Chapter 1092: The Advantage Is With Me!

Friday morning was chaotic, with beacon fires connecting the city, and people and horses turning over.

Li Xuewu was already at a loss for words, not knowing how to describe the morning of having two precious children at the same time. Lu Shuren wouldn't have been able to do it either.

Li Ning was in a bad mood when he woke up in the morning, crying and grinding, sticking to Gu Ning and not letting go.

Li Shu ate too many pastries last night, her stomach was uncomfortable, and she was crying and grinding at her grandmother.

Qin Jingru prepared breakfast, Han Jiankun packed the car, and Li Xuewu had to serve himself and also help the two children.

Coaxing this one to let Gu Ning wash her face, coaxing that one to let his mother brush her teeth, it was a mess.

Even this wasn't all. The phone rang. Li Xuewu ran over to answer it, but heard his mother-in-law's voice. It turned out that Mu Hongyan had given birth to a big fat boy weighing seven jin and six liang.

The joy of his mother-in-law that couldn't be contained could be heard from the phone. Li Xuewu hurriedly congratulated her and also asked about the sister-in-law's physical condition.

"Everything is fine, mother and child are safe—"

Ding Fengxia said with a smile: "Hongyan also asked me to thank you, saying that the supplements and clothes you mailed were received."

"Hehehe—it was all arranged by Aunt Xiao Ning and my mother. I dare not take the credit."

Li Xuewu said with a smile: "A few days ago, Aunt Xiao Ning told me she was thinking of you and the sister-in-law, calculating the days, it's truly a happy event."

Ding Fengxia heard Li Shu's crying, and hurriedly asked what was wrong, why she had teased her granddaughter to tears.

Li Xuewu explained with a smile, and said his mother was also there, asking her to come and talk on the phone.

Don't look at Liu Yin who had been a housewife all her life, and Ding Fengxia who had been a cadre all her life, the two sitting together talking on the phone wasn't incongruous.

They talked about family chores, and they talked about mutual concern. It was like the words couldn't be finished.

Li Xuewu coaxed his daughter, rubbed her stomach, and asked Gu Ning who came downstairs if she wanted to take her daughter to the hospital to see.

Before Gu Ning could say anything, Li Shu was scared to tears, thinking that going to the hospital meant getting an injection. She was most afraid of this and wouldn't agree to it no matter what.

Li Shu was uncomfortable when she woke up in the morning. Gu Ning had looked at it and said it was fine.

Now hearing Li Xuewu's worry, she asked Li Shu's feelings again, pressed her daughter's stomach lightly with her hand, and determined again that it was fine.

Li Xuewu was finally relieved, teased his daughter if she wanted to eat a piece of pastry to suppress it, and come with a poison-to-fight-poison.

Li Shu remembered the lesson, shook her little head and said no, and would never eat pastries again.

Li Xuewu estimated that his daughter's memory would last at most three seconds after her stomach stopped hurting. This was a little glutton.

The morning chaos was considered to have ushered in a turning point because of his mother-in-law's report of good news.

Eat when it's time to eat, go to work when it's time to work. Li Xuewu felt much more comfortable after coming out of the house.

No wonder many men like to linger in the unit and don't want to go home. If they can't stay in the unit, they go to drink, play cards, and sing.

This isn't drinking, playing cards, or singing, but escaping and loneliness.

The command car stopped under the security building. Before Li Xuewu could go upstairs, the leaders of the main office building opposite all came down.

A whole group of white shirts gave Li Xuewu a fright, thinking they had come to welcome him.

"Deputy Director Li, the trade negotiation meeting is about to start. The leader asks you to go over."

"So early? It's only eight o'clock—"

The secretary of the committee office came to notify. Li Xuewu didn't believe it and raised his hand to look at his watch.

The secretary smiled and replied: "The meeting place is in the reception house, the French team can arrive at 8:30. The leader's meaning is to go over first."

"Good, good, I know."

Li Xuewu smiled helplessly, signaled to Peng Xiaoli to go upstairs to help him get his notebook and documents, and he himself walked toward the opposite side.

Li Huai De saw him walking over and waved, signaling a car to go over.

"I remember the time was set at 9 o'clock, why was it advanced?"

Li Xuewu greeted the other leaders and sat in Li Huai De's car.

Li Huai De signaled to Li Haiyang to drive, then turned to Li Xuewu and said: "Maybe the French also feel that today is a tug-of-war."

"What do the French know about fighting—"

Li Xuewu joked, then shook his head slightly and said: "Those who come are not good."

"Those who are good don't come. I'm looking forward to what good news Chantel can bring back from France. I hope so."

Li Huai De looked at the factory area outside the car window with a smile. From the moment the approval for the ecological industrial zone came down, the office area, experimental building, and various functional buildings would also enter the countdown.

He was now becoming more steady and atmospheric, unknowingly dealing with external affairs with the demeanor of a future group leader.

The Red Star Factory also gave him enough courage, even when facing the Saint-Taya Group of France.

Compared with the mentality at the foreign commodity trade fair in Yangcheng last year, Li Huai De's self-confidence had been sufficiently improved.

Foreign businessmen of general volume really might not necessarily be able to enter his eyes.

It seemed that only an international trade group like Saint-Taya was enough for him to make a move.

Is that really the case?

In Li Xuewu's view, the Red Star Factory was still in the starting stage. Grabbing everything with a wide net was not a bad way to cast a wide net.

Moreover, the enterprises that could enter the mainland for cooperation were all screened and investigated. Small volume didn't represent small energy.

Look at the little guy Ate from Kuwait, isn't he also a very small international trader? But the business he does isn't small at all.

Such guys are even more reckless, daring to buy anything and sell anything, as long as the profit in the trade process is higher than the risk.

Actually, there are no trade restrictions at this time, and there is no need to care too much about any international influence. It is exactly the time to swing a big hammer.

Use cheap commodities to crush trade barriers set by capital in the form of dumping, and let those monopoly capital businessmen taste the iron fist of market liberalization.

Importing mature commodities internally is impossible. For one thing, there is no stable distribution channel, and for another, it is not suitable for the current mainland market.

But importing technology and production equipment, as well as production raw materials, is encouraged.

Otherwise, how did the Red Star Factory report customs for so many technology and equipment imports with foreign businessmen?

Currently, the mainland is seriously lacking technology and equipment. No matter which unit it is, as long as you have the ability, it doesn't matter if you get aircraft carrier manufacturing technology.

Conversely, Li Xuewu's suggestion to Li Huai De is to build the Red Star Factory's tertiary industry and joint industry into an industrial manufacturing aircraft carrier.

That is to say, processing and technology learning are carried out simultaneously. After mastering the technology and increasing production, it is to feed back and expand trade.

The domestic market lacks soil for high consumption, but market liberalization trade under planned economy conditions can be implemented.

For example, cheap cars, cheap motorcycles, cheap electrical appliances, small hardware goods, and so on.

This is the case internally, and it is also the case externally.

Quickly master production skills and technology, and use the currently relatively cheap productivity to build an efficient and stable production core power factory.

The purchase order given by the foreign businessman is 100 units, then the Red Star Factory must produce 300 units.

100 of them are delivered to the foreign businessman, 100 are to serve the domestic market, and the remaining 100 are hit out in the form of dumping.

The news Li Xuewu can confirm is that Singapore is currently engaged in small electrical appliances and small commodity business models, and South Korea is also engaged in Han River industry.

Not to mention the little Japanese, they have long been implementing industrial revival and re-rise plans.

His opinion is don't be picky, don't care about what size foreign businessman, only those who can bring actual benefits to the Red Star Factory are good foreign businessmen.

The determination of the status of Joint Industry and Joint Tertiary Industry laid the foundation for joint trade and foreign trade, bringing new development opportunities to the metallurgical industry and rolling industry.

The metallurgical industry will continue to develop in the future, expand production capacity, and provide more and better quality steel.

And the rolling industry cannot be satisfied with the status quo, but is to expand and advance into more fields.

Because there is a downstream industry supported by relatively prosperous hardware industry and automobile, shipbuilding, and other manufacturing industries, no matter how much production capacity overflows, it can be consumed.

The industrial chain has formed scale and specialization. Next, the Red Star Factory only needs to continuously broaden sales channels, expand the foreign trade environment, and realize industrial continuous upgrading and improvement.

This time, the Saint-Taya Group took the initiative to cooperate, largely because it valued the Red Star Factory's comprehensive production capacity.

Metallurgy, rolling, hardware, automobiles, ships, and even food and electronic industries, and even more industrial industry.

What is industrial industry?

It is the service-oriented industry that supports this set of industrial systems, including tertiary industry and joint industry, and also includes the newly established Joint Savings Bank and Red Star Education Institutions.

The composition of these institutions cannot directly see how much production capacity there is, but can see a company's combat effectiveness and vitality.

A company that can own so many industries and support so many people, among the companies Saint-Taya has cooperated with, those that are like this are all existence of industry trusts.

In fact, in the Saint-Taya Group's background investigation document, it is also clearly shown that the Red Star Factory is indeed a trust enterprise that is rising.

In the international market, industry trusts are common, existing in capital and social systems, with different natures, but the meaning is the same.

Chantel's vision is unique and wise. In the process of contacting the Red Star Factory, she keenly discovered the development situation of this factory.

She understood what the Red Star Factory needed, what it wanted to do, or calculated the Red Star Factory's future development goals and potential.

So now she must act decisively, be a true friend who sends charcoal in the snow, not a fake friend who adds flowers to the brocade.

France has already opened a foreign affairs office in the mainland and has carried out relatively deep cooperation in the fields of economy, humanities, trade, etc.

With this foundation, the Chantel Group has no reason not to choose a test field here and open up a new economic industrial planting garden.

Very cleverly, the planning of Chantel's sniping of Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asian markets coincides with Li Xuewu's. They are all running to crush the other side's manufacturing market.

Only when the other side's industrial development cannot be raised can their own commodities be sold.

Is this business philosophy very robbery?

But this is the essence of business competition!

The Red Star Factory's welcome ceremony was very well prepared. Today, the reception house was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, full of joy.

Can it not be joyful? The God of Wealth came to send money. If the era hadn't changed, they would have to do a ritual today, burn incense and pray, bathe and change clothes.

Receive the God of Wealth—!

Of course, before receiving the God of Wealth, they had to send away the little ghosts; otherwise, how could the God of Wealth arrive at your house.

The main personnel of the Saint-Taya Group's visitors were three people. First was President Chantel, Vice President William Robin, and Foreign Affairs Office Economic Commissioner Amandina.

Other negotiation personnel in economy, law, business, etc., were all dressed in suits and leather shoes, very professional.

The appearance of Amandina from the Foreign Affairs Office was not unexpected by the Red Star Factory, because there were also comrades from the foreign affairs department and economic and trade department participating here.

Zhou Gancheng and Gao Yaqin were in the Red Star Factory's negotiation team today. They would be responsible for the supervision and support of this international trade negotiation.

In contrast, the Red Star Factory's aura as the host was not weak at all.

From entering the factory area, there was guidance and protection from the security section's guard team all the way.

Three standard-painted 250CC motorcycles served as guide vehicles to open the road, and two Red Star Antelope vehicles with the same paint followed as front and rear security vehicles.

It could be said that they achieved safety and etiquette that many enterprises could not achieve now.

The French representatives took five large Mercedes-Benz, which had a lot of aura, but in front of the steel giants, they still made these foreigners dazzled.

When the two sides met, the first thing they saw was a group of cadres dressed in white shirts and black trousers standing in front of the reception house to welcome them.

And when the Saint-Taya group got off the car, there were beautiful waiters wearing relatively fashionable clothing who sent fresh flowers to welcome them.

This was different from other factories and enterprises they went to, where there were primary school students wearing red scarves to send flower wreaths or gifts.

Coming to the Red Star Factory, the most intuitive feeling was professional, serious, and stylish.

The cadres and workers here showed more era characteristics, and their speech carried an international perspective.

The Saint-Taya Group people could clearly feel that the trade characteristics and economic exchange potential possessed by the Red Star Factory were very deep.

Just say one thing, when they visited other factories and enterprises, the translators were all arranged by the foreign affairs department, unless they brought their own.

But it wasn't like that here. Many young white shirts followed on the side, and as long as there was a need, they would provide standard translation work.

It wasn't hard to see that the cadres and staff here still carried mainland characteristics, such as the badges on their chests, the notebooks in their hands, etc.

This differentiated contrast made the Saint-Taya Group people feel very novel and happy.

Finally, there was an enterprise that could talk normally.

In international trade, everyone knew that the mainland was a commercial area full of gold waiting to be developed.

But those who truly had the courage to break in could be counted on one's fingers. Not only did they have to be politically qualified, but they also had to have certain connections and foundations.

For example, the economic exchange visit that just ended in Yangcheng almost exhausted them.

The foreign trade commodity exchange fair in Yangcheng this year was very special, and the meaning had changed.

Before, it was to create economic benefits, improve enterprise development ability, and open up foreign trade markets.

Now?

It was forced to change into a window to "show the achievements of planned economy to the international capital market."

Very intuitively, the trade fair was not pure.

Actually, the session the Red Star Factory participated in was already not pure, and this time it was even more serious.

You look at the Red Star Factory people wearing badges, and you look at the foreign affairs and other departments' people wearing badges and holding red books?

Actually, it wasn't. Turning to look at the opposite side, the Saint-Taya people were also like this.

A group of miscellaneous-haired foreigners wore badges on their chests, and one by one they held a red book like a model. Li Xuewu looked at it and felt awkward.

Don't tell me they have to quote quotations when negotiating later? That would take forever to talk.

Do you take this as a joke?

Go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, if you can't say a few paragraphs, it is estimated that you can't buy anything.

People won't sell to you, and they will despise you!

Li Xuewu naturally could recite, and he could even recite the entire exposition.

These didn't count as any ability. As long as the memory wasn't bad, everyone could do it with heart.

But to say that he could both recite and use, and use it well in articles and work, looking for it all over the Red Star Factory, except for those old pen-holders in the management office who could eat smoke behind Li Xuewu, others didn't even have the qualification to eat smoke.

You say he is so awesome?

Hey, he is just so awesome; otherwise, how do you think he sits firmly in the position of Deputy Director of the Management Committee Office.

Yes, he is the deputy director responsible for coordination and execution, but he is also responsible for some management responsibilities, including the leader's work.

Li Huai De's work schedule arrangement, speech arrangement, and other leaders' work coordination, etc., without level, can you shock those old oil sticks?

Dealing with these "literati," coming hard is not okay. Li Xuewu has a gun at his waist, but he never points it at comrades and brothers.

A pen-holder can beat them to pieces, crying and shouting that they are convinced.

The grasp of policy, the interpretation of the era, the use of words, are extremely sophisticated.

Li Xuewu's articles have been collected and organized by the Management Committee Office many times and sent to new administrative staff to study.

The old comrades in the section pointed their hands at that file collection and told the young people who just reported to work, telling them that when their articles can reach this level, they can stand firm in the section.

Young people naturally dare not ignore the old comrades' requirements and opinions, and start to study and imitate the articles, and even recite them.

But the more they study, the more confused they become, the more they study, the more sad they become, the more they study, the greater the pressure, and their hair is about to be pulled out, but they just can't write this level.

One by one, they are sighing that the water in the section is really deep. The articles handed to them to study are so profound and difficult to understand. These old comrades must be very powerful figures.

But after a long time, when these young people gradually understood who the signatory of these articles was, they were going to scold the street.

Especially after hearing about the god-like level of Deputy Director Li in the factory's documents, they were even more full of disdain for those old comrades.

Grass! Was pitted!

If you have the ability, write one and try it!

It's not that they don't work hard, nor that they don't study, no talent, but the learning target level is too high, and it's difficult to see the back.

These old silver coins are deliberately giving them a slap in the face, letting them know how powerful they are.

What they know now is that Deputy Director Li is very powerful, and these old silver coins are really shady.

To write an article of this level, in addition to having a rich reading foundation, one must also cultivate a unique perspective and vision, and more importantly, possess management experience in business.

How do young people who just started working write?

Copying the gourd and drawing the ladle, the articles written are also empty, homogeneous, without any oil and water, how to improve personal ability!

So everyone in the committee office knows that Director Li's speech drafts are mostly sent to Deputy Director Li for review and finalization; otherwise, he won't use them.

Li Xuewu has level, but it doesn't mean he is willing to say it, willing to use it in public.

When William Robin shook hands with him, he came up and gave him a sentence "do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing," and he almost broke his defense.

What can Li Xuewu say? He can only answer "self-reliance, arduous struggle," and then shake hands and say hello, welcome, welcome.

The meeting of the two sides started in such an absurd and interesting atmosphere.

Until they entered the negotiation venue together and closed the big door, they didn't torture each other anymore.

The reason it was a closed-door meeting was that both sides emphasized the confidentiality and safety of this cooperation, strictly forbidding the disclosure of content related to the negotiation during the negotiation process, including various numbers.

The Red Star Factory took out its own real economic data to organize this negotiation, which is a secret in future international trade negotiations.

The Saint-Taya Group also didn't want competitors to know how many project tilts they gave to mainland enterprises in the process of negotiating with mainland enterprises.

So the door closed, the two sides negotiated, the applause rang, and gold was ten thousand taels.

"How is it inside? Still talking?"

Approaching noon, Qin Huairu stood outside the conference room door and looked around anxiously.

There were four security section cadres standing at the door, and she couldn't get close at all.

Closed-door meeting, not a joke. The French representatives were particularly satisfied with the meeting arrangement of the Red Star Factory this time.

Because in France, even if it was a more advanced business negotiation, it was impossible to have armed guards standing at the door to maintain meeting safety.

However, the meeting was very difficult, and from time to time, negotiation personnel would leave their seats to go to the bathroom.

At this time, there would be service personnel and security following the other party to go to the convenience, and then follow back.

This level of security directly raised the level of the meeting, and also made the fierce conversation inside more attractive and curious.

Qin Huairu wasn't curious. Now even if she was allowed to go in, she wouldn't understand what was being talked about inside.

No, it wasn't because of the foreign language. It was just that even if they all spoke Chinese, she would be confused when those vocabularies were taken out separately and combined together.

Waiting at the door was because the lunch meeting during the negotiation interval was prepared by the reception house.

According to the negotiation time, it should be adjourned at this time, and the two sides would have lunch together, and then rest for half an hour to continue talking.

Waiting for a long time for the meeting to end, she was also anxious. Not only was she anxious, but the chefs and waiters were also anxious. What should they do if they were in a hurry?

But she caught the opportunity. Seeing Gou Zirong, the director of the sales department, come out of the conference room, she leaned over and asked: "Not eating anymore? Going to keep talking?"

"I don't know either," Gou Zirong pointed to the toilet with a bitter smile and said: "I was also holding it so I couldn't stand it before I came out. Deputy Director Li is still arguing."

"Arguing about what?" Qin Huairu knew she had said the wrong thing after asking, waved her hand and pinched her forehead and said: "How should we prepare this meal?"

Gou Zirong didn't care, first went to the bathroom, and after coming back, whispered to Qin Huairu that Deputy Director Li had made up his mind, and no one was allowed to eat until the phased goal was negotiated!

Good heavens! Starving and boiling the eagle!

Qin Huairu knew it was Li Xuewu who caused the matter. Just when Gou Zirong came out, the sound of arguing coming from the door belonged to Li Xuewu's voice the loudest and fastest.

She couldn't understand what Li Xuewu was arguing about, because Li Xuewu was speaking a foreign language, babbling as if he was scolding the street.

Gou Zirong didn't dare to leave for too long, nodded to Qin Huairu and went back.

Inside the venue, the conference table where the two sides sat was very large and luxurious, more luxurious than the conference table in the main office building. This was an antique.

At the beginning, the boss of the Red Star Factory imported a whole set of conference tables and chairs from the UK, which had a lot of old money style, so luxurious that the factory didn't want to use it.

Li Huai De, who liked to enjoy himself, didn't dare to use the conference tables and chairs daily. You say how luxurious it is?

However, in the eyes of foreign businessmen, the environment here could only be said to meet the standard of a trust enterprise, and they were not surprised or shocked.

It was just that they were surprised and puzzled by the Red Star Factory's trickiness and harshness.

They were all mainlanders, all cadres cultivated by the planned economy. Why was the gap between Mr. Li opposite and those leaders of other enterprises who were generous and eager to cooperate so big!

Now the atmosphere at the venue was very tense. The two sides had already slapped the table, entangled and discussed the focus of the negotiation many times, and the anger was very great.

After Gou Zirong came in, he quietly returned to his seat and continued to listen to the translator's relay.

No way, there were very few cadres in the Red Star Factory who understood French, and even fewer who could speak it.

No one could do the effect of Li Xuewu sitting beside Director Li and tongue-battling the Confucian scholars.

At the beginning of the morning meeting, the French Saint-Taya Group expounded the market in Southeast Asia and even broader spaces.

It had to be said that the Saint-Taya Group's appetite was particularly large; otherwise, their President Chantel wouldn't have stayed in the mainland for a month, opened the door of the foreign affairs office, and returned to the country to resolve the board's doubts.

The market situation was very complex, and the compensation processing agreement was very comprehensive.

They wanted to do agricultural production equipment, engineering machinery, light industrial machinery, food processing machinery, and parts supply industries in Thailand.

They wanted to do motorcycles, jeeps, excavators, bulldozers, graders, road rollers, elevators, tower cranes, concrete mixing equipment, steel structures, truck cranes, pile driving machinery, etc., in Vietnam.

They wanted to do automobile industry, electronics, electrical appliance industry, metal processing industry, mold manufacturing industry, machine tools, and machine tool parts and accessories in Malaysia.

They wanted to do mold, motor, electronics, metal and plastic processing industries in Indonesia.

Aiming at the industrial development needs of different countries and regions, the Saint-Taya Group gave a big cake, with many projects and many contents.

What does this mean?

This is steeling the Red Star Factory. People have made demands, just asking if you can produce it!

How does the Red Star Factory receive it?

Of course, receive it all; otherwise, this negotiation couldn't be talked about anymore.

Agricultural production equipment, motorcycles, jeeps, electronics, electrical appliances, molds, machine tools, etc., these were all within the business scope of the Red Star Factory.

Engineering machinery, food processing machinery, and plastic processing machinery were a bit troublesome.

Engineering machinery wasn't just those native methods that Li Xuewu once asked Dongfeng Architecture to engage in.

This was professional engineering equipment industrialization production, like excavators, bulldozers, graders, road rollers, these things were not easy to handle.

Furthermore, the Red Star Factory, which itself possessed food industry but needed to import food processing machinery, wanted to take over the other party's big order. What did it want to do?

Including can-making machines, filling machines, capping machines, bottling and canning machines, frying machines, baking machines, freezing equipment, and vacuum packaging machines, etc.

These food processing equipment were production equipment introduced by the Red Star Factory from the little Japanese side in order to prepare for the construction of food processing plants.

Now the French businessman asked, can you build them yourself and sell them to us?

How does the Red Star Factory answer?

Do it! Even if you pinch your nose, you have to say yes.

It was naturally impossible to study a set of food processing equipment for three food processing plants.

Li Xuewu would rather spend a lot of money to import from abroad than waste time and energy on this kind of one-off career.

But now the French businessman could provide technology and production equipment, as well as corresponding products and orders. What could the Red Star Factory not do?

Among the sixteen enterprises integrated this time, there were seven mechanical processing factories. After integration, it wasn't difficult to get a few corresponding production workshops.

The contradiction point that the two sides wouldn't give in to each other this time wasn't whether the Red Star Factory could produce, but how to produce and how to guarantee the channel. 【1092-2

Could the Red Star Factory, which controls the automotive parts supply chain, really be stifled to death?

We may not be able to produce heavy engineering machinery, food processing machinery, or those strange and peculiar pieces of equipment mentioned on the list.

But we can search the entire country for factories that produce this equipment, and through cooperative development of this project, ensure the quality and supply of the products.

However, Robin, the Vice President of Saint-Aya, strongly opposed this kind of decentralized cooperation; they were negotiating specifically with the Red Star Factory, not with enterprises across the whole country.

In other words, Saint-Aya wants to ensure that this production equipment and technology will not leak out.

The mainland doesn't place much emphasis on patented technology, but foreign countries are very concerned and serious about this condition.

The tertiary industry and joint industrial models proposed by the Red Star Factory do not meet Saint-Aya Group's conditions for technology and equipment output.

Li Xuewu slapped the table and asked, even if we build a separate factory and absorb your equipment and technology, if we distribute it to brother units later, are you going to come over and sue us?

This one sentence made Robin, sitting opposite, raise his eyebrows; he had never seen such a shameless person!

The French negotiation team was very confused as to why the Red Star Factory would want to share the technology and equipment they had worked so hard to negotiate, rather than keeping it for themselves to earn wealth from the technological gap.

Li Xuewu could only say that these people's brains were broken; no matter how much they focused on the advancement of technology, he would never treat technology provided by outsiders as a treasure.

Why?

Because what others can give you is definitely not their bottom-line trump card; there must be restrictions and hidden cards that keep their technology ahead.

What Li Xuewu values is technological reserve capability and independently developed technology; this is the core key to enterprise development.

Li Xuewu intends to cleverly utilize the technology and equipment introduced.

He is most skilled at "using empty hands to catch a white wolf"; for a win-win cooperation, he wants to win twice.

Li Xuewu is not afraid that the technology and equipment provided by the other side are too much to satisfy production needs.

These problems would absolutely be rejected by a single factory, but the Red Star Factory is different.

Li Xuewu is currently promoting and building a parts production supply chain system, including the mechanical production field, which will form an industry-wide monopoly in the future.

As long as you propose a design plan and requirements, we will produce a production plan, but we will absolutely not build any parts processing factories.

There is no need; we will break down the product's parts and issue tenders to enterprises capable of production and processing; whoever can take the contract depends on their ability.

Once the parts are produced, they are gathered in the production workshop, which is only responsible for assembly and debugging.

In other words, the Red Star Factory must still retain the production capacity for core parts in automotive technology, because this is the key to winning trade competition.

But for industrial suppression and dumping-type goods, the Red Star Factory is not willing to waste money.

If you want a crane, we will build a crane assembly workshop, without even building a warehouse.

Because all parts will be concentrated in a supply chain warehouse for management.

The Red Star Factory will take out the full set of equipment provided by the French side, retain the assembly equipment, and the remaining technology and equipment will be cooperated on in the form of joint tertiary industry or joint industry.

Screws, connecting rods, and bearings will be tendered from the supply chain, but what about special parts?

Hey, we have the Beijing Second Machinery Factory; we will ask them what they can produce, "Do you want equipment and technology?"

If you want equipment and technology, as long as you open your golden mouth, I will have it delivered to you in a while!

The Second Machinery Factory is currently collaborating with the Red Star Factory on a project for the imitation and processing of assembly line equipment; the technology and equipment are fully open, they learn while manufacturing, but the Red Star Factory takes a share of the equipment sales.

This time, Li Xuewu intends to do the same with all the technology and equipment; he wants to squeeze every drop of oil out of things that come for free!

Li Huai De sat beside Li Xuewu, listening to him negotiate fiercely with the other side in fluent French, while the interpreter relayed the content to him.

Before this, the Red Star Factory had already held several office meetings regarding this negotiation.

Even Jing Yunong, who was supposed to inspect various offices, delayed the trip just to wait for them.

Li Xuewu expounded his views on trade negotiations, and his opinions conquered all the factory leaders, allowing him to sit in the position of deputy representative.

To his left was Li Huai De, and to his right was Jing Yunong, who is in charge of economic work.

Especially after the negotiation started, Chantal and Robin on the opposite side spoke alternately, but the two of them together couldn't beat Li Xuewu alone.

With favorable timing, geographical advantages, and human support, Li Huai De sat there reservedly, looking at the opposite side with pride: no matter how you look at it, the negotiation situation is the Red Star Factory beating Saint-Aya; the advantage is with us!

Look, I, Li Huai De, haven't even made a move yet, and the other side can't even get past Li Xuewu; they still want to talk to me?

Hehe! Little trash—!

Both sides went back and forth, and finally reached a stalemate; Saint-Aya was drained of power by Li Xuewu alone, especially the old guy Robin.

This Vice President is no ordinary character; he has held management positions in multiple enterprises, and it was because Chantal's background was too big that he was poached to serve as Vice President.

But Li Xuewu on the opposite side is not bad either; not to mention his past work experience and understanding of the era, just his brain and body, which are extraordinarily excellent since his return, and his persistent learning attitude.

Usually, he has to lie low in the Red Star Factory, learning to be low-key and moderate, so one really can't see how high Li Xuewu's ability is.

Now the Red Star Factory cadres attending the meeting know: it's as high as several floors!

They all came to participate in the trade negotiation; at first, they could still say a few words, but later, when Li Xuewu opened his mouth, they didn't know what to say anymore.

Because some people could no longer understand and couldn't keep up with the negotiation train of thought.

Li Xuewu pulled the negotiation rhythm faster and faster, completely looking like he wasn't afraid of tiring the other side to death, attacking quickly.

As long as the other side raised a question, he would immediately strike back, not leaving the other side a way out; of course, Li Xuewu didn't leave the Red Star Factory a way out either.

The secretaries standing at the entrance looked at Deputy Director Li's full-power output in the venue with awe-inspiring eyes, while other leaders had an expression of "you guys get past Li Xuewu first before coming to find me."

Saint-Aya's Robin was old after all; he tried hard to compete with Li Xuewu in energy and thinking, but isn't this a young man bullying an old man?

Seeing the atmosphere inside the venue congealing, Amandine, the economic commissioner of the French Foreign Affairs Office, communicated with Gao Yaqin of the Ministry of Foreign Trade about wanting to speak.

But Li Xuewu, who observes everything, did not give them a chance; he held the rhythm of this negotiation in his hands and could not let it go to others.

Now is the time to pursue and strike hard; how could he let others give the French businessmen a chance to breathe? Let alone Gao Yaqin, no one would work.

Li Xuewu suddenly changed the rhythm, no longer arguing about the transfer license of technology and equipment, but instead talking about the handling method of the cooperation project.

Using a relatively gentle attitude to bypass the points of conflict and talk directly about the core project.

Regarding the heavy engineering machinery requested by the French businessmen, Li Xuewu said that the core of the final assembly would be fully controlled by the Red Star Factory, ensuring quality and quantity.

The required car and motorcycle export projects will be coordinated and produced from the Red Star Factory's automobile manufacturing plant to match trade orders.

For professional equipment with special needs, the Red Star Factory will develop operations in the form of joint industry as a production model.

Generally speaking, it is to expound the production method of the cooperation project from three aspects, three situations, and three forms.

Especially when Li Xuewu mentioned that all trade forms would be defined by compensation trade, the French representatives finally nodded, expressing agreement with this cooperation intention, and would conduct further negotiations based on this.

Shelve disputes and seek common development.

But when the French businessmen agreed to this basic cooperation intention, they raised another requirement, which is that the Red Star Factory must help them build ships.

Li Xuewu knew that the other side had a hidden move waiting for him; he didn't expect it to come from the shipyard side.

The French businessmen are willing to provide the manufacturing technology and equipment for cargo ships, but they want help manufacturing the cargo ships.

Under compensation trade conditions, cargo ships are also one of the compensation goods; the other side wants to make the Red Star Factory work for them.

What is the production cycle of a Jeep?

Just a few hours; the disadvantage of compensation trade is not obvious.

But the production and manufacturing of a ten-thousand-ton cargo ship is a big loss for compensation trade.

Li Xuewu is now facing two choices: either abandon the agreed-upon basis of the agreement and negotiate other conditions with the other side.

Or eat the bait of shipbuilding technology and equipment thrown by the other side, and help them build ships and work for them in the form of labor output.

Do you think foreign businessmen are big fools, giving technology and equipment selflessly?

How could that be? Old money capitalists have already played trade to the extreme; how could they suffer a loss?

Under compensation trade conditions, products must be used to pay off debts first; the debt is those equipment and technology; how much to compensate and how long to compensate must be negotiated.

As long as the other side continues to provide advanced technology and equipment, and as long as you still want to possess a leading production advantage, this debt is not easily paid off.

What the Red Star Factory can earn is only low material costs and processing costs.

Facing the trap, how should Li Xuewu choose?

No choice!

Because when he wants to pit others, he must give them the feeling that they have pitted him!