Chapter 1729

Little Bill Ford didn't expect that Li Mu actually said to leave.

Just in the heart stomach Fei this brother's routine is too strange, this brother put a big move directly.

Although the conversation was not so pleasant, it was also a business negotiation. Little Bill Ford was ready to fight with Li Mu for a few days. As a result, Li Mu came up and bombed a lot. He hit hundreds of shells at a time, and then he was about to leave?

How could it be!

Little Bill Ford felt like he had made an appointment to fight with someone, but the other side slapped them in the face and then turned around to leave.

Damn it!

Li Mu didn't play according to the routine at all, which made little Bill Ford lose his footing.

Don't say that he has been disturbed by Li Mu. Even if there is no chaos, he can't carry Li Mu's sudden move.

Just when Little Bill Ford was at a loss, Li Mu got up and winked at Chen Ze and Li Ziwei. Then he pointed to Elon Musk and said to Little Bill Ford, "Mr. Ford, please talk to musk directly about the follow-up. He and his team know more about cars than I do."

"But..." "Mr. Li, isn't it several days before Google goes public?" said Little Bill Ford? Why can't we sit down and talk about specific acquisition issues? "

Li Mu said apologetically, "what I know, what I know and what I know about the automobile industry have all been told to you. What else can we talk about when we sit down? Why don't you talk to me about the Internet? "

Little Bill Ford was stunned. Can you put it mildly when you say something like that, just pretend to be forced to run? The core members of the Ford family are here. I don't want to be ashamed?

At this time, Little Bill Ford couldn't keep it. He just got up and said, "Mr. Li. In that case, I'll see you off. "

Li Mu waved his hand and said with a smile, "you don't have to be polite, Mr. Ford. We can go by ourselves and don't delay your business."

With that, Li Mu waved directly to the people in the conference room and stepped out of the conference room.

Li Ziwei has been with Li Mu for a long time. She knows Li Mu's work style, so she is not surprised or hesitant at all. She follows Li Mu directly and comes out. Only Chen Ze hasn't returned to his mind.

What the hell? The key point is that his English is not as good as Li Mu's. he understood about 70% of what they talked about just now. The rest of it depends on guessing, so he didn't understand it.

Seeing that Li Ziwei had gone, he hurriedly chased him out and asked Li Mu in a fog: "Lao Li, how can I leave?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "I can't give him a chance to pretend to be forced. I'll just step on him like an ant and let Elon Musk talk to him."

Chen Ze sighed: "you're too hard to bargain. You're going to kill five billion dollars at a time, which may not be enough for Ford to buy Volvo..."

Li Mu didn't care to say: "you can't grind things with the seller a little bit. The more you grind, the more you want to show, and the more passive you will naturally be. The best way is to first understand each other's details, and then cut a knife on your scalp. If you can accept it, you can sit down and talk about the details. If you can't accept it, it's OK."

Chen Ze can't help but ask: "you are not afraid that he refused you directly?"

Li Mu said: "do you think it's white for me to cheat him for a long time? He must want to sell ten thousand things in his heart now. These three things used to be hot potatoes. When I fooled him, they became hot balls in his eyes. "

Chen Ze said with a smile, "if this man has a lot of backbone, he will not sell it?"? Then aren't you going to miscalculate? "

Li Mu smiled confidently and said, "it's impossible for him not to sell. Although he is a little greedy, he is not stupid."

Li Mu said, "let's go. Let's go to Boston."

"To Boston?" Chen zepuzzling asked: "not to New York?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "Little Bill Ford is right. There are still several days left before Google rings the bell. Now I have nothing to do in New York. My childhood girlfriend is still in Harvard. In addition, I also voted for a Harvard boy to become a college social networking site. This time, I happened to look at it."

Chen Ze realized that Su Yingxue was studying at Harvard University.

When Li Mu and his party rushed to the airport, the flight crew had applied for the permission to fly to Boston.

On the way, Chen Ze had some regrets and said, "it's a pity that he didn't visit Ford's factory when he came to Dearborn, Detroit."

Li Mu said with a smile, "there will be opportunities in the future. When these three brands are taken, you can visit four factories in turn."

Chen Zena asked stiffly, "what are the four? Isn't it three? "

Li Mu said: "Jaguar and Land Rover are all in the UK, Volvo is in Sweden, but Land Rover has a factory in the United States. Before musk said this, you forgot?"

Chen zehe laughs: "my English is not so good. I think I can know about it when I write it. If I listen to it, it will be 67%."Li Mu nodded and said, "anyway, four factories are right. I will not stop you if you want to live in them."

Chen Ze asked, "in case, I mean in case, in case it doesn't work, what should I do? Do you have any alternatives? "

Li Mu shook his head and said, "where are the alternatives?"

Speaking, Li Mu said seriously: "but I'm honest, now the market of the automobile industry, you want to buy a Japanese car brand is certainly very tough, but if you want to buy a European non German brand, a U.S. brand, it's still very easy, really not good, we can also buy Cadillac, jeep or Alfa Romeo, these brands are losing heavily now, and will be more in the future Serious. "

For the automobile industry, if the industry as a whole goes down and its own brand is not good enough, that day can really be described as arduous.

As long as an automobile brand doesn't want to close down, it must maintain the operation of the factory. Suppliers' spare parts should be purchased, their production lines should be moved, and workers should be busy. Otherwise, once they are shut down and dismissed, it will be difficult to reopen.

However, in order to maintain the operation of the production line, it is necessary to invest capital, raw materials, spare parts, wages of workers and management expenses, each of which is a huge cost. These money are thrown into the production of one car after another, but no one cares about the cars. As a result, there are more and more vehicles in stock, and the losses are more and more big. If we haven't got a place to pick them up, it will become a bottomless hole 。

Some auto companies look very bright. Fixed assets are worth billions of dollars, but another set of bank loans and suppliers' loans due to years of losses may not even have 100 million dollars of actual net assets.

Otherwise, those classic automobile enterprises of hundreds of years will not be merged and acquired by big automobile group, and then be re integrated and rejuvenated by its fame, technology, resources and channels.

These brands that can be bought by big auto groups are good. Those brands that can't be seen by big auto groups are really a disaster. For example, Guanzhi, a proper loss of a billion yuan a year, a group of people who have been working for many years, the total debt is still greater than the total assets. They have been losing money for several years in a row, and they don't know how many circles around the world they can make

At this time, Chen Ze looked at the time and said, "I've been out for more than half an hour. Do you want to ask musk how far they've come?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "I don't need to ask, but I'm sure it's still bullshit, but little Bill Ford can't directly refuse musk, otherwise musk will definitely contact me."

If it's true that according to Bill Ford Jr., 5 billion yuan will never be sold, then musk will have to leave at most 10 minutes after Li Mu leaves, because he has no right to change Li Mu's final offer, which Bill Ford Jr. can't accept, so we can only break up without talking.

But now that half an hour has passed and Elon Musk hasn't heard from him, it shows that he must still be breaking up with Bill Ford Jr.

In fact, there is nothing to argue with in terms of price. Li Mu didn't give little Bill Ford any room to bargain. What he could argue with was just some details, which should be based on Little Bill Ford's acceptance of the five billion dollar offer.

Li Mu and his party arrived at the airport, because the approved departure time is more than one hour. After passing the security check, they boarded the plane in advance to rest while waiting for the departure.

While waiting, Li Mu made a phone call to Su Yingxue. During this period of time, they didn't meet each other. The number of calls between them was not too many. Not only was Li Mu too busy in daily life, but the time difference was also a thorny problem.

Su Yingxue just finished the course at this time. On the way back to the dormitory, she received a phone call from Li Mu. She was always indifferent and couldn't help but ask with surprise, "how can you call me today?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "just after talking about cooperation with a company, I hurried to the airport. Now I'm waiting for the take-off. The take-off time is quite long, and I have to wait for more than an hour."

Su Yingxue snorted and said, "it was boring that she thought of calling me?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "why don't you care which airport I am at and where I'm going next?"

Su Yingxue couldn't help asking, "where are you going? Are you coming to America? "

"I'm already in America, now in Detroit," Li said with a smile

Su Yingxue asked in surprise, "when did you come? What happened to Detroit? "

Li said, "it's about cooperation. I arrived this morning. Now I'm ready to take off for Boston."

With that, Li Mu looked at the time and said, "it's more than five in the afternoon. I expect to fly at seven and land at eight forty. Do you want to wait for me to have dinner?"

Su Yingxue's voice suddenly excited and asked pleasantly, "aren't you teasing me?"? Are you really in Detroit, coming to Boston? "

"Of course." Li Mu said, "I arrived late. You should eat something to make up for it first. Don't wait for me hungry."

Su Yingxue confirms that Li Mu is not joking, and immediately says happily, "OK, I'll wait for you!"