Ma Qianshan scratched his head in distress and sat in silence in front of the window. Outside the window was the small square of Zaporozhye City, with sparse crowds and old streets. He lived in a state-owned hotel next to the square, and he lived with
More than a dozen members of the visiting negotiation team.
When you go abroad, you will find that the foreign population is really small. Zaporizhia is the third largest city in Ermao, with a population of less than one million.
Yesterday, Zhou Qingfeng and Bogulayev held their first formal meeting. This meeting was mainly for the presidents of both parties to set the tone for the cooperation between the two groups and formulate a framework agreement.
Under normal circumstances, a memorandum will be left in the meeting, and after both parties sign it, they will use the memorandum as a basis for subsequent substantive negotiations.
Bogulayev expressed his willingness to help the Holy Light establish a "system", and the lion laughed loudly and asked for a price of "five billion U.S. dollars." This price sounded like a joke to Ma Qianshan.
Let alone cutting it in half, cutting it to a tenth is too much.
But at the negotiating table, Uncle Zhou not only did not counteroffer, but laughed and said - yes, five billion US dollars. Give me a complete aerospace engine R&D and manufacturing system.
Ma Qianshan felt that it was a pity that he could not take a picture of Bogulayev's expression at that time. The CEO of Madasic was originally very confident, but after hearing Uncle Zhou give a positive reply in Russian, he felt as if he had seen a ghost in the middle of the night.
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I was just saying casually, did you really spend five billion dollars?!
Not to mention Bogulayev, even Ma Qianshan and others were living as if they were ghosts - 'Holy Light' was expanding at a rapid pace, earning more and spending more. Each month's foreign exchange income was fixed, and basically every penny was lost.
Didn't save it.
Foreign exchange is the lubricant in the group's expansion, settling all conflicts. Whether at home or abroad, there are still very few people who are against money.
But with no money left in his hand, President Zhou was stunned to grasp the words thrown out by the other party. He asked on the spot to clearly write down "five billion dollars in exchange for the system" in the memo of the meeting as the basic terms of cooperation between the two parties.
Everyone on Bogulayev's side became very uncomfortable, and they had to ask for a temporary adjournment of the meeting and leave the venue for private discussions - the memo for the meeting is a very serious matter. Unless you plan to break the contract when you leave, you must formulate it carefully.
This was a day off. Bogulayev arranged for the Holy Light tour group to stay at the best hotel in the city. Ma Qianshan was sighing in front of the hotel window.
I can’t figure it out. Mr. Zhou is usually a very shrewd person, so why doesn’t he make a counteroffer?
The US$5 billion contract will definitely not be paid off immediately, nor will it be completed within a year or two. This is a large contract that will last for at least ten years. It includes talent training, industrial supporting facilities, equipment procurement, etc.
But even so, five billion US dollars is too much.
Thinking of coming to Ma Qianshan...
If Motorsic really wins this contract, it can be said that it will receive continuous capital investment in the next ten years. The company will definitely achieve great development, at least it will not starve to death.
It’s hard to say what kind of benefits ‘Holy Light’ will get if they sign this contract, but they will have to work hard to make money in the next ten years, otherwise they won’t be able to fill this huge hole.
Calculated in this way, the standard of measurement is whether US$5 billion is worth it?
Director Ma has been in the ministry for too long, and has always considered living within his means, steaming as much rice as he can. He rarely has a plan to consume in advance and eat as much as possible.
But after adjourning the meeting, Zhou Qingfeng said to the members of the visiting group including Ma Qianshan, “You can make money, but the system is not that easy to establish.
I came to talk in person because I don’t want to waste time on meaningless paperwork and approvals. Now we have something to ask for, and since we are determined to introduce technology, it is worth spending more money.”
The president has spoken, and it doesn't matter whether other people understand it or not. But if we really negotiate such a contract, the start-up capital will be at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. The group really doesn't have that kind of money now.
The talks continued the next day, and Zhou Qingfeng was in good spirits and was fine. However, Bogulayev across from him was getting older and had dark bags under his eyes as he stayed up late to discuss the talks.
After a day of internal discussions, Motorsic came up with a new framework agreement. The text of this agreement roughly outlines the scope and specific matters of cooperation with the Holy Light, and also involves specific amounts.
As expected by Ma Qianshan, this is a contract of at least fifteen years. The contract amount is not fixed, but leaves room for growth depending on the market situation. However, a rough estimate is that it will not be less than five billion US dollars, or even exceed it.
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Logically speaking, the Holy Light could ask for another adjournment to read the text of the framework agreement. But Zhou Qingfeng only briefly glanced at the text and quickly nodded in agreement.
Ma Qianshan seized the time and quickly scanned the text. There were more than a dozen major items and more than a hundred minor items listed in the text. The initial start-up capital would not be less than 100 million US dollars.
But Uncle Zhou agreed, fully agreed. He told Bogulayev on the spot, “I hope that both parties will immediately set up a cooperation and coordination working group to improve the framework agreement to an enforceable state within three months.
I would rather start implementing the agreement in three months so that our two sides can communicate and cooperate smoothly. As for funds, Motoric does not need to worry. This is not a problem at all."
What is a president? A president is someone who can decide on a multi-billion dollar project on the spot without running out of money.
It took three months to complete contract negotiations worth billions of dollars, which is already very fast. This shows Zhou Qingfeng's attitude and determination, and he wants to forcefully promote this cooperation.
Qianshan used to work in ministries and commissions to negotiate a cooperation agreement of this scale. Just a framework agreement would take half a year to complete. He had to find various bosses for instructions to turn a fat man into a thin man.
Zhou Qingfeng's complete offer without any hesitation made Motor Siqi extremely excited. They had already paid a 50% premium and were ready to be bargained by the 'Holy Light', but they did not expect that the other party agreed so happily.
It's so satisfying that people can't believe it.
If it is really implemented, this will be an extremely profitable cooperation agreement. As Bogulayev gets older, he feels that he has found a cooperation that will allow Motorsic to have no worries about food and drink for the next ten or twenty years.
partner.
Both sides of the negotiation were very excited.
Ma Qianshan was retained and became the Chinese leader of the ‘Holy Light-Modasic Cooperation and Coordination Working Group’. A visiting group of more than a dozen people who originally came to make soy sauce immediately became members of the working group.
That night, Motorsic took the initiative to hold a celebration dinner, invited Zhou Qingfeng and others to attend, and announced to the world that negotiations on cooperation details would begin immediately.
Even the Western media has reported extensively on the amount and significance of this cooperation - the "Power Czar" will join forces with the "God of Management" from the East to develop the aviation power industry.
A year ago, HK's "Harmony Weekly" boasted that its boss was the 'god of management', which made him blush. He had to be thick-skinned enough to survive.
But now "Harmony Weekly" no longer needs to write drafts to brag. It can be said that its boss is already a well-deserved 'god of management'.
Not only "Harmony Weekly" is boasting, but the domestic official media are also boasting, "a leading figure who created a new situation in the era."
Foreign countries are also boasting, with the Asahi Shimbun calling Zhou Qingfeng the "Imperial Tiger that shocked the world," and the BBC even calling Zhou Qingfeng a "subversive red capitalist."
Only Ma Qianshan asked with a grimace, "Mr. Zhou, three months passed quickly. Where did you get hundreds of millions of start-up funds?"
"Don't worry, it's a small scene. The fat sheep are already in place. I'll slaughter them right away."