Chapter 341: Negotiation
The president soon came to China and came to Guicheng, and the reason why he came so quickly was also because in Japan, the situation of his company was getting worse and worse, the real estate and stock prices he invested in continued to fall, and there was no sign of rising, and the profits earned by his company were basically filled in the holes.
Now that Japan's domestic economy is sluggish, their orders are also falling sharply, and they are becoming more and more dependent on orders from China.
If it was when they were in a good situation before, this kind of order from the Red Star Machinery Factory was nothing at all, and he didn't need to deal with it personally, but now, such an order was already a big order for them, and for this list, he had to come to China to deal with it in person.
The president is still very clear about the company's current situation, he knows that if he is tough on the Red Star Machinery Factory, they can't take any advantage, and finally they are deadlocked, so they can only return the money to the Red Star Machinery Factory and ship the equipment back to Japan, which they can't afford, and the money paid by the Red Star Machinery Factory in the early stage has been used up by them, and they can't pay it at all, not to mention the freight back to Japan is also a big expense.
If they really annoy the Red Star Factory, they will poke out this bribery scandal to the Japanese media, and those pervasive reporters will definitely surround them like flies, and at that time, it will be their time to die, this company has a history of 100 years, and it is an enterprise inherited by the president from his father, and the president cannot let it be destroyed in his own hands.
So, the president put on a low posture and visited Gong Jingtian again with the vice president, and this time, it was Gong Jingtian and Geng Chenggang who received them from the Red Star Factory.
The president first ordered the vice president to apologize to Gong Jingtian for his rude attitude when he first visited Gong Jingtian.
As the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person when you reach out, Gong Jingtian naturally accepted Vice President Ito's apology, and this time the negotiation had a relatively good atmosphere.
Next, let's get to the point, the president asked why the Red Star Factory didn't fulfill the contract, Gong Jingtian naturally said that Zhang Guoqing signed the contract because of bribery, and the total price of the contract was too outrageous, and they really couldn't afford it.
Gong Jingtian also revealed some information to the president, Red Star is already an insolvent enterprise, it may go bankrupt at any time, and now the workers' wages are maintained by loans, and they are in urgent need of money, so they hope that the Japanese side will return the money paid by the Red Star Factory in the early stage, and then try their best to transport this batch of equipment away.
The president was secretly frightened, and he asked Gong Jingtian if there was any other way to solve this problem.
Gong Jingtian said that Zhang Guoqing had been taken away by the procuratorate, and it was because of the contract that it was impossible for the contract to continue to be performed, unless he also wanted to be taken away by the procuratorate, but it was not that there was no other way to solve the problem, that is, to renegotiate the contract and sign a contract that was reasonable for both parties, so that he could explain to his superiors that the Japanese side also had reasonable profits, so that no one would lose.
Gong Jingtian's words are tantamount to blocking any other possibility, and only two paths are given for Japanese companies to take, neither of which they are willing to take.
The president said that he needed time to think about it, Gong Jingtian said that he understood, the president and the vice president discussed for a long time, and finally could only decide to renegotiate the details of the contract. It's a knife handle handed to someone else!
Gong Jingtian readily agreed, so the two sides officially entered the negotiation stage, and this time, the new leadership team of the Red Star Factory participated in the negotiations.
The first day of negotiations went very unsmoothly, and the Japanese side reacted fiercely to the total contract price worth 15 million yuan proposed by the Chinese side, believing that this price was too outrageous and was already lower than their cost price; the Chinese side said with a smile that this is the habit of the Chinese, asking for a price in the sky, and paying back the money on the spot.
In short, the Chinese side does not look like it is in a hurry, and the Japanese side has dealt with Chinese enterprises a lot in recent years, and they know that the leaders of China's state-owned enterprises are all officials at the executive level, and the efficiency of the enterprises has nothing to do with their future.
As a result, starting the next day, the Japanese side began to take the initiative to make substantial concessions, and they directly cut the total contract price of the original contract of more than 70 million yuan by half, and offered the price of more than 30 million yuan, but this price obviously did not meet the psychological expectations of the Chinese side; after a day of arduous negotiations, the Japanese side had already relented to 25 million, but the Chinese side still did not agree.
On the third day, the Chinese side suddenly put forward a new condition, saying that 25 million is not impossible, even 30 million is fine, but Japan needs to transfer some technology to the Chinese side, and they issued a list of some of the more advanced technologies of this Japanese company, which made the president angry, he directly rejected the Chinese request, and the Chinese representative Geng Chenggang said with a smile, then continue to talk slowly, either 15 million, or pull the equipment away.
On the fourth day, when he saw that Japan's property market and stock market were falling again, he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and he agreed to the Chinese side's request to transfer these technologies to the Chinese side, but he asked to set the total contract price at 35 million yuan, and to pay them all within a week after the contract was signed.
The negotiators of the Red Star Factory glanced at each other, they were happy in their hearts, to reach such an agreement, it is definitely a big profit for the Chinese side, the equipment is still second, the technology on the list is the real good thing, directly can make the technical level of the Red Star Machinery Factory jump to the forefront of the country, even in the international competitiveness.
Of course, the contract was not so easy to finalize, and the Chinese side also put forward some demands, one of which was that Masao Araki, an employee of a Japanese company, raped a Chinese woman in China, and hoped that the Japanese side would send a representative to apologize to the Chinese woman's family and give appropriate compensation.
This demand was also strongly opposed by the Japanese side, who believed that the rape was completely false, but the Chinese side immediately produced a lot of evidence to prove that Masao Araki had indeed committed rape.
The Japanese side was speechless, in fact, they also knew the virtue of Masao Araki, and they had already learned the truth of the matter from the mouths of the other workers.