reborn in the fiery age

Finally, Sun Zujie said angrily, "I came to buy your rags to save you, to be God, not to be a grandson. The customer is God, and this is how you treat God?"

After all, AMC is also the fourth largest automobile company in the United States. The high-level reception staff were dumbfounded by the Huaguo visitor who came to the door, and the staff who came with Huaguo were also dumbfounded.

Huaguo has always paid attention to diplomacy without trivial matters. Now that the country has just opened its doors in the early stage of reform, it is often envious of the outside world, and it is also a mess of inferiority complex.

That's why some people pretend to be ostriches and criticize foreign countries in their own country, but they are polite to foreigners, lest they will cause dissatisfaction.And people with low self-esteem can be said to be groveling, and there is no one like Sun Zujie who scolded him mercilessly.

If other Huaguo staff can still reprimand to pay attention to foreign affairs discipline, Sun Zujie himself is the leader, and it can be said that his old Fang doesn't care about things at all, and these people are stunned.

Sun Zujie didn't care about this, he sprayed for a while, then turned away angrily, these idiots deserve to die.It's all come to this point, how dare you be so conceited.

Chapter 154 Failure

Sun Zujie returned to the hotel angrily, preparing to leave Detroit directly to visit RCA in New York.But what was unexpected was that the chairman of AMC Motor Company, Stave, personally called to apologize that night, and was willing to start negotiations on Sun Zujie's request.

After Sun Zujie listened to it, he thought it was quite funny. AMC really deserved the scolding, but his goal was to pick up the trash. Now that the other party let go, let's talk about it.If it doesn't work, go to the Bredians, they have a lot of rags there.

Hearing that Sun Zujie let go, Stav also let out a sigh of relief. He has been running various relationships during this period of time, trying to get a loan from the bank. Getting down is the most important thing.

But the result is that the bank is not a bird, not only does not increase the loan, but also recovers the past loan, so AMC has already accepted Renault's conditions, selling 9000% of the shares for 55 million US dollars, a sum of money at a super low price.

Although the strength of AMC is not as good as that of the three major automobile companies, it did not happen overnight to make it into the current miserable appearance.

The superficial reason is that the oil crisis has changed people's pursuit of low fuel consumption for cars. Coupled with the competition from Japan, the cars cannot be sold, and naturally there is no money to improve the production line. As a result, they can only be repaired on the old production line. Taller.

In fact, another important reason is that AMC was collapsed by the labor union, and there was no way to control labor costs at all.

In this era, due to the strength of Soviet Russia, American capitalists had to make concessions to the trade unions. The auto workers in Detroit successfully increased their annual income to 20 US dollars through continuous strikes, which was the industry with the highest income in the American manufacturing industry at that time. .

This is 70 US dollars in the 20s, which is higher than the income of NBA players. With such an outrageous employee income, the three major automobiles can barely support it, and the fourth AMC can't bear it immediately, even fear The trade unions think that there are Soviet Russian spies in the union.

Therefore, the middle and high-level executives of American AMC, who have always been self-centered and conceited and thought that the world is aliens except for the United States and Soviet Russia, were arrogant to the Chinese delegation, and even vented their grievances against the Soviet Union and the trade unions to China. country.

Sun Zujie's unceremonious spray made those high-level receptionists realize that this guy is here to give money, how could he do this, no matter who he is, as long as he has money, he is God, so he had to find Stave to ask He comes forward.

Staff knew Sun Zujie, so after scolding his subordinates, he made another phone call and learned that Sun Zujie's Huatou Hong Kong Island controlled most of Huaguo's overseas investment. To put it bluntly, he knew that the man was rich, so At this time, Stave had no time to take care of his face, so he called Sun Zujie immediately.If Sun Zujie had a bad attitude, Stav was even ready to make a trip, but had no choice but to fight to survive.

In the early morning of the next day, the luxury motorcade sent by AMC took the delegation to the AMC headquarters. First of all, Stave personally took the delegation to visit their relatively backward production line.

This is a production line from the 60s, which still requires a lot of labor, and it is not far from being eliminated. AMC intends to introduce Renault to replace a brand new production line in addition to paying off debts.And Renault also intends to build a newest production line, then produce their low fuel consumption models, and then sell them through AMC's sales network, which is one of the reasons why the two hit it off.

So no matter how you calculate it, this production line will definitely be eliminated. This is why Stave became a salesman himself. Since it is about to be eliminated, it is worthwhile to sell it to Huaguo.

Sun Zujie noticed that this is a car assembly line, and a car has hundreds of large and small parts, and there are basically no supporting parts factories in China, so what's the point of moving this line back, as a Bodhisattva? Confession? Thinking of this, Sun Zujie felt a little bit depressed.

Another point is that there are not many AMC models that he likes at this time. They feel that they are too big, too long, and too heavy. No wonder the fuel consumption is so high. He is not very happy to buy such models. Some waste of resources.But when he saw Fang Lao's eyes glowing, he suddenly realized that AMC's model seemed very suitable as an official car to fool the officials.Then it seems more appropriate to use a lot of resources to develop a car that really belongs to you.

At this time, the negotiations between Modu Automobile and German Volkswagen are going on intermittently. If they get a production line ahead of them and block their business, then there will be a lot of excitement.

So after the visit, Sun Zujie explained his views very frankly. Although your production line is a little behind, it is easier for us to understand. The problem is that we have encountered these difficulties. What do you think I should do?

After listening to it, Staff thought to himself, my God, these Chinese people have nothing, how can I sell this assembly line?Isn't this a joke?But if it follows the CKD model, it's not bad. Isn't this just a disguised form of exporting cars to China?

Sun Zujie thought for a while and replied, "Mr. Stave, I can temporarily import parts from your country and then assemble them in CKD mode. It's just that you have a few cars. Frankly speaking, they are not bad in the United States. , I am very worried about the sales situation in China. I have to be responsible to the country, so I need to think about it. Of course, if it is Jeep, there will be no problem whether it is the transfer of technology production lines or joint ventures."

Sun Zujie knows that Jeep is the only profitable model of AMC, and they will definitely not sell it. Of course, there is no problem if they want a joint venture, but now they can’t quench their thirst. , It is estimated that it will be fine in a year or two.

In addition, the Jeep S series engine that Sun Zujie wanted did not have any doors, and AMC would never transfer technology.Sun Zujie is not interested in other old fuel-consuming engines and rotary engines.

However, the turbocharging technology of the engine is very immature now, and AMC doesn't pay much attention to it. AMC fully agreed to Sun Zujie's request to purchase the relevant patent authorization, and finally succeeded in one.

So the two parties agreed to keep in touch. AMC provided a list of relevant production lines and technologies that could be resold, and Sun Zujie sent an expert team to negotiate. This can be said to be the biggest breakthrough of his trip.

Detroit is not a big city. The process of his visit to AMC was known by the other three companies. Most of them knew that this group of Chinese people wanted to buy something cheap, but they didn’t see anything. They secretly joked that AMC didn’t even look down on Chinese people. After going online, the news leaked out.

At this time, the other three companies also knew that Huaguo wanted to be a white wolf with empty hands, and what kind of market they wanted to exchange technology for. So there is no interest in the delegation of Sun Zujie.

On the way out of Detroit, Mr. Fang said with some regret, "Xiao Sun, do you think about it again? I think their cars are big and spacious. If it were in our country, I think many units would grab this car." bought."

Hehe, Sun Zujie replied with a low smile, "Don't worry, I can guarantee that you will be able to sit in an AMC car within three or four years. This is a negotiation, of course we can't let them see it, you know .”

Only then did Mr. Fang suddenly realize, and pointed to his head with a smile, "I'm so confused, so confused, I can't even see this truth, you have to keep it a secret, or you'll be laughed at by those old guys when you go back! "

Sun Zujie arrived in New York for the third stop to visit RCA. In the mid-70s, because of those few snail gifts, RCA’s order was snatched by the Japanese, so it has been very angry until now. In this way, Sun Zujie talked about it in RCA. It's useless, people still have lingering fears, they have to see the direction of the wind before cooperating, the ghost knows what's going to happen in Huaguo again.

So this trip to the United States, except for some travel, actually didn't yield much, and the negotiation with AMC was by no means a one-time achievement, Sun Zujie was a little unhappy, and he didn't even earn back the travel expenses when he went out. Failed.

At this moment, he accidentally received a call from Shen Bi, the senior class of Fenghui. You can also transfer the production line to Huaguo, why don't you just take a look?"

Sun Zujie comforted, "Your Excellency, I'm very sorry, my arrangements in Bredia are already full, so I didn't involve the car company. Since you said that it is so hard to refuse, I can't refuse. Please arrange Let me adjust my itinerary."

Shen Bi smiled and agreed, and Sun Zujie hung up the phone, thinking in his heart, it seems that the Bredians are eyeing the money earned from the gold trade, otherwise how could they be so active.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this, but Sun Zujie shook his head to see the sincerity of the automobile company in Bredia.

Chapter 155 Cheap is not so easy to take advantage of

Sun Zujie guessed right. The Bredian who robbed the investors in the paper gold transaction accidentally discovered that Huaguo's funds also hitched a ride, and then made a fortune. Get out of the car safely.

The banks in Bredia naturally paid attention to these funds. Although they went around, they still caught some clues and finally judged that they came from Hong Kong Island.Fenghui is the de facto central bank of Hong Kong Island. After some inquiries, it was found that the money was from Huatou.

Sun Zujie didn't hide much about the source of the money, so the Bredians knew that Huatou had money, so they immediately thought about it, and we have to help Huaguo spend the money.

So they concealed the news, and they were full of hope for Sun Zujie's trip to Bredia this time.Knowing that Sun Zujie wanted to buy a production line in the United States, the Bredians became even more urgent, so due to domestic requests, Shen Bi called in person.

A Bredian car?In later generations, Bredia has nothing but a lot of luxury brands. Sun Zujie has no interest in these. What he wants is low-end and mid-end models that can be mass-produced with stable quality. Does Bredia have them?

In fact, there are, for example, Luofu SD1 is enough to meet the needs of Sun Zujie.It's just that this is Luofu's current flagship model, so they probably won't be willing to sell it.

The delegation arrived in London, and on the second day after they stayed, the convoy sent by the Bredia National Steel Corporation took them to Birmingham. After visiting the production line in the mid-60s that was going to be sold to Huaguo, Sun Zujie nodded. Although it is not as technical as Baosteel, it is easier to understand.

Of course, he doesn't know much about the specific technical details. That is a matter for the technical department, and they will only pay if they approve of him.Since it was picking up leaks, his main purpose was to bargain. Sun Zujie was not in a hurry at all, and just worked slowly. He was determined not to buy if the Bredians didn't make concessions, and there were plenty of opportunities.

Seeing that Sun Zujie's reaction was good, the Bredians were also very happy.The steel industry in Bredia was actually pretty good after World War II, they were the first to come up with the continuous casting line, and it wasn't that far behind.

But after the complete decline of the empire on which the sun never sets, the iron and steel industry will inevitably decline. Even if they are integrated into a national team, it will not help.

After the Conservative Party came to power, it soon discovered that the steel industry was constantly eating up precious budgets. Therefore, eliminating backward production capacity and improving the technological content of the steel industry is a top priority. Steel mills have been included in the list that can be sold or even eliminated directly.

The Bredians originally wanted to ask for a high price, but the Far East compatriots who had dealt with Sun Zujie and suffered losses told them that this guy is very cunning, if you ask for a high price, he really won’t buy it, we keep so much What are you doing with scrap copper and rotten iron?

Bredia Iron and Steel Company was skeptical about this, and still paid a high price according to the usual practice. In this way, even if Huaguo paid back [-] to [-] percent, they would still make a lot of money.

But in the first round of negotiations, Sun Zujie twitched his mouth when he saw the quotation, and then ordered the Bredians to return the quotation with a discount of [-]% or [-]%. , you think I have two printed on my head.

Bredia Iron and Steel Company was furious. People in Huaguo thought they were buying Chinese cabbage, but they were reluctant to talk about it. They knew that Huaguo had money, so the two families began to argue.

After entering the substantive negotiations, Sun Zujie was half-hearted, and went to look at the declining Bredia shipyard. Now the shipping industry has some signs of something wrong, but the shipbuilding industry has a deeper understanding. They have already felt the arrival of autumn. But the cold winter is still early.Sun Zujie thought for a while, and waited until they went bankrupt one by one before buying.