Chapter 34: Honda is alarmed
"You can't say that," Ji Shengcheng disagreed with Chen Geng's statement: "Brother Chen, you have also seen the situation of our Chinese, Americans are very bastards, some high-paying jobs, they would rather give those niggers than us Chinese, for fear that we Chinese will rob them of their position and give it to the niggers......! What can those do? Addition and subtraction up to a hundred have to be calculated by a calculator! Now you've given you a good job, and everybody appreciates you......"
Joke!
How tiring can you be to disassemble parts for a car? No matter how tired you are, can you be tired of going to those black factories to work?
"Don't say these words," Chen Geng waved his hand: "Anyway, everyone is their own compatriots, and if you can, you can help, anyway, I don't have any more money...... By the way, what's going on with the loan?"
Ji Shengcheng's spirit suddenly perked up, he had been waiting for Chen Geng's words for a long time, and hurriedly said: "It has been approved, 800,000 US dollars, you can handle it at any time, for two or three years, if you feel that it is not enough, you can add another 50%." By the way, the interest rate is 2.19% for you, which really can't be lower. β
"800,000, so much?" Chen Geng was a little surprised.
A loan of 800,000 yuan may not sound like much, but don't forget, this was 1978, when the per capita annual income of the United States was just over $9,000.
Ji Shengcheng felt that it was normal: "Brother Chen, your company's loans are all from our bank, just last month, your company's operating turnover was 4,555,440 US dollars, and our bank initially estimated that your profit was between 380,000 and 500,000 US dollars. β
Chen Geng patted his head: Can the operating conditions of a company be hidden from anyone, but can it be hidden from the bank and the tax department?
Last month, his company sold an average of 36.2 cars per day, this data made the entire Detroit second-hand car market crazy, it is too normal to have such a flow, in turn, there is such a flow, there is such a profit, and I am afraid that the bank will not give you a loan? They dare to borrow $5 million.
Patting Ji Shengcheng on the shoulder, Chen Geng said: "Cheng! Brother, I have worked hard for you, and I know that you are helping a lot here." β
"I didn't do anything ...... either"
Chen Geng waved his hand: "The recruitment will be handed over to you, let me tell you, the conditions are a little harder, but the income is okay, in addition, I guarantee that the salary will be paid on time, what relatives and friends do you need to take care of, as long as the character is reliable, even if it is arranged to come in, those who have not come in should not worry, at most I will recruit another group of people in two or three months." β
Ji Shengcheng hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded, he did have a few relatives and friends who needed a job: "Cheng, Brother Chen, then I will thank you on behalf of the big guy." β
"You're welcome," Chen Geng waved his hand: "It's done, that's it, let's go!"
"Shall I loosen you?"
"Come on, it's rare to have a chance to skip work in the open, why don't you take advantage of it?" Sitting in the car, Chen Geng said with a smile: "There is a girl you like, hurry up and take advantage of today's appointment to go out to talk about life and ideals." β
Ji Shengcheng looked confused.
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As soon as she returned to the company, Miss Elizabeth greeted her: "Boss, the ten motorcycles we ordered have arrived, but there is a bit of a problem." β
"Huh?" Chen Geng was a little puzzled: "What's the problem?"
CBX1000 is a large-displacement motorcycle that Honda has just introduced to the market this year, before asking Elizabeth to buy 10, but I didn't expect that there was only one show car at the Honda motorcycle dealer in Detroit, the boss swore and patted his chest and told Elizabeth that 10 CBX1000 could not be found in the entire Michigan state, but if they were willing to pay a deposit, he could order from Honda's general agent in the United States, and it would be delivered in half a month, and a car would have to pay a 20% deposit.
It's no wonder that dealers give such a high percentage of deposits, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. gives a market price of $3,799 for Honda CBX1000, which is not ordinarily high, enough to buy a good high-end used car, or buy a semi-brand new Ford Fiesta - a brand new Ford Fiesta is sold for $2,599, and through the CBX1000 pricing, you can know how confident Honda is in this product.
Then book it, who will let the CBX1000 engine be used in Chen Geng's plan. But hearing Elizabeth's words, Chen Geng couldn't help frowning, a little unhappy: "What's the matter? Honda's dealers are preparing to raise prices?"
Chen Geng made up his mind, if this Honda motorcycle dealer in Detroit dared to raise the price, he would dare to sue the other party for bankruptcy: Nima, Lao Tzu is rich now!
"That's not it, Mr. Raymond said on the phone, he's going to send our motorcycles to the company right away, but there's a Honda executive who wants to come along, and that Honda executive wants to visit you. β
After Honda's senior management learned about the fact that he had ordered 10 CBX1000 motorcycles, he wanted to visit him? Chen Geng, who easily came to this conclusion, was a little strange: "Did Raymond say who this Honda senior executive is? Why did he come to visit me?"
He didn't know very well, but he just said that the other party was at the top of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. β
"That's it......" Chen Geng thought for a while and nodded: "Let him come over." β
Although I don't know why this little devil came to visit him, but no matter what his idea is, maybe he can take this opportunity to knock some benefits from the little devil.
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As the general dealer of Honda motorcycles in Detroit, Raymond came over very quickly, because Elizabeth specially told him to take care of these 10 Honda CBX1000 have not even been unpacked, and the world has dragged them in a truck and installed them on site here in Chen Geng.
Chen Geng finally met the senior executive of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. who wanted to see him by name - this guy was very recognizable, this was the only East Asian face in a group of Americans, and Chen Geng could see at a glance that this guy was an RB person: that little squint was something that Koreans would never imitate.
Probably a habit inherited from the time of Soichiro Honda, the executives of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. are also accustomed to wearing overalls instead of suits, and the same is true for this person in front of him, dressed in clean gray Honda overalls, under the introduction of Raymond and Elizabeth, although this guy is strange to the owner of this used car dealership that is said to be the most well-known in Detroit, but the character of the little devil makes him impeccable in his superficial work:" Hello Mr. Fernandez, I'm Nobuhiko Kawamoto from Honda Motor Co., Ltd., please advise. β
Nobuhiko Kawamoto?
Chen Geng frowned, as a person in the automobile circle, how could he not know this person? He is the fourth president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., and in addition, this guy is also the person in charge of the F1 engine project of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., how could he come here?
Surprised to surprised, Chen Geng stretched out his hand to Nobuhiko Kawamoto and said with a smile: "Hello Mr. Nobuhiko Kawamoto, it's nice to meet you, I'm FernΓ‘ndez Chen, you can also call me by my Chinese name Chen Geng." β
After a brief pause, Chen Geng asked Nobuhiko Kawamoto curiously: "Mr. Kawamoto, if I remember correctly, aren't you developing a new generation of F1 engines, as the person in charge of Honda's F1 engines, how can you appear in the United States?"
Nobuhiko Kawamoto was stunned in an instant, how could he be so turbulent in his heart?
Honda has been involved in Formula 1 since 1964, and it has been 10 years since 1968, when French driver Jo Schlesser was burned to death in an accident due to a flaw in the design of the engine cooling system.
Honda, which had been on the F1 championship podium in 1965, was unwilling to be insulated from F1 like this, and began to secretly start its own F1 engine research and development program again this year, as Kawamoto Nobuhiko who had just entered Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in the F1 engine research and development project team since the early 60s, he became the project leader of Honda's new generation of F1 engine, both ability and prestige are well deserved, but the problem is that this project is top secret, and now it is only in the program demonstration stage, Fernandez is a guy who is engaged in second-hand cars, how can he know about Honda Motor Co., Ltd.'s top-secret planοΌ
Nobuhiko Kawamoto, who was completely confused, completely forgot what he was doing when he came to Fernandez, and asked Chen Geng with a nervous face: "Mr. Fernandez, how did you know that Honda was developing an F1 engine?"
Looking at Nobuhiko Kawamoto's confused and nervous appearance, Chen Geng smiled secretly in his heart, he was frightened, but his face was blank: "Many people know this, it's all published in the newspaper, what's wrong?"
Many people know that poor Nobuhiko Kawamoto was directly stunned by Chen Geng's words this time: How can many people know that the newspapers have been published?
But on the other hand, he subconsciously believed Chen Geng's words: yes, if it wasn't for what I saw in the newspaper, how would Fernandez, a person who is in the second-hand car business and has nothing to do with racing cars, know about this?
Nobuhiko Kawamoto almost instinctively ruled out the possibility that Chen Geng had "stolen" Honda's secrets from his brain, and he asked eagerly: "Mr. Fernandez, do you remember the name of this newspaper?"