Meanwhile, on the other side, Mercedes unsurprisingly found out that Ferrari was getting in touch with Qin Miao's management team.
After hearing this news, the Mercedes team held an emergency internal meeting for half an hour, then rolled out a new negotiation strategy, bumping Qin Miao's original 20 million US Dollar salary offer up to 30 million.
Strictly speaking, with Qin Miao's current market value, that kind of money is what he deserves, but since he doesn't do commercial events, Mercedes had a reasonable excuse to cut his pay.
But with Ferrari jumping in and stirring things up, if Mercedes didn't want to let Qin Miao go, they had no choice but to raise his salary.
