Chapter 631: Ants Moving and Eating Fat Meat
"Excuse me, sir, what is your position at Hong Kong Windy Company?"
Li Ye was observing John Chambers carefully, but was suddenly interrupted by Wang Lie.
He looked at Wang Lie and found that although the helmsman of Wang An Company still maintained a calm expression, the impatience in his eyes was very strong.
Li Ye said calmly: "Hello Mr. Wang, I am an intern at Hong Kong Island Wind Language, but I am very familiar with the situation in the Mainland, so I think joint research and development and joint production are good opportunities for both of us."
Wang Lie stared at Li Ye for two seconds, then suddenly laughed.
He laughed for several seconds, then shook his head and said, "This is the best joke I've heard this year. Your idea is very funny."
The whole audience was silent.
Even John Chambers, who didn't like Li Ye very much, was surprised and lowered his head to hide his expression.
No matter how much you don't believe in Hong Kong Island rumors, they came to conduct the final negotiations according to the intentions previously agreed upon.
He just arrived today and you called him over to negotiate. That was already very rude. Now you even say something like "ridiculous". Can you really take on the responsibility of being the helmsman of Wang Laboratories?
In fact, Wang An's decision to let his son Wang Lie take over as president of the company was strongly opposed within the company.
Because in Dengta, unlike the Confucian cultural circle, people do not emphasize the succession from father to son. Instead, they prefer to hire excellent managers to manage the family business.
But Wang An was not like that. In his subconscious, the company was his home. He needed to have absolute control over the company, so he chose to appoint his family members to many important positions.
Even a great man like John Chambers was only a mediocre little guy like a regional manager.
Although Chambers was later promoted to the position of president of the Lighthouse region, he had to first complete the task of laying off 4,000 employees. Isn't this making him take the blame?
Therefore, Wang An's insistence on having his son take the helm of the company was the biggest and most fatal mistake in his life.
For example, now, even though Li Ye has extended an olive branch to him, he thinks it is "ridiculous".
You can call it lack of ability or lack of luck, but in short, he missed the last chance to save Wang Laboratories.
Pei Wencong didn't even look at whether Li Ye's face was bad or not, and said sternly: "Mr. Wang Lie, is this your attitude? Are you sure this is your company's attitude towards us?"
Wang Lie's heart trembled, but he still insisted: "Mr. Pei, I am not completely denying the cooperation intention we reached earlier.
But I think we should start with agency sales, gradually deepen our understanding, gradually build trust, and then within three to five years, gradually discuss the possibility of joint research and development and joint production."
"There's no need for that. It's not certain whether Wang Laboratories will still exist in five years!"
Li Ye stood up without waiting for Wang Lie to finish speaking and walked out of the meeting room.
If you are rude to me, I will be even more rude.
Another intern, Wen Leyu, played the role of "translator" very competently and translated Li Ye's words into English.
It’s just that Wen Leyu was very angry, so he translated “It’s not certain whether Wang An Company will still exist in five years” into “It’s not certain whether Wang An Company will go bankrupt in five years”.
The couple's actions shocked Wang Lie and John Chambers.
But before they could get angry, they saw Pei Wencong, Luo Runbo and others began to pack up their things without saying a word, and followed Li Ye and Wen Leyu away without even saying hello.
What is this for? Are we going to make enemies?
At this point, no matter how slow Wang Lie and John Chambers were to react, they realized that something was wrong with the "intern".
"Chambers, what's going on? You've been in Asia for so long, how can these people be so rude?"
John Chambers' brows were furrowed tightly for a long time, but for the sake of his boss's face, he finally explained uncertainly:
"Although the flower-growing area has begun to open up, it is still closed compared to other areas. I have only met one person who is said to be a second-generation mainlander. Now I feel that person is not as second-generation as the two young people just now."
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Wang Lie's family education was based on standard Confucian culture, so he naturally knew the principle that "one more friend means one more road, one more enemy means one more bridge is destroyed".
So he said to John Chambers: "Repair your relationship with them as soon as possible, and make some concessions in interests if necessary."
Chambers almost got angry.
[What the hell are you asking me to fix? You offended someone, and you want me to fix the relationship? ]
. . . . . . .
According to the philosophy of Lighthouse, there is no hatred that cannot be resolved by interests, but this is not the case for Li Ye at all.
Li Ye and others left Wang An Company and were on their way back to the hotel. Pei Wencong said ashamedly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li. This is my fault. I didn't make detailed investigation preparations. I didn't know that Wang Lie's attitude towards us was completely different from Mr. Wang An's."
Li Ye let out a breath, also a little disappointed.
Mr. Wang An was a legendary figure and was later received by the highest leaders of the mainland, so Li Ye came here with great hope to seek cooperation.
Li Ye's original intention was to establish a computer company in Hong Kong Island to avoid Western technological restrictions as much as possible. After all, computers in the 1980s were definitely a high-end industry, and it was impossible for Western companies to inject the most advanced technology into mainland enterprises.
But it was different in Hong Kong Island, especially before 1997, when there were not so many restrictions on electronics. For example, the switch equipment that Huawei just started to represent was produced by a company in Hong Kong Island.
By then, Pengcheng Fengyu will be separated from Hong Kong Island by only a river. Li Ye will organize people to take turns to go there for exchanges and learning. With the diligence of Master Ni and his group, what treasures can't they dig out?
But now, people look down on me. Do I have to kowtow to them?
Li Ye didn't know what kind of person Mr. Wang An, who founded Wang An Company, was, but his son was indeed a very competent gravedigger who dug his own grave and buried himself.
"Don't waste your time on Wang An Company," Li Ye said coldly, "Do you still want to eat hairy pigs without Butcher Zhang? Go contact other manufacturers!"
There are at least 800 IT companies around Boston, if not 1,000. However, not many of them survived, and only a few of them are famous.
"Okay Mr. Li, we have also been in contact with several other computer companies. What do you think of Microsoft?"
"Microsoft?"
Li Ye looked at Pei Wencong: "Why do you ask this question?"
Pei Wencong replied: "Mr. Li, although Microsoft is a small company, they have a good relationship with IBM, and they are about to go public in a month and a half. If we get a portion of the shares..."
"You have to be careful with Microsoft's equity."
Li Ye immediately corrected him: "We can buy Microsoft shares, but we have to spread them out to avoid being targeted by the CIA in the future."
Although Microsoft is still a small company with a net worth of only two million US dollars, it has just reached the listing threshold of NASDAQ and its stock price was only 15 cents when it went public.
But in the future it will be a behemoth, and any major shareholder will be a clear target.
Not to mention holding 5% of the shares, which requires disclosure of identity, even if it is 1%, there is no telling how many people will covet it.
Li Ye didn't think that a great company like Microsoft would allow him to easily invest in it.
Because financial investment in the United States is much more developed than in Asia, if Silicon Valley and Boston can develop, they cannot do without speculators like Li Ye waving money.
If you really block their path to wealth, that would be the revenge of murdering their parents.
But the net assets are only two million, and the rate of return is 4,500 times. In this kind of business, you have to fight with all your might!
Therefore, we must be extremely careful and diversify our investments from multiple channels including Europe, Asia, and the United States, and use the ant moving method to eat up this piece of fat meat first.
(End of this chapter)
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