Chapter 0685 Negotiations
"Five billion dollars."
Ma Qianshan scratched his head in distress and sat in front of the window speechless. Outside the window was the small square of Zaporoze City, with sparse crowds and old streets. He lived in a state-owned hotel next to the square, and there were more than a dozen members of the visiting negotiation team living with him.
When you go abroad, you will find that the population abroad is really small. Zaporoze is the third largest city in Ermao, and the population in the city is less than one million.
Yesterday, Zhou Qingfeng and Bogulaev held their first formal talks. The talks were mainly made by the presidents of both sides lay the tone for the cooperation between the two groups and formulate a framework agreement.
Under normal circumstances, a memorandum is left at the talks, and after signing the memorandum, follow-up substantive negotiations will be conducted based on the memorandum.
Bogulaev expressed his willingness to help the "Holy Light" establish a "system". The lion laughed at the price of "five billion US dollars". This price sounds like a joke to Ma Qianshan.
Not to mention cutting half of it in half, it would be too much to cut it into one tenth.
But right at the negotiating table, Mr. Zhou not only did not bargain, but laughed and said, "Yes, 5 billion US dollars. Give me a whole research and development and manufacturing system for aircraft engines."
Ma Qianshan felt that it was a pity that he could not take a picture of Bogulaev's expression at that time. The president of Madsic was originally very confident, but after Mr. Zhou gave a positive answer in Russian, he felt as if he was scared like a ghost in the middle of the night.
I just said casually, you really spent 5 billion US dollars?!
Not to mention Bogulaev, even Ma Qianshan and others were like a ghost - the "Holy Light" expanded rapidly, and they made more money. The monthly foreign exchange income was fixed, and basically no penny was saved.
Foreign exchange is the lubricant in the group's expansion, and it settles all contradictions. Whether at home or abroad, there are still very few people who oppose money.
But when he had no spare money, President Zhou grabbed the other party's words. He asked on the spot to clearly write the "five billion US dollars exchange system" in the talks memorandum as the basic terms of cooperation between the two parties.
Bogulaev's side became very uncomfortable, and they had to ask for a temporary recess and leave the venue for private discussions - a memorandum of talks is very serious. Unless you plan to break the contract when you go out, you have to make it carefully.
This holiday was a day. Bogulaev arranged the "Holy Light" tour group to stay in the best hotel in the city. Ma Qianshan sighed in front of the hotel window.
I can’t figure it out. Mr. Zhou is usually quite smart, why doesn’t he bargain?
The contract of $5 billion is definitely not paid immediately, nor is it completed within one or two years. This is at least a large contract that lasts for more than ten years, including talent training, industrial supporting facilities, equipment procurement, etc.
But even so, five billion dollars is too much.
Want to come in Ma Qianshan...
If Motor Sici really wins this contract, it can be said that he will receive continuous capital investment in the next ten years. The company will definitely achieve great development, at least not starve to death.
If the "Holy Light" signs this contract, it is hard to say what profits will be, but you will have to work hard to make money in the next ten years, otherwise this super big hole will not be filled.
In this way, the measurement standard is whether the 5 billion US dollars is worth it?
Director Ma has been in the ministries and commissions for too long, and has always considered how much rice to steam as much as rice. He rarely has plans to consume in advance and eat food for the first time.
But after the recess, Zhou Qingfeng said to the members of the tour group, including Ma Qianshan, "Money can be made, but the system is not so easy to establish.
I came to talk in person, just because I don’t want to waste my time on meaningless documents and approvals. Now we have something to ask for. Since we are determined to introduce technology, it is worth spending more money."
The president has spoken, but it doesn’t matter whether others understand or not. But if you really talk about such a contract, the start-up capital is at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. The group really doesn’t have this money now.
The next day the talks continued, and Zhou Qingfeng was so energetic that he was fine. However, Bogulaev, who was opposite, was getting old and stayed up late to discuss, and his eyes were dark.
After a day of internal discussion, Motor Sici gave a new framework agreement. The text of this agreement roughly outlines the scope of cooperation and specific matters with the "Holy Light", and also involves specific amounts.
As Ma Qianshan expected, this was a contract that was at least fifteen years. The contract amount was not fixed, but it retained the room for growth to follow the market. However, the rough estimate would not be less than 5 billion US dollars, or even exceed it.
Logically, the "Holy Light" can ask for a recess and a good framework for the text of the agreement. However, Zhou Qingfeng only briefly flipped the text and quickly nodded in agreement.
Ma Qianshan seized the time and glanced quickly. The text listed more than a dozen major items and more than a hundred minor items. The initial start-up capital will not be less than 100 million US dollars.
But Mr. Zhou agreed and agreed in full. He told Bogulaev on the spot, "I hope that both sides will immediately set up a cooperation and coordination working group to improve the framework agreement to an executable state within three months.
I would rather start implementing the agreement in three months so that the personnel of both sides can communicate and cooperate smoothly. As for the funds, please don’t worry about Motor Sici. This is not a problem at all.”
What is a president? The president is the one who can make a billion-dollar project on the spot without any money.
The speed of completing contract negotiations worth billions of dollars in three months is already very fast. This shows Zhou Qingfeng's attitude and determination, and he wants to forcibly promote the cooperation.
Ma Qianshan used to discuss cooperation agreements of this scale in ministries and commissions. It would not take half a year to complete a framework agreement. It would take a lot of instructions to make a fat man become a thin man.
Zhou Qingfeng's big bag without bargaining at all made Motor Sici extremely excited. They had already given a premium of 50%, and were ready to be bargained by the "Holy Light", but they did not expect that the other party agreed very happily.
It's so refreshing that it's unbelievable.
If it is really implemented, it will be a very profitable cooperation agreement. Bogulaev is old and feels that he has found a partner that can make Motorisic not have to worry about food and drink in the next ten or twenty years.
Both sides of the negotiation were too excited.
Ma Qianshan was left behind and became the Chinese leader of the "Holy Light-Madacic Cooperation and Coordination Working Group". The more than a dozen people who were originally doing so became members of the working group immediately.
That night, Madsic took the initiative to hold a celebration dinner, invited Zhou Qingfeng and others to attend, and announced to the world that the details of the cooperation will be started immediately.
Even Western media have reported on the amount and significance of this cooperation - the "Turkish Tsar" will work with the "God of Business" from the East to develop the aviation power industry.
A year ago, HK's "Harmony Weekly" praised its boss as the "God of Management". He blushed and had to have enough cheeks to stand it.
But now "Harmony Weekly" no longer needs to make drafts for bragging, but it's just a singular bragging. The boss is already the true "God of Management".
Not only is Harmonious Weekly hype, but domestic official media are also hype, “a leader in creating a new situation in the times.”
Foreigners are also bragging that "Asakura Shimbun" calls Zhou Qingfeng the "Imperial Tiger that shocked the world", and bbc even yells Zhou Qingfeng the "subversive red capitalist".
Only Ma Qianshan asked with a bitter face, "Mr. Zhou, three months will pass soon. Where did you create hundreds of millions of startup funds?"
Chapter completed!