Of course, this was only done by the white-haired old man. It was not Henry Roofs who had the final say for Huashang Group to acquire shares in Rolls-Royce. A shareholders' meeting would have to be held because that would involve diluting everyone's equity.
Especially for a military-industrial company like Rolls-Royce to allow a foreign company to take a stake, this will also require the approval of the British cabinet.
But Liu Lang did not doubt that this matter would be successful. The reason was very simple. Without the 600,000 pounds of capital input he brought, the increasingly weak Rolls-Royce Company would not be able to survive for long. Whether it was the British cabinet or the batch of
Shareholders who are almost turning gray with worry must grasp at this life-saving straw as long as they don't want to take cash from their own pockets to fill this big hole.
As for how to come up with the promised cash of 600,000 pounds to acquire 7% of the shares, it’s very simple! Isn’t there Sir William, the general agent of Huashang Group in Europe? Huashang Group has now issued management regulations for agents, and each one
Agents have to pay a certain deposit to Huashang Group based on the volume of goods purchased. For a general agent in Europe like Sir William, the deposit of 600,000 pounds is not much!
The white wolf with empty gloves has always been Liu Tuanzuo's specialty.
Six hundred thousand pounds is already an astronomical figure in this era, but Marquis William is worthy of being a close relative of the royal family. After listening to his daughter, whose elbows were obviously turned outward, about the management system of Huashang Group for agents, he spent two days
In a short time, I collected 600,000 pounds and transferred it to the little foreign girl's account.
As for why it is not Liu Tuanzuo and Fan Ziran, the reason is very simple. Neither of them, including Huashang Group, has opened an account in a British bank. Of course, Sir William's biggest concern is probably that he is afraid that these two people will run away with the money.
Based on his understanding of Liu Lang's night, this possibility is not small.
Liu Lang did not wait in London for Rolls-Royce to hold a meeting to discuss and approve the matter. It would take at least a week, even if the white-haired old man promised to give a clear answer within five days.
Liu Lang did not even go to France, but left the matter of recruiting skilled Chinese workers to John Wall, a British marshal. Having a father who was the Consul General in China was not John Wall's capital to entangle the daughter of Marquis William.
, the British handsome man also had the wife of a French nobleman, which once again made Liu Lang understand why Britain and France fought side by side against the Third Reich. There were too many intermarriages between the nobles of these two countries.
Seeing John Wall, who had his hair combed sleekly again and patted his chest, promising to recruit a thousand Chinese workers and purchase two thousand gun barrels for Liu Lang, got into the car and drove away, Liu Lang realized why Sir William said
Without him taking action, someone would help him figure out the reasons for these two things. It turned out that he had already thought about the candidate for the British handsome man.
Liu Lang didn't know the status of the group of people he rescued on the passenger ship in the British upper class. Although they were not big shots, when the number of these people was large enough, they could form a wave. And like this
A force was the reason that finally prompted the old-fashioned Sir William to take him into the castle to meet Liu Lang in person.
Otherwise, sulfonamide drugs alone are not enough. As long as sufficient conditions are provided, Marquis William can successfully obtain the European general agent rights for sulfonamide drugs from his daughter without having to meet Liu Lang.
Sir William's purpose was to pass Liu Lang's line and finally capture such a force in his own hands and use it for himself. As soon as Liu Lang got off the car, he went straight to Sir William's castle, already like those passengers.
received such a signal.
In fact, if Liu Lang hadn't rushed to the Third Reich, there would have been such a cocktail party in Sir William's castle.
This old fox, who has been involved in mainstream British society for a long time, is so scheming that even Liu Lang unknowingly became his pawn.
However, even if Liu Lang knew about it, he wouldn't think there was anything wrong. The world is like a chess game, and everyone is a pawn. Liu Lang used the old fox to successfully acquire the shares of Rolls-Royce. Sir William obtained the European general agent of sulfa drugs and reaped the benefits.
Networking is a win-win situation for both parties. It does not say which party loses or gains. What's more, if the game of chess does not reach the final outcome, who dares to say that he will win?
Marquis William looked at the British political situation within four to five years, but Liu Lang set his sights decades later.
John Wall took away 150,000 pounds to buy 2,000 gun barrels and recruit 1,000 Chinese workers. Just promising a 50-pound return subsidy for each Chinese worker and a 50-pound ship ticket subsidy for each Chinese worker cost 100,000 pounds.
, if a gun barrel plus the shipping fee to Shanghai is only 25 pounds, Liu Lang always feels that this is not much different from robbing money.
But the British handsome man promised with all his heart that he would handle this matter, no matter how much, not too much. Liu Lang could only believe him for the time being.
In fact, when Liu Lang, who had set foot on the land of the Third Reich two days later, received a telegram from John Wall stating that the total price of two thousand gun barrels plus shipping to the Shanghai port in China was only 20,000 pounds, Liu Langya was all
painful.
It is no longer a half-sale, half-free, but rather like the electronic waste that traveled across the ocean to China in later generations, wishing that it was sent over at a discount.
If he wasn't afraid of having too much influence, Liu Lang would have loved to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds and transport all the "garbage" that takes up space to China!
However, Liu Lang still rationally rejected his impulse. Two thousand "waste" gun barrels have already worried some people in the Kuomintang. If a few more cannons and machine guns are shipped over, it is estimated that he will have a good time in Sichuan.
The days are over. Do you want to rebel by acquiring so many weapons?
The purpose of Liu Lang's trip to the Third Reich was also very simple. He continued to use the agency rights of sulfonamide in exchange for things. The machine tools of the Third Reich were unparalleled in the world. Many machine tools were not available even if China wanted to buy them, so they had to exchange them.
Over in the United States, Chinese technicians protected by ten members of the Special Forces Brigade of the Independent Regiment have arrived, a branch of Huashang Group has been opened, and sulfonamide drugs that no longer carry the name of Baixia have also been applied for in the intellectual property patent department of the United States.
The patent has been approved, and if nothing goes wrong, sulfa drugs will be officially launched on the market in a week.
This time, Liu Lang didn't find any personal connections in the Third Reich. In fact, except for the little foreign girl's family who had connections with this place, Liu Lang didn't even know anyone.
Liu Lang went directly to the national embassy in the Third Reich. Although China and the Third Reich were still in the honeymoon period at that time, China and other European countries still maintained diplomacy at the ministerial level, and it was not until the next year that it was upgraded to the ambassadorial level.
Diplomatic relations.
The reason why Liu Lang approached the embassy was to rely on them to negotiate with the Germans to purchase precision machine tools. Firstly, the news of the Chinese Merchant Group's purchase of machine tools could never be hidden from them, so it would be better to be more generous and pass it; secondly, at this time,
The Chinese Minister to the Third Reich, who had just resigned not long ago, was a very ruthless person. With his help, Liu Lang believed that this trip would be worthwhile.
Why do you say that the Chinese Minister is a ruthless person? You have to know that this man with a mustache who had just won the first-choice seat in the Third Reich Congress two years ago and at that time had to endure a tough battle, you will know how awesome he is.
Already.
Of course, it's not a confrontation with real swords and guns, but at the wine table.
But that's pretty awesome. Even within the Third Reich, anyone who dares to have a drink with the mustache who is only one step away from the highest power of the Third Reich and make him stand up will be slapped in the face.