Three days later.

It is still located in the United States, New York.

Unlike last time, the large conference hall that originally held thousands of people has now become a small conference room that can only accommodate about 100 people.

However, the most important thing is that the expressions on the faces of the participants are no longer the same as a few days ago, like a scene of hot cooking oil and flowers.

On their faces, not to mention the gloom, but also a layer of frost.

Moreover, the level of participation in the meeting was also much higher, except for Professor Steven, the rest were the bigwigs who didn't even show their faces that day.

Among them, Lakshmi Mittal, chairman of ArcelorMittal Group, Toyota President, Okuda Shuo, and the chairman of ****, John Chris Morgan, etc., these world's top richest people, or the heads of large enterprises.

These tycoons and the companies they control can definitely be described by words like rich and rivaling the country.

"Now, tell me how much the cost of titanium alloy can be reduced!" Lakshmi said sharply as he glared at Professor Steven viciously.

In an instant, the cold sweat on Professor Steven's forehead burst out and flowed down his forehead.

After a few breaths, he said, "Seventy-eight dollars." ”

He is just a university professor, and he can only be said to be a second-rate scholar in the international community at best, and now he is facing the sharp questioning of Lakshmi, the actual head of the world's largest steel company and the richest man in Britain, he really feels a little unbearable.

The cost of seventy-eight dollars was actually lower than Chu Hao expected.

Of course, this is not because Professor Steven's technology is a little more advanced than Chu Hao imagined, but mainly because the properties of the titanium alloy studied by Professor Steven are much weaker than Huapan's titanium alloy.

Hearing Professor Steven's answer, Mittal's eyes couldn't help but burst out with a cold glow, and a trace of displeasure crossed the faces of the bigwigs such as Okuda Shuo and Morgan.

Obviously, they weren't happy with Professor Steven's answer.

Feeling the gloomy aura emanating from the bigwigs, Professor Steven held his breath and didn't dare to move.

These bigwigs are on the verge of rage, and if anyone doesn't like them, then they really have no place to die.

knew that he would fall into such a fate and kill him, and he would not come to this troubled water, this is simply a companion like a tiger, and if there is a rare accident, there will be a life.

Thinking of this, Professor Steven couldn't help but feel aggrieved in his heart, what does this have to do with him, this low-cost titanium alloy was not researched by him, the cost is too high, what kind of anger is it to him, it's really hell.

But thinking about it this way, he didn't dare to pick and choose, although he still has some use value, it doesn't mean that he has the capital to bargain in front of these big guys.

Although they have overestimated Huapan as much as possible, Lakshmi Mittal and John Morgan still have some tricky feelings when faced with such a situation.

Hua Pan was much more difficult than they thought.

Although these companies gathered, the main target was not Huapan, Huapan was at most just a grass that hugged the grass and beat the rabbit, it was just a reason to gather them.

It is said that in the face of these huge opponents, it is enough to scare Hua Pan to death.

But now, the grass of Huapan is actually a little prickly.

Originally, they thought that Hua Pan would fight a tug-of-war with him, that is, to reduce the price little by little, and adopt the method of breaking the tail to survive to delay the time of death.

But I didn't expect Hua Pan's response to come so fiercely and ruthlessly, directly hitting them below the cost line, and fully reducing the price of fifteen dollars per kilogram, a drop of one-sixth, which is really ruthless.

Could it be that Huapan is not afraid of losing money?

They believe that in the case that the performance of the titanium alloy they have researched is already weaker than that of Huapan's titanium alloy, the cost of Huapan will definitely not be lower than theirs.

But Huapan was direct, one-step, and pulled the price below the cost line, and Lakshmi Mittal really had a feeling that they couldn't figure it out.

To be honest, at a loss, they are not afraid.

The loss was originally unexpected, that is, they were ready to lose money for a long time.

It can even be said that losing money is originally their powerful offensive means.

After all, compared to the abundant capital, these companies add up to a hundred streets in Huapan.

For example, ArcelorMittal Group, with an annual revenue of 124 billion US dollars, ranks 28th in the world's top 500, about 60 times that of Huapan.

And such a huge company is only part of their consortium.

Fighting a price war can definitely drag Huapan down.

But now, it was Huapan who first provoked the price war, and suddenly reduced the selling price below the cost, is this too strange?

Lakshmi Mittal's instincts told them that there might be a trick, or a trap.

"Otherwise, no matter how much, we will reduce the price as promised, seventy-five dollars, then we will seventy-two dollars, and see who can reduce whom. Toyota President, Okuda Shuo rolled his eyes and said slowly.

As soon as Okuda Shuo's words fell, the corners of Lakshmi Mittal's mouth curled, and he sneered: "Okuda Shuo, your wishful thinking is too easy." ”

ArcelorMittal Group is a producer of titanium alloys, while Toyota Group is a user.

The latter, naturally, is willing to lower the price as much as possible, even if it is sixty, fifty, or even no money, Okuda Shuo can agree to it.

As for ArcelorMittal Group, it is naturally unwilling to bear such a big loss.

In the face of the accusation, Okuda Shuo was not angry, smiled slightly, and squinted, "Mr. Lakshmi, don't be angry, we had an agreement that the loss will be borne by everyone, not to say, only ArcelorMittal will bear it himself." ”

"It's true that the loss is shared by everyone, but all the benefits have been taken away by Toyota. Lakshmi Mittal Pi sneered.

It's really a fool for him, it's everyone's to lose money, it's Toyota's to make money, and a fool does it.

"ArcelorMittal's titanium alloy is not only supplied to Toyota. ”

Although the one mentioned just now was purely an idle move, but it was directly exposed by Lakshmi Mittal, and Okuda Shuo's face suddenly became a little unbearable.

Lakshmi Mittal sneered, and didn't bother to answer, no matter what method he used, anyway, he didn't think anyone could take advantage of him.

"Lakshmi, don't be angry, although Okuda's words are not very popular, but I have to say that this is one of the only two paths. When John Morgan saw this, he had no choice but to come out and be a peacemaker.

Hearing this, the participants were silent, indeed, there are two ways in front of them, then keep the promise and reduce the price to seventy-two dollars, or pretend to be deaf and dumb and continue to maintain the cost price.

It's just that in this case, I'm afraid Okuda Shuo will have to jump first.

After all, if it is maintained above the cost price, it means that Toyota will lose more than three dollars for every kilogram of titanium alloy purchased, and one ton will be three thousand dollars.

Then, I'm afraid the alliance will be self-defeating.

Listening to John Morgan's words, there is obviously a meaning of pulling the shelf, Lakshmi Mittal's face drooped, "Reduced to below the cost price, this loss, I can still accept it, but when I think of it, this is the ...... that Huapan took the initiative to provoke."

At this, Lakshmi Mittal shook his head, a look of incomprehension on his face.

The others also nodded with deep sympathy, it should have been the pit they had dug for Hua Pan, but now Hua Pan dug the pit first.

So it's hard to say who will be the last person to fall in.

Moreover, this loss is really not small.

Now, the titanium alloy market is about 15 billion US dollars per year, which is very small compared to the steel market, after all, even Huaxia's Baosteel's annual revenue is about 30 billion US dollars, and the entire steel market is about 1 trillion US dollars.

ArcelorMittal Group, Xindong Steel, Tata Group, etc., occupy 90% of the titanium alloy market, which is 12 billion US dollars, if according to the current average price of titanium alloy, 100,000 US dollars a ton, every dollar reduced, then ArcelorMittal Group they will lose 120 million.

So from $78 to $73, you'll have to lose $600 million, which is not a small amount.

"In this way, let's lower the price first, the loss part, Toyota, Boeing They are the users of titanium alloy, and they are also the biggest profiteers of this wave of price cuts, with more money, and once Huapan is defeated, then ArcelorMittal Group, Xindong Steelmaking is also a larger profiteer, and there is also an extra part of the money, and the rest of the money is borne by the rest of us. John Morgan said.

Without waiting for Lakshmi Mittal and Okuda to object, the others nodded in response.

Lakshmi Mittal and Okuda Shuo can only pinch their noses and admit it.

Lakshmi Mittal is better, after all, this war was provoked by these steel companies, and after the defeat of Huapan, the biggest profiteers are also them, and they will pay for the money, and what he just said is nothing more than wanting to complain about suffering, to see if he can reduce some of the money.

Now that he can pull Toyota and Boeing into the water, he thinks it's about the same, and he basically has achieved his goal.

As for Okuda and the president of Boeing, they are as disgusting as eating a fly.

To tell the truth, they didn't want to participate in this alliance in the first place, but they were forced to participate due to political pressure.

After all, it would be best if you could watch the tiger fight from the other side, watch ArcelorMittal and Hua Pan play dog brains, and can't wait to sell titanium alloy to them at the price of cabbage.

Now it's a good thing, ArcelorMittal and they have lost money, and they have to carry a part of it, and they have to bear the big head, which is really a beep dog.

"In any case, Huapan is just a new company that has just been established for two years, although the development momentum is good, but the annual revenue is only about two billion US dollars, even a fraction of our is not enough, fight the price, Huapan will definitely not be able to fight us, let us ring the death knell of Huapan!" John Morgan said with an impassioned expression.

Everyone nodded one after another, knowing that once Hua Pan's death knell rang, in addition to announcing Hua Pan's death, it was also sounding the charge to attack Huaxia.

In recent years, Huaxia has made frequent efforts in the world's major manufacturing fields, and there is a great tendency to catch up and surpass.

Compared with the whole of China, Huapan is just a disease of scabies, and once Huaxia becomes a big manufacturing country, then as many as 300 million, or even 500 million manufacturing workers, will make all developed countries have no food.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him when he moved on to the next topic, Professor Steven wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat down.

Listening to the words of these bigwigs just now, in fact, he always had an idea in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it.

He felt that by reducing the selling price of titanium alloy to seventy-five dollars, Huapan would not necessarily lose money.

The people present, he knew Hua Pan the best, or the one who knew Chu Hao.

After all, he was the only Chu Hao he had personally dealt with, and he had known Chu Hao for the longest time.

Of course, if it weren't for that, Lakshmi Mittal wouldn't have recruited him.

Moreover, in the past two years, he has often paid attention to Chu Hao.

As the saying goes, the people who know you best are not your friends, but often your enemies.

Then, there is no doubt that Professor Steven is definitely a person who knows Chu Hao very well.

To be honest, if it weren't for the hostile relationship with Chu Hao, he would definitely admit that Chu Hao was the greatest scientist of the 21st century, at least the greatest materials scientist.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have seen Chu Hao's paper, and he couldn't wait to receive it under his name, so as to suppress Chu Hao in every way.

This also proves Chu Hao's genius from the side.

He clearly remembered that at that time, Chu Hao was poor and white, with no independent laboratory, no funds, no assistants, and nothing, and researched a paper on low-cost titanium alloy, paving the way to low-cost titanium alloy for everyone.

So now, after another two years, Chu Hao has not only become a world-famous scientist, but also has a large enterprise like Huapan, and there will definitely be no shortage of funds and assistants, and it can even be said that he can have as much as he wants.

In this case, it is impossible for Chu Hao to say that there is no achievement in the field of titanium alloy.