The Goddess Shines on America

Since I have come to West Germany all the way, this business trip will certainly not be able to pass just one or two meetings. During the whole week of events, the people from Draken Company will lead Alice very competently. et al. visited their factories and R\u0026D centers all over the country.

It must be admitted that before this, of course, Alice had no chance to walk into the factory in person. Even if she had experienced the influence of the information explosion in her previous life, she could only get a glimpse of it from news movies. So the various visits on this trip are indeed refreshing her personal experience, and they are definitely not in vain.

As the German company with the strongest industrial manufacturing in history, there is no doubt about Drakken's production technology, and it is on the same level as the industrial manufacturing power of a whole country. That is to say, although it is still impossible for them to realize the ability to popularize CNC machine tools, it is already easy to cut and manufacture patented steel that cannot be produced by the world's factories in the 21st century.

In this way, the gap in basic industries between different countries is most intuitively displayed in front of Alice.

Think of that little ballpoint pen, think of that little ballpoint pen ball, it is the most typical example. Of course, it would be easy to simply produce a small steel ball priced at a few yuan, but the tungsten carbide material used in high-end ballpoint pen balls is enough to wipe out all the factories in most countries. Furthermore, even if some countries have really mastered this technology, the precise structure of the ball seat that makes the pen ball run stably, currently only belongs to Japan and Switzerland, and the related production can only be done by importing equipment from other countries.

This is also the same concept as the giant slurry of an aircraft carrier. As a slurry of that level, a whole curved steel plate with a length of four to five meters needs to rotate tens of thousands of times per minute. This requires that its grinding process must be accurate to less than a millimeter, and its strength and toughness must reach an extremely high level. Just one steel plate is enough to firmly block the life gates of many countries around the world.

After several days of visits, what Alice saw was such a gap. Of course, what Draken produces is not a small steel ball, but the technology they use to polish the drill bits of giant drilling rigs is enough to rank among the top three in the world even in the 21st century. Already possessing such exquisite craftsmanship, but still thinking about using various means to improve technology, and trying to expand to other fields, it really has to be admirable, a century-old company has a well-deserved reputation.

Therefore, as a big man from this big company who took the initiative to come to ask for it, the business that Alice will come into contact with will inevitably move closer to Draken's most core secrets. In a week, when she visited all the factories of the company and a R\u0026D center in Munich, it was time for an in-depth talk.

"As a drilling rig company, when you expand your business, your top priority must be the steel processing industry." In the private room, that is, the office of Chairman Narud Wieland, there are no other people around, and Alice While sipping tea, he analyzed the future of the company with the man at the helm who holds more than 10% of the shares.

"As long as we take a brief overview of the history of modern technology development, we will know that many technologies were first used in the military field, and then gradually expanded to commercial and people's livelihood. As the founder of Cisco, I am the most familiar with this point. have a say."

Wieland smiled. Indeed, the Internet was originally born for military purposes. It was not until the late 1970s that the Arpanet was gradually opened to the public. This is a typical example. As for the manufacture of special steel, it is completely in line with this process. Just imagine, which is the toughest and lightest metal that was not first used in the field of military weapons?

"Our Drakken is a very pragmatic company." He said, "Miss Wang, what do you think of the current situation in East and West Germany?"

To be involved in such an issue, Alice immediately decided to be cautious in her words and deeds: "Stability and variables coexist?"

Wieland smiled again. He looked around, as if he was checking for bugs: "As a native of West Germany, as a director of Drakken's company, Ms. Wang, I can tell you very bluntly. , the Berlin Wall won't last long."

Be cautious in your words and deeds, and be cautious in your words and deeds. This kind of topic is really not something Alice can express casually. She just opened her mouth in surprise and put on a shocked look: "No way? It won't last long? East Germany Is it going to invade you? Or is the Soviet Union going to do something new? Mr. Wieland, where did you get your conclusion from?"

Wieland sighed slightly: "Of course I feel it from my life every day and every night. Now the situation is getting more and more tense... In short, Miss Wang, have you ever thought about waiting for the day when Germany will reopen?" Once unified, which camp will it be divided into?"

Alice's answer at this time is of course only one: "NATO?"

"NATO, that's right. Since Gorbachev came to power, the Soviet Union has become less and less up to date." Wieland calmly said bad things about the leader of the opposing camp: "But no matter which camp it is, as a challenge We, who started World War II, will definitely be greatly restricted in military development, just like Japan can only establish the Self-Defense Force now. If we in Draken want to transform, we must take this environment into consideration.”

It turned out to be this reason, Alice nodded and said: "If Germany's military research and development capabilities are limited, it will definitely be difficult for the company's transformed business to touch the level of high-end military industry, so you need to transplant this field to other countries. Europe The whole background is nothing more than the conflict between the two treaties, so you are thinking about the development of the United States?"

That made sense. Alice recalled the various visits during the week, and Wieland maintained a high sense of mystery throughout the whole process. In the first meeting, he did not express the development direction of the company after transformation like Alice at all, but in the subsequent visits, he took her to review the basic production capacity of the factory, especially in metal processing. It now appears that he really was waiting for himself to come to a similar conclusion first.

"The United States..." Wieland said with a half-smile: "Don't get me wrong, Ms. Wang, we have no plans to compete with Lockheed and other companies for orders from the Ministry of Defense. We just started with drilling rigs. Compared with military aircraft and The aircraft carrier is made of fine steel, and we are more interested in the field of people's livelihood."

"People's livelihood... yes, the field of basic industry." Thinking about it this way is naturally more fluent. Isn't the first idea proposed by the other party is to borrow Alice's supercomputer to improve the production accuracy of basic industries.

"Then..." Wieland continued, "Since we have learned that, Ms. Wang, you have become a shareholder of Mr. Li Ka-shing's property in Hong Kong. You are very interested in the infrastructure field and have a certain foundation. It must not be difficult to start a business in the United States." Bar?"

One sentence after another was full of routines, and Alice completely sorted out the sequence in an instant. Draken obviously investigated himself early and found out his temper, so he used the computer as an excuse to hook her directly to West Germany; when he proposed further cooperation, the other party was not in a hurry to respond to some specific questions. content, but to take myself to fully understand the strength of the company first, and then in turn propose the cooperation idea that I had prepared earlier...

"Hum~"

she laughed.

She was actually tricked invisibly, but Alice had to admit that Narud Wieland's trick was indeed the right one. After all, it is indeed her own conclusion that a century-old German drilling rig company wants to expand its business to other basic industrial fields. After having some basic cooperation with Li Ka-shing, she wants to expand similar businesses in the European field. Self-generated thoughts.

Can you blame the other party for being narrow-minded? Not at all, this is all an idea born in Alice's research institute in England.

It can only be said that Draken did put a lot of effort into this cooperation and studied Alice well. A very simple trick - borrowing the computer from the research institute, really hooked her over. Originally, he took the bait by himself, but now he first explained Draken's strength in detail, and then heard Wieland's words...

"If you want to develop your business in the United States..." She nodded and said, "Whether it is for people's livelihood or military affairs, high-level steel is of course very popular. Just build a branch in Los Angeles. I will live there, and everything is fine." They are all easy to take care of. And you should also be able to understand that the main business of Hutchison Whampoa in Hong Kong is also in the field of port logistics. If your two companies land on the west coast together and I lead the development, I believe the prospects will not be bad."

"Oh my God, then this is a very complicated and big project." The ghost knows that Wieland's exclamation is somewhat sincere, but it must be less than one-third: "And Of course I understand Whampoa, when it comes to port logistics, wouldn’t our Draken be able to produce a batch of wharf cranes for a friend’s company right away?”

As soon as these words came out, the two people in the spacious room suddenly burst into laughter. Win-win cooperation is such a wonderful thing. One Draken and one Hutchison Whampoa. If there is no Alice as a matchmaker, one party will definitely lose a lot of long-term crane orders, and the other party will definitely get high prices. Buying from a third party, let alone set foot in the US West Coast market together.

Of course, Alice must also benefit from it, but now that the general direction is set, the specific details are naturally easy to discuss. After all, she is not just a "technical consultant" in a company, a jack-of-all-trades position with other people's shares.

"OK, OK." Giggling, Alice got a cup of tea that Wieland personally poured for herself: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation."

Wieland also smiled and said: "We are happy to cooperate, but I hope that time will pass faster. In this scene, it is most appropriate to celebrate with champagne."

Drinking with an old man is not something to enjoy, Alice sipped her tea, rolled her eyes and said: "By the way, Wieland, about the sales representative you sent to visit me back then, Vipple-Pushkin , how much do you know?"