Tao Guoshui hurriedly said: "That's not good, that's not good, there are still many days for the New Year." X If I run away for the head, how can anyone else stay there in peace. I'll fly back early tomorrow morning. ”

On January 15, the auction of Saudi Arabia's Gawatan oil field was held as scheduled.

Tao Guoshui's subordinate Wang Jianyun arrived at the bidding hall of the Saudi Ministry of Energy on time as he instructed, and received a thin envelope with the name of "Feixun Group" printed on it with the company's power of attorney that had been prepared long ago and the receipt obtained when submitting the application. The staff also read out the name of Feixun Group aloud and signaled that Feixun Group had received the bid.

When the staff read out the name of Feixun Group, the eyes of many people in the hall fell on Wang Jianyun, and one reporter quickly ran over from the reporter area and asked in blunt Chinese: "Hello, I am reporter James." Are you Mr. Jiang Xinxu, Chairman of Feixun Group?"

Wang Jianyun is not a diplomat and has no experience in dealing with reporters, so he thought that the reporter's question must be answered, so he said: "No, I am not Jiang Dong." My name is Wang Jianyun. ”

The reporter thought for a long time, but he really couldn't think of such a senior executive in Feixun Group, so he asked: "What position do you have in Feixun Group?"

Wang Jianyun thought for a while before answering embarrassedly: "I am the deputy captain of the overseas engineering construction department and optical cable construction team under the marketing department of Feixun Group, Huawei Telecom Technology Co., Ltd., and the marketing department. ”

The reporter was stunned, he couldn't remember Wang Jianyun's title for a while Chinese, and he didn't know what he said about the institutions, but he still knew that the young man in front of him was 108,000 miles away from Chairman Jiang Xinwei and belonged to one of the lowest miscellaneous fish.

He asked in surprise: "For such a big project, your company sent you to bid?"

Wang Jianyun said puzzledly: "Isn't it just to hand in the bid? There is no stipulation that the leaders of our company must come." If we win the bid and sign the contract, I think our leaders will come. ”

Seeing his cute appearance, many people were happy, whether they knew Chinese or didn't understand Chinese, they all looked at him playfully. While he was talking to reporters, there were already interpreters translating Wang Jianyun's conversation with reporters into English.

Soon, the reporter named James was driven back by the staff.

A Western bearded man bowed his head and smiled at the white-bearded Japanese man beside him: "It seems that Mr. Qingwu, you are worried in vain." They actually sent an ordinary employee over. Those executives just don't want to delay. ”

Qingwu Jinji nodded and said, "It's still my plan." At that time, I ignored him in the capital of Huaxia, and he said that if he wanted to bid, he said that if you want to bid, you can vote, but when he saw that he could not attract the attention of others, he retreated by himself. ”

The Western beard asked: "Are you going to really transfer the production technology of the oil pipeline to him?"

Qingwu Jinji smiled: "Of course, I promised him." However, will he pay such a high price? I am embarrassed to quote without ten times the normal transfer price. ”

The Western bearded man laughed and said, "Mr. Qingwu, you are too humorous. ”

Qingwu Jinji said with a smile: "No way. Young man, you have to be appeased. …… , Mr. Wright, do you say that in addition to the Feixun Group, there are other companies to make trouble?"

The Western bearded man laughed, "Yes? I don't think they're crazy." …… After the play is over, we will go to Prince Walid together, and I am sure that they will lower the conditions and re-bid for the auction. ”

Shinji Qingwu said: "I still hope that our companies will just come and see, and no one will bid to see how they Saudi Arabia can make a fool of themselves in front of so many media." ”

The Western bearded man shook his head and said: "No, no, we still have a lot of interests in Saudi Arabia." Even if we don't get our hands on this field, we still have to extract crude oil from their fields. If this auction fails, and in the end, it won't be divided between us oil companies? ”

The so-called oilfield auction is not like the auction of cultural relics calligraphy and paintings, by an auctioneer on the stage to shout the price, other participants continue to raise the price, and finally no one follows the price, the auctioneer smashes the hammer, with the final highest price as the transaction price, but by the owner of the oilfield to put forward a minimum cooperation conditions, other bidding oilfield companies each write their own conditions in the bid, submitted to the tenderer, the tenderer in accordance with the pre-announced conditions to select the winning bidder.

While Qingwu Jinji and the others were chatting, Wang Jianyun was already led by the staff to a small room next to the hall. The staff motioned for him to come in and stood at the door waiting.

Wang Jianyun first looked at the confined space, put the envelope he had just received on the table a little nervously, and then took out a piece of paper from it, opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of paper inside.

After looking at it, he was greatly relieved that he could only chat briefly in English, and said to himself: "Great, this bid is so easy." As he spoke, he added the word "yes" to the first space and the number "36%" in the second. After that, he looked at the envelope again, then carefully stuffed the paper into the envelope, sealed the mouth, and sealed it with scotch tape on the table.

When he came out of the secret room, many companies had also filled out the bidding documents, and a few companies had just begun to fill in the secret room.

Wang Jianyun returned to the center of the hall under the guidance of the staff and sat down on a chair at random. Idle, he looked around, and when his eyes swept over the press area, he saw a Chinese reporter, and involuntarily nodded at the reporter, and smiled kindly.

The Huaxia reporter immediately returned a smile to him.

Although everything seemed to be in order, Wang Jianyun always felt that something was wrong and was panicked in his heart, but he couldn't say what was wrong, and then wondered if he was suspicious, and suspected that his inner unsteadiness was caused by the nervousness of participating in this kind of bidding for the first time.

When the allotted time arrived, the staff loudly announced the submission of the bid.

Wang Jianyun followed the people from other companies to submit the bids without hurry. Although many reporters were taking pictures with clicks, Wang Jianyun felt that this kind of bidding was so simple and easy to resist, and it was not as enthusiastic and grand as he imagined, and there was not a single big leader who came out to speak, which was too hasty, right? In our Huaxia, even if a county does a thing, it is much more solemn and lively than here.

When all the bids were handed in, a young man dressed as a royal family finally came out, and he stood in front of the rostrum and said loudly: "I am Prince Walid, and I am now reading the bidding documents on the orders of the royal family, and at the same time announcing the winning company on the spot." ”

Just when Wang Jianyun finally found a little bit of the taste of the meeting, and was about to sit down and pretend to listen carefully, Prince Walid picked up the first letter of bidding, and a staff member next to him immediately cut open the envelope with gold scissors, took out the letter inside, and handed it to him with both hands.

The name of the company printed on the envelope was so conspicuous that it did not take Prince Walid to announce that it was a tender submitted by Dutch Shell.

Prince Walid read: "Dutch Shell, the two columns are submitted with no and 33%!"

Wang Jianyun, who was not good at English, was stunned when he heard this, and muttered in confusion: "What's going on? The minimum condition for bidding is to agree to invest in the construction of highways, wharves, and oil pipelines, and give the Saudi government a share of no less than 35 percent?...... , since it's abandoned, then why are you still here?...... Don't...... Could it be that I didn't speak English well and heard it wrong?"

Not only Wang Jianyun was surprised, but many people who didn't know what was going on were also stunned and looked at Prince Walid in disbelief.

Only the Japanese Shinji Aotake, the American Wright and others were not surprised, but smiled contemptuously.

Prince Walid, who was reading the bid, had a gloomy face, threw the tender onto the plate of the staff next to him, and went to pick up the second bid.

Soon, his face became even more gloomy, and he read: "Italy's Eni Petroleum Company, the two columns are submitted with no and 33% respectively!"

More reporters were talking, and many staff members began to talk to each other.

Wang Jianyun had more doubts in his heart.

The third copy: "Nikko Yang Co., Ltd., the two columns submitted are NO and 33% respectively!"

Fourth: "Exxon Corporation of the United States, the two columns submitted are no and 33%!"

Fifth: "BP UK, the two columns are submitted NO and 33%!"

Even the dullest people now know the existence of the conspiracy, or at this time it is not a conspiracy at all but a conspiracy, that is, these oil companies have joined forces to not only make this tender fail, but also force the Saudi side to revise the bidding conditions!

A staff member standing next to Prince Walid asked in a low voice, "Your Excellency, do you still read it?"

Walid glared at him, blushing and screaming, "Of course, I want everyone to know why this auction failed!"

As he spoke, he picked up the sixth copy again, and instead raised his voice and read: "French Total Company, the two columns are submitted respectively NO and 33%!"

At this time, a reporter laughed loudly: "Prince Walid, don't read it, it must be like this." Haha, your conditions are too harsh, who wants to bid for a loss-making oil field? ”

Another reporter also laughed: "The winner of the bid will not lose a little, at least more than 500 million US dollars." ”

The person who knew the inside story smiled, and the person who didn't know the inside story was taken aback and asked the people next to him.

Wang Jianyun was stunned at first, and was very skeptical of the reporter's statement,