A few days later.

Bazel's conferment went smoothly, and the next day after the ceremony at Buckingham Palace was followed by a celebratory ball at the hotel, to which friends from all walks of life were invited. An Feng and Joanna were naturally among them, and the two attended on time, and found that not only wealthy businessmen were present, but also some politicians.

It seems that Sinclair's stall is very large, so it is no wonder that Bazel often travels back and forth between the two places, and his children are also studying in England, so it turns out that part of the business is settled here. This made An Feng's assessment of their strength improve again, no longer limited to the United States, but to Europe and the United States.

But going forward, I'm afraid it will have to be redefined.

Because he saw Khalid. This guy is also wearing a suit and dress, and the female companion next to him is the Lebanese mixed-race female singer, wearing a red suspender gown with a high profile, just like Khalid's outgoing and loving nature. Perhaps because of his Western cultural education, he did not have a beard, but wore a suit on his body, and if it were not for his dark skin color, I am afraid that he would not be able to tell that he was an Arab.

"Hey, Bruce!" Khalid apparently also spotted An Feng and came in surprise.

"The world is so small!" An Feng greeted him.

Khalid said: "At the invitation of Mr. Sinclair, I have come to celebrate his knighthood. ”

An Feng chatted with him for a while and touched his wine glass, but An Feng drank champagne, and Khalid was ordinary juice, which he still had a Muslim taboo forbidden. Later, they went to socialize separately, and An Feng was led by Matthew to meet many businessmen and politicians.

An Feng glanced at Khaled, who was talking to Bazel, and said curiously: "It seems that the emotional card also has an element of business in it, right?" ”

Matthew nodded: "Of course, we have oil cooperation with Qatar in recent years, and there are a lot of business dealings, and this time the other party is rushing to liquefied natural gas in Texas, once an agreement is reached." With the approval of the U.S. government, we will have an order of tens of billions. ”

Tens of billions is a big order, Xin's energy and Qatar oil cooperation, Qatar and their natural gas cooperation, mutual benefit background, the future of in-depth collusion must be indispensable...... Therefore, Anfeng believes that Xin's energy business scope spans three continents. There is also a high-level operation involved. This time, the royal family members are undoubtedly building a line, and if they want to go further in the future, they will inevitably contact these princes and nobles.

Later, Matthew added: "Africa's oil is also in the strategic plan, and it is well known that Libya and Nigeria have more oil reserves than Texas." ”

An Feng admires that the strategic vision of a truly large enterprise will never be limited to the present, like the average company may plan for three years, five years later, and multinational enterprises will have more than ten or twenty years. The most classic is Google, which is said to have achieved its development strategy fifty years later.

Sinclair's African oil strategy, it is normal to include the plan, and the new energy is also their plan, but it has already begun to be implemented, from this friendly conversation with the British business community, Middle East oil tycoons, they have turned part of the focus to new energy.

……

Soon after. An Feng and Joanna return to the United States.

The winter break for American college students is a bit short, and school starts in January. I'm afraid that the domestic ones have just been on holiday...... After sending her to school, I went home and carefully made plans for this year. The reason why I can calm down and make plans is naturally that the money is no longer enough to spend lavishly, and planning is equivalent to saving money.

According to Hardy. Locke's calculations put aside the $100 million in taxes he had left in his U.S. account, and $50 million of them had to be included in the land spending—the auction of the land in Santa Barbara. The standard of ambition must be more than 50 million yuan.

The remaining more than 10 million is no longer enough for him to spend lavishly. If it is included in GP International, there are quite a few, more than 600 million in scale, but it is not convenient to use it in a private name. If you want to use it, you should pay dividends, and then deduct the personal tax, this kind of depression An Feng doesn't like.

"Do you really want to go abroad to spend?" An Feng was entangled, he had invested in so many industries, and in the end, there were few people who could give him profit dividends.

Even if it doesn't generate profits, some still keep swallowing money.

In the midst of depression, a phone call came, it was from the assistant Eve.

"Hey, girl?" An Feng said casually.

Eve said, "Hello, Mr. Ann. Inform you of the news that the No. 1 workshop of the battery factory has been able to put into operation, and the recruitment and training of workers has ended. We will be negotiating with Tesla, Apple and other companies, do you want to participate in person? ”

An Feng said: "Isn't there Hawley presiding? It's not interesting for me to participate in this, so you can just tell me a little bit and see how it was planned. ”

Eve said: "In terms of car batteries, according to the contract, at least 1.5 billion single car batteries will be provided to Tesla within three years, and the first year's car batteries can only be provided to Tesla, which are divided into two types: high-configuration version and low-configuration version, and the demand for each vehicle is about 5,000." ”

The last time Anfeng experienced it in Texas, the high-end version of the MODEL-S has a range of 650 kilometers - in fact, depending on the driver's driving habits, it is about 600 kilometers, because you always have to drive with air conditioning, listen to music, or occasionally have a big foot electric door, and race against other cars......

The low-spec version has a range of 400 km, which is actually slightly lower, and although the battery cost is low, the charging time is not much different.

An Feng asked: "Has the profit of the low-profile version of the battery been calculated?" ”

"Yes, at the current cost, the profit per battery can be maintained at about $5."

An Feng calculated that if a car has 5,000 batteries and a profit of 5 US dollars, then its selling price is estimated to be doubled, and half of Tesla's cost is batteries.

In fact, to build a large battery, it is enough to connect dozens of batteries in parallel, but Tesla is arrogant, and it is necessary to get a set of accurate battery control system, and there must be thousands of pieces to reflect its high-tech ...... The safety of graphene batteries is very high, but since it is a customer requirement, it is necessary to do so.

An Feng asked: "What about the high-end version of the battery?" ”

Eve said: "The demand for the high-end version accounts for about 30% of the total, and the profit of each battery can be maintained at about 8 US dollars, according to the demand for three years, it is estimated that the high-end battery can bring a total of 3.6 billion net profits, and the low profit is 5.2 billion, a total of 8.8 billion US dollars." ”

An average annual profit of 3 billion yuan - ideally, in reality it will generally go down. The turnover will be at least 10 billion or more. Compared to the battery industry, it is a high number, and it is only Tesla's car battery, what about the broader car brand? And out of the automotive field, what about the mobile device?

An Feng said happily: "This is definitely the first big order of the company in the New Year." ”

"Congratulations!" Eve smiled and congratulated, "There is also good news. The company is currently in talks with Apple to provide them with batteries for mobile devices, and in order to stay ahead of the technology, they ask us to provide them exclusively for three years, but Mr. Hawley does not agree. ”

An Feng thought about it and agreed with Hawley's opinion. Three years is too long, but he plans to introduce new batteries to mobile devices all over the world, not only to make money himself, but also to benefit mankind - in fact, the more he sells. The principle of earning more - but isn't that a good way to say?

Eve continued: "Negotiations on other fronts were good except for the time difference. The company intends to develop high-end batteries for mobile devices, doubling the battery capacity of mobile phones by at least 3 times compared to doubling the battery capacity of automobiles, shortening the charging time of ordinary chargers to 20 minutes, and making a profit of more than 11 US dollars. ”

An Feng thought of a point: "Workshop 1 can only use 20% to produce other batteries, right?" ”

"Yes, 80% of it is used to produce car batteries."

An Feng asked: "The other two workshops will not be operational until at least the end of the year?" ”

"It is expected that this is the case, and maybe Workshop 3 will be slightly ahead of schedule."

An Feng said: "20% production is not high. At most, it can be provided to two mobile device manufacturers at the same time, but it is better to build other workshops within a year. Exclusively provided to Apple, we can appropriately charge some exclusive fees, plus profits, how about it? ”

Eve jotted down his plan: "I'll give Mr. Hawley my opinion later." ”

An Feng smiled: "It's troublesome." ”

……

The development of batteries has allowed Anfeng to see the dawn of making money, and it is expected that it will definitely be able to pay dividends in January next year...... Unfortunately, there's still a year to go. However, the development prospects are good, and the first workshop alone can pull so many orders. Tesla and Apple are also putting forward various conditions to get ahead.

If the second and third workshops are completed, there will be more impatient merchants coming around, from car batteries to mobile phones. Tablets, laptops...... Anyone who doesn't want wires to connect will choose their cost-effective super batteries, which also means that wealth is piled up.

If you want to save money, it is more appropriate to build the next factory in a third world country, because the Americans are really fucked up, not to mention the continuous rise in workers' wages, and various union representatives have to come to threaten the factory to raise wages...... The next time the factory is built in China, the treatment is higher than the local level, so as to ensure that everyone has no complaints, and it is also conducive to expanding the market, which can be regarded as overseas Chinese businessmen to contribute to GDP.

……

Benjamin. Hawley has been in a lot of spirits lately.

As the CEO of GP company, he manages the work of GP Energy downward, for an epoch-making company, how many people have squeezed their heads to take their lists, from the mobile phone battery, Apple, Samsung also have to fight for a head to break the bloodstream, even if the company has been biased towards Apple, but Samsung is still unwilling, said that if this year's monopoly plan fails, they will strive to grab the next year's No. 2 workshop.

Hawley appropriately let out a little rumor and gave them hope, but did not give a promise, and the result was naturally a scramble, all kinds of methods were exhausted, and the benefits were put out - even the meaning of fighting for losses. Because of the long-term vision, it is not the battery profit that is grabbed now, but the future market.

Even if the purchase of batteries is a loss-making operation, but the future market is grabbed, do you need to care about this loss?

Hawley naturally understands the psychology of the other party, so he almost laughs at the princes fighting each other with the power of life and death, and strives to expand the interests of the company and win the favor of the shareholders behind him - he understands that with so many giants crowded together, it is easy for him to get ahead, but he must keep his position.

The most effective way to keep your position is to show your results.

For Hawley, who loves a challenge, this is exciting. After continuous negotiations, Apple eventually won a 20% share of the production, and GP will provide them with an exclusive one-year battery, and they will pay for the battery in addition to the exclusivity fee of up to $2 billion.

In disguise, the $2 billion is equivalent to Apple's advertising spending, which is better than other forms of advertising.

It is almost effortless to take the money, even the batteries have not been shipped, 2 billion has already arrived, according to the agreement, Apple will pay half in July, and the rest in January of the following year. Other merchants who lost the opportunity naturally lamented, but also ignited the fighting spirit to compete for the No. 2 workshop.

GP Energy will be a buzzword for a long time. (To be continued......)