Chapter 1723

After ten hours of flight, in the morning of us time, Li Mu has only two hours left from Dearborn. The estimated landing time of the plane is 11:00 am local time.

When Li Mu came, the departure time of the plane in Yanjing was 10 a.m. Yanjing time.

The embarrassment of flying across the ocean is when you take off from China and land at the local time.

If it's an ordinary economy class trip, 12 to 13 hours of flight is enough to make people fall apart. Because economy class is relatively crowded and it's hard to get a good rest, most people are not only tired after getting off the plane, but also their clothes are wrinkled and dirty, and they are deeply troubled by the time difference. They can't get over it in two or three days.

However, when executives of the world's top 500 companies go on business trips abroad, they often put on a stiff suit immediately after the plane lands and put into work directly. The reason is that even if they are not in a private plane, they are at least a first-class cabin that can lie flat and sleep all the way.

Li Mu also slept all the way. Before landing, he took a shower in the bathroom. It was the morning of American time. He felt no difference from the morning in China. The whole man was full of energy and did not feel tired at all.

Chen Ze slept soundly all the way. Wearing noise reduction earphones, he couldn't hear the engine sound of the plane. In addition, the plane was flying smoothly, so he could hardly feel any turbulence.

"Mr. Li and Mr. Chen, we still have two hours to land at Detroit International Airport," said the captain through the cabin broadcast as the flight attendant served breakfast for the crowd

"Detroit?" Chen Ze, who was about to have breakfast, looked at Li Mu in surprise and asked, "Lao Li, didn't you say to Dearborn? How did you get to Detroit? "

"Dearborn is the satellite city of Detroit, you can understand that it is a district of Detroit," Li said

"I see." Chen Ze nodded and said excitedly, "Detroit is a good place. It's the cradle of American automobile industry. How do you think of taking me to Detroit?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "guess."

"It can't be such a boring thing to buy a car," Chen said, holding his chin for a moment

Finish saying, think again, way: "also impossible just come to play? I won't say how busy I am, but you are much busier than me, and your time is more precious than me. You won't come to play. "

Then Chen Ze looked at Li Mu and said, "I really can't guess."

Li Mu said: "you can hold on for another two hours, and you will know after landing."

Seeing that Li Mu deliberately wanted to sell, and didn't have the idea of solving the mystery in advance, Chen Ze could only give up the sideshow.

But he was also wondering, what is Li Mu doing in Detroit? He works in the Internet and high-tech industries. Generally speaking, he comes to Silicon Valley in the United States. He goes to New York to do capital work. Detroit, an old industrial city, has nothing to do with industry, and has declined a lot in recent years. It's no different from Northeast China. Li mu can't do business here, can he?

What's more, besides doing car business here, what else can we do?

Thinking of this, Chen Ze was shocked. Good guy, is Li Mu going to talk about cooperation with GM or Ford? Do you want to be their distributor? There are still many models of GM and Ford that are not listed in China, and the sales network is not very large. If you look at the future development of American cars in China, the advance layout is still promising.

For example, a dealer registered in Hong Kong of Mercedes Benz has a great number of stalls, and its influence is also very strong. It can influence Mercedes Benz in the opposite direction.

Li Mu had targeted Maserati who was preparing to enter the Chinese market before. Now, Maserati's domestic general distribution is in his own hands. However, Maserati, after all, is small, and it's not easy to do it all at once, and its brand positioning is high, so it's not easy to do sales.

However, most of the American cars are more popular family cars, with low price and high sales volume. Buick has been selling well in China. If Li Mu can get one or two brand agents from GM or Ford, even if it's just an agent in North China, it's a very big deal.

Chen Ze at this time has basically determined his own guess, the heart immediately excited.

If this can be done, then we can get some resources for cars in the future, which can not only bring profits, but also benefit the whole circuit and the team.

……

At 10:50 a.m., the Gulfstream G550 landed steadily at Detroit International Airport.

The plane arrived at the business aircraft hangar. Li Mu, Chen Ze, Li Ziwei and Wang Yuanlang got off the plane together.

The Airport Ferry took them to the customs. After the entry formalities, people just came out of the customs and saw Elon Musk waiting here.

Li Mu introduces Elon Musk to Chen Ze, but the famous iron man of Silicon Valley is not very famous at this time, and Chen Ze knows nothing about him.

After introducing the two people, Li Mucai said to Chen Ze, "I invested in a new energy automobile company with Elon, which is still in the product development stage."Chen Ze asked curiously, "new energy vehicles? What do you mean? "

"It's electric vehicles, pure electric drive," Li Mu said

"What's the point of electric cars?" Chen said with a disgusted look? Can that compare to a gas car? "

Li Mu said with a smile, "then you have to see the comparison."

"More than power!" Chen Ze asked, "is it comparable?"

Li Mu thought for a moment and said, "for mass production vehicles, the maximum power is expected to be more than 600 horsepower."

"Blow it!" Chen Ze said, "600 electric cars? Nuclear power? "

Li Mu said with a smile, "nuclear power is not enough, lithium battery."

Chen Ze is more puzzled: "lithium battery?"

"Yes." Li Mu said: "with lithium battery as the power, not only the power is strong, but also the acceleration is fast. In the future, the 100km acceleration of mass production high-speed cars should be within 4 seconds."

Hearing this, Chen Ze couldn't help but ask, "how far can such a car run with full power?"

Li Mu said, "four hundred kilometers or so, driving normally."

"Is there such a force?" Chen Ze was even more surprised.

Li Mu said with a smile, "it won't be long before you know."

With that, he turned his head and asked Elon Musk, "what's the date with Ford?"

"Three thirty in the afternoon." Elon Musk said, "let's go to the hotel for dinner, introduce my team members to you by the way, and then have a meeting in your Presidential Suite meeting room to communicate the situation."

Li Mu said, thinking of the constant urination of the American business department, and couldn't help but ask, "if I have settled the details of the cooperation with Ford, will the American business department come out and block?"

American business departments often have some coquettish operations, such as breaking up a large enterprise into several, which is called anti-monopoly. They also often interfere in the acquisition and acquisition between enterprises, either they are not allowed to sell, or they are not allowed to buy, which is worse.

Elon Musk seriously said: "the project we are talking about should not be interfered by the U.S. business sector. They basically have no restrictions on the civil automobile industry."

Li Mu nodded and said, "I will go to New York in a few days. On the day of Google's listing, I will attend their bell ringing activity. This time, I need to settle the matter with Ford as soon as possible."

"Good!"

Chen Ze was a little puzzled and asked Li Mu, "you just said to musk, you want to talk about cooperation with Ford?"

"Yes." "Dearborn is the base of Ford, their head office is here, and there are several of Ford's own production lines," said Li

"Ford's classic F150 should be made in Detroit," Chen said pleasantly

In Li Mu's mind, the huge pickup truck came into China through parallel import several years later. However, there was no pickup culture in China. When it went, it was directly classified into the sequence of trucks, with words sprayed on the door and reflective strips pasted on the back of the car, and many cities did not allow the pickup truck to enter the urban area, so there was no fire.

For Li Mu, he doesn't like the huge pickup truck very much. He always thinks it's too big, and it's also too wasteful. The city starts with more than 200 kilometers of oil, which is really not suitable for domestic urban residents.

Chen Ze said: "I got a F150 in the last two years, and drove to Sichuan Tibet. The car was awesome and sold well in the US."

Li Mu said with a smile, "let's just take it to the domestic market."

Chen Ze waved: "the car is a good car, but when we get to China, we will not accept it."

Li Mu asked him, "what do you think is more suitable if we want to get something out of Ford's hands?"

Chen Ze thought about it and said seriously, "Land Rover! The classic off-road vehicle just entered the Chinese market last year, but it has not developed very much. However, the car is really OK. It's like playing in the old hand valley. Although it's not as leather as Toyota's land cruiser, the British design is still more luxurious, much higher than the land cruiser. "

Li Muruo nodded thoughtfully and said: "what you said is also reasonable. Let's talk about Land Rover cooperation with Ford."

Chen Ze subconsciously said: "they seem to be doing the Chinese market by themselves now. If we can get a regional agent, some of them still do it."

Li Mu nodded a little, not denying.

Although he didn't say anything, Li Mu couldn't help but despise Chen Ze.

Get an agent? That's what you're doing, Chen Ze? Can't we just buy Land Rover back?

Besides, we need to buy not only Land Rover, but also Jaguar and Volvo.

After two or three years of striving, we will make the range rover and the defender domestic.

Out of the airport, everyone took the business car arranged by Elon Musk and went straight to a star hotel in Dearborn.

Dearborn is almost Ford's own small city, where Ford's logo and advertisements can be seen everywhere.

When we arrived at the hotel, Li Mu met with Elon Musk's team. Everyone sat down at the broad long table in the banquet hall. Elon Musk said to Li Mu, "President Li, I'd like to introduce you to the members of our acquisition team."Chen Ze asked in surprise: "acquisition? What to buy? "

Elon Musk smiled and asked, "don't Mr. Chen know?"

Chen Ze shook his head in a dazed face.

Elon Musk looked at Li Mu, smiled and nodded to Chen Ze. "We are negotiating with Ford to wholly acquire Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo from them."

Chen Ze's whole life is like being struck by lightning. It's a long time before he returns to his mind and mumbles, "what international joke are you kidding..."