The richest man

Chapter 203 Car Empire ([-] words)

PS: The FAW company in the previous chapter was changed to SAIC, and the joint venture company is also SAIC-BMW, ​​with each party holding 50% of the shares.

After BMW signed an agreement with SAIC, they quickly cooperated and spent huge sums of money to purchase car-making equipment.Most auto parts cannot be produced domestically, and can only be purchased from outside.

Fortunately, SAIC-BMW will soon build a factory to produce MG cars that do not have very high requirements for accessories. All the auto parts companies bought by Zhang Jun can supply this MG car.

After the Hong Kong Tin Shui Wai Automotive Technology Park is completed, the supply of auto parts will become more convenient, and the products will only be better.

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Shanghai Automotive Group is not the only car company in China. Other car companies were all surprised when they heard about the terms of cooperation between BMW and SAIC.

This cooperation condition is too good.

It's not like they haven't come into contact with other foreign car companies. These car companies are all arrogant, and the various conditions they put forward are very harsh, and the prices are too high, which makes it difficult for them to accept.

In contrast to the cooperation between SAIC and BMW, BMW not only provides MG's technology and MG brand, but also funds, while SAIC only provides workers, land and factory buildings.

They have all these things!

They need as much workers and land as they want, and if they don't have enough, they can go to the leaders to approve them.

The major domestic car companies are ready to move, and they all want to cooperate with Zhang Jun's BMW company.

It's a pity that BMW currently only has three well-known car brands, and Rolls-Royce and Bentley are luxury cars among luxury cars. Obviously, these two cars have no market in the mainland.

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Hong Kong, BMW headquarters.

Zhang Jun and Hu Hongcai, the general manager of BMW, are negotiating the development plan of SAIC BMW.

Zhang Jun said: "MG Auto is technically ahead of mainland cars, but if it wants to sell well, leave a deep impression on the public, and let them firmly remember the MG brand, then marketing promotion is particularly important."

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Jun said, "I thought of a slogan. When the joint venture factory is completed and mass production of vehicles begins, it will be advertised on TV."

"The advertising slogan is 'Drive MG, experience the life of nobility!!!' Cars are luxury goods, and we want to make this sentence deeply rooted in people's hearts. Whenever people think of MG, they will think of nobility. Let me ask, ordinary people Who among the people doesn’t want to experience the life of an aristocrat?”

Hu Hong thought about it for a while, and this advertisement is quite interesting. MG is easily reminiscent of "ranking", and "ranking" is related to nobility.

"Boss, I understand. I will communicate with SAIC to finalize the advertisement as soon as possible!"

"Ah."

Zhang Jun nodded slightly, and then asked, "Has BMW's new car been successfully developed?"

At this time, BMW is developing a variety of new cars.

I won’t say much about Rolls-Royce, Bentley and MG, but the main one is “Zhaoye Jade Lion”.

In addition, the "Wuzhen" brand car mounted by the Overlord of Western Chu is also under development.

Zhao Yeyu Lion belongs to the low-end ordinary citizen car, modeled after the "Passat B5" design. In the previous life, this car became the "official car" of the leader for a long time, so for the appearance of this car, Zhang Jun is very familiar.

The Bawang's mount must be very aggressive, so the Wuzhi brand car is an off-road vehicle. Zhang Jun wanted to own such an aggressive off-road vehicle, so he specially ordered BMW to develop a hard-core off-road vehicle based on the Mercedes-Benz Big G.

Although due to the constraints of the times, the performance of the Wuzi off-road vehicle is not as good as that of the Mercedes-Benz G, but the appearance is the same, and it can be the first to win the appearance patent of the model.

"The new cars of Rolls-Royce, Bentley and MG have all been developed. As long as they pass the test and there are no problems, they can be mass-produced. However, Zhaoye Yushi and Wuzhen may have to wait for half a year!" Hu Hongcai introduced in detail road.

Zhang Jun couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard that, the research and development progress was much faster than he imagined.

Although BMW has turned its profits and losses through the sales channels of its 4S chain stores, the models are not popular and are popular all over the world, which cannot satisfy Zhang Jun.

If you don't do it, just do it, if you want to do it, you must do your best!
In the field of automobiles, Zhang Jun also wants to fight for the first place!

Zhang Jun told Hu Hongcai that after the new car passed the test, he would immediately make a special version of the car that could prevent bullets.

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In a blink of an eye, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has completed its filming.

The pace of Hong Kong is very fast, unlike the mainland, it may take several years to make a TV series.

Here, filming a TV series in a month is commonplace.

This "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be said to be excellent, with an investment of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and a filming time of as long as one year.

During prime time tonight, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is about to be released. Zhang Jun didn't watch it in advance, but according to Huang Xizhao and others, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very exciting and can be called a classic.

After Zhang Jun had dinner, he played a few games of chess with his father Zhang Zhenghao.

Zhang Zhenghao's chess skills are very average, and Zhang Jun kills him in every game.Looking at his father's embarrassment after losing, Zhang Jun couldn't help but enjoy it.

The younger brother Zhang Yue was holding the comic book and was addicted to it. From time to time, he let out a weird "giggle" laugh, which made Zhang Jun, who was playing chess beside him, look sideways, which affected his chess skills.

The younger sister, Xiao Yanan, has a strong desire to perform, singing and dancing in front of her mother, as active as a cute elf.

The night is getting deeper, and when "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is about to be broadcast.

The whole family came to the living room, sat on the sofa and watched TV.

"Rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves scour the heroes!"

The theme song of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sounded, and everyone's attention was attracted by the TV.

As soon as the song came out, everyone was amazed.

Such a majestic and magnificent song really makes one's scalp tingle, and at the same time, it also sings the hero's heroism and open-mindedness.

How many things in ancient and modern times are all jokes...

"Brother, did you write this song? It's amazing!!" Zhang Yue's little brother couldn't help asking, with a look of admiration on his face.

Zhang Jun said with a smile: "I just compose the music. The lyrics were written by Yang Shen, a poet in the Ming Dynasty. It's called "Linjiang Fairy"."

"Really, I thought you wrote it~" Zhang Yue curled his lips and said with a very disappointed expression.

Zhang Jun raised his eyebrows, what's the matter, I didn't write the words, so you don't care?
"Stop talking, hurry up and watch TV!" Zhang Jun glared at Zhang Yue after speaking.

This "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series is almost completely based on the novel. The first episode is "Banquet of Taoyuan Heroes with Three Knots and Killing the Yellow Turban Heroes for the First Merit". A total of 120 episodes were filmed.

Zhang Jun watched it with gusto, and did not forget to compare the previous work in his memory with this one. He found that the two works have their own merits and are both good-looking. In other aspects, it surpasses that work in the previous life.But the acting skills of the actors in the work in the previous life were very good. Every action, every sentence, every expression seemed to be carefully crafted, and they almost brought the characters to life.

In Zhang Jun's impression, those celebrities in the history of the Three Kingdoms seemed to be like those actors. Zhang Jun watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when he was a child, and once thought that Tang Guoqiang was the image of Zhuge Liang in history...

The next day, the whole of Hong Kong was talking about "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the TV series exploded.

In fact, long before the TV broadcast, this TV series was already very popular in Hong Kong. Due to the huge investment, it has successfully attracted the attention of countless people, and everyone is looking forward to the early broadcast of the TV series.

The ratings on the first day also came out, as high as 60%, which stunned the media.

tvb has no power to fight. Facing a TV series with an investment of hundreds of millions, it can only choose to grow obscenely and wait for the show to finish.

Next, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" almost became a phenomenon-level TV series, with higher and higher ratings, and it also led to the best-selling novel.

One month later, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was broadcast in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

The Three Kingdoms culture is very popular in Asia.

Many countries have even remade "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

This TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" successfully crossed national borders, and became popular in Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, and became the talk of the local people after dinner.Many local people were able to name the characters of the Three Kingdoms such as Cao Cao and Kong Ming, and even chatted acquaintedly with stories such as visiting the thatched cottage three times and borrowing arrows from straw boats.

In Hong Kong, worshiping Guan Gong has suddenly become popular.

Guan Gongyi is Bo Yuntian, and even the society respects him very much. As the saying goes, when you come out to mess around, righteousness is the first word.

Zhang Jun was speechless when he received the news, but it was enough to prove how popular "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was.

At this time, Legend Technology released two new games: the strategy game "Three Kingdoms" and the fighting game "Three Kingdoms Warriors".

Once these two games were released, good guys, they became popular in Japan, South Korea and the entire Southeast Asia.

Europe and the United States don't know much about the culture of the Three Kingdoms, but they don't need to care so much when playing games. The games are fun and they can be bought.Moreover, the types of these two games are relatively rare, and the gameplay is unique. European and American players bite the bullet and play games while learning about the culture of the Three Kingdoms.

In many places, you can see a large group of young foreigners, in groups of three or four, talking about Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and closing their mouths about Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, discussing something excitedly...

What surprised Zhang Jun even more was that the English version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was a big hit in Europe and the United States.Of course, the English version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was translated by Zhang Jun's company Penguin Publishing House. It was originally just to be prepared, but I didn't expect the novel to be really popular.

Immediately afterwards, some TV stations in Europe and the United States were also interested in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series.

This TV series with an investment of 1 million Hong Kong dollars, which is considered to be a money-losing work in the industry, not only did not lose money, but instead made a lot of money, selling the TV series copyrights to all over the world, which makes people dumbfounded.

Of course, the most profitable is the game.

Legend Technology Company made a lot of money this time, and the game sales were extremely amazing. In just over half a month, they sold 350 million game cartridges of "Three Kingdoms" and 412 million game cartridges of "Three Kingdoms Warriors".

And the rate of decline is very slow, and these two game cartridges are expected to exceed tens of millions.

A $35 game cartridge costs only a few dollars.

Just these two games can bring Legendary Technology $[-]-[-] million in revenue.

If this is said, countless people will die with envy.

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In a blink of an eye, it is the end of the year.

The company's financial statements have been released.

Zhang Jun sat leisurely on the sofa and looked at the report, feeling quite happy.

With his hard work, this year's financial statement is even more beautiful than last year.

Adding new projects, the profit of claw machine exceeds 15 billion US dollars.

The Netflix chain earned a whopping $11.2 billion.

Coca-Cola's profit is as high as 8 million US dollars!
KFC, ParknShop Supermarket, Wellcome Supermarket, Youtube Video Hall, Legendary Internet Café, BMW 4S Chain Store, etc. are all profitable.

There are also Chinese Land, Disney, Legend Technology, China News Agency, Standard Chartered Bank, Kirin Financial, Hutchison Whampoa, China Energy, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, etc...

Zhang Jun took a quick scan. This year, the total profit exceeded 215 billion US dollars!
With so much wealth, the astronomical figure is average, and the GDP of many countries is not 215 billion US dollars. Zhang Jun feels that he is "really rich and incomparable to a country"!
December 1981, 1.

The British newspaper "Financial Times" under the name of Zhang Jun published three contents at this time.

The first is the FTSE 100 index.

The second is the list of the "World's Top [-] Enterprises".

The third is the "Global Rich List".

When the new edition of the Financial Times was released, it shocked the world like a thunderbolt.

Needless to say, the FTSE 100 Index has caused an uproar in the financial circles of the UK and even Europe, and has become a barometer of the UK economy!

The release of "The World's Top [-] Companies" made many people both curious and shocked.

Seeing the companies on the list, the people who eat melons can't help talking.

It is also the first time they know that there are still such awesome companies in this world that make such money.

All of these companies that entered the list have greatly increased their popularity, their brands have been greatly improved, and their products have sold well.

"This company is a Fortune [-] company. The products produced by their company should be of good quality!"

Similar words are being played out all over the world.

The promotional effect of "The World's Top [-] Companies" is far beyond the imagination of many people.

Most of the companies that were able to enter the list were happy, while the companies that did not enter the list sighed. Some people even contacted the "Financial Times" actively, hoping that the "Financial Times" could revise the list of the "World's Top [-] Companies" to make themselves companies on the list.

Of course, this is not possible.

If the list is changed at will, what is the authority?
At this moment, many companies and individuals have begun to subscribe to the "Financial Times", thinking that the "Financial Times" is an authoritative representative of financial newspapers and deserves attention.

The influence of the "Financial Times" has been greatly improved, its sales have skyrocketed, and it has become the largest financial newspaper in the world!

Another leaderboard has a touch of entertainment.

The "Global Rich List" ranks only 100, but ordinary people like to hear and see it, and they are very concerned about and understand this list, and most want to know who is the richest person in the world.

In fact, everyone can guess it.

In recent years, almost all the news around the world revolves around one person.

He is the genius Zhang Jun!
On the list of the "World's Top [-] Companies", everyone was surprised to find that there were more than ten companies under the name of Zhang Jun alone, which was unbelievable.

This matter caused a great sensation all over the world, and combined with the "Global Rich List", almost everyone in the world knew Zhang Jun.

"The world's richest man: Zhang Jun, worth 500 billion U.S. dollars"

No introduction needed.

Many of the companies under Zhang Jun's name are not listed, so it is very difficult to judge the market value. 500 billion US dollars is definitely a super super conservative valuation.Zhang Jun's real worth should actually be far more than 600 billion US dollars!
There are more than 200 billion U.S. dollars in profits a year alone, how can it be possible that the net worth is only 500 billion U.S. dollars?This is very unreasonable.

However, the "Financial Times" did not introduce Zhang Jun's income in detail, and did not even know the specifics of the company under his name, such as how many shares Zhang Jun held in the company.

In fact, the "Financial Times" had already asked Zhang Jun before publishing the list.

Zhang Jun also knew that his brilliance was so brilliant that it would be useless to cover it up, so he simply exposed the tip of the iceberg, which not only increased the authority of the "Financial Times", but also increased the popularity of the list.

Fame is a double-edged sword, and Zhang Jun's name has almost appeared in major newspapers around the world.

The No.2 rich man is only a few billion dollars, which is far from Zhang Jun's wealth.

For a while, Zhang Jun had the same scenery, and all kinds of investors came one after another.

Of course, Zhang Jun is also subject to controversy.

There are also many people who hate the rich.

When Zhang Jun saw someone scolding him in the media, he could deal with it calmly.

What's the use of scolding me, maybe your son still buys my game console, your daughter buys my electronic pet, you may still use the video recorder produced by my company, and buy Coca-Cola when you are thirsty...

For Hong Kong citizens, Zhang Jun is in control of their lives.

Because Zhang Jun is very rich, at this time he has become a guest from all over the world, and all countries have sent people to woo him frantically, hoping that he can invest in their own country.

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The heat usually doesn't last long. After about a month, Zhang Jun's heat faded.

But at this time, BMW has launched new models of Rolls-Royce, Bentley and MG.

There was no need for Zhang Jun to take the initiative to promote it. All the major media around the world rushed to report. They even said that Rolls-Royce and Bentley are the cars of Zhang Jun, the richest man in the world. They said it clearly, as if they saw Zhang Jun riding these two new cars with their own eyes.

You see, even the richest man in the world rides Rolls-Royces and Bentleys. As a rich man, don't you buy them?If you still take other cars, wouldn't it appear that your class is low?
Zhang Jun didn't even need to speak for Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but it caused the world's rich to imitate. For a while, the sales of Rolls-Royce and Bentley skyrocketed.

Besides, the new models of Rolls-Royce and Bentley were designed by Zhang Jun based on the memories of his previous life. Not to mention the performance, they are world-class, mainly the exterior and interior, which are just like works of art, breathtakingly beautiful!And this is the main reason why Rolls-Royce and Bentley are selling well!
Zhang Jun dare to say that no one understands car exterior and interior design better than him!

Both Royce and Bentley have multiple series.

This time the Rolls-Royce Phantom VII and the Bentley Continental R were launched.

The design of these two cars has amazed the world, especially the seventh generation of Rolls-Royce Phantom, which was originally designed in 2003. It is far beyond the design concept of this era, making Rolls-Royce among all luxury cars It stands out from the crowd, causing the world's rich to rush to buy it.

At this time, the British auto industry was still a stagnant pool, but Rolls-Royce, Bentley and MG were reborn from the ashes, realizing the return of the king!
The British government could not help but send someone to ask Zhang Jun if he could buy more British car companies, so as to revitalize these companies.

Zhang Jun thought to himself that he didn't have enough car brands now, so he might as well buy a few more car brands.He coveted several car brands, but when he thought about promoting the brand he founded in the future, he gave up the idea of ​​buying a lot of car brands. He only planned to buy one car brand, Aston Martin, to add a car brand to BMW. Sports car brands and related technologies.

Negotiations went well, and Aston Martin was bought for just $500 million.

Just after Zhang Jun bought Aston Martin, the car unexpectedly became a big seller in Europe and America.

Hearing the news, Zhang Jun couldn't help expressing emotion, is his influence so great?

In fact, it is true.

Many people rushed to buy Aston Martin because Zhang Jun bought Aston Martin.

For a while, the vampires on Wall Street even dubbed the "Zhang Jun effect" to explain this kind of thing.

Now, Aston Martin has reversed its profit and loss, but Zhang Jun knows that this is an unexpected situation. If this car is to be liked by the public, it must make a breakthrough and develop a new car without delay!

Zhang Jun also wanted to see the Aston Martin God of War as soon as possible, riding the field and leaving other cars far behind, so he invested 4500 million US dollars in the development of a new car.

On the morning of May 1981, 5, Zhang Jun came to Hong Kong Tin Shui Wai Automobile Technology Park. After two years, it was finally completed.

Zhang Jun looked excited. Standing in the distance, looking up at the tall buildings and rows of factory buildings, he couldn't help saying: "The dream of an automobile empire will take off here!!!"

After the completion ceremony, Zhang Jun began to transfer BMW's headquarters, R&D center and production plant here.Although Zhang Jun promised not to move the factory in the UK, he did not promise to build the new factory in the UK.

Furthermore, Hong Kong was still under British control at this time, and the British government could find no reason to refuse Zhang Jun to build a new factory here.

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In the next period of time, a large number of automotive talents flocked to Hong Kong from all over the world.

A huge and advanced automobile industry chain was born in a very short period of time.

Hong Kong's economy has also undergone great changes due to the existence of the Tin Shui Wai Automotive Technology Park. Unknowingly, it has begun to take the technological route. Many companies in Hong Kong have begun to transform to serve the automotive industry.

BMW's huge demand for spare parts orders made many Hong Kong bigwigs salivate, and some of them started to establish spare parts production companies.

Zhang Jun almost changed the direction of Hong Kong's economy by himself, and the future can be expected...

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