"I believe you all know very well about this incident."

At the headquarters of Smith Financial Group Inc. in the United Kingdom.

In a conference room.

Abel looked at the crowd at Gao Weishen's law firm and said softly:

"The BMW and Volkswagen guys are coming later. My aim was simple, to get their Rolls-Royce shares at the lowest possible cost. But in addition to these, there are some things to note, which I need to explain. ”

Several members of the lawyer's team already knew a lot about what Abel had explained.

In fact, this matter, except for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars itself, and its original parent company, Vickers Group.

On the British side, the one who intervened the most was Gao Weishen Law Firm, which was entrusted by Abel and was in charge of the whole litigation case.

The preparation of legal services for the relevant aspects that may be involved, Gao Weishen Law Firm has long been unaware of how detailed it is.

After all, it is the European giants such as BMW and the Volkswagen Group that are involved.

These two German giants, they have a lot of influence in Europe.

If it weren't for the fact that this time, Rolls-Royce was a British company, but other European companies.

may have been settled a long time ago, and it would not be Abel's turn to appear at all.

The influence of the Germans, along with the long-term development of their economy, has begun to affect the whole of Europe.

Even the French, having to pinch their noses, work with the former biggest contender.

Since the 90s, Germany and France have been thinking about the European army and the euro.

Now that the European Union has been established and the euro has been officially introduced.

The plans of the European army are also on the agenda.

As for whether it will succeed or not, no one knows.

About ten minutes later.

In the conference room where the issue was being discussed, there was a knock on the door and it was pushed open.

A staff member reported that representatives of the BMW Group and the Volkswagen Group had arrived.

Abel said, "Then let them in." Everyone, remember what I just said. ”

The battle for Rolls-Royce, which has been entangled for almost a year, is the first real meeting between the two sides.

Then more than 10 representatives of the two major automobile groups rushed in and walked in from the outside.

There were Abel's "familiar" Barred and John Wieland, as well as others he didn't know.

In the conference room, after a short exchange of pleasantries, everyone sat down on both sides and began the first formal negotiations on Rolls-Royce cars.

The Germans are no longer responsible for leading the team this time, but Barred and Johann Wieland.

It's Ferdinand Piëch, the global chairman of the Volkswagen Group.

Piëch has an unusual background in the automotive industry.

His maternal grandfather, Ferdinand Porsche, was the founder of Porsche and Volkswagen.

Since taking office in 1993, under the leadership of Ferdinand Piëch, the Volkswagen Group has developed very smoothly, suppressing the rise of Japanese automobiles.

In other markets outside of North America, American companies such as GM and Ford are even more marginal.

It can be said that he is a world-class figure who has a huge influence on the Volkswagen brand, and is recognized as the leader of the most tech-savvy group in the automotive industry.

In contrast, BMW's team leader is just a president.

Obviously, in the German delegation, Ferdinand Piëch was the head.

Abel didn't speak, and Jace issued the first opening remarks of the formal negotiations, "Guys, look at the document in front of you. That's the opinion of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. ”

Ferdinand Piëch heard this and opened a document in front of him.

The above, in the name of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, indicates their need to be independent from the BMW Group.

This request was not surprising to Ferdinand Piëch.

If you don't want to sell it at a good price. There is no need for Rolls-Royce to fight Volkswagen and BMW for so long.

But what makes Ferdinand Piëch a little angry is that there is no mention of compensation for BMW and Volkswagen at all.

Volkswagen spent so much money to buy a Rolls-Royce car.

Later, it was threatened by BMW to transfer, so forget it.

After all, they are compatriots, and they have enough satisfactory internal benefits to compensate for their losses, and even earn a little.

Now these British, no, Ferdinand Piëch are well aware that in fact this is by no means the will of the British, this is a conspiracy of the Americans!

Now these Americans want to spend nothing, or just a little money, to get the Rolls-Royce cars that Volkswagen and BMW have worked so hard to get.

If he could, Ferdinand Piëch would only want to kill all the Americans on the other side with one shot now.

Too much deception of the Germans!

After a quick reading of the document, Ferdinand Piëch took a deep breath.

The Tarzan Beidou of the automotive industry did not look at Jace at all, but at Abel Smith.

Apparently the Germans know who is really useful to speak here.

"For this document of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the Volkswagen Group and the BMW Group completely disagree."

"If that's what goes by, then it's not a commercial dispute. It was a premeditated plunder, a conspiracy against the Germans! ”

"We ......"

Ferdinand Piëch made an impassioned statement, expressing his position with the Volkswagen Group and BMW.

But he found that he didn't wait for himself to finish.

Abel Smith, who was stared at by himself, is the real mastermind behind this "conspiracy".

He actually opened his mouth and yawned, looking bored.

Then Ferdinand Piëch, seeing that he had said to Jace, who had just spoken, said boredly:

"It still looks like that. I, as a middleman, shouldn't be involved. Forget it, Jace, let them go ahead and get tangled with Rolls-Royce cars. You talk to them, I'll go first. ”

First official contact between the two sides.

Smith Capital, on its part, came here as a fully authorized person from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Although everyone actually knows what is going on, Smith Capital can barely be said to be a middleman now.

Abel said this, which is a bit strong, but it also makes sense.

Seeing that he really stood up, he turned around and was about to go outside.

Ferdinand Piëch was in a hurry.

“…… Hey, Mr. Smith. You can't do that. ”

Abel turned to look at the old man, "That depends on your sincerity, gentlemen." ”

"We are very sincere. Otherwise, we wouldn't have made a special trip from Lower Saxony! ”

Ferdinand Piëch said with anger in his temper.

Lower Saxony is home to the headquarters of the Volkswagen Group.

At the same time, the local state government is also one of the major shareholders of the Volkswagen Group, holding 11.8% of the shares of the Volkswagen Group.

As Germany's largest and one of the world's largest automotive groups, Volkswagen has a very clear stake.

The Porsche SE, which is 50 percent owned by the Porsche and Piëch families, controls 31.4 percent of the company's shares.

Qatar in West Asia holds an 18% stake.

Together with the state government of Lower Saxony, the triumvirate controls 90 percent of the voting rights of the Volkswagen Group.

Strictly speaking, the Katar is the one who makes up the numbers.

Although Qatar has 18% of the shares, it has only about 10% of the voting rights.

Including Lower Saxony, it's less than 30 percent.

In other words, the Porsche SE, that is, the Porsche family and the Piëch where Ferdinand Piëch belonged.

The two families, through that 31.4 percent stake, have complete control of the Volkswagen Group.

"Is this sincerity? If this is sincerity, then I have come here from the United States, and I am much more sincere than you. ”

Abel said directly: "I'm not good at geography. I would like to ask, is Germany closer to Britain, or is the United States closer to Britain? ”

Ferdinand Piëch was blocked by Abel and didn't know how to speak.

In his daze, Able had already swaggered out of the conference room.

Looking at his departing back, Ferdinand Piëch was really stunned.

The global chairman of the Volkswagen Group, I didn't expect Abel to really do what he said.

Just go, there is no super entrepreneur at all, the richest man in the world.

Like a distracted child, can negotiation be such a child's play?

Shouldn't it be that the two sides first set out the carriages and horses, you come and go, talk and talk, and finally compromise with each other, and then reach an agreement?

As soon as he came up like this, he was a little dissatisfied, so he directly flipped the table, and Ferdinand really encountered it for the first time.

"Sir, sir? Mr. Piëch? ”

Jace's call, recalls the spirit of Ferdinand Piëch.

I saw the CEO of Smith Financial Europe, who continued with a smile: "Let's continue our negotiations. ”

Of course, negotiations will not continue.

The main owners are gone, and Ferdinand Piëch is also angry.

The first formal negotiation of this event, which was dubbed the "Rolls-Royce Car Scramble" by many media and newspapers, ended in failure.

Ferdinand Piëch led the team away.

In Abel's office.

Jess brought Timmy Owen from Clifford Chance's Law Firm and Aymour Almuddin up.

"The Germans are gone, aren't they?"

"Yes, Ferdinand Piëch was furious."

Able chuckled, "All you want is to make him angry." The Germans are a little bit out of position, do they think it's 1941? ”

1941 was the most dominant year in World War II.

At that time, the Germans were invincible and invincible, and it only took a few days to conquer a country.

Seeing the boss say this, Jace smiled silently.

Timmy Owen was a little puzzled, but the barrister was well-informed and had great self-control, knowing when he could speak and when he couldn't even listen.

Of the three people present, Aimo Alamuddin was relatively young.

At the same time, he also has an intimate identity with Abel, and is Abel's number one personal royal force.

Some can't figure it out, plus I want to stay with Abel for a while.

Aimo Alamuddin asked softly:

"Mr. Smith, in fact, the Germans are very sincere this time. They are likely to be willing to give up Rolls-Royce cars as long as they are compensated for the cost of buying them in the first place. ”

Her subtext is that with Abel's financial resources, the 1.44 billion marks that Volkswagen bought Rolls-Royce cars are really nothing to Abel.

At the exchange rate between the mark and the dollar at the time, 1.44 billion marks was equivalent to less than $450 million.

And in Aimo Alamuddin's understanding, let alone only 450 million US dollars.

Even if it is 45 billion US dollars, Abel can definitely take it.

With Abel's character that Aimo Alamuddin understands, he is really not a person who will toss with others for so long because of this money.

Timmy Owen actually has questions about this question.

But he didn't dare to ask, and it was because Aimo Alamuddin was young and had a relationship with Abel that he dared to ask this question.

At this moment, the beautiful queen's lawyer asked, and Timmy Owen also lifted his spirits, wondering why.

Abel smiled, then replied softly:

"That's right, that's exactly what I thought at first. But now...... It's not that simple anymore. ”

What Aimo Alamuddin could have thought of, how could Abel not have thought of it.

This Rolls-Royce car battle.

At the beginning, Abel really just wanted to spend money to buy Rolls-Royce from Volkswagen and BMW Group.

But in the beginning, Volkswagen and BMW were not willing to sell at all.

The two major automobile groups of the Germans are not the ones who are short of money at all.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars can fill in the gaps in the highest segments of their product range.

How can Germans who are not short of money sell it?

Even if Abel raises the price several times, they don't want to sell it.

At the beginning of the entanglement, Abel became more and more urgent, and even used the super move of the United States' long-arm jurisdiction.

The Germans were forced to find that the price of taking Rolls-Royce was too great.

This led to the beginning of contacts and negotiations between the two sides, with some people acting as peacemakers in Washington.

By this time, the Germans, who knew Abel's ability and Abel's determination, began to retreat.

At first, they wanted to co-own Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with Abel.

In the minds of Germans, this is not impossible.

Because the German people want to have a brand, and they want automobile technology to have automobile technology.

For the sake of Germany's strong car technology, they felt that it would be wisest to share Rolls-Royce cars with them.

That way, Abel doesn't have to do anything, he just needs to sit and divide the money.

They felt that Abel would most likely agree.

Isn't this the model that greedy Wall Streeters love the most?

But Abel directly refused.

He made it clear to the Germans that he wanted all Rolls-Royce and was not willing to share it with the Germans.

Although the Germans are angry and ruined, when it comes to this, they can only choose to accept it.

They chose to negotiate with Abel, and the bottom line was to get back the 1.44 billion marks that were used to buy Rolls-Royce cars.

By compromising like this, the Germans already felt that they were very sincere.

But now, Abel made it clear that he didn't even want to spend the money, so he wanted to get a Rolls-Royce car.

Of course, the Germans were unwilling.

So, is Abel really stingy like this, and he doesn't even want to spend these hundreds of millions of dollars?

Naturally not, he is the Lord who can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on Valentine's Day to buy gifts for a large number of women around the world.

$450 million, at most, is only enough for Abel to spend two Valentine's Day.

The reason why you can get Rolls-Royce completely so easily is that you still have to toss the Germans.

It's because this matter is no longer just a matter of Abel, Volkswagen, and BMW.

This matter, when Abel called for help, he called George in the white house.

It has risen from a simple commercial dispute to the realm of international justice.

What is the right way to do it?

The United States wants to suppress and even control international justice in Europe.

Why did the euro come into being, and why was the European Union formed?

The reason for the appearance of the euro is to fight the dollar!

The reason for the creation of the European Union is to unite against the economic oppression of the United States!

Now is the time when the euro is just beginning to emerge and the EU economy is at its strongest.

So strong that Europeans want to engage in a European army.

How could the Americans allow it.

Isn't that what the means are here?

It's no longer Abel who wants Rolls-Royce cars, but tosses BMW and Volkswagen.

Now it is the big men of Huashengdu, with the help of Abel, who are tossing the biggest advantage of the German people.

BMW and Volkswagen, on their part, may also be aware of this, so they want to compromise.

It's just that now they want to compromise, and Abel won't give him a chance to compromise.

But there is no need to explain these things to Aimme Alammuddin.

The inside story of this, even Abel can only understand and participate in it after he has his current status.

Like Ferdinand Piëch, they are even just manipulated pawns.

In fact, in parallel time and space, there will be similar examples of this kind in the future.

For example, the Alstom incident in France.

Ostensibly because of the greedy Americans, who want to plunder this quality enterprise.

In fact, there is a bit of a shadow similar to today's Rolls-Royce car battle.

It was the American businessmen who cooperated with Washington, one side wanted Alstom, the other side wanted to suppress the French.

Of course, it can also be directly said that the American capitalists want to rob Alstom, and the white house will end up in person.

In any case, the United States itself is just a corporate empire formed by a large group of entrepreneurs, capitalists, and businessmen.

"Timmy."

After Abel gave Aymus Alamuddin a perfunctory look, he looked at Timmy Owen with a smile.

"Gao Weishen Law Firm should continue to pay attention to this case. I'm sorry for you. ”

"Of course." Timmy Owen, who has a sharp mind, has already guessed a little, and he still said happily:

"No problem, it is our honor to work for the richest man in the world!"

Guessed what, a lot of times the British and Americans fart. The strands are in the same direction.

Not to mention that Britain has more motives than anyone else when it comes to messing up the European continent.

Therefore, the House of Lords of London, as well as the British government, will be completely shameless on the side of Rolls-Royce and Vickers Group in this Rolls-Royce car battle.

Regardless of company law, contract law, and even business ethics.

The relationship between the conjugated father and son and the common habit of doing things are really better than the blue.

Although it is not reasonable, Abel has no meaning to explain now.

Aimo Alamuddin did not speak again, but quietly listened to the conversation between Timmy Owen and Abel.

Looking at the sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window, it shone on Abel's body, making Abel's whole body shine.

For a while, Aymour Almuddin was a little crazy.

(End of chapter)