The Chinese name "Hongmeng" and the English name "Harmony" are exactly the same as the names of the self-developed operating systems launched by Huawei in later generations.

In the ancient legends of our country, Hongmeng represents chaos, the unknown, and the .asxs. of all new things.

Zhou Jingming chose to use this name to tell all the members of the project team that the development of a supercar is not achieved overnight, and the process will certainly encounter various difficulties, but after chaos, there is light.

Even Zhou Jingming said so, and the project team, especially the members of the body development project team, were also a little relieved.

After the meeting, the rest of the people left one after another, only Zhao Ke stayed.

"What are you going to do about the development of Hongmeng?" Zhao Ke asked directly, now it seems that relying on Tianming Group's own R&D department, even if it can independently design a supercar, it will take a long time, but Tianming Group can't wait that long.

"Now it seems that we have to expand the proportion of foreign technicians in our group, and more importantly, strengthen the training of local technicians. Zhou Jingming said thoughtfully.

Tianming Group's current technical personnel composition, mainly relying on the output of talents from major universities, there are also a small number of Zhou Jingming spent a lot of money from other companies to dig up, from the perspective of scientific research capabilities, Tianming Group's current scientific research level is not low, but compared with Toyota, Volkswagen and other companies, there is still a big gap.

In particular, in terms of powertrain technology, many of them rely on technology exchange, digest and absorb the existing technologies of other companies, and carry out re-innovation, such as rotary engine technology, full-time four-wheel drive technology, and so on.

Of course, this is not to say that the technology research and development level of Tianming Group is not good, in the research of automotive electronics, Tianming Group is definitely at the forefront, and like DVVT engine, automotive materials research and development, Tianming Group is also leading the entire international automobile industry.

It's just that in some areas, Tianming Group's R&D capabilities still need to be improved.

In the research and development of several previous models, the technical team of Tianming Group was enough to deal with any technical problems that may be encountered, but this time in the research and development of supercars, various problems were fully exposed, especially in the development of body shapes, which was the hardest hit area.

"That's the long-term plan you're talking about, but at this stage, you can't let Hongmeng's R&D get stuck here, right?" Zhao Ke said with a wry smile.

"Since we can't do it ourselves, we can only poach people from somewhere else. Zhou Jingming smiled, "Let's just don't do it, and we will acquire a few more supercar brands, just so that our technical departments can be merged into our group to make up for our shortcomings in supercar design." ”

"Acquisition?" Zhao Ke couldn't help but shout, "Not long after the acquisition of Rollslass ended, we are going to engage in a merger again, do we still have money?"

When did Zhou Jingming become such a loser!

Looking at Zhao Ke's expression, Zhou Jingming couldn't help laughing, "I said senior brother, why are you so surprised? Enterprise mergers are a common means to expand the business scope of the group and improve the technical level, as for the acquisition funds, we don't need billions of dollars of the scale of acquisition, if we can't even get hundreds of millions of funds, then our Tianming Group is too weak." ”

When Rolls-Royce was acquired, although the initial amount paid was about 600 million US dollars, Zhou Jingming later sold Bentley to BMW again, and the actual amount spent on that acquisition was more than 300 million US dollars.

A $300 million corporate merger and acquisition is nothing at all in the capital market.

Zhao Ke scratched his head embarrassedly, "The main reason is that there were too many things encountered when I acquired Rolls-Royce, and I was naturally reacting to it, worried that something would go wrong." ”

Thinking of the entanglement with BMW and Wix Group during that time, Zhou Jingming also smiled.

"That's not going to happen this time, so just put your heart in your stomach. As he spoke, Zhou Jingming took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Zhao Ke, "Take a look, which one or more of these car brands do you want to acquire?"

Zhao Ke took the document and looked at it, which listed in detail the current major supercar brands in the world and the current business situation, including Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and other familiar names.

"You must have an acquisition target in your heart, right?" After Zhao Ke finished reading it, he put the document on the table again, and it could be seen that Zhou Jingming had already had the idea of acquiring the supercar brand, otherwise he would not have prepared it in such detail.

"At that time, when I proposed to develop the Hongmeng supercar, I was already planning to make an acquisition, and the reason why I didn't propose it immediately was to see if we could independently design a supercar, and secondly, at that time, the Yanhuang car had not yet been on sale, so I didn't have time to think about the acquisition. ”

Zhou Jingming paused, and then continued, "Since R&D has encountered difficulties now, and the group has nothing to do, the acquisition can be put on the agenda." ”

"So which brand do you want to acquire?"

"As you can see from the information I gave you, at present, Ferrari and Porsche are not only doing well, but also the market value of these two car brands is also very high. ”

Saying that, Zhou Jingming drew a cross on the names of Ferrari and Porsche, and then Zhou Jingming did the same analysis for the rest of the supercar brands on this list, and in the final list, only the three brands of "Pagani", "Lamborghini" and "Bugatti" were not crossed out by him.

"So, you want to pick one of these three brands?" said Zhao Ke, staring at the three brands on the list.

"These three brands are currently affordable by our group, but in my opinion, Pagani is not as well-known as Bugatti and Lamborghini, and from Pagani, we can't get the technology we want, so I think Pagani can also be removed from this list. ”

Saying that, Zhou Jingming crossed out Pagani's name again, so that only Bugatti and Lamborghini were left to choose from the acquisition brands.

Bugatti's engines and Lamborghini's styling are things that Zhou Jingming has been coveting for a long time, and from the perspective of technical complementarity, the acquisition of these two companies is the best choice for Tianming Group.

"So you want to choose one of the two?" Zhao Ke asked, pointing to the document on the table.

"No!" Zhou Jingming shook his head with a smile, "I want both." ”

Only children do multiple-choice questions!