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Chapter 622:Meeting an old friend in a foreign land

"2.1 million cars, Americans are too dark-hearted."

Just when Leicester complained that the Chinese were too low priced, Chen Bangpeng, an old engineer of Luo Ye in the Chinese construction machinery exhibition area, was also lamenting to Feng Xiaochen and others:

"Our 175-ton dump truck, full of calculations, that is, the cost of 3 million yuan, according to the exchange rate of 8.6, $350,000."We reported $480,000, which is already a very high profit.Who knows if Americans are so hard on us, a car would dare to report 2.1 million, isn’t that a pit man?”

Wang Weilong said: "Indeed, Haifei's 185-ton dump truck and our 175-ton dump truck, that is, 10 tons of load, in fact, there is not much difference in the mining application."Their technology is better than ours, and it is reasonable to be a little more expensive.It's more than four times more expensive in one breath, and that's too much."

"Then what is the price of the dump truck that we introduced Hye's company in the past?"Yang Haifan, the leader of Chenyu Construction Machinery Company, asked with a smile.Yang Haifan and Wang Weilong have long known that when Yang Haifan managed bearing company for Feng Xiaochen, a considerable part of the old workers in the company were Wang Weilong from Luo Ye helped him.This time, the companies came out together to participate in the exhibition, everyone ate and lived together, and the relationship was very close.

Wang Weilong recalled, nodded and said: "When we introduced the Haifei company's dump truck, the price is really not low."However, at that time, the exchange rate was relatively high, and the RMB of 1 dollar for more than 3 yuan did not yet feel how outrageous the price of Haifei Company was.After all, people are internationally renowned large enterprises, and it is normal for things to be expensive.Now we will build our own dump trucks, the quality of them is almost as little, and then look at their price, it feels too high."

“The exchange rate is indeed an important aspect.”Chen Bangpeng said, "I remember ten years ago, the dollar for yuan is more than 3 yuan, and now it suddenly mentions 8 yuan and 6, which has more than doubled."If it is still according to the exchange rate of the year, our car may also have to be in the early $1 million, so compared to the fact that the Haifei company's car is not very special."

"Yes, the yuan has gone down too much."Wang Weilong said with emotion, he looked at Feng Xiaochen and asked, “Little Feng, do you say that our RMB has depreciated like this, is it a loss?”

Feng Xiaochen smiled and asked, “Old Wang, do you think you sell a car for 480,000 yuan, and you will not lose?”

“Certainly not.”Wang Weilong replied firmly.

“If we go up to a million, can you sell it?”Feng Xiaochen asked again.

“Shut up.”Wang Weilong said, "Our car and Haifei company's car compared to, there are still some gaps, people's car appearance is beautiful, durability is good, our biggest advantage is cheap."Buy a high-cost car, enough to buy four of our cars.If you raise the price to 1 million, I think those customers who are here today will not be interested.”

"Isn't that necessary."Feng Xiaochen smiled, "Since it is impossible for us to sell 1 million, it is better to directly bid 480,000."As long as there is a profit.One million, it looks like the profit is greater, but it can't be sold in vain."

"That's right."Wang Weilong was relieved.In his mind, it is not clear whether the devaluation of the renminbi is good or bad for the whole country, but the benefits are visible only from the perspective of Luoyu.One million dollars, or $480,000, is ultimately to be handed over to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and Luo Ye can only get the yuan.The yuan is only depreciated relative to the dollar, the value of the country is not depreciated, Luo Ye a car sold 480,000 US dollars, according to the exchange rate of 8.6 can be exchanged for more than 4 million yuan, much higher than the profit of domestic sales, which is a good thing.

"Old Yang, how do you bring the equipment, the price compared with foreign manufacturers?"After talking about his own products, Wang Weilong turned his head to Yang Haifan and asked.

"It's about a quarter of the German, and you don't see the customers who come to inquire, and they think they're wrong."Yang Haifan said with a smile.

“But so far, we haven’t opened yet.It seems that it is not enough to be cheap, people are old, have credibility, and customers are still very worried about us."Wang Weilong said.

As we talked, I saw two high-nosed Europeans outside the booth, one of whom had just come, claiming to be the purchasing representative of the Italian Terry Construction Engineering Company, named Capella, and the other one, Yang Haifan felt somewhat familiar, and seemed to have seen it not long ago, but he could not remember.

"Mr. Capella, welcome again, are you thinking?"Yang Haifan stepped forward and greeted Capella warmly.Capella just asked a lot of questions here, but also let Yang Haifan take him to the outdoor exhibition hall to see the physical goods of the product, obviously very interested in Chinese products.However, after asking about technical indicators, after-sales policies and prices and other issues, Capella said that he would have to discuss with colleagues again, and now see him bring another person, maybe this is his colleague.

“Mr. Heinzl, an engineer from our company, has asked him to come with me to try to identify the technical indicators of the concrete pump trucks produced by your company.”Capella introduced Yang Haifan.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Yang."The Westerner named Heinzl bent slightly to Yang Haifan, saying hello.

"Hello, Mr. Heinzl."Yang Haifan replied that when he spoke of the name, the familiar feeling in his heart was very much, and he could not help but look up at Heinzl and ask tentatively: "Mr. Heinzl, forgive me, have we seen it?"

“Have you seen it?”Heinzl's face was unprovoked and there was some confusion, he also looked at Yang Haifan, and then said: "I think, perhaps Mr. Yang just saw someone who looks like me, I have never been to China..."

“Oh, I don’t go to Europe many times...” Yang Haifan replied, and the doubts in my heart were even heavier.In general, when someone says to you that you may have seen you, your reaction should be a little curious, and then remember the time when you may meet with the other person.Heinzl, on the other hand, denied it, as if afraid of the other party recognizing his identity.What does an engineer in a construction company dare not see?Is his identity false?

Thinking of this, Yang Haifan suddenly had a spirit in his head, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.He remembered at last that Heinzl had seen it, but not recently, but exactly eleven years ago.That was in 1984, when Feng Xiaochen had just proposed to Yang Haifan to start a construction machinery company, the two of them went to Europe together to visit, one of which was the German old construction machinery company Pu Mei Company.Heinzl was an engineer at Pumé, and at that time, it was Heinzl who accompanied them to several workshops.

Yang Haifan clearly remembered that during the visit, he asked Heinzl if he could take a picture, and Heinzl said that he could take pictures casually, without any taboos.At first, Yang Haifan and Feng Xiaochen thought that this was a goodwill of Heinzl, and then Feng Xiaochen overheard Heinzl's conversation with another German worker, and he learned that Heinzl was so great because he firmly believed that the Chinese could not understand these production processes, and even if they understood, they could not learn any skills from it.

Heinzlwanwan did not think that his words deeply stimulated Feng Xiaochen and Yang Haifan, and when he returned home, Yang Haifan washed out all the photos and handed them to the engineers in the company to study.Engineers found many clues from these photos, analyzed many of the technical know-how, and digested and absorbed them into the internal core technology of Chenyu Construction Machinery Company.

Yang Haifan felt that he had seen Heinzl not long ago because he had seen the group of photos with engineers not long ago, and several of them had Heinzl's back or half face.Heinzl's name was also impressed in Yang Haifan's heart, and Yang Haifan thought of this person.

Now that he remembered Heinzl’s identity, Yang Haifan understood what was going on.From Heinzl's panicked expression, he was obviously not an employee of Terry, but still working at the company, this time just to dress up and look at Chenyu's products.As for whether he was at the request of the Terry company to help the company to check the goods, or to explore the virtual reality of the Chenyu company as a peer, Yang Haifan could not analyze it for a while.However, Yang Haifan is not in a hurry to debunk Heinzl's identity, anyway, he has nothing to hide, he wants to see, let him look good.

"Mr. Capella, I remember that you were interested in our concrete pump truck, and now that you are with Mr. Heinzl, are you also going to learn about the pump truck?"Yang Haifan left the topic of Heinzl and turned to Capella.

“Yes, our company has some interest in the concrete pump trucks produced by your company.However, we have some doubts about the price of your company's products.The price of the same pump truck in the European market is more than $250,000, and your offer is only $58,000, I wonder, what is the reason you can offer this product at such a low price?Capella asked bluntly.

"It's very simple."Yang Haifan smiled and said, "First, our labor costs are lower."China is a developing country with a per capita GDP of only one-thirtieth of Europe’s, so labor costs are low.Construction machinery is also a labor-intensive product, labor costs are low, the price of products is naturally cheap."

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