Chapter 243
In August, Piaggio Motorcycle Factory and Quancheng Motorcycle Factory cooperated with Shancheng Motorcycle Factory and Quancheng Motorcycle Factory, two Piaggio motorcycle factories and Mulan Motorcycle Factory took the lead in starting construction.
The two motorcycle factories, each with 50 percent of the shares, jointly funded by the two sides, came out of the ancient city of Hubei Province, and formed a joint venture factory with several surrounding military factories such as exhaust pipes, frames, wheels, etc., and took the lead in building a motorcycle industrial park.
In the initial phase of construction, the Piaggio motorcycle factory will produce 50 cc straddles and 125 straddles.
The Mulan Motorcycle Factory will produce the Fifty CC and 125 scooters.
Mulan is a scooter just developed by Quancheng Motorcycle Factory, but whether it is technology or style, it is more than 50 years behind Piaggio's products.
During World War II, Piaggio had already produced the classic pedal wasp motorcycle from Roman Holiday, but the Mulan from Springs Motorcycle Factory was even uglier and backwarder than the wasp motorcycle.
However, this is already the pinnacle of domestic motorcycles.
Motorcycle assembly plants, parts factories, are easier to cooperate with than auto parts factories, because there is no blockade technology involved in this.
But on the side of the automobile plant, the production of high-power engines, the production of high-torque gearboxes, is still under the blockade and supervision of Batumi.
At the end of August, Jonas returned to the capital after running in China for more than a month.
After the joint approval and special handling of various departments, more than 150 of the 247 articles in his investment plan have been passed.
Employees from different companies in Switzerland and Austria, with printers and copiers, after a busy week, printed various contracts and signed joint venture plans with many factories in various provinces of China.
Later, Jonas returned to Europe and signed a joint venture cooperation agreement with the Austrian government, and in just over a month, Jonas had spent $300 million.
Jonas will be accompanied back to Europe by representatives of the Giant Panda Base, the Ancient Architecture Research Center, and the infrastructure and supporting service units, who will conduct field trips in Switzerland to build the Huaxia Park.
At the same time, they also brought three kinds of bamboo, which giant pandas like to eat, to be planted and cultivated in southern Switzerland.
Ursula has remained in Europe to deal with various acquisitions and negotiations, and many issues have been taken care of without Jonas having to worry about them at all, and Jonas has only to sign.
In September, Jonas applied to the school for off-campus study, which was approved by Schwarch.
He took his remedial senior and second assistant Erwin, first assistant Mikiros, as well as his grandmother Hannah and daughter Sophia, and came to China on his own business jet.
Other places can do without him, but Huaxia can't, because no one knows Huaxia's national conditions better than him, and no one knows how to deal with Huaxia people better than him.
Giovanne has stayed in the ancient city and participated in the construction of the motorcycle industrial park in all aspects.
He was a fledgling, because he didn't understand the national conditions of China, and the contradictions, disputes, and misunderstandings that he caused continued.
With the exception of Jonas, almost every investment group will always encounter a variety of problems, and these problems can almost be perfectly solved in the hands of Jonas
Therefore, he must stay in Huaxia to give orders and sit in the center in order to make the entire investment plan run smoothly.
It is worth mentioning that because Jonas adopted the model of directly starting the assembly plant and the spare parts plant at the same time, both Volkswagen and Peugeot protested to Jonas behind their backs.
Jonas's investment attitude is completely different from that of Volkswagen and Peugeot, and now the Modu city government and the joint venture Modu tractor factory are very dissatisfied with Volkswagen's only domestic assembly.
The same is true for Yangcheng, they require Volkswagen and Peugeot to draw up a detailed plan for the localization of spare parts, otherwise they will withdraw their permission to enter the Chinese domestic market according to the requirements of the contract.
Volkswagen and Peugeot are now shipping parts from abroad to Huaxia assembly, and the parts have to make a fortune.
What's more, the production of accessories is placed in Huaxia, which can greatly promote the processing capacity of Huaxia factories, which they do not want to see.
However, Jonas now mainly invests in trucks and motorcycles, not cars, so there is not much contradiction.
Moreover, Volkswagen and Peugeot are actually a little hesitant, because they have cultivated Huaxia's parts processing capabilities, which can save a lot of costs.
Some of the major parts suppliers are concentrated in the ancient city of Hubei Province, but due to the large number of cooperation projects, each part needs to cultivate at least two suppliers to compete and prevent supply problems.
The Yangtze River Delta is the most mature industrial base, and many joint ventures have also been built here.
And these manufacturers can also become suppliers to Volkswagen in the future.
Jonas was very gentle on the surface, but secretly he didn't give an inch, and no one could stop him.
Moreover, trucks are now more suitable for development in China than cars, and the profits are not low.
Even if other car companies get stuck in Jonas's neck, Jonas will be able to survive in China with the truck alone.
On September 15, the far-reaching Plaza Agreement was signed in New York, and countless Dongying people began to celebrate this "great victory".
Unlike Jonas expected, the Plaza Accord was signed, and the outside world was very calm, only the depreciation of the dollar accelerated.
However, everyone had expected that except for the one-to-one exchange, there would be no counterparty to accept leveraged foreign exchange and futures positions.
That is, in the Forex market, you can't make money at all.
Of course, you can sell the dollars in your hand and buy yen, but only in cash.
As a financial investor, no one will do this with their own capital, because if they exchange dollars for yen or marks, even if they know that the value will rise, but there is no currency in circulation, what will happen to other businesses?
So, at most, only some retail investors, individuals, are exchanging currencies, and the impact on the financial markets is very small.
Of course, customers who want to take out dollar loans like Jonas are definitely earning money now.
He lent U.S. dollars from two Swiss banks, converted them into yen, invested in yen assets, and agreed to return the U.S. dollars.
Now the more the yen appreciates, the higher his paper profit.
The two Swiss banks will not lose money, because they signed a hedging contract with the bank when they borrowed money.
In short, it is almost impossible to take out 100 million US dollars and earn hundreds of times the profit through hundreds of times leverage.
Bankers, investors, are always the smartest group.
Everyone expects the dollar to depreciate a year in advance, and more than half a year in advance, the change of finance minister from Armenia is sure that the dollar will definitely depreciate.
The foreign exchange market and the futures market are not stock markets, and any position needs a counterparty to take orders!
In October, Jonas returned to Switzerland for two weeks for a funeral and two qualifiers, helping Switzerland top their group and reaching the finals.
As for the league, it will be impossible for him to participate until next year.
The funeral was for Dinah's grandfather, Siegfried, an art dealer who single-handedly won Picasso's popularity, who died at the age of ninety-two.
After the game, Jonas returned to China, not even going to the stage celebrations of the acquisition of Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
The stall is getting bigger and bigger, there are countless contradictions every day, and accidents appear, and Huaxia can't do without him at all.
After grandma and him came to China again this time, they did not choose to live in the capital, but took Anna and Sophia to Sanya for a vacation.
Jonas didn't have the idea of buying a house, but now that the house is cheap, someone has to live in it.
The idea that the house is cheap now, and the appreciation after buying it is all the idea of fishing wire.
At his level, he doesn't want that amount of money at all.
On October 23, Mikiros sent a fax to the Modu City Government, expressing his idea of buying the former British Consulate and at the same time wanting to buy one or two buildings on the Bund to serve as the company's Chinese headquarters.
Jonas didn't want to get too involved in politics, whether it was a car factory or a parts factory, most of them were in the south, and it was more appropriate to set up a headquarters in the magic capital than in the capital.
The next day, the Modu city government replied with a message that it was willing to negotiate the sale of the Bund building and the former British consulate.
After taking care of the business at hand, Jonas arrived in the magic capital by special plane.
The British Consulate was the earliest courtyard-style building built at the beginning of the establishment of the concession, covering an area of more than 100 acres at the beginning, and later there were still nearly 40,000 square meters, and it is the only building on the Bund with a large garden and green space.
In 66, the British Consulate General in Shanghai was closed, and the compound became the building of the Modu Municipal Government Affairs Administration.
The Bund building next to the consulate is the Crédit Agricole CIB building, which is inconspicuous in the Bund complex but is the closest to the consulate and is favored by Jonas.
The building, now renamed the Oriental Building, is the office of the Traffic Department of the Modu Public Security Bureau.
Next to the Oriental Building is the Green Mail Building, all three of which are north of Beijing Road.
Jonas has invested more than 200 million US dollars in cooperation with the Second Automobile in Hubei Province, which makes the magic capital envious.
But they can't help it, because they have already made a joint venture with Volkswagen first, and they automatically lose the qualification for joint ventures.
Now that Jonas is willing to invest, they can't find a joint venture with Jonas.
However, they also have a little opinion that Jonas wants to build an export factory in Yangcheng, but not in the magic capital.
Now, Jonas intends to set up his domestic headquarters in the city, and the city government is naturally happy.
The magic capital has been the economic center of China for a hundred years, and it is also the most suitable place to set up a headquarters. In order to attract Jonas, they were even willing to give Jonas 33 and 27 on the Bund and the Green Mail Ship Building for free.
Jonas naturally refused, he didn't want the consequences of unclear ownership, and insisted on buying it with cash.
After determining the land between Beijing Road and Suzhou Road, and the Bund Avenue and Yuanmingyuan Road, and the houses could be allocated to him, Jonas directly gave the sky-high price of 10 million US dollars for the two houses.
This news came out and shocked the whole country!