A Friday when the cherry blossoms are beginning to wither and spring is fading. After getting off work, Chunlai saw Liang Kuo appear in Zhang Guoqiang's office in Changzhou, and he always felt so eyesore.

On weekends, he deliberately went to the workshop to work overtime for free, and Zhang Guoqiang welcomed him to contribute to the company and ordered working meals diligently, so that he did not have to waste more time going back and forth to the restaurant outside the factory. Chunlai was sorting out the wiring of the manipulator while thinking about how to open the chatterbox.

"Spring is coming, you come here." Zhang Guoqiang, dressed in oil-stained overalls, shouted loudly in the office.

Just right! Chunlai ran into the office and turned around and closed the door. "What's the matter with the boss?"

"We have a new inquiry, but the customer has a lot of questions. You're going to check it out next week, right? ”

"New customer?" Chunlai can't think of any other orders other than TMK recently. "Where?"

"It's also from Guangdong, Huizhou." Zhang Guoqiang is holding a beautiful business card in his hand. Hand it to Chunlai.

Chunlai looked down and recognized the company's head, Hongmen Machinery, another fixture supplier of TMK. I couldn't help but think of Liang Kuo immediately......

"By the way, I know this company, and our boss Mr. Liang took us to meet their boss before." Chunlai didn't lie, and it was normal for Liang Kuo to take everyone to a meeting with the supplier.

"That's good."

"Is this introduced by Mr. Liang?" Chunlai asked deliberately lightly. With the corner of his eye, he paid attention to Zhang Guoqiang's upright Chinese face.

Zhang Guoqiang just hummed, and his face did not show any interesting details. "By the way, don't go out and talk about it."

Liang Kuo introduced, but he can't let himself say, except for TMK's people, he has no other object to say, which naturally proves that Liang Kuo has confessed to Zhang Guoqiang. Liang Kuo should not have been in contact with Zhang Guoqiang, after all, TMK's order was placed to an Italian company, and Zhang Guoqiang, as a contractor, was not allowed to have direct contact with the end customer. The two got together, and there is no doubt that Liang Kuo introduced business to Zhang Guoqiang and took kickbacks from him.

"Got it, boss."

The first thing Chunlai did after getting off work was to tell Chu Li. and exchanged a few questions that Chu Li explained last time. Chu Li didn't ask much about Liang Kuo, maybe he already knew about this person's next move, and there was no fuss.

"All the models can be installed by themselves, right?"

"Yes."

"What about repairs?"

"As long as there are spare parts, no problem."

"Good job!" Chu Li thought for a while, and then asked, "Hasn't Fan Ming agreed to go to Changzhou with you?" “

She just didn't agree. I can't help it. “

"You can come here from time to time, and she doesn't have a problem." Chu Li smiled lightly, "If you really want her to go, should we think of a way?" “

"Forget it, that's good. I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to adapt to the new environment when she comes here. “

Chu Li thought about it and called Wen Qinzuo, who sneered a few times on the phone, and then scolded a few words in Italian. You can probably guess what that means.

"If Zhang Guoqiang dares to assemble it himself and sell it himself, I will fire him."

"Aren't you stuck in your own hands?"

"Oh, don't you know how smart you Chinese are? Now there is imitation software, our engineers reported to us, several Chinese companies can make their own manipulators, although the quality is not as good as ours, but the software can be bought in China. “

"You have to come on!"

"It's a trend, and I don't think there's any other way to improve our own quality. But if Zhang Guoqiang uses our technology to make his own money, I can't accept it. “

"And what can you do?"

"......," Wen Qinzuo sighed, "this Liang Kuo is really greedy. ”

"Looks like there's not much you can do."

Vincenzo originally wanted to say, "Find someone else to cooperate and get rid of him." But he knew that it was impossible at the moment, and if he mentioned this to Ciro, he would be the first to get out, because Zhang Guoqiang was found by himself. He still remembers when he first came to China at the age of seventeen, Shanghai was full of dilapidated houses, and his father took him to Xi'an to see the city walls and terracotta warriors, all the way there were farmland, and the roads were very dilapidated, but the second time he came, it was completely different. There are only ten years in between, but it looks like two countries. A highway of more than 100 kilometers can be repaired in half a year. A 1,000-kilometer high-speed train railway can be completed in three years, a tunnel several thousand meters long can be completed in half a year, a skyscraper with more than 50 floors can be completed in 17 days, and a factory can be built in a few weeks. A manipulator, Zhang Guoqiang's three workers can be installed in only two days, and it will take at least a week to put it in Italy or the United States, and it will take half a month to transport it, and it will take ten and a half months to clear customs. The blowout demand has given local companies a glimpse of business opportunities, and a year has passed and it is not as difficult as it was at the beginning to find a partner, and qualified partners can be found everywhere, but there are competitors everywhere. On the one hand, he is full of love for this hopeful place, but on the other hand, he is extremely jealous. This complicated mood never faded in the business days that followed.

"I have a gift for you." Wen Qinzuo changed the topic and said to Chu Li.

"Why don't you leave the gift to the lady?"

"You're going to love it."

In fact, there is more than one gift. Vincenzo was generous, with a bottle of perfume, a bottle of wine, and a mobile phone. Chu Li recognized at a glance that the mobile phone was the same brand as Chen Jing before his death, and it was worth a lot of money. He politely declined. Wen Qinzuo expressed incomprehension of Chu Li's refusal and said, "Then I have to give it to Bella." "Bella Bella means beauty. Watching Wen Qinzuo open the perfume bottle, Chu Li was torn open by him before he could shout to stop. And the faint and elegant smell of perfume instantly captured his sense of smell like an upside-down hook. It was the same perfume as Chen Si. Chu Li picked it up and looked at the sign, and a few English words that he had never seen before were arranged into a difficult word. Wen Qinzuo clapped his hands and spread his hands: "stupido! How did I buy a woman's perfume? This guy must have thought I was there to pick up girls. Chu Li was embarrassed, he bought the wrong one. Either you leave it for your girlfriend, or you'll only have that bottle of wine to spend your Chinese Valentine's Day with you. “

"You give it to me."

"What? Alcohol? I think you guy needs this. Come on, it will surely take away your worries. It's a good wine, and you should enjoy it. Vincenzo picked up the bottle.

"No, that...... Perfume. Chu Li pointed to the perfume bottle.

"Oh~, you like this? No problem. You are really tasteful, but I have to advise you that men should not use women's perfumes. It is said that it will be considered gay, by the way, I haven't asked you this question seriously, Chu Li, are you? Are you gay? I'm not, I'll be the first to make it clear, so that you don't have any worries when you answer me......"

Chu Li looked straight at the bottle of perfume. He leaned in and sniffed it, it was a breathtaking fragrance, like condensing all love in a small 30 ml bottle. He returned the bottle to Vincenzo.

"Brother, you don't need to give me a gift. But thank you. ”

"Chu Li, it seems that you are really special. Loved the bella stuff. Vincenzo shrugged, "But if you don't want it, I'll have to respect you completely." My friend. ”

A few weeks later, Chunlai called again. said that he was scolded by Zhang Guoqiang, because Liang Kuo introduced customers to him, and he didn't know how to be reported to the top management of TMK, and now Liang Kuo is being investigated.

"Don't admit it." Chu Li was taken aback.

"I didn't admit it, I said I didn't tell anyone about it."

"Looks like Vincenzo informed Ciro?"

"But even if Zhang Guoqiang wants to open me, just open it. I don't care. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't think I should have told Vincenzo about this."

"It's okay, I don't blame you. I'm just going to get a job. ”

"No, you can't lose your job. Do it steadfastly, if Zhang Guoqiang is really embarrassed, you can say it. ”

After Chu Li hung up the phone, he immediately went to find Wen Qinzuo, the strange thing, Wen Qinzuo, who has always been upright, was reluctant to admit that he told Ciro this time. He emotionally said that it would not be good for him if Ciro knew.

Two weeks later, Huizhou's Hongmen machinery supplier came to repair, and Lao Liu, who had a good relationship with Chu Li, told Chu Li that it was their boss who stabbed the Changzhou matter to TMK's purchasing director, because Liang Kuo wanted to receive a kickback from Hongmen Machinery, and then slowly fermented, and finally the headquarters began to check Liang Kuo. It seems that Liang Kuo is really very smart, matching Hongmen Machinery and Zhang Guoqiang, skipping the Italian supplier and bypassing the agency relationship, so that everyone earns, and the only loss is Ciro, and then he collects money on both sides. It's just that I didn't expect Hongmen Machinery and TMK to have a relationship that I don't know, and this may be planted.

However, despite this, Liang Kuo was unharmed. After all, the retraction of such a thing is the unspoken rule of the industry, and there is generally no direct evidence. But Zhang Guoqiang's new business is yellow, and a shrewd businessman like him will no longer trust him even if he is not embarrassed. Fortunately, when Ciro found out about this, he didn't blame Vincenzo, saying that it was an unavoidable problem, but suggested that Vincenzo start looking for the next supplier.

At first, Liang Kuo didn't know that he was being targeted, until a Japanese came to the headquarters and claimed to prepare his own personal financial proof. Only then did he realize that someone had reported him. He panicked for a moment, called some people, and was told that the corruption of foreign companies was at most the termination of the labor contract, and then he was relieved. After thinking about it calmly, there was no record of the money he took, and they couldn't find anything, so he no longer panicked. I calmly gave the Japanese information such as bank statements and real estate, but there was no reply. Presumably it was just a formality, and he didn't see anything unusual when he was in a meeting with Carter and other high-level officials. When my heart was relieved, I came to think carefully about who reported me. A pair of direct and indirect suppliers with a good relationship will know that it is Hongmen Machinery. I thought that it was fortunate that they were unwilling to give money, otherwise they would have been stolen. He guessed that reporting himself was not the same as engaging himself. Later, it was found out that Hongmen Machinery had a relationship with the people in the headquarters, and all the suppliers were their descendants, so it was no wonder that even if Zhang Guoqiang's price was much lower, they were indifferent. Thinking that the world is as black as a crow, these people are just reluctant to go out. But since then, he has also grown countless hearts, and he will pay more attention to anyone who "looks like he wants to mess with himself".

Corruption in foreign companies is often at the middle and high levels, and the operation method is very simple. The head of the department who has the power of life and death over the supplier can find a relative or absolutely reliable friend to open a company outside to produce equipment accessories, consumables or raw materials, and then set a very profitable sales contract. For example, if a pair of gloves is bought in the market, the best ones will only cost 3 cents, while the purchase between companies will be three or four times more expensive. When reviewing, they are their own people anyway, and there will be no problems, in case they are not their own people, they can also be called in the name of "quality requirements higher than the same type of products in the market". The coffee pots purchased by the US military cost three or four thousand dollars, which is the same reason. Some people even open a shell subsidiary, and then go to purchase products and resell them to large foreign companies. Since the chains of interests are so deeply intertwined, it is unlikely that anyone will even look into them. A person like Liang Kuo can only be regarded as using his position to make money, and he cannot enter the real decision-making level, which also lays down that it is impossible for him to really get in touch with deep interests. At best, he can only move equipment suppliers and consumables. And the bulk of the interests are raw materials, which are firmly in the hands of the high-level. Despite this, the oil and water of equipment and consumables alone is extremely considerable in a giant multinational enterprise like TMK. It is said that one of the 5,000-year-old factories of a well-known foreign company costs tens of millions of dollars a year to wash workers' work clothes, not to mention equipment procurement.