Hotby's understanding of China was gradually formed. In the 90s of the last century, he only felt the efforts of the Chinese, and did not see the strength of the Chinese. But in the new millennium, Hotby felt more and more the growth of China and the pressure of competition.

The battle between Shuangluo and the Chinese Development and Planning Commission over the procurement of long-distance natural gas compressors was something that Hotby had heard about by chance from a friend. That friend had a personal relationship with Maxwin, the sales director of Shuangluo, so he also knew that Shuangluo finally chose to cut prices sharply in order to suppress China's own compressor research and development capabilities. When the friend relayed the incident to Hotby, he said that it was a very clever marketing case, and when Hotby heard it, he scoffed.

With his understanding of the Chinese, he knows that companies such as Shuangluo and Ximanz are purely self-inflicted, and their concessions on price can only end up being meat buns beating dogs, and there is no return. Chinese are not the kind of people who are short-sighted, and they will definitely not give up long-term considerations because of the immediate cheapness. No matter how attractive Shuangluo's offer is, the Chinese will persistently develop their own technology until Shuangluo and other companies are completely suppressed.

The events of the past two years have confirmed Hotby's speculation. Having ordered 40 compressors from abroad, China did not abandon the development of domestic compressors. In the upcoming third phase of the West-East Gas Pipeline, a Chinese company called Yubei Heavy Machinery Co. won half of the compressor order, while several foreign companies, including Shuangluo, allocated the remaining half, and the offer was reportedly cut in half on the previous one. Hotby heard from his friend that after five years of continuous improvement, the quality of China's self-produced compressors has been almost the same as that of European and American products, and his research on the new generation of compressors is even ahead of his European and American counterparts.

The compressor matter has nothing to do with Hotby, whose company invests in the electronic information industry. Last year, a British electronics company in which Huo's company was a shareholder went bankrupt due to poor management, and after Hotby informed Bao Chengming of the news, Bao Chengming quickly conveyed a directive to Hotby, asking Hotby to buy the company.

Mr. Hotby bought the company at a slightly higher price than he did for garbage, and then resold it to a Chinese electronics company at Mr. Bao's instructions. After buying the company, the Chinese electronics company quickly moved all of the company's equipment and technology patents back to China, injected a lot of money, and brought the company back to life in China, and then brought it back to the European market.

No one objected to the deal, on the contrary, because Hottby was able to sell the company at a relatively high premium, and he was praised in the industry for his business acumen. However, Hotby himself knows that this relatively high premium is just from the left pocket to the right pocket for the Chinese, because the main shares of the Huo company are in the hands of five obscure overseas companies, and the bosses behind these five overseas companies must be Chinese, and these premiums are back in the hands of the Chinese.

It was from this transaction that Hotby guessed the purpose of Feng Xiaochen's chess piece. Feng Xiaochen asked him to focus on those companies that had technology but were not well managed, and it was the idea of acquiring these companies in the future. The technology of these companies is not worth much in Europe, but it is worth moving to China. Of course, Chinese companies can also go directly to Europe to acquire these companies, but for various reasons, such acquisitions are often troublesome and sometimes impossible to achieve. It is much less difficult for Hotby to buy these bankrupt enterprises as a European company, and then sell them from Hotby to the Chinese, after all, the buyer and seller are both families, and it is much easier to make a name for themselves.

He is just a broker hired by Feng Xiaochen, and there are probably many brokers like himself in Europe. Feng Xiaochen set up this bureau eight years ago, in order to use these European companies controlled by him to help him complete the task of acquiring European companies eight years later, this idea is too meticulous and insidious. If Feng Xiaochen's conspiracy can be realized, Europe will be eroded by Feng Xiaochen, and the Chinese will gain strong competitiveness as a result.

But what does it have to do with himself, Hotby thought coldly in his heart.

If your employer is Chinese, then of course you should do things for the Chinese. If you do well, your salary will increase, and your parents, wife and children will be able to live a good life. On the other hand, if he refuses to act for the tiger, then he will be kicked away and replaced by an obedient broker, who can still take out the European's underpants and sell them. The duty of a broker is to serve his employer wholeheartedly, so what does the rise and fall of Europe have to do with Tahhot?

Moreover, the decline of Europe is not due to the disloyalty and filial piety of Hotby, but that the Europeans are too lazy and too proud, and this is the crux of the matter. When Chinese work overtime, Europeans drink coffee; when Chinese think about things, Europeans drink coffee; when Chinese come to buy European enterprises, Europeans still hold coffee in one hand and take a pen to sign in the other, selling these ancestral products for coffee beans. With such a group of reincarnated coffee worms, who can blame if they starve to death?

After thinking about all this, Hotby had no psychological burden and threw himself into the great cause of acting as a European traitor with great energy. With a more sensitive sense of smell, he searched for European companies that qualified to become prey for the Chinese, diligently ran over to participate in shares, and then conscientiously made friends with the executives in the enterprises, took the inside story of the enterprises, waited for the employer to send a noose, and hung these enterprises high on the southeast branches.

"Mr. Hotby, let me introduce you. After Feng Xiaochen shook hands with Hotby, he enthusiastically introduced his attaché to him: "This is Mr. Wang Weilong, deputy general manager of China Luoye Machinery Group Corporation, Mr. Yang Haifan, general manager of China Chenyu Construction Machinery Company, Mr. Leng Feiyun, director of the project management department of China Equipment Industry Corporation, Mr. Huang Ming, Ms. Chen Mo, ......."

Hottby shook hands with Feng Xiaochen's attachés one by one, and said all kinds of warm welcome speeches. He couldn't tell what these positions meant, but since he was the one who followed Feng Xiaochen, he obviously needed to be flattered, and there was nothing wrong with being polite.

After a brief meeting and greet procedure, Hotby led a group of Chinese guests to the parking lot. He personally helped Feng Xiaochen pull the suitcase, but flashed aside Meng Yang, the secretary who was in charge of pulling the suitcase for Feng Xiaochen. Meng Yang snatched it twice, but he couldn't snatch the suitcase from Hotby's hand, so he could only smile bitterly and help Wang Weilong get the luggage.

Seeing that the boss was so attentive, he didn't dare to look too lazy, and he saw that there was a passenger with an oriental face next to him who looked older, and he still had a large box in his hand, so he jumped over and snatched the lever of the box into his hand. The old man was stunned for a moment, and then he shouted loudly, but in Japanese. Huang Ming, Chen Mo and others were also stunned for a while, only to know that Dobbins had put an oolong, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain, asking Dobbins to return the box to the strange old man, and finally there was no dispute.

The commotion behind him, Hotby didn't know anything, he accompanied Feng Xiaochen to the front of the team, and intentionally or unintentionally distanced himself from the others. Seeing that no one was eavesdropping behind him, Hotby whispered: "Mr. Feng, Mr. Bao has explained to me on the phone, asking me to fully cooperate with your work in the UK, what do you need me to do." ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "We came to the UK this time to find a group of parts suppliers. Luoye, a company specializing in the production of large-scale open-pit mining equipment and developing offshore oil equipment, hopes to find several suppliers of industrial control modules in the European market and establish long-term cooperative relations with them. Chen Yu Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. is a construction machinery, and they also need some suppliers of industrial control modules. Bao Chengming said that you know very well about European electronics companies, so I asked him to contact you and ask you to help us complete the recruitment and selection of suppliers. ”

"That's what I'm supposed to do. Hotby quickly expressed his loyalty, and then reported: "After receiving Mr. Bao's instructions, I contacted dozens of electronics companies, some in the United Kingdom and some in continental Europe. These companies have the ability to design and produce industrial control modules, and they are also well-known in the European market. I've made an appointment with them, and they said we're always ready to come and talk. ”

"It's great that Mr. Hotby is so capable that he has been able to get in touch with so many companies in such a short period of time. Feng Xiaochen casually gave Hotby a compliment.

Hotby's heart was beautiful, as if a schoolboy had been praised by his homeroom teacher. He then lowered his voice and said: "These companies are all I have been in contact with in the past, and I have detailed records of the technical strength and business status of each company, and they have been sorted out, and they can be submitted to Mr. Feng immediately." At present, the manufacturing industry in Europe is sluggish, and it is difficult for these enterprises to operate industrial control modules, and Mr. Feng can take advantage of this when negotiating to make them accept some favorable conditions for us. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Hotby, for your advice. Feng Xiaochen's attitude this time was much more sincere. What a good comrade, not only can I help contact the supplier, but even find out the details of the supplier, so that I can know myself and the other when negotiating, with such an internal line, it will be much easier for me to do things in Europe.