Even if Cao Mo explained this, Gu Fan was still confused, and Zhou Jian couldn't help laughing sarcastically and said to Gu Fan:
"Let me tell you, it's enough for you to trick someone into taking over the carmaker's business with three to five million dollars. If you play like this, aren't you afraid of provoking their parents and ending up with the situation?"
Gu Fan opened a tuning factory, and Zhou Jian had been working as a horse boy for a long time. He also knew that the tuning factory came into contact with many rich second-generation people who play sports cars.
In his opinion, both Cao Mo and Shen Ji were wealthy children with billions of dollars in wealth. They were deceived by Gu Fan's tricks and suddenly burst out with some inexplicable "ambition" and decided to invest in Gu Fan's business. Modification factory.
This is not surprising at all.
There are too many rich second generations in Xinhai who enjoy the hard-earned wealth of the previous generation and squander their lives, playing with sports cars and luxury watches, and going to places where people live in luxury and entertainment; there are also many rich second generations who spend millions and tens of millions to "invest" , the family even agrees with this. Whether it succeeds or fails, the family doesn't care too much. As long as they can learn from it and prepare for the succession, it is enough.
From Zhou Jian's point of view, Cao Mo and Shen Ji were the second generation of rich people. He also felt that Gu Fan had tricked them into spending three to five million to take over the carmaker's business. If their parents found out, they wouldn't take it seriously.
Just think of it as fun. Rich kids can play with a sports car, but they can't play with three to five million?
The question is, how many super-rich people there are in Xinhai, who can use two to three billion in funds to "invest" for the next generation without any concern?
Zhou Jian felt that it was okay for Gu Fan to fool the two "rich second generation" in a small way, but if the deception was too big, the parents would be alarmed and the situation would not be settled. Not only would Gu Fan be left with nothing to eat, but he might also be implicated. .
Who called him Gu Fan's "sister-in-law"?
Cao Mo looked at Zhou Jian and saw his thoughts clearly. He didn't want to see him continue to stay in the box and hinder their discussion, so he said: "Mr. Zhou may have misunderstood our identity and strength, or maybe he thinks We are all too young, and we are squandering the wealth accumulated by our elders unscrupulously. Unfortunately, I don’t have the habit of carrying business cards with me. If Mr. Zhou pays more attention to the securities market, he should have the opportunity to hear information about one of my companies in the next few days. , after all, my company will not only acquire Mr. Gu’s car modification factory, but also acquire some assets of Huachen Industrial. Therefore, Mr. Zhou doesn’t have to worry about Mr. Gu screwing up this matter and ultimately implicating you. .”
"..."
Zhou Jian stood there a little stupidly, unable to figure out whether Cao Mo's words were true or false.
The key point was that he had just described Gu Fan's current situation. The man in front of him didn't even offer the price, but he even foolishly paid a price far higher than they imagined to buy the carmaker?
Something wrong with your brain?
"Mr. Gu's current situation may be a bit difficult. Of course I can win over the carmaker at a lower price and ask Mr. Gu to continue to be responsible for the carmaker's operations. But the core value of the carmaker is not a bunch of second-hand equipment, nor that A few unsystematic fragmented patents, and Mr. Gu, Xu Gong. This also determines whether the 200 million yuan I will inject into the car maker will really be in vain, or whether I can build a car," Cao Mofeng Qingyun He smiled lightly and said, "Of course, Mr. Zhou may not understand what I say. Mr. Zhou thinks that I am too rich and willful, so he is willing to burn two to three hundred million for fun - now can I not stay here and hinder me?" Have we talked about something?"
Zhou Jian was stunned for a while before he realized that Cao Mo was asking him to get out of here. He immediately felt insulted and his face turned red. However, he couldn't figure out who the other party was and he didn't dare to get drunk.
Gu Fan, however, grabbed his wife Zhao Zhi's hand under the table so as not to appear too excited.
"How many shares I hold in Tianyue Industrial, the carmaker's side will also follow the investment in proportion. Don't think of leaving me behind," Shen Ji no longer looked at Zhou Jian and said to Cao Mo with a smile, "Playing with losses." I won’t lose much. If I bet on the right bet, I can still drink soup and eat meat. I’m smarter than you think..."
In the early days of Kanem, Yang Deshan, Xie Sipeng, and even Shen Ji, they felt that Cao Mo had an extraordinary level of trust and confidence in others, but facts proved that the people Cao Mo relied on and relied on never let them down.
Carmaker and Dongsheng Real Estate are incomparable not only in size, but also in many essential things.
Dongsheng Real Estate left his uncle, left Xu Zhi and other senior management, and replaced it with a new management team after debt restructuring. Even if the power of development and performance is not as strong as before, it is difficult to survive and collapse.
Therefore, according to normal business logic, it is completely possible and appropriate to "take advantage of" Dongsheng Real Estate.
The success of the car maker or its value has nothing to do with the accumulation of assets and technology in the past. There is not even a team for the car now, and more value lies in Gu Fan alone.
Shen Ji also knew very well that of course they could "take advantage of the situation" and win over the carmaker for five million or even less, and then let Gu Fan continue to work as a carmaker with a seemingly good annual salary, but what could they really expect from Gu Fan? Will you continue to develop the technology of that prototype car with the passion you have had over the past ten years?
And if one day, Gu Fan's value is valued by other investors, and they poach Gu Fan away with several times the high salary or equity, then they will blame others and accuse Gu Fan of being ungrateful?
In the eyes of Shen Ji, an outsider, the completion level of the carmaker's prototype car was very low, but it was not impossible to complete it.
They are investing money now and providing necessary resource support, but if they later form a formal and stronger development team, they can only count on Gu Fan to play the core role of the soul.
A wheelwright is not a valuable asset, but the potential and future possibilities that a wheelwright can tap cannot be ignored, and this is what Cao Mo really values.
Carmaker can be regarded as a pure venture capital project, and venture capital must not focus on the value of existing assets, and must not ignore or underestimate the role and value of the founder and the founding team.
Cao Mo and Shen Ji ignored Zhou Jian.
Zhou Jian was followed by two people who ran over to watch the fun. They realized that Gu Fan might have really fallen in love with a big shot this time and wanted to make a comeback. He immediately no longer dared to watch the fun.
They pulled Zhou Jian's sleeves and dragged Zhou Jian out of the box in a state of embarrassment.
"I want to apologize to you." Seeing Zhou Jian and others leaving, Xu Aihua picked up the wine glass and said excitedly to Cao Mo, "At first I thought you just regarded the car mechanic as a used and discarded spare tire, or even just a spare tire. I took it as a small bargaining chip to put pressure on Hua Chen. Secondly, I thought you were eager for quick success and mistakenly thought that the automobile industry was a profit-making industry, so some of what you said today was untrue..."
The old man Xu Aihua was still relatively pure. Cao Mo laughed, clinked the glasses and drank it down, saying: "I didn't plan to make a decision so quickly; now that I have made a decision, I have to tell Xu Bin and the others..."
Cao Mo took out his cell phone and dialed Xu Bin's number: "Have you met Zhou Qizhi?"
"We just arrived at Jinhonghui, but Zhou Qizhi and the others are stuck on the road. It will take about twenty minutes to get to the hotel..." Xu Bin said on the other end of the phone.
It is hard to expect that the traffic in downtown Xinhai will be smooth around six o'clock in the evening. It is normal for parties hosting or attending banquets to be late for half an hour or even an hour.
Zhou Qizhi was willing to meet, and it didn't matter who was treating him. Qian Wenhan thought it would be convenient for Jinhonghui to dine, so he arranged the meeting place at Jinhonghui.
"I haven't arrived yet. I have something to tell you. If you still have money, please communicate with me in advance," Cao Mo said. "I decided to acquire the carmaker in my own name and use it as an independent company outside of Tianyue Industry."
With the development of the laboratory, we will also increase investment in car craftsmen and continue to complete the development of Gu Fan’s prototype car..."
The investment risk of the carmaker was too high, so Cao Mo decided to bear the risk himself and develop it separately from Tianyue Industry to avoid failure in developing prototype cars in the future and causing irreparable damage to Tianyue Industry - this damage was not financial.
Losses will also have a direct impact on the allocation of human and technical resources.
In any case, the acquisition of the carmaker will provide certain technical support for the development of Tianyue Industry, so Cao Mo needs to tell Xu Bin and Qian Wenhan in time so that they can adjust their strategies and expectations for negotiating with Hua Chen.
"Ah," Xu Bin said in surprise on the phone, "Mr. Cao decided to develop a prototype car? Huang Yijiang and Xu Lizheng, I, and I had some ideas about this, but we didn't expect it would come to this point so quickly, and we didn't do anything before.
Mention - it shouldn't be too late for us to meet Zhou Qizhi, do you have time to meet again in the evening, or maybe invite Gu Fan to the center tomorrow?"
Xu Bin and the others had ideas about the development of prototype cars before, which meant that they more or less wanted to get involved in the development of the car builders, which meant that their opinions would need to be consulted on more specific details of cooperation.
"We are not very happy eating here. We will go back to Tianzifang now. After you and Mr. Qian have met Zhou Qizhi, you can go directly to Tianzifang to meet us - we will talk in detail when you arrive." Cao Mo said simply.
said.
Qian Wenhan, Xu Bin and the others met with Zhou Qizhi in Jinhong to avoid the embarrassment of an unexpected encounter. Cao Mo felt that he couldn't go to Jinhonghui to save trouble, so he went to Tianzifang to find a place to stay, and waited for Qian Wenhan, Xu Bin and the others to rush over to talk.
For something.
Cao Mo hung up the phone and told Gu Fan: "Xu Bin and the others also have some ideas for the development of the prototype car, but they didn't expect it to come to this point so quickly, so they don't communicate much with me - but now that I have already
This matter has advanced to this point, and it must be started, so brainstorming is still necessary. How about we go directly to Tianzifang now and wait for them to meet Zhou Qizhi before we talk in detail together? "
"good!"
Talking with Xu Bin and Huang Yijiang, Gu Fan felt that it would be more practical, so he immediately asked Zhao Zhi to pay the bill first without hesitation, and they rushed directly to the city; whatever they stayed to eat would be tasteless, they
I don’t care about wasting this table of food and wine.
"Why did you just leave? I just entertained a few tables of old customers and was about to go have a few more drinks with you!" Xiao Changmin was standing behind the cashier and chatting with Zhao Zhila. It seemed that he wanted to invite this person. Zhao Zhi refused to let Zhao Zhi pay for the meal. When he saw Cao Mo, Gu Fan and others coming downstairs, he hurriedly came over to persuade them to stay.
Xiao Changmin was worried that Gu Fan would have a hard time and would ask him to borrow money, so his attitude became cold. This is human nature. Cao Mo didn't think there was anything wrong with him, but at the same time, he also felt that Xiao Changmin was not as interesting as Gu Fan. If he doesn't want to deal with it, that's his freedom.
With this in mind, Cao Mo and Shen Ji went out first, leaving Gu Fan and Zhao Zhi to stay in the store to chat with Xiao Changmin and settle the bill...
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The traffic jam in Xinhai during the evening rush hour was truly despairing. Cao Mo and the others set off from Tianwan Village Industrial Park at six o'clock. It took them less than half an hour to drive onto the Central Elevated Highway, but it took them an hour and a half to walk the last six or seven kilometers. and rushed back to Tianzifang.
It's already so late, Qian Wenhan, Xu Bin and the others will finish and rush over at any time.
Cao Mo and the others did not look for another Chinese restaurant and order a table of dishes in a formal manner. Instead, they found a cafe that served business meals and sat down.
Cao Mo and the others each ordered a simple meal and finished eating. As soon as they changed into tea, Qian Wenhan, Xu Bin, Huang Yijiang, and Ge Jun rushed over.
"What big move do you want to make without me again?" Qian Wenhan sat down and asked with a smile.
"I want to do something, how dare I leave you?" Cao Mo said, "The carmaker's uncertainty is great. If he is directly incorporated into Tianyue Industry, Mr. Ge will have some problems, so I thought about it for a long time. I think it might be more appropriate to develop the carmaker as an independent laboratory outside Tianyue Industry. Of course, how to develop the independent laboratory still requires everyone to brainstorm."
"Dongjiang Securities' industrial investment fund needs to be more stable. In principle, it does not participate in venture capital. This principle is not impossible to break, but it will be quite troublesome." Ge Jun said straightforwardly.
In other words, the carmaker can develop independently and is not tied to Tianyue Industrial. Dongjiang Securities can invest in Tianyue Industrial's convertible bonds. Ge Jun is also sure to convince other members of the investment committee, but if they are involved together, things will be troublesome. .
Ge Jun is also very familiar with industrial development at home and abroad. Cao Mo wants to develop a prototype car on the platform of the Carmaker's Laboratory. 200 million is only enough to test the water in the early stage. There is no need to expect 200 million to get a set of mature technology. come out.
This kind of investment and risk cannot be borne by Dongjiang Securities’ industrial investment fund.
Qian Wenhan's Sun Hung Investment is private capital and is responsible for its profits and losses. Qian Wenhan also has absolute control over Sun Hung Investment - he wants to participate in the development of car crafts and prototype cars. He feels that the risks are equal to the expected profit potential. Yes, he can make the decision himself.
"I knew Tianyue Industry was a big trap and I couldn't agree to it easily." Qian Wenhan saw someone smoking in the cafe and the waiter didn't stop him, so he asked the driver to come into the car and take out cigars to share with everyone, and said, "Now I can't I can only bite the bullet and play with your heartbeat..."
"Mr. Cao has decided to acquire Carmaker and continue to develop prototype cars on Carmaker's platform?" Xu Bin sat down and asked seriously.
Cao Mo nodded and said, "What are your thoughts that you are hiding from me?"
"It's not that we have any ideas," Xu Bin said, "Zheng Chuyuan, who was hired by Xinhai University to be in charge of the National Automotive Power Engineering Laboratory, we proposed to Mr. Cao that Lao Gu, Zheng Gong and him all knew each other - if Cao
My husband has decided to develop an independent laboratory based on his work as a carmaker, and I think I can meet with Zheng Chuyuan."
"Okay, we can meet, but don't ask me to riddle what's going on," Cao Mo said.
Xu Bin mentioned this Zheng Chunyuan to him countless times. He also worked in Huachen for two years in his early years. After that, he studied abroad and stayed in Germany to work at an automotive laboratory. Then he was introduced back to China as a national key young scientist and studied at Xinhai University.
He teaches and presides over a national automotive power engineering laboratory affiliated to Xinhai University.
Huang Yijiang was also a classmate and colleague of Zheng Chunyuan when he was studying and working in Germany. Xu Bin was introduced by Zheng Chunyuan and invited Huang Yijiang to head the product R&D and testing center of Tianyue Industrial.
It's a pity that Cao Mo returned to China several times and his schedule was very full, so he didn't have the chance to meet Zheng Chuyuan.
This time Tianyue Industrial was determined to start a new project, no matter how big or small it started, Cao Mo had to take the time to meet with the cutting-edge figures in the field of domestic automotive power engineering.
"Lao Gu assembled this car because we are familiar with each other. Lizheng and I have been following him for a long time. Zheng Zhongyuan returned to China, and Yijiang joined Tianyue Industry. We have also eaten with Lao Gu many times.
I have discussed another technical route. Of course, Lao Gu did this earlier and laid a certain foundation, but none of us are poor and cannot afford the money. Even if we speculate that another route may be more reasonable,
The reality also restricts Lao Gu to continue on the same path..." Xu Bin said.
Cao Mo said: "After I invest in the carmaker, do you hope that the carmaker can practice another technical route?"
"I wonder if you know anything about new energy vehicles?" Xu Bin asked, but did not test Cao Mo's meaning. He simply introduced it, "New energy vehicles are not unique to the new century. In fact, they have been around for as long as fuel."
Before the advent of automobiles, pure electric vehicles began to be used. According to statistics, in 1900, that is, nearly 110 years ago, 40% of the more than 4,000 cars sold in Europe and the United States were steam locomotives, and 100% were steam locomotives.
Thirty-eight percent are lead-acid battery electric vehicles, and the remaining 22% are fuel vehicles. At that time, fuel vehicles still had external combustion engines, which were noisy and emitted black smoke. They were very unpopular until the engine
When technology matured, fuel vehicles had an absolute advantage, and pure electric vehicles completely withdrew from the market. In the 1960s, when the oil crisis broke out, and European and American countries began to pay attention to environmental issues, the development of pure electric vehicles received renewed attention. After that,
In more than ten years, the drive technology of electric vehicles has made great progress, and some small electric vehicles have begun to occupy fixed markets, such as golf course scooters. However, limited by the development of battery technology, electric vehicle manufacturing has
In the 1990s, businesses began to develop hybrid vehicles to overcome the problem of short batteries and short range. At the same time, technologies such as fuel cells and hydrogen engines also emerged one after another. However, after entering the 21st century, battery density increased rapidly, and electric vehicles
The battery life level and the power performance of the motor are already better than those of ordinary low-displacement fuel vehicles, and they have once again become the mainstream technology in this field... At present, no city in China has officially piloted the promotion of new energy vehicle technology, but new energy vehicles
, Changan, BAIC and other major manufacturers have already begun to develop and reserve some new energy vehicle technologies..."