Chapter 191 If I can’t win over you, I can’t win over your customers?
The weekend of March 5th.
At this moment, Meng Qiuyan was sitting alone on the sofa in her villa at home, eating an apple with one hand and watching with a tablet in the other hand, and was exploring the Yuanjie Community.
After a while, Lu An came down from upstairs.
Meng Qiuyan glanced at him, took a bite of the apple, looked at the tablet again and said, "Have you visited the community? There has been some impetuousness within the company recently."
Hearing this, Lu An came and sat down next to her.
Immediately he put his hand around her waist, leaned over and said, "What is it?"
“It’s all because of the $3 trillion that Stephen Roach said. See for yourself.” Meng Qiuyan handed the tablet to him, and Lu An took the tablet and looked at it.
Humbling around in the Yuanjie community, I found that many new hot posts were discussing whether the company would be listed in the future. Many employees within the company were in an impetuous mood because of this matter.
Whether Yuanjie Intelligent Control is listed or not is related to the interests of all employees.
Everyone is worried that after listing, will the original top-level structure of the company be changed, and will all employees be able to hold shares?
Judging from the anonymous discussions among employees in the community, the vast majority of people do not want the company to go public.
This matter remains unresolved, making it difficult for everyone to calm down.
Meng Qiuyan turned her head and looked at Lu An and said, "As a big boss, you should speak up and calm people's hearts, so that the whole company will not be upset. You come out to set the tone and give everyone reassurance."
Hearing this, Lu An nodded in approval and said, "We really need to set a tone."
After thinking about it for a moment, he immediately posted a post on the super moderator account:
[Is there never a need for employee-owned companies to go public? It's possible, but if Yuanjie Intelligent Control is going to be listed,
I guess it will have to wait until 10,000 years later. Our company is different from real estate and other companies. The wealth of our company is in everyone's head. We use employee stock ownership to reward him for yesterday's labor. 】
As soon as this post was posted, it quickly spread within the company.
Everyone knows that the account of the super moderator of the community is Lu An, the company's big boss. When the employees saw this post, they thought it was going to be listed when they saw it said "it's possible", but then they suddenly said "ten thousand years later". Everyone was stunned for a moment and immediately smiled knowingly.
If you wait until 10,000 years before considering listing, it will never be possible.
With the big BOSS personally coming out to set the tone, the employees within the company immediately felt at ease, and there was no need to discuss the issue of whether the company should be listed.
Posts in the community discussing whether to go public have gradually subsided. With the big BOSS personally setting the tone, impetuous people have calmed down.
Gradually, everyone no longer discusses this matter.
March 9, the new headquarters of Metaverse Intelligent Control.
At about 14:00 in the afternoon, Yang Yicheng, who is in charge of the company's sales business, was negotiating with Global Company, the agent of Bei Magnesium.
Globa1 Company came to Metaverse Intelligent Control again to purchase goods. Daniel Baker, an old acquaintance, came to sign the order and receive the goods. This time, in addition to purchasing bionic prosthetics, he also came to discuss the overseas agent sales of housekeeping service robots.
The two parties have been cooperating for several years, and the business docking is going very smoothly. Globa1 is planning to purchase 5,000 Xiaoyuan robots this time.
If sales are good, we will increase purchases in the future.
There is certainly no reason not to do this business of Yuanjie Intelligent Control, and we are not afraid that if it is exported, it will be reversely imitated by foreign scientific research institutions. Xiaoyuan robots have long appeared in scientific research laboratories in various developed countries in Europe and the United States.
If the reverse could be successful, it would have been done long ago.
Globa1's total purchase orders this time are US$3.576 billion, about 24.5 billion yuan.
Just when Daniel Baker was about to sign and seal the contract, his cell phone rang.
"Sorry, I'll take a call first."
Daniel Baker left the meeting room after saying this. The call was from the CEO of Globa1 Company. As soon as the call was answered, the boss's voice came: "Daniel, has the purchase agreement been signed?"
Hearing this, Daniel Baker called back: "We have just negotiated and are ready to sign the agreement, BOSS."
The boss on the other end of the phone seemed to be relieved, and immediately replied: "Suspend all purchase agreements with Metaverse Intelligent Control, and you should come back immediately."
Hmm---Huh? What?" Daniel Baker was shocked when he reacted. He said with a wrong look on his face: "BOSS? Did I hear you correctly? Terminate the purchase. Agreement? ”
An affirmative reply came from the phone: “Yes, you heard it right, terminate the agreement.”
When Daniel Baker heard this, his mind was filled with questions. He didn’t understand what was going on with his boss. How could such a profitable business be terminated so suddenly? There was no reason to be stuck with the money.
Daniel Baker, who couldn't figure it out, couldn't help but ask.
After a while, the other end of the phone was silent for a while, let out a sigh, and then came an unwilling voice: "The company has encountered a force majeure factor, and the cooperation with Metaverse Intelligent Control must be stopped. Implement it immediately.
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Daniel Baker hesitated to speak, so he had to reply: "Understood."
The force majeure factor encountered by Global Company was clearly the pressure from several capital super consortiums of Beijing Magnesium.
After confirming that they could not directly implement an effective technical blockade on Metaverse Intelligent Control, they immediately adopted another strategy, which was to attack Metaverse Intelligent Control's customers. Of course Global wanted to do this business, which has a net profit of over three billion US dollars per year.
In recent years, Global has made a lot of money from the middleman’s price difference by acting as an agent for Metaverse Intelligent Control’s bionic prosthetics.
When it did not represent Metaverse's intelligently controlled bionic prosthetics business, Global's market value was only US$2.2 billion. Now it has soared to a height of US$75 billion, reaching a peak of US$80 billion, a 35-fold increase in just three years.
But there was no other way. Several super consortiums of Beijing Magnesium sent people to send messages to the boss of Global Company privately.
He knew very well who was the real talker in the land of Beizhou.
Don't dare not listen, otherwise you will really have a lot of imagination, and you will make money but lose your life.
Daniel Baker returned to the meeting room and looked at Yang Yicheng, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Yang, news came from the headquarters. Our company encountered force majeure factors, which caused problems in the capital chain, and we had to suspend the purchase agreement."
Daniel · As soon as these words came out, Yang Yicheng also flashed a hint of surprise: "Force majeure factors?"
Daniel· Baker nodded and said: "Headquarters called me urgently, and this procurement plan had to be temporarily shelved."
Seeing this, Yang Yicheng also knew that the signing would not be successful, and immediately smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, we respect your company's decision."
The two parties exchanged a few words briefly, and Daniel Baker and his people hurriedly left.
Yang Yicheng didn’t think too much at this time. Since Globa1 has terminated procurement, the share will be left to other overseas agents. Yuanjie Intelligent Control’s products will not have to worry about lack of sales.
Until the next few days, other overseas agents all chose to terminate procurement without exception.
No more stock.
Yang Yicheng then realized something was wrong.
Tuesday, March 14th.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, Yang Yicheng came to the chairman's office.
"Mr. Lu, several of the company's major overseas agents have recently chosen to terminate business dealings with our company. This is very abnormal." Yang Yicheng entered the room to report the matter.
Meng Qiuyan happened to be present at the moment. She was very surprised when she heard the news, "What's the reason? You're just lying around counting money and not doing business?"
Yang Yicheng replied: "The answers they gave were pretty much the same, saying that they had to temporarily stop business due to some force majeure factors. When I asked what the specific factors were, they were all very tight-lipped and unwilling to explain the specific reasons. "
After saying that, both of them looked at Lu An,
After a brief silence, Lu An said calmly: "Well, I understand, if they don't do this business, then don't do it, let's do what we should do."
Yang Yicheng nodded, reported the matter, and left the office to go about his work.
Seeing Yang Yicheng close the door of the office, Meng Qiuyan withdrew his gaze and turned his head to look at Lu An, "What do you think is the reason?"
Lu An said with a smile: "What is coming will finally come, and they can make them dare not make money with a lot of beautiful knives. It must be the super consortium forces hidden behind the scenes at Bei Magnesium that are exerting pressure, and only they have the energy."
Hearing this, Meng Qiuyan lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then said to himself: "Could it be that the refusal to meet with the Wall Street consortium and their invitation to go public a while ago caused them to become angry and retaliate?"
Lu An nodded: "It should be, but this is just a trigger."
Meng Qiuyan raised her eyes and looked at Lu An, "Fortunately, I didn't go overseas to establish sales channels and specific terminal business operations. Otherwise, it would have taken a lot of time and financial resources to roll out the business, and I was really left with nothing."
Although the middlemen earn the price difference, Metaverse Intelligent Control also avoids potential risks.
And also make a lot of money, such as bionic prosthetics. Anyway, your overseas agents come to me to buy them, and one piece costs 250,000 yuan.
As for how much you can sell in the overseas market, if you can sell it for 10 US dollars or even 150,000 US dollars per unit, that is your ability, and Metaverse Intelligent Control will never envy you.
At the end, Lu An said calmly: "These squids are so angry. When the rules are good for them, I will tell you the rules. When the rules are not good for them, the rules are just a piece of waste paper."
Meng Qiuyan said thoughtfully, "It seems that they can't directly block our company's technology, so they resorted to putting pressure on our customers, hoping to use this method to suppress the development momentum of Yuanjie Intelligent Control."
Just as she finished speaking, Lingxi's voice sounded in the office: "Master, you have received an encrypted message from Zhang Xingchuan."
Lu An specially set it up to allow Lingxi to respond with a foreign voice when there are no outsiders.
There are only two people in the office now. Meng Qiuyan was obviously given special permission by Lu An and was not included in the list of outsiders.
Lu An immediately picked up the phone and said: "The message has been transferred to my mobile phone."
"Okay master, please wait."
Lingxi transferred the message from Zhang Xingchuan to Lu An's phone, opened it and looked at it, and immediately She couldn't help but smile: "This is a real deal."
Meng Qiuyan looked at Lu An with curiosity, and looked at her and said, "Zhang Xingchuan said that Bei Magnesium's capital consortium sent someone to talk to him and asked the fourth dimension to stop providing artificial epidermis and bionic muscle layers to Metaverse Intelligent Control."
After finishing speaking, she handed the phone to Meng Qiuyan. After reading the message, she looked at Lu An in confusion, "Why would Zhang Xingchuan take the risk of sending you this message? If those people from the super consortium found out, he would be in trouble." Sibi said: "Faced with the pressure from several major financial groups, Zhang Xingchuan is now force majeure. He cannot withstand it at all. He has no strength to compete with it. He can only obey and do as he is told, otherwise his life will be at risk."