Although the autumn in Tokyo is not hot, Yuan Fangguo felt the rather hot atmosphere between them during the negotiations.
It was originally thought that the negotiations would proceed easily, but who would have thought that at the negotiation table, Bentian Company changed its previous humble attitude when the two parties communicated on the phone, and became a little tough.
For a moment, Yuan Fangguo didn't understand why their attitude changed so quickly.
On the grounds that engine technology is a core confidential technology, Bentian Company required Yuan Fangguo and his team to build a laboratory in Japan, and that engines using their core technology were not allowed to be sold in Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia and other countries. In other words, their products could not be sold to these places.
This is absolutely unacceptable for Yuan Fangguo, who aims to expand his market to Southeast Asia. What's more, the engine laboratory is established in Japan. If they make new breakthroughs in the engine field, the Japanese will easily use their technology for their own use.
This is true betrayal, and Yuan Fangguo is determined not to do it.
Not only did he refuse to do it, but everyone in their factory disagreed.
The two sides parted ways unpleasantly during their first meeting.
When walking out of the meeting room, Mr. Keiji Bentian, the president of Bentian Group, changed his previous nitpicking attitude in the meeting room and invited Yuan Fangguo with a smile to go to the stadium in the evening to watch an Asian Club Cup match between Tokyo FC and Shanghai FC.
Yuan Fangguo was very unhappy with Keiji Honda's previous betrayal, but he still had to give face to both parties on the surface, not to mention that he was an out-and-out football fan.
"Thank you for your invitation." Yuan Fangguo said.
Tokyo FC is sponsored by the Honda Group. It was previously an unknown team in Japan. Later, due to the sponsorship of Honda, Tokyo FC entered the Asian Club Cup for three consecutive years and won the "Emperor's Cup" in Japan last year.
At the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, surrounded by more than 40,000 fanatical fans, Yuan Fangguo witnessed Tokyo FC's 4:0 victory over Shanghai FC.
In fact, winning or losing is quite normal for football matches, but for veteran football fans like Yuan Fangguo, today's match was more or less due to Tokyo FC's behavior. First, half an hour before the start of the game, the stadium's irrigation system watered the grass of the entire stadium, causing the players of Shanghai FC to slip on the grass many times; secondly, Shanghai FC made a beautiful defensive counterattack, but the entire stadium suffered a power outage, and the referee had to terminate the game. Although the stadium's power supply system returned to normal after two minutes, this beautiful defensive counterattack was strangled alive; objective conditions are one aspect, and the referee factor is another. In Yuan Fangguo's view, Shanghai FC did not award a penalty kick in this game, and Tokyo FC also scored an obvious offside goal. These factors all influenced the outcome of the game.
No matter how hard the few Chinese fans at the scene screamed, their voices were always drowned out by the earth-shaking shouts of the Japanese fans.
Keiji Honda was very pleased with the performance of his sponsored team. He said with a smug look on his face, "This Tokyo FC team has achieved such outstanding results since our Honda Company sponsored it. They used to be basically stuck in relegation, but now they qualify for the Asian Club Cup every year. With money, anything is possible. Our next step is to build the club into a century-old, prestigious team."
After hearing this, Yuan Fangguo couldn't help but smile, but he didn't say a word.
After Keiji Honda left him speechless, he felt that Yuan Fangguo might have been intimidated by the powerful aura of their Japanese country, and had a smug look on his face.
Negotiations continued the next day. Yuan Fangguo always maintained a tough attitude and did not make any other concessions.
Keiji Honda continued to show a tough attitude, and the two sides could no longer continue negotiations.
Since the negotiations could not continue, both sides had to end it.
After finishing the negotiations, Yuan Fangguo and his team did not stay in Japan for too long. They chose the nearest flight and arrived in Shanghai in the evening.
The aviation industry was not developed enough in that era. There was only one night flight from Shanghai to Chengdu, and by the time they landed at Shanghai Airport, the plane had already left.
As a last resort, they could only stay in a hotel near the airport.
After putting the luggage at the hotel, Yuan Fangguo invited everyone out for a midnight snack.
Because of the unpleasant parting with the Japanese, everyone was holding a grudge in their hearts, and it showed on their faces while eating supper.
"The Japanese are imposing a technological blockade, so we must fight back and develop our own engines. Lifan, Loncin, and Jialing Motorcycle can do it, so I don't believe we can't," Yuan Fangguo said loudly.
"Mr. Yuan, engine technology requires talented people, and we are in dire need of them right now."
"We can cooperate with universities, allocate research funds to them, and let them help with research." On the return flight, Yuan Fangguo was also thinking about how to improve the company's technological capabilities. On the basis of existing capabilities, it can either be through the introduction of talents or cooperation with universities.
"Yes, by cooperating with universities, we can make use of their talents and technologies." A senior engineer in the factory suddenly slapped his thigh and said.
"I have a classmate who specializes in engine research at school. I can contact him."
"I also know an old expert, but he's retired. Let's see if I can rehire him."
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Everyone was talking at once, discussing and making suggestions for the construction of the engine laboratory.
Yuan Fangguo also highly refined everyone's opinions and suggestions and formed a complete system of institutional applications.
After returning to Chengdu, he did what he said and assigned tasks to the middle and senior leaders in the factory, requiring them to complete them quickly.
The task is one aspect, but the introduction of talent is the core content.
Talent introduction is carried out in two steps.
The first step was to report his plans to district official Li Guodong, and also report on this trip to Japan.
After listening to it, Li Guodong also quite agreed with Yuan Fangguo's approach, which was to take a path of innovation. Although this path might be tortuous at the beginning because they were conducting scientific experiments on a poor basis, in the end, as long as they persisted and did not give up, they would eventually reap fruitful results.
"Xiao Yuan, don't worry about the policies given to you by the district. We will definitely support you strongly." Li Guodong's words undoubtedly gave Yuan Fangguo a reassurance.
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