The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

When we talk about Detroit, we have to talk about the automobile manufacturing industry in the United States. As a country on wheels, the American automobile industry was once the most developed in the world, and Detroit is the largest four automobile manufacturers in the United States and even the four largest automobile manufacturers in the world. The headquarters of Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and American automakers.

However, this city has risen because of cars, and it has also declined with the decline of cars, especially since the oil crisis caused by the car oil embargo in 1973, it has directly entered the cold winter of this city and has not yet recovered.

It also made everyone in the four major automobile manufacturers feel insecure and almost went bankrupt. Until now, although GM appeared to be crazy, it was actually self-aware.

However, GM, which has survived the previous oil crisis in the past few years, is doing well. After all, it was not his car company that was suffering, but all the car companies were suffering.

In the previous few years, that is, in 1995, GM's car sales outside the North American market reached 3 million, which allowed him to complete a solid foundation one step ahead in the overall layout.

But for now, neither Ford, GM, nor Chrysler are feeling well. As for America, it has fallen into the dust of history.

The impact of Japanese and Korean cars, the attack of the German car army, and the covetousness of the French car industry. In terms of family cars, the American Gong Motor Company has no advantage in front of these national car companies.

And in terms of high-end sports cars, it was overwhelmed by several Italian sports car companies, and there were no outstanding results at all, so let alone the international market, even the American cars in the country were losing ground.

The continuous encroachment of such profits led to poor profitability of the company, and then the company was laying off employees, not to mention expanding jobs. This made Detroit's economy further depressed, and the vicious cycle continued until the entire city filed for bankruptcy.

But after a while, the United States took advantage of the influence of being the world's number one superpower in the minds of the Chinese people, and the car companies returned a wave of blood in China and barely hanged their lives.

But compared with the previous glory, it is still being beaten by Japanese, German and even Korean cars. Yang Dongxu's goal in coming to Detroit this time is to poach people.

In fact, it can’t be regarded as poaching people, because in this automobile capital with a high unemployment rate, even if you go to the street to pull a person, it may be a skilled worker in the automobile production line, or even a high probability of being an automobile engineer or something. Technical staff. These people are almost everywhere in Detroit. After all, almost everyone in Detroit once worked for the car company.

Yang Dongxu's target is these automotive engineers, and besides these automotive engineers, there are also some production lines. Of course, the top production lines are definitely not sold by these car companies, but if the obsolete production lines can find a suitable opportunity to start, they can be won at a fire sale price, which is still very cost-effective.

Although these production lines have been eliminated, they are still quite advanced domestically. It's just that some big auto countries don't like it, and they are really eliminated and turned into garbage.

As for such a production line, 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.

Those small companies that are interested can't afford such a car production line, so there is a chance for Yang Dongxu to pick up the leak. However, if you come to buy it, you will definitely be slaughtered. I don't know when it has become the unspoken rule of these foreign companies to directly slaughter Chinese businessmen.

So after Yang Dongxu arrived in Detroit, he did not go to the Great Automobile Company to dissolve, but first contacted Dave Bin, the boss of Dave Steel Company.

This one was not introduced by Zhou Ya, but Derek's friend. Derek, a guy who wasted his talents, if he hadn't met him and finally retired due to injuries, the pension contract in the next few years would not have made much money at all. But the reason why he can still live a very chic life after retirement.

To a large extent, it depends on the former NBA point guard, the successful businessman Dave Bean who was selected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990 and was selected as the NBA's top 50 stars in 1996.

This is a guy who played well in his career and made his business fly after retiring. When the American Automobile Company received the impact of foreign automobile companies, it devoted itself to the manufacture and stamping of automobile steel plates, and started abruptly with only one old cutting machine donated by General Motors.

His business has become the 10th largest black-owned enterprise in the United States, and his annual profit has reached more than 200 million US dollars. His ability to do business is much better than his ability to play basketball.

"Yang?" Yang Dongxu was stunned when he saw an old black man looking at an old car in Detroit. He didn't react until the other party also greeted him with a surprised face.

"Dave?"

"It's me." Dave Bin nodded.

"I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your appearance just now." Yang Dongxu stretched out his hand and shook the other party with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, 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 his friend Very rich." Dave said half-jokingly.

He is indeed dressed a bit carelessly, not to mention his overalls, which still have a lot of oil stains on them. If he is holding a wrench in his hand, everyone will think that he just got out of the old Ford behind him. Get out.

"It seems that Derek wants to give you a surprise. My car is coming. You drive in front and I will follow behind. Let's have a drink somewhere. I brought you several varieties of baijiu from China. I hope you will like it." Yang Dongxu smiled and gestured to the suitcase next to him.

"Haha, it's really a great gift." Dave nodded with a smile, and got into his car without saying anything and drove ahead to lead the way. He and Derek are both drinkers, and of course wine is their favorite.

Yang Dongxu and his party got into the three big Benz cars behind, but the logos of the three and two big Benz cars he made were not Mercedes-Benz, but Trident Maserati.

As a high-end car built in China, Daben's carriage is also very popular abroad, and he has foreign production lines. Currently, Masati is among the foreign auto companies that are hitting the US auto market.

However, compared to the full-scale invasion of other companies, Maserati is taking a high-end route. Whether it is a business car or a sports car, it is not affordable for ordinary people.

Jie Chengwu and Yang Dongxu got into a car, and behind him a few bodyguards, half white and half black, got into the other two cars, and then his car walked in the middle, and the other two cars had a beginning and a rank. Protection is in the middle.

In fact, it wasn't that Yang Dongxu wanted to impress Dave Bin with pomp. They are all bosses with an annual turnover of hundreds of millions of yuan. A few cars can't scare the other party, and it's probably the same as a fighter jet.

The reason why I bring so many bodyguards is because Detroit is too chaotic now. This city, which has been gradually occupied by blacks, is one of the most chaotic cities in the United States. Thieves, robbery, theft, rape and even murder, you may be on the street. Sitting down with a cup of coffee in a side cafe, someone robbed the cashier with a gun.

When the law and order was at its worst, even many cars passing through the city did not dare to stop except for red lights. Seeing someone blocking a car is definitely not stopping to ask what the other person is doing, but hitting the accelerator directly.

That's why he brought a lot of bodyguards with him on this trip, otherwise, not to mention Jie Chengwu was worried, he himself was worried. After all, the United States is a country where guns are rampant.

It didn't take long for Dave Bing to lead the way, or they didn't enter the city at all. In Detroit now, since the major car companies moved out, the urban area has become the most chaotic and worst place, and the suburbs are relatively safe and prosperous with various manors. And they stopped at a mid-range restaurant that looked ok.

"I'm a little hungry. The hamburgers in this restaurant taste very good. Would you like to have some?" Dave Bin pushed the car into the parking lot and said, but saw a group of burly men who came down with Yang Dongxu: "Yes No, what do you want to eat, I'll go in and bring you some, let's talk somewhere else?"

To be honest, Dave Bin is a little bit unimpressed with Yang Dongxu. This is the United States, who is showing you a Chinese face who has always been bullied with a group of bodyguards pretending to be cross? 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 business with such a fake guy.

"Go in and eat, I'm hungry too, the plane meal is really not good." Yang Dongxu said with a smile, then turned his head to gesture to Jie Chengwu.

Wholeheartedly waved his hands and followed Yang Dongxu himself, and those white and black bodyguards got into the car again. They wear headsets in their ears, and Jie Chengwu will immediately notify them if something happens in the restaurant and rush in.

Walking forward side by side with Dave, this old black man who was a professional NBA player is no bigger than him. Walking into the burger shop, two people lined up to buy good things and found an empty seat to sit down.

"Re-introduce, Yang Dongxu, the owner of the 76ers team, I don't think Derek should have told you this surprise."

After sitting down, I took the hamburger and prepared to eat it. I thought that no matter what the Chinese in front of me said, I would deal with it and leave directly. Then I called Derek, an unreliable guy, and asked him to explain less about it in the future. The showy young man was taken aback when he heard Yang Dongxu's Dave whom he knew.

He even forgot to bite the opened hamburger, and then the hamburger in his hand fell back onto his plate with a clatter, "Who do you say you are?"

"The owner of the 76ers is also Derek's owner Yang Dongxu." He said with a smile, and then looked at the person sitting on the table next to him with apology and said: "Before I came, I heard that Detroit was in chaos, and Chinese Americans seem to be easy targets for bullying in the eyes of Americans.”