Chapter 1729 Run Away

Little Bill Ford did not expect that Li Mu would actually leave as soon as he said it.

As soon as I thought that this dude's routine was too strange, this dude just put a big move.

Although the conversation was not so pleasant, it was a business negotiation anyway. Little Bill Ford was ready to fight Li Mu for a few days. As a result, Li Mu came up and bombarded indiscriminately and fired hundreds of bases in one go. Then turn around and leave?

There is no such thing!

Little Bill Ford felt like he had an appointment to fight someone, but the other party came over and slapped him, then turned his head and left.

Damn!

Li Mu played his cards completely out of the way, and all of a sudden, little Bill Ford was in a mess.

Not to mention the chaos that has been disturbed by Li Mu, even if there is no chaos, it will not be able to withstand Li Mu's sudden attack.

Just when Little Bill Ford was at a loss, Li Mu had already stood up, winked at Chen Ze and Li Ziwei, then pointed to Elon Musk and said to Little Bill Ford, "Mr. Ford, follow up. Please talk to Musk directly, he and his team know more about cars than I do.”

"But..." Little Bill Ford said unwillingly: "Mr. Li, doesn't it take a few days for Google to go public? Why can't we sit down and talk about specific acquisitions?"

Li Mu said apologetically, "I have already told you everything I know, what I know, and what I know about the auto industry. What else can we talk about when we sit down? Talking about the Internet?"

Little Bill Ford was stunned. You said it, pretending to be forced to run away, can you be more euphemistic? The core members of the Ford family are all here, I'm ashamed?

At this time, little Bill Ford couldn't keep it any longer, so he could only stand up and said, "Mr. Li. If that's the case, then I'll send you off."

Li Mu waved his hand and said with a smile, "Don't be polite, Mr. Ford, we can go by ourselves, without delaying your business."

After speaking, Li Mu directly waved at the people in the conference room and stepped out of the conference room.

Li Ziwei has been by Li Mu's side for a long time, and knows Li Mu's style of doing things, so she is not surprised or hesitant at all, and walks out directly behind Li Mu, only Chen Ze has not recovered.

what the hell? The key is that his English is not as good as Li Mu's. He probably understood 70% of what the two of them were talking about just now.

Seeing that Li Ziwei had already left, he hurriedly chased after him, and asked Li Mu in confusion, "Old Li, why did you just leave?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "You can't give him the opportunity to pretend to be aggressive, just give him a kick like stepping on an ant, and let Elon Musk talk to him for the rest."

Chen Ze sighed: "You are too ruthless in bargaining. You hit five billion dollars in one go, which may not be enough for Ford to buy Volvo..."

Li Mu said nonchalantly: "You can't negotiate with the sellers when you buy things for bargaining. The more you grind, the more you want, and naturally the more passive you become. The best way is to first understand the details of the other party, and then stick to your scalp. With a slash, if you can accept it, everyone will sit down and talk about the details, and if you can’t accept it, forget it.”

Chen Ze couldn't help asking: "Aren't you afraid that he would reject you directly?"

Li Mu said: "Do you think I fooled him for a long time? He must have ten thousand want to sell now. These three things were originally hot potatoes, but when I fooled him like this, they became hot fireballs in his eyes. ."

Chen Ze said with a smile: "What if this person has a lot of backbone, and he doesn't sell it? Then won't you make a miscalculation?"

Li Mu smiled confidently and said, "It's all for the sake of it. It's impossible not to sell. Although this person is a bit greedy, he's not stupid."

After speaking, Li Mu said again: "Let's go, let's go to Boston."

"Going to Boston?" Chen Ze asked in confusion, "Isn't it going to New York?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Young Bill Ford is right, there are still a few days left for Google to ring the bell.

Now I have nothing to do in New York. My childhood sweetheart girlfriend is still at Harvard. In addition, I voted for a Harvard boy and made a college social networking site. This time I just went to see it. "

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

When Li Mu and his party rushed to the airport, the crew had already applied for a take-off permission to fly to Boston.

On the way, Chen Ze still had some regrets and said, "I finally made a trip to Dearborn in Detroit, but I didn't visit the Ford factory, what a pity!"

Li Mu smiled and said: "There will be opportunities in the future. When these three brands are won, you will have four factories to visit in turn."

Chen Ze asked in confusion: "Why are there four? Isn't it three?"

Li Mu said: "Jaguar Land Rover is in the UK, Volvo is in Sweden, but Land Rover still has a factory in the United States. Musk said this before, have you forgotten?"

Chen Ze chuckled: "My English is not that good, so I guess I can get to know someone about the same when I write it down. If I listen to it, it's only 60-70%."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Anyway, four factories are enough. I won't stop you if you want to live there."

Chen Ze asked: "What if, I mean, what if this doesn't happen? Do you have any alternatives?"

Li Mu shook his head: "Where's the alternative."

After speaking, Li Mu said seriously: "But I'll be honest, in the current market situation of the auto industry, it's definitely not enough for you to buy a Japanese car brand, but if you want to buy a European non-German brand or an American brand, it's still very easy, really. No, we can still buy Cadillac, jeep or Alfa Romeo, these brands are losing money now and will be even worse in the future.”

For the auto industry, if the industry as a whole goes down and its own brand is not doing well enough, then the days can really be described as arduous.

As long as a car brand does not want to go bankrupt, it must keep the factory running. Suppliers have to purchase spare parts, their own production lines have to be moved, and workers have to be busy. Otherwise, once it is shut down and its personnel are disbanded, it will be difficult to reopen it. ascend to the sky.

However, to maintain the operation of the production line, it is necessary to invest capital, raw materials, spare parts, wages of workers, management fees, each of which is a huge cost. These money are poured into the production of one car after another, but the car is unmanned. As a result, there will be more and more cars in stock and more and more losses. If you haven't taken over the orders, it will really become a bottomless pit.

Some auto companies look very glamorous, and their fixed assets are worth billions of dollars. However, if they are listed with bank loans and supplier loans that have been losing money year after year, it is possible that their actual net assets are not even 100 million US dollars.

Otherwise, those classic car companies that have been around for hundreds of years would not have been merged and acquired by Daqiang, and then reintegrated and revived by Daqi's reputation, technology, resources and channels.

These brands that can be acquired by the big automobile group are still lucky, those brands that even the big automobile group can't look down on are really miserable, such as Guanzhi, a loss of one billion level a year properly, a bunch of people bury their heads After working for many years, the total liabilities are even greater than the total assets, and the losses have been lost for several years.

At this time, Chen Ze looked at the time and said, "It's been out for more than half an hour. Do you want to ask Musk how far they are now?"

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Don't ask, he must be arguing, but Younger Bill Ford must not dare to reject Musk directly, otherwise Musk will definitely contact me."

If it is true that according to what Bill Ford Jr. said, 5 billion will never be sold, then after Li Mu leaves, Musk will have to leave at most ten minutes, because he has no right to change Li Mu's final offer, and this offer Jr. Bill Ford cannot Accept, then everyone has no choice but to break up.

But since half an hour has passed and there is no news from Elon Musk, it proves that he must still be fighting with Bill Ford Jr.

In fact, there is nothing to talk about in terms of price. Li Mu didn't give Bill Ford any room for bargaining. All he could talk about was some details, and the details were also based on Bill Ford's acceptance of the $5 billion offer. .

Li Mu and his party arrived at the airport. Because the approved departure time was still more than an hour, everyone boarded the plane ahead of schedule after passing the security check and waited for take-off while resting on the plane.

While waiting, Li Mu called Su Yingxue. They hadn't seen each other in this period of time, and the two of them didn't talk too much. Not only was Li Mu too busy every day, but the jet lag was also a difficult issue.

Su Yingxue had just finished her class and was on her way back to the dormitory when she received a call from Li Mu. She had always been indifferent and asked in surprise, "Why do you have time to call me today?"

Li Mu said with a smile: "I just finished discussing cooperation with a company, and then I rushed to the airport. Now I am waiting for the take-off. The take-off time is relatively long, and it will take more than an hour."

Su Yingxue snorted softly and said, "So you thought of calling me when you were bored?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Why don't you care which airport I'm at and where I'm going next?"

Su Yingxue couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going? Are you coming to America?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "I'm already in the United States, and now I'm in Detroit."

Su Yingxue asked in surprise, "When did you come? Why did you go to Detroit?"

Li Mu said: "I said that I'm talking about cooperation. I arrived this morning, and now I'm going to take off to Boston."

Saying that, Li Mu looked at the time and said, "It's past five o'clock in the afternoon. I expect to be able to fly at seven o'clock and land at eight forty. Do you want to wait for me to have dinner together?"

Su Yingxue's voice suddenly became excited, and she asked in surprise, "Aren't you kidding me? Are you really in Detroit and coming to Boston?"

"Of course." Li Mu said, "I'll be there late. Eat something to make up for yourself. Don't wait for me hungry."

After Su Yingxue made sure that Li Mu was not joking, she immediately said happily, "Okay, then I'll wait for you!"