Chapter 1167: The Big Bluffer makes a brilliant appearance!

"Don't look at me as someone in supply and marketing," Deputy Director Ma smiled and flicked the cigarette ash, looking at Li Xuewu with some self-deprecation, "but I still haven't figured out the definitions of these brands, standards, and demonstrations."

"If you hadn't mentioned it today, I might still be confused."

He signaled to Li Xuewu, "Fine, you are the person in charge at the forefront of foreign trade, hurry up and give me some pointers."

"You aren't trying to fool me, are you?"

Li Xuewu looked at him amusedly and said, "Cadres in the supply and marketing cooperative don't understand brands, don't understand standards, and don't understand demonstrations?"

That's pure nonsense. Brand awareness has existed since the Qing Dynasty; otherwise, where would the saying "century-old shop" come from?

Standards are set by people. People who work in enterprises and units, the person in charge doesn't understand setting rules and standards?

Connecting them together—

Deputy Director Ma didn't care about Li Xuewu's joke, spread his hand, and emphasized, "I know what they mean separately, but together?"

"Just the literal meaning!"

Li Xuewu drank a mouthful of tea and said, "You still don't know me; I do things openly and honestly, and I am generous..."

Watching Deputy Director Ma twitch his mouth and roll his eyes, he couldn't continue. "What, you still have doubts about my character?"

"Hehe—"

Deputy Director Ma was also quite interesting. He chuckled, looked at Li Xuewu, and asked, "You know Xiao Lin from the Jiaodaokou Supply and Marketing Cooperative, right?"

"Tsk—"

Li Xuewu leaned back tactically, was silent for a few seconds, then looked at Deputy Director Ma and asked, "Are you doing this on purpose?"

"Hahahaha—"

Deputy Director Ma still had that expression, looked at Li Xuewu, and said, "From the moment you greeted me to take care of her, I have never doubted your character again."

Not waiting for Li Xuewu to react, he picked up his teacup and continued, "However, you aren't exactly a good thing either."

"What kind of evaluation is that?" Li Xuewu looked at him amusedly, put down the teacup in his hand, and said, "Building brand standard demonstration stores is the core focus of our sales work this year."

"The motorcycle industry framework has already been built, including two-wheelers and three-wheelers, and more styles will be launched in the future."

He began to introduce seriously, "The sales work of motorcycles is different from cars. We are preparing to build two standard factory stores for cars."

"Compared to cars, motorcycles have the characteristics of low price, narrow body, and convenient transportation. We want to refine the brand and segment the market."

"I understand this; it's just dividing people—"

Deputy Director Ma nodded and said, "Those who buy cars will definitely not buy motorcycles, because the main customer group for cars is units."

"Those who buy motorcycles won't buy cars because the budget is not enough, and their own financial resources are not enough. Customer overlap is not conducive to sales."

He knocked on the table, looked at Li Xuewu, and asked, "Tell me about the significance of brand standard demonstration stores; it's not just to set standards for us, right?"

"Of course, but the primary purpose must be this."

Li Xuewu emphasized very seriously, "Our factory's sales department manages several distribution and marketing units. Whether it's internal or external, the first thing we talk about is service, which is an important support point for the brand."

"You don't need to use the supply and marketing cooperative to emphasize it to us; you know the situation of the supply and marketing cooperative better than I do."

Monopoly, right? So what if the attitude is bad? If you have the ability, build it yourself, or don't buy it.

This was the mentality of the vast majority of sales clerks in the supply and marketing cooperative. As soon as Li Xuewu said it, Deputy Director Ma understood.

He didn't refute or explain, just nodded, signaling Li Xuewu to continue.

"You just heard me mention that our motorcycles are not only for distribution in the Dongcheng area. Our goal is the whole country, and even the whole world."

Li Xuewu looked at him and emphasized, "Engaging in brand standard demonstration stores is not only to compare and improve the service enthusiasm and standards of your supply and marketing system, but also to promote this standard to the whole country."

"We want foreign friends who come to Beijing to visit and talk about cooperation to see our brand value with their own eyes."

He pointed at the office desk and asked Deputy Director Ma, "Do you know what brand value is? And how is brand value realized?"

Seeing Deputy Director Ma not speaking, smoking, and squinting at him, he was not afraid at all.

Li Xuewu told him very bluntly, "Being able to mass-produce excellent commodities is called brand value, and excellent service creates brand value."

"So..."

Deputy Director Ma frowned slightly, thought for a while, and then asked, "Building demonstration stores also has the function of exhibition and sales?"

"It's not just for foreigners to see. We want to show it to all customers who pass by the door or come in."

Li Xuewu spread his hands, paused, and said with a pursed mouth, "Good wine is also afraid of deep alleys. Demonstration stores are both sales, display, and promotion."

"Professional stores, professional service, professional commodities; we are serious about doing sales."

"Hehehe—"

Deputy Director Ma drank a mouthful of hot tea and then chuckled, "You have opinions about our supply and marketing system."

"Hey, we are old friends. I'll say whatever comes to mind." Li Xuewu said very frankly, "I am a person who speaks my mind."

He gestured to Peng Xiaoli, who was sitting on the side, and smiled, "Otherwise, they always say I love to offend people and have exhausted my popularity."

"You—?"

Deputy Director Ma smiled and glanced at Li Xuewu, saving face for him, and didn't talk about anything else, but pointed to the material Li Xuewu handed over and asked, "How many demonstration stores are you planning to build?"

"The sales department gave me the opinion of at least twenty, covering Beijing and the counties below."

Li Xuewu smiled, shook his head slightly, and said, "Don't look at me like that; they have more confidence than I do. This is a good thing."

"You guys are really daring to think—"

Deputy Director Ma grinned, put his hand on the material, and reminded, "Beijing has four inner districts, three outer districts, and nine counties!"

"Even if you build one standard store in each county and suburb, you are going to build eight stores in Beijing alone?"

At this time, Beijing had four inner districts: Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chongwen, and Xuanwu.

Three near-suburb districts: Chaoyang, Fengtai, and Haidian.

Other far-suburb counties include Changping, Yanqing, Miyun, Pinggu, Huairou, Shunyi, Tongxian, Daxing, and Fangshan.

I'll mention one thing here: except for the four inner districts, in the earliest times, Beijing only had three near-suburb counties, which were Chaoyang, Fengtai, and Haidian.

These three places were considered suburbs. You couldn't say they were sparsely populated, but they were purely rural, except for the towns where the county seats were located, which were still decent.

Later, Beijing developed and expanded, and the three suburban counties also became rich. The place wasn't enough, so they started asking for land from Hebei Province.

Except for Changping, which was assigned to Beijing in 1956, the other eight counties were assigned to Beijing in 1958, some in March and some in October.

Because of geographical location, products, transportation, and other reasons, the economic development of these county seats is uneven.

But thanks to Beijing's relatively high degree of industrialization, key enterprises gradually developed outward and moved to the lower counties.

Shijingshan is an example. Earlier, what kind of place was Shijingshan? A mass grave, wasteland, later because key enterprises moved in, it was established as a district.

Economic development depends on people, and people depend on work. Factories provide work, so places with factories and enterprise units have good economic development.

The Red Star Factory was established relatively early, before liberation, so it was close to Beijing, outside Dongzhimen.

Earlier, it was said that the area around the Red Star Factory was desolate, which is actually nonsense. Now there are still hutong streets around the factory area, just that the building quality is not as good as in the city.

Deputy Director Ma's reminder was very necessary and reasonable. Beijing has many workers and many cadres. With income, there is consumption power, so motorcycles won't be hard to sell.

But the lower counties, the economic development situation is different. The purchasing power of township residents is insufficient, so building demonstration stores is purely nonsense.

Looking back at Beijing, although Beijing is big, investing in eight standard demonstration stores at once—how many stores does the supply and marketing cooperative have?

Are you demonstrating to us, or are you damn surrounding us?

"Two stores in each of the four urban districts is still okay."

Li Xuewu explained with a smile, "You might not have understood my meaning. Brand standard demonstration stores don't mean high-rise buildings and jade palaces."

"As long as there is room to put exhibition cars, and room for office and visiting, it's enough. Anyway, our factory is close, and delivery is convenient."

"You guys really have it—"

Deputy Director Ma suddenly understood what Li Xuewu meant. Hitting the surface with points, one big warehouse, multiple distribution points—what kind of routine is this?

"So, the key now is the issue of procedures and qualifications?"

"Please help me a lot—"

Li Xuewu saw him pat that material again, so he smiled and said, "You are the only friend I am familiar with in the supply and marketing system. If I don't look for you, who do I look for?"

"Besides, this kind of good thing, if I looked for someone else, you would have to say I'm not enough of a friend—"

"Hahahaha—"

Deputy Director Ma pointed at Li Xuewu and laughed loudly, "This mouth of yours, even a dead person could be talked alive by you!"

The private relationship between the two naturally goes without saying, and the public-to-public relationship is even less to be mentioned.

He had been in the position of district director for so many years, and suddenly he was promoted. Why?

The Red Star Factory engages in joint trade and internal docking, and the main distribution channel is the unit where Deputy Director Ma is located.

Li Xuewu had never contacted other supply and marketing unit heads in the Red Star Factory. If someone entrusted a relationship to find him, he wouldn't see them either.

The Red Star Factory engages in joint trade and internal docking; the main distribution channel is the unit where Deputy Director Ma works.

As the main distribution channel, the recycling station first docked with the Jiaodaokou Supply and Marketing Cooperative, which is where the district is located.

Besides docking with the trade union departments of Beijing units, the recycling station, or the Red Star Factory, is a tight resource held by Deputy Director Ma.

Precisely because he possesses this resource, the Jiaodaokou Supply and Marketing Cooperative can have good efficiency and produce results.

Only by cooperating more closely can both sides continue to achieve a win-win situation.

Already promoted to the position of deputy general manager of the Dongcheng Distribution Branch, doesn't he want to go further?

What is achievement, what is outstanding achievement? Doing what no one else has done, and being able to bring good influence and efficiency to the unit, is outstanding achievement.

If the Red Star Factory pushes motorcycles to the whole of Beijing through him, his name will become a shining star of the Beijing distribution company.

Today he is the deputy general manager of the branch, tomorrow can't he be the deputy general manager of the city company?

What about the day after tomorrow?

"Deputy Director Li, over here."

Ao Yuhua saw Li Xuewu hurriedly coming in from the door and hurriedly walked over to greet him.

Li Xuewu nodded, too late to communicate with her, and under Li Huai De's signal, hurriedly bent over and leaned over, sitting behind him.

"Why are you so late?"

"Engineering meeting, the discussion went overtime."

Li Xuewu explained simply, glanced at the programs on the stage, as well as the guests and guests sitting.

He leaned into Li Huai De's ear and reported softly, "The supply and marketing cooperative side is settled. Initially, forty-six stores were set, sixteen of ours."

"The theater matter is also settled. Five theaters, one big and four small, two cinemas."

He gently touched Li Huai De's shoulder and explained, "The city raised the price to 860,000, but I cut the price, and it was closed at 220,000."

Old Li heard this, turned his head suddenly, and looked at him with eyes full of amusement.

He was very satisfied with Li Xuewu's ability in his heart, but you call this cutting the price?

Is this damn cutting at the ankles?

"Anyway, I can't show my face in the city in the near future—"

Li Xuewu smiled self-deprecatingly, touched the tip of his nose, and said, "People said, as long as it's me, they won't receive me."

"Hahahaha—"

Li Huai De laughed loudly and clapped his hands. It happened that the crosstalk actor on the stage talked about the funny part, and he took the opportunity to nod to Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu didn't hear what was said on the stage, but still followed the applause.

When the applause died down, the stage continued to tell jokes about the factory workshop, which turned out to be about personnel reform.

Li Huai De laughed and applauded; just as the crosstalk actor on stage reached the funny part, he took the opportunity to nod at Li Xuewu.

At this time, art performances, singing and dancing, or drama are the big plays, key programs. Crosstalk, sketches, as well as bamboo clappers and drum books, etc., are all matching, which are forms of performing to the workshop and construction site.

Look, are there crosstalk in the model operas? Are there acrobatics? Are there drum books?

"The Saint-Aya Group sent a letter, roughly meaning that they feel our project prospects are broad, and the engineering quality and progress are gratifying, and they are prepared to provide us with more construction equipment and technical strength."

Li Xuewu continued to report behind Li Huai De, "The letter mentioned that the new aid will arrive at Yingcheng Port and Jinmen Port within a month."

"And the heavy shipbuilding machinery has arrived at Yingcheng Port wharf. Director Xia Zhongquan has gone over to preside over the work."

"I know—"

Li Huai De nodded slightly, and said softly in his mouth, "Sugar-coated cannonballs, eat the sugar, and shoot the cannonballs back."

"Understood, you are still wise."

Li Xuewu smiled and flattered, then seeing Li Huai De had no other instructions, he sat down and started watching the performance.

Today's performance was specially provided for the supply chain conference, which can be considered a pre-meal dish, and also a soft propaganda for the Red Star Factory culture.

Just as Li Huai De has always emphasized, the Red Star Factory has already determined its advanced and leading position in the industrial field, and it is to fix this influence.

How to fix it?

Wanting to fix the impression that the Red Star Factory is advanced, progressive, excellent, and comprehensive in the hearts of the vast masses requires doing many things.

Li Xuewu is already doing it, enriching and guaranteeing the welfare treatment of Red Star Factory workers, and creating differentiation from the city's industrial average welfare treatment line.

Expanding the art propaganda team, building performance platforms, reforming factory newspapers, etc., a series of measures to help spread the Red Star Factory corporate culture.

Popular and well-known, the important thing is the mouth; you have to let people say the Red Star Factory is good to fix this influence.

Look, "three people make a tiger" still requires three people. Mass effect means this.

It can be seen that since the expansion of the art propaganda team, whether it is the program effect or the quality of the performers and the stage quality, there has been a significant improvement.

It has to be said that there is nothing that doesn't cost money.

You think, Old Li spent how much money on art propaganda work before and after, so many people, don't you pay wages?

Think about performance rehearsals, costumes and props, lighting and sound, and other performance equipment, which cost more than 100,000 before and after.

But with the guidance of experts, and the joining of big names and famous actors, the quality of the Red Star Factory's art propaganda is really not covered.

Once an expert makes a move, you know if there is one.

On the Beijing opera stage, the actor dressed as a worker with a red towel on his head sang a voice, and the applause from the audience rang out.

Even the invited foreign merchants and foreign affairs cadres were watching intently, pleasantly surprised.

They didn't understand, but the interpreter behind them understood and told them the story and wonderful lines performed on the stage in a timely manner.

From the birth of a play in the hands of a screenwriter to its presentation on the stage, I don't know how much manpower and material resources it takes.

This kind of report performance, the effect of the program must have a theme, ideology, and purpose.

On the eve of the supply chain conference, leaders of the national automobile industry, excellent enterprises, and advanced representatives gathered at the Red Star Factory in Beijing.

This is the grand occasion of the industry and the grand event of the industry.

Beside Li Huai De sat the person in charge of the Ministry of Industry, Director Du, who came in person to support the Red Star Factory.

The entire national automobile industry must carry out work under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry (First Ministry of Machine Building).

The Red Star Factory advocates and proposes the call for excellent sharing and advanced sharing, inviting the national automobile industry to hold a meeting here.

The purpose is to discuss and study the future and goals of the development of the automobile industry.

At the same time, the Red Star Factory wants to share its scientific research results and development results with the automobile industry enterprises that come here.

It wants to share advanced concepts of automobile production, design concepts of products, and concepts of cooperative car manufacturing with everyone.

The automobile parts supply chain project has become a key research project of the Ministry of Industry.

Director Du is very optimistic about this project, communicating and discussing with large enterprises like the 17th Factory whether it is necessary to reduce costs and increase efficiency and improve production capacity.

Of course, large enterprises like the 17th Factory don't lack funding, don't lack car manufacturing capabilities, and don't lack car sales data.

The leaders of the 17th Factory are not stubborn old antiques, and of course, they can see the development and car manufacturing capabilities of the Red Star Factory.

At first, they felt that the Red Star Factory was messing around, engaging in cooperative car manufacturing, and handing over all accessories except core parts to procurement for supplementation.

Such a bold attempt is very rare in the country.

Most of them are like the 17th Factory, producing parts themselves, assembling cars themselves, and selling them.

Even if there is parts procurement, it is small-scale, and only special parts will be procured, which is completely opposite to what the Red Star Factory advocates.

The Red Star International Hotel is full, and the factory reception center is also full, which is because the acquisition of sixteen enterprises has obtained more properties, so that the Red Star Factory has the ability to receive so many partners and brother units.

This time, the Red Star Factory not only provides free food and accommodation but also specially provides transportation vehicles.

That is, the protagonist of the supply chain conference held by the Red Star Factory, the Red Star Hongxing Lingyang car that has been trial-produced.

150 Red Star Hongxing Lingyang cars, the same color, the same style, even the logo attached to the car body is the theme label of this conference.

The propaganda exhibition board of the Red Star Factory is themed around the supply chain conference, creating and posting various propaganda posters, and the atmosphere is very full.

Li Huai De spent 50,000 yuan to hold the supply chain conference, wanting to catch all the national automobile enterprises.

However, Li Xuewu estimated that among the 100 relevant units that came, it would be a big victory if 20 joined the supply chain.

Even if only one joins, these 50,000 yuan will be earned back, just a bit slower.

But this is impossible; the Red Star Factory's successful cases have already been placed in front of them.

Large enterprises like the 17th Factory, holding complete automobile parts production branch factories, don't need a supply chain, and don't dare to transform easily, so of course, they don't care.

But what about other automobile enterprises?

This time, those who came to participate in the supply chain conference were not only cadres in the automobile industry but also representatives of city industry or provincial industry.

The Red Star Factory could build cars from scratch. City industry and provincial industry hold a lot of resources in their hands; why can't they build cars?

Automobiles are still a scarce resource in the country. As long as they are built, they can be sold.

Of course, the premise is to be like the Red Star Factory, making cars beautiful and practical.

You say how did they not think of building cars before?

Hey, they didn't know how at the time. Now the Red Star Factory wants to share car manufacturing experience, so of course, they want to come and learn.

Besides, do large enterprises like the 17th Factory really not need a supply chain?

Wrong, they also need it, and they need it very much.

They don't need to buy automobile parts from outside now, but they can sell automobile parts to the supply chain.

The supply chain is a buyer's market, which is the so-called bidding.

It may be different from other industries. The bidding standard of the supply chain is very special. The winning unit can be not just one, or must be three or more.

This is very interesting. While giving more opportunities to automobile parts suppliers, it also puts forward higher requirements for product quality.

While providing more choices and guarantees for automobile manufacturing plants, it also emphasizes responsibility and commitment.

After all, in the process of bidding and winning, automobile manufacturing enterprises must deposit risk funds in the account of the Trade Management Center.

The automobile parts supply chain department under the Trade Management Center will fully guarantee the interests of both sides.

Someone asked, if I am a car manufacturing enterprise, why can't I find an automobile parts production enterprise to cooperate with myself, and have to pass through you?

The answer is very simple: the reason why the platform can be built is because of resources and ability.

My products here are richer, more affordable, and have cooperation guarantees, especially the opportunities for foreign trade and the opportunities for technology introduction.

If you insist on doing it alone, it's fine. The supply chain conference held by the Red Star Factory doesn't limit car manufacturing enterprises and automobile parts production enterprises from cooperating privately.

But how many parts does a car have? If you really want to choose one by one, find someone to cooperate with, the Red Star Factory is also convinced of you.

Now the Ministry of Industry focuses on supporting the Red Star Factory and focuses on supporting the automobile parts supply chain project, which is to stimulate and improve the order and ability of domestic automobile production.

Obviously, once the Red Star Factory integrates and reuses the resources of the automobile industry through the supply chain and the Trade Management Center, domestic automobile enterprises will spring up like mushrooms after rain.

The lesson of 1958 is vivid. In the theme manual distributed by the Red Star Factory, one point was mentioned: we must develop with quality and build cars with purpose.

The programs on the stage are the portrayal and interpretation of this point of view.

The theme of all programs from the beginning to the end completely and artistically expresses the thinking and experimentation of the Red Star Factory in the process of building cars, as well as the joy after success.

When in the last scene, the last act, the worker stage play "Circle Dream," an automobile engineer drove an Hongxing Lingyang car onto the stage, the whole audience burst into warm applause.

Li Xuewu saw with his own eyes that Director Du's face was full of smiles, frequently talking to Li Huai De, and his gaze was full of gratification, as well as joy and glory.

This is not only the glory of the Red Star Factory, but also the glory of the First Ministry of Machine Building.

The supply chain conference lasted for three days, and the schedule was very compact.

Although the time was short, the Red Star Factory provided and expressed a lot of content.

On the first day, which was the night before Friday, the Red Star Factory held a welcome banquet in the courtyard of the reception center.

Green trees shade, flowers are clustered, by the Unity Lake, laughter is everywhere.

The service staff of the reception center had high quality, and the service quality was even higher. The form of Western-style cold buffet banquet mixed with hot food self-service made the guests present feel novel and comfortable.

Along the small paths on both sides of Unity Lake, the rest pavilions became spaces for guests to communicate and interact.

Everyone can eat, drink, meet new friends, and see old friends.

If you are tired of eating, you can take a walk along the lake and continue eating after coming back.

Until seven o'clock in the evening, everyone moved to the auditorium diagonally opposite under the guidance of the foreign affairs office and watched the report performance.

After the performance, the guests staying at the reception center walked back, and the guests at other reception centers or international hotels in the city were sent over by the reception fleet.

More than 100 Hongxing Lingyang cars, removing the cars sent to the sixteen reception centers, although it was already late at night when entering the city, the fleet of more than 20 cars still attracted the attention of passersby.

Then on the second morning, the Hongxing Lingyang car fleet set off from the International Hotel and sent these guests to the Red Star Factory to participate in activities, truly becoming the focus on the road.

This wave of advertising was really hard-core. Whether they knew the Red Star Factory or not, now everyone knew that the Red Star Factory had succeeded in building cars.

Not only succeeded, but also thought of sharing the experience of successful car manufacturing with brothers in industrial departments and other provinces.

Some people said the Red Star Factory was crazy, some said the Red Star Factory was stupid, actually thinking of sharing such good results instead of dominating alone.

Others refuted that the Red Star Factory was selfless and was a manifestation of progress. The prosperity of the country needs such "fools."

Of course, it's not that there were no clear-headed people who explained to the confused common people the purpose of the Red Star Factory doing this.

Sharing successful experience is just a superficial article, because even if these experiences are shared, there are not many who can really build cars.

Then someone asked, since this is the case, why would so many enterprises and industrial representatives come?

Of course, they have to come, because the shared experience must be matched with the secret weapon of the supply chain to succeed in building cars.

You say the Red Star Factory is selfless, is a lunatic, is a big fool, the Red Star Factory wants to laugh off its teeth.

They hold the automobile parts supply system in their hands, just waiting for more new car manufacturing forces to appear.

There are more car manufacturing enterprises, and automobile parts production enterprises are more willing to cooperate with the Red Star Factory to eliminate the trouble caused by capacity overflow.

Otherwise, why do you think the 17th Factory and Beijing Factory came? The 17th Factory originally looked down on the Red Star Factory, and the Beijing Factory still "had enmity" with the Red Star Factory.

212 and Hongxing Lingyang are competitors, but the Beijing Automobile Factory is not a competitor with efficiency. Being able to consume the excess capacity in their hands through competitors, they will also calculate this account.

Of course, if you say the Red Star Factory will benefit from this, the Beijing Automobile Factory doesn't care.

How to care, all enterprises in the world are one family. Even if they are enemies, they still have to call each other brother enterprises when they meet.

There are more car manufacturing, and more parts selling. Resources are integrated in the hands of the Red Star Factory. You say they are stupid?

Besides, why is the Red Star Factory's current car production capacity so high?

Look at them building motorcycles, actually shouting the slogan and goal of 1 million units per year, it's too scary.

499 yuan per unit, 1 million units per year, selling 500 million a year!

Of course, 1 million units per year, these motorcycles are not only sold to the interior but also exported.

The Saint-Aya Group has very good distribution channels in Southeast Asia, and they intend to dump this little thing as a bicycle.

Motorcycles can be built like this, what about cars

So, facing the perfectionism and "pretentious" behavior of the foreign aid engineering and design team, he had no way to deal with it.

The person in charge of the design team, François, said, look at our team; everyone is the top and most potential designer in Western Europe. If we were just fooling around with the design, we wouldn't have come.

Yes, they said it; we have pursuits.

We don't care what you want, we don't care how much budget you have; we just want to realize our own design.

Damn it! Li Xuewu heard them whispering this kind of thing in private and immediately arranged for the finance department to set up a special supervision group.

You came here to make a name for yourselves, treating us as suckers, as nouveau riche, as big spenders?

That won't do!

On the basis of perfectionism, in the pursuit of ultimate perfection, one must also fully consider applicability and practicality, as well as cost-effectiveness and financial allowance.

The funding for the ecological industrial zone was limited, and the project progress and project funding had already been budgeted. If it exceeded too much, Jing Yunong would slam the table and curse.

Although the Red Star Factory earned a lot now, there were many places to spend money, and it really couldn't afford the squandering of these foreigners.

Both sides visited the work area and the accommodation area in a friendly atmosphere and listened to the report of the office director.

The office director was also a foreigner and spoke French, so Li Xuewu understood very clearly.

These foreign aid foreigners were elites and knew very well who the master was. When reporting to Xiangtaer, the focus was not on the Red Star Factory.

That's right, the ecological industrial zone belonged to the Red Star Factory, and they were here to support it, but their report focused on team building and the tempering of the team.

Everything said was about their cooperation in this project, as well as their outlook and understanding of the project.

Li Huai De and the others listened to the interpreter's words and didn't feel there was anything wrong with them. Wasn't this just a report?

But Li Xuewu heard the nuance; these two teams coming to the interior to support project construction was Xiangtaer tempering her team.

That is to say, the other party's support was not without demands; it was taking this project to temper their design and engineering team, and also opening up the interior market.

Precisely because of this, Li Xuewu heard it and quietly reminded Li Huai De, but didn't correct or stop the other party.

Li Huai De's meaning was also the same; pies don't fall from the sky. Only after knowing the other party's demands and purposes could one dare to eat this pie, right?

Coming out of the foreign aid building, both sides conducted interesting communication and exchanges along the garden path.

Why say it like that? Because Xiangtaer praised the professionalism and ability of the Red Star Factory, as well as the care and support for the technical and engineering team.

Li Huai De had Li Xuewu's reminder, so he naturally understood the meaning of the other party's words. In his reply, there was a sense of "I know everything," making the conversation between the two sides have a little bit of tacit understanding.

You know my length, I know your depth?

Except for other accompanying personnel taking ordinary buses, invited by Li Huai De, President Xiangtaer of the Saint-Aya Group, Vice President William Robin, Cultural Commissioner Maggie Roman, and Foreign Affairs Department head Zhou Gancheng boarded the Hongtu No. 1 with the Red Star Factory leaders.

Twelve seats; the Red Star Factory side only had Li Huai De, Xue Zhifu, and Li Xuewu, as well as an accompanying interpreter.

The interpreters sat in the back, and Xue Zhifu sat at the door, letting Li Xuewu sit beside William Robin.

That is, the four-seat main seating area set up opposite the marble conference table.

Very thoughtfully, the headrest part of the seats had already been marked with the passenger's nameplate or position.

For example, the interpreter was just an interpreter, without a name.

Seating was very particular; Li Huai De and Xiangtaer sat facing the direction of the vehicle's movement, while Li Xuewu and Vice President Robin sat facing them.

The interpreters for Li Huai De and Xiangtaer sat behind them, providing real-time translation throughout.

As soon as Xiangtaer got on, her eyes looked around; this was not impolite.

A wealthy person like her, in this environment, wouldn't care too much about the etiquette emphasized by the upper class; that was the demeanor maintained at balls.

Now she just wanted to see this unique bus; she was very interested.

Especially when the vehicle started, looking at the wide and bright glass, the relatively quiet interior space, and the hot tea served by the secretary, placed on the table, it was very surprising.

"To be honest, even France doesn't have such functional vehicles—"

Xiangtaer, like a little girl who had just entered kindergarten, asked Li Xuewu with curiosity, "Is this a car designed and produced by your factory?"

Li Xuewu naturally wouldn't underestimate the other party; this was just the sincerity shown after financial freedom.

If you really thought she was a little girl, then you would be a big fool!

"That's right, it's mainly for investigation, research, reception, and administrative work needs."

Li Xuewu nodded with a smile and continued to explain under Li Huai De's encouraging gaze, "It has already been finalized for production, but it is custom production, and the production capacity is still very average."

"That's certainly easy to understand!"

Xiangtaer smiled and spread her hands, saying, "European buses are actually also custom-produced, but they don't have this level of completeness."

She gestured to several special devices on the car, including the radio embedded in the carriage at one end of the office table.

She hadn't come to the interior just once or twice; she knew the people here very well and wouldn't use shoddy goods to fool her.

It was just a radio; if she suspected the other party, she might become a laughingstock.

So, on the way from the reception center, onto the factory road, and straight to the construction site outside the factory area, the main topic of conversation between the two sides was actually this car.

"You can understand my mood for wanting such a car, right?"

Xiangtaer smiled at Li Huai De and said very tactfully and implicitly, "If possible, as long as the Red Star Factory has such products, I will definitely buy them."

"Hahaha! We certainly welcome it—"

Li Huai De laughed and said, "Once we have the production capacity, we will definitely contact the Saint-Aya Group; this is our honor."

Look, who said Old Li didn't learn? He could even pull off a few European rhetorical phrases.

The atmosphere of the conversation between the two sides had always maintained a friendly rhythm, especially after arriving at the construction site.

Looking at the school rising from the ground, Xiangtaer asked with surprise, "Last time we passed by here, it wasn't this high, right?"

She was asking Vice President Robin, and also Li Xuewu opposite her.

Li Xuewu smiled without explaining, and Robin also had an expression of having seen a ghost.

"This is truly... China Speed!"

Hearing the interpreter's words, the pride on Li Huai De's face was overflowing.

He took the initiative to express his gratitude, saying, "This benefits from the concerted cooperation between the Red Star Factory and the Saint-Aya Group. With the support of technical and engineering teams, and the help of construction machinery, the progress has been greatly improved."

"No, no, Director Li."

Xiangtaer shook her head slightly and said, "I know very well the power that technical teams and construction machinery can represent."

"Even with world-advanced technology and equipment, it wouldn't be enough to be so fast..."

Li Xuewu had already felt the shock and doubt in her words. Seeing Li Huai De smiling without saying anything, he was too lazy to explain.

When the Hongtu No. 1 car stopped at the gate of the construction site, under the guidance and introduction of the project team and the foreign affairs office, everyone put on safety helmets and walked to the construction site to visit.

Especially, when the Saint-Aya Group party received the masks provided by the foreign affairs office service staff, they were very surprised and satisfied.

They were here to work, and it was very normal to have mud on their bodies and shoes when going down to the front-line construction site.

But this didn't mean they were willing to smell this dust odor. With these masks, they said thank you, and in their hearts, they were also satisfied with the corporate culture of the Red Star Factory.

Just as Xiangtaer mentioned many times, the Red Star Factory was different from other enterprises in the interior.

Specifically where it was different, the people below could summarize it, including work attitude, work attire, work thinking, etc.