The decision of Vicks Group to cancel the practice of bundling Cosworth and Rolls-Royce is a bolt from the blue for Ford!

They ambitiously prepared a complete meal for Lin Zheng, and were waiting to curse Lin Zheng as much as possible. But now, when Bill Ford heard that Vicks Group decided to cancel the previous bundling strategy, he scolded his mother in the office for half an hour: After working hard to deploy in the past few days, all of them have become useless!

I wanted to protest, but before Ford and Volkswagen could communicate well, Volkswagen's competitor, BMW, publicly expressed its high welcome and support for the Vicks Group's approach.

If Cosworth is a waste of food for Volkswagen, then for BMW, Cosworth is a completely clean chicken bone. There was no way before, Vicks Group insisted on bundling Cosworth and Rolls-Royce, and BMW could only accept it with a pinch of its nose. But now Vicks Group is willing to take the initiative to undo this bundling strategy. If there is a stupid person who is willing to take over Cosworth, BMW will certainly welcome him with both hands and feet.

In this way, Volkswagen is extremely embarrassed: disagree? BMW is eyeing it on the side. The acquisition of Rolls-Royce is of great significance to Volkswagen to enhance its brand image and added value. It must not make BMW a cheaper profit at this time. Can you agree? What should I do if the agreement reached with Ford? Or insist on buying Cosworth and Rolls-Royce together? Piech refused to do it.

At the critical moment, capital showed its selfish nature. After some measurement, Volkswagen had to pinch its nose and said that although they regretted the decision of the Vicks Group, they respected the decision of the Vicks Group.

Volkswagen and BMW, which participated in this acquisition, have made such a statement, and the next thing is simple. Tesla Motors only needs to organize a negotiation team to discuss the price of Cosworth with Vicks Group.

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Ford is Ford. Realizing that things were impossible, he immediately withdrew the negotiation team. At the same time, he sent a public letter to Lianchuang Technology in the name of the Chairman's Office of Ford Motor. The official letter clearly stated that in the second random inspection, the pass rate of the in-car audio system provided by Lianchuang Technology is determined to be fully in line with the proportion stipulated in the contract. Lianchuang Technology's products provided by Ford Motor are qualified. I hope that this accident will not affect the friendship between the two parties...

Ford is so shameless, but for Lianchuang Technology, he really has no choice but to do with Ford: Who makes Ford Motor the biggest customer of Lianchuang Technology's car audio products?

It doesn't mean that Lin Zheng can't do anything to others, such as his good partner, Paul Stoddat, the second largest shareholder of Minardi team.

Why did things turn out like this? Paul Studatt held his chin and looked at the wall opposite: Why did such a big reversal occur overnight? Isn’t everything under the control of Ford? But who can tell himself why Ford, which is as arrogant as a god, is so timid and timid?

No! After Lin Zheng and Ford reached an agreement, he would turn his finger to his Paul Studatt, and suddenly shivered. He was really afraid of Lin Zheng and needed to protect himself!

"Where is Mr. Minardi?" He calmed himself down, Paul Studat pressed the phone on the table: "I informed Mr. Minardi and said that I had something to discuss with him."

"Sir, I'm sorry," said Paul Studat's secretary timidly in the phone: "Mr. Minardi went to Seattle today, and now others are on the plane, so we can't get in touch."

"Go to Seattle?" Paul Studat was stunned for a moment, then furious: "Why don't you tell me such an important thing?"

Minardi went to Seattle? Where is Seattle? Lin Zheng's bastard's residence in the United States is in Seattle. He just bought a large piece of land in Seattle and was about to live next to Bill Gates next to Lake Washington. Minardi went to Seattle at this time, what else could he do except be Judas who betrayed Jesus?

He felt that he had been betrayed by the whole world.

The secretary is so aggrieved. It was you who told me that you would not disturb you no matter what the situation is...

Paul Studat no longer had the intention to find trouble for the secretary. He had a premonition that it would not take long before his identity in the convoy would be left with the word "shareholder".

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Unlike the annoyed and angry Paul Studatt, Minardi, who got off the plane, was in a very good mood.

Now he is particularly grateful that he did not take sides in the previous Cosworth dispute. Now it’s time to reap the results.

Although he was in a good mood, Minardi still maintained considerable respect when facing Lin Zheng's driver who came to the airport to greet him in person.

Xiao Ding's attitude was always very respectful and said to Minardi politely: "Sir, Mr. Lin originally planned to come in person, but he would not come at the moment. He made me believe in conveying his apology."

Although he knew that Xiao Ding said this, even if Lin Zheng was fine, he would definitely be "involved", since he was able to come on his own initiative, it means that he didn't care about this. He said politely: "Mr. Lin is so polite."

Xiao Ding picked up an envelope from the dashboard and handed it to Minardi: "Sir, let me give this thing to you."

The envelope was not sealed. When he opened the envelope, Minardi shivered excitedly: $100,000?!

100,000 US dollars is not a big amount, but for a team manager like Minardi who has been losing money all year round and has to be careful about every penny, this is a huge amount. You know, although the contract stipulates that he can share the team's profit dividends, Minardi's team's finances are not enough to make ends meet for many years, so he has never seen what dividends look like. Apart from dividends, Minardi's annual salary is only 150,000 US dollars... The annual salary of the two drivers in the team is slightly higher, only one is 250,000 US dollars and the other is 200,000 US dollars.

Don’t think that all F1 drivers have annual salary of millions of dollars. In fact, except for the top teams, the drivers of the teams that rank fifth in the team are all at $1 million in annual salary. Because of their lack of popularity, there are not many endorsement contracts that can be obtained. It would be great if the income from the book was 2 million US dollars in the year. Then, the share of the endorsement fee to the team, share the agents, and taxes paid to the state. The drivers who earn 2 million in a year will not fall into their wallets in the net. Of course, the net income of 800,000 US dollars per year is enough to make the vast majority of people jealous.

100,000 US dollars is nothing to Lin Zheng, and even Xiao Ding doesn't take it very seriously, but for Minardi, this is a huge sum of money that is almost equivalent to his annual income - because of the team's unsatisfactory performance, Minardi doesn't have many opportunities to make extra money.

He trembled and put the envelope into his pocket, took a deep breath, and asked Xiao Ding in a deep voice: "What do Boss hope I will do?"

"Just cooperate with Cosworth to do a good job in matching and debugging the vehicle and power system."

Xiao Ding's words were very ordinary, but Minardi nodded heavily and said, "Please rest assured. If he has any ideas about the construction of the fleet, I will do my best to support it."

The boss read that right, this guy is indeed a smart person. Thinking of the boss's evaluation of Minardi, Xiao Ding couldn't help but mutter: They are all partners, why is Paul Stoddat's brain so bad?

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Lin Zheng is really a problem, not perfunctory Minardi, because this time he has a big deal: the stock god Buffett took the initiative to come to the door, hoping to hold 2 icq shares and actively open the price to 200 million US dollars. In other words, the stock god believes that the current icq is a company with a market value of 10 billion US dollars.

Buffett's request made Lin Zheng very embarrassed.

There is no doubt that with Buffett's influence in the American financial, political and banking circles, once the news of Buffett's acquisition of icq company 2 for US$200 million spread, this will become the largest advertisement for icq, which will play a huge role in promoting IQ's next listing. But the problem is that Lin Zheng has only prepared 15 shares for this IPO, and there is no stock god.

The previous 15 has already set a good range, and there is no way to move. If you want to sell it to the stock god 2, the only way is to expand the shareholding ratio of iPo from 15 to 17, but this is also a big problem: you need to re-report the application to the US securities regulator, so that the original listing time will be postponed again.

"Lin, I understand your hesitation, but believe me, I will help you with the securities regulatory authorities," Buffett on the phone laughed loudly: "Also, young man, I heard that you are acquiring Cosworth now? After this news spread, it should be a very favorable boost to the negotiations between you and the Vicks Group, right?"

Lin Zheng nodded with a wry smile. He admitted that the stock god said that it was right. Once the stock god thought that the value of icq was more than 10 billion US dollars, the Vicks Group, which was originally prepared to knock out more icq shares from Tesla cars, would inevitably finalize the contract at the speed of dog grabbing bones: no one is stupid these days, right?

As a last resort, Lin Zheng had to nod: "Okay, I'll think of a solution."

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PS: The third update is here, brothers, Qiannian is coming again with shamelessness. Do you still have monthly tickets in your hand? If you have one, just give Qiannian one? r1152

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