The retail price of a Texas Instruments' TI/NSPIRE/CM-C engineering survey graphing calculator in the United States is only $80, and the wholesale price is about $60 at most. Texas Instruments' donation of 10,000 to Jingshi University is only a matter of 500,000 or 600,000 dollars, but Henry Wickage's old guy just picked and asked for to wait until he finished talking about the "Transformers" advertising placement before sending someone to send the things.

It stands to reason that this is a normal business transaction, and Sun Ziming will do the same, but it does not prevent him from accusing Henry's old cowboy when he accompanied Vice Mayor Zheng to the Texas Instruments office in Shanghai.

"Bob, Henry is a bitch, and the last time he gambled with me in Dallas, he didn't just make me money. He's a Texan, he's clearly a New Yorker, he's like a girl, and he keeps saying that he's my friend, and he asks me for tickets to the Oscars every year. ……”

Bob McDett, the representative of Texas Instruments in Shanghai, looks suave, but in fact he is a standard Texas cowboy, and he has no psychological pressure at all to speak ill of his old boss to his friends. Besides, businessmen still have a lot of friends? What's more, Sun Ziming is a big celebrity, and he also controls Hanhua Electronics, which is a big customer that Texas Instruments is trying to win, so of course Bob cheered up and made friends with this big man.

"Yes! Henry is like this, every year we get stuck in our budget, I can't wait for us to work in vain, and we have to find him millions, he is the contemporary Grande of the United States!"

Echoing his boss's bad words, Bob said narrowly, "Ming, I know that old guy has two bottles of 1906 Jack Daniel's whiskey at home, and they are placed in the third compartment on the left hand at the bottom of his cellar. ”

"Really?"

Before Bob came to the United States, Henry specially introduced Sun Ziming, a big man, to him, and wanted to get some business from Hanhua Electronics in the mainland, and everyone was a friend. The purpose of Sun Ziming's visit today is that Bob, who is already familiar with the conditions in the mainland, completely understands it.

Businessmen are good actors, so Bob, a middle-aged Texas cowboy, didn't do anything official during the negotiations, nor did he behave politely, but like a gangster in a Dallas bar, he held Sun Ziming's head and said in a low voice that could be heard clearly by Vice Mayor Zheng: "Really! Before I came to China, I visited his cellar, and he showed it off to me. ”

"Ok, I'll give you two tickets for next year's Oscars, guaranteed to be the best in the location!"

Bob, who had just 'betrayed' his old boss, was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Ming, you are too generous, I will invite you to dinner in the evening." ”

"Bob, this is China, even if I don't give you a ticket, I'm also your guest, and you have to invite us to dinner."

"No, no, I mean please drink a good drink, Jack Daniel's in 1916, the same one Henry gave me last time. Mayor Zheng, you didn't have any arrangements for the evening, did you? ”

"No, no, I have something to do at night, so I won't bother you. Secretary Zhang, I've worked hard for you at night", Vice Mayor Zheng hurriedly refused. It's inconvenient to go to a dinner between friends, and with Mr. Sun's introduction, those little ghosts will be afraid of three points when they talk about it. What's more, as long as Zhang Tao is there, even if he doesn't go, Mr. Sun will help him talk.

The three of them sent off Vice Mayor Zheng and his entourage, went to Bob's residence to pick up the legendary bottle of 1916 Jack Daniel's whiskey, and found a high-end Chinese restaurant to have dinner together.

While Zhang Tao went to the bathroom, Bob hurriedly mentioned the cooperation with Hanhua Electronics, and said in a low voice: "Ming, we have no problem settling in Shanghai, but we hope to provide you with chips." ”

This is not good, C-CUBE is secretly cooperating with Samsung to develop a new generation of mobile phone chips, how can it spit out the fat that is almost half eaten?

Sun Ziming snorted and said in a low voice: "Bob, you have to talk to Hu about this." Let me affirm, I only made a trip out of the way, you don't think that our Far Eastern Group has a request for them, do you? ”

Shanghai is very big, but the upper circle of businessmen is not large, for example, Bob has a relationship with the Hu Shanlin brothers, and the office he rents now is the office building of Guangsha Group.

"Ming, Guangsha Group is the largest real estate company in mainland China, and it has a lot of investment in Shanghai."

Guangsha Group can have today, although there are reasons for borrowing his reputation in the early stage, the great development in the future depends on the Hu Shanlin brothers' vertical and horizontal in shopping malls and political circles. Just by looking at the fact that they were able to send someone to make friends with the director of the Shanghai Zhabei District Construction Committee yesterday, we can know how deep their connections are.

Texas Instruments' Greater China regional headquarters is not located in Shanghai, and perhaps Vice Mayor Zheng will use various connections to lobby, such as inviting himself to be a lobbyist, but in the end, no one will put the responsibility and credit on the heads of these lobbyists. As Bob reminded, the Hu Shanlin brothers will definitely lobby Hu Weiguo according to the leader's intentions, but whether they succeed or not has little to do with them, and the final decision is still in Hu Weiguo's hands.

Hanhua Electronics has more than 30 billion assets, and pays more than one billion taxes to Shanghai every year, and the government will force them to cooperate with Texas Instruments? If they had known, Hanhua Electronics might have broken the monopoly of foreign-funded companies on mobile phone chips, and maybe they would have moved their headquarters out of Shanghai! In China these days, GDP is king, and without GDP as a backing, which leader is tough?

However, Sun Ziming didn't say anything to death, Texas Instruments is a giant after all, and he can't tell Hu Weiguo to ask for it one day.

"Bob, I do have a 28% stake in Guangsha Group and a 23% stake in Hanhua Electronics, and I don't have as much influence on them as you think. Don't look at them all let me be the honorary chairman, in fact, it is to use my reputation to let them develop better.

If you think about it, I spend most of the year in the United States, and even when I go back to Asia, I stay in Hong Kong and Hunan Province, and I can influence their decision-making? ”

It is estimated that Bob got some instructions from the headquarters, and Sun Tzu still insisted when he said this: "Hanhua Electronics is going to build a new factory again, and our conditions will definitely be more favorable than Goldman Sachs." Ming, I know this is very difficult for you, but Henry and I are your friends, please help us pass on a message to Hu, you will not refuse this little favor, right? ”

Friend? Sun Tzu laughed secretly, and he was so picky about the donation of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it was really a shame that these ghosts could say it.

"Ok, I can help you pass on the words, and I can't do anything else. Bob, it's not like I'm talking about you Texas Instruments, when Hu came to ask for cooperation, you were as proud as a king. Now that I see that others have become mobile phone giants, and I go to ask others for cooperation, why bother now? ”

Bob smiled bitterly, at this time and that time, Hanhua Electronics was just a VCD foundry company, who would have thought that the development would be so rapid, and there was still the monster of C-CUBE behind it?

At this time, Zhang Tao, who had been rubbing in the bathroom for more than ten minutes, had not come back, but Hu Shanlin had come out, and Sun Ziming also saw the entourage of Vice Mayor Zheng in the distance. It seems that Vice Mayor Zheng is also a person with a smart heart, and he knows how to do business better than ordinary businessmen, but his business movements are also too big.