Fooling around
For the next two days, the negotiations reached a deadlock.
The joint team proposed various plans, whether it was sky-high technology transfer fees or lifting the technological blockade in some key areas, but Zhou Zhenguo just kept fooling around. If he continued like this, he would soon become a master of fooling around.
They talked about the "Book of Changes" to the joint group, saying that the growth of all things depends on the right time, place and people.
We also talked about Chinese medicine and told the joint team that if native things are taken away from their place of origin, they will not adapt to the local climate and lose their medicinal properties.
Since there was really nothing to say, they started making up stories.
Tell the other party that the reason this vegetable can cure diseases is because the soil is good.
This kind of land is called spiritual land. It "absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon and is baptized by the stars". It is rare to find it in a thousand years and cannot be replicated.
The elites sitting across the negotiation table all looked livid with frustration.
Before they came, they made sufficient preparations, including hundreds of pages of data and professional language, but their opponents ended up talking to them about myths.
In their view, this is not negotiation at all, it is nonsense.
Hamilton even thought at one point that the other party was not talking nonsense, but really believed that the vegetables were grown by gods.
By the evening of the third day, the negotiations still ended in failure.
Back in the hotel suite, Hamilton ripped off his tie and slammed the documents on the table.
"Madmen! They are a bunch of madmen!" He roared in a low voice, his elegant demeanor gone.
"They're playing tricks on us! They're treating us like monkeys!"
The team members were silent and dared not make a move.
"Arthur, what should we do?" a member of Country M asked cautiously. "They're stubborn and won't budge. Talking any further won't lead to any results."
Hamilton paced back and forth in the room, the viciousness in his eyes growing stronger and stronger.
Suddenly, he stopped and looked out the window, as if he had made up his mind.
Conventional means have completely failed.
They clearly had an attitude of "this is how I am, believe it or not", which left them helpless.
"They think that if they hide the source, we won't be able to do anything?" Hamilton sneered, his eyes becoming fierce. "If they want to play Tai Chi, then we will overturn their chessboard!"
He turned to his deputy, his voice lowered to a whisper.
"Launch the ultimate plan. Since they won't cooperate, let's find someone who can."
The deputy's heart trembled. "Sir, you mean to directly disclose her information? This will completely infuriate them, and we will have no room for maneuver."
"Room?" Hamilton said with a sinister smile, "Do we still need room now? They've pushed us to this point!
I want the whole world to know that the source of the YX factor is in the hands of an ordinary person, but she has been hidden!"
He took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming with madness.
"I'm going to force her to speak out! I'm going to make her the focus of the world, leaving her with nowhere to hide under the gaze of the entire world!"
The next afternoon, the joint negotiation team held an emergency press conference, and hundreds of media reporters rushed to the scene.
"Ladies and gentlemen, friends from the media."
He said into the microphone, "Over the past few days, we have had friendly and frank communication with Huaxia.
Unfortunately, we were unable to reach a consensus on the sharing of YX Factor technology.”
There was an uproar at the scene.
"However," Hamilton changed the subject, his voice rising, "we have found the true source of the YX factor!"
He paused and looked at the shocked expressions of the reporters in the audience with satisfaction.
“It does not belong to any country or any institution.
It originated from a woman named Zhong Ling, an ordinary citizen living in Yunxi Village, Huaxia Country."
Hamilton looked at the camera with a sincere look.
"We don't know why China would hide such a genius, but we believe that her talent and discoveries deserve respect and recognition from all over the world.
On behalf of the joint negotiation team, I hereby extend my most sincere invitation to Ms. Zhong Ling of Yunxi Village."
"Ms. Zhong Ling, we welcome you to Country M. We are willing to provide you with the best scientific research conditions and the most generous financial support in the world.
Please join us in exchanging technologies and jointly ushering in a new era of human health and longevity.
The whole world is waiting for your response!"
These words were spoken in such a high-sounding and flawless manner.
Package your own intentions as respect and invitation to talents.
For a time, the global Internet was in an uproar.
The pinyin "Zhongling" topped the trending search list on all social platforms around the world in just a few minutes.
"What the hell? He's from our village?!"
"Yunxi Village? My grandma's home is in the next village! How come I didn't know?"
"Wow, wow! I was wondering why this delicious vegetable shop was so awesome, it turns out it has its roots right here!"
Less than three hours after the news spread, Old Li, who was sitting under the old locust tree at the entrance of Yunxi Village to rest, saw cars with out-of-town license plates pouring in.
The people getting on and off the bus were of all kinds.
There were reporters carrying cameras, internet celebrities broadcasting live on their mobile phones, and even a few blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners.
"Excuse me, where is Ms. Zhongling"
"Uncle, do you know where Zhong Ling's home is? I'll give you one thousand yuan for the guide!"
When Old Li heard the name Zhong Ling, his heart skipped a beat.
It was really because Zhong Ling scared him last time that he couldn't sleep for several days after returning from the police station.
Can an ordinary person render a person speechless instantly without any physical contact?
After he came back, he went to his son's school again and insisted that the leaders give him an explanation. The school leaders were unable to stop him and told him the truth.
It turned out that his son knew Zhong Ling's secret, so he was taken away by the state.
What's Zhong Ling's secret? It's just growing vegetables. Even if they taste good, it's not a secret.
Old Li didn't understand, so he asked his leader when his son would be able to come back. The leader just told him to stay home and that his son would be fine, and that the country was taking him away to protect him.
Old Li had no choice but to believe it. However, to his surprise, officials later found him and gave him a large compensation, and told him not to say anything about Zhong Ling.
Old Li thought about how he had told a young man about Zhong Ling's matter before. He was afraid that he had done something wrong, so he didn't dare to tell the officials.
Thinking of this, Lao Li was about to go back when he was grabbed by someone.
"Grandpa, do you know Zhong Ling? Is she here?"
"I don't know. There is no one named Zhong Ling in our village." Old Li answered very cautiously.
But the man wouldn't let him go, insisting on getting to the bottom of everything. Just then, the village chief, Wang Jianguo, arrived, holding a loud speaker and shouting, "No! There's no such person in the village! You've got the wrong person!"
But no one believed him, and the village was in chaos.
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