Chapter 157 - Acquisition of United Defense in Progress
Xu Fei didn't want to be a brand symbol.
I don't want people to know that I can't afford to buy a TEP for United Defense, because Director Xiao Xu's dog breeding business suddenly turned around and got things done.
However, if you want to win the joint defense, it seems that you can only accept the reality......
"Xu, I'll send you the sales list by email."
"Hmm!"
When Xu Fei heard this, he dragged the mouse expressionlessly to check the 'eighty-two account' of the partnership dog.
The first batch of 2,000 military dogs.
423 pieces were sold for 5 million US dollars. 21.25
317 sold for $4.5 million. 14.265
406 sold for 4 million US dollars. 16.24
854 sold for $3.5 million. 29.89
In addition, at the beginning, Raymond took away 10 pieces, and transferred 90 pieces from TEP (North America), with a price of 2 million. 2.0
The total sales volume is 8,364.5 million.
Among them, Raymond spent 30 million US dollars to make a high-definition version of the Hollywood blockbuster from more than ten seconds of surveillance video.
When he first heard the news, Xu Fei specially asked Tang Mo of a design consulting company and Wan Tao, the hacker leader of a computer service company.
The two of them all said: Niu Bi!
The techniques are said to involve undisclosed interdish-satellite imaging-Wiener filters, deconvolution, and super-resolution reassembly.
And 8,334.5 million.
Lei Meng privately left 15 million US dollars, and Xiao Xu, the director of the factory, privately left 15 million US dollars.
The remaining 04.5 million in the fraction will be used as vacation expenses when the two meet in North America.
As for taxes and fees......
The Carlisle consortium has its home base in Texas.
There are no state taxes, no personal taxes, only sales taxes in Texas.
General Raymond sells dogs alone, paying money with one hand and delivering goods with the other, and Governor Xiaobu and many parliamentarians do not dare to say anything.
And federal taxes ......
Eight out of ten Texas consortiums are unwilling to pay, and General Raymond hates this kind of behavior on the surface, but in fact he is doing it secretly.
As a result, General Raymond received $100 million in public relations expenses.
The remaining eighty-two cents, 82x0.8......
Xu Fei took the calculator and crackled it for a long time.
TEP can get $6.56 billion.
With this money, it seems that it is still impossible to buy United Defense.
However, Raymond said yes, maybe there was something in it.
After Xu Fei finished the calculation, he summoned the minimap and randomly selected a few dogs that were sold to ask......
What?
The 5 million in the sales list is actually 5.1 million?
4.5 million is actually 460?
355?
I said that it is all an integer, and I will erase it all for me.
"Lao Lei, you eat kickbacks, you eat too much!"
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North America.
One of the wealthiest towns in Texas, Sanderson.
It's an annual music festival, and the streets are full of traffic.
Among the many colorful shops, Toys"R"Us that originally belonged to Bain Capital has now become a newly opened pet store.
Two gates decorated with greenery, an elaborate plaque, and a sunny boy with a bright smile in his arms......
On both sides of the open space in front of the door, two oversized pickup trucks, one gold and one red, with the Lone Star tricolor flag hoisted high, deeply attracted pedestrians coming and going.
On the roof of the car, three cowboy youths introduced passionately.
"300 horsepower!"
"It runs like an angry bull!"
"Have you experienced it?"
"Best of all, 100 miles of fuel is only half of your battered Ford!"
"Oh, God, half of it!"
"Brothers and sisters, get moving!"
"What? 100,000 yuan?! ”
"No, no, no! It only costs 80,000! ”
Texas, also known as the Lone Star Country, is the most economically developed state capital in North America and the birthplace of the western cowboy.
The people here are fierce and simple.
People like to eat steak burgers or barbecues and drive big pickup trucks through the wilderness.
There are also elderly cowboys who like to wear straw hats, drive their beloved classic cars, carry trolls in their arms, play retro records, and wander the corn-surrounded field roads.
Therefore, the rough appearance of the little red flag, with its high horsepower, high torque, wild large model, instantly attracted a large number of loyal young fans.
And the exquisite workmanship of the big red flag, with its strong defensive power, has also attracted a large number of elderly Dezhou tyrants.
Distance.
Raymond, who was already familiar to Texans and attracted much attention for the attack, was wearing a North American military uniform with the Lone Star flag attached, sitting in a bulletproof version of the big red flag, holding a satellite phone in his left hand and following the hair of an oversized vicious dog in his right hand, nodding and smiling at the townspeople who came and went to greet him, while talking into the microphone.
The prospect of Hongqi's market is so bright, coupled with the planned pet hospital, that Raymond's idea of flying solo is getting stronger and stronger.
In particular, this financial turmoil has exposed the fatal flaw of the Carlisle consortium to make too many enemies.
Even if Xiaobu is the general manager and can invest in Carlyle and win many military orders, it can't change the situation of being restricted by many peers and secretly squeezed by various consortia.
Therefore, Raymond was very interested in raising dogs, and even decided to win the Hongqi dealership business after trying.
"Xu, what are you talking about?"
"I said, you have swallowed at least 500 million US dollars alone!"
"How is that possible? I'm not that kind of person! ”
"Heh, we TEP also have a background in the North American military, and we also know many rich people, Strauss just makes a phone call, and you know that 5 million is actually 5.1 million, and 4.5 million is actually 4.6 million...... Old Lei, you embarrassed me in front of our boss! ”
Raymond was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered that TEP had a very good relationship with the North American base, "Shet, I'm sorry Xu, I really didn't mean to......"
Then he explained:
"You don't know, I did almost everything to sell the hounds."
"First through the network, a lot of money was hired by the NSA inter-disk satellite image processing department to crop the surveillance video into a frame-by-frame picture, and then use a Wiener filter to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, remove white noise, and make the picture clearer and cleaner."
"Then we use deconvolution, that is, by adjusting the parameters of the filter, compressing the length of the subwaves in the picture and attenuating multiple waves to enhance the resolution."
"At this point, all that's fixed is the 'real information.'"
"Then I hired a team from a special effects company to shoot footage at the site of the attack and carry out 'super-resolution reconstruction'."
"In the end, although the video is 30% real and 70% false, with the help of the news, the viewer can know the details of the attack. You can even see through the window of the car the 'hound pushed me out of the car' in the video after the second recording. ”
"In addition, I commissioned Stewart to customize the mobile playback equipment and high-resolution projection equipment."
"Recently, through Carlyle Investments, I reached a transfer agreement with Bain Capital to take over 1,600 toy stores to renovate the pet club and pet hospital ......"
"Coupled with the purchase of ordinary pets and the hiring of professional clerks and veterinarians, it cost 300 million US dollars!"
"Lao Lei, I have already deducted the cost of making Hollywood blockbusters for you, and the series you said is not something that you alone swallow 5-3... The reason to monopolize 200 million US dollars. ”
"No, I rely on my connections to sell, otherwise it is impossible to sell for a sky-high price of 5 million US dollars, which is called business commission."
"Then we'll break up after we divide the account."
"Xu, don't be like this, we're just working part-time, and I've helped you a lot, just like Hongqi car certification, it's difficult here in Texas, but I can help you get everything, and even help you contact pickup dealers and try to do activities to sell.
You know, in Texas, pickup trucks are very popular, and with my help, both young people and old farmers will fall in love with your red flag.
As long as the sales channel is opened, your status in Hongqi will be rapidly improved, and the high-level leaders in the East will pay more and more attention to you.
The most important thing is Xu, we have to think about ourselves, such as forming our own company.
Therefore, I treat you as a personal partner and never keep anything.
At the very least, we will start a business together in the future! ”
"Anything else?"
"Oh, you greedy fellow... In this way, for the acquisition of United Defense, we will make the accounts more beautiful, and I will share your 20 million US dollars, and I don't want anything, how about it? ”
"TEP payment of 6.4 billion, how much is United Defense worth?"
"Two months ago, 20 billion could not be taken, but M8 was delivered, FMC lost its headquarters, Harsco lost its laboratory, and the two companies were affected by the short-selling storm, and their assets were seriously shrunk, and most importantly, there was a penalty before, and they could not participate in the arms bidding for three years."
"I almost forgot that, so calculated...... Lao Lei, United Defense is not worth much, you must return me 3 billion US dollars. ”
"You're crazy, even if you don't buy and sell weapons, FMC and Harsco are still worth $7 billion, and the reason why I sold you TEP for 6.4 billion is that Carlyle urgently needs funds to save the trapped financial market."
"Okay, I'll tell Strauss, the specific purchase price, we will arrange our own teams, and we will discuss it in detail when we meet."
"Xu, remember what I said, sooner or later we will have to come out and go it alone, you have to get something valuable from TEP, and then you can use it as a technology share, and I have a lot of money, we can implement these technologies and make more money!"
Raymond must have looked into the TEP.
This is a strange company that suddenly appeared three months ago, suddenly spread all over the world, and suddenly its assets skyrocketed, similar to an investment company.
He even suspected that Strauss was behind Wall Street, or the old North American family.
It's a pity that both Lao Bu and his friends have said that they have not been in contact with this company.
However, it can be determined that the smelting technology of TEP is very good, such as the Three Kingdoms of Machinery, the Qua Dynasty, many hardware tools, and even the possibility of helping weapons to manufacture M8 parts, otherwise it is impossible to achieve M8 mass production with Eastern technology.
That's why he asked Xu Fei to ask Strauss if he was interested in joint defense.
Of course, Xu Fei is only the director of the toy factory, even if he is in charge of Daze Industry, he probably doesn't know the inside story.
Xu Fei heard that Raymond was planning to come out to work alone, and when he heard that there was a lot of money in his pocket, he instantly thought of the other party's connections.
But think about it......
TEP is our own, let's steal our own technology, use it to open a company with Raymond, and then use it to make a lot of money......
'No, I'm just a part-time worker!' ’
With the development of Hu Xu's foreign company, Xu Fei no longer dares to think about things with two identities, and can only regard himself as a 'real worker'.
Because this series of things is too complicated, if the two identities are combined, a little thought about it will blow up the brain.
So.
Unswervingly take the route of 'beating workers'!
"Old Lei, what you say, I will seriously consider it."
"Then I'll be more motivated!"
"Wait until North America, let's dig out our hearts and nag."
"Please translate it with Inglas, I don't understand, are you planning to skin me alive and talk to my corpse again?"
"I mean, heart to heart!"
"Oh, damn it, I'm not of the same sex, we Germans are very conservative."
"Then we won't be able to talk, goodbye."
Xu Fei hung up the phone, thought about it seriously, and transferred 99% of the income from the hunting dog breeding business to TEP (North America), and asked James to arrange for someone to buy United Defense.
Exposed to so many international businesses, and with low loan amounts, he has figured out a few things.
If United Defense is acquired as TEP (Huaxia), North America will definitely block it.
With TEP (North America), things are very simple.
Even more smoothly than using the identity of TEP (Tokukoku) and TEP (Washima).
In this way, when James has everything done, TEP will select the best factory director of the quarter and be responsible for the reorganization of United Defense......
Xu Fei's face froze, and he was silent for a long time.
"No, no one will know that I sell dogs!"
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Capital.
The radar communication integration project is still being discussed.
From the basic principle at the beginning, to the network interface layer→ the internetwork interconnection layer→ the transport layer→ application layer, and then to overturn everything and reconstruct the data layer→ network layer→ transport layer → application layer based on the physical layer.
In general, this is a project related to the security of national communications and the future development, and it is impossible to complete it in ten days and half a month, or one or two months.
Moreover, a distinction must be made between civilian and military at each level.
Civil affairs include meteorology, astronomy, geography, etc., various special fields.
The military includes land, sea and air, all kinds of communications, detection and monitoring.
Data layer, one server per class.
The network layer, one port per class, and then rebuild the protocol.
Transport layer, one channel per class, or multiple channels, encryption, anti-eavesdropping......
The application layer, at least 3 applications per class, and additional customization for military use.
On the whole, not to mention that the more than 500 relevant technical personnel of the Huaxia Research Institute are not enough, even if you add professors, associate professors, lecturers, doctoral students, and master's students from various universities, tens of thousands of people are separated from each other to conduct confidential research and development, it is still not enough.
The most uncomfortable thing is that there are very few people who understand.
For example, in the module that comes with the radar system, there is something called 'Collaborative Operation-Human-Machine Page', what is this?
Drones?
Or a remote control device?
Now, however, no one bothered the learned Mr. Strauss.
Because the other party is older, his brain is a little difficult.
The task of the old man in the armed forces has basically been completed, and now he is mainly learning the basic application of 'radar communication integration'.
After all, in the future research and development of weapons, it is necessary to use this thing to make heavy armaments realize all kinds of anti-concealment and all kinds of anti-reconnaissance.
It is even waiting to connect to satellites to achieve three-dimensional monitoring in space.
Then.
Xiao Zhou, the guard, walked into the room quickly and turned on the TV.
"Chief, watch the news."
"Oh?"
The old man in the armed forces took a closer look, and CNN was scolding TEP (North America) for taking advantage of the danger of others and daring to threaten to acquire United Defense.
But after scolding, I had to report normally.
Roughly what it means: TEP drew up a purchase plan, raised $6.4 billion, and met with Raymond, who is in charge of the project in charge of the Carlisle consortium, in Austin, the capital of Texas.
"The North American TEP seems to be only for the tower business."
"Yes chief, there's another small business that sells police dogs in the Boston Police Department."
"Can you find the relevant financial reports of the other party?"
"Wait a minute."
Xiao Zhou made several calls in a row, and then opened a laptop, "Chief, the tower company has been expanding, and the source of funds is ...... You know. ”
“……”
The old man in the armed armament was both happy and entangled in James's search for the absconders.
The other party can indeed find a large number of illegal immigrants, but the funds are reasonably remitted to the account of the tower company in various strange ways.
In the past half month, another 500 million US dollars have been added.
"Chief, the tower company mainly invests in communication towers, and there are many new projects, and recently it even plans to acquire the Brazilian tower business for 600 million US dollars, and the operating conditions are at most to maintain break-even, and it is impossible to come up with 6.4 billion US dollars."
"What about the German TEP and the Washima TEP?"
"TEP has set up a new energy company in Germany, and it doesn't have much business. On the Wajima side, it mainly deals in toys, and on the Jamaican side, it mainly repairs cars...... Therefore, it is very likely that TEP (Huaxia) will contribute to it. ”
The old man knew that Xu Fei was looking for a loan from an international bank, but he couldn't show his face, and even asked the People's Bank of China not to lend money, otherwise TEP's acquisition of United Defense would definitely be blocked by North America.
But where did Xu Fei get the money?
Suddenly.
Xiao Zhou received the call and quickly pressed the receiving prompt on the laptop.
Then he didn't look at it, and presented the document to the old man in arms.
"Two thousand dogs, sold for more than 8 billion?"
The old man frowned slightly, and did not make fun of Xu Fei for selling a dog to buy a company, because this matter was too outrageous.
Therefore, the previous speculation had to be taken into account.
"With such a ridiculous excuse, covering up the TEP belongs to joint defense? Or cover up that TEP belongs to Carlyle Investments and avoid exposing the Carlisle consortium? ”
"Chief, there's one more thing."
"Say."
"Before, Xu Fei's second secretary approached the person in charge of our office in West Asia and asked for the contact information of the senior management in West Asia, planning to sell chariots."
"You shouldn't have anything to do with it......"
"But she got through to Harden."
"Huh?!"
(End of chapter)