At this time, Ma Hongcai's displeased voice came from the other end of the phone: "Tom Watson, I need a positive answer from your group."
Tom Watson knows very well what Ma Hongcai is like. He is a complete villain. For any information technology project he leads, he will always have to buy from at least three companies for a project. If he does not give him gifts, his company will definitely It is impossible to win the bid for him to lead the information technology project on server products, storage products and other related application software products.
Now, he has already sent his marketing director to personally give him hundreds of thousands of heavy gifts. What he got was only a promise to write his company's parameters into the bidding documents, and in order to ensure that the entire project can be carried out in accordance with the MB Group According to the company's intention, in order to achieve the group company's absolute dominant monopoly position in the entire Jixiang Province server market, he must lead the direction of the entire project. This is why MB Company is responsible for concocting the entire planning plan.
But now, something went wrong, and Ma Hong immediately showed his villainous side, his expression immediately changed, but he didn't mention at all that he had collected money from them.
However, Tom Watson had seen this kind of thing a lot in China, so he was not surprised by Ma Hongcai's reaction. He smiled lightly and said: "Director Ma, don't worry, I will bring our marketing director Sandi (Sen) with me later. Di) will go to you to discuss this matter together, and we guarantee that the entire project will move forward in the direction we have planned."
After hearing what Tom Watson said, Ma Hong nodded with satisfaction: "Well, okay, I'll wait for you in the Emperor Suite of the Myth Palace."
After saying that, Ma Hongcai hung up the phone.
The Shinhwa Palace is the most luxurious entertainment club in Tongda City, the capital of Jixiang Province. The quality of the girls here is the best in Jixiang Province, even among the entertainment venues in several surrounding provinces, and the Imperial Suite is the most luxurious among them. In this private room, not only are beautiful beauties with a bachelor's degree or above providing various services to guests, but they can also have various private interactions here. The confidentiality facilities here are absolutely top-notch. .
The minimum consumption here starts at 60,000 yuan a day.
Hearing that Ma Hongcai actually chose the Regal Suite to discuss matters, Tom Watson felt very unhappy, but he could not help but agree to the other party's request and pay for it, because this time Tongda City's urban information transformation project was very important to them. It is definitely a huge opportunity for MB Group Company. If they miss this project, they will be at a disadvantage in the server market of the entire Jixiang Province, because the urban information transformation project of the entire Tongda City is the information transformation project of the entire Baiyun Province. pilot project. If this project is successful, it is very likely that future information transformation projects in other cities in Jixiang Province will be constructed according to the standards of this information transformation project in Tongda City.
You must know that the information transformation project of Tongda City alone has a budget of more than 200 million. So how much budget will more than a dozen cities in Jixiang Province have? And in the entire project, the servers, storage systems, and application software systems The procurement share accounts for more than 50% of the funds for the entire project. In other words, if he can only win this project, he will have completed 50% of the company's required performance for the whole year, and he can spend this year easily. , and the huge bonus from completing this project is also what he envies.
And even if it costs tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to treat guests to dinner, it is just a trivial matter for foreign companies like them. They all have this budget. Anyway, it is not spending their own money, and they can even be involved in the whole process. If he could make some money, why wouldn't he do it?
Thinking of this, Tom Watson first sent a funding approval application to his superiors through internal company emails in accordance with the company's internal management process, and explained the reasons. The company's senior management quickly approved his application and allocated the funds as soon as possible. Of course, for their foreign company, every fund is used under various names to disguise the true purpose of use, which can make their entire illegal operation process very legal. , they even have various Chinese companies as their partners, allowing them to engage in operations suspected of violating laws and regulations, while they can stay out of the matter and only need to enjoy the results of victory, and Their partners are often people or companies with connections or strong capabilities in both gray and black areas across China.
After finally getting the funds through a series of complicated processes, Tom Watson immediately called his subordinate, marketing director Sandi, and asked Sandi to arrange the subsequent work.
Tom Watson is a blond American, about thirty years old, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He parachuted to Cathay Province from the headquarters of MB Group. The reason why he called Sendy and asked Sendy to arrange it was Because various actions between them and Ma Hongcai are now suspected of bribery and other illegal activities, he will never do this kind of thing personally. Therefore, a marketing director Sendi was specially hired with a high salary to take charge of this matter.
Sandi is the English name of the marketing director. He is Chinese, and his Chinese name is Li Shusen. He is also in his early 30s. It took him 8 years to step by step from the technical service engineer of MB Company to the position of marketing director. He has been involved in various corporate political struggles, but he finally succeeded in defeating all his competitors and finally reached this position, while enjoying an annual salary of 300,000 yuan plus an additional All kinds of gray income.
Sendi is very clear about his position, so he will naturally carry out Tom Watson's instructions without hesitation.
Sendi first booked the Imperial Suite at the Shinhwa Palace, and asked the other party to book a few of Ma Hongcai's favorite ladies in advance. Then she booked a taxi and waited downstairs, and then personally knocked on the door of Tom Wo He opened the door of Sen's room and said with a smile: "Tom, everything is ready now, can we set off now?"
Sendi Li Shusen had a somewhat humble smile on his face and said in a tone of asking for instructions.
After working in foreign companies for many years, Li Shusen has long been familiar with various ways of survival within foreign companies. Here, he must be careful with his superiors, because Li Shusen's position is only one level away from Tom Watson's position. In other words, Li Shusen only needs to He can directly replace Tom's position next time he is promoted. However, precisely because of this subtle relationship, he must show enough respect for Tom Watson, because it is such a small level without major outstanding performance. It is difficult to overcome, and whether many of his benefits can be obtained depends on Tom Watson's will.
Seeing Li Shusen's performance, Tom Watson nodded with satisfaction, then stood up, straightened his clothes and tie in the mirror, wiped his leather shoes on the automatic shoe polishing machine, then walked out of the office with his head held high, and went straight to Li Shusen's office. Mythical Palace.
Inside the Imperial Suite of Shinhwa Palace.
Tom Watson, Li Shusen and Ma Hong came to the private room first, closed the door and talked about business.
Ma Hongcai directly told the story of his encounter with Liu Qingyu in detail, and also described the uproar Liu Qingyu caused in the entire Tongda City through this incident.
After talking about this matter, Ma Hongcai said with a serious face: "You two, I'm not trying to scare you. If we can't handle this matter perfectly this time, then it means that I, Ma Hongcai, and Mayor Ma behind me will , Mayor Yan has lost face, which means that Liu Qingyu, the newly appointed deputy mayor, has given us all a slap in the face this time. To be honest, it doesn’t matter whether I, Ma Hongcai, lose face, because I am Liu Qingyu’s subordinate. I don't have any temper when he criticizes me. However, if Mayor Ma and Mayor Yan lose face, the problem will be serious. You know, they are members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee.
If they are dissatisfied with our results, you can imagine that not only will it be a problem whether I can continue to lead this project in the future, but your MB Group's ability to do things will definitely be questioned by other leaders. Then they will never dare to continue to trust you MB Group in the future. At that time, no matter who is ultimately responsible for this project, the two leaders will definitely not let your company win the bid. I believe that for this You should know."
When he said this, Ma Hongcai did not tell them that Liu Qingyu had instructed him to work with the Information Department to sort out the plan. He had his own selfish motives even if he did not tell them, because if one more person is responsible for this project, there will be one more person. When people come out to share benefits, if they negotiate alone with the people of MB Group, the other party can only rely on themselves, and they must find ways to please themselves, and benefits will follow.
After Ma Hong finished speaking, both Tom Watson and Li Shusen's expressions became solemn.
Although they thought that this matter was definitely not simple, they did not expect that there were so many inside stories in it. These two foreign company elites who often deal with information projects and officials naturally knew very well that they had been involved at this moment. However, they are familiar with China's national conditions and know very well that at this time, they must choose sides, and the result of taking sides will directly affect their future market share and sales performance, but now, they There was no need for too much inner struggle, because in their view, no matter what, it was impossible for Liu Qingyu, the new and last-ranked deputy mayor, to defeat the two city leaders, Ma Botong and Yan Junwei.
Therefore, both of them are now focusing on how to solve Liu Qingyu's difficulty.
