When talking about Detroit, we have to talk about the American automobile manufacturing industry. As a country on wheels, the American automobile industry was once the most developed in the world, and Detroit is the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States and even the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the world. It is home to Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and American automakers.
However, this city rose because of the automobile, and also declined with the decline of the automobile. Especially since the oil crisis caused by the automobile oil embargo in 1973, the city has directly entered the cold winter and has not yet recovered.
It even made everyone in the four major automobile manufacturers feel in danger and almost went bankrupt. Until now, although General Motors appeared crazy, it actually knew that it was suffering. Then in 2009, it was finally difficult to recover and had no choice but to go bankrupt and reorganize.
However, GM, which has survived the previous oil crisis in recent years, has been doing pretty well. After all, it was not just a car company that was suffering, but all car companies.
A few years ago, in 1995, General Motors' vehicle sales outside the North American market reached 3 million vehicles, which allowed him to take a step ahead in laying a solid foundation for the entire layout.
But for now, neither Ford, GM, nor Chrysler are having a hard time. As for America, it has fallen into the dust of history.
The impact of Japanese and Korean cars, the attack of German cars, and the French automobile industry are eyeing it. In terms of household cars, American auto companies have no advantage in front of these national car companies.
In terms of high-end sports cars, they are outnumbered by several Italian sports car companies and have no successful results at all. Therefore, let alone the international arena, even American cars are losing ground.
Such profits were constantly being eroded and progress led to poor profits for the company. Then the company stopped adding jobs and instead laid off employees. This further depressed Detroit's economy. This vicious cycle continued until the entire city filed for bankruptcy.
However, after a while, the United States took advantage of its influence as the world's number one superpower in the eyes of the Chinese, and the automobile companies returned a wave of blood in China and barely managed to hang their lives.
But compared with its previous glory, it is still outnumbered by Japanese, German and even Korean cars. Yang Dongxu’s goal of coming to Detroit this time is to poach people.
In fact, it cannot be regarded as poaching, because in this automobile capital with extremely high unemployment rate, even if you pick up someone on the street, there is a high chance that they are a skilled worker in the automobile production line, or even an automobile engineer or something. Technical staff. These people are almost everywhere in the streets of Detroit. After all, almost everyone in Detroit used to work for the automobile company.
Yang Dongxu's target is these automotive engineers, and in addition to these automotive engineers, there are also some production lines. Of course, these top production lines will definitely not be sold by these car companies, but if you can find a suitable opportunity to buy the eliminated production lines, it is still very cost-effective to buy them at a fire sale price.
Although these production lines have been eliminated, they are still quite advanced for the country. It's just that some major automobile countries look down upon them. If we don't mention them, they will really be eliminated and turned into garbage.
As for such production lines, whether it is Germany, Japan, South Korea, or France, their own industrial development is very high-level, and they also have their own advanced automobile production lines that they simply look down upon.
Those small companies that were interested could not afford such a car production line, so Yang Dongxu had the opportunity to pick up the slack. However, if you come to buy something, you will definitely get ripped off. I don’t know when it has become an unspoken rule for these foreign companies to directly slaughter Chinese businessmen when they encounter it.
Therefore, after Yang Dongxu arrived in Detroit, he did not terminate the relationship with Daji Automobile Company. Instead, he first contacted Dave Bing, the owner of Dave Steel Company.
This person was not introduced by Zhou Ya, but Derek’s friend. Derek is a waste of talent. If he hadn't retired due to injury, he wouldn't have made much money from the pension contract in the next few years. But the reason why he can still live a very chic life after retirement.
To a large extent, it depends on the successful businessman Dave Bing, a former NBA point guard who was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990 and one of the NBA's top 50 stars in 1996.
This guy played well during his career and made his business boom after retiring. When American automobile companies were impacted by foreign automobile companies, they devoted themselves to automobile steel plate manufacturing and stamping. They started with only an old cutting machine donated by General Motors.
It has become the 10th largest black-owned company in the United States. The annual profit has reached more than 200 million U.S. dollars. Business is much better than his ability to play basketball.
"Yang?" When he arrived in Detroit, he saw an old black man, Yang Dongxu, looking at an old car. He was stunned for a moment. He didn't react until the other person greeted him with a surprised look on his face.
"Dave?"
"It's me." Dave Bing nodded.
"I'm sorry, your appearance...I didn't recognize you just now." Yang Dongxu stretched out his hand to shake the other person in embarrassment.
"It doesn't matter, because I was busy at the company just now, so I remembered that I forgot to change my clothes when I came to pick you up. I should be rude. But your style also surprised me. Derek didn't say that his friend Very rich," Dave said half-jokingly.
He was indeed a little undressed. Not to mention his work clothes, there was a lot of oil stains on the work clothes. If he was holding a wrench, everyone would probably think that he had just gotten out from under the old Ford car behind him. Get out.
"It seems that Derek wants to give you a surprise. My car is here. You drive in front and I will follow behind. Find a place and let's have a drink. I specially brought you several varieties of liquor from China. I hope you like it." Yang Dongxu smiled and gestured to the suitcase next to him.
"Haha, it is indeed a great gift." Dave smiled and nodded, without saying anything, he got into his car and drove ahead to lead the way. He and Derek were both greedy for drink, and naturally they liked wine the most.
Yang Dongxu and his party got into the three Mercedes-Benz cars behind them, but the logo of the three-liang Mercedes-Benz cars he made was not that of a Mercedes-Benz, but a Maserati Trident.
As a high-end car built in China, Daben's cabins are also very popular abroad, and it has foreign production lines. Masati is also among the large number of foreign car companies that are currently impacting the U.S. auto market.
However, compared to the comprehensive invasion of other companies, Maserati is taking a high-end route. Whether it is a business car or a sports car, it is not within the reach of ordinary people.
Jie Chengwu and Yang Dongxu got into a car, and a few strong bodyguards behind them, half white and half black, got into the other two cars. Then his car walked in the middle, and the other two cars took him to the beginning and the rank. Protection is in the middle.
In fact, it was not that Yang Dongxu wanted to impress Dave Bing in a grand manner. They are all bosses with an annual turnover of hundreds of millions of yuan. If a few cars can't scare the other party, they probably can fly a fighter jet.
The reason why I have so many bodyguards around me is because Detroit is so chaotic right now. This city, which has been gradually occupied by black people, is one of the most chaotic cities in the United States. You may be involved in thieves, robberies, thefts, rapes and even murders on the streets. When I sat down to have a cup of coffee in a nearby cafe, someone robbed the cashier with a gun.
When public security was at its worst, many cars passing through the city did not even dare to stop except at red lights. When you see someone blocking a car, you definitely don't stop and ask what the other person is doing. Instead, you kick the accelerator and hit him directly.
That's why he brought a lot of bodyguards with him on this trip. Otherwise, not only would Jie Chengwu be worried, he himself wouldn't be worried either. After all, the United States is a country filled with guns.
Dave Bing led the way and didn't drive for long, or they didn't enter the city at all. Nowadays, since the major automobile companies have moved out of Detroit, the urban area has become the messiest and worst place, while the suburbs are relatively safe and prosperous with various estates. And they stopped at a mid-range restaurant that looked pretty good.
"I'm a little hungry. The burgers in this store taste very good. Do you want some?" Dave Bing drove the car into the parking lot and said, but when he saw a group of burly men coming down with Yang Dongxu: "Yes. "What do you want to eat? I'll go in and bring you some. Can we go somewhere else to talk?"
To be honest, Dave Bean is a little cold towards Yang Dongxu. This is the United States, who do you show off to someone with a Chinese face that is always easy to bully and a group of bodyguards? If it weren't for the fact that he and Derek had a really good relationship, they would have turned around and left a long time ago. He didn't want to do the business of such a pretentious guy.
"Let's go in and eat. I'm hungry too. The airplane food is really not that good." Yang Dongxu said with a smile, and then turned his head to signal Ji Chengwu.
Chengcheng waved his hand and followed Yang Dongxu personally, while the white and black bodyguards got into the car again. They wear headsets in their ears. If something happens in the restaurant, they will be notified immediately and rush in.
Walking side by side with Dave, this old black man who was once an NBA professional player was no bigger than him. Walking into a burger restaurant, two people lined up to buy goodies and found an empty seat to sit down.
"Let me reintroduce you, Yang Dongxu, the owner of the 76ers team. I don't think Derek told you about this surprise."
After sitting down, he took the burger and prepared to eat. He planned to deal with it no matter what the Chinese man in front of him said, and then left directly. Then he would call Derek, an unreliable guy, and ask him to introduce less of these things in the future and only know how to understand. Dave, a pushy young man who knew him, was stunned when he heard Yang Dongxu.
He even forgot to bite the opened burger, and then the burger in his hand fell back onto his plate with a clatter, "Who do you think you are?"
"Yang Dongxu, the owner of the 76ers team and Derek's owner." He said with a smile, then glanced at the person sitting on the table next to him and said sincerely, "I heard that Detroit was in chaos before I came here. Chinese Americans seem to be easy targets for bullying in the eyes of Americans, so..."
