"Kawasaki Heavy Industries is out! There are only three suppliers left!"
"There is a major problem with the Shinkansen technology? There is another hidden secret!"
"Siemens and Alstom negotiations have entered a new stage, and their attitudes have softened!"
"Why not choose Kawasaki Heavy Industries? There is only prejudice and no regard for reality!"
"It is suspected that the price will be raised again, and the introduction of high-speed rail is at a deadlock."
The results of the negotiations with Kawasaki Heavy Industries were quickly reported by the media. It was obvious that the Japanese media was fueling the flames. Public intellectuals swarmed in like flies smelling blood, exploiting the topic and attacking them mercilessly. The decision of the Ministry of Railways.
Once such a trend was taken up, many netizens who did not know the truth began to follow suit and ridicule.
"You're laughing so hard. Didn't you dance for fun before? You said you don't want Japanese things, but now? They won't play with you anymore. I'll see how you build your high-speed rail!"
"As expected of a big country, it doesn't even look down on the technology of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The technology is so great. Should we develop our own high-speed rail within five years, right?"
"Five years? Who are you looking down on? Three years!"
"The man upstairs wants to save face, why not Kawasaki Heavy Industries? Don't you have any idea? History can't speak, so you have no memory, right?"
"Haha, it's not me who died. What memory do I have?"
"Indeed, if we hold on to historical things every day, what's the point? It's just a populist self-orgasm."
"One thing is that after losing Kawasaki Heavy Industries this time, our situation is indeed more difficult."
"With reduced competition, the other two suppliers will definitely raise their prices. Bombardier has no strength. It is really irrational."
"If you are irrational, then you are irrational. In a big country, only green cars have a sense of humanistic care."
In a dormitory at Western Polytechnic University, Li Xiang scratched his head in confusion as he watched the public opinion on the Internet gradually go awry.
Unlike other netizens, he received more comprehensive information, and he also knew that the technical department of the Ministry of Railways had solved the core problems of the high-speed rail system, so it was a routine operation to kick out Kawasaki Heavy Industries, which had the highest risk.
But what he couldn't figure out was why the officials didn't announce the news about the technological breakthrough?
According to his understanding, as long as this matter is made public, the public opinion on the Internet will immediately reverse, and there is no need for anyone to guide and operate it.
Moreover, shouldn’t showing your trump card be the most effective means in negotiations?
If Siemens and Alstom know that we have mastered the core technology, they will have more concerns during negotiations and it should be easier to lower prices.
Maybe the time has not come yet.
Li Xiang shook his head and began to search for target information on the Internet one by one, and then started working step by step.
Having been doing this work for a long time, he has also summed up some experience.
For example, most of the posts are actually pretty routine.
This kind of convention means that the person who posts does not have any judgment of his own. He simply vents his dissatisfaction with real life on the Internet. The content is mainly about emotional catharsis. Even in different posts, there will be obvious differences before and after. contradiction.
For such people, as long as they post their prepared arguments and use facts and logic as weapons, they will delete the post and run away in despair.
Of course, this does not mean that they are convinced. In the next incident, they will jump out and cause trouble.
It is impossible to make them remember these things because their own quality and level do not support their ability to remember these things.
In addition to these regular posts, some are obviously malicious, and this maliciousness is often related to interests, or to receive money, or to defend what is under their butts.
To deal with such people, just use administrative rights to delete posts and ban them.
The only difficulty is that it is not particularly easy to identify these people.
Apart from these two, the remaining one is the least abundant, but also the most difficult to handle.
Li wants to call this last type of people "reflectors" because they really reflect.
They generally have some education and fixed information channels, but this level of education is extremely limited, which leads them to form fixed thoughts and logic.
In their logic, China also has good things to do, mainly in history, culture, art, and literature, but other than that, it is useless.
The most typical characteristic of this kind of person is that he admires the Republic of China.
What great masters emerge in large numbers, shining like stars, what freedom of thought and people’s self-confidence, what cultural intersection, what the Pearl of Shanghai
But if you ask them to name a few masters, they will probably only be able to name Ji Xianlin, Hu Shi, Guo Moruo and the like.
Li Xiang once thought they were ridiculous.
Of course, I don’t think that literature and art themselves are ridiculous, but that this behavior of elevating literature and art to too high a position, and even pushing down industry and technology, is ridiculous.
Was the Republic of China really that strong? Are there really that many talents?
Hammer.
Even if the scientists in Manhattan in the United States die, within a few months, they will be able to recruit another group of people to continue scientific research.
Not to mention thousands of people, tens of thousands of people are just playing around.
What about your Republic of China?
Not to mention making atomic bombs, there are not many people who can make ordinary explosives.
It’s really a shame that these people are so embarrassed.
Li Xiang shook his head while posting. His own work has no KPI, but he does it very seriously.
Because he knows that this is his specialty.
In the field of scientific research, you may not be able to achieve much, but public opinion is also an important battlefield.
If you don't occupy the high ground, the enemy will.
He worked until about five o'clock in the afternoon before he was ready to close the computer and go out to eat.
But just a second before the webpage closed, a message suddenly popped up in his sight.
"Shocked! Kawasaki Heavy Industries is giving away technology for free! All 140 high-speed trains are free, and only follow-up maintenance fees are charged!"
Li Xiang's head jumped suddenly, and he subconsciously thought that this was a rhythmic fake news.
However, soon after entering the keyword search, he was completely stunned.
"Alstom has made a huge price cut, lowering the total cost of a single high-speed rail to 110 million euros, including technology transfer fees!"
"Bombardier applies for technical cooperation and only charges maintenance fees, and promises 1+3 free of charge!"
"Are the islanders crazy? They are brazenly starting vicious competition in order to win the Chinese market!"
"After the negotiations, if Siemens does not lower the price in subsequent bids, it will be declared out!"
One piece of news after another made his scalp numb.
He finally understood why the Ministry of Railways did not disclose the news of technological breakthroughs before.
They just want to release the news at the most critical moment, and then forcefully turn a standard bid into an auction!
This idea is really not a method that ordinary people can come up with.
Even Kawasaki Heavy Industries was completely utilized.
The Ministry of Railways first suppressed them severely. When they hit rock bottom and had almost no other options, they forced them to make the boldest and most reckless gamble.
Later, they used this huge gamble to promote Siemens and Alstom in reverse, giving them an almost irresistible option.
Or, join Kawasaki Heavy Industries' big gamble and use your technology in exchange for the market.
Or just quit.
Anyway, with Kawasaki Heavy Industries as the foundation, domestic high-speed rail construction is basically sufficient.
——
But to achieve this, the news of the technological breakthrough should have been announced?
Thinking of this, Li Xiang quickly opened a new web page.
Sure enough, all the media have begun to cover the news about breakthroughs in high-speed rail technology.
He couldn't understand most of the professional terms above, but even judging from common sense, he knew that this technological breakthrough was definitely more than what his superiors told him.
It is very likely that we have already mastered a set of technologies that are sufficient to support self-developed high-speed rail, and all we need are experienced engineers.
No wonder Kawasaki is back.
Their status has changed.
In the field of high-speed rail, the hegemony of technology has been broken, and no one can use technology to choke our necks anymore.
This wave is mainly about counter-attacking, attacking and defending.
Li Xiang closed the computer with satisfaction.
A thought suddenly came to his mind:
It would be great if every task was so simple, so simple that you didn’t need to do anything by yourself.
On the other side, there is an internal meeting of core members of the Spark Working Group.
Chen Nian attended the monthly meeting as usual. At the meeting, everyone summarized recent progress and reorganized the financial situation.
"The negotiations on the high-speed rail project have basically come to an end, and the situation is better than we imagined."
"In the initial estimate, our purpose was to save the difference between the target price and the negotiated price, but in the end, due to the breakthrough of their own technology, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Alstom have completely relaxed their caliber."
"Most likely, they will reach an agreement with us to trade the market for orders."
"This time, the total cost we saved is about 100 billion yuan."
“Without a doubt, it was a huge success!”
After the words fell, there was a burst of applause in the conference room.
Everyone's eyes were looking in the same direction, and sitting there was a young man whose face still exuded a little childishness.
If a stranger were to sit in front of him, it would be easy to mistake him for an ordinary college student.
But this college student has already left his name in many aspects of this country.
After a while, the applause gradually stopped.
Chen Guo, who was standing on the podium, turned to Chen Nian and asked:
"Chen Nian, do you want to say a few words?"
Chen Nian waved his hands as usual. He still didn't like to speak in public.
Therefore, Chen Guo did not force it, but continued:
"Then let's continue the original topic."
"After clarifying the cost savings of 100 billion yuan, we have communicated with our superiors, and the results of the communication are also satisfactory."
"This 100 billion budget will be directly allocated to the Spark Working Group for the operation of all projects under the working group."
"We still need further discussion on the specific allocation plan, but based on the current basic financial status of each project, we have also made a preliminary draft of opinions."
"First of all, the bulk of 50 billion will be allocated to the Deep Blue 16 project within three years for various key technology experiments and key equipment manufacturing."
"This 50 billion includes the budget allocated to the J-20 project, which will be arranged by the Deep Blue 16 project team."
"In addition, the J-22 project will share a budget of 20 billion for the next step of technical improvement and finished product manufacturing."
"The remaining budget will be divided according to project weights to the J-10 and J-8 III projects, as well as other derivative small projects including PL-15, radar, electronic jamming equipment, etc."
Chen Guo reported the project budget one by one, and everyone in the audience took out pens and paper to record it.
Logically speaking, this kind of "cake-sharing" meeting is the most difficult to hold.
Because if one department is allocated too much, another department will have opinions.
The problem of inequality rather than scarcity is equally serious in the field of scientific research.
However, the Spark Working Group does not have this problem.
Because Chen Nian used a clever and ingenious way to nip this problem in the cradle.
Split the cake?
I'll just make a cake for everyone!
Eat, if you can’t eat enough, I’m not big enough.
Even the A-300 rocket launcher project has been allocated a full budget of 2 billion. For the Army, this is simply the first time in history.
You know, these people are usually reluctant to even buy new Jiefang shoes.
Therefore, no one raised any objections. They had already thought about how they would spend the budget unscrupulously after they got it.
Soon, Chen Guo finished everything and the meeting came to an end.
Everyone dispersed, leaving only Chen Guo and Chen Nian, who walked back to their separate offices together.
"This battle was really beautiful!"
As soon as she walked into the room and before she could sit down, Chen Guo said impatiently.
"I guess both Siemens and Alstom were fooled. You didn't go to the scene. Do you know how Zhang Shuguang described it to me?"
"At that time, the four-party negotiations had just begun, and before everyone had time to speak, the representative of Kawasaki Heavy Industries rushed to the podium, grabbed the microphone and said directly, 'We are free.'"
"No one responded at all. Zhang Shuguang originally prepared a technical verification document and planned to send it to them."
"It turned out to be useless at all."
"I don't know what the people at Kawasaki Heavy Industries think. They seem to be just trying to muddy the waters."
Hearing his words, Chen Nian smiled and replied:
"This is not simple. They want to drag Alstom into trouble."
"For this kind of project, if they quote an ultra-low price, it will easily be dismissed as an abnormal bid in the bidding, so he must bring Alstom and Siemens to the same level as him."
"Didn't they also succeed? At least Alston was deceived by him."
Chen Guo nodded in agreement and said:
"It seems that Xiaoli still has some foresight. This trick of breaking off an arm to survive is really cruel."
"It won't work if you don't do it cruelly. If you don't do it more cruelly, their business representative will probably commit suicide after returning home."
"Are they still popular with this?"
Chen Guo asked curiously.
"Who knows? Life has always been strange in my childhood."
Chen Nian replied noncommittally.
The two chatted for a while, and Chen Guo suddenly thought of something. He took out a document from the drawer on the side and said:
"You basically don't need to worry about the follow-up matters of the high-speed rail. The project team will have dedicated personnel to handle it."
"AGT110 is also progressing smoothly. UKR has begun preparing a poison pill plan. It is estimated that Motorsic will be completely taken down in a few months."
"Would you like to think about whether we should focus on promoting the J-20 project in the recent period?"
"Yang Wei encountered something over there and may need your help to deal with it."
"If you have time, you can fly to Chengdu."
(End of chapter)
