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Chapter 472 Why Don't You Just Rob It? (First Update!)

The voice on the other end of the line sounded a bit impatient. Lin Yi moved the phone away from his ear and held the screen up to his eyes. On the screen, the three large characters "Liu Yongqiang" were clearly displayed.

Lin Yi stared at those three words for a while, then beckoned to Lei Jun with his finger:
"Mr. Lei, come here! I need to talk to you about something."

When Lin Yi said he needed to speak with him, Lei Jun's eyes lit up immediately. He quickly came over and asked curiously, "What is it?"

The next second, Lin Yi used his right thumb and forefinger to support and pinch his arm, and the sharp pain from his arm made Lei Jun let out a howl.

The piercing screams made Lin Yi realize that he wasn't dreaming; Liu Yongqiang had indeed called and told him that people from Apple were coming.

He brought the microphone to his lips: "Who's leading the team from Apple?"

"I think his name is Cook, or something like that. He's supposed to be their...something director." Liu Yongqiang's voice came through, sounding doubtful. After a few seconds, he added:
"I just checked, but I didn't find anything useful. Boss, what do you think..."

"I'll be right back!" Lin Yi replied, then hung up the phone and nodded towards Lei Jun with his chin.
"Let's go, your idol's here?"

"Steve Jobs?"

"Cook!"

"hehe!"

Lin Yi ignored Lei Jun's chuckles, turned around, hopped on the pink electric bicycle, gently turned the throttle, and headed towards the telecommunications company along the same route.

As they walked, they tried to guess Cook's purpose in coming.

Is he here to back down?

The thought flashed through Lin Yi's mind for a moment before he dismissed it.

In total, he has only dealt with Apple four times in his past and present lives. He bought a phone three times in his previous life, and this time he accidentally stabbed Apple in the back.

I haven't had many interactions with them, but I wonder what kind of people those high-ranking executives at Apple are.

Steve Jobs was a relentless technologist; certain principles were more important to him than money.

Cook is a pure businessman, a very pure and shameless businessman, so this guy is unlikely to back down.

While he was still puzzled, the electric bicycle had reached the intersection. It was a red light, so Lin Yi stopped the bike at the zebra crossing and waited for the green light. Then he twisted the ignition switch hard, and the electric bicycle sped across the pedestrian crossing like the wind, heading towards the telecommunications company.

After fiddling around in the meeting room for more than an hour, Lin Yi received a call from the guardhouse.

After tidying himself up, he leisurely went downstairs to the guardhouse to meet the person.

Outside the gatehouse, Cook stepped out of the nanny van that had been used to greet him. He looked calmly at the factory in front of him, and after a while, he stood on tiptoe to look at the factory in the distance.

The silver-white Chinese characters standing atop the building reflected a unique light under the midday sun.

"A worthy opponent!" Cook thought to himself, looking down.

Just as he was about to ask Han Shunfa, hurried footsteps came from afar. The footsteps grew closer, and when the sound faded, Lin Yi appeared before Cook with a broad smile and said in English:
“Mr. Cook, I had no idea you had come from so far away. My apologies for not recognizing you.”

"this way please!"

Lin Yi nodded slightly and pointed in the direction of the office building. Cook nodded naturally, but did not take a step forward. Instead, he turned slightly to the side and nodded slightly as well.

"Mr. Lin, please!"

"Mr. Cook, please!"

"Mr. Lin, please!"

The two of them politely declined each other's presence several times before finally walking into the office building together, both smiling.

As soon as the group entered the meeting room, Liu Yongqiang led a group from the public relations department in, carrying coffee. After putting down the coffee, they left with a smile.

"Mr. Cook, please!"

This time, Cook didn't refuse the coffee. He naturally picked up his coffee cup, raised it to Lin Yi, and then took a small sip.
"If the coffee beans aren't from South America or Africa, or from Southeast Asia, then where are they from?"

"Mr. Cook, is it still tolerable to drink our domestically produced beverages?"

"Not bad!" Cook replied, raising his right hand and pushing the coffee cup in front of him aside with the back of his hand. "Mr. Lin, I came here in a hurry this time because there are only two things."

"The first thing I want to ask Mr. Lin is why you launched an attack on us at this critical moment."

"The second thing is that we need Mr. Lin's batteries."

"that's all!"

"If I said...it was an accident, would Mr. Cook believe me?" Lin Yi smiled sincerely, and his answer was equally sincere.

However, his sincerity did not move Cook. Under Lin Yi's gaze, Cook shook his head, his tall figure leaning forward, his long neck tilted to the side, and a faint glint of light flashing in his blue eyes.

Coupled with his eagle-beak-like nose, he looked even more like a beast at that moment.
“Mr. Lin, if you say that was just an accident, then that’s a bit too much of an accident.”

“You could have sent it a few days later or a few days earlier, but you chose this particular time.”

"This timing makes me suspect your ulterior motives."

"However!" He suddenly paused, the pressure on his face dissipated, and his tilted head returned to normal, making him completely unrecognizable from his previous state.

After sitting up straight, he calmly looked at Lin Yi:
"Apple's stock has risen very quickly during this period, which is a good thing for investors, but a bad thing for us."

"Because if the stock market is too hot, it will affect investors' judgment and also affect subsequent development."

"Your intervention at this time, forcibly suppressing the stock price, can be considered a favor to us."

"But then!"

"Our business reputation has been severely damaged, and Mr. Lin may need to make some concessions for future cooperation!"

On the other side, Lin Yi blinked subconsciously when he heard Cook's unconventional idea.

What do you mean I did you a favor, and then you suffered a loss, and you still expect me to make concessions?

So you've got all the good stuff?
Then what should I do?

Do you want to eat farts?
Rolling his eyes, Lin Yi tilted his head and looked at the person in front of him sideways: "I've heard that Mr. Cook is most skilled in supply chain management. In that case, Mr. Cook, please tell me how we should cooperate?"

When it comes to cooperation and supply chains, these are Cook's strengths. He coughed lightly, his body straightening up at that moment, completely different from his previous demeanor.

He raised his left hand, and his secretary immediately handed him a briefcase. After rummaging through it for a while, Cook took out the battery design data for the next generation of iPhones, leaned forward, and slowly placed the data on the table.

Then, he slowly pushed the document across the tea table and placed it in front of Lin Yi:
"This is the battery design data for our next generation of mobile phones."

"It contains the hard work of thousands of people in our company over thousands of days and nights."

"Mr. Lin only needs to produce suitable batteries according to the requirements here and then deliver them to us, and the cooperation will be completed."

"As for the costs, our cost department has carefully calculated them. The raw material cost is about 50, the labor cost is about 50, and I personally decide to give you an additional 10 yuan profit."

"110 RMB per battery, that's a great price!"

"In addition, you will need to share your battery patent technology with us so that we can develop the next generation of products."

After stating his demands, Cook crossed his arms and stared intently at Lin Yi, seemingly certain that Lin Yi would agree to his terms. His confident and composed demeanor was mirrored by the equally confident smiles of his secretaries, all of whom also fixed their gazes intently on Lin Yi.

Stared at by these eyes, Lin Yi's hands trembled violently, and he couldn't bring the cup of coffee to his mouth for a long time.

Four or five minutes later, he brought the cup of coffee to his lips, tilted his head back, and drank the cold coffee in one gulp.

very bitter.

It's similar to taking Chinese medicine!
The coffee went down his throat, and its bitter taste seeped into every taste bud, tormenting Lin Yi's nerves.

It also made him exceptionally clear-headed.

Feeling completely clear-headed, Lin Yi looked at Cook with a hint of amusement in his eyes.

He didn't raise his voice or roar; he simply looked calmly at Cook and asked, "Why don't you just rob it?"

"Anyway, America doesn't ban guns, so go buy two guns and head straight to the Federal Reserve... um..."

"Go to Wall Street, go to those banks on Wall Street, go in masked, and just start shooting them all. Kill them all, and all the stuff will be yours. Why did you come here?"

Despite Lin Yi's sarcastic remarks, Cook seemed oblivious, his eyes fixed straight ahead, his face devoid of any expression.

After Lin Yi finished his sarcastic remarks, he nodded slightly with a gentlemanly smile:
“Mr. Lin, I need to correct you on one point. The warehouses of Wall Street banks are all empty, not a single thing in them.”

"If you try to rob them, all you'll get is a warehouse full of securities information, which is useless to both of us."

"Since I've made this arrangement, there must be a reason for it."

"We at Apple have already become the world's third-largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in terms of shipments, and this trend will become increasingly apparent after the release of the iPhone 4 this year."

"In addition, we also launched the iPad this year."

"We now have four cards in our hands: mobile phones, tablets, personal PCs, and music players."

"This year, I estimate that the supply of these four products will exceed 4 million."

"Besides music players, mobile phones, tablets, and personal PCs all require a lot of batteries. If each battery costs 110,000, and the sales volume is 1.1 million, then the sales volume is 100 million, which is 11 billion!"

"And you yourself will be able to enjoy 10 billion of it all."

"Isn't that enough?"

"Am I robbing you? I'm giving you a job opportunity!"

"As far as I know, you are the ones who are most in need of job opportunities."

Having said that, Lin Yi finally understood where Cook's confidence came from: from Foxconn, and from the hundreds of thousands of workers at Foxconn.

Because they outsourced their business to Foxconn, and Foxconn, with these outsourced businesses, supported hundreds of thousands of people in China.

It is precisely because it supports so many people that even if Foxconn sometimes acts erratically, no one cares.

Pity……

Lin Yi shook his head and let out a soft sigh. If he didn't have the skills and abilities, he would indeed be overwhelmed by the customer's words.

Unfortunately, this is not the attitude of someone asking for help!

He looked up at Cook:

"Mr. Cook, if there's nothing else, you can go back now."

"Employment is not something I should be thinking about. My cost price is 10 yuan per gram of battery material."

"That's for me."

"If you think it's too expensive, you can go somewhere else and find someone else to do it for you, as long as they can do it."

He won't eat anything!

Cook narrowed his eyes and mentally assessed Lin Yi: Is this kind of person troublesome?
It's troublesome, but it's more interesting if you can handle people like this.

He shifted his position on the sofa, crossed his arms, and looked at Lin Yi:

“Mr. Lin, I know your ambition. Only you in this world can make such a battery.”

"And you Chinese have a saying that is very suitable for your current situation."

"That saying goes, 'A child carrying gold passes through a bustling market.'"

"What you hold in your hand is that piece of gold."

"In China, no one can touch you, and no one cares about you. But outside of China, anyone can touch you—the CIA, the FBI, Mossad, all intelligence agencies want to touch you."

"Understand?"

"The only thing you can do is cooperate with us, put on the skin we give you, and hand over some important things to us, so that we can pass them on to the relevant personnel."

"If Mr. Lin is willing, I can introduce you to some important people."

"How about it?"

Faced with Cook's suggestion, Lin Yi opened his mouth, but in the end, he still showed a gloomy look and lowered his head. Where Cook couldn't see, his mouth stretched all the way to his ears.

To be given to the CIA?

He really wanted to tell Cook that the CIA's second-in-command's phone number was in his phone, and that they would call each other from time to time.

But reason prevailed over his desire to show off. After holding that position for two or three minutes, he raised his head, his expression now one of grief and indignation:

"Mr. Cook, is this how Apple does business?"

“If someone tries to surpass you, you will try every means to block them, or even seize them by force.”

"That goes against Mr. Jobs's ideas!"

The accusations grew increasingly bitter and indignant, breaking the hearts of the listeners and bringing tears to their eyes.

Cook, on the other end of the line, simply smiled and shook his head upon hearing the voice.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin, I am a pure businessman. I am temporarily acting as the CEO of Apple. What I need to do, and the only thing I can do, is to make Apple bigger and stronger."

"In this process, I will not let go of any opportunity to make Apple stronger, and I will also devour any technology that makes Apple stronger."

"As for what happened to you, Mr. Lin, I can only say I'm very sorry."

"If you disagree, then I will have to resort to some extreme measures."

The threats grew calmer and calmer until finally, there was no sound at all.

In the quiet reception room, only the heavy breathing of people could be heard.

After a long while, Lin Yi raised his hand and clapped lightly: "Did you record it all?"

(End of this chapter)