United Kingdom.

On the second floor of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, in a makeshift office.

Huang Deping and Jack, including several lawyers, and two appraisers were there. In addition to them, there are four or five capable young people, all of whom are staff members of Ji Chaozhu who have been drawn from the embassy to help them carry out tedious asset audit and appraisal work together.

"Ji Lao, it's almost, right?" Li Yadong and Ji Chaozhu stood in the corridor outside the door, and did not go in to disturb their work. He had just arrived in England last night and had been rushing over early in the morning.

There is never such a thing as a thing in the world that is not earned for nothing, and the world only knows the pleasure-seeking side of billionaires, but they do not know how hard-won their wealth is.

At the beginning, the hard work of not showing the mountains and water is not enough for outsiders. Even after becoming famous, do you think they fly around the world on private jets to travel the world? Do you think they go to a dinner party full of beautiful women just to hunt for beauty?

In fact, most of the wealthy who are worth a lot of money wake up earlier than chickens and sleep later than dogs. They have a lot more to do every day than we ordinary people.

Ma Ali once said: The thing I regret the most is that I founded Alibaba.

There may be some tsundere elements in this, but it also reveals his inner appeal: if everything can be done again, he is more eager to do a small career, like ordinary people, sleep lazily in the morning, go out and jump at night, so comfortable.

However, an overly comfortable life is always inversely proportional to wealth.

"Well, the results should be available today. Ji Chaozhu nodded.

"Ji Lao, in fact, you don't have to be so precise, anyway, we also make soy sauce here. Li Yadong said with a smile.

"That's a good thing to say, but I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if. What if the British government agrees? If you don't want to be so precise, I don't care, and you'll lose your money anyway. ”

"That'...... Let's be precise. Li Yadong smiled.

People who can't get along with money are lacking in heart.

The waiting time always felt very long, and when he had nothing to do, Li Yadong ran to the kitchen behind the first floor of the embassy, fulfilled his promise, and taught the two chefs a few Shanxi specialties by hand.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yadong and Ji Chaozhu were sitting in the office drinking tea, and Huang Deping was holding a document and knocking on the door and walking in.

"Ji Lao, boss, you let the first count of the Land Rover brand, the results have come out. ”

"Oh?" Li Yadong nodded and said, "Let's hear it." ”

"The hardware facilities of the Land Rover brand are basically concentrated in the Solihull Gigafactory in the West Midlands, England, which covers an area of 150 hectares and is the world's largest aluminum body production base, with very advanced facilities. However, boss, this amount should be slightly lower, because we can't conduct on-site inspections, so we can only calculate the data provided to us by Ji Lao, and their actual hardware facilities should be more perfect, so the asset appraiser gives a reasonable estimate that the actual value of the Land Rover brand should be infinitely close to 800 million US dollars. ”

"800 million?" Li Yadong nodded subconsciously, it was cheaper than he thought in his heart, he originally estimated that it should reach one billion US dollars.

After all, it is also a high-end luxury brand, and it is the kind that can be mass-produced.

Suddenly thinking of something, I couldn't help asking, "What about Jaguar?"

"The Jaguar brand is very difficult to estimate. ”

Huang Deping replied: "The most difficult brand to value under Leyland is it, and the hardware facilities are mainly intellectual property, that is, the value of technology, which is difficult to define accurately. It is different from the Land Rover brand, which is precious in terms of intellectual property rights in four-wheel drive technology, and there are no complete highlights in other aspects, and the audience of this technology is limited, and vehicles equipped with four-wheel drive are not the mainstream of the current market. But the Jaguar brand is different, its technical level in the engine and other core components of the car, has been at the world-class level, and this technology, the audience is large, it can be said that it has a certain role for any automobile manufacturer, even if it is a giant like Ford, it can also learn from its strengths and weaknesses, optimize its own engine and other core components of the car, so ...... Boss, you should know what I mean, this value is difficult to define, just like an antique, someone is willing to pay 10,000 to buy, someone is willing to pay 1 million, it depends on the buyer's psychological valuation. ”

Li Yadong nodded, "To put it bluntly, it is a treasure, and some core technologies of automobiles are unique, depending on how much you want to get it." ”

"Yes, that's the truth. Huang Deping said with a smile.

"Well, since the value of the Land Rover brand has been roughly estimated, it is better to use it as bait. Li Yadong said, looking at Ji Chaozhu on the side, "What does Ji Lao think?"

"You said it was a bait, so what is the difference between a fat earthworm and a thin earthworm? Ji Chaozhu said with a smile.

……

Benjamin has been proud recently, in the past ten years, his official career has not been clear, in the position of a deputy inspector general of the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, how many years of hard work, just want to make a correction, but never get his wish.

Now that he is over half a hundred years old, he no longer expects it, so he plans to mix it up for a few more years, take the pitiful pension of the deputy inspector general, and live a dull old age.

But things in the world have always been fucked up, you try your best to fight for it, it just doesn't come, you don't think about it, but it comes quietly.

He recently got a good job - to get rid of a heavy burden for the country.

This errand may not have promoted him, but it was enough to make him a wealthy little old man for the rest of his life.

Therefore, many things that were originally conceived need to be re-planned.

For example, after getting that hefty commission, he's going to immigrate to the U.S., oh...... Before that, he may have to find a good reason to resign, and as for the pitiful pension, leave it to the government to raise dogs. Well...... Sick, terminally ill, baba, should be faking a fake medical record, it seems like a good idea.

He is a very smart man, and even with those big capitalists on his head, he is still not prepared to take the slightest risk and not give the government any chance to settle accounts after the fall.

After getting up in the morning, Benjamin went downstairs humming a little song, and when he saw that breakfast was already prepared on the table, he couldn't wait to walk over, and was about to reach out to get the piece of bacon that was fried just right, when he hit it firmly on his fat paws.

"Oh my God, damn filthy old man, have you washed your hands?

A thin old woman, the opposite of his stature, scolded at the table with a stirring stick in her hand and a pestle in her waist.

"I just finished washing. Benjamin subconsciously replied weakly.

"Oh, you filthy old thing, isn't it great that you've just washed up? Can you skip lunch after you've eaten breakfast? Quickly remove your half-functional fat ass from my clean stool. ”

"Elena, I'm telling you, don't go too far!"

"My God, what did I hear? This useless old man, who is soft from head to toe, still has such a manly side?"

"......" looked at his wife's exaggerated movements, and even Benjamin himself was stunned, and he didn't know where he had the courage to say such tough words just now!

Yes, tough.

Unlike his grassroots background, his wife comes from an ancient family and has a good influence in both political and business circles.

God knows how he was blind and pursued her madly?

In the end, it was not a wife at all, but an old witch.

Yes, old witch!

Her morbid cleanliness habit had evolved to an absurd level, and she had now begun to disinfect it with alcohol when she did it, and she had to wash it many times.

Benjamin is on the verge of being unbearable with her!

He thought about it for a while, and finally found the source of his hardness.

He's going to be a multi-millionaire soon, so why bother with the old witch's anger?

When he arrives in the United States, he will buy a house on the island of Hawaii and enjoy the beautiful beaches and warm sunshine. He had been there once, a place like paradise with so many bikini beauties, and he had to sleep with one a day without taking a bath!

What the old witch in front of him didn't know was that his ability had not diminished in the slightest, but when he was with her, he was not interested.

After thinking about these things, Benjamin straightened his chest, didn't look at the noisy old witch next to him, and directly reached out and stuffed the delicious bacon into his mouth.

"Oh, damn old thing, you're still turning the sky upside down?" said Elena, furious, grabbing a rag from the dining table and slamming it at him.

"Enough!" Benjamin grabbed the rag in his hand, slowly stood up, glared at Elena, and said sharply, "You shriveled old woman, I've had enough, I'm going to divorce you!"

"Oh God, did this ridiculous old man take the wrong medicine today?" said Elena, smirking at me.

She didn't believe that the dead fat pig in front of her dared to do this, everything he had today was given by her family. Since her family can give it, it naturally has a way to take it back.

"Don't take me for a joke, I do what I say, I'm going to divorce you immediately!" Benjamin's eyes were bright, he had no intention of sharing the million-dollar fortune he was about to get with this old witch.

Leave her a penny!

"Okay, just leave. Elena cast a contemptuous look at him, and she was sure that the unseeded bad old man would have to kneel before her and beg for mercy in two minutes.

Therefore, she went back to the room in style to change her clothes and picked up her favorite Givenchy satchel.

"Let's go?"

"Let's go!"

What Elena didn't expect was that this hateful old man didn't beg her for mercy, but drove her all the way to the court (English divorce must go through the court).

It was only when the judge handed her a copy of the mutual divorce agreement that she came back to her senses.

"Are you crazy?"

"Yes, I'm crazy!" Benjamin laughed, "You damn old witch, you paid for the house you bought and lived in by yourself, and we never had anything to do with it again!"

Benjamin left the courthouse in style, with brisk steps, as if he were ten years younger.

He knew that the old witch's brother would definitely take revenge on him, but he didn't care, the beauty in his hands was already in the final stage, and it was only a final word. No matter how capable they are, they can't get him out of office right away, and as long as they hold out for a few more days, after successfully signing the asset transfer agreement, he will be a veritable multimillionaire, and if they can really get him out of office, he will have to thank them.

Benjamin came to the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration with a little song, ready to hurry up and finish some of the finishing work that had not yet been processed, but as soon as he arrived at the office, his butt was still hot, and the phone on his desk rang.

"Hey, Benjamin, come to my office at once. ”

On the other end of the phone was the minister's voice, and his attitude was a little unkind.

Benjamin couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, thinking: That old witch's family network should not be strong enough to be so strong.

'M afraid...... Did you ask the minister to help with the work? Or, in other words, intercede?

The more Benjamin thought about it, the more he was in a panicked mood, but suddenly stabilized.

It's not easy for anyone to intercede in this matter!

So, he strode to the minister's office.

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