Rebirth of the Age of Wealth

Chapter 357 Head Sheep

Li Weidong called Liu Jinhui and found out that everything was fine with her. The results of the examination in the hospital were very normal, so he was relieved. He would have to stay in the country for a while before going back.

"Just keep busy with your work. We are very good here. If you have something to do at home, just go and do it. Wei Hong also started school today. She is very hardworking, so you don't have to worry about it!"

"How old is she? How can she be successful if others have to worry about her studies?" Li Weihong and Zheng Sijing went to Hong Kong Island together. With Zheng Sijing taking care of her, Li Weidong was not worried at all.

Li Weidong held a document in his hand and sketched on it. This was the "Automobile Industry Industrial Policy" promulgated this year. Only after seeing this document did Li Weidong realize how precious the automobile license placed on his desk was.

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So far, this is the first license obtained as a private enterprise. The automobile industry is different from other industries, especially when the Eighth Five-Year Plan called for the automobile industry to be a pillar industry.

To build a car, it must first enter the national catalog and require state approval. Geely, which has not yet started building cars, is said to have been trying for two years with no results. In the end, it borrowed a license. The key is that the license is for the production of passenger cars.

Moreover, Geely did not obtain formal qualifications until before its accession to the WTO, seven years earlier, and seven years is exactly the average lifespan of small and medium-sized enterprises in developed countries.

Another document placed on Li Weidong's desk is the latest automobile manufacturer and product catalog that Li Weidong obtained through his contacts, as well as their production last year.

There are more than 130 vehicle manufacturing plants across the country, which are licensed, but the total production volume of these many automobile plants is only 1.35 million vehicles, of which only 250,000 are sedans.

Of these 250,000 cars, half of them are occupied by Volkswagen in the north and the south, with domestically produced cars accounting for only a fraction. And the current policy is even more dramatic.

The domestic market is too big, the temptation is too great, and China wants to rely on the market to exchange technology, so major automobile companies will naturally take the bait, but the final result is that the bait is gone and the fish runs away.

And there is another fatal problem. The imported technology is too low-grade, and we have suffered a lot from this problem. The technologies currently introduced are all models that have been eliminated from abroad.

Now he has given this license without anything. He is one of the more than 130 companies, and has reduced the number of cars produced by each company.

Starting everything from scratch, not to mention how much it costs, how to support this stall is a big problem. He urgently needs to recruit a few helpers. If there is a suitable factory, it would be best to buy it directly. This is what he has always done.

Technique.

Fortunately, there are now more and more supporting companies for automobiles, and it cannot be considered starting from scratch. At least they do not need to produce tires or window glass.

A car is just four wheels with an engine and an iron case. No one else can do anything. Why can't Li Weidong do it? Compared to Geely, his advantages are very obvious.

Li Weidong picked up his tea cup and took a sip of water, then picked up a pile of documents and read them. These are some situations in which Northern Volkswagen invested in building factories. Li Weidong needs to learn about them.

After a few glances, Li Weidong sighed. He originally thought he was quite rich, but now he suddenly discovered that he didn't have much money anymore. A car factory with an annual output of 150,000 vehicles would need to invest 3 billion.

Li Weidong originally thought that the annual production capacity of 150,000 complete vehicles, 270,000 engines, and 180,000 transmissions was too low. This would be the only sales volume in a month for future generations. How could it be possible?

It still felt a bit small, but when he saw this investment amount, Li Weidong was dumbfounded. He had a budget at the beginning, about five or six billion, and then invested part of it in the name of Skoda, but the total budget was about one billion.

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Of course, this budget is just the data he mentioned casually, and has not gone through the construction drawing budget of the design unit. It is a detailed process, and the final error is only about 10%.

He has three billion. Several companies under the name of Ribos Holdings can come up with so much money. It's just a little difficult, but the money has many uses!

According to Li Weidong's plan, the money is going to be invested in the technology market and Internet market in the United States. Wouldn't it be nice for him to make US dollars while the bubble is taking off!

The cycle of investing in and building a factory is too long. Northern Volkswagen started construction in 1991, and it has not been completed yet. According to the plan, it will take two or three years. By that time, he had already returned from the United States.

Investing in building a factory is different from investing in Skoda. What Skoda lacks is money and management, and the production plants are there. He invested less than a year ago, and it has already started to improve.

Of course, his investment in Skoda was the foundation. He originally thought that it would help Skoda enter the domestic market in advance and make a lot of money, but he never thought that he would be able to obtain a car license.

Starting from scratch now, even the construction period will take several years, but the money does not need to be spent all at once. Investing slowly may allow the capital to circulate.

Li Weidong continued to look and found that it was true that so much money was not needed in the early stage. So far, after more than three years of construction, only more than half of the investment money has been used.

Moreover, with the style of doing things for state-owned enterprises, everything must be compliant, the overall situation must be taken into account, and all relationships must be taken care of. Naturally, it will cost more. If Li Weidong does it, he can save at least 30%!

There is also the problem of human beings. The preliminary infrastructure construction work was entrusted to the design institute, and it was already ready-made. Northern Volkswagen was used as a model. It only needed to delete or delete certain things.

But the production and R&D after construction is the most important. Of course, it can cooperate with Skoda, but it must have its own R&D personnel. The purpose of the cooperation is to learn technology, not to become a Chinese factory of Skoda.

Li Weidong has entrusted others to poach people everywhere. It is best to poach people at the chief engineer level of a large automobile factory. As for the heavy truck factory next to the operator, there are still some.

Moreover, the current heavy truck plant is very famous and has many employees, but the efficiency is very poor. However, it has not reached the worst point yet. In a few years, it will be really bad and almost bankrupt.

There are tens of thousands of employees and the output value is 560 million yuan. Li Weidong has solved the re-employment problem of their employees. The factory is only happy and there is absolutely no anger about poaching.

Of course, the first problem to be solved now is land. The original machine repair shop was only so big and it was still opposite the management committee. It was impossible to build an automobile factory for Li Weidong.

The land given by the government was too far away, and Li Weidong was somewhat unhappy. Although that place would become a geomantic treasure land more than ten years later, with many central enterprises settling in, it is still a barren land now.

There are no roads extending in all directions. Not to mention the four-way connection and one level, even the basic electricity supply is a problem. These must be reconsidered. Firstly, it will delay the construction period. Secondly, traffic is a big problem and will hinder the progress of the project.

Of course, the ultimate goal of these issues is money. Li Weidong proposed that he could build the road himself on the national and provincial highway, but the land price would be correspondingly cheaper.

Two thousand acres of land, the area is not small, and it even involves the issue of demolition. This cannot be a trivial matter, and the negotiation will not be that easy. Li Weidong participated once and stopped going.

Every time it was pushed forward, it was actually a test. The city would not give up on Li Weidong, the fat sheep. Firstly, it could not let Li Weidong go, and secondly, it had to eat the flesh.

Even if he wants to invest in land, Li Weidong can agree. The premise is of course a win-win cooperation, and Li Weidong is not short of money, so he naturally doesn't want to let others take a bite of this piece of fat.

Li Weidong obtained this permit, but he had nothing to do with the city. He had no intention of repaying the work, and of course he would not get into too much trouble with the city.

So in the end, Xia Guoqiang took over the job. Xia Guoqiang was very excited. If he didn't know so little about cars, he would even want to recommend himself. This is a big project.

After Li Weidong read for a while, he put down the document and looked at several other documents on the table, which were sent by several companies under his name. After reading them, he signed his name.

After finishing, he patted the document and shouted: "Secretary Zhang!"

Zhang Dongshuo, who was opposite, heard the commotion and came over quickly. He had been listening with his ears bent!

"Send these out. Is Mr. Xia back?"

"Okay, Chairman, not yet. I'm going to have a look at the site today. It shouldn't be so soon!"

"I understand, you go out and turn up the air conditioner. The temperature is too low, some are too cold. It's a waste of money. You won't be able to stand it anymore after you go out!"

Zhang Dongshuo doesn't know what's wrong with the boss. This is the most suitable temperature, and it has been blowing for several days. Why is it lower today? But the boss's words are orders.

"Okay, I'll adjust it right away. Will you go back to eat later, or will you be in the company cafeteria?" Zhang Dongshuo said quickly, as if he remembered something again and asked.

"I'm not going back. Let's eat at the company. It's a waste of gas money to go back!" Li Weidong thought for a while and said.

Zhang Dongshuo was slandering in his heart. He didn't know what to say. Only two of these three sentences mentioned money. Is this a sign of bankruptcy?

"Okay, let me tell Aunt Yan!" After Zhang Dongshuo finished speaking, he went out with the documents, closed the door, and returned to his office to think about turning up the air conditioner temperature.

When Xia Guoqiang came back, it was already afternoon. Li Weidong dared to wake up. He wanted to knock on the door, but Zhang Dongshuo stopped him.

"Mr. Xia, the chairman is taking a lunch break. How about I call you later?"

"Oh, okay, I'll come back later!"

"Lao Xia, come in!" Li Weidong was sitting on the recliner and looking at the scenery outside the window. When he heard the movement outside, he shouted, asking Xia Guoqiang to come in.

After he woke up, he sat here looking at the scenery and thinking about things. Although this office was large, it was much worse than the one on Hong Kong Island. There was no bed and it was very inconvenient for him to rest.

He wanted to renovate it, but he thought that the three-story office would have to be demolished and rebuilt in two or three years at most, so he didn't think about it. The three-story office of the company headquarters was a bit too shabby.

"Chairman, you're awake!" Zhang Dongshuo opened the door and came in, busy changing the water and pouring tea for Li Weidong.

"Chairman, I've found out their bottom line today. Mayor Xie revealed to me that they are optimistic about buying shares, but they don't want to pay for it, but the land can be bigger!"

"What do I need so much land for, and at what price?" Li Weidong doesn't care much about the price now, but is waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the opportunity.

"The land they gave us is relatively cheap, less than 30,000 yuan per acre. We can keep it for the second and third phases!"

Li Weidong glanced at Xia Guoqiang and said, "I took a look at Northern Volkswagen's investment plan. The total investment is over one billion. How much stock do you think is appropriate for the city?"

Xia Guoqiang was shocked when he heard that it was more than one billion. When they talked with the city, they only said to invest 500 million. According to Li Weidong, it was to keep a low profile and a low profile.

But I understand what Li Weidong means. How much is four thousand acres of land worth, and how many shares can it hold? If such a small share is dispensable, what's the point?

"Okay, shall I continue talking to them?"

"No, wait a minute, so you can let the wind out and say that we plan to invest more, planning to invest two billion to build the largest automobile production base in the north!"

"Two billion?" Xia Guoqiang was stunned. He was a little numb. He was already frightened when he said more than one billion just now. Now it has increased again. Isn't this money money anymore?

"Can't we raise some funds and get some loans? Just say it like this!" Li Weidong looked at Xia Guoqiang and said. He was very satisfied with Xia Guoqiang's performance. Xia Guoqiang had performed like this, so there was no need for the expressions of the people in the city.

Think about it.

"Chairman, if I tell this money, I'm afraid the mayor won't be accompanying me every day. This time I'm going to change the secretary, who should block our door!"

Xia Guoqiang said with some excitement, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. When he approached the city and said that it would invest 500 million to build a car production plant, the city put a leader in charge of this matter and had people following him around the clock.

Xia Guoqiang's words came true the next day. As soon as Li Weidong arrived at the company, before he went upstairs, he saw a motorcade driving to the door of the company. The security guard asked and hurried over to lift the pole.

Li Weidong was startled when he saw the face of the man who got out of the car. This was not the city secretary, but a provincial official, and he was the kind with a bright future.

Li Weidong immediately became excited and walked over quickly, "Secretary Wu, why are you here?"

"Are you Comrade Weidong? Why don't you welcome me here?" Secretary Wu was not surprised that Li Weidong recognized him. His face was that of Handong.

However, Li Weidong was a little surprised that Secretary Wu could recognize him, and he hurriedly said, "Secretary Wu, I am Li Weidong. Secretary Wu is welcome to inspect the work. Please come in quickly!"

"Haha, I'm not here today to inspect the work. I'm an uninvited guest, and I have to ask your forgiveness as the master!"

"No, no, your coming is the best affirmation of our work. It is part of the inspection work. Please come in quickly. Leaders, please come in quickly!"

Being recognized by the largest local official at least shows that as long as Li Weidong does not make mistakes, no one can bully him in the province, including those "eunuch queens".

For the first time, Li Weidong felt that this three-story office building was too shabby. There was no place to lay out company plans and reception rooms. When leaders came, they could only go to the conference room.

Things that had been tossing for several days without results were settled within half an hour. Leaders came and went, and things at the Qizhou Automobile Factory became easier to handle without any suspense.

This is where the fight between masters is meaningless. Where the two of them stand, they will know the winner or lose as soon as they shake hands. Of course, Li Weidong and Handong do not win or lose, it is a win-win situation.

Qizhou Automobile Factory has set the tone, and Li Weidong's matter of finding a few helpers has also begun to take shape.

When Li Weidong told Secretary Wu that he needed talents, he did not express his position, but after a few days, he asked the secretary to recommend a few people.

And the original positions were not low, these were all middle-level and above leaders of the original heavy truck plant.

Now that everything is ready, all we owe is Dongfeng. Once Li Weidong's money is in place, construction can begin.

"Lao Xia, I want you to be the leader of these people. I will serve as the executive director myself. There is too much money involved, and I am worried about others!" After sending a few people away, Li Weidong said to Xia Guoqiang next to him.

(End of chapter)