Chapter 872: invite

Kumagaigawa is very depressed now, very depressed.
In 1979, he had worked in Toshiba’s sales department for more than ten years but still did not get a satisfactory position. He made the most important decision in his life and applied for an assignment to become the sales representative of the newly opened Moscow office. , Responsible for the business development of Soviet Russia.
This is an adventurous challenge he initiated to a senior position in the company.
Toshiba is a giant multinational company with comprehensive business. Its product line spans household appliances, semiconductor equipment and components, social infrastructure equipment, heavy-duty electrical products, precision machinery, etc., behind which is the most influential Japanese country. One of the chaebols-Mitsui Group.
If you want to get ahead in this giant multinational company with more than 100,000 employees worldwide, it is almost impossible for him to have no upper-level relationship without taking risks.
And the reason why he chose Soviet Russia is because that red country is a place that everyone avoids. Not only does it have serious territorial disputes with the Japanese country, it is also the biggest enemy of the country’s camp, and it is also ideologically huge. difference.
If you want to open up the market there, the difficulty can be imagined.
But in his eyes, the places that others fear are also full of opportunities because of the vacancy in the market.
Although it is hard to be a pioneer, it is possible to reap greater returns than others.
It is also most suitable as a ladder for people like him who have little heels to climb up.
To succeed, there is always a price to pay, and he deeply understands this.
He successfully got the position, and because there were too few people willing to go there to open up the land, he was appointed as the chief business representative of the office by virtue of his qualifications, and finally stepped into the ranks of the company's senior employees.
God seemed to be moved by his bravery and hard work, and greater good fortune followed.
For some reason, the Russian side was extremely enthusiastic about these people sent by Toshiba. Not only did they give the green light for their entry, they also tried their best to help them solve many practical problems in work and life.
When he was still wondering about it, a drink would make him understand everything.
It was the early spring of 1980. In order to thank the Soviet Russian side for its help to Toshiba's Moscow office, under his auspices, relevant personnel from the Soviet Russian side were invited to hold this reception.
At the reception, Osipov, the vice president of the Soviet Russian Technical Machinery Import Company, who was invited, asked him: "Soviet Russia is in need of a CNC machine tool for manufacturing large ship propulsion. Toshiba is an expert in manufacturing industrial machinery and should Can you produce this kind of CNC machine tools?"
He understood that he could not even wait for the end of the reception, and immediately sent the news back to the company with an expedited telegram, because he knew that Osipov had a big backing and his true identity was actually a senior leader of KGB, and KGB had complete Independent import and export rights, in other words, Osipov is an important person who has the right to approve any trade agreement, and his words have absolute authority!
The reaction of the company that understood all this was amazing. Three days later, a senior employee of Toshiba's product department flew to Moscow with various data and structural blueprints of the "five-axis CNC milling machine" with the latest technology.
They may not have considered that this kind of equipment is on the "Batumi" embargo list. One of the materials that are strictly prohibited from export to Soviet Russia, in accordance with "Batumi" regulations, export to Soviet Russia or other Warsaw Pact countries. For precision CNC machine tools that exceed "two-axis", it must be declared, and those above "three-axis" are completely prohibited!
The rest is logical. Toshiba won a contract for 4 machine tools with a total of more than 3.5 billion yen. According to the exchange rate of 1:200 at that time, the order value was as high as 17 million US dollars!
And Toshiba's profit from this order is more than 50%!
Both buyers and sellers knew the sensitivity of this order, so it kept it strictly confidential, and passed a third-party company "Norway Kongsberg CNC System" to secretly operate, the machine tool was shipped from Japan in May 1983 and shipped to Norway , The packing box and the name of the goods were changed there, and they were sent to Russia. The Norwegians were very skilled in handling all this. Obviously it was not the first time to do so...
After the goods arrived in the Soviet Union, Toshiba also sent personnel to the installation site of the machine tool for training and installation instructions very responsibly. During this period, there was also a fragrant episode—the Soviet Union deliberately Arranged for a beauty "Swallow" to be seduced by a certain Toshiba engineer in charge of equipment debugging and installation, and successfully obtained a full set of machine tool installation and debugging technology.
Of course, Toshiba itself does not care too much about this aspect. Without machine tools, what is the use of just installing and debugging? Therefore, the installation and commissioning engineer who "scheduled the plan" did not receive any punishment after returning to China. It was a good day to spend a few months with Wenxiang Nephrite...
Kumagaigawa had a very good life because he got such a huge profit order right away. The following days went smoothly. Soviet Russia placed a number of orders for various types of CNC machine tools, and Toshiba took the order. All were received, but when Kumagaigawa felt proud of his spring breeze, all this came to an abrupt end at the end of 1983.
The reason is that Toshiba learned from some sources that this business has exposure risks.
The Soviet Russians obviously used these machine tools effectively. The quality of the important parts of nuclear submarines, the "seven-leaf large skew propeller," they processed has been greatly improved, and the noise has been reduced by an entire order of magnitude, making this achievement immediately let the U.S. Navy They were very nervous. They searched everywhere for the reasons that caused all of this. The Waguo Maritime Self-Defense Force, which exists as the "Seventh Fleet Anti-Submarine Brigade", is obviously also a group of people who need to be nervous.
Therefore, even though the Soviets and Russia still hope to buy more advanced machine tools, Toshiba retreats. They did not dare to accept new orders. Kumagaigawa was also transferred from Moscow to work in the headquarters-it was said to be a position, but in fact he himself It seems that it was hidden by the snow.
He was transferred to an insignificant department, held an insignificant position, and slowly became an insignificant marginal figure in the company.
He returned to the state he had before going to Soviet Russia. He was lonely as snow when he went to work and got off work, and no one cares about it.
Until he received a call from Fujio Masuoka.
"Kumagawa-kun, are you free lately? My boss wants to chat with you in person."
Of course he knew who Fujio Masuoka's current boss was.
Although he has not really seen this young man, he has been in the dark, feeling that he must have some connection with this name.
This is an inexplicable feeling from deep in my heart. Since the Canton Fair in April 1982, he participated in the product launch conference that made him sweaty, and has been haunting him.
And when he knew that his good friend, Fujio-kun, the director of the Microelectronics Laboratory, had left behind everything he had already obtained in the country, and went to this person without hesitation, and became one of his members, the feeling became more and more intense. strong.
Is it finally coming? he thinks.
"Fujio-kun, I happen to have an unused annual leave. Then, you can set a time, it's in Xiangjiang, okay?"