Reborn Tycoon Rise

Xu Zhi nodded, and Yao Mingcheng took out some documents and handed them to several people.

Wang Liming took it, opened it and read it quickly. He was a little confused and said, "This looks like a list of chemical ingredients for liquids?"

Yao Mingcheng nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed an ingredient list, but do you want to take a look at the ingredients inside?"

He Guoyuan looked at the table on one page and said: "Looking at these ingredients, the main liquid should be water, but it is mixed with a lot of heavy metal elements and organic chemicals. It looks like the ingredients of some industrial wastewater? Is this one of our companies or What is the composition of the wastewater from the foundry?”

Xu Zhi smiled and said: "Old He, you know quite a lot!"

He Guoyuan said: "I used to be a manager at the Phillips factory and also handled some chemical ingredients. After MacLehose became the governor of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government began to restrict environmental protection, so I also have experience in this area."

Yao Mingcheng asked: "Old He, look at the various harmful ingredients in this?"

He Guoyuan looked at it carefully and said: "I am not a professional environmental protection expert, but although there are some heavy metals and chlorine-containing organic matter in it, the proportion is very small. If it is factory sewage, it should be qualified, and it is not a serious pollution."

Xu Zhidao: "What if it is water that people drink or bathe directly?"

"No way!" He Guoyuan was a little surprised and said: "Although this kind of water is not too polluted, if it comes into direct contact with people, it can easily cause cancer! Where does this water come from?"

Xu Zhi said: "About two years ago, when I was still in the United States, I met an American in a bar. He was drunk and told me that his former American company deliberately discharged wastewater from a factory in Wanwan. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, and it wasn’t until half a year ago when we asked RCA to buy LCD patents that the lion opened fire that I thought of it, so I arranged for Yao Mingcheng to go to Wanwan to investigate the matter.”

"RCA's factory in Wanwan?" He Guoyuan asked, "Which factory is it?"

Yao Mingcheng said: "It's the Taoyuan factory where Midea's monitors are supplied."

"So that's it, but this kind of thing has nothing to do with us, right?" He Guoyuan said: "If there is pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency over there should know about it. If it doesn't know, it means inaction or acquiescence. Even if we take The evidence is useless, right?"

Yao Mingcheng shook his head and explained: "It's not that simple. If it is really like this, why is it worth discussing this matter here with a few of us!

Wanwan has been very strict with its environmental inspections in recent years. Although RCA is a large company and the local government may turn a blind eye in some aspects, it will never maliciously allow large factories to discharge pollutants at will.

If the RCA Taoyuan factory just discharged the water into the river, even if we knew it, we would not bother to ask. Do you know where the sample for this test was obtained? "

He Guoyuan said: "What do you mean? Their factory secretly discharges water?"

Yao Mingcheng shook his head and said: "Not in any river, but in underground water hundreds of meters deep!"

"Groundwater?" Wang Liming on the side was also surprised: "How can there be such a component in groundwater?"

"If it is just discharged in the river, although some of it will be sent underground, the amount will be very small, and it is impossible to penetrate hundreds of meters deep." Yao Mingcheng explained: "After obtaining the composition report, I After spending a lot of money and investigating for a month, I found out that the RCA factory had already dug several underground wells in its own factory area, and then pumped a large amount of sewage into the ground with high-pressure pumps every night!"

"So crazy?" Wang Liming also hesitated.

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Yes, although all enterprises have some pollution, even if they are discharged in the river, as long as it is not excessive, the river can clean up part of it by itself, and people around the river have eyes, at least they will not be directly harmed by heavy pollution. .

But discharging such a large amount of highly toxic sewage into the ground cannot be described as crazy. The underground water has extremely poor mobility, and there are also a large number of residents above Taoyuan City. This behavior has insulted human nature! "

In later years, in 1994, the RCA pollution case was fully exposed. At that time, as many as 1,375 cancer deaths were deemed by the court to be directly linked to pollution, and there were countless unknown diseases or those that could not be directly linked.

However, at that time, RCA's factory in Wanwan had long been closed. The company had been acquired by General Electric as early as the mid-1980s, and its television business was also acquired by Thomson of France. This legal prosecution was against two of the world's top companies. In the lawsuit, several major consortiums shied away from each other and even refused to accept the lawsuit. Coupled with the special reasons of the then government, thousands of families went through 15 years of trouble, and in the end, only General Electric Company paid NT$500 million to settle the matter.

For thousands of families, NT$500 million in 15 years is, on average, not even enough for one surgery per victim.

This area of ​​Taoyuan City was designated as a permanently polluted area in the future. General Electric Company was finally forced by American environmentalists to send experts to deal with the matter. However, the subsequent result could only be: even if a thousand years pass, this area will remain polluted. There will still be this kind of pollution in the area!

Yao Mingcheng continued: "In addition to investigating the RCA factory, I also sent people to places about ten kilometers around the factory. There, many abnormalities have appeared, some plants died inexplicably, and many people suffered from breast cancer. Cancer, nose cancer, liver cancer and other diseases, I also checked the hospital data. The number of cancer patients and skin disease patients near the Taoyuan factory has increased several times in recent years, which is much higher than other places. However, because the total number is still It wasn’t much, and it didn’t attract the attention of the local government.”

He Guoyuan said: "Then what should we do? Report it directly?"

"No, it's not that easy!" Xu Zhidao said: "RCA has a market value of more than 5 billion US dollars and is a very influential company in the United States. If you report it directly without preparation, it will probably go unresolved. I have been investigating for so long. , it’s not just for RCA to fine you some money in the end.”

Yao Mingcheng said: "I have been working with Wanwan over the past few months and have established relationships with local government officials. If this matter really comes out, I am still confident that I can stop the factory for a few days." Month, after all, such a major environmental pollution incident is extremely rare in the world. Even if some officials from the Bay Area authorities want to protect themselves, they cannot remain indifferent at all. However, whether they can continue to shut down factories in the future depends on Xu Sheng’s layout in the United States. ”

Xu Zhidao: "Either we don't do this, or we have to make a big fuss if we do, so that we can get these benefits from it. I will open up the relationship with the United States. We cannot directly come forward to do this kind of thing. We can only do it in the United States." Looking for large consortiums that can make profits together. As long as some consortiums in the United States can profit from it and let them use political and economic resources, success will be possible.

We don’t need to get the maximum benefit, it’s enough to achieve our business goals. The only thing missing now is a contract! "

He Guoyuan also understood and said with a smile: "I understand, I will go to negotiate with RCA immediately. According to the current scale of our color TV market at Midea, it is no problem to order millions of color tubes!"

Midea's arcade and color TV business both require the purchase of color tubes, but in the past it was said that they would purchase them from several companies, and RCA was just one of them.

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "One million is too little. If you want to play, just play with 3 million and find a way to set the liquidated damages higher."

"Three million units?" He Guoyuan said: "That's too much. Currently, our annual sales of color TVs are only 200,000 to 300,000 units, and arcade machines are about 300,000 units. If we fail to suppress the RCA factory as planned, Then such multi-purpose management will consume a lot of liquidity? And where to put it is also a problem. "

Xu Zhidao: "The most indispensable thing for Midea is working capital. The 3 million color tubes are not shipped in one go, nor do they need to be paid in one go. Don't worry. Moreover, Hutchison is mine now, and half of the docks in Xiangjiang are owned by Hutchison." Are you worried that there is no place to put the yellow ones?

Furthermore, our current sales volume of 500,000 a year does not mean that it will be the same in the future. Whether it is arcade machines or color TVs, the current sales volume is increasing. "

He Guoyuan nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Although we have a plan, you should still negotiate as normal, keep the price down, so that even if our plan fails, Midea can save a lot of money. In addition, the contract must be signed in the United States, so that in the future It’s more convenient to operate.”