Outside the conference room door.

Cai Xu paced back and forth.

The ash trough on the trash can already has a lot of cigarette butts.

Cao Yuxu leaned against the wall, squinting slightly, frowning.

"I said Manager Cai, don't go back and forth, my eyes are almost stunned by you!"

Cai Xu stopped and sighed:

"Dude, I'm nervous!"

Cao Yuxu snorted lightly and pouted:

"If you really want to exert yourself, then find a way to get the quotation of the three of them!"

Cai Xu pointed to his nose and sneered:

"Do you have special abilities for me?"

"The hotel contracted by the three giants has been completely blocked!"

"Not to mention news media reporters, even hotel employees, can't go to the second floor or above!"

"All kinds of anti-eavesdropping and anti-leakage devices must be available!"

"And the bidding price is so important, they must be negotiated in a small area at the top level!"

"How do you let me in? How do you get information?"

Cao Yuxu laughed and said, "So what? Since you can't get their offer, what's the use of you being in a hurry here?"

"I ......"

Cai Xu sighed:

"I'm not reconciled! I've been running projects for several years, and I've been in Ethiopia for three years longer than I'm in China, and I'm almost African!"

"All the relationships are working, and the ones that should be dotted are also dotted, but there is no way! The three giants are so strong, the bid evaluation method will be changed, and the technical competition link will be increased!"

"Today, people all over the world have seen that the three of them have suffered a fiasco, but what is the result? They can still get thirty points, if it were us, after being defeated, let alone thirty, I'm afraid they wouldn't get ten points!"

Cao Yuxu spat out a smoke ring and sneered:

"No way! Who has made Western countries always strong!"

"The funder who provides the loan for the project is also an international bank, and the shareholders behind the scenes naturally have a special say!"

"We created a miracle, won the technical competition, got a full score, and survived a relatively fair lore game, which is already good!"

Cai Xu squatted down and lit another cigarette.

"In fact, if I don't win the bid in this project, I don't care if I can get a commission or not!"

"I really can't get used to their three giants, just like the three stinky rascals!"

"Domineering, unscrupulous, arrogant, and unscrupulous!"

"Today's technical competition, the whole world knows, they are three against one, relying on the strong to bully the weak to besiege us, but what is the result?"

"If it weren't for the president's personal order, I'm afraid they would have even given Aisin TLM a chance to resurrect!"

Cao Yuxu smiled.

"So, this time we're winning, it's beautiful!"

"There is no opportunity for competitors and bid evaluation agencies to cheat!"

Cai Xu raised his head, squinted slightly and smiled:

"After such a beautiful victory, even if the project does not win the bid, we will still be honored!"

"But what I'm curious about is, who did it?"

Cao Yuxu shrugged his shoulders and pouted:

"Anyway, it's not an engineer from our group, it should be a master of the electronic warfare unit!"

"After a nine-hour fierce battle, it should have groped for the opponent's loophole, and then suddenly hit a fatal blow!"

"I originally wanted to check it, but they have confidentiality discipline and have flown back to China, so they can't check it!"

Cai Xu smiled and said: "What are you looking for! They are all descendants of Yan and Huang, as long as everyone wins the battle!"

As he spoke.

The door opened.

"You two come in!"

Tang Xiao's voice came suddenly.

The two glanced at each other, immediately extinguished their cigarette butts, and hurried into the conference room.

The conference room has long been set up as a simple remote meeting site.

All members of the board of directors are meeting on an emergency basis in the form of 'video chat'.

So looking at it, opposite Wu Jie and Tang Xiao, there are LCD monitors, almost forming a wall.

"Good evening, directors!"

Cao Yuxu and Cai Xu greeted each other in unison, and immediately sat down on the side.

There are cameras and microphones on the opposite stand, which can transmit images and sounds in real time.

All the directors nodded slightly, and their expressions were very serious.

Tang Long immediately asked Cai Xu:

"Xiao Cai, what's the latest situation on the owner's side?"

Cai Xu shook his head and said: "This project has attracted global attention, and the attention is too high, even if someone wants to cheat, it can't be done now, so the internal opinions of the owners are also very unified, just look at tomorrow's quotation to fight!"

"The last link will be particularly fair and open, and it is expected that at least hundreds of media will report the final battle on the spot, so price has become the only winning factor!"

Tang Long nodded slightly: "Media supervision and full disclosure, of course, this is the best!"

After a pause, Tang Long asked Cao Yuxu again:

"Lao Cao, as far as this project itself is concerned, to what extent can our costs be reduced?"

Cao Yuxu frowned tightly and gritted his teeth.

Tang Xiao and Wu Jie stared at him with no smile.

Cost is key!

If the cost can be reduced, then there is more freedom in quoting.

It's like selling something, haggling with people.

The cost of twenty yuan can be earned by selling for thirty, and it can also be earned by selling twenty-five.

If the cost can be reduced to fifteen, it can even be sold for twenty and kill competitors.

Of course, Cao Yuxu knew that his speech would play a very key role.

Everyone's eyes were on him.

In fact, how much it costs, he has repeatedly calculated on the way back to the city.

Optical cables, servers, Ethernet switches, data centers, base stations......

For hardware equipment, the bidding documents specify the parameters and quantity.

Global procurement of products that meet the requirements, the price that suppliers can give is the bottom.

So the cost of the hardware, very clear.

And the software ...... It's time to make a fuss.

In today's technical competition, all system software has withstood the test.

Then it is completely possible to modify it slightly, and it can be used directly in the East African SAM project, almost off-the-shelf.

"Two billion dollars!" Cao replied in a sonorous voice.

Yes???

Tang Xiao exclaimed.

"No...... You said it would cost at least $3.5 billion!"

The other directors were also a little stunned.

Cao Yuxu immediately explained:

"In today's technical competition, all our system software has withstood the test, and the operation is stable, safe and reliable!"

"So if we really win the bid, we don't need to spend much manpower, and we can do it quickly!"

"Two billion dollars, that's enough to cover hardware, installation, commissioning, taxes, and more!"

"In contrast, the Big Three, their software has problems, and we have broken it, so they must be redeveloped!"

"Coupled with Western countries, labor costs have always been very high, and I estimate that their total cost is definitely not less than four billion US dollars!"

When Cai Xu heard this, he immediately laughed.

"Since our cost is only two billion, let's report four billion!"

"So we have to make money, but they don't dare to go below the cost price!"

Wu Jie immediately sneered:

"You think too simply! They have a lot of money, and in order to win this project, they used so many personnel and equipment in the technical competition, and the cost alone is not small!"

"Not to mention the cost of running the project and taking care of the relationship. has already paid a lot of costs, so it is bound to win this project at all costs!"

Tang Xiao also added: "This project seems to have a budget of only 7 billion US dollars, but in fact, the scale of the second phase of the follow-up project is at least tens of billions of US dollars, coupled with the market effect driven by the project, it is a huge market of trillion US dollars!"

So I think that the three of them will definitely ignore the cost, and would rather lose a lot of money, but also want us to fight to the end, if we report four billion, they may be lower. ”

Cai Xu and Cao Yuxu glanced at each other, unable to refute it.

Today's situation is too complicated.

The three giants will definitely collude in private, and they will inevitably do whatever it takes.

And how high and low they will report, I can't guess at all.

Maybe they will be lower than the cost and quote an ultra-low price of two or three billion, so that Tang Xiao's price is too high compared to the average price.

But it is also possible that the price will be more than 6 billion, which will make Tang Xiao's offer an invalid low price.

Therefore, the situation of the enemy is unclear and the situation is complicated.

It feels like a big gamble!

Tuk Tuk ......

Tang Xiao's fingertips tapped on the table one after another.

His brow furrowed, his thoughts distracted.

After a while, Tang Xiao looked at Cao Yuxu and the others.

"You two go back and rest first, it's hard today!"

After seeing the two leave, as soon as the door closed, Tang Xiao looked at Wu Jie.

The man who silently created a miracle for himself made Tang Xiao feel an inexplicable sense of trust.

"Now that the situation is complicated, how much do you think we should report?"

"Don't rush yet!"

Wu Jie smiled faintly.

Lighting a cigarette, his eyes scanned the directors on the screens.

In the end, it fell to his father-in-law, Tang Long.

"Dad, what does the old man think about this?"

Tang Long said in a deep voice:

"Of course, it's strong support! The same is true for the high-level, let us make our own decisions without any interference!"

"By now, we have become famous all over the world, and as for the interests...... It's optional!"

"There are still many projects that can be done around the world, so don't worry too much about the gains and losses of this project!"

Wu Jie nodded slightly: "All in all, it's just whatever we toss, right?"

Tang Long smiled, and he admitted it.

Wu Jie took a hard puff of his cigarette and frowned.

Tang Xiao's eyes stared eagerly, waiting for Wu Jie's answer.

Everyone also focused their eyes on Wu Jie.

Call!

Spit out a smoke ring, Wu Jie suddenly laughed:

"Can we stop the meeting and go to sleep!"

What the??

Tang Xiao was stunned.

For such an important meeting, if you are asked to speak, it will give you a chance to grow your face.

You can say any price, how can you propose to sleep at this juncture?

Tang Long was instantly angry and funny.

The other directors burst into laughter.

"Hey, I said you stinky boy, it's only eight o'clock in the evening over there, but it's three o'clock in the morning in our country!"

"We old men aren't sleepy, but you want to sleep?"

"So anxious, when will you have a baby?"

"What kind of child to have, I think it's a small couple, and I'm in a hurry to live in a two-person world!"

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