When Du Qiu turned around, he saw a middle-aged woman walking from the direction of the workshop door, followed by a workplace beauty who looked like a secretary.
This woman wore exquisite makeup, her hair only reached her shoulders, and was permed in small curls. She looked younger.
It’s just the crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes that show the ruthlessness of time.
"Chairman Xue?" Du Qiu was a little surprised, but still stepped forward to greet him, "It's such a coincidence that it's such a pleasure to meet Chairman Xue here!"
Xue Ningmei stretched out her hand to shake hands with Du Qiu and said: "Dr. Du, Tianqi Company is a subsidiary of Huading Group, which I acquired last year."
Du Qiu immediately understood that it was no wonder that Wei Jianshe was a little too enthusiastic about him before.
Before Dr. Du Qiu graduated, the last project he worked on with his mentor was to help this woman's Huading Group develop an automatic tool magazine product.
By coincidence, Xue Ningmei discovered that Du Qiu was developing the control software for high-end machining centers on his own, and had helped him, allowing Du Qiu to study all the mid-to-high-end machining centers of Huading Group at will.
When Du Qiu graduated, she extended an olive branch and offered a high price to invite Du Qiu to join her company, but Du Qiu refused.
At that time, although Du Qiu had completed the prototype of the control system, he was very dissatisfied, especially because he felt that he was still lacking in machine perception.
So he chose to join Roadstar Technology, an autonomous driving company, and continue to engage in research in the field of machine perception.
"Dr. Xue's career is really booming. I admire him. I admire him."
"I heard from Mr. Wei that you might be interested in joining Tianqi, so I flew over from the Imperial Capital immediately to catch up with you."
As she spoke, Xue Ningmei made an invitation gesture, "It's not convenient to talk here. Let's go to the office to chat."
"OK."
Du Qiu and others followed Xue Ningmei back to her office.
After the guests and hosts sat down, the secretary was already making tea for Du Qiu and others.
"Reporter Zhang, first of all I want to thank you for your introduction, which gives me the opportunity to cooperate with Dr. Du again."
Although Zhang Mingliu was a little surprised, he also knew that Du Qiu and Xue Ningmei were old acquaintances.
"Dr. Xue is so polite. This is also a coincidence."
Xue Ningmei smiled and said: "Reporter Zhang said it well, this is the fate of coming thousands of miles to meet each other."
Her eyes turned to Du Qiu, "Dr. Du, what I said to you still stands. The door of my company will always be open to you.
You wanted to go back to Magic City to develop, and now Tianqi Company is in Magic City, so don’t refuse me this time."
Du Qiu didn't expect that Xue Ningmei was still so quick to talk, so he sat down and invited her.
However, he still shook his head and said: "I am very grateful to Director Xue for his love for me, but I may let Director Xue down again."
Xue Ningmei's eyes flashed with displeasure, but she still had a smile on her face and said, "Why, Dr. Du doesn't like Tianqi Company?"
Without waiting for Du Qiu to answer, he continued on by himself, "Tianqi Company is also a veteran in the machine tool industry, with a relatively good foundation. I acquired Tianqi Company last year.
After nearly a year of development, Tianqi Company’s annual turnover has more than doubled, and its current market share in the domestic market for unmanned factory production lines has reached 10%.
In such a company, would Dr. Du still feel that it is not enough to display your talents?"
Seeing Xue Ningmei's sincerity, Du Qiu also said: "Dr. Xue, if I had known that Tianqi was your company before yesterday, I might have agreed to join.
But I made a decision yesterday, but I didn't have time to tell Ming Liu, so she didn't know it, so she brought me here to see Mr. Wei today."
Xue Ningmei frowned slightly and asked, "I wonder what decision Dr. Du made?"
"I have decided to work for myself. Today I came to Tianqi to see Mr. Wei. Actually, I want to sell my control system software products."
"Oh, Dr. Du wants to start his own business?" A trace of relief flashed in Xue Ningmei's eyes.
"Yes, it just responds to the country's call for people to start businesses. I'm just sorry that I failed to live up to Director Xue's good intentions."
"It seems that your software has been successfully developed."
Xue Ningmei nodded slightly, but then put forward a new suggestion, "Actually, if you want to sell your software, you don't necessarily have to start a company from scratch."
Du Qiu looked at Xue Ningmei, waiting for her to continue.
"You can use the intellectual property rights of this software to invest in my company. In this case, with the strength of Huading Group, your software will have greater market prospects."
She initially took a fancy to Du Qiu for two reasons. One was because of Du Qiu's outstanding performance in the tool magazine project, and the other was because Du Qiu was independently developing a CNC control system at the time.
You must know that Central Data's original R&D team of more than 100 people worked in the 712 mode of working seven days a week and 12 hours a day for many years of closed development before successfully developing a high-end CNC control system that can basically replace imported products.
Even though Du Qiu knew this situation, he still insisted on developing it alone.
Initially, Xue Ningmei judged from his performance in the tool magazine project and the evaluation of his mentor that the CNC system Du Qiu was developing was definitely extremely competitive.
Therefore, she strongly wanted to invite Du Qiu to join Huading Group, thereby bringing core technologies with truly independent intellectual property rights to Huading.
No one is more eager than her to enrich Huading Group with real core technologies. However, in the field of CNC machine tools, this is a very difficult thing.
Du Qiu was stunned, then shook his head and said: "I understand what Director Xue means, but I have full confidence in the market prospects of my products."
Xue Ningmei's face remained calm, and she changed her suggestion, "Since Dr. Du wants to develop independently, I won't force him to do anything difficult.
However, I believe that Dr. Du’s company needs a strategic partner, and I can switch all future CNC machine tool products of Tianqi Company and Huading Group to Dr. Du’s software.”
Du Qiu did not expect that Xue Ningmei believed in him so much and promised to completely replace his software before he saw the operating results.
"Dr. Xue, do you... have any requirements?"
Xue Ningmei smiled and said: "If you ask for nothing, I'm afraid you won't dare to accept this kindness.
It's actually very simple. I hope that I can become an angel investor in your company and obtain no less than 30% of your company's shares.
They all say that investment depends on the person, but I just like you, Dr. Du, and I hope you can give me a chance."
Du Qiu smiled bitterly and said: "Dr. Xue, if I give you 30% of the shares, I'm afraid I won't be able to give you this investment opportunity."
Xue Ningmei waved her hand, "Don't refuse it yet, I am willing to pay 75 million yuan for this 30% share."
Zhang Mingliu was already a little dizzy while listening. According to Director Xue, isn't Du Qiu's company worth 250 million even before it is established?