Sheldon Coupa has served Crown Group for fifteen years. As one of the 500 largest companies in the United States, Crown Group's business spans several industries such as chemical, machinery, electronics, and logistics. The entire group is at the top level in the United States in the fields of chemical raw materials and complete sets of chemical equipment manufacturing and three-piece metal pressure tanks, aerosol cans, and cans high-speed automatic production lines.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are both long-term partners of the group. Sheldon Copa just finished reading a technical report using a new pressing technology to keep the aluminum cans filling pressure unchanged and the wall thickness was reduced by 0.03 mm. Phyllis, the secretary of the outer office, knocked on the door and walked in.

"Phyris, what's the matter?" Sheldon found that Phyllis was empty and did not take any documents and information that might add to the cake in Chapter 43.

"Mr. Kupa, the Chinese who called yesterday to order the company's equipment has arrived and is waiting in the guest room."

"Oh, let them in." Kupa said as he sorted out the technical report on the desk.

Phyllis nodded and gently quit the manager's office.

Generally speaking, in the early stages of negotiations for the one-million dollar business, Kupa did not need to attend in person as the top director of Crown's West Coast region of the United States. However, after learning that the intended customers were from China, Kupa changed his mind.

China's Kupa is not unfamiliar with China. Although the group has little intersection with the world's most populous country in terms of chemical business, it has repeatedly intersection with China on the canning production line. One of Crown's major customers, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, entered China in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and established a filling production line for carbonated beverages. The filling equipment selected are all produced by Crown.

Coca-Cola also established its second filling branch in Tianjin, China last year. Pepsi's expansion plan in Changchun, China will soon become a reality. Faced with a market with signs of rapid growth, Kupa decided to personally receive guests from China.

After a moment Chapter 43, the possible icing on the cake, Phyllius walked into the room with three Chinese guests with Eastern Horizons.

"Welcome to Crown Enterprise, I am the head of Crown Enterprise's department on the West Coast of the United States." Kupa stood up and stretched out his right hand to welcome guests from China.

Liang Haiping shook hands with Kupa, pointed at Liang Yuan and introduced: "My nephew, a member of the family, is currently learning the basic rules of business."

Although the American society has a strong business atmosphere, Liang Yuan is still a little younger in formal business negotiations. Therefore, Liang Yuan and Liang Haiping discussed a solution and followed Liang Haiping as the reason of learning family business management.

After several people sat down, Kupa was still interested in Liang Yuan's early learning business with Liang Haiping, and asked: "Does Chinese private entrepreneurs start learning business in this way?"

At that time, Americans were completely disgusted with China. Even in the business world that frequently dealt with China, China felt a little confused. Although China proposed reform and opening up to develop a market economy, in the eyes of Americans, the Republic made the market economy apart was simply a joke. The Republic at that time was somewhat similar to North Korea in later generations. It had strict management of overseas personnel and did not have much exchanges with foreign countries without a political atmosphere. Therefore, Kupa became very interested when he learned that Liang Haiping was a private entrepreneur.

"Haha, Chinese culture believes in practice and is known to you. The methods may be different, but teaching by words is the way we believe in together."

Xie Na is not ashamed of the high hourly translation salary and accurately translated the meaning expressed by Liang Haiping.

"In our culture, there is also the saying that parents are the best teachers for their children. It seems that humans have similar understandings of the next generation of education." Kupa nodded and said.

"Some things have great commonalities, which transcend nationality and race differences, such as kindness, expectations for the future, and entrepreneurs' pursuit of profits." Liang Haiping said.

After hearing Xie Na's translation, Kupa burst into laughter and said, "Mr. Liang will definitely be an excellent speaker in the company." He turned his head and said, "I wish you to become an outstanding entrepreneur."

Liang Yuan spread his hands when he heard this and smiled at Kupa.

After a brief communication, the atmosphere in the room was very harmonious, and Liang Haiping began to introduce the technical details of filling air.

"Mr. Kupa should know that we intend to produce products, and in the selection of bearing materials, we intend to use solid tinplate. We hope that the entire metal can be used safely under 1.5 MPa... Of course, as a professional, Mr. Kupa can have good advice, which is ideal."

A working pressure of 1.5 megapas means that the volume of air can be compressed by about 15 times, which is equivalent to double the performance of ordinary tanks operating in the pressure range of 0.2-0.8 megapas.

"The entire production line must have high reliability and low maintenance. The container sizes that can be filled can be optional from an ordinary 355 ml to a 3 liter range." Liang Haiping said at the end.

Given the current poor traffic conditions in Shangri-La, the high reliability of the production line is very necessary.

"Mr. Liang said that our company has the ability to achieve the requirements, but because the working pressure of the entire production line is very high, there are many accessories that we need to replace on the equipment, which is equivalent to redesigning a production line. Therefore, Mr. Liang's company needs to bear part of the design cost." Kupa said.

Next, Liang Haiping and Kupa argued about how much modification costs should be paid. Kupa insisted that this brand new design production line was just a moderate modification based on the original production line, and Kupa described the design cost is simply untenable.

The two of them talked back and forth for nearly an hour before finally reaching an agreement. Kupa no longer insisted on the asking price of $5 million, Liang Haiping no longer insisted on the bottom line of $2 million, and both sides took a step back and reached a consensus on the price point of $3.5 million.

In order to show that he is studying business, Liang Yuan also pretended to look at the agreement he had just signed. The production equipment required for gas cans was divided into three parts: a fully automatic metal can production line with an annual output of tens of millions of cans, an automatic filling line, and a printing line. Among them, what Crown Enterprise said needs to make a lot of changes, and it is probably just to adjust the parameters of the metal can production line to make it suitable for tinplate with increased thickness. The automatic filling line has many changes. Change the pressure pump and replace the related pipeline structure, and the printing line does not need to be moved at all.

At the real cost, this kind of change is not even worth 15,000 US dollars. The Americans actually asked for three million yuan. Is there anything darker in this world? In the past, if you were backward, you would have to be beaten, but now if you were backward, you would have to be beaten. Liang Yuan could only sigh in anger as he looked at the agreement.

"If so, can Mr. Liang tell me where this production line will be built in China?" Kupa asked curiously.

Selling air in the United States in the 1980s can be regarded as a relatively novel business concept.

"Shangri-La." Liang Haiping said bluntly without any modification.

Without translation, Kupa could directly hear the transliteration of these four words. Kupa's expression stopped, and then he asked with a very fast speed: "Shangri-La, is it sgri?"

Kupa pronounced the letters word by word.

Looking at the translator Xie Na nodded, Kupa suddenly stood up from behind the desk, then realized something was wrong, so he slowly sat down, smiled apologetically at Liang Haiping and said, "Sorry, I'm a little excited. Please allow me to confirm that the Shangri-La that Mr. Liang mentioned is really the Shangri-La described in "The Disappearing Horizon"?"

Looking at Liang Haiping's expression, slowly nodding his head solemnly, Kupa slapped the table and made a loud noise, saying, "Omnipotent Lord, this is the most shocking news I have heard this year. How did you find that place? My God, if the NBC people learn this news, they will definitely go crazy."

The door of the manager's room was knocked a few times, and Phyllis's voice came from the outside: "Mr. Coupa, are you okay?"

"Uh, I'm fine, it's an accident, Phyllis, just a small accident," Coupa said.

"Mr. Liang, please forgive me for taking the liberty." Kupa rubbed his hands at a loss and said, "Do you have any Shangri-La video information around you?"

Liang Haiping smiled heartily and said, "I empathize with Mr. Kupa's mood. I understand it very well. There are four seasons in that mountain and ten miles away. Only words such as fairyland or paradise can perfectly depict the scenery of Shangri-La."

"I have a photo of Shangri-La next to me. Mr. Kupa can take a look." Liang Haiping said as he opened his briefcase, took out a photo and handed it over.

The photo was taken by Zhang Kaigang. The distance is the Haba Snow Mountain on the skyline. The close-up is the half-ice and half-green Longtan Lake, the clear lake water, the green land, the lush sea of ​​flowers, the cold pebbles at the bottom of the lake... The whole photo has a lot of colors and can only be described as blooming. Just looking at the photo gives people the feeling of this a visual feast.

Kupa took the photo and looked at it, and he was stunned. Liang Yuan even found that Kupa's hand was shaking slightly. After a long time, Kupa breathed a long sigh and said, "I believe Mr. Liang really found Shangri-La. This photo is exactly the same as the Shangri-La I imagined. It is a omnipotent master. How is this possible? How is this possible?"

For the Western people, Shangri-La is in line with the ancient Eastern country that was legendary like heaven. In order to find the legendary spice country and the country of gold, countless Westerners risked their lives to cross the ocean. The meaning of Shangri-La can be said to have penetrated into the bloodline and soul of the entire Westerner. It is a totem condensed by countless sailing pioneers who were buried in the ocean.

It took more than ten minutes for Kupa to calm down from his excitement. After asking Liang Haiping and others, he called Philis outside to send four cups of coffee.

After taking a sip of coffee, Kupa asked hopefully: "Mr. Liang, can you tell Shangri-La the exact location?"

"In the Hengduan Mountains in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in my country, a small town called Niwangzong is under the jurisdiction of Yun_Nandiqing Autonomous Prefecture."

Liang Haiping knew that Liang Yuan had the intention to change Zhongdian County, so he would not say the original name, so he directly made the Tibetan place name in Zhongdian to fool Kupa.

"Thank you, Mr. Liang, for telling you frankly." Kupa quickly took the place name with his notes, pointed to the Shangri-La photo that Liang Haiping had just given him and said: "I have an old friend who works in National Geographic Magazine. If he was allowed to see this photo, I don't know what he would be happy to see. It seems that we have the best travel destination this summer. I hope to see Mr. Liang in Shangri-La at that time."

Liang Haiping smiled bitterly when he heard Kupa say this and said, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Kupa, due to various reasons such as transportation, the Shangri-La area is currently not open to the public, and it is quite difficult to complete your travel plan."

At this time, the Tibetan area was still closed due to various reasons. It was not until two years before Diqing Autonomous Prefecture opened to the public, and its beautiful scenery began to be known to the world. Liang Yuan was able to go to Shangri-La to film films and was still attracted by the F14 fighter jets. However, since the senior management agreed to Liang Yuan's request, Shangri-La's early opening was foreseeable. Liang Haiping was just unhappy with the stubbornness of Kupa's negotiations, so he threw this difficulty out and deliberately made Kupa.

Liang Yuan noticed that National Geographic Magazine mentioned by Kupa was such a big guise. My uncle's rejection was so wonderful. What he couldn't get was the best. Liang Yuan didn't believe that National Geographic Magazine would be indifferent to the news of Shangri-La's birth.
Chapter completed!