Chapter 17: The Crisis Comes to the Door

Since the camera was put on the market, there has been no hot sales at the beginning, which is a very normal thing, and there have been hot sales at the beginning, which is only a plot in a novel, this is reality, not a novel.

When Qiao's iphone was just launched, there was no sales, and then it was sold in the form of a contract with the mobile company, and those users of the agreement machine were crazy about the iPhone after using it, and actively recommended him to their friends, which slowly drove sales, and finally became popular.

Qiao Gang Leader is like this, let alone him, he doesn't think that he can compare with Qiao Gang Leader after being reborn, it is purely unknowing.

Ling Shizhe was prepared to sell at the beginning, so at the beginning, he opened an experience area in his flagship store, the camera at this time was still a film camera, not a later digital camera, and the actual effect could not be seen immediately, and it was not until the photos came out that they could be seen, a film of 36 photos, all of which had to be taken before they could be taken to the printing shop for processing, at the beginning, few people came to experience, a film took 4 days to shoot, and it took 1 day to wash out, At this time, many people who have experienced it have forgotten about this stubble, and it is still the sales staff who have notified them one by one, and when they see that the photos taken with these cameras are not bad, and it is indeed very convenient to use, only a few people try to buy them.

It is these few people who are crazy about him after using it, and actively promote it to the people around him, and the people around him recommend it to the people around him, relying on a good reputation, it gradually drives the consumption of other people, and the sales situation is slowly getting better, Tom is one of the original people.

Seeing that the sales of cameras are gradually getting better, those retailers or agents who have cooperated with Ling Shizhe gradually come to talk to him about cooperation, and even Kodak companies have come to talk about cooperation, they know very well that this computer camera will be very marketable in the future, once popularized, those film companies are the biggest beneficiaries, and the sales of film can increase by several levels, but it is not impossible to double several times.

Originally, this was a good thing that was beneficial to both parties, but unfortunately Kodak was too domineering, he came to the door not to cooperate, but to shake his prestige, and offered 5000w dollars to buy all of Ambrera, and asked Ling Shizhe not to care about anything in the future, Kodak gave 100w dollars to Ling Shizhe to build a laboratory, and then he would do things specifically for Kodak.

Ling Shizhe looked at this strange thing, looked at him quietly for 20 seconds, and directly blasted him out, and when the strange thing left, he also threatened that if he did not agree to Kodak's conditions, he would apply to the US patent department, and Ling Shizhe's patents would be invalid.

Sure enough, the next day, Ling Shizhe received the news that Kodak Company really applied to the Patent Office and the Ministry of Justice for a resolution requiring Ambrera Company's patent to be invalidated, on the grounds that how could a Chinese make such a high-tech thing as a computer camera, those Chinese are garbage, they can't make a computer camera at all, they must have stolen other people's technology, and asked the Patent Office and the Ministry of Justice to re-examine Ambrella's patent, declare it invalid, and prohibit Ambrera from selling cameras.

Ling immediately held an emergency meeting within the company and contacted White Law Firm.

Olson, the head of the legal department of Ambrera, directly suggested that Ling Shizhe contact Law Firm in the United States, and at the same time notify the Canadian Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking them to protect Canadian companies, prevent foreign companies from harming local companies, and protect the interests of Canadian companies.

After receiving the request of Ambrera, the Canadian company reacted as soon as possible and issued a solemn statement to the U.S. Embassy in Canada, and at the same time, the law firm also sent back and forth, which can handle all this matter, but the cost is as high as 3000w US dollars, but did not show it.

Olsen was very calm, looked at Ling Shizhe, and said: "Boss, this matter is obvious, if we can't calm down this construction in the first time, then we will be in great trouble, with our current strength, it is impossible to confront Kodak Company, the cost of litigation alone can completely drag down the company, if we don't press this matter down at the first time, the US Department of Justice will announce that the company's cameras will stop selling, and then they will declare all our company's patents invalid, Including new ceramic patents, in that case, the company will be completely finished; Obviously, everything was premeditated at Kodak, and now only can handle this matter, and they just saw this clearly, so they opened their mouths, boss, we can only promise them. ”

Alison said, "Olson, how do you know that only Law Firm can handle it, and other law firms can't?" There are still many well-known law firms in North America, and their strength is not worse than him. ”

Hearing Alison say this, Ling Shizhe also wanted to know the reason, and quietly saw Olsen.

"That's because the Kennedy family is behind the MOFO Law Firm," Ling Shizhe realized, no wonder, only the MOFO Law Firm can handle it, Olson continued: "Since the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the MOFO Law Firm has been in decline, and after the assassination of President Kennedy's younger brother, Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy last year, the company has become even worse, and the company's debt has reached $600 million. The Kennedy family is now in a very critical period, which is related to the future direction of the Kennedy family, they urgently need money, and the debt-ridden law firm is a big burden, they have long wanted to get rid of it, but no one accepts it, BOSS This is an opportunity, if we can take over, then everything is not a problem, and is a well-known law firm in the United States, which has many well-known barristers, The business covers Europe, America, Japan, Treasure Island and Southeast Asia, even in Hong Kong also has their office, is a strong company, and is also a strong patent firm, we can also make friends with the Kennedy family when we take over, and the company's future development will not have any trouble. ”

Alison said: "Now the Kennedy family is in big trouble, it's hard to say whether they can get over to this hurdle, even the former first lady Jacqueline left the United States with his two children, and married the Greek ship king Aristotle Onassis to seek protection, and the law firm is now responsible for up to $600 million, not to mention, its success is largely due to the Kennedy family, if we take over the huge burden of this $600 million, If you don't get involved, you will be involved in the political whirlpool in the United States, which is a bad thing for the company, and I don't think the law firm without the name of the Kennedy family will make much difference to the company in the future. ”

Just now I was talking about how to deal with this crisis, whether to agree to MOFO's blackmail, and now it has suddenly become the acquisition of MOFO and friendship with the Kennedy family, what is this called, Ling Shizhe thought silently in his heart, but Ling Shizhe knew that the Kennedy family was able to survive the biggest crisis in their family's history, and later, they changed their strategy, from the front of the stage to behind the scenes, and became the leader of the Democratic Party, and the head of the party was Kennedy's younger brother, Edward Kennedy.

He knew that if this deal could really be successful, he would definitely not lose money, and it would be a big profit, and now was their most difficult time, and this was the time to send charcoal in the snow.

Although Ling Shizhe made a decision in his heart, he still didn't show it, look at what Olson said, if we take over, what kind of trouble will we encounter, we can deal with it, if we don't wait for the Kennedy family's crisis to pass, we will fall first, then it is useless; Even if they survive, what if the Kennedys were white-eyed wolves, they would be on wax then.

Seeing Ling Shizhe looking at him, Olson explained to him: "Although it seems that the Kennedy family is in trouble now, but I think they can get through this crisis, although was founded in 1883, is a long-established firm, with a deep heritage, although the Kennedy family took over he developed rapidly, but their Kennedy family did not rely on him, now although the is in trouble, but in my opinion, they will get through this crisis, after we take over, Many of the legal matters of our company can be outsourced to him, which is just a normal business transaction and will not cause us any trouble. ”

"But if you want to own a law firm in the United States, you have to have a lawyer's license," Ling Shizhe smiled and said, "I don't have a lawyer's license, I can buy shares, but I can't own it." ”

"No, boss, yes, you don't need to have a lawyer's license to have him, don't forget that your family has its own law firm in Hong Kong, boss, you can buy it through him, it has an international license recognized by the United States, and there is no problem at all to acquire it through him."

That's right, how did I forget him, Ling Shizhe woke up, indeed, his family's law firm is a shell of the United States. There is also a story in this, which Ling Shizhe only learned about recently.

The name of the law firm of the Ling family in Hong Kong is Sheng Xin Law Firm, which was the then director of the CIA, Dulles, in order to oppose the shell of the collusion, formerly known as FUCHS Law Firm, and then in the name of conducting business in Hong Kong companies, it engaged in intelligence and enemy special activities against the mainland, and was later discovered by the mainland, and used false intelligence and fake traitors to make the CIA led by Dulles suffer a big loss. This incident became the biggest stain on Dulles's career, in order to wash away the stain, Dulles thought of a way, that is, to find a scapegoat to take over Fox Law Firm, this scapegoat Dulles targeted Jiang, Dulles personally went to Treasure Island to find Jiang, hoping that he would take over Fox Law Firm, and promise all kinds of benefits, Jiang knew what was going on, it was nothing more than wiping the ass and being a scapegoat for the United States, and those benefits were simply empty promises, and I didn't think so, But at that time, Jiang was bent on opposing and attacking the mainland, and he couldn't do without the support of the United States, but he didn't want to make a scapegoat for the United States, so he hinted that his subordinates would take over.

At that time, Ling Zhigao held a meeting on Baodao, and held a meeting on how to counter-attack, and the mainland, and Ling Zhigao privately thought that this meeting was simply a nonsense meeting, with one year of preparation, two years of counter-offensive, three years of sweeping, and five years of success. Isn't this just nonsense, Ling Zhigao didn't want to come at all, but at that time, Ling Zhigao's business was in difficulty, and he needed the market of Baodao to survive the crisis, and he was the ** officer of the year, so he had to come.

At that time, Jiang was worried about who to find to be a scapegoat, and none of Jiang's subordinates were willing to accept being the scapegoat, at this time Ling Zhigao appeared, he is from Hong Kong, and he has no heels and background, it is best to bully, not to bully him, who to bully, so everyone has been taking over this mess by Ling Zhigao. Ling Zhigao is angry, this is obviously bullying people, he doesn't want to, Jiang promised to give him a major general in order to let Ling Zhigao die, of course Ling Zhigao won't do it, is this vain major general useful, it is necessary to fight for his own head and the lives of his family, and he didn't come for this, he said angry words at that time, and said that he wouldn't do it for a lieutenant general, and Lao Jiang said in one mouth, that is, a lieutenant general, there is no problem with your business in Treasure Island.

In this way, Ling Zhigao returned to Hong Kong with the title of lieutenant general and military uniform, and took over the OEM FOX Law Firm in the United States.

At that time, Ling Zhigao had already prepared for the worst, even the will was written, the lawyer who handled the will was the lawyer of the newly established Shengxin Law Firm, lawyer Zhong, and his family were arranged, just waiting for the mainland agents to come and retaliate, who knew that the mainland had not moved, even the new H Society in Hong Kong had not moved, at first the Ling family was still worried, but there has been no movement, I don't know what is going on, what is he going to do in the mainland, Ling Zhigao has been nervous, and then one night, That is, on the 25th day after Ling Zhigao met in Hong Kong, a mysterious person visited, saying that he was from the new H Society, and only said four words to Ling Zhigao: It has nothing to do with you, and then left, so that Ling Zhigao completely relieved his heart.

And Dulles found a scapegoat, and when he returned to the United States, he said, this is not the failure of our CIA, it is the failure of the intelligence agency on the treasure island, we don't have any failure, you see that the law firm is theirs, it has nothing to do with us, and they will blame it cleanly.

And Jiang's subordinates were also dumbfounded, thinking that this time Ling would definitely be finished, but after seeing Ling Zhigao's meeting in Hong Kong, he changed the original Fox Law Firm to the name of Shengxin Law Firm, and he did business and lived without anything, and later got the news that the mainland would not go to him for trouble at all, knowing that he was a scapegoat, what to do with him.

After Jiang's subordinates understood the reason, they knew that they had lost a great benefit, and they regretted it in their hearts, why didn't they grab it at that time, a lieutenant general flew in vain, and saw Ling Zhigao in Hong Kong, there was nothing to do, and the business was still booming, and he was angry in his heart, so he ran to Lao Jiang to talk about it, and said, Ling Zhigao is okay because he has already been with the Communist Party, he rebelled, he knew that he was fine, so he took the mess, otherwise why did he take it, you see after he took over the law firm, His Ling family's business is booming, isn't it evidence of collusion.

Lao Jiang also listened to the truth and was dissatisfied with Ling Zhigao, but the promise he made at the beginning was not easy to talk back, and he never spoke. His subordinates saw Jiang's thoughts, and began to squeeze his business on Treasure Island, and with Jiang's acquiescence, the Ling family's business was soon squeezed out of the market on Treasure Island.

In fact, after Ling Zhigao will meet Hong Kong, the business has not improved at all, and he is still struggling to support, hoping to rely on the market of the treasure island to get out of the predicament, but the result is switched to this end, the angry Ling Zhigao is seriously ill, after the illness, he is also completely dead to the old Jiang, since then he has never been to the treasure island, the business has not been done in the treasure island, all the merchants from the treasure island came to him to buy, and then transported back to the treasure island to sell, Ling Shizhe's ceramics are sold in the treasure island after the Li family asked for the agency in the treasure island from Ling Shizhe.

Last time, Ling Zhigao told Ling Shizhe to go to Taiwan with him, but it was a slip of the tongue, but when it really happened, he found an excuse to fly to Europe, and his mother Zhang Yuzhen did not come, Ling Shizhe did not suspect at that time, or Li Li saw it, and told Ling Shizhe in Taiwan, which attracted his attention, after returning to Hong Kong, he went to ask his mother, Zhang Yuzhen didn't say, asked his father Ling Zhigao, his father just sighed, looked into the distance in a daze, and didn't say anything, and later, when the eldest brother Ling Shikai came to Canada to see me Ling Shizhe, he told him the truth, The reason why he came was that his father was worried that he didn't know the situation back then, so he rashly got involved with them and would suffer a big loss, so he called Ling Shikai to come.

Along with the eldest brother is Li Li's brother, Li Zhen. Li Zhen came to see how the sales of the camera in the United States were, if it was good, he would talk about the agency of the treasure island, but he was disappointed, what he saw was the cold sales of the camera in the United States, seeing this situation, he was just a pity, but it was a pity that he left after a few days, and he didn't mention the agency. Ling Shizhe saw his appearance and shook his head, it seems that this Li Zhen's future achievements are very limited, after his son Li Chunlai leaves, he can only guard the assets left to him by his father and eat his old capital, but just heard about the true thoughts that his father met on the treasure island, Ling Shizhe suspects that Li Zhen can't even keep the assets left to him by his father, it seems that there will be many events in the future, and Ling Shizhe will not go to the treasure island in the future.

After understanding the truth of the matter, Ling Shizhe thought about it and said to Olson, "Can you help me get in touch with Edward Kennedy?" I want to meet him and tell him that I am interested in the law firm that he has. ”