Feng Xiaochen was in full swing to go to Japan to acquire bankrupt companies, and in the small conference room of the Japan Chemical Equipment Association, a war of words was also in full swing.

"Minei-kun, you must not sell the enterprise to the Chinese!"

"The Chinese are now our biggest competitors, and if they get the patents held by the Autumn Society, they will pose an even greater threat to us!"

"Minai-kun, everyone is an old friend, the Autumn Club can't survive, you can't let us be unlucky, right?"

A group of people surrounded the president of Autumn Chemical Machinery Co., Ltd., Minei Longji, some made generous statements, some played the emotional card, and they all said spittle, bowing like a kowtow machine in the oil field, up and down, shaking people dizzy.

Mineilongi sat in the middle with a dark face, coldly watching his former colleagues admonishing him, and sneering in his heart.

Due to the large amount of liquidity tied to the stock market and real estate, Akima Kaisha has been in decline since the beginning of the previous year. In the face of competition from Chinese companies, Japanese chemical equipment companies are in an increasingly difficult position in the international market, some projects are directly robbed by the Chinese, and some projects are eventually won by Japanese companies, but the price is often cut down, and the profits are so small that people are cold. Under these circumstances, Japan's domestic chemical equipment companies were also engaged in vicious competition with each other, and the reason why Akima Kaisha went bankrupt was not unrelated to the oppression of Iketani Manufacturing and Moritao Iron Works.

After determining that the company was no longer sustainable, the shareholders of Akima Kaisha made the decision to sell the company. Mineilongji immediately contacted the chairman of the Chemical Equipment Association, Qiangui Wuzhi, and asked him to help inquire among his peers to see which company was willing to buy the Autumn Society. As a result, most of the peers were indifferent to this, and only two unpopular companies expressed their willingness to buy some of the high-quality assets of Akima Kaisha, and the price offered was a little higher than buying scrap iron, which was more of a humiliation to Mineilongi than an acquisition.

As a result, Minerongi turned his attention overseas to try to find overseas buyers. He first asked around in Europe and the United States, and was finally disappointed, the chemical equipment companies in Europe and the United States are already overcapacity, how can they be interested in acquiring a Japanese company that has fallen behind in technology. Then, he asked people to go to some developing countries such as Brazil and South Africa to find out that the companies and governments of these countries also have no intention of acquiring Akima.

Finally, someone made a suggestion to Mineilongi and asked him to ask the Chinese. Mineilongji found Guo Peiyuan, a professional broker who had served him in the past, and the news that Guo Peiyuan brought back made him half excited and half depressed. The excitement lies in Mr. Guo's claim that there are indeed buyers in China, and that Chinese companies are very interested in acquiring the technology that the company has. As for the frustration, it was that the price he had quoted earlier made Guo Peiyuan euphemistically deny it, according to Guo Peiyuan, the Chinese side offered a maximum of 20 billion yen, and even if it was this price, people had to examine the current situation of the Autumn Club before they could decide.

Minai Longji revealed the news of the Chinese company's intention to acquire the Autumn Company to Qiangui Takeshi, but concealed the Chinese bid, claiming that the Chinese were willing to obtain the technology patents and production equipment of the Autumn Society at any cost, and asked the Japanese counterparts to consider it.

Mineilongi has been in the industry for many years and certainly knows what kind of reaction the news will provoke.

China's chemical equipment industry is the apprentice of the entire Western industry, and among many teachers, the contribution of Japanese companies is second to none. But when the apprentice grew up, he began to challenge the teacher's authority. The product line of European and American enterprises is more high-end, the Chinese do not dare to covet it for a while, Japan has always been a high-end and low-end all-in-one, the Chinese want to compete for the low-end chemical equipment market occupied by the Japanese, and have repeatedly succeeded.

The Japanese were able to drive European and American companies out of the low- and medium-end markets by relying on low production costs. And the Chinese grab the Japanese market by a lower cost than the Japanese. Japan is already a developed country, and it is completely impossible to reduce labor costs and management costs to the level of Chinese companies. Japanese companies can only rely on technological superiority to suppress Chinese companies and maintain their market share.

In the 80s, Japanese companies seriously underestimated the technological strength of Chinese enterprises, and in order to gain access to the Chinese market, they often agreed to the request of "technology for market" and transferred some technology to the Chinese side. After discovering that China has developed with these technologies, Japanese companies have become much more cautious in transferring technology to China, especially some core technologies, which are almost never exchanged.

Akima Kaisha is a long-established chemical equipment company with a large number of technical patents in its hands, as well as a lot of secret know-how, and if these technologies fall into the hands of Chinese companies, Chinese companies will be like tigers with wings and put more pressure on Japanese companies in the market competition. Akima Kaisha is on the verge of bankruptcy, and matters such as international competition have nothing to do with Minai Ryūngi and other shareholders. But if companies such as Ikeya Manufacturing and Mori Shige Iron Works continue to mix, how can they sit idly by and watch the technology of Akima Kaisha fall into the hands of the Chinese?

If you don't want my technology to fall into the hands of the Chinese, then you can make a price.

This was Minuchi's idea, and he wanted Japanese companies and Chinese companies to bid against each other in order to sell Akima Kaisha for a good price. As for the love of incense with other Japanese companies, then hehe, when do Japanese people care about incense?

"Guys, I don't want to sell the business to the Chinese, the Autumn Club has a glorious past, and I don't want it to fall into the hands of the Chinese. Mineilongi spoke.

"But what we've heard is that you're already in contact with the Chinese. Hiroshi Kawabata, chairman of Morimo Iron Works, retorted.

Mineilongji nodded and said, "Kawabata-kun is right, I am indeed in contact with the Chinese, and we have already had a more in-depth discussion on the price issue, and the other party has shown a strong intention to acquire." ”

"But haven't you thought about the impact this will have on Japan's chemical equipment industry?" asked Kawabata.

Mineilongi grinned at everyone with his toothless mouth and smiled fiercely, "But what can I do? If you are willing to take over the Autumn Club, even if the price is 20% lower than the Chinese's offer, I will accept it." ”

"What is the price of the Chinese?" asked Yu Uchida, sales director of Iketani Manufacturing, in a deep voice.

"60 billion yen. Mineilongji said unashamedly, in fact, this price was the price he offered to Guo Peiyuan, and Guo Peiyuan's return price was only 1/3 of this figure.

"This can't be!" Kawabata Hiroshi was the first to jump up, "The current value of the Akima Kaisha is not even 10 billion yen, and unless the Chinese are dizzy, they will fail to come out to 20 billion yen." ”

"Who told you!" Mineilongi's face sank, "Although there is something wrong with the operation of the Akima Society, our fixed assets are still there, and there are still our intangible assets. We asked the appraisal firm to do an appraisal, and the intangible assets alone are worth more than 30 billion yen, and these intangible assets are extremely valued by the Chinese. ”

"The intangible assets you are talking about also include those patents that belong to us in the shared patent pool, right?" asked Uchida.

"Of course. Could it be that Iketani intends to withdraw from the patent pool?" asked Mineilongi rhetorically.

In modern industrial production, it can be said that every link involves the application of patents. If an enterprise wants to produce a piece of equipment, it may use dozens of patents from enterprises, and if each patent has to be authorized through negotiation, then the enterprise will not work, and the enterprise can be dragged to death just by drafting the authorization document. In order to reduce the transaction cost of patents, some enterprises will join forces and take out a part of their own patents to form a shared patent pool, and everyone can use the patents in the pool, as long as they pay a unified patent royalty, and there is no need to negotiate patents one by one.

There are several such patent pools between Akima Kaisha and Ichiya Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Mori Shigeru Iron Works Co., Ltd., and many of the patents held by Iketani and Moritao Iron Works Co., Ltd. can be used by Akima Kaisha through this mechanism. If Akima Kaisha is acquired by a Chinese company, it means that the acquirer can also use the patents in this patent pool, and the technological advantages of Iketani and Morishigeru over Chinese companies will disappear.

"No, it's impossible!" Kawabata roared, "If Akima Kaisha is acquired by the Chinese, then we will kick Akima Kaisha out of the patent alliance at the first time, and we will definitely not allow Chinese companies to use our patents." ”

Minai Takayoshi smiled, "Kawabata-kun, how do you plan to make up for the patent gap after the departure of the Akima Kaisha?"

"This ......" Hiroshi Kawabata was speechless. The patent pool is a sharing mechanism, and Akima uses the patents of Morimo Iron Works, which in turn uses the patents of Akimo Works. If the Akima Kaisha is kicked out, then the patents that belong to the Akima Kaisha will also be kicked out, and what will Morisho Iron Works use to replace these patents?

The product design of Morisho Iron Works is tacitly based on the ability to use Akima's patents. If it is suddenly announced that these patents are no longer available, many of the products of Morisho Iron Works will have to be redesigned, which also involves changes in molds, fixtures, production processes, etc., which can really not be solved with a hard word.

"Minei-kun, can you give us all a real offer. IMHO, at the price of 60 billion yen, I believe that the Chinese will never agree to it. At what price would you like to transfer the Autumn Club to all of us? Uchida said.