Inside the luxuriously decorated small conference room.
While several people around were talking quietly, the blond and blue-eyed foreigner in charge of making the call, Quinlan Silva, took a deep breath and asked the person on the phone.
"This should not be the answer that Kyushu Motors, which is constantly expanding and expanding for the sake of development, should give. You definitely did not explain the situation clearly!"
"Is your president here?! I want to talk to him in person!"
Without personal contact and communication with the other party's president, he was really unwilling to end like this!
The little secretary turned his head and looked at several senior executives of Jiuzhou Automobile around him: "President, the other party wants to speak to you in person!"
"It seems like he doesn't want to believe what I said!"
Just when Feng Hao was about to refuse, Xu Yifan behind the desk said: "Give me the phone and I'll see what the other party wants to do!"
In fact, it doesn't have much impact whether you answer the phone or not, but it's good to occasionally have a little spice in your quiet life.
Moreover, this phone call may be a good opportunity, and it is not rude!
Taking the iPhone 4 from the secretary's hand, Xu Yifan put it to his ear and said into it: "Hi, hello, I am Kyushu Automobile Xu Yifan. What can I do for you?"
Kyushu Automobile Xu Yifan, if this name is among people who don’t know much about cars, it may be difficult to attract everyone’s attention.
But those who know Jiuzhou Auto and China's rapid development of automobiles in the past two years will naturally know the value of this name.
This is the same person who led the bankrupt car factory to cheat, and developed Kyushu Automobile to what it is today in just a few years!
The blond foreigner on the other end of the phone, as a senior executive of Ford Company, naturally knew who this person named Xu Yifan was.
This is the target they want to find most, the owner of Jiuzhou Automobile Factory!
The executives of these century-old car companies have to pay attention to the young people who made that bankrupt car company grow step by step in just a few years to the present day, and use tricks!
With a smile on his face, the blond and blue-eyed middle-aged man said: "Hello, Mr. Xu Yifan, I am Quinlan Silva of Ford Company. I am calling you this time to discuss the price of international lithium ore resources. "
Xu Yifan asked doubtfully: "It seems we have nothing to discuss, right? Does Ford Motor have lithium ore resources?"
The middle-aged man on the phone, Quinlan Silva, answered affirmatively: "As a century-old international car company, we must have some mineral resources!"
"Do you really not care about the rise in international lithium ore prices? According to our estimates, with this wave of market increases, the cost of battery packs produced by Jiuzhou Automobile Factory Hengxin Battery Factory will be much higher than before!"
"Even according to the current selling price of Jiuzhou Automobile Hengxin Battery Factory, even the cost of materials is not enough!"
Xu Yifan sighed helplessly: "This is indeed a problem. The cost of materials has increased, which will be very troublesome for today's Kyushu Automobile.
There was a hint of happiness in Quinlan Silva's voice: "Yes, we also know that Hengxin battery is the foundation of today's Jiuzhou Automobile and the foundation of the development of new energy electric vehicles. The battery market price in the past two years has The continuous increase is due to the fact that Kyushu-class cars purchased too many raw materials!"
"What should we do? It will be very difficult for our Jiuzhou Automobile Factory if this continues!" Xu Yifan had a smile on his face, but the words in his mouth seemed to be very anxious.
Quinlan Silva spoke again: "Mr. Xu Yifan, don't worry. We are here to seek cooperation this time. To be honest, regarding lithium resources, our company controls several important minerals internationally. Nowadays, there is abundant production. If you are willing to cooperate with us, it is not impossible to sell you some cheap lithium ore resources!"
"The price of lithium ore can even drop slightly from the previous price. Of course, selling your lithium ore at a low price is not without cost. According to your old saying, there is no free lunch in the world!"
"What do you want?" Xu Yifan asked curiously.
Quinlan Silva: "The shares of Jiuzhou Automobile Factory, battery technology, motor technology, electronic control technology, of course, we also know that compared with Jiuzhou Automobile, these cheaper lithium ore resources cannot be exchanged, so we still have A certain amount of financial investment can be made.”
Quinlan Silva: "If you are willing, we can sit down and discuss the details in this regard!"
Xu Yifan flatly refused: "No, no, this is the foundation for our development at Kyushu Motor, whether it is batteries or motor technology, and Kyushu Motor has not considered listing the issue, let alone selling the company's shares. !”
Then he said: "This will definitely not work!"
Without waiting for the other party to speak, he sighed again and said, "How about you put forward some other conditions?"
At first, he decisively rejected the other party's request, but later, Xu Yifan softened his words slightly, giving the other party a feeling that there seemed to be a little bit of hope.
When fishing, you have to be patient and make the bait look more real!
Well, at the same time, Xu Yifan himself has to play the role of prey during this process. A few struggles can make the other party more excited! But who is the hunter and who is the prey!
During the call, the other party's voice came quickly: "Mr. Xu Yifan, you need to know what the current international lithium ore price is like, and it is likely to continue to rise. I think the importance of lithium ore to Kyushu Automobile is I don’t need to emphasize it too much.”
"As for technology or shares, we will give you a very satisfactory price. What do you think of 100 billion yuan?"
"This is a very large sum of money, enough for you to live as a rich man for your whole life!"
Xu Yifan refused with a slight hesitation: "This, no, I'll think about it again!"
Quinlan Silva: "Consider it carefully and contact us at any time!"
After hanging up the phone, Xu Yifan handed the phone back to the secretary.
He said to the CEOs next to him who had some weird looks on their faces after listening to Xu Yifan's conversation.
"Originally I didn't want to talk to them, but since the other party has jumped out on their own initiative, I will hang them for the rest of the time!"
"Don't agree to the conditions proposed by the other party, and don't refuse them. You must give them hope, but because of a small problem, you can't achieve your goal all at once."
"Also, regarding sodium-ion battery technology, the confidentiality level will be temporarily raised. I will go back to the laboratory to talk to our R&D staff later!"
They are all veterans of the shopping mall. Xu Yifan's skills. After learning about the current research and development progress of sodium-ion batteries at the Kyushu Automobile Plant, everyone understood it after a little thought.
But in the mouth, you still have to give a compliment.
"I understand, it will definitely make them want to stop!"
"Dr. Xu, you are really amazing!"
"I admire you!"
"So it's so tall, it's really tall! As expected of Mr. Xu!"
"Now I believe those behind the scenes will lose a lot of money!"
"Perform a show and let the price of lithium ore resources continue to rise. Well, whoever wants to buy it will buy it, but we won't buy it anyway!"
If you want to maintain the high price of lithium ore resources, it is impossible not to pay any price. Even this price is difficult for a single car company to achieve. There must be a small group of joint venture car companies behind it. , jointly raising the price of lithium ore resources.
Although lithium ore is a relatively scarce resource, it is not as scarce as those particularly rare metals. There are a lot of lithium ore materials on the market.
If you want a resource to remain at a high price for a long time, you need to continuously raise the price and constantly purchase low-price resources circulating in the market.
If this commodity maintains an abnormally high price for one more day, it will cost more money to absorb lithium ore resources, causing a shortage of lithium ore in the market!
At the beginning, the purchase price may not be too outrageous, but the higher the intermediate price, the higher the purchase price of the lithium ores that are constantly mined, and more funds are needed to maintain high prices for items.
Now the price is already two to three times the previous price. Will it reach another peak in a month? There may be a lot of room for manipulation.
When one month has passed, Kyushu Motors announced that the nano-ion battery has been successfully developed and put into use. I believe that the faces of the masterminds behind the scenes will be very exciting.
At the same time, the price of lithium ore resources will fall off a cliff, and may even be cheaper than before without the intervention of these car companies!
Car companies no longer have the need to maintain high prices, so they will naturally sell off the lithium resources they bought at high prices, but at that time they would not be at the price they paid for them.
And the longer it lasts, the more lithium resources they will take over at a high level, and the harder they will fall!
Of course, it is also possible that these car companies collude with large mining companies with global lithium resources to jointly increase prices.
But this is difficult to achieve. Mining companies also have to make money. The price is so high now. If we hoard it and don’t sell it, why don’t we wait until the price drops and then sell it? I’m afraid we’re not crazy. The money we earn is our own money!
Without huge profits, mining companies cannot help others influence the market price of their products without any reason. Wouldn't that be digging their own graves?
With the capabilities of those car companies, unless they collude together and contact the state support behind them, it is possible to influence these international mining companies. This requires huge manpower and material resources, a single car company, or a small group of car companies. It's hard to do.
Therefore, the greater possibility is that some large international car companies have united and established a short-term alliance to jointly deal with Kyushu Automobile, jointly invest, and jointly absorb international lithium mines. The short-term rise is crucial to Kyushu Automobile. Important lithium ore prices!
Since the other party wants to use this to blackmail the Jiuzhou Automobile Factory, don't blame Xu Yifan for acting in such a drama!
Reciprocate politely and never be disrespectful!
Here, the senior executives of Kyushu Auto understood this and continued to discuss the next response strategy in Xu Yifan's office.
"Then wait a day or two before contacting the other party and requesting negotiations on what the other party wants."
"Then in the subsequent business negotiations, we have to have"
"It feels difficult. The people who will come will definitely be some old foxes. It will be very difficult to deceive them, but this is what makes it challenging!"
"True, false, false, false, true, is there an empty city plan? Maybe we can get some false news, about superconducting materials, lithium-air batteries, etc., to make them think that we are pretending to be particularly confident!"
"How can we make it appear that Kyushu Automobile is forced to negotiate in the hope of obtaining lithium resources, but insists on insisting on making an outrageous request that the other party cannot meet? Look back at the actor's self-cultivation!"
"Hunters and foxes, it's a pity that we have guns in our hands. We are already in an invincible position and we are destined not to lose. If I had known better, I would have signed up for an actor training class. It would be fun to fight these old foxes!"
"It feels a little exciting, hehehe, I hope I can trick these companies, Ford, I don't know what other companies are behind it, but anyway, their faces in the end will be very exciting!"
“During the communication process between the two parties, there is always just a small gap between reaching cooperation, which wastes time!”
"Come on, let's increase the intensity. Let's play with the stock and futures markets. Let's work with them to raise the lithium mines first. Then we will go short after the release of the sodium-ion battery. Hey hey hey!"
"The best thing is to let the other side see hope again and again in the process, so that they can go back and repeatedly invest in increasing the lithium ore resources, so that the price of lithium ore resources in the world will be higher, and strive to break through ten to eight times!"
"The information is poor. The other party must not have thought that we have a way to get close to it, and we can directly abandon the lithium resources. Maybe no other company in the world except us would have thought that we have sodium-ion battery technology.
Even if Zhuge comes here, without knowing all the information, it will be difficult not to figure it out! "
Here, a group of senior executives from Kyushu Automobile were discussing excitedly.
On the other side, Ford executives hung up the phone.
The blond foreigner smiled at the people around him and said, "It's going well. I just need to wait patiently!"
"There will definitely be bargaining to do later, and communication on the phone is not convenient. We will meet in person for detailed negotiations."
"If possible, I hope that the price of lithium ore resources will rise a little more to put some pressure on Kyushu Automobile!"
Everyone has heard the content of the conversation, and this result is actually within everyone's expectations.
Kyushu Motor's lithium iron phosphate batteries are that company's weakness!
An excited look appeared on the face of a senior Nissan executive: "I propose that each company invest an additional amount, how about one billion U.S. dollars. Before the negotiation ends, it is best to make Kyushu Automobile unable to afford a lithium resource."
Honda executive: "As long as Kyushu Motors' technology can be obtained, this plan will be very cost-effective. I agree!"
Toyota's top talent: "Relatively mature new energy electric vehicles, as well as battery technology, have to admit that our hydrogen energy may not be as good as the new energy electric vehicles currently developed in China. The battery swap technology can also balance peak and valley electricity. .”
A senior executive of General Motors Group: "I agree. It should be a tug-of-war in the future. We cannot let the price of lithium resources fall. It is best to keep the price as high as possible."
Hyundai Motor Group: "Lithium battery technology, the more cars sold, the greater the demand for lithium ore. Hyundai Motor agrees with this proposal."
Daimler Group executive: "In the past two years, just the large-volume purchases of Kyushu Automobile caused the price of this mineral resource to rise a lot. Now we all need it!"
BMW executive: "I still feel that the investment is too little. Maybe we can prepare more funds,"
While these people were joking, they kept investing more money!
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While talking and laughing, these people had relaxed smiles on their faces.
Sometimes it doesn't mean that a good product will succeed. As an internationally renowned car company, they can suppress a small Kyushu Automobile under the Wuzhi Mountain with just a little effort!
"A car company with such shortcomings like Kyushu Motors only produced vehicles that we looked down upon."
"If you want to clean up this company now, it's easy!"
"It doesn't matter if you have good technology. If you don't have raw materials, it's up to you to make a car!"
"Wait two days for our company's best negotiators to come over and extract all the valuable technology from that company!"
They are all veterans of the shopping mall, and everyone has a clear understanding of the effects of grasping the lifeblood of Kyushu Auto.
How can a Jiuzhou Automobile compete with the combined power of so many automobile groups present?
Faced with such an abnormal rise in prices, not even Jiuzhou Automobile can do anything about it!
This kind of thing has happened in another world before, putting a rising Chinese mobile phone brand into an embarrassing situation without the use of 5G chips, and its mobile phone business also plummeted in a short period of time.
Even today's Jiuzhou Automobile is more dependent on lithium resources than that mobile phone company is on certain items!
Without lithium ore resources, even today’s high-performance batteries cannot be manufactured. If we don’t use the lithium iron phosphate battery from Kyushu Automobile, why should we use lead-acid batteries? !
Don't be kidding, for lead-acid batteries, without high-voltage charging and discharging, all the current products of Kyushu Motors and Huaxia Motors will become old man's music!
In addition to Kyushu Automobile's lithium iron phosphate batteries, the world's high-performance batteries, ternary lithium batteries, etc. are all produced based on lithium ore resources.
Well, there are some lithium ore resources in China. If the official government of that country takes action and does not follow the price of lithium ore resources in the international futures market, it can barely maintain the operation of Jiuzhou Auto for a period of time.
It's okay in the short term, but it's impossible in the long term. It's impossible for those mining companies to supply lithium resources to Kyushu Automobile in vain without selling it to a buyer with a higher price to make money!
Even if all China's domestic lithium resources supply Jiuzhou Automobile, it will not be able to meet Jiuzhou Automobile's rapid development in a short period of time, and it will inevitably have a huge impact.
From beginning to end, they never considered the emergence of a new technology that would abandon lithium resources and use more abundant sodium resources!
Sodium-ion batteries were beyond their scope of knowledge. Even if Kyushu Automobile's response was slightly strange, no matter how carefully they thought about it, they could not imagine that Kyushu Automobile would have a killer weapon like sodium-ion batteries.
Information gap is Jiuzhou Auto's magic weapon to win. If the other party doesn't understand it, even a veteran in the shopping mall will have a hard time making the right response!
(End of chapter)
