After entering May, Li Guangyu finally received the good news from Du Yuemei in England. After nearly a month of negotiations, the Bentley Group finally reached an agreement with the British government to buy Jaguar Motors for $8.5 billion, making it a sub-brand of Bentley.

This time, at the request of the British government, Lee Guangyu also rushed to Coventry to attend the signing ceremony to be held on May 6.

On May 4, after Li Guangyu handed over the affairs of Xiangjiang to Li Xuemei, he came to Kai Tak Airport accompanied by Li Weiming and others and boarded a flight to England.

After Li Guangyu and his entourage arrived in London, they did not stop here, and directly got into the car arranged by Du Yuemei to meet them and went to Coventry, the headquarters of Jaguar Motors.

It was already late at night after Lee arrived in Coventry, so he didn't ask questions about Jaguar during this time. Instead, he ordered Du Yuemei and Zhang Ziyu, who came to greet him, to go back to rest, and come back tomorrow morning to report relevant matters to him.

Li Guangyu didn't get up until 9 a.m. the next morning, apparently due to the influence of yesterday, he didn't get up to the jet lag.

After Li Guangyu went downstairs, Du Yuemei and Zhang Ziyu came over.

Seeing this, Li Guangyu said, "You guys came early, have you had breakfast, and let the waiter bring it to you." ”

Du Yuemei said, "Li Sheng, we have already had breakfast, you don't have to worry about us." ”

After Li Guangyu hastily finished breakfast, he was in the study of the hotel, listening to Du Yuemei and Zhang Ziyu report on the specific situation during this period. 35xs

Du Yuemei said: "Li Sheng, after many negotiations with the British government, we finally won Jaguar, thanks to HSBC and Mr. MacLehose, if it were not for their connections, we might not be able to acquire Jaguar now." ”

Li Guangyu said, "It's not bad, let us give up the Xiangjiang Electric Light Group, at least help us on the Jaguar side." ”

Li Guangyu then asked Zhang Ziyu, "Ziyu, during this time, has Jaguar President Sampson Gerrard made any moves that are not conducive to us?"

Zhang Ziyu said: "Li Sheng, Sampson Gerrard was also preparing to incite employees to protest against our group's acquisition of Jaguar during this time, but fortunately, Mr. Shane Wesley and Mr. Chemil Mileson, the chairman of the union, helped us out of the siege, and at the same time, after Myerson personally communicated with the employees, Sampson Gerrard's conspiracy did not succeed." ”

Li Guangyu didn't expect Sampson Gerrard to really not give up, the top management passed the Bentley Group to buy Jaguar Motors, and he also wanted to incite employees to confront him. Li Guangyu knew that there must be bigwigs behind Sampson Gerrard who were supporting, otherwise how could he dare to resist the government's decision.

Li Guangyu said: "Ziyu, during this time, do you know who is behind Sampson Gerrard who is supporting him. ”

Zhang Ziyu made a special investigation into Sampson Gerrard, and his support was mainly for some parliamentarians in Coventry, and they were basically members of the Labour Party, and they were very resistant to some of the policies of Margaret Thatcher in power of the Conservative Party, including the privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the Labour MPs clearly opposed it. 35xs

Li Guangyu's acquisition of Jaguar has aroused the opposition of the Labor Party, and there is no way, he can't give up Jaguar because the Labor Party does not agree. Besides, now that the Conservative Party is in power, and it is still a long time, it will be difficult for the Labour Party to turn around in the past 20 years.

In addition, Li Guangyu will use the United Kingdom as the R&D center of the automobile group in the future, and as for manufacturing, it will still move to Asia. Volkswagen Group has been in contact with the mainland since 78 years, preparing to enter the Volkswagen into the mainland, and now Li Guangyu has an automobile group, naturally will not give up the mainland market, and Jaguar is Li Guangyu's stepping stone.

"After we sign tomorrow, Sampson Gerrard and some of his henchmen can be cleared out, and we will reorganize Jaguar Motors." ”

Zhang Ziyu said with a smile: "Li Sheng, during this period of time, I have all remembered the management who opposed our group's entry into Jaguar Motor Company. ”

At half past eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, Li Guangyu and his entourage came to the headquarters of Jaguar Building, and the signing ceremony of the acquisition was held in the conference room of Jaguar.

The British government sent Lowez Fiphill, the deputy secretary of state for industry, to attend the signing meeting.

Sampson Gerrard's face in the conference room today was very ugly, but he did not expect that his opposition and the help of some parliamentarians still failed to prevent the government from selling Jaguar to the Bentley Group. And his behavior these days is like a clown, and now he doesn't even have the opportunity to work at Jaguar.

What upsets Sampson Gerrard the most is that the parliamentarians who once promised him are no longer contacting him. It turned out that he had promised that even if the Li Group acquired Jaguar, he would let himself become the president of their company, but now there is no news.

Sampson Gerrard regretted for a while that if he had directly agreed to Lee Guangyu's acquisition, he could have become the vice president of the Bentley Group like Bentley Johnson of Bentley Motors, but now he can't keep his job.

After Li Guangyu and the others entered the conference room, Weaver Clark said to Li Guangyu, "Li Sheng, it's a pleasure to see you again, this is our Deputy Minister of Industry, Lowez Phiphill. ”

Li Guangyu said to Lorez Phipshear, "Hello, Mr. Phipshear, I'm sorry to let you come to Coventry in person." ”

Lorez Fipshire said, "Mr. Li, you can invest in our enterprises and promote the development of enterprises, and I should be present. This is also a testing ground for our government reforms, as long as you Jaguar develops better, the more confident we will be in the domestic economy. ”

Li Guangyu said, "Mr. Phipshir, please rest assured that we are confident and capable of leading the Bentley Group to compete with the German, Japanese and American car companies, and will never lag behind their domestic car groups. ”

At nine o'clock, after the lawyer checked that there was no problem with the contract, Li Guangyu signed his name, and after the contract was completed, Li Guangyu handed over the cheque that had been prepared to the financial department of the British government, and the Jaguar car company is now a wholly-owned enterprise owned by Li Guangyu.

At the lunchtime reception, Lorez Fiephill said, "Mr. Lee, we welcome you to continue to invest in other industries in the UK, we are now making some reforms, and I think some of them are developing like you." ”

Lee is not interested in continuing to get caught up in the battle between the Conservatives and the Labour Party, and he would not be in such a hurry to buy Jaguar if it weren't for the engine technology he desperately needs.

"Mr. Phiphill, our Lee Group does not have sufficient financial resources at present, and we are expanding too fast now, so we have no intention of acquiring other companies in the coming period. ”

After hearing this, Loriz Fipshire was a little disappointed, he wanted Li Guangyu to invest more in some of the industries they wanted to privatize, so as to speed up the government's reform, but he didn't expect that after Li Guangyu acquired Jaguar, he had no desire to sell.

"Mr. Li, if you are still planning to invest in any industry in the UK in the future, you can contact me at that time, and I will give you some help." ”

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Phipshiro, I will definitely contact you if I need to. Li Guangyu said.

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