This talk was gained for both sides. Matsk understood China's determination and became a little more pessimistic about Captain Cook's project. Feng Xiaochen learned the attitude of European companies from Matsk's plan, and felt that European companies were at the end of their strength and had no lead. Therefore, they cherished themselves like this, for fear that the Chinese would learn the technical tips.

He recalled the scene when he visited Pumai Company with Yang Haifan nearly 20 years ago. Heinzel, who served as the instructor, was awesome and threatened that they could take photos at will without any worry about the Chinese becoming their competitors. Today, Europeans covet the money in Chinese pockets on the one hand, and on the other hand, they kept their technology tightly and did not dare to let Chinese people contact them. This can illustrate many problems.

Feng Xiaochen returned to Bonn with his entourage and informed Yan Leqin, Feng Hua and others about the talks with Matsk. Yan Leqin was also full of emotion. Feng Shuyi was a little gloating and said to Feng Xiaochen with a smile: "You deserve it. How much technology have you stole from our Europe over the years? Now we Europeans have also learned smart things and will not let you steal our technology."

Feng Hua felt that his wife was overstated and quickly scolded: "Shu Yi, how could you say that? Xiaochen and his team introduced technology from Europe in the past, which was in line with the law. It was a technology voluntarily transferred by European companies. How could it be called stealing?"

Of course, Feng Shuyi does not really have any opinions about China. As a German, she has some traditional Chinese women's idea of ​​marrying chickens and following the chickens. In her heart, she regards herself as a Chinese wife. She explained: "I am talking about a view from the current European industry. Many people believe that the Chinese have stole European technology and compete with European companies with these technologies. This is the reason for Europe's decline."

Feng Xiaochen said: "Europeans are just finding a step for themselves. The principle of free trade is sold by Europeans to China, and technology transfer itself is part of free trade. When we introduced technology from Europe, we paid tuition fees. Europeans sold us the technology they eliminated and charged high technology transfer fees. The reason why we can compete with European companies today is to carry out independent innovation based on digesting and absorbing European technology. Europeans clearly have technological advantages but do not pay attention to innovation, so we caught up with them. How can we blame us?"

Feng Shuyi said: "Yes, some other friends I know also hold this view, and they believe that the fundamental reason for the decline of Europe lies in their own depravity."

Seeing that the two sides had reached an agreement, Feng Hua reiterated the topic and asked Feng Xiaochen: "Xiaochen, since the negotiations with Captain Cook cannot be reached, what are your plans?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "Mr. Wang, Mr. Yang and I have discussed it. We are planning to build a research center in the Netherlands to absorb European offshore oil experts to work at the center and cooperate with domestic research institutions. By the way, Huang Ming is the director of the research center we have temporarily determined. In the future, he will ask you to support his work in Europe."

"Grandma Yan, I will hire you as the honorary director of our center. You should give me more guidance in the future." Huang Ming said to Yan Leqin obediently.

Huang Ming is also an old man in the equipment company, but he has been lacking the opportunity to stand alone in recent years. This time, Feng Xiaochen said that he would build a research center for a sixth generation drilling platform in Europe, and connected with a large-scale research project with a scale of 100 billion yuan in investment in China. Huang Ming couldn't help but be moved. Just so, Feng Xiaochen also had the idea of ​​giving Huang Ming a chance, so after briefly exchanging opinions with several other leaders of the equipment company over the phone, Feng Xiaochen directly appointed Huang Ming as the director of the center, with the word "temporary" in front of it. If Huang Ming wants to erase these two words, he really has to make some achievements quickly.

Feng Hua said: "Xiaochen, I understand what you mean. However, the Captain Cook project is participated by several large European companies. Many offshore oil experts are either employees of these companies or have long-term cooperation with these companies. How could they come to work here?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "It doesn't matter, my idea is better than nothing. There are always some experts and engineers outside of big companies in Europe? In addition, even if the experts who cooperate with those companies, if the Captain Cook project is not launched for a long time, can these companies stop them from cooperating with us first?"

"Your premise is that Captain Cook's project cannot be started. Isn't this a bit too optimistic?" Feng Hua asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "We went to Captain Cook's Project Committee this time. As far as I feel, I feel that this project is about to be ruined. I also told Matsk that he did not refute me, which shows that he had no clue in his heart."

"This is difficult." Feng Hua frowned. "If even the chairman of the committee has no confidence, it is estimated that companies will be even more unlikely to invest money. At least they will be cautious before seeing the hope of success of the project."

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "If most companies are cautious and refuse to invest first, how can this project have hope of success?"

Feng Hua also smiled and said, "I think Matsk may be very busy during this period. He has to try to convince all companies to invest the promised funds in place."

Feng Xiaochen said: "Originally, if Matsk could accept us and China participated in this project, everyone would definitely have more confidence. If I were Matsk, even if I really didn't want us to participate, I should at least make a negotiation attitude. It would be best to publish some news in the media that China intends to participate to strengthen the confidence of shareholders. Unfortunately..."

"Xiaochen, is the Chinese government sure that it will not participate in the Captain Cook project?" Feng Shuyi asked from the side.

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said, "It should be confirmed that he will not participate. Unless the other party offers superior conditions that we cannot refuse. This condition must be better than the conditions we hoped at the beginning, otherwise we will not go back and forth."

"If so, why don't you announce this news?" Feng Shuyi asked with a smile.

"What news?" Feng Xiaochen did not react.

Feng Shuyi said: "It's news that the Chinese government will not participate in the Captain Cook project."

"Why..., huh, this seems to be a good idea." Feng Xiaochen was stunned for a moment and understood what his aunt meant. It has to be said that Feng Shuyi, as a patent lawyer, is well versed in all kinds of conspiracies. As a matter that Feng Xiaochen did not expect, Feng Shuyi thought of it first.

"Aunt, can you help us contact several media? It is best not to do this in our name, otherwise it will be a loss of talk." Feng Xiaochen said.

Feng Shuyi laughed and said, "This is easy. We often have to deal with reporters. I will reveal this news to them and ask them to go to Matsk to verify. Once the media promotes that the Chinese people refuse to cooperate with the Captain Cook project, and the Chinese government plans to spend huge amounts of money to conduct independent research, I think their shareholders will make the right decisions."

"They will keep their money pockets tighter." Feng Xiaochen laughed and said the words for his aunt.

"You two really like to engage in conspiracy, I don't like it!" Yan Leqin looked at Feng Shuyi and Feng Xiaochen and said in a angrily manner. When she said this, there were still smiles on her face, which made people know that she was just talking casually. The old lady is indeed an open-minded person and does not like to engage in conspiracy, but the conspiracy made by her daughter-in-law and grandson is beneficial to the country, so the old lady will naturally not object.

Feng Xiaochen and others stayed in Europe for a few days, and then returned to China by plane. Before leaving, he also accepted a joint interview with several European media, which was about the Captain Cook project and the Captain Zheng He plan. Previously, Feng Xiaochen had instructed several media to interview Matsk to verify the matter of the Chinese government's investment in Captain Cook project. Matsk repeatedly concealed it, but could not deny the result of the collapse of the two parties' negotiations. After interviewing Matsk, the reporters asked Feng Xiaochen to verify it again, which was a natural thing, and it would not make people realize that the driving force behind this group of reports was the Chinese.

As Feng Shuyi and Feng Xiaochen expected, several media hyped up Captain Cook and Captain Zheng He, which attracted some attention in the European industry. The Chinese government's refusal to join Captain Cook project means that the financing channels for this project have been narrowed a little bit, and China's separate launch of Zheng He plan has also posed a serious threat to Captain Cook project. From the perspective of investors, with a competitor like China, the risk of Captain Cook project has increased. Even if it can be successful, its market value will be greatly reduced because it has lost the Chinese market. As we all know, the Chinese market is the most valuable nowadays.

Heinzel and others firmly opposed the inclusion of China in the Captain Cook project, but at the same time claimed that the company they worked in could not invest additionally, and the investments they had promised had to be paid in stages. The first stage was just paying 5% sloppyly. In fact, as far as Heinzel's own wishes, he hoped that various shareholders and companies could increase their investments so that the Chinese would not come from behind.
Chapter completed!