Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 319 58 Xiaoma, do you want oil?

Chen Muwu felt that there was no way to continue this topic. Just talking about aliens was not enough. Little Marcus had already imagined a new type of "underground man".

If we chat for another three days and three nights, will we continue to imagine all kinds of other weird things?
For example, a super gentleman holding a civilized stick, wearing a tuxedo and a top hat;
Captain Britain, dressed in red and wearing a bearskin hat, is prone to fainting from the heat;
Steam Iron Man, whose power source is provided by coal-fired steam engines;
Bruce Wayne, the first Earl of Gotham who wears a bat mask and also has no superpowers;

……

Di Mouni, the winner of the ten thousand-year copyright lawsuit, has just been founded a few years ago, and they are about to bring DC and Marvel superheroes into one pot.

Chen Muwu quickly changed the topic and could not let Lou continue to be embarrassed.

"Mr. Wallenberg, I want to say that when you came all the way from Sweden to England, you shouldn't be talking to me about whether there are aliens in the universe, right?"

Now that Chen Muwu has talked to this extent, it would be impolite for little Marcus to continue the conversation, even though he really wants to find out what the aliens are like.

"Of course not. I just read the newspapers when I came here and I am very curious about this new concept you proposed."

"No, I didn't. Don't talk nonsense." Chen Muwu directly denied it for three times. "This is completely the conclusion obtained by Professor Fermi of the University of Rome. No, I saw his calculation process and proved that he calculated it." There's nothing wrong with that. How have you and your family considered the proposal to build a car factory in Sweden?"

The matter finally returned to the topic, but upon hearing Chen Muwu's question, little Marcus showed an embarrassed look on his face.

"Well, I haven't told my family about this yet."

"why?"

"Dr. Chen, because you are not in Sweden, you may not know very well. Now Sweden's domestic automobile industry has started. As far as I know, there is already a new automobile company in Gothenburg, and it seems that the first model they produced will be rolled off the production line soon. It’s a car.”

"What's the name of that company?"

"I'm not sure what it's called, but I know that the bearing factory is called SKF. Our family has some stocks in this bearing factory."

Marcus Jr. still spoke very restrainedly. The Wallenberg family not only owns shares in SKF Bearing Factory, but their family is actually the largest shareholder of this bearing factory.

"Is it called Volvo?"

Chen Muwu blurted out his question.

In order not to arouse the other party's suspicion, he added after the question: "I seem to have seen this news in the newspaper. 'Volvo' is a Latin word that means rolling forward. It is also the right word when put together with a car. suitable."

"Yes, yes, it seems that the car they produce is called this name. Dr. Chen, you are so knowledgeable."

Little Marcus nodded.

Damn, is it still a step too late?

Chen Muwu originally wanted to do it in one step, and take advantage of the time before Volvo came out to establish Geely as a car brand in Sweden.

But who would have thought that he misestimated the time and still allowed Volvo to emerge from the land of Scandinavia.

However, Chen Muwu was still unwilling to give up. He wanted to see if he could get another piece of the pie.

"Mr. Wallenberg, what are your family's future plans for this car company?"

Marcus smiled bitterly: "Without any future plans, the appearance of this car is just a coincidence. The SKF Bearing Factory originally processed bearings for major automobile manufacturers in the world, such as Ford in the United States and Ford in the United Kingdom. Rolls-Royce all purchased their goods from us. In this case, there was an engineer in the bearing factory who wanted to try to see if he could assemble a car, so he took one step after another, and finally got to where he is today.

"I can't think of any surprises. SKF Bearing should still focus on producing bearings. After all, in this industry, Sweden's industrial technology is far ahead in the world.

"As for this small automobile industry that has just started, I think we can only try to sell it in Sweden. It will definitely not be as good as Ford and General Motors in the United States, Rolls-Royce and Austin in the United Kingdom, and I even think it can't even compete with Peugeot and Peugeot in France. Citroen, Italy's Fiat and other well-established car companies can't compare, so how can they compete with others?

"The last Swedish company that tried to do this was Ericsson. You must have seen how badly this company died in the end."

The more Marcus spoke, the more pessimistic he became, but at the end he suddenly realized it, and the expression on his face turned from worry to joy: "Yes, our small car brand can also continue to implement the eastward expansion plan like Ericsson. That would be great! In our east, there is a vast market. Since the telecommunications industry can be opened, then I think the automobile industry can also be opened."

The business acumen of drawing inferences from other cases is very good, but if Marcus really suggests to his family that he goes to Sulian to dump Volvo cars like Ericsson did, then he will really suffer the Waterloo of his business career and let Volvo This car brand died miserably.

Although they choose Lixin for the phone industry, it does not mean that they will also choose a Swedish start-up brand for cars.

Ericsson was able to successfully enter the Soviet Union market because it chose a time when Western countries were still blocking Soviet Union and grabbed the time difference, so it was able to gain a firm foothold.

However, Sulian's automobile industry should have started in the late 20s and early 30s, which was the period of the first Five-Year Plan.

During this period, Sulian built the famous Gorky Automobile Factory in Nizhny Novgorod, which was the one that produced the GAZ cars known to the older generation of Chinese people.

The production line of the Gorky Automobile Plant was imported from the famous Ford Motor Company in the United States. It even commissioned the American automobile king Ford to help build the entire automobile factory in Sulian.

The reason why American capitalists represented by Ford helped the Soviet Union, which they had always hated and was hostile to, was because the period of Soviet Union's first five-year plan coincided with the war that involved almost every corner of the world. financial crisis.

Only a fool would choose Volvo, which only produced its first car in 1927, if it can cooperate with one of the world's top well-known car manufacturers like Ford.

It wasn't that Chen Muwu didn't want to dampen the newly burning ambition of little Marcus, but he couldn't say these words.Is it possible that he was going to talk nonsense with Marcus from beginning to end and finally come up with the prediction that a financial crisis will break out on Wall Street in two years and eventually sweep the world?

This is another price. Let’s wait and see when the Nobel Prize in Economics is won.

But even if they didn't tell little Marcus about this, the Wallenberg family would not have gone bankrupt during the Great Depression, because they had the entire country of Sweden behind them, and even the losses they suffered were very small.

On the contrary, it is their family's competitor, the upstart Kruger who started his career by relying on matches, who will be severely hit by the economic crisis. In the end, his family will be ruined and he will also build a wooden tile in his apartment in Paris.

"Mr. Wallenberg, I think your idea is a bit naive," Chen Muwu shook his head. "I think you have visited Soviet Union several times since Ericsson moved eastward, and you should be aware of Russia's current industrial cooperation. , which country is it very close to?"

"Well, most of Soviet Union's industrial and military industries now receive technical support from Germany."

After the end of the First World War, although the defeated Germany was subject to the Treaty of Versailles, they were not allowed to develop a navy and air force, nor were they allowed to possess heavy military equipment. In the field of civilian industry, they were also restricted by Britain, France, the United States and even Due to the suppression by foreign powers, the overseas markets that were finally established were completely lost.

There was no other way. The Germans could only turn their attention to the outsider excluded from the international order by the Western powers, Soviet Union.

Starting in the 20s, the two countries signed a series of agreements involving economic, trade and military aspects. Germany provided the Soviet Union with various secret assistance in personnel, technology, funds, equipment, etc., so that the Soviet Union would allow Germany to Military training bases and industrial bases have been established within its territory.

This mutually beneficial and win-win situation between the two countries lasted until the United States entered the game in the late 20s. Soviet Union chose the United States, which had better technology, while Germany, which had just emerged from the hyperinflation of the light-speed depreciation of the mark, once again entered the market in the late [-]s. It fell into the Great Depression, and then moved step by step in another direction.

"Then you just listed so many car brands from Europe and the United States, why didn't you mention the two German car companies Daimler and Mercedes-Benz? Even Mr. Karl Benz, the founder of Mercedes-Benz, built the world's first car the inventor of.

"If the Soviet people want to buy cars and develop the automobile industry, why don't they cooperate with Germany?"

Although the Sulian people actually didn't do this, Chen Muwu's question immediately caused little Marcus's newly ignited fighting spirit to instantly dissipate.

"Alas," he sighed and asked subconsciously: "Dr. Chen, what do you think this company should do? Should it strive to deeply explore the Swedish domestic market, or should it cut off its strength and stop its losses in time?"

It was Chen Muwu who gave him the idea to acquire Ericsson against all odds, so this time Marcus still hoped that the Oriental sitting opposite could come up with a solution for him.

If nothing else, striving to deepen the domestic market should be the path Volvo took in the early days of its establishment. Then after the Second World War, it gradually started playing the card of safety innovation.

"You sell me the shares of this company, and I'll tell you what to do."

Chen Muwu said half-jokingly that he would not give others an idea that could make them rich in vain.

Of course, he didn't believe that Marcus would really sell all of Volvo's shares to him.

"Don't be ridiculous, Dr. Chen. I know you must have thought about how to do this, otherwise you wouldn't have written such a letter to me years ago."

"I want to find a suitable place near Stockholm to build the world's most advanced observatory. And this automobile factory should be allowed to send Chinese workers to intern and work like other factories under Wallenberg."

Since Hubble has the intention to conduct research together with Chen Muwu, he must not treat this great astronomer badly.

Moreover, the Crown Prince of Sweden has long wanted to build a magnificent observatory in the capital. Chen Muwu made this request, which at the same time fulfilled His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's wish.

As for allowing Chinese workers to enter automobile factories for internships and learn skills, he currently only has such an idea and does not want to actually implement it.

In the next 20 or even 30 years, the industrial products China needs most will not be cars.

First, the country is always in turmoil. Second, there are not even a few decent roads. Third, all oil is imported and the price is high. There is no environment for the development of automobiles.

Cars play little role in the country, and even those who give gifts look down upon domestically produced cars, which are often imported cars such as Stypunkt and the same model as the President's Cadillac.

For China in the next few decades, even the aircraft industry will be more valuable than the automobile industry. Not to mention the unrealistic thing of setting up a production line to build aircraft, even building a few aircraft repair shops can also improve it slightly. The combat effectiveness of the army when facing oneself.

I'm just afraid that the funds for the aircraft repair shop will be put into the wallet of the Secretary General of the Aviation Commission, and then, through various clever packaging, be deposited into a private account in an American bank.

Otherwise, Chen Muwu really had the urge to ask the Wallenberg family behind Marcus to get Saab out decades in advance.

——Of course, not the Saab that makes cars, but the one that makes airplanes.

A small observatory is nothing to the Wallenberg family, but so many factories have agreed to dispatch Chinese workers, including a small automobile factory.

Little Marcus readily agreed to Chen Muwu's request, and even took the initiative to say that as long as the car factory could stand and make a profit, he would donate 5.00% of his annual profits to fund the school in Sweden.

Chen Muwu, who received the unexpected joy, finally revealed all the tricks he had used to deceive the Duke of York years ago. He took out a model of a seat belt and told little Marcus that this new car was focused on safety around the world.

He also said that when necessary, the Swedish royal family can be brought out for endorsement. Americans who do not have a king prefer European kings and nobles.

They don't make civilian cars like the Ford Model T. What they want to do is make high-end luxury goods.

Hearing the endless chatter, little Marcus nodded repeatedly, but Chen Muwu, who seemed to be a bit dry when talking, was still not satisfied. He suddenly remembered another thing: "By the way, since we plan to develop the automobile industry, then Do you want oil in Sweden? As long as you open the mouth of Chrysostom, I..."

(End of this chapter)