After Makino Technology officially submitted the overall plan for Apple's privatization to the NASDAQ, the entire market believes that there is no suspense in this matter.

The Nasdaq will not reject Makino Technology's plan, because they know very well that those institutions holding Apple shares have already admitted losses and are eager to exit as soon as possible, after all, it is a loss-making transaction, and in the case of no ability to reverse the loss-making situation, they can only expect to recover their funds as soon as possible so that they can be used for other investments, and if Apple shares are deeply trapped in their hands, there will be other potential losses.

This is like investing 10 million to do business, and after three days, you will definitely lose 1.7 million, the best way is to quickly take the remaining 8.3 million out and find other projects to fill the hole as soon as possible;

The worst thing is to invest 10 million, lose 17 million after three days, and then the remaining 8.3 million is not known in what year to get it, this is the tragedy of deep trapping.

Those who play capital are all human spirits, and they are calculating this account every day, and they know very well what is at stake.

Therefore, after receiving the privatization plan, the NASDAQ held a symbolic meeting to discuss for two days, and on the third day of submitting the results, it officially replied to Makino Technology, and the NASDAQ approved Makino Technology's plan for Apple's privatization, and Apple officially entered the privatization and delisting process!

This news did not make any waves in the Western market, because everyone had already seen that this result would inevitably happen, but in faraway China, this news made people across the country who know about IT and the Internet excited.

The media has reported on it overwhelmingly, and even the central mother has repeatedly mentioned this acquisition in different programs at different times, and even invited a large number of experts to analyze the explosive power of Makino Technology in the overseas capital market next.

At the same time, Li Mu borrowed 2.5 billion US dollars of foreign exchange from the central bank with the equivalent of RMB, I don't know where the news leaked from, but when the media began to report on this matter, all the media's caliber was surprisingly consistent: the state and the central bank have always given full support to Huaxia enterprises to go out, and Makino Technology itself is also a very socially responsible enterprise, in order to comply with the foreign exchange control rules on the premise of obtaining foreign exchange for the acquisition of Apple, they did not ask the bank for any form of leverage, but first solve the equivalent RMB, and then use it as collateral to lend the equivalent foreign exchange, is simply honest and honest without losing flexibility.

As soon as the media publicized it, Li Mu's establishment of a huge private equity fund was directly covered up, thus becoming an honest and upright adaptation, and this publicity can also avoid affecting the general tone of foreign exchange control, because Li Mu did not exchange foreign exchange from the central bank, he used RMB as collateral to lend foreign exchange;

The exchange of foreign exchange is unilateral, enterprises want to exchange foreign exchange to develop overseas, and the RMB is converted into US dollars and then invested overseas, which is the loss of foreign exchange;

Compared with the exchange of foreign exchange, the biggest difference between lending foreign exchange and exchanging foreign exchange is that the foreign exchange taken by Li Mu will be returned, and the foreign exchange of 2.5 billion US dollars will temporarily flow to the US capital market, but Li Mu promised to repay it, which means that the 2.5 billion US dollars will be returned.

After such publicity, Makino Technology's acquisition of Apple, more legendary interpretation, for a while, various versions of the story in China endlessly, but in the final analysis, it is a main tone: proud of Makino Technology's first siege victory in the U.S. capital market.

This is the first case in the history of China in which a well-known Western high-tech enterprise has been successfully acquired as a wholly-owned company, and it is a wholly-owned acquisition in the true sense! At a time when China has just joined the WTO, this event is of great significance, and it is not only a victory for Huaxia enterprises, but also a victory for Huaxia capital and China's Internet industry.

China's high-tech enterprises started late, and the industrial start was much later than that of the West, in the status of international trade, Huaxia is still in the "three low" stage of low technology content, low profit margins and low trade status, so the Chinese enterprises in the West have a great incentive effect on Chinese entrepreneurs and practitioners.

A year or two later, Lenovo will acquire IBM's personal computer business, and this acquisition has been shaped into a model for the overseas expansion of national enterprises in Li Mu's last life;

A few years later, Geely's acquisition of Volvo cars also became the pride of the national industry for a time, and was still talked about many years later;

In a few years, Huaxia high-speed railway manufacturing enterprises will strategize among many high-speed railway leaders in the world and obtain the top technology of many high-speed rail enterprises, so that Huaxia high-speed railway will make great progress all the way and become a beautiful business card of Huaxia industry, which makes the Chinese people always proud and proud;

Now, Makino Technology's acquisition of Apple has made the Chinese people feel this pride and pride in advance.

Li Mu believes that history will prove to the world what a crucial decision it was for Makino Technology to acquire Apple;

History will also prove to the world that Makino Technology's acquisition of Apple will become a miracle in the history of world commerce, and no one can imagine what kind of light Apple, which is now worth only a few billion dollars, will burst out!

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All the follow-up work of privatization, Li Muquan was left to the team to operate, and from this moment on, he completely left the privatization thing behind.

Li Mu is like the first two stages of the launch vehicle, bursting out with a huge impetus to make the payload rush into space, and the rest only needs the team to move forward according to the established orbit, he has completed his mission and can devote his energy to other projects.

Li Ziwei specially talked to Li Mu about the recent affairs arrangement, she first reported to Li Mu her investigation of the current situation of the global power lithium mine and cobalt mining industry in the past few days, which Li Mu thought of during the flight to Harvard with Elon Musk a few days ago, and then explained to Li Ziwei as soon as she got off the plane.

Li Ziwei said: "In the name of a number of shell companies, I authorized several survey companies to investigate the current industry situation and resource distribution of lithium and cobalt mines, and the preliminary results are like this, first of all, lithium mines, lithium ore resources are relatively very rich, we have large lithium ore reserves in China, and the status quo of lithium ore and supporting mining and refining industries is not very good, and the profit margin is insufficient. Frequent fluctuations in ore prices are the main reasons for affecting the profits of the lithium mining industry, coupled with the current stable global lithium demand, so the overall investment assessment of the industry is low, and many companies have given suggestions that it is not recommended to invest in lithium ore in the near future;"

"As for cobalt ore, its distribution is extremely uneven compared to lithium ore, first of all, our domestic reserves are very small, secondly, more than half of the world's cobalt ore is distributed in Congo, Zambia, Cuba and Australia, of which 60% of the world's cobalt mine production is in the Congo. The cost is higher, the Congolese cobalt industry is relatively mature and cost-effective, but the consumption of cobalt is not high, growing slowly by 3-5 percentage points per year, so the price is difficult to break through, the initial advice given by many companies is that it is not recommended to invest in the cobalt industry, if you have the intention to invest, the most cost-effective investment direction is Congo, but considering that African countries are relatively unstable, so the risk of such investment will be relatively large. ”

Speaking of this, Li Ziwei saw Li Mu's calm expression, and couldn't help but remind: "Mr. Li, on the whole, many professional institutions do not recommend getting involved in the lithium ore and cobalt ore industry, there is indeed not much room for imagination, and the mineral industry involves a huge area, and the investment in energy, manpower, and material resources is very large, so on the whole, it is not too promising." ”

Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "Some things are not for the sake of being able to make money now, but for the sake of making a more upstream industrial layout in the future." ”

After that, Li Mu asked her: "What do you think high-tech enterprises want to monopolize the most?"

Li Ziwei thought for a while and said with a smile: "Maybe it's a processor, right? After all, that thing is still very important in high-tech enterprises." ”

Li Mu nodded, then shook his head again, and said: "It seems like this, but in fact, what everyone wants to monopolize the most should be silicon raw materials, but it's a pity that the capacity of this thing on the earth is too big, so big that it can be seen and available at your fingertips." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu asked her: "Just imagine, what if silicon is a scarce element on the earth? What if silicon is not only a scarce element, but also an irreplaceable element for decades? At that time, whoever has silicon will have the ability to influence the entire high-tech industry, and even if the entire industry cannot be controlled, at least the cost of the entire industry can be controlled." ”

Li Ziwei thought for a moment, nodded lightly and said, "I really figured it out......"

Li Mu smiled: "You don't need to understand too much, you just need to know that this matter is very important for our future." ”

Subsequently, Li Mu instructed: "Since the lithium mine has large reserves, then we will not lay out the minerals, sort out the current lithium production of relatively large industrial and mining enterprises, we set up a fund externally, specifically to invest in lithium mining enterprises, each enterprise strives for holding, if it cannot be controlled in a short period of time, it is also necessary to first enter the stock station pit." ”

Li Ziwei said: "Okay, Mr. Li, I wrote it down." ”

Li Mu said: "Cobalt ore from the distribution of the situation is very suitable from the root of the article, in this way, you know the world's largest ore production of cobalt mining enterprises, understand the actual cobalt mining rights of these cobalt mining companies around the world to cover the total amount and the term of rights, we will use the same way as lithium ore, direct holding, or acquisition of them." ”

In Li Mu's view, lithium reserves are large and evenly distributed, it is difficult to achieve source monopoly, in this case, there is not much need to go to the mine to make a fuss, you can directly invest in or acquire power lithium production enterprises, as long as you control a considerable number of finished power lithium market, at least in the future, you can ensure that the cost of lithium can be much lower than other battery companies, or new energy companies;

The reserves and distribution of cobalt ore is too easy to make a fuss, first from the source to jam more than 60% of the world's cobalt production in the future, and then in the next few years, adopt the strategy of more production, less sale, and more reserves, and store a certain amount of cobalt ore every year.

Sometimes the initiative is not to use it to slaughter others, but to do a good job of self-defense, if Li Mu then uses Tesla to rapidly promote new energy vehicles around the world, if the lithium battery manufacturers in Japan and South Korea do this with themselves? If they raise the price of batteries, and then secretly cooperate with their own domestic new energy vehicle manufacturers, what to do with the market?

If you have your own battery production capacity, a sufficient supply of lithium ore, and a sufficient amount of cobalt reserves, no one will want to grin with yourself at that time, LG, Samsung and Panasonic dare to fart with themselves on the battery issue, and they can immediately announce that the cobalt mines they control will be fully upgraded and temporarily shut down, and the cobalt mine market capacity will be reduced by more than 60% at once At that time, I still have so many years of cobalt ore in reserve, which can ensure that my battery production cost is not affected, which can instantly open a huge gap with competing products, so that they can't catch up with exhaustion.

Moreover, the current cobalt mining industry has not received enough attention, if it is operated well, the resources that can be caged, and the proportion of resources in the entire industrial chain may be more.

Li Ziwei will not understand Li Mu's long-term strategic reserves of digging deep holes and accumulating grain, but her biggest advantage is that no matter what Li Mu wants to do, she will do her best to implement it.

After remembering Li Mu's series of requirements for lithium and cobalt, she said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, Google's Larry Page has been contacting me in the past few days, saying that he hopes to make an appointment with you to discuss the matter of Makino Technology's shareholding in Google. ”

Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "It just so happens that Apple's affairs are basically the same, so let's make an appointment with Larry Page, and ask him to come to Muye Technology to meet me at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon." ”

“ok。 Li Ziwei said: "Then I'll call him back later and confirm the time." ”

Larry Page should have been really anxious recently, seeing the recent series of operations against Apple by Makino Technology, Larry Page really realized the horror of Li Mu.

The terrible thing about Li Mu is not only that his business has a strong ability to promote, but more importantly, Li Mu is like an experienced hunter, he knows the weaknesses of jackals, tigers, leopards, elephants and rhinoceros, and knows how to achieve a quick hunt for them, from finding the weakness, to knocking them down with one shot, and then swallowing them little by little.

Apple is such a once powerful prey, but now Li Mu found its weakness, hit half to death, and then swallowed it by him.

Moreover, Li Mu swallowed the apple without financing, which is even more terrifying.

If Li Mu decides to be a search engine, then he will definitely treat Google like Apple, find Google's weaknesses, cripple or kill Google, swallow the whole Google, or let Google's corpse rot in the mountains and forests.

Therefore, the sooner Li Mu becomes a shareholder in Google, the more relieved he will be for Larry Page, Li Mu also said last time, he can also not get involved in search engines, and give Google guidance, speed up the pace of Google's development, but the premise is that the protection fee must be enough!