Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

The three looked at the evaluation report card, dumbfounded.

The Fukang lawn mower that took the lawn mower order turned out to be the last product in the test!

This result was unacceptable to all three.

"How is this possible! Beverly lawn mowers are in the last place, how could Cook choose them, Ikeda-kun, did you make a mistake?" President Nakamura asked.

Ikeda hesitated for a few seconds, then shook his head: "It shouldn't be wrong, this Fukang lawn mower is an unfamiliar brand, we have never heard of it before, if the organizers don't specifically check the information, they must be Don't know the brand."

"But this Fukang lawn mower is the last in the agricultural machinery evaluation! There are so many better products to choose from, why did Cook choose them!" President Nakamura questioned again.

Qi Mu, who was next to him, also said, "And it's still a Chinese company. With Chinese technology, I doubt whether it can start the agricultural machinery!"

Ikeda also nodded: "The two of you are right, this is really weird, there are so many excellent brands to choose from, but to choose the worst agricultural machinery from China, which is completely unreasonable. !"

"Americans are not idiots. Do they put away good products instead of buying bad ones?" President Nakamura said, "I guess it must be this Beverly lawn mower, who used some shady methods. That's why the Americans gave them the order!"

"President Nakamura, what are the shady methods you're referring to?" Qi Mu asked inexplicably.

"Nine times out of ten, it's some kind of fraud!" President Nakamura paused, then said: "It's like a fraudster, making a game and defrauding other people's money. This Fukang company must have used this. method, let Cook be fooled, so he will place an order for them!"

"Makes sense! If it wasn't for cheating, Cook wouldn't have given the lawnmower order to the Chinese!" Qi Mu nodded in agreement, then asked, "President Nakamura, what should we do? Do you want to call the police?"

"Call the police? Do you have any evidence? And just because of the efficiency of our Japanese police, when they find out something, the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition is over!" President Nakamura shook his head and said.

"Should we just let the Fukang lawn mowers steal our orders by cheating?" Qi Mu said with a look of resentment.

President Nakamura thought for a moment and said, "We can report it to the organizer! Let the organizer intervene in the investigation, which will be much more efficient. I don't think the organizer wants to have a fraud scandal at his own exhibition!"

...

As the operation director of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, Mito Taro came to the exhibition site more than half an hour in advance.

Make preparations.

"Director Mito, someone is looking for you outside." A staff member came over and said, "It's President Nakamura of Nakamura Lawn Mower, Section Chief Saiki of Honda Lawn Mower, and Section Chief Ikeda of Mitsubishi Lawn Mower ."

"They are all lawn mower manufacturers. I don't know what they have to do with me! Please come in!" Mito Taro said.

After a while, President Nakamura, Saiki and Ikeda were invited in.

After saying hello, Mito Taro asked directly, "What are the three of you coming to me for?"

"It's like me. We found an exhibitor who was suspected of using fraudulent means to trick customers into signing contracts." President Nakamura said.

"There is such a thing!" Mito Taro was shocked. If this is true, it would be troublesome. If there is another scandal, the entire Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition will be implicated.

So Mito Taro asked, "President Nakamura, can you explain in detail?"

"Of course." President Nakamura continued; "Yesterday, American businessman Cook placed an order of US$7.7 million from a Beverly lawn mower, but this Beverly lawn mower, in the lawn mower evaluation, It is the worst grade, and we have reason to suspect that the Fukang lawn mower used some shady means, such as fraud, to get Cook's order!"

Mito Taro frowned and said, "That is to say, you are only suspecting now, but there is no evidence!"

"Director Mito, although we have no substantive evidence, it supports our reasoning logically. At the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, there are many excellent agricultural machinery products, including Honda, Mitsubishi, and our Nakamura, but why do American merchants Choose the worst product?

This doesn't make sense logically. Unless that Beverly lawn mower used fraudulent means, just like those scammers, deliberately set up a game to be fooled. American merchants are obviously caught in the trap of the Fukang lawn mower design, so they will place the order to them! "President Nakamura said.

As expected of Japan, per capita reasoning!

Mito Taro nodded slightly, but did not express his position, as if thinking about the authenticity of President Nakamura's words.

Seeing that Mito Taro was undecided, President Nakamura continued to persuade: "Director Mito, I think your organizers should at least conduct a basic investigation. If you ignore it at all, in case there is any fraud involved, In the future, American merchants will come back to their senses and make a big issue, which will also affect the reputation of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition!"

Mito Taro's heart moved. He felt that what President Nakamura said had some truth. If it was really involved in fraud, it would definitely affect the reputation of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition.

What's more, the customer who was defrauded was still an American!

Whoever suffers, can't let American dad suffer!

So Mito Taro decided to investigate this matter.

"President Nakamura, you just said that this Fukang lawn mower has the worst performance in the agricultural machinery evaluation?" Mito Taro asked.

"Yes, the one with the worst grades, the evaluation form is still posted on the bulletin board!" President Nakamura said.

"I'll call the experts who participated in the evaluation now and ask what's going on." Mito Taro said, picked up the phone and dialed a number.

After a while, an agricultural machinery expert who participated in the evaluation and scoring that day was called over.

"Professor Inoue, I invited you here this time because I want to ask you something. Do you still have an impression of the evaluation of the household lawn mower?" Mito Taro asked straight to the point.

"I have an impression." Professor Inoue nodded, and then asked, "What do you want to know?"

"Then do you remember that there was a Beverly lawn mower?" Mito Taro asked.

"Of course I remember, it was a lawn mower made by a Chinese company," Professor Inoue said.

"How about the performance of this Beverly lawn mower?" Mito Taro continued to ask.

"Very poor, it's just a piece of garbage! The things our Japanese companies made twenty years ago are much better than that Beverly lawn mower."

Professor Inoue went on to say: "That Beverly lawn mower has the lowest rating in all aspects. I remember their blade life is less than 7 hectares! The same product in Japan has a blade life of 20 hectares. .

When grading, we found that if we followed the previously established grading standards, the Fukang lawn mower could only get more than 40 points. This score is too low. If it were published, would it not bring down our Hokkaido agricultural machinery? Exhibition grade! So after discussion, we decided to give the Fukang lawn mower a passing score of 60! "

"It turns out that 60 points is still a friendship point! So, that Beverly lawn mower is really a very poor product!" Mito Taro already believed the judgment of President Nakamura at this time.

American customers are not fools. How can they buy a bunch of junk products instead of good products?

He must have been scammed!

"I remember that China's agricultural machinery companies organized a group to participate in the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. I'd better inform the cadres of the Chinese battle group first about this matter!"

...

After ten o'clock in the morning, the audience at the agricultural machinery exhibition gradually began to increase, even in the remote booths of the agricultural machinery hall, people would stop.

Some people watch and others buy, but there are still 108,000 miles in the middle. Compared with foreign big brands, domestic agricultural machinery is 20 to 30 years behind, so how can it be favored by customers.

Moreover, the design concept of domestic agricultural machinery is also inherited from the agricultural machinery of the Soviet Union. Compared with the refined agricultural machinery of Japan, the kind of rough and heavy agricultural machinery is instantly destroyed by seconds.

As a result, many spectators who came to the exhibition area of ​​the Agricultural Machinery Hall were more like watching the antique agricultural machinery exhibition. Words such as "this kind of agricultural machinery, my grandfather has one in the house", are emerging one after another.

Although these words sound very hurtful, but there is no way, who let their agricultural machinery fall behind!

After strolling around the other exhibition areas, Liang Xin returned to his own exhibition area full of envy.

The advanced agricultural machinery exhibited by foreign agricultural machinery enterprises made Liang Xin deeply realize that there is a gap between China's agricultural machinery and developed countries, and this gap cannot be caught in a short time.

"It's at least thirty years away. I don't know how many generations it will take to catch up!" Liang Xin sighed in his heart.

As an official of the Agricultural Machinery Department, Liang Xin is also a professional in the field of agricultural machinery. In terms of technology, he may not be as good as those experts in the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, but Liang Xin still has two brushes for the development of the agricultural machinery industry.

Agricultural machinery is a comprehensive manifestation of a country's manufacturing capabilities. Agricultural machinery manufacturing is not only a simple set of machines, but also includes many fields such as mechanical design, machinery manufacturing, material technology, and metal smelting.

In these fields, China lags behind developed countries in all aspects. If China's agricultural machinery wants to catch up with the level of developed countries, other related fields must keep up, which will be a huge project.

Liang Xin was thinking about the future development direction of China's agricultural machinery, and Mito Taro came to him at this time.

"Hello, Mr. Liang, my name is Taro Mito, and I'm the operation director of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition." Taro Mito introduced himself in English.

It took a lot of effort for Liang Xin to understand this English sentence. He knew that the operation director should be someone who can manage things at the Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, so Liang Xin also asked in English, "May I ask the director of Mito, what is the matter? Is it?"

"That's right, an exhibitor in your country is likely to be involved in fraud, and we will adjust it next, and I will inform Mr. Liang." Mito Taro said.

"What? Fraud? How is this possible!" Liang Xin looked incredulous.

"I remember that before going abroad, I emphasized the diplomatic discipline many times, and these people in our exhibition group are all leading cadres of state-owned enterprises, and they still have basic moral literacy. How can they cheat!"

Thinking of this, Liang Xin said, "Director Mito, is there a mistake, or is there any misunderstanding?"

"I also hope this is a misunderstanding!" Mito Taro continued: "Mr. Liang, you don't have to worry too much. I just said that it was only suspected of fraud. As for whether it is a real fraud, we will not know until after the investigation. ."

"Okay!" Liang Xin nodded and then asked, "Which exhibitor is suspected of fraud?"

"It's Beverly Company!" Mito Taro said.

"Fukang Company?" Liang Xin was stunned for a moment, but he didn't react for a while. He remembered that there should be no such company in his exhibition group.

Mito Taro went on to say: "Their product is a Beverly lawn mower!"

When it comes to lawn mowers, Liang Xin finally remembers Li Weidong.

"I want to come!" Liang Xin let out a long breath and said, "Mr. Mito, Fukang is not a company in our pavilion!"

"Isn't Fukang a Chinese company?" Mito Taro asked in surprise.

"It's a Chinese company, but it's not in our pavilion! This Fukang company is participating in the exhibition on its own, and it is not restricted by me. It has nothing to do with our pavilion." Liang Xin quickly distanced himself from it.

"That's it!" Mito Taro bowed apologetically: "Mr. Liang, I'm very sorry, I was abrupt!"

"Remember that Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory is only a county-level collective enterprise! This kind of small enterprise is really unreliable. If you don't keep an eye on it, you will have an accident! If you are suspected of fraud, it is a crime, and the police will catch it.

Although Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory is not a company in our agricultural machinery hall exhibition group, if it really participates in the fraud, it will also lose the face of our Chinese company. I still go over and see what is going on. "

Thinking of this, Liang Xin said, "Mr. Mito, I know where the Fukang company's exhibition area is. Why don't I take you there! And I also want to know what happened."

"Okay, then there is Mr. Lao Liang!" Mito Taro was not polite.

Liang Xin led Mito Taro to find Li Weidong.

After Liang Xin left, in the exhibition area of ​​the Agricultural Machinery Hall, others began to discuss.

"What happened? Why did a Japanese come? Who is this Japanese?"

"I heard that the Japanese was an official at the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition!"

"A Japanese official? Why did he come to our Secretary-General Liang? Is there any diplomatic dispute?"

"It's not that, according to the Japanese, it seems that a Chinese company is involved in the fraud case."

"Scam in Japan? Is that serious? Who is it?" The person who asked this question couldn't help but look at his companions around him.

"Don't look for it, it's not someone from our exhibition group!" The man paused, then said, "Do you remember the Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory, the county agricultural machinery factory that had its own booth."

"Of course I remember. Their booth is much better than ours! Could it be that the Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory defrauded the Japanese?"

"It's them, Secretary Liang, don't you just follow me and see what happened!"

Ding Yuanfeng was also on the sidelines, and the discussions of several people were all passed into Ding Yuanfeng's ears.

"Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory, fraud? This is really a blessing to me. There is new material in the "Agricultural Machinery Daily"! Li Weidong, this time you are dead!"

Thinking of this, Ding Yuanfeng hurried to a nearby convenience store and bought a calling card. He wanted to continue to break the news to Editor-in-Chief Huang!

...

Across the distance, Li Weidong saw Liang Xin.

"Why is the leader of the Agricultural Machinery Office here again? Could it be that he already knew that I had signed a large order of US$7.7 million, so he came to praise me? Well, I can use this way to get the agricultural machinery subsidies from our factory back!"

Thinking of this, Li Weidong greeted him with a smile.

"The leaders came to inspect the work, I am really flourishing here!" Li Weidong greeted enthusiastically.

On the opposite side, Liang Xin had a serious expression, which immediately made Li Weidong feel like his face was sticking to his cold ass.

"Could it be that he came to praise me?" Li Weidong thought to himself.

Liang Xin pointed to Taro Mito next to him and introduced: "Director Li, this is Mr. Taro Mito, the operation director of the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. Taro Mito has some things that he would like to know from you."

"Director of operations, he should be a cadre at the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition! What does he have to do with me?"

Although Li Weidong was puzzled, he still greeted Mito Taro in Japanese: "Hello, Director Mito, my name is Li Weidong, the director of Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory. Please take care of me for the first time."

"Do you speak Japanese?" Mito Taro and Liang Xin asked in unison, except that one was in Japanese and the other was in Chinese.

Li Weidong was suddenly at a loss. He didn't know whether to answer Mito Taro in Japanese or to answer Liang Xin in Chinese.

Liang Xin secretly said in his heart, "This Li Weidong can speak Japanese, so he can't be deceived in Japan!"

Mito Taro had almost the same idea: "Speaking Japanese so fluently, it seems that he cheated at the Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, and he really came prepared!"

Li Weidong pondered for a moment, and he decided to greet Mito Taro first.

So Li Weidong asked, "Director Mito, what is your business with me?"

"I have a few questions to ask you, and I hope Mr. Li can answer truthfully!" Mito Taro asked.

Li Weidong nodded: "As long as it doesn't involve commercial secrets, I will definitely tell Director Mito what I know."

"Alright then, I'll ask the question." Mito Taro said, and even took out a small tape recorder.

"Mr. Li, I want to record, you won't mind?" Mito Taro asked.

"It's alright, everything can't be told to others!" Li Weidong put on an indifferent expression, but he had already paid 12 points of attention in his heart.

I just heard Mito Taro ask: "Mr. Li, yesterday, you signed an order worth 7.7 million US dollars?"

"Yes, this order is for Mr. Cook from the United States to purchase lawn mowers. I reported the amount of the order to the organizer yesterday." Li Weidong paused, then said:

"However, when it comes to the specifics of the order, I can't tell you without Mr. Cook's permission! First, it's a commercial secret, and secondly, I also want to protect the privacy of customers. I also hope that Director Mito can understand."

Mito Taro then asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Li, how did you get this order?"

"What kind of problem is this? Isn't it right and proper for me to sell things and customers to buy things?"

Li Weidong thought for a moment and said, "Well, to be able to sell a product, of course it requires sales skills!"

"What sales skills?" Mito Taro asked persistently.

"What's wrong with this Japanese brain? Do you want me to teach you a marketing lesson!"

Li Weidong complained in his heart, but he still answered: "There are many kinds of sales techniques. I mainly introduce the advantages of my products to my customers."

"What else?" Mito Taro asked.

"I also properly pointed out the shortcomings of other similar products. This should be a common method of sales, right?" Li Weidong replied patiently.

"Apart from that, didn't you use other methods?" Mito Taro asked as if he had broken the casserole.

Li Weidong thought for a while, and then answered: "If there are other methods, does the discount count? In the final price, I gave the customer a little discount."

What Li Weidong said are all conventional methods used to sell products, and methods that every salesperson knows. This is obviously not the answer that Mito Taro wants.

"It seems that Li Weidong can't ask any answers here!" Mito Taro said when he thought of this; "Mr. Li, do you have anything else to add?"

"Add? No more." Li Weidong shook his head in confusion.

"Well, I have sent someone to invite Mr. Cook over. I hope that when Mr. Cook comes here, he will give the same answer." Mito Taro said coldly.

Li Weidong was still confused, he didn't know what was going on.

"What's the situation? This Mito Taro came here specifically to ask these strange questions? Are there no marketing courses in Japanese universities? Or are there no sales training in Japanese companies? "

Li Weidong was full of doubts, then he looked at Liang Xin next to him and asked in Chinese, "Leader, what's going on?"

"What did he ask you?" Liang Xin asked rhetorically.

The conversation between Li Weidong and Mito Taro was in Japanese, so Liang Xin could not understand.

"He asked a few strange questions." Li Weidong went on to say, "Leader, tell me what you know first, I have a good idea!"

"Never mind." Liang Xin said, "They said you were suspected of fraud!"

"What? Fraud?" Li Weidong was a little confused. He came to an agricultural machinery exhibition by himself. How could he become a criminal suspect?

Earth is in danger! I'm going back to Mars!