Strictly speaking, this was an unequal negotiation.
In the past negotiations with Western countries, Hua Xia was usually the passive player.
Since we have something to ask for, we naturally have no choice but to accept those unfair trade terms arrogantly proposed by the Western countries.
But this time, it was the West that played the passive role.
Back then, even Hua Xia put forward the requirement of exchanging market for technology when it opened up the domestic auto market to Europe and the United States. We allowed the world's major automotive multinational groups to build factories in Hua Xia, but the factories had to be built on a win-win joint venture basis.
We gave up a huge, potential market. They had to be qualified to obtain technology and profit.
In the face of such a request, all the automobile manufacturing giants were like Zhu Bajie who had smelled ginseng fruit. They desperately wanted to establish joint venture factories in China.
Was this cooperation equal?
No. Perhaps in our current view, Hua Xia's industrial strength was very strong. Although it was still a level behind Europe and the United States in the fields of precision processing, electronic semiconductors, and materials, Hua Xia was now the world's largest industrial country. Looking at the world, except for the United States, Hua Xia was number two.
But back then, in the 1980s.
At that time, Hua Xia was poor, so poor that in the early 1980s, even if we wanted to work hard and build an advanced industrial system with our own hands, we did not have the money to build it.
At that time, the country's foreign exchange reserves were only a little more than a billion US dollars. With this amount of money, let alone building an industrial system, the country could not even afford the industrial equipment for a large automobile manufacturing factory. We proposed exchanging market for technology, introducing a large number of foreign multinational automotive industry groups, sacrificing astronomical automobile industry profits that could not be measured with numbers, sacrificing decades of domestic automobile brands that had no foothold.
The foreign automotive groups moved in equipment, transferred funds, and pushed away astronomical automobile sales profits like a bulldozer.
But they strictly guarded the most critical engine and transmission technology of the automobile. Even if they transferred technology, they only transferred the outdated technology that had been ten to twenty years behind the advanced technology.
They thought that they should import the engine and transmission as a whole and not make them in Hua Xia. As long as they firmly grasped the upstream advanced technology, the Hua Xia market would always be like fertile land for crops to grow and could be harvested year after year.
However, they misjudged Hua Xia. We sacrificed the market but silently cultivated countless skilled workers behind the scenes and established a supply chain for downstream industrial products. Hua Xia, who was born with the spirit of wanting to be the best in the world, had created countless miracles in this poor environment, allowing the local independent automobile industry to counterattack.
This was 30 years of hard work. Other than Hua Xia, no other country could do this.
Ten years ago, our domestic brand cars were synonymous with trash. Now, Europe and the United States had completely lost in the low-end car market.
Domestic economists believe that in another five to eight years, our independent mid-range automobile brand will be able to officially compete with those century-old European and American companies.
Never would he have thought that Monster Industries had already fired the first shot that had never been done before. They were going to sell high-end cars to Europe.
Moreover, in the negotiations, the European countries dared to be angry, but they did not dare to say anything. They set up obstacles to prevent the Thunderbolt car from entering Europe, but they did not mention changing the technology in the market.
It wasn't that they didn't want to, but they wanted the plasma battery in the Thunderbolt car even in their dreams.
They did not dare to mention it, because they knew that it would be useless to mention it, because the example of the United States was right in front of them. They only dared to let the two sides reach a friendly cooperation agreement first, and then slowly pursue more.
In the eyes of outsiders, the European and American countries arrogantly banned Monster Industries' products from entering the domestic market. Was this not a helpless response to Monster Industries' refusal to cooperate?
If Monster Industries was willing to be like the automobile companies that had entered Hua Xia, the United States would be the first to jump out and burn incense and worship Buddha.
Unfortunately, the United States no longer had the chance.
Now, the European countries represented by Germany only raised a threshold that they thought was unreasonable and could block the Thunderbolt car from entering their door, and Monster Industries seriously protested.
Ye Qing did not say anything. According to normal practice, at this time, Kong Tao would jump out and raise objections.
Ye Qing had always sent Kong Tao to be in charge of the negotiations, and he was more involved in the process, enjoying the process and witnessing the rapid progress of Monster Industries.
Kong Tao was more familiar with the process than he was, and could help Monster Industries fight for benefits from a more professional perspective. In fact, Kong Tao had already coughed twice, showing a slightly dissatisfied expression, and was ready to start a debate.
"Haha ~"
"60 points?"
"In that case, we will also give you a 60 point product." The Master Artisan did not know what 60 points meant, but he knew what a 60 point product looked like.
"Our Thunderbolt car, if it exceeds 60 points …"
"Cough cough ~ cough cough ~" Ye Qing hurriedly kicked the Master Artisan below. Sure enough, technical people were all straight minded, and he should not have brought him here. But if he did not bring him here, Ye Qing would not be able to more completely judge the full value of some unpopular products in those orders and their intentions.
The scene was very awkward.
Fortunately, Kong Tao was used to the Master Artisan, and this kind of temperament that did not allow others to question their skills, immediately changed the topic and pulled the atmosphere back.
…
The Thunderbolt car temporarily came to an end, and the German side promised to make up for Monster Industries by reducing a certain amount of taxes. The specific amount was to be discussed in detail later, but the German side still believed that the Thunderbolt car could not achieve 60 points. At that time, they would be able to seize this point and take the initiative in the negotiations to introduce the Thunderbolt car.
The European Union implements uniform car admission standards, and naturally, the requirements of the German side also represent the requirements of other countries.
Later was the negotiation on the ionization purifier, and this time Germany remained silent. Because Germany is an industrial-king country, it does not occupy an advantage in the cosmetics industry. This is the negotiating approach of several of their countries. If a product of the Monster Industries poses the greatest threat to a country's industry, it will be negotiated by this country, and the final result will be uniformly implemented by the EU countries.
The five EU countries involved in the negotiation have their own strengths, which is the most compromise negotiation idea.
France was the first to jump out strongly against the negotiations on the ionization purifier.
Because luxury brands and detergents account for a large proportion of the French economy. At the same time, the ionization purifier is not like the Thunderbolt car, which has the same type of product on the market.
Take the Thunderbolt elite internal price as an example. If it can be landed in Europe, the price of the naked car will be 90,000 euros after tax.
What can 90,000 euros buy in Europe?
You can buy BMW 7 Series, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes, Porsche 911, Aston Martin...
It can be said that domestic imported models of less than 1.6 million euros can be bought in Europe for 90,000 euros because of different tax rates.
The price of a mid-range Thunderbolt car is the same as the price of these world-famous cars. How much pain do European consumers have in the balls to go after this car?
But the ionization purifier is different.
There is no similar product on the market. What's more, it costs about 8,000 euros in Hua Xia. Once it enters the European market, even if the tax is tripled, the entire European market will be completely ignited by it. At that time, the Monster Industries will be enriched and all the detergents in Europe will be cheated.
Therefore, in the negotiations on the ionization purifier, after the two sides fully exchanged their views, they could not reach an agreement because of the huge differences.
Fortunately, Ye Qing was mentally prepared for this. If you want to introduce the ionization purifier into Europe, you have to share the core technology of the ionization purifier.
However, the fish took the bait step by step. As the leading Monster Industries, Ye Qing was confident that he could slowly pry open the door of Europe without sharing technology.
Then there was the negotiation of the magic crystal mobile phone and the civilian version of the liquid printer.
For these two points, Germany and the United Kingdom, which led the negotiations, seemed easy to communicate.
Because throughout Europe, the mobile phone industry was not supported, and liquid printers were not even available in the United States. They are not like the ionization purifier, which can have an impact on their mainstay economic industry. Opening these two markets has no impact on them. On the contrary, they can also greatly increase their own taxes by increasing additional tariffs.
So by the end of the meeting at 5 p.m., Monster Industries and Europe officially reached a preliminary cooperation agreement.
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