"Master, the reporter from Economic Weekly has arrived."

Just during the video conference, Xiaona's voice responded and reminded Luo Sheng that "Economic Weekly" is one of two important financial media from Germany. Now that such a mess has happened, the doors of both companies have been almost broken by various media, and there are also countless media who want to conduct exclusive interviews with Luo Sheng.

This time, Luo Sheng chose a European media for an interview, with the purpose of sending signals to the euro zone market. The markets in developed countries and regions are currently worth investing in the euro zone.

"That's all for the meeting."

After finishing the video conference, Luo Sheng stood up and left his private office. At the same time, the Economic Weekly reporter had entered the interior of the Science and Technology Complex.

...

"Mr. Luo, it is an honor to meet you. I am Laurentis, a reporter from Economic Weekly. Thank you for accepting our exclusive interview."

In the big living room, Luo Sheng met with the media reporter who came. The reporter from Economic Weekly is very good-looking. Not only is he good-looking, but Luo Sheng was surprised that she was able to speak fluent Chinese.

"You are the most standard Westerner in Chinese that I have ever seen. You are also very beautiful and the most beautiful reporter I have ever seen." Luo Sheng said with a smile, and immediately asked the other party to take his seat.

"Thank you for your praise, Mr. Luo, can we start?" Laurentis showed a bright smile. She also knew that time was limited. After all, the other party is the richest man in the world in the contemporary world. He is in charge of the two super giant corporate groups. Time is precious.

Luo Sheng nodded, and the two sat face to face on a table. Laurentis immediately gave each other a wireless phone, and her partner had already debugged the camera equipment and started recording videos.

"First of all, congratulations to your company's flagship phone, the Azure-4, for selling well in Greater China. In fact, consumers in Germany and the entire euro zone are currently hotly discussed on social media. They can't wait to have it as soon as possible. We can foresee that the new flagship phone will also be a great success in the euro zone market."

Laurentis changed his mind after taking action: "But there are some objections. We have seen some media reports criticizing the price of the Azure-4. The basic version of the retail price in Europe costs 1,099 euros, and the top-end version is even sold for 1,399 euros. It is much more expensive than other mobile phone brands such as Samsung and iPhones. The Azure has very excellent technology, production, processing and technology, so it has also brought a lot of doubts. Why doesn't your company reduce the cost and the new product is so expensive?"

Luo Sheng crossed his hands and held his jaw with his fingers. He replied without thinking when he heard this question: "For this question... if we want to do this, we can actually reduce the cost and sell it cheaper. I don't want to deny this. For example, we can pay less money to supply chain partners, and for example, the OEM process, we gave OEM partners a high profit."

"So it's not that we can't reduce costs, we can do it, but why do we insist on not reducing prices and selling more expensively? It's because if I lower the price of Azure-4, the consequence is that everyone downstream will die. Not to mention our domestic friendly brands, international friendly brands such as Samsung and Apple cannot survive. Therefore, in order to ensure the healthy development of the entire industry and ensure the diversification of brands, the price of the Azure-4 must be raised rather than lowered."

As soon as these words were said, the German journalist girl had a dull expression on the spot, her mouth was slightly opened. Fortunately, the camera did not focus on her and did not record her expression of disobedience.

But Luo Sheng was silent when he said this, but it was really deafening in the ears of the Germans.

People explain this sentence: I have all the products below the price reduction of the Azure.

Except for Luo Sheng, no entrepreneur in the world dares to stand up and say such things.

When Laurentis was at a loss and forgot to answer the conversation, Luo Sheng took the initiative to continue speaking: "I roughly estimated that the price of Azure-4 can be about % cheaper. With the quality of our products, the chips we have studied ourselves, the Azure-4 has really dropped. For example, the retail price of 800 euros per piece is sold. My products can immediately boost two or three levels more than their peers based on the existing basis. As a result, there will be no Samsung or iPhone in the European market, and there will be only one brand left."

Immediately afterwards, Luo Sheng added: "In fact, the pricing of the flagship phone of the Azure-4 was established after a long discussion by the company's executive board. Many people within the board of directors said that the price could be reduced and the price would be cheaper. Our profits could be higher in absolute terms. I clearly know that some money can be earned, but I can't make it, so I have to leave it to others for making it."

Laurentis really doesn’t know how to answer this sentence. He just explained this sentence. I raised the price to give a way to a friendly businessman.

Price reduction is a dead end for friendly traders.

She could imagine how heartbreaking the smartphone industry peers heard this after the video of the interview was released.

In fact, the current popular sales situation of Azure-4 in Greater China also proves that Luo Sheng’s words are tenable. The products are so expensive, and consumers are still buying them. If the price is reduced by 25%, the competitors will really have no way out.

Laurentis secretly envied when can German companies say such domineering words?

It is rare in the world that an entrepreneur can bring a company to this level. It happened in China, which made Westerners like Laurentis feel incredible and even a little difficult to accept.

Finally, Laurentis quickly skipped the topic because she realized that continuing to unfold on this issue would only make the other party unbridled and reasonable, and that was too fatal.

But, I can only say that Laurentis is still too young.

When he reached Luo Sheng’s current state, he thought he was explaining one fact, but from the perspective of a third party, it was another matter, this was pretending to be compared!

"Mr. Luo, regarding the public opinion caused by the recent proposal of the North American Federal Department of Justice, are you worried that Costa à and Blue Star Technology are at risk of being stifled all international markets?"

Faced with such a problem, Luo Sheng smiled indifferently and replied calmly: "North America cannot kill us, because this world cannot do without us..."

Laurentis: What if you promised not to show off?

Luo Sheng didn't know what the other party thought, and said to himself: "...Because we are more advanced now, I think even if the North American authorities really convince more people not to use our products and services for the time being, our business can be reduced a little. It's not a big deal. The media outside likes to hype it. When hearing this news, I can't sleep at night. I'm talking nonsense, I'm fine."

Well, An Qingxue, who is standing outside the camera, has the most say in this regard.

Luo Sheng added: "The second is that North America is constantly questioning us and picking us. This is actually forcing us to do better with our products and services. The Costa del Blue starts to invest in R&D budgets from $42 billion this year to $55 billion next year, which is not a show-off."

"Blue Star Technology has also gone from more than $10 billion before last year to $150 billion in five years, so I still have to thank it to a certain extent. Because of this, it can help us not be satisfied with the small achievements we have now. It is North America that makes us realize that we still have a lot to learn and make progress. Their designs are urging us to continue to improve."

Laurentis was speechless. You have become the richest man in the world, the highest listed company in the world with market value, and the most brand valued company in the world. In your eyes, it is just a small achievement?

Can you still have a good interview?

Laurentis suppressed what he wanted to complain about and asked again: "If North America successfully convinced its allies to boycott your company's products like last year's Bluestar Technology, what impact will this have on your two companies?"

Luo Sheng smiled and said, "The impact must be a bit, but the problem is not big. North America does not represent the whole world, but only represents a part of people. Judging from the domestic sales of Azure-4, we are not unable to survive if we lose the international market."

Laurentis: "Have you considered how important the future of your two businesses in the German and even the euro zone markets in terms of investment plans and job opportunities? Can you guarantee that you will not exit the euro zone market and will not bring job opportunities out?"

Luo Sheng smiled, but said in his heart: Xiaoyao, he finally showed his fox's tail. This is probably the most concerned issue for you Europeans.

This is actually not difficult to speculate at all. Last year, Bluestar Technology alone reached a cooperation agreement with the EU region. Not only did it allocate more than 10 billion euros of corporate partner rescue plan, but it also promised to provide tens of thousands of new job opportunities in Europe. Europeans have tasted the sweetness.

After all, Europe is now deeply trapped in the quagmire of debt crisis. Super large multinational companies like Bluestar Technology are actually something that Europe cares about very much. All problems are attributed to employment opportunities.

Bluestar Technology alone has currently brought nearly 150,000 jobs in the entire EU region, which is a direct employment opportunity, let alone an indirect economic engine effect.

Last year, Bluestar Technology faced a blow from North America. In order to preserve the EU market, it reinvested most of the profits earned in the EU region in the European market.

The EU region is intertwined with love and hate, which simply means jumping repeatedly between joy and worry.

The joy is that Bluestar Technology has brought a large number of job opportunities, and the concern is that Bluestar Technology's penetration in the EU market has further deepened and is more interdependent.

Faced with this problem of Laurentis, Luo Sheng pretended to be serious and firm without any flaws and said: "Don't worry about this. I will continue to increase my investment in the euro zone. Whether it is Blue Star Technology or the Costa 1999, we still trust the euro zone very much. We also hope that the euro zone can trust us more and we will invest in Europe on a larger scale, because if North America does not trust us, we can transfer the original investment in North America to Europe on a larger scale."

This is undoubtedly quite tempting for Europe. You should know that the North American market is a consumer-oriented market, and % of the Americans come from local consumption. This is a huge number, and it is also the reason why companies around the world, including Luo Sheng's Coast of Blue Star Technology, have to explore the North American market.

At the same time, this also contrasts the huge scale of investment in North America. If all of them are transferred to the euro zone... it is really difficult for Europeans who are deeply in debt crisis to reject this temptation.

"I'm looking forward to seeing your company's investment in Europe in the future." Laurentis looked at Luo Sheng and went on to the next topic: "We noticed that Costa à la Côte d'Azur now has more than 100,000 patents, and Bluestar Technology also holds more than 70,000 patents. Will you weaponize them? Especially some of the core patents of Costa à la Côte d'Azur?"

The two companies are no longer five years ago, but their younger brothers ten years ago, and their technical background is gradually accumulating.

Take the components on the Azure mobile phone as an example. Although the final molding of this mobile phone is impossible to be 100% domestically produced and requires the support of supply chain partners around the world, the intellectual property structure is extremely complex. The "Blue Core" chip in the mobile phone is an I-designed product completely independently by the Costa ça de Azure and Lens Semiconductor, but it is based on the instruction set architecture of the British Arm company.

The raw materials for the chip come from Shinjo Chemical in Japan. The chip foundry is Kuaiji Electric, but the process technology uses its own Finfet patent, which is used by semiconductor manufacturers around the world, including Kuaiji Electric, Intel and other chip foundries. At the same time, the front-end ecaliber software of the chip is provided by North American companies.

It is precisely because of such a complex interdependence or mutual restraint of key intellectual property rights that the US has only announced the proposal instead of directly formally authorizing the passage of the ban.

Otherwise, with the fact that Americans are really impatient, they will definitely jump to the top when they come up. How could they use poke skills to explore the situation first and then look at the next step?

At this time, Luo Sheng heard this question and said with a smile: "We have a lot of intellectual property rights, but we will not weaponize them. However, intellectual property rights are created through labor. Our annual investment of tens of billions of dollars is real. We also need to protect our labor creation. It is also because under today's global economic system, enterprises have cross-licensing and paying some money to each other.

"Now there are a lot of large multinational companies in the world who pay us patent fees every year, but because we have confidentiality agreements, I can't tell you which companies are named and how much they have paid, right, haha."

Seeing Luo Sheng's bright smile, Laurentis had to smile elegantly, but the other person's smile gave her a bit intriguing.

I must have made a lot of money.

Of course, I made a lot of money, and I don’t look at the performance of the Costa 2013 annual report of more than US$200 billion. This is not created out of thin air, but the 2013 annual report has not been disclosed to the public.

Of course, the more patents, the better, but sometimes there is no need to be too many. Holding a few core patents that are unavoidable to the industry can be better than hundreds of ordinary patents.

Luo Sheng added with a smile: "Weaponizing patents is not our original intention. We will not use it as a weapon to curb the development and progress of human society. The reason why we have not asked for money from more companies over the years is largely because we are too busy and our development is too fast. I don't want to be modest. Whether it is the Costa del Blue or Blue Star Technology, the development speed of the whole world sees it."

Laurentis gave up because he found that he could not stop the richest man from pretending to be compared, and he pretended to be quiet and even had some details in it.

Luo Sheng quipped: "When we are not so busy, we have extra energy. When we have free time, we will ask for some money from others, but we may not need much, not as much as Qualcomm. We can just need a little less symbolically. We mainly make friends."

Qualcomm: "???"

Not only did Qualcomm fall into trouble, but those multinational companies that signed confidentiality agreements also had a sentence to MMP, why did you need to sign a confidentiality agreement? It’s not because you, Luo Sheng, is not so good at all than Qualcomm.

Publicity will be detrimental to the business operations, will undermine investors' confidence, affect the company's stock price, etc.

But he was helpless. Since he couldn't say anything, he could only watch Luo Sheng tell lies in the public media with his eyes open, and Bi Du let him get all out of it alone...

Laurentis subconsciously said, "Then are you busy now, Mr. Luo?"

Luo Sheng: "We are still very busy now, and we won't do stupid things like picking sesame seeds and losing watermelons, so don't worry. We won't come to ask for money now. Besides, we have a lot of money now and can't spend it. Why do we need that much money? It's actually a kind of trouble if we want too much, and we don't cause trouble."

Laurentis: “…”

This interview can no longer be happily unfolded.
Chapter completed!