Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

In March 1980, a group of executives were discussing in a conference room at the headquarters of the Rolls-Royce Group in Great Britain.

After finishing his inspection of Beijiang City, Zhao Mancang rushed to Europe.

In 1964, Rolls-Royce Group was acquired by Zhao Mancang for three million pounds.

The head of the business at the time was Paul Turner.

This guy is quite loyal, has worked hard for more than ten years, and has never been greedy, so Zhao Mancang has always let him be in charge of this company.

Today, the company has grown into a behemoth.

Zhao Mancang’s idea was to separate part of the business and transfer it to Yunlan City.

why?
Because the development of Yunlan City has entered the fast lane, but there is no automobile industry yet. If Rolls-Royce cars under the Rolls-Royce Group can enter Yunlan City at this time, then there may be better development opportunities.

After the emergence of the Twelve Zodiac cars of the Causeway Bay Automobile Group, the status of Rolls-Royce cars in the hearts of the rich is no longer so high.

Even in Europe, Rolls-Royce's pure bloodline makes its sales here quite good.

But after leaving Great Britain, the sales of Rolls-Royce cars in Europe are still not as good as those of the Twelve Zodiac Signs, let alone others.

Therefore, if Rolls-Royce does not find ways to adapt, it may really go downhill.

Of course, the business segment of the Rolls-Royce Group is in aircraft engines. It provides a large number of aircraft engines to aircraft manufacturers such as Vickers Aerospace every year, and therefore makes a lot of money.

However, this situation could not last long as Mario Airlines' business was expanding rapidly.

Especially when Mario's drone business was gradually being eroded by other companies, but it was unable to develop better nickel-hydrogen batteries, or to find another way to develop more advanced lithium-ion batteries, then giving up the drone business was a last resort.

But no one was willing to admit defeat, it was just that Zhao Mancang's policy and strategy was indeed like this.

Therefore, as profits in the drone business sector decline, executives can only find ways to expand into the civil aviation passenger aircraft field. As for military fighter jets, etc., they are basically fixed businesses and it is difficult to achieve rapid growth.

Unless there is a war!
But the current war is only between the Date Empire and the Persian Empire in the Middle East. The wars in other places are just minor ones.

What's more, on Sam's side, Mario Aviation not only has to face the powerful competitor Boeing, but also has to face a number of competitors such as Lockheed Martin.

These are all very powerful opponents, and it is not easy for Mario to defeat them.

As the boss of Rolls-Royce Group, what Zhao Mancang said was naturally an imperial decree.

So after the separation of Rolls-Royce's automotive business, it became an independent company, and then the headquarters began to move to Yunlan City.

Yunlan City is a new city. It needs the automobile industry to support its rapid development and fill its lack of heavy industry.

Even if it is just a small place, Zhao Mancang will do his best to complete its industries.

Because in the future, it will definitely be targeted by other forces, so it must become stronger.

However, after the automotive business is divested, Rolls-Royce Group's profits will decrease and the emotions of executives will also need to be taken care of.

So Zhao Mancang planned to have the Rolls-Royce Group set up an aircraft manufacturing plant and enter the aircraft manufacturing industry.

In the past, Rolls-Royce Group was just an aircraft engine manufacturer, but now it is going to produce civil airliners. This is not good news.

Especially for today's aircraft manufacturing industry, it is even more inward-looking.

The global aircraft manufacturing industry is already highly competitive, with companies such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Mario Aviation. In Europe, there are also companies such as the Czech Aero, the British de Havilland, and the French Airbus.

Yes, the shell company was established in 1970.

If Rolls-Royce Group enters the aircraft manufacturing business at this time, it will indeed make this industry, which is already seriously inward-looking, even more anxious.

But can Zhao Mancang take care of so many things?
He doesn't care about that, he just goes ahead.

Anyway, he has money. In addition to allowing the Rolls-Royce Group to set up an aircraft manufacturing plant, he has already begun to acquire the British de Havilland Company and the French Airbus Company.

According to the future situation, there will only be two civil airliner manufacturers in the world.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang planned to strike first.

Whether it was de Havilland or Airbus, he wanted to acquire them, making Rolls-Royce the only aircraft manufacturer in the whole of Europe.

As for the Czech company Aero, it will be right to let it go bankrupt when the time comes.

As long as the other party has no business, how can it not go bankrupt?
The game has already begun, and whether it will succeed depends on whether the other party is interested.

Because in the world of capital, as long as the price is high enough, not only the commodity, but even the capitalist himself can be sold.

After assigning the task, Zhao Mancang went to do other things.

The acquisition of Airbus and de Havilland was, of course, handed over to a professional team of lawyers and accountants.

When they had almost finished their work, Zhao Mancang only needed to check the documents and sign them.

In capitalist countries, things are that simple.

In Yunlan City, Rolls-Royce Motor Company has been successfully established. A huge automobile industrial plant has been built and will only start production after completion.

Rolls-Royce also proposed plans to acquire Mercedes-Benz and participate in the Yunlan City car race.

In Yunlan City, the first Yunlan City World Automobile Race will be held in September this year.

At present, the automobile companies that have signed up include Causeway Bay Motors Group, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc. Almost all the world's well-known supercar companies have signed up.

No reason, just because the prize money for first place in this car race is as high as 50 million US dollars.

Because Yunlan City has no fame, Zhao Mancang can only arrange for relevant persons in charge to plan such a competition. Otherwise, how to attract these very awesome car teams to participate in the competition?
Without these globally renowned car teams participating in the race, no one would come to watch.

In order to let more people know about this, Yunlan City even contacted major TV stations in Europe and the United States and signed advertising contracts.

With huge amounts of money being invested, there should be some splashes.

Although Yunlan City is a Chinese city, most of the tourists here are Europeans and Americans.

Because in the early 1980s, only European and American countries had money, and of course Kimura also had money. The tourists who could travel abroad were only the wealthy people in these countries.

Yunlan City not only provides excellent hotels, spinach and other service industries, but also offers beautiful scenery.

The sea of ​​flowers is a place that is worth visiting because it is really beautiful.

The most important thing is that here in the sea of ​​flowers, there are different flowers almost all year round, and tourists will never see the flowers withering.

Just because Zhao Mancang employed tens of thousands of Chinese people to work in the flower sea, the daily wage expenditure is huge, not to mention the cost of the flower sea itself.

Although such expenditure will be huge, the effect will be obvious.

Five-star hotels have been established one after another. Yunlan City currently has eight five-star hotels in operation. Among them, the five that opened earlier have an occupancy rate of 60% almost every day.

Don't underestimate the 60% occupancy rate, because this is a five-star hotel and the unit price of each room is not low.

And five-star hotels are all whole buildings, such as the Yunxingzhou International Hotel, which is a 38-story building.

Apart from restaurant operations, conference halls and other businesses, the rest are guest rooms.

There are a total of 1,071 guest rooms, divided into presidential suites, executive suites, deluxe river view suites, deluxe rooms, etc. The average unit price of each room is US$528.

Based on a daily occupancy rate of 60%, the daily room revenue is US$339,000, not including the revenue from other sectors such as restaurants and conference halls.

By this calculation, the revenue from guest rooms alone is 10 million US dollars per month.

Of course, this way of calculating revenue is definitely wrong, and there will definitely be ups and downs, but even if the monthly revenue is between 6 million and more than 10 million US dollars, it is still very impressive.

From this, it can be seen that the number of tourists in Yunlan City has indeed increased a lot.

There is no way around it. There are gambling and financial businesses here, which are still very attractive to the wealthy.

For example, the gold trading market, which has only been open for less than half a year, has quickly seen huge trading volumes since its opening.

why?

Because we are in the oil crisis period recently, oil prices have skyrocketed and gold prices have also skyrocketed.

Zhao Mancang received a satellite call from the head of Aucma two days ago:
"Boss, the price of gold has risen to $850 per ounce."

It can be seen from this that the surge in gold prices has reached a very exaggerated level.

The gold trading market in Yunlan City mainly involves spot gold transactions, while paper gold and futures gold transactions are very small.

However, as more and more gold gathers in the Yunlan City gold trading market, I believe that the trading volume of futures gold and paper gold will increase rapidly.

"Throw the gold now!"

After confirming that the price of gold had risen to US$850 per ounce, Zhao Mancang issued a sell order without hesitation.

Wall Street Wolf Financial Company, including Aucma, and the proprietary financial companies in Yunlan City, all began to sell gold.

On March 23, 1980, more than five financial companies began selling gold at the Yunlan City Gold Trading Market, which had just opened during the day.

And it is a spot sale.

When everyone saw the price was only $820 per ounce, they all rushed in and started scrambling for it.

Because this is spot gold, you can trade it on the spot and take it away immediately.

Next to the trading market, there are a large number of cameras, drone patrols, and a large number of armed Yunlan City police, so no one dares to cause trouble here.

For everyone who comes to Yunlan City, whether they are wealthy or other tourists, Yunlan City will do its best to protect their lives and property.

This time is a huge test, because it is really hard to say whether there will be any accidents after the gold spot trading.

Several capital tycoons from Wall Street directly approached Yunlan City's self-operated financial company and requested to conduct large-scale gold spot transactions.

When Zhao Mancang received the call, he was a little surprised. These Wall Street capital giants are really not afraid of death!

"Promise them that we'll sell it to them at $700 per ounce. We'll sell them as much as they want, and we'll make sure they can take the gold away safely. Of course, we can only guarantee that nothing will happen to them before they leave Yunlan City."

When Zhao Mancang learned that the Wall Street capital tycoons wanted to buy a large amount of spot gold, he agreed to the other party's price without hesitation.

After receiving confirmation from Yunlan City, Clement Newman, John Morgan, and Betley Rockefeller immediately said that there was no problem.

It was only seven hundred dollars an ounce, and they could afford it.

Because they are not simply speculating in gold, but need to purchase it for the Federal Reserve's vault. They had already obtained the gold purchase contract from the Federal Reserve before they came.

The unit price on that contract is $790!
At this price, they can make $90 per ounce, which is a huge profit for them.

In less than half a day, the gold spot transaction was completed. John Morgan and the other three purchased 5 million ounces, 6.7 million ounces and 4.2 million ounces of gold respectively.

After they got the gold, they transported it directly to Iskushuban Airport in Yunlan City and took it away by a passenger plane belonging to their airline.

A total of more than 150 aircraft were dispatched for transportation. During the loading process, they also deliberately asked the security personnel from Yunlan City to stay away.

To prevent the news from leaking.

The reason why there were 150 civil airliner planes was that they wanted to confuse the public and make Yunlan City and other forces have no idea which plane the gold was on.

So this afternoon at Iskushuban Airport, 150 passenger planes took off one after another, making it the busiest day since the airport was built.

The transportation of gold by passenger plane has also become the fastest gold spot transaction at present.

Yunlan City kept its word and did not have any thoughts about the gold. It really let them leave Yunlan City.

"Haha, cheers, the people in Yunlan City are such idiots!"

On the plane, John Morgan and the others, who had already left the skies above Yunlan City, were all overjoyed and celebrated directly on the plane. (End of this chapter)