"Brother, this time, you have to give me more advice."

In a hotel in London, England, Feng Lintao, who had just taken a plane from China, grabbed Feng Xiaochen's hand and said earnestly.

Feng Xiaochen has been traveling around Europe for a while, taking his team to find valuable mergers and acquisitions, and then raising funds to acquire them. In more than a year, there were seven or eight large-scale mergers and acquisitions completed by him, and as for small mergers and acquisitions within a few million euros, there were countless.

This time, Feng Lintao took a team from the State Nuclear Power Company to the UK to negotiate a nuclear power plant construction project called Sinke Point. He called Feng Xiaochen in advance and said that he hoped to get Feng Xiaochen's guidance. Feng Xiaochen put down his work and came to London, waiting for Feng Lintao and his party to arrive.

"The Sink Point Nuclear Power Plant project is the largest energy project launched by the British government to respond to climate change. It plans to build four 1 million kilowatt reactors to replace the six 500,000 kilowatt reactors built in the 1970s. The original six reactors of the Sink Point Power Plant have fallen behind, and are close to the service life of the original design and need to be stopped. The British government hopes to adopt the third-generation reactor model with higher safety for the four reactors planned to be built.

Currently, the countries with this technology include China, Japan, France, Russia and the United States, but only China has actually built third-generation nuclear power plants, so we have a great advantage in the bidding.”

Feng Lintao talked endlessly about the situation to Feng Xiaochen.

"What countries are currently participating in the bidding?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Feng Lintao said: "Although the United States has the technology of the third generation of nuclear power, they no longer have the manufacturing power and construction team, so it is impossible for them to come to bid. Russia has the ability to do this, but because of its tense relations with the West in recent years, the British government dares not let Russia undertake such a major project that concerns national economy and people's livelihood. The technology owned by France is different from the expectations of the British government, so it was eliminated before the bid. Currently, there are only two companies participating in the bidding, namely our China National Nuclear Power Company, and the other is Japan's Sanli Steel Institute."

Feng Xiaochen was stunned: "Sanli Steel Institute? Why did they even get into the nuclear power circle?"

Feng Lintao said with a little contempt: "Mr. Feng, you are too bureaucratic now. You no longer understand many things in the industry. A few years ago, Sanli Steel Institute spent $7.5 billion to acquire the American Weihao Electric Company and the Japanese Iketani Products. Weihao Electric Company is an old American nuclear power technology company and has a large number of patented technologies for the third generation of nuclear power. The Iketani Products has experience in manufacturing high-voltage containers, and there are a large number of high-voltage containers in nuclear power equipment.

The purpose of Sanli's move is a clear idea for people in the industry, that is, Sanli intends to enter the third-generation nuclear power market and use nuclear power as its new growth pole. Acquisition of two companies for US$7.5 billion is a big gamble for Sanli. Sanli is determined to win."

"Yeah, I'll have an impression if you say that." Feng Xiaochen nodded. He knew about Sanli's acquisition of Chigu Production. There were rumors at that time that Sanli might want to enter the chemical equipment market. However, Sanli's subsequent acquisition of Weihao Electric in the United States dispelled this rumor. Everyone did judge that Sanli planned to make achievements in the third-generation nuclear power.

"After acquiring these two companies, Sanli spent a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources on the research and development of third-generation nuclear power technology. We have tracked their technology, so it can be said that their technology and our technology have their own advantages. If we consider the production experience of Chigu Production and Weihao Electric, we are still slightly inferior." Feng Lintao commented objectively.

"You just said that you are the only one in the world who has experience in building a third-generation nuclear power plant. This should be your advantage, right? No matter how good Sanli's technology is, it will be in vain without going through actual combat." Feng Xiaochen analyzed.

Feng Lintao smiled and said, "It's true. To be honest, it's not helpful to Sanli. If there were no major earthquake of 311, they could get several orders for third-generation nuclear power, so they wouldn't be talking about it on paper until now."

"This is our biggest shortcoming!"

In the office of the chairman of Sanli Steel Manufacturing Institute, Chairman Daohiko Kobayashi sighed and said to the company's sales director Yuuchi Uchida.

Uchida Yu was originally the sales director of Iketani Products. After Iketani Products were acquired by Sanli Steel, Uchida Yu was retained and still served as sales director. The suggestion to enter the third-generation nuclear power market was proposed by Uchida to Kobayashi Dohiko. After careful analysis by Kobayashi Dohiko, he believed that the third-generation nuclear power does have a broad market prospect, and Sanli Steel has strong advantages in this area and can fully gain a place in this market.

The subsequent progress confirms Daohiko Kobayashi's analysis. After Sanli Steel Institute obtained the third-generation nuclear power patent from Weihao Electric, it quickly digested and absorbed it and formed construction capabilities. Third-generation nuclear power is a new thing for the whole world, and many countries have adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards this.

At that time, only two countries decided to establish the project to build third-generation nuclear power, one was Japan and the other was China. China also invested a lot of funds and manpower in the third-generation nuclear power technology and had formed independent construction capabilities, so it was impossible to give the market to Sanli. What Sanli could get was only the third-generation nuclear power project planned to be newly built in Japan.

Uchida Yu led a team to lobby the Japanese government for a long time and finally convinced the government to agree to hand over the two third-generation nuclear power projects to Sanli Steel Institute. Kobayashi Daohiko was overjoyed and immediately arranged for manpower to design. After the design drawings were completed, the equipment manufacturing and civil engineering construction could be started.

For large projects like nuclear power, the owner cares very much about the contractor's construction experience. If you have no construction experience at all, why do people believe that you can complete such projects? On the contrary, if you have done several similar projects and the results are good, then they can be assured and boldly handed over the project to you.

Daohiko Kobayashi's idea was to first take down these two projects in Japan, and then use these two projects as an excuse to vigorously promote the third-generation nuclear power technology at Sanli Steel. At that time, you can take on the project in the international market. The investment in nuclear power projects is astonishingly large. A reactor with a scale of one million kilowatts will be more than 10 billion US dollars. If you take on two or three projects a year, the company's annual expenses will be guaranteed.

Just as Daohiko Kobayashi was about to do a big fight, the 311 earthquake occurred. The tsunami destroyed the external power supply system of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, causing the reactor cooling system to stop working, and then a serious nuclear radiation accident. After the Fukushima accident, the Japanese people fell into extreme panic and almost feared about nuclear talk. In this atmosphere, the two third-generation nuclear power plants scheduled to be built were shelved, and at the same time, Daohiko Kobayashi's dream of third-generation nuclear power was also shelved.

If it was just a setback in my dream, it wouldn't matter. Sanli Steel has poured all its strength into developing the third-generation nuclear power technology, so it has no use. This is the most terrible thing. Kobayashi Daoyan regards the third-generation nuclear power as the key to saving Sanli's failure. Now that nuclear power is not allowed to be built, even if the funds invested in the early stage are wasted, Sanli can't withstand such torture, and the financial situation is quickly lit up.

At this moment, Uchida Yu brought good news to Kobayashi Dohiko, that is, the UK is preparing to build the Sink Point Nuclear Power Plant, and is expected to build four million-kilowatt-class third-generation nuclear reactors. Uchida Yu said that if Sanli can win this project, it will be equivalent to a breath of relief. The next step can be to deceive more countries with its successful experience in the UK. By then, Sanli's nuclear power project will be truly activated and can become Sanli's pillar.

"Our competitors are Chinese. The biggest advantage they have is that they have started construction of two third-generation nuclear power plants and have experience in construction of four reactors. Although these four reactors have not yet been put into production, compared with us, they have accumulated sufficient experience." Uchida Yu reported to Kobayashi Dohiko.

"Damn the big earthquake!" Kobayashi said hatefully, "If it weren't for the big earthquake, our reactor had already begun to be built. I believe we would have been able to do better than the Chinese."

"I think so too." Yuuchi Uchida responded indifferently. He asked someone to inquire about the two third-generation nuclear power plants built in China, and the news he got was that the manufacturing level of Chinese companies was very high, and the domestic production rate of nuclear power equipment reached more than 90%, which was far higher than the level of Sanli Steel Factory. The equipment manufactured by Chinese companies looked no different from the equipment imported from abroad, and it was no longer the shoddy ones that decades ago.

We taught the Chinese people step by step to carry out comprehensive quality management, and we taught the Chinese people exquisite production technology. Now, they have become our biggest competitors with what they have learned from us.

Yuuchi Uchida thought sadly in his heart. When he recalled the bankruptcy of the Iketani Manufacturing Institute, he vaguely felt that the Sanli Steel Institute might be doomed this time.

"Uchida, you can lead the negotiation team to the UK and compete with the Chinese. I believe that Japan's industrial level is more trustworthy, and the British will make the right choice." Kobayashi Daohiko didn't know Yuu Uchida's inner thoughts, so he still trusted Yuu Uchida very much, so he made such an arrangement.
Chapter completed!