After John Nordale arrived in Sioux City, he settled in for two days to recuperate, and he completed the jet lag to adjust his condition.

At the same time, in the past two days, the two sides began to contact and communicate on the choice of negotiation venues, and finally decided on the newly opened Hilton Hotel in Sioux City.

As a result, the hotel has become the focus of attention from the outside world, and the hotel has rich experience in such large-scale business negotiation activities.

The room for the negotiation between the two sides is a dedicated high-level negotiation room in the hotel, and before entering the formal negotiation and consultation, both sides have sent their own professionals to conduct a blind spot investigation in the conference room, and there is nothing to hide from some bugs and the like, and it is impossible to exist in it.

The walls of the meeting rooms are also made of specialized materials to shield radio signals.

Personnel from both sides will also conduct a body search before entering the conference room to ensure that they have not brought in bugs and other equipment, and then they can be screened in the conference room at the same time under the noses of the other party.

Once confirmed, someone from both sides will remain in the room to monitor each other until the negotiation session is convened and concluded.

It can be seen that the specifications of this negotiation are very harsh.

Exaggerated but necessary, this is a meeting on the future of a technology industry that is so critical to modern human civilization, and both sides are very careful to negotiate behind closed doors to ensure that no trace can be traced back during the consultations.

After the negotiations, only the parties knew what was going on, and there was no evidence to record the meeting.

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On February 15th, the Spring Festival holiday has passed, and yesterday was just Valentine's Day, but the entire hotel building of the Hilton Hotel is currently under wraps, and it will be served for this meeting for the next few days, and other customers will be suspended.

"Brother Luo, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Yao have already set off, and the negotiation time will be held at 10 o'clock, that is, in another 40 minutes." An Qingxue entered Luo Sheng's private office and reported to him.

In this negotiation, the outside world, including John Notayer, believed that the person who negotiated with him must be Luo Sheng, and absolutely did not expect that he had no intention of attending at all.

"Got it."

Luo Shengyun replied lightly, he was writing a set of machine learning algorithms, which was what he promised Chen Xin.

At present, after Chen Xin got a sum of money from Luo Sheng, he has set up his own company called Borche Technology Co., Ltd.

Luo Sheng was not directly involved in the negotiation, and he would definitely not be able to know the situation inside at the first time, because it was impossible for any information to come out of it during the negotiation, and Luo Sheng could not do this, and the network could not enter.

However, he is not worried, all the things he explained have been communicated with Zhang Bowen and others before the meeting, and Luo Sheng also believes in their ability, if they can't even get a negotiation, or if they take the initiative, it will be impossible to achieve the position of the second person in the company's real power.

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Hilton Hotel, Negotiation Location.

It was less than five minutes before 10 a.m., and the negotiating teams from both sides arrived on time, and everyone who entered the conference room had to undergo a full-body scan, and no electronic devices were allowed inside.

The negotiation table in the conference room is a matrix table, where both parties sit facing each other.

By 10:58, John Nord and others were already seated in their seats, and Zhang Bowen and Yao Jianhong also walked to their seats to take their seats, and the participants on both sides of the negotiation were eleven people, and Luo Sheng had one more person than the other party.

Zhang Bowen sat down and said in fluent American English, "OK, let's get started." ”

This is a closed-door meeting for negotiation and negotiation, and the participants on Luo Sheng's side all speak English, but John Notaer and the five of them, except for one Chinese speaker, the others, including Old Man John himself, cannot speak Chinese.

This kind of closed-door meeting, in order to be able to communicate smoothly, there is no need to add some cumbersome procedures for the sake of hypocrisy, take care of the difficulties of them who do not understand Chinese, but also save themselves valuable time.

John Notale glanced at the clock on the wall, and then looked at Lao Zhang and the others sitting opposite: "I'm sorry, why hasn't Mr. Luo been here yet?" He was late. ”

Yao Jianhong smiled and said fluently in English: "Let me answer this question, Mr. John, our chairman will not participate in this consultation meeting, this negotiation will be communicated with you by me on behalf of the Cote d'Azur and Mr. Zhang on behalf of Bluestar Technology, our chairman has authorized us to be fully responsible for this matter, you can rest assured." ”

Lao Zhang also smiled dumbly in the "tactical bowing style", and there was a taste of hiding a knife in his smile.

When John Notale heard this answer, it was impossible to say that he did not have a fire in his heart, which was like a negotiation between two companies, one party sent the chairman to negotiate, and the other sent a general manager to negotiate, the specifications are completely different, and more importantly, this is sending a signal, although Luo Sheng accepts the negotiation, but also shows that he does not care too much about the result orientation of the negotiation.

Here are two different things.

One of the SIA executives sitting next to John exclaimed, "This is your sincerity? No, I only saw arrogance, and I wondered if it was a waste of time now. ”

Yao Jianhong's face also turned cold, and he said without being salty: "You are right, our chairman does think that this is likely to be a waste of his precious time, so if you don't want to fulfill his prediction, then I suggest start now, if you think that our chairman can't talk about it if he doesn't come, then it's over, the choice is in your hands." ”

"You ......"

The senior executive's face changed from white to green, and he was stunned and didn't answer, and he didn't answer.

He didn't expect the other party to be so rigid, this is not the negotiation style of the Chinese people he expected, this kind of discipline that doesn't give you steps as soon as you come up has never been encountered before.

This is a closed-door meeting, the door of the conference room has been "welded shut", not a single fly can fly in, many things can be on the table, those that can't be on the table here, can be placed on the table at this moment, there will be no consideration, and the fragrance of the mouth is even more insignificant.

Before the end of the meeting, there was no door, everyone was from Zuan; After the memories were over, when they went out of the gate, everyone was civilized.

"Enough, I'm not here to quarrel." John Nord said in an angry tone, but he was not angry, and Lao Zhang did not react at all.

John Notale looked at the other party: "Let's talk about the matter of Bluestar Technology first, you must leave the database and transfer it to my network service provider in North America when you withdraw from the North American market, our company can buy it, and then you want to sink the facility to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean or transport it back, it's your choice, we won't have any obstacles." ”

Zhang Bowen smiled: "Buy? Sorry, this is impossible, data is the core means of production of Bluestar Technology, and it is also the core competitiveness of the company. You're not kidding, are you? ”

"Secondly, even if you sell it, can you afford it? The total scale of direct investment in the past ten years of Bluestar Technology has not been less than 120 billion US dollars, plus the operating costs of ten years are close to 158.2 billion US dollars, a total of 258.2 billion US dollars, and the cost has not been recovered, and the sunk cost in the past ten years is even more incalculable. ”

"OK, we can also convert it into a specific amount, as long as you pay for it with $500 billion, it's all yours, and the value of the Internet commercial database in the United States in the past ten years is far more than that."

After speaking, Zhang Bowen ended his speech, and his eyes were also looking at the other party without avoidance.

Hearing Lao Zhang's shout, the participants on Old Man John's side were almost stupid when they heard it, 500 billion US dollars dared to shout, this Nima Defaq is outrageously excessive, this can no longer be described as excessive, it is like the back of a toad, Laipi.

If 258.2 billion is a figure that can be calculated, this "sunk cost" is outrageous, and it can be said as much as it wants, because there is no specific quantitative standard to measure.

Even the United States cannot afford to spend $500 billion to pay for the United States' ten-year data and information, and even if it is really worth the price, it will not be able to come up with so much money.

$500 billion!

Old man Rao is John was also furious, and suddenly said angrily: "Xie Te, why don't you say that Bluestar Technology has earned an average of $70 billion from the United States every year, and $700 billion in ten years?" ”

Lao Zhang said calmly: "It is true, but most of the funds have also been invested in the North American market, transformed into means of production and core competitiveness, you have to take it now, wait a minute, maybe I should add another 50 billion US dollars to be reasonable." ”

Other: "......"

This verdict has become more and more outrageous before the talks have been discussed, and there are already 10,000 "squid" from France in the hearts of the people on Lao Mei's side.

The people of SIA were so angry that they slapped the table on the spot, spitting fragrant mouths, and the conference room instantly became anxie.

Slapping the table and spitting fragrant mouths is not a skill that is exclusive to the people at SIA.

The meeting was outside the gate, there were two security personnel standing, sent by both sides, the sound insulation effect was so good, they didn't know what was going on inside, and they couldn't hear it, and both sides stared at each other.

Inside the gate, there were also two people standing at the door, sent by both sides, and all this that was happening inside at this moment was heard in my ears.

The two of them were also staring at each other with big eyes and silently not saying a word.

John Nord forced himself to calm down, and kept telling himself in his heart that this was the negotiating table, and the other party was asking for a sky-high price, but in fact he was testing his bottom line.

Both sides are testing each other's bottom line, and if they don't take it seriously, they will lose.

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