I Found A Planet

Lei Ge explained the specific situation for him.

The person in charge of the European Union's anti-monopoly department who focused on the rice company and decided to issue a huge fine this time was a woman named Margaret Vestager.

She began to serve as the European Union's anti-monopoly commissioner in 20X4, but no one took this woman seriously at the beginning.

However, this old woman has only been in office for a few years, and a large number of Silicon Valley bosses have fallen into her hands.

As soon as she took the stage, she set her sights on Gu Ge Company and launched an anti-monopoly investigation on Gu Ge Company.

But a technology giant like Google needs connections and contacts, and knows how to deal with governments of various countries. If you sue him for "monopoly", he will label you as "suppressing the economy" instead, trying to force this One can imagine the difficulty of such a giant submitting.

But the rapid development of the situation surprised everyone. After a half-year investigation, Margaret, who produced conclusive evidence, issued a sky-high fine of 54 billion yuan, accounting for about 10% of Google’s company that year. However, Gu Ge’s executives had to accept the loss and paid the fine.

The shareholders of Guge Company are heartbroken, it hurts like cutting flesh, and they hate the old witch Margaret.

After slaying Gu Ge, Margaret turned around and focused on another giant fruit company. It didn't take long for another super fine of 110 billion yuan, which once again caused an uproar in the technology circle.

The fruit company struggled hard. CEO Cook went to the EU to negotiate many times but still failed, and finally obediently paid the fine.

Then continued efforts, Margaret, who became more and more powerful, successively fined Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm and other giants one by one, and the accumulated fines exceeded 38 billion euros, or about 304 billion yuan.

It was rumored that there was no fine that Margaret couldn't open, only companies that she was too lazy to follow.

It can be said that the tech giants hate her to the core, but the European people love her to death, calling her the "anti-monopoly pioneer" and "iron lady", and regard her as an idol.

This time Margaret set her sights on the rice company, with a super fine of 7.5 billion euros, equivalent to 60 billion yuan. Obviously, in the eyes of this old woman, the rice company has been regarded as a giant at the level of Gu Ge and fruit.

"Why? Our products are so good and have brought so much help to people. Should we be punished just because we are doing well?"

A lobby group hired by the rice companies argued vigorously, saying it was unfair.

"It is true that you have done well, but it has influenced others to do better. Your Aimi robot has occupied 99% of the market, causing other companies to have no way to develop and consumers to lose more choices. This is extremely harmful to consumers. Unfavorable, we must stop the emergence of a monopoly situation.”

Margaret spoke plausibly.

The lobby group of the rice company was speechless, completely defeated by this set of logic. What I did well was actually wrong. Everyone is about the same?

...

"A fine of 60 billion yuan, Brother Lei, are you planning to pay it, or do you decide not to pay it?" Chen Jin asked after understanding the situation.

"I……"

Lei Xiaojun hesitated for a while and said: "That old witch Margaret is very shrewd. Aimi robots have sold more than 25 million units in the European market, each with a profit of 2,000, and the total profit is about 50 billion. The fine is within two years. If the fines are paid, there should be no new fines issued during this period, and if the fines are paid and the Aimi robot sells tens of millions of units, the rice company will still make a profit."

"Brother Lei, can you be a little ambitious?"

Chen Jin shook his head and said, "60 billion, is this equivalent to two years of rice company's net profit? What can't be done with this money? Keep it in your hands for a few lifetimes and you won't be able to spend it all. If it were me, you would be fined a penny If you don’t pay, just leave the EU market directly, what the hell is this place, can serious business continue?”

"I would like to do this, but the sales channels established by Rice Company in the EU not only sell Aimi robots, but also mobile phones, TVs, rice cookers, air purifiers... We sell all these products, Aimi robots are popular in Europe Later, even the rice company’s ecological chain products were sold a lot, and a large number of rice noodles were cultivated, and now the popularity of rice in Europe is no worse than that in China.”

"so……"

"Are you going to pay a fine of tens of billions?" Chen Jin rolled his eyes.

"This time I can only admit defeat, and Margaret is about to resign soon. This ticket has been fined, and there should be nothing wrong in the future."

"Margaret will be fine after she resigns? Do you still think this is a good thing? Do you know that the new official has three fires? What if the new anti-monopoly commissioner is more greedy than Margaret and forgets about the ticket, What should I do if I take the rice again? The Silicon Valley bosses will offend the rice company in Country Z once more, do you think they will show mercy?" Chen Jin analyzed to him.

Cold sweat dripped down Lei Xiaojun's face.

Chen Jin's guess is really possible.

However, it is impossible to withdraw from the EU market just like this. Now that the EU market has become the largest market of Rice Company, no one will throw away the most profitable market because of speculation, and the shareholders of Rice Company will not agree. .

Therefore, the rice company not only has to admit defeat, but also has to face all unknown futures.

Apart from a few words of consolation, Chen Jin expressed that there was nothing he could do. The technology authorization fee of Aimi II was 250 yuan per unit, and he would not charge dozens of yuan less out of sympathy. Xinghai Company did not have any business in the European Union, and Rice Company was fined. No amount of money will affect Xinghai Company in the slightest.

...

July 29th.

The EU Anti-Monopoly Department announced the punishment for Rice Company: Aimi Robot actually constituted a monopoly on the sweeping robot market, which seriously damaged fair competition and fined 7.5 billion euros.

As soon as the news was announced, it immediately exploded on the Internet.

Om netizens were elated, "Great job", "Margaret I love you", "I think this company should have been punished long ago", "Although I like Aimi robot very much, I'm sorry, people from country Z It's just too much money being made, it's not fair"... all sorts of schadenfreude.

The country Z network exploded, and the netizens were extremely angry.

"It's wrong to do well, and it's right to be bad. What kind of logic is this?!"

"For 7.5 billion euros, China Star was fined 3 billion knives by the Ministry of Commerce of country M. This is doubled!"

"Could it be that the company in country Z is a fat sheep or a pig, and should be slaughtered?"

"Brother Lei, withdraw from the EU market! If you can't make money from foreigners, you can make money from us. We will buy rice products!"

"The EU fines our companies, why don't we punish EU companies? What are the relevant departments doing?"

The Internet was full of all kinds of fierce speeches, and netizens were extremely indignant and threatened to retaliate one after another.

Rice Company, the center of public opinion, remained silent. Even though there were countless voices of support from netizens, they did not dare to make any remarks, for fear of causing greater controversy.

...

"Mr. Chen, your decision not to expand overseas is really wise. A fine of 60 billion is too ugly!"

"I didn't quite understand the boss's approach before, but now I realize that all of this is in the boss's expectation. We are all blinded by the little interest in front of us."

"Actually, we can see that Huayao Company was completely squeezed out of the market by country M. In the high-tech field, the West will do everything possible to contain us! If Xinghai Technology becomes a giant like Huayao in the future, it will only be suppressed even more , the fine amount is even greater!"

"I don't think so. Wow robot foreigners will definitely limit it, but they will definitely not limit the small star learning machine. This is a country's most important weapon, and it is something that can enhance the country's competitiveness. They will even beg us to sell them. The country... a really good thing will make them realize that restricting it is stupid, and closing the country will only hurt themselves in the end!"

"However... Xiaoxing learning machine is such a good product, why should you sell it to them?"

CEO Ling Jundong said that at this moment, the Western thinking in his mind basically disappeared, and he was completely consistent with the boss's thinking.

After a period of frantic make-up lessons, and after learning about the power of the intelligent learning program, his heart also swelled up, and he stopped admiring the West.

The collective transformation of the executives made Chen Jin nod repeatedly.

Indeed, money is very important, but dignity is equally important. If you lose your dignity and self-esteem for money, you will not be happy no matter how much money you earn.

Just like the motto he set for Xinghai Technology: self-esteem, self-confidence, and belief in one's own work will bring beauty to the world.