Ekins and McGee followed Mao Haodong a few streets, and the more he walked, the more shocked he felt.They found that although every company on these streets is small, some are even a shopkeeper alone, not even a helper, but all these companies together, but have a strong manufacturing capacity, no less than a large machinery factory.

Eakins did indeed come with a few drawings, he randomly entered a shop, asked the owner can do according to the requirements of the drawings to help him make a set of molds, how much it cost.The young shopkeeper inserted the USB stick containing the drawings electronic documents into the computer, transferred the documents, and then watched the documents begin to calculate for Ekins, and he made every production process clear, and the working hours and cost composition of the process were almost no different.

“Can you do it for $1,500?”

After listening to the shopkeeper's offer, Eggins was almost stunned, and blurted out in a speech, without taking into account that it might prompt the other party to raise the offer.

“So, how long will it take?”McGee asked.

“It’s too late today.”The shopkeeper looked at the watch on his wrist reflexively and said, “Tomorrow morning at eight o’clock, if you are in a hurry, you can do it at six o’clock...”

“How is that possible!”This time it was Maggie’s turn to scream.He also in the United States has also found other companies to order mold, a more simple mold than this, the other side dragged a month and a half to create, in front of the young man He De, dare to say 14 hours can be delivered.

“It’s a $500 deposit, can you start making us now?”McGee counted five bills directly and handed them to the shopkeeper.

"Okay, you can play with Dong Ge first, and come and get the goods tomorrow morning."The owner took the money and said confidently.He and Mao Haodong knew each other, so he had the name of Dong Ge.

"No, we want to stay here and see how you do it."McGee said.

“This...” The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed, and he turned to look at Mao Haodong and asked, “Don brother, what happened?”

Mao Haodong smiled, "Amin, these two people are in the United States to open a factory, they want to know why we can take such a large order, so they came to the special."It's okay, they want to see, let them look good, we have nothing to hide from others."

“All right.”The shopkeeper named Amin gave in.He picked up the phone, dialed a number, said something in the local dialect to the inside, and went back to the computer and sent out the drawing documents that Ekins had just given him.

Mao Haodong explained to Ikins: "You mold, use the No. 13 mold to forge into a blank."Amin has no forging machine here, and he just called someone else to do the forging."

“So, how far is this forging factory from here?”Eggins asked.

"Not far, the street in front of it, is called Gan Sheng Forging."Amin pointed his finger in a direction and said.

“Can we go and see?”Eggins asked.

Amin learned the work of foreign films, shrugged his shoulders and said, “Anyway, in fact, what’s so good about this?”

Eggins didn’t think it was any good, and his curiosity was completely hooked.He wanted to see how the Chinese made the mold he needed in 14 hours, and it was great to be able to make this mold in 14 days, according to his ideas.

Mao Haodong had to bring Ekins and McGee to the Gansheng forging company, but it was just another small factory.Mao Haodong also has some contacts in the local area, and the boss of Gan Sheng forging is also an acquaintance.After listening to Mao Haodong's introduction, the boss laughed and greeted Ekins and McGee to sit down, saying that he had just ordered the bill of the No. 13 mold steel, and the steel shop would arrange for people to send it.

Sure enough, less than a quarter of an hour later, someone drove a pickup truck to bring the steel ingots.The boss let several guests sit a little, took the workers to pick up the goods, and brought the steel ingots into the back workshop.Mao Haodong also entered the workshop with Ekins and McGee, and saw that the workshop had begun to work.

Heating, out, cooling, plucking, coarse, punching, annealing... a series of operations are methodical, the water press roars, knocking on the billet, which looks quite industrial beauty.Eakins and McGee are both connomenclature, and what they see is naturally more, and they find that in every operation, the boss is no different from the control of temperature and pressure, and shows a very high skill.

Due to the long annealing treatment time of the forgings, a group of people escorted the forged forgings back to Amin's mold shop, which was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening.Amin has done a variety of preparations before production, received forgings, he first arranged people to do the inspection, to determine the forging geometry, defect depth, annealing hardness and other indicators are in line with the original design requirements, which began to enter the machining link.

The operation of machining also has a fixed process, such as what rough processing, flaw detection, quality adjustment, heat treatment, finishing, etc., workers do light car familiar with the road, there is no feeling of busy.Dry until midnight, everyone felt a little hungry, Amin let people make a phone call, not long, the delivery brother came riding in the battery car, sent a hot meal.Considering that there are two foreigners on the scene, Amin also ordered pizza for them, and after Igins and McGee tasted it, they felt that it was even more authentic than the pizza in the small town of Bar.

“It’s a perfect collaboration, it’s great!”

At four o'clock in the morning, when Amin showed a set of qualified molds to Eggins and McGee, Eggins could not help but marvel.

“Pizza, too, is part of this chain of collaboration.”McGee commented.

"No wonder that every time we order from Mr. Mao, no matter how complex the fixture, he can ship in two days, it turns out that he has such a huge supply chain behind him."

"This is completely unimaginable in our small town of Bar."

“Mr. Mao, I would like to ask, are you the largest industrial center in China?”Iggins asked Mao Haodong.

“We are here?”Mao Haodong hesitated and asked, “Do you mean us Shiyang or Jinan?”

“He must have asked us to the sea!”Amin reminded me.Just kidding, Jinnan dare to say that it is the largest industrial center, how do you make Pujiang and Pengcheng?

Eggins didn't know what to say, and he drew a circle with his hand and asked, "All the factories here, I don't know, Shiyang, or Jinnan."

Mao Haodong explained: "Shiyang is our county, Jinnan is our city.The whole of Jinnan, there are twelve districts and counties, which are similar to our Shiyang, and are engaged in industry, but the industries of each district and county are somewhat different.”

“Tomorrow, ah no, I mean today, can you take us to see the twelve districts you’re talking about?”Maggie asked.

“It’s been a night, aren’t you tired?”Mao Haodong stared at the two half-old men in surprise, he was only more than 20 years old, he survived this night, and some sleepy, how do these two old men look more and more spiritual appearance, is the time difference is not reversed?

Eggins and McGee are not a hundred times more spiritual than time difference, they are really stimulated by what they see, and the cerebral cortex is in a state of excitement.The guests asked, and Mao Haodong could not refuse, he arranged for Eggins to rest in the hotel first, and he hurried home to sleep.By 9 a.m., Mao Haodong found an acquaintance to help him drive, picked up Ekins and McGee at the hotel, and began to visit other districts and counties in Jinan.

"This is Songqiang County, in the early years is to do the connection, the world's 20% of the standard connection is loose."

“Pingji County, gears are particularly famous.What gears you need, you can't buy anywhere else, there certainly is here.If not, they will be able to make it for you right away, not worse than the big factory.”

“As the River County, make a bolt...”

Mao Haodong sat in the co-pilot's seat, such as several families to make a presentation to the two foreign investors.The car was opened on the bustling streets, and the signs and large posters of the shops on both sides were unattainable.Eggins and McGee sat in the back row, pressed the windowpane to look out, and the waves churned in their hearts.

At that meeting in the morning, Ikins asked Mao Haodong whether the area was the largest industrial center in China, and he was referring only to Shiyang County.But now he knows that Songqiang County, Pingji County, Xianghe County, etc., in Mao Haodong's mouth are not inferior to Shiyang.And such a county, in this so-called Jinan city, there are actually as many as 12.

“Mr. Mao, how many factories are there in your Jinan city?”Eggins asked.

"That's enough to ask me."Mao Haodong said, “50,000, or 100,000?”It's hard to say.Yes, last time our chairman of the Jinnan Chamber of Commerce Yao Weiqiang to give us a report, said the whole Jinnan now has 10 million foreign workers, plus our Jinnan locals, almost 12 million workers, you calculate, how many factories.

“12 million workers?”Eggins was blind.Is it wrong that there are only 13 million manufacturing employees in the United States, and there are 12 million people in China alone in Jinnan, which is worth the size of the entire American manufacturing industry.

Indeed, the labor productivity of American workers is higher, and the added value of one worker’s products may be equivalent to the ten workers in China.But this is because the United States has dumped low value-added products into China.Like what bolts, gears, fixtures, etc., small batch production is very labor costs, American workers disdain to do such things, they just import accessories from China, assembled into valuable equipment.But if these things are to be taken back and the Americans make it by themselves, it is too difficult to overcome, and where do you find 12 million workers to build an industrial system like Jinnan?

"Igins, I have an idea."McGee rolled his eyes, put his mouth to Ekins's ear, and said in a low voice.