The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 218: Exaggerated Operation, Stunning
"This is a good suggestion. If the powertrain and chassis do not need much development, it is possible to save about a year."

“Even most of the other parts have been reviewed and used as much as possible from the specifications of other mass-produced models, and the schedule can be further compressed.”

“It is also a very good idea to first solve the existing problems and then continuously launch various improved versions later.”

Austin was persuaded.

Jiang Hui's proposal was obviously in the interests of General Motors, and he fully accepted it.

Americans don't do things as complicatedly as Japanese companies do, and they can do things quickly when they need to.

"Our delegation will be returning home the day after tomorrow. I'll leave you a home phone number when we get there."

"If you have any questions, you can call our factory directly, or you can call my home."

Austin is still useful to Jiang Hui.

Similarly, Jiang Hui is also a valuable friend to Austin.

The key to maintaining a relationship is having common interests between the two parties.

Otherwise everything else is unreliable.

"Jiang, I didn't prepare any other gifts this time. Instead, I arranged for someone to collect all the major car magazines from the past year."

"By the way, I have also sorted out a few boxes of some automobile-related books and standard documents on the market. They will be gifts for your inspection team when the time comes."

Austin knew that Jiang Hui was very interested in various technical information.

He couldn't give away General Motors' information casually, and he was reluctant to do so.

But there are magazines and books for sale in the market, so there is no pressure to buy a few boxes.

……

"Is GM satisfied with the design you provided?"

That night, Zhu Jiansheng couldn't help but confirm it with Jiang Hui again.

Although Jiang Hui briefly told everyone today that the cooperation was successful, he did not go into specific details.

Others may not care about the details, but Zhu Jiansheng still cares a lot about them.

"I am very satisfied. I designed a full-size pickup truck for them based on Ford's best-selling F150 pickup truck. Austin is very satisfied."

"Without waiting for President Murphy's confirmation, he directly signed the relevant contract with me."

"Dad, after I return home this time, I plan to consider contracting a domestic factory and training a group of employees of my own."

"In the future, we will set up a joint venture to produce some auto parts or motorcycle parts, or even complete vehicles or motorcycles."

The funds have been in place, and Jiang Hui is also ready to discuss his arrangements with Zhu Jiansheng in further detail.

The idea of ​​a joint venture has been mentioned before, but there is no specific timetable for its implementation.

It's different now.

Time waits for no one, it would be a pity to delay any further.

In Shenzhen, the establishment of a special economic zone was announced last month.

If it is difficult to develop some industries in the capital in the future, you can also consider developing in Shenzhen.

Or the company can be registered in Shenzhen, but the specific factory can be located in the capital or other regions.

In short, after returning to China this time, I will start to work hard.

"Well, if you have these ideas, then be bold and try them out."

"If there is anything you need my help with, feel free to ask."

Zhu Jiansheng agreed with Jiang Hui's idea without hesitation.

He also knew that even if he opposed, Jiang Hui would continue to move forward according to his own ideas.

If that's the case, why let this matter ruin the relationship?
"The domestic policy of encouraging each couple to have only one child is expected to become more and more stringent in the future."

"Especially for couples like us who are both employees of the same company, we should abide by it even more."

"But I think having only one child is not enough, so I thought about whether there is a way to transfer Linlin's identity to Hong Kong City."

"In the future, whether it is returning to China to invest or to have children, it will be much more convenient."

After Jiang Hui said this, Zhu Jiansheng's mood immediately changed.

Let your daughter become a Hong Kong citizen?
He didn't doubt that Jiang Hui had the ability to accomplish this.

But this approach...

For a moment, he was a little undecided.

"Dad, after 97, Hong Kong City returned to China."

"People in Hong Kong are also Chinese."

Jiang Hui sensed Zhu Jiansheng's hesitation and added fuel to the fire.

"If she immigrates to Hong Kong City, will it be very inconvenient for her to return to the capital in the future?"

Zhu Jiansheng knew that it was very inconvenient for him to leave the country, and he had never thought of immigrating in his life.

My eldest daughter works in Shanghai and I haven’t had the chance to see her for a year.

He certainly didn't want his little daughter to have difficulty seeing him in the future.

"Definitely not. It will only become more and more convenient for foreigners to come to China in the future. It won't become more and more troublesome."

"Besides, when the time comes, Linlin will come back as an investor. By then, she will be welcomed by everyone in various places. How can we make it difficult for her to return to China?"

After Jiang Hui said this, Zhu Jiansheng stopped worrying about it.

The son-in-law is destined to want to strike out on his own.

Given his technical prowess, it would be a waste of talent for him to stay at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

After all, under the existing rules and regulations, no matter how talented you are, you can't do everything according to your own wishes.

At this time, it seems acceptable to take advantage of policy changes, follow the trend of reform, and come up with something special.

Anyway, for Jiang Hui, he actually has many ways out.

At worst, there is no problem in just doing nothing and living off your parents at home.

What's more, he can also choose to work for General Motors, study abroad in the United States, and other options that seem very good.

After dealing with his father-in-law, Jiang Hui continued to talk to him about some future arrangements, and then they went to rest.

The next day, Jiang Hui followed the main group to General Motors, then met with Austin alone and asked him to arrange a car to go to the Merrill Lynch branch.

"Jiang, do you really want to invest all of that $100 million into crude oil futures?"

Austin personally drove Jiang Hui to see Linda today.

He was really a little curious about why Jiang Hui was so sure that crude oil futures prices would continue to rise. This was a little different from the overall market situation.

In particular, crude oil futures prices fell another 0.6% yesterday and there seems to be no sign of a rebound.

Jiang Hui actually dares to continue to increase the stakes?

That is equivalent to directly buying $400 million worth of crude oil futures!
With ten times leverage, that would be $4000 million.

Although in the big pool of crude oil futures, $4000 million is nothing.

But for an individual, this is definitely a huge investment.

Even if Austin were to choose for himself, he would not dare to make such an investment.

He is not that big of a gambler.

"Yes, we will buy all the contracts for rising crude oil futures in a moment. Do you want to buy tens of thousands of dollars?"

"Anyway, with your income, it doesn't matter even if you lose tens of thousands of dollars."

"If you earn any, just consider it as an extra bonus."

Austin has nothing to say to himself these days.

Jiang Hui is still willing to take him with him to make some money.

Seeing Jiang Hui once again persuading him to follow suit, Austin remained silent.

He was a little unsure where Jiang Hui got his confidence from.

Could it be that he got some information from China that he didn't know?
Something like crude oil futures is closely related to a lot of sensitive information.

If you can know some sensitive information in advance, it is possible to make a big splash in the futures market.

"Okay, then I'll follow suit and invest $5!"

I thought that Jiang Hui was different from any Chinese person I knew.

Austin is ready to go crazy this time.

Anyway, fifty thousand dollars is nothing to him, so if he loses it, he loses it.

At worst, even if it makes Jiang Hui feel more guilty, he can still help me in the future when I need him. "Austin, congratulations on making the right choice. You will definitely be happy with your investment decision today."

Jiang Hui's confident look gave Austin a little more confidence.

Soon, the two went to the business hall and, under Linda's reception, quickly settled the relevant investment.

"Linda, please remember our agreement. Once the crude oil futures price rises by 20%, we will sell all of them and not keep a single contract."

"Then I will tell you how to operate these funds."

When leaving the business hall, Jiang Hui looked at Linda who was sent out and once again emphasized the agreement between the two parties.

He didn't want to earn less money or face other risks because Linda disobeyed his orders.

"Jiang, don't worry, we at Merrill Lynch are the most professional and will definitely not let you down."

Linda also lay down completely and didn't want to persuade Jiang Hui anymore.

Even Austin followed suit and invested today. She didn’t know what to say.

……

"Austin, this Jiang Hui is indeed a rare talent. He can actually design such an attractive pickup truck."

At the General Motors headquarters, President Murphy looked at the various renderings displayed by Austin with surprise on his face.

We are all people who have been deeply involved in the automotive industry for many years, so it is easy to reach a consensus on whether a car's styling is good-looking or not.

Obviously, the pickup truck in front of us is a design that everyone will think is good-looking after seeing it.

"Yeah, I didn't expect that he could come up with such a satisfactory plan. It was beyond everyone's expectations."

"Unfortunately, he still doesn't want to stay in our company and has no interest in studying abroad in the United States."

Austin couldn't help but show a look of regret on his face.

He really wanted Jiang Hui to stay in GM and become his assistant in the future, taking over his position, which might become a good story.

"Jiang Hui is still young, so it's normal for him to be a little persistent. After a few years, maybe his ideas will slowly change. Then we can continue to invite him."

Murphy wasn't particularly bothered.

Anyway, the surprises that the inspection team brought to General Motors this time were already very satisfying.

Everything else is just icing on the cake.

Besides, Murphy didn't think that one person could continuously design stunning looks one after another.

This is not in line with the laws of reality.

"Indeed, a very interesting thing happened this time."

Austin was going to talk about Jiang Hui's investment in futures.

"Jiang Hui earned $310 million from SKF by selling the patented integrated wheel hub bearing technology, and then earned $100 million from us through the design of the pickup truck's exterior."

"If people think about it from a normal perspective, they will definitely spend a lot of money when they suddenly have so much money."

"But instead of doing that, he went to Merrill Lynch and opened an account to invest in crude oil futures."

After hearing what Austin said, Murphy also became interested and asked, "Invest in crude oil futures? He actually knows how to invest in futures?"

Murphy was not completely ignorant of the situation in China.

According to his understanding, China has no futures market and no stock market.

"I don't know whether he understands or not, but he definitely understands more than the average Chinese."

“It’s just that he chose to buy long crude oil futures, which I find very strange.”

"After all, most people in the market believe that crude oil prices have been rising for many years, and this year they have historically broken through $30 a barrel, so they should start to fall."

"Even from the perspective of the entire United States, pushing down the price of crude oil so that polar bears lose their extra crude oil income is also something that is being promoted."

"It is hard to understand why Jiang Hui chose to buy crude oil futures at this time."

“I don’t know if he still thinks that crude oil prices will continue to rise because of a lag in information.”

"It seems that he has some special channels to get some information that we don't know, so we think that the price of crude oil will continue to rise."

Austin spoke from his heart; he really couldn't understand Jiang Hui's thoughts.

Even if you followed suit and invested $50,000 yesterday, it was just an impulse decision.

Thinking about it now, he feels a little regretful.

“Buy crude oil futures.”

Murphy frowned, thinking quickly about various information in his mind, trying to see if there was any news he had missed.

But after thinking about it, he felt that what Austin said was not wrong.

The price of crude oil should not continue to rise, a fall is the most likely thing to happen.

"Don't worry about it for now. Let him suffer a loss once. Maybe he won't be so stubborn in the future."

"Talented people often have unique ideas. They won't give in easily until they've suffered a loss."

If you can’t figure it out, just stop thinking about it.

Murphy has various things to deal with every day, and Jiang Hui's matter can only be regarded as a small episode.

"Regarding the subsequent schedule of this pickup truck, this is what I think..."

Austin slightly refined some of the ideas that Jiang Hui had told him, specifically the use of certain platforms and powertrain solutions, and then reported to Murphy.

This raised some questions about Austin's plan, and Murphy also asked about it.

In the end, Murphy basically agreed with Austin's idea and prepared to quickly promote this pickup truck within GM.

They all felt that this pickup truck might be able to bring a strong wave of growth to the sluggish General Motors, and even completely reverse the previous unfavorable situation.

……

"It feels like a lifetime ago during these half a month. The situation at our factory is still far behind that of GM."

At the Detroit airport, after saying goodbye to the GM staff, Zheng Haiming and his party naturally started communicating as they headed to the departure hall to wait.

Yue Rui, this little unknown person, basically said nothing and just listened to what Zheng Haiming, Chen Qi and the others were saying.

"It's normal to have a gap. After all, their automobile industry has been developed for such a long time. It was already very developed 60 or 70 years ago."

Among the group, Jiang Hui was the calmest.

He knows that this gap will be quickly caught up in the future, and even surpassed to a certain extent.

"Previously, the First Machinery Ministry wanted to promote the establishment of the Sanqi project and directly introduce advanced heavy-duty truck technology from Western countries. There was absolutely no problem with the direction."

“But it seems that it will be very difficult to implement the previous plan.”

"Even a large automaker like General Motors produces less than 10 heavy trucks a year."

"And their willingness to sell heavy truck technology is very weak."

Zheng Haiming will most likely be transferred to the First Ministry of Machine Building in the future, and he will inevitably deal with the "Three Automobiles" project at that time.

During this visit to General Motors, he would naturally discuss some matters based on the situation of this project, intentionally or unintentionally.

"The development of heavy trucks is imperative, but the construction of various industries now requires huge amounts of capital, and it is probably difficult for China to introduce the technology as originally planned."

"But it is not impossible to introduce some engine technologies, or directly develop our own heavy-duty trucks based on existing technologies."

"The domestic market demand for heavy trucks will definitely be strong in the future."

"As long as you have good products, you don't have to worry about sales."

Jiang Hui feels that for something like a heavy truck, the overall technology must be mastered in his own hands.

The possibility of completely importing technology from abroad is relatively low, or the cost is relatively high.

Given the current situation in the country, this path is probably not feasible.

"What Xiao Jiang said makes sense. China has a history of producing trucks for several decades, so we have accumulated a certain amount of experience."

"We will select a few factories and give them key support, and let them develop heavy-duty trucks on their own. Maybe they will bring unexpected surprises to everyone at that time."

At this time, Zhu Jiansheng must be on the same side as Jiang Hui.

And he does support the country to develop new technologies.

As universities, this kind of development path can better reflect their value.

Otherwise, all technologies will be introduced from abroad, and the value of the existence of teachers and students majoring in vehicle engineering in colleges and universities will be greatly reduced.

"The First Ministry of Machine Building will probably not give up the 'Third Automobile' plan so easily unless they encounter other difficulties later."

Zheng Haiming also knew that what Zhu Jiansheng and Jiang Hui said was not without reason, but he also knew that decisions made within the department were not so easy to change.

No one can easily overturn a previous decision without touching the wall.

(End of this chapter)