Replay 07: Opening the Temple of Learning

Chapter 337 Too busy to take care of yourself
When Enthalpy Entropy Energy built a mass production line for graphene batteries in Jiangzhou, the news quickly reached Biddy's ears.

There is nothing to hide in itself, and Lu Shan has no intention of hiding it at all.

The announcement of this news through Enthalpy Entropy Energy’s official website is actually intended to stabilize consumer confidence.

This sends a signal that the production capacity of Enthalpy Entropy Energy has increased, so everyone can place orders with confidence and the waiting time will not be as long as before.

The consumers were happy and Biddy was about to cry.

Wang Fu’s first reaction when he saw the news was – It’s over!
Now that Enthalpy-Entropy Energy has its own mass production capabilities, it has to take back Bidi’s production orders. What should it do?
Lu Shan knew that Bidi and Lianxiang were doing some messy things behind the scenes.

Once Lu Shan knows about this, he will cut off the cooperation between the two parties and withdraw the OEM orders quickly or slowly. What should Biddy do then?
At present, Bidi is in a very passive position. Wang Fu is not clear about what Enthalpy-Entropy Energy means when it says that it has the capacity for mass production. Is it that there has been a breakthrough in the theory of mass production or that the capacity for building mass production lines has been put into place? He also doesn’t know whether Enthalpy-Entropy Energy has actually built a production line, and if so, how many lines it has built!
Everything is a mystery but it is related to the future development of Bidi. Now Bidi has completely invested in graphene and there is no turning back.

It's useless if you don't go all in. The future world will be the world of graphene batteries. Going all in in advance will prevent you from dying so ugly.

Biddy quickly adjusted his posture, put away those small movements, and cooperated wholeheartedly with the enthalpy-entropy energy.

The attitude changed so quickly that even if Ochumelov came, he would have to shout "six six six".

Biddy, who wanted to know the details, contacted the employees poached by Enthalpy Energy, hoping to reveal some information, but was rejected.

Because Enthalpy and Entropy Energy provided so much and respected technical talents, the two experts felt a sense of belonging.

In addition to the strict confidentiality system, they dare not say anything, and cannot say anything.

Everyone is busy with their own enthalpy and entropy energy fields, with refined division of labor. At most, they can only be proficient in one sub-field. Some people are even considered amazing if they can only be proficient in one link. Who has so much energy to learn about other aspects of information?
Wang Fu walked around like a headless fly for a long time. He also thought about it for a long time and finally could not sit still anymore. He sent senior executives to Enthalpy Entropy Energy to consolidate the cooperation.

This method of consolidating cooperation is commonly known as building relationships. A more common way is to invite the other party to eat, drink, and have fun, travel abroad, play golf, or do something... hehe, anyway, the methods are flexible and varied.

If it is illegal in Xia Country, then just go abroad where it is not illegal. After all, the world is so big, there is always a place where it is legal to revel.

The decision to visit the company to maintain the relationship was a forced one. Before, Bidi's marketing department had invited the management of Enthalpy Energy and Lu Shan to go out and have fun together many times, but nothing happened.

Zhang Leimin and Liang Wenping were too busy to spare any time, and Lu Shan simply disappeared. He was a complete stay-at-home who didn't even leave Jiangzhou. How could one maintain relationships with such a person?

As a last resort, Bidi could only make a strategy in advance to see if there were any good places in Jiangzhou City and its surrounding areas. If the negotiations did not go smoothly, he would use his trump card.

Enthalpy Entropy Energy also received this group of people warmly, and Zhang Leiming took the time to find out what these people wanted to say.

The senior management of Bidi was much more polite, and they kept emphasizing that the cooperation period between the two sides was 5 years, and they hoped that the two sides would have a pleasant and good cooperation. Bidi will also work hard to produce products according to the technical requirements of Enthalpy Entropy Energy.

Only then did Zhang Leimin understand that how arrogant these people were in the beginning because of this matter, and how humble they are now. The difference is really too obvious.

Zhang Leimin was a little speechless. If there was something to say, he could just talk about it nicely. What kind of working method was this by constantly inviting him out to play?
However, Zhang Leimin would not give in easily. At first, Bidi was a hindrance when the production line was being transformed, and later he forced Bidi to abdicate and demand better conditions, which touched Zhang Leimin's bottom line, so he decided to teach Bidi a lesson.

After a perfunctory response, Zhang Leimin left the meeting, saying that he was going to deal with something and let Bidi's people do as they please.

Bidi's people didn't dare to run around and could only wait obediently.

When it was time for dinner, someone would naturally greet us. We would take a rest after that and then continue to wait for Zhang Leiming to meet us.

Zhang Leiming just ignored this group of people and took care of his own things first. When he was done, he went over to listen to them talk. He dealt with them casually, just listening more and talking less. It didn't take much effort.

After dealing with it, he left quickly and let Biddi's men wait.

No matter how dumb Bidi's negotiation team was, they could see the problem and reported it to Wang Fu, feeling very angry.

But Wang Fu knew that things were different now and Bidi did not have the capital to be arrogant, so he asked the negotiation team to hold their temper, negotiate a good outcome, and try to get a commitment from Enthalpy Entropy Energy or more information.

So the Bidi team pretended to visit everywhere, wanting to see where the mass production line was.

Unfortunately, Enthalpy Entropy Energy has extremely strict internal management. Each area is isolated and workers are only responsible for the work in their own area.

The exchange of materials is done through special channels, which are guarded at both ends and ordinary people cannot enter at all.

The level of confidentiality is comparable to that of national security projects, and perhaps there are such projects included.

I wandered around but didn't gather any information. The more unknown something is, the more frightening it is.

Wang Fu was worried and felt that Enthalpy Energy had secretly set up multiple production lines, so he urged the negotiation team to find a way to ensure cooperation.

Every time the negotiation team talked to Zhang Leimin about the duration of the cooperation or the enthalpy-entropy mass production line, Zhang Leimin always laughed it off and asked them to guess for themselves. Wang Fu was very angry but helpless.

As if things weren't bad enough, Wang Fu soon received new bad news - Lianxiang was going to turn against him, and the cooperation was no longer valid!
Speaking of it, Lianxiang is the biggest victim, and he has to pay compensation every time he clashes with Lushan.

This time, Enthalpy-Entropy Energy has taken the absolute initiative in the production of graphene batteries, and Lianxiang has no way to stop it. With the support of public opinion, superiors, and peers, it is impossible for Lianxiang to develop Enthalpy-Entropy Energy.

Since it couldn't beat its rival, it could only turn around and do something down-to-earth. Unable to shake Shenchuan Computer's dominance in the notebook field in a short period of time, Lianxiang had to cut costs and start a passive slimming plan.

After comprehensive consideration, we decided to cancel the purchase of lithium batteries from Biddy.

There is a reason for this, that is, Lianxiang itself has developed well overseas and has sales channels, so it has always kept its eyes on foreign countries.

Now that the domestic market has been squeezed out by Shenchuan Computer, we have to move overseas.

Since we want to go out and develop overseas markets, we have to establish good relations with overseas capital.

For example, batteries have to be purchased from Japan and South Korea. This is done to please American capital, to show that they are willing to cooperate.

If you take Bidi lithium batteries out and ask for them, they will be banned from selling.

Doing so is indeed a lack of initiative and spinelessness, as it is equivalent to giving up one's own profits in exchange for cooperation. However, Lianxiang does not have many choices now and has to do it anyway.

After all the calculations, the cooperation with Bidi had to be terminated. Fortunately, the previously signed cooperation agreement was called a letter of intent, not a formal contract, so it could be cancelled without much of a problem. Bidi was stood up, and the senior management was full of complaints.

"Lian Xiang is so shameless! He learned this from foreigners!"

"What kind of business principles are these? In Lianxiang's opinion, they are just bullshit!"

"We can't let Lianxiang off like this. We'd better expose this matter to the public and let everyone know how dishonest Lianxiang is. Let's see who dares to cooperate with it!"

Suddenly, an executive said in a moderately loud voice: "If this gets out, then Enthalpy and Entropy will know that we have dealings with Lianxiang..."

There was complete silence. He had to suffer the consequences.

But even so, he couldn't swallow this anger without an explanation, so Biddy sent someone to Lianxiang to find out what was going on.

Lianxiang was even more desperate. He simply avoided meeting her and refused to even schedule an appointment. He was perfunctory and bluffing, but he just couldn't find anyone to handle the matter. Bidi's efforts were in vain.

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In the internal conference room of Enthalpy Entropy Energy, Lu Shan was listening to the report below and thinking about the next strategy while listening.

At present, the construction of the production line has more deterrent effect than practical effect, but this is just the beginning, indicating that most of the graphene battery production capacity will return to Jiangzhou City in the next few years.

Although the contract signed with BYD is for five years, it will definitely not take that long to achieve the goal of independent production capacity.

Lu Shan had this confidence, and he found it funny as he thought about it. He had thought that Bidi would cooperate to some extent, but he found that human greed really has no limit.

I am young myself, and sometimes I underestimate people's stupidity.

"Next we have to speed up the construction of more production lines. At the same time, don't forget to build production lines first for upgrading research. We will try to build two more production lines before the end of this year and utilize the full production capacity. The relevant locations have been selected..." Lu Shan briefly arranged the tasks. The technology is ready, so just do it. The only big problem is the lack of people.

At this time, some senior executives at Enthalpy and Entropy expressed their concerns.

"We are still cooperating with Bidi. Will this approach be detrimental to long-term cooperation?"

"I feel that doing so will make Bidi unhappy. If it quits now, we will be in a very passive position if our production capacity has not yet reached the target."

Facing everyone's concerns, Lu Shan smiled and said, "Don't worry, Biddy will endure it even if he knows we are doing this."

The most important reason is that graphene batteries mean the future, and Bidi is well aware of this.

Once we start to slow down, we will lose this growth point.

Currently, BYD can still access related OEM technology through cooperation with Enthalpy Entropy. If it leaves Enthalpy Entropy, it will completely miss out on graphene battery technology. When the lithium battery market shrinks rapidly, BYD will inevitably suffer a terrible fate.

Graphene batteries are a situation that you have to follow even if you don't want to.

"Besides, Bidi doesn't know our details or our production capacity, so he won't act rashly. This is like playing a trick in Go, leaving room for Bidi's imagination, and it will hesitate."

Lu Shan saw through people's hearts and spoke with reason and evidence, so the top leaders of Enthalpy and Entropy also reached a consensus on their thoughts.

With the assistance of Jiyue and Zemeng Company, the headquarters of Singularity Group summarized various clues and analyzed the ins and outs of the entire incident some time ago, and keenly discovered the shadow of Lianxiang who was instigating and agitating behind the scenes.

At the beginning, Singularity Group had identified Lian Xiang as the first suspect, but it was not sure at first. Later, after checking the data behind those platforms and the movements of foreign capital, it completely locked in Lian Xiang.

Qiao Weiwei frowned and reported the situation to Lu Shan. Even though she was already the vice president of the group and her temperament had become much calmer, Qiao Weiwei couldn't help but express her opinion: "As a Xia country enterprise, how could Lianxiang do this?"

Lu Shan shook his head: "If a person's position is too high, he will often become detached from the masses, and then he will think that he has the ability to gain a foothold in the whole world. Once he has this idea, the concept of the country will fade, and he will only think about his own interests."

This is why people always say that ordinary people are the most patriotic. The development of the country is closely related to them, so ordinary people care most about whether the country is strong.

They will care about how much the GDP will increase this year and whether Xia has gained the upper hand in international confrontation.

People like Liu Dazhi are just fence-sitters, going wherever the advantage lies.

As the United States became stronger, they moved closer. Later, as Xia developed even more rapidly, they returned to Xia.

Is it infuriating? Is it disgusting? There is more disgusting to come.

People like Liu Dazhi often have powerful resources. They can grab a good position and get it with ease. Ordinary people can just find any excuse to get the position. No matter if you have studied for ten or twenty years, if they don't freeze to death you will be disgusted to death.

This type of people regard themselves as shareholders of the country, partners of the country, and the real masters of the country. They look down on ordinary people and even the country from the bottom of their hearts.

So Lu Shan decided to teach Lianxiang a profound lesson.

In order to sell computers, whether it is a laptop or a desktop, the clerks at Lianxiang will proactively install the Coco Assistant. Their own Xiaole Assistant has long disappeared and their own people don't use it anymore.

Lianxiang's bosses also acquiesced to this behavior. Now is not the time to save face. Selling things and making money is the most important thing. Besides, Lianxiang has no shame.

In response to this situation, Lu Shan asked the technicians of Zemeng Company to upgrade the Coco Assistant.

After the upgrade, the coco assistant can identify whether the computer is Lianxiang. If it is, it cannot run.

Lianxiang computers have their own unique features. For example, the motherboard is made by Lianxiang itself, and the BIOS when booting up the computer is flashed with Lianxiang's boot screen. Coco will go on strike after recognizing these features.

If it is already installed and in use, Coco Assistant will automatically recognize it in the remote background and then strike.

Unless Lianxiang’s computer was installed before Coco was upgraded and then was disconnected from the Internet, making the Coco Assistant unable to upgrade, the disaster can be avoided.

Ze Meng's movements were swift and stealthy, and he quickly got the job done. All that was left was to wait and see what was to come.

(End of this chapter)