Material Empire

Takehiko Takamura is a technician, although he has a bit of a dark belly, but generally speaking, he still has a pedantic air of a scholar, and he is not good at conspiring. Tatsuo Tanaka is different, he is a salesman, and he spends all his time in the market with his heart and mind, and morals and other things are completely luxuries for him. When Kucera Company was facing the risk of ruin, Tatsuo Tanaka's first thought was to drag Qu Tao into the water.

What Qin Hai can think of, Tanaka Tatsuo can naturally think of. Qu Tao set up a trick for Kusela, and he also set a trick for customers all over the world. In order to entrap his competitors, he did not hesitate to recruit clients to tie him up. If such a thing gets out, the blow to Qu Tao will be even greater than the blow to Kusela.

However, in order to convince customers that the instigator of this incident was Qu Tao from China, Kusela had to explain a question: Why did Kusela use Qu Tao's technology?

"Wang Peichao is Qu Tao's industrial spy. On the surface, he is providing us with Qu Tao's technology, but in fact he is carrying out Qu Tao's instructions and deliberately leading us to go astray."

This is the statement that Tatsuo Tanaka came up with, and this statement can even make Nishikawa Kiyonobu and others feel that it is so reasonable. As for the fight between Liu Shuo and Wang Peichao, once explained in this way, it becomes a blatant bitter plan. Zhou Yu's beating of Huang Gai was done by the Chinese.

"Even if Wang Peichao is an industrial spy, why would we believe him? How can we accept a technology stolen from other companies?" Takehiko Takamura questioned at the meeting.

"We didn't know that Wang Peichao's technology was stolen. The relationship between us and Wang Peichao was just a kind of technical cooperation. We paid him for the gel technology, but this technology is problematic. I I think we should claim compensation from Chaosai Company," said Tatsuo Tanaka.

"What we signed with Chaosai Company is indeed a technology transfer contract. Chaosai Company provides us with an industrial gel formula, and we pay Chaosai Company an equivalent of 20 million yuan in funds and equipment. If it is true If it is proven that this technology is false, then Chaosai is suspected of technical fraud, and we can file a lawsuit." Legal Director Naoko Shiotani added in a timely manner.

"It is necessary to sue Chaosai Company. Only in this way can we be freed from the current scandal." Chairman Xi Chuan Qingxuan said in a deep voice, "In addition, we must also let the public pay attention to one point, that is, Wang Peichao The relationship with Qu Tao. Tanaka-kun is responsible for this matter."

"Understood!" Tanaka Tatsuo replied.

Kucera's lawsuit against China's Linxi Chaosai Company for false technical fraud, and rumors that Chaosai Company is actually a shadow company under Qu Tao's command, were detonated in the media at the same time. Under the successful operation of the public relations company hired by Kusela, most of the media focused on the latter point of public opinion, and began to dig out the hidden relationship between Chaosai Company and Qu Tao. The media commentators didn’t even need to wait for Cussela’s hint to find out the hype point of this news: as a competitor of Cucera Company, Qu Tao created a shadow company to cooperate with Cussela, what is the intention? ?

The first to respond to the incident was not the Daqin Group, but Wang Peichao's Chaosai Company. When Hu Yingjie, a lawyer hired by Kusela in China, sent the complaint to Wang Peichao's office, Wang Peichao was so startled that he almost jumped up.

"What are you talking about, Kusela is suing us for fraud!" Wang Peichao screamed an octave higher than usual.

"Yes, that's what the indictment says." Hu Yingjie said with a straight face.

"What did we cheat them on? It was agreed that we would help them get the formula...I mean, this formula was tested by them, and we don't know what the formula is. Now there is a problem with the formula, and I haven't found it yet. Why are they suing us for their troubles!" Wang Peichao said angrily.

These days, Chaosai Company is under no less pressure than Kusela. They used the formula provided by Kusela to produce several knives, and it was at this time that a problem occurred. One of the cutters broke suddenly during processing, and the cutter head got stuck in the bearing, which directly caused the motor of a precision machine tool to burn out. The compensation amount proposed by the customer was as high as hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's good now, instead of trying to help him get out of trouble, Kucera Company even poured a basin of dirty water on him.

Hu Yingjie was just a mouthpiece and didn't know any behind-the-scenes transactions between the two companies. He quietly listened to Wang Peichao's attack, then took out a file bag, took out a few documents from it, handed it to Wang Peichao, and said, "Mr. Wang, this is the technology transfer agreement signed between your company and Kusela Company." , there is your company's official seal and your own signature on it, you won't deny its legal effect, right?"

"Of course I admit it." Wang Peichao flipped through the documents and recognized that they were indeed the documents he had signed with Kusela, so he nodded and said, "Is there any problem with these documents?"

Hu Yingjie said: "In these agreements, it is clearly stated that Kusela obtained the formula of knife gel from your company, and your company promises that these formulas have passed the necessary inspections and have no defects. Your company also promises that, If the economic loss of both parties is caused by the problem of the gel formula, it will be borne by your company."

"How is this possible!" Wang Peichao's eyes widened, "This technology is obviously..."

Having said that, he suddenly became dumb. He vaguely remembered that the terms Hu Yingjie said seemed to really exist. He obtained Qu Tao's gel formula from Tang Honghui, and when he handed over these formulas to Cusella Company, he signed an agreement with the other party and sold the formula at a high price. The document that Hu Yingjie took out was the agreement at that time.

He still remembers that at that time, Kousela insisted on writing these contents in the agreement, and he felt that it was inappropriate, but Kousela said that if it was not written in this way, then it would be impossible to explain why Kousela wanted to submit the agreement to Chaosai. pay such a large sum. The whole result can only be legitimate if this is written as a technology transfer agreement and not a spoils deal for industrial espionage.

From Wang Peichao's point of view, there will be no problem with the gel formula. On the one hand, it is because these formulas come from Qutao. recipe. He never imagined that Qu Tao deliberately dug a hole for them, and because of competition pressure, Kusela ignored the necessary inspection link, which made this hidden danger gel enter the final stage. Production links, and lead to such a big event.

"Then, what did Kussela say?" Wang Peichao asked tremblingly.

Hu Yingjie said: "Kousela Company requires Chaosai Company to compensate them for all economic losses and reputation losses suffered in this incident, and requires Chaosai Company to return the equipment worth 20 million yuan previously obtained from Coursera Company and funds."

"So, how much compensation are they asking for?" Wang Peichao suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked in a deep voice.

"Currently, Kucera is still making calculations, and the initial intention is...not less than 2.5 billion U.S. dollars." Hu Yingjie said.

"Hahahaha!" Wang Peichao suddenly laughed wildly, "2.5 billion dollars? Has Takehiko Takamura's brain been kicked by a donkey? My company is full of money, is it worth 100 million yuan? Meow is poor and crazy!"

"That's not something I should care about." Hu Yingjie shrugged. When he walked into Chaosai Company just now, he had already visually estimated the size of Chaosai Company. Although he didn't know much about the industry, he could tell that this was definitely not a company worth 2.5 billion US dollars. He didn't know why Kusela proposed such a high compensation amount. You must know that the higher the target, the higher the litigation costs, and it is irrational to increase the compensation target unnecessarily.

However, as a lawyer temporarily hired by Kusela Company, he has no obligation to think about these matters for Kusela. Wang Peichao's copy is a copy, the purpose is just to prepare Wang Peichao.

"Lawyer Hu, I want to ask you, what if... I mean, if the court really judges our company to lose the lawsuit, and our company can't afford 2.5 billion US dollars at all, what should we do?" Wang Peichao asked.

Hu Yingjie said: "You are a limited liability company. Naturally, the company's existing assets are used to bear the liability. You can pay as much as you have. If you can't pay, you can only go bankrupt."

"I see." Wang Peichao nodded, already having an idea in his mind. He couldn't say who was right and who was wrong in this matter, but he felt that since the Japanese sent even lawyers, they must be sure of victory. When I signed the agreement with Japan, I didn't think too much. Judging from what Hu Yingjie said just now, the Japanese should have left behind, so I guess I can't win this lawsuit.

Since he can't win the lawsuit, Wang Peichao has to consider his own way out. He decided that as soon as Hu Yingjie left, he would transfer all the company's property, leaving an empty shell. At that time, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose the lawsuit, anyway, it's just these things, let the Japanese toss about it.

Seeing Wang Peichao's eyeballs rolling around, Hu Yingjie smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Wang, I need to remind you that Kusela Company has applied to the Changgu City Court for property preservation of your company to prevent your company from Transfer property during this period and evade responsibility. If Mr. Wang has any inappropriate behavior during this period, he will be held legally responsible.”