industrial maniac

Chapter 158 Acquisition of Joint Defense in Progress

Xu Fei does not want to become a brand symbol.

What's more, I don't want people to know that I can't afford the TEP of United Defense, because Xiao Xu, the factory director's dog business, suddenly took a turn for the worse and settled the matter directly.

But if you want to win the joint defense, it seems that you can only accept the reality...

"Xu, I sent the sales list to your email."

"Ok!"

Hearing this, Xu Fei dragged the mouse expressionlessly to view the 'eighty-two accounts' of the partnership dog.

The first batch of 2000 military dogs.

423 pieces were sold for a sky-high price of 500 million US dollars. 21.25
317 sold for $450 million. 14.265
406 sold for $400 million. 16.24
854 sold for $350 million. 29.89
Including the 10 pieces that Raymond took away at the beginning, and the 90 pieces transferred from TEP (North America), the price is 200 million. 2.0
Total sales of 83.645 billion.

Among them, Raymond spent 3000 million US dollars to make a dozen seconds of surveillance video into a high-definition version of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Hearing the news for the first time, Xu Fei specifically asked Tang Mo of the design consulting company and Wan Tao, the hacker leader of the computer service company.

Both of them said: Niubi!
It is said that related technologies involve undisclosed inter-dish satellite imaging-Wiener filter, deconvolution (deconvolution), and super-resolution reconstruction.

And 83.345 billion.

Raymond left 1500 million US dollars privately, and Xiao Xu left 1500 million US dollars privately.

The remaining 0.045 million of the odds will be used as vacation expenses when the two meet in North America.

As for taxes...

The headquarters of the Carlyle Consortium is in Texas.

Texas has no state tax, no personal tax, only sales tax.

General Raymond sold the dog alone, paid for it, and delivered it. Governor Xiaobu and many congressmen did not dare to say anything.

And the federal tax...

Eight out of ten consortiums in Texas are unwilling to hand over. General Raymond hates this kind of behavior on the surface, but in fact he is doing it secretly.

Therefore, General Raymond received a public relations fee of 1 million dollars.

The remaining eighty-two points account, 82x0.8...

Xu Fei took the calculator and pressed it for a long time.

TEP can get $65.6 billion.

It seems that this money still cannot buy United Defense.

But Raymond said yes, maybe there was something in it.

After Xu Fei finished the calculation, he called out the small map and randomly selected a few sold dogs to ask...

what?
The 500 million in the sales list is actually 510 million?
450 million is actually 460?

355?

I said that it is all integers, and I will give me all the odds for co-authoring.

"Old Lei, you take kickbacks, you eat too much!"

…………

North America.

One of the wealthiest small towns in Texas, Sanderson.

It was the annual music festival, and the streets were full of traffic and crowds.

Among the many colorful shops, Toys R Us, which originally belonged to Bain Capital, has now become a newly opened pet store.

Two gates decorated with green plants, a carefully crafted plaque, a sunny boy with a vicious dog in his arms and a bright smile...

On both sides of the open space in front of the gate, there are two oversized pickup trucks with exaggerated shapes, one gold and one red, and the lone star tricolor flag is hung high, which deeply attracts pedestrians coming and going.

On the top of the car, three young cowboys introduced passionately.

"300 horsepower!"

"It ran like a raging bull!"

"Have you experienced it?"

"The most important thing is that the fuel consumption per [-] miles is only half of that of your tattered Fords!"

"Oh, God, half!"

"Brothers and sisters, move quickly!"

"What? 10 yuan?!"

"No no no! It only costs 8!"

Texas, also known as the Lone Star State, is the most economically developed state capital in North America and the birthplace of western cowboys.

The folk customs here are tough and simple.

People love to eat steak, burgers or barbecue, and drive big pickup trucks in the middle of nowhere.

There are also elderly cowboys who like to wear straw hats, drive their beloved classic cars, carry double-barreled nozzles, play retro records, and wander on the field roads surrounded by corn.

Therefore, the rough-looking Little Red Flag instantly attracted a large number of loyal young fans with its high-horsepower, high-torque, and wild large-scale models.

And the exquisite workmanship of the big red flag, with its powerful defense, has also attracted a large number of elderly local tyrants in Texas.

far away.

Raymond, who was already familiar to the Texans and received much attention because of the attack, was wearing a North American military uniform with the Lone Star flag on it, 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, he nodded and smiled at the town residents who came and went to say hello, while talking into the microphone.

The prospect of the Hongqi market is so bright, coupled with the planned pet hospital, Raymond's idea of ​​going solo is getting stronger and stronger.

Especially this financial turmoil has exposed the fatal flaw of the Carlyle consortium making too many enemies.

Even if Xiaobu became the general manager, he could win many arms orders for Carlyle Investment, but he still couldn't change the situation of being restricted by many peers and secretly squeezed by various financial groups.

Therefore, Raymond was very concerned about raising dogs, and even after trying, he decided to win the Hongqi distribution business.

"Xu, what are you talking about?"

"I said, you have pocketed at least 5 million dollars!"

"How is it possible? I'm not that kind of person!"

"Heh, our TEP also has a background in the North American military, and we also know many rich people. Strauss can make a random call and know that 500 million is actually 510 million, and 450 million is actually 460 million...Old Lei, you let me in It's embarrassing in front of our boss!"

Lei Meng was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered that TEP had a good relationship with the North American base, "Xie Te, I'm sorry Xu, I really didn't mean it..."

Then explained:
"You don't know, I almost did everything in order to sell the hound."

"Through contacts, we hired personnel from NSA's inter-dish satellite image processing department to cut the surveillance video into frame-by-frame images, and then use the Wiener filter to improve the signal-to-noise ratio and remove white noise to make the image clearer and cleaner. .”

"Then use deconvolution (deconvolution), that is, by adjusting the parameters of the filter, the length of the wavelet in the picture is compressed and the multiple waves are attenuated to enhance the resolution."

"At this point, all that's being fixed is 'real information.'"

"Then I paid a lot of money to hire a team from a special effects company to go to the scene of the attack to shoot footage and perform 'super-resolution reconstruction'."

"Although the final video is 30% true and 70% false, with the help of news, the viewer can know the details of the attack process. You can even see through the car window after the second recording, insert the ' The hound pushed me off'."

"In addition, I entrusted Stewart Company with a lot of money to customize mobile playback equipment and high-resolution projection equipment."

"Recently, I also reached a transfer agreement with Bain Capital through Carlyle Investment, and took over 1600 toy stores for the transformation of pet clubs and pet hospitals..."

"Adding the purchase of ordinary pets, hiring professional clerks and veterinarians, it cost 3 million dollars!"

"Old Lei, I have already deducted the cost of making a Hollywood blockbuster for you, and the series you mentioned is not the reason for you to spend 5-3... 2 million dollars alone."

"No, I rely on my contacts to promote, otherwise it would be impossible to sell for a sky-high price of 500 million dollars. This is called business commission."

"Then we'll basically break up after we've divided the accounts."

"Xu, don't be like this, we are just part-time workers, and, I have helped you a lot, like Hongqi car certification, it is very difficult here in Texas, but I can help you with everything, and even help you contact pickup truck dealers , try to do activities to sell.

You know, pickups are hot in Texas, and with my help, young and old ranchers alike will love your Red Flag.

As long as the market opens up, your status in Hongqi will increase rapidly, and the top management in the East will pay more and more attention to you.

Most importantly, Xu, we have to think for ourselves, such as forming our own company.

Therefore, I treat you as a personal partner and never withhold anything.

At least, we will start a business together in the future! "

"Any more?"

"Oh, you greedy guy... how about buying United Defense, let's make the accounts more beautiful, give you 2000 million dollars, and I don't want anything, how about it?"

"The TEP payment is 64 billion, how much is the joint defense worth?"

"Two months ago, 200 billion could not be won, but M8 was delivered, FMC lost its headquarters, Harsco lost its laboratory, the two companies were affected by the short-selling storm, and their assets were severely shrunk. Most importantly, before There is a punishment, three years can not participate in the arms bidding."

"Almost forgot about this, so do the math...Old Lei, joint defense is worthless, you have to return me $30 billion."

"You are crazy. Even if you don't use arms to buy and sell, FMC and Harsco are still worth 70 billion dollars. The reason why I sold you TEP for 64 billion is that Carlyle urgently needs funds to save the trapped financial market."

"Okay, let me tell Strauss, the specific purchase price, we both arrange teams, and we can discuss it in detail after we meet."

"Xu, remember what I said, sooner or later we have to come out and do it alone, you have to get something valuable from TEP, and then you can use it as a technology investment, and I have a lot of money, we can realize these technologies and earn more money!"

Ramon must have looked into 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 behind Strauss was Wall Street, or an old North American family.

It's a pity that neither Lao Bu nor his friends have ever contacted this company.

But it is certain that TEP's smelting technology is very good, such as Mechanical Three Kingdoms, Gua Dynasty, and many hardware tools. It may even help the weapon to manufacture M8 parts. Otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve mass production of M8 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 the Daze industry, he probably doesn't know the inside story.

When Xu Fei heard that Lei Meng planned to go out and do it alone, and that he had a lot of money in his pocket, he immediately thought of the other party's contacts.

But think about it...

TEP is our own, we steal our technology, use it to start a company with Raymond, and then use it to make a lot of money...

'No, I'm just a worker! '

Now that the nonsense foreign company has developed, Xu Fei no longer dares to use two identities to consider things, and can only regard himself as a 'real worker'.

Because this series of things is too complicated, if the two identities are combined, if you think about it for a while, your brain will explode.

and so.

Unswervingly follow the route of 'beating workers'!
"Old Lei, I will seriously consider what you said."

"Then I'll have more motivation!"

"Wait until North America, let's talk about it from the bottom of our hearts."

"Please use Ingles to translate. I don't understand. Are you planning to skin me alive and talk to my corpse?"

"I mean, compare your heart with your heart!"

"Oh shit, I'm not gay, we Texans are conservative."

"Then we can't talk, goodbye."

Xu Fei hung up the phone, thought about it carefully, and allocated 99% of the income from the hound breeding business to TEP (North America), and asked James to arrange for someone to acquire United Defense.

With so many international businesses and low loan amount, he already wanted to understand some things.

If United Defense is acquired as TEP (China), North America will definitely block it.

With TEP (North America) status, things will become very simple.

Even compared to using the identity of TEP (Germany) and TEP (Washima), the acquisition went more smoothly.

In this way, when James gets everything done, TEP will select the best factory director of the quarter and be responsible for the reorganization of joint defense. Xiao Xu, the factory director, has made a contribution to selling dogs...

Xu Fei's face froze, and he was silent for a long time.

"No, no one will know that I sell dogs!"

………………

Beijing.

The radar communication integration project is still under discussion.

From the basic principles at the beginning, to the network interface layer→internetwork layer→transport layer→application layer, to overthrow everything, re-based on the physical layer, reconstruct the data layer→network layer→transport layer→application layer.

Generally speaking, this is a project related to national communication security and future development, and it is impossible to complete it in ten days and half a month, or in one or two months.

Moreover, each level must distinguish between civilian and military use.

Civil use includes meteorology, astronomy, geography, etc., and various special fields.

Military use includes land, sea and air, various communications, detection, and monitoring.

Data layer, one server per class.

Network layer, one port per class, and then rebuild the protocol.

Transport layer, one channel for each type, or multiple channels, encryption, anti-eavesdropping...

At the application layer, there are at least 3 applications for each category, and additional customization is required 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, PhD candidates, and master candidates from various universities, tens of thousands of people are separately conducting confidential research and development, it is still not enough.

The most uncomfortable thing is that very few people understand.

Just like in the module that comes with the radar system, there is a thing called "cooperative operation-man-machine page", what is this?

Drone?

Or a remote control device?

However, up to now, no one bothers the learned Mr. Strauss anymore.

Because the other party is old and his brain is a little hard to use.

The task of the armed old man is basically completed, and now he mainly studies the basic application of 'radar communication integration'.

After all, the future weapon research and development will use this thing to enable heavy weapons to achieve various anti-stealth and various anti-reconnaissance.

Even waiting for the connection to satellites to realize spatial three-dimensional monitoring.

At this time.

The guard, Xiao Zhou, walked quickly into the room and turned on the TV.

"Chief, please read the news."

"Oh?"

The armed old man watched intently, CNN was scolding TEP (North America) and taking advantage of others, daring to threaten to acquire United Defense.

But after scolding, I had to report normally.

It roughly means: TEP has drawn up an acquisition plan to raise $64 billion, and met with Raymond, who is in charge of the project at the Carlyle Consortium, in Austin, the capital of Texas.

"North American TEP seems to only have a tower business."

"Yes, Chief, there is another small business, selling police dogs in the Boston Police Department."

"Can you find the relevant financial report of the other party?"

"Hold on."

Xiao Zhou made several phone calls in a row, and then turned on a laptop, "Director, the China Tower Company has been expanding, and the source of funds...you know."

"..."

The armed old man was both happy and entangled with James' approach of finding the absconded personnel.

The other party can indeed find a large number of illegal immigrants, but the funds are remitted to the account of the tower company reasonably by various weird means.

In the past half month, another $5 million has been added.

"Boss, the tower company mainly invests in communication towers, and there are a lot of new projects. Recently, it even plans to acquire the Brazilian electric tower business for 6 million US dollars. The operating situation can at most maintain a balance of payments, and it is impossible to come up with 64 billion US dollars."

"What about German TEP and Wajima TEP?"

"TEP has newly established an energy company in Germany, and has no business. On Washima, it mainly deals in toys, and in Jamaica, it mainly repairs cars... So, it is very likely that TEP (Huaxia) will invest."

The armed old man knew that Xu Fei was looking for loans from international banks, but he could not show up, and even asked the Huaxia Bank not to lend, 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 his laptop.

Then, without looking at it, he presented the document to the armed old man.

"Two thousand dogs, sold for more than 80 billion?"

The armed old man frowned slightly, and didn't make fun of Xu Fei for selling a dog to buy a company, because it was too outrageous.

Therefore, previous guesswork had to be considered.

"Use such a ridiculous excuse to cover up that TEP belongs to joint defense? Or cover up that TEP belongs to Carlyle's investment to avoid exposing the Carlyle consortium?"

"Chief, there is one more thing."

"Say."

"Before, Xu Fei's second secretary approached the person in charge of our West Asia office and asked for the contact information of the top management in West Asia, intending to sell chariots."

"Shouldn't get involved with this..."

"But she got through to Harden."

"Um?!"

(End of this chapter)