Pang Zhou waved his hand, smiled and said with a grip on his face. He took out a document from Wang Zhongyang's hand and pointed at him.

"Since I'm pointing to you Yangguan, come on, as long as you sign this document, we can write off the previous patent infringement account!"

Heisuke, smashed the mouth, and said to himself that this Chinese is so profound. Why do I always feel that this passage from Pang Zhou is so charming?

He took the document from Pang Zhou in confusion. Fortunately, Japanese and Chinese are similar. Although he didn't learn Chinese very well, he could understand the general meaning.

However, just understanding this simple meaning made him scare.

BOE spent $2 billion to acquire two 4.5 generation production lines and a 5 generation production line in Sharp. The patent compensation costs of LCD TVs produced by Sharp infringement in the early stage were cleared.

On the surface, this seems reasonable. Sharp's two 4.5-generation production lines are currently the most advanced production lines in the world, and the current progress is the same as BOE. A 5-generation line is still under construction, and the bid of 2 billion US dollars is considered very conscientious.

What's more, as long as you agree to this transaction, the 100 million compensation claimed by the previous patent infringement will be stopped. It cannot be said that it is insincere.

But Hara Heisuke didn't think so. Of course, Sharp would never think it was a good deal.

The LCD panel industry has obvious cyclicality, new technologies lead to renewal, and then profits rise, and the industry spring comes. Then capacity expansion and profits fall, which leads to the pressure of technological upgrading. Major companies invest more resources to develop next-generation technologies. Expand during the low period and make money in the ** period. This is the established rule of the LCD panel industry.

Although it should have been the highest period brought by new technologies, due to the occurrence of the East Asian financial crisis, the new technologies have become a low period due to the high cost.

According to past experience, at this time, major LCD panel companies should increase their investment to expand their production capacity. After the financial crisis, they will make more profits by relying on the expansion of production capacity during the low period.

So although Sharp's LCD panel production line is not profitable, according to past experience, it is not necessary to reduce production and investment at this time, but should take advantage of the cost reduction to quickly expand its production scale.

As for how to expand, of course it is an acquisition.

The higher the technology of a production line, the greater the investment, the longer the construction cycle. The first 4.5th generation production line, BOE, took six months to complete. The second 5th generation production line, has the special nature of being a political task, and it takes eight months to start production regardless of cost.

This time may be extended to ten months or even one year when it comes to Sharp.

Sell ​​the production line in your hand to BOE. After the industry downturn has passed, is Sharp going to drink the Northwest Wind?

Sharp can't even take care of the production lines in other people's hands, so he will sell the production lines in his hands.

But Pang Zhou made such a seemingly brainless request.

"This is impossible! If I read it correctly, BOE wants to acquire our Sharp LCD production line? Aren't you crazy? Do you know what Sharp is? No. 205th in the Fortune 500!"

If Yuan Ping Asuka is crazy, anyone who has a little sense of belonging to Sharp will definitely regard this requirement as a provocation. The strategic development direction of acquiring our Sharp, the Star of the Future, the most advantageous industry. When we are small companies with no weight in the market, can we "snatch love" and "snatch it with cleverness"?

That method is often used by Sharp on other small companies. No company has dared to make such a request to Sharp.

Isn't selling the production line equivalent to giving up future profits? Not to mention Heisuke, even Sharp's president cannot make up this decision. If you really want to make this idea, I'm afraid the president of the board of directors is qualified to change Sharp's established development strategy.

Heisuke Hara is just a minister, and is considered a quasi-high-level or a top middle-level manager. Under the Japanese company system, the highest power is in the hands of the president of the board of directors. Below are the vice president, president and vice president. The vice president is not the ministers of each department. He also needs specialists, executives, directors, supervisors, consultants and other senior officials, and finally the ministers of each department.

But even so, it would be too arbitrary to say that Harahirasuke has no feelings for Sharp's LCD industry, or has fewer feelings than a senior executive.

Heisuke Hara started as a small employee and has been from the grassroots level to the director of the LCD business department for more than ten years. It can be said that he witnessed the birth of Sharp's LCD industry from scratch.

It was really hard to count how much hard work and sweat there was in it. Seeing Pang Zhou’s request, he was immediately furious.

However, if you pay as long as you work, you will get rewards, and there will be no so many tragedies. After all, Harahisuke's will cannot surpass the laws of the market.

"Minister Yuanhei is talking about the old calendar. According to the data so far this year, Sharp's scale can be maintained within 240, which is God's blessing." Pang Zhou sneered, playing the role of a landlord who collects debts and said: "I am frank, Sharp's main financing channel Sanhe Bank has suffered heavy losses this time in Southeast Asia. Sharp may have a lot of hard life to live next. In addition, Japan's exchange rate fell, the stock market collapsed, and the chain reaction caused by the financial crisis..."

"Even if these three production lines are still in Sharp's hands, there will probably be many crises next. Why not sell the production lines to us? At least it can ensure that Sharp can survive this crisis safely."

"No need to say that Pang Zhousang is, Sharp will never sell these three production lines!" Harahisuke said firmly.

Pang Zhou shook his head and smiled, "Minister Yuanhei, don't be so anxious to draw conclusions. There is probably nothing absolute in this world. But since you have such an attitude, there may be some bad situations. Please make more psychological preparations next."

Yuan Pingsuke snorted and asked, "Is Pang Zhousang threatening me? I am a dignified Sharp..."

"Sharp will know soon after that." Pang Zhou stood up, interrupted Hara Heisuke's speech, and said coldly: "Those who only say but do not do is called threat. It is an ultimatum for both doing and saying it. I just hope that Sharp can bear the price of rejection."

Speaking of this, Pang Zhou gestured to Wang Zhongyang and shook his head and walked out of the office.

"We Chinese say that politeness is first and then soldiers. I have been to the door this time and I have achieved etiquette. Let's meet in the mall next."

Hara Heijue stood up and nodded stiffly, "Since Pang Zhousang has this attitude, I think Sharp has nothing to talk to you."

He picked up a document from his desk and handed it over with both hands: "I was going to think about it again, but when things have developed to this point, I don't have to think about the wording anymore. In short, the meaning will definitely not change."

"Sharp can give a final opinion on the infringement that BOE said. We are willing to pay a patent fee of $1 per inch of IPs screen and a high-voltage driver IC for each LCD device. The total related patent fees generated by Sharp from last year to now are about $17.4 million."

Harashi Heisuke proudly raised his head and said like a gift: "We Sharp can pay this money to BOE or Fanhan Group at any time. But accordingly, your company must provide subsequent patent authorization."

In Harahisuke, what kind of company is Sharp? The top 500 companies in the world are about to be among the top 200! Large companies must of course have the domineering spirit of large companies. One of the domineering spirits is unreasonable power. Other companies are unreasonable and Sharp is not unreasonable, but compared with "small" companies, Sharp has unreasonable power.

The means that BOE and Fanhan Group can use is nothing more than going to court to sue their patent infringement. Even if you cannot cheat blatantly, Sharp will exert some influence and delay the lawsuit for a long time. As for markets outside Japan, there is definitely no need to think about the Chinese region, but with China's high-end market capacity in 1997, it may not be as important as the Japanese market.

Although Sharp is beyond the reach of this thing in the European market, the US market, and even other global markets, it is still more profound than you Chinese companies, right? Sharp has never been afraid of anyone in "business".

Pang Zhou looked at the documents in Yuanping's assistant and sneered, "I'm not polite to take this thing away, just to let the world see Sharp's shameless face. But I would like to advise Minister Yuanping, you still have a wife and children? Is it very expensive to live in a high-end residential area in Shinjuku? Be more flexible in life, don't hang yourself on a tree. If you think about Sharp, Sharp may not give you enough trust..."

"What do you mean?" Harashi Heisuke's face turned pale and he said angrily: "You want to threaten me with illegal means? I will not surrender!"

Pang Zhou was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and suddenly realized it and shook his head and said, "Ahha, Minister Yuanhei has been thinking too much. I don't mean that. In short, forget it, I think you will understand what I mean soon. This is my contact information in Tokyo. If Minister Yuanhei is desperate, he can make this call. I have a chance to leave it to you."

After Pang Zhou finished speaking, he waved his hand without looking back, pushed open the door, and took Wang Zhongyang out of Yuan Heisuke's office on his own.
Chapter completed!