Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 14: Engineers Admired by Swedes

Li Xiaoshi ate the cake, but the whole project still required a large investment for the Li family. Li Xiaoshi himself didn't understand it, so it was inevitable that he would be hesitant for a while.

After Zheng Yi recommended the character, he said goodbye and left, leaving Li Xiaoshi to consider it himself.

"Sir, the fax sent back by your British classmate regarding the purchase of the air compressor has already resulted in a result."

Seeing Zheng Yi finally leave the office, Li Xiaoshi's secretary Amin came back in. The office was filled with smoke because of too much smoking, and even Amin, who didn't smoke, couldn't help coughing.

Li Xiaoshi put down his cigar upon seeing this, and asked A-Ming to open the door for ventilation. He asked, "What do the Swedish people say?"

"They promised to deliver the equipment within two months according to the design drawings we provided. They would even take care of our installation and commissioning. They also offered to give us a 20% discount."

"Discount? Why discount?"

This is really new. These days, although there is an economic crisis, these European equipment manufacturers have always been very arrogant. When selling machines to Southeast Asia, they often not only increase the price, but also impose various harsh additional conditions.

Especially when sending engineers to install, debug, repair, etc., the prices are always exorbitant.

Of course, there is a reason for this. The salaries of engineers in Europe are already high, and no one is willing to travel to the Far East on business. The profit earned from selling just one or two machines is not enough to cover the cost. Without additional salary and subsidies, who would be willing to travel to such a far place as Southeast Asia on business?

Proactive discounts sound like the sun rising from the west.

Industry is truly the most difficult thing at the beginning. In fact, even in the modern society before Zheng Yi traveled through time, there were only a few countries that dared to say that they had industrial capabilities, except for those who relied on industrial transfer and ate the leftovers of imperialism, the so-called industrial transfer.

Amin: "Those Swedes also have conditions."

"What conditions?"

"They hope to communicate with Mr. Zheng Yi and ask for his advice."

"Communication, may I ask?" "Yes, the Swede said that the solution designed by Mr. Zheng not only perfectly meets the application scenario of the air compressor, but also the pneumatic valve on it is extremely sophisticated, which they had not expected.
If possible, they also hope to purchase the patent for this pneumatic valve and ask us to allow them to produce this pneumatic valve."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaoshi stood up immediately, his face flushed with excitement, and quickly found Zheng Yi's design drawing from the filing cabinet.

This thing was drawn casually when Zheng Yi and Hunter were angry with each other that day.

It was just something I drew casually, but even Swedish engineers came all the way here to learn it?

This pneumatic valve was actually designed by Zheng Yi himself, and there is no finished product even in Europe?

Even if Li Xiaoshi didn't understand the technology, he knew that compressed air was a relatively advanced technology in Europe, otherwise even Hunter wouldn't have been completely clueless about it.
The Swedish company Atlas Copco is also a first-tier equipment company in Europe, and even the air compressor is dominated by them.

The leader of this industry actually wants to ask Zheng Yi for things related to air compression?

"Sir, it seems we've really found a treasure this time. Mr. Zheng's skills are not only top-notch among Chinese people, but even in Europe, he's probably the best engineer."

"They said they want to use the patent? Hurry, immediately, send a fax to my classmate Smith and ask him to help us go to the UK Patent Office and apply for the patent first."

"Yes."

It is useless whether the application is approved or not. Patents these days are meant to protect gentlemen rather than villains. If large European companies use things in the equipment field without consulting them, what can a few Asians do?

Go to Europe to sue them?
The reason why people came to ask specifically, to put it bluntly, is that they respect technology, and they respect Zheng Yi's technology.

Of course, they were also certain that a group of Asians would not ask for an exorbitant price from them. The so-called buying of patents meant making friends for them.

"It seems that I have underestimated Brother Zheng. Brother Zheng's skills are indeed amazing."

(End of this chapter)