In 1980, the dollar was still very valuable, and the current company with the highest market value in the world is IBM, with a market value of less than $40 billion, which is not even as much as Bill Gates's personal assets 20 years later, and you must know that when Microsoft became the world's first in 1999, the market value was as high as more than $600 billion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

If the scale of investment is compared with the level of civil servants, one billion dollars in five years, an average of 200 million yuan a year, in the 21st century, can only be regarded as a municipal level, and it is not a first-tier city like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but in 1980, it is a state-level large-scale spent, and Taiwan is a small plate, only a provincial-level unit, so the personnel involved in the negotiations are of high standard, headed by Sun Yunxuan, the "Executive Yuan", supplemented by Li Guoding, united the "Ministry of Economic Affairs", "Ministry of Finance", "Ministry of Science and Technology" and the main person in charge of the Hsinchu Science and Technology Industrial Park Preparatory Committee. The lineup is strong, and it's scary.

The meeting was held at the Yuanshan Hotel, but not in its iconic Chinese palace-style building, but in a relatively low-key building at the back, which was once the venue for the "Taipei Yuanshan Friendship Association" established and presided over by Soong Meiling, the Yuanshan Friendship Association is similar to the top private club in the 21st century, and the members include almost all the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Taiwan, each member has a specific number, such as the Jiang family's eldest daughter-in-law Xu Naijin is H0008, "Taipei Mayor" Li **** It is H0041, and the "Information Bureau" ****** is H0050, but after Chiang Kai-shek's death, Soong Meiling went to New York to live in seclusion, and it is not as lively and noisy as before.

"Dean Sun."

"Mr. Shen, please."

At eight o'clock in the morning, under the witness of dozens of Chinese and foreign reporters' cameras and cameras, Shen Chong, who was wearing a T-shirt, and Sun Yunxuan, who was wearing a formal suit, shook hands with a smile, and then entered the venue with their respective people.

The negotiations covered a wide range of areas, from factory site selection, transportation construction, hydropower guarantees, and other infrastructure to tax incentives, export subsidies, personnel training, and other supporting policies.

Shen Chong sat in the middle of himself, holding a pencil, either in a daze, or buried himself in the notebook to write and draw, even if he was noisy, he rarely spoke, and once he spoke, he directly and unreasonably smashed people with a "golden sledgehammer".

"If I can get Apple to put some of its production capacity in Taiwan, can this clause be accommodating?"

He owns more than 30% of Apple's shares, has already surpassed Jobs, become the largest shareholder, Apple is a landmark enterprise of Silicon Valley scientific and technological innovation, and the IPO is imminent, the influence and strength are growing by leaps and bounds, highly sought after by the media and the industry, is considered to be the next IBM, if part of the production line can be introduced to Taiwan, there are many benefits, as soon as this statement came out, it immediately crushed the insistence of the Taiwanese personnel......

"What if I set up a start-up fund of no less than $50 million in addition to the $1 billion to invest in and support Taiwan's local high-tech companies as compensation?"

The Taiwan side backed down again......

The "Golden Sledgehammer" comes and goes without a trace, sometimes it is a key clause that must be fought for by soldiers, sometimes it is an irrelevant detail, there is no logic at all, it is simply a negotiation as a family, which makes Sun Yunxuan and Li Guoding and others confused, after going back and forth a few times, those people in Taiwan simply have to fight hard no matter what the terms, but unfortunately, they are a little late in their awakening, and they have not fought for a few minutes, Shen Chong closed the notebook and proposed: "Dean Sun, it's already eleven o'clock, let's get here in the morning, Let's rest and rest first, and then continue in the afternoon. ”

Shen Chong is a guest, he doesn't want to talk about it, Sun Yunxuan is not easy to insist, nodding in agreement, he waved his hand, signaled his subordinates to pack up the documents, and then leaned softly on the back of the chair to rest, crossed his hands and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Shen, if you don't play cards according to common sense, it will be difficult for us to do it." ”

Sun Yunxuan had studied in the United States, Li Guoding was a Cambridge senior student, most of the other officials attending the meeting also had study backgrounds, and Shen Chong's side was basically a foreigner, so the negotiations just now were all in English, and now he is speaking Chinese, which is obviously close to Shen Chongtao.

"I'm a person with a hurry and no negotiation skills, and before coming to Taipei, Trip repeatedly advised me not to talk during negotiations." Shen Chong pointed to the tall and thin American sitting next to him, and laughed at himself: "I endured and endured it just now, but I still couldn't hold back, and I was knocked a lot by you." ”

He brushed his lips, made a zipper closing motion, and apologized in English: "Trip, I'm sorry, I won't talk again in the afternoon." ”

This person, named Trip-Hawkins, graduated from Stanford University, has an MBA degree, was originally a sales manager at Apple, but was inadvertently seen by Shen Chong's "discerning eye" in May, so he dug up Activision Games as CEO, because in memory, this guy left Apple in 1982 and founded a video game company, which later became Activision's biggest competitor and one of the largest video game companies in the world. Its English name is electronic-arts, and its Chinese name is electronic arts......

The direction of investment in Singapore is chip design and R&D, and the direction of investment in Taiwan is hardware manufacturing and foundry, as the CEO of Activision, Trip-Hawkins' opinion is very important, so he deliberately flew to Taiwan to participate in the negotiations, for Shen Chong's apologies, he just shrugged his shoulders and made a common helpless expression for Americans, but he didn't say anything, first, this is an established negotiation strategy, there was communication in advance, and secondly, Shen Chong is the founder of Activision, owning more than 80% of the shares, and it is also The creative designer of super-grossing games such as Tetris, Bubble Bobble, and Pac-Man is highly respected in the company, and although he usually lives in Hong Kong and does not interfere much in the day-to-day management of the company, he has the authority to make a statement on strategic planning, and he, the CEO, has no leading power in negotiations.

Besides, if it is just to build a game console, it will not cost $1 billion at all, and this negotiation is more like discussing a comprehensive investment plan for the electronics industry......

"Dean Sun, Elder Li." When he walked out of the conference room, Shen Chong pulled his black T-shirt and apologized to Sun Yunxuan and Li Guoding: "I am dressed like this, not to disrespect you, but to express a corporate philosophy, high-tech is a new thing, to be vibrant, eclectic, if too regular, bound by traditional rules and regulations, is not conducive to innovation." ”

"Mr. Shen turned out to have other painstaking intentions, and I thought he couldn't stand the high temperature in Taiwan." Li Guoding waved his hand and teased: "Don't talk about wearing a T-shirt, even if you come shirtless, we will treat Mr. Shen as a guest." ”

"It would be better if Mr. Shen could open Chrysostom a few more times."

In the midst of laughter, Shen Chongwan refused Sun Yunxuan's polite invitation to entertain him, and took his own people to the restaurant that had already been booked.

In the 50s of the last century, Taipei's architectural facilities were outdated, there was no five-star hotel, Chiang Kai-shek felt that it was very inconvenient to receive foreign guests, especially foreign dignitaries, so he began to build the Yuanshan Hotel designed by the famous architect Yang Zhuocheng in 1952, and it was built intermittently for more than 20 years until 1973 when it was fully completed.

Yuanshan Hotel not only adopts Chinese style in appearance, but also has a very traditional Chinese style inside, with colorful painted beams, palace lamps hanging in the air, Danzhu painted columns, mahogany chairs, bonsai strange stones, calligraphy and painting antiques can be seen everywhere, antique, elegant charm, and the whole hotel is up and down, from doors and windows, beams and pillars to murals and ceilings, you can see the vivid flying dragon pattern everywhere, so it is nicknamed "Dragon Palace" by the media, and Shen Chong's place for their lunch meal is in the Golden Dragon Hall, the most famous restaurant of Yuanshan Hotel, It used to be a place where Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling entertained guests, and thirty people could be entertained at the same time.

The business unit of the Yuanshan Hotel is the Taiwan Dunmu Friendship Association, which is a foundation established in the name of a private donation, but in fact it belongs to the jurisdiction of the "Ministry of Communications", all donors are Taiwan party and government officials, because of the special relationship with the government, for a long time, here is the Taiwan authorities' international reception to the outside world, it is difficult for the general public to stay, Shen Chong came to Taipei for the first time, or rely on Zhang Aijia to help to enter.

"I think there's room to further squeeze the rivals in terms of taxes and financing costs......"

"If we want to provide senior staff training, Taiwan should provide tax rebates or financial subsidies......

"Trip, how much can the cost of producing Game-Boy in Taiwan according to this plan be reduced?"

In order to create a good environment for the talks, after going through the motions in front of the media in the morning, reporters were forbidden to enter, the hotel was very quiet, Shen Chong and his party were not harassed in any way, and in the heated discussion and communication, they finished their lunch peacefully.

The afternoon negotiations did not begin until three o'clock, and after lunch, the rest of the people went back to their rooms to rest, but Shen Chong left the Yuanshan Hotel and went straight to the Jiajia Performing Arts Center - he was not in a hurry to have a tryst and cheat, but had other business.