Star City had a permanent population of more than ten million. It was an important economic city in the central region of Hua Xia. It was also a transportation and logistics hub in the central region.
There were only seventeen cities in Hua Xia with a population of more than ten million. Most of them were concentrated in the coastal areas.
Star City in the central region was one of the only non-coastal cities. It was obvious how important it was.
Star City was also the provincial capital of Xiangnan Province. The entire Xiangnan Province had a permanent population of 70 million.
Therefore, the branch set up in Xiangnan Province was second only to the large branches in the coastal provinces.
The branch here was responsible for managing 14 city-level after-sales and maintenance stations in Xiangnan Province, 86 county-level maintenance stations, and hundreds of Thunderbolt car service stations of different sizes.
Monster Industries had close to 4,000 employees in Xiangnan Province. More than 900 of them were employees of Skynet Airlines.
There were 3,000 employees under the direct management of the Xiangnan Province branch. More than 500 of them worked in the branch.
The whereabouts of the investigation team were highly confidential. Only the person in charge of Skynet Airlines airport, Xie Liyang, knew.
Twelve black Thunderbolt car with Zhongyun license plates sped on the road. When the motorcade entered the highway around the city, almost all the passing cars paid attention to the motorcade.
These Thunderbolt car had an extended wheelbase. The one in the middle seemed to have a longer wheelbase. Even the front windshield was black. No details could be seen inside.
The uniform foreign license plates and neat formation made these Thunderbolt car stand out from the slightly messy traffic.
Half an hour later, the investigation team entered the main road of the Star City high-tech industrial demonstration park where Monster Industries was located.
Monster Industries' Star City branch covered an area of more than 200 acres. The building facilities included a comprehensive office building, an automatic warehouse logistics transfer center, a product comprehensive recycling workshop, a maintenance workshop, and a cloud computing service center.
The branch was peaceful. There was no prelude to a storm.
…
At three o 'clock in the afternoon, the general manager of Monster Industries' Xiangnan Province branch, Xiang Yongjiang, was in the office discussing the promotion plan of the Foreign Engineer with several department heads.
Strictly speaking, the Foreign Engineer was the complete version of Monster Industries' intelligent robot products.
The Foreign Engineer could do what the fairy maid could do.
On the other hand, the fairy maid could not.
The Foreign Engineer was priced at six hundred thousand. It was five times the fairy maid's price.
The main reason for the fivefold price was the manufacturing cost. The Otherworld Engineer was a robot designed specifically for industrial use.
Not only did it have a thicker and sturdier sealed shell than the elven maid, but it also had a stronger joint torque.
The precision of its execution was also far higher than that of the elven maid.
For example, if a person were to draw a geometric figure without the aid of a drawing tool, the drawing would be crooked regardless of whether it was a circle or a triangle.
This crooked movement was geometric tolerance. Human body movements were controlled by muscles and joints.
Muscles and joints did not have any precision gear coupling, so there was no such thing as precision.
It was the brain that controlled the precision of the human hand. It was muscle memory that had been cultivated over a long period of time.
For engineers or math teachers who often drew pictures, the straightness error could be reduced to less than one millimeter when drawing a line of ten centimeters.
However, if the elven maid were to draw it, the bionic muscles could reduce the straightness error to 0.1 millimeters under the control of extremely precise electrical signals.
If a foreign engineer were to draw this line, the straightness error could be reduced to 0.03 millimeters.
That was a precision of 30 microns.
One had to know that the processing accuracy of ordinary machine tools was usually only 10 microns, which was one wire.
For processing that required higher precision, using a processing center could reduce the precision to 1 micron or even less.
However, these were not universal. Extremely high precision was too much of a waste of processing time.
In most factories, the processing accuracy of 10 microns was completely enough.
Therefore, the operation and assembly accuracy of the Foreign Engineer was comparable to that of ordinary machine tools.
This was only its operating accuracy. In order to adapt to the complexity and diversity of the industrial environment, the Foreign Engineer.
In addition to the great increase in precision, shell, and torque, it also had more complicated expansion interfaces.
It could operate almost all industrial tools that workers could operate and assemble a wide variety of supporting modular industrial instruments.
There were even two additional joints under the foreign engineer's armpits that allowed him to expand his arms.
As long as one was willing to spend money to upgrade, the Foreign Engineer could be upgraded into a sci-fi mechanical monster with four arms and all kinds of lasers, sound waves, and other industrial instruments on its body.
Now, the Foreign Engineer had also entered the mass production stage. However, it was not as famous as the elven maid who could walk into thousands of households.
The Foreign Engineer, which specialized in industrial design, was not famous yet because of its price and purpose.
It was for industrial use, so it was not easy to advertise in society.
Therefore, the promotion of the Foreign Engineer mainly relied on the downstream industrial chain of Monster Industries and the branches and stations all over Hua Xia to promote it to various factories.
The Foreign Engineer and the elven maid shared a production line. The production line had 60 sets of full-motion assembly platforms operating at full capacity. They could produce 100,000 elven maids a day.
If they were to produce the Foreign Engineer, they would also produce 100,000 units.
However, the production orders for the elven maid were now scheduled for three months later. After Ye Qing produced the first batch of 50,000 units of the Foreign Engineer, he only had 2,000 units of the Foreign Engineer in stock every day.
As of now, the Foreign Engineer had 60,000 units in stock.
Of these 60,000 units, the Longxitan factory kept 5,000 units for its own use. More than 10,000 units were ordered by factories all over Hua Xia, who believed in the reputation of Monster Industries' products, to test the water.
The remaining 40,000 units had been sent to the logistics warehouses of various provincial branches in Hua Xia.
"I don't need to say anything else. Our Xiangnan Province branch now has 1,000 units of the Foreign Engineer in stock."
"Our task is to sell all 1,000 units of the Foreign Engineer in stock within a week."
Xiang Yongjiang sat at a small conference table in the office and emphasized to the department heads present. "Don't think that this task is too heavy. You should know that in the coastal provinces, many factory engineers and bosses take the initiative to study the performance of the Foreign Engineer's products."
"Any factory that goes to study the performance of the Foreign Engineer's products will sign an order with the provincial branch on the spot."
"Some large factories can sign an order for 50 units of the Foreign Engineer at once."
"Although our Xiangnan Province's industry is not as developed as the coastal provinces, with the reputation of Monster Industries' products, a mere 1,000 units of the Foreign Engineer won't be a problem, right?"
After he finished speaking, Xiang Yongjiang looked around at the department heads.
"No … problem." The department heads nodded one after another.
General Manager Xiang Yongjiang always had the final say in the branch. If he wanted to do something, the department heads could only do their best to complete it.
An order for 1,000 units of the Foreign Engineer was not too much, and the sales were only 600 million.
But this was Xiangnan Province in the central region. In the province, other than the provincial capital, only Heng, Zhe, Yue, and De had industrial technology standards that could barely be mentioned.
In the vast Xiangnan Province, there were only six companies on the list of Hua Xia's top 500 companies.
Of these six companies, four of them were holding investment groups with complex businesses, and only two of them were companies that focused on industrial technology.
These six companies were still at the bottom of the top 500.
Now that the Foreign Engineer had just been introduced, the reputation of its products in the industrial technology industry had not yet spread.
If they wanted to digest 1,000 units of the Foreign Engineer in the vast Xiangnan Province …
It was possible.
But if it was limited to a week, the probability was only 40%.
This 40% was based on Monster Industries' unparalleled reputation in the industrial technology industry.
If the time was limited to half a month or a month.
When the reputation of the Foreign Engineer in the coastal area slowly spread, the department heads were confident that they could sell two, three, or even three thousand units, let alone 1,000 units.
But then again, it would be too late by then.
There was a competitive relationship between the branches. If the branch did not do well, it would only prove that the general manager of the branch was not capable enough.
Now, the general managers of the various branches must be doing their best to promote the Foreign Engineer.
"Okay, to avoid duplication of work, the department heads will discuss the division of responsibility."
"After the division, the department heads will be responsible for the sales work in their respective areas. You are not allowed to cross over."
"After a week, the department heads will be ranked according to performance."
"Zhang Kai, you have worked in Star City for the longest time, so you are more familiar with the various companies in Star City. You will be in charge of Star City."
Zhang Kai nodded.
After naming the person in charge of Star City, General Manager Xiang Yongjiang let the rest of the department heads discuss which area they would be in charge of.
The rest of the department heads were complaining in their hearts.
The general manager's method of taking away the best area first made them very unhappy.
Xiang Yongjiang's reason was also very far-fetched, saying that Zhang Kai had worked in Star City for the longest time.
One had to know that among the department heads present, there was also a Star City native.
But there was nothing they could do about it. After all, Zhang Kai, who was in charge of the product maintenance department, was Xiang Yongjiang's confidant.
Just when the department heads were discussing their respective areas, the office door was suddenly pushed open.
Xiang Yongjiang and several department heads turned their heads in surprise. They wanted to see who was so rash. Didn't they know that the general manager and department heads were having a meeting here?
"M-Manager."
The person who came was Xiang Yongjiang's assistant. He was somewhat out of breath and said, "Someone … someone is looking for you."
This assistant had always been known for his steadiness. He usually walked at a leisurely pace.
At this moment, it was unknown what kind of situation he encountered, but he was panting while speaking.
"Who is looking for me?"
"How did you arrange it? You didn't even make an appointment and rushed in?" Xiang Yongjiang got up from the chair. The assistant's abnormal expression made him somewhat nervous.
"The people from the headquarters are looking for you."
The assistant didn't care about his image and said loudly, "You should go quickly. The situation is not right."
"Also … also, department heads, please immediately inform all the employees of the branch to gather in the hall."
"Gather?"
"What's the situation? Little Zhang, can you make it clear? We are responsible for receiving the people from the headquarters. Why do you look like the sky is falling down?"
"Now the employees of the department are working. The people from the headquarters can't be so arrogant. Let us all gather."
"One-third of my department is outside. Isn't this nonsense?"
At this time, the phone in the office suddenly rang.
Xiang Yongjiang looked at the director closest to the desk and motioned him to answer the phone.
The latter hesitated to step forward. Before picking up the phone, he thought about it again and simply pressed the hands-free button.
"Hello … this is the general manager's office. May I ask …"
A clear and serious female voice came from the other end of the phone. "In five minutes, inform all the employees of the branch to gather in the hall."
"You are?" The director looked at the phone number. The number was very familiar. It was from the front desk.
But he was not familiar with the voice. The girl on the phone had a younger and nicer voice than the front desk, but it sounded serious and arrogant.
"I'm Yun Shi, Mr. Ye's assistant."
"Yun Shi?"
"Ah … ah, Mr. Ye's assistant?"
The director's computer crashed for a moment. When he recalled the name Yun Shi and matched it with the identity of Mr. Ye's assistant, he almost cried out.
…
Twelve Thunderbolt car were parked at the entrance of the complex office building of the branch.
Ye Qing was the first to get out of the car.
When Ye Qing led the investigation team into the glass door, the two security guards at the door had forgotten their duties.
They were wiping their eyes fiercely, and their mouths were wide open.
At first glance, they recognized who the young man in front of the crowd was.
Shock, panic, consternation, and disbelief.
The young man in front of them was too majestic. In their hearts, his image had been repeatedly branded many times.
"Ye … Ye … Boss."
"Attention, stand still."
When Ye Qing passed by the two security guards, he pointed to the direction of the stairs below and ordered, "Watch this place. You can only enter, but not leave."
"Yes!" The two security guards were so excited that their feet were numb subconsciously.
The first floor of the complex office building was a magnificent hall. At this time, there were more than a dozen employees scattered in the hall.
Some employees were about to go out with their bags and materials. Some employees were sitting in the reception area in the corner, waiting for customers to come.
The arrival of Ye Qing made the whole hall quiet in an instant, without a trace of noise.
When the more than a dozen employees saw the group of people in black overalls with serious faces, it was as if they were frozen in time.
They looked at Ye Qing, who was walking in the front, without blinking. Their faces were full of unconcealable shock.
Yun Shi passed by Ye Qing and took two steps forward. She waved to everyone who was frozen and said, "Please put down your work and turn off your communication devices."
After more than ten seconds, more than a dozen employees in the hall reacted one after another.
They opened their mouths and gathered here while taking out the magic crystal mobile phones in their pockets and preparing to turn them off.
In fact, they didn't need to turn them off. They just found that their mobile phones had turned into a state of no service.
A few minutes later, employees hurriedly ran down from the second floor.
Two minutes later, several elevators in the hall kept ringing.
Every elevator opened, and more than a dozen employees dressed in overalls and hanging the Monster Industry nameplate hurriedly trotted out.
Three minutes later.
Employees located in the warehouse logistics, comprehensive recovery processing workshop, maintenance workshop, and cloud computing service center began to trot to the hall in groups.
Five minutes later.
Various supervisors and General Manager Xiang Yongjiang, located in the supervisor's office on the eighth floor, came to the hall with indescribable tension.
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