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Chapter 730 Auction (2 in [-])

Prague is a famous tourist city in Europe.

However, this European city is full of many Asian faces. They are in groups, yelling, making noise, littering, spitting everywhere, and their quality is not good.

Moreover, this group of people walked all the way, carrying five, six, seven or eight shopping bags in their hands, which were filled with various leather products and other handicrafts. Such unqualified tourists, don't think about it, they are Fusang people at first glance.

If the Chinese people want to cultivate this kind of local tyrant atmosphere, there are still decades to go.

Throughout the eighties and 90s, most of the products bought in countries around the world were Obasan from Fusang.

In later generations, when Chinese people began to travel around the world, Nan Bangzi and Obasan couldn't wait to put the hat of lack of quality on our heads.

This is not the saddest thing. The saddest thing is that some Chinese people just think that this is the national characteristic of Chinese people, and instead regard those who are also unqualified as positive models.

These people deliberately magnify a trivial matter when they find it, and pretend not to see it when they are slapped in the face.

The purpose of Shen Guanglin's visit to Prague this time is to buy Skoda Automobiles. Therefore, when he is bored, he will walk around and have a look around to get a feel for the people.

It's a pity that this is the Czech Republic, not the Netherlands, otherwise it would be fun.

When the domestic embassy heard that Shen Guanglin was going to acquire Skoda on behalf of Great Wall Motors, they seemed even more excited than Boss Shen. They knew that Great Wall Group was rich.

Therefore, they couldn't wait to go to the hotel to chat with Shen Guanglin.

"Is the Great Wall Group only buying Skoda Automobile?"

They really have other ideas, but the country really has no money at this stage, and it is powerless to participate in many things.

Otherwise, is it necessary to buy their heavy water reactor?

Even if they really wanted to sell the heavy water reactor, Shen Guanglin would not dare to buy it. This is not something that an ordinary country or an ordinary company can start with.

Not to mention Shen Guanglin, even companies like Volkswagen and Mitsubishi would never dare to propose the acquisition of heavy water reactors.

"The Czech Republic was the flower of industry before World War II. Their per capita industrial output value was six times the world's average output value. At that time, which country in the world did not import Czech-made guns and ammunition?" The staff spared no effort to talk about the importance of the Czech arsenal. Persuade Shen Guanglin to consider buying more good things.

You know, the Skoda arsenal, even during World War II, this arsenal produced a lot of weapons for Mustache, even now, the pistols they produce are as popular as rifles all over the world.

However, Shen Guanglin was unmoved, "I bought their arsenal, who are the weapons produced to be sold to? Are they sold to the country? Where are there still wars these years?"

"However, they have the technology we desperately need."

"But we don't have the market they desperately need."

Shen Guanglin is such a superficial person, even on the auction day, Shen Guanglin did not agree to buy the arsenal.

meaningless.

They do have some advanced military technology, but so what, they are just ordinary weapons.

I really want to have some awesome gadgets, but I still have to wait for the disintegration of CCCP to get a big one.

The two sides did not reach an agreement on this aspect, but Shen Guanglin was going to Moravia to participate in the bidding of Skoda Automobile. The embassy still sent someone over, and he was the counselor. It cannot be said that they did not take it seriously.

It is estimated that I still want to make a last effort.

Fortunately, brother-in-law Lu has accumulated some experience in Eastern Europe. He is one of the biggest losers in Eastern Europe in China. His men are all light-colored off-road teams. The scenes of Chinese people traveling are still spectacular.

Everyone smoothly entered the so-called auction site in Moravia. Shen Guanglin handed over the invitation card, but no one stopped him.

At the meeting place, Shen Guanglin saw Javier as the host who was welcoming guests everywhere at a glance. Javier quietly came over where no one was paying attention and said, "I have already obtained the bidding qualifications for you. I will help you with the question of preference." It's almost done. This time it's an open negotiation, so whoever can make the deal in the end depends on whether you have the money. However, I can guarantee that as long as you can win the bid, I will complete the handover work smoothly. Besides, Skoda Automobile also has a mechanical manufacturing bid, which is valued by few people, and we only plan to sell 5000 million U.S. dollars of assets for 2000 million U.S. dollars, which can be used as compensation for your failed bid.”

Shen Guanglin understood that it was not easy for Havel to operate in secret, so he wanted to benefit from another aspect. As for the benefit fee of 1000 million US dollars, he still wanted to accept it.

Of course, he didn't do nothing. To be fair is to be unfair to other companies.

Shen Guanglin nodded and didn't say much: "What I promised you will definitely be in place, and I will guarantee it on my reputation."

Everyone entered the auction hall, and there were quite a lot of people, not just the ones mentioned before, but also many other companies, such as Renault in France and Fiat in Italy.

After all, Skoda is one of the four traditional automobile manufacturing brands in the world, and it still has its value at this stage. It is almost impossible to complete the transfer quietly without attracting the attention of the international community.

However, Shen Guanglin brought a group of people in, but did not attract the attention of others. They thought it was a team from South Korea or Fusang.

After all, South Korea's Daewoo, Hyundai, Fuso's Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Suzuki are all here. There are many Asian faces on the scene, and even compatriots from Wanwan.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Havel personally presided over the auction process.

At this stage, Shen Guanglin was somewhat at ease. Since he dared to accept his own money, it meant that his chances were not small. As long as he had money, winning the bid would be safe.

Sure enough, Javier's words immediately shocked the audience, and also set the tone for the auction: "Today's auction, the highest bidder wins. You are all world-renowned automobile manufacturing companies, so don't give us your money." No matter who says it can give Skoda a better development and future, we believe it. But these are the most difficult to evaluate their value. On the contrary, money can best represent friendship. So, please rest assured Let’s bid, we don’t operate in the dark, there are no obstacles, and the highest bid wins!”

As soon as he said this, Shen Guanglin immediately became happy.

This is the result he wants.

As long as there are no other ratings, it’s easy to say. The most fearful thing is that business only accounts for a part, and technology or goodwill influence account for other proportions. If this is the case, Great Wall Group will not be able to play.

Those who were able to attend this occasion, Shen Guanglin's Great Wall Group, did not have any resumes to share.

Great Wall Group is a newly established company without any background in automobile manufacturing.

Just look at the money, this is the simplest and most effective.

If it is to discuss the merger of a large international project, for a company as big as Skoda, then I don’t know how many rounds of negotiations it will take.

However, the auction first, and then discuss the merger after the bid, but the matter is much less, and everyone can sit down and talk slowly.

Here comes the Czech Republic: They sell 70% of Skoda's shares this time, and the highest price wins.

Simple and rude, no one can compare with beep beep, whoever has more money will get it.

At this stage, just after the worldwide economic crisis, there are really not many companies with money in their hands, but Shen Guanglin and his Great Wall Group are not included.

Not to mention anything else, Shen Guanglin's laboratory alone has 5 million yuan of funds that can be borrowed, and the stocks and other assets held by Great Wall Group can be exchanged for billions of dollars without any problem.

Not to mention taking the Great Wall Group out for a mortgage.

Of course, these billions of dollars are almost all of Shen Guanglin's property. Although he is incomparable with the world's richest man, Wal-Mart Bill Gates, he is not a small guy anymore.

If you really want to count Shen Guanglin's assets carefully, let's talk about his collections. If these things are put in 2020, there will be many worth over [-] million, and some are even priceless. This is not good at all. statistics.

For Shen Guanglin, money is really just a number.

The auction has started.

Everyone sat down.

The auctioneer distributed a thick stack of materials to each bidding group. Shen Guanglin took a look and found that the preparations were quite detailed, starting from the history of Skoda Automobile to the specific content of this auction.

The work is solid, even considering the depreciation of the equipment, and it is available in several languages: English, Russian, German.

Fortunately, Shen Guanglin's own English is very good, so he doesn't need help from others.

However, most of the bidders looked confident, and didn't even look at the materials after getting them, and put them in their bags directly.

After Javier introduced the auction process, the auction officially started!
A well-dressed middle-aged man came out, wearing a tuxedo and gold-rimmed glasses. He looked like an international auctioneer.

"Everyone, there are two assets that are going to be auctioned today. The first is Skoda Auto, and the second is Skoda Machinery. The first one is Skoda Auto, with a starting price of 15 billion crowns."

The Czech crown is the legal currency of the Czech Republic. The Czech crown is derived from the Austro-Hungarian crown. It uses the decimal system and is issued by the National Bank of Czechoslovakia. The denomination ranges from 1 Hales to 5000 crowns.

At present, 1 US dollar can be exchanged for 15 crowns, that is to say, the current starting price of Skoda is 1 million US dollars.

It's okay, the price is not expensive. Shen Guanglin doesn't know how much Volkswagen spent to acquire Skoda, but he knows that Geely spent US$18 billion when Volvo was acquired.

Therefore, Shen Guanglin's psychological base price is 18 billion US dollars. If this price cannot be won, then he will not buy it. It will be fine to buy Volvo later.

The auction officially started, but the auctioneer failed to warm up, and the venue was silent for several minutes.

After all, everyone is a famous person, and it is not the first time to participate in the auction. Everyone knows that there is no need to rush to bid.

In the end, the impatient Nan Bangzi couldn't sit still, "Daewoo Motors of the Republic of Korea, 20 billion!"

The starting price was only 15 billion crowns, and he raised the price by 3000 million crowns in one go, which is equivalent to an increase of [-] million US dollars. It is really a lot. Nan Bangzi may want to take this opportunity to scare away competitors. Strategy.

After quoting the price, Nan Bangzi looked around arrogantly, and then sat down slowly.

"21 billion" The owner of a third-party business called Tata Motors quoted another price without waiting for the host to speak.

This behavior was not friendly, and immediately attracted Nan Bangzi's angry gaze.

However, it was Brother Ah San's words that opened up the situation, and the venue became lively.

At first, everyone was discussing in whispers, but when you get to the back, if you don’t speak loudly, others will not be able to hear what you are talking about.

Seeing this scene, Mr. Counselor was so nervous that he didn't speak. In the winter, his forehead started to drip sweat, and he kept wiping it with a small handkerchief until the back of the handkerchief was wrung out.

Before they set off, they bought this and that without shame. They didn't expect the starting price to be 1 million US dollars. What's the matter?
You know, to buy equipment in China, 30 to [-] US dollars is not a small figure. If it exceeds one million US dollars, that is the amount that can only be approved by the minister; In units of [-] million, I am afraid that only the legendary Dongfeng Express has used this unit.

Next, Italians, Germans, and Fusang people all raised their placards.

Everyone is really rich, and 1 million crowns has become the smallest bidding unit. You must know that the auctioneer said that the bid is at least 1000 million each time.

I don't know how many rounds of competition, and when the auction price was called 75 billion crowns, the scene finally quieted down.

You know, this is 5 million US dollars.

Having just experienced a global economic crisis, there are really not many companies, especially automobile manufacturers, who can spend 5 million US dollars in one go.

Moreover, whether Skoda is worth 5 million US dollars is really a question mark.

"75 million for the first time!"

"75 million second time!"

"75"

The auctioneer seems ready to raise the hammer to close the sale.

That does not work!Nan Bangzi shouted out a number with difficulty and viciously: "75 billion."

It seems that their psychological bottom line is 5 million US dollars, beyond this price, everyone is struggling.

The Tata Group representative named Singh broke the expectations of South Koreans at once, "76 billion."

Another round of upsurge emerged.

"77 billion!" Toyota began asking the price.

"78 billion" Tata then bid.

Finally, the representatives of Volkswagen and Renault also started to take action. They are the real predators and have the advantage of being close to the water.

Originally, they planned to persuade the Czech Ministry of Commerce through public relations. After all, they have technology and market, but Havel refused to listen. He said: "Where there is subjectivity, there is darkness. We let the numbers speak."

Many people think that Javier has the qualities of a leader and is a man of integrity.

By this time, the counselor's mood had calmed down. He knew that the acquisition of Skoda would most likely be useless, so he quietly asked Shen Guanglin: "The price is so high, let's not get involved, and go back sooner." .”

Shen Guanglin did not raise his placard from the beginning to the end. The counselor thought that the Great Wall Group might not have prepared so much money.

It's normal to shrink back. Now is not the time for Huaxia to buy the whole world.

Shen Guanglin replied, "Don't be in a hurry, I'll just raise my cards once, and it's not in vain."

"Then hurry up, it will be even more embarrassing if you win the bid and can't pay the money later."

Shen Guanglin agreed with Mr. Counselor's words, nodded, and was really ready to raise his placard.

At this time, the quotation on the field was close to 100 billion crowns. However, at this stage, even Volkswagen and Renault's price increases were not large, and each time it was 1000 million to 1000 million.

After all, so many rounds of bidding have been called, and the will has been worn out long ago. The possibility of other people participating in it is not particularly high. If nothing else, Skoda will either fall into the hands of Renault or Volkswagen in the end.

Shen Guanglin can also play, he first took out a small mirror to comb his hair, asked his assistant to get ready to take pictures, and then held up

Quote sign: "150 billion kroner!"

(End of this chapter)