Yao Yuan knew this in his previous life, and he knows it in this life as well. The difference is that Meng Weiguo's ambition was for the country and the nation, while Liu Meixiang bought the country's assets to realize the growth of his personal interests.
There is a fundamental difference between the two.
With Yao Yuan as a strong backing, Meng Weiguo completely let himself go. He seized the opportunity of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. He first established a research and development center in Novosibirsk and recruited a large number of former Soviet scientists and engineers who had lost their livelihoods due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Siberian universities have established cooperative relations.
This alone cost tens of millions of dollars.
All costs here in Europe are several levels higher than those in Novosibirsk. This time, more than 10,000 people have to be recruited. Coupled with the funds to build a European R&D center, US$200 million is actually not too much.
, Meng Weiguo has done solid work.
Apart from anything else, just confirming the list of more than 10,000 people will consume a lot of energy.
Meng Weiguo also had to keep an eye on domestic business, which was why he rushed over from Finland non-stop after learning that Yao Yuan had arrived in Baku.
The next day, Yao Yuan met with Meng Weiguo and gave the first reply.
Meng Weiguo was overjoyed and said, "Mr. Yao, I can assure you that in the field of mobile communications, if you give me ten years, Weihua Company will definitely be able to catch up with the standards of Western countries. After ten years, Weihua Company will definitely be able to catch up with the standards of Western countries."
Launch its own second-generation communication technology."
Yao Yuan knew this was a very conservative goal.
The current market is for the first generation of communication technology, namely 1g. The second generation of communication technology (2g) has been put into use and is the advanced communication technology of Western countries. In contrast, in China, even 1g communication technology is still in the exploratory stage and has just appeared in the country.
Only mobile phones on the market use 1g technology.
Now it seems that Meng Weiguo's promise to have his own second-generation communication technology in ten years seems like a sign of bragging. But Yao Yuan knows that by that time, many Western countries will have already begun to use third-generation communication technology.
, so this goal is not high.
The popularization from 1g to 2g took more than ten years, and the popularization from 2g to 3g took less than ten years. This is the development process of foreign countries.
The problem is that in China, this process has been greatly shortened. It only took eight years from 1g to 2g, only five years from 2g to 3g, and less than three years from 3g to 4g.
At this time, foreign countries are still using 3G technology, and it is estimated that it will take until 2030 to popularize 4G technology.
It took China only a dozen years to complete the upgrading that took half a century for foreign countries. But with the fifth generation of communication technology, namely 5g technology, starting from 2018, China has been unique in the world. It is the formulation of the fifth generation of communication technology.
The only country with technical standards!
This is the fundamental reason why Yao Yuan did not hesitate to use his "private money" to invest heavily in Weihua Company.
He smiled and said to Meng Weiguo, "Lao Meng, I hope to use my own communication technology as soon as possible, a self-made mobile phone, a small and exquisite one, instead of a big brick phone."
Meng Weiguo nodded solemnly, "Skyworth has a cooperative relationship with Motorola. Mr. Ye Minfeng came to me. They signed a technical cooperation agreement with Motorola and wanted to sign a cooperation agreement with Weihua Company. We provide basic communication facilities and they are responsible for the terminals.
Mr. Yao, maybe you will be able to get your own mobile phone by the end of this year."
"very good."
Yao Yuan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Lao Meng, I support you, but I also want to remind you that one bite cannot make you fat. Technology research and development has its own rules. You are also a person with a technical background. You should know very well how many technical personnel to recruit.
It’s not the most important issue, of course the more the better, but if you can’t make full use of it, it’s like recruiting a team but not using it well, which deviates from our original goal.”
Meng Weiguo was a smart man and understood what Yao Yuan was obscenely reminding him. Recruiting personnel was only the first step. What was more important was to quickly and fully utilize these scientific research forces.
He nodded solemnly and said, "Mr. Yao, I'm watching personally. The scientific research plan has been formulated, focusing on communication technology. According to your request, another focus is the research of integrated circuits. Don't worry, Weihua Company and
The Chunfeng Academy of Sciences has decided to advance simultaneously in two directions."
The name integrated circuit is relatively unfamiliar, but its other name is well known - chip.
Knowing that we will enter the intelligent era after 2000, Yao Yuan certainly cannot give up research on integrated circuit technology, and in terms of automotive integrated circuits, the Electronic Research Institute led by Sergey has already gained a lot.
The first mass-produced model produced by Fangfang Machinery Factory was a heavy-duty three-wheeled cargo motorcycle, which used a new technology that was very novel but did not attract much attention, that is, electronic ignition.
This technology was developed by Sergey, but the principle is not simple. He actually used an integrated circuit for control. This is the prototype of the Chunfeng Academy of Science chip.
To put it simply, using integrated circuit control, functions such as automatic headlights can also be realized.
After Meng Weiguo reported other work to Yao Yuan, he rushed to Finland without stopping. He was negotiating an acquisition project to acquire a small company in Finland that had technology that was in line with the development direction of Weihua Company. Meng Weiguo wanted to continue
People and companies have bought it, and the funding gap is relatively large.
Therefore, he rushed to Baku to report to Yao Yuan.
There are more and more assets, and the industry is getting wider and wider. Yao Yuan basically cannot manage many things in detail as before, he only needs to control the direction.
But what he didn't know was that Meng Weiguo did not use all 200 million US dollars to establish a European R&D center, but used tens of millions of US dollars to acquire various small companies. So that later
What happened was beyond Yao Yuan's expectation.
That afternoon, Director of the President's Office Oviitch came to invite Yao Yuan.
As usual, Yao Yuan took Lin Wei, Lin Xiaohu, Jiang Yong, Chen Chao and others there. However, after entering the Presidential Palace, Ović left the others in the waiting room where the service staff were, and only Yao Yuan was allowed to
Go in alone.
Yao Yuan said to the serious-faced people, "Just drink tea here and wait for a while."
Ović took Yao Yuan in.
Lin Wei felt the difference in the atmosphere and whispered, "We used to come here together to see Aliyev. This time we are detained here. There must be something wrong. Xiaohu, do you have a gun?"
Lin Xiaohu rolled his eyes and said, "I brought it with me, in the car."
"Why don't you bring it with you?" Lin Wei said subconsciously. After he said it, he realized that what he said was nonsense, because it was impossible for you to bring a gun in. Then look at the guard with a loaded gun at the exit not far away.
It would be foolish to dwell on the gun thing.
Jiang Yong said nothing. He was thinking rapidly in his mind. What should he do to rescue Yao Yuan if something happened to Yao Yuan? This is his responsibility. There is no point in blaming Yao Yuan for not having a sense of crisis. Questioning the previous
Security measures are also pointless.
Because it was President Aliyev who summoned Yao Yuan at this time, not anyone else.
Lin Xiaohu and others were extremely anxious. They were surrounded by armed guards and they didn't know what was going on at Yao Yuan's side. They could only worry secretly while constantly thinking about countermeasures.
But Yao Yuan's side is completely different.
Aliyev met Yao Yuan in a brand new study room. To his surprise, his first words were to introduce the study room.
"Vasily, look at this study room. It has a mahogany desk and a mahogany bookshelf. Behind the desk and in front of the bookshelf, there is our Azerbaijani flag. The office of the leader of your country is also arranged like this."
Aliyev smiled and gestured to Yao Yuan to walk to the reception area, pointed to the coffee table and said, "Mahogany coffee table, look at this coffee table, this is the tea tray, this is the tea set, and this is... Haha, let's put it this way,
According to what you said before, I had people decorate this study room in the style of your country’s leader’s office. All these mahogany furniture were imported from China.”
Yao Yuan smiled and nodded. If it weren't for Aliyev's face, this study would be exactly the same as the office of domestic leaders. But Aliyev didn't know that such an office could be owned by any leader of a state-owned enterprise. It's just that
Aliyev's study is much larger.
He knew why Aliyev did this and why he took the trouble to introduce so much, so he sat down and lit a cigarette and said, "Mr. Aliyev, I don't think we need to mince words when talking to you.
Know who I am."
Aliyevich is Aliyev's nickname. Since he became the president, no one has dared to promise him this except his family elders, peers and some elders.
Aliyev smiled and sat down, making tea with unskilled movements. It could be seen that he had been studying hard for a while, but his movements still seemed a bit stiff.
He said, "Vasily, you are my best friend."
Vasily was the name given to Yao Yuan by Aliyev. Aliyev wanted to issue a passport to Yao Yuan and used this name, but Yao Yuan refused.
Aliyev finally made tea, poured a cup for Yao Yuan, and said in a deep voice, "Japan's Nippon Chemical Company proposed to build the Baku-Mersin oil pipeline and received permission from Turkey. The entire length of this oil pipeline
At 1,500 kilometers, it is twice as short as the Baku-Karamay oil pipeline.”
Sure enough, there was a change here. Yao Yuan nodded slightly but said nothing.
Aliyev said, "You know, just because of these, I will not pay attention to..."
As expected, Aliyev changed the topic and said, "However, Japan provided us with a long-term interest-free loan of 100 billion yen on the condition that it agrees to build the Baku-Mersin oil pipeline."
Yao Yuan's eyes almost popped out of his head and he looked at Aliyev in surprise.
For a long time, Aliyev felt uncomfortable being stared at by Yao Yuan and said, "What? Is there a problem?"
Yao Yuan calmed down and said, "The yen has appreciated and can be exchanged for a lot of US dollars. Even so, 100 billion yen is less than 1 billion US dollars. Aliyevich, don't you think your vision is too short-sighted?"
?If my guess is correct, a considerable part of the 100 billion yen promised by Japan is goods, right?"
Aliyev was not surprised and nodded slightly, "Yes, 50 billion yen was delivered in the form of goods, and the other 50 billion yen was delivered in US dollars in cash."
Yao Yuan said, "These conditions won't make you tempted. I'm afraid New Japan Company has offered a relatively high price to buy the oil in Baku. New Japan Chemical is responsible for investing in the entire pipeline construction, and has also offered a relatively high price."
The price is indeed attractive. So, what price does Xinrihua offer?"
He basically told the real situation that Aliyev encountered through a series of questions and answers.
Aliyev nodded helplessly, "You are right. The US$35 per barrel offered by Nippon Chemical can be used to sign a twenty-year contract. Vasily, this is good for you."
Yao Yuan knew what it meant.
The current international oil prices are being suppressed by the United States. In order to fight the Gulf War, U.S. President Bush spent more than half a year preparing, convincing the major oil-producing countries to increase growth, and at the same time using strategic reserves. After the war started, oil prices did not rise but fell.
, which shocked the whole world.
Due to this impression, oil prices have been very low in the past two years, generally below $30.
Nippon Chemical is willing to buy Baku's crude oil at a price of 35 US dollars per barrel, which shows that they are determined to spend a lot of money. Japan has no oil of its own and needs to import it. For them, as long as they can exchange for oil, how much does it cost?
It doesn't matter, but the price is still tempting.
A premium of 17%.
But for Yao Yuan, who knew that oil prices would soon rise, a mere 17% premium was nothing.
But Aliyev doesn’t know!
Even if he is a god, he could not have guessed that the price of oil would soar to over 100 US dollars in twenty years and almost never come down!
After figuring out that Aliyev's pressure was not diplomatic, Yao Yuan felt much more relaxed. If he thought about it carefully, Japan was a defeated country. This could be seen from the contemptuous smile on Aliyev's face when he mentioned Japan.
It turns out that he also looks down on Japan.
Then the problem is simple.
Yao Yuan suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. President, we are responsible for the construction of high-grade highways in Baku and other regions, as well as many infrastructures in the capital. If I remember correctly, financing and loans are also involved.
.Do the Japanese want to accept it?”
Aliyev was stunned, frowned and asked, "Vasily, what do you mean?"
"According to your thinking, I can only say this, because I really can't think of how to respond to you. You know, the Baku-Karamay oil pipeline party B is Southern Industrial, and the price is negotiated every year, because I think the oil price will continue
The rise is a long-term rising movement, and you are right that Nippon Chemical’s judgment that oil prices will continue to be low..."