After Chen Yiyang introduced his identity.

He saw Luobu's cousin's expression instantly become eager.

Soon, Luobu's cousin pulled Chen Yiyang into another room for a private chat.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Schaefer, and I'm a middleman."

"Middleman?"

"You can think of it as a broker." The other party candidly revealed his identity.

They say there's no personal affection abroad.

That's true; everyone is purely about interests. At least in the old European business environment, if you don't feed all the local "heroes," you can't get anything done.

To open a factory, if you don't feed the environmental agencies, review agencies, and various miscellaneous associations, organizations, and institutes, you can't even drive a nail into the ground.

Take Tesla's factory in Germany, for example. It's been years, and the factory still hasn't been built.

Even American businessmen can't understand the tangled and extremely complex web of interest organizations in Europe.

So how do Europeans do business?

The answer is relying on brokers.

If you want to open a factory, the resistance on the surface can be investigated, and you just need to clear it.

But behind the scenes, all sorts of environmental organizations and animal protection organizations won't ask you for money directly. Instead, they will start by shouting slogans and organizing protests to make it impossible for you to proceed.

At this point, you need to find those professional brokers who are often mingling at various charity galas and upper-class society.

Give them the money to operate, and you'll soon find those previous issues are no longer issues.

Schaefer is the one who does this kind of thing.

He mingles at various high society banquets, meets all kinds of people, and understands different needs.

Then when someone encounters trouble, they show up to collect money and help those people solve their problems.

If a factory can't operate due to harassment from environmental organizations, it's useless for the factory owner to give money directly to the environmental organizations; they won't accept it.

But giving money to the broker, who finds ways to give it to the environmental organizations for various reasons, and they will accept it.

This is also why Europe has been unable to produce large companies in emerging fields over the last few decades.

Just feeding the batch of contacts behind the brokers is enough to make these companies' operating costs several times that of Huaxia or United States companies.

Then there's no way they could compete.

"I have a batch of military clients who need to order large quantities of these mechanical dogs. But there are too few of these mechanical dogs sold in Europe, so we need to place an order directly with the factory."

"You mean the German military wants to buy these civilian mechanical dogs?"

"No, no, no, not the German military." Schaefer patiently explained to Chen Yiyang, "It's the United Kingdom military. The UK military will purchase them, then paint them with infrared-resistant military paint in Germany, and finally send them to Ukraine."

"Why make it so complicated?" Chen Yiyang was a bit puzzled.

If these things can truly be used on the battlefield, can't Ukraine just directly procure mechanical dogs and infrared-resistant paint from Yushu and modify them themselves?

"Because this money is coming from Europe, and Ukraine has no money." Schaefer explained to Chen Yiyang, "Ukraine needs a lot of weapons, and Europe has agreed to provide Ukraine with substantial military aid, but this military aid has to be used to purchase weapons within Europe and then ship them to Ukraine.

However, there are not many weapons available for sale locally in Europe, so with so much military aid, we need some special projects to consume this budget. These mechanical dogs look intelligent and are indeed useful on the battlefield.

We can't openly say that we're aiding Ukraine with mechanical dogs produced in Huaxia. So we need the UK as the intermediary and then do some modifications in Germany."

"Wait a minute, so how much are these things you're selling to Ukraine?"

"Seven thousand euros each," Schaefer replied.

Chen Yiyang calculated the exchange rate.

Seven thousand euros, roughly fifty-three thousand RMB.

While Yushu Technology sells these mechanical dogs externally at only ten thousand RMB each.

The coating paint sold to others earns five times the profit.

No wonder Schaefer is so keen on bulk purchasing.

The exorbitant military aid Europe offers to Ukraine would never be spent without something like this to consume it.

"Can I see the modified mechanical dogs you're selling to Ukraine?" Chen Yiyang asked out of curiosity.

"No problem." The other party showed Chen Yiyang pictures.

Comparative images of mechanical dogs originally produced by Yushu Technology and those sold to Ukraine by Europe (upper image shows the original mechanical dogs, lower image shows screenshots from Ukraine's promotional video).

They really just applied a coat of paint, didn't even scrape off the logo properly.

Chen Yiyang was somewhat speechless.

Back then, when people in Huaxia made fake chips, they would at least scrape off the company's logo.

These guys don't even bother to cover it up.

"So, can we achieve the bulk supply we're asking for?"

"No problem." Chen Yiyang knew that Yushu Technology had quite a few civilian mechanical dogs stockpiled in some warehouses domestically.

If Schaefer wanted the higher performance and more expensive industrial version mechanical dogs, Yushu Technology wouldn't be able to produce them for a while.

But they indeed had plenty of civilian versions stockpiled.

"Will there be any change in price?"

"We will sell them to you at the original price."

Chen Yiyang didn't plan on raising prices.

Without a markup, it's a normal civilian version export; with a markup, it would involve interest collusion.

Chen Yiyang didn't want to cause trouble for himself.

"Thanks so much, we can immediately send someone to Huaxia to sign the order and pay the deposit."

Schaefer had previously asked Luobu about Chen Yiyang's identity.

Upon learning that Chen Yiyang was a mysterious second-generation investor with a bit of fame online in Huaxia, he had no doubt about Chen Yiyang's words.

That's why he dared to speak so clearly.

Chen Yiyang was Luobu's friend, and Schaefer was Luobu's cousin.

This is a network of connection.

Although Chen Yiyang wasn't considered one of his inside people, he was still trustworthy.

In Europe, doing business places great importance on this.

Similar to the ancient merchant concept of valuing a person's clean background and clear roots.

If Chen Yiyang had no connection with Luobu and approached Fisher directly to talk about mechanical dogs, Fisher probably wouldn't have uttered a single honest word, nor would he talk about where these mechanical dogs would be sold.

After finishing the conversation with Fisher, the two returned to the family banquet.

Luobu didn't bother to ask what Chen Yiyang and Fisher talked about just now.

He only asked whether Chen Yiyang planned to take a tour in Frankfurt tomorrow.

"Are there any good tourist spots in Frankfurt?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Of course there are," Fisher chimed in from the side, "The famous Frankfurt Main Station."

"Shut up, don't tell the guests about that place."

As soon as Fisher finished speaking, Luobu's mother, who was tidying up dishes beside, gave him a slap on the back of his head.

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