Traversing the courtyard

Chapter 534 Our refueling machine is short of catties?

After three days of marriage, Weidong gave himself a vacation and spent a period of leisure time with him at home. Weidong didn't return to the company until he sent his master and his party to the plane.

Ruan Tao came into the office and asked first, "I heard that you are in high spirits these days, do you find several people to play games with each other every day?"

Wei Dong rarely blushed: "What are you talking about, am I that kind of person?"

Ruan Tao nodded to confirm: "You are." Angrily, Wei Dong shook his head.

After speaking, he gave Weidong a copy of the information: "After we acquired Leland before, I made a thorough investigation of the global automobile companies and focused on buying some companies' stocks."

Of course Weidong knew about this, although each family didn't buy much, and it was still not enough to enter the board of directors, it was just a pure financial investment.

Ask: "Did you find anything?"

Ruan Tao said: "Although the vast majority of car companies are struggling in this oil crisis, there is nothing to say about the general environment. However, there is a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy. Maybe we have the opportunity to buy it."

"Buy another car company?" Wei Dong asked.

It's not that Weidong doesn't want to buy it, it's mainly because the money in hand is spent. Don't look at Weidong's cash, which is tens of billions, but Weidong invests more. The world's top 60 companies have invested in more than [-], especially some of the later generations. The companies have invested a lot of money.

Pfizer, Coke, Abbott Laboratories, which owns Abbott milk powder, and Philip Morris Weidong, which operates Marlboro and Oreo, all big companies that can think of have invested.

After this round of investment, another 40 billion was used to buy gold. In the end, all the saved money was allocated to Veblen to develop arcade machines and consoles. Right now, there is really no big money left.

While talking, Wei Dong flipped through the documents in his hand, and it turned out that Ruan Tao had his eye on Chrysler, the third largest automobile company in the beautiful country.

Leland Company is the fifth in the world, and Chrysler is not only the third in the beautiful country, but also the third in the world. They are still ranked in front of Wolfsburg, although the future generations will not be weak.But now the weight in the global market is not low.

After the acquisition of Lilan, Weidong's appetite was satisfied. With the technology in hand and his own price advantage, it is still possible to make waves in the global market.

Ruan Tao said: "Leland still has some sales channels in Europe, but we don't have any channels in North America, and there is no company support in the local area. Even if we can export some cars, it is not a long-term solution. It is best to have a local company. Only when auto companies exist can they do business in a stable manner in the future.”

The auto industry is different from other industries. In a huge market, you don’t have your own company and you can only export for a long time. It’s like in the sunset country market, where you can hardly see cars from other countries. Some of them are high-priced imported luxury cars, and the authorities have introduced policies to restrict the entry of cars from other countries, leaving the market only to domestic companies.

This is also the reason why Tamoto, Tianfeng and Sanri bought the brand and production base respectively. They replaced their own cars with local brands, and they can only be sold in Sunset Country if they are produced locally. Otherwise, no matter how good your car is, I will You are not allowed to sell.

Now Weidong is facing the same situation in the North American market. If you don’t produce cars locally in North America, you can’t sell them no matter how cheap they are, and you will be levied high tariffs to protect your own auto industry.

So Ruan Tao wanted to take advantage of Rolls-Royce's weakness to see if he could buy the company.

Wei Dong said: "My sister Taozi, but the key is that we don't have any money for a short time."

Ruan Tao said: "Just get a loan from the Autumn Rain Bank. You forgot that we have a bank, right?"

Wei Dong is really not used to taking out loans, he really forgot that there is such a way, and said in a friendly voice, "I'm not used to taking out loans, am I?"

Ruan Tao smiled and said, "It's not that I can't afford it."

"Okay then, you can contact Rolls-Royce to see if they accept our shareholding."

Think about it and say: "Invest in AMC if you can't invest in shares."

Many people only know the three big state-owned Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. In fact, there is also AMC Motor Company, which is the fourth company in Pretty Country. However, this company is relatively small and many people are not familiar with it.

This AMC company was acquired by Rolls-Royce at the end of the 80s, so not many people know this name, but if you mention its car brand, it is indeed a household name in the mainland.

That is the famous Jeep brand Jeep, also known as the Jeep Cherokee.

In 83, the first joint venture automobile company in the history of the domestic automobile industry - Beijing Jeep Automobile Co., Ltd. (BJC) was born.

It is a joint venture between Jingcheng Automobile Factory and AMC, a beautiful country automobile company. It mainly produces Jeep brand off-road vehicles.

The birth of Cherokee was earlier than that of Modu Motor Company, but people at that time liked bridge cars and didn't fancy off-road vehicles, and didn't pay enough attention to them.

Since it is actually more cost-effective to buy AMC, Leland happens to not have a series of off-road vehicles. Except for the MINI brand, all of them are luxury cars, which just enriches the product line.

"Acquisition of AMC?"

"Yes, it suits us better."

Weidong expressed his own thoughts. If AMC is established, it will have a bridgehead in North America, and other cars can be authorized to AMC for production. Besides, Chrysler is too large, and the resistance to acquisition will be even greater. Maybe an official approval, and AMC's scale is much smaller, and it is famous for this civilian version of the Jeep, so it doesn't matter if it is acquired.

Now the military of the beautiful country also has the production capacity of off-road vehicles, but it only produces the military version of Jeep, and it is two completely independent companies from AMC. Weidong's acquisition of AMC will not attract opposition from the military.

Ruan Tao only chose Chrysler because of its scale, and the fact that life was difficult and easy to acquire, so she chose this company. After being persuaded by Wei Dong, she felt that AMC was also a good company.

"Okay then, I'll focus on AMC first, and if that doesn't work, I'll go to Chrysler."

I talked about the automobile industry, and then I talked about the arcade business. I have already negotiated with Atari about the agency. Atari first ordered [-] arcade machines, and they will be delivered to the port of Los Angeles within three months.

Wei Dong said: "Then set up an assembly team to make a show."

Ruan Tao asked: "Are you planning to copy them all?"

Wei Dong smiled and said: "This is a profit of 3000 million, of course we have to copy it all."

Although it sounds like a lot, there are [-] units, but this business is inconspicuous in the head office. After the duplication is completed in these two days, it will be shipped away directly, and it will be in the warehouse in Los Angeles to wait for Atari to pick up the goods. up.

"Okay, but we can't develop those games in a short time."

That's annoying, but there's nothing you can do about it, and you'll have to wait a while for your own arcade sales.

As a manufacturer himself, Wei Dong is really embarrassed to imitate this arcade machine and sell it. It's really outrageous to do so.

Wei Dong asked: "Then can we represent the sales of Atari's products in Asia?"

Atari's profit on an arcade machine is 500 US dollars, Wei Dong just gives them 500 US dollars for one, and then he can make the rest of the money.

Ruan Tao's eyes lit up, and she said with a smile, "That's not bad. We can make about 1300 of the remaining 1100 dollars."

The $200 was the profit and cost for other channels, so Weidong earned more than Atari. Atari didn't have the energy to take care of Asia before, so it should be about the same if it can win the agency.

Ruan Tao also said: "Then we have channels in Sunset Country and most European countries. I'm asking more, maybe we can win the agency in Europe."

"That's good, but you can leave this matter to your subordinates. You can focus on the car company's affairs."

Ruan Tao said: "Okay, I will leave it to Tang Mina to take charge."

Wei Dong was embarrassed to say that, he just wanted to find more women, and talked about it every day.

Tang Mina was very excited to receive this task, and quickly contacted Atari. Bushnell quickly figured out what was going on, and he didn't need to ask anything. If you go out with a machine, you will charge an agency fee of US$500. You don’t have to go out for production and sales, and your table tennis arcade machines can be sold all over the world.

Soon Atari agreed to this plan. I don’t have the ability to develop the market. It’s the easiest way to hand it over to an agent. I earn a lot. I leave many trivial matters to Qiuyu Trading Company, and I just need to focus on developing new products. Competing with Fairchild Electronics and Magnavox would be nice.

After busy work, Tang Meina finally took over the management rights of Asia and Europe with the help of two assistants. After handing it over to the company, she had dinner with Lu Meifeng to show off, which made Lu Meifeng very angry.

After exercising with the boss at noon, he lay down in his arms and talked about the matter, and then said angrily: "Brother boss, she Mina is a bully, and I am no worse than her in school. I can do well if I leave it to me."

Wei Dong pretended to be surprised and said: "You are quite capable, I have seen it."

"I can do it?" Lu Meifeng asked in surprise.

Wei Dong nodded earnestly and said, "Yes, very capable. The secretary did a good job, but he kept me from sleeping at noon."

I thought the boss was praising me before, but I didn't expect the style of painting to change drastically, and I started playing hooligans again. I reached out and patted Wei Dong's chest and said angrily:
"It's necrotic, what are you talking about?"

It is true that there are many things that can only be done but not talked about. Lu Meifeng is thin-skinned and some things are not allowed to be said by Wei Dong.

Weidong knew that Lu Meifeng was greedy for Mina's achievements in the workplace and wanted to prove himself, so he asked:

"Then you think about it, I can switch the two of you, but then you won't be by my side every day."

Lu Meifeng was surprised: "Then you are leaving?"

"Of course, although Mina is still my secretary, she doesn't work here every day!"

Lu Meifeng hesitated and said, "Then let me think about it."

Weidong didn't urge her either, it depends on each person's choice, there are very few people like Mi Xiaozhou who have no ambitions, they only think about Weidong feeding her every day, so what if they are capable, can they earn as much as the boss?
In the afternoon, Weidong was dealing with trivial matters at hand, when the phone rang and answered the phone, it was the assistant Berkeley who called: "Boss, recently our gas station has been smeared by many people in the newspapers, saying that we are short of money. "

"Is there such a thing? You come over and say."

After a while, Berkeley came in with newspapers and materials, and said: "A few days ago, someone made trouble at our gas station, saying that the 50L fuel tank needs to be filled with 55L of fuel to be full."

Sure enough, there were relevant reports in the newspapers, publicly accusing the gas stations under Qiuyu Petrochemical of not filling enough gas for people.

Wei Dong asked: "Then is there any problem with our tanker?"

Of course, if something happened, you should check your own reasons first. If it is really the employees of your company who have tampered with it, you should deal with it internally. Weidong did not let the senior management use such means to increase income.

Berkeley shook his head and said, "No, our leadership has absolutely never hinted at this, instructing the employees below to tamper with the tanker."

Weidong has read the information, and there are already [-] gas stations in Qiuyu Petrochemical Company, and the market share is already quite large. He doesn't know whether someone has messed up this time or his employees are really dirty. He got up and said: " It’s better to go to the scene to see and solve this problem on the spot.”

"Alright, let's go to the gas station."

When I went downstairs, I asked the bodyguards to bring transparent plastic buckets, including 10 liters, 20 liters and 50 liters, and then went all the way to the gas station of my company in Sheung Wan, which was mentioned in the newspaper.

The gas station, which used to be very busy, is now very deserted, with only two cars filling up the gas. Some employees recognized it as the team of the boss of their company, and rushed to notify the station manager to come and greet them.

When Wei Dong got out of the car, he saw a fat man trotting over in a hurry.

He ran up to Weidong panting and said, "Boss is welcome to inspect, please, please come to the room."

"Let's not go to the office."

Wei Dong anxiously asked: "Is there any problem with our fuel dispenser? Is there any shortage of fuel?"

The oiler can be adjusted, but Wei Dong has already instructed that he must not be short of weight. What he wants to do is a long-term business, and it is not that he will quit after two years. Even if he can go back, Xiangjiang will still be on his own. The base camp of this body, the descendants of this body will have a foothold in Xiangjiang, so they can't tarnish the reputation of their company.

"No, absolutely not, I guarantee it with my head."

Seeing Wei Dong's stern face, the fat stationmaster was taken aback, and quickly assured him.

Wei Dong said: "Okay then, check the back cover immediately to see if the mark inside has been moved."

After the fuel dispenser is adjusted, there is a lead seal. If you want to adjust it, you must first remove the lead seal before adjusting it. Therefore, just looking at the lead seal will tell you whether it has been tampered with by the station manager for personal gain.

There are six fuel dispensers at the Sheung Wan Gas Station, and the back covers were opened soon. After checking, Berkeley came over and said, "Boss, they are all in good condition, and they have not been tampered with."

Although the fat stationmaster knew that he hadn't tampered with it, he was a little guilty of being raided by the boss right now. He was afraid that he would be blamed for throwing it out. After all, there were reports in the newspapers that there was a problem at the gas station he managed. Calm down this matter.

Quickly said: "Boss, that's why the opponent deliberately blackmailed us. I suspect it's the gas station opposite."

After speaking, he pointed to the Sunset Country gas station opposite.

Wei Dong said: "Let's ignore this, maybe it's another company's trick."

(End of this chapter)