I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 308 - 306: Subsidize the Liquidated Damages

"Alright, since it’s a misunderstanding, let’s just talk about it face to face. Better to resolve enmity than nurse it," Zhang Menglong replied cheerfully.

"Hahaha, Mr. Zhang is willing to resolve this peacefully, that’s naturally the best!" Director Zhou sighed in relief. However, he didn’t know about Kaibong’s corporation’s refusal to sell the new soil minerals to Silicon Moonlight and still thought this was all just an accident—otherwise, why would Zhang Menglong agree so readily?

The meeting was scheduled for two that afternoon, and Director Zhou was already waiting at the door for him.

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"Mr. Zhang, welcome, and thank you for your support in our work."

"Of course, of course!" Zhang Menglong nodded repeatedly, "Let’s hurry up and go, don’t keep others waiting, lest they say we don’t understand the rules."

"Please, Mr. Zhang!" As they walked, Director Zhou introduced Zhang Menglong to this envoy.

This representative was named Jintianjing Long, 42 years old, born a businessman and also a very capable person.

Jintianjing Long was sitting in the conference room, discussing strategies with his two assistants.

They certainly knew why Zhang Menglong had taken such measures against Kaibong. He wanted to use it as pressure to force the nation of Kaibong to open the export of new soil minerals to Silicon Moonlight.

Situated on tectonic plate boundaries with frequent geological activity, Kaibong’s territory, although lacking many conventional mineral resources, possessed several rare metal resources, with new soil minerals almost considered a national treasure.

Calling it a national treasure was because it was unique to Kaibong, but that didn’t mean it was scarce—the reserves of new soil minerals were not only substantial but could even be described as extremely abundant, with over 20 million tons located near the active volcanoes of Mount Asu.

The new soil minerals mainly contained several rare metal elements found in scant amounts in the Earth’s crust. Currently, human technology didn’t utilize them in many fields, with the semiconductor industry being the largest consumer.

However, the current photoresist technology didn’t use these metal elements, but Kaibong’s scientists, through research, had found that replacing them with metals from the new soil minerals could at least double the functionality of the photoresist.

It’s just that a very stable formula had not been created yet.

When they learned that Silicon Moonlight wanted to import new soil minerals, they immediately felt a deep unease.

The way Silicon Moonlight treated European and American suppliers was no secret, and just this point alone showed their current determined attitude, almost set on embarking on the path of independent research and development.

Whether they had the capability or not still remained a secret, but in the matter of importing new soil minerals, the people of Kaibong saw some clues and even boldly speculated that the people of Huaxia might have possibly developed a new formula.

Whether their guess was right or wrong, they made a decision immediately, refusing to export new soil minerals to Silicon Moonlight!

Rare earth minerals are important, but coal resources are equally important! Negotiating in this manner was their last resort!

Before this, they had almost inquired with all global coal suppliers, but either their coal was already fully booked, or had been bought up by Zhang Menglong, or belonged to some countries with bad relations, which they were not willing to let go of something akin to kicking someone when they’re down.

Even though they had raised the price to 80 US dollars per ton, far above the market rate, the suppliers still mocked them gleefully and refused their requests.

As for increasing the proportion of nuclear and renewable energy generation, that was merely a dream within the next decade. Nuclear power was good, but reactor technology issues and past accidents had already given Kaibong a taste of bitterness.

After much thought, the only way left was for Zhang Menglong to give up these import shares and cancel the coal field orders, which would allow Kaibong to restore its electricity supply.

By now, their coal reserves would last no more than 20 days. If they couldn’t resolve this within 20 days, the power supply would be severely affected, followed by a series of butterfly effects.

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"This is likely to be a rather challenging negotiation!" So far, Jintianjing Long had not figured out how to deal with this negotiation with Zhang Menglong, as he had received a strict order: they must secure the coal, and they absolutely could not sell the New Earth Mine!

"Mr. Zhang, let me introduce Mr. Jintianjing Long from Kaibong, along with his two assistants!"

"Mr. Long, this is Mr. Zhang Menglong."

"Hello, Mr. Long," Zhang Menglong greeted politely.

"Mr. Zhang seems not very punctual. I remember that I invited you for 2 p.m., and now it’s already half an hour past that time," Jintianjing Long directly started to challenge Zhang Menglong, needing to appear strong enough to possibly make Zhang Menglong yield.

Jintianjing Long’s face turned red. To tell the truth, he despised the domestic industry, but he had no choice, as this industry had become a very important part of the market in his country Kaibong. Forcefully shutting it down would cause serious social issues.

"Mr. Zhang, this is a serious occasion, isn’t it inappropriate to talk about such matters?" Jintianjing Long said angrily, wondering how such a serious issue could be less important than Zhang Menglong watching a film?

"How is it inappropriate?" Zhang Menglong retorted. "How are such matters not serious?"

Zhang Menglong had long been shameless, never needing such a thing as face, and when facing someone shameless, if you are not even more shameless, then how can you win?

"Hehe, Museum Director Zhou, Zhang Menglong said with a playful grin, "and I bought it from their official store in Kaibong, so that counts as a local specialty."

"You!" Jintianjing Long was on the verge of erupting, the insult of the words "local specialty" was too severe.

"Alright, you two," Museum Director Zhou quickly intervened, "today we are here to resolve the conflict between Mr. Zhang and your country. Let’s not talk about these off-topic matters."

"Exactly, I, Zhang Menglong, dealing with multimillion-dollar figures every minute, took time out to come here as a courtesy. Don’t squander the face I’m giving you!"

"Mr. Zhang! Mind the influence!"

"Hahaha, sorry, sorry, I tend to speak too straightforwardly," Zhang Menglong said with a playful grin, "Mr. Long, tell me, what exactly did you invite me for this time?"

"Mr. Zhang, regardless of whether your acquisition of those coal reserves is truly for global warming concerns or deliberately targeting us in Kaibong, I hope you stop such conduct and return the coal quota that rightfully belongs to us."

"Sure! Of course!" Zhang Menglong laughed.

"What?" Both Jintianjing Long and Museum Director Zhou were stunned. When had Zhang Menglong become so agreeable? Just like that, he agreed? This wasn’t logical!

Zhang Menglong stretched out a hand on the table.

"What do you mean, Mr. Zhang?" Jintianjing Long asked, puzzled.

"Nonsense, penalty for breach of contract!" Zhang Menglong said, "I have contracts with them, ranging from 10 billion to 100 billion US dollars each, and if I recall correctly, the total is 27 billion US dollars. Mr. Long, please compensate me for this penalty."