673 to meet the challenge

"This is the minutes of the meeting in Saint-Tropez, which the state security department obtained through internal channels, so let's pass it on to everyone.

In the large conference room of the headquarters of the Hanhua Group, Lin Zhenhua sat on the main seat of the conference table and said to the room full of executives.

Bi Min, the director of the office, took a stack of materials and distributed them to all the participants in turn. These participants are either the CEOs of the respective branches or the heads of the core departments of the group. With the continuous expansion of GCA's business, there are now as many as 40 or 50 people who are qualified to attend the office meeting of the group headquarters, and this is also when some senior executives have not rushed over from other places.

The information sent by Bi Min to everyone, as Lin Zhenhua said, is the minutes of the secret meeting held by Khedira in Saint-Tropez, and according to Chen Tian, who provided the information to Lin Zhenhua, it was obtained through secret channels by their insiders. Although Lin Zhenhua has always known that the security department has great powers, he is still very shocked by this matter. He really couldn't think of any kind of informant who would reveal information at such a meeting where there were very few participants and everyone knew each other.

Chen Tian insisted on refusing to tell his source of information, which is understandable to Lin Zhenhua, which is the characteristic of people's work. After receiving the information, he and Xiang Zhe read through it first, feeling both shocked and relieved.

Saying that they were shocked, it was because they didn't expect that Khedira would have such a deep grudge against Han Hua, and the tricks he proposed were more and more yin than the other, and if all these tricks were used, Han Hua would definitely suffer some losses.

said relieved, because they were somewhat mentally prepared for this matter. As early as two years ago, Chen Tian warned them that European companies might take measures to curb Chinese companies. It's a bit like the story of throwing shoes, the first shoe has been thrown down, they have been waiting for the second shoe for two years, and when they hear that there is finally movement on the floor, their hearts are relieved.

Some things have to come sooner or later. Fortunately, due to the arrogance of European companies, the matter was postponed for two years. These two years have been enough for Hanhua to make a lot of preparations.

"Let's take a look, but these materials are all top secret, so there is no need to repeat the secrecy discipline, right?" Xiang Zhe, who was sitting next to Lin Zhenhua, said. Read with me, please keep in mind that this sentence is completely redundant, in this conference room, are all members of the highest decision-making level of the group, among which Fang Yanwu and Cen Youjun have also become the chairmen of two listed companies, how can they be the kind of people who do things. Xiang Zhe said this also to ease the atmosphere and save everyone from being too nervous.

"What's going on with this Khedira?" Donnie Yen, who has become the general manager of Hunbei Forging Machine Tool Factory, asked in surprise, "Mr. Lin, when have you offended him?" Judging from the minutes of this meeting, the whole thing is that he is jumping up and down alone, and everyone else is a little half-pushing. ”

This involves Chen Tian's access to information, and no matter how capable the security department is, it cannot develop the executives of a large European company into its own insiders. But after the Saint-Tropez conference, a Chinese who worked as a business journalist in the West accidentally reached out to several executives who had attended the conference and learned from their mouths about the topics discussed at the meeting. These executives were very concerned about the interviewer's Chinese identity, and deliberately said more than that.

Chen Tian, who looked at the information afterwards, guessed a few points about the thoughts of these leakers, that is, they tried to send a message to the Chinese side through this Chinese reporter: European companies are going to jointly block Chinese companies, but this matter is ...... It was planned by Alk's Khedira, and we were just out of helplessness, after all, they are all European companies, and it is not suitable to be unsociable. As for our feelings toward China, there is no doubt about that. In fact, among Chinese companies, it is also very common to step on two boats like this. In business, there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies, everything depends on interests. For European companies, the Chinese market is so important now that no one wants to be hated by the Chinese. ALK intends to provoke the head to deal with the Chinese, and everyone is happy to take this free ride, but hitchhiking, some things still have to say hello to the Chinese first. As for whether this is selling alk, everyone doesn't bother to think about it. The meeting was convened by you, so you should have a little sense of being the first to block the guns for everyone.

Hearing Donnie Yen's words, Lin Zhenhua laughed and said, "Zifei, how much have you just seen." Let me expose another shocking news, according to more reliable sources, it was this Khedira who instructed Somali pirates to attack Hanyuan No. 4 last year. ”

"What!"

This material is really fierce enough, and everyone raised their heads from the material they were looking at and looked at Lin Zhenhua. Lin Zhenhua waved his hand and said: "This matter is not the final conclusion. The security services inquired about it, but I suggested that they didn't have to go any further. The fact that we provided generator sets for the Equatorial Power Plant in Goma is considered to be the cheese of Alk, so it's no wonder that people can be happy. Do you know that thermal power generation equipment is a traditional strength of ALK, but since we provided equipment to Goma, last year we grabbed nearly $6 billion in orders from ALK in the African market and the Latin American market.

Of course, these orders were not eaten by our Hanhua family, we only got the part of the gas turbine, and the bulk was taken by several companies such as Xingbei Heavy Machinery. However, for ALK, it was a solid loss of 6 billion real money. You say, is this bond between us and ALK a big deal? ”

He Fei, director of the group's marketing department, added: "We have researched and found that one of the direct reasons for ALK's large losses last year was the loss of these orders for thermal power generation. Of course, they also lost a lot of money on petrochemical orders, thanks to the old party. According to our estimates, if ALK does not effectively reverse the decline in sales, they will be in a serious financial crisis within three years at most, and bankruptcy is not out of the question. ”

"This kind of thing is a matter of cutting off people's financial routes, but in ancient times, it was a deep hatred in the sea of blood." Donnie Yen said wittily.

"Now it's also a blood feud." Yang Chao, the general manager of the steam turbine company, said with a big grin, "However, we can't help it, who makes ALK not angry, they have been engaged in gas turbines for decades, and they are not as good as our rising star." If your skills are not as good as others, then you can't blame others, right? ”

"Understood." Donnie Yen said, he pointed to the minutes of the Saint-Tropez meeting in his hand, and said: "Lao Yang, have you seen it, this Khedira, but it is said that the cost of patent authorization should be increased in an all-round way." Does your steam turbine company use ALK's patented technology for gas turbines? If so, be careful that people get stuck in your neck. ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Don't say it, when we first made steam turbines, we were apprenticed to ALK. At that time, Chief Engineer Zhang took the information provided by ALK and made the prototype of the first steam turbine. Our current gas turbines also use a lot of ALK patents, but they don't have to pay any patent fees. ”

"You're actually doing piracy?" Donnie Yen asked.

"How is that possible?" Yang Chao said proudly, "At that time, it was the honeymoon period of our cooperation, and these patents were transferred to us by ALK free of charge according to the agreement. I pondered, and now Alk regrets that his bowels are blue. ”

"It's not all patents, in fact, the technology we developed ourselves is the most important, and those patents of ALK are no longer key technologies." Lin Zhenhua said. This incident was coaxed and deceived back then, and Alk was a bad deed. However, due to domestic affairs, ALK interrupted the technology transfer to Hanhua, forcing Hanhua to invest a lot of money to develop related technologies on its own. Later, Hanhua received guidance from Brys, a gas turbine expert from Ukraine, which formed today's gas turbine technology. ..., Hu Fei, director of the group's planning and operation department, interrupted everyone's casual chat, he is a very pragmatic person, and as soon as he spoke, he went straight to the point: "Regarding the matter of Khedira, I don't think we need to care too much, after all, he is just a clown who jumps off the beam." I think that no matter whether there is a person Khedira or not, after the development of Hanhua, it is inevitable that we will collide with advanced enterprises in Europe and the United States. We should think more about how to deal with this challenge, and as for who the specific opponents are, it is a matter that needs to be considered at the second level. ”

"Lao Hu is right, let's ask Lao Hu to explain this matter to everyone." Xiang Zhe said.

Everyone quieted down and turned their eyes to Hu Fei. Hu Fei spread out a notebook and said to everyone: "Before the meeting, Mr. Lin had already shown me this summary. I roughly sorted out the other party's methods, and there are several items:

First, they plan to carry out some joint development of technology and realize technology sharing. With regard to this article, I don't think it's much of a threat to us. European companies also have conflicts of interest with each other, even if they want to cooperate, they will only form some loose alliances, and the level of cooperation is far less than our chemical equipment alliance and machine tool industry alliance. We need not worry about the symbolism of such an alliance over its practical significance. ”

"That's right, the contradictions between European companies are probably far greater than the contradictions between them and us, so we don't need to worry too much." Xiang Zhe nodded and said.

"The second point is that they are going to stick our necks in terms of high-end accessories. There are still some threats to us, especially for machine tool companies. By the way, the same is true for Mr. Zhen's forging machine tools, and your dependence on European accessories is also relatively high. Hu Fei nodded to Cen Youjun and Donnie Yen respectively, meaning that they needed to react to this.