The peaceful days passed by in a flash. On October 19, Patriot Company arrived at Cuihu Hotel in Shuanghu District and invited Shi Lei for preliminary contact.
Shi Lei did not agree immediately, but responded to Patriot Company to discuss it again on October 20th. Because Mu Shuang has a professional class today and she will not skip class!
Two days ago, Lycra Company sent a reply, clearly stating that they would send business negotiators to Shuangqing City to negotiate with Shi Lei. However, Lycra Company showed little interest!
The rigorous people of the Will Country pay great attention to the issue of patent rights. The smile detection patent rights of the Will Country are not in the hands of Shi Lei, and the Lycra Company has no interest in it.
The next day, at 8:30 in the morning, Shi Lei had just gotten up and finished washing, when he got a call. Looking at the unfamiliar number, Shi Lei didn't hesitate and pressed the answer button directly.
A serious and serious English message came through the handset of the mobile phone. "Hello, is this Mr. Shi?"
Shi Lei held the phone in his left hand and responded in English: "This is Shi Lei, who are you?"
"Hello Mr. Shi, I am the representative of Leica Company, Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard. You can call me Ludwig, or William." Ludwig introduced himself. "We have arrived at the double
Lake District, Green Lake Hotel. Mr. Shi, when can you come over and let’s talk about cooperation on smile detection?”
Listening to the long list of names, Shi Lei secretly slandered in his heart that the names of foreigners are really long and difficult to remember!
"Mr. William, you can do it today!" Shi Lei knew that the Chinese people's style of doing things was definitely action-oriented. If he left them alone like Patriot Company, there is no guarantee that the representatives of Lycra Company would leave directly.
Sure enough, William responded on the phone: "Mr. Shi, how about we meet at Green Lake Hotel at ten o'clock in the morning to discuss the smile detection procedure?"
Shi Lei thought about it and agreed. Mu Shuang didn't have any professional classes today, so he could skip class and help Shi Lei negotiate.
After hanging up the phone, Shi Lei immediately walked to dormitory 502 and knocked on the door.
"Xiao Mo, Mu Shuang, open the door quickly!"
"No!" Ling Yumo's voice came out, "Stone monster, we are still in our pajamas, you big pervert, don't even think about coming in!"
Shi Lei chuckled and said, "If you don't want to open it, don't open it! You guys change your clothes quickly, we'll go out for breakfast, and then go to Green Lake Hotel to continue the negotiation!"
At 9:50 in the morning, Shi Lei arrived at the Green Lake Hotel with two beauties and met with the representatives of the Lycra Company in the lobby. Only two people from the Lycra Company came, and one of them was Ludwig William who called Shi Lei.
Erhard, another named Conrad Cole, is a digital camera software technical engineer at Leica Company, and William is the deputy director of the software technology department.
William rented a small conference room in the Green Lake Hotel, instead of choosing to discuss business at the dinner table like Kodak. From this point, it can be seen that there is a difference between the Will Country and the Li Jian Country.
In the small conference room, after the two parties introduced each other, William went straight to the topic and said: "Mr. Shi, have you brought the smile detection program?"
This time, Shi Lei brought his notebook and a high-definition camera. He took out the notebook, started it, and handed it to Conard. This guy was the expert in verifying the smile detection program, not William who pretended to be the deputy minister.
Conard started operating directly on his laptop without any prompting from Shi Lei. He first used himself as a model and took a few photos with a high-definition camera.
Then he filmed William and various indoor scenes in the small conference room. While Conrad was testing the experiment, William and Shi Lei chatted about the humanistic customs of the Will Country.
Watching Shi Lei chatting with William in a familiar manner, from the annual Oktoberfest in Munich to the Bremen Carnival and various customs of the Will Country, people couldn't help but have the illusion that Shi Lei was living in the Will Country.
Pass?
William was very happy that Shi Lei was familiar with the Kingdom of Will, and the two sides had a very pleasant chat.
"Shi Lei, at this year's Oktoberfest, you are welcome to come to our country of Will!" After a pleasant conversation, William and Shi Lei have become friends, and their names have changed.
Shi Lei said with a smile: "Okay! William, I must become the drinking king at this year's Oktoberfest!"
William looked at Shi Lei in surprise, "My friend, do you have a good drinking capacity?"
Shi Lei boasted: "When it comes to my drinking capacity, I'm not bragging. I've never gotten drunk after drinking beer!" This is not because Shi Lei is talking nonsense, but because Shi Lei never drinks much beer and usually drinks coconut milk!
"Wow!" William looked at Shi Lei with admiration, "Shi Lei, I must invite you to this year's Oktoberfest. Our Lycra company is one of the sponsors of the Oktoberfest, and I will ask the organizing committee to send you a message.
Invitation card!"
Shi Lei's expression remained unchanged and he continued to brag: "No problem! He's just the wine king, so I won it easily!"
The two parties chatted for nearly an hour before technical engineer Conard completed the test and returned the laptop to Shi Lei.
"Mr. Conard, how effective is the smile detection program?" Shi Lei asked with a smile.
Conrad said with a serious face: "Excellent! Our Leica company needs such excellent digital camera software!"
Chinese people are rigorous in doing things and seek truth from facts. If they need a smiley face test, they need it. They will not pretend to do it, saying that they don’t need it even though they clearly need it.
William put away his smile and said, "Shi Lei, although we are friends, it concerns the interests of the company, so I will handle business matters!"
Shi Lei nodded and said: "This is the best! William, please talk to Ms. Mu Shuang! She is our authorized agent."
Mu Shuang said with a serious face: "Hello, Mr. Ludwig!"
William responded: "Hello, Ms. Mu. Regarding the smile detection program, how much do you plan to charge?"
"Two million dollars!" Mu Shuang raised two onion-white fingers, opened her thin lips slightly, and said a number.
"Impossible!" William immediately shook his head and refused, "Although this smile detection software is very good, the patent rights of our country are in the hands of Sony. Even if you sell us the source code of the software, we will be found by Sony.
Trouble! It’s just the source code, not worth 2 million! We can offer 300,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to 2.4 million yuan in Xia country currency!”
Mu Shuang said softly: "Mr. Ludwig, are you kidding me? It's a bit funny to buy a piece of software that can bring revolutionary changes to the digital camera industry for a mere three hundred thousand dollars!"
Leica's internal evaluation department has internally evaluated the value of the smile detection software. Although Sony owns the patent, the software in Shi Lei's hands is more advanced, so Leica can slowly entangle with Sony, and even innovate again.
Apply for a new patent right. Therefore, they are somewhat interested and have some ideas in smile detection, but they are not not interested at all.
"Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars!" William raised the price with a tense expression. "No matter how good the smile detection program is, its patent rights will always be in the hands of Sony!"
Mu Shuang refused to give in and said: "Mr. Ludwig, let me correct you on a wrong statement. The patent rights for the smile detection program are not all in the hands of Sony. At least, Xia Guo's software patent rights are in our hands!
The development situation of Xia Country is getting better and better, the consumption capacity of various high-end luxury goods is gradually increasing, and the sales data of Leica cameras in Xia Country are gradually rising. I don’t think your Leica company has no statistics?"
William took advantage of the situation and said: "Ms. Mu, are you bundling the smile detection program with Xia Guo's patent rights? If so, our Lycra company will increase the price!"
Mu Shuang shook his head and said: "We will retain the patent rights!"
"Miss Mu, if you only sell the software source code, we can only buy it for US$350,000 at most!" William said slightly disappointed. The market in Xia Guo is indeed growing very rapidly as Mu Shuang said. If
Having Xia Guo's patent is extremely beneficial to Lycra's sales in Xia Guo!
Mu Shuang tucked the long hair behind her ears, "We can authorize Leica to sell cameras equipped with smile detection programs in Xia Country for free without paying patent fees!"
William thought for a while, then raised the price again and said, "If this is the case, we can pay 375,000 US dollars, equivalent to 3 million yuan in Xia country currency, to purchase the source code of the smile detection program, as well as a free license!"
"Mr. Ludwig, your price is too low and does not meet the value of smile detection. The source code plus free license is a million dollars in total!" Mu Shuang said in a cold tone.
William was about to bargain when Mu Shuang stood up and interrupted: "Mr. Ludwig, the negotiations are temporarily suspended. We also met with Kodak Company of Lijian Country and Patriot Company, a local camera company of Xia Country. Hope.
We have an opportunity to work together!”
Shi Lei also stood up and said with regret: "William, think about it carefully, one million is really not expensive!"
William nodded solemnly, "I will report it to the company and persuade the company's senior management!"
He sent Shi Lei and the others out of the conference room. Shi Lei's phone rang just in time. After pressing the answer button, a cheerful voice in Xia Guoyu came from the phone.
"Hello? Brother Shi Lei? I'm Lao Zhong from Patriot! Are you free today? How about we meet at the Green Lake Hotel and have a casual meal?" Lao Zhong's full name is Zhong Muyuan, and he is the executive vice president of Patriot Company.
The manager is also one of the shareholders, holding 17% of the shares of Patriot Company.
Yesterday, he called Shi Lei, but after being rejected, he showed no emotion at all. From this, it can be seen that this person either has a cheerful personality, knows how to tolerate, or is both!
Shi Lei glanced at William, half-smiled and said: "Brother Zhong, I have arrived at Green Lake Hotel, where are you?"
Zhong Muyuan's voice was full of surprise, and he said happily: "Brother Shi Lei, have you arrived at Green Lake Hotel? I will come out to greet you right now! Wait a moment, wait a moment!"
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