Xu Zhenbo did not accept the documents in Feng Xiaochen's hand, but instead scolded him angrily: "Assistant Feng, I know that you have a good relationship with the Science and Technology Commission, so it is no problem to ask for such a document. But is such an excuse too stiff?"

Feng Xiaochen giggled and said, "Director Xu, didn't you just ask me to provide one reason last time? Is this reason not enough for national defense and security?"

"Now that the Cold War is over, it is unreasonable to use such reasons to perfunctory foreign businessmen." Xu Zhenbo said disdainfully.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Director Xu, if Sanli says this, you can ask them to help us purchase high-precision five-axis linkage machine tools and high-performance control chips in Japan. As long as they can help us buy it, I will never interfere in Qin Zhong's affairs again."

"Ah..." Xu Zhenbo was speechless. As a cadre of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, how could he not know that Feng Xiaochen's request was something that Japan would not agree to. The Cold War was indeed over, but the high-tech embargo by Western countries on China has not ended. High-precision machine tools and high-performance chips are both within the scope of the embargo on China, and the reason is precisely the issue of national defense security.

"Are you planning to present this document in the next negotiation?" Xu Zhenbo asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Yes. Not only Qin Chong, but also some other key equipment enterprises have similar requirements. If foreign capital wants to control these enterprises, then all employees who have participated in key national defense engineering projects in the enterprise must be transferred."

"Sanli will never accept this condition." Xu Zhenbo said.

Feng Xiaochen shrugged: "who_ares?"

"This question..., I need to report to the Minister of In charge." Xu Zhenbo said helplessly.

After returning to the department, Xu Zhenbo immediately reported the situation of the equipment company to Cao Haiming, the deputy director in charge. After hearing this, Cao Haiming pondered for a moment and asked Xu Zhenbo: "Zhenbo, what do you think about this?"

"I feel that the equipment company is thinking of all ways to stop this joint venture." Xu Zhenbo responded.

Cao Haiming shook his head and said, "This is very obvious. What I mean is your attitude towards Qin Zhong's matter in Sanli Holdings?"

Xu Zhenbo hesitated and said, "I mainly consider this matter from the perspective of our Foreign Trade Department. Attracting investment is our job. From this perspective, Sanli's investment in Qin Chong is consistent with our goal. In addition, Japan's Ministry of Trade and Industry is also very active in this matter. If it is handled improperly, it may affect our reconciliation negotiations..."

"This is your vision." Cao Haiming said, "Zhenbo, we are doing foreign trade, but we must always remember that we are doing foreign trade for the country. The purpose of our foreign trade is to serve the country's construction, so we must never ignore the overall interests of the country for foreign trade. What is our purpose of re-defending customs? It is to expand exports and earn foreign exchange, eliminate foreign trade discrimination, and purchase more urgently needed equipment and raw materials for the country. If we give up national interests in order to re-defending customs, then it is better not to re-defending the customs."

"I understand." Xu Zhenbo could not hear the leader's meaning. Since he had the support of the leader, he didn't have to take the noise from Japan's Ministry of Industry and Industry. It is obvious that the leader's intentions were consistent with Feng Xiaochen's demands. Behind Feng Xiaochen, there were also high-level leaders such as Luo Xiangfei, Meng Fanze, the State Economic and Trade Commission, and the Science and Technology Commission. These senior officials may have various political views, but they are highly consistent in terms of enriching the country and strengthening the army.

"But, how do we answer in Northwest Province?" Xu Zhenbo asked another question.

Cao Haiming smiled and said, "The northwest province has also given up on this matter. The province just called me and said that they also felt that a backbone enterprise like Qin Chong was a major loss by Japanese-funded companies, so I hope we can block the pressure from Japan for them."

"What's going on?" Xu Zhenbo said in surprise.

Cao Haiming said: "It's very simple. Qin Chong just signed two big contracts, both of which are over 100 million yuan. The Northwest Province will not give this money tree to the Japanese."

At this moment, a grand banquet is being held in the best hotel in Xiayuan City, Binhai Province. The invited party is Chen Kun, the director of Qinzhou Heavy Machinery Factory, Deng Pan, the sales director, and Cui Yongfeng, chief engineer, and others. The owner is Xiaguang Steel Factory, the largest private enterprise in Xiayuan City.

"Director Chen, thank you for your support to our Xiagang. I will not say anything, I will be in the wine." Tu Kechun, the director of Xiaguang Iron and Steel Factory, held a large wine glass of two taels in his hand, pulled Chen Kun, and curled his tongue slightly. He was obviously a little drunk, but the smile on his face was so excited.

Chen Kun held Tu Kechun's shoulder with one hand and held the wine glass with the other hand, and said, "Director Tu, I dare not take this thank you. It was clearly because you gave us business and saved our factory. Why did you say thank you in the other way? It should be that we thank you."

Just in the afternoon, Xiaguang Iron and Steel Plant had just signed a contract with Qin Chong to purchase a thin plate hot-rolled production line. The contract amount reached more than 300 million yuan, which was equivalent to Qin Chong's turnover in two or three years. In addition, another production signed with a state-owned steel plant in Xinyang Province, Qin Chong will not have to worry about food and drink in the next few years. This is just the beginning of the new year. Looking at the production form of the national steel industry in the past year, you can imagine that there will be new big orders this year, and Qin Chong can be said to have ushered in spring.

It was after the news came back to Northwest Province, Northwest Province's attitude towards the matter of Sanli Holding Qin Chong immediately underwent a 180-degree reversal. From the original intention to take Qin Chong away as a burden, it turned into a worry that Qin Chong would be taken away by Sanli, causing the province to lose such a big profit and tax dealer.

Chen Kun was originally a little swaying about Sanli Holdings. After signing these two big orders, he firmly stood on the opposing side. He had hundreds of millions of orders in his hand, so he was confident in speaking and had a status in the province. Is it necessary to be subordinate to the Japanese?

It is precisely because of this reason that Chen Kun personally attended the signing ceremony with Xiagang and expressed his intention to hold a banquet to thank Xiagang and his men. Unexpectedly, Tu Kechun turned around and expressed his gratitude to him, which made him a little panic.

Hearing Chen Kun's words, Tu Kechun laughed and said, "Director Chen, you can come to our Xiayuan to respect me. You should know that I, Lao Tu, are a farmer. Five years ago, I couldn't believe that I could sit with you, Director Chen, and I couldn't believe that you, a company as big as Qin Chong, could help us build a production line. This is simply a blessing I built in my previous life."

"Look at what Director Tu said, you Xiagang is also a well-known large enterprise in the steel industry. From now on, we who work in metallurgical equipment will point you to Boss Tu for food." Chen Kun said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

In fact, let alone Tu Kechun, five years ago, Chen Kun could not have imagined that a private steel plant was qualified to order a rolling steel production line from Qin Chong. Which of Qin Chong’s customers is not a well-known large-scale national enterprise? Shouldn’t private enterprises be such small workshops with small scale and backward technology? When can we afford a large continuous casting and rolling production line worth more than 300 million yuan?

But this happened just now. Xiaguang Steel Factory was originally just a small township factory, which was separated from the casting workshop of the township agricultural machinery factory. The annual output was only a few dozen tons. The steel refined was not of great quality, and it could only be used to make some steel doors and windows. Tu Kechun was a hard-working person. He led more than a dozen workers to work hard. In more than ten years, he developed this small factory to a scale of hundreds of thousands of tons per year.

In recent years, the domestic economy has developed very fast, especially in the past two years, real estate has continued to heat up, steel supply is very tight, and prices have also risen. Tu Kechun makes money and has cramped hands. Seeing that domestic policies are becoming more and more relaxed, he is braver and resolutely decided to double the production scale, and has sprinkled a large number of equipment orders for this.

Qin Chong is the number one enterprise in the production of hot rolling equipment in China. Tu Kechun tried to send someone to contact Qin Chong and asked if Qin Chong could condescend to build a rolling production line for his private steel plant. Qin Chong's sales department was a little unbelievable at first, thinking that how could a private steel plant have such a large order? After inquiring, I realized that the current private steel plant is no longer what it used to be. The annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons is not much worse than that of some state-owned medium-sized steel enterprises.

The most rare thing is that the domestic state-owned medium-sized enterprises do not have the courage to spend hundreds of millions to build new production lines at once, but Tu Kechun dares to do so. Once this production line is put into production, Xiagang's steel output can leap to a new level and go directly with state-owned large factories. No one dares to underestimate this company at that time.

"Director Chen, I'm not afraid of you making jokes when I say it. I've thought about it. I'll make the steel output to 1 million tons next year, and 2 million the year afterwards. By 2000, at least 5 million tons. By then, I have to have three hot-rolled lines and three cold-rolled lines to do the kind of computer-controlled ones, just like foreigners." Tu Kechun said to Chen Kun with alcohol.

Chen Kun said: "I didn't say that we are now developing the next generation of hot rolling equipment. At that time, as long as you slaughter the factory manager, we will build a set of hot rolling lines for you that reach the world-class level, which will ensure that they are not worse than those of the Japanese."

"Japanese?" Tu Kechun said with a contemptuous expression, "I hate Japanese people the most. No matter how good their equipment is, I don't need it. I am the most patriotic, so I will recognize our country's own equipment. Director Chen, you have to add some fuel and don't let us down."

Chen Kun was amused and crying. If the peasant entrepreneur who claimed to be the most patriotic in front of him knew that Qin Chong was still negotiating a joint venture with Sanli some time ago, he would have thought. He raised his wine glass and said to Tu Kechun: "Director Tu, with you, even if we have more than 10,000 employees of Qin Chong are trying their best, they will have to create first-class equipment and destroy the Japanese!"

"Okay, let's do it when we say this to Director Chen!"
Chapter completed!