Jacob walked out of the office building with a smirk on his face, and the sweat on his back hadn't dried yet. At this meeting just now, he can be regarded as experiencing the two heavens of ice and fire. From worrying that he would be sent to the Chinese version of Siberia for labor reform, to accepting the appointment of the Canglong Research Institute with an annual salary of 120,000 yuan, the rapid change of identity made his brain, which is accustomed to logical thinking, go down for a long time.

"Is this guy worth the price?" Tang Zifeng asked Qin Zhongnian in private.

"It's worth it, it's worth it!" Qin Zhongnian couldn't keep his mouth shut, "He has a lot of ideas in machine tool research, but he lacks the opportunity for practical application." Such a talent will be wasted in Russia, and it will definitely come in handy when it comes to us. ”

"I mean, isn't the price of 120,000 yuan a year too high?" Mr. Tang said.

Qin Zhongnian glared: "What are you talking about! We are now hiring a foreign expert at random, at least 50,000 to 80,000 US dollars, you can do the math, how much is this yuan? You said 120,000 yuan a year, I was really afraid that Yakob would lift the table at that time!"

Tang Zifeng said with a smile: "If you can save a little, Russia is very poor now, give him 120,000 a year, he can't be happy, how can he flip the table? Wait for him to come over, see the size of his contribution, if there is a contribution, give a year-end bonus of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, isn't this also an incentive measure?"

arranged for someone to take Jakob away, and Tang Zifeng immediately asked Han Weichang to bring Frolov and Avakiyan over. The conversation with Frolov, naturally, could not have taken place in this temporary interrogation room. Tang Zifeng found a small conference room, and the only people who accompanied him to the meeting were Zhang Jianyang and Han Weichang.

"Mr. Frolov, Mr. Avakiyan, please be seated. We had a small meeting today, and I didn't even let her participate in the interpreter, Miss Liu, so that we could talk openly and honestly, what do you think?"

After Han Weichang closed the door of the conference room, Tang Zifeng said straight to the point.

Frolov subconsciously glanced at Avakiyan, then shook his head at Tang Zifeng, pointed to his ear, and said with Chinese: "Comrade, I don't know ......"

Tang Zifeng sneered: "It doesn't matter if you don't know, Mr. Avakyan, please explain it to Mr. Frolov? Don't tell me that you don't know either." ”

Avakiyan's face turned red all at once, and he didn't know how to answer. Frolov saw that something was wrong, he asked Avakiyan in Russian, Avakiyan replied a few words, Frolov was silent for a moment, nodded to him, Avakiyan then looked at Tang Zifeng, and said in not very fluent Chinese: "Mr. Tang, I'm very sorry, I do know a little bit of Chinese, but only a little, I'm afraid it will be difficult to undertake the work of translation." ”

"Enough. Tang Zifeng said with a smile.

Jakob had already confessed to him, saying that this Avakyan studied Chinese when he was in college, and in the early years he was in charge of trade with China at the Petrov Machine Tool Factory, and his Chinese level was very good.

When Frolov came to China to do business, of course, it was impossible not to bring someone who knew Chinese with him, otherwise he would not know what was going on when he was abducted by human traffickers to the black coal kiln. In front of the negotiating client, Frolov deliberately concealed the fact that Avakiyan understood Chinese, in order to make the client mistakenly believe that several of them could not understand Chinese, so that he would inadvertently exchange opinions in Chinese in front of them.

Once Avakiyan overhears the other party's internal opinions, he can tell Frolov in private, and Frolov can determine his own negotiation strategy based on the other party's hole cards.

Frolov's hand deceived Zhao Xinggen and Tang Zifeng, but he was unexpectedly recognized by Han Weichang.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Tang, we didn't mean to deceive you. Although Mr. Avakiyan does know a little Chinese, he has not used it for many years. In matters involving the cooperation between the two sides, I was worried that his Chinese level was not enough, and he misunderstood your opinion, resulting in an undue misunderstanding between the two sides, so I did not explain this, but asked you to hire a more professional translator to do the translation work. ”

Despite being exposed by the other party, Frolov was not embarrassed, and pretended to be calm to find a reason for himself, trying to fool the matter over.

In his heart, of course, he knew that the exposure of this matter would be very unfavorable to him, which would affect the negotiation atmosphere between himself and the Linji Group, and the other party would be more vigilant against himself because of this, and he would have to make up more lies to bluff the other party.

Do you want to say that you and *** are high school classmates?

Uh, that's a bit too much, maybe it's going to be a goof......

What Frolov didn't expect was that Tang Zifeng didn't dwell on this issue, but as if he didn't care at all, he asked another question: "Mr. Frolov, I want to know, what is the current CNC machine tool production capacity of your factory?"

Avakiyan had accepted the reality and began to act as a translator for both sides, relaying Tang Zifeng's words to Frolov.

"Capacity?" Frolov's mind ran too far and he didn't think back to it for a moment. He sank for a moment, and then said with a solemn expression: "In terms of production capacity, to be honest, affected by the economic situation in Russia, our production capacity has lost a lot, and the current annual output of CNC machine tools is less than 1,000 units." ”

"Are you sure that Mr. Frolov is talking about less than 1,000 units?"

After listening to Avakiyan's translation, Tang Zifeng asked Avakiyan.

Avakiyan's face turned red again, he didn't dare to face Tang Zifeng's gaze, and said in a snort: "Yes, that's what Director Frolov said. ”

"Yes, less than 1,000 units is also true. So, is it 100 units, or 10 units, or is it completely discontinued?" Tang Zifeng asked in a teasing tone.

"Mr. Don, I don't understand what you mean!" Frolov said with a sinking face.

"Don't understand what I mean?" Tang Zifeng said with a smile, "According to the statistics of the Russian Machine Tool Association in November last year, in the first eight months of 2003, the output of CNC machine tools in Russia was only 80 units, I want to ask, how many of them are produced by your factory?"

"No, it can't be!" Frolov finally panicked, no longer the calm and calm appearance of the bull fork.

Han Weichang pushed a piece of fax paper across the conference table, which was a copy of a Russian periodical, and sent it by fax, and the handwriting on it was already a little unclear. However, Frolov can still see the key content at a glance, which is the statistic that Tang Zifeng said.

"Editor, you go ahead and make it up for me!" Tang Zifeng pointed at Frolov and scolded.

"This matter, it may be a misunderstanding...... "Sweat was pouring from the top of Frolov's head, indicating that his brain was overclocking, and the water-cooled fan was starting to work.

"Misunderstand your sister!"

Tang Zifeng interrupted Avakiyan's translation, and as for whether the other party's Chinese level was enough to understand what "sister" was, Tang Zifeng couldn't care.

"Frolov, I see that you are also a handful of old people, your old man has also been an expert in aiding China, an international communist fighter, you are also a good seedling, and you ran to China with a shy face to cheat and deceive, are you suitable?" Tang Zifeng turned on the mode of harming people, and suddenly deducted a bunch of hats from the other party.

Avakiyan had a bitter face and muttered a few words to Han Weichang in a low voice, roughly saying that Tang Zifeng had said too many stalks, which were beyond the scope of his knowledge. Han Weichang couldn't help but laugh, and turned Tang Zifeng's words into a more popular one, and Avakiyan translated to Frolov, and quietly told Frolov that this Mr. Tang seemed to be angry and the situation was serious.

"I'm sorry about that. Frolov stood up and owed a slight debt to Tang Zifeng and the others. The expression on his face had calmed down again, because he already knew that the other party had figured everything out, and it was completely futile for him to try to clear his name.

At this moment, he also thought clearly, the cooperation with Linji must have been in vain, but Linji couldn't do anything with him. What he is most worried about now is to ask him to compensate for the cost of food and lodging for the past few days. I drank a box of two pots and a good wine with a red cover and a green label for water, and I don't know how much it is worth. If you want to compensate in full, I don't know if the money I brought with me on this trip is enough.

"I'm sorry, if the apology is useful, what do you want the police to do?" Tang Zifeng waved his hand.

"Police?" Avakiyan was stunned, "Mr. Tang, you said police?"

"I didn't say the police. Tang Zifeng flatly denied it, "I want to ask Frolov what he plans to do?"

"We can compensate you for your losses, I mean, if the wine we drink is not particularly expensive......" Frolov said timidly. A penny is difficult for a hero, and he is really afraid that Tang Zifeng will open his mouth, saying that it is Niulanshan in 1840, and he will ask for three or five hundred dollars per bottle.

The Petrov Machine Tool Factory is now on the verge of bankruptcy, and he, as the director of the factory, does not have much money in his hands, so he really can't afford to lose it.

"A few bottles of wine,...... More on that later. ”

Tang Zifeng originally wanted to say that it didn't matter how many bottles of wine there were, but he changed it to "I'll talk about it later", and he said to Frolov: "Mr. Frolov, what I want to ask is, how do you think about the cooperation between our two sides? If you are willing to cooperate with us, not to mention that the wine money in the past will be written off, even if you will be given a few more cases of wine, what is the difficulty?"

"Cooperation, you mean, you still want to cooperate with us?" Frolov froze.

Tang Zifeng said: "Of course we want to cooperate with you. If I don't want to cooperate with you, what am I doing with you here? It's just that you don't want to fool us with any nonsense like CNC technology and Japan and Germany, and you honestly say that you have any resources that you can use for us. If your resources are really useful, we won't treat you badly. ”