In the conference room of the Regal Hotel in London, Du Yuemei gave a detailed report on the current negotiations, and also reported on the plans of the Bentley Group.

This time, the Bentley Group is ready to take the British Land Rover and Lotus brands to expand the strength of the Bentley Group.

Lotus car is easy to do, because the founder died of a heart attack in 82, the current Lotus sports car is in difficulty, coupled with the lag of Lotus Automobile Company's engine technology, there is not much value for other automobile groups, so the acquisition of this company is relatively cheap, Du Yuemei estimates that the acquisition of Lotus sports car will not cost 100 million US dollars.

At present, Land Rover is in the hands of Leyland Automobile Company, although this company has been declining in recent years, but it is still quite strong in the British car field, and Bentley Group wants to easily acquire Land Rover, but I am afraid it is not easy.

After listening to Du Yuemei's report, Li Guangyu said to him: "At present, due to the weakness of the world economy, especially the weakness of the automobile market, you can't just focus on the United Kingdom, there are still many good brand car companies in Western Europe, such as Maserati in the hands of the French Logo Automobile Group, it is said that they are now interested in selling, you pay attention to this aspect, and you may have to eat Maserati." ”

Du Yuemei knew that Li Guangyu had always wanted to buy this company, when he bought Jaguar, Maserati was a spare tire, and once the Jaguar acquisition failed, Bentley would choose to buy Maserati.

Now due to the weak economy in Western Europe and North America, the luxury car market has also ushered in a cold winter, Bentley Group has the Lee consortium to develop new markets in Asia, the impact is not too big, the luxury car brands in Western Europe and these countries are more sad, sales continue to decline, and some companies even have loss-making operations.

For example, Maserati, which is also the reason why the French logo car group wants to sell this brand, Du Yuemei naturally has no opinion on Li Guangyu's request to acquire this car company, which is to expand the strength of Bentley Group.

Du Yuemei said: "Li Sheng, at the moment we are planning to eat Lotus, Land Rover and Maserati in the Bentley Group, as well as Saab in Northern Europe, in order to expand our strength and allow us to compete with other major automobile groups in the world. ”

Li Guangyu then inquired about the British Telecom Group's side of the matter, half a year has passed, and what is the current construction situation here is also related to the entry of the Phoenix Group's mobile phone.

Qin Yu reported: "Li Sheng, the London area will be able to be put into use in September, and other cities will be put into operation by the end of the year, and the countryside below will need a long time to be laid out. ”

The work efficiency here is far from being comparable with Xiangjiang, when the signal base station is laid out in Xiangjiang, whether it is weekends or ordinary overtime, employees have no objections, even if they are paid overtime, many workers are still unwilling.

If it weren't for some problems, Qin Yu really wanted to directly transfer the construction team of Xiangjiang to participate in the construction of the signal base station in the UK.

Li Guangyu said: "You have to pay attention to this aspect, and you have to work hard during this time, and after we win the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, the major investment in the UK will land, and I will give you two a month of vacation, and the two of you will go on your honeymoon." ”

Qin Yu and Du Yuemei had just gotten married, and they should have been given a long vacation, but at present, the right to issue Hong Kong dollars has reached a critical period, and they need to preside over this aspect here, so Li Guangyu can only postpone their vacation.

Qin Yu and Du Yuemei were not unhappy because they did not have a holiday for their honeymoon after marriage, and they also knew that this period was a critical period for the Li consortium, not to mention that the holiday was postponed, even if there was no holiday, they had no opinion.

Qin Yu said: "Li Sheng, I will urge the British Mobile Communications Company to speed up the construction in this regard, occupy the British market as soon as possible, and at the same time let Phoenix Mobile Phone take the lead." ”

This time, Lee Guangyu hopes to take the other 50 percent stake in the British Telecom Group and completely privatize the company.

At the same time, with the investment of Hengyu Supermarket Group, coupled with the construction of the Western European headquarters building, this investment has been able to meet the appetite of the United Kingdom.

You must know that the market value of the British Telecom Group has reached 2.5 billion US dollars, and Li Guangyu needs at least 1.3 billion US dollars to eat this group, plus the investment of one billion US dollars in the headquarters building, and the acquisition of Lotus Motors and Land Rover will also cost about 300 million US dollars.

Hengyu Supermarket Group plans to invest $200 million this time, which is close to $3 billion, and if the British government is not satisfied, Li Guangyu can only change hands to buy the shares of Standard Chartered and HSBC.

Li Guangyu will never enter the British energy industry at this time, and now his capital is still too weak, and he does not want to put his liquidity in it.

Especially in the coal industry that is now on strike in the UK, Li Guangyu will never take over the company in this regard, and these matters should be handled by the local families and consortia in the UK.

Li Guangyu said to everyone: "In the past two days, you have inspected more companies and enterprises related to your group's business, especially some companies with difficult operations, if you think it is worth acquiring, you can report to me, and I will make adjustments to the plan according to your requirements." ”

After the meeting, Li Guangyu took his three children to walk around the streets of London, Li Songtao is already three and a half years old, looking at the people here with curiosity in their eyes, most of them are yellow-skinned and black-haired in Xiangjiang and his hometown, which is very different from what he has seen before.

It's a pity that Li Guangyu's good interest in shopping was swept away not long after, and there was a crowd of demonstrators in front of them, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing did not take their three children forward, turned around and went in the direction of the hotel.

They don't want to be in it, and they have three children by their side, so if something unexpected happens, it's too late to regret it.

Cao Weiqing said: "Guangyu, it seems that the situation in the UK is not very good, we still have to be cautious in investing here, the right to issue Hong Kong dollars does not need to be too heavy, the big deal is that we will buy Standard Chartered, this bank is also easy to acquire, now Qiu Debai is the largest individual shareholder, as long as we take out a large amount of money to sweep the stock market, in the purchase of Qiu Deba's shares, there is still a chance to hold." ”

Cao Weiqing felt that the huge investment in the UK was a bit more than worth the loss, and it was better to buy Standard Chartered Bank directly.

Li Guangyu thinks further, he doesn't want all the industries in Xiangjiang to end up with only the Li consortium and its interest groups, and on the other side are the enterprises on the mainland, and he needs some large enterprises to buffer in the middle, such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, such as Jardine Matheson and Swire, with these enterprises, they will not be on the tip of the needle.

And Li Guangyu knows very well that this wave of investment in Britain will not lose money, after the implementation of the Prime Minister's reform policy, the British economy will soon be able to get out of the trough, and the European Union will be established in the future, the Lee consortium in the UK ahead of schedule, can better enter the EU market in the future.

Li Guangyu said: "I know in my heart, you see when I have done a loss-making business, this time Britain carried out privatization reform, I don't know how many forces are staring, if it wasn't for the prime minister's price is too high, I'm afraid that those consortia and families would have surrounded them a long time ago." ”

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