Chapter 1457 The Pride of a National Enterprise

After Makino Technology formally submitted the overall plan for Apple's privatization to Nasdaq, the entire market believed that there was no suspense in this matter.

Nasdaq will not reject Muye Technology's plan, because they know very well that those institutions holding Apple stocks have already admitted their losses and are eager to exit as soon as possible. After all, it is a loss-making transaction. We can only look forward to recovering the funds as soon as possible so that they can be used for other investments. If Apple stock is deeply stuck in our hands, it will bring other potential losses.

It’s like investing 10 million in trading, and after three days, you will definitely lose 1.7 million. The best way is to quickly take the remaining 8.3 million and find other projects to fill the hole as soon as possible. ;

The worst thing is to invest 10 million, lose 17 million after three days, and then don't know when the remaining 8.3 million will be available. This is the tragedy of deep lock-in.

The people who play capital are all elites. They are calculating this account every day, and they are very clear about their relationship.

Therefore, after receiving the privatization plan, Nasdaq held a symbolic meeting to discuss for two days. On the third day of submitting the results, it officially replied to Muye Technology. Nasdaq approved Muye Technology's plan to privatize Apple. , Apple officially entered the privatization delisting process!

This news has not caused any waves in the western market, because everyone has already seen that this result is bound to happen, but in the distant China, this news has excited people who know about it and the Internet in the whole country.

The media covered it all over the place, and even Mother Yang repeatedly mentioned this acquisition in different programs at different times, and even invited a lot of experts to analyze the explosive power of Muye Technology in the overseas capital market. Shang Xia seems to have regarded Muye Technology as an outstanding representative of Huaxia enterprises and an international business card of Huaxia enterprises.

At the same time, it was also reported that Li Mu borrowed 2.5 billion US dollars in foreign exchange from the central bank in the equivalent of RMB. I don’t know where the news leaked from, but when the media began to report on this matter, all media The calibers are surprisingly consistent: the state and the central bank have always given full support to Huaxia enterprises when they go out, and Makino Technology itself is also a very socially responsible company. In order to comply with foreign exchange control rules, it will be used to acquire Apple. They did not ask the bank for any form of leverage, but first settled the equivalent of RMB, and then used it as a mortgage to lend the equivalent foreign exchange, which is simply honest and flexible.

With such publicity by the media, Li Mu's establishment of a huge private equity fund was directly covered up, thus becoming an honest and upright alternative, and such publicity can also avoid affecting the tone of foreign exchange control, because Li Mu does not exchange foreign exchange from the central bank , he uses RMB as collateral and lends foreign exchange;

The exchange of foreign currency is unilateral,

Enterprises want to exchange foreign currency to develop overseas, and convert RMB into US dollars and then invest overseas. This is the loss of foreign exchange;

The biggest difference between lending foreign exchange and exchanging foreign exchange is that all the foreign exchange that Li Mu took will be returned. The 2.5 billion US dollars of foreign exchange temporarily flowed to the US capital market, but Li Mu promised to repay, which means that the 25 Billions will come back.

After such publicity, the acquisition of Apple by Makino Technology has become a bit more legendary. For a time, various versions of the story emerged in an endless stream in China, but in the final analysis, it was the main tone: for Makino Technology's first in the US capital market. Proud of a siege victory.

This is the first successful wholly-owned acquisition of a famous Western high-tech enterprise in the history of China, and it is a true wholly-owned acquisition! At the moment when Huaxia has just joined the WTO, this matter is of great significance. It is not only a victory for Huaxia Enterprises, but also a victory for Huaxia Capital and a victory for the Huaxia Internet industry.

Huaxia's high-tech enterprises started late, and the industry started much later than the West. In the status of international trade, Huaxia is still in the "three lows" stage of low technology content, low profit margins, and low trade status. Therefore, Huaxia Enterprises' siege in the West has a great incentive for Chinese entrepreneurs and practitioners.

In a year or two, Lenovo will acquire IBM's personal computer business. This acquisition has been shaped into a model for the overseas expansion of national enterprises in Li Mu's last life;

A few years later, Geely's acquisition of Volvo cars once became the pride of the national industry, and was still talked about many years later;

In a few years, the Huaxia high-speed railway manufacturing enterprise will strategize among many high-speed railway leaders in the world, and obtain the top technologies of many high-speed railway enterprises, so that the Huaxia high-speed railway will advance all the way and become a beautiful business card of Huaxia industry. This makes the Chinese people always proud and proud;

Now, the acquisition of Apple by Muye Technology has made the Chinese people feel this pride and pride in advance.

Li Mu believes that history will prove to the world what a crucial decision is Muye Technology's acquisition of Apple;

History will also prove to the world that Muye Technology's acquisition of Apple will become a miracle in the world's business history. No one but himself can imagine what will happen to Apple, whose market value is only a few billion dollars. of light!

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All the follow-up work of privatization, Li Mu left to the team to operate. From this moment on, he completely let go of the privatization.

Li Mu is like the first two stages of a launch vehicle, bursting out a huge thrust to push the load into space. The rest only needs the team to move forward according to the established orbit. He has completed his mission and can devote his energy to other of the project.

Li Ziwei specifically checked with Li Mu about the recent business arrangements. She first reported to Li Mu her investigation on the current situation of the global power lithium mine and cobalt mining industry in the past few days. I thought of it during the flight to Harvard, and then explained to Li Ziwei when I got off the plane.

Li Ziwei said: "In the name of several shell companies, I authorized several investigation companies to investigate the current industry situation and resource distribution of lithium ore and cobalt ore. The preliminary results are as follows. First of all, lithium ore, lithium ore resources are relatively It is very rich. We have large reserves of lithium ore in China, but the current situation of lithium ore and supporting mining and refining industries is not very good. The lack of profit margins and frequent ore price fluctuations are the main reasons that affect the profits of the lithium ore industry. In addition, the current global demand for lithium is stable, so the overall investment assessment of the industry is low, and many companies have given suggestions that they do not recommend lithium ore investment in the near future;"

"As for cobalt ore, its distribution is extremely uneven compared to lithium ore. First of all, our domestic reserves are very small. Secondly, more than half of the world's cobalt ore is distributed in Congo, Zambia, Cuba and Australia, among which the global cobalt ore 60% of the output is in Congo. At present, cobalt mining in other countries with high reserves is more difficult and costly. Congo’s cobalt industry is relatively mature and has the highest cost performance. However, the consumption of cobalt is not high. 5 percentage points of slow growth, so the price is difficult to break through. The preliminary advice given by many companies is that it is not recommended to invest in the cobalt industry. If you intend to invest, the most cost-effective investment direction is Congo, but considering Africa The country is relatively unstable, so the risk of such investment will be relatively greater.”

Speaking of which, Li Ziwei saw Li Mu's calm expression, and couldn't help but remind: "Mr. Li, on the whole, many professional institutions do not recommend getting involved in the lithium ore and cobalt ore industry, there is really not much room for imagination, and the mineral resources The industry involves a huge amount of energy, manpower, and material resources, so overall, it is not very promising.”

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Some things are not for making money now, but for making more upstream industrial layouts in the future."

After that, Li Mu asked her, "What do you think high-tech companies want to monopolize the most?"

Li Ziwei thought for a while, then smiled: "Maybe it's the processor? After all, that thing is still very important in a high-tech enterprise."

Li Mu nodded, then shook his head again, and said, "It looks like this, but in fact, what everyone wants to monopolize the most should be silicon raw materials, but unfortunately the capacity of this thing on the earth is really too big, so big It’s easy to see, easy to get.”

Speaking of which, Li Mu asked her, "Just imagine, what if silicon was a scarce element on earth? What if silicon was not only a scarce element, but also an irreplaceable element for decades? Who had silicon at that time? Anyone who has the ability to influence the entire high-tech industry, even if they cannot control the entire industry, at least can control the cost of the entire industry.”

Li Ziwei thought for a moment, then nodded lightly and said, "I really want to understand a little..."

Li Mu smiled and said, "You don't need to understand too much, you just need to know that this matter is very important to our future."

Afterwards, Li Mu instructed: "Since the reserves of lithium mines are large, then we will not focus on the layout of minerals. We will sort out the industrial and mining enterprises with relatively large lithium production at present, and we will set up a fund externally to invest in lithium mining enterprises. Every company strives for control, and if it is unable to hold control in a short period of time, it must first become a shareholder.”

Li Ziwei said, "Okay, Mr. Li, I've written it down."

Li Mu added: "From the perspective of the distribution of cobalt ore, it is very suitable to make a fuss from the source, so let's take a look at the cobalt mining companies that produce the most ore in the world, and learn about the cobalt mining companies around the world. The actual mining rights cover the total amount and the right period, and we will use the same method as lithium ore at that time, directly controlling or acquiring them.”

In Li Mu's view, the reserves of lithium mines are large and evenly distributed, and it is difficult to achieve a source monopoly. In this case, it is not necessary to go to the mines to make a fuss. You can directly invest in or acquire power lithium production enterprises. As long as you control a considerable amount of the finished power lithium market, you can at least ensure that the cost of using lithium can be much lower than other battery companies or new energy companies in the future;

The reserves and distribution of cobalt ore are too easy to make a big fuss about. First, more than 60% of the world's cobalt output will be blocked from the source, and then in the next few years, more productive and less sold , Multi-reserve strategy, store a certain amount of cobalt ore every year, once the new energy era comes, with this batch of reserves in hand, you will have great initiative.

Sometimes the initiative is not to slaughter others, but to defend himself. If Li Mu uses Tesla to quickly promote new energy vehicles around the world, what if Japanese and Korean lithium battery manufacturers do this against him? What if they drive up battery prices and then secretly cooperate with their own domestic new energy vehicle manufacturers to grab the market? What if they cooperate with downstream and work against themselves?

If you have your own battery production capacity, a sufficient supply of lithium ore, and a sufficient amount of cobalt reserves, then no one will want to grin at yourself. LG, Samsung and Panasonic dare to let themselves go on the battery issue. With one fart, I can immediately announce that the cobalt mines I control will undergo a comprehensive upgrade and temporarily shut down production capacity. The cobalt mine market capacity will be reduced by more than 60% at once, and the cost of batteries will immediately skyrocket. At that time, I still have so many years of reserves. Cobalt ore can ensure that their own battery production costs are not affected, which can instantly open a huge gap with competing products, making them exhausted and unable to catch up.

Moreover, the current cobalt ore industry has not received enough attention. If it is properly operated, the resources that can be obtained in the hands will probably account for more in the entire industrial chain.

Li Ziwei would not understand Li Mu's long-term strategic reserve of digging deep holes and accumulating grain, but her greatest advantage is that no matter what Li Mu wants to do, she will do her best to implement it.

After remembering Li Mu's series of requirements on lithium and cobalt, she said to Li Mu again: "Mr. Li, Larry Page from Google has been contacting me for the past few days, saying that he hopes to have an interview with you to discuss it. The matter of Muye Technology's stake in Google, you kept me pressing it a few days ago, he is obviously a little anxious."

Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "It just so happens that Apple's business is basically the same. Let's make an appointment with Larry Page. At three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, let him come to see me at Muye Technology."

"Ok." Li Ziwei said, "Then I'll call him back later to confirm the time."

Larry Page should be really anxious recently. Seeing Muye Technology's recent series of operations against Apple, Larry Page really realized the horror of Li Mu.

The scary thing about Li Mu is not only that his enterprise has a strong ability to promote, more importantly, Li Mu is like an experienced hunter. He knows the weaknesses of jackals, tigers, leopards, elephants and rhinos, and knows how to achieve the right Their quick hunts range from finding a weak spot, to a one-shot knockout, to a bit of a swallow.

Apple was such a once powerful prey, but now Li Mu found a weakness, beat him to death, and then swallowed it into his stomach.

Moreover, Li Mu swallowed Apple without financing, which is even more terrifying.

If Li Mu decides to become a search engine, he will definitely treat Google the same way he treats Apple, find Google's weakness, maim or kill Google, swallow the entire Google, or let Google's body rot in the mountains and forests.

Therefore, the sooner Li Mu becomes a shareholder in Google, the more relieved it will be for Larry Page. Li Mu also said last time that he can also not get involved in search engines, and guide Google and speed up the pace of Google's development. But the premise is that the protection fee must be enough!