Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

selling?

Qin Chuan didn't hesitate at all: "Of course, our two countries have always been close neighbors, separated only by a strip of water. For thousands of years, our relationship has been very good. Since you have this need, we have no objection!"

Many people present looked embarrassed. "Qin Gong, those words weren't quite appropriate. We only officially established diplomatic relations with South Korea last year."

However, South Korea cannot deny the existence of the former Korean state; despite their north-south divide, they cannot deny history.

"Come on, I'll take you inside to have a look."

Rolling steel ingots into steel plates requires a series of processes.

Heating, high-pressure water peeling, widening rough rolling, 90-degree precision rolling, straightening, cooling, heat treatment, etc., the production line extends forward, and the entire production plant stretches for thousands of meters!

The South Koreans watched it very intently.

In front of the roughing mill, everyone stopped. Zheng Zhuhuan asked, "The production of the rolls is the most difficult part. Did you make these yourselves?"

"That's right. Each roll weighs 300 tons, and our electric furnace also weighs 300 tons. So, we smelted four furnaces and produced four rolls."

After Qin Chuan finished speaking, he pointed outside and said, "Over there are the machines and equipment we use to manufacture rolling mill rolls."

Thanks to the large amount of machinery and equipment we got from the 61st Commune Shipyard during our last trip to Ermao. Although we got it at scrap metal prices, the machines were actually in good condition. The forging and finishing of the rolls were all done using those same machines.

“Hmph, when we went to Kobe Steel, they said that there are only three factories in the world that can make rolling mill rolls!” One of Jung Soo-hwan’s assistants couldn’t help but speak up.

He just wanted to vent, but once he said it, he couldn't take it back.

Qin Chuan's eyes lit up. "Great! So you were turned away by Kobe Steel, which is why you came to us!"

In that case, we need to sharpen our knives even faster.

"Hmph, Kobe Steel's technology is nothing special," Qin Chuan said. "They came to us to learn how to make pen nib steel, watched us take a look, but still couldn't make it back home. Instead, they blamed us, saying that the scrap steel we provided was defective. The myth of Japanese manufacturing should have been shattered long ago!"

“That’s right, that’s it!” The South Koreans nodded in agreement, feeling that they had found kindred spirits.

After rough rolling comes finish rolling.

Watching the red-hot steel plate being rolled into shape, Jung Soo-hwan spoke again: "The wider the rolled steel plate, the greater the pressure required. A steel plate that is five and a half meters wide would probably require a pressure of 100,000 tons, right? How did you manage to do that?"

“If the pressure isn’t enough, we’ll make up for it with quantity!” Qin Chuan said. “Under this rolling mill, there are a hundred hydraulic presses, each driving a hundred oil cylinders, each with a pressure of a thousand tons.”

The South Koreans looked surprised; they never expected that Easterners could do something like this!

“With so many hydraulic cylinders, coordinating them will be extremely complicated,” Jung Soo-hwan said again. “If the pressure on both sides is different, the thickness of the rolled steel plate will be uneven.”

"This is our patented technology. We use a PLC to monitor it and make dynamic adjustments at any time."

The world's first ultra-wide rolling mill was powered by a steam engine, and it is still in use today!

Modern rolling mills not only use electricity, but also electronic control!

The steel frame weighing thousands of tons, the rolling mill rolls requiring high precision, and the pressure of hundreds of thousands of tons are all unimportant. What matters is the electronic control system!

Jung Soo-hwan took a deep breath: "You have control technology?"

"Ah."

"Can you show me around?"

"can."

You can't really tell anything from looking at it. There are several huge control panels in the control room with hundreds of display instruments. Only one control panel has a button. The circuitry is inside the circuitry, and the program is inside the circuitry. What can you possibly tell from that?

The solenoid valves kept beeping, and the hydraulic cylinders were adjusting automatically. Zheng Zhuhuan watched for a long time in the control room before finally asking, "How much do you sell this equipment for?"

Qin Chuan thought for a moment, then held out his hand, asking the other person to guess!

"You also want 50 billion US dollars? How can you ask for such an exorbitant price like the islanders!" Jung Soo-hwan's assistant spoke up again.

"Five hundred billion?" Qin Chuan looked surprised. "The Japanese want five hundred billion? They ordered from us, and our quote was five billion US dollars. They're too ruthless, they just flipped it tenfold!"

"What? The island nation is ordering goods from you?" Now it was the South Koreans' turn to be shocked.

"Yeah, Kobe Steel, there's a guy named Hiromi Ishino, do you guys know him?"

"I know, they're the ones who contacted us!"

“Ishino Hirotsugu has visited our Laiyang plant several times and has been full of praise for our advanced technology. As soon as our rolling mill production line started operation, he sent a message saying that he wanted to order one. As you know, this thing is very important to us. If we export it to Kobe Steel, it will obviously create a strong competitor.”

Qin Chuan continued speaking at length: "So, I quoted a high price of five billion US dollars, hoping to discourage them. Who would have thought that they would actually sell the production line to you for five hundred billion!"

The South Koreans present all had complex expressions.

cheated!

In the conference room, the islanders pretended to be surprised, refusing to sell their rolling mill production line with a length of more than five meters and demanding an exorbitant price. It turned out that it was all an act; they just wanted to sell it at a high price!

They bought it back here for five billion US dollars and then resold it for five hundred billion US dollars. These islanders are too greedy!

Thank goodness we came to the East!

Although I only came here to see it as a way to pressure the Japanese on price, now that I've witnessed the first-class rolling mill technology and heard about the Japanese's schemes, what else can I say?

We cut out middlemen and buy directly from the East!

"How much would it cost if we wanted to order one set?"

Although Qin Chuan had just said that he would sell it to the Japanese for five billion US dollars, Zheng Zhuhuan was still unwilling to give up. After all, even if the price was reduced from 50 billion to 5 billion, it was still unaffordable for them!

“If we’re selling to the island nation, we have to pay a high price because they control a large amount of iron ore internationally, and their costs are lower than ours,” Qin Chuan said. “But if it’s South Korea, we don’t need to pay such a high price; this price is sufficient.”

Qin Chuan extended his hand again.

"Five hundred million US dollars?" Jung Soo-hwan's eyes were filled with excitement. This was exactly their bottom line. Spending five hundred million US dollars on a project involving extra-wide steel plates over five meters wide? The Easterners are really generous!

Looking into their eyes, Qin Chuan knew this was their bottom line, and of course he couldn't sell it to them at that price!

Qin Chuan shook his head and flipped his palm over again. Don't you understand?

"Could it be fifty million US dollars? We'll transfer the money immediately!"

Qin Chuan shook his head: "I have 500 million in my palm and 500 million on the back of my hand, look!"

Qin Chuan's palms began to move back and forth.

Five hundred million, one billion, one-fifteen billion, two billion!