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These national security personnel had never seen such a spectacular scene before.

However, they also adhere to the work principle that they will not expose the boss unless the leader gives the order.

Zhang Dong was also helpless when he saw this scene. He saw that even the organizers had sent security guards to maintain order.

Even so, the few staff members who remained were surrounded by the crowd, who were pressing him for an answer about where their boss was.

"I am the boss, so please don't make things difficult for these staff members."

After Zhang Dong shouted, he quickly attracted the attention of the onlookers. Everyone's eyes fell on him, and some even exclaimed in surprise.

"Good day, boss."

A foreigner with a long face was quick-witted and agile, and ran to Zhang Dong's side first.

"I learned from the organizers that you are Mr. Zhang from Zhangdong, the boss from Southeast University."

The foreigner with the long face wanted to confirm, but as soon as he had that thought, more people gathered around and pushed him out of the circle.

Chang Tiao's face showed a look of wanting to cry but having no tears, and he stomped his feet in anger outside the crowd.

At this moment, Lin Yue also said loudly, "If you want to talk about cooperation, that's fine, but do it one at a time. Don't be so chaotic. What happened to your manners?"

Lin Yue also became anxious. In that situation just now, if any of these people had ulterior motives, Zhang Dong would have been in danger.

Zhang Dong knew that Lin Yue was doing this for his safety, so he fully cooperated.

Zhang Dong was still surprised to see so many people wanting to cooperate with their company.

He quickly came up with an idea: "We can cooperate with your company, but we will exclude mobile phone manufacturers from the cooperation process."

Upon hearing Zhang Dong's words, some mobile phone manufacturing company owners felt as if they had been struck by a blunt object, and some even lost control of their emotions and shouted on the spot.

"Why exclude us mobile phone manufacturers? Mr. Zhang is being really unfair."

Zhang Dongke didn't have time to discuss issues of morality with him; he didn't accept this kind of moral blackmail.

It's ridiculous. He came to this science and technology exhibition to show his strength to his foreign counterparts and, incidentally, to see if he could bring some glory to the country.

Another point is to seek new areas of development and cooperation.

Zhang Dong said this before, and he has always done it: we have now entered an era of cooperation and win-win results, and it is impossible to succeed by going it alone.

This era is one of natural selection; if we do things that way, we will eventually disappear without a trace, and our defeat will be swift and devastating...

Another point is to keep pace with the times and adapt to the actual national conditions. The reason he had Lin Yue accompany him on a tour of the site earlier was to see what aspects of this science and technology exhibition should be taken back.

Otherwise, risking my life to come to Chicago and take such a big risk would be a huge loss...

But he never expected that refusing cooperation in the mobile phone industry would cause his foreign counterparts such grief and despair.

Seeing the mobile phone manufacturers leave, Lin Yue, who was standing nearby, came over.

"Mr. Zhang is impressive. I really admire his adherence to principles."

Hearing Lin Yue's praise, Zhang Dong smiled and waved his hand, a mischievous smile appearing on his lips.

When Zhang Dong realized that Wilson's company wanted to use their technology for free through cooperation, he once said, "I'd rather die poor than cooperate with foreigners."

When I said that, it was to make them give up completely. I wouldn't be so stupid as to refuse to cooperate with them if it would benefit me.

The reason I said that was because I saw through Wilson and his gang's ulterior motives—they wanted to take over their company's computer R&D technology for free.

In business, truth and falsehood are intertwined. If the two sides were to discuss cooperation, Zhang Dong's idea would be mutual respect and a win-win situation.

If this principle is abandoned, then so-called cooperation is nothing but nonsense.

Wilson's company had tried to scheme against him, and of course he wouldn't agree to it.

But now, even the head of such a conglomerate has come out to plead for him, which surprised Zhang Dong.

"Mr. Zhang Dong, I am a reporter from the American TV station, and I would like to interview you."

"I heard you once said that you would rather die poor than cooperate with foreign companies."

"Is it because your company has always adhered to this principle that you have rejected cooperation from so many companies?"

Upon seeing that it was a television reporter interviewing him, Zhang Dong initially didn't want to speak. His previous attitude towards the media was to keep his distance.

However, he also felt that he was now representing the country at this science and technology exhibition, and if the other party's television station sensationalized and reported on it, it would have a significant impact on the country.

He said those words in a fit of anger before his big battle with Wilson's company broke down in negotiations.

Even ambitious people in the Qing Dynasty understood the principle of learning from the barbarians' superior techniques to control them. How could a modern person, who was also reborn, not understand such a simple principle?

In order to prevent the other party from finding fault, Zhang Dong grabbed the microphone from the other party's hand.

"On this point, I want to clarify specifically that I did say those words back then."

"What, Mr. Zhang, you really said that? We thought it was just hearsay before."

"No wonder you just rejected any cooperation with numerous mobile phone manufacturers."

Hearing that the reporter was trying to stir up trouble, Zhang Dong waved his hand with a serious expression.

"Don't make wild guesses. When I said those things, it was between our company and Wilson's company. It was just a fight between individuals. They just wanted to get our technology for free."

"I was just speaking in the heat of the moment, and that's when I said all this. Please don't try to stir up trouble."

"At present, our Southeast University is undergoing reform and opening up, and we welcome all kinds of capital and insightful people to enter the university to start businesses and develop."

"We warmly welcome your cooperation and look forward to win-win cooperation and common development."

"But companies like Wilson's were always scheming against others, using the guise of cooperation to deceive people, thinking everyone else was a fool and that only they were shrewd. So we refuse to cooperate with companies like that..."

Meanwhile, in a luxury hotel, Wilson was watching a live television broadcast.

Seeing this scene, especially when Zhang Dong mentioned him, belittling him to nothing and saying they were just pretending to be something they weren't, he was so angry that he convulsed.

"Fuck, this bastard actually slandered me in this kind of situation, I'm so angry!"

But right now, he could only stare helplessly, at most cursing a few times. After all, neither business warfare nor assassination attempts had enabled him to successfully take down this young man from Dongda University.

The next second, Wilson angrily picked up the remote control and slammed it down on Zhang Dong, who was giving a long and detailed interview.

With a click, the screen went completely black.

Meanwhile, Zhang Dong continued to talk animatedly...