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Supreme Golden Eyes - Chapter 539 Domino Effect

Therefore, although he was full of unwillingness, under the unsatisfactory real environment, Ling Shaonan had to lower his head, which was always held high, and made a very reluctant decision: "As for the engineering required for mining For machinery, let’s purchase from companies such as Taitula, Scania, Lion, Volvo, etc., but when negotiating contracts with them, we must try our best to obtain their technology transfer, and I will let Phantom cooperate with you on this point.”

Since he was unable to be self-sufficient, Ling Shaonan had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and chose a few transport and engineering equipment manufacturers with fairly good technology. Anyway, among these companies, the German Volkswagen AG has a shareholding or even a controlling stake. Phantom, which controls 10.5% of VW's shares, is not an outsider to some extent.

As for the so-called technology transfer, of course it is to improve the technical level of Fengchi Motor Company, but in fact Ling Shaonan didn't have much hope, so he didn't ask Liu Chenghong to do it.But what he didn't expect was that such a request of luck finally brought him unexpected gains!

Speaking of which, many of Fengchi's truck technologies come from the above-mentioned companies, such as a series of truck chassis technologies from Taidrag, and all the HX trucks of Xiongshi are equipped with ZF's 6-speed Fully automatic continuously variable transmission and two-speed gearbox technology, as well as hxz19.7 power drive components, including ZF torque converter technology, etc. (ZF was not very satisfied with this transaction, but Thomas Clark was The major shareholder who holds [-]% of ZF’s shares, ZF also adopted a tacit attitude under his strong mediation, and the matter passed so peacefully).

In the process of introducing these technologies, although Fengchi Company spent a lot of money, this is not the main reason why this transaction can be concluded, and more importantly, because for the public, the field of civilian passenger vehicles is the key. The status of the two truck companies in Volkswagen's industrial landscape is not important, and the situation is not very good, and Volkswagen doesn't care much at all.

Take the lion truck as an example, there are almost no major customers except the German military, and the situation of too long is similar. Except for the Czech and Indian military, it can only be sold in Eastern Europe.The main target of Fengchi Motors is the Chinese market, which is not valued by international giants at all, and there is no competition with these two companies. In addition, Phantom is one of Volkswagen's major shareholders, so Volkswagen's top management After a brief discussion, the transaction was approved smoothly.

Speaking of it, this is a surprise. At the beginning, Ling Shaonan took 10.5% of the shares of Volkswagen through Thomas Clark, the agent in Germany. The relationship between Audi and Lamborghini is quite close), I didn't expect that there would be such a big benefit for the later purchase of Volkswagen's truck technology.

This time, Ling Shaonan asked Liu Chenghong to ask for technology transfer when contacting truck companies such as Taituola. He originally had an attitude of giving it a try, but he did not expect the result to be better than expected. It took almost no effort. Taituola was very easy. And when the engineer team sent by Fengchi Motor Company to receive the technology arrived, those Czechs simply knew everything and talked endlessly during the training, and their attitude was extremely enthusiastic.If these engineers have any questions that they don't understand technically, the Czechs will answer whatever they ask, without hiding it at all.

Later, some people even sold the chassis technology of 10x10 and 12x12 multi-wheel heavy-duty off-road trucks to the engineers of Fengchi Motor Company, which was almost like picking up in the vegetable market for nothing!Although they brought back these technologies with the mentality of "do not take advantage of what is cheap" at that time, the engineers of Fengchi Automobile Company were really panicked. They were afraid that the Czechs would trick them. You must know that they Before joining Fengchi Motor Company, many of them worked in several state-owned heavy truck companies, and had a lot of dealings with Europeans. When did those guys become so kind?

After returning to China, these engineers immediately verified these technologies, and found that they really picked up a big deal, and the Czechs were really honest and kind!But at this time, another question popped up, why is this kind of pie in the sky?Character explosion?

You know, even developing a chassis platform for a family car is already a very headache. It often takes billions of dollars and years of time, plus the hard work of hundreds of engineers. It can only be completed, especially a proven and mature platform, which requires more manpower and material resources.

This is also the main reason why Volkswagen's pq series platform has been used for decades. The so-called familyization of their products is just the result of cosmetic surgery on that platform.

And the chassis platform of a car for civilian use is already so difficult, let alone the chassis platform of an advanced military heavy-duty off-road truck?

However, it was such a valuable heavy truck platform drawing and detailed description that the engineers who were too procrastinated simply sold it in such a simple way, which made the engineers of Fengchi Motor Company puzzled for a while.And this mystery was not revealed until a long time later.

It turns out that when Volkswagen bought Skoda, it also took over the Taidrah company. At that time, the Czech Republic was no longer the Czech Republic during the Cold War. Its original boss, the Soviet Union, had disintegrated.And the boss's successor, Russia, refused to buy their products. As a result, their biggest overseas buyer was only the third brother from India.

After all, although the heavy trucks that are too long are very unique, they are only unique in the chassis. The technology in other aspects can only be regarded as general, not particularly outstanding, while developed countries in Europe and the United States have their own sets of heavy trucks. People have their own big companies, not to mention such Western European powers as Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Even Sweden has heavy-duty truck companies such as Scania and Volvo.

This has resulted in a sharp shrinkage of the market share of Taidola. Over the years, apart from the Czech Republic, only the third brother from India is willing to use Taidola's products.

Such achievements will of course dissatisfy the company's major shareholder, the public, so a long time ago, someone spread the news that the public intends to delay too much and dissolve the company. Even if it does not dissolve, it is very likely to Severe layoffs.

This makes the employees who are too procrastinated who are already dissatisfied with the public even more angry.

That's not what Volkswagen said when it bought Taidala back then. At the beginning, they promised that they would use their global network to help Taidala expand the business scale.But so many years have passed, apart from integrating Skoda's technology and producing some Skoda-branded cars to earn money from the Czechs and former Eastern European brothers, they have made a little contribution to the technological update and market expansion of Skoda and Taila nothing.

Skoda has become an OEM Volkswagen, and Tailao was kicked aside by Volkswagen after they absorbed their unique chassis technology. The company has long since collapsed.

Especially after Volkswagen sold their unique chassis technology privately to Fengchi Automobile Company last time, the Czechs were even more annoyed. Many engineers originally planned to resist Volkswagen's doing this, but then they thought about it, why bother? ?

Anyway, the company's equity is owned by the public, and the Czech government is now trying to join the EU and dare not offend the Germans. In addition, there is no good place for these technologies anyway, and the Germans have to lay off employees. It is better to simply get cheaper Chinese people, anyway, they have money, so as long as they give money, then these technologies can be taken by them.

In this way, the chassis technology of these 10x10 and 12x12 heavy-duty off-road trucks, which were originally too unique in technology, fell into the hands of Fengchi Motor Company at no cost at all.

But letting go of too much procrastination is a big deal. Neither Liu Chenghong nor Fengchi Motor Company President Yan Feng is an idiot. They immediately disclosed the news and threatened that if Lion, Scania and Volvo refuse to agree Request, then the large orders with a total amount of hundreds of millions of dollars will completely fall on the head of the Tailao!

It’s terrible now. Now it’s 1999. It’s not the era when the U.S. dollar will depreciate wildly ten years later. The purchasing power of several hundred million U.S. dollars is still very strong. It is impossible to watch and remain indifferent.

Therefore, under the lobbying of some internal people who have received benefits from Fengchi Company, Lion Company's position first softened. Anyway, they have sold the technology once before, and it doesn't matter if they sell it again.

With the defection of the Lion Company, the domino effect inevitably occurred. With someone at the front, both Scania and Volvo have let go of their restraint, although they are not as close as Taidao and Lion. The whole thing was sold, but Fengchi Company got a lot of good things.

Of course, these are things for later, now Ling Shaonan does not know that his tentative move will let such a big piece of pie fall on his head, after sending Liu Chenghong away, he is still thinking about where to get it again Some technologies to speed up the development of several industrial enterprises under its own, break down the barriers set by Europeans and Americans as soon as possible, and get rid of their restrictions.Although at that time due to market factors and other considerations, it is still inevitable to import some production lines and other equipment from Europe and the United States, but at that time, I will have more confidence in negotiating myself, and the initiative will be completely in my own hands. , instead of stretching their necks and waiting to be slaughtered like some large state-owned enterprises.

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