In the early morning of July 21, big news came out on the other side of the ocean, and Wilpo Roche, who reappeared in the public eye, confirmed to a number of media organizations, including Reuters, that an additional 25.5% tariff will be imposed on the imported products of the Côte d'Azur Group worth $43 billion, which will officially take effect at 12:01 a.m. EST.

In addition, the tax on the goods of the Cte d'Azur Group, worth $18 billion, will take effect in the next two weeks, mainly targeting high-tech fields such as semiconductors and consumer electronics.

When the news was confirmed, it immediately made headlines on major news sites around the world on the same day.

The media and industry insiders have long known that the two sides may not live in peace and stability this year, but they never expected it to come so quickly, and the Davos Forum summit just ended yesterday, and it is a bit too fast to turn around and come to such a move.

It seems that the premise of the meeting, consultation and negotiation should not only be unpleasant, but most of the negotiations have collapsed.

"Lao Mei is really getting more and more bottomless."

"Isn't the meaning of the bottom line to break through it?"

"To be reasonable, why don't you seal the MicroBlog that understands the king?"

"People are worried about the reason, you do this, Lao Mei can't laugh to death?"

"Understand Wang: No one understands tariffs better than me, and no one understands MicroBlog ...... better than me"

"It's really bitter for the archbishop, who has been suppressed by the hegemon of the contemporary world, and Lao Mei has done things again and again, refreshing my perception of the strength of the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar technology."

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This matter has been uploaded on the Internet in the mainland, and it is also the case abroad, and this matter is also hotly discussed on the Reddit forum.

A large number of North American users have been scolding on the anonymous website forum, and this news is definitely repercussive for them, and the Azure series of mobile phones has a market share of more than 61% in the North American smartphone market, and its popularity is self-evident.

The latest flagship Azure-5 is already expensive enough, so the retail price of an Azure-5 is already rushing to the $4,000 range, and local consumers don't scold their mothers, and this price can buy a Japanese second-hand car locally.

It is clear that consumers don't want to buy this product, but local mobile phone brands can't compete with it at all.

The share price of Bluestar Technology has also been fluctuated, this time it is a fight with two companies, the stock price rose and fell on the same day, and finally went low, closing down 2.7% on the same day, although it did not plummet, but it could not stand up to the super-large-scale volume of Bluestar Technology's market value of up to 1.82 trillion US dollars, which directly led to the evaporation of 49.15 billion US dollars in market value on the same day.

You must know that even if you look at the world, listed companies with a market value of $50 billion are all one in a thousand.

Investors were excited about the birth of the first listed company in history with a market value of more than $2 trillion, but the goal of a market value of $2 trillion was undoubtedly clouded by this incident.

After the eastern hemisphere entered daylight that day, Yao Jianhong held an impromptu media conference that morning to respond to the incident, that is, words of anger and protest.

As for being asked by the media how the Cote d'Azur will respond, Yao Jianhong responded with a sentence: Justice is in the hearts of the people, and I believe in justice.

This is equivalent to not saying it, but the outside world, especially netizens, did not blame the Cote d'Azur, on the contrary, it also gained a large wave of sympathy, although the Cote d'Azur company is a behemoth in the eyes of ordinary people, but as a company in the face of the contemporary world hegemon, it is definitely a vulnerable group, and it is indeed a bit difficult for a strong man.

But in fact, this is not the case, how can Luo Sheng be beaten and not move?

In response to the media, you can't do what you say publicly, but what you really want to do can't be said publicly.

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July 22, Office of the Executive Vice President.

A man named Li Li was standing next to Yao Jianhong's desk, and Lao Yao instructed: "This time, you are in charge of going to Mexico to develop new business channels, the situation there is very complicated and dangerous, your job is still to deal with local snakes, and you must be cautious in all aspects of dealing with these outlaws." ”

In the face of Yao Jianhong's thousands of instructions, Li Li solemnly nodded: "Understood." ”

After a while, Yao Jianhong took out a business card from his office drawer and handed it to him, saying: "This is recommended to me by Mr. Luo, the first thing I did when I went there was to find the contact person on the business card, and they would provide you with paid security services for working in the local area." ”

Li Li took the business card and looked at it, muttering: "Horizon Commercial Security Insurance Group? Is this a security consultant or an insurance company? ”

Yao Jianhong immediately said: "The name is not important, the important thing is that Mr. Luo recommended it, which means that you can be trusted, after you go over there, go directly to Monterrey City, where Horizon Security Company has a branch." ”

In fact, Lao Yao also didn't know anything about this security consulting company with a bit of a strange name.

Li Li didn't think much about it, just did it, put away the business card and nodded again: "Understood." ”

Yao Jianhong added: "Remember, the main local snakes should not take the initiative to contact them, dealing with them can indeed quickly spread the channel network, but the target is too big, they dare not offend Lao Mei openly, intimidation may be suppressed, then we are equivalent to a waste of time and cost." So the core idea is one, that is, to increase the cost of the FBI's crackdown, you have to go over there to find those small and medium-sized gray forces. ”

Li Li nodded silently again, and also understood the intention of the top boss to do this, those local small and medium-sized gray forces have small and scattered targets, and the cost of Lao Mei's people coming out to contain the attack is too high.

At the same time, these small and medium-sized gray forces are not living as well as the local large forces, and they need more ways to get more gray income.

It is a constant truth that hungry people are better able to work harder.

At the same time, especially the medium-sized gray forces, they have more desire to expand than the head and tail forces, but this requires more resources, to put it bluntly, more money.

It's easy to mobilize them.

Yao Jianhong added again: "Of course, it doesn't mean that the local head forces don't deal with each other, they take the initiative to contact you and deal with them, but you have to stand at the height of the overall vision to balance the whole situation, focus on cooperating with the central forces, suppress the proportion of the head forces, and take into account the tail forces, so that the overall situation can always be under our control, understand?" ”

Li Li replied: "Don't worry, Mr. Yao, I know how to do it." ”

Yao Jianhong nodded with satisfaction, tilted his head and said, "Then you can go and prepare." ”

Although cooperating with a villain is like a deal with the devil, and if it spreads, it will definitely be criticized by some "moral" people, but the rules of survival in this world are how legal and unruly.

It's not glamorous to trade with these villains, but there's nothing wrong with them buying consumer products, and it's perfectly legal for companies to trade with them.

As for what they bought it for, it has nothing to do with the Côte d'Azur.

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On July 24, Li Li arrived in Monterrey, Mexico.

With a population of more than 4 million, Monterrey is considered one of Mexico's most nationalized cities, with a rich history and culture as its largest, and is one of the few cities in the region with a number of natural beauties that offer a safe and secure environment.

Li Li had just arrived in Monterey City, and there was a small team with him, a total of six people, all from China, and the company relied on Li Li and the other five employees to open up a new business channel here.

When I got here, I found the distribution of Horizon Security in Monterrey according to the address.

An employee accompanying the "Horizon Commercial Security Insurance Group ......" stood in front of the door and glanced at the sign, and couldn't help but say: "Boss, is this security company reliable?" ”

Li Li glanced at him and said, "This is arranged by the headquarters, and I am not familiar with the place here, do you think it is reliable to be recommended by the locals, or is it recommended by the headquarters?" ”

"Well, of course it's HQ."

"Let's go, the situation here is much more exciting than the plot in Hong Kong films, we really have to deal with some outlaws face-to-face."

Without the professional security personnel of Horizon Security Company to provide security services, with millions or even tens of millions of dollars worth of goods and transactions with the other party, the probability of being hacked by the other party is almost 100%.

The rules of the game in the civilized world will not apply here, only fists and calibers will be recognized here.

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