Milou can take office immediately when he arrives in the UK, and Koper has been unilaterally dismissed by Crystal Palace. And what about the coaching team? Long before announcing Koper's resignation, two coaching teams had been hired, and both of them were teams that had coached in giant clubs, and many of them even had professional-level coaching qualifications, which was a precautionary measure for Liu Si to prevent Milu from being unreliable.

First of all, the task of these two coaching teams is to travel to Europe and South America to recruit some future stars and free agents. Among them, the biggest name of free agent is Diego Maradona, who is currently 37 years old and retired at Boca Youth.

Although Diego Maradona is not a free agent at present, as long as Maradona is willing to come to Crystal Palace, then he has great prestige in Argentina, Boca Juniors dare not say anything, he can immediately become a free agent and go to England.

Moreover, although Maradona is a South American player, he does not need a labor certificate to land in the Premier League. Of course, Liu Si does not expect the 37-year-old Maradona to be brave, but it is certain that Maradona's joining Crystal Palace is conducive to the stability of the dressing room, and at the same time has a great effect on the coaching team going out to recruit the guidance who will enter Crystal Palace.

Of course, the next thing will be handed over to David, the manager of the Crystal Palace, and Liu Si will hand over all the rights of the Crystal Palace to him. Including the $100 million that went into Crystal Palace's account two days ago.

The main thing is that accountants and lawyers from the United States and Hong Kong have come to the UK, and since everything is ready, it is time to take over Bentley and Rolls-Royce.

When it comes to the British automotive industry, the first reaction is to include words such as artistic, high-performance, purely manual manufacturing, and top-of-the-line luxury. Goodwood, a small town in the south of England and one of the birthplaces of the British automotive industry, is home to the Rolls-Royce factory as it hosts the annual Speed Festival that attracts fans from all over the world.

Just over 10 days ago, this great top car brand was acquired by Liu Si. However, even with the change of controller, Rolls-Royce's Goodwood plant did not stop working, and continued to produce according to the original procedures. Rolls-Royce's Goodwood factory is not at a moment's mark, because Rolls-Royce's orders are already in place for next year.

Walking into Rolls-Royce, in the reception hall not far from the company's entrance, quietly parked there is the Silver Tama produced by Rolls-Royce in 1907. Even with its 100-year-old history, its spirit makes those who see it at first glance feel the spirit of the Rolls-Royce brand's pursuit of excellence.

This time, the reception staff sent by Rolls-Royce was called Niegel.? Three generations of the Niegel family have worked at the Bentley factory, and he himself has been with Bentley Motors for 34 years, and his current job is mainly to receive VIP visitors. He started out in the leather business for 11 years, then moved to the training department, where he trained apprentices and later became overseers. As a guest in charge, Niegel is fluent in English, Spanish, German and Chinese.

The reason why Niegel was able to be a receptionist for Liu Si from now on was because he knew Chinese. Moreover, Rolls-Royce headquarters has decided that Liu Si's visit to Bentley will also be received by Niegel.

The Goodwood factory's reception hall is also architectural, with a circular glass skylight at the top of the tree-like steel frame support structure, and like many top factories, Rolls-Royce believes that natural light is the best thing in the world. The design of the reception hall not only has a strong visual impact, but also the design of natural light and ventilation is also unique. The reception hall also has some outstanding works of Rolls-Royce in recent times.

After a round in the Rolls-Royce factory, all in all, Liu Si was very satisfied with it. Some people say that the backwardness of the British automobile industry is due to the fact that it sticks to the traditional handmade and does not adapt to the modern industry of assembly line / electronic, with many products but low competitiveness, and slow equipment and technology updates. And this statement, Liu Si personally thinks that it can only be aimed at the British Leyland Company (Louvre), but for Rolls-Royce and Bentley, it contains artistic atmosphere, high performance, pure manual manufacturing, and top luxury is their mark.

Of course, Liu Si also plans to carry out a certain degree of equipment and technology updates in Rolls-Royce and Bentley, especially in terms of electronic technology, Rolls-Royce and Bentley do need to keep pace with the times.

Of course, Rolls-Royce and Bentley's electronic information update is not in a hurry, after all, it is only 1997, and electronic technology has been applied in automobiles, but the sense of science and technology is not strong, and it can be slow.

But for Rolls-Royce and Bentley, there is one thing that cannot be delayed, and that is to reform the management and business model of Rollslas and Bentley, and at the same time reduce the scale of top management as much as possible.

Mismanagement is an old problem of British industry. A grassroots cadre who has worked in the factory for many years said: "The weakness of management can be traced back to the merger of British Motor Company and Leland, and then it has become so weak that if you don't run to the company, you can't get direct instructions." The situation is simply a mess. I think that from the factory manager onwards, all the management norms have been lost, and I don't think they are engaged in automobile manufacturing at all. ”

Although this is ugly, it is to the point. The British automobile industry has an unusual feature: the company is dominated by a large manufacturing board, which has its own personnel, finance, production, engineering, quality management and other departments, while the director of the manufacturing plant is only a "light commander", with few soldiers, and has no right to decide on the replacement of a machine tool, and has to listen to the instructions of the directors, and for those directors, the matter of a machine tool is too "trivial".

There is also a tendency for overkill in the British automobile industry: the British automobile industry used to use technical personnel to manage the factory, but because they did not have training in management, there was inevitably some chaos, and the British went from one extreme to the other: they hired people trained in business work to be managers, but they forgot to supplement their knowledge of automobile production and manufacturing, especially their lack of experience in working in the workshop, so the complaint of the grassroots cadre is completely understandable.

Rolls-Royce and Bentley continue the traditional bloated structure of seven departments and the management model of independent decision-making at the top of the head office. As far as the operation of Rolls-Royce and Bentley is concerned, there are many loopholes, and the "fat cat" phenomenon is serious, which is also the reason for their ultimate business difficulties. According to Moy's investigation, Rolls-Royce and Bentley have extremely high salaries and a huge pension black hole. At the same time, the company has a large amount of cash and assets missing from the books.

Liu Si brought nearly 20 accountants from 4 or 5 accounting firms in Hong Kong and the United States to Rolls-Royce this time to audit the accounts, not only Rolls-Royce, but also Bentley's accounts. The purpose of Liu Si is to find out the problematic executives and kick them out of Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors.

In fact, not only Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but also Lamborghini in Italy also had accountants drawn by Liu Si from the accounting firm to Sant'Agata Bolognese to audit the accounts, and their purpose was the same as that of auditing Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motor Company.

The industry in Europe and the United States is not the same as in China, most of their workers will work in a company for a lifetime, and now there are no retired Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors employees who have worked for 40~50 years occupy 10%, about 300 people.

The senior management of Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors has worked for 40~50 years, so the date of the audit is from 1950, which is a very large workload.

After Liu Si visited the Rolls-Royce factory, the board of directors held a meeting in the conference room of the Rolls-Royce headquarters. Because Liu Si owns 100% of Rolls-Royce, there is no so-called discussion, Moynihan announced the decision on behalf of Liu Si: from now on, Xingyu Holdings (UK) Limited will become the owner of Rolls-Royce, and at the same time, Rolls-Royce and Bentley will be split into two companies, and Rolls-Royce will not control Bentley; At the same time, in order to better lead Rolls-Royce, the headquarters of Xingyu Holdings Limited dispatched accountants to review the accounts of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

The accountants and lawyers brought by Liu Si immediately took over the financial department of Rolls-Royce and began to review the accounts.

After walking Rolls-Royce, Liu Si went non-stop to Crewe, England, an English town. Crewe, England – Bentley's headquarters and factory were built in 1938 as a potato plantation for the production of aircraft (no doubt Rolls-Royce bought Bentley in 1931 and RR also manufactures aircraft engines). The reason for the location was that it was conveniently located at the British transport hub at the time, and Crewe was built by British Railways with a large number of craftsmen, which was also very suitable for Bentley's brand of hand-built cars.

Bentley's car factory is much the same as the Rolls-Royce factory, both of which are labor-intensive. But the Cosworth engine factory, located next to the Bentley factory, cares. The technology of the Cosworth engine factory is not as good as that of Rolls-Royce Engines, but it is not bad after all that it is an engine factory that produces engines exclusively for Bentley.

Historically, Volkswagen has completed an acquisition at a much higher price than Rolls-Royce's actual price, only to find that they simply had no right to produce Rolls-Royce cars. Why? As early as one year ago, the Vickers Group had transferred the ownership of the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars brand to Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines. This company makes Rolls-Royce brand aircraft engines, and the scary thing is that BMW owns 10% of the company. For four months, Piëch and Pyrider met every Monday at their hotel in Munich to try to resolve the impasse. BMW threatened Volkswagen to stop supplying engines, air conditioners and other critical components to Rolls-Royce SilverSeraph and Bentley Arnage. Volkswagen knows very well that without these parts of BMW, they can't fit Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It takes 4~5 years to develop a new model.

Liu Si certainly attaches great importance to the Cosworth Engine Plant. Because if Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engine stops supplying engines, air conditioners and other critical components to Rolls-Royce SilverSeraph and Bentley Arnage. Cosworth Engine Works will be tasked with taking on the responsibilities of Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines.

Because BMW still holds a 10% stake in Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines, and because Bull is friends with Sir Ralph Robins, chairman of Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines, Liu Si is not sure whether Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines will stop supplying engines, air conditioners and other key components to Rolls-Royce SilverSeraph and Bentley Arnage.

While drawing Moynihan's attention to Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines' actions, it also allowed Rolls-Royce and Bentley to start developing new models.

What Liu Sineng can do is to provide the appearance and data of the successful models of Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the future, but the interior still needs to be arranged and designed by Rolls-Royce and Bentley design departments. Of course, the information provided by Liu Si saved at least about 10~15 weeks for the design department of Rollslath and Bentley Motors.

The models provided by Liu Si include Bentley's Continental, Mulsanne, Yajun, Brookland, etc., as well as Rolls-Royce's Phantom, Gust, Phantom, etc.