Due to the research of another seawater desalination project, Duke's work rhythm has become faster and faster, in his rì schedule, except for the weekends to accompany his wife and children, the work rì is full, fortunately Duke is still a young man, in the face of such a high-intensity work arrangement, with the assistance of Kerry's super assistant, the research and development problems are enough to deal with.

The more fields he is exposed to, the larger Kerry's knowledge base becomes, and in terms of knowledge capacity alone, Duke has collected a lot of information on all aspects of modern science and technology and put it into Kerry's storage space, and it is no exaggeration to say that Kerry's knowledge base is now the largest scientific and technological library on the planet.

Of course, Duke was able to do all of this thanks to the book digitization project, which allowed Duke to collect electronic versions of various scientific and technical books for only a fee.

If it weren't for such a huge accumulation of knowledge, Duke would have been unable to cope with the increasingly proliferating research content of drones, new standard communication systems, and seawater desalination projects...... Although in many cases Duke no longer needs to propose detailed solutions to problems, when the R&D project team submits difficult problems, Duke always has to study and analyze these problems and propose solutions to them.

Of course, after 99 percent of the ideas were proven to be effective, Duke's expert support team finally recognized that tech geniuses are always omniscient, while the R&D team below only knew that the problem was solved, and they didn't care if it was the expert support team or Duke who solved it.

Anyway, now everyone knows that Duke, the chief scientist, is not in vain, and even with its expert support team has gradually become famous, because these experts are the first line of defense to analyze and decompose Duke's ideas, and their abilities have also been greatly improved in the process - for top scientists, in fact, in many cases, the most important thing for scientific and technological breakthroughs is ideas!

Duke now acts as a source of ideas that inspire his team of expert support to go the extra mile and trigger new ideas, as if a nuclear reaction were fissioning.

For such a national treasure, of course, Cai Siqiang will not disturb Duke's work when he waits for idle things, you must know that Duke can solve a big problem that affects the progress of a project of hundreds of people in a month or two every minute, and the R&D expenses are calculated in millions of years.

This is the real big deal with millions of people coming in and out every minute! Therefore, even Cai Siqiang, the big man who actually masters SAL, tries to leave enough personal space for Duke, even if he is idle, it is equivalent to recharging Duke, a national treasure.

But when the chūn festival was approaching, Cai Siqiang couldn't help but find the door.

"Duke, what are you busy with today?" Cai Siqiang pushed Duke's office open, looking at Duke as if he was sitting there in a daze, in fact, Duke was waiting for Kerry to answer a complicated question, and when he saw Cai Siqiang coming in, he withdrew from his mind and let Kerry run it on his own.

"Caicai, what kind of wind is blowing today, blowing you over?" He looked at Cai Siqiang and joked, but it was also true, because compared to Duke who often stayed in the office, Cai Siqiang, the actual cāo of SAL, was often on the go, and he spent much more rìzi on planes than on land in a year, thanks to his own business jet.

"I'm going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing," Cai Siqiang said with a smile, "Otherwise, if we delay your work as a big Buddha, we will have to make less money, and that's all for gossip, I really have a big deal to discuss with you today." ”

Cai Siqiang turned to the topic, "Duke, have you heard of the car brand Opel?" ”

"Of course, this should be a brand owned by GM, what's wrong? Does GM have plans to sell it now? "Duke isn't too slow to react right now.

"Clever! "Since Opel was acquired by GM, in the past nearly 20 years, the Opel brand has caused GM to lose almost $20 billion, and there is still no sign of profitability."

Although GM's top management has been stumbling to find an antidote for Opel in order to reverse the defeat, including forming an alliance with PSA to try to reduce costs, establishing the Opel Committee, gathering talents from the US headquarters to send to Europe to fight fires, and changing the helm of the company, all of which have had little effect, and they have remained in a loss-making state as always.

In order to get rid of this burden, GM's senior management has proposed to sell the Opel brand several times, but in view of many objective factors and huge pressure from European trade unions and Germany, this goal has not been achieved, so that today, this has become a cancer that eats away at GM's profits. ”

Hearing this, Duke was a little confused, since this is the case, what way can Cai Siqiang and them get this Opel brand from GM?

"Duke, are you more confused now, even GM can't sell it if it wants to, how can we have a chance to get this brand?" Cai Siqiang seemed to see through the problem in Duke's eyes,

The answer lies in the fact that the current GM CEO Ackes was friends with the old Li family, and that's not all, the current German Chancellor Stein has a close personal relationship with Li Dashao, and even provided very key financial support for Stein's social election campaign through tortuous channels.

Now GM's president of Exx is really overwhelmed, he now hears that the Li family has entered the automotive industry, and there is no well-known brand yet, so he suggested that Li Dashao take over Opel, as a classmate, he knows that Li Dashao has intersected with the top level of the social mín zhǔ party in power in Germany, and if it can be operated well, then it is very likely that this deal will be reached. ”

Cai Siqiang briefly explained the key points of this matter to Duke, of course, it is not as simple as acquaintances are easy to do, and there are more critical interest arrangements in this transaction, "Li Dashao was very moved after hearing this suggestion, and coordinated with us and Qiyang, everyone was more interested, because for Dongfang Qiyang, it is not easy to open the domestic high-end automobile market, and the establishment of the brand alone is not an overnight effort, and everyone intends to gradually establish their own brands in the way of fighting a protracted war." But if there is a suitable world-class brand, no one will be afraid to take shortcuts through acquisitions. ”

"Although there are not many successful precedents for this road, there are several advantages that other companies do not have for Oriental Qiyang, one is sufficient funds, the second is to establish a perfect domestic channel, the third is to have its own complete production line and supply chain, and the fourth is that we have a unique intelligent technology to develop high-end intelligent cars, so that after getting the brand, on the one hand, we can form the production capacity of low-end products in China in a very short time, which is convenient for occupying the huge domestic automobile market. On the other hand, it can also quickly launch unique smart cars to impact the international high-end market. ”

"Based on these reasons, it is agreed that Li Dashao will engage with various parties, especially the European trade unions and the German side, and judging from the current contact situation, it is very promising to reach an agreement, and now we want to hear your opinion."