Great Power Technology - #614 - Chapter 604 The white clouds are lingering, and the building is about to collapse

Two weeks later, all preparations for the Liu family were completed, and the harvest entered the final countdown. The other party seemed to realize the seriousness of the problem, and all the energy was mobilized to launch a fierce offensive in the media field.

At the same time, the interest groups bound to the Liu family also jumped out one by one, and organized multiple summits on the pretext of “maintaining normal market competition and commercial operating rights.” Their methods almost completely replicated the strategies used during the 5G crisis, and even Even among the participating companies, many are members of the Taishan Society.

For a time, public opinion was turbulent, and Chou Guo, who had been keeping a low profile for a long time, also jumped out to speak out and cautiously called on Chinese officials to protect the freedom of business operations.

But when the situation has reached this point, no one seems to care what they say.

Soon, Chou Country also realized that the trend was unstoppable. After several rounds of discussions, a representative based in Hong Kong was sent to the headquarters of the Liu Family Group.

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In the conference room, Liu Sen diligently poured two cups of coffee himself, then took out two cigars and said with a smile to the ugly representative sitting on the sofa:

“Iverson, try this cigar – it’s a Cuban. It was rolled on the girl’s thigh. I watched her roll it with my own eyes.”

“There are only fifteen in total, and these are the last two.”

Liu Sen handed over the cigars. In fact, these cigars were indeed precious, but of course they couldn’t be the last two – he said this to all distinguished guests, and it was impossible for the other party to cross-verify them anyway.

Iverson across from me nodded, lit a cigar and took two puffs before he slowly asked:

“Sam, the cigar is good, but I didn’t come to you today just to smoke cigars and drink coffee.”

“I think you are more anxious than us now, right?”

Hearing Iverson’s words, Liu Sen’s face flashed with a look of embarrassment, but he quickly returned to normal. He walked to sit next to Iverson, and then tried his best to show a sincere expression and said:

“We did encounter a little trouble… In fact, we guessed from the beginning that the Chinese officials would not be able to fully trust us, so we also prepared some back-ups.”

“Now, we are in the process of gradually throwing out these backhands.”

“The results may not be significant yet, but when the time comes, all our strategies will reach their peak at the same time, and by that time, there will be an explosive reversal.”

“We have already obtained the formal right to participate in the immune reconstruction project, and what we need to do now is to gain actual control of the project.”

“You can rest assured that we will not fail.”

Iverson shook his head, put down the cigar in his hand, looked at Liu Sen and said:

“Let’s not talk about the immune reconstruction project today – in fact, this project has been judged to have failed internally, and we do not intend to recover the funds invested in the early stage.”

“Now I come to you, mainly because I want to talk to you about other things. For example, why do the Chinese people have so much ill will towards you?”

Having said this, Iverson paused, frowned and thought for a moment before continuing:

“We wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese official imposes any form of sanctions on you. After all, you have real conflicts of interest and values, but the people…”

“Sam, you know, I am a businessman – or in other words, I am an investor who invests in the future. The reason why I invest so many resources in your company is because of your control of this market.”

“But now, your control is weakening, and this ‘weakening’ does not seem to be entirely caused by the influence of Chinese officials.”

“If you can’t give me a satisfactory answer, I think the cooperation between us can come to an end.”

“I know it’s a complete end and cut.”

After hearing Iverson’s words, Liu Sen was obviously stunned. He had made a lot of preparations for this meeting, most of which were details about the progress of the strategy for the immune reconstruction project, but he never expected that the other party would actually Such a completely irrelevant question was raised!

Why are people so malicious towards the Liu family?

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that I can’t find any reason.

It’s nothing more than a few typical cases that have been hyped over and over again, but after all, which large enterprise doesn’t have such a scandal behind it?

Thinking of this, he said:

“Iverson, I think you may have been misled.”

“As you said, we are all businessmen, and businessmen put profits first. So, to judge whether the public evaluates us well or not, we should not use public opinion on the Internet as the reference standard, but should use their contributions real money and interests as the standard.”

“You see, in recent years, even under extremely difficult circumstances, the revenue and profits of our main business have still maintained an annual growth rate of more than 5%, and the sales growth of personal terminal products has also maintained an annual growth rate of more than 2%.”

“Doesn’t this explain the problem?”

“We have a saying that goes like this, ‘The mouth says no, but the body is honest.’ In my opinion, the body’s honesty is the real honesty.”

Iverson listened quietly to Liu Sen’s explanation, with a look of pity on his face.

In his opinion, the man opposite seemed to know that he had not yet figured out what the real crisis he was facing was.

Cash flow tight? Yes, the Liu Family Group is very large, but for the Chou government, it is still a drop in the bucket. If necessary, Congress can directly approve a large amount of funds to help them tide over the difficulties.

Chinese official control and sanctions? This is a problem, but with your own support, it is not difficult to survive in the cracks.

The real problem is that they are gradually losing the “image” that they have been in business for more than ten, decades, or even three hundred years.

Once negative impressions begin to accumulate, it is difficult to simply remove them, and when such impressions accumulate to the limit, the inevitable collapse will occur.

The Liu family has now reached the point of collapse. A series of official strategies from China are actually just accelerating the arrival of this point.

“So, you don’t think your recognition is getting lower?”

Iverson asked.

“Yeah, I don’t think so.”

Liu Sen replied solemnly. After a moment of pause, he continued to add:

“Actually, we have been a well-known conscientious enterprise since three hundred years ago, opening charity halls, running soup kitchens, and building nurseries. In the 1980s, our company also broke the monopoly of foreign personal terminals – sorry, no To offend you – if we had not gone abroad through the acquisition of IBM, we might still be using imported computers now…”

“I see.”

Liu Sen wanted to continue, but Iverson interrupted him without hesitation.

There is no need to continue the discussion.

What he needs is an obedient and smart dog. No one who is not obedient or smart enough will be selected.

But now, Liu Sen occupies two at the same time.

Out of politeness, Iverson did not get up and leave immediately, but he knew that the funds originally promised to the Liu family might never arrive.

Looking at the white clouds floating leisurely outside the window, he suddenly felt a little emotional:

A family with a history of three hundred years. At that time, Chou Country had not yet been founded.

This family has overcome so many ups and downs in history, but this time, it may be destroyed.