Chapter 377 What a pleasure!
After the sample tour, everyone came to the temporary negotiation room.
The head of the Southern European delegation twirled a gold-plated fountain pen and said, "We are willing to purchase the seeds of these two varieties at the average price in the international market. This is the first batch of orders."
He pushed the contract across the table. The bold words at the end of the clause, "Technology diffusion is prohibited, and fertile seeds are provided unconditionally," were particularly eye-catching.
"The corn seeds your country sold to China a few years ago were all unsustainable, requiring us to purchase new seeds every year." Commander Zheng tapped the contract with his fingertips. "Now that it's your turn to buy our products, you want to overturn the regulations?"
While Lin Anan was translating, she noticed the dissatisfaction in the other representative's eyes.
"This is a cooperation of a different nature!" The southern European agricultural expert suddenly stood up. "Once 7125 and 702 are promoted, they will change the global food pattern! Don't you want to profit from it? You should understand that entering the European market through us is your wisest choice."
Commander Zheng's face darkened instantly. "Food is the lifeline of billions of people. It is not a product for unilateral profit."
As soon as Lin Anan finished speaking, the atmosphere in the negotiation room suddenly dropped to freezing point.
The Southern European business representative stood up with a bang, his body straightened in his suit and tie: "General Zheng, with such an attitude, I'm afraid you don't have the sincerity to cooperate! If your country's grain seeds want to enter the international market, without our channels, it's just talk on paper!"
After he finished speaking, he slammed the table hard, causing ripples to appear in the tea in the cup.
Commander Zheng's face became even uglier, and he turned his head to whisper something to Lin Anan.
Lin Anan nodded, took a deep breath, and turned to look directly at the business representative: "When your country used 'patent protection' to restrict the seed-keeping rights of third world countries, did you ever think about the sincerity of cooperation? Now you want to take away our core achievements at a low price, what is the basis for that?"
The southern European agricultural expert tugged at his tie, sweat dripping from his forehead: "Your country's scientific research conditions are limited. Only we can provide subsequent gene improvement technology. You don't have such capabilities..."
Before he finished speaking, Commander Zheng threw a stack of documents on the table. The papers spread out to reveal yellowed old photos - in a simple adobe house in the desert, scientific researchers wrapped in military coats worked in front of a microscope; on the saline-alkali land, the experimental fields with wooden signs were eroded beyond recognition by wind and sand.
"These photos were taken five years ago." Commander Zheng's voice was as rough as sandpaper. "Our researchers are guarding the incubator in the middle of the night at minus 20 degrees Celsius, using abacus to calculate gene sequences. You say we don't have the ability?
Please also tell me, why do you think you can easily take away the fruits of our lives? If you want to talk, then talk nicely. If you want to show off, then don't say a word! We can sell you seeds, of course, seeds that cannot be saved for reproducing."
Lin Anan also glanced at the photo, her eyes slightly warm, but it didn't show on her face. She finished translating in a cold tone.
The head of the Southern European delegation drew a long ink mark on the contract with his pen, pretending to be calm: "You want to sell us seeds that can't be saved? Why?"
Commander Zheng sneered and pointed to the frozen soil outside the window: "And we have another request. We ask for the open source code of your intelligent irrigation system and the sharing of seed gene bank data."
This sentence caused an uproar in the audience.
The other legal officer hurriedly searched for documents, and the agricultural expert's face suddenly changed.
Commander Zheng approached Lin An'an and said, "Damn it, they are not happy yet. Tell these foreigners that the food we Chinese people eat will only get better and better, and the technology will always be in our hands! Use foreign language and curse them without using any dirty words."
Lin Anan: “…”
Lin Anan lowered her eyes to hide the smile in her eyes, tapped the table with her fingertips, and when she raised her eyes again, her gaze was like an ice-hardened blade.
She straightened her back and spoke in a pure London accent: "Mr. Head of the delegation, when your country was promoting 'seed hegemony' in the international grain seed market, did you ever think that this day would come?
You are looking to buy, so you should act in a proper manner! Do you just want to use arrogance to get our results?"
She picked up the photos on the table and showed them one by one, "These mottled frozen soil, cracked hands, and frost-covered bodies are the proof of your country's so-called 'incompetence'?
Our ability is beyond your imagination. It is to support the granary with our backbone, not to build a cage with patents. "
The air in the conference room seemed to freeze.
The Southern European legal officer pushed up his glasses and said in a weak voice: "This request violates international patent law..."
"Really?" Lin Anan suddenly chuckled and slammed the document on the table, shaking the pen. "Then why didn't you remember the law when your country was dumping 'suicide seeds' to other countries? Now you want to use the rules to restrain us? Sorry, the rule of China is to feed one billion people first!"
The southern European agricultural expert blushed and slammed the table: "You are destroying the international trade order!"
"No, it was your country that tore the fig leaf of fairness with its own hands."
Lin Anan stood up and tapped the document with a pen. Despite her thin body, her aura was as strong as three meters!
"We are standing here to protect not a few seeds, but the lifeblood of the nation. If your country wants to cooperate, it should adopt an equal attitude - either share core technologies or leave with arrogance."
The Adam's apple of the head of the Southern European delegation rolled violently, and the pen left a deep mark on his palm: "You... this is blackmail!"
Commander Zheng suddenly took out his pocket watch and slammed it on the table. The metal cover popped open, revealing a yellowed family photo inside: "My father was so hungry that he ate grass roots and belts. My mother died of starvation while fleeing famine. My son lost two toes from the cold while breeding in the Gobi Desert..."
His voice was terribly low. "You say we are blackmailing? Then we will blackmail you to the end!"
Lin Anan sat down again, but continued in a sharper tone: "Your country always likes to use 'market rules' as a weapon, but today we have to redefine the rules - selling China's grain to friends is called cooperation, and selling it to jackals is called insatiable greed!"
Commander Zheng whispered something in Lin Anan's ear again.
Lin Anan looked up at the other party, raised her hand, and said firmly: "Now, please take your unequal treaty and disappear from this land!"
The negotiation room fell into silence, with only the hum of the radiator echoing in the empty space.
Everyone in the Northwest Military Region looked at Commander Zheng and Lin Anan, their eyes filled with unconcealable excitement.
This smokeless coordinated battle was fought beautifully.
It's so fucking satisfying!
The Southern European delegation looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally, under the cold gaze of Commander Zheng, they put away the documents in shame.
When the last representative left, Lin Anan's tense body suddenly softened.
"Girl, are you okay?" Commander Zheng held the girl up.
Lin Anan shook her head, raised her hand and stroked her chest, her eyes couldn't help but feel sore, "It's okay, I'm fine."
Commander Zheng laughed heartily, "Well, you performed very well today, it's great!"
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