Feng Xiaochen did not tell Luo Xiangfei what he planned to do. He said that he had a preliminary idea about this matter, but he had not considered it mature yet and needed to understand some more situations before talking. Luo Xiangfei and Feng Xiaochen had enough tacit understanding. Seeing that he refused to say it, he did not ask, but just said when Feng Xiaochen's consideration was mature and came to communicate with him.

In fact, some of the more than 200 unemployed young people from the Economic Commission have been staying at home for several years, and the leaders are not in a hurry to solve this problem in this month's time. Since Feng Xiaochen said he wanted to consider it, Luo Xiangfei would let him go.

In the following weeks, Feng Xiaochen was so busy that he was not stuck. Because Feng Shuyi called him a long-distance across the ocean, he said that he would visit China at the end of March and would bring several German businessmen with him. Before Feng Shuyi arrived, Feng Xiaochen had too much preparations.

"Xiaochen, I'm seeing you again!"

At the Capital Airport, Feng Shuyi, dressed in beautiful clothes, pushed the luggage cart full of clothes, walked out of the waiting hall, and met Feng Xiaochen who was coming to greet him. The German aunt threw down the luggage cart and strode forward. Without saying a word, she gave Feng Xiaochen another hug, and immediately made the other pick-ups who came with Feng Xiaochen look so fragile on the outside and tender on the inside.

"Aunt, this is China. Didn't my third uncle teach you what it means to follow the local customs?"

After accepting the hug openly, Feng Xiaochen criticized Feng Shuyi in embarrassment. He had long seen that this aunt was just trying to trick her. She knew that the Chinese were conservative in those days, so she deliberately did this to tease Feng Xiaochen. In this case, the more embarrassed Feng Xiaochen was, the happier she was.

Feng Shuyi smiled and felt proud of her prank. She turned around and greeted the three German men who were traveling with him, pointed to two of them and said to Feng Xiaochen: "Xiaochen, let me introduce you. These two are employees of the German Grani Building Materials Company, this is Mr. Arcan, the company's marketing manager, this is Mr. Danpier, and the quality inspector. They came specifically for the decorative stones of the cold water mine you mentioned."

"Hello, welcome to China!"

Feng Xiaochen gave welcome speeches to the two Grani employees in German, and then introduced them to Yan Fusheng and Chang Min who were here to pick him up. Yan Fusheng and Chang Min hurried forward and shook hands with each other.

Feng Shuyi's trip to China was responsible for two responsibilities. The first was to take these two building materials company personnel to the cold water mine to inspect the granite materials on site and determine the import of granite stone from China.

Before this, Feng Xiaochen had asked someone to conduct a technical appraisal of the granite of the cold water mine and sent the appraisal materials to Feng Shuyi. Feng Shuyi found Grani Company and asked them to study these appraisal materials. As Feng Xiaochen predicted, after seeing the materials, the technicians and marketers of Grani Company were caught and immediately said that if the information was true, they were very willing to introduce this stone from China and sell it in the entire European market.

Building stone is never afraid of a variety of things. Architects and ordinary people like to try various new materials to show their uniqueness. The granite of cold water mines is of good quality and environmental protection indicators meet the strictest standards in Europe, so they can naturally win the favor of the construction industry. At that time, there was almost no stone from China in the German market. This gimmick alone was enough to make Grani want to try it.

Of course, there is another more important reason, that is, the price is cheap!

During the cold water mine, Feng Xiaochen and Pan Caishan and others studied the pricing issue of stone. Initially, the price calculated by Pan Caishan and others was 600 mm square per piece and 20 mm thick polished plates could be sold for 2 yuan. In this way, the stone factory could not only afford the wages of all unemployed young people, but also have a little profit.

Feng Xiaochen recalled the sales information of cold water mine construction stone in later generations, and combined with the changes in China's price changes and exchange rate changes in the next few decades, he calculated for a long time. No matter how he calculated, he felt that the price seemed too low. He asked the cold water mine to issue an introduction letter, then ran to the city's post office to make a long-distance call to Feng Shuyi, who was far away in Germany, and then came back to tell Pan Caishan and others that their quotations could be higher, at least five times as long as they were.

As soon as this number was said, everyone was shocked. Multiplying by five times, each piece of stone can be sold for 10 yuan. Isn’t this the rhythm of grabbing money? By volume, 1 cubic meter of stone is almost 1,400 yuan, which is more than 800 US dollars. When will the stone be sold more expensive than ore?

In fact, Pan Caishan and the others were really wrong. The high-quality granite in this world is much more expensive than iron ore. Not all granite can be used as building stone, and granite that can be used as building stone is divided into several grades. The granite of cold water ore belongs to the high-end category. In addition, there is no need to pay attention to the mining of iron ore. It is just blown up and then dug out with a large electric shovel. However, granite as building material needs to be mined in a whole piece, then processed in cutting, polishing and other processes, and the loss of scraps must be calculated, which also needs to be included in the cost.

Back then, Chinese people were not so luxurious and rarely used stone as building materials, so stone was worthless in people's eyes.

The situation in the European market is different. On the one hand, the amount of stone used in construction is large, which raises the price. On the other hand, the cost of labor and environmental protection is very high, so high-quality stone is expensive. Even if this price is five times, in the opinion of Grani Company, it is still surprisingly cheap. Calculate the cost of Shanghai transportation and the commission paid to Feng Shuyi privately, they can still make steadily twice the profit. Of course, the premise is that these stones can really meet the quality indicators mentioned by Feng Xiaochen, especially the radiation dose and color, which has a very significant impact on the price.

Of course, in later China, every household would use some stone to decorate a new home, and a natural stone countertop could be sold for thousands of yuan. If Pan Caishan and the others were also time travelers, they would not be surprised by the price Feng Xiaochen quoted now.

With a half-believing and half-doubtedness, Lengshui Mine sent Yan Fusheng to Beijing to welcome the technicians of Grani Company. The Metallurgical Bureau also attached great importance to this matter and sent Chang Min to accompany Feng Xiaochen to pick him up. On the way from the Metallurgical Bureau to the airport, Yan Fusheng muttered more than 20 times, saying whether the price should be a little conservative and not to say too high, so as not to scare the customers away. Chang Min had seen some worldly things and knew that Germans were rich. Although she didn't really believe that the price of stone could be sold so high, she still stood on Feng Xiaochen's side and said that she might as well try a high price first. The other party really thought the price was too high and she could bargain.

The German translator sent by the Cold Water Mine was on the side to translate for Yan Fusheng, Chang Min and others, so that the two sides could communicate smoothly. The Cold Water Mine had a lot of imported equipment, and technicians from foreign equipment manufacturers often came to help with technical guidance or maintenance work, so if you have your own foreign language translator, you don’t have to bother Feng Xiaochen to do the translation anymore.

Yan Fusheng had received Feng Xiaochen's repeated advice in advance, so that he would not show any slightest slightest about the cost or price of stone, nor would he be too polite in front of foreign businessmen, so as not to lose his ambition and affect negotiations. He is also an old man. Although he does not understand cross-border trade, he still has experience in doing business in China, so he forced himself to act reserved and only talk about the weather and friendship with Arkan and others, without mentioning the matter of selling stone.

On the other side, Feng Shuyi was introducing her third companion to Feng Xiaochen. The man was named Perman, who claimed to be the special commissioner of the German Philo Metal Processing Company. He made a special trip to Nanjiang Province to inspect the joint venture. His face was serious, and even when he shook hands with Feng Xiaochen, the smile on his face was rigid and stiff, showing the legendary rigor unique to the Germans.

Feng Xiaochen talked to Perman in German, basically just expressed his gratitude to Philo for coming to China for investment, hoping that Perman could have a pleasant journey in China.

After saying hello to Arkan and others, Chang Min also came over to shake hands with Perman. Chang Min had heard Luo Xiangfei explain about Perman's mission. The purpose of Perman's trip had nothing to do with the Metallurgical Bureau, and it was purely Feng Xiaochen's private affairs. However, introducing foreign capital is a national policy. Chang Min is both Feng Xiaochen's leader and a state cadre. Of course, he had to come forward to say some high-sounding verbs on such occasions.

"Mr. Perman, you are very welcome to invest in China. The Chinese government attaches great importance to foreign investment and will give investors non-discriminatory treatment and necessary care. Please rest assured." Chang Min said politely.

"Thank you very much for Ms. Chang. I think the cooperation between our company and Chinese friends will definitely be very pleasant." Peiman replied in a stiff tone.

After their greetings, Chang Min called everyone out of the airport lobby, got on the minibus they drove, and went to the Beijing Hotel, which was dedicated to receiving foreign guests.

After arriving at the hotel, Yan Fusheng, Chang Min and his party could not go in again. The foreign guests came from afar and must have to rest first. What reason do they have to disturb him? Feng Xiaochen stayed in the name of accompanying his aunt. After completing the check-in procedures and put down his things in the room, Feng Shuyi called Peiman's room. Peiman immediately ran over and said a hug at Feng Xiaochen with a full face:
Chapter completed!