When will I have a long tassel?

Suhua signed a cooperation agreement with Tang Zifeng on behalf of Dahe Company, paying 20 million yuan in R\u0026D funds, entrusting Linji Group to develop special machine tools for UAV processing, and promised that in the next five years, Dahe Company's main production equipment will be prioritized from Linji Procurement by group companies.

Linji Group's commitment is to develop special machine tools that meet the needs of Dahe Company within half a year. If it fails to complete the task on time, compensation will be paid based on the delay.

After signing the agreement, Su Hua and Ning Mo said goodbye and left. Before leaving, Ning Mo happily invited Tang Zifeng and Xiao Wenjun to have barbecue with them in the evening.

"If Mr. Qin wants to go, that's fine..."

This was what Ning Mo said to Qin Zhongnian. Although the expression was a bit unpleasant, it at least proved that Ning Mo did not regard Qin Zhongnian as his enemy. This was a friendly gesture.

"This Xiao Ning! Still has the same temper!"

Listening to the footsteps of Su Hua and Ning Mo disappearing into the corridor, Qin Zhongnian commented with a smile. Because of Ning Mo's friendship with Tang Zifeng, Qin Zhongnian had dealt with Ning Mo in the past. He knew to some extent that this guy was big-hearted and brainless, and he would lose if he argued with him.

"Tang Zifeng, why do I feel that the terms of the agreement you signed with Su Hua and the others are a bit too favorable?"

Xiao Wenjun was focused on another issue. Su Hua and the others were present just now, so she couldn't speak directly. Now that the other person had left, she could ask questions.

Tang Zifeng said he wanted to make a bet with Su Hua and the others, but the conditions he offered were not standard bets. According to the betting method, if Dahe Company cannot reach a certain purchase amount in the next three years, it should transfer some benefits to Linji Group. Under normal circumstances, it will cede equity to make up for Linji Group's losses.

The conditions offered by Tang Zifeng only required Dahe Company to purchase equipment from Linji Group if it became developed. However, if Dahe Company failed to achieve the expected sales and therefore did not purchase enough equipment from Linji Group, there would be no punishment. .

Such a bet is equivalent to just Linji Group betting on the success of Dahe Company, and Dahe Company has not paid any bets.

Of course, cooperation between enterprises does not necessarily have to be a form of gambling. In fact, betting is not advisable for companies pursuing stability. But now, Dahe Company is obviously in trouble, and Linji Group is not under any pressure. At this time, it is okay to force the other party to sign an obviously unfavorable agreement, but how can it in turn offer benefits to the other party?

In Xiao Wenjun's heart, he vaguely felt that Tang Zifeng might be doing this for the sake of his acquaintance. Among the three shareholders of Dahe Company, Su Hua and Yu Xiaohui belong to the same family, Huang Liting is Tang Zifeng's business partner, and Ning Mo is Tang Zifeng's childhood friend. It can be said that they are all the closest people to Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng takes care of them. For a moment, it is understandable from a human perspective.

But here comes the problem.

First of all, Linji Group is not Tang Zifeng's private company. Tang Zifeng is generous to the country and takes care of his friends. Is this appropriate?

It is certainly not uncommon for state-owned enterprises to engage in self-interest for personal gain, but Xiao Wenjun knew that Tang Zifeng was not such a person. Tang Zifeng himself is not short of money, and he has used his own money to subsidize the public on many things over the years. For example, he originally had shares in New Jingwei Company, but later transferred the shares to Canglong Research Institute. Based on the current market value of New Jingwei Company, Tang Zifeng's losses were tens of millions.

To help Dahe Company, Tang Zifeng had several options. There was no need to harm the public and enrich private interests like this. Therefore, what he did this time seemed very abnormal.

Secondly, even if Tang Zifeng was really confused and wanted to do such an unreasonable thing, he should change his approach, at least not put forward this plan himself in front of Qin Zhongnian. To put it more conspiratorially, as long as he hinted it to Zhang Jianyang, Zhang Jianyang would understand and bring it up for him at the group office meeting, so that Tang Zifeng would take away all his responsibilities.

If Tang Zifeng could not imagine this, Xiao Wenjun would never believe it. Tang Zifeng was an outsider when it came to designing machine tools, but when it came to playing with strategies, Xiao Wenjun had never seen anyone smarter than Tang Zifeng.

Xiao Wenjun couldn't help but find it strange that a shrewd person made such a low-level mistake.

She directly raised the issue at this time. In fact, it was mostly for Qin Zhongnian's ears. She hoped that Tang Zifeng could tell a reasonable truth in front of Qin Zhongnian, and at least get through Qin Zhongnian's situation first.

Hearing Xiao Wenjun's question, Tang Zifeng chuckled, pointed at Qin Zhongnian, and said: "Chief Engineer Qin, please explain it to me. You see, Professor Xiao can't stand it if I give profits to Dahe Company like this. If I don’t give a reasonable explanation, I might have to kneel on the keyboard when I get home at night.”

"No? I think Wen Jun is quite reasonable." Qin Zhongnian said.

"What do you mean, Uncle Qin, you...are you singing a double act?" Xiao Wenjun asked belatedly.

Qin Zhongnian glared at Tang Zifeng and said: "Isn't this all Zifeng's bad idea, asking me to cooperate with him in deceiving people. Xiao Su and Xiao Ning are probably still thanking Zifeng now, but they don't know that Zifeng Feng has already figured them out."

"What do you mean? Why do I feel that the agreement Zifeng just initialed with Su Hua did not cause any loss to Dahe Company, but our Linji Group suffered a loss." Xiao Wenjun said.

Qin Zhongnian said: "We didn't suffer a loss. According to Zifeng, we just didn't take advantage of it. In fact, I said it would cost three to five billion to develop such a set of equipment, just to defraud them. In fact, so much money was not used."

"Three to five billion is indeed a bit overestimated, but to develop it from scratch, an investment of one to two hundred million is still possible. I looked at their needs and found that this kind of multi-station simultaneous processing equipment is technically difficult. Not small." Xiao Wenjun said.

Qin Zhongnian said: "You are talking about developing it from scratch. If we already have some foundations and just make some modifications on the original basis, the investment will not be that big."

"You mean, Linji has this foundation? Why didn't I know?" Xiao Wenjun said in surprise.

It's not surprising that she said this. Xiao Wenjun is still a part-time expert at Canglong Research Institute. Linji Group will invite Xiao Wenjun to participate in many new product development discussions, so she is relatively familiar with Linji Group's product lines. In her impression, Linji Group did not have equipment that could meet Dahe's UAV production requirements, and many technologies needed to be designed from scratch.

Qin Zhongnian said: "You have been less involved in emergency matters during this period, so you may not know about this. Xiao Tang has assigned us a new research direction, which is to develop special machine tools for automobile manufacturing. The group has invested 500 million yuan We have come to do this, but we have just started, so we don’t have much results, and we haven’t had time to invite you to participate.”

"I heard Zifeng say something about this, but he didn't say that he would spend 500 million to do it. 500 million... This is a big project!" Xiao Wenjun said with emotion.

"Five billion is just the first phase of investment. Additional investments will be made in the future. One billion or two billion are possible." Tang Zifeng said lightly.

"You are awesome!" Xiao Wenjun choked, but he also admitted in his heart that Tang Zifeng was qualified to brag. Compared with other companies, Linji Group is indeed very generous in technology research and development.

High investment in R\u0026D has led to product upgrades, and product upgrades have allowed Linji Group to gain more profits, thus being able to support such R\u0026D, forming a virtuous cycle. Leaders of some other companies also have this awareness, but they lack the courage of Tang Zifeng. In particular, they do not dare to look down on the international market and only dare to pounce on the domestic three-acre land, so they do not have such a big deal.

"What Uncle Qin means is that the automotive machine tools you develop have something in common with the drone machine tools Suhua and the others want. Can you transfer the technology from the automotive machine tools there?"

With Xiao Wenjun's intelligence, he immediately guessed the purpose of Qin Zhongnian's words.

By industry, the automotive industry is the largest customer in the machine tool industry. In the early years, China's automobile industry was relatively backward. The national annual automobile output was only a few hundred thousand units, and the production capacity was distributed among dozens of automobile factories. The largest enterprise's annual output was less than 100,000 units. Therefore, the concept of automobile-specific machine tools Not outstanding. Many automobile companies use general-purpose machine tools to process auto parts, just as Dahe Company uses general-purpose machine tools to process drone parts.

In recent years, the domestic automobile industry has ushered in great development, with automobile production capacity increasing at a rate of dozens of percentage points every year. By 2005, the country's total automobile production had exceeded 5 million vehicles.

Large-scale production creates a need for special equipment, especially special machine tools.

For example, there are a large number of disk parts in automobiles, and a CNC lathe with dual spindles and dual cutterheads is needed to process both sides of the disk parts at one time and improve production efficiency.

For another example, some automobile parts are produced in large batches, but are limited to a few processing methods. This requires that the machining center does not need to be equipped with a tool magazine with too many tools, but only a few tools, which can reduce the cost of the machining center. The cost is reduced and the equipment investment of automobile companies is saved.

China's machine tool industry did not conduct product research and development specifically for the development of the automotive industry in the past. When the automotive industry suddenly developed, domestic machine tool companies were stretched and difficult to cope with. The Federation of Machinery Industry once conducted a survey and found that more than 80% of the equipment in the automotive industry relies on imports, and domestic machine tools can only occupy 20% of the market share. This is a very severe situation.

It is based on this background that Tang Zifeng claimed to invest 500 million yuan in the research and development of automotive machine tools.