The next day, early in the morning.
In the canteen of Kyushu Automobile in the morning, many car company executives and negotiators had a delicious breakfast, and then they left with satisfaction, stroking their round bellies.
While walking towards the office building of Jiuzhou Automobile, these people were still chatting.
"I have to say that the food here at Jiuzhou Automobile is really delicious. The food in each canteen has a unique taste and each one is delicious. Steamed buns, fried dough sticks, soy milk, and noodles. After one month here, I almost learned to use chopsticks!"
"Even the bread and other food are better than what I eat at the head office. I really don't know how these people make food!"
“I feel like Kyushu Auto employees are happy every time they eat in the cafeteria.”
A negotiator from a certain automobile company looked at the company executives in the distance and whispered to the people around him: "Actually, it feels good to negotiate for a longer time. If it weren't for the pressure from above, I think it can continue forever. Go down."
"Who says it's not the case? I want to take the chef of Kyushu Auto away, or join me to work in Kyushu Auto and eat every day!"
"Jiuzhou Automobile, whether it can develop as well as it does now in the future and whether it can survive is a question. You should carefully consider working at Kyushu Automobile!"
This large group of foreigners just chatted and walked a few hundred meters as if they were eating to eat.
At nine o'clock in the morning, these people arrived on time in the conference room where Jiuzhou Auto was negotiating.
In the familiar conference room, facing the familiar faces of Jiuzhou Auto, as usual, Quinlan Silva took the lead in starting today's work, preparing to continue yesterday's unfinished negotiations.
"About yesterday..."
However, just when Quinlan Silva looked at the document and had not finished speaking, the performance of the senior executives of Jiuzhou Automobile opposite was very different from before.
Ye Zhiyong waved his hand directly, interrupting Quinlan Silva's words.
There was no smile on his face as usual, and no expectation for cooperation. There was only a look of boredom and loneliness on his face: "Oh, I don't want to negotiate today. Please come back."
Faced with the obviously different president of Kyushu Automobile today, the experts on the negotiation team and the senior executives of the automobile company were a little confused.
"???"
"what's the situation?"
"Is the CEO of Kyushu Motors crazy?"
"It was obviously normal yesterday, right?"
The senior executives of the automobile company were filled with doubts and disbelief. They even suspected that the senior executives of Jiuzhou Automobile had lost their minds!
Ye Zhiyong didn't even bother to explain to the other party, and said directly: "It's nothing. We have a day off today. Let's go back and rest. If you are still in the mood to come over tomorrow to discuss cooperation, we are very welcome."
Well, there’s also the possibility that it won’t be useful even if you explain it, and these people might not believe it.
This is because before this, Kyushu Motors has also used some virtual and real performances, and even proposed sodium-ion batteries!
But in the eyes of these people, in order to get a high price, Kyushu Motors deliberately used some technologies that could not be put into practical use to deceive them.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for Kyushu Automobile to come up with sodium-ion batteries just at this juncture. That would be too coincidental.
Moreover, in terms of sodium-ion batteries, as lithium ore resources have continued to rise in the past two years, it is not that there are no laboratories conducting research.
But now there is no news about its practical application in all aspects of the world. Not to mention that it can be applied, even the research progress is very slow.
According to estimates by battery experts, it will take at least more than ten years before it can be actually used in cars.
Therefore, these senior executives of various automobile companies who firmly believe in the information they have learned are now confused when looking at the reaction of Kyushu Automobile's senior executives.
Quinlan Silva frowned and asked: "In terms of lithium resources, Kyushu Automobile doesn't want it anymore?"
Several other senior car company executives.
"What's going on with Kyushu Motors?!"
"I can't leave like this without giving a clear explanation. In one month, we have almost lost our patience!"
"You Jiuzhou Automobile are committing suicide. If you don't cooperate with us, there will be no large supply of lithium resources. New energy electric vehicle companies like Jiuzhou Automobile will only die!"
Feng Hao smiled and said: "Everyone, please go back, go back and forth from wherever you are!"
Yao Yuan said calmly: "There is no need to continue the negotiations. Next, you are welcome to have fun in the international stock market and futures market."
Seeing that this company, which was a good company yesterday, looked like it was going to expel them today, there was a commotion among the people who had never experienced such treatment in a Huaxia company.
"Crazy, everyone is crazy! Kyushu Auto is just waiting to go bankrupt."
"How could you treat us like this!"
"Believe it or not, the price of lithium resources will rise tomorrow. With our promotion, the International Lithium Resources Alliance has been established. In the future, even if Jiuzhou Automobile has money, it will be very difficult to purchase lithium resources!"
Feng Hao smiled and said: "Oh, if that's the case, you're very welcome!"
It's not like he wants to play some conspiracy, but he really doesn't want to negotiate with them.
And when I asked them, I didn't tell them any specific information. I just looked enigmatic.
The negotiators of these car companies saw that one party no longer wanted to continue the negotiation, so they had no choice but to break up and get off work early for the first time today.
Everyone was puzzled, but they could only go back to the hotel to rest.
In the hotel conference room, senior executives of many automobile companies who had been rejected by Jiuzhou Automobile gathered together again.
Quinlan Silva frowned and asked the people around him: "What does Kyushu Auto mean?"
Akio Toyoda from Toyota thought for a while and said, "Is this some kind of trick they are playing? The people in this country are particularly powerful in their military skills, so we have to guard against them."
"I don't see that business negotiations with people from China are the most complicated. You must be extra vigilant!"
"Is it because they have some confidence? Is it because China's official side has made some transactions with Kyushu Automobile? During the negotiations, China's officials often come to stop it."
"It's impossible. How can we not use lithium resources for automotive power batteries? This is the Achilles' heel of Kyushu Auto."
"Why don't we wait until tomorrow and take a look, or contact Chairman Xu of Kyushu Motors. Do any of you have Chairman Xu's contact information?"
"I don't."
"Neither do I. Director Xu seems to have never left any contact information."
"The same goes for the senior executives of Jiuzhou Automobile and other companies. They have offered a price of 10 million, but there has been no response. Other companies, even if they disagree, are at least willing to communicate and negotiate the price or other conditions."
Just when many car company executives were scratching their heads, thinking about why Kyushu Motors did this.
At this moment, there was a rush of knocking on the door. The knocking was very dense and hard, as if they were afraid that the senior executives of the car company who were in the meeting would not hear it!
The meeting was interrupted. Quinlan Silva frowned and motioned to the secretary next to him to open the door of the conference room.
As soon as the door opened, a middle-aged man hurriedly walked in and said to everyone: "Someone is shorting lithium resources in the stock market and futures market! And the funds are very huge, and he is a big bookmaker!"
"From just now to now, the price of lithium resources in the international futures market has dropped by 5%!"
The staff responsible for keeping an eye on international lithium resource prices reported the latest news.
Many senior executives of automobile companies were not as panicked as their staff. Instead, they suddenly seemed to understand something and felt a little more relaxed.
Quinlan Silva smiled and said: "Jiuzhou Automobile wants to confront us head-on from the futures market."
Akio Toyoda: "So the abnormal reaction of those Kyushu Automobile executives today is because they are planning to start from the futures market. It is simply a mantis trying to overestimate its capabilities!"
The rest of the car company executives.
"How can Jiuzhou Auto's size and capital compare with ours? Not to mention all our car companies, even if we pick out a single car company, the diameter of Jiuzhou Auto cannot be manipulated at will. Starting from the futures market, They’re just bringing us some appetizers!”
"They are simply out of their mind. These Jiuzhou Auto people are crazy all day long and don't negotiate properly. They actually want to start from the futures market and the stock market. Who does he think he is!"
"Very good, after destroying Jiuzhou Auto's hopes, it will be easier to talk about it next. It is best to drain that company of its funds and have to sell off the company's property and technology. In this way, we can also suppress the price and sell Jiuzhou Automobile. Eat all the cars.”
"Not to mention Jiuzhou Automobile, even if the car companies in China unite, it will be useless unless the Chinese official is behind it, but how can the Chinese official devote huge funds to help a company, and there is still 100% Ninety-nine chances are that you will lose a lot of money.”
"With the rise of the new energy tram market and China's new energy tram plan that requires a large number of battery packs, the price of lithium ore resources is destined to rise. We are just following the trend."
When they first heard about the changes in the stock market and futures market, the executives of these car companies were not worried at all.
I even feel a lot more relieved, I have thought things through clearly, and I am no longer worried about the abnormal performance of Kyushu Automobile today. I can eat two more bowls of rice at noon!
It's just that this kind of news has changed even more after noon.
In the afternoon, the official senior officials who had not conducted negotiations gathered together again to discuss how to deal with Kyushu Motors.
Not long after the meeting started, there was another knock on the door.
The conference room door opened, and this time the person who came in was not an employee staring at the futures market, but a secretary from a senior company executive.
"Director, just now, the official website of Jiuzhou Motors suddenly announced that a product launch conference will be held at 8 o'clock tonight on the official website of Jiuzhou Automobile. The products released are the latest products of Jiuzhou Automobile. Developed technology, sodium-ion battery!”
"And on the Chinese Internet, this news is being spread in many places. Now many Chinese people are discussing it on the Internet."
After the report was completed, the conference room was quiet for a while, and the executives of many automobile companies frowned.
After a long time, a senior executive of the company said.
"It's okay, this is a smoke screen. It is normal for Jiuzhou Auto to cooperate with the false news released by the stock market and futures market. In the stock market and futures market, many large companies in order to increase their market value or technology-related raw materials, It’s used often, it doesn’t make sense.”
Quinlan Silva, who was next to him, smiled and said: "Yes, yes, you have seen a lot of this kind of thing over the years, and you have even experienced it yourself, especially those companies that are seeking to go public. In the past, I would vigorously promote the company.”
“Maybe they have a little bit of sodium-ion battery technology, but they’re just able to produce a product that’s not going to be used as a car power battery.”
"This is Kyushu Automobile's response. There is nothing new at all. They are all the same tricks we have used before!"
"If we can't come up with useful products, we can directly declare the failure of Kyushu Automobile tomorrow. Everyone, wait for the good news, and wait until the rumors of Kyushu Automobile are dispelled!"
But in the crowd, a senior executive of an automobile company whispered in a voice that only he could hear: "I have a bad premonition, combined with Jiuzhou Auto's abnormal behavior in the past month, and the fact that this company has a strong reputation." Technology research and development capabilities..."
"But if we stop now, we are destined to lose a lot of money..."
"Moreover, this kind of sodium-ion battery technology is already far ahead of the world. If you want to realize it, it won't be possible in just a few years. I hope this is all a fantasy of mine."
In fact, this idea was not just thought of by a senior executive of a car company, or many people in the entire conference room thought of it.
However, it is now impossible for them to escape. In this month, in order to continue to put pressure on Kyushu Automobile.
They have invested a lot of money in international lithium resources. If random selling causes prices to fall off a cliff, not only will they lose a huge amount of money invested in the past month.
At the same time, their original planned goals will fall short, and Kyushu Automobile's technology will no longer be available.
Lithium ore resources are the only way to restrain Kyushu Automobile in China.
Coupled with their trust in the information they have learned and their trust in the answers given by international battery technology laboratories, although they feel uneasy in their hearts, they are still willing to believe that their side will be the final winner.
(End of chapter)
