Global monopoly of technology

On the night of the East Eight District on July 21, big news broke out on the other side of the ocean. Wilbo Roche, who once again appeared in public view, confirmed to multiple media organizations including Reuters that he would treat the US$43 billion Cerulean An additional 25.5% tariff will be imposed on imported products under the Coastal Group, which will take effect at 12:01 AM Eastern Time.

And Wang Wang also posted a dynamic statement on MicroBlog that in addition, the tax on the products of the Côte d’Azur Group worth 18 billion US dollars will take effect in the next two weeks, mainly in high-tech fields such as semiconductors and consumer electronics. Object.

After the news was confirmed, it immediately became the headline news of major news websites around the world that day.

The media and industry insiders have long known that the two sides may not live in peace and stability this year, but they never expected to come so quickly. The Davos Forum summit just ended yesterday. It is a bit of a trick to turn around and come here. too fast.

It seems that the prerequisite conference negotiations should not only be unpleasant, but most of the talks have fallen apart.

"Lao Mei really has no bottom line."

"Isn't the meaning of the bottom line just to break through it?"

"It's reasonable, why don't you block the MicroBlog that understands Wang?"

"People are so worried that they can't catch the reason. You can't laugh at me if you do this?"

"Understanding Wang: No one understands tariffs better than me, and no one understands MicroBlog better than me..."

"It's really hard for the archbishop. I have been suppressed by the contemporary world overlords. Lao Mei has done things time and time again and refreshed my understanding of the strength of the Blue Coast and Bluestar technology."

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There is a lot of uproar about this matter on the Internet in the Mainland, and it is also true abroad. The matter is also being discussed on the Reddit forum.

A large number of North American users ranted frantically on this anonymous website forum. This news is absolutely influential for them. The Azure series of mobile phones account for more than 61% of the North American smartphone market, and its popularity is not mentioned. Yu.

The latest flagship machine, Azure-5, is already expensive enough. In this way, the retail price of an Azure-5 has to go to the $4,000 stall. Local consumers don’t blame their mothers. This price is all right. I bought a Japanese used car locally.

I don’t want consumers to buy this product if I make it clear, but the local mobile phone brands can’t compare with it.

Bluestar Technology’s stock price was also subject to volatility. This time, the two companies were hit together. The stock price surged and fell on the same day, and finally went down. The closing price fell 2.7% on the day. Although there was no plummet, it could not hold Bluestar Technology as high as 1.82. The ultra-large scale of the trillion-dollar market value directly led to the loss of 49.15 billion US dollars in market value that day.

You must know that even if you look at the world, all listed companies with a market value of $50 billion exist.

Investors were originally very excited, looking forward to the birth of the first listed company with a market value of over US$2 trillion in human history. This is all right, the goal of US$2 trillion in market value is undoubtedly overshadowed by this event. Uncertainty factors.

After the Côte d’Azur entered the daylight in the Eastern Hemisphere that morning, Yao Jianhong held a temporary media meeting to respond to this incident, that is, expressing anger and protest.

When asked by the media how the Côte d’Azur would respond, Yao Jianhong responded with one sentence: Justice is in the hearts of the people and believes in justice.

I didn’t say this, but the outside world, especially netizens, did not blame the Côte d’Azur. On the contrary, they also gained a lot of sympathy. Although the Côte d’Azur is a behemoth in the eyes of ordinary people, it faces the contemporary world hegemon as a company. , It is definitely a disadvantaged group, and it is indeed a bit difficult for others.

But this is not the case. How could Luo Sheng be beaten and not move?

In response to the media, what is said publicly cannot be done, and what is really done cannot be said publicly.

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On July 22, the Executive Vice President's Office.

A man named Li Li was standing next to Yao Jianhong’s desk. Old Yao told him, “This time you will go to Mexico to open up new business channels. The situation there is very complicated and dangerous. Your job You still have to deal with local snakes, and you must be careful in all aspects of dealing with these desperadoes."

Facing Yao Jianhong’s thousands of warnings, Li Li nodded his head: "Understand."

For a moment, Yao Jianhong took out a business card from his office drawer and handed it to him, saying, "This is recommended to me by Mr. Luo. The first thing to do when I go there is to find the contact person on the business card, and they will give it to him. You work locally to provide paid security services."

Li Li took the business card and looked at it and muttered, "Horizon Commercial Security Insurance Group? Is this a security consulting company or an insurance company?"

Yao Jianhong said immediately: "The name is not important. The important thing is recommended by President Luo. It means that you can be trusted. After you go there, go directly to Monterey, where Horizon Security has a branch."

In fact, Yao doesn't know anything about this strangely named security consulting company.

Li Li didn't think too much, so he just kept the business card away and nodded again: "Understood."

Yao Jianhong added: “Remember, the main local snakes should not take the initiative to contact them. Contacting them can indeed quickly spread the channel network, but the goal is too big, and they dare not know that they offend the old beauty and intimidate them. It may be suppressed in a moment. By then, we will waste time and cost. So the core idea is to increase the FBI's crackdown cost. You must go there to find those small and medium-sized gray forces."

Li Li nodded silently again, and he also understood the intention of his immediate boss instructing to do so. Those local small and medium-sized gray forces had small and scattered targets, and the old and beautiful people came out to contain the attack, and the cost was too high.

At the same time, the life of these small and medium-sized gray forces is not as moisturized as the big local forces, and they need more ways to get more gray income.

Hungry people can work harder, this is an eternal truth.

At the same time, especially the medium-scale gray forces, they have more desire to expand than the head forces and the tail forces, but this requires more resources. To put it bluntly, they need more money.

It is easy to mobilize them.

Yao Jianhong added again: "Of course, it does not mean that the local head powers will not deal with them. They take the initiative to contact you and deal with them, but you have to balance the whole situation from the height of the overall vision. Cooperating with the central forces, suppressing the proportion of the head forces, and at the same time taking into account the tail forces, can this layout keep the overall situation under our control, understand?"

Li Li replied: "Don't worry, Mr. Yao, I know how to do it."

Yao Jianhong nodded in satisfaction, tilted his head and said, "Then you go and prepare."

Although cooperating with a villain is like a deal with the devil, it will definitely be criticized by some "moral" people when it is spread, but the law of survival in this world is how to be legal and unruly.

Although it's not very glorious to cooperate with these villains, it is right for the villains to buy consumer products. The company is completely legal to deal with them.

As for what they bought to do, it has nothing to do with the Côte d'Azur.

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On July 24, Li Li arrived in Monterrey, Mexico.

Monterrey, with a population of more than 4 million, is considered to be the most magnate city in Mexico. The rich and colorful history and culture of the area is its largest city. It has many pleasing natural beauty and is one of the few local public security. The environment is OK.

Li Li has just arrived in Monterrey, and there is a small team with him. There are six people in total, all from China. The company relies on Li Li and the other five employees to develop a brand new one here. Business channels.

When I got here, I found the distribution of Horizon Security in Monterey according to the address.

"Horizon Commercial Security Insurance Group..." An accompanying employee stood in front of the door, glanced at the sign, and couldn't help but muttered: "Boss, is this security company reliable?"

Li Li glanced at him and said, "This is arranged by the headquarters. People who are unfamiliar with the place of life here. Do you think it is reliable to find a recommendation from a local or the headquarters?"

"Uh, of course the headquarters is reliable."

"Let's go, the situation here is more exciting than the plot in the Hong Kong movie. We really want to deal with desperadoes face to face."

Without Horizon Security’s professional security personnel to provide security services, with goods worth millions or even tens of millions of dollars, the probability of being hacked by the other party is almost 100%. I don’t even say it properly. It is possible to catch a small life.

The game rules of the civilized world will not apply here, only fists and calibers are recognized here.

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