After hearing these words from Yuri's mouth, the expressions on Yang Wen and Liu Yunquan's faces that were slightly relaxed because they had achieved their intention suddenly froze.
After a while.
I saw Liu Yunquan stretched out his finger, picked out his ears in a funny way, and confirmed to Yuri again:
"Comrade Yuri, what did you just say? Who wants to see us?"
Yuri's expression at this time was also a little subtle, but he still repeated what he said before:
"Comrade Yunquan, there are several guests from Germany who want to see you."
"...."
The smooth Russian words came to my ears, but the confusion on Liu Yunquan's face became even more serious.
Guests from Germany, want to meet me?
What kind of development is this? I don’t have many acquaintances in Germany...
After a while, Liu Yunquan suddenly thought of something and asked Yuri:
"Comrade Yuri, I would like to confirm whether those guests are from the Democratic Republic of Germany?"
The Democratic Republic of Germany, or East Germany as the saying goes, was one of its own in form—at least from a conceptual perspective.
The counterpart is the Federal Republic of Germany, also known as West Germany.
If someone from East Germany wanted to see him, it was still possible. After all, he was one of the people in charge of China in Moscow.
Although this kind of meeting normally needs to be negotiated through the external relations department, it is not a big problem if an exception is made occasionally if something unexpected happens.
However, to Liu Yunquan's surprise, Yuri shook his head again, denying his guess:
"It's not East Germany, it's some people from West Germany - I'm not comfortable disclosing the specific reasons for their arrival in Mao Xiong. Anyway, it involves some basic trade between the two sides."
"The trade negotiations ended not long ago. Those guests from Germany stopped by GUM Department Store for sightseeing. Less than half an hour after seeing your booth, they made a request to meet you alone."
When saying this, Yuri's expression was also a little subtle.
The reason why Mao Xiong reached a deal with Liu Yunquan so quickly this time was largely due to the sudden appearance of a few Germans.
As we all know.
Although Mao Xiong and Germany fought so hard during World War II that their brains almost spilled out, in the twelfth year after the end of World War II, Mao Xiong established a relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany - the kind that Mao Xiong proposed on his own initiative.
Three years ago, the annual trade volume between the two countries exceeded 300 million marks, and a year ago it reached 778 million marks, and most of it was the import of fur bears.
This relatively ambiguous relationship led Germany to make a new request at the beginning of this year, which is to graft part of the flow of the "Lyudmila" pipeline in the Mao Xiong Plan to Bavaria to provide natural gas heating for Germany.
This proposal involves the basic aspects of people's livelihood and does not cross the political line, so Mao Xiong is also very excited.
Yin Les and the others arrived in Moscow on this trip to further promote the achievement of their intentions.
Then there is what happened not long ago - today's negotiations went very smoothly. Yin Les and others, who had clocked out early, were taken to Gum Department Store for a visit by Markov, the second-in-command of Mao Xiong's external relations.
The result was unexpected.
Not long after Yin Les and others visited the Coke booth, they ran to the side and started chattering, and some even hurried back to the German Embassy.
Then half an hour ago, Yinles came to Markov and made a request:
They hoped to meet the person in charge of the Chinese exhibitor group alone and said they had something important to discuss.
In order to obtain permission and assistance from Mao Xiong, Yin Les even took the initiative to make a promise:
If Mao Xiong can fulfill this request, Germany will try its best to persuade Italy to have a three-party banking party...wrong, three-party natural gas cooperation.
Although this is just a verbal promise, the Germans' request is just to meet Liu Yunquan and the others alone, isn't it?
As a result, Mao Xiong agreed without much hesitation, saying that this matter could be done.
But on the other hand, the attitude shown by Germany seems to indicate that they are also interested in Chinese Coca-Cola.
Although this situation does not make sense logically, after all, Coca-Cola has two production bases in West Germany, and I have not heard of any unhappiness between the two parties in recent years. West Germany has no reason to abandon Coca-Cola.
But apart from being attracted to Huaxia Coke, Mao Xiong couldn't find any other reasonable explanation - is the lack of guarantees because the Coke produced in Huaxia is cheaper?
Therefore, out of the mentality of being robbed of Coke production by the Germans, Mao Xiong only made a small counteroffer to the price offered by Liu Yunquan to ensure that both parties could reach a cooperation intention before the Germans opened their mouths.
You must know that the verbal intentions of the country such as rabbits and bears still have a contractual effect these days, not much weaker than words.
Of course, Liu Yunquan didn't know all the details behind these. What he was hesitating about at this time was another thing:
Do you want to meet the Germans?
This situation was completely unplanned, and he had not received any relevant instructions from the beginning to the end - no matter how thorough the preparations above were, it was impossible to take this into account.
Thinking of this, Liu Yunquan exchanged a few words with Yang Wen, and finally turned to look at Yuri:
"Comrade Yuri, I'm sorry, this situation has exceeded the scope of my authority, so I need to report it to the capital. Do you think this is okay?"
As a high-level secretary, Yuri naturally understood Liu Yunquan's difficulties, so he nodded generously:
"no problem."
Liu Yunquan thanked Yuri and hurriedly left the reception room with Yang Wen.
Huaxia's external relations station in Maoxiong is not very far from GUM Department Store. After walking for about ten minutes, Liu Yunquan and his two men returned to the external relations station. (Don't ask what department the external relations department is, I think this word
There really is no need to explain, why Huaxia has no external relations department from the beginning to the end...)
The call conditions at the station were very safe, so Liu Yunquan immediately reported the incident to the capital.
ten minutes later.
A reply came from the capital:
In principle, we agree to meet with the Germans, but we cannot promise or agree to any conditions, we cannot involve any political discussions, and at least four people from our side must be present, and the translator must be selected by us.
Liu Yunquan and Yang Wen had no objection to this. It happened that neither of them spoke German, so they would definitely need to find an interpreter to help during the meeting.
At the same time, in order to avoid the semantic risks caused by one translator, the number of translators carried is at least two, and the total number just meets the organizational requirements.
Half an hour later.
Liu Yunquan and Yang Wen came to Yuri with two translators, a man and a woman, and expressed their willingness to meet with the Germans.
The venue for the meeting between the two parties was chosen by the Germans. It was located in a small park behind the Kazan Cathedral, and the bears imposed simple martial law on the park.
Another fifteen minutes passed.
When the time came to twelve o'clock at noon, Liu Yunquan finally saw Yin Les and his group of five people in the park.
"Hello friends from the East."
Yin Les extended his hand enthusiastically as soon as they met, but the pronunciation of this thing in German is really weird, it sounds like hetui you have phlegm on your face when you follow him:
"First of all, let me introduce myself. I am the head of the external relations department of the Federal Republic of Germany, Adolf Inlers."
"These are my colleagues, Hermann Leohard, Konrad Bach..."
Liu Yunquan shook hands with Yin Les without losing his grace, and with the cooperation of the translator, he said:
"Hello, Mr. Yin Les, I am Liu Yunquan from Huaxia External Relations. This is my colleague Yang Wen. These two are translators Liu Tao and Chen Qiao."
After letting go.
Liu Yunquan looked at Yin Les, looked him up and down, and asked after consideration:
"Mr. Yin Lesi, I would like to take the liberty to ask, but I don't know why you came to us this time..."
Yin Les was silent for a moment after hearing this. He turned around and looked at the surrounding woods. After confirming that there were no furry bear spies, he turned slightly to one side and took out an object from his body like a film salesman:
"Mr. Liu, is this something you produce?"
Liu Yunquan subconsciously looked at Yin Les's hand.
At this moment, there was a piece of...
Rubber-like light yellow film.
Seeing this, even though the occasion was extremely formal, Liu Yunquan couldn't help but briefly look dull on his face.
What's going on?
It’s not a Coke glass?
You know, whether it was Yuri's previous description or organizational judgment, Liu Yunquan had almost determined one thing before meeting Yin Les:
The reason Yin Les came for him was probably because he had tasted Rabbit's Coke at the tasting party and wanted to buy a batch at a much lower price than Coca-Cola to test the waters.
After all, the cost of Coca-Cola puree is still very high these days, let alone places like East Germany. Even in West Germany, the price is still high.
A 500 ml bottle of Coca-Cola in West Germany costs about three rubles when converted into rubles - this price is still very high when there are enough products on the supply side.
for example.
In later generations, both liquor and Coke were in sufficient supply. A bottle of ordinary Erguotou cost about ten yuan, and a bottle of Coke cost about three yuan—this is the standard price ratio between liquor and Coke.
Therefore, it is reasonable for West Germany to seek cheap Coke. Maybe Yinles himself wants to be the agent.
As a result, I didn’t expect that when we met, Yin Les would actually come up with such a thing?
Then Liu Yunquan took the rubber-like light yellow film and looked at it for a few times, and quickly remembered its origin:
As mentioned earlier, the Cokes brought by Liu Yunquan and the others this time were all 500 ml glass types, and they were transported by air from SJZ to Moscow.
Therefore, in order to ensure that these glass cups will not be damaged due to damage, the 221 Base specially sent a batch of protective films for reinforcement and buffering to replace ordinary tapes - that is, wrap a circle around the outside and fill the gaps in the middle with sponges.
.
This protective film is much tougher than tape. Anyway, Liu Yunquan tried to pull it off a few times and found that he could not pull off this kind of film no matter what.
Of course, Liu Yunquan's impression of the film was nothing more than that, and he didn't pay too much attention to it.
At that time, when Liu Yunquan left the country, the chief specifically explained that the things he brought to Mao Xiong were of little value. Boxes, tapes, etc. were not taken care of after being dismantled, and they could just be thrown directly to Mao Xiong's personnel to clean up.
But now it seems... Yin Lusi seems to have picked up a piece of this stuff and is quite interested in it?
Then Liu Yunquan glanced at Yin Les, adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and told the little information he knew:
"Yes, this is a material we produce, and the output is quite large. Mr. Yinles, I wonder why you ask this question..."
The translator on the side, Liu Tao, translated this sentence into German along with the ellipses.
As soon as Liu Tao finished speaking, Yin Les grabbed Liu Yunquan's wrist:
"Mr. Liu, are you sure it has a large output?"
After receiving Liu Yunquan's affirmation, Yin Les continued:
"So do you sell this kind of film to the outside world? I mean selling it in large quantities - if you can, please give me a price! Please!"
Liu Tao once again translated this sentence into Chinese.
Liu Yunquan endured the pain in his wrist and forced his tone to sound normal:
"Mr. Yin Les, please don't get excited... Can you introduce the specific situation to me? To be honest, I am still confused until now."
Only then did Yin Les come to his senses and quickly let go of Liu Yunquan's shoulders.
He glanced at a man in his entourage calmly, then quickly looked away and explained:
"That's it... Mr. Liu, you should have heard of the German car brand Daimler-Benz, right?"
Liu Yunquan nodded slightly:
"heard about it."
Although the current domestic cars are mainly made of Yangtze, Daihatsu and Modu brands, most Chinese people may not know much about Daimler-Benz, but don’t forget that Liu Yunquan is an external liaison officer who stays at Maoxiong all year round.
Nowadays, in addition to the exclusive Bear brands such as Volga, Lada, and Gas, there are also many imported cars from Europe and the United States. Daimler-Benz is a typical representative of them. In fact, at that time, Daimler-
Mercedes-Benz was almost taken over by a furry bear.
Therefore, Liu Yunquan had naturally heard of this well-known German brand, at least not even the name.
Seeing that Liu Yunquan knew the Daimler-Benz brand, Yin Les's expression became much more relaxed:
"Mr. Liu, to tell you the truth, a few years ago, Daimler-Benz engineers just cooperated with the government to develop a brand new model. This model is very perfect. Our internal definition of it is
An 'epoch-making car'."
"But you also know the character of us Germans, we pursue perfection in everything, so we also strive to be the best in the parts needed for this car."
Having said this, Yin Les shook his head again and sighed with regret:
"However, it is a pity that during the development process of several years, we have optimized many aspects to the extreme, but we encountered some problems with the rubber membrane required for sealing rings and suspension materials."
"No matter how we adapted the material, the final effect was so unsatisfactory that our engineers had no choice but to give up."
"But what we didn't expect was that today in Moscow, we encountered it..."
Say it.
Yin Les lowered his head and looked at the film in his hand again, with a fascination in his eyes that he had seen the lover of his dreams.
Liu Yunquan just now realized that this was what happened...
He once heard a bear engineer mention that the Daimler-Benz brand was closely related to the German government, so it was not surprising that it would cooperate with the government.
Needless to say, the level of German automobile technology is needless to say. With the help of the national team, Liu Yunquan can figure out the level of the product just by thinking about it.
There were some flaws in the design of such an important model. As a result, just when the authorities were about to give up, Yin Les happened to see this kind of film produced by Huaxia...
No wonder Yin Lesi was so excited.
In addition, according to what Yuri just introduced, it seems that Yin Les and the others contacted the bear after getting the film for a while, and it seems that they have done some simple tests?
Liu Yunquan went through the entire incident in his mind, and combined it with his own analysis, he almost had a rough idea.
On the other side, seeing Liu Yunquan's eyes showing some thoughts, Yin Les quickly added:
"By the way, Mr. Liu, there is something I almost forgot to mention."
"That is, if you intend to sell this finished film or transfer technology, we are willing to settle in foreign exchange - not marks, but rubles or U.S. dollars."
"As for the specific price, we still need to discuss it in detail, but what I can guarantee is that the price of one ton of this film will not be less than 5,000 US dollars."
Hearing the figure of 5,000 US dollars, Yang Wen's expression shrank sharply.
$5,000?
To know.
US$5,000 is really a big number these days. Last year, China’s foreign exchange reserves were only US$46 million.
Today's JDZ Pottery Factory is making ceramics day and night, and its annual transaction volume is only US$1 million...
But now if 100 tons of film can be exported at one time, the transaction volume will be at least 500,000 US dollars!
To be honest, if it weren't for insufficient authority, Yang Wen would have agreed to Yin Les' request on the spot.
But beside him, Liu Yunquan's inner excitement was actually not much lower than that of Yang Wen.
However, he still maintained the high-quality mentality of a veteran foreign liaison officer and did not show too many emotions on his face:
"Mr. Yin Les, I have a general understanding of the situation, but you know that when it comes to international trade...especially transactions with Western countries, a small person like me certainly doesn't have much power to make decisions."
"So I have to report this situation to the capital first, and then contact you when the results are available. What do you think?"
Yin Les had dealt with Mao Xiong several times in the past, and knew that the rules of Mao Xiong and Huaxia were similar at this time, so he nodded gracefully:
"OK, Mr. Liu, we will stay in Mao Xiong for about a week. We hope to receive your reply as soon as possible."
"No problem, I will reply to you within three days, so let's go here first today?"
"Farewell."
"Farewell."
...........
After separation.
Liu Yunquan took Yang Wen and two translators back to the external relations station faster than when they arrived, and quickly reported the situation to the capital.
Two hours later.
221 base.
After reading the emergency telegram from the capital, base director Li Jue raised his head and looked at Xu Yun in front of him:
"Comrade Han Li, what do you think?"
Opposite Li Jue, Xu Yun, who had just followed Lao Guo to the office, shook his head:
"Bullshit!"
Li Jue raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised:
"What nonsense? What nonsense?"
Xu Yun tapped the lower half of the telegram with his finger and made a circle in the air:
"Since Daimler wanted to use rubber membranes, it was all nonsense. Those German devils are very evil-minded and want to use information gaps to find out!"
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I'll stay with you all night today, and I'll start updating more tomorrow