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Chapter 218:Negotiations Restart

Ten days later, the negotiations were reopened.

The Chinese negotiators are still the last few, but in the next position, there is an inconspicuous young man.Hasegawa felt that he may have seen this young man, but he could not remember where he had seen him, and it was not considered to be an important person, so he was too lazy to think about it.His negotiating mandate is still heavy, and he needs to concentrate.

After receiving instructions from Araki Baofu by telephone from Japan, Hasegu Yudu urgently met Cui Yongfeng and discussed with him how to reduce China's requirements and minimize the technology of renegotiation to China.Cui Yongfeng brought a more pessimistic news to Long Valley, that is, Klinz's negotiators have also arrived in Beijing, are negotiating the same content with the Chinese side, and expressed the hope that they can get exclusive authorization of Chinese patents.

Hearing this news, Long Valley was really panicked.The last time the Nanjiang Iron and Steel Factory happened, the Chinese side was because it was not satisfied with the Japanese side, and decisively threw out the Japanese side and signed a contract with Klinz.If the same situation occurs this time, then no matter how long Valley is whitewashed, the company is afraid that it will not spare him.

Fortunately, Cui Yongfeng patted his chest and promised to Hasegu, saying that he would convince the leadership to refuse to give an exclusive authorization to any foreign investment, and that the authorization was non-discriminatory, non-differentiated, and could not be inferior to each other.Although there are still doubts about whether Cui Yongfeng's guarantee can work, but Long Valley still feels that he has caught a lifesaver and can comfort himself for a while.

Cui Yongfeng brought a Swiss bank account to Hasegu You, saying that he had commissioned a friend abroad to help open it, and asked Sanli Steel to put the commission on him into this account.Hasegawa reported to the company, Kobayashi instructed to enter half of the cost in the account, that is, 50 million yen, the balance will be completed after the negotiations.Of course, Kobayashi also let Changgu Youyou issued a warning to Cui Yongfeng, if Cui Yongfeng took the money and did not help, the Japanese side will stab the matter to the Chinese authorities, then Cui Yongfeng will have chickens and eggs, not only can not get the money, but also face the severe punishment of Chinese law.

After completing these preparations, Hasegawa brought his assistant Yoshioka Ma also to the negotiation venue.This time, the negotiations took place in the conference room of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which gave Haseguyou a more formal feeling.

“Mr. Hasegu, after careful calculation and the advice of some international colleagues, we agreed to grant you $15 million per mill in the packaging of the 15 new patents we have.”

At the beginning of the talks, Xu Zhenbo put on a very official expression and officially reported to the long-term rule of Yudu.

This offer, Hasegu You had heard from Cui Yongfeng two days ago, at this time, when he heard Xu Zhenbo said, he immediately showed a look of dissatisfaction and replied: "Mr. Xu, this offer we are absolutely unacceptable, this does not meet the requirements of the international guidelines for action on technology transfer, and it is contrary to the commitment of your government in UNCTAD."The Sanlit Steel Institute has been committed to the technical cooperation between China and Japan, has transferred many important technologies to China, and made great contributions to China's modernization. It is unfair that you treat our partners with such discriminatory terms."

“So, is the clause you put forward last time, fair?”Xu Zhenbo asked.

“It may just be the difference in the calculation method between us.”Hasegawa argued, "Perhaps we have offered a little lower price, but that is not the reason for your asking price."

“Can we recalculate it?Use standards that are acceptable to both of us.”Xu Zhenbo Dao.

Hasegu Youdu said: "We have recalculated, we think that $20 million, the authorization of 10 sets of mills, is a more reasonable price."

"That's impossible."Xu Zhenbo said, "12 million, one set of rolling mills, this is our bottom line."

“This is a high price that no one can accept...” Hasegu Yudu Yiyi said firmly and refused, while passing an imperceptible look to Cui Yongfeng, who was sitting opposite.He had long known that this round of bargaining with Xu Zhenbo was a complete waste of time, and their focus in today's negotiations was on a new technology-for-technology solution.

“Mr. Xu, Mr. Long Valley.”Cui Yongfeng said at the appropriate time, "Since it is difficult for the two of us to reach a consensus on the authorized price, and the differences are great."Can we cooperate in another way?”

“What way?”

“How to change the way?”

Xu Zhenbo and Long Valley asked one after the other, even the surprised expressions on their faces were the same.

Hasegawa's surprise was of course pretenced, because Cui Yongfeng's proposal was known to him for a long time, and even he personally participated in the revision.Hasegu Yu also knew that Xu Zhenbo's surprise was disguised, and Cui Yongfeng had no power to put forward a new undiscussed plan in this venue, and his speech seemed abrupt, but he must have discussed them with Xu Zhenbo in advance.

In other words, the Chinese side agreed on such a double-singing strategy before the negotiations, and Xu Zhenbo first proposed a plan, and when he could not argue with Hasegu, and then proposed another plan by Cui Yongfeng to attract Japanese acceptance.The only loophole in this strategy is that Cui Yongfeng is an intruder, and he notified the matter in advance of the long grain, so Longguyou is aware of this.

So, does Xu Zhenbo know that Cui Yongfeng told this to Long Valley?Or is it that Cui Yongfeng is not an anti-inversion?This is a place that Long Valley is not sure of.

This scene is indeed a bit confusing.

“Mr. Hasegu, in the last negotiation, you proposed a patent exchange method, which I think is still desirable.However, the exchange ratio you put forward is not sincere enough, and for us, it cannot fully compensate for our technical shortcomings, so our proposal for you is unacceptable.If you are willing to make some adjustments to this plan, I think we can achieve a win-win effect.Cui Yongfeng said with a cheonging word.

"Mr. Cui's proposal, we are a little interested, can you ask Mr. Cui to be more comprehensive?"Long Valley said falsely.

Cui Yongfeng handed Xu Zhenbo to an inquiring look, Xu Zhenbo nodded, Cui Yongfeng then continued:

“Our demands are not really high.We have been able to independently build hot-milled production lines above 1700 mm, but in some technical performance indicators, there are still some gaps with international advanced enterprises, including triolic steel.We hope that the trioliganese steel can provide us with the necessary guidance to help us build a hot-lined production line that reaches the international advanced level. If the trioliganese steel can comply with this condition, we can license the 15 patents we have to use the three steels, which range is within five mills.”

Hasegu listened carefully, and at the same time made a record on the book, to determine that Cui Yongfeng said that the program they discussed with them before there was no difference, he turned to look at Xu Zhenbo and Xu Wenliang, and asked: "Please, Mr. Cui's plan, can you approve?"

Xu Zhenbo looked at Xu Wenliang and asked, “Is this program that you and Cui discussed?”

Xu Wenliang nodded: "Yes, this is what Yongfeng and I discussed, and it has not yet been reported to the Ministry of Foreign Trade."It turned out that we did not intend to bring it up here, and Yongfeng was just a whim."

“Since this is so...” Xu Zhenbo paused for a moment, then nodded, “Mr. Hasegu, this is a new program, we have not had time to conduct a comprehensive assessment.”However, we would be interested to hear your company's views on this first, and if your company believes that this solution is feasible, we will discuss the details of it."

Hasegu You all turned his head and talked with Yoshioka Ma for a few words, then turned around and said to the Chinese representatives: "Gentlemen, this new plan proposed by you is also in line with the policy that Triolith Steel has always taken against China.We have always been committed to sharing the achievements of technological progress with the Chinese side and helping China to achieve modernization, which is also in line with the Japanese government's friendly policy towards China.We are willing to accept this new deal.”

Speaking of this, he took the lead in taking a few slaps, and Yoshioka Ma also saw it and followed it.In this way, the Chinese negotiators were not so stupid to look at each other, and everyone in the conference room began to applaud, and the atmosphere was bouncing.However, the eyes of Long Valley Youdu swept through, and found that the young man who participated in the negotiations for the first time seemed a little lazy, and symbolically took two slaps and stopped.Hasegu groaned in his heart, always seem to have something wrong.

"From your applause, I can feel that your side is also positive for our friendly cooperation between our two sides.So I think we can deepen the level of cooperation even more.”After everyone stopped applauding, Hasegu said, "I can make a request to the company, we can not only provide technical guidance to the Chinese side, we can also grant the Chinese unlimited use of the more than 200 of the rolling mill design patents we have."I hope that you will also take reciprocal measures to allow us to use your 15 patents without restriction.”

“This condition is bad for us, isn’t it?”Xu Wenliang said, "We do not need your unlimited license, in fact, many of your patents are close to the expiration date of the patent, too much of the license is meaningless to us."Our patent has just been applied for, and there is a long period of protection.This exchange is essentially detrimental to us.”

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