When Liu Junsheng first appeared in the field of vision of Xu Teng and Gu Chen, the biggest impression left on everyone was a string of Porsche car keys, for so many years, he has always had this special habit and preference, no matter whether he encountered a very happy thing or an unhappy thing, he would drive a silver Porsche in the middle of the night on the road on the edge of the city. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

With his skills, he can drive at speeds below 120 km/h, unless he drinks a little too much.

And it turned out to be an accident.

Unfortunately, he killed others, but unfortunately he still had a chance to "recover" after two major surgeries, and the "healing" mentioned by the expert group refers to normal physical functions, not lame, not crutches, not paralyzed, not brain-dead or dementia.

In Xu Teng's life, he has three fitness friends who have been working for more than ten years, Liu Junsheng is one of them, and his body is very good, but after such a tragic collision, not to mention compared with before, it will be much worse than ordinary people.

The spleen was cut, the liver was cut half a lobe, and the place with a child's palm in the back of the head was replaced with an artificial synthetic bone shell...... This is a bit strange, his wife and children don't know each other anymore, but he still knows Chen Jian.

Xu Teng and Gu Chen made a joke about him, no wonder you bastard had to bunk with Jian Chen for the first time when he came to our dormitory.

More than two months later, Liu Junsheng finally recovered almost, during this time, Xu Teng went to France to participate in the Paris Science and Technology Conference, and has been in the United Kingdom since then, in addition to assisting in the merger of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Westminster, personally sitting in the United Kingdom, integrating the system of Huateng Automobile Group in the United Kingdom, the most important thing is to observe the French election.

Xu Teng still thought of many ways to recruit a group of the best campaign teams from all over the world, led by Asdair Campbell, the European executive president of the international public relations department of Huateng Company, and used the highest technology and online social media communication technology to assist Kossacki in the presidential campaign behind the scenes.

Speaking of Asdair Campbell, there is something to say, this is the chief press officer of former British Empire Prime Minister Tony Blair, yes, the first man to concoct the news of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Blair has been credited with this dude in both campaigns.

Facts have proved that this kind of ruthless man is indeed much more powerful than ordinary soft eggs, and the final effect is also very good, and the various campaign tricks designed for President Xiao Sa behind the scenes are both crude and simple, but also very effective.

In Xu Teng's impression, President Xiao Sa failed to be re-elected, and the leftist surnamed Ao came to power, and the result really turned the situation around, and the team he raised funds behind the scenes helped President Xiao Sa firmly grasp the votes of the right wing and young people, plus a part of the precise welfare reduction policy for Islam, snatched a lot of votes from the far right, and finally 57% of the support won the dead fish face.

There are not many French countries left, and Xiao Sa is re-elected, and he can't give Xu Teng much in return.

Xu Teng also doesn't want anything in return, no one can save France, whether it's Xiao Sa or Big Sa, President Xiao Sa announced that he wants to implement tougher reforms, claiming to make France a winner in global free trade...... It's just talk, and in the current situation of France that is terminally ill, no one can do anything big, so they can only pretend to eat with food.

After returning to China, the first thing Xu Teng did was to fulfill his previous promise, convene the board of directors of Huateng Automobile Group Company, and appoint Liu Junsheng as the managing director of the group.

In fact, long before Xu Teng sold Huatai Iron and Steel Group, he considered letting Liu Junsheng switch to automobiles, and the steel and iron ore industries must be sold, the reason is very simple, first, even the technical level of European steel is now a mess, and Japan and South Korea are not much better.

Second, in the industry where central enterprises occupy a dominant position, sell early and feel at ease.

Xu Teng's business experience is very simple, as long as it is an asset that the Huayin consortium cannot control, sell it immediately at the right price, don't regret it, don't wait, because time is the most important resource.

Especially since 2011, after Xu Teng adopted a strong "deepening integration" strategy for the entire consortium, he has been cashing out and making profits from industries that are no longer valuable to the long-term development goals of the Huayin consortium.

As for Liu Junsheng, Xu Teng has always felt that instead of changing careers at the age of fifty, it is better to change careers immediately at the age of thirty.

Xu Teng also knew that Liu Junsheng would be sad for a while, but he didn't expect him to have a car accident.

Xu Teng also thought about it a long time ago and asked Liu Junsheng to give it a try at Huateng Automobile Group to see if he could change careers to make cars, after all, this is the easiest direction for Liu Junsheng to change careers.

Xu Teng hesitated for a long time about this.

The chairman of Huateng Automobile Group is Chen Zhixin, this uncle is not as ruthless as Asdelle-Campbell's brother, Chen Zhixin is also one of the people who was admitted to college in 78 and was assigned to SAIC as a technician in 82.

When SAIC and Volkswagen first jointly built Santana, they sent three technicians to Volkswagen's Wolfsburg factory for internship a year in advance, and Chen Zhixin was the team leader and was responsible for leading the team.

In the process of localization, Santana actually encountered a lot of problems, Chen Zhixin made a lot of achievements in the process of solving these problems, and finally at the age of 40, he became the second Chinese general manager of SAIC Volkswagen, and it was during his tenure that SAIC Volkswagen ushered in unprecedented glory.

Since then, Chen Zhixin has entered the top management of SAIC, and has strongly advocated the introduction of new partners such as GM and Mazda, making SAIC from scratch and becoming the most lucrative car giant in China.

At the end of 2002, the Huayin Consortium invited Chen Zhixin to join the Huateng Automobile Company, which was being established at that time, and the two sides talked for three months, and finally basically agreed to all the prices of Chen Zhixin, and Chen Zhixin also used his own efforts and strength to repay the board of directors of the consortium.

From 2002 to 2003, in the year of preparation of Huateng Automobile Company, Chen Zhixin not only poached a team of more than 30 people from SAIC Volkswagen, but also relied on his deep connections in China's automobile industry, from FAW, Dongqi, GAC, Yutong car companies, from design to production, to sales, widely recruited the best team, the whole team poached, can be called the Huayin consortium to form the dream team of China's automobile industry.

This dream team was formed with a huge size of 470 people.

In the following eight years, the dream team of China's automobile industry made great progress with a huge investment of up to 40 billion RMB from the Huayin Consortium, quickly surpassing the five major domestic car companies and becoming the first new giant to rank among the top ten car companies in the world.

Today, Huateng Automobile Group occupies a place in the fields of SUVs, MPV commercial vehicles, medium-class cars, medium and large buses, medium and heavy-duty trucks, special trucks, electric cars, electric buses, etc., and is also the only automobile group in China that can build high-end sports cars and luxury models.

What's even more gratifying is that, unlike the five major domestic state-owned car companies, Huateng Automobile Group's overseas performance accounts for 30% of total sales, and its joint venture models with BMW and Ford account for only 22% of the group's total sales, and the main profits also come from independent brands.

This is a real dream team, and even if Chen Zhixin retires, there will be at least six or seven senior partners who can take over below, and the competition is fierce.

What does it mean for Xu Teng to send Liu Junsheng over now, and what will others think?

Mr. Liu, the former senior chief executive of Huatai Iron & Steel Group, was running one of the country's largest conglomerates, a privately held steel group a few months ago, and is just one step away from becoming a co-partner of the Huayin consortium.

Xu Teng suddenly installed Liu Junsheng as the managing director of Huateng Automobile Group, which is simply an insult to the dream team of China's automobile industry, as if directly telling all the senior partners who are working hard that you don't have to work hard, no matter how hard you work, it doesn't matter, no matter how hard you work, no matter how hard you work, no matter how hard you work, it doesn't matter if you come from a background.

Because of these very complicated reasons, Xu Teng hesitated for a long time, and never made this transfer, saying that Liu Junsheng would continue to be responsible for cooperating with Baosteel Group to integrate Huatai Steel, which was basically idle, and even a little cruel to let Liu Junsheng day after day, repeatedly witness all this of his hard work, and finally became a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise.

Before Liu Junsheng was officially transferred to Huateng Automobile Group, Xu Teng was cautious, and he still summoned Chen Zhixin and the 14 senior partners of Huateng Automobile together and held a closed-door meeting, which is to tell everyone that he, as a boss, also has difficulties in being a boss, and hopes that everyone will be more considerate and cooperative.

More than half a month has passed since this incident.

In the afternoon of that day, Xu Teng made an appointment with Chen Daqiao, who had just flown from the capital to Jiangzhou, to talk about Asia Television and Global Television Network, and in 2011, after returning from Europe, Xu Teng made up his mind to create a truly valuable global media group.

Of course, not to spend too much money.

So, they went to Canada and bought a very small global television network, don't look at it small, it still has a little bit of viewership in North America, and the traffic to the website is also lively.

Xu Teng's thinking is basically the same as that of today's Russia, but it is more ingenious than the other party, mainly to seize the new characteristics of modern network media, make his own programs, broadcast live on the website, and have a TV broadcasting operation license.

The two were chatting, and Han Dai suddenly informed Xu Teng that Liu Junsheng was here.

"He's okay, right?" Chen Daqiao was surprised, he didn't expect Liu Junsheng to return to work so soon, when Liu Junsheng was hospitalized, he went to see it, and he felt very miserable at that time, basically unrecognizable, and his body was full of tubes.

"Half a month ago, I had to carry a cane, but now I shouldn't need it. Xu Teng pressed the call button and told Han Dai to let Liu Junsheng come in, anyway, the things he wanted to talk about with Chen Daqiao were almost the same.

Shenzhou Media Group is a listed company as a whole, not Russia Today, and there is no government investment, even if there has always been such ambitions to form a global media group, it has to consider the issue of profits.

So, they certainly can't move as fast as Russia Today.

Soon, Liu Junsheng entered Xu Teng's office, but he still had a cane, a bit like an old gentleman, and his complexion was much worse than before.

If this baby is as bald as his father, compared with the memories of the unruly school grass in college, it is simply impossible to look at and unbearable.

"Someone pour you a cup of hot water. Xu Teng was a little embarrassed, he and Chen Daqiao drank Hennessy VSOP, after so many years, he still likes to drink VSOP cognac of this grade.

"Good. Liu Junsheng will never force anyone to pour him wine again, the car accident a few months ago is enough to make him feel palpitations for half his life, not to mention that he has undergone two major surgeries, and his liver function is far worse than before, and now he is a thirty-year-old man with a forty-year-old body.

"The people over there in the dream team, are they okay with you?" Xu Teng is quite concerned about this issue, sometimes, it is troublesome for a team to be too united.

"Very good, everyone is very polite to me, and I know that you specially greeted me. Liu Junsheng smiled bitterly and scratched his head, "Actually, I came here this time to ask you for something." ”

"What's the politeness, what else do you have to ask me for, just ask if you have something. Xu Teng felt a little embarrassed in his heart, because he insisted on selling the entire Huatai Iron and Steel Group one by one, thinking that he was thinking about the other party, but in fact, it really hurt the brotherhood.

He can only say that if he waits for another two or three years, Liu Junsheng will know that the final decision he made based on the industry data compiled by the consortium is the most correct.

"I heard Lu Zhifeng say that he led a team to talk to Ford at the end of last year, and the other party's offer was very reasonable, but you still didn't accept it, so I was a little puzzled, according to our level and financial situation, the acquisition of Ford is simply the most reasonable choice. Liu Junsheng really does not understand, in 2011, the Huayin consortium suddenly began to sell various assets, not only the real estate industry, the steel industry has shrunk sharply, the business of oil and gas and other commodities are rapidly trading and transferring, domestic and foreign media are talking about the frequent acquisitions of the Huayin consortium in Europe finally hit the iceberg and fell into a comprehensive loss.

All this, although Huateng Company has been strongly refuting, but it has not been able to effectively curb the wave of doubts at home and abroad, and even many grassroots employees within the consortium believe it is true, but at the level of Liu Junsheng and Chen Daqiao, of course, it is clear that it is nonsense.

Since 1997, the Huayin Consortium has been a rapidly internationalized consortium, and the level of overseas capital mergers and acquisitions is definitely more than two or three realms higher than that of domestic enterprises.

It is true that the cash flow of the consortium has tightened since the cash flow explosion of 2008, but it is simply a deceptive trick to say that it is difficult.

Liu Junsheng has been in the steel business for ten years, and he knows Xu Teng very well, and he knows very well that Xu Teng is deliberately trading quickly with this kind of market rumor, so as to avoid all parties from detecting the strategic turn of the Huayin Consortium.

Liu Junsheng even suspected that the rumors about the tight capital chain and losses of the Huayin consortium were deliberately forged by Xu Teng himself, so that others would think that he was quickly transferring real estate and commodity assets to make up for the huge losses of the consortium, rather than cashing out at a high price.

"This thing is ......!" Xu Teng thought for a while and sorted out his thoughts, "Actually, you see why Toyota's sales in the United States are better than Ford's, in addition to Ford's disadvantages in technology and platform, Ford's cost and quality control are actually very bad." Ford currently has three factories in the United States, with a total of more than 20,000 workers, all of whom are members of the American Auto Workers Association. Toyota has 2 factories and 24,000 employees, none of whom are members. Toyota's attitude is simple, the salary can be the same, but if you join the American Auto Union, you will lay off employees. Toyota's workers don't have a backstage, so it's easy to manage, if you want to train, you have to train, say you are unqualified, you are unqualified, say you do a bad job, you do a bad job. ”

"Second, the gap between the two sides in the level of industrial automation is not small, Ford does not want to continue to increase the proportion of industrial robots, but it is very troublesome, a talk is half a year. When I came back from Europe last year, I told you that capitalism is about forced exploitation, not socialism with a human service. ”

"Why do you say that the manufacturing level of German cars is better than that of the three major American car companies, if you go to Germany, 30% of the front-line workers are from Eastern Europe, and 17% of the employees at Volkswagen's factory in Drester are from Poland. The trade unions of the Germans are much more self-disciplined than those of the United States, we invest in Europe, and the factories in Germany are the easiest to turn losses into profits, and the reason is here, if you want to lay off employees, you can pay a sum of money to ensure the living expenses of the other party for three months, how to let others be re-employed, or what happens after three months, that is all solved by the government and social institutions. Britain and Sweden are also okay, a little troublesome, Italy and France are miserable. ”

"The degree of difficulty of the American Auto Workers Association is a historical problem, and in Italy and France, all the unions are more troublesome, but not as neurotic and as strong as the American Auto Workers' Association...... I can't say it's too much to describe them as neurotic. ”

Xu Teng said so much on this issue, and he really has a deep understanding, "Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler have been partners for so many years, and they have not made Chrysler up, and last year they asked us if we wanted to take over the plate, and take the plate." What does Ford say about this company, its brand, its heritage, its customer accumulation, I want it all, but it has neither the technology nor the best-selling models, and there are a lot of headaches. I mean, I'd rather spend $20 billion to build a new system in the United States than take over. ”

"Understood. Liu Junsheng nodded, was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "I think it can be acquired, after all, Ford Credit Company alone is worth us to spend $15 billion to merge the other party, and then consider its existing models, it can still be sold in China and Asia." The integration of the two sides in the spare parts system has basically reached 90%, which is the best basis for our acquisition, saving at least four or five years of trouble. I'm not just talking about it, I've been counting for more than ten days, and if you think you can trust me once, then let me be responsible, and I can be resident in the United States. ”

"Is this ......?" Xu Teng roughly understood what Liu Junsheng meant, the dream team still rejected Liu Junsheng, especially the seven or eight senior partners in the core, they must be afraid that Liu Junsheng would surpass them in the future and succeed Chen Zhixin.

This kind of thing, Xu Teng can understand, others have worked hard for ten years, and the internal competition is fierce enough, and another Liu Junsheng, who has a special advantage over everyone, must be very repulsive in everyone's hearts, and it is not something that he can solve with a meeting.

"Do you get along with Lu Zhifeng?" Xu Teng must ask clearly, he and Liu Junsheng's judgments have their own advantages and disadvantages, that is, everyone's starting point is different, if you don't like a person, you must be able to find a lot of reasons, if you like a person, you can also find a lot of reasons.

In fact, whether this business is a merger or not, the key depends on Ford's offer, and as for the problem of the Auto Workers Association, he can actually solve it, but he is not willing to waste these favors.

"He'll be fine, I'll figure it out. Liu Junsheng must not be telling the truth, because Lu Zhifeng is from Guangqi Honda, in 2004 he brought the whole team to join the dream team, focusing on production and spare parts, which is completely the basic framework of production management of the Japanese system, combined with state-owned enterprises and national conditions to make some adjustments, has been regarded as one of the best candidates to replace Chen Zhixin.

This Lu Zhifeng's personality is not so easy to get along with, and he is very strict with himself and the people below, while Liu Junsheng is a person who is more flexible in business, and it is not easy for the two people to get along happily.

When it comes to doing business, Liu Junsheng is really not a good person, he once sold a batch of inferior and unqualified steel products at a low price with the label number of his competitors, which not only recovered his losses, disposed of inventory, but also hit his opponents.

Lu Zhifeng will never be able to do this kind of thing, but in the Chinese steel market, where the regulatory mechanism is seriously chaotic, there is a hooligan like Liu Junsheng, who can think of ways to make money regardless of whether the market is good or bad.

Of course, this was an old thing seven years ago, and then the business became bigger, and many of Liu Junsheng's bad tricks were more yin than this one.

"Okay, you and Lu Zhifeng continue to negotiate with Ford, if Ford's offer is really satisfactory to me, I will agree to the merger and let you take charge of Ford's business department." Xu Teng offered very good conditions, because what the Ford board really wanted was some high-tech company chips in his hands, and after he was hooked, he wanted to merge more than him.

Ford's current three factories in the United States, he can shut down, move 70% of production capacity to Mexico, and then find a suitable place in the United States to rebuild a new factory, and spend $7 billion to rebuild the entire system...... No problem at all.

This kind of thing is impossible for the current board of directors of Ford, and it does not want to continue large-scale investment at all, just like many small bosses in our country, doing it every day is a day, and how much money is earned.

Ford's senior management must still have fighting spirit, after all, they have been working for decades, after all, they are all professional managers, and they rely on this company to make money to support their families, but for shareholders, this business is not worth investing in at all.

Lose today, earn tomorrow, the competition is still so fierce, even the local market is not the opponent of Japan and Europe at all, you are the boss, you are not willing to invest, why don't you buy shares of APPLE, why not go to Facebook shares?

If you invest in Microsoft stock, it's better than investing in the U.S. auto industry.

Toyota, Honda, BMW, Volkswagen...... At the shareholder level of the world's major car companies, the mentality is similar, and the investment in the field of new technology is shrinking rapidly, and a platform can be used repeatedly for more than ten years, and it will continue to sell if it changes its appearance and decoration.

If Xu Teng was not for the long-term consideration of smart cars, he would not have been able to continue to expand investment in this field and continue to impact the upstream seats. (To be continued.) )