Chapter 204: All-round cooperation

When Zhou Ming and Liu Qiang came out of Suffolk again, the Forte Tech Show for the day was already over. Tang Ran was inviting all the company employees to dinner at the very famous Sunflower Restaurant, and they quickly hurried over. A quarter of an hour later, everyone from Jieke was already seated at the table.

At the company dinner, Tang Ran, the CEO, spoke first: 'It's been half a month since I took over Jieke. Thanks to the joint efforts of everyone, Jieke has gone from being on the verge of bankruptcy to being a thriving company! Today is the second day of the technology exhibition and also the least popular day, but we have still signed three orders and developed many customers who are interested in cooperating with our company.

'This is very encouraging, and it shows that all of you are excellent employees. On behalf of the board of directors of Jieke and myself, I would like to thank you all.'

Tang Ran stood up and bowed to everyone as he spoke, and all the employees of Jieke Company also rose to return Tang Ran's courtesy.

Zhou Ming was very satisfied when he saw this. It seemed that Tang Ran was indeed learning how to be a competent leader.

After Tang Ran, General Manager Cheng Qian said, 'Just now President Tang thanked us, but I think we should thank President Tang and Vice President Zhou even more. After all, if it weren't for them, there would be no there would be no Jieke as it is now. We might still be living in fear, worrying that the company will announce bankruptcy one day, and there would be no chance for us to participate in the Forte Tech Show or come into contact with such information technology.

After saying that Cheng Qian also took the lead and stood up, bowing to Tang Ran and Zhou Mingshen respectively, and the others followed suit.

After Cheng Qian, Zhou Heng from the marketing department also said, 'General Manager Cheng is right. It really is the case. Today, I let several of my clients come to the Technology Exhibition. After seeing our display products, they all showed a strong interest. This is all thanks to President Tang and Vice President Zhou!'

Everyone were praising, only the accountant Susan wanted to complain: 'It's just that our Jack Company is getting better and better, and the financial matters are getting more and more. I just hope that President Tang and Vice President Zhou will hire two more accountants as soon as possible, otherwise the financial work will be very troublesome. I don't want to hold back the whole company because of financial reasons.'

Everyone was everyone chiming in with their own opinions, the atmosphere in the room was very good. Even though Susan was complaining, a happy smile was still on her face. After all, if the company does well, she does well.

In this happy happy atmosphere, Zhou Ming stood up and said, 'Seeing that everyone is so happy, I can't be a drag, so I'll tell you all something even better! Today, Manager Liu and I went to Suffolk to evaluate their information base. The result is that if we carry out the required equipment and software upgrades, we will need a budget of at least 5 million.'

This figure immediately took everyone by surprise. Although everyone knew that Zhou Ming and Liu Qiang had gone to Suffolk today, no one expected to talk about such a large order.

'This is unbelievable, how could there be 5 million? Didn't you say it was only 2 million?'

Someone immediately asked Liu Qiang, and Liu Qiang didn't know how to answer. He couldn't really say that Zhou Ming was deliberately trying to rip off Suffolk, could he? He had originally just a trivial matter of cleaning up junk files, and it ended up being a 5 million project. Although it was said to be cheating other companies, it also damages the image of the leader, doesn't it?

In the end, Zhou Ming came to his rescue: 'It was indeed two million at first, but they wanted the best of everything. After we recalculated for them, we finally came up with the figure of five million. After this technology exhibition, we can go ahead and sign the contract at any time.'

As Zhou Ming the scene erupted again with enthusiastic cheers. Although the contract had not yet been formally signed, Tang Ran and Zhou Ming had already brought so many miracles, so the employees of Jieke were very confident in them.

Of course, people who raised questions. Cheng Qian asked, 'Vice President Zhou, it's great that we'll get this 5 million project, but can our technology and production capacity meet their requirements?'

Cheng Qian was like a bucket of cold water, instantly extinguishing the enthusiasm, leaving everyone stunned, because Cheng Qian said this is a very real problem. Due to the extremely poor situation of Jieke Company before, many people were laid off. It was also for this reason that the original three departments of technology research and development and engineering were merged into one department. In addition, what they are exhibiting at the technology exhibition is not their own technology, so how can they complete the production task?

In the face of everyone's confusion, Zhou Ming answered for them: 'General Manager Cheng, your worries are justified, but you seem to have forgotten that we have a cooperation agreement with Aipai have a cooperation agreement, so any orders we want to achieve during the technology exhibition that we cannot complete ourselves, we can ask them to take responsibility for.'

Zhou Ming's words left everyone stunned. As employees of Jieke, of course they knew that Jieke and Aipai were collaborating on the exhibition, but could they also ask the other party to help with the production of their orders?

Zhou Ming smiled and said, 'Of course it's not written so clearly in the agreement, but this is also a part of technical services.'

Is this okay?

All the employees of employees all expressed doubts about Zhou Ming's approach. After all, it was a bit too rascal-like. If the Epay company didn't want to completely drag on indefinitely, after all, this point in the the contract was just vaguely written with a sentence guaranteeing all technical problems during the exhibition. With this sentence alone, the lawsuit could last at least a few years, but Jackel could not afford to wait that long!

No one understood Ming's confidence. The next day, Ming and everyone from Jieke were once again at the Stanford Conference Center, ready to help Jieke have a successful closing at this conference.

However, when Ming and arrived at the Jieke booth, they were shocked to find it packed with people again, but this time the crowd was not around their booth, but around the booth of their neighbour, Apple company's exhibition stand. As Zhou Ming looked around, he saw that the current chairman of the board, Paul, and CEO John were both here, and they were giving a speech to the reporters.

'Today is the last day of the Forté the last day of the technology exhibition, and I am very honoured to be here to introduce you to the latest product from Apple Inc. It is a computer, a computer produced by our company, Apple Inc. It has the best configuration in the world, and its price is also the most reasonable and fair. As you can see . You can see that there are many concept products on our stand. They are like pretty girls with their makeup done, waiting for you to choose them. Of course, I believe that they represent the future of technology.

In front of countless reporters Bauer spoke passionately, but Zhou Ming shook his head. Although Bauer's humour caused the crowd to laugh, it was clear that they were not very interested in the product itself.

Bauer himself seemed realised this too. So when he saw someone from Jacko coming over, he immediately changed the subject. Pointing over to Jacko, he said: 'You see, over there is Jacko's booth. It belongs to our partner company. The products and software they are displaying were all developed by our company, Apple.

It wasn't until this sentence that all the reporters were shocked, and of course Tang Ran was also very dissatisfied with his remarks.

'Who is this person? At first, these products and technologies were thrown at us like rubbish, and now Ming, you have made these things famous, and they are saying that they own them. Have they no shame?' Tang Ran muttered.

'There is nothing we can do after all, these things really are all owned by Apple Inc.' Zhou Ming comforted Tang Ran, 'and most importantly, what they said may not necessarily be a bad thing for us.'

Tang Ran didn't understand Zhou Ming's last sentence. Zhou Ming just smiled at her, and then walked over to the Aipai booth, where he greeted Paul. Paul said, 'This is Jacko Company's company's vice president. He was the one who proposed the collaboration with our company in the first place. He said he really liked our products and technology, so I gave him the best products in the company to exhibit.'

'From planning to exhibition, we developed a series of plans for him. Together with the best products from Aipai, it naturally made Jacko Company an instant success. But no matter what, Mr. Zhou Ming is also an excellent executive,' said Bauer in a condescending tone.

Following Bauer's words, the focus of all the reporters reporters' attention immediately turned to Ming Zhou. After all, the speech on the first day of the technology exhibition was still quite surprising.

Ming Zhou was not angry at Bauer's obvious move to , Zhou Ming was not angry. He just smiled and nodded, saying, 'That's right. Jackel and Aipai have an in-depth cooperation agreement.'

Hearing Zhou Ming say this, Bauer exhaled. He then told the reporters, 'In order to stay at the forefront of the times, we at Apple often collaborate with other small companies, technology and products to them for promotion, which in turn stimulates the innovation of our own technology, which is very important for maintaining our vitality.'

Zhou Ming still smiled and said, Aipai is indeed a great company, and most importantly, after they have handed over their products and technology for us to display, they will also provide us with a complete range of technical services.'

'This is inevitable, because I don't mean to belittle you, but for our products and technology, a small company like yours would be completely overwhelmed. And now we're at a key place like the Science and Technology Exhibition, of course we have to give you a lot of technical support.' Paul finally couldn't help but boast a 'This is the responsible attitude of our company, Aipai!'

Zhou Ming added, 'Yes, Aipai not only provides us with services and assistance at the technology exhibition, but if we sign any orders at the technology exhibition, they will provide wholehearted assistance free of charge, just as Mr. Bauer said earlier.'

Bauer first nodded subconsciously, and then reacted with surprise and said, 'When did I say that?'

'Just now,' Zhou Ming said, 'Didn't Mr Bauer just say that Epay is a responsible company? Then isn't the support you're providing us at the technology exhibition a sign that you're prepared to be responsible until the end? Or did Mr Bauer just say that in front of the media saying that, but in fact you have other plans and are deliberately deceiving us?'

'Of course not!' said Bauer. 'It's just that our understanding may be different.'

'How can it be different?' Zhou Ming said innocently, 'In our cooperation agreement, there is a clear clause that at this technology exhibition, Apple Inc. is responsible for providing us with technical and product support, as well as all the supporting support, and Jacko Inc. pay ten million dollars, does Mr Bauer mean that we spent this ten million dollars just to buy these products and technology, and temporarily put them on display here? Or do I need to take out our contract to prove that we are truly a comprehensive partnership?'

Zhou Ming's words caused an instant . All the reporters raised their hands and cameras in surprise, frantically snapping photos of Bauer.

Facing so much media attention, Bauer knew he had no choice. He knew that if he nodded, not only would the image he had worked so hard to create be destroyed, but the brand image of Epay would also be ruined.

So in the end, Bauer had no choice but to give in and and said, 'Of course not. Our cooperation is of course a comprehensive one. This cooperation is not limited to temporary exhibitions. We will be responsible for the agreement you have signed or any other orders.'