MTL - Rebirth in a Perfect Era-Chapter 1724 Auto union

Although Chen Ze had extraordinary trust in Li Mu, he couldn't believe it. Li Mu had to buy three Ford brands in one breath.

Seeing him stunned, Li Mu said, "Lao Chen, I'm not joking with you. We are flying here all the way, not to visit the Ford factory."

Chen Ze settled down and asked, "How much does it cost to acquire these three brands, astronomical figures!"

Li Mu laughed: "However, the quotation is only a few billion dollars."

Billions of dollars ...

Chen Ze almost vomited blood after listening.

Only Li Mu can say so easily with billions of dollars.

However, if you think about it, these three brands add up to billions of dollars, which is really not high.

He recalled some of the data in his memory, and said, "It seems that Ford spent at least six or seven billion US dollars on Volvo? In addition to Jaguar Land Rover, the three brands' purchase prices are at least ten billion US dollars. Why? Would it be so cheap? "

Li Mu said with a smile: "Because you lose money!"

Speaking of them, Li Mu said, "Look, Volvo got a huge loss in the hands of Ford. When Jaguar and Land Rover were integrated by them, they also failed to escape the huge losses. They bought three brands for more than 10 billion dollars. Over the years, they have lost billions of dollars, and now they only sell billions of dollars. Ford has lost at least nearly 10 billion. "

The large industrial group's loss is to cut meat with a blunt knife. Although it is not fatal, it will cut a large piece with each knife.

For example, when the domestic steel and coal markets are not good, private related companies can immediately switch from profit to loss, and then be deeply trapped by their own companies. The losses are increasing every day, and the more they lose, the more their net assets are not at this time. It is negative, but the key is that the net asset is the same as the stock with a limit, but it cannot be sold if it wants to sell.

In this case, business owners can only bear losses, and hope that one day they can wait for the market to warm up. Many times, the richest man in a place waits to become a listed veteran, with a value of tens of billions to a negative value. Just three or two years.

Once the industry is in a trapped state, it is truly terrible, like a block of cement falling on the body, pulling people into the abyss, and they can't get rid of it.

A hundred years of Ford have been getting more and more dogs. The main reason is that the stalls are too large and poorly managed, and they are ultimately locked up by their own assets.

When Chen Ze heard this, he was taken aback and said in a hurry: "Why don't you take these three brands at this time as Ford's ghost? For billions of dollars, buy back three loss-making companies, how about you? Don't you have to give them blood all the time? "

Li Mu said with a smile: "In Ford's hands, it's an unjust ghost. In my hands, it's probably a ghost of luck. Ford's inability to make these three brands profitable does not mean that I can't."

Chen Ze has a big head, rubbing his temples, and said, "Lao Li, you have never done a car before. This is a big industry that involves tens of thousands of people. Which car brand is not global procurement or global sales? The supply chain alone Enough to drink a pot, let alone sales. "

Li Mu patted his shoulder and laughed, "Relax, I thought about what I should have thought about, and I thought about what I shouldn't think about. I have a lot of confidence to turn these three brands into profit, let me say Even if it does n’t work, billions of dollars, I will dissolve the factory after losing the principal and donate all the equipment and technology patents to the country. It ’s a good thing. What are you afraid of? ”

Chen Ze nodded and smiled: "Okay, since you said so, then I won't support you anymore, what kind of brother?"

After speaking, he immediately said, "I know a little bit about cars. As long as you need it, I will listen to you later."

Chen Ze himself is a car-obsessed person. He has deeper feelings about cars and the automobile industry than Li Mu. Originally, he was just worried that Li Mu bought back three hot potato, and finally the chicken was beaten, but deep down, he won this to Li Mu. The three brands are still looking forward to it. Now Li Mu is showing strong confidence. He doesn't have that worry in his heart, and the rest is blood.

Three internationally renowned auto brands are about to be acquired by Hua Xia Enterprises and become 100% Hua Xia Enterprises. This kind of thing is enough to make people excited.

If these three brands can be done well, it will be a national light.

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Chen Ze followed Li Mu excitedly to the hotel. Elon Musk's team members have been waiting here for a long time.

In order to deal with these three brands, Elon Musk brought his top executives at Tesla. In addition, he also introduced a few high-level auto industry professionals through high-paying staff through friends to ensure this The acquisition finally landed.

For Elon Musk, he is also looking forward to this acquisition because, as Li Mu said, if these three brands are in hand, all models, platforms, and technologies of these three brands will be open to Tex Pull.

In other words, in the future, Tesla only needs to implement new energy on the models of these three brands. There is no need to redesign the chassis and build the platform, because in the future, Tesla can even directly use these three models. The brand is responsible for foundry.

Elon Musk introduced the team members to Li Mu at the banquet. After lunch, everyone immediately came to the president's suite of more than 400 square meters, which Li Mu ordered.

In the presidential suite, Elon Musk reported to Li Mu about his work.

At present, everything is going well. In addition to Ford's slightly higher requirements for money, everything is very cooperative and sincere.

However, there are also problems. For example, Volvo's production line is still in Sweden. After the brand is changed, Makino Technology will send someone to Sweden to solve subsequent corporate changes and employee transfers. This is not a problem for Makino Technology. The trouble is that Land Rover also has a production line in the United States.

Jaguar Land Rover's main production line is in the United Kingdom, but there is also a production line in the United States. According to the requirements of the automotive industry union, if Ford sells this production line, the buyer must guarantee that this production line will continue to run for at least five years and must not actively lay off employees or Discontinued.

Elon Musk said, "The auto union in the United States is very influential. Even GM and Ford can't help them. If we can't meet the union's requirements, the auto union will ban Ford from selling this production line."

Li Mu nodded slightly.

He has long been the leader of the American union.

In fact, it is awesome, sometimes it is more appropriate to be a silly bird.

The ability of the American Automobile Union to not only form an absolute repression of car companies, but also affect the country's overall policy in the automotive field.

In order to resist the impact of Japanese car companies, the US union demanded that the government put pressure on Japanese car companies, so the US government asked Japan to sign a "voluntary restraint agreement", which could only export 1.68 million cars to the US market each year.

In the end, the Japanese can only go to the United States to build factories. Although this has benefited the American Automobile Union and solved a lot of jobs, for the three major American car companies, they are just their mother pig teammates.

The American car itself lacks competitiveness. Fortunately, it can still rely on the advantages of the local market to eat in the United States. As a result, the guild forced Japanese car companies to come to the United States to build factories. For Ford, GM and Chrysler, this is simply Is to lead the wolf into the room.

The high labor cost in the United States itself makes the three major car companies miserable. However, the Japanese understand the cost control better than them, so the advantages are very obvious. The days for American car companies are even worse.

And the auto union ’s crushing of American auto companies is still ubiquitous. Ford has tried to close an assembly plant in the United States, but the guild requires that even if the assembly plant is closed, more than 3,000 workers in the assembly plant must be paid in full, and Social and medical insurance.

The auto union, which has a lot to offer, has even proposed a very nonsense plan, requiring American auto companies to provide 95% of the wages to the unemployed workers of the auto union, which is simply shameless.

What is even more frightening is that in order to protect their own interests, the auto union has done everything possible to obstruct auto companies from optimizing the industrial structure.

For example, they want to do everything possible to prevent American car companies from building factories overseas;

Another example is ~ www.novelbuddy.com ~ They try everything to resist the automation reform of the production line.

Because of this arrogant operation, Detroit will gradually become a dead city. Together with Detroit, it also has the golden years of the three major American car companies.

However, Japanese car companies are very chicken thieves. They came to the United States to set up factories, but refused to sign any agreement with the auto union, so that the auto union could only pile up on American car companies like vampires, and could not do anything to Japanese car companies.

This has further weakened the competitiveness of American cars in the United States and Japanese cars, so the North American family car sales rankings have been pulled out casually. Among the top five car companies, Honda, Toyota, and Nissan occupy three perennially. Seats.

Li Mu also doesn't want to deal with the American Automobile Union. If he opened a factory in the United States, even if the Automobile Union came to the door, he would not sign any agreement with the other party, but the problem is that Ford itself is in the sphere of influence of the American Automobile Union. You can ignore the auto union, but Ford can't.

Immediately, Li Mu told Elon Musk: "The problems of the trade unions will be difficult for us to resolve at one and a half. The most important thing is to complete the acquisition as soon as possible. Therefore, as long as the requirements of the automotive union are not excessive, we will temporarily agree to wait for the acquisition Talk to them slowly when you are done. "

Elon Musk nodded and said, "I will talk to Ford specifically about this."

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Ford himself should also be troubled by the guild?"

Elon Musk shrugged his shoulders and said, "Everyone says that the purpose of the existence of the American Automobile Association is to destroy the American auto industry. Without them, Japanese car companies would not have been so successful in North America."

Having said that, Elon Musk reminded: "But in the afternoon you can use this problem to suppress the price with Ford and let them make some concessions."