Topeman's blessing, Feng Xiaochen finally enjoyed the treatment of taking a soft sleeper in this era. After more than a day of trekking, the train drove into Xinling Station. Feng Xiaochen and Perman looked through the window and saw that a banner had already hung on the platform, with welcome speeches such as "Warmly welcome Mr. Perman, the Special Commissioner of the Philo Company, to the Nanjiang River" written in Chinese and German languages. Under the banner, there were a large group of brightly dressed officials, and next to them were beautiful girls wearing belts. Not to mention that Perman was shocked, even Feng Xiaochen felt a little dumbfounded.

The train stopped, Feng Xiaochen and Peiman walked out of the carriage, and two tall girls from the art school came up and presented flowers to the two. Seeing their shy and excited appearance, Feng Xiaochen believed that if Peiman wanted to hug them and take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation, they probably wouldn't refuse.

Nanjiang Province has really invested in it, Feng Xiaochen sighed helplessly in his heart.

At this time, Tang Huihua, director of the Provincial Foreign Trade Bureau, came over and expressed his greetings to Peiman with a smile on his face. Lao Tang is a well-educated college student with a little bit of culture. His mouth is filled with allusions from Nanjiang, such as Xiongzhou Wulei and Juncai Xingchi. He was so tired that the German translation invited from Normal University that he sweated on his forehead. The translation was so hard that Feng Xiaochen was anxious when he was listening to him.

Peiman was an engineer. Not to mention that he had no deep understanding of Chinese culture, even German culture. After hearing this greeting of half-marvel, half-literary and half-parallel, he was a little confused and didn't know how to reply. Seeing this, Feng Xiaochen had to come forward to rescue, talked a few nonsense with Peiman, and then expressed his gratitude to Tang Huihua in his own language.

By this time, Tang Huihua seemed to have just seen Feng Xiaochen. He smiled and patted Feng Xiaochen on the shoulder, praised him for being young and promising, and then turned his attention to Peiman. In his eyes, Feng Xiaochen was also Peiman's translator, and he was really a passerby who was not worthy of attention.

Of course, Peman could see the difference in status between him and Feng Xiaochen in the eyes of these local officials. If he hadn't had the contact with Meng Fanze a few days ago, he might have forgotten his identity. But when a minister valued Feng Xiaochen so much, he knew that he had no capital to show off in front of Feng Xiaochen, the boss. The compliments he enjoyed now were just a chance given to him by Feng Xiaochen. If his performance made Feng Xiaochen feel dissatisfied, everything in front of him would be gone.

After the station's welcoming ceremony, the Foreign Trade Bureau arranged a car to take Peman and Feng Xiaochen to the most advanced Qinshan Hotel in Xinling City and arranged for them to stay. In the evening, in the banquet hall of the Qinshan Hotel, the Foreign Trade Bureau organized a grand welcome dinner to entertain the first German merchant to invest in Nanjiang Province. More than a dozen departments and bureaus in the province sent officials to attend, and even the provincial party committee and the provincial government sent a deputy secretary-general to support the event.

According to the design of the Foreign Trade Bureau, the dinner will be divided into several steps. First, provincial leaders and foreign guests will give speeches separately, raise their glasses together, and then leaders of various departments and bureaus will come to toast. After these necessary procedures, there will be a free exchange stage. Everyone can show their magical powers to see who can attract the attention of foreign investors and establish a good cooperative relationship with foreign investors.

But who would have thought that Peman lacked experience in dealing with this Chinese-style banquet. When everyone raised their glasses, he honestly dried the wine in the glass. The banquets he attended in Germany were all low-degree red wine or beer, and this way of drinking was fine. But at this banquet, the host poured Maotai at more than fifty degrees. After three or five cups, Peman could no longer find it.

When Tang Huihua first saw that Peman was drinking happily, she still secretly lamented that foreigners had a huge amount of Maotai, one or two more cups, dared to do it in one go. When he finally found that the situation was wrong, it was too late. Before several cadres from the department came up to toast, Peman had already crawled under the table. Seeing this, the officials looked at each other. Tang Huihua could only call a few strong waiters and carried Peman, who was as strong as a bear, back to the room to rest. Naturally, the banquet could only end hastily.

The next day, at the request of Peiman, the Foreign Trade Bureau sent a bus to take Peiman and Feng Xiaochen to Dongshan to inspect the joint venture factory construction. Tang Huihua personally accompanied him and sat in the car and chatted with Peiman. Unfortunately, he was playing the piano with a cow. The humanistic allusions he said did not arouse Peiman's interest at all.

Feng Xiaochen sat in the row behind them. When Tang Huihua said so irrelevantly, he could only sigh secretly: After so many years of blockade, these local officials didn't know how to deal with foreign businessmen. If Peman was a person with ulterior motives and he was not by his side, Tang Huihua might have been sold and helped count the money.

There is no need to explain the welcome of Peman in detail. Peman learned the lesson. At the banquet arranged by the Dongshan Administrative Office, he no longer toast stupidly, but drank very restrainedly, and finally did not make any fools. Yu Changrong, Liu Zhiwu and other officials of the Administrative Office tried again to persuade him to build a joint venture in Dongshan City. Peman remembered Feng Xiaochen's explanation and insisted that the company's decision was made by the company, and he had no right to change the company's decision. Hearing that he was so determined, Yu Changrong and others could only give up in disappointment.

The same process happened again in the Tongchuan County Party Committee and the county government. Finally, Feng Xiaochen and Peiman finally arrived at Tongchuan Agricultural Machinery Factory, which is the joint venture target of Feng Xiaochen's intention. As the factory representative, the person who came to greet them was Yang Haifan, who had just been transferred from the county party committee office to the agricultural machinery factory to serve as the factory director. Seeing Peiman, Yang Haifan felt a stone in his heart and knew that the joint venture could not be eliminated.

"Mr. Peiman, you are very welcome to visit Tongchuan Agricultural Machinery Factory. Now please allow me to accompany you to visit our production workshop." Yang Haifan said politely.

"It's a great honor, Mr. Yang." Peiman said in a reserved tone, and at the same time he gave a chest-cuffed salute.

Feng Xiaochen introduced Yang Haifan's identity to Peiman. Peiman knew that if nothing unexpected happened, after the joint venture was established, Yang Haifan would be the second second in status after Feng Xiaochen. Peiman, the so-called "De Shang" was just a subordinate of Yang Haifan. However, given that there were Tang Huihua, Yu Changrong, Fan Yongkang, Xiong Xiaoqing and other officials next to him, Peiman could not be too humble and could only apologize to Yang Haifan with his eyes.

During the Spring Festival, Feng Xiaochen had visited Tongchuan Agricultural Machinery Factory. Now that he is here again, he is surprised to find that the agricultural machinery factory has changed. The once messy factory area is now a little neat. The weeds around have been cleaned up, and the garbage everywhere has disappeared. The dilapidated walls have been repaired, and even the broken glass planted on the walls to prevent theft appear shining brightly.

When you walk into the workshop, the changes are even more obvious. The walls are painted again, with snow-white lime above the waistline, and light blue paint below the waistline. The number of machine tools in the workshop is a little more than before. Although the models are still a little old, each machine is polished with bright stirrups and timbers and arranged neatly. The lines are drawn with yellow paint on the floor of the workshop, which seems to be a bit like a modern factory.

"Not bad, not bad, shocking." Perman praised loudly. This is not a script he and Feng Xiaochen had discussed in advance. He was completely inspired by instinct. If the same scene appeared in a German factory, Perman would not be surprised, but for a factory in a developing country, it would be very good to be able to do this.

Peman has also traveled to the Third World in the past, and has seen factories in India, Guatemala and other countries. He is deeply impressed by the dirty and messy there. He has always been a little uneasy about the joint venture in China this time, and is worried that Philo's technology will not be applied in this backward and poor country. The production of oil film bearings has high environmental requirements. If the workshop is too dirty and messy, it will be prone to be stained with impurities such as dust during the bearing processing, which will pollute the lubricant, which is the biggest threat to the quality of oil film bearings.

Now that he saw this neat workshop, Peman's concerns disappeared, and he began to look forward to subsequent production.

Of course, Peman could also think that the cleanliness of the workshop should be cleaned up suddenly to welcome him as a foreign guest. But being able to clean up a clean environment means that the managers and workers here are smart and disciplined. If you want to use a country like India, even if you use a whip to beat the workers, they will not be able to clean up a workshop.

"Mr. Peiman, are you still satisfied?" Yang Haifan pointed to the workshop and asked Peiman with a smile. When he said this, his eyes were looking at Feng Xiaochen. Rather than asking Peiman, he was expressing his merits to Feng Xiaochen.

"Haifan, it's a good job." Feng Xiaochen spoke first without waiting for Peiman to say anything. This time he brought Peiman to Tongchuan, and he informed Yang Haifan in advance. Yang Haifan said he wanted to clean up the factory area, and Feng Xiaochen agreed, but he still didn't expect Yang Haifan to do so well.

It’s okay to have environmental sanitation outside the factory, but the organization of the workshop requires some professional knowledge. What laymen can see is only the bright windows and the ground is free of dirt, while those inexperienced will pay attention to a series of features such as smooth passages, fixed equipment, and eye-catching logos. These features themselves are also an integral part of total quality management.

Yang Haifan was able to complete the fixed management of the workshop site in a short time, which is enough to show that he has some industrial qualities, not an embroidered pillow that can only brag. (To be continued.)
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