Chapter 201 The crisis of the public
Meng Qian and Wang Manwen took a few days to entertain them, and they also thought it was a vacation for themselves to adjust their mood. Read a book and read a book. Meng Qian fulfilled Wang Taotao's wish and drove a yacht to take their whole family out to sail. But when everyone was trembling by the winter sea breeze, they realized that this was a bad idea.
"I didn't expect it to be so cold at the sea!" Wang Taotao wrapped in a blanket and sniffed.
"This time you abolish your democratic voting rights." Wang Manwen made a decision and said to everyone: "Summer is the time to play yachts, and we should choose to drive ourselves now."
"It's good to drive by yourself!" Wang Taotao became interested, but when he saw his sister's eyes, he turned weak: "I know that the voting rights are abolished for twenty-four hours."
Meng Qian laughed: "It's up to you."
Everyone agreed with Wang Manwen’s idea that he could travel and stay as he pleased. There were two American long-term residents who were guided by him, which was an ideal travel mode.
After deciding on the plan, they left early the next morning.
Although a car could be loaded, it was a bit crowded and not happy enough, so I added an extra sports car Meng Qian drove out his collection of Porsche 918.
"Wow!" Wang Taotao was spinning around the car, "Brother-in-law, I want to take the co-pilot!"
"I thought you were going to drive." Meng Qian threw the key to him, "Try it?"
"Really?" Wang Taotao couldn't believe that his family was in a good condition, and he was almost twenty years old. He had a driver's license, but he never thought he could drive such a top sports car.
"Then I'll take you a while first." Meng Qian got into the car and started it. Wang Taotao, who was also a car fan, sat on the chair and felt excited: "This is rare in China!"
Meng Qian likes to talk to people who know goods: "In fact, it is also rare in the United States. I am willing to spend more than one million dollars to buy it, and I only need to consider the net worth tens of millions."
"It makes sense." Wang Taotao agreed and looked over his head: "Can it open the carport?"
"Yes, disassemble manually." Meng Qian turned around and went down the mountain, "But it's winter now, and your sister has been abolished."
"I abolished my 24-hour voting rights." Wang Taotao burst into tears.
"Hahaha." Meng Qian smiled and added a loud roar from behind, and even the car body could feel that this was a restless beast.
California Highway One is very famous. Because it is built along the coast, the scenery on one side of the mountain and the sea is magnificent. They spent a day running and stopped and walked on the road. It also allowed Wang Taotao to become addicted to top sports cars and still visit the city of Monterey.
I arrived in Los Angeles in the evening, but I didn’t stay in the hotel. I went directly to his luxury house in Beverly Hills and had a whole day of fun. I could also enjoy the fun of heating the swimming pool that night, sitting comfortably in the colorful pool rendered by the ambient lights, looking at the city with the lights rising at the foot of the mountain in the distance, which was awesome!
Wang Manwen was talking and laughing with her mother. The three men on Meng Qian were also talking about what they saw today. Wang Renliang paid more attention to Meng Qian, and the topic was also centered on batteries. On the car: "I have heard that electric cars are very popular in California, but it is true when I drive today."
"Tesla has seen it dozens of times." Wang Taotao nodded.
"Other brands are also rising and constantly improving the charging station network." Meng Qian introduced. "But due to the continuous decline in oil prices recently, electric vehicle production has been hit."
Wang Renliang said: "Clean energy will inevitably be the way out in the future, and electric vehicles will sooner or later become popular."
"Of course." Wang Taotao nodded, "The pollution fine is so serious now. Who doesn't stare at the cleaning? Just look at the public. The United States is going to slap hard!"
"I heard there are hundreds of billions?" Wang Renliang looked at Meng Qian.
Meng Qian also learned: "Theoretical fines will be very high. According to local laws, a car will be fined US$37,500, and according to the total vehicles involved in the case, it will be fined hundreds of billions of dollars."
Wang Taotao asked: "How should the public pay back?"
"I can't afford it." Meng Qian shook his head. "Volkswagen's revenue in 2o14 exceeded 2ooo million euros, but it was useless. Its operating profit was less than 100 million euros."
"Excluding the debts that are not limited to core business, or using political and economic relations." Wang Renliang saw it thoroughly, which is what Volkswagen may do recently.
"Sell Lamborghini to Chinese rich!" Wang Taotao blurted out. "There are so many large Chinese companies. I bought Volvo before, so I bought Lamborg this time!"
"Lamborghini is a subsidiary of Audi." Meng Qian mentioned, of course, Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen.
"Audi is not easy to sell." Wang Renliang shook his head, "This company's revenue is 500 million euros. Its financial situation is good and its product line is very comprehensive."
"The pressure on Chinese rich people is quite high," Wang Taotao muttered, and looked at Meng Qian again: "Brother-in-law, you are the richest in our country now, do you see?"
Wang Renliang said first: "You should treat it as an investment, which is not worth it to him at all. What is Audi's net profit margin? Any company under his command is a multiple of it."
"Uncle is right." Meng Qian agreed, "Of course, it would be impossible to buy Audi and its subsidiaries from the perspective of interest."
"Brother-in-law, I knew you were really rich!" Wang Taotao's eyes lit up, "A 50 billion yuan is the funds that Bill Gates may not necessarily have, right?"
"I don't have that much money. Forbes' prediction of my net worth is very accurate." Meng Qian said with a smile, but it does not mean that he does not have the ability to absorb the funds.
A consortium can do it, not to mention that the brotherhood he joined has several consortiums, a large group of rich people. It would be good if he really wanted to buy the automobile industry, right?
Meng Qian can't play many tricks for traditional gasoline models, but he can still learn from many avant-garde technologies in the future for the electric cars that have just risen.
In the long run, it would be quite good to have a little advanced technology in the future; more importantly, Fuguo Power will decline in the future, be abandoned by Meng Qian and the consortium, and cash out for money.
So the question is: Is it worth it to monetize the value of Fuguo Power and exchange Audi with a longer-term future?
This accidental idea made Meng Qian think about it for a long time.
He is interested in owning a car brand, not to mention Audi's Lamborghini and Ducati, there is no need to say much about Lamborghini, a top sports car brand; and Ducati (Italy), can also be said to be the Lamborghini in the motorcycle industry, with high-end and expensive being synonymous.
There are sports cars and motorcycles, and Audi is also a brand that can cover both the middle and high and low ends. If they are independent, they are fully capable of building a vast automobile group.
The Fuguo Power in his hands will decline in the future. What really depends on batteries to make money, and what is long-term development is his company.
Let’s consider it again. Even if Fuguo Power cannot cash in so much money, what about his other companies? What about the consortium? With the good operation and future of his companies, it is not difficult to have 50 billion yuan.
What's more, this is not all acquisitions. You only need to buy 51% of the shares and voting rights. Audi is not Volkswagen's. If you are more secure, it will be 55%.
Audi's current market value is about 2.9 billion euros (early 2016). If it acquires, it should be more than 30 billion yuan. The higher ones may be 40 to 50 billion yuan or can find a way to raise it.
Is it possible to buy it, but does the public sell it?
This is also a problem. Although there is news that Volkswagen wants to sell some of Audi's shares to deal with the "emission door" crisis and huge fines, they hold over 99.55% of Audi's shares and may not sell out Audi as a money tree under its group.
Before going to bed at night, Wang Manwen heard his thoughts: "Is he really interested?"
"I don't know yet, imagine it." Meng Qian turned over to look at her, "What do you think?"
"The normal way is impossible, but you have a lot of trump cards in your hand." Wang Manwen analyzed for him, "The US government's attitude is very important to the amount of fines for the public. They think that too much punishment will cause serious industrial development, so they will be lighter; if not, it will be aggravated."
Meng Qian understood that using the hands of the US government to put pressure is indeed a good idea: if you sell, we will punish you less; if you don’t sell, we will punish you more.
Wang Manwen said again: "The second point is that the future of cars is powered by electricity, and you have mastered the 'oil pipeline' of the new era. Toyota is already an example of a crushing defeat. Do you think Volkswagen is afraid?"
Toyota is indeed a tragic case. They are still very capable at present, but after the new energy vehicle era came, they are already unable to succeed. They are still suing and suing Fox Group for abuse of monopoly status.
Toyota can be said to be a chicken that is used to kill all monkeys. The public must also understand the power of this. If they are stubborn, Fuguo Group will have a way to kill them in the future.
Chapter completed!