industrial overlord

Chapter 661 Responding to the Challenge
"This is the minutes of the St. Tropez meeting obtained by the national security department through internal channels. Please pass it on to everyone."

In the large conference room of Hanhua Group headquarters, Lin Zhenhua sat at the head of the conference table and said to the executives in the room.

Bi Min, director of the office, took a stack of materials and distributed them to all the participants in turn.These participants are either the bosses of various branches, or the heads of the core departments of the group.With the continuous expansion of Hanhua's business, there are as many as 50 people who are eligible to participate in the office meeting of the group headquarters. This is because some executives did not come here in other places.

The information Bi Min sent to everyone, as Lin Zhenhua said, was the minutes of the secret meeting held by Khedira in Saint-Tropez. According to Chen Tian who provided the information to Lin Zhenhua, it was obtained by their insiders through secret channels. .Although Lin Zhenhua has always known that the security department has great powers, he is still very shocked by this matter.He really couldn't think of what kind of informant would reveal information in such a meeting where there were very few participants and everyone knew each other.

Chen Tian insisted on refusing to disclose his source of information, which is also understandable for Lin Zhenhua, this is the characteristic of his work.After receiving the information, he and Xiang Zhe first read it through, feeling both a little shocked and a little relieved.

They were shocked because they did not expect Khedira to have such deep resentment towards Hanhua, and the moves they proposed were more and more sinister. If all these moves are used, Hanhua will definitely suffer some losses .

They were relieved because they were more or less psychologically prepared for this matter.As early as two years ago, Chen Tian warned them that European companies might take measures to contain Chinese companies.This is a bit like the story of throwing shoes. The first shoe has already been thrown down. They have been waiting for the second shoe for two years. When they heard that there was finally movement on the floor, their hearts were relieved. up.

Some things come sooner or later.Fortunately, due to the arrogance of European companies, this matter was postponed for two years.These two years are enough for Hanhua to make a lot of preparations.

"Everyone, let's take a look. However, these materials are top secret, so there is no need to repeat the discipline of secrecy?" said Xiang Zhe, who was sitting next to Lin Zhenhua.In fact, this sentence is completely redundant. The people in this conference room are all members of the top decision-making level of the group. Among them, Fang Yanwu and Cen Youjun have already become the chairman of two listed companies. people.Xiang Zhe said this to ease the atmosphere and save everyone from being too nervous.

"What's the matter with this Khedira?" Zhen Zifei, who has become the general manager of Hunbei Forging Machine Tool Factory, asked in surprise, "President Lin, when did you offend him? Judging from the minutes of this meeting, the whole The thing is that he is jumping up and down alone, and the others are a little bit half-pushed."

This involves Chen Tian's channels for obtaining information. No matter how powerful the security department is, it cannot develop an executive from a large European company into his insider.But after the Saint-Tropez meeting, a Chinese business reporter in the West inadvertently contacted several executives who had attended the meeting, and learned about the topics discussed at the meeting from their mouths.These executives were very concerned about the interviewer's Chinese identity, so they deliberately said more than what they said.

As for the thoughts of these leakers, Chen Tian guessed a little bit after reading the information afterwards, that is, they tried to send a message to the Chinese side through this Chinese reporter: European companies are going to jointly block Chinese companies, but this matter... It was planned by Khedira of ALK. We were just out of helplessness. After all, we are all European companies, and it is not suitable for us to not fit in.As for our feelings towards China, there is no doubt about it.

In fact, among Chinese companies, it is also very common to be in two boats like this.In business, there are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, everything depends on interests.For European companies, the Chinese market is so important now, and no one wants to be hated by the Chinese. ALK intends to take the lead to deal with the Chinese, and everyone is willing to take this free ride, but the ride is a ride, and some things still need to say hello to the Chinese first.As for whether this is to sell ALK, everyone can't care about it.You convened the meeting, so you should have the awareness to stand up for everyone.

Hearing what Donnie Yen said, Lin Zhenhua chuckled and said, "Zifei, how much have you seen just now? Let me reveal some serious information. According to more reliable information, last year the Somali pirates were ordered to attack Hanyuan No. 4 ship. , is this Khedira."

"what!"

This material was really strong enough, everyone looked up from the material they were looking at and looked at Lin Zhenhua.Lin Zhenhua waved his hand and said: "This matter is not the final conclusion. The security department has inquired about it, but I suggest that they don't need to continue to investigate. The fact that we provided generator sets to the Equatorial Power Plant in Goma is considered to have activated ALK. Cheese, it’s no wonder people are happy. As you know, thermal power equipment is ALK’s traditional strength, but since we provided equipment for Goma, last year we grabbed the most in the African and Latin American markets. ALK's nearly $60 billion order.

Of course, our Hanhua family did not take these orders. We only got the part of the gas turbine, and the bulk was taken by several companies such as Xingbei Heavy Machinery.However, for ALK, that was a solid loss of 60 billion real money.You said, is the bridge we formed with ALK considered a big one? "

He Fei, director of the marketing department of the group, added: "We have researched and found that ALK suffered a large loss last year. One of the direct reasons was the loss of these orders for thermal power generation. Of course, they also lost a lot of orders for petrochemicals. Big, thanks to Lao Fang and the others. According to our estimates, if ALK cannot effectively reverse the decline in sales, they will fall into a serious financial crisis within three years at most, and bankruptcy is not out of the question. matter."

"Things like cutting off people's wealth, in ancient times, would be bloody and bloody." Donnie Yen said witty words.

"It's bloody now." Yang Chao, the general manager of the steam turbine company, said carelessly, "However, we can't help it. If ALK can't live up to it, they have been engaged in gas turbines for decades, and they are not as good as us, a rising star. The technology is not as good as others , then you can’t blame others, can you?”

"Understood." Donnie Yen said, pointing to the minutes of the St. Tropez meeting in his hand, and said, "Lao Yang, did you see that this Khedira is talking about raising the cost of patent licensing in an all-round way. You guys Does the gas turbine produced by the steam turbine company use ALK's patented technology? If so, be careful that it gets stuck in your neck."

Yang Chao smiled and said: "Don't tell me, when we first made steam turbines, we were apprentices from ALK. At that time, our chief engineer Zhang took the information provided by ALK and made the prototype of the first steam turbine. Our current The gas turbine also uses a lot of ALK's patents, but there is no need to pay for the patent fee."

"Are you actually doing piracy?" Donnie Yen asked.

"How is that possible?" Chao Yang said triumphantly, "It was the honeymoon period of our cooperation at that time, and these patents were transferred to us by ALK for free according to the agreement. I thought about it, and now ALK is so regretful. "

"It's not all the patents. In fact, the technology we developed ourselves is the most important. Those patents of ALK are no longer the key technologies." Lin Zhenhua said.This matter was coaxed and tricked by him back then, and ALK could be regarded as a villain.However, due to domestic affairs, ALK interrupted the technology transfer to Hanhua, forcing Hanhua to invest a lot of money to develop related technologies by itself.Later, Hanhua got the guidance of the gas turbine expert Bures from Ukraine, which formed today's gas turbine technology.

Hu Gui, head of the Group's planning and operation department, interrupted the rambling chatter of everyone. He is a very pragmatic person, and he went straight to the point when he spoke: "I don't think we need to care too much about Khedira. After all, he It’s just a clown. I think, whether there is Khedira or not, after Hanhua develops, collisions with advanced European and American companies are inevitable. We should think more about how to deal with this challenge. As for the specific Who is the opponent is the second level that needs to be considered."

"Old Hu is right, let's ask Lao Hu to explain this to everyone." Xiang Zhe said.

Everyone fell silent and turned their attention to Hu Gui.Hu Wei spread out a notebook and said to everyone: "Before the meeting, Mr. Lin has already shown me the minutes. I sorted it out roughly, and the other party's methods include the following:

First, they intend to carry out some joint technical development to achieve technology sharing.Regarding this article, I think there is not much threat to us.European companies also have conflicts of interest among themselves. Even if they want to cooperate, they will only form some loose alliances. The level of cooperation is far inferior to our chemical equipment alliance and machine tool industry alliance.This alliance is more symbolic than practical, and we need not worry about it. "

"Old Hu is right. The conflicts between European companies may be far greater than the conflicts between them and us, so we don't have to worry too much." Xiang Zhe nodded and said.

"The second point is that they plan to hold our necks in terms of high-end accessories. This item still poses some threats to us, especially for the machine tool company. By the way, the same is true for Mr. Zhen's forging machine tools. The dependence on accessories is also relatively high." Hu Gui nodded to Cen Youjun and Donnie Yen respectively, meaning that they need to respond to this.

(End of this chapter)