A strong technological nation starts with repairing mobile phones

Chapter 81 Give up your interests and sue Tiansheng Optics!
If we were to ask who cares the most about this news, it would naturally be the third party mentioned in it, Corning Group.

Apart from these news, Corning has been constantly singled out and attacked, as if as long as the Fruit Group really cooperates with Tiansheng Optics, their company will go bankrupt on the spot.

Those who can write these articles are all unreliable self-media. Those self-media are too lazy to even do any research, so they think that Corning Group will go bankrupt if it leaves the Fruit Group.

They have no idea how terrifying Corning, a company that has been established for more than 100 years, is. They have no idea that the business of providing glass panels to the Fruit Group is only a very small profit for their company. They don’t know that their company’s real profit point is in medicine and other fields.

After all, you have to know that the person in charge of Corning's specialty glass business is currently only the group's vice president.

Regarding the news in the past two days, the group’s top management, let alone the chairman and CEO, even the company’s chief executive officer has not responded at all.

Of course, these people don’t care much about these things, but there are people within Corning Group who care very much about them.

This person is naturally Lawrence, the group's vice president and general manager of the special glass business department.

As the head of the department, the Fruit Group is one of the largest customers of this project at the moment. How can he sit still when this customer is about to abandon his products?

"What's going on with your operations department?"

In the office, Lawrence looked at the two men standing opposite him with a stern face and shouted, "I remember reminding your operations department a long time ago to keep an eye on Tiansheng Optics. Why didn't you get any news when the Fruit Group went to the other company this time?"

One of the two people standing opposite Lawrence was Lawrence's secretary Pierre, and the other was Daniela, the operations manager.

The person Lawrence was scolding at this moment was naturally Daniela, the operations manager. Last time, Born reminded Lawrence of some information about Tiansheng Optics. Although she did not take it seriously at the time, Pierre still told Daniela about it and asked her to pay attention to any situation in this company.

It seems that Daniela didn't take the matter to heart at all. Not only did he not tell him in time about Tiansheng Optics's research on anti-reflection, he didn't even know that his largest customer, the Fruit Group, was about to change suppliers.

Daniela did not explain anything. Having reached this position, he knew that it was useless to explain at this moment. He was wrong and that was it.

"Just now, I personally contacted someone from the Fruit Group. The person in question was my classmate from the Business School. He told me that the Fruit Group and Tiansheng Optics have not reached a cooperation agreement. There is no need for us to be too nervous!"

Although there was no need to explain the previous mistake, Daniela revealed the key information.

In fact, when the news spread widely, he knew that the crisis had arrived, and he reacted immediately and wanted to remedy his negligence. However, he did not expect to receive the news just after he contacted his old classmates. His heart, which had been hanging in the air, instantly relaxed.

As for why he didn't tell the news before coming in, it was because he intended to let Lawrence vent his anger. After the other party had vented his anger, telling him the news would probably calm his anger directly.

"Are you sure?" As expected, after hearing the news, Lawrence's expression instantly eased a lot.

"I'm sure. According to him, it was because Tiansheng Optics disagreed with certain terms of their purchase contract that led to the failure of this cooperation." Daniela continued, "Now that their cooperation negotiations have failed, I think you should go to the Fruit Group immediately to strengthen our cooperation.

And we should act immediately and consider how to deal with Tiansheng Optics. Based on what I just learned, they are likely to become a strong competitor for us."

Daniela knew that it would be impossible to shirk all responsibility with just one piece of news. If he wanted to completely get rid of this problem, he had to start with Tiansheng Optics.

As a company that has been established for more than 100 years, especially a group that ranks very high among the Fortune 500, Corning still has a very high status in the United States. And relying on the United States' global status, their influence can be directly expanded to most countries in the world.

"Yeah!" Lawrence also agreed with Daniela's idea. Corning Group has been able to stand firm for more than a hundred years, so they must have their own business experience.

Lawrence sat on the chair and slowly touched the tip of his nose with one hand for a while before looking up at Daniela and said, "Your operations department, come up with a plan on how to deal with Tiansheng Optics. We must prevent them from expanding on a large scale in a short period of time."

Yes, the word Lawrence used was that it is impossible to expand on a large scale in a short period of time, not to kill Tiansheng Optics directly. He still knew that Tiansheng Optics' technology was already developed and was still in that mysterious oriental country. Even if Corning Group had a huge influence, it was impossible to kill Tiansheng Optics directly.

"I understand!" When things developed to this point, Daniela knew that he had escaped a disaster. Even if there were any follow-up investigations, it would not be a big problem and he relaxed.

……

When Kuke heard that Chen Jinghong refused to become a supplier of the Fruit Group because of the supervision clause, he was a little surprised by Tiansheng Optics' decision.

The first thought was, 'Don't they know what it means to be our supplier? '.

Of course, this was just his inner thought and he didn't say it to Nils and Rudet.

"Boss, what are we going to do with Tian Shengguang next?"

It was Rudet who asked this question. At this moment, he actually still wanted to cooperate with Tiansheng Optics. After all, as a technical person, he still wanted to make the products he produced as perfect as possible.

Of course, he also knew that he had no say in this matter. After all, the anti-reflection function of the glass panels produced by Tiansheng Optics is not an indispensable function for a mobile phone. It is just icing on the cake. Even if the next generation of mobile phones does not have this function, it is estimated that it will not affect the purchase of consumers who support Apple phones.

Ku Ke seemed to be embedded in the sofa, with one hand supporting his chin, and no one knew what was on his mind.

After a long time, he slowly raised his head, turned to look at Rudet and Niels and said, "At present, except for a few suppliers who can refuse this clause, many suppliers stronger than Tiansheng Optics have not been able to refuse it. I don't think Tiansheng Optics should be treated specially given its current scale and status, so just leave it alone for now! I believe they will change their minds later!"

In the end, Kuke did not treat Tiansheng Optics specially. In addition to Tiansheng Optics' background, the main reason was that the anti-reflection function was indeed not an indispensable thing.

Of course, the most important reason is that a few days ago, Kuaishou specially convened a board meeting to release the Fruit 13 proposal in advance, but it was directly rejected by the board of directors with an overwhelming vote.

Even if Tiansheng Optics agrees now, Apple will not be able to release a mobile phone equipped with this glass panel until September next year at the earliest. He will not care about Tiansheng Optics' current attitude.

Since the CEO said so, Rudert and Niels naturally would not go against it and could only nod and accept Kuke’s decision.

In order to strengthen cooperation with the fruit group, Lawrence would naturally not let others come. After all, if his subordinates could not see Kuke at all, it would be even more unrealistic for his superiors to come.

"Lawrence! It's been a long time since we last met!"

When Lawrence stood in front of Ku Ke, Ku Ke was very enthusiastic.

"It's been almost three years!" Lawrence put down the hand he had just shaken, nodded and looked at Kuke.

"Yes! Time flies. Our two companies have been cooperating for so many years!" Although the Fruit Group and Corning Group just cooperated to research the glass panel called super-ceramic crystal last year, the two of them hardly participated in it. Almost all of it was done by their subordinates.

Lawrence did not reveal his purpose right away, although he knew that Ku Ke should be very clear about the purpose of his visit.

The two sat on the sofa in Kuake's office, facing the transparent glass, looking at the scenery outside, and chatting with each other about some recent news in the technology circle.

As we chatted, the topic finally turned to Tiansheng Optics.

"I heard that your company sent an audit team to inspect Tiansheng Optics a few days ago?" Lawrence said very bluntly.

When Ku Ke heard this, he immediately knew that the two of them were now getting down to business. He had no intention of keeping this issue secret nor of denying it.

"Yes, this time it was Nils and Rudet who led the team there. They just came back not long ago."

You, Lawrence, asked directly, and I, Kuke, answered even more directly, telling the two team leaders directly to each other.

Hearing these two names, Lawrence felt a little uneasy. To inspect a company that had just been established, they actually had to send two vice presidents of the company. Everyone knew how much importance the company attached to the other party.

You have to know that Lawrence is only a vice president in Corning at the moment. Of course, the structure of Corning and the fruit group is somewhat different. Corning's business is not as concentrated as the fruit group.

"How was the review? Did they really achieve the mass production technology of molecular arrangement as they said?"

"According to Rudet's report, the other party has indeed achieved mass production technology!"

The more certain the news was, the more disadvantageous it would be to him. Lawrence looked at Ku Ke and said directly, "I heard that you and the other party did not reach a consensus and the two sides did not reach any cooperation intention?"

Although Ku Ke didn't know where Lawrence got the news, he didn't bother to say anything and directly confirmed Lawrence's statement.

Lawrence was relieved to hear that the two parties had not reached a cooperation intention.

He then immediately stated the purpose of his visit.

"CEO of Kuke, our two companies have cooperated for many years and it has always been very pleasant. Last year, we also jointly invested in the research and development of super-ceramic crystal technology. I think based on our strength, there is no need for you to change suppliers. As for the anti-reflection function of Tiansheng Optics.

We at Corning are fully capable of solving this problem, and we will definitely be able to achieve this function in just one year.

My purpose of coming here this time is..."

Lawrence first boasted about the strength of Corning Group, saying that his company could also achieve this function. As for the patent, both parties tacitly ignored it and were very confident that they could directly bypass Tiansheng Optics' patent barrier.

He then proposed that in order to obtain all the orders for Fruit 12 and the subsequent early orders for 13, he should directly give up part of the profits of Super Ceramic Crystal.

Since Super Ceramic Crystal was jointly developed by both parties, the Fruit Group naturally also held a certain proportion. This time, Lawrence gave up a small proportion again for these.

Unfortunately, he had no idea that the Fruit Group had no intention of giving up Corning for the Fruit 12 model. Considering that the new product would start trial production in December every year, it was estimated that the talks with Tiansheng Optics had broken down, and it was impossible for them to give up Corning in the early stage of 13.

So when Ku Ke saw the benefits that came to him, he naturally accepted them without hesitation.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement and decided that Corning would give up some of its share in Super Ceramic Silica, and that all of Fruit 12's orders and subsequent 13's early orders must be given to Corning Group.

"Send the announcement as soon as possible, explaining that you have no intention of cooperating with Tiansheng Optics! Otherwise, our company's shares will fall soon, and the directors on the board will not let me off!"

Lawrence said this with a smile. He was very happy that the purpose of his coming here was perfectly achieved.

"I'll arrange for someone to release this news later. Besides, your business has the lowest profit in the entire Corning company. Even if you give up this business, it will not affect the stock price. How could your stock price fall just because of this matter?" Kuker was in a good mood at the moment and rarely joked with Lawrence.

"Ha ha……"

Even though his words were exposed, Lawrence was not embarrassed and laughed with Ku Ke.

But only they themselves know why these two people are laughing.

……

"This group has not reached any cooperation intention with Tiansheng Optics, and all external comments are false!"

That afternoon, the official website of the Fruit Group directly posted an announcement at the top of its page. The content of the announcement simply denied its cooperation with Tiansheng Optics, but did not explain other details such as the review team.

As soon as this announcement came out, articles that rumored that Fruit Group and Tiansheng had reached a cooperation agreement were immediately removed from the shelves.

If there was only this announcement, the heat would probably die down here, and no one would mention the Fruit Group and Tiansheng Group within two days.

However, the next piece of news released by Corning Group once again attracted the attention of everyone in the world.

"Corning Inc. accuses Tiansheng Optics of infringement, alleging that Tiansheng Optics illegally used Corning Inc.'s valid patents and stole the technology that was about to be perfected in Corning's laboratories.

"Corning Group officially sued Tiansheng Optics in the United States, demanding that Tiansheng Optics stop infringing upon the rights and compensate Corning for its losses of 30 billion US dollars!"

"The U.S. Department of Justice officially filed a case against Corning Group for Tiansheng Optics."

This combination of punches stunned all domestic netizens, and Chen Jinghong was particularly surprised!

　Thanks to: Xianyufangunsanbaibai, ㄗ灬星魂パ, the genuine second brother~, Moxiangfengyun, Tuantuanyutuo, and Menglixueshui for their rewards!
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