Reaching for the stars with one hand

Chapter 177 The Hertz Controversy 7
Another year of the ChinterGEO conference, quoting a press release from a local TV station reporting on the conference, "This conference is a gathering of talents, and the event is unprecedented."

As usual, all the manufacturers have come up with their strongest lineup. Except that the overall atmosphere of internationalization is not as good as InterGEO, the scale of the entire ChinterGEO, whether it is the number of exhibitors or the number of visitors, is gradually approaching the scale of InterGEO.

In addition to well-known traditional manufacturers, there were many new faces at the exhibition.Different from the story of small manufacturers starting from a small booth in the past and growing up slowly, many of these new faces showed a dominant attitude as soon as they entered the door.

Zhang Yong still does not have his own booth, he is just one of thousands of visitors.He finally signed a peaceful resignation agreement with Skydon a few months ago. He resigned voluntarily, but SKydon gave him all the compensation he deserved.He is very grateful to Shirley. This compensation agreement is like what she promised Zhang Yong, "it will definitely satisfy you."

This ending was the best, and of course it was expected by Zhang Yong. He signed without hesitation, and said goodbye to his old friends one by one in the office.

No one cared too much, after all, in the last year, apart from receiving salary and reimbursement of expenses, Zhang Yong had almost nothing to do with SKydon.

Li Kefei patted Zhang Yong's shoulder, "You came to say goodbye again? This scene is a bit familiar, I don't know if it will happen again in the future."

Zhang Yong said with a smile, "I guess this should be the last time, there will be no next time."

After saying this, suddenly an inexplicable sadness surged up. They all knew that Zhang Yong's fate with SKydon should be completely exhausted this time, and they should never have any dealings in the future.This is not a big deal, but sometimes people's emotions can't be guessed by themselves.Zhang Yong was not sad when he left for the first time. Now he has been in a semi-resigned state, and he finds that he can no longer return to this company that he has struggled with for many years, and he feels a little sad.

Although the number of times he came to this new office can be counted on one's fingers, if he comes back in the future, he may have to register and sign, and take a temporary access card before he can enter the door.Thinking about how he registered downstairs, he felt a little melancholy.

Even Li Kefei felt this emotion, he put his arm around Zhang Yong's shoulder and chatted about other topics.

"How is it? What are your plans for the next step? I heard that you are very close to Zhongxun, and that is a future unicorn. Will you go to Zhongxun?"

Zhang Yong shook his head, "The future is hard to say, everything is yet to be determined. I am sure that there may be many cooperations with Zhongxun in the future, but in terms of joining, the chances may not be great. Zhongxun is a completely different company from ours. I can't necessarily adapt."

Li Kefei nodded, then lowered his voice, "Are you and Lao Huo plotting something? If there is a chance for me to participate, please tell me. Damn, Lao Huo owed me all this time. It's all because of your The reason now is that I owe Lao Huo, every time we meet, I invite him to dinner. Once in the United States, he finally realized his conscience and took me to dinner. Guess what this bastard invited me to eat?"

"crayfish!"

"Yes, yes, how do you know? Could it be..." The two laughed at each other.

……

Zhang Yong, who has no identity restrictions, walked in the venue with ease. He deeply felt the changes of the times and the impact of emerging industries on the traditional surveying and mapping industry.

The manufacturer, who was originally a model aircraft manufacturer, began to turn to the professional Beidou navigation UAV for surveying and mapping, and instantly defeated all professional manufacturers and appeared at the exhibition.An emerging name, accompanied by a colorful and purpose-built booth.

Map companies with Internet backgrounds appeared at the exhibition one by one, attracting the attention of countless people.

The robot company, carrying a mobile measuring vehicle, appeared in the center of the exhibition hall.

……

Everything subverts the thinking of people in the industry, including Zhang Yong's. He suddenly feels that the boundaries between 2B and 2C are becoming more and more blurred. Domineering here.

Among these new faces, there are also those Zhang Yong is more familiar with, for example, Zhongxun.

Liu Yining used the experience of Internet company press conferences in professional exhibitions.The magic-style booth with a full sense of technology attracts everyone's attention.There is not a single hardware device in the booth, the huge computer system, and the combination of various screens and light and shadow interpret the concept of Zhongxun.

The rapid changes in the entire industry have made many traditional dealers feel confused. Even the No.1 in this industry, the "God-like existence" Pound, his annual report has been more or less affected.

The press conference in the East may not be the same as in previous years, but it is still one of the hot spots at the conference, and it is still overcrowded.

Zhang Yong and Liu Yining were sitting in the last row of the Dongfang conference hall. Now Zhongxun was born out of thin air and became famous overnight, but not many people knew Liu Yining.

Zhang Yong was very surprised. He didn't see Mr. Zhao, and even Zhong Haijun didn't show up. It seemed that everyone's vision was no longer focused on the competition with each other.Although, the competition among the three companies is still extremely fierce.

"President Pang, I have a question?"

Pound, who had just finished his report, received questions from the audience.

"please say."

"Mr. Pang, Dongfang Company is now starting to build its own website and provide users with differential signal services. Is this inspired by the Zhongxun model?"

A trace of anger appeared on Pound's face, "My colleague, I understand your question. But do you understand our industry? No matter from the earliest SKydon to the present East, we have been providing users with this At that time, where is Zhongxun in your mouth? Do you know? Does Zhongxun know it? So who is inspired by whom? Who is learning from whom?"

"Then why is Zhongxun so influential that we all think this is the model created by Zhongxun."

For the first time, Pound felt a little helpless at his meeting, "That's just the power of capital, which is not what our surveying and mapping people are good at. But in the professional field, Dongfang is still a professional enterprise at the forefront."

"Mr. Pang, can you comment on the company Zhongxun and their service model?"

"Sorry, I can't comment on an unqualified company. From the perspective of national law, they are not qualified to provide high-precision data services, and even the results obtained by their users should also belong to illegal surveying and mapping. We have passed official channels, We have responded to the competent authorities. We are an industry with strict management and boundaries, and such corporate behavior as Zhongxun must be brought into a legal track.”

This sentence immediately aroused huge repercussions, and the audience was full of buzzing discussions.

"President Pang,..."

……

Listening to Pang De's speech, Zhang Yong turned to look at Liu Yining.

"Mr. Liu, how about your qualifications?"

"We are applying. With our current strength, we can easily meet most of the conditions. Professionals with advanced and intermediate certificates, we have as many as we want...."

Zhang Yong nodded, capital is a talent harvester, and Zhongxun has already attracted a large number of professional elites.

"As for the equipment of various precision, it is not a problem. In addition to the thousands of reference station receivers we have, we have purchased corresponding optical equipment, RTK terminals, software platforms, and even mobile measurement equipment..."

"Oh," Zhang Yong couldn't help but envy, "it's nice to have money."

"But there is one thing that is too difficult for us."

"what?"

"It's the past performance. We are not a company in the industry, so how can we have the performance of surveying and mapping. And the data services we provide now, because we have no qualifications, so they can't be counted as the current performance. This has become an endless loop."

Zhang Yong asked: "Is there a way to break the situation?"

"It's in progress. We have already received the support of local governments and some central enterprises. Some leaders are already reporting to the ministry that there are emerging things in the new era, and we hope to handle them specially."

"What are the chances?"

"There is great hope, it is only a matter of time. As I said, online car-hailing, shared bicycles, and even the emerging hotel industry like AirBNB will become legal sooner or later. I have never worried about the future of Zhongxun, just Hope everything goes as quickly as possible.”

Zhang Yong didn't ask any more questions, he believed what Liu Yining said, this is the current general trend and no one can stop it.The reason why Pound was emotional when he answered the question may not be because he couldn't find it, but because he understood the ending early.

"Before the formal qualification comes down, I have an idea, you can consider it."

"what?"

"To acquire all the existing networks, those built by SKydon before, all won. In addition, I will introduce you to the engineering center to have a talk. They have thousands of high-precision stations, and the leaders of the center have always had the idea of ​​providing services to the society. If they can join, it will instantly increase the size of your network.  …”

"The most important thing is that their networks are all legal high-precision permanent reference stations. At least in terms of data sources, you are legal."

Liu Yining's eyes lit up, "Okay. We can communicate about the engineering center, but is it too difficult to acquire Skydon's existing network? These owners are all state-owned enterprises, and these are state-owned assets, or social public facilities of local municipal departments , the acquisition may not be easy. Also, what reason do they have to sell these networks?"

"Reason?" Zhang Yong couldn't help laughing, "You all have swept away everything, making the government's heavily built network a decoration, but you spend money every year to maintain it. If you buy it, they may not be too happy. If the state-owned If you can’t buy it, just talk about cooperation. As you said, everything will become a legal existence sooner or later, maybe it just takes a little time.”

"That's right, the exhibition is over. I'll make arrangements right away. And..."

"How is your receiver doing? The first batch of [-] receivers you gave me have all been put online. Afterwards, we purchased a lot of equipment. Although Zhongxun's current cash flow is very good, we still Looking forward to a better solution. To tell you the truth, although I am very grateful to you for the help of these [-] devices, but you have no successor, and Zhongxun cannot wait forever. We have signed cooperation agreements with Big Dipper and Zhonghe. You Always have the priority of Zhongxun, but you don't make us wait too long. How is it now?"

"I understand, you can sign. Even if my product is released now, it won't stop you from signing agreements with other companies. Everyone will eventually compete through strength. Mr. Gao is deploying in the United States, and Hertz has confirmed that he is not in the United States. The Ministry of Commerce controls the list of prohibited sales, and domestically, Zhonghe has also submitted an acquisition application to the Ministry of Commerce, as well as an application for registration of an overseas wholly-owned subsidiary. All the procedures are almost complete, and the funds are basically in place, so it should be soon I did. But I need your help."

"No problem, but there's not much I can do. What needs to be done?"

……

……

On the evening after Dongfang's user conference, Pound met Zhong Haijun, the head of Shangda, in a private room in the hotel restaurant.

"Old Zhong, I heard that you have some overseas acquisition plans recently."

"Ha," Zhong Haijun said haha, "Where did President Pang hear the news? Shang Da can't handle his own affairs."

"Don't hide it from me. If I'm not sure, Pound will not ask you casually. Whether I know about this matter or not has no effect on you. I asked you out in the hope that I can help you, not destroy your plan."

Zhong Haijun was dubious, and what Pang De said was not unreasonable, but facing this opponent who had been competing for several years, he was still a little uneasy.

"In fact, we are only interested in this acquisition, and we are not particularly enthusiastic about it. Moreover, the opinions within the board of directors are not particularly unified. It is Zhonghe's Gao Ping who really intends to do this. But let us be really interested in this matter. , also because of Gao Ping..."

"Mr. Pang, I know that you have signed a cooperation agreement with Compass, and Huatai's Lao Zhao signed almost the same agreement with Beidouxing. You are all working together to develop GNSS board chips. Although, you have not achieved anything. Progress, but it's hard to say, when you will be able to use a chip of your own, we will be passive by then. Therefore, Shang Da is now prepared for danger in times of danger, and is also stepping up to find his own way..."

"Hertz's stuff, we have seen in Germany, and we even sold some, we never think their boards can be used for high precision, whether it is SKydon, Mag, or Jieke, they are far better than them. But we have to consider some reasons other than technical evaluation.  …”

"Oh, why?" Pound asked.

"Xiaowei, Zhang Yong, and Gao Ping are all interested in this company."

"You know the vision of these three people. It is understandable for one person to be wrong, but if all three people are involved, we have to reconsider the value of this company."

Pound nodded, "You are right. If these three people are interested in a screw at the same time, we should all take the screw back and study it."

"But regarding the acquisition, I think we have fallen behind. Before that, we got involved through a business consulting company called Horton, but later, this company never communicated with us again. I believe, they must be with a certain company, There is a new agreement. I don’t know who it is, but it also arouses our interest in Hertz, and now we are following up. We have also submitted an application to the Ministry of Commerce, but the actual progress must be behind Zhonghe .”

Pang De picked up the exquisite teacup, drank the tea in the cup very seriously, and then said to Zhong Haijun: "You should know that Dongfang is the first Chinese manufacturer in this industry to set up branches overseas. We also have branches in the United States. I have my own company, so there is something I can do to help. I have an appointment with you today, and I have only one thing to tell you."

"what?"

"If you want to acquire Hertz, Dongfang Company will fully support you. We will use all our domestic and overseas resources, including funds, to help Shangda complete the acquisition."

(End of this chapter)