Chapter 242: Talison's internal grudges
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On January 10th, the Northern Hemisphere is still in the season of cold winds and heavy snowfall, while Australia in the Southern Hemisphere is in the middle of the hottest summer of the year.
As soon as I landed at Sydney Airport, I just walked out of the waiting hall and got out of the care of the air conditioner, and I felt a heat wave coming to my face.
Jin Xiaoqiang and his entourage, including Jin Guozhu, and Li Shulan's family of three, and by the way, there was also a negotiation team composed of professionals who came to Hong Kong.
After Jin Xiaoqiang expressed his intention to join, he sent a professional appraisal team to the mining area in Western Australia to evaluate.
In fact, a long time ago, Jin Xiaoqiang found a dedicated accounting team from Hong Kong, and he began to build his own management team.
Because considering that he may participate in many international mergers and acquisitions in the future, as well as negotiation matters, Jin Xiaoqiang also specially asked Alice to set up a third-party evaluation team in Hong Kong, and the negotiation and accounting team.
This is the prototype of a firm, the four most famous international firms, which are indeed well-known and can help you solve many problems.
But fundamentally, Jin Xiaoqiang still doesn't trust these firms, after all, behind these firms, there will be inextricable links with some big chaebols in the United States and Europe.
In the future, if it involves negotiating or cooperating with some other large multinational companies, and then collecting data through these firms, then Jin Xiaoqiang is a little worried.
After all, they are all in a group, although on the surface they are all readable, but in fact, they are all inextricably linked, if they provide false information to themselves, or leak their trade secrets, then their losses will be great.
In the eyes of many people, such a thing will seem unlikely, but in fact, few of these offices have clean butts.
There have been so many scandals on Wall Street in later generations, many of which were cases of fraud with inside information, and how many of them were leaked from these firms?
Everyone knows it, so when their own enterprises are not large, they can also collect data through these companies, but once their companies are large enough, they must not trust these companies and must set up their own teams.
The reason why Jin Xiaoqiang set the working place of this team in Hong Kong is also a bit of a cover-up, after all, the big boss behind this investigation agency is himself, but this investigation company cannot be named in the name of Huayang Power, and it is best to be as low-key as possible.
After all, there are still many countries in the world that have an unfriendly attitude towards the Celestial Empire and the enterprises that come to the Celestial Empire, and if they want to acquire certain companies or cooperate with certain companies in the future.
If you send your own team to investigate, the other party is likely to provide you with false data, if you say that before the negotiation to send a secret third-party investigation team from Hong Kong, then your opponent may be confused by this vest, and they don't know who will become their opponent, so it will be the most beneficial to Huayang Power's future actions.
So as early as after the Frankfurt Motor Show, Jin Xiaoqiang asked Alice to be in charge of this matter, and Alice has been operating this matter while acquiring Google shares in the United States, recruiting a lot of talents from the United States, and these people don't know that their big boss behind the scenes is Huayang Power from the Celestial Empire.
Although this team has not been established for a long time, the efficiency of the work is not low, after all, there are several skilled hands that Alice has dug from the United States, and there are many young people who have just entered the workplace and dare to fight, so the spirit of this company is still very strong.
As soon as it was established this time, it was sent by the boss to Australia to carry out a mission, although Talison is not a very famous large company, but they still carried out the task very seriously.
In the past month or so, they have successively investigated and secretly visited, and then they also contacted the high-level personnel in Talisen in various ways, and finally found out the truth of Talisen.
As for the reports on the internal operation of Talisen, as well as the financial situation, Jin Xiaoqiang and Jin Guozhu have read and analyzed them many times.
The current business situation of the company can be said to be quite good, but this is also in the current situation of mainly operating tantalum, the United States has been in full swing in Iraq recently, although the Iraqi army can be said to be vulnerable in front of the United States, but how can the major arms dealers miss such a good opportunity.
As long as they can get along with the political axe, they are desperately buying weapons from the army, so the demand for tantalum in the United States has been very large recently, after all, the tantalum capacitor made of this metal is an indispensable component in the missile.
Although in recent times, the concept of lithium batteries has been hyped more fiercely, but after all, lithium batteries have not been popularized on a large scale, and even if they are lithium batteries for mobile phones, they have not been used on a large scale, so the demand for lithium in the market is not large.
Talison's board of directors has seven members, and the conservative faction is led by Sir Jonathan, a British aristocrat who immigrated to Australia very early, and his family has been in Australia for more than 100 years.
The old guy's family can be said to have a certain influence in Australia, and this Talisen is actually the early family business of their family, and later after various financing expansions, the board of directors was expanded to seven.
Now there are three old guys who agree with Jonathan, and they mean that the company's main focus in the future is still on the operation of tantalum mines, and their own equity in the company can reach almost 65%.
The other group of people is headed by the uncle Jeffrey, the Jeffrey's family used to be a big landlord in Western Australia, and their family was originally a big landlord in the Greenbuss area, and then Jonathan's Talison company found a large amount of tantalum ore on Jeffrey's family's land, and in this way, Jeffrey's family used the land as capital and invested in the Talison company.
But it was a deal made by Jeffrey's father, who later went to study in the United States, and while studying in the United States, he happened to meet Feng's aunt, and the two fell in love and got married, and later returned to Australia, took over the shares of the company left to him by his father, and became a senior manager of the company.
Jeffrey has been exposed to the latest education in the United States, and the ability to accept new things is very strong, in the concept of lithium battery at the beginning of the period, he was more interested, and later after in-depth research, he felt that the lithium battery is promising, so the board of directors proposed that the company should transfer part of its resources and energy to develop lithium mines, but was rejected by a group of old-fashioned people led by Jonathan.
There are two other young people in the company who also took over the inheritance of their fathers and entered the company's board of directors, and they are also optimistic about lithium resources, so they stand on Jeffrey's side, so there is the situation of today's Talison company, and they want to separate!
Jeffrey is the majority shareholder of the company, he has 20 percent of the company's shares, plus the other three small shareholders, they have about 40 percent of the company's shares, but they still don't have as many shares as Jonathan.
So when they were separating the family and the mining areas, Jonathan and the others deliberately held on to the mining areas with the richest lithium resources and the best quality, and let Jeffrey and them exchange their 200 million Australian dollars.
So in this way, there was also a trip to Australia for Jin Xiaoqiang's family.
However, when they came to Australia, they did not go directly to Western Australia, but first went to Eastern Australia, which is home to Australia's largest and best cities, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and the entire elite area of Australia, almost all of which are gathered here.
In his last life, Jin Xiaoqiang didn't have much ability, his parents didn't even enjoy it in his old age, let alone traveling abroad, he didn't even enjoy his old age in secret, he had the ability in this life, and his father and mother were not bad for money, and he didn't want his parents to miss the opportunity to enjoy.
So after the family got off the plane, the father and son did not rush to negotiate with Talison, but first traveled and had fun in the East Australia.
Of course, the seal is accompanied by the whole process, after all, he is the one who found it, and of course he has to do the work of this reception.
The Great Barrier Reef, Fenser Island, Hamilton Island, Sydney Seascape, Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Gold Coast, etc., Australia's famous attractions, the closure has taken Jin Xiaoqiang and them around.
Of course, because of the tight time, some places just took a look around, but even so, it took more than a week to turn around.
During the closure, he also took Jin Xiaoqiang and them to see his company in Australia, which is the only designated agent of Huayang Power in Australia.
This guy is also very scheming, and while buying the agency rights all over Australia, he will certainly not miss the opportunity to open his flagship store in big cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra.
In Eastern Australia, the essence of Australia, the closure can be said to occupy all the good places, and he has opened a flagship store in the main areas of these cities.
And this time Jin Xiaoqiang came over, of course he wanted to take Jin Xiaoqiang to visit, this trip allowed Jin Xiaoqiang to really understand the popularity of Huayang Power's products in Australia.
In Australia, their Yidong is a low configuration of 30,000 Australian dollars, the price can be said to be not cheap, but this does not stop people from liking this car.
You must know that the price can be said to be not cheap compared to Mitsubishi's EVO and Subaru's Impreza, but fans are not deterred by the price.
After all, compared to the pure racing three-tael evo and Subaru's impreza, this car has a better appearance, and it is also more pleasing to middle-aged consumers who can afford it.
After all, evo and impreza are generally preferred by teenagers abroad, and middle-aged people generally like this kind of race, but if they go out, they may be said to be unstable, so many people dare not buy them.
However, Huayang Power's Yidong is different, and its appearance can be said to be suitable for many consumers.
In the past few days in these major cities in Australia, Jin Xiaoqiang has seen a lot of their Yidong on the road, as well as several models such as Yihu and Octavia.
Although it has only just been listed in Australia, it seems that the momentum of sales is not weak.
Finally, after having a good time in a few big cities, the uncle could no longer sit still, and with the hope of the other two board members, he flew from Perth to Sydney to meet Jin Xiaoqiang and his son.
Although this uncle of Feng Qian, although he looks like a pure foreign devil with a tall cow, but because he has been married to Feng Qian's aunt for more than 20 years, he speaks Chinese well, and he travels to China several times a year when he has time, it can be said that this Jeffrey is a China expert.
Under the arrangement of the closure situation, a group of several people held negotiations in the private room of the Marriott Hotel in Sydney's Circular Wharf, where Jin Xiaoqiang and the others were staying.
This time, Jeffrey also brought a few assistants over, and there were a lot of information about their company, and after handing over the materials they prepared to Jin Xiaoqiang and his son and their team for review, the two sides began to enter into the details of the negotiation.
"Mr. Jeffrey, according to what you said, the price proposed by the other party is 200 million Australian dollars, so we want to know, how much money do you have left to win those mines?"
Since everyone is sincere, there is no need to go around in circles, Jin Xiaoqiang roughly looked at Jeffrey's data statistics report, and asked Jeffrey to.
"Uh...... We...... We can't get a penny out of ......."
Jeffrey's face was a little embarrassed, and he was stunned for a long time before he could hold back such a sentence.
"What? You guys...... You ......"
Jin Xiaoqiang is really strange, these three directors are also the major shareholders of Talisen, Talisen's recent business situation can be said to be very good, how can they have no money?
"Last year, Jonathan said that the company's operation was good, so the profits of the year were used to expand production, so we did not get the company's dividends except for the salary we received in the company."
Jeffrey, though embarrassed, told the truth.
"What? So what is your equity in the company now......"
Jin Xiaoqiang asked again, this makes people feel very confused, although his investigation team has done a very careful investigation, and he also knows about this matter, but he still doesn't know the specific ins and outs.
(To be continued)