Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2928 Mist

Held an internal meeting with these people from the EU.

The main topics discussed were the cooperation on dealing with Qualcomm and some ideas of the EU on developing a single digital market in the future. It was hoped that some experience could be provided through the operation of Helo.

noon.

Zhou Buqi was having lunch with Tang Binchen, and he complained, "These people in the EU are so stingy. They don't even provide food?"

Tang Binchen smiled and said, "I've eaten their working meals before. They were very simple. They might be afraid of not being able to entertain a wealthy man like you. A meal in such a high-end restaurant would cost at least several thousand Euros, right? If those people in the EU dare to do this, they should all step down."

"These guys, they are so rude in everything they do!"

"Are they really going to investigate Helo?"

"No." Zhou Buqi had seen through it a long time ago, "He thought we were pushovers!"

"what?"

Tang Binchen was slightly stunned.

He had no foresight and was caught in a fog, so it was difficult for him to see the true face of the EU and he was not sure how determined the EU was to protect its local operator industry.

Zhou Buqi was different. Combining the information from his past and present lives, he was able to quickly make a judgment. He sighed and said, "So, good people are often bullied. We were just too friendly, which gave them some unrealistic fantasies."

"Bullying people on purpose?"

Tang Binchen opened his eyes wide and got an idea that Boss Zhou had suggested. Following this line of thought, it seemed as if all the fog had dissipated.

Zhou Buqi said: "They want to protect the local operator industry, that's for sure. In the past few years, Internet companies have indeed bullied the operators. In terms of the market, operators are simply no match for Internet companies. What to do? They can only use some non-market factors. Those local operator giants are the largest companies in Europe, and they have the greatest influence on the EU."

Tang Binchen narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "In China, the United States, South Korea and Japan, a laissez-faire attitude is adopted towards competition between operators and the Internet industry. Both sides are allowed to fight in the market. Do these European countries want to be innovative?"

"So they came to us, thinking we are easy to bully." Zhou Buqi snorted, "Why didn't they go to Google or Facebook? If they really did that, the Americans would not tolerate them and would fight back directly."

Tang Binchen laughed and said, "Over the past few years, Ziweixing has been actively cooperating with them and adopting an extremely friendly cooperative attitude. Do they regard our friendliness as weakness? They don't dare to provoke those Internet giants in the United States, so they specifically come to us?"

Zhou Buqi said, "They are about to change their leadership. The young ones may want to try their luck and serve another term. The old ones are already planning for retirement. This time they just want to seize the last chance to make a big splash. They punish Qualcomm to please the local chip industry. If Helo can back off and change the voice call model to Skype's model of sharing fees with operators, then the requirements of the operator giants can be met. Those old guys may be able to use this achievement to become consultants or independent directors of the operators after retirement."

Tang Binchen said angrily, "Really! This EU is a mess. They watched Qualcomm swallow up Europe's chip industry, but they didn't take any effective measures. In the end, they had to rely on us. In front of the Americans, they are all grandsons. Well, we helped them so much, and they turned around and thought we were easy to control!"

"Facebook also has voice and video call functions, which are also free. Why don't they turn to the Americans? Why did they specifically target Helo?" Zhou Buqi also despised the behavior of these politicians. "These people are really hard to get along with. Fortunately, the leadership is about to change. If not, the EU will collapse!"

Tang Binchen laughed and said, "It's almost going to collapse. The UK has already proposed to leave the EU, and there might be a referendum in the next one or two years. This EU has really left a mess, with the European debt crisis and now Brexit."

"From their attitude towards Helo, it can be seen that they are all ignorant and pedantic idiots."

Zhou Buqi was very disdainful.

Just like history.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court had too much expenditure and could only increase taxes on the people.

The tax burden was too heavy, and some people could not afford it, so they fled from their hometowns and became refugees. The local government could not find them, so they did not have to pay taxes. The remaining people who did not flee had to continue to pay taxes.

  As a result, due to the emergence of vagrants evading taxes, a certain tax hole has appeared in the local area. What should be done?

We can only rely on the common people to fill this hole, further increase taxes on the honest and hardworking people who stay, and distribute the taxes that originally belonged to the refugees to the honest people who did not flee.

As a result, more people will flee and become refugees.

He had no choice but to run away, or he would be forced to death by the court.

  It’s hard to be a good person!

Whoever doesn't run will suffer!

The final result was that everyone ran away and became refugees.

The whole country immediately fell into chaos, and several peasant uprisings emerged.

Among these refugees, there was a guy named Li Zicheng, who organized these refugees and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Buqi decided to write a letter to explain this history clearly to those in the European Union.

  Don’t bully honest people!

If Ziweixing stands with those American technology giants, then Europe's technology industry will never recover!

This time, the EU has the opportunity to take action against Qualcomm, not because the current EU has the ability, courage and insight to take action against the American technology giant, but because Boss Zhou has laid the groundwork for a series of work.

  They just need to pick up what’s ready!

He got such a huge advantage from Boss Zhou for nothing, but instead of repaying him, he wanted to bully an honest man and suppress Helo?

Get the hell out of here!

Zhou Buqi has already put forward his request very tactfully. I will help you deal with Qualcomm, so the relevant intellectual property rights of the chip industry that has collapsed due to Qualcomm's squeeze should be sold to Estar as soon as possible!

This was a task Zhou Shaoning had assigned to him long ago.

Just take advantage of this opportunity from Qualcomm to connect the two and do both things at the same time.

After hearing this, Tang Binchen also saw what Boss Zhou was thinking, and he suddenly realized, "No wonder you suddenly brought up the topic of intellectual property... After you rejected Helo's request for rectification, you also put forward your own request!"

Zhou Buqi said, "Of course we have to make demands. I helped so much with the Qualcomm issue, but was it in vain? Those guys know everything! Do they think I'm young and easy to bully? The so-called Helo investigation is just a test to see how we react. If we back down, there will be more unreasonable demands coming our way in the future."

Tang Binchen finally understood the undercurrents in the morning's internal talks and said with a smile, "So we have to rebound!"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's just like a spring. You press it down and then release it. The spring will not return to its original position directly, but will bounce back. If I don't get some benefits, Ziweixing will not easily return to its original state. If you want me to cooperate with them to build this single digital structure in Europe, you can't do it without sincerity!"

"For Esda? Intellectual property rights in smartphones?"

Tang Binchen took a deep breath and once again realized the huge gap between himself and Boss Zhou.

It’s very strange, why is he always so sharp in looking at problems?

When he looks at some problems, he always feels that there is a lot of fog in front of his eyes, which makes it difficult for him to see the situation ahead and the road under his feet. Of course, it is difficult to give the most accurate judgment.

But it seems that the sun is always shining brightly ahead of Boss Zhou.

It is always clear.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, Aisda. If you want to enter the overseas market, you can't avoid patents."

(End of this chapter)