Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1306 Business Ethics
At the end of April, Duan Yun finally received a call from Wang Shi, telling him that ASML's engineers would enter the mainland soon, and asked him to prepare for the reception in advance.

On the afternoon of the second day, Wang Shi's staff drove two technicians from ASML, the Netherlands, to Tianyin Electronics Factory.

"Hi, gentlemen!" Duan Yun immediately got up to greet the two Dutch engineers when they were brought into the office.

People in most European countries can basically speak English, and the Netherlands has the highest popularity among non-English-speaking countries in Europe, so there is no obstacle for Duan Yun to communicate with them in English.

"Hello." The leader was a middle-aged man with a height of 1 meters, wearing round glasses and a gray windbreaker. There was no smile on his face.

"I'm Duan Yun, the general manager of Tianyin Electronics Group. What's your address?" Duan Yun took out a business card with English markings from his pocket and handed it to the two of them, smiling.

"My name is Robin Vandermeer, and his name is Vincent Derong." The man from Robin replied blankly, and then said to Duan Yun, "Where is the machine?"

"I'll take you there to have a look." Duan Yun immediately led the two of them out of the office upon hearing this.

I didn't expect these two Dutch engineers to be so eager for work, and they didn't intend to stay at all when they first arrived in Shenzhen. They immediately wanted to check the machine.

But this is also in line with Duan Yun's wishes. The other party's work is not messy, and it can save a lot of time.

Afterwards, Duan Yun drove the two to the chip factory in Bagualing.

In the warehouse of the chip factory, 4 machines that had not been disassembled appeared in front of two Dutch engineers, and beside the machines, more than 10 security personnel stood on both sides, and they were closely guarding the machine 24 hours a day.

"Can you open it and have a look?" Robin said to Duan Yun.

"Of course." Duan Yun waved his hand and said to everyone in the warehouse: "Open the box and move gently so as not to hurt the machine."

Seeing this, several staff members in the warehouse immediately carefully opened the wooden box of one of the machines.

When he saw the ASML logo on the machine, Robin suddenly showed a bit of anger, and Vincent, who was standing behind him, also had an ugly expression.

"What? Is there any problem?" Duan Yun saw that the expressions of the two were not right, and immediately stepped forward to ask.

"Do you know what your company has done? It wasn't your company that ordered the machine from us at the beginning, right? You quietly shipped the machine from Hong Kong to the mainland. This practice will bring great disaster to our company!" Luo Bin said angrily.

"Ah... It seems that the company in Hong Kong didn't make it clear to you..." At this moment, Duan Yun suddenly realized.

Obviously, the Hong Kong company did not handle the two engineers from ASML, but just coaxed them to go to the mainland.

And these two engineers obviously know what it means to export this cutting-edge lithography machine to mainland China, so they are very angry, which is also reasonable.

However, this matter was a scam from the beginning, and at this point, Duan Yun had to find ways to persuade the two engineers to assist him in completing the installation and commissioning of the machine.

"I will report today's matter to our company truthfully. You don't want to get any technical support from our company. You are thieves and robbers!" Robin said emotionally.

"Mr. Robin, you are wrong to say that. I bought these machines at a high price, which is 50% higher than the international market price. We are your god customers. It is not right to say that we are robbers. ?” Duan Yun raised his eyebrows and said.

"This kind of machine cannot be sold to you in mainland China! This is against international law!" Robin turned his head and glared at Duan Yun, and then said: "If you know that your company bought the 4 machines, we ASML Absolutely will not supply!"

"You Chinese liars!" Vincent, who was following behind, also said angrily.

"Don't be so emotional, both of you, since the machine has already been shipped here, it's too late to say anything, and I have already paid you ASML in full, and I have nothing to owe you, so If you still have professional ethics, you have to help us install and debug the machine according to the contract, of course, I will definitely not treat the two of you badly..." Duan Yun said with a smile.

"It's impossible! We won't help your liar company install machines, you send us back to Hong Kong immediately, otherwise, our company will report this matter to international organizations, and your company will Severe sanctions!" Robin said angrily.

"That's right! Send us away immediately!" Vincent also said.

"I'm talking about the two of you. Actually, I think, since you two have already arrived here by plane for dozens of hours, it's meaningless to just leave, right?" Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "I think it's good , if you are willing to help our company install and debug a few machines, I will give you $5 each after the debugging is completed, what do you think?"

"You are insulting us!" Hearing what Duan Yun said, Robin suddenly became furious, and he continued: "This is not a problem that can be solved by money. Our ASML company is very particular about business ethics and A company with rules will not..."

"That's $50!" Duan Yun stretched out five fingers and said to the two of them: "If you two can help our company successfully install and debug the machine, I will give you two $5, if not If so, I won’t force it.”

"5...50 US dollars!?" Hearing what Duan Yun said, Robin and Vincent were stunned and couldn't believe their eyes.

Even though the Netherlands is a high-income country, 50 US dollars is still a very large amount. In the 80s, the per capita GDP of the Netherlands was only more than 1 US dollars. The annual salary of senior engineers like them was only 2 to 3 US dollars. Ten thousand US dollars is equivalent to the sum of the wages of the two of them for more than 50 years.

The next moment, Robin and Vincent exchanged winks, and then walked aside to discuss in a low voice.

Seeing this, Duan Yun also walked to the other side, lit a cigarette and smoked.

And when Duan Yun was about to finish his cigarette, Robin and Vincent walked up to Duan Yun again.

"Mr. Duan, I think you are a very patriotic entrepreneur. It is really admirable for you to take such a big risk for your Chinese chip industry." At this moment, Robin finally showed a smile on his face. Then he said: "Out of respect for you, we decided to stay with you and help you install and debug our company's lithography machine products!"

(End of this chapter)