"What, cancel the contract?"

Yuan Wei looked at Blake with an angry face with an unbelievable gaze, not knowing why such a change suddenly occurred.

"Yes, Dear Mr. Yuan, I regret to inform you that I request the cancellation of the contract we have just signed, and we cannot purchase the fans you produce." Blake said.

"Why is that?" Yuan Wei panicked, "Mr. Black, if it's because of the price, we can discuss it again, have you seen a cheaper price in other exhibition areas?" ”

"No, no, no, it's not about the price." "I'm canceling this contract just because I just heard that your five-bladed fan is unauthorized. ”

"Authorized?" Yuan Wei was dumbfounded, "You won't be talking about that patent, right?" ”

"Yes, as far as I know, the patent for the five-blade fan is from Hanhua."

"Alas, Mr. Black, don't listen to Lin Zhenhua scare you, what kind of patent, it doesn't matter." Yuan Wei said lightly. He thought to himself, this foreigner is stupid, so Lin Zhenhua was scared, and he didn't even buy a bargain, which was really dead-eyed.

Blake shook his head desperately: "No, no, I don't think patents are indifferent in the slightest, on the contrary, I think patents are very important things. Mr. Yuan, please take out the contract we just signed and let us tear it up. I don't want to get in trouble because of this contract. ”

"What's the trouble with that? It's not a hassle at all. Yuan Wei said.

"No, no, no, no, it's troublesome, I'm sorry, Mr. Yuan, I still want you to give me back the contract."

Yuan Wei's face was a little ugly, and he said hesitantly: "Mr. Black, you should know that this contract, after all, was signed by both parties, if you want to cancel it, you have to have some reason, right?" ”

"Isn't that a good reason why you don't have a patent license?" Blake was in a hurry, he felt that the Chinese businessman in front of him was too unreasonable, did such an obvious reason need to be explained?

Yuan Wei said: "What kind of reason is this? It's just that he has a piece of paper in his hand. ”

Blake said, "Mr. Yuan, I am shocked by your lack of legal knowledge. I'm sorry, but now I don't want to waste time discussing this with you, I give you two options, one is to take out the contract and tear it up, and the other is that I will talk to you through a lawyer. You have entered into a supply contract with me without a patent license, and I am suspected of fraud, and I have the right to demand compensation from you for my financial losses. ”

"What, lawyer?" Yuan Wei was confused this time, he turned his head and shouted loudly: "Director Sun, Director Sun, please come over for a while." ”

Sun Pansheng walked over quickly and asked, "Manager Yuan, what's going on again?" ”

"This merchant wants to withdraw his contract." Yuan Wei pointed at Blake and said, after that, he simply told Sun Pansheng what had just happened, and Sun Pansheng was suddenly furious.

"It's so unbelievable! The people of Jiangnan Province are simply too deceitful! Sun Pansheng said indignantly. He's really angry, your Jiangnan Province is too unreasonable, isn't it just a patent, as for the whole world to say? We finally signed a contract, and you messed us up with a word, and it was unreasonable...... If he tells Lin Zhenhua about his psychological activities, I'm afraid Lin Zhenhua will also have to go berserk. There is no way, the cultivation of market economy rules can not be achieved in a few words, it requires a long period of accumulation and precipitation, in this process, there will inevitably be countless collisions and confrontations between old and new concepts. Rome wasn't built in a day, and a full-fledged market wasn't built in a day.

"Mr. Black, I believe this is just a misunderstanding." Sun Pansheng said to Black with a smile on his face, "In fact, the patent for the five-blade fan belongs to our entire China, and Hanhua Company only keeps it on its behalf." Please be patient for a few days and we'll coordinate this. ”

"All of China?" Blake was stunned.

"Yes, yes, that's it. As you know, in China, enterprises belong to the state, so the patents in the hands of enterprises also belong to the state, and no enterprise or individual can take what belongs to the country as their own! Sun Pansheng replied solemnly, the expression on his face was so calm, people felt that he was the one who represented justice.

Blake couldn't figure out what the Chinese were doing, so he had to agree to postpone the withdrawal of the contract for two days and wait for Sun Pansheng to hear back to him.

At the end of the day's exhibition, when the delegations returned to the hotel, the responsible persons of the foreign trade departments of seven or eight provinces rushed directly to the temporary office set up by the foreign trade department of the organizer, without taking care of drinking water or washing their faces.

"The Jiangnan Provincial Delegation is too unspeakable! How can there be a reason for one's own people to dismantle their own people's platform! ”

"They want to complete the export task, and we also have the export task, why should they break our contracts with foreign businessmen?"

"This kind of behavior that harms others and benefits oneself must be severely punished!"

"Disqualify Jiangnan Province from participating in the exhibition!"

"The party must be expelled from the party!"

“……”

Xu Liya, the young director of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, was at first confused by the second monk, and he didn't know what the local officials were stimulated, but after asking about the situation, he also began to get annoyed.

"How can there be such a thing that cares about the whole situation?" Xu Liya said, "Then who, go and invite Director Hua of Jiangnan Province, and what kind of manager, let him come too." ”

His subordinates rushed to the room where the Jiangnan Provincial delegation lived, and beckoned Hua Keqin and Lin Zhenhua to meet Xu Liya. Hua Keqin had expected such a scene, and was waiting in the room with Lin Zhenhua at this time. Hearing the summons of the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Hua Keqin smiled at Lin Zhenhua and said, "Xiaolin, it's up to you." ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Director Hua, I am a small person, and I have to rely on you to support me in the end." ”

Hua Keqin said: "Don't be afraid, just go and reason, the sky will fall, and I will support you." I have already called Director Liu of the Provincial Economic Commission this afternoon, and he expressed his support for your rights protection actions. ”

"Okay, with the support of the Economic Commission and the Foreign Trade Department, I won't be afraid." Lin Zhenhua said.

The two of them came to Xu Liya's room, and Hua Keqin pretended to be stupid and asked, "Director Xu, what's the matter, are there any new instructions?" ”

"Oh, Director Hua, please take a seat. And that one...... It's Manager Lin, right, please sit down. Xu Liya pointed to the two stools on the side and said to Hua Keqin and Lin Zhenhua. His rank is lower than Hua Keqin, but he feels that he is from the representative department, and he has a letter from the Qincha seal in his hand, and he is very confident.

Hua Keqin turned his head to look at the menacing provincial counterparts in the room, smiled at everyone, and pulled Lin Zhenhua to sit down. He poked a Jiangnan Province as a backer behind his back, and his heart was very down-to-earth.

"Director Hua, the comrades of these provinces have just reported to me that some of your comrades in Jiangnan Province have said some inappropriate things to foreign merchants at the meeting today, which has affected the export contracts of fraternal provinces. I want to know, is this really the case? Xu Liya asked.

Hua Keqin pointed at Lin Zhenhua and said: "In this matter, our Comrade Xiaolin is an insider, otherwise, please ask him to talk about it." ”

Xu Liya nodded and made a gesture to Lin Zhenhua, indicating that he could speak.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Director Xu, the situation reported by these comrades is indeed true, and some comrades in our province they are talking about are actually me. However, there is also a bit of misrepresentation in what they say, which is that what I said is not something that is not inappropriate, but something that is very appropriate. ”

"What did you say?" Xu Liya frowned and asked, in his opinion, the little manager in this place seemed to be a little too arrogant, and dared to be presumptuous in front of him, the director of the central ministry.

Lin Zhenhua didn't have a director in his eyes, when he was a graduate student in his previous life, he had seen no less than ten ministers and governors with his mentor. Colleges and universities are administrative units, but university scholars have long been "de-administrative". Especially a bull-level professor like Lin Zhenhua's mentor Yao Heliang has no provincial and ministerial-level leaders in his eyes, Lin Zhenhua has followed him for a few years, and he has also contracted some bad habits of not treating the director as a cadre.

"Director Xu, what I said is actually some big truth, I told those foreign businessmen that the patent of the five-blade fan belongs to our Hanhua company, more precisely, the patent owner of the five-blade fan is my Lin Zhenhua, which is evidenced by documents."

"That's all?"

"That's right, that's all." Lin Zhenhua said.

"You're lying!" Sun Pansheng revealed, "You clearly told the merchants that if they dare to purchase our products, you will sue them." ”

Lin Zhenhua pretended to be innocent and said, "Director Sun, you must have made a mistake, right?" I mean, if they dare to sell unauthorized five-blade fan products in foreign markets, they will definitely be subject to patent infringement investigations. As for their purchases of your products, that's fine, I didn't say that I want to interfere with this purchase. ”

"Does it make a difference?" Sun Pansheng didn't react at once.

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "Of course, there is a difference, the difference is that I only sue foreigners, not Chinese." I can't control your production and sales. But if a foreigner wants to sell, I can always protect it with a patent, right? This is also to protect the interests of our country from being harmed, what does Director Sun think? ”

"However, this ......" Sun Pansheng stood up, not knowing how to refute it.

Xu Liya's brows furrowed even more. He is very unhappy now, because the little manager in front of him doesn't take him seriously, which is completely forceful.

"Manager Lin, your quibbling attitude is very wrong. If you don't let foreign merchants sell, don't you prevent them from purchasing? Our country finally has such a new product, which can be exported to earn foreign exchange, how can you use such a method to destroy it? Xu Liya reprimanded with an official attitude.

Lin Zhenhua said disdainfully: "Who said that this will affect the export of foreign exchange? They want a five-blade fan, which can be bought from me, and the foreign exchange they pay me is also the country's foreign exchange income. Moreover, if I sell it alone, the price will not be low to the point of losing power and humiliating the country. ”

"Lin Zhenhua, you are too presumptuous!" Xu Liya was annoyed. What unit manager is this? According to the audience just now, it seems that he is also a section-level cadre, and he is also a section-level cadre of an enterprise, and he still does it by work, which cannot be counted. He is the director of the central ministry, and he dares to speak to himself like this, it is simply unorganized and undisciplined!

Xu Liya is a young director who has just been promoted, and he has just turned 30 this year, and it is the time to be complacent. When he came to the Canton Fair this time, the cadres at the main and deputy department levels from all provinces were respectful to him, and they dared to say cool things in front of him like this little manager, who was much younger than him and whose rank was so low that they couldn't be seen by the naked eye.

Hearing Xu Liya's scolding, Lin Zhenhua's temper also came up, he usually doesn't like to fight with others, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have the arrogance of Huaqing people in his veins.

He glared at him and reprimanded in the same tough tone: "Director Xu, what are you talking about?" Regarding the infringement of our company's patent rights by enterprises in several provinces, I reported to you the day before, how did you behave at that time? You are playing football with us, playing officialdom, and saying that it is not convenient for you to interfere in the business activities of the enterprise. It's good now, in less than a day, you have changed your face, do you think you have a sense of accomplishment by slapping yourself in the mouth? ”

"You ......" Xu Liya's lips trembled with anger, as if he had been slapped by Lin Zhenhua. He wanted to jump up and pull Lin Zhenhua out to duel, but after weighing the gap between himself and Lin Zhenhua in terms of force value, he gave up this unrealistic idea.

He turned his head to look at Hua Keqin and said, "Director Hua, haven't you emphasized the discipline of foreign trade in Jiangnan Province?" ”

Hua Keqin listened to Lin Zhenhua and Xu Liya fighting, and only felt very happy in his heart. Seeing that Xu Liya was arguing, he was putting pressure on him, Hua Keqin didn't have a good face, and directly pushed back with a sentence: "Director Xu, what are you talking about?" We in Jiangnan Province not only talk about foreign trade discipline, we also talk about [***] law, but also talk about the minimum business morality, we will not do this kind of infringement of other people's patent rights and the wicked first sue the villain. ”

The representatives of the surrounding provinces did not do anything, and they all clamored:

"Director Hua, what do you mean by that? What does it mean for the wicked to sue first? ”

"Director Hua, are you still unreasonable?"

"Everyone should do things with a little conscience, okay?"

"Director Xu, behavior like this must be dealt with seriously!"

“……”

Xu Liya waved his hand to stop everyone's words, and then asked Hua Keqin with a dark face: "Director Hua, let me just ask, does your attitude represent yourself, or your Jiangnan Provincial Foreign Trade Department?" ”

"I can tell you, first, that I speak on my own; second, also on behalf of our Foreign Trade Department; Third, this is also the meaning of our Jiangnan Provincial Economic Commission. Although our Jiangnan Province is not economically developed, it is not something that can be pinched casually! Hua Keqin's face was darker than Xu Liya's, and he said these words word by word.

In China, the relationship between central ministries and local ministries is very delicate.

In normal times, the local provincial departments are very respectful to the central ministries and commissions, and they usually pick up and send them, and arrange people to go to Beijing to give gifts during the New Year's holidays. It is said that one year, Suo, a large animal husbandry province, used a train to pull a cartload of slaughtered sheep and send them to the corresponding ministry. As a result, when the cadres of this ministry and commission got off work, each of them carried a dead sheep on the back rack of their bicycles, and they swaggered through the streets of Yanjing, becoming a unique scenery.

However, if you think that the central ministries have command and management authority over local ministries and agencies, you are very wrong. In fact, with the exception of a few systems that are managed by "strips", most of the systems are managed by "blocks". In other words, the cadres of the provincial department are managed by the provincial party committee and the provincial political axe, and the ministry and commission do not have the power to appoint and evaluate.

Not only that, but in peacetime, the ministry actually depends on the face of the provincial department. Ministries do not have enterprises under their direct control, and the policies they formulate need to be communicated through the provincial authorities. If the provincial department does not cooperate with them, then the ministry will become the commander of the light pole and will not be able to do anything. In addition, if the personnel of the ministry want to go to the following provinces to do business, they also need to be received by the provincial department. If you offend the provincial hall, then after you go, I'm afraid that no one will even be responsible for food and accommodation, and people will dare to hang you there alive and let you beg along the street with the sword of Shang Fang.

Such a delicate balance between the governed and the governed, the right and the unpowered, fully embodies the 5,000-year-old harmonious Chinese tradition, which is not something that Aristotle's logic can explain clearly.

Because of this, Hua Keqin did not have any fear of Xu Liya, on the contrary, he felt that Xu Liya was too arrogant. You actually dare to come and ask me if I represent the meaning of Jiangnan Province, I told you, this is the meaning of our Jiangnan Province, what do you dare to do with me? Could it be that you, a small director, can remove the director of our provincial economic commission?

This Director Xu is really too young, if he were replaced by his director, I am afraid he would not have made such a childish mistake. Hua Keqin said secretly in his heart.

"Okay, I'll definitely report this matter to the ministry." Xu Liya said angrily.

"Okay, you can call Minister Gao directly, just say that this is what Lao Hua of Jiangnan Province said, and you can see what Minister Gao will say." Hua Keqin unceremoniously boasted. Cut, you little director, what else do you want to use to pressure me, when your senior minister came to Jiangnan Province, he and I were also brothers and sisters at the wine table, and you were still eating steamed buns in school at that time.

After saying this hard sentence, Hua Keqin turned his head and said to Lin Zhenhua: "Xiaolin, let's go, we have a reason to go all over the world." ”

Lin Zhenhua stood up, smiled at a room full of depressed officials, and said, "Everyone, have you worked hard today?" Why don't you go and eat authentic Cantonese food in the evening? ”

(To be continued)