Chapter 176 Purchase of a Car Company

(The picture above shows a sports car produced by Aston Martin Motor Company in 1914)

"Buy a team?" Eric looked at Charles in disbelief, with a hint of helplessness in his tone: "Lieutenant, some things cannot be bought with money. If what you want is low-level talents or workers, , I believe you can get it soon, but what we need may be a group of top people in the world, you don’t even know where they are..."

Charles interrupted Eric: "Have you ever heard of Aston Martin?"

Eric shook his head blankly: "No, I haven't heard of him. Is he famous?"

"No!" Charles replied calmly: "It is a car company founded just last year, a British car company."

"So..." Eric spread his hands, meaning what is this for?

"Although it has only been established for a year." Charles continued to walk deeper into the factory and said while watching the workers busy: "But it is already able to produce sports cars and participate in competitions and obtain good rankings."

"Then what?" Eric became more and more confused as he listened. What does this have to do with self-developed aircraft?

Charles stopped and looked at Eric and revealed the answer: "I heard that it plans to sell all the company's machines and signed technicians."

Eric suddenly realized: "You mean, we want to buy this car company?"

"And his technical staff." Charles added: "Those who have worked in this company, all the capable technical staff!"

"But..." Eric was shocked and incoherent: "This is a car company that is about to go bankrupt, and it's only been a year..."

Charles looked at Eric quietly and said nothing.

Eric suddenly remembered that his aircraft manufacturing factory was also a company that was going bankrupt, but Charles bought it, and there was still a lot of buzz at this time.

"Okay!" Eric was a little embarrassed: "It may have a future, but they produce cars and may not know anything about airplanes..."

"They don't need to know about airplanes, Uncle Eric!" Charles replied: "They only need to know how to produce engines. They can develop a powerful sports car engine within a year. This is the kind of team we want!"

Eric was silent. He thought for a while, nodded and said, "This may be feasible, but the funds required may be beyond our imagination..."

"This is my problem!" Charles interrupted Eric: "I need you to bring a few people to negotiate with them, then buy this company and bring them here!"

"Okay!" Eric replied helplessly: "If you must do it."

He always thought it was ridiculous. He spent huge sums of money to buy a company that produced sports cars as an aircraft research and development team. Moreover, this company was bankrupt and closed. No matter how he thought about it, he thought it was a business that was throwing money into the water.

But Ciel knew that was not the case.

Aston Martin is not an ordinary car company. It was bought by the British Sopwith Aircraft Company in history.

Then, with their efforts, the "Cragette" air-cooled radial piston engine came out, and the "Camel" fighter jet based on this engine also successfully flew into the sky.

Since then, the United Kingdom has begun a mode of defeating the German Air Force. Even the prestigious German ace pilot "Red Baron" was shot down by "Camel" fighter jets.

Charles knew that the aircraft had only been invented for a short period of more than ten years, and its engines had just started, and most of them were not special-purpose engines.

If a team can develop a powerful sports car engine in a short period of time, its technical level will be no worse than anyone else.

Of course, Charles would not let this team slip away from his fingers, let alone let the German Fokker fighter crush all the Allied fighters as soon as it was born, as it had done in history.

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Traveling on a business trip seemed very simple to Eric. If others wanted to rush to the UK, they would need cars, trains, and ships, and then trains and cars in reverse. It might take a week or two to reach the destination.

All Eric had to do was take an assistant, prepare some food, and fly a plane.

Before leaving, he waved to Charles: "I may arrive at my destination tomorrow morning. Just wait for my good news. I hope the price they offer will not shock you!"

Charles waved confidently in response. During this period, through a series of operations such as selling tractors, airplanes, and motorcycles, he already had more than six million francs in his account, which was more than enough to buy a car company that was on the verge of bankruptcy.

When the plane entered the runway, Eric turned back and shouted at Charles: "You can think about it again, Lieutenant, I don't think this is wise. Maybe you should discuss it with Mr. Djoka first!"

Ciel smiled in response.

He has already discussed it with Djoka. To be precise, it is not a discussion, but a greeting to Djoka.

Djoka was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper, "Leader of Merit". He bought a copy of every issue of "Leader of Merit" and threw all the newspapers he had collected into the trash.

"If it's a lie, there's no need to keep it," he said.

Kamil agreed, but she didn't understand why newspapers about the Shire were bought at high prices on the black market.

When Djorka heard that Charles wanted to acquire Aston Martin, his expression was as shocked as Eric's. His eyes seemed to say, is Charles crazy? Actually want to buy a sports car company and merge it with an aircraft manufacturer!

But Djoka didn't say anything against it, not a word.

He just froze for a while, then said "hmm" and replied calmly: "Do as you say!"

At this time, Charles was a little uncomfortable: "Don't you think this is a momentary impulse?"

Deyoka continued to stare at the newspaper and asked: "When have you ever been impulsive?"

Then Deyoka spread the newspaper in front of Charles. It was the Battle of Antwerp, and it detailed the process of Charles tricking the German "Big Bertha" into the range.

"Do you think that people who can think of these things will buy a company because of impulse? No, I don't think so!"

Then Deyoka added: "Besides, it's all your money, Charles, you have the right to dispose of it. Moreover, you will be an adult in another month, and then you can open an account of your own!"

One month?

Charles can't feel the difference between adults and minors!

Then Charles thought of one thing: Parliament promised not to go directly to the battlefield because he was a minor.

So, if he is an adult, does it mean that he may be sent to the battlefield?

When he thought of this, Charles felt that it was better to be a minor!

(The picture above is a British "Camel" fighter)