"It's good that the British government doesn't need us to pay for this investment, so let's discuss the most critical issues in this acquisition case, right?" Jia Lei said with a smile.

"What is the most critical issue in this acquisition?" asked Lord Sainsbury.

"Of course, it's about layoffs! If our company buys Rover Motors, I'm going to lay off people, and I hope your British government can understand that. Jia Lei said.

"If you're going to lay off employees, the government won't approve of your takeover of Rover Motors, and you'd better not even think about it. Lord Sainsbury immediately shook his head and said.

"Your Excellency, don't worry, will you listen to me first?" Jia Lei said with a smile.

"Well, I'd like to hear what you have to say, I'm not going to agree to a layoff anyway...... Lord Sainsbury said unhappily.

"We're going to lay off Rover Motors, but I can assure you that I'm going to buy Rover Motors and I'm going to create 35,000 jobs for the British government, but not all of these new jobs will be at Rover Motors.

And I promise to pay the employees of Rover Motor Company who have been laid off handsomely, and this compensation will not make them complain about the government's decision. Jia Lei said.

"This can't be! Judging by the current employment situation in Britain, I'm afraid no one will want to be laid off! No matter how much compensation you give, these unemployed workers will complain, and if you lay off too many people, the unions and the parliament will definitely not ignore it. Lord Sainsbury said in disbelief.

"We have laid off too many employees and the council will not approve of it, so if the employees themselves resign, it will be fine, right?" Xiao Jew asked suddenly, this issue Jia Lei had discussed with him before.

"Of course, no one will take care of the resignation of the employees themselves, but who will resign voluntarily for a good employee? It is not easy to find a job outside now!" said Lord Sainsbury in disbelief.

"That's because you haven't heard of buying out seniority, and if I were willing to pay a large amount of compensation to workers who voluntarily quit according to the number of years they have worked, I think there will be many people who are willing to voluntarily quit. Jia Lei said with a smile that the resigned workers had enough money to do small businesses.

"No matter what you want to do after you buy Rover Motors, as long as the workers don't oppose it, don't demonstrate, that's fine! The government will respect the workers' own decisions." Lord Sainsbury thought for a moment and replied.

"Don't worry, your country has a guild overseer! I won't joke about my reputation and future......," Jia Lei said with a smile.

"We can let the lawyers talk about the other specific terms of the takeover, and now I have one question left for you to answer?" Lord Sainsbury asked, sitting up straight, looking solemnly at Jia Lei and the little Jew.

"What's the problem?" Xiao Jew finally put away his Erlang leg and asked seriously, while Jia Lei still maintained his sitting posture as a good student.

"How much are you willing to pay for Rover Motors?" asked Lord Sainsbury, which was all concern.

"We are willing to pay £850 million in cash plus all of Rover's past debts, and we will settle your relationship with Honda on behalf of your government after the acquisition of Rover. Jia Lei immediately replied.

"If you can really secure 35,000 jobs and convince Honda, then I can officially submit your company to Parliament as a second candidate for the acquisition of Rover Motors. Lord Sainsbury said with satisfaction.

We look forward to hearing a satisfactory answer from your Government. Jia Lei said with a smile that he felt that his negotiation was perfect.

*****

After deciding on the intention of cooperation, Jia Lei and the British Airways people finally drew up a specific acquisition agreement for the acquisition of Rover Motors after several rounds of negotiations, and then Lord Sainsbury took Jia Lei and their acquisition agreement to the parliament and the Ministry of Industry for discussion.

Because British Airways is a military industrial enterprise directly under the British government, this acquisition agreement Jia Lei must be approved by the British government, rather than simply agreed by the two companies.

"I don't know where this Victor Blackstone company came from, does such a small company that I have never heard of want to compete with the BMW Group? I heard that their boss is just two hairy children, this is too nonsense!" someone in the council looked at Jia Lei and said disdainfully in their acquisition agreement.

"This Victor Blackstone Company is small but powerful! I think you should all have heard of the Baron Victor family, one of the owners of this company is the legal heir of Baron Victor, the future Baron Victor.

The reason why they wanted to buy Rover Motors was only to preserve the culture of England and not to let Rover Motors fall into the hands of foreigners, which was fearless patriotism.

Although the two of them have no experience in running a large automobile company, their intentions are good, and Rover Motors itself has many excellent managers, and Victor Blackstone should not have much problem in operating after taking over. Lord Sainsbury explained.

"Even if Rover Motors itself has no problem with management, how can their two furry children solve Honda?

The BMW Group intends to sign an agreement with us in black and white, and spend more than a billion pounds of real money to help the British government get out of the dilemma of the island consortium divestment, and the solution given by this company is just a few vague promises!

This is also ridiculous!

Can promises also be written into contracts?

This mega acquisition is important to both Rover Motors and to our UK government, and we must not be allowed to treat it like this!" said a member of the House of Commons vehemently objected.

"Why, is it so ridiculous for our noble children to want to help Great Britain return to prosperity and perpetuate the ancient British culture?

It is true that the strength of these two people is not as young as BMW, but their company is a British company registered in the United Kingdom, and if we sell Rover Automobile Company to them, the Louvre brand will still belong to the British national brand. Lord Sainsbury said earnestly.

"What we have to think about now is not the face of the national brand, but the livelihood of the 35,000 employees under Rover Motors!

You, the House of Lords, are always only thinking about keeping aristocratic traditions and face, but you always ignore what the British people really need. What ordinary people need is survival, not face-to-face ......," the members of the House of Commons immediately began to retort when they heard this.

In 1994, the House of Lords was still dominated by the British hereditary aristocracy, and the House of Lords was composed of royal descendants, hereditary nobles, judges of the Court of Appeal, archbishops and bishops of the church, and 200 life nobles from Minyuan Parliament.

All decisions of the British House of Commons, controlled by the government, must be approved by the House of Lords before they can have legal effect, and the two sides have been on opposite sides of the struggle for power for decades.

Then the people in the upper and lower houses of Britain used Jia Lei's acquisition case as an excuse to quarrel for the 1001st time about the differences between the noble parliament and the democratic parliament on the governing plan.

Get!

Jia Lei never expected that his acquisition case, which was purely for commercial purposes, would end up inexplicably becoming cannon fodder for the British aristocracy and partisanship!

The early nineties was the most intense period of the reform of the composition of the British House of Lords, and at this moment, the British House of Lords was being fully persecuted and crushed by the House of Commons, so the House of Commons won the quarrel without any suspense.

Jia Lei's acquisition was ruthlessly killed by the British government after being compared with the acquisition of the House of Commons and BMW, and Jia Lei and them were ruthlessly suppressed by the democrats like the old-school House of Lords aristocrats.

Of course, Jia Lei and they were only killed in a takeover case, but the nobles of the House of Lords were deprived of several noble seats by the British government in this competition.

At this point, the reform of the British House of Lords began, and thousands of hereditary nobles of the House of Lords began to be excluded by government officials, and the struggle between British hereditary nobles and politicians began to heat up.

This fierce political struggle lasted until November 1999, when the winner was finally decided!

In the end, the House of Lords Reform Bill was passed by the House of Lords, and more than 600 hereditary nobles in the House of Lords were disqualified from the House of Lords, except for 92 who remained in office, and the remaining non-politically appointed members of the House of Lords would be recommended by a special royal committee.

The vacant posts of the nobles of the House of Lords are filled by the members elected by the people as life nobles, and such nobility is only used by the members themselves and cannot be hereditary.

*****

"I'm ...... Are we just being used as cannon fodder for political struggle......s by the upper and lower houses of the United Kingdom? I'm really MD......" Jia Lei rarely burst into foul language after hearing that his acquisition case was rejected for such a ridiculous reason.

"Jia Lei, this is the first time I've heard you scold, I always thought you were a good student who couldn't scold......" The little Jew looked at Jia Lei in shock and said, he had never seen Jia Lei look like a scoundrel before.

At this time, the BMW Group, which had picked up a big bargain, was happy, and the president of the BMW Group, Frank Breed, and the chief strategist, Hagen Lüderitz, immediately bypassed the discussion of the board of directors of the BMW Group, and rushed to London to sign a letter of intent with British Airways to acquire Rover Motors.

As the new president of the BMW Group, the agreement he signed can certainly represent the BMW Group!

Although this behavior of Pyrrhide caused dissatisfaction within the board of directors of the BMW Group, Beacon once again used his rhetoric to settle the board of directors of the BMW Group.

"I'm doing this for the good of the BMW Group, because with the acquisition of Rover Motors, we will not only be able to take over the top off-road vehicle brand Land Rover and the most popular car brand Mini, but the BMW Group will also get all the car brands owned by Rover Motors.

I think for the long term, the BMW Group can re-produce Rover's sub-brands Riley, Wolseley and Triumph, after all, these brands are well-known in the whole European market, and they will bring more benefits to our BMW Group. Brilliant spoke impassionedly to the board directors about his plans, and his optimistic expectations for the future won enthusiastic cheers from within the board.

But not all directors have been deceived by Pride's rhetoric, with some clever directors having reservations about the consequences of the Rover takeover.

In particular, several directors led by Reitzler refused to comment on the acquisition of Rover Motors because of their disapproval and anger at the takeover, and because they were in the minority on the board, they did not oppose or support the acquisition of Rover Motors.

After inquiring about the attitude within the board of directors of the BMW Group, Jia Lei finally made an astonishing decision.

"Little Jew, you help me find someone to make a few more copies of this information and send it to all the directors of the board of directors of the BMW Group. Jia Lei raised the corners of his mouth slightly and handed a pile of information to the little Jew and said, his fingertips inadvertently carrying a coolness.

"What is this?" asked the little Jew curiously, opening the file bag.

"Huh...... This is just a little trick that the British government has done to hide from the BMW Group in this acquisition case!" Jia Lei said with a sneer with his head down.

I don't know why, the cold hairs all over the body of the little Jew who heard Jia Lei's laughter for no reason stood up, and he seemed to feel a chill that invaded the bone marrow.

"Jia Lei, I don't understand, why are you giving this kind of thing to the directors of the BMW Group at this time? What does the British government have to do with the BMW Group's deception? Why do you want to help the BMW Group?" asked the little Jew puzzled.

"Fool! I'm not doing this to help the BMW Group, I'm just trying to make the two of them fall out and not sign a final acquisition contract.

I said it! I am bound to win the Rover Group, if anyone gets in my way, then don't blame me for being unkind......" Jia Lei said in a gloomy tone.

"Shhh...... Jia Lei, don't talk so yin and yang, okay, my cold hairs stand on end!" the little Jew couldn't help but shudder.

So what did the British government do to hide the BMW Group's involvement in this acquisition?

In talks with the British government, Breed pledged not to bulldoze Rover's crumbling plant in the Longbridge area and not to lay off any of Rover's 33,000 employees.

Unfortunately, he did not know that a few months before he bought Rover, the number of employees at Rover Motors had increased by 4,000 thousand.

And this group of people joined the company when BMW first approached British Airways about the acquisition of Rover Motors......

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