Under the attention of the world, the Daqian began the acquisition negotiations with General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.
Because it was related to the automobile industry, which was the backbone of the United States, many people saw this acquisition as an opportunity to rescue the United States from the economic crisis. Therefore, the United States people were happy to see the acquisition.
Almost all the media in the United States urged the Daqian to quickly fork out the money and buy the three companies.
However, the negotiations reached a stalemate at the beginning.
The acquisition negotiation this time was a joint negotiation. In other words, GM, Ford, and Chrysler shared the same negotiating team. Therefore, they could be said to be highly united, and their policies were surprisingly consistent. In the end, the three companies quoted a sky-high price of 1.2 trillion USD.
The reason was simple. Last year, the combined turnover of the three companies was 600 billion USD. In addition, they had a large number of high-quality fixed assets. For example, the three companies owned more than 300,000 acres of industrial parks in Detroit. The price of the land alone was more than 500 billion USD.
In addition, the three companies also had four million experienced high-quality industrial workers. Each of them was a high-level talent with decades of work experience. These workers could be sold for at least 100 billion USD.
Therefore, in the end, the three companies jointly offered a sky-high price of 1.2 trillion USD.
When Wang Chuanfu heard this price, he got up and left. He did not appear at the negotiating table again for the day. The representatives of the three companies were furious.
However, they did not receive much sympathy.
With a price of 1.2 trillion USD, General Motors was no longer treating the Daqian as a fool to be slaughtered, but as a Native American to be slaughtered.
First of all, even if the three companies did have a turnover of 600 billion USD, the turnover did not equal to the net profit.
If you looked at the financial reports of the three companies last year, you would find that the net profit was as high as 40 billion USD, but this was a negative number.
These three companies had lost 40 billion USD last year.
In addition, there was the so-called 500 billion USD worth of fixed assets. This seemed to be the case, but the 500 billion USD price was calculated based on the land price of Detroit two months ago.
The land price in Detroit was so high because of the three companies. The land price was pushed up by the industrial workers of the three companies.
If the Daqian bought these three companies and planned to sell the land to make money, the entire land price would collapse in an instant.
With these three companies gone and the millions of industrial workers gone, Detroit would probably become a ghost town.
In fact, if you refer to the housing prices of Detroit in the other world in 2020, you will know what the situation in Detroit is like.
On the Internet, a three-story villa in Detroit was sold for only one yuan.
This was not a scam, nor was it a joke. It really only cost one dollar. As long as you were willing to buy it, the original owner would immediately rush over and cooperate with you to go through all kinds of procedures with the fastest speed. In the end, even the one dollar fee would be happily waived!
You may be very surprised. Even if Detroit's land prices have fallen the most, isn't it a bit too sci-fi to buy a house with one dollar?
This was not science fiction at all, because in the United States, every house had to pay a property tax of about 2% every year.
In other words, if you don't sell your house in Detroit, the property tax you have to pay every year may be as high as tens of thousands of dollars. The workers in Detroit had left, and all the supporting facilities and businesses were gone. Detroit had become unsuitable for humans to live in. These houses were not occupied at all, but they had to pay a high property tax. Anyone would want to sell their house as soon as possible, even if they had to pay for it.
Finally, the industrial workers worth 100 billion USD. That was even more ridiculous. If possible, no company would be willing to accept these industrial workers.
In fact, to some extent, the reason why GM and the other automobile manufacturers lost so much money was related to these industrial workers.
In everyone's impression, the United States might be a capitalist country that desperately exploited workers, but for GM and the other automobile manufacturers, it was not the same. Because these workers formed a very powerful work organization, which was the United States' automobile union.
The purpose of the union was to constantly think of ways to improve the workers' benefits and reduce their working hours.
It sounded very high-end, even more Hua Xia than Hua Xia. It was very perfect.
But in fact, these unions were about to destroy all automobile manufacturers in the United States.
A few years later, a glass manufacturer from Hua Xia entered the United States.
He felt that there were many benefits to opening a factory in the United States. For example, the electricity bill was very low, and he could save a lot of money on transportation. He could also save a lot of money on taxes.
After some calculations, the glass company realized that if they opened a factory in the United States, their profits might increase by 10%.
In addition, the African American leader at that time was also trying his best to encourage the glass company to open a factory in the United States. In the end, the glass company from Hua Xia opened a factory in the United States.
Two years later, the retired African American leader came to the factory to film a documentary. His purpose was simple. He wanted to use this opportunity to show off his political achievements.
But it was this documentary that exposed the long-suppressed conflict among the United States workers.
This conflict was between the glass company and the United States unions. The chairman of the glass company even expressed in front of the United States leader that he would not accept the union system in the United States. If there must be a union, then shut down the factory in the United States. It did not matter if they lost billions or billions of dollars.
This was because the chairman had been tortured too badly by the union.
And this torture was the union's way of winning: a strike.
On September 16, 2008, General Motors announced that the company might go bankrupt due to poor management and heavy losses.
Then, on September 18, the United Auto Workers of America announced that from 11: 59 p.m. local time on the 18th, about 49,000 General Motors employees across the United States would start a strike. The strike involved workers from GM's 33 manufacturing plants and 22 warehouses in the United States.
Their demands were very simple. They demanded that General Motors not go bankrupt or fire the workers. They demanded that the workers be paid as soon as possible. They also wanted a pay raise and a reduction in working hours!
It was reported that in 2007, a total of 73,000 workers went on strike for 54 days. The daily losses were more than 300 million USD.
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