Chapter 978: Lighter Crisis?
"This ......" Qian Lao was stunned, he didn't expect Su Huai to say such a thing, but after thinking about it, he also said in a deep voice:
"Mr. Su, rest assured, what Aubert did this time has also caused a lot of controversy within the World Academy of Sciences, and I will try my best to prevent them from joining. "With Europa and Russian technology, they can continue the space program without the need for new Europe.
Su Huai nodded with satisfaction, thinking in his heart that in the original world, the establishment of the International Space Station was led by the United States and Russia, including Canada, Ben, Brazil and other sixteen countries to join the project, but only the United States strongly opposed China's participation and deliberately excluded China, the biggest opponent.
China is forced not to participate in the space station project, and can only build its own Tiangong space station independently...... It can be said that it has been completely isolated by international aerospace!
In this time and space, Su Huai just wants to let Xinou feel the humiliation that China once felt in the international aerospace industry! Let Xinou also taste the taste of isolation~
At this time, when everyone was looking forward to the prospect of Shenzhou 5, Su Huai heard the staff say:
"Mr. Su, there is a young lady named Renna looking for you outside. ”
Su Huai thought to himself, could it be that there was something wrong with the sales of firecrackers?
Outside the experimental workshop of the World Academy of Sciences, I saw Ren Na and Guo Dong, who were full of anxiety, discussing something.
"Guo Dong, why are you here?" Su Huai was also a little surprised when he saw Guo Dong: "Aren't you staring at the production line of firecrackers in China? Could it be that there is a problem with firecrackers?"
"There's nothing wrong with firecracker production, but the people at Sotheby's are so hateful. Guo Dong's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"They insist that we give them full authority to represent firecrackers in Europe and the United States. ”
Su Huai sneered when he heard this: "Naive, is Ma Long old and confused, and he actually directly asked for the agency of firecrackers in Europe and the United States?"
Christmas has just passed, it is Chinese New Year's Eve soon, and the sales of firecrackers in Europe and the United States have increased significantly, but this is only the beginning, and there will be the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival, which is the period when firecracker shipments are the largest.
Sotheby's grandsons have empty mouths and white teeth, and they want to share the pie, which is simply whimsical~~
"Tell them. Su Huai said coldly: "If they want to sell firecrackers, they will make them themselves, and these firecrackers have no technical content, so let's compete fairly in the market." ”
"Phew!" Ren Na scolded: "Just rely on them Sotheby's Group, they sell high-end daily necessities, but low-end manufacturing, where are they our opponents in China~~ The cost of these firecrackers is 3 times that of us, even if we add taxes, they are much cheaper than their costs, just how they fight with our Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce!"
Su Huai is full of confidence, in this kind of small commodity, no matter in which time and space, there is no country in the world that is the opponent of Huaxia.
Guo Dong said helplessly: "But they also put forward conditions, if we don't give them the agency right of Chinese firecrackers, then they will increase the patent fee for the lighters supplied to us......"
"Lighter?" Su Huai was surprised when he heard it, how did he go from a firecracker to a lighter?
"Ma Long, this old bastard, the ...... of thieves" Guo Dong smiled bitterly:
"He knows that this is the season to sell firecrackers, and he needs to use lighters to order firecrackers, and the Spring Festival Lantern Festival is a huge business opportunity in the lighter market......
Ren Na explained angrily on the side:
"Originally, the international lighter market was the Jiangnan lighter produced by our Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, and the Sotheby's Sofu lighter, each occupying 5 percent of the market, they occupied the high-end market, we occupied the low-end market, and now they want to increase the patent fee of our lighter, so that our cost will rise, resulting in the selling price of our Jiangnan lighter in the international market, which will be almost the same as their Sofu lighter!"
"Doesn't this violate international trade law?" said Su Huai in a deep voice.
"Of course it violates!" Guo Dong said: "I just complained about this matter at the Financial Business Association, and the committee wanted to mediate, but Sotheby's did not accept it, saying that we should sue directly......"
Ren Na saw that Su Huai didn't understand, and also explained:
"This kind of international trade lawsuit, our Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce legal team is not strong enough, and the experience in dealing with international business disputes is also insufficient, even if it is reasonable, the lawsuit will drag on for three or five years, and even if we can win, the market share of lighters will be robbed by them..."
"I see. Su Huai didn't expect a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, Sotheby's Group's matter is indeed very tricky, although lighters are not the business scope of their Chinese company, but it is one of the main businesses of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce.
Now the various factories of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce have provided them with production lines, if he Su Huai doesn't reach out to help, it will be too much to say, but what are the patents for lighters?
"Dong Guo, what patents do we need to make lighters? Can't they be replaced by other technologies?" asked Su Huai.
Guo Dong smiled bitterly: "It's very simple to say, in fact, it is the gear friction flint of the lighter, this cerium-iron alloy flint made of cerium and lanthanum, which is Sotheby's unique patent......"
Ren Na was on the side, and Xingmu said angrily:
"It's not impossible to use other flint and steel, but it's not as cheap as this one...... This is a key patent in the international lighter market, we make cheap lighters, the original minimum cost can be reduced to 2 cents...... But for this patent fee alone, a lighter will cost 7 cents, and most of the profits will be made by the profiteers at Sotheby's!"
Speaking of this, Guo Dong also said with a frosty face:
"Originally, Sotheby's even had to monopolize the low-end lighter market, but our Huaxia factory had low labor, and they transferred the money for a patent to us to make a low-end, but he made more money than he did in the low-end market, so he was willing to provide this patent...... We're really hard at work! People are lying down and counting money! They can't even tolerate us!"
The more angry the two of them were, they directly scolded Sotheby's Group, but when Su Huai heard this, he was stunned for a long time, but suddenly clapped his hands in surprise: "So that's the case, then it's easy to do, then it's easy to do!"
"What's so easy to do?" Ren Na and Guo Dong didn't understand, Guo Dong was stunned:
"Teacher Su, do you have a way to solve this matter?"
"Of course there is a way, we don't need any of his flint patents at all!" Su Huai waved his hand and said arrogantly:
"I can take advantage of the new way of lighter, take advantage of the world's lighter market, and also greatly increase my profit margins. ”
"A new way of ignition?" Ren Na and Guo Dong both glanced at each other, thinking that the lighter was invented by people in Europe and the United States, and they have studied what kind of ignition method has not been studied for two hundred years?
"Let's go in, let's go in and find a master to help. ”
Ren Na and Guo Dong were both a little puzzled when they heard it, masters, where did they come from to make lighters?