The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 194: The fastest speed in history, finalizing the first batch of transactions

Although the Chinese New Year is approaching, the factory director Zheng Haiming obviously has something urgent to discuss with Jiang Hui.

In this situation, Jiang Hui would not waste even a second and quickly walked to Zheng Haiming's office.

Even when he pushed the door open and entered the office, he pretended to be a little out of breath, to indicate that he had run over as soon as he received the call.

When working in a state-owned enterprise, even if you are very capable, your attitude towards your leaders cannot be ignored.

"Zheng Chang, you're looking for me?"

The moment Jiang Hui saw Zheng Haiming, he began to observe his expression.

He must be in such a hurry to find me, there must be something extremely important.

As for whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, some information can be seen from Zheng Haiming's expression.

"America responded and agreed to cooperate with us."

"The first batch of cooperation projects will be 1000 BJ212s, and the subsequent projects will be discussed slowly."

Zheng Haiming did not hide his joy at all.

An incredible thing was accomplished in such a short period of time. This is definitely a remarkable political achievement.

Although there are certainly still many details that need to be discussed regarding the export and foreign exchange earnings of BJ212, and even the sales price of each vehicle has not yet been determined, the general direction has been agreed upon, which is already very remarkable.

"Are Americans that fast?"

Jiang Hui had long anticipated that America would agree to his proposal. After all, it was a win-win situation.

And it is not only a win-win situation for China, but also a win-win situation for America.

Through this project, they struck a blow against the polar bears, won over China, and even determined some of China's attitudes.

No wonder Woodcock received a response so quickly after reporting to the country.

Normally, such a major aid project has many procedures to go through, and it is impossible to make a decision so quickly.

But they finalized the general direction of the first batch of transactions at the fastest speed in history. It seems that Jiang Hui's proposal completely hit the spot.

"Yes, Woodcock called me personally, and they have officially contacted our relevant departments."

"I just reported to the First Ministry of Machine Building. I guess we will be busy discussing and finalizing the specific details with the Americans during this Spring Festival."

Zheng Haiming quickly introduced the current situation.

For the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, this first deal was done. The task of exporting 1000 BJ212s to earn foreign exchange would allow him to easily defeat other factory directors in the First Ministry of Machine Building.

Even if the export-earning projects have nothing to do with Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant in the future, it will not have much impact on Zheng Haiming.

"It's really great. It means a lot to the development of our factory."

At this moment, Jiang Hui also became excited.

Although I had anticipated that America would be very interested in this matter, it was just my speculation after all.

Now that it has become a reality, it feels very different.

"The First Ministry of Machine Building and related departments should soon form a special team to communicate with the American delegation."

"In addition to the BJ212, there will definitely be a great demand for some subsequent gun and ammunition-related supplies in Afghanistan."

"There is huge room for cooperation between the two sides in this regard."

"I will also recommend you to join the negotiation team when the time comes."

As the first factory to cooperate and also the director of the initiating factory of this project, Zheng Haiming will definitely be in the initial negotiation team.

But Jiang Hui's level is still relatively low, so it is hard to say whether he has a chance.

Now that Zheng Haiming has made this statement, the situation has naturally become different.

"Thank you, Director Zheng. I will definitely not bring shame to the factory."

Although Jiang Hui didn't particularly care about whether he could join the negotiation team, since Zheng Haiming said that, he had to accept the favor and express his gratitude.

"We will go to the First Ministry of Machine Building later to see what specific arrangements Leader Zhou has made."

"It would be best if we could implement this matter as soon as possible."

Zheng Haiming couldn't wait to finalize this matter.

As long as the US dollars from the United States are not transferred to the designated account, this matter will never be implemented.

"Zheng Factory, what price are we going to sell BJ212 for?"

Jiang Hui knew that some factories were selling their products at a loss in order to earn foreign exchange.

The selling prices of products from factories in China are not high to begin with, and if they are sold at a loss, then the price would be too low.

Although from the perspective of this era, even if it is a loss, it is still valuable because it can earn foreign exchange and the RMB can be printed by itself.

However, Jiang Hui felt that there was no need to do this kind of business at a loss, and the Americans would not remember your kindness.

This matter is beneficial to both parties. Just do business according to normal rules.

It’s just this simple truth, but I guess many people still can’t understand it.

"I haven't really thought about this. As long as it's not too low, it's acceptable."

Zheng Haiming's reaction was not unexpected to Jiang Hui. Everyone gave priority to foreign exchange, and the price could be negotiated.

"Zhengzhou Factory, the lowest price allocated for the new BJ212 is now yuan, and the highest price of the unplanned models is even or yuan."

"I think that this time, the cooperation with America can refer to the unplanned highest sales price and convert it into US dollars according to the official exchange rate for sales."

"Although the price of about $50,000 per vehicle is a bit high, as the first business order, I think Americans may still accept it."

After Jiang Hui said this, Zheng Haiming was stunned.

A price of $50,000?

He originally thought that as long as the price was over $5000, it would be acceptable.

I didn’t expect Jiang Hui to be so cruel!

"At this price, you can buy a car with better performance than the BJ212 even in America, right?"

Zheng Haiming has some understanding of the situation in the international automobile market.

Especially in the past year or so, the First Ministry of Machine Building has been organizing various negotiations for the "Three Automobiles" and has brought back a lot of information from abroad for translation.

Some of this information was also distributed to relevant factories, and Zheng Haiming also read some of it.

"That's true, but the various costs of purchasing a car from the United States and transporting it to Afghanistan are very exaggerated. The most important thing is that the cycle is also very long. There is no way to achieve the goal of quickly striking polar bears."

"We will transport the BJ212 to the border of Afghanistan at a price of US$ per vehicle. This alone is very attractive to the United States."

"Besides, this is just a drop in the ocean for us to start a new journey and lay a foundation for cooperation between the two sides."

"If other factories cooperate with America in the future, they will have a reference object, so they won't set the price too low, which will damage the interests of China, and America will not appreciate it."

Zheng Haiming felt that Jiang Hui’s explanation made sense.

There's no harm in giving it a try anyway.

When it comes to some new things, Jiang Hui's vision is obviously better than mine.

This matter was originally proposed by Jiang Hui. In that case, let's just proceed according to his method.

"Okay, let's proceed with the price you mentioned. I'll go and explain it to Leader Zhou in person when the time comes."

After thinking it through, Zheng Haiming was no longer so worried.

Soon, he went to the Ministry of First Machine Building with Jiang Hui.

When communicating with Zhou Jian and Qin Hao, I definitely convinced them in the end.

After all, this plan sounds reasonable and is very beneficial to China.

If I don't agree to this, I won't be able to explain myself if I'm held accountable in the future.

In the next few days, the Ministry of First Machine Building and several other ministries took the lead in formally communicating this matter with the American delegation.

In addition to Ambassador Woodcock, a group of people were also sent from the United States to discuss the matter.

Since Jiang Hui had already analyzed various situations thoroughly in advance, everyone in the negotiation team had a deeper understanding of America's ideas.

The results of this kind of negotiation, where both parties know each other well, will naturally not be bad.

In the end, it only took three days for the first batch of transactions to be officially finalized.

The price was the US$212 proposed by Jiang Hui, but the other party required some modifications to the BJ and directly gave it a machine gun installed on the vehicle.

Naturally, China has no problem with this.

China may not be able to produce other high-tech weapons.

But for general-purpose firearms such as machine guns, there is absolutely no problem.

There is no need for even additional production. It is enough to just pull a batch out from the strategic warehouse to consume the inventory.

You have to know that in factories of that era, each security department had all kinds of machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and other things, which are definitely not something that people in later generations can imagine.

"Your factory is really something. You can't even let people have a peaceful time during the Chinese New Year."

"This year's Spring Festival holiday lasted four days, but you didn't see anyone for the first three days."

On the third night of the New Year, Jiang Hui finally had time to go home.

In the past few days, their negotiation team gathered together to communicate and could not even go home.

Fortunately, people of this generation are relatively conscious, and there have been no Spring Festival holidays in the past few years, so few people have objections.

Even if Jiang Hui had some objections, he could only endure it at this time.

After all, this matter is indeed very important, and it is normal for relevant departments to pay more attention to it.

"Xiao Jiang is busy with something important. What do you know?"

Zhu Jiansheng knew some news.

We are all inside the system. Although these collaborations are unlikely to appear in newspapers for everyone to know, it is normal for people within the system to know some news.

Not to mention that Jiang Hui had mentioned this matter to Zhu Jiansheng before, and asked Zhu Jiansheng to report it within the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

(End of this chapter)