Chapter 189: Contract Trap
Meng Jianye still sees this very clearly, and during the exchange with Professor Qin in Europe, he did not communicate with his mother on Hong Kong Island.
As a result, as Professor Qin said, it was indeed very difficult for his mother to use tens of millions of dollars at once, and as for Endeavor Factory, Meng Jianye didn't even think about it.
There are too many mothers-in-law in the factory, not to mention tens of millions of dollars, but hundreds of thousands of yuan to get up.
So today's Meng Jianye, like Fu Guangqi, who had no choice but to give up, is stuck in money.
So now the only breakthrough point is the Austrian company MOTOL, hoping that he can raise his hand to bring the price down.
However, the Austrians are not stupid, although the equipment is damaged, but after all, it is a complete crankshaft production line, how can it be sold at the price of cabbage? Besides, you Chinese do not buy does not mean that others do not buy, in the context of the transfer of the international shipbuilding industry to Asia, Japan and South Korea can play much more than you Chinese, so MOTOL company is not worried about sales at all.
That's why it's impossible to get the Austrian company MOTOL to lower prices in the usual way.
However, Meng Jianye's ability to come into this world is extraordinary in itself, so how could he use conventional methods? Therefore, if the price of the Austrian MOTOL company does not drop, then find a way to bring it down.
So Meng Jianye told Professor Qin his thoughts, Professor Qin didn't listen to it, but his head shook like a rattle, and he didn't have any contact with several executives of the Austrian MOTOL company, and he was easy to say anything, but he was the same as Wang Ba who ate the scales in terms of price, and he was determined not to give in.
So Professor Qin could only breathe a long sigh of relief, patted Meng Jianye's shoulder and comforted: "I know your feelings, but sometimes we have to be realistic, there is no room for maneuver in the price matter, give up this opportunity and give up, let's wait for next time." ”
If there is a next opportunity, Meng Jianye will not have to work hard here, the problem is that you want, others may not give, not to mention South Korea and Japan where to eye, the future of the large crankshaft card China's neck is these two countries, and now they, like China, are also in Europe to introduce shipbuilding industry technology, because of this, in some aspects once you can't grasp the opportunity, in the imagination is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
It's just that Meng Jianye can't tell Professor Qin about these things, otherwise Professor Qin would have to treat him as a psychopath, but not explaining doesn't mean that Meng Jianye can't convince Professor Qin, so he nodded: "Li'er is such a Li'er, but the current Austrian MOTOL company can have the final say?"
It is estimated that those Austrian executives have already become puppets of the German MTU company, not to mention, now when I mention the German MTU company, I am angry, didn't you take the technology transfer text submitted by their company a few days ago, let me see what is wrong?
At that time, I felt that something was wrong after reading it, but I didn't think of it, and I followed you to listen to a few academic lectures on financial derivatives in ship leasing in the past few days, and finally figured it out, it turned out that the German MTU company proposed in the contract 'sliding commission' is a pit!"
Originally, listening to Meng Jianye's nonsense, Professor Qin's face was still a little unpleasant, but in the end, Professor Qin was a little dumbfounded, he never expected Meng Jianye to be involved in the contract for the transfer of marine diesel engine technology that the German MTU company and China were preparing to sign.
Before returning to China, Fu Guangqi explained that after the drafting of the German contract was completed, Professor Qin would first make a preliminary review with several commercial counselors in European countries, and then report to China.
It took a few people more than a week, except for finding a few irrelevant loopholes, and did not see anything wrong, so they handed it over to the German side for revision, and sent the full text to China, only after the relevant domestic ministries and commissions reviewed it, the two sides could formally sign it.
Which Cheng wanted Meng Jianye to bring this out again today, and swore that there was a pit here, although Professor Qin knew very well that this was just a means for Meng Jianye to change the topic, but it involved contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Professor Qin also had to ask cautiously: "Why is there a pit?"
The tone was a little reluctant, but Meng Jianye didn't care, and the answer was called a happy one: "Of course, it's a 'sliding commission', what is the sliding commission, which refers to the practice that when calculating the commission fee according to the fixed amount of the unit product, the licensor is worried about inflation in the licensee's country, resulting in a decrease in the income from technology royalties, and requires the amount of the unit product commission fee to be adjusted according to the wage and raw material price index at the time of signing the contract."
You've listened to the lectures in the past few days, and just looking at the concept, don't you know what's going on here?"
Although today's lecture is about financial derivatives in ship leasing, it involves many cutting-edge theories of contemporary finance.
Therefore, after only being allocated by Meng Jianye, Professor Qin immediately realized that something was wrong, regardless of the inflation rate of any country, or the determination of the benchmark price according to the wage and raw material price index at the time of signing the contract.
The essence of this is that the technology licensing country uses these things to constantly cut the leeks of the authorized country.
What?
Well, your country is inflationary, and our technology transfer fee will be raised by 30% according to the contract
What? You say that there is no inflation in your country? The dollar has depreciated, and you are embarrassed to say that there is no inflation? What are the fools? Okay, you don't have inflation, can I do inflation? So the price has to go up by 50 percent.
Such an impudent excuse, coupled with a complicated calculation formula that can make people stunned, form an extremely sharp and unreasonable quick knife, as long as a good crop grows in the leek field of your country, you will not hesitate to cut it.
All in all, this is a long-term meal ticket for Western companies, as long as you get on the thief ship, don't think about going down.
"NND, no wonder the Germans paid the Western technology transfer fee in the form of a commission every year, which made us think that it was earned, but we didn't expect it to be this thought, and it really counted people into the bones. ”
Thinking through the tricks inside, Professor Qin's foul mouth burst out, where did he still have the heart to take care of the crankshaft processing equipment, and immediately turned around: "No, I have to go to the embassy quickly and inform the country, hundreds of millions of dollars are not a trivial matter!"
When Meng Jianye saw that Professor Qin was leaving, he hurried to follow, and said meaningfully: "Professor, you can think about it, this matter does not only involve our family!"