No matter what the outside world comments, the localization of mini production has become the last trump card for Li Fanyu to win the bet. If you don't play this card, as long as you play it, there is no way back.

While Li Kai mobilized the newly completed industrial center to step up the assembly of machines and approve the parts needed for the mini, Li Fanyu was also in contact with several British agents of the former Rolls-Royce.

It's not enough to have production, if you want to buy a good car, a good dealer is a must. Among several agents in the UK, Wales and Govreau are two giants that he is more optimistic about;

The president of the Welsh company is Frederick Giggen, a 40-year-old president who is himself a member of the British royal family and a British luxury giant. At the same time, his company also owns the brand rights of Toyota, with more than 200 stores throughout England and a car sales website with more than 30 million registered users, Car-Buy.

Goffro, on the other hand, doesn't have as much of a background as Wales, but the strength of the car company is not to be underestimated.

In Scotland, the company has a near monopoly on the consumer market for used cars and low- and mid-range models. With more than 70 years of operation in the Scottish region, it has a huge mass base.

Previously, the two showed strong interest in Zhengxin's three brands, Audi, X-car and pure electric BMW, but Zhengxin is still in the process of studying the global plans of several of its brands, and has not officially determined the ownership of the distribution agency rights in each region.

Now, Li Fanyu can't wait. He directly asked the group to help him contact the two companies and set a meeting time.

What Li Fanyu didn't expect was that on the day he sent out the invitation, representatives of the two companies arrived.

Li Fanyu was already ready for a protracted war in the UK, and it was always inconvenient to enter and exit the hotel, so he rented a high-rise apartment near the Rolls-Royce headquarters.

It is said to be an apartment, but the area is more than 300 square meters, and the whole villa is in the high-rise. All the facilities are ready-made, and the living room and office are complete. Just three months' rent is enough for Li Fanyu to buy a house of eighty or ninety square meters in Tiancheng.

Here, Li Fanyu received representatives of the two companies. But to be on the safe side, he didn't put the two together for an appointment. Instead, he took advantage of the time difference to separate the two.

The first person to meet was the representative of Goffro.

This company can see that it is still very pragmatic, and after communicating with Li Fanyu about the regional agency, as well as various actual operations and production plans of the production line, it directly gave the real bottom.

Goffro's situation Li Fanyu had investigated it clearly before, and he was quite satisfied with this kind of cooperation, so he immediately settled the matter and asked the Zhengxin team to discuss it in detail with the representatives of Goffro.

It was the Welsh company that made Li Fanyu a little surprised.

Before, the other party only said that a representative was sent, but he didn't expect that the official president of Wales, the current Prince of Wales, and the cousin of British Crown Prince Charles, Frederick Jiggen.

"Mr. Li, please don't look at me so unexpectedly, it's rude. ”

Seeing Li Fanyu's surprise, Frederick smiled. In the end, it is an aristocracy, and even the crow's feet control has a sense of ritual.

Li Fanyu spit out a little in his heart, and his face returned to normal, "I really didn't expect that Mr. Marquis would come in person." ”

"It's not surprising that the nobility of the British Empire has been making money to support their families since the Age of Discovery. Even now, doesn't even the queen have to ask about her own estate business? In the face of money, there are no nobles, we are just pawns of profit-seeking peddlers. ”

Li Fanyu likes to listen to this.

After asking Frederick to sit down, Li Fanyu told him about his plans for the mini;

The Mini is a Time-listed model, and with its good performance and high degree of personalisation, it has already made a name for itself in the UK, even as an imported model. It's just that the mini was a model under Audi before, and now Li Fanyu wants to improve the company's performance in a short period of time, so the mini is a separate brand, assigned to Rolls-Royce and authorized production.

Therefore, Li Fanyu's request is to ask dealers to vigorously market this new brand, use the previous influence of the mini cooper in the short term, and the cost of localized production, reduce the selling price, and completely open up the British small car market.

He said, Frederick Digern just listened quietly. Knowing that he had finished all his requests, Frederick nodded slightly.

"Mr. Li, what you said is not a problem for Welsh companies. IN FACT, WALES HAS BEEN SELLING THE MINI ON CARBUY AS AN IMPORT AGENT BEFORE. You say it, we can do it. So you see, you must be wondering, since there is no problem with all this, and any representative can come and make things clear and settled, why am I here in person?"

Li Fanyu knew that he had something to say, so he nodded: "As you said, I do have such doubts. ”

Gréderick smiled slightly, "I'm here this time for more than just a mini brand agent. There's another thing I'd like to discuss with you. ”

Li Fanyu thought that he was talking about Zhengxin's other brands, so he said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Jigen, our global plans for Audi, X-CAR and BMW are still being formulated, and now I really can't give you an accurate answer." ”

"No, no, no, what I want to discuss with you is not this kind of thing. Greyrick shook his head and said, "What I'm going to talk to you about is something other than business. ”

"For example?" Li Fan straightened his body, he didn't understand what else this marquis who had never met had anything else to say to himself.

"For example, you must know that the Wicks Group is a chaebol with family ties. They can influence some key decisions and even the political situation to a large extent. ”

Li Fanyu nodded, waiting for Frederick's next step.

"But what you don't know is that although the royal family has faded out of politics, we have a lot of industry in the UK, and we also need a stable and good political system. Now, my gentleman from the East, I am not afraid to tell you that the manners of certain officials of the Ministry of Industry have gone to our opposite. ”

"What you don't know yet is that it's a very serious thing for royalty to influence politics. If the parliamentarians found out, it would probably be quite a problem. As it happens, I know from an old friend that you have some evidence, and we also need someone who has nothing to do with the royal family for the time being, to pull the nail out for us. ”

After saying this, Frederick gracefully cocked his long legs, picked up the steaming black tea beside him, and smiled at Li Fanyu;

"Mr. Li, are you willing to be this person?"

He asked with a gentle sip of tea.