98: As the news spread, orders flooded in!

“Director, this news, it can't be fake, can it?”

The executive looked at the large characters on the weekly magazine and immediately frowned, raising his doubts.

The more he looked, the more he felt that the news on the cover of the weekly was unreliable, and he didn't know why the director would trust such sensational news.

A Numerical Control Machine Tool with 0.001 mm precision.

Isn't this obviously fake?

The executive wanted to continue speaking, but he was interrupted by Lu Weimin.

“Whether this thing is fake or not, do you think I wouldn't know?

Stop talking nonsense. I don't care what method you use; I want the contact information for this factory by six o'clock this afternoon.

If you can't do it, you won't get your bonus this month!”

Hearing this,

The executive immediately knew better than to speak, took the newspaper, and turned to leave the office.

Anyway, he was just an employee of the company, not a shareholder.

As for what the people above wanted to do, that was their business and had nothing to do with him. He just needed to obey the instructions.

He also somewhat understood the director's behavior.

After all, the factory recently wanted to upgrade its cars, but it lacked the technical capability to process high-precision car parts.

“What's written on this that has the director so engrossed?”

The executive returned to his office, then picked up the weekly and read it carefully.

When he saw the second picture on it, he was stunned.

At this moment,

He finally understood why the director believed this news so much.

He also had some impression of the person in the second picture.

A few years ago,

He was just a small clerk in the factory.

At that time,

He witnessed a scene that made his jaw drop: the director personally poured tea for an old man, continuously smiling apologetically!

And wasn't that visitor the old man in this picture?

Although a few years had passed, he could still vaguely recognize the old man in the picture as the influential person from back then!

“So… this news is real then?”

The executive was greatly shaken.

As an executive of a car factory, he naturally had some understanding of Numerical Control Machine Tools.

To manufacture Numerical Control Machine Tools,

The difficulty involved could be described with an ancient poem —

“Oh, alas! The difficulty of the Shu Road is harder than ascending to the blue sky!”

And this company in the news,

Not only did they produce Numerical Control Machine Tools, but their precision directly surpassed that of the German Country, which was hailed as the world's number one machine tool!

“So that's it. No wonder the director was so anxious to get the contact information for this company. It seems my perspective was too narrow.”

“To be able to create something like this, this company is truly amazing!”

The executive mumbled a few words and immediately began to act, searching for the contact information of Guo Li Steel Factory.

National Daily, at Li Mubai's request, did not print the Steel Factory's contact information directly in the weekly. Instead, people would call the newspaper office to inquire, and the newspaper office would then provide the contact number to the inquirer.

The purpose of doing this was to reduce harassment calls.

In this world, there are always some people who are very bored and like to cause trouble everywhere.

Doing this could greatly reduce such people making harassment calls.

What's more,

The person currently answering the phone at the Steel Factory was Ruan Xiu!

The executive picked up the company-issued desk phone and quickly dialed National Daily's contact number.

......

National Daily Headquarters.

Inside the office building.

The ringing of telephones echoed non-stop throughout the building.

“Hello, this is National Daily. How may I help you?”

“Hello. I am the person in charge of Huanan Heavy Industry. I would like to ask if you have the contact information for the company mentioned in the weekly?”

“Yes, sir. I will read it to you now. Please find a pen and paper to write it down.”

“......”

The operators in the office area were busy non-stop.

As soon as one call hung up, another one would immediately come in.

And all of these callers were either the person in charge or the chairman of some company.

The news in the weekly

Caused a huge stir across the country.

Many companies, upon seeing Hu Guoyong, Academician, immediately understood the authenticity of the news and called National Daily to inquire about the contact information for Guo Li Steel Factory.

Most of them were heavy industry companies,

Either car manufacturing plants, or shipyard manufacturing plants, or other large enterprises.

Their purpose in calling was only one: to find the contact information for Guo Li Steel Factory and then ask if they intended to sell Numerical Control Machine Tools externally.

....

At the same time,

Guo Li Steel Factory.

In Ruan Xiu's office.

She had just hung up the company-issued desk phone, and as soon as she put the device down, it rang again.

“I didn't expect the news report to have spread to this extent in just two days. The speed of dissemination is a bit beyond my expectation!”

Li Mubai leaned back in a nearby chair, a faint smile playing on his lips, looking extremely relaxed.

Ruan Xiu gave him a sidelong glance and answered the phone.

“Hello, good day.”

“Hello, may I ask if the Numerical Control Machine Tool mentioned in the National Daily weekly is produced by your company?”

“Yes, it is. How may I help you?”

“I am the chairman of Huabei Heavy Machinery Group. I would like to ask if your company's Numerical Control Machine Tools will be sold externally? If they are, our company can purchase your machines at a price of twenty million per unit.”

Hearing this,

Ruan Xiu glanced at Li Mubai, but he gently shook his head.

“I'm sorry, our company's machines do not currently have plans for external sale. Processing parts, however, is possible.”

“Is that so? Could you provide an address so I can come and discuss related matters?”

After telling the other party the address, the call was disconnected.

Ruan Xiu looked at Li Mubai:

“Are we really not selling our machines?

Many companies have already asked this question today.

And,

The prices offered by these companies are getting higher and higher. Are you sure you won't consider it?”

Li Mubai shook his head: “No consideration.”

Saying that,

He got up to stretch his muscles and bones. He had been sitting in the chair all morning, hardly moving, and his whole body felt a bit uncomfortable.

“But they are offering a lot of money, really a lot!”

Ruan Xiu felt a little tempted by the prices offered by those entrepreneurs.

When those entrepreneurs spoke of tens of millions, it was as easy as if they were talking about a few tens of yuan.

These were numbers she had never seen before.

Tens of millions!

The boss actually refused their request just like that.

Li Mubai chuckled at her words:

“Directly selling machine tools, while it can temporarily earn a large sum of money, once these companies all have machine tools, they will no longer need us.

The quality of our machine tools is very good.

Within five years, it's almost impossible for any damage to occur.

We only need to do parts processing.

Although the money doesn't come as quickly as directly selling machine tools, the value lies in the steady flow.”

He still had more to say.

If he sold the machine tools now, that money might not even be enough to exchange for fourth-generation fighter jets.

His goal was to directly exchange for sixth-generation fighter jets!

The exchange points needed for that would start at several tens of billions. Could he earn that much money just by selling machine tools?

Of course not.

The technology of machine tools is not closed.

Once someone buys a machine tool, they can create their own machine tool based on the one they purchased.

In this way,

Wouldn't he suffer a huge loss?

He had never doubted the learning ability of the Chinese people.

One must know,

In his previous life, China also had nothing, but as time went on, all those things they didn't have gradually came into being.

Wasn't it precisely because of the strong learning and imitation ability of the Chinese people?

In his previous life, China,

Except for the lithography machine, which was not sold to them and thus not imitated, basically everything else was imitated!

Hearing this,

Ruan Xiu nodded, half understanding.

Before she could think more,

The phone rang again.

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