However, although he realized that he was cheated, Douglas did not continue to bargain with Zheng Nan because he could still make the decision at the price of 15%. Douglas really wanted to teach Chase and Qiangsheng a lesson, warning them not to always cause trouble for themselves.

Of course, the most important thing is that Douglas is really cowardly. I wonder if there are any other pitfalls waiting for him behind Zheng Nan.

Douglas quickly left and called and asked if there was a second-hand super fine grinder at the headquarters. He was lucky. Douglas told Zheng Nan that there happened to be one in his hand.

"Maybe this is more than ten years ago, but you know, bulky machines like machine tools usually have their updates and replacements that are slower than old ladies. I can guarantee that his functions are still top-notch, including polishing out the devices needed for Apollo to land on the moon." Douglas explained to Zheng Nan.

Zheng Nan looked at Zhuang Wei. After asking about the specific model of the machine, Zhuang Wei nodded to Zheng Nan.

Zheng Nan nodded and said yes, but also said that since this machine was a product that was so long ago and it was stored in Blaren's warehouse for too much time, no one could guarantee his performance.

Douglas promised that the headquarters could help fully debug the machine before sending it to China: "Director Zheng, you are completely relieved. We are the best partners. We will not sell a broken machine to our partners. We have more futures."

Zheng Nanze said: "I fully trust Mr. Douglas and Bryan, but I can't trust time. I can't determine whether the machine is really in good performance, so second-hand machines should have second-hand prices."

After another bargaining, Douglas also kept communicating with the headquarters and finally completed the transaction for 6.6 million yuan.

Of which 990,000 is prepaid by Blaren Glasses, and 4.62 million can be replaced by some equivalent machinery and equipment on the original list, but the sunglasses or instrument factory still must take out at least 990,000 Huayuan.

After confirming the price, Douglas smiled bitterly: "I have to say that Director Zheng, you are such a difficult businessman. Every time you almost put my interests to the limit."

Zheng Nan smiled and shrugged: "This also shows that Mr. Douglas is a respectable opponent."

Later, Zhuang Wei and Douglas signed a bet agreement, requiring Zheng Nan to use the super fine grinder to help the sunglasses open up the situation. Otherwise, the instrument factory would not only need to return the 990,000 funds that Blaren had originally paid, but even the funds on the original list would have to be given out another 990,000, which is a total of 1.98 million to Blaren.

Douglas's reason is very simple, that is, most of the funds on the original list were paid by Blaren and Sunshine Glasses, but now Zheng Nan has taken out and replaced it with a super fine grinder. Once the losses are suffered, their interests must be compensated.

Zheng Nan did not refute this time and directly agreed. After signing the betting agreement, Douglas finally smiled. He told Zheng Nan that the super fine grinder would be loaded and set off for Ninghai as soon as possible.

When Douglas left to arrange the relevant matters, Zhuang Wei immediately came to Zheng Nan excitedly. He clenched his fists and danced happily: "That's great. As long as the super fine grinder is assisted, I guarantee that I can create at least ten complete sets of lithography lenses for Director Zheng in a month!"

Liang Ziyun also said excitedly: "I have also heard of this super fine grinder. It is a device that Mr. Zhou has been thinking about. If it is a brand new machine, it will cost at least three million US dollars, and there is no way to find a purchase channel. Now you can get one in less than one hundred million US dollars. We are making a lot of money!"

Zhuang Wei and Liang Ziyun were very excited, but Zheng Nan was not happy. The reason was that the price was too much beyond expectations.

It’s not that Zheng Nan didn’t know that these precision equipment is expensive, especially the more advanced equipment, the more expensive it is. It’s just that after he really comes into contact with it, he has the most intuitive feeling.

Such a super fine grinder is only 25 million yuan, but it is still a priceless one. This is just a lens processing tool. No wonder later generations say that the semiconductor industry says lithography machines are gold-eating monsters. It turns out that's true!

Fortunately, he can still fool Douglas into boarding the ship now, and use the betting agreement to minimize the funds he needs to pay for the first payment. Even after the super fine grinder is in place, it will be one month later. At that time, the instrument factory can completely distribute the dividends of glasses in advance, and use this dividend to pay the first installment of 990,000 Huayuan.

It can be said that after busy work, the funding situation of the instrument factory has not improved at all.

Seeing that Zheng Nan didn't say anything, Liang Ziyun also reacted and told Zheng Nan not to worry: "At least the current situation is improving all the way. Sunshine Glasses will be purely profitable in the future, and the current financial difficulties will be completely over in two or three years at most."

Zhuang Wei also waved his hand: "Yes, the days when I couldn't pay my salary in the past few years have passed. What's the point now? There is more hope than then!"

Zheng Nanze smiled and waved his hand: "That's all for the future. Now you should think more about how to improve production efficiency with the reduction of production lines. We have assured Douglas that replacing the ultra-fine grinder with equivalent equipment will not affect the original production."

Zhuang Wei and Liang Ziyun both solemnly assured Zheng Nan that they would definitely find ways to improve efficiency based on the existing basis.

In fact, they did. Before arriving from the production line in Nangang, Liang Ziyun found Zheng Nan and said that the workshop workers had invented a new method that could improve the production efficiency by about 30% while the existing equipment remained unchanged.

"That's great!" Zheng Nan clenched his fists hard and applauded.

However, Zheng Nan did not applaud blindly. He then asked Liang Ziyun whether this new method is suitable for large-scale promotion, whether the workers in the workshop can accept it in a short time, and its impact on current production efficiency, etc.

Liang Ziyun answered that Zheng Nan and their workshop had discussed this new method and the technical difficulty was not high.

"Simply put, it is that you can only grind one lens at a time on a grinder, but under new technology, you can grind two lenses at the same time, which is essentially not much different from the original production process."

Liang Ziyun even said that he had asked a class to try it out first, and they could master it in just half a day.

"Director Zheng, more than 800 employees of our instrument factory are skilled masters, and the method of grinding lenses is imprinted in the body. As long as the original method is not changed, it will basically not have much impact." Liang Ziyun assured Zheng Nan.

Zheng Nan finally felt relieved: "Okay, now we will continue to promote one shift after another to the workshop, and try to minimize the impact on production."

Liang Ziyun nodded to show that he understood.


Chapter completed!