Wake up suddenly, back to the time when my wife and daughter had an accident

Chapter 1169

Colin Minot pondered, his face showing hesitation: "Mr. Fang, please give me some time to think about it. The settlement cycle you proposed is indeed a bit long for our company, which will bring certain financial pressure." After some deep thinking, he still couldn't make up his mind. The payment cycle of half a year was indeed too long for them. "No problem, we can take our time and discuss it slowly." Fang Mu's tone was relaxed, but this made Colin Minot more anxious. When they first cooperated, Fang Mu convinced him with a few words. At that time, Colin Minot was not sure whether Fang Mu could continue to get more base station projects, especially in the market controlled by Meng Haisheng for a long time. Who knows how Meng Haisheng, the villain, will react after learning that Fang Mu got the project, but unexpectedly, Meng Haisheng did not take action against Fang Mu, but let Fang Mu successfully get the second contract. This fully shows that Fang Mu does have certain strength. Colin Minot had a hunch that other telecom giants would soon pay attention to China's base station market. This market is no longer what they despised at the beginning of the year. The huge investment of the Chinese government has turned this project into a tempting big cake.

Any of the telecom giants who heard the news is no weaker than Colin Group.

If he doesn't seize the time to establish a more solid cooperative relationship with Fang Mu, the opportunity in his hand may slip away. Immediately, he convened an urgent high-level meeting to discuss the base station project.

At the beginning of the year, some shareholders of Colin Group had proposed to withdraw from the Chinese market and focus on Europe. But now, in less than a year, these shareholders have been slapped in the face.

Originally, they felt that such a cooperation method of paying once every six months was simply unheard of and could not continue at all.

However, now China's base station project has completely overturned their original views. China has invested huge funds to build base stations, and they also want to get a share of it.

"Enough, enough, stop arguing, let's vote." Colin Minott was given a splitting headache by the shareholders' arguments.

The shareholders at the meeting had different opinions. Some conservative shareholders were worried about the risk of long-term settlement of six months, while other shareholders were full of expectations for the Huaxia market and believed that it was a market with great potential.

There was really no result to be reached. After voting, Colin Minot decided to accept the settlement method every six months. In order to appease some dissatisfied shareholders, he decided to further increase the original profit as compensation.

After several days of intense negotiations, Fang Mu and Colin Minot's second contract was finally officially signed.

The first batch of base stations also began to be installed. According to the previous agreement, Fang Mu accepted the first batch of 200 base stations in mid-January, and the remaining payment will be paid after all base stations are installed.

Jiangcheng is an inland city and is particularly cold in winter. In order to catch up with the tight construction schedule, the staff of the base station had to work overtime.

But no one expected that the base station that was still good yesterday was found to be broken today.

The huge base station tower was broken in the middle, and all the staff present were confused and didn't react for a long time to what was going on.

The collapse of the base station tower was unheard of. Even Meng Haisheng was so shocked when he received the news.

He had been asking people to pay close attention to the installation process of the base station recently. He had planned to expose the poor quality of the base station after they installed fifty or sixty units.

Now, they have problems without him having to do anything.

"It's really self-inflicted. How could a good base station tower suddenly collapse?" Meng Haisheng ordered Zhang Lei to fly to China immediately to investigate the cause.

After receiving the order, Zhang Lei immediately booked the earliest flight to China.

At the same time, Fang Mu was almost furious when he heard the news. He didn't expect that there would be problems with the base station tower.

"Youwei, go to the construction site in person to see what's going on." Fang Mu said to Fang Youwei.

The explanation given by Colin Group was that the cold weather and the staff's operating errors caused a welding point on the base station tower to be damaged, causing the tower to collapse.

But Fang Mu didn't believe it. The base station towers were welded with thick steel. It took a lot of strength to damage the welding point.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Fang Youwei drove to Jiangcheng and arrived a day earlier than Zhang Lei.

When he arrived at the scene, Fang Youwei saw that the collapsed base station tower was still in its original state. Fortunately, the base station tower was located outside the city and surrounded by farmland. Otherwise, if it was in the city, it might cause serious casualties.

Fang Youwei walked around the collapsed base station tower and felt relieved.He felt very irritated. He always felt that the collapse of the base station was not a good sign, and there would probably be other miscellaneous things waiting for them to deal with later.

"Engineer Zhang, take someone to check why the base station tower collapsed." Fang Youwei ordered.

"Okay, I'll take someone up now." Engineer Zhang led the team to start the inspection.

Although Fang Youwei was not shrewd in the business world, he also had some knowledge. He brought some engineering experts on this trip to help find out the cause of the collapse.

When Engineer Zhang went forward to check the base station tower, he felt something was wrong before he climbed up. He found that the thickness of the steel used to build the base station tower was far below the standard requirements.

"Everyone wait for me down there, I'll go up and take a look." Engineer Zhang looked up at the fracture of the base station tower and climbed up nimbly.

The north wind was howling, and Engineer Zhang was shivering with cold after only climbing halfway. He endured the discomfort and carefully checked the fracture surface.

In addition to the substandard steel, there was also obvious shoddy workmanship at the welding points. The welding level in some places was so poor that it was obvious that it was welded by novices. It could be broken with a kick.

Engineer Zhang thought: "Which company built this base station tower? Isn't this a shoddy project? Even if there is no problem now, it may suddenly collapse one day when it is maintained in the future. Isn't it a joke with life?"

After getting off the base station, Engineer Zhang told Fang Youwei the inspection results in detail.

After listening to Engineer Zhang's report, Fang Youwei burst into swear words on the spot. He was full of anger and confusion. These base station towers are the "imported goods" advertised by Colin Group.

In fact, these base station towers are produced by large domestic factories, but they have always claimed that the quality of these products is strictly guaranteed.

But now, it has not been used for a day and it has broken directly. What guarantee is there?