Traversing the courtyard

Li Fuzhao said: "Don't mention it, Boss Shao regretted it to death. Now that the index is dropping every day, the formalities have been completed, and it's too late for Boss Shao to cancel it."

Boss Shao applied early and completed all the procedures. Just in time for this index adjustment, whoever buys new shares at this time is selling their stocks one after another.

Wei Dong smiled and said: "That's just right, even if you give it all to me, there's no problem, I'll cover everything."

Shaw Brothers is going to raise 5000 million cash to expand the film and television base in Clear Water Bay and build some supporting facilities, all for the company's development.

Weidong is now taking advantage of the downturn in the stock market to buy more shares, and then talk about cooperation.

Li Fuzhao thought about it and said: "If you really want it, then let the people from Qiuyu Securities go through the formalities. It's impossible for you, but it's still possible to take more than 3000 million shares."

"Okay, I'll send someone over to go through the formalities in a while."

Wei Dong went upstairs and asked Mi Xiaozhou to arrange for the people from Autumn Rain Securities to deal with the purchase of Shaw Brothers shares. Just as Mi Xiaozhou left, Ruan Tao came in with a strange expression on his face.

Wei Dong asked: "What's the matter? Luo Luo Company rejected it so soon?"

Ruan Tao said: "The bad news is that Rolls-Royce rejected your request to buy a car company."

Wei Dong asked in surprise: "Why? Rollo-Royce is about to go bankrupt, why don't you know how to sell the car company?"

Ruan Tao said: "The explanation given by Luoluo Company is that the car company is not losing money and is still making profits. Both companies are not for sale."

"Is this Rolls-Royce boss out of his mind, the head office is going bankrupt, and he doesn't want to sell the company's assets to solve the current predicament?"

Weidong thought he could take this opportunity to buy a Rolls-Royce, but if he couldn't, he could just buy a Bentley. A Bentley is a Bentley. After decades of maintenance, he will have a luxury car brand.

Even if I lose part of it now, I still have the ability to keep the company in my own hands.

Ruan Tao smiled and said, "I have some good news!"

"What good news?"

Ruan Tao laughed and said, "Rolo-Royce said that they can discuss the matter of becoming a shareholder of the head office."

"Investing in shares?" Wei Dong directly grasped the point.

Ruan Tao said: "Yes, we can talk about becoming a shareholder of the head office."

Weidong was a little hesitant. He just wanted to buy a car company to obtain car manufacturing technology, and then build a production line in Xiangjiang to directly produce cars. Through Xiangjiang's shipping to compete for the market in Asia, he could copy some auto parts into it, so as to To achieve the purpose of using the Xiangjiang base to support Sunset Motor Corporation.

It would be different if he became a shareholder of Luoluo Company, most of the board of directors would not give up control, so Weidong just contributed money to help the company tide over the difficulties, and he might not get anything in the end.

Wei Dong said with some disappointment: "If you just buy all the shares, it's almost the same. If you only buy shares, it's meaningless."

Ruan Tao thought that Wei Dong would be happy, but she didn't expect this result, and said, "Then I refused?"

Wei Dong shook his head and said, "How is that possible? I'm willing even to become a shareholder. You can contact Rollo-Royce. We'll book a plane ticket and go to London to negotiate with Rollo-Royce."

Even if it is a shareholder of Weidong, it is willing. Rolls-Royce's RB211 engine is currently short of research and development funds, resulting in an insolvency situation. As long as the money is invested, the engine will solve the quality problems of the fan blades. After the development is completed, Rolls-Royce The company's dilemma was easily resolved. Although Rolls-Royce and Bentley also suffered a small loss, they persisted until the 80s before being sold to Volkswagen and BMW.

Rolls-Royce is the engine supplier of Airbus and Boeing 7 series in later generations. Even Weidong was still alive and well before crossing. If he becomes a shareholder now, it will be a very profitable deal.

Ruan Tao said: "Do you think it's appropriate to buy shares?"

"It's okay, take the kids and let's go to London for a trip. If we can't buy them as a whole, then we can talk about buying shares."

There happened to be more than one billion in cash in the company's account, which was enough to buy the entire Rolls-Royce Company. As long as the other party made an offer, Wei Dong would buy it, and buy the shares first.

He was afraid that the aero-engine would be involved in the military industry, so he would not safely hand over the company to Ruan Tao, a Xiangjiang native who had just immigrated.

Ruan Tao went to arrange travel when she left the office. With the expansion of the company, Wei Dong and other high-level executives have many entourages when they travel. In addition, she has to bring two children, a nanny doctor and others. , This time it is also a direct charter flight.

Mi Xiaozhou entered the office and asked, "Boss, will you take me to London this time?"

Wei Dongdao: "What do you do with the stock market when you go to this place? You just stay at home and honestly scan the goods. You can't delay buying stocks for me."

Mi Xiaozhou groaned in disappointment, thinking that he could take the opportunity to travel to London with him, but now he can only honestly stay in the big family room and spend money.

Wei Dong couldn't bear it and said, "I'll bring you a gift later in the evening."

Only then did Mi Xiaozhou go back happily, and accompanied Weidong to do two sets of push-ups at night, and he could not fall asleep until after midnight.

Another day later, Wei Dong and Ruan Tao boarded the chartered flight to London together. The main reason is that the two children are too young, and it is troublesome to travel once. I don’t know how long it will take to negotiate this time. Ruan Tao is worried about the two children staying at home. .

At the beginning of the journey, there was no sleepiness. The two babies were sound asleep. Later, when Wei Dong became sleepy, Xiaolong and Xiaofeng regained their energy and hugged Ruan Tao and Weidong. It's rare to have a free time after pestering Weidong, and Weidong's two children take turns hugging each other.

After more than 707 hours of flying, with three refueling stops in the middle, the [-] finally landed at the airport in London, and the group of people who got off the plane were breathless and listless.

The branch office found two Leland commercial vehicles and sent more than a dozen people to Ruan Tao's castle manor. The housekeeper arranged for Wei Dong to have a room, went in and took off his share and fell asleep.

When Wei Dong woke up, it was broad daylight, and he took a bath and changed clothes again, and Ruan Tao was teasing the child in the small living room, and asked, "Sister Tao Zi, when is your appointment?"

Ruan Tao said: "We will go together at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."

"So are you okay today?"

"What are you thinking? You don't want to read more about Luo Luo's company? It's in your room."

"Okay, I'll go down and eat something."

Wei Dong went downstairs and ate two portions of bread and bacon, and then returned to his bedroom. Sure enough, he found a document on the desk, and patiently looked at the information of Luo Luo Company.

After a while, Ruan Tao brought him a cup of tea, and Wei Dong pulled him to sit on his lap, with one hand hidden in Ruan Tao's skirt.

"I hate it, why are you so anxious today?"

Wei Dong chuckled and said, "Aren't you all right today?"

"Then you don't read the information?"

"What do you look at? My sister Taozi is not as good-looking."

While speaking, Wei Dong had already squeezed the peach into his mouth, it was smooth and sweet, with a strong milky fragrance.

The next day Weidong cleaned up and drove to the headquarters of Luoluo Company with Ruan Tao and his assistant. Luoluo Company attached great importance to this meeting and sent a special person to wait in the lobby.

Rolls-Royce is also at the end of its rope. In Sunset Country, no one is interested in Rolls-Royce. The previous RB207, RB208 and other engines have not sold well, and now RB211 has not made any progress. Rolls-Royce has no interest anymore, and they all think that this engine has no future, or it will not be nationalized by the authorities in future generations.

The receptionist took Weidong and his party up the elevator and went straight to the small meeting room. After waiting for a while, Mr. Holmes, the boss of Rolls-Royce Company, came in with his assistant.

The receptionist introduced the two parties. After the greetings, a female staff brought coffee. After exiting, the two sides chatted for a while about the bad weather in London before getting down to business.

Holmes has been boasting about the promising prospects of his company's engines, without mentioning the two car brands.

Wei Dong knew that this was a way to trick him into becoming a shareholder of Luo Luo Company, and he had never been interested in this engine. The main reason was that Ruan Tao was a yellow-skinned person. Even if he immigrated now, it would not change Ruan Tao's status of being discriminated against. Very interested in cars."

Holmes shook his head and said, "We won't sell Rolls-Royce and Bentley, they are the jewels in the crown of the Sunset Kingdom."

Wei Dong and Ruan Tao glanced at each other, it was really a headache not to sell, Ruan Tao asked: "Mr. Holmes, if I am an immigrant, if I buy Rolls-Royce, will the authorities be willing?"

Rolls-Royce not only produces engines for civilian use but also engines for military use. Isn't it afraid that Ruan Tao will steal the company's secrets?

Holmes said with a smile: "We will not sell Rolls-Royce as a whole. This is determined by the particularity of our company. Not only you Chinese, but even white people."

After Holmes explained a few words, Wei Dong and Ruan Tao finally realized that the Luo Luo Company had shares in Sunset Country, but there was no information on the company's shareholders in the previous documents, so Wei Dong ignored it.

If you think about it, Rolls-Royce is a semi-military enterprise. Now is the period when the beautiful country and the Maoxiong country are competing with each other. Sunset country will not sell the entire engine business to outsiders, and the two car companies will not sell it. The only way left for Weidong right now is to pay for the shares.

Wei Dong asked: "How many shares can I buy?"

Holmes said: "Up to 30% of the shares."

Although Rolls-Royce as a whole is insolvent and has no money to develop new projects, the particularity of the company indicates that the authorities will not let it go. There are also many state-owned companies in Sunset Country. If it is too bad, they will ask the authorities to become state-owned. The company, Holmes will still be the head of the company at that time, and will still be able to control the company.

Just as Wei Dong wanted to agree, and then talk about the company's valuation, Ruan Tao pulled Wei Dong from below, shook his head slightly, and stopped the words of directly agreeing.

Said: "Such a big matter, we have to think about it."

Holmes smiled and said, "That's what it should be. I can arrange someone to take you to inspect the company."

"Well, thank you, Mr. Holmes."

First, Holmes took a tour of the company's headquarters to learn about the history of Rolls-Royce. Before Weidong thought that Rolls-Royce was the name of one person, he realized that Rolls-Royce and Royce were two people. The company was established in 1906. In March, Royce produced cars in Manchester, while Rolls sold them in London.

The office that Weidong is visiting now is Rolls’s car dealership on Condit Street in London back then. From Silver Ghost in 07 to Phantom, Silver Soul in ’47, Silver Morning in ’49, Silver Cloud in ’59, and ’66 Along the way, Wei Dong and Ruan Tao experienced the historical changes of Rolls-Royce for more than 60 years.

Wei Dong also learned that in 1931, Rolls-Royce bought Bentley Motor Company for only US$62.5. Rolls-Royce generally uses a V8 6.3L engine, while Bentley generally uses a V12 engine, which is more powerful. strong.

Of course, there are only cars on display here, and there will not be a few aero engines for Weidong to visit. After listening to the historical stories of Rolls and Royce, Weidong and Ruan Tao leave.

After getting into the car, Weidong asked, "Why did you stop me just now?"

Ruan Tao asked: "Do you want to directly invest in shares?"

"Of course, even if we invest in shares, we will still make money."

Now the company is not making money, although Rolls-Royce sounds very good, but the value of the brand is not recognized very much now, the value of the entire Rolls-Royce company is not even one billion Hong Kong dollars, Weidong will buy it directly as long as he thinks the price is right .

Buying Taikoo Dockyard, Huarenhang, Mandarin Hotel is like this. Weidong just thinks it is easy to make money. When the price is low, it is worth buying even if there is a premium.

Ruan Tao said: "You, if you don't use the money as money, how can you buy shares so hastily."

Wei Dong said shyly, "You also know that it's easy for me to make money."

There are drivers and assistants in front, Wei Dong can't say too much, but Ruan Tao also knows what Wei Dong means, this means that the money comes quickly, making more money than others who open casinos, tens of millions of assets with a wave of the hand turned out.

"That's not how to invest on a pole. You can leave the rest to me. I have experience in acquiring companies."

Ruan Tao has also handled dozens of acquisitions. Although they are all small companies with hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, the methods are the same, nothing more than negotiating skills.

Weidong thinks about it, he is really not good at negotiating the price. The previous purchase of Taikoo Dockyard and Mandarin Hotel was a temporary idea. This time it is different. His first goal of buying a car company has not been achieved. We can talk slowly.

Said: "Well, I'll leave everything to you. A clause must be added to the contract. If Rolls-Royce wants to sell its Rolls-Royce and Bentley, our Peach Group has the right of first refusal."

Now that Rolls-Royce has no plans to sell Rolls-Royce and Bentley, Weidong is not in a hurry. Now that he takes over, he has to keep investing money in it. If he can wait until the 90s, he can buy it again. At that time, the price will be higher, but Weidong has earned more in more than ten years.

If you only get the right of first refusal now, you can cut off the beard when Volkswagen makes a move, and you are both directors of the parent company. At that time, as long as the price is the same, you can win the two companies.

"Right of first refusal? This should work, anyway, Rollo-Royce has no plans to sell it now."

Ruan Tao thought about it and asked, "Is it too much to buy 30% of the shares?"

Wei Dong smiled and said: "Not much, after the engine is developed, we will make a lot of money in the future."

This is an engine company equivalent to General Electric. Although ordinary people don't know the existence of Rolls-Royce, this does not affect Rolls-Royce's ability to make a lot of money in the future.

Ruan Tao asked: "Any other conditions?"