Sidney was obviously confused by the situation in front of him, what's the matter, he came uninvited today, this large group of people came to welcome him, and how did they know that they were coming?

Although Sidney felt that today's welcome formation made him very face-saving, he was inevitably a little weak in his heart, why should the soft alliance welcome himself, his own doubts at the black hat conference are simply an insult to the soft alliance, and they should hate themselves.

Sidney didn't have time to think about it, for the crowd was rushing to him, so he dressed up and took a gentlemanly and dignified step, ready to shake hands deeply with those who welcomed him.

The employees of the Soft Alliance who rushed forward, there were also a few sharp-eyed ones, who recognized Sidney at a glance, so they shouted, "He is Sidney!", and the employees of the Soft Alliance did not know Sidney, a group of people stood there, and their hearts were straight and unlucky, how could the mayor become a hacker in the blink of an eye! These people glared at Sidney hatefully twice, and began to walk back, and there were several "Bah!Bah!" in the crowd.

The square, which was still very lively just now, suddenly deserted, Sidney stood there awkwardly, he couldn't figure out how the people who welcomed him came to him, but he returned, could it be that he was air, didn't they see it?

On the opposite side of Sidney, Liu Xiao and Shang Yue were standing, the two of them didn't go back, but they didn't step forward either, they just looked at Sidney, the meaning was already obvious, the soft alliance did not welcome Sidney!

After looking at each other for nearly a minute, Sidney couldn't stand it at first, coughed twice, walked to Shang Yue's side, and said with a smile on his face: "Miss Shang Yue, you are more beautiful! I'm Sidney, we met at the Black Hat Conference, you should remember me!", Sidney wanted to hide his embarrassment, he preferred to believe that the Soft Alliance didn't welcome him, because they hadn't recognized who they were.

"I remember you, the famous hacker aristocrat, I will never forget you for the rest of my life!" Shang Yue said coldly, she still clearly remembers the expressions of everyone when they suspected that the soft alliance was a ghost on the machine, a person has to prove his innocence in front of so many people, that feeling, Shang Yue will never forget.

Sidney touched his nose and had to turn to Liu Xiao again, "This is Mr. Liu Xiao, fortunately!", Sidney took the initiative to reach out his hand.

Liu Xiao only shook him lightly, and then let go, "I don't know if Mr. Sidney is here, what advice do you have?"

Sidney didn't see that Liu Xiao and the others were standing downstairs and had something to do, and said, "I don't dare to advise, I have some questions and want to ask Mr. Liu for advice." Sidney saw that the crowd was not a place to speak, so he said: "If Mr. Liu is free, we might as well find a secluded place to talk in detail!"

"I'm really sorry, it's a bit unfortunate today, I just have something very important to do now!" Liu Xiaoshun pointed to the people around him and said, "Another day! I will definitely listen to Mr. Sidney's teachings another day!"

Liu Xiao is also telling the truth, although he doesn't have a good impression of Sidney, but the basic etiquette will not be lost. But when these words heard to Sidney's ears, it was not like that, he was snubbed by the soft alliance today, and he had reached the limit of his patience, which had never happened before.

Sidney looked at Liu Xiao, "Before coming to China, I heard that Chinese is very hospitable and a country of etiquette, so I ,...... look at it today."

"It depends on who is right, we have a saying in China, it is called 'friends come with good wine, jackals come with shotguns.'" ', Mr. Sidney, do you think we are friends?" Liu Xiao didn't bother to entangle with him now, now whoever has the time to take care of you, you can think as you like.

Liu Xiao's words made Sidney dumb at once, and the soft alliance can still talk to himself politely now, it seems that it is enough to save face, but if someone who is very disgusted by him comes to the door, he will probably have swept him out of the house at this time.

Just now, someone shouted, "The mayor is here!", and I saw a car rush into the square in front of the building, and when I looked at the license plate, I knew that it was ZF's car, and it seemed that this time I would not be mistaken.

"I'm sorry, I'm missing!" Liu Xiao said, leaving Sidney aside and walking straight towards the mayor's car, followed by the employees of the Soft Alliance.

Sidney is miserable now, he wants to leave, but he is unwilling to leave like this, he is a nobleman, and now he is swept away, it is not a glorious thing. After he hesitated, he saw a lot of people getting off the car over there, and after Liu Xiao passed, he first shook hands with the person who was surrounded by everyone in the middle, and then shook hands with others one by one, and finally led a group of people to walk over to this side.

Passing by Sidney's car and those black bodyguards, the mayor's entourage couldn't help but wonder for a while, when did Haicheng have such a good character, even the bodyguards drove away, and they were all black big guys.

After everyone walked in front of Sidney, Sidney understood, it seems that Liu Xiao was not prevaricating himself just now, they do have important things to do today, he can't help but regret a little, why is he so troubled, he knew that when he was polite just now, he just left, but he wanted to have one more mouth, now it's good, it's not good to go by himself, it's not interesting to go.

The mayor stood under the building, spoke a few words, and then took the sign from his assistant, and then solemnly handed it to Liu Xiao, with two lines written on the sign, "Haicheng ZF Network Security Cooperation Unit;

"Do a good job, the city is very optimistic about you, and I hope you can build the soft alliance into a world-renowned brand!" the mayor earnestly instructed, "to make greater contributions to the network security construction of Haicheng!"

"Please rest assured, the mayor will go all out!" Liu Xiao took the sign with a smile, held it up and showed it to everyone, and the employees of the soft alliance immediately fired a salute and released a large number of balloons.

In the past six months, the soft alliance has to make some movement every three or five times, and other companies in the building have long been accustomed to this, as soon as they heard the movement downstairs, they knew that the soft alliance had something good again, and they didn't go to verify, so they directly picked up the phone and began to order flower baskets, ready to go over to congratulate them for a while.

The mayor then handed over an order to Liu Xiao in front of the media, in fact, this order has already been received by the soft alliance, and the city did this to make the ceremony more grand.

The ceremony was over, Liu Xiao handed over the sign and order to the others behind him, and then led the mayor into the building, ready to take the mayor to visit the soft alliance.

The people in the square were quickly gone, only Sidney and his entourage were left, Sidney would be really bored if he stayed any longer, he turned around and walked towards his car, it seemed that he had come at a bad time today.

The business director quickly sent someone to find out the reason for the matter, and this time he really let him guess, in some places ZF did reach an agreement with some companies, as long as they placed an order with the soft alliance, the part that exceeded the amount of ZF, these companies will repurchase according to the double price of the soft alliance, which means that the more the number of orders, the cheaper ZF in these places, and even they will not spend a penny on the purchase of equipment, but also have to earn. Someone pays to help them update their network security equipment, such a good thing, of course, everyone is willing to do it, and it would be a fool not to do it.

However, this can stump Liu Xiao, on the surface, the soft alliance has received a lot of large orders, but in fact, it is a kind of harm to the interests of the soft alliance, the more it receives, the less the soft alliance profits.

"Mr. Liu, what should we do now!" The business director was still waiting for Liu Xiao to come up with an idea.

"You make me think about it, this matter can't be hasty!" Liu Xiao pinched his chin and thought about the solution to the problem.

"I have let the people under my hands figure it out, most of those companies are foreign-funded backgrounds, I think they must want to resell our products overseas, the difference in profit is too big!" After the business director finished speaking, he said: "However, there are good and bad things in this matter, the disadvantage is that it damages our interests, and the advantage is that it can prove that our products are very marketable overseas and have great demand, otherwise these companies will not repurchase at double the price." ”

"That's why I said that this matter can't be decided hastily, we have to come up with a safe way!" Liu Xiao frowned, this matter is really difficult to do, ZF's order must not be refused, but it is not easy to reduce the number of orders for ZF, these ZF originally planned to rely on the extra quantity to reduce ZF's own expenses. If they want to raise prices, they can't agree to it, and if they can't do it, they will have to lose the good situation that has just been created in China.

"Why don't we set a regional IP restriction for him like last time?" asked Liu Xiao, the business director.

Liu Xiao shook his head, "That's different, the security platform of the software needs to be updated every day, and the update frequency of the hardware firewall is very low, and it is difficult to achieve automatic updates, more often it needs to be manually updated, so it is difficult to work with IP restrictions!" Besides, this is different from the situation last time, last time our products were free, we didn't charge, so we could naturally refuse to provide services, but this time those people paid first, and the products that paid for them, if you don't provide services, you can't say it, it will affect our reputation!"

"What about price reduction?" the business director looked at Liu Xiao, "After the price reduction, they have no profit margin, so they won't resell!"

"Hehe!" Liu Xiao laughed, "If it's going to be the same price, then don't we have to beg people to buy our products?"

The business director has a headache, but too, the price has dropped, and there will indeed be no reselling, because that is the purchase, and I should be looking forward to buying more people, "Then we have to come up with an emergency plan first, those orders will soon be placed in the company, and delaying is not a way!"

"That's it!" Liu Xiao gritted his teeth, "You go to a few media outlets, let the wind out, and say that the actual production cost of our products is only four or five thousand US dollars, and it is estimated that there will be a big price reduction soon." ”

The business director felt a good deal and said: "Then let's say 5,000 US dollars, so that the price of 40,000 yuan in China is relatively close, so as not to make people think that we are profiteering, otherwise customers feel that they are too much to lose, and they will not order our products!"

"In addition, the number of all orders will be publicized on the website!" Liu Xiao said, "How many sets of security products are needed in each city, that is a number, and a discerning person will know what is going on at a glance!"

"That's not good!" disagrees the business executive.

"We don't evade taxes, we are not afraid of others knowing, besides, we have not gone through any agent links, and we will not damage the interests of agents!" Liu Xiao finished speaking, "We can't announce the list made by the agent, and the price of the transaction can't be announced, only the number is announced!"

"I'm not talking about this!" The business director is an old man, and said in a low voice: "I mean we publish the number of customer orders, which is not good! We can not care, but what about others?"

Liu Xiao pinched his forehead, how could he forget this, this is also a customer's secret, scheming people can find out a lot of information from this number, besides, some enterprises will inevitably have the move of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall when they have difficulty in capital turnover, and all the funds are leveled through some large inconsistencies. Liu Xiao was helpless, so he had no choice but to say: "Forget about the announcement of the figures, you go and arrange the media first, as for the better way, let's discuss it slowly!"

"Okay!" the business director nodded, "Then I'll go!"

"Also, after the media releases the wind, no matter how they speculate, our people can't make any comments on it, and if necessary, we have to create some wrong news for them!" Liu Xiao bit his lip, "We have to let those who plan to resell our products have some scruples!"

"I understand this, I'll arrange it!" said the business director, and went out to get busy.

"Mr. Liu!" As soon as the business director left, the reception MM walked in again, "Sidney just called and asked if you were free, and he wanted to talk to you!"

Liu Xiao frowned, he had already left Sidney outside yesterday, why did he call again today, it was really strange, the soft alliance could have something to do with him.

"Mr. Liu, is he still waiting for a reply, can you see him?" asked the reception MM.

Liu Xiao thought about it, and felt that it was better to see him, everyone took the initiative to come to the door, no matter how annoying he was, he would give people a chance to speak, "You let him come to the company tomorrow morning!"

"Okay!" MM replied, turning around and going out to reply to Sidney.

The first thing Liu Xiao did after going to work the next day was to ask the company to send a so-called misinformation, and the price was reduced by a symbolic $10,000 from $400,000. According to Liu Xiao, he would rather earn $10,000 less than let others earn the $390,000 that belonged to him.

The office was busy for a while, and the reception MM came to inform him that Sidney was here.

Liu Xiao had to put down what he was doing and went out into the small conference room, Sidney was already sitting in it drinking coffee, unlike yesterday, his bodyguards did not come. What made Liu Xiao feel envious was Sidney's posture of sitting there drinking coffee, which was extremely elegant, showing his aristocratic demeanor and good cultivation everywhere.

"Hello, Mr. Sidney!" Liu Xiao stretched out his hand to Sidney, "I'm very sorry to let you run again today!"

"Hello!" Sidney got up, shook hands with Liu Xiao, and said, "I don't blame you for yesterday's incident, it's because I didn't say hello in advance!"

"Please sit down!" Liu Xiao stretched out his hand to greet him, and asked, "Mr. Sidney is looking for me, I don't know what advice I have?"

"Mr. Liu is too polite, I can't talk about advice, but I have a few questions I want to ask Mr. Liu!" Sidney did not sit down, but continued: "But before asking, I want to apologize to the soft alliance for my performance at the black hat conference last time, I am unreasonably accused and suspicious, this feeling is very uncomfortable, I regret my behavior at that time, I formally apologize to you! Please forgive me!" Sidney finished speaking, and bowed slightly to Liu Xiao, even if it was an apology.

However, this was completely unexpected by Liu Xiao, it is said that Sidney has never said a word of convincing since he was born, and it is too difficult to make him apologize. So Liu Xiao didn't react for a while.

Sidney seemed to have completed a task, and after apologizing, the whole person relaxed a lot, and sat down with a smile, "I also have to congratulate Mr. Liu, your strategic level products have achieved great success, I believe that it will not be long before your strategic level will become a new standard in the world security industry!"

"Thank you!" Liu Xiao reacted at this time, said politely, and sat down.

"Although I don't think I'm the most talented hacker in the world, I believe that there are not many people in this world who can surpass me, but since I saw the products of SoftAlliance at the Black Hat Conference, I know how lonely I am. After the hacking in Estonia, I was even more convinced of your technical skills!"

Liu Xiao wondered, what's going on with this Sidney, who came all the way to fill himself with ecstasy soup?

"'There are people outside of men, and there are heavens outside of heaven. This Chinese proverb was told to me by an old friend of mine!" Sidney looked at Liu Xiao, "Mr. Liu must know this friend of mine too!"

"Are you talking about Mr. Qian Wanneng?" Liu Xiao was startled, he suddenly remembered what Qian Wanneng had talked about here, at that time he thought it was made up, and then after figuring out the real reason why he wanted to act as an agent for Soft Alliance products, Liu Xiao forgot about it, and now it seems that this Sidney really knows Qian Wanneng, and his ancestors are really pirates.

Sidney nodded, which was an answer to Liu Xiao's question, "This friend of mine also has a saying that is often said, called 'People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and you must be low-key.'" I didn't understand it before, but now I do. ”

Liu Xiao was confused, what did Sidney want to say, so he asked, "Mr. Sidney, aren't you here just to talk to me about Mr. Qian?"

Sidney shook his head with a smile, "It's just that I suddenly felt something!" After speaking, he spread his hands, "Okay, let's get down to business!" I think Mr. Liu must have been very busy lately, are there many people who are trying their best to get your products at low prices?"

Liu Xiao's color changed suddenly, how could Sidney know these things, did he know the details of those people, or rather, he knew who launched the attack on the Soft Alliance!