"Mr. Fernandez?" the voice on the phone was deep and majestic, the voice of a superior who was accustomed to giving orders.

"I am. Chen Gengwei frowned.

Even if the other party used to be the boss of his own boss, when the other party used this tone to talk to him at this moment, he was still a little unhappy in his heart, and his tone was naturally extremely cold and impatient.

Just the word "I am"?

After waiting for a few seconds and not waiting for the reaction he wanted, Carl Hahn, who waited for these two words, immediately frowned subconsciously, feeling a little unhappy: Sure enough, he is a rude American, and he doesn't know what politeness and respect are.

It's just that he is unhappy in his heart, and the current situation makes him unable to care about Chen Geng's rudeness, so he has to say: "I am Carl Hahn, chairman of the German Wolfsburg Automotive Group. ”

"Hello, Mr. Hahn," Chen Geng nodded, "May I ask you what's the matter?"

Yes, Chen Geng was not at all surprised that Carl Hahn had called him, because just half an hour ago, when he was busy with the engineers on the two new cars, Miss Aniston suddenly told him that a phone call from the office of the chairman of Wolfsburg Motors claimed to be from the chairman's office, saying that their chairman, Mr. Carl Hahn, wanted to talk to Mr. Fernandez on the phone.

Aniston didn't dare to slack off, and after verifying that the other party's call was indeed from the United States, she hurriedly informed her boss - although Fernandez Company has no intersection with Wolfsburg Automobile, but the other party is after all with countless large automobile manufacturing giants in the world, and the rank is more than one step higher than Fernandez Company, Miss Aniston subconsciously felt a little awe of the other party.

"That's right," Carl Hahn didn't go around with Chen Geng, he chose to go straight to the point, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Fernandez, you can make a price, how much do you want to give up cooperation with Huaxia?"

The tone is domineering, like the proprietress of a rich family, "How much do you want to leave my daughter?".

Yes, Carl Hahn decided to draw his salary from the bottom of the kettle, and his thinking was very simple: Don't you Chinese people want to use Fernandez to put pressure on me, I don't bother to pull those skins with you, so I just cut through the mess and directly solve the Fernandez company first.

In Karl Hahn's opinion. As long as Fernandez is solved, all problems will be solved.

As for why Carl Hahn was able to make a phone call to Chen Geng's company? For the chairman of the Wolfsburg Group, it was really not difficult to find the contact number of the chairman's office of Fernandez Company.

"Give up cooperation with Huaxia?"

Chen Geng smiled, he knew the purpose of Carl Hahn's call to him, and asked honestly and politely: "Mr. Hahn, since you know what the Huaxia market means to Wolfsburg, don't I know ......?"

"$5 million!" Before Chen Geng could finish speaking, Carl Hahn interrupted him: "Pay it all in a lump sum." ”

"Do you think I'm short of the $5 million?" Chen Geng said with a smile: "Don't say 5 million, even if it's 50 million, well, if Wolfsburg is really rich, then give 500 million dollars, if Wolfsburg can get 500 million dollars, then I won't say a word, and quit immediately." ”

Half a billion dollars?

Are you kidding!

Carl Hahn hung up the phone without saying a word: Last year, the Wolfsburg Group's net profit was only $70 million.

This year's situation is even worse, as the oil crisis that swept the world has a greater impact on the economies of various countries, the sales of Wolfsburg's products are also continuing to decline, and lower sales mean lower profits, but fixed expenditures are impossible to reduce, the financial department has made estimates, and it is expected that this year's net profit will be between 45 million and 63 million US dollars, and even if the global economic situation is further lowered, Wolfsburg's net profit may be less than 40 million US dollars.

As for the Chinese market, although Carl Hahn insists that the Chinese market is the key to whether Wolfsburg can become a world-class automobile manufacturing enterprise, but that is the future, in his opinion, the Huaxia market after ten years to achieve breakeven should be the most optimistic situation, the previous ten years are all in the cultivation of the market, maybe in the future a certain year, the Huaxia market can contribute to Wolfsburg 500 million dollars in profits, but that day does not know which day.

Your Fernandez is 500 million US dollars in Wolfsburg with one mouth, which is almost equivalent to the net profit of Wolfsburg for ten years, why don't you die?

Listening to the beep in the earpiece, the smile on Chen Geng's face gradually disappeared.

When Rosemary told herself that Huaxia had not informed Wolfsburg to officially cancel the negotiations between the two sides, Chen Geng muttered a little in his heart, and now that he received a call from Carl Hahn, the conclusion that Chen Geng least wanted to see was verified: between Fernandez and Wolfsburg Motors, the country is still relatively more inclined to Wolfsburg.

This is actually normal.

No matter how much Fernandez has invested in China and how much help it has brought to Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg is an international automobile giant with more than half a century of experience in automobile production (at least in the eyes of domestic leaders, Wolfsburg is a "giant" level existence), and they are instinctively more willing to believe in the Germans, which is human nature. But now......

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"So you mean that the Wolfsburg Group will not give up?" On the phone, Rosemary, who listened to Chen Geng's explanation of the situation, was full of fighting spirit: "Okay, then let the Germans come over." ”

"Oh, so confident?" Listening to Rosemary's confident voice, Chen Geng was a little surprised.

Speaking of this, Rosemary became excited: "Boss, your judgment is right, Huaxia is the key to the rise of our company." ”

"Oh?" Chen Geng was a little curious: "What do you say?"

"Spring!" said Rosemary, "here I see the spring after the New Year, and although the ground is bare, and there seems to be nothing, but beneath the ground, there is a great vitality and strength, and this country, and the whole nation, give me such a feeling...... Boss, you're right, we've been misled by the damned capitalists, and only by seeing the country for ourselves do we know what kind of power lies here. ”

"I told you that, didn't I? You don't believe it. Chen Geng said with a smile, Rosemary agreed with her views and opinions, and Chen Geng was of course very happy.

"Yes, my fault," Rosemary generously admitted her mistake and her previous prejudice against Huaxia, but she also reminded Chen Geng: "However...... Boss, Wolfsburg is not easy to deal with, and at a critical moment, maybe the German government will intervene, so you'd better be prepared. ”

"Of course. Chen Geng nodded.

Of course, he knew that the German government was very likely to intervene if necessary, and it was not so much that Wolfsburg was the property of the Porsche family, but that Wolfsburg was a state-owned enterprise of the German government.

Why?

Because in 1947, when the British government returned the Wolfsburg car to the German government, the German government specially formulated a "Wolfsburg Company Law", in this law specially formulated for a company, the German government clearly stipulated that the voting rate of the major decisions of the Wolfsburg car is 80%, and as the second largest shareholder of the Wolfsburg car, the German state government of Lower Saxony holds what is the shareholding ratio?

20.2%。

This is a delicate figure, that is, if the German government deems that a certain provision of the Wolfsburg car is not in Germany's interest, it can exercise its veto power and invalidate the decision without reaching 80% of the vote.

Through this provision, it can be seen how important the Wolfsburg car is in the eyes of the German government, and it is really the treatment that only the son has, and it is naturally conceivable that the German government came forward at a critical moment to say that it is not difficult to understand that the Wolfsburg car is even a platform.

But who made Wolfsburg cars their own sons, and what can they do? The only thing they can do is to take out the two cars they promised as soon as possible, which is also the biggest and most vulnerable weakness of Fernandez at present.

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"Fernández's design capabilities are really strong, but their biggest weakness is that they don't have a product that really belongs to them!"

Since Chen Geng knows that the biggest weakness of Fernandez Company is that it does not have a product of its own in the true sense, it is certainly impossible for Carl Hahn, who is the head wolf of Wolf Castle, not to see it, since the two sides are destined to be competitors, there is nothing to be polite.

At the high-level response meeting held in Wolfsburg, Carl Hahn said in a deep voice: "Whether it is the Honda X-BO or the Chrysler family, Fernandez only exists as a designer, and as a designer, their biggest shortcoming is that they can never come up with a product with a reliable statement to convince the collaborator, and the collaborator I am talking about is the Chinese government." ”

All the Wolfsburg executives in attendance nodded their heads, indeed, Fernandez has a huge inherent deficiency in this regard.

After a brief pause, Karl Hahn continued: "Since we know the shortcomings of our opponents, then you are welcome, mobilize all the forces we can mobilize in Huaxia, and be sure to instill a concept in the top level of the Huaxia government, that is: for the current Huaxia, the introduction of a mature and reliable product is more important than anything else."

Also, mobilize our allies!

The world's four major automotive production line manufacturers and integrators are in Europe and the United States, tell Comau, tell KUKA, tell ABB, FFT ThyssenKrupp, let them cooperate with us, I want to make that damn Chinese boy, even if he has a lot of money in his hand, even if he gets an order from the Chinese, he can't buy the production line!"