in a good mood. This time he came to Cologne to participate in the exhibition. After all, he personally led the team. If he returned empty-handed, although it would not be embarrassing, he would not have achieved much results.

Now that I have a special prize, at least I have achieved some results, and when I go back to write a report, I can brag a bit.

Sun Xinmin was naturally in a good mood, while others in the exhibition group were envious and jealous.

We are all in the same exhibition group, why can you get the special prize, but we get nothing?

It's like a final exam. You and your classmates fail, which is a bad thing.

What's worse than this is that you failed the exam, but your deskmate got first place!

…

After the award ceremony, Sun Xinmin came to Li Weidong's small exhibition area with great interest.

Li Weidong won the special prize at the Cologne Electrical Appliances Show, so Sun Xinmin naturally came to encourage him in person.

After a while, Sun Xinmin returned to the exhibition area of ​​the Chinese Pavilion.

I saw Sun Xinmin wandering around the exhibition area and finally stopped in front of the Water Lily Air Fryer booth.

Cai Qianjin hurriedly came up and asked, "Sun Si, what are your instructions?"

"Clean up this booth." Sun Xinmin ordered.

"Clean it up?" Cai Qianjin was slightly stunned, obviously not understanding what Sun Xinmin meant.

Sun Xinmin continued: "We will move all the air fryers away and free up the booth. Li Weidong will send several samples of juicers and put them on the booth soon."

"Leader, what do you mean, let's exchange places between our air fryer and Li Weidong's juicer?" Cai Jinjin asked reluctantly.

But Sun Xinmin shook his head: "Where to change! Li Weidong's exhibition area continues to exhibit juicers. But Li Weidong is also a member of our Chinese exhibition group, and this juicer also won the special prize at the exhibition, of course.

You want to exhibit it here!"

"In other words, give Li Weidong two booths?" Cai Qianjin suddenly looked unhappy, and then asked: "Leader, where should we put our air fryer?"

"Please take down your air fryer first! Anyway, the exhibition is already halfway through, and you have exhibited it for several days, which is enough." Sun Xinmin said.

Cai Qianjin obviously would not give in easily. He immediately said: "Leader, this is our booth, how can we give it to others!"

"Li Weidong's juicer finally won the special prize at the exhibition. Putting the juicer in our exhibition area can also serve as a facade, show off our domestic appliances made in China, and let these foreigners know that our Chinese

The home appliances are also very good.”

Sun Xinmin paused and then said: "If you put your air fryer on display, it will be an ordinary product at most. It will not be of any use in increasing the popularity of our Chinese home appliances and improving the image of our country. Old

Cai, for the sake of the overall situation, just sacrifice yourself!"

"Leader, there are so many home appliance brands here, why should I be sacrificed only?" Cai Qianjin said with an angry look.

Sun Xinmin explained: "Lao Cai, your Water Lily air fryer is smaller than other brands. Such as Haier refrigerators, Chunlan air conditioners, Xiaoya washing machines, Boss range hoods, etc.

They are all big domestic brands, so we can’t let them withdraw their products!

Furthermore, except for your air fryer, all other appliances are large appliances. If I remove those large appliances, the juicer cannot be placed directly. Only your air fryer is considered a small household appliance.

Just clear this booth and bring the juicer over and display it directly without wasting time."

It is difficult to sacrifice small brands. Li Weidong was sacrificed in this way before. However, the tide has turned and now it is finally Cai Qianjin's turn!

…

At the same time, Li Weidong was also receiving a big customer.

Standing in front of Li Weidong was a tall, middle-aged man. This man was wearing a neat suit and had a standard German face.

His name is Royce, and he comes from the German industrial giant Bosch.

Bosch's business covers a wide range of areas, including automobiles, machinery, power tools, energy, construction, household appliances, thermal technology, artificial intelligence, etc., and the businesses involved are basically cutting-edge parts of the manufacturing industry.

Bosch itself started out as a home appliance manufacturer. The world's first compressor refrigerator was invented by Bosch. In the future, Siemens' home appliance business was also sold to Bosch.

For ordinary Chinese people, they are not familiar with Bosch's home appliances, because Bosch mainly does automobile-related business in China, and Bosch's home appliance business is mainly in Europe.

Now Bosch's Royce came to Li Weidong because he was interested in Li Weidong's orange juice machine.

"Mr. Li, we at Bosch Electric hope to obtain the patent authorization for this juicer in Europe." Royce said straightforwardly.

Bosch is not as greedy as Whirlpool. Their home appliance business is mainly in Europe, so they only need European patent authorization.

Li Weidong pretended to think for a moment, and then came up with the rhetoric he used to convince Thomas:

"Mr. Royce, with all due respect, this juicer is a small household appliance and is actually not suitable for production in Germany..."

"German workers are all skilled workers. Letting them produce such a simple juicer is a waste of resources..."

"With Germany's labor costs, it is obviously not cost-effective to produce such low-profit products..."

After a set of words, Royce just nodded expressionlessly.

Li Weidong continued: "Mr. Royce, you can actually purchase this orange juice machine directly from me. This is much more cost-effective than producing it yourself, and you don't have to consider patent authorization."

Royce immediately objected: "Mr. Li, I'm very sorry, we at Bosch only sell products we produce ourselves."

"Mr. Royce, you can also consider a new production model, such as OEM or ODM. If I do the manufacturing for Bosch, the final products produced will still be Bosch products." Li Weidong still followed the same old routine.

Royce refused without thinking: "We at Bosch don't need other manufacturers to do OEM work."

"Mr. Royce, are you worried about product quality? You can rest assured on this point. My factory has rich OEM experience. In addition to being an electrical appliance factory, we are also an OEM factory for Xizhi Electric. You can go to Xizhi now.

In the electrical appliances exhibition area, take a look at their hair dryers or electric irons, maybe they are made by my factory."

Li Weidong repeated the words he used to persuade Thomas.

However, there was a trace of disdain in Royce's eyes: "How can Japanese products be compared with our German products? According to our German manufacturing standards, most Japanese products are inferior products!"

Li Weidong was speechless. In the eyes of the Chinese, Made in Japan is synonymous with high quality. In the eyes of Americans, Made in Japan is also a trustworthy product. In the eyes of the Germans, Made in Japan has become inferior goods.

However, German manufacturing does have this proud capital, not to mention that as an established manufacturing power, it is normal to look down on emerging manufacturing countries.

"Royce doesn't even look down on Japanese manufacturing, let alone my OEM. It seems that it is impossible to get OEM orders from Bosch! Germans are famous for their rigidity, so it is probably difficult to convince him.

If that's the case, then I have the patent for the orange juice machine and can get some other benefits!"

Thinking of this, Li Weidong said: "Mr. Royce, since Bosch must insist on being made in Germany, then I don't mind selling the patent license directly, but I still have a suggestion. I hope to use the patent license in exchange for Bosch's MCM250

Patent authorization for juicer.”

"MCM250?" Royce immediately shook his head: "This is impossible. MCM250 is a product we only launched in 1991. This patent of yours is not worth exchanging the patent of the MCM250 juicer."

"What about MCM150?" Li Weidong asked again.

Royce pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "MCM150 is a product we launched at the end of 1988, and it is considered a new model in the world. Your juicer has a very simple structure, and its patent rights cannot be exchanged for the MCM150

patent."

"Where is the MCM100?" Li Weidong asked again.

"No way!" Royce still refused.

"MCM50!" Li Weidong lowered his request again.

Royce still shook his head, expressing his disagreement.

"MCM20, is this the head office?" Li Weidong asked.

"MCM20, that was a product many years ago. If I remember correctly, this product has expired the patent protection period!" Royce replied.

"The patent protection period has expired!" Li Weidong pretended to be thoughtful, and then said, "How about this, how about Bosch giving me the production technology of MCM20?"

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