Chapter 49: Terror and Deterrence
For a while, the whole room fell into silence, everyone looked at each other, and they all wanted to see something strange in the eyes of the other person, but it was a pity that everyone who could stand here was not stupid, and it was impossible for them to risk angering Li Mubai to seek benefits for others. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Including Li Zaixian, they all want the other party to open their mouths to refute Li Mubai, and then they take the opportunity to follow up, and once they cause the effect of crowd arousal and opposition, they can force Li Mubai to back down.
But to everyone's disappointment, no one took the initiative to stand up and speak against Li Mubai's decision, and after a long silence, Li Mubai smiled, "Since this is the case, then it is decided, you are here to discuss how to end the issue, I and President Jiang Zaishe have made an appointment to meet this morning, so I will not stay." ”
Only then did a few people put away the regretful thoughts in their hearts, and gathered around and said, "Mr. Li, you go slowly!"
Whether it is Choi Tae-won or Gu Ben-mao, or Lee Jae-hyun who simply can't get into the front desk, they are all deeply impressed by the ability shown by Li Mubai in this operation, after all, not everyone can steal core confidential information in the well-defended Samsung Group headquarters, let alone send a country's president to prison, this kind of superb means that ordinary people can't do, so that they are convinced at the same time, but also hide the slightest vigilance.
Every consortium leader who has experienced this operation is secretly thinking in his heart, if he and Li Mubai go against him one day, if the other party also uses this trick against him, how to resist it?
It is no exaggeration to say that all of us here, each of them are suspected of tax evasion of more than one billion US dollars, over the years, our major multinational companies in the United States, using the transaction accounts between overseas subsidiaries, at least for their own companies to provide more than one billion dollars of illegal income, once these details are exposed, it is a big bomb that can overturn everyone. ”
At the same time, the American consortium was also going through a similar meeting, at which the initiator of the meeting, Intel Group Chairman Barrett, warned some people who were ready to move against a powerful and mysterious enemy for some small profit.
Of course, in the face of interests, the danger is naturally not a problem, as long as there is money to be made in the sale of killing heads, there will always be people to grab the head, but then the words of Paul Jacob, chairman of Qualcomm, made everyone's careful thoughts go with the wind.
His words were simple and practical," We Qualcomm will never join the alliance for Orange Technology, because every year, Qualcomm gets the profits from the technology licensing of Orange Technology, far more than you promised to give, no one will get along with the benefits, if you rashly offend Orange Technology, lead to a conflict between the two sides, and finally let the long-term friendly and cooperative relationship between the two sides be destroyed, then we Qualcomm do not mind using their own power to punish some people. ”
Oracle President Larry Ellison put it more simply, "I think many of you in this room are not like us in that we don't own a lot of shares in the company, in other words, we all get paid. ”
This humorous remark immediately caused everyone to laugh, because everyone knows that Ellison himself owns a large number of shares in Oracle, but since this year, as the CEO, he has about $180 million in bonus dividends with an exercise option of only $1 million in basic annual salary, which has made him a "working emperor" in the United States.
Ellison said, "I have a set of data here, and I would like to share it with the fight, in the past 2006, the average CEO of the world's top 500 commercial enterprises was $15.2 million per year, and this year, this data is affected by the market environment, in the past nine months, the average salary per person has been less than 10 million dollars, what does this number prove? ”
For a while, everyone looked down and thought, and several CEOs sitting next to him who also did not control the company's equity smiled at him, which was exactly what they were talking about.
In 2007, the world economy not only fell into stagnation, it can be said that it was a great recession, and the profits of some multinational companies throughout the year were not as good as last quarter.
Although they are technology companies and do not directly play a role in front-line production and sales, the recession of the real economy has also had a huge impact on Internet technology companies.
But fortunately, the companies here have basically obtained the technology authorization of Orange Technology, which is good news, which directly makes the stock prices of each company not fall significantly, and even in the case of the stock market floating red across the board, several of them have risen against the trend because of the recent production of new technologies.
"I agree that there is no direct conflict between Cisco and Orange Technology, on the contrary, Cisco has received technical support from Orange Technology in the past two months, upgraded key core technologies, and enhanced its competitiveness. You can find through the third quarter operating income and net profit statement released by our company that our company has increased its turnover by 8% and profit by 13% over the same period last year. "With the first opponent, there is a second, more resolute opponent.
Cisco has made a lot of profits in this technical cooperation with Orange Technology, and it is important to know that for this super technology group that has been declining since the new century, any point of profit growth is a good thing for investors, and they cannot risk their own interests to target their strategic allies.
"But Orange Technology has really gone too far this time, you must know that here, but there are 46 top technology groups in the United States, most of our companies, have electronics business, and that Mr. Li, in a word, let us lose the $20 billion profit that should have belonged to us, who will be responsible for these losses?"
In the final analysis, he still took a fancy to the communications operation system mastered by Samsung Group in South Korea and Asia, and now the development of AT&T has entered an embarrassing situation, on the one hand, the rapid innovation of technology, and on the other hand, the large number of outdated and bloated infrastructure systems in the hands of the company.
These infrastructure systems covering the entire North America, which originally invested tens of billions of dollars, were originally the basis for the survival of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, because of the large investment and long payback period, so in the past for a long time, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was essentially in a monopoly position in this field, but with the rise of a large number of hardware manufacturers such as Cisco, this advantage quickly turned into a disadvantage, because of the emergence of new technologies, which led to the rapid development of communication means, and the infrastructure originally used to block competitors from entering the market has become a drag on them。
Market investors are also no longer interested in these infrastructure and communications groups, which have a large number of already useless or even dragged down, and invest in high-tech companies that use a lot of new technologies.
Therefore, AT&T has been seeking new growth points in its business recently, and they have set their sights on the communications operation system under the Samsung Group, once they get the latter, they can not only expand the company's business scope, but also get Samsung's latest technology.
For David Durman's proposal, many companies have expressed their approval, these company representatives who choose to agree, basically belong to the camp of the older generation of technology companies, most of these companies have one thing in common, that is, before the eighties and nineties of the last century, they are all super companies within their respective business scopes, but after the arrival of the new century technology development frenzy, without exception, all of them are lagging behind, and now, they are anxiously trying to swallow the Samsung Group, a behemoth and a company that has mastered advanced technology, to make up for the shortcomings of their own company's development。
For a time, the new and old generations of technology groups, in the face of the distribution of interests of the Samsung Group, there were serious differences, the new technology companies, such as Oracle, Qualcomm, Cisco, etc., expressed clear opposition, because they had reached an understanding with Orange Technology long before the start of the plan, Li Mubai's decision was also made after communicating with them in advance.
However, the older generation of technology companies, such as Telephone and Telegraph, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other companies, have expressed clear opposition, and they have proposed that all the business of Samsung Group involving electronic products be handed over to the American consortium for distribution, for which they are willing to pay some cash compensation.
"Okay, guys, if you want to tear up the agreement, then this is a serious problem, just like this document in my hand, if any of you is willing to end up with the hapless Apple, then you can go your own way and fight Orange Technology, I will support you mentally. Intel Chairman Barrett couldn't bear it anymore and threw out a document directly.
After everyone browsed it, there was silence, because some people had been completely shocked by the details revealed in it.
"The apple is finished. This is the most intuitive sad view of the president of Dell, because the content of this document is almost exactly the same as the document handed over to them by Li Mubai half a month ago.
In the previous document, all the evidence of suspected tax evasion and illegal transactions, insider trading and illegal management of the Samsung Group since 1962 was disclosed.
And this time, Li Mubai's target was Apple again, but it was just a rough number, which made everyone stunned.
Since the 80s of the last century, Apple's cumulative tax evasion has reached a huge 22 billion US dollars, and if the US federal tax department verifies the authenticity of this data, then the best fate for Apple and its major shareholders is to immediately find a rope and hang themselves, because then they can avoid the tax department's tank.
"Oh, poor Jobs, I think the tax department will go up to his house in a tank and armored car, tear down the fence of his house without mercy, and then viciously pull him by the hair and drag him to prison. Some unscrupulous person laughed.
It was only soon that he noticed that everyone present had gloomy faces, and no one was smiling with him.
"What's going on? Guys, do you think this evidence is true? I don't believe that Oriental boy could have such a powerful intelligence-gathering ability, considering that this is a full twenty years, not a day or a month. Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn didn't care about loosening her shoulders, he didn't think all the evidence was true.
"But don't forget, just half a month ago, that boy also gave us a piece of information, and these are precisely the most important evidence for overthrowing the Samsung Group!" This time, even Barrett became cautious, after all, Li Mubai put too much pressure on people.
What kind of intelligence system does such an Oriental man have in his hands, and is his ability even stronger than that of the entire US government?
Apple's debt and tax problems have long been not a rumor, as early as ten years ago, Apple was fined hundreds of millions of dollars for suspected tax concealment in a certain year, underreporting, over the years, in Europe, Australia and the United States, Apple has also been fined more than a billion dollars, but this can not shake Apple's position in the industry.
Because every company is doing this, it's just that Apple has been caught, if it weren't for the rise of Orange Technology, I'm afraid Apple should be in this alliance and at the leadership level.
In the past 20 years, all the evidence of illegal activities has been investigated clearly, and if the US federal tax department knows about it, it will not hesitate to give a one-ton bonus to the secret, or even build it with gold, because only on the basis of these evidences, once confirmed, then Apple can be fined tens of billions of dollars.
"Where did he get this evidence, you must know that the federal tax department has used secret investigations against our companies before and after, but I guarantee that they can't figure out the truth of a word, and if there is no one as an internal response, I am afraid it is unlikely that they will know such a detailed inside story!" For a while, no one cared about the cake against the interests of the Samsung Group.
Everyone was shocked by the means shown by Li Mubai, if they didn't figure out the reason for this incident, then when they competed with Orange Technology in the future, they would have to fight with 120,000 spirits to deal with it.