Chapter 122 Big Business with Saudi Arabia
Obviously, Cheng Yuan's last sentence was very polite, if he changed to a normal person with a bigger temper, maybe he would walk away.
However, the people who can enter this box are the people who are swayed by impulses? Their anger and joy are often just a mask that they can use when needed, and if they were really like children who can lose their temper at will, they will not be able to get to this point.
At this point, this is true not only of the old fritters of other large companies, but also of Abdullah.
Although Abdullah is a prince of Saudi Arabia, there are more princes in Saudi Arabia, and he is not the core prince, otherwise he would not have been sent to explore the way. He can come to this day, he is definitely not a reckless person, his arrogance and arrogance are more often an external disguise.
In fact, everyone here understands that the Ostan Group has obviously mastered a technology that can produce carbon fiber and carbon isotopes such as graphene in large quantities, and with this technology, it is equivalent to mastering a large number of scarce resources such as carbon fiber graphene.
In this case, generally speaking, no one will contradict it, and Abdullah's doing this is actually a temptation.
The new technology mastered by the Ostein Group is undoubtedly a kind of revolution, which is mainly based on new materials, and then improves new processes through new materials, which can lead to a series of industrial revolutions.
While this situation is a boon for humanity as a whole, it is not good news for certain groups, such as Abdullah and the Saudi Arabian National Oil Company behind him, or even for the entire OPEC organization.
In fact, in the final analysis, this is still on the road of technological development, the collision of transformation between the old and new groups.
The history of the development of human civilization is also the history of energy development, just as after the discovery of the steam engine, coal replaced firewood and became the main energy force; After the discovery of the internal combustion engine, oil replaced coal and became the absolute boss of the energy industry. In the new century, discerning people know that the future belongs to new energy and electricity, who can master new energy and power technology in advance, and reduce the cost as soon as possible, then a new energy revolution is about to happen.
A country like Saudi Arabia, which has a large amount of crude oil resources, has a clear understanding of the value of the resources at their disposal. They have long understood that the resources they have are not unlimited, sooner or later there will be a light day, and the environment they are in, once there is no high profit from oil, and there is no other industry to support, it will quickly decline, so their attention to new energy technology has always been at the forefront of the world, and their desire for transformation, or investment in other related industries, is also recognized by the world.
In other words, although Saudi Arabia is very rich, their sense of crisis is higher than that of large chaebols such as Europe and the United States, because Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries are congenitally deficient, and if they cannot convert oil resources into other technologies as soon as possible, they will sooner or later be abandoned by Western countries and even Eastern countries.
It is precisely because of this that they have been paying attention to the emergence of the new technology of the Ostan Group, and the enthusiasm for attention is greater than that of the European and American consortia.
For example, now, just a new car launch event that may have a deep relationship with the Ostein Group, Arrow Automobile Company, they sent a prince, while other large energy companies in Europe and the United States, such as Mobil, BP, etc., only sent a few observer representatives, and even those observers did not spend a lot of money to buy cars, did not enter this charity party, and did not enter this box.
This is not difficult to understand, after all, large companies have larger institutions, more cumbersome systems, and they have more resources at their disposal, they are not used to taking risks, and they are more accustomed to relying on capital to strike later, so although they have not made much progress in contacting the Ostan Group, they are not enough to focus on Cheng Yuan.
In fact, those big chaebols have begun to lobby politicians in their respective countries, intending to use political channels to lobby or oppress the Swedish side from the political level, so that the Swedish political axe can oppress the Austan Group again, and let the Austan Group open up the technology, or carry out an equivalent exchange.
Even if the Austan Group does not open up technology, they are not afraid, after all, no country or institution can win the world with one or two technology packages.
Just as the steam engine has not been withdrawn from the stage of history after the advent of the internal combustion engine, although the big conglomerates also realize that the emergence of new materials and intelligent robots will greatly change the status quo of some industries, they believe that as long as they are not idiots, no company will go against the big companies in the world, which is undoubtedly self-defeating. Not to mention anything else, just a market blockade, political suppression, account freezes, etc., can make multinational companies unable to eat and go around.
In other words, the products of new technology must have enough market to digest in order to form a new force, if there is not enough market digestion, it still does not pose a threat, and in this regard, the big business group has a unique advantage.
However, that kind of means can only be played by countries such as Europe and the United States, especially the big chaebols of superpowers like the United States, and countries and state-owned enterprises like Saudi Arabia, which are very rich but not powerful, cannot play this kind of political trick, so they pay more attention to the Ostan Group, and Cheng Yuan, who may have a deep relationship with the Austan Group.
Therefore, after hearing Cheng Yuan's words, Abdullah just shrugged his shoulders, quickly confessed, and donated $10 billion on the spot, becoming the largest person among the donors.
Seeing that Abdullah has pledged, others have also paid money, more or less, but more of it means to spend 500 million 1 billion, try the water first.
In this way, in this box, 42 people pledged 53 billion US dollars in the name of their respective companies, and immediately set up the fund pool of the "New Hope Education Poverty Alleviation Fund" that Cheng Yuan was going to run.
After seeing that the goal was achieved, Cheng Yuan was ready to quietly quit, anyway, Cheng Yuan came to participate in this charity gala, just to show his following, and give a promise and guarantee, which is equivalent to giving everyone a reassurance. As for the operation of specific charity projects, as well as the follow-up operation, as well as related new materials, the sale and trading of robots, Liang Hua and her team are responsible for it, and he doesn't need to do anything.
Cheng Yuan is still very busy now, and his busyness is mainly related to his mother, because just now, he got a news that his mother has come here from his hometown again, and is currently being arranged by the reception staff in the company's guest house.
Although I don't know why my mother suddenly came over again, after all, it is my mother, and compared with these middle-aged and elderly people in the box, it is more important to go to see my mother, even if my mother may be very nagging.
However, although Cheng Yuan was in a hurry to leave, it was obviously not easy, because as soon as he came out of the box, he was surrounded by a group of beauties, all of whom were young models and second- and third-rate female stars, obviously waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
Fortunately, Fanya and Emma are not vegetarians, Fanya doesn't mention it, even Emma is easy to deal with these women, and a few heavy hands can make these women cry out, and they no longer dare to approach Cheng Yuan easily.
I have to say that it is better to deal with women.
However, after such a delay, the other people in the box reacted and began to surround them automatically, after all, no one wanted Cheng Yuan to leave so early, and everyone wanted to have some small conversations with Cheng Yuan in private.
The fastest reaction was Prince Abdullah, who relied on his young physique and was closest to the door, and he rushed over with an arrow step, grabbed Cheng Yuan's sleeve and did not relax, and said in standard English: "Don't go, don't go!" ”
First shook his head at Fanya, who had just beaten a young female model down and was about to come over to do it, Cheng Yuan smiled bitterly at Prince Abdullah, and said in English: "Let go first, Prince Abdullah, this is not good, it will make people misunderstand." ”
As if realizing something, Prince Abdullah quickly let go: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so excited! Don't get me wrong, I'm actually normal, I like women. ”
"Understood, understood." Cheng Yuan nodded and smiled, "I believe that Prince Abdullah is normal, I have no doubt about this, I am just worried that others will misunderstand." ”
"Others, hehe, I believe that those who can come in this charity dinner will not be too boring." Abdullah shook his head, and continued, "Don't mention those for now, Mr. Cheng Yuan, I want to talk to you alone, only you and me, I have big business to talk to you." ”
"I'm so sorry, Prince Abdullah." Cheng Yuan shook his head, "I'm not good at talking about business, so you can talk to Mr. Liang Hualiang about specific business." ”
"No, no, no, you misunderstood." Abdullah immediately said, "This big business of mine can only be discussed with you, because this is not the thing you proposed before, but something else. For example, aren't you interested in cheap oil and gas? ”
"Oil? Natural gas? Cheap? Hearing this, Cheng Yuanyi frowned, "I don't know what you mean." ”
"Meaning, if you're interested, I can provide these things to you on behalf of Saudi Aramco." Abdullah stared at Cheng Yuandao, "And it's lower than the market price, a large amount of it!" ”
Hearing him say this, Cheng Yuan immediately nodded: "Okay, Prince Abdullah, you come with me." ”
After speaking, Cheng Yuan walked in one direction first, while Prince Abdullah immediately followed, and the others stayed where they were, without any intention of following. After all, people have long said that it is a separate talk, and if this situation is forced to follow, it will only be boring.
So for the other people in the box, they can only continue to pester Liang Hua and apply, hoping to have a separate meeting with Cheng Yuan, and the other thing to do is to quickly contact their own company and report everything that happened here truthfully.
Putting aside the thoughts of those people, after Cheng Yuan and Prince Abdullah left the dinner hall, they quickly took the elevator to a separate room, which was originally a small bar for employees to rest and communicate, but now it has become a place for Cheng Yuan and Abdullah to meet alone.
"Would you like to have something?" Cheng Yuan, who sat down, asked Abdullah, who came over.
"Coffee bar." "It's better to give me a cup of Blue Mountain, if not, Cappuccino." ”
"It's quite demanding." Cheng Yuan smiled, and then said to the robot waiter, "A cup of Blue Mountain coffee, a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice." ”
After listening to Cheng Yuan's words, the robot repeated, and then left gently, and after the robot waiter left, Abdullah immediately said enviously: "This kind of robot waiter is really good, do you sell it?" ”
"Sell, of course you can sell." Cheng Yuan smiled, "However, in fact, this kind of robot waiter is a humanoid robot in the construction robot, as long as you add a little information about the waiter to it and change some of the small programs, you can do this." ”
"Oh, so I'm going to buy a construction robot and just program some of it?" Abdullah asked.
"That's right." Cheng Yuan nodded, "Not only construction robots, even if they are guard robots, this kind of program can also be added, it all depends on your personal wishes." Well, to increase these, you just need our after-sales personnel to debug it. ”
"That's pretty good." Abdullah nodded.
As soon as they said this, the robot waiter had already delivered them what they ordered, which were a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice and a cup of fragrant Blue Mountain coffee.
After the thing was delivered, Abdullah picked up the coffee and smelled it, nodded, then tasted it gently, and then nodded: "Yes, it's authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, not an impostor, and the preparation technique is also good, hehe, I didn't expect the coffee made by the robot to be not bad." ”
"Robots just do what they're programmed to do." Cheng Yuan smiled, "It's like this kind of coffee, which is brewed according to the program, it won't be too bad." ”
"Good, I'm more interested." Abdullah gently put down the coffee and nodded with satisfaction, "I must have this kind of robot servant, haha, the things he brews are much better than my servants, at least he won't steal my coffee beans." ”
"Hehe, the prince has a good sense of humor." Cheng Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, "Okay, let's talk about something else, you said before that you can provide oil and gas?" ”
"Yes." Abdullah nodded, "Before I came, I had an authorization to provide you with oil and gas at a lower market price than the Ostan Group, and the export amount can avoid OPEC, based on the agreement between us, of course, in exchange, we want to get the manufacturing technology of carbon fiber and graphene." ”
"Do you think it's possible?" Cheng Yuan shook his head, "Your request is obviously impossible. ”
"Can you represent the Ostein Group?"
"I can." Cheng Yuan said lightly.
"Okay then." Apdullah did not argue either, and continued, "If this condition does not work, then how about another one, exchanging oil for materials? In other words, let Saudi Arabia also join the free trade of the carbon five countries, so that we can also get more carbon fiber and graphene and other products. ”
"Isn't that what we talked about before?" Cheng Yuan smiled.
"Not enough, far from enough." Abdullah shook his head, "As you talked about earlier, it's clear that there are limits to the numbers, which is far from enough for us. We want to get more export quotas for carbon isotope products, just like your CBF free trade organization, and get the same treatment. ”
"Why are you looking for me?" Cheng Yuandao, "The free trade of the five carbon countries, that is a negotiation between countries, why do you think I can influence this?" ”
"Because this seems to be an organization between countries, the bond is actually an isotope material of carbon, and without this, there is nothing to say about the free trade of the five countries. As far as this carbon isotope material is concerned, the Ostan Group is the key, but for the Ostan Group, you have a big say. "Although I don't know exactly what your five-nation free trade agreement will be, such as what the respective quotas for carbon isotope materials will be, it's obviously more than what you just said in the box, and the price is definitely cheaper." So, we in Saudi Arabia want to join this organization and pay with our oil. ”
"I don't think it's difficult." Cheng Yuandao, "I can talk about your proposal to the Austan Group, and if they agree, they will send you an invitation letter to Saudi Arabia." ”
"Thank you." Abdullah nodded, "In addition, we are also very interested in robots, and we hope to be able to purchase more of them. You know, in Saudi Arabia, labor is very expensive, and workers are very inefficient, so if it's robots, we have a higher demand. Therefore, I hope that you will give us more quotas for robots, and again, we will exchange oil for it. ””
"Robots, how much do you want to buy?" Cheng Yuan asked with a smile.
"The more the merrier." "We need more and more robots. And we also want you to provide military robots, the kind of robots that can act as soldiers, and we won't be intimidated by demonstrations like Sweden. And in addition to all kinds of robots, we also want to buy fighters, that is, the kind of crow fighters that the Saab Group has just developed! ”
"It's really big business." Cheng Yuan nodded, "It seems that you Saudi Arabia have a great appetite." ”
"Hey, I can't help it." Abdullah sighed, "We seem to be rich, but in fact we are in crisis, so we hope for more security." ”
"How did you come up with the idea to talk to me about this?" Cheng Yuan suddenly asked, "Who told you that I can do this?" ”
"What's this......" Abdullah smiled, "Mr. Cheng Yuan, although Huaguo's ability to keep secrets has always been good, but there are not so many secrets in this world, especially your high-level Huaguo, don't trust them too much, because as long as you are willing to spend money, you can know a lot of things." Actually, don't talk about me, I'm afraid that the intelligence services of many countries already know that you have facilitated a military order between China and Sweden's Saab Group, including the export version of the Raven fighter. If my expectations are correct, I am afraid that the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries have already begun to consider measures to put pressure on Sweden. ”
"Yes, I expected it." Cheng Yuan smiled slightly, "Actually, I didn't think that I could hide this matter from others, but I am still very grateful that you can tell me this so openly and honestly." ”
"Where." "We have always been sincere with our friends. ”
"Thank you very much for this recognition." Cheng Yuan also nodded, "Since you are so sincere, then I will also give you some sincerity." In this way, robots, I can call the shots, and then grant you a contract for 10,000 robots, as for what kind of robots you want, you can choose for yourself. ”
"Great! This is exactly what we need! "Abdullah is overjoyed.
"Actually, I have a few cooperation projects compared to this, I don't know if you are interested."
"Oh, what is it?"
"I don't know, are you interested in the seawater renovation project?" Cheng Yuan smiled, "You know, carbon fiber and graphene, which are isotope materials of carbon, have unparalleled superiority, and these materials can be used to make a new type of desalination plant." The desalination capacity of this desalination plant will be greatly improved, and at the same time, it can further form an integrated chemical plant, which can transform the desalination materials into more useful chemical raw materials. Of course, the most important thing is that the entire system is environmentally friendly and that electricity can be generated during the conversion process. ”
"In other words, your project can generate electricity and produce chemical raw materials in the process of desalination? And all production activities are environmentally friendly? ”
"Yes."
"So, what is the production capacity of fresh water?"
"Well, it's hard to say, but I promise that you Saudi Arabia will no longer have to worry about fresh water from now on, in other words, in the future, your Saudi Arabia will use fresh water, which can basically be wasted like our country. With this technology, Wangyang is your freshwater reservoir and chemical base. As long as there is water, it will not be difficult to transform the desert. ”
"It's really the best news I've ever heard today." Abdullah clasped his hands together, closed his eyes and said, "Allah will bless you, and Saudi Arabia will not forget you." ”
"Don't worry, I still have it." Cheng Yuan smiled.
"And?" Abdullah reopened his eyes, "What else?" ”
"New Urban Renewal Project." Cheng Yuan said with a smile.
"New urban renovation project?"
"Yes." Cheng Yuan said, "I believe that we used robots to build a high-standard school in a short period of time, as well as our office building, have you also heard of it?" ”
"It's more than just hearing." Abdullah shook his head, "And I've seen it with my own eyes, well, your ability to build is incredible. ”
"So, do you want us to build one, or even a few high-tech new towns, for you?" Cheng Yuan tempted, "With our construction robots, our new nano building materials, and a series of high-tech technologies, we can build new cities with higher technology in the desert for you in a short period of time." Not only the construction of cities, but also supporting facilities such as inter-city railway systems, highway systems, etc., we can also help you build. It can be said that as long as you allow our construction company to enter, as long as you give us sufficient funds and oil and gas resources, we can help you Saudi Arabia build a modern Saudi Arabia in a short time. ”
"It's really big business." Abdullah smiled bitterly, "I really can't be the master of what you said, I have to ask the above, but I don't think they will refuse, because whoever changes it is, they can't refuse your temptation!" (To be continued.) )