If it is 2019, you want to spend 10 million US dollars to buy a 40,000-square-meter garden between Beijing Road and Suzhou Road on the Bund, and there are several ancient buildings with a total construction area of more than 10,000 square meters, everyone will treat you as an idiot.

But in '85, when Jonas was willing to pay 10 million dollars for these buildings with 40,000 square meters of gardens, everyone thought he was an idiot.

Even Hannah heard the news and called Jonas from Sanya to ask if he was dazed.

This house is worth this price at most in Switzerland, but in China, the house is not worth much at all.

The value of a building without a car is completely unimaginable in the eyes of future generations.

But at this time in Huaxia, a 100-square-meter house is at most 10,000 yuan.

The courtyard houses worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the capital in later generations, at this time, twenty or thirty thousand sets, are still very well kept.

But what about a car? tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

Even abroad, ten million dollars, you can buy a Boeing 737 aircraft.

Jonas explained to his grandmother on the phone: "Grandma, this is not buying a house, this is advertising, this is to get in touch with the government of the magic capital." ”

Not to mention anything else, Jonas's offer made the entire Chinese people know that he was the "wronged leader".

The city government was stunned by the price and asked him if he was still interested in other houses. If they were interested, even the former HSBC building, the largest on the Bund, which is now used by the city government, could be sold to Jonas and they moved out.

Jonas really thought about buying the entire Wanguo complex on the Bund, and in 30 years, these buildings would have skyrocketed by more than 3,500 times, not to mention 10,000 times in value.

He buys it now, doesn't do anything in the future, and earns a lot of money every year by collecting rent.

However, if you are reborn and only have this vision, it is better to die early.

Aristotle once said, "The ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not just to survive." ”

Of course, in this world, most people are in the stage of survival, and only outstanding and excellent people can enter the next level.

But Jonas is not an ordinary man, and if he is only there to make money as a born-again, then what is the point?

If he is just to make money, not to mention investing in the Bund, it is to invest in Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and he can also make a lot of money, and he does not feel a little guilty.

He invests in the automotive industry, although he claims to be to develop Hoffman Investment Bank into a consortium, but in fact, the real purpose is only for his own ideals.

Ideals and values are his pursuit in life.

Like now, seeing Volkswagen and Peugeot being criticized by the Chinese side and asking them to speed up the layout of parts, Jonas's heart is extremely satisfied.

Besides, Yannick's legacy is enough for him to spend every day and never spend it in his lifetime.

If it was just to survive, he could do nothing now.

So, in the end, he rejected the suggestion of the Modu government, and told them that it was better to keep the ancient buildings on the Bund in the hands of the government, and at most only rent them out.

In the future, this will be the business card of the magic city, and the annual rent will be soft.

Of course, what the Modu government does is not something he can worry about.

Throughout the following November, Jonas flew non-stop around China. Today to the capital, tomorrow to Sichuan Province, the day after tomorrow to Su Province......

He has a plane, as long as he applies for the route in advance, it is very convenient.

And everywhere I go, government departments or cooperative departments have cars to pick up and drop-off, and hotels and hotels are well arranged.

At the end of November, Jonas had been in China for three months, coordinating most of the preliminary affairs before the first investment meeting of Hoffman Equity Investment was held.

At the strong request of Hubei Province, the venue of the meeting was arranged to be held in the provincial conference hall of Hubei Province.

Twenty-five representatives of enterprises from Europe, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than 100 representatives of enterprises from China, and representatives of the governments of three provinces and 14 municipalities, a total of nearly 1,200 people, held a week-long consultation meeting.

Jonas now cooperates with more than 100 factories, involving almost all aspects of the engine, gearbox, transmission part, axle part, brake part, lights, electronic instruments, paint manufacturing, die-casting, machining and so on.

Moreover, they also coordinated the cooperation of the Austrian United Steel Group with Wuhan Iron and Steel and Baosteel in the field of automotive steel.

If the project is negotiated, Jonas will invest more than $300 million.

At this coordination meeting, Jonas summarized the various problems that have arisen in cooperation in the past three months, and also put forward suggestions for rectification of some problems that have arisen in the cooperative manufacturers.

Among them, the biggest problem is the "sharing" of technology.

Huaxia now has no international patent restrictions, or it is deliberately making this regulation useless.

The technology acquired by any factory must be shared with its brothers.

You can't help sharing yet, or you're breaking the rules.

This is also the main reason why foreign manufacturers are reluctant to invest in China throughout the eighties.

The technology that I have developed with countless painstaking efforts, good fellows, will be "communist" when you enter your country.

You can enjoy my technique by lying still, and if you don't give it to you, you can't do it, so play with it!

From the perspective of the country and the nation, this method can quickly enhance the basic ability, but for any individual, this method is tantamount to killing chickens and eggs.

Advanced technology, Jonas is not too worried. Because Huaxia is weak not only in terms of technological accumulation, but also in ideology, as well as the lack of lathes, machine tools and other processing machines.

On the one hand, Jonas controls the import of machinery, and on the other hand, he signs a confidentiality agreement with all the technical personnel of the joint venture company, and if anyone refuses to sign it, the joint venture company does not want it.

I won't mention the details here, because there are too many annoyances.

It's inevitable...... , It's thanks to him, if he changes to a real gringo, he will definitely be made to death by the current rules of Huaxia.

He is more of a bridge of communication between several governments, so that his position is irreplaceable.

Schwarch also arrived in China at the invitation of Jonas to analyze the complementarity of the industrial bases of several countries from a macro perspective.

DeHertz also flew to Huaxia in his busy schedule, and at the request of Jonas, set up three talent training centers in Huaxia.

In the previous life, Adicio entered the country as a personnel consultant for the Asian Games in 91, and now they are five years ahead of schedule.

Because this kind of temporary training institution does not involve property rights, it is easy to get in.

Jonas, of course, instructed them to try to help themselves find some good talents and lighten their burden.

The conference ended successfully, and although there were many differences in the middle, under the framework of "seeking common ground while reserving differences", both China and European countries were very satisfied.

The big framework of "seeking common ground while reserving differences" is not an imaginary finger, but a real existence.

These four words were framed and hung at the entrance of the venue, and Jonas specially arranged for Kaia Young to guard the plaque.

Representatives of the foreign ministries of Germany and other other countries who were observers also attended the meeting and observed Jonas's investments, which is actually "supervision".

Now in the 80s, in order to win over China into its camp, the West is relatively lenient towards China, and the restrictions on the import of various technologies are not strict.

If in the 90s, the countries of the world began to blockade China again, they would definitely be crooked, and the investment would not have been so smooth.

But at the same time, all the investment is still focused on trucks and motorcycles, and car manufacturers around the world are beginning to be wary of Jonas and resolutely block Jonas's plan to buy the car company.

While Jonas was doing well in China, Ursula was having a hard time in Europe.

Because he broke the rules, if Jonas invested in car production and did the same, it would make those car manufacturers jump to their feet.

At present, only two companies, AvtoVAZ in the Soviet Union and Skoda in Czechoslovakia, are willing to negotiate with Hoffmann Investment Bank about the plan to jointly build factories in China for the production of cars.

Not to mention the AvtoVAZ company, although their production capacity is stronger than that of Huaxia, it is far worse than that of Europe and the United States.

Their Volga, the Lada sedan, was considered advanced in the fifties and sixties, but now it is much behind.

Their current mainstream cars are designed in Italy, manufactured in the company and painted on the surface, production lines in France, welding technology and air-conditioning equipment in Germany.

Because of the fragmentation, the quality has been unstable.

Skoda is stable, but the technology is also lagging behind an era as a whole.

Because the Czech Republic is still a member of the Eastern Bloc, they are also subject to technology export controls.

Skoda, the pride of the Czech Republic, is now also struggling to survive by exporting to socialist countries.

However, their cars are more expensive than those in Russia and Romania, and sales are not good.

If it weren't for this, they wouldn't have sold such a large car factory to Volkswagen in 90 without talking about conditions at all.

At this point, Jonas realized that he didn't seem to have many options.

Rolls-Royce and Bentley needless to mention, these two cars are not even wanted to be sold in China today.

Italy can now get the only Panda car in China, but can this small car be used as a bus?

Don't talk about Santana, even the accessories are expensive, and the Peugeot with ultra-high fuel consumption can also make the Panda car go home.

Not to mention, this kind of small car that looks crowded when four people sit in it is impossible for the Chinese people to be treated by the Chinese people.

After the conference, Jonas left the plane with Giovanne and returned to Europe on a chartered flight with the others.

It's December, and Jonas has been very busy this month.

First of all, the partners meeting of Hoffman Investment Bank, which is going to pay dividends to partners. This is followed by exams, as well as various social activities.

For example, entertaining the prince and his wife......

In January, Jonas was to travel to the Czech Republic to negotiate with the Czech government about the Skoda takeover.

(Keep writing, there is another chapter in the early morning, you can read it tomorrow morning.) ）