Global Monopoly of Technology

Times have changed, and Europe is really getting old.

Slaine: "Oh? Does your company have a solution?"

Zhang Bowen smiled and said, "There are some."

Slaine: "I would like to hear more about it."

Zhang Bowen: "First, Bluestar Technology will further increase the scale of investment in the euro area market, and we will spend more of the profits earned in the euro area to invest in the euro area and establish more joint ventures; second, we will invest more in the euro area. It will directly provide 30,000 new jobs in the euro area, which means that the number of employees of our group company in the EU market will exceed 100,000. Third, this incident will impact the European economy. We propose to cooperate with the European Commission To jointly establish a fund of 15 billion euros to deal with the economic crisis and small and medium-sized enterprises or industries with weak resilience, I Bluestar Technology can provide 10 billion euros, which can be put in place immediately.”

The huge sum of 10 billion euros can be put into place immediately. Lao Zhang's words are full of confidence and confidence, because Bluestar Technology Group's cash flow of more than 200 billion US dollars is spread over all continents of the world. , is also conducive to the entry of funds.

If so much money is concentrated, the time cost of the circulation problem is huge, and the best time to enter the market may be missed.

In the European market, Bluestar Technology Group currently reserves 37 billion euros of cash assets. This astronomical sum of money can be called at any time.

Well, it looks like tens of billions of euros are spent, and there are still more than 200 million euros.

After Lao Zhang's three axes were thrown out, the members of the European Commission negotiating team headed by Slaine all stared blankly for a moment, daring to meet the God of Wealth.

Directly providing 30,000 new jobs and setting up joint ventures will indirectly promote more jobs.

What does the employment rate represent?

It means support!

What politician is not interested in?

At the end, Slaine said lightly: "Your company is indeed quite sincere, but the Executive Committee does not want to participate in this fund, and we will not contribute the 5 billion euros."

Zhang Bowen shrugged and said casually: "No problem, then it will be reduced to 10 billion euros. Bluestar Technology will only pay 10 billion euros. It is not much more than one cent, and one cent less is a lot. I refuse to make any counter-offer."

Slaine: "..."

The old man doesn't say that.

The other party thought that this was not the bottom line of Bluestar Technology, but these Europeans were as greedy as Mr. Luo said.

Sure enough, Slaine quickly raised the price and demanded 20 billion euros for the Bluestar Technology Department to create 50,000 new jobs.

Zhang Bowen calmly and calmly refused: "I'm sorry Mr. Slaine, what I said before was the bottom line of our group company, to be honest, although our group company will do its best, it is also ready to evacuate at any time. "

The implication is that if we can't agree, we will lay off staff and cut costs. The European economy is already like this anyway, and Bluestar Technology doesn't mind adding a little more to the fire.

There are no established Internet companies in Europe. Bluestar Technology Group has lost the market here, and European Internet companies can't get up. It will only be occupied by Internet companies such as Google and Amazon in North America.

The North American Internet dominates the continental European market. For Europeans, the situation is even worse. Taking cloud computing services as an example, the technology is not as good as that of Bluestar Technology, but the cost is still high. Bluestar Technology's Nebula Star-Cloud solution has been reduced. 30% profit.

Slaine and others did not expect that Bluestar Technology's people would be so upright, and this negotiation was completely out of the way.

The first negotiation did not come to fruition. After the meeting, Lao Zhang also returned to his hotel. His trip is expected to last for a week. It is impossible for such a cross-border business negotiation to achieve actual progress at one time.

...

In the hotel room, Zhang Bowen was communicating with Luo Sheng on the phone.

"Old Zhang, the EU is drawing up a draft of a digital tax on tech giants outside the euro zone, mainly for the taxation of tech giants such as China Riviera, Bluestar Technology and North American tech giants such as Google, Apple, IBM, and Intel. Plan, when you go to talk to them, tell the Europeans that we support this draft, not only Bluestar Technology, but also the Côte d’Azur.”

When Zhang Bowen heard Luo Sheng's explanation on the other end of the phone, he was puzzled for a while, and after hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but say, "This... Mr. Luo, this is not appropriate, and the price is a little higher."

Luo Sheng on the other end of the phone said with a laugh, "Don't worry, just say it, I'm so arrogant because I don't expect this draft to be passed, at least not within ten years, because the tech giants in North America are too big. More, that's enough, then why don't we be good people and take good people cards?"

Zhang Bowen's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he couldn't help but applaud: "Wonderful, I know how to do it, haha."

Luo Sheng's succinct remarks can be said to wake up the dreamer. The "digital tax" is a thing that the European Union has long been planning to directly tax the turnover of technology giants outside Europe in the EU.

This taxation scheme targets companies with a global annual turnover of more than 750 million euros and a total taxable turnover in Europe of more than US$50 million.

The effective tax rate that companies in traditional industries need to pay reaches 23.3%, while large technology companies often operate across borders. The average tax rate paid in the euro area is only 9.5%. In addition, there are no large IT technology giants in Europe, resulting in a lot of profits being lost by overseas companies. Europeans are unhappy that the tech giants are swept away.

Therefore, the EU has always wanted to push this bill through, but the biggest vested interests are North American technology companies. The ones who oppose and create resistance must also be North America, and not one or two, but a lot of them, so this bill is passed, cutting meat The most painful is the old beauty.

It is precisely because of this that Luo Sheng made this decision, because he knew that there would be many obstacles to passing this bill, mainly from North America, and it would not be possible to pass it in the next eight to ten years.

Anyway, it is certain that it will not pass, so support it with both hands, get a good person card and transfer the conflict to the Americans, why not?

Your old beauty may make a profit, but I will never lose, and I may make a lot of money, isn't it beautiful?

...

Next, Zhang Bowen once again entered the negotiation process with the European Commission. The final result reached a consensus in the second interview and consultation. On the fifth day of Lao Zhang's arrival in Europe, the two parties announced the big news.

The two parties held a grand signing ceremony. The main highlight of the cooperation is that Bluestar Technology has increased its business expansion in the European market. Among them, the media is most concerned that Bluestar Technology will create 31,000 new jobs in the euro area market, and The Joint European Commission has spent 15 billion euros to deal with the economic crisis, of which 4.5 billion euros will be used to help small and medium-sized enterprises and industries with weak economic resilience.

Once this wave of cooperation was confirmed, the mainstream media on the European continent made a 180-degree turn. Some time ago, they were still criticizing Luo Sheng and Bluestar Technology. Now, the mainstream media in Europe are bragging about Bluestar Technology without hesitation. vision and wise decisions.

It's so real.

This news is finally good news for the stock market. At least Bluestar Technology Group has not lost the euro zone market, which is the second largest business market after North America, and it is now preserved.

The stock price of Bluestar Technology has also slowed down due to the news. The market has responded most quickly. This news has finally restored some confidence to the market.

The current market value of Bluestar Technology is reported to be 465.58 billion US dollars. Although more than 1 trillion US dollars have been evaporated from the plummet, it is still the world's largest market value.

Zhang Bowen was also fortunate enough to complete this trip to Europe. The overall situation of Bluestar Technology Group was finally stabilized, and it did not continue to fall into the market of developed countries.

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