Chapter 701: Turning Hostility into Friendship
Beidian Automobile Group Co., Ltd., the office of Wang Kaihua, executive deputy general manager.
Secretary Li Yongxin gently pushed the door in and whispered to Wang Kaihua, who was reading the newspaper with reading glasses:
"Mr. Wang, they're here."
"How many people are here?" Wang Kaihua asked without raising his head.
"Not counting the driver, there are three people in total. Qin Hai came in person, and in addition, their deputy general manager Tian Ruzhi, a lady, and a young man, the deputy director of their group's sales department, named Wang Xiaodong. Li Yongxin replied fluently.
"Qin Hai really came in person." Wang Kaihua raised his head, looked at Li Yongxin, and said with a smile, "I heard that this famous chairman has some true colors when he started a business, and often doesn't care about his identity and solves some thorny problems in person. Judging from the fact that he was able to personally lower his head and come to our north store, the rumors outside are not false. There is some reason why he was able to start from scratch and achieve the scale of the company as it is now. ”
"Yes, yes, I see that he is very low-key, and he is very polite when talking to the waiter in the conference room, indeed...... Hehe. Li Yongxin echoed with a smile, but there were some different feelings in his heart.
Just now, the doorman reported that Qin Hai, chairman of Daqin Group, and his party came to visit, which had been arranged two days ago. According to common sense, Wang Kaihua, who was receiving the counterpart, should go downstairs to greet him in person, but he didn't do this, but just arranged for the secretary Li Yongxin to go down, which meant that he wanted to give Qin Hai a look.
Li Yongxin went downstairs and politely explained to Qin Hai and others that it was very unfortunate that Mr. Wang was receiving a call from the central leader and could not come to greet him in person, so he asked Mr. Qin and his party to wait in the conference room first. He originally thought that Qin Hai would at least give him a roll of his eyes, and even showed some angry looks. Who would have thought. The richest man in China, who is worth more than 100 billion yuan, did not look angry at all, but politely expressed his understanding, and then took his entourage and came to the conference room with Li Yongxin.
What made Li Yongxin feel even more incredible was that when the waiter stepped forward to pour tea for the guests, several guests, including Qin Hai, politely nodded to the waiter in thanks. The waiter was a little caught off guard, and his face turned red for a while. In the past, the people who could walk into the small conference room of this group were either rich or expensive, and no one would ever give a good face to a small waiter. Especially the leaders of the group, there are seven or eight levels between them and the lower-level waiters, and being able to express satisfaction with a "um" from the nose is already a good performance, who will be generous enough to say "thank you"?
Although in Li Yongxin's eyes. Private enterprises are always a head below themselves. However, enterprises are different from enterprises, Daqin Group is not an ordinary enterprise, and the scenery of Beidian Automobile is also inseparable from all kinds of auxiliary materials provided by Daqin Group's enterprises. Qin Hai cannot be compared with those small private bosses at the level of turtles, and they are also figures who can come and go at will in places such as the State Planning Commission and the Machinery Commission.
But such a character would be humble to this extent. For the first time, Li Yongxin had a faint thought in his heart: Did his leader pretend to be too much in normal times? Who said authority has to be shown with a straight face?
Of course, this is just Li Yongxin's thoughts, in front of Wang Kaihua. He won't reveal the slightest. Seeing Wang Kaihua triumphantly laughing at Qin Hai's low profile, Li Yongxin could only nod with a smiling face. This is the gods fighting, and he, a mortal, can help hand over a sweat towel or something.
"They've sat down in the little conference room, are you going to go now?" Li Yongxin asked.
"No, wait a little longer." Wang Kaihua said, "Doesn't he want to appear self-contained? Then let's give him a little more time and let him fully behave. ”
"Okay then...... Li Yongxin said. I went over and told them that you were still reporting to the central leadership, and asked them to wait a little longer. ”
Wang Kaihua waved his hand: "You don't have to go over, just let them wait." ”
"Yes." Li Yongxin agreed, no matter how disdainful he was of Wang Kaihua's approach. As a secretary, his duty is to obey the leader. In addition, he also knew for a long time that the leadership of the North Store had already set the tone for receiving Qin Hai, and Wang Kaihua had already designed it to do so.
The joint ban of Beidian and Anshi has had a serious impact on the promotion of electric vehicles of Daqin Group. Several key promotion cities selected by Daqin Group have been delayed in building charging stations because of the "greeting" of some leaders. In the case that the construction of charging stations cannot be implemented, the sales situation of electric vehicles can be imagined. Only a few fashion-conscious people choose to buy electric vehicles for some short commuting trips, and most families who need to buy a car give up on the consideration of electric vehicles because of concerns about the difficulty of charging.
In response to this situation, Daqin Group also took some public relations activities and visited some ministries and commissions and provinces and cities related to this matter, but with little effect. Indeed, some ministry leaders have come forward to speak for Daqin Group, hoping that the city government will actively cooperate with the promotion of electric vehicles. But for the city governments, there are those who help the Daqin Group to speak, and there are also those who help Beidian and Anshi Group to support, and no one can afford to offend, so the best choice is, of course, to use the "procrastination trick". If the local government wants to find some reason to delay something, it can't be easier, no matter how big the leader is, he can't remove the magistrate for the sake of a few charging stations, right?
Qin Hai visited many leaders, and the opinions he heard were all to persuade him to communicate directly with Beidian and Anshi, resolve the differences between the two sides, and turn the conflict into a jade silk. As long as the two companies of Beidian and Anshi do not interfere with it, and the promotion of electric vehicles itself is beneficial to the local government, then the local governments will no longer shirk. There is still a subtext that these leaders have not said, that is, Beidian and Anshi are both state-owned super-large enterprises after all, and they are the sons of the country, how can the country not take care of it?
Qin Hai is also full of helplessness about this phenomenon, indeed, a change in concept cannot be achieved overnight. State-owned enterprises and the government are inextricably linked, and officials in government agencies can be transferred to state-owned enterprises to become cadres, and cadres of state-owned enterprises can also be transferred to government organs to become officials. However, private enterprises are different, no matter how prosperous a private enterprise is and how great its contribution to the country is, its boss can at best make a member of the CPPCC National Committee, and there is absolutely no possibility of being transferred to the administrative system to take up a post. In this case, does the government need to consider which side it should be inclined to do things?
Understanding this, Qin Hai decided to accept everyone's suggestion, and went directly to negotiate with Beidian and Anshi, and was ready to give up some benefits to them. In fact, Qin Hai was not a person who liked to eat alone, if the two companies were willing to put down their shelves and come to Daqin Group to seek cooperation, Qin Hai did not hesitate to share the core technologies of supercapacitors and permanent magnet motors with them. The Chinese market is big enough, not to mention that his eyes are also on the international market. With such a large market, it is completely possible for several automobile groups to be full, and everyone is not a competitive relationship, but can achieve a win-win situation.
The two veteran companies did not take the initiative to come to the door to cooperate with Daqin Group, but instead adopted the practice of stumbling, which made Qin Hai angry. However, anger is anger, business still has to be done, and Qin Hai will not let anger get carried away. Since people refused to come to the door, he simply lowered his body and went to the other party's door to talk.
In this regard, Ning Zhongying and Wang Hongsheng both persuaded him, saying that the CEOs of the other two companies are industry veterans in their fifties after all, and Qin Hai, as a young man, is not ashamed to go to the door in person. In business, things like face are not very important, and being able to achieve the ultimate goal is the most important thing.
In this way, Qin Hai sent a request to Wang Kaihua to visit him, and asked Yang Xinyu, who had just stepped back and was transferred to the president of the Automobile Industry Association, to help say hello. For Qin Hai's request, the leadership of Beidian Automobile Group attaches great importance to it, and after discussion, everyone has formed several consensuses:
First of all, this is Daqin Group's desperate move to seek peace, which shows that the blocking strategy of Beidian and Anshi has played a role, and Daqin Group has no way out but to seek cooperation between Beidian and Anshi.
Secondly, Beidian Group should respond to this request, because entrusting people to block Daqin Group is also consuming Beidian's network resources, and Beidian owes countless favors for this, and if this battle continues, it will be unfavorable for Beidian. In addition, Beidian Group also needs to enter the field of electric vehicles, and it is very necessary for Beidian to obtain the key technology of electric vehicles from Daqin Group.
Third, that is, we must adopt a condescending attitude of cooperation towards Daqin Group, and we must let Daqin Group understand who is the boss of China's automobile industry, and in the future market, Daqin Group must only look forward to the north store.
Based on these principles, it is not surprising that Wang Kaihua has made this kind of performance. Qin Hai was able to come to the door in person, which shows that Daqin Group has reached the point of exhaustion, no matter if Beidian hangs him, he can only wait with a smiling face. And giving him a little face will help him to recognize his position more deeply, which will be very beneficial for subsequent negotiations.
Li Yongxin sat aside and didn't dare to say anything, Wang Kaihua lit a cigarette, hummed a little song in his mouth, flipped through the supplement edition of the newspaper, and killed time. It wasn't until the two cigarettes were finished that Wang Kaihua estimated that Qin Hai's limit of patience was about to arrive, so he slowly stood up and said to Li Yongxin: "Okay, let's go over now." (To be continued......)