Hotby's understanding of China was gradually formed. In the 1990s, he only felt the efforts of the Chinese and could not see the strength of the Chinese. But after entering the new millennium, Hotby felt more and more China's growth and the competitive pressure that was coming.

Shuangluo and three other companies fought with the China Development and Planning Commission on long-distance natural gas compressor procurement projects, and Hotby accidentally heard from a friend. The friend had a personal relationship with Maxwin, the sales director of Shuangluo, and therefore knew that Shuangluo's final choice to reduce the price significantly was to suppress China's own compressor research and development capabilities. When the friend retweeted this to Hotby, he said it was a very clever marketing case, but after Hotby heard it, he sneered.

Based on his understanding of Chinese people, he knew that companies such as Shuangluo and Himanz were purely self-righteous. Their concessions in price could only be to beat dogs without going back. Chinese people are not the kind of short-sighted people, and they will never give up long-term considerations because of the cheapness in front of them. No matter how attractive the quotes of Shuangluo Company are, Chinese people will persevere in developing their own technology until they completely suppress Shuangluo and other companies.

The incidents in the past two years confirm Hotby's speculation. After ordering 40 compressors from abroad, China did not give up the development of domestic compressors. In the third phase of the West-East Gas Pipeline project that is about to begin, a Chinese company called Yubei Heavy Machinery Company received half of the compressor orders, while several foreign companies, including Shuangluo, allocated the remaining half. It is said that the quotation was cut in half on the basis of the last time. Hotby found out from his friend that after five years of continuous improvement, the quality of China's self-produced compressors has been almost the same as that of European and American products, and his research on the new generation of compressors is even ahead of European and American counterparts.

The compressor matter has nothing to do with Hotby. His company is investing in the electronic information industry. Last year, a British electronics company in which the company owned by Huo went bankrupt due to poor management. After Hotby notified Bao Chengming of the news, Bao Chengming quickly conveyed an instruction to Hotby, asking Hotby to acquire the company.

Hotby bought the company at a price that was slightly more expensive than buying garbage, and then resold the company to a Chinese electronics company as Bao Chengming's instructions. After the Chinese electronics company bought the company, it quickly moved all the company's equipment and technical patents back to China, injecting a lot of funds, bringing the company back to life in China, and then letting it back to the European market.

No one raised any objection to this transaction. On the contrary, because Hotby received a relatively high premium when selling the company, he was praised in the industry for having a very business vision. However, Hotby himself knew that this relatively high premium was just for Chinese people from the left pocket to the right pocket, because the main shares of Huo's company are in the hands of five vague overseas companies, and the bosses behind these five overseas companies must be Chinese, so these premiums were back in the hands of Chinese people.

It was from this transaction that Hotby guessed the purpose of Feng Xiaochen setting up his pawn. Feng Xiaochen asked him to focus on those companies with technology but poor management, and he had the idea of ​​acquiring these companies in the future. The technology of these companies is not much worth in Europe, but it is valuable to move to China. Of course, Chinese companies can also go directly to Europe to acquire these companies, but for various reasons, such acquisitions often encounter various troubles, and sometimes they cannot be achieved. Hotby first bought these bankrupt companies as a European company and then sold them to the Chinese from Hotby. It is much less difficult. After all, both buyers and sellers are a family, so it is much easier to make something happen.

He is just a broker hired by Feng Xiaochen, and there are probably many brokers like him in Europe. Feng Xiaochen set up this game 8 years ago, with the purpose of using these European companies under his control to help him complete the task of acquiring European companies in 8 years. This idea is too meticulous and sinister. If Feng Xiaochen's conspiracy can be realized, Europe will be eroded by Feng Xiaochen and the Chinese will gain strong competitiveness.

But what does all this have to do with me? Hotby thought coldly in his heart.

If your employer is Chinese, then of course you should do things for the Chinese. If you do well, your salary will be improved and your parents, wife and children can live a good life. On the contrary, if you refuse to be accomplices of the tiger, then people will kick him away and change to another obedient broker, and you can still sell the Europeans' underwear. The broker's duty is to serve the employer wholeheartedly. What does the rise and fall of Europe have to do with him?

Besides, the decline of Europe was not due to Hotby's unfaithfulness and filial piety. Europeans were too lazy and proud. This was the key to the problem. When Chinese people worked overtime, Europeans were drinking coffee; when Chinese people wanted things, Europeans were drinking coffee; when Chinese people came to buy European companies, Europeans still held coffee in one hand and signed with pens in the other, and sold these ancestral products to exchange for coffee beans. Who can you blame for such a group of reincarnated coffee bugs if they starve to death?

After Hotby understood all this, he had no psychological burden and was energetic to the great cause of acting as a European traitor. With a more sensitive sense of smell, he looked for European companies qualified to be prey of Chinese people, worked diligently to participate in the shares, and then worked diligently to make friends with the executives in the company, learned the inside story of the company, waited for the employer to send a noose, and hung these companies high on the branches of the southeast.

"Mr. Hotby, I'll introduce you." After Feng Xiaochen shook hands with Hotby, he enthusiastically introduced his escort to him: "This is Mr. Wang Weilong, deputy general manager of China Luoye Machinery Group, this is Mr. Yang Haifan, general manager of China Chenyu Engineering Machinery Company, this is Mr. Leng Feiyun, director of the Project Management Department of China Equipment Industry Group, this is Mr. Huang Ming, Ms. Chen Mo..."

Hotby shook hands with Feng Xiaochen's entourage one by one and said various enthusiastic welcome words. He couldn't tell what these positions mean, but since they were the people who followed Feng Xiaochen, they obviously needed him to flatter him. It was nothing wrong to be polite.

After a simple meeting procedure, Hotby led a group of Chinese guests to the parking lot. He personally helped Feng Xiaochen pull the suitcase and took Meng Yang, the secretary who had previously been responsible for pulling Feng Xiaochen's suitcase. Meng Yang snatched it twice, but failed to snatch the suitcase from Hotby. He could only help Wang Weilong get his luggage with a wry smile.

Seeing that the boss was so attentive, Dobbins did not dare to look too negligent. When he saw a passenger with an eastern hole next to him looked old, he was holding a big box in his hand, so he rushed over and grabbed the box's lever into his hand. The old man was stunned for a moment, then he started shouting, but he shouted in Japanese. Huang Ming, Chen Mo and others were stunned for a while, and then he realized that Dobbins had made an erroneous move. He quickly stepped forward to explain and asked Dobbins to return the box to the strange old man. Finally, there was no dispute.

Hotby knew nothing about the noisy behind him. He accompanied Feng Xiaochen at the front of the team, and set a distance between him intentionally and unintentionally. Seeing that no one eavesdropped behind him, Hotby whispered: "Mr. Feng, Mr. Bao told me on the phone and asked me to cooperate with your work in the UK. What do you need me to do?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "We came to the UK this time to find a group of accessories suppliers. Luoye Company is a company specializing in the production of large open-pit mining equipment and is developing offshore oil equipment. They hope to find several suppliers of industrial control modules in the European market and establish long-term cooperative relationships with them. Chenyu Engineering Machinery Company is a construction machinery company, and they also need some suppliers of industrial control modules. Bao Chengming said that you know very well about European electronic companies, so I asked him to contact you and ask you to help us complete the recruitment and selection of suppliers."

"This is what I should do." Hotby quickly showed his loyalty and then reported: "After receiving Mr. Bao's instructions, I contacted dozens of electronic companies, some in the UK and some in the European continent. These companies have the ability to design and produce industrial control modules and are also well-known in the European market. I have made an appointment with them, and they said that we can come to negotiate at any time."

"That's great. Mr. Hotby is indeed outstanding in his ability. It's rare to be able to contact so many companies in such a short time." Feng Xiaochen casually gave Hotby a praise.

Hotby felt very happy, as if a primary school student was praised by his class teacher. He then lowered his voice and said, "These companies are all things I have come into contact with in the past. I have detailed records of the technical strength and business conditions of each company. It has been sorted out and can be submitted to Mr. Feng immediately. The manufacturing industry in Europe is not very prosperous, and these companies that produce industrial control modules are also difficult to operate. Mr. Feng can take advantage of this during negotiations to let them accept some conditions that are beneficial to us."
Chapter completed!