reborn in the fiery age

After communicating with Mr. Tao, Sun Zujie started his trip to Europe.This was Sun Zujie's first overseas visit since he became the deputy commander-in-chief. His first stop was Europe. Although it was a bit strange, it was not too strange.

After all, Sun Zujie is the successor, not the official boss. It is not suitable to go to the United States and Russia in this war. It is reasonable to choose to go to Europe. There are a large group of entrepreneurs following Sun Zujie's visit. It is obvious that Sun Zujie hopes to strengthen economic and trade ties with Europe , and this is exactly what Europe wants at this time.

The current predicament of Greece is very obvious, so the attitude towards Sun Zujie is relatively friendly.After the friendly conversation, Sun Zujie visited the famous port of Piraeus in Greece.

According to the Greek government's plan, the Piraeus Port Container Terminal will hold a privatization tender two months later, and Xiaguo's COSCO Group is also preparing to participate in this tender.

Piraeus, which means "the place that guards the passage" in Greek, is one of the oldest ports in the world, and the port of Piraeus has a unique geographical location.

The port is a transit port for ships to go to the Atlantic Ocean through the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea, and the Black Sea through the Sea of ​​Marmara, connecting the Balkan Peninsula, Southern Europe, the Black Sea region with Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

At this time, Xia Guo's plan for the future has surfaced. Xia Guo is ready to give full play to the pivotal role of Piraeus Port and operate the port as a bridgehead for land and sea combined transport.

In the past, goods from the Far East entered Europe by sea, and usually had to bypass the Strait of Gibraltar and go northward to Northwest Europe before being distributed on land.

However, through this route, the goods from the Far East brought in by sea will be transported to inland European countries by rail after they dock at the port, and the time is greatly shortened compared with other traditional routes.

The "China-Europe Land-Sea Express Line" with the port as a hub can cover 9 countries including Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, with 1500 outlets and a population of 7100 million.

Compared with Western European countries, these Eastern European countries have a relatively more friendly relationship with Xia, and strengthening economic ties with them is very much in Xia's national interest.

So at this sensitive moment, Sun Zujie visited Greece and visited the port of Piraeus. In fact, he told the Greeks in a disguised form about Xia Guo's attitude towards this tender.

In front of Sun Zujie and the Prime Minister of Greece, the chairman of COSCO Group went into battle and explained in detail the future plans of the Xia people for Piraeus Harbor.

At the beginning of this century, due to the aging of port facilities and serious lack of maintenance, the ships calling at the port were seriously stranded, and the impact of the labor movement, most of the ship owners abandoned the port.The Port of Piraeus lost out in the competition with other modern ports, and its business volume shrank sharply, falling into recession.

If the Xia people operate Piraeus Port as a hub port in Europe, they will definitely carry out modernization, so that Piraeus Port will recover soon.With the arrival of a large number of ships from the Far East, the Port of Piraeus and Athens, the Greek capital where the Port is located, will definitely become the biggest beneficiaries. Compared with this, the benefits brought by the privatization of the Port of Piraeus can even be said to be insignificant.

Shipping is one of the very important industries in Greece. Besides shipping, another important industry in Greece is tourism. The tourism industry accounts for 20.6% of the GDP, and its employed population accounts for a quarter of the country's total employed population. .

For Greece's tourism industry, Sun Zujie also brought great good news. Xia Guo hopes to strengthen cooperation with Greece in the field of culture and tourism. The most important step is to open a direct flight from Yandu to Athens.

Although in the eyes of the Greeks, the Xia people do not seem to be rich, but in the past few years, there are various signs that the rich people of the Xia people are getting more and more.

The total population of Xia Kingdom exceeds one billion. Even if there are only one percent of the rich, there are more than 1000 million people. As long as there are hundreds of thousands of people, it will be a huge benefit to Greece. After all, Greece is only a country with a population of tens of millions. This small country is nothing more than a city in the Xia Kingdom.

An important reason why the Greek Prime Minister has such an idea is because his wife has heard it with her own ears.

This time, besides his wife, Sun Zujie also took his daughter out of the country.After visiting the cultural monuments of Greece and the beautiful scenery of the Aegean Sea, Sun Chen liked it very much, and said that he would organize his colleagues from the company to travel to Greece for vacation at the end of this year.

After Yang Xi heard about it, he asked Sun Chen to invest in a high-end hotel in Greece, and arranged for engineers and programmers from domestic Internet companies such as Fubao.com and Nanhu Software to come for vacation every year.

There are thousands of high-income programmers in these two companies alone. If companies from Huatou are added, hundreds of thousands of high-income people are enough to support such a hotel, and there will be no loss at all.What's more, it is now during the financial crisis, and the Greek hotel industry is also very cost-effective economically.

When Sun Chen heard this, he didn't take it seriously. Isn't this using power for personal gain under the banner of an old man?

Yang Xi smiled and said, "I'm just talking casually. With such a good environment, there must be people in China who are willing to come here. As long as the service is done well, such a hotel will not lose money."

The wife of the Greek Prime Minister who accompanied the visit, after hearing the news from the interpreter, immediately began to ask Xia Guo how much income do these high-income Internet companies earn?

Chenchen thought for a while and said, Xia Guo's income level is not high, but there are still many middle-level programmers with more than 3000 US dollars a year, and their company alone has more than [-] people.

The corner of the Prime Minister's wife's mouth moved slightly, "How many Xia people in your country have an annual income of [-] to [-] U.S. dollars?"

Yang Xi took it over, "Xiaguo has a population of more than one billion. According to last year's statistics, the number of private enterprises in our country exceeded 1000 million. There are at least tens of millions of high-income people in this area alone. I personally estimate that the annual income will reach more than 5000 US dollars. There are no less than [-] million Xia people."

After hearing the number, the prime minister's wife was stunned for a while, and then she murmured, "As long as one tenth, one percent, Greece is enough!"

In fact, the mentality of the wife of the Greek Prime Minister is not surprising at all.Xia Guo is really too big and has too many people. For small countries, taking out a little can often solve their urgent needs.

So Sun Zujie's three-day visit to Greece was quite enjoyable.But the next trip to Germany was not so pleasant.Everyone still remembers what happened last month. As the stronghold of anti-China in Europe, the arrogant Germans were not very polite to Sun Zujie.

It's just that Sun Zujie didn't take it seriously. To put it bluntly, he was familiar with this visit, and he didn't think about it.Of course, the female chancellor of Germany was more polite to Sun Zujie, after all, everyone knew his status in Xia Kingdom.When it comes to economic matters, it is more appropriate to talk to Sun Zujie.

Regarding the financial crisis that is now in full swing, the two had a friendly exchange of views.In fact, this time the subprime mortgage crisis, the Germans were also severely cheated by the US imperialism. The German Economic Weekly believes that the losses of German banks are estimated to be 1000 billion euros, which completely ate up the growth of the German economy last year.

But Germany's real economy is strong, and they took decisive measures to prevent the financial crisis from extending to the real economy. Naturally, Germany did not hurt the root.

And because Xia Guo's financial system is underdeveloped, it has hardly suffered any harm.So the two of them expressed their concern for the US imperialists in a tacit understanding, and of course they were just concerned.

At the same time, both expressed some concern about the current export slowdown.Lao Mei is going to cut down on food and clothing. Xia Guo’s goods cannot be sold, and German cars cannot be sold either. How can this continue?

Sun Zujie informed Xia Guo of some preparations and plans to increase investment in infrastructure construction. He hopes that German companies can participate more. Of course, in exchange, Sun Zujie also hopes to acquire or invest in some German companies.

Speaking of this, Sun Zujie smiled and asked about the acquisition of Porsche and Volkswagen. This matter has caused a lot of trouble, and Sun Zujie is also very concerned. Of course, his concern is also very reasonable.

Since the center authorized him to make overseas investment, Huatou has started to acquire Volkswagen shares in the German stock market. After several years of hard work, Huatou Investment owns 5.01% of Volkswagen's shares.

As a shareholder with more than 5% equity, Huatou Investment must disclose its shareholder identity, and must also announce its entry and exit from the German stock market.After Volkswagen’s board of directors knew about it, they even wanted to invite Huatou Investment to join the board of directors, but they were rejected by the low-key Huatou.

So Sun Zujie is naturally very concerned about whether Volkswagen will be acquired by Porsche and whether it will affect Huatou’s income. You must know that Volkswagen’s market value is more than 700 billion euros, and Huatou’s investment is worth tens of billions of Chinese yuan. A lot of money.

In addition, he was also very worried about whether it would affect Volkswagen's investment in Xiaguo. Merkel smiled and explained to Sun Zujie the reason why Porsche's acquisition failed. The reason is that there is a Volkswagen Law in Germany.

German company law stipulates that as long as the company holds 75% of the shares of a company, it is considered to have obtained control of the company.However, the "Public Law" stipulates that when holding less than 20% of the shares of a public company, the voting rights are calculated according to the actual shareholding ratio. When the shareholding ratio exceeds 20%, no matter how much it exceeds, its voting rights are limited to 20%. .

In other words, in order to gain control of the company, you must hold more than 80% of the shares.Why is it so stipulated?Because the proportion of public shares in the public is exactly 20.1%, that is to say, as long as the official shares are not released, even if all the private shares belong to your family, you will not be able to control the public.

Hearing this, Sun Zujie was a little puzzled, "Your Excellency, since Porsche knows that the acquisition will not succeed, why do you want to acquire it? What good will this do for Porsche?"

Merkel smiled and said, "I don't know too well, but you can ask the Volkswagen Board of Directors!"

In fact, Sun Zujie is not ignorant, but is very aware of this matter, and he is already prepared to take the opportunity to grab a handful of wool. Of course, even if the wool fails, he can continue to hold shares in Volkswagen. Let the public make so much money in the Xiaguo market, such an investment with stable income is really rare!

Chapter 1140 Visit Disaster Situation

After the talks with Merkel, Sun Zujie turned his head south and began to visit large companies in Germany.His first stop was to Infineon and its subsidiary Qimonda.

When it comes to DRAM, Qimonda is definitely a representative that cannot be skipped.Because this DRAM company originated from Infineon was once the world's second largest DRAM supplier. At its peak, the company had about 13000 employees worldwide and more than 2000 R&D personnel.

After the company became independent from Infineon, its performance was close to that of its parent company, Infineon.But it only took them three years to go from the peak to the bottom.At present, because of the DRAM war initiated by Samsung Semiconductor, Qimonda's life is very sad.

In order to monopolize the market, Samsung has set the price of DRAM to an unbelievably low price. At the end of last year, the price of DRAM was a quarter of that of the previous year; and now, DRAM has fallen below the cost price.In fact, in Sun Zujie’s memory, DRAM will fall below $0.6 this time.

Of course, in this era, no one knows how DRAM will fall. Therefore, Xia Guo is also one of the players in this market at this time, although the scale is not very large.However, the existence of this variable still has an impact.

The price of DRAM has fallen to shit, and the price of LCD panels has also fallen to shit. Seeing such a big problem in the market, Xiaguo Semiconductor's large-scale investment plan was quickly approved and implemented.

Although Qimonda has always insisted on trench DRAM, although this technical route has the advantage of energy consumption ratio, it will encounter difficulties after reaching the 70nm process. This is one of the reasons why the German government sat back and watched Qimonda go bankrupt. They think that Qimonda chose the wrong technical route.

And once the technical route is wrongly chosen, it means that there are major problems at the commanding heights of technology. Of course, the German government is unwilling to fill Qimonda's bottomless pit, because no one knows how much it needs to fill.

Semiconductor investment has now reached an investment scale of tens of billions of dollars. During the financial crisis, the German government would definitely not be able to bear such a decision.

Of course, the most important point is that the European and American systems are not suitable for the existence of memory companies. The reason for this is that Asian countries are willing to invest, and it is the investment of the national system.

For example, the two DRAM factories that Samsung plans to build have a total investment of more than 260 billion U.S. dollars. Except for Samsung’s own funds, all such huge investments come from bank loans. The system can't do it.