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Chapter 151 A gamble of 100 million tons of stainless steel! (Subscription required)
"Mr. Chen, does your company have a specific model of this type of robotic arm? What is the estimated market price?"

"If possible, our group plans to order a batch for trial use." The young secretary asked straight to the point, with a look of 'want' written all over his face.

Chen Jue saw that the group of vice presidents and directors of Qingshan Holdings did not say anything, but instead pushed forward the young female secretary, so he asked curiously: "Mr. Xiang, who is this...?"

Xiang Qingshan laughed and introduced: "This is my daughter Xiang Qingqing. She just came back from studying in Germany and is now working as my assistant. Young people are arrogant and proud. I hope you don't mind, Mr. Chen!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Jue immediately showed an expression of 'I understand'.

Many bosses in Vancouver have always preferred to operate their businesses in the family business model.

Not only do they train and support their own children to take over the business, but they also place relatives of the same surname into their own businesses to build a solid team foundation.

As the saying goes, one should promote virtuous people regardless of their relationship with them.

In addition, the clan culture in Vancouver is very developed. As long as there is one family in the same village that becomes rich first, they will adopt this model to run a business and bring their clan members into the same industry to develop.

However, many well-known domestic Internet insiders have criticized "family businesses" in the past, believing that they are feudal, backward and ignorant business management concepts.

But in fact, almost all of the top 500 leading companies in the world adopt family management.

Like the world's famous supermarket leader, the Walmart family, which has always topped the list of the world's top 500 companies.

ExxonMobil, founded by the Rockefeller family, ranked 6th, Toyota Motor, founded by the Toyota family, ranked 9th, and so on.

Including those old wealthy families in Hong Kong, their children are always responsible for taking over.

Because once wealth accumulates to a certain level, the training of family members will be elite education at all costs.

If such talents are invested in the company and they are blood relatives that the company can trust, they can be used no worse than those professional managers recruited from outside who have ulterior motives!

When Chen Jue was lying dead in Chen Village after going bankrupt, several relatives from the same clan wanted to help him screw in screws and operate a sewing machine.

If he hadn't encountered the MC system, he would probably have become a diligent employee in a small Chen family business.

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After learning the identity of this beautiful girl, Chen Jue began to talk nonsense: "The robotic arm you see in the video is actually the latest development of our Cube Technology, code-named 'GAT-X105 Rubik's Cube Arm'. It is designed to have a maximum lifting weight of 10 tons, and can switch different types of hand modules to perform operations according to different work scene requirements."

"Cube arm?"

“This product is aptly named!”

"Look at the matching equipment of these arms on this ship, water jets, winches, claws, buckets, aren't they as flexible and changeable as the switching of a Rubik's Cube!"

"If the 10-ton lifting capacity can really be used 100% according to the parameters, then our downstream industrial ports, including the metallurgical department, can also make use of it!"

As soon as Chen Jue finished introducing the model, the executives of Qingshan Holdings present started discussing it.

Xiang Qingqing muttered, "GAT-X105? Why does this model sound so familiar?"

Seeing that the girl was about the same age as him and was a rare girl who liked industrial machinery, Chen Jue immediately realized that his 10D attributes were about to be exposed, so he quickly interrupted her and changed the subject: "Ahem... In fact, tons is just the upper limit parameter. The specific snatch tonnage needs to be transplanted from the ship to the workshop for further testing. Due to the influence of the installation environment, it is likely to reduce the load by about half."

"Half load? That's 5 tons!"

"If it can be as flexible and intelligent as in the video, then this robotic arm technology will be among the best in the world." Xiang Qingqing rubbed her hands, stared at Chen Jue with sharp eyes and continued to ask about the price.

You know, Chen Jue originally wanted to come to Tsingshan Holding Group to discuss a long-term stainless steel supply cooperation.

Seeing that this young lady was so interested in the MC modified robotic arm, Chen Jue spoke frankly: "The specific price per unit has not been finalized by the sales department yet, but I can tell you clearly that the cost of this Rubik's Cube Arm will not be less than 2000 million per unit."

"In order to prevent the technology from being leaked, our company will send special personnel to the purchasing party to conduct 24-hour supervision and maintenance of the equipment."

Such a high price, coupled with such stringent technical confidentiality conditions.

If an ordinary small business owner heard this, he would definitely sigh in despair.

After all, the custom-made prices of mainstream medium and large industrial arms on the market are only in the range of 20 to 30 yuan, and there are discounts if you buy more.

The price of buying one Rubik's Cube arm is equivalent to buying 100 of them.

The gap here is like comparing an ordinary family-type B-class sedan with a limited edition top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce!
"2000 million is not expensive, you can try to order a few."

"If it doesn't work well, you can return it, right?" Xiang Qingqing winked at Chen Jue.

Chen Jue nodded: "If there are any quality or technical defects, you can return it within 90 days without any reason!"

As for the clause mentioned by Chen Jue about assigning special personnel to look after the equipment and prevent technology leakage, this is nothing new in the field of mechanical processing.

In the past, the castrated five-axis CNC machining centers with physical keys that the Germans sold to domestic machine tool manufacturers were usually equipped with a foreigner to look after them. The purpose was to prevent smart Chinese people from brute-forcing the programs in the CNC centers.

After all, when it comes to the so-called "processing precision" that is praised to the sky, Germany, China and Japan are almost at the same level, and the Chinese even do better in some areas of heavy equipment.

The only gaps are in material application and software drivers to control the operation of the machinery.

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With Chen Jue's demonstration and introduction of actual cases of resisting Taiwan, the senior executives of Qingshan Holdings became more and more interested in this "Rubik's Cube Arm".

In particular, there is a super large enterprise with an annual revenue of 3000 billion yuan, which has invested in dozens of downstream processing plants.

If all of them were replaced with this Rubik's Cube arm that can grab a maximum of 5 tons at a time, wouldn't the production and processing efficiency soar?

Although this Rubik's Cube Arm is still just an internal testing product, Cube Technology has the courage to pull it out to resist the typhoon and close the dam under many live broadcasts.

There is definitely no problem with the product quality.

Of course, the most important thing is that this kind of large-tonnage robotic arm is only available in one company in the world. Even if those foreign companies have this kind of technical reserves, the Chinese will not sell it to you no matter how much money you pay.

The price of 2000 million per unit is extremely cheap for Tsingshan Holdings!

So after visiting this advanced stainless steel and nickel alloy production workshop, Chen Jue and Xiang Qingshan finalized an order contract for 20 Rubik's Cube arms worth 100 billion yuan.

"Brother Xiang is indeed the world's nickel king! He is truly generous! If that's the case, then we at Cube Technology would also like to express our appreciation."

With this 20 billion order contract, Chen Jue was completely relaxed and became a close friend with the big boss Xiang Qingshan.

After so much preparation and effort, Cube Technology finally has a flagship product that can be shown off. Chen Jue is naturally happy.

As for the subsequent issue of preventing MC technology leaks, Chen Jue was not worried at all because he had already designed two anti-leakage preparations.

As long as the Rubik's Cube Arm can be sold, we can then recruit a group of specialists to be responsible for 24-hour supervision and use of the equipment.

The most important thing is that the Rubik's Cube arm that Chen Jue plans to sell on the market is not the original arm that is 100% made of MC materials, but a castrated version with sharpened performance of key components.

For example, for the servo motor, which is the core of the robotic arm, he plans to purchase a batch of high-strength stainless steel or other copper alloy materials from leading raw material suppliers such as Tsingshan Holdings to replace the parts processed by MC [iron block] [copper block].

After this operation, Chen Jue still has to go back and test it one by one to see how much performance the castrated version of the Rubik's Cube arm can achieve compared to the original version.

Anyway, the parameters currently released to the public are barely 5 to 10 tons, and the bug-level snatching ability of the original Rubik's Cube arm has not been revealed, which gives Chen Jue considerable room for maneuver.

"Oh? Just to show your appreciation? I wonder what kind of stainless steel Brother Chen is planning to order from me?"

Xiang Qingshan also became interested and asked a vice president in charge of sales to bring a product list.

As the world's largest stainless steel supplier, Tsingshan Holdings has a very broad product line.

The low-end ones can be used to supply civil construction materials, while the high-end ones are used in automobiles, shipbuilding, and aerospace. They have all the stainless steel specifications that can be found on the market.

This is also the reason why Chen Jue took the initiative to come and seek cooperation.

Since MC materials are not convenient to sell in the market, he can only get high-performance alternatives from these leading material suppliers for the time being.

However, as he was flipping through the pages, Chen Jue showed a lack of interest on his face: "Why are they all ordinary stainless steel? Austenitic 316L, 904L, 654SMO, these stainless steels can be used to make ship parts, but they are still a little short of the strength to be used on the Rubik's Cube Arm."

Xiang Qingqing, who was sitting next to him, immediately became a little uneasy when she heard this.

As the eldest daughter of Qingshan Holdings, she knows her own products very well and has great confidence in the product strength.

Take the austenitic 654SMO stainless steel on the roster as an example, its hardness reaches ≥290HB, yield strength ≥430MPa, and tensile strength ≥750MPa.

Compared with the similar 654SMO on the market, its performance is about 20% higher, making it the world's number one in the civilian and commercial fields!
However, even such excellent parameters were not enough to satisfy the local boss who believed in it.

This made Xiang Qingqing's face a little more serious: "I wonder what specific performance parameters you need, Mr. Chen? From your tone, it seems that you have used similar samples. How about taking them out and comparing them? This way, it will be convenient for us to come up with a product plan for you."

"Okay!"

When Chen Jue heard that this girl actually wanted to show off her skills with him, he immediately became interested.

He turned around and gave a look to Tie Laoliu, who was standing like an iron tower, asking him to take out a fist-sized iron-gray block from his briefcase and hand it to him.

Chen Jue took the small iron block, placed it on the table, tapped it with his hand and said, "If your company can produce a product with half the performance of 'it', I will immediately place an order for 100 million tons! Not even a penny will be waived!"

As soon as these words were spoken, all the senior executives of Tsingshan Holdings present became excited and ready to go.

What does 100 million tons of stainless steel mean?
You should know that even the most common 304 stainless steel has been driven up to nearly 1.4 yuan per ton in the futures market!

If this order is really signed, the output value will reach at least 140 billion.

What's more, judging from Chen Jue's attitude, his purpose was to purchase high-performance stainless steel products, so the price would definitely be higher.

So the vice president in charge of sales saw this and immediately gave his young lady a thumbs-up in private, thinking, "What a good way to provoke her! This young CEO Chen is still young and naive. He is far inferior to the young lady. He showed all his cards with just a little provocation."

Even Xiang Qingshan, the host, showed a satisfied smile at his daughter's provocation.

He felt that sending Xiang Qingqing to study abroad had really helped her learn a lot of business skills, and it would be safe to hand over the family business to her in the future.

Don’t be fooled by the politeness of the two parties discussing the order of Rubik’s Cube Arm at the beginning. That’s because only Cube Technology can provide such large-tonnage domestic robotic arms.

This is a monopoly technology. You can’t buy it from foreigners even if you spend money. You have to be polite.

But raw materials like stainless steel are different!
Qingshan Holdings is not the only one doing this in the world. Once Chen Jue leaves this place, he can find many suppliers of alternative products.

But now that he has made this promise, it has been confirmed that as long as the product performance meets the standards, this huge order worth over 10 billion yuan will be retained by Qingshan Holdings.

Chen Jue is now a well-known internet celebrity entrepreneur in Vancouver. What he says is always true and he will never do anything that will embarrass himself.

As long as the orders don’t run away, there will be soup to drink even if the orders are rotten in the pot of Qingshan Holdings!
As for whether the product performance could meet Chen Jue's requirements, none of the vice presidents in charge of sales took it to heart.

After all, as the world's number one stainless steel company, in addition to the ordinary commercial stainless steel on the roster, Tsingshan Holdings also has a large number of laboratory stainless steel formulas that are being developed.

No matter how strong the material that Chen Jue took out is, can it compare to those experimental samples in the laboratory with super abnormal parameters and performance?

When the test results come out, this picky Mr. Chen will definitely lose!
However, just when the senior executives of Qingshan Holdings thought they had won, an older technical consultant sitting in the corner, wearing reading glasses, stared at the block that Chen Jue kept hitting with an incredible look, muttering, "No... Impossible! It's obviously a piece of metal, how... How come there is no sound when it is hit?"

Something happened last night and delayed the update. I only coded half of the second update and didn’t send it out.

I stayed up all night and I feel a little exhausted today. I need to have a good rest for two days.

I will first post a two-in-one chapter and wish you all a happy National Day!
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