"No, no, Ferrari is the crown jewel of the Fiat Group and we will never sell it. There's no way the board would approve such a stupid deal!" Marchionne said categorically.

Jiang Yuan laughed and said:

"Don't be so sure, as long as the stakes are sufficient, your board of directors may even be willing to put the Fiat brand on the shelf, let alone a Ferrari. ”

Marchionne shrugged:

Fiat still holds 90 percent of Ferrari's shares, with a market value of about $24 billion! What deal is President Jiang going to use? If it is only exchanged for a share of a new lithium battery, it is impossible for the board of directors to agree to any more shares. If it is a technical solution for lithium batteries, you can consider it, but your government is expected to directly stop the transaction. So, I can't think of anything that Shensi Group can pay for a huge $24 billion fortune, and you don't have enough cash. ”

Li Qingyu deeply agreed with Marchionne's words.

Indeed, don't look at the valuation of Shensi Technology on Wall Street now, which has soared to the sky, but that is the valuation, and Shensi Technology really doesn't have much cash.

The biggest is the $100 billion loan for floating cities on the sea, but that's a loan, and no one is sure how much it will cost until the gold-swallowing monster of the sea city is built.

Judging from the current assessment of the expert group, 100 billion US dollars is definitely not enough, and Jiang Yuan will find a way to find more money to continue to fill in in the future.

So the money can't be moved casually.

The second is the 'Microsoft Exclusive Model' service signed with Microsoft, $15 billion, and the steady stream of revenue from the 'App Conversion Tool'.

Finally, there is the 'X82M' licensing fee signed with foreign video companies, with a total of about 3 billion US dollars.

This seems like a lot of money, but the expansion speed of Shensi Group is too fast.

Establish a low-manganese steel foaming agent factory, a low-manganese steel foam manufacturing factory, establish a 405 laboratory, establish its own lithium battery factory, acquire Huaguo live broadcast company, establish a new computer room, and buy 2 buildings as office space in Qianwan City, where every inch of land is valuable.

In the future, it can be expected that Jiang Yuan wants to enter the electric vehicle industry, electric motor production plants, and so on.

Li Qingyu also has to consider the necessary liquidity for daily consumption, and she estimates that unless she finds a bank loan, she can come up with a maximum of 5 billion to 6 billion US dollars.

After Jiang Yuan listened to Li Qingyu's whispered report, he realized that he was really not a rich man.

However, Jiang Yuan didn't plan to buy a Ferrari with money.

He stood up and smiled:

"Tomorrow, I'd like to ask Mr. Marchionne to take a look at my modified Rafa, and maybe you'll have other ideas. ”

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......

There is a track track dedicated to sports car enthusiasts on the outskirts of Qianwan City, and Jiang Yuan rented a straight-line acceleration track for a week in order to test and improve the modification performance of Rafa.

Today's weather is nice, the sun is shining and the sky is cloudless, and there are more than a dozen sports cars of various colors parked on the ground, Porsche 911, Bentley Continental, GTR and so on.

More than 20 young men and women stood next to Rafa with a grin, which should be the rich second generation who had made an appointment to play together.

They were originally going to drag race on their own, but as soon as Rafa appeared, the rich second generation was attracted by this luxury car with a price tag of more than 20 million and more than 30 million.

Although their family has money, tens of millions of sports cars are not so easy to see.

When the Rafa modification team came up with all kinds of test equipment, they were even more interested, and they gathered around to ask questions, and several young and beautiful girls even ran to Rafa to take selfies, which annoyed the engineers.

When Jiang Yuan and Marchionne arrived at the venue, the modification team had already prepared Rafa, and a test driver who had specially invited to test was standing next to the car in full gear and was about to board the car.

"Look, that's Jiang Yuan!" said a sharp-eyed thin monkey.

Then the crowd looked back.

"It turned out to be Jiang Yuan's car, no wonder. The little fat man who drove the GTR said with envy:

"30 million, enough for me to buy a dozen GTRs. ”

"Wow! Jiang Yuan is so handsome!" A girl in cool clothes was even more starry.

"Cut!" pouted the punk girl in another steel nail jacket:

"You just see that people have money!"

In Qianwan City, Jiang Yuan's name is still relatively easy to use, and the parents of the rich second generation know very well the attitude of the Qianwan City Government towards Jiang Yuan, and they also told them early.

The rich second generation knows very well that Jiang Yuan is about the same age as them, but his status is very different.

As soon as Jiang Yuan arrived, they politely stepped aside, no longer daring to affect the work of the test drivers and engineers.

Jiang Yuan smiled and said to Marchionne:

"Look, this is the Rafa I modified. ”

Marchionne glanced at the car, but didn't notice any change in the appearance, and looked inside the car, where the dashboard had changed slightly.

Marchionne asked curiously:

"What's the main change?"

Jiang Yuan beckoned, and the leader of the modification group, Jin, came over and said in fluent English:

"In fact, the body structure has been completely changed. ”

"First of all, in order to reduce weight, most of the steel frame and carbon fiber have been replaced with low-manganese steel foam, so the weight of the whole vehicle has dropped by more than 500 kilograms, and the current weight is 986 kilograms. ”

"What!986 kilograms!, this can't be!" Marchionne was startled as soon as he heard the first data, and his heart turned upside down.

The rich second generation around them also gasped, although they did not understand the role of weight loss as deeply as Marchionne, but they still understood the reason that the lighter the car, the faster they run.

Cars under a ton, this has never been heard of.

Team Leader Kim affirmed:

"Yes. 986 kg. In fact, due to the lack of time and processing capacity, there are still many parts that are still the same as the previous carbon fiber, aluminum alloy and steel, such as the body shell, suspension and so on. If the whole vehicle is replaced with low-manganese steel foam, I estimate that the weight of the vehicle will be reduced to about 700 kilograms. ”

Marchionne's brow furrowed, it was so unexpected!

Of course, lighter cars are not always better, but weight loss still makes a lot of sense.

Every car manufacturer likes to blow it in the middle of the model facelift, and we used how much aluminum alloy and carbon fiber this time, and the weight of the car was reduced by dozens of kilograms.

If you lose dozens of kilograms, you will take it out and talk about it, and if you lose 500 kilograms, you will have to blow it for a year!

"How strong is such a light material?" asked Marchionne, in a hoarse voice.

Team Leader Jin smiled:

"I didn't believe it before, but Mr. Jiang gave me a copy of the parameters of manganese steel foam. Well, I'll read it to you, manganese steel foam, density 0.2g/cm^3, well, about the same as plastic foam, elastic coefficient ......"

Marchionne was utterly shocked.

In fact, the matter of low-manganese steel foaming agent has already spread all over the world with the "Huaguo Daily News Network", and Marchionne, as a practitioner in the automotive industry, is naturally very concerned about the miracle material of manganese steel foam.

It's a pity that so far, Huaguo has not had any detailed parameters exposed.

The finished manganese steel foam has never flowed out, and it has all been swallowed up by the bottomless pit of the 'deep thinking zone'.

Originally, he just thought that Huaguo had made a good breakthrough in lightweight materials, but he didn't know until today that this material was so exaggerated.

The weight of plastic foam, the sturdiness of steel!

This is not a good thing at all, but a transformative opportunity to trigger a radical change in the entire automotive industry.

Not only that, aerospace, construction, shipbuilding......

Marchionne tensed.

He knew that he had one more task, to get enough low-manganese steel foam production capacity!