Chapter 1724

Although Chen Ze has a special trust in Li Mu, he really can't believe that Li Mu should buy the three car brands in Ford's hands at one go.

Seeing his gaping appearance, Li Mu said with a smile, "I'm not joking with you, old Chen. We're flying here all the time, not to visit Ford factory."

Chen zeding was determined and asked, "how much is it to buy these three brands, astronomical figures?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "however, the price is only a few billion dollars."

Billions of dollars

Chen Ze almost spits blood after listening.

Only Li Mu can talk about billions of dollars so easily.

But when you think about it, these three brands add up to only a few billion dollars, which is not high indeed.

Recalling some data in his memory, he said: "it seems that Ford has spent at least $67 billion on Volvo, right? Plus Jaguar Land Rover, these three brands have a purchase price of at least 10 billion dollars. How could they sell so cheaply? "

Li Mu said with a smile, "because he lost money!"

As Li Mu said, "you see, Volvo lost a lot when it came to Ford. When Jaguar and Land Rover were integrated by them, they couldn't escape the fate of huge loss. They bought three brands with more than 10 billion dollars. These years together, they lost billions of dollars. Now they are selling for billions of dollars. Ford lost at least ten billion dollars."

The loss of large industrial groups is that they cut meat with blunt knives. Although they are not likely to die with one knife, they cut a large piece of meat with each knife.

For example, when the domestic steel and coal market is not good, the private related enterprises can immediately turn from profits to losses, and then they are deeply locked by their own enterprises. The losses are growing every day, and the more losses are, although the net assets are not negative at this time, the key is that the net assets are the same as the falling stocks, and they want to sell but can not sell.

In this case, business owners can only bear the losses and hope to wait for the market to warm up one day. In many cases, they have forced the richest person in a place to become a listing veteran with a value of tens of billions to a negative value. In a hurry, it will take three or two years.

Once the industry forms a trend of imprisonment, it's really terrible. It's like a piece of cement falling on the body, pulling people into the abyss and trying to get rid of it.

The main reason why Ford has become more and more Doggy in the past century is that the stall is too large, and the operation is not good, and finally it is locked up by its own assets.

When Chen Ze heard this, he was startled and said in a hurry, "did you not become a substitute for Ford when you accepted these three brands? If you buy back three loss making companies with billions of dollars, don't you have to give them blood all the time? "

Li Mu said with a smile, "in Ford's hands, it's a ghost who claims his life. In my hands, it's probably a five ghost fortune. If Ford can't make profits from these three brands, it doesn't mean I can't."

Chen Ze, with a big head, rubbed his temples and said, "Lao Li, you haven't had a car before. It's a big industry with tens of thousands of people. Which auto brand is not global purchase or global sales? Supply chain alone is enough to drink a pot, not to mention sales. "

Li Mu patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "don't worry, I've thought about what I should think, and I've thought about what I shouldn't think. I'm sure that I can turn these three brands into profits. Besides, even if I can't, it's only a few billion dollars. After losing the principal, I'll disband the factory and donate all the equipment and technical patents to the country, which is a good thing. I'm afraid of nothing ？”

Chen Ze nodded and said with a smile, "OK, since you have said so, then I will not support you any more. What kind of brother is it?"

After that, he immediately said, "I know more or less about cars. As long as you need it, I will listen to you later."

Chen Ze is a car obsessed person. He has much deeper feelings about the automobile and automobile industry than Li Mu. Originally, he was worried about Li Mu's buying three hot potatoes and finally beating the chickens and eggs. But deep down, he is still looking forward to Li Mu's winning these three brands. Now Li Mu shows strong confidence. He has no worries in his heart, and the rest is all A cavity of blood.

Three well-known international automobile brands are about to be acquired by Chinese enterprises and become 100% Chinese enterprises. This kind of thing is enough to make people excited.

If we can do these three brands well, it is the light of the nation.

……

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

In order to deal with these three brands, Elon Musk brought his senior executives in Tesla. In addition, he also hired several authoritative persons in the automobile industry through friends' introduction and high salary to ensure the final landing of the acquisition.

For Elon Musk, he is also looking forward to the acquisition, because as Li Mu said, if these three brands are acquired, all models, platforms and technologies of these three brands will be open to Tesla.

In other words, in the future, Tesla only needs to carry out new energy on the models of these three brands, without any need to redesign the chassis and build a platform, because in the future, Tesla can even be directly commissioned by these three brands.At the banquet, Elon Musk introduced the team members to Li Mu. After lunch, everyone immediately came to Li Mu's 400 square meter presidential suite.

In the presidential suite, Elon Musk made a brief report to Li Mu.

At present, everything is going well. Apart from the slightly higher demand for money, Ford is very cooperative in everything else, and its sincerity is very sufficient.

However, there are also problems. For example, at present, Volvo's production line is still in Sweden. After brand change, Makino technology has to send someone to Sweden to solve the following problems, such as enterprise change and employee transfer. This is not a problem for Makino technology, but the real problem is that land rover has a production line in the United States.

Jaguar Land Rover's main production line is in the UK, but there is also a production line in the United States. According to the requirements of the auto industry union, if Ford sells the production line, the buyer must guarantee that the production line will continue to operate for at least five years, and it is not allowed to take the initiative to lay off or stop production.

"The U.S. auto union is very influential, even GM and Ford can't do anything about it. If we can't meet the requirements of the union, the Auto Union will ban Ford from selling the production line," Elon Musk said

Li Mu nodded softly.

He's learned a lot about the power of the American Union.

In fact, sometimes it's better to say it's a silly bird.

The ability of the American automobile trade union can not only suppress the automobile enterprises absolutely, but also influence the overall policy of the country in the field of automobile.

In order to resist the impact of Japanese automobile enterprises, the American Trade Union asked the government to put pressure on Japanese automobile enterprises, so the American government asked Japan to sign a "voluntary restraint agreement", and only 1.68 million cars could be exported to the American market every year.

In the end, the Japanese could only build factories in the United States, which benefited the American Auto Union and solved a large number of jobs, but for the three major U.S. auto companies, it was their mother's pig teammate.

The U.S. cars are not competitive. Fortunately, they can still live in the U.S. by relying on the advantages of the local market. As a result, the association forces Japanese car companies to come to the U.S. to build factories. For Ford, general motors and Chrysler, it's just a trap.

The high labor cost in the United States makes the three major automobile enterprises miserable. However, the Japanese know more about cost control than they do, so their advantages are very obvious. The American automobile enterprises are suffering even worse.

However, the Auto Union's squeeze on American auto companies is still everywhere. Ford tried to close one of their assembly plants in the United States, but the association required that even if the assembly plant was closed, more than 3000 workers in the assembly plant should be paid in full, as well as social and medical insurance.

The far-reaching Auto Union even put forward a blatant plan to ask American auto companies to provide 95% of the unemployed workers of the Auto Union, which is shameless.

What's more, in order to protect their own interests, the auto trade union has tried its best to obstruct the auto enterprises from optimizing the industrial structure.

For example, they tried every way to prevent American car companies from building factories overseas; for example, they tried every way to resist the automation reform of production lines.

Because of this arrogant operation, Detroit will gradually become a dead city, along with Detroit, and the golden age of the three major U.S. auto companies.

However, Japanese car companies are very chicken thieves. They come to the United States to build factories, but they refuse to sign any agreement with the Auto Union, so that the Auto Union can only pile up on the American car companies like a bloodsucker, but can't help Japanese car companies.

This further weakens the competitiveness of American cars between American cars and Japanese cars. Therefore, the North American household car sales ranking is drawn out casually. Among the top five car companies, Honda, Toyota and Nissan occupy three seats all year round.

Li Mu also doesn't want to deal with the UAW. If he starts a factory in the United States, the UAW will not sign any agreement with the other party even if he comes to the door. However, the current problem is that Ford itself is in the sphere of influence of the UAW. He can ignore the UAW, but Ford can't.

Immediately, Li Mu said to Elon Musk, "it will be very difficult for us to solve the problem of the trade union for a while. At present, the most important thing is to complete the acquisition as soon as possible, so as long as the requirements of the auto trade union are not too excessive, we will promise for the time being, and then slowly break up with them after the acquisition."

Elon Musk nodded and said, "I'll talk to Ford about this."

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

Elon Musk shrugged his shoulders and said: "everyone said that the aim of the American Automobile Association is to destroy the domestic automobile industry in the United States. Without them, Japanese automobile companies would not have been so successful in North America."

After that, Elon Musk reminded, "but in the afternoon, you can use this question to press down the price with Ford and ask them to make some concessions."