Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

Chapter 532: The Domineering President Has His Eyes on Me

“Let the software company and the electronics group submit a detailed future cooperation plan. The planning office of the decision-making committee can directly contact Wu Yibin and set up a negotiation team with him as the leader.

Talk to ZTE and Huaban about cooperation, and then ask the procurement and technology research and development department to prepare a list of requirements. This time we will go to Frankfurt to try to get support from Nokia..."

After finishing the day's work, Li Zehua instructed Zhang Defa: "Give way to Mr. Zhou in North America and make an appointment to meet in Frankfurt. If you have any additional needs, please contact him."

After saying that, he left straight away, leaving Zhang Defa to continue working in the office.

It was only three or four o'clock, and the streets and alleys of the Magic City were not too busy. However, the occasional flash of knights in yellow and blue robes made him feel an atmosphere that did not belong to this era.

“If there was no Qingyun, the food delivery business would only be starting now. Mr. Zhang of Fanjisong would have just come into contact with Mr. Zhu of Jinshajiang and received a million US dollars angel investment from the latter, gradually starting to expand in Shanghai.

If we want to achieve the current scale of Qingyun, it seems that we have to wait until the battle of thousands of groups is over, and Meituan, the king, enters the food delivery market with 1 billion RMB, before things can get really lively.”

He felt a little emotional, thinking that in his previous life, he should still be selling computer and mobile phone products. Not to mention being able to go out in a Maybach now, he probably couldn't even afford to buy a tire with his monthly salary.

Zhang Tao was as silent as ever, and just turned down the volume of the car's audio system.
The car quickly and steadily stopped in front of a quiet villa. There were already several well-dressed people waiting at the gate. When he arrived, they gathered around him, each with a reserved smile.

When Zhang Tao got out and opened the car door, everyone couldn't wait to rush up and greet him enthusiastically.

"Hello Mr. Li."

"Good afternoon, Chairman."

"Hello to you too."

Li Zehua greeted people while leading them inside. This was a high-end villa resort that focused on leisure and entertainment, with a racing track and a golf course.

Most of these people are the heads of the group’s legal teams and bosses of friendly companies.

The reason for choosing this place to meet is mainly because there are some things that we don't want outsiders to know, or in other words, some official matters cannot be handled openly.

"This is the chairman of the group. So young?"

Actually, quite a few people came, but not many were qualified to greet the boss at the gate.

There was a particularly young person among them, who looked like he had just graduated and whose facial hair had not yet completely fallen off. He was following the crowd from a distance and asked curiously, "I don't think I know him either."

"You don't know him, but he knows you."

The person who brought him here was Wang Jianming, the former senior partner of Fangyuan International Law Firm and the current director of the Intellectual Property Affairs Department of the Legal Department of Qingyun Group.

"Come to think of it, I can sit in this position thanks to you."

"Director, the more you talk, the more confused I get. I really don't know the boss. This was the first time we met."

The young man smiled bitterly, "Besides, if I really know him, do you think I should be able to get a position as a director or deputy director right after I join the firm? At the very least, I should be able to get a position as a senior partner in the firm, right?"

"Xiao Zhou!"

Wang Jianming stared at him with a strange look on his face, and couldn't help but stop and pat his shoulder, "It's a good thing to be tight-lipped, but you can't pretend to be confused in front of the boss, right?
If the boss hadn't specifically asked me to do so, do you think I would have brought you here?
In addition, your future development is not something that our law firm, or the legal department, can decide. If it were up to Mr. Fang, he should have given you the position of intermediate partner when he recruited you.

It has been half a year since you officially joined the company. Your efforts and professionalism are well known to everyone. If you were not under pressure from that person, you would have been an assistant director if not a senior partner. "

"Is it really that exaggerated? Mr. Wang, please don't praise me. I can't stand praise."

Xiao Zhou was confused. He really couldn't think of what was so good about him that could be valued by the group president and several bigwigs in the law firm.

Professionalism and hard work?
He has a French doctorate in law in intellectual property, which makes him outstanding among ordinary people, but in top multinational companies with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue, this experience is not worth mentioning.

Take Yenching Kaiyue International, where his father worked, and Fangyuan International, where he works, for example. If you pick out a few junior partners at random, their assistants all started out as doctoral students.

Even the assistant lawyers who do miscellaneous work in the law firm are all masters or doctoral students from top domestic universities. In terms of background, many of them are descendants of bigwigs in the domestic legal community who have strong connections.

His father was, at best, a director of a district judicial committee in Yanjing, and had only participated in the drafting of industry-related legal clauses and professional reference legal documents.

Which city doesn’t have dozens of people like this?

There are a lot of judicial bigwigs in the professional political science and law department, and any one of them has much stronger connections and status than his father.

However, the people at Fangyuan International Law Firm seemed to have taken the wrong medicine. They sent someone to Paris to find him in person, and handed him an employment contract before he even graduated.

They also promised to fully reimburse all expenses he incurred while studying for a doctorate in France, and even arranged a first-class ticket for his return flight. The conditions were so good that they were beyond his imagination.

He was too embarrassed to even mention the salary he received when he started working. Other partners worked hard to generate 200 million in revenue for the law firm, but they couldn't even get an annual salary of one million. But he, a young rookie, did it.

Because he, Zhou Wanhao (see Chapter 68 for details), became an assistant to the chief partner of the law firm as soon as he joined the firm, not the kind who just serves tea and water.

Instead, he is a real big lawyer who enjoys a share of the rewards for team completion and has the right to independently accept and handle orders. Yes, I don’t know where the people from Fangyuan International Law Firm get their channels.

He actually used his connections with the Shanghai Judicial Committee to count his four years of doctoral studies in France as actual professional years, which were directly converted into domestic work experience by the Judicial Committee in accordance with convention.

It is simply ridiculous. Anyway, Zhou Wanhao became a licensed barrister with an independent license but only a vague knowledge of domestic intellectual property-related business.

As for hard work, he doesn't even want to talk about it. After get off work, when other colleagues in the law firm are working hard to recharge themselves, he only spends half of his time studying hard. As for the other half?
Sorry, making money is important. He is doing financial operations on Hong Kong stocks and US stocks. Because of the time difference between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, he often trades stocks at night, so that he has to go to work with panda eyes the next day.

If it were someone else, they would have been reprimanded by the law firm, and in serious cases, they would have been sent packing. But when it happened to him, it seemed that all workplace rules were invalid. The chief of the law firm treated him as if he were his own father.
"Hey, isn't this Director Wang? He's free to come here today, and he brought a young apprentice with him. How about letting him see the world?"

I was just daydreaming when I suddenly heard someone talking in my ear, and the tone sounded a bit harsh.

Zhou Wanhao looked up and instantly lost the desire to talk. The person who came was none other than his colleague, and they were the kind of people who would meet on a narrow road.

Zhang Tianming, head of an international law firm specializing in intellectual property in Shanghai.

The conflict between the two companies is very simple. Fangyuan is not a law firm that focuses on intellectual property infringement cases. They are better at commercial law, but Qingyun Group happens to be involved in patent licensing infringement cases.

They often give priority to entrusting Fangyuan Law Firm to handle the case, which makes Zhang Tianming very dissatisfied. Especially after he learned about the preferential treatment Zhou Wanhao received, after several contacts, he found that the other party had strong professional qualities.

But he was not at the top level in the industry, and was not good enough to impress Qingyun Group with his so-called professional services. This puzzled him, and after repeated inquiries, he could not find Zhou Wanhao.

He had a special relationship with a senior executive of Qingyun, so when faced with a conflict of interest, he often suppressed the latter.

The only two people who knew the inside story, President Fang and Wang Jianming, did not show up to say hello, one of them was busy with official duties, and the other was trying to train Zhou Wanhao, so they did not come out to say hello.

As a result, Zhou Wanhao was forced to accept the challenge. Facing the attack from an entire firm, he looked a little embarrassed, but his professional skills also improved rapidly.

After all, other people's questions are what lawyers make their living from. If he can't answer or is not professional enough, he will lose face. Now that he has encountered this, a dispute is inevitable.

“Mr. Zhang, you should take care of yourself first. The group has filed so many infringement lawsuits recently, but few of them have been properly handled. If you delay any further, maybe we won’t be able to cooperate next year.

There will be no place for you.”

Fortunately, Wang Jianming allowed the other party to hone the talent that the boss had set his sights on within the rules, but would not allow the other party to try to go further and humiliate him. Zhang Tianming paused for a moment, then sneered, "Yes, an amateur is an amateur. No matter how professional you pretend to be, you will always be exposed at the critical moment.

Lawyer Zhou, do you think what I said is right? People who are just filling in the gaps are not capable of taking on important responsibilities no matter where they are placed. "

"Is Mr. Zhang talking to me?"

No matter how good-tempered Zhou Wanhao is, he will not allow the other party to ride on him and attack him, not to mention that he handled the previous cases quite perfectly.

"I don't get many orders normally, and I'm the lucky one who happens to get an order when I'm busy. Do you have the nerve to show off in front of me?

In other words, when did our competition stop being based on the number of cases closed and the results we achieved and ended up being based on just talking? "

In the past, Zhou Wanhao would definitely not have spoken ill of his seniors in the industry, but the other party just wouldn't give in and insisted on labeling him as an uneducated troublemaker who relied on so-called special treatment to get things done through the back door.

Who can bear this?

If this gets out and becomes a consensus in the industry, how will he make a living in the judicial circle in the future?
When faced with an enemy who wants to end his career, no matter who he is, he will just fight him first.

Fortunately, his judgment was correct. Wang Jianming quickly stood up to support him in the face of Fangyuan International, which had several top lawyers serving as legal specialists and holding important positions in the group.

Zhang Tianming did not dare to be too presumptuous. He just said a few harsh words and left with the attitude of waiting and seeing.

Wang Jianming even had time to comfort her, "Don't worry about it. I just complained a few times because I lost the competition for a case recently. It's human nature."

He also talked about the group's recent preparations for further cooperation with ZTE, Huaban and Nokia, which involved a lot of content related to technology patent licensing cooperation.

A cooperation will take no less than several years to complete, and the contract revenue after completion is also very gratifying. It is reported that the group plans to set up a more professional team to take charge.

Well, as always, led by Fangyuan Law Firm, the group also specifically mentioned that it hopes that lawyer Zhou Wanhao will participate and play an important role.

"I'm not afraid, but Mr. Wang, can't you tell me which important person values ​​me so that I can prepare in advance?"

Zhou Wanhao was stunned when he heard this, and his heart was as curious as a cat scratching. "From the time I signed the contract after graduation, everything was strange. Until now, I still can't figure out what happened."

"Don't worry, you'll understand soon enough."

Wang Jianming remained silent, smiling, and no matter how Zhou Wanhao pressed his questions, he could not get any more useful information...

"I asked you all to come here today mainly to inform you that the company is preparing to promote a cooperation strategy in the field of telecommunications. The group has already contacted internationally renowned large companies in the industry..."

In addition to Li Zehua, several senior executives of the group came to preside over the meeting. Among them, Yu Li, President of the Administrative Department, was definitely the first choice to preside over the meeting.

She spoke eloquently at the podium in the conference room, and the people below looked solemn, because every word that came out of her mouth involved the career planning of everyone present in the next few years.

To put it bluntly, if you do it well, you will never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of your life. The estimated patent value assessment of the acquisition and controlling stake of ZTE alone is expected to bring tens of millions in revenue to the relevant law firms.

Not to mention a package of technology licensing cooperation with Nokia, and even a major plan for the two parties to jointly develop and share mobile phone operating systems and smartphone R&D and production.

Any small project is enough to drive the world's top law firms crazy. This is a contract worth tens of billions of dollars. Who wouldn't go crazy when seeing it?

Didn’t you see that Zhang Tianming’s face was flushed, and the look he gave Zhou Wanhao was vigilant with a hint of resentment…

Li Zehua was not at the meeting venue, but in a special meeting room upstairs, which was very quiet and secluded.

His trip to Europe was not just to negotiate with Nokia on the Pinxixi group buying business, but to take the opportunity to start the group's business layout in Europe.

“Through participation in JD.com’s third round of financing negotiations, the group successfully reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with Russia’s K Fund, enabling it to enjoy a portion of the cheap energy sent to Europe.

Through this relationship, and the cooperation foundation in manufacturing and telecommunications, the group has successfully established links with several core companies in Germany and Finland..."

Li Zehua's idea is very simple. The world is big and the market is vast. Neither Squid Capital nor the gradually growing Dongda Capital can take it all away by themselves.

Even if the European economy suffers a severe blow, it will still be one of the most important players on the world economic stage in the future due to its foundation. The real world is not judged by personal preferences.

Li Zehua, Qingyun, and Dongda all need a relatively independent Ou Meng to restrain and balance the expansion of American capital.

The original Space-Time Petals gradually replaced Nokia and became the communications operation service provider for European industry. It also participated deeply in Germany's Industry 4.0 strategy, which gave Squid Capital an opportunity to attack.

In terms of the grand strategy of being wary of the rise of Dongda, Oumeng is actually more inclined to prevention and suppression. In fact, they have not escaped the influence and control of Yutai Capital.

In the game within the game in which Microsoft led Nokia astray, Nokia completely lost the last chance of rising, and its entire telecommunications business collapsed, leaving Europe's telecommunications standards under the control of Squid Capital.

It is certainly gratifying that Huaban has taken the opportunity to rise, but the rise of new elites in other people's territory, especially the traditional territory of the former overlord, is always so unpleasant.

Not to mention eating alone without sharing is bound to make people hate you.

The reason why mainstream German capital could not withstand the pressure from Squid Capital and decisively cancelled its transaction with Huaban after two years of cooperation in the original time and space was simply because it could not support itself alone.

Outside, there is Squid Capital controlling the media attacks every day, and there is Oumeng Capital watching from the sidelines and exerting pressure. It is because everyone has not gained any benefits from it, so they have risen up to attack it.

In this life, Li Zehua planned to find another way. When Lucent went bankrupt, he was a little slow to act, but with the huge success of gold futures, the group had sufficient funds.

He raised the price of poaching people and technology transfer to three or four times the market price, and spared no effort to snatch talents leaving Lucent, Motorola, and Nokia.

He has intercepted a wave of technology and talent transfer results. Next, he will use QingCloud Software, QingCloud Electronics, and ZTE Electronics as the basis internally, and cooperate with Nokia externally.

Give European companies the necessary living space, realize the sharing of interests on a global scale, create a more favorable external environment, and help Southeast University break through in the research and development and application of high-precision and cutting-edge technologies.

In addition to delivering benefits and obtaining inheritance from the old technology giants, he also has a more secret mission during this trip to Europe.

That is to rely on domestic enterprises that are fully under their control, take advantage of loopholes such as business registration in the UK, and use the guise of tax-free havens to invest heavily, hold controlling stakes, and establish high-tech companies.

He is still young and has plenty of time, enough to complete his undercover plan before a complete showdown and a fallout. Targeting Helan ASML is just one of the points.

The ultimate goal is to infiltrate more core enterprises and launch a fatal blow at a critical moment.

"Addition is good, but sometimes it's too slow. Appropriate subtraction can also help the other party quickly recognize the reality."

The business owners who were called by Li Zehua were basically people whom he was confident that he could fully control. They were either bankrupt businessmen who were once heavily in debt.

Either they have fatal evidence, or they have family members or other weak points in the hands of the group. They are professionals who are not worried about defecting. Facing Li Zehua's orders, no one dares to disobey...

"Mr. Yu, I have no complaints or opinions about you or the company. It's just that it involves the professional field of intellectual property rights. I rashly gave it to a newcomer who just graduated half a year ago, right?"

Zhang Tianming's defense broke down at the conference hall, because this time, their firm not only failed to win the big order, but also became Zhou Wanhao's assistant. For a while, everyone at the conference was talking about it.

No matter how good-tempered he was, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and attacked Zhou Wanhao directly...

(End of this chapter)

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