Under the dim light, the three of them sat around the table.

Zhao Chunda warmed the Japanese sake brought by Wen Tokuchuan and poured a cup for everyone.

Zhao Yuemin raised the wine cup, drank a glass, and found that this sake was sweet and sweet, it looked like white wine, but it had a different flavor, which was also good.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Zhao Chunda said that he was dizzy, so he had to lie down in the back room for a while, and Zhao Yuemin and Tokugawa were left to drink together.

At this time, on the wine table, the relationship is very harmonious. Tokugawa was no longer a cunning Japanese businessman for Zhao Yuemin, but instead a devout student of his own father.

With some curiosity, he asked for Tokugawa's name, which instead led to the latter's conversation. Tokugawa Shoichi proudly said that his ancestors were the Japanese hero Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the three heroes of Japan's Warring States. Tokugawa said that he admired Tokugawa Ieyasu's ability to forbear, and that at first, the tide of the war was not in his favor, but he continued to endure and accumulate strength, and eventually became a generation of shoguns.

"Yue Minjun, in fact, Tokugawa Ieyasu is equivalent to Liu Bei in your Three Kingdoms, at first his strength was very weak, and he was sent to the fence, but he accumulated strength through forbearance and eventually became the world. And Oda Nobunaga is equivalent to your Cao Cao, chic and romantic, with an arbitrary personality. Tokugawa introduced.

"So, you just like Liu Bei to cry and deceive us into buying thirty drilling rigs?" Zhao Yuemin said with a smile.

"Yue Minjun, this is a common rule in the Japanese business community, and there is nothing wrong with liking to show weakness to foreign negotiators to win business opportunities." Tokugawa replied naturally.

"Okay, then I'll ask you. There is an old Chinese saying that you are willing to gamble and lose. Your current handle is in our hands, are you convinced? ”

"Yue Minjun, I lost this battle, I am convinced, I let the board of directors invest in China, what do you want?"

"That's what I thought. Sino-Japanese joint venture, set up a research institute in Jiangbei Oilfield to jointly study the improvement of performance defects of rotary drilling rigs. What do you think? Zhao Yuemin said.

This is the result of his deliberations. At present, the production level and technology of the Japanese side are indeed higher than those of the domestic side. If the joint venture research institute introduces Japanese technology and management, then the quality of its own products will be on a higher level. Of course, this is only a transitional stage, and I believe that in a few years, with hard work and study, I will be able to surpass the production and management level of the Japanese side.

"This one does." Tokugawa Shoichi replied.

"Also, after the establishment of a research institute to jointly improve the rotary drilling rig, we will share 10% of the profits of your global sales." Zhao Yuemin said.

"This ......," Tokugawa hesitated.

"Tokugawa, if you don't cooperate, your product defects will be published in international journals in a month's time, and the Nippon Oil Corporation will face huge indemnities -- you have no choice but to cooperate." Zhao Yuemin said calmly.

……

Ginza Building, Tokyo, Japan.

The gray-haired president of Nippon Oil, Nobumura Tanaka, had a gloomy look on his face.

"Yaga! Tokugawa-kun, are you in a mess? How could you agree to such a cooperation plan? Tanaka Nobumura was furious.

Tokugawa Shoichi stood aside honestly, bowed his head and said, "President, we can't ...... it"

Tanaka Nobumura picked up the document, frowned and read word by word: "Our Japanese side invested a full set of experimental equipment, exported technical personnel, and provided the core technology of rotary drilling rigs, accounting for only 49% of the shares. The Jiangbei oil field, which is only responsible for preparing the site and then investing in the improved technology as a share, accounts for 51%. Tokugawa-kun, are you dizzy? ”

Tokugawa Shoichi just bowed his head and didn't speak.

"We have never signed such an unequal contract." Tanaka Nobumura directly smashed the document in Tokugawa Shoichi's face, "The shares only account for 49%, and we can't make decisions on personnel and financial rights, so we have to listen to the Chinese side." And the Chinese side wants to commission 10% of our future sales profits, this kind of contract, I can't agree! The board of directors will not agree. ”

Tokugawa Shoichi waited for Tanaka to finish venting, calmly bent down to pick up the document, patted it, and put it on the table again. He said word by word: "President, if you don't agree. The Chinese side will immediately publish the performance defects of the rotary drilling rig in international publications, which will have a huge impact on our after-sales service. We have sold more than 12,000 rigs worth more than $10 billion worldwide. The indemnity alone was enough to bankrupt JFT. Which do you think is more important than the research institute? ”

"What do you say, members of the board?" Tokugawa looked at the gray-haired directors in the conference room.

There was silence in the room.

"So we're - we don't have a choice!" Tokugawa said word by word.

The members of the board of directors are all worried. There is no doubt that NikPetro, which is extremely powerful, has been cornered by a small Chinese oil field this time, which is unprecedented.

Tanaka Nobumura's face was gloomy, and he pointed at Tokugawa and said, "This is the shame of Nippon Oil." You go back and tell the Chinese side that I agreed to the institute. But to get a share of 10% of our sales profits, they don't even think about it! If I agree to this, I might as well commit suicide by caesarean section! ”

After that, Zhao Yuemin's Jiangbei Oilfield and Nippon Petroleum conducted a month-long tug-of-war negotiation on the commission of sales profits. In the end, the result of the negotiations was that the Sino-Japanese research institute would be a five-year joint venture, and after five years, the Japanese side would withdraw, and the full set of laboratory equipment worth several million dollars would be owned by the Chinese side.

Zhao Yuemin is already very satisfied with this result. With the technology provided by the Japanese side, he believes that after these five years, he will be able to master the same technical level as Nippon Oil, the world's top three energy companies.

Zhao Yuemin forced Nippon to sign such an unequal contract, and the Japanese side sent technology and equipment, which alarmed the province. Director Liu of the Provincial Department specially came to Jiangbei Oilfield with the condolences of the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.

In the box of the Friendship Hotel, Director Liu took out Wuliangye and filled it up for Zhao Yuemin.

"Director Liu, I'll do it myself." Zhao Yuemin is a junior after all.

"No, no. I want to salute you with this cup. Director Liu took the initiative to laugh and said, "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to raise our eyebrows so much."

Su Guoliang also said happily next to him: "Originally, the Sino-Japanese joint venture is a sensitive issue. The policy hasn't been opened up to that point yet. However, the leaders of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry were happy to see that little Japan was sending money and people. If we don't agree to such good conditions, it will be a fool. ”

After a few glasses of liquor, Director Liu and Su Guoliang were happy, and the two hooked shoulders and sang revolutionary songs:

"Big-knife slashing at the devils' heads!"

Su Guoliang and Director Liu, who used to be steady, are now as happy as children.

"That's right, Xiao Zhao. The newly established research institute, I look at the experimental equipment and technical personnel, it is very likely to surpass the Northern Machinery Research Institute led by Professor Lu in our country. Who are you going to propose to be the director? Su Guoliang asked.

"Can I mention anyone?"

"Of course, you are the hero of this time, as long as the talent is suitable, the bureau will listen to you once." Su Guoliang promised, "Which comrade in the bureau do you want to mention?" Qin Hai or Zhang Jianfeng? ”

Zhao Yuemin blinked and said, "Can I mention my father?" ”