The early summer sun shines on the blue Lake Constance, warm like a lover's hands.

Jonas sat on a row of chairs by the lake, looking across the lake at Friedrichshafen, imagining when he would be able to take the company across from him for himself.

Compared with Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, Jonas doesn't really care.

As long as you have this technical foundation, all brands can be built gradually.

ZF's position in the automotive industry is almost the same as that of GE in the aircraft industry.

This factory, which takes gearbox, chassis system, and transmission system as its main development direction, can do without Mercedes-Benz and BMW, but Mercedes-Benz BMW can do without him.

To this end, the company remained the world's largest manufacturer of transmission and chassis components.

More importantly, their products are not limited to automobiles, but also to the chassis and transmission systems of ships and trains.

From destroyers ranging from several thousand tons to hundreds of thousands of tons of freighters, this company can provide state-of-the-art transmission systems.

More than half of Europe's trains use their chassis and balancing systems, and the trains developed by France at speeds of more than 200 companies per hour rely on this company.

It is precisely because this company is so good that they are indispensable, so at any time, they have not encountered many difficulties in their operation.

According to Jonas's investigation, Huaxia's Xinjiang Oilfield bought thousands of Mercedes-Benz trucks in 81, using all ZF chassis and gearboxes, and they had already entered the Huaxia market two years ago.

At a time when many car brands are crumbling, they are still having a very good time.

This also brought great obstacles to the acquisition of Jonas.

Another obstacle comes from other car brands, ZF that can produce state-of-the-art transmissions, which would never want to be acquired by a car company.

Like the current BMW 3 Series, 5 Series, 7 Series, and most of the Mercedes-Benz models use ZF transmissions.

If Jonas were to set up another car company and buy ZF, they would not have agreed.

Don't think that BMW and Mercedes-Benz are world-renowned companies, they will pay extra attention to their international image, and in many cases, they are more ruthless than gangsters.

Take Borgward, for example, a car company that developed before World War II and was once the best car company in Germany.

In the fifties, for every ten cars exported from Germany, six were Borgward.

At that time, Borgward was at its peak and built the world's most extensive product line, including mid-size cars, small cars, off-road vehicles, heavy trucks, light trucks, fire trucks, mobile bank vehicles, tanks, and even airplanes.

At that time, not to mention Mercedes-Benz, BMW, even Volkswagen, could not be compared with the privately held Borgward.

In '59, Borgward's exports of all models reached 63.5% of Germany's total exports, and they developed an air-suspended luxury car that sold more than 200,000 units a year.

In 61, Borgward rolled off the assembly line with one million cars, but it was also in this year that Borgward, the second largest car company in Germany after Volkswagen, "went bankrupt".

The reason for this is that Borgward's rapid development has touched the interests of other car companies, Mercedes-Benz took the lead, BMW acted as a thug, and almost all car companies joined forces to open a conspiracy against Borgward.

In its heyday, Borgward was the second largest automobile company in Germany and the largest automobile exporter, with abundant funds, insisting on not cooperating with banks and building cars with its own funds.

They make the banks unprofitable and the local finance undeveloped.

At the same time, their rapid expansion has led to high external debt. Just for a sum of 20 million, the conspiracy unfolded.

The government of Bremen, where Borgward is located, directly cut off Borgward's cash channels, and in just one month, forcibly declared Borgward "bankrupt".

At that time, Borgward exported more than 20 million cars on the ship, but it was bankrupt.

Although they have a lot of debts, they are doing well, but they have a little difficulty in cash turnover.

After two years of liquidation, the bankrupt Borgward still had assets of up to 5 million marks after paying off employees' salaries and paying off debts.

A month after Borgward's bankruptcy, the chairman of the supervisory board of the neutral accounting audit team and the mayor of Bremen, who were in charge of investigating the Borgward incident, quickly joined BMW's board of directors.

Today, the Borgward family still regards the Covant family as a feud, and their family members are now on the board of directors of Volkswagen, and they never attend any occasion when BMW people are present.

Jonas was interested in this history because of the revival of the brand in China in later generations.

Jonas saw the news in England at the time, as well as media interviews with the descendants of the Borgward family.

Christian Borgward, the grandson of Borgward's founder, Carl Borgward, uttered an intriguing passage. "It's been 50 years, and we have no intention of finding out who was right and who was wrong, we have to look forward. But there is one thing that the Borgward family will no longer have anything to do with the Bremen government, and no member of the family will ever be allowed to own a BMW. ”

And the answer of the vice president and CEO Crois Borgward is even more interesting: "The company went bankrupt and the Bremen government at the time was responsible." Since the bankruptcy of Borgward, Bremen's economy has been declining, and to this day the state remains one of Germany's economically backward regions. Borgward will never come back to Bremen!"

Coming to this era, he has also become a child of a big family, and Jonas knows very well that although these families are gentle, low-key, and glamorous on the surface, if their interests are violated, they will turn into beasts.

The Lucerne Hoffmann family has always been relatively moderate because of their banking career. But the Basel Hoffmann family was able to become the richest man in Switzerland, but it also stood on the bones of countless losers.

Over the past 84 years, Basel Pharma has fought more than 300 lawsuits around the world, forcing more than 10 companies to go bankrupt.

Unlike other auto parts companies, if ZF wants to buy, Jonas will face a strong pushback.

"Brother Jonas, why did you pick me up today?"

Jonas stood up, stretched out his arms, and gently embraced Neuer, who was smoking a strip and was a little thin. "Your father, brother went to Mexico, and your mother went to London, so I'm going to pick you up today. ”

Neuer looked at Jonas's expression and asked, "Do you feel a little guilty about me?"

Jonah said honestly, "You will feel guilty for the rest of your life. ”

Neuer nodded, hugged Jonas's waist, and asked, "When was Sophia born?"

"It may be a few days before I spend the weekend with you, and I'll go to meet her birth. ”

Neuer coquettishly said: "If you can't have Sophia, you won't like me." ”

"Of course not, you and she are both my daughters. ”

"More than that. I'm still your wife. ”

Jonas laughed. "Let's go, I'll accompany you to pack your luggage. Then go home to change clothes and go to the banquet of the Essen family in the evening. ”

Sophia was the name of Jonas' unborn child, and when the gender of the child was found out a few months ago, everyone including Hannah breathed a sigh of relief.

The DeHertz family was originally resentful, but when they knew that the child was a daughter, they were also much gentler towards Jonas.

Unlike other countries, women in Switzerland have a lower social status.

A few years ago, under the pressure of the international community, Switzerland allowed women to have equal suffrage.

In large Swiss families, daughters can share a large amount of property, but the family property, girls basically have no inheritance rights, unless there are no boys.

Of course, people of this era would not know that in the future, Switzerland will develop so fast.

Not to mention the right to vote, even among the consuls, there are many women.

The Mark-Rosenburg School of the Institut Auf in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where Neuer studied, is a secondary school established by the Mark Rosenburg family from junior high school to high school.

Venus was close to the Marc Rosenburg family, and Neuer had been attending the secondary school for three years.

Although this school is not as famous as King's College of Rosit, where Jonas studied, it also has its own advantages in terms of international teaching and professional training in life skills for girls.

Jonas's arrival was enthusiastically pursued by a group of boys and girls, and he now holds a very high status in the hearts of these children.

That's why he sat on the lawn by the lake and waited for Neuer to get out of class, and if he showed up during class, he wouldn't even think about it.

Even though Neuer is not a particularly vain girl, she is also smiling when she sees Jonas popular.

Jonas actually has the most complicated feelings for her, and the guilt is the deepest.

The two women who are still pestering today, a girl, and the eldest Balm is the most innocent.

She recognized her place at Yannick's funeral, and remained by Jonas's side silently, never fighting.

Nicole seems to be the most independent and individual, but in fact, her mind is also very simple, or poor, and it is very easy to satisfy her.

And Neuer, who seems to have no desires and no desires, is the youngest, simple and lovely, but Jonas has never really figured it out.

Living in a big family, no one will be as simple as a piece of crystal.

Neuer has two uncles, cousins and sisters all live in a large family, even if his father is the head of the family, there will inevitably be some disputes in between.

But Neuer never showed it, and always played a well-behaved role.

Jonas believes that her love for her is genuine, but definitely does not believe that she is a white lotus.

A little girl who can be liked by her parents, pampered by her brother, satisfied by her grandmother Hannah, and returned to her sister Helen, it is impossible to simply have no means.

What she saw was only what she deliberately showed. He prefers to believe that Neuer, who is only fifteen years old this year, is a small-bellied black woman.

However, his identity, a hostess with a skill, is a real good match.

A complete literary girl like Neuer's mother Tide, and a silly white sweet like her own mother Emile, is not good at being the mistress of a big family.