Think about it, if Boss Jia never intended to set up a factory in the United States from the beginning, and everything was just a smokescreen, then was there a need to produce batteries and ship them to the United States?
Of course, it didn't exist. So even though those power stations were under construction, there wasn't even a set of batteries inside. They were all empty. The cost of 100 billion USD of batteries didn't exist at all.
However, the Daqian's international purchase orders for various bulk chemical raw materials did increase several times over the past few years. Many media outlets thought that this was the Daqian's purchase to produce batteries for the United States.
But in fact, this was only because the demand for batteries in Europe and China continued to increase. The Daqian's increased production in order to supply these two markets had nothing to do with the United States.
Of course, the profit from these battery packs was 48 billion USD … before taxes.
As for the construction cost, it was actually the same. Although the Daqian did hire a lot of construction companies, in fact, only a few locations in the downtown area were built on the ground. The rest of the buildings were surrounded by high walls. At most, a simple steel frame was built with steel structures. It looked like construction was going on, but in fact, nothing was being done.
As for those power stations in the wilderness, they didn't even bother to build steel frames. They just built walls. Anyway, one or two people would pass by here in a day.
So in the end, the actual construction cost was only about 1 billion USD.
Some smart friends have already calculated this and found that although the total cost was only 21 billion USD, it was still more than 20 billion USD. How could it be less than 20 billion USD?
Because half of the 4 billion USD battery pack wasn't sent to the United States at all, just like the batteries.
The other half was sent to the United States by the Daqian. In order to fool the public, the United States used container ships to transport a large number of battery pack equipment to the United States. They also deliberately left the equipment in the warehouses of the United States ports for display. Then, they were transported to various sites to make everyone believe that the Daqian had indeed started construction.
But in fact, these power changing equipment were just placed at the site. Other than a few sample projects, the equipment was directly placed under the canopy when it arrived. When the negotiations fell through, the transportation company came back and brought these unopened equipment back to the port. They didn't even remove the packaging during the whole process, which was very convenient.
It was precisely because the packaging was not removed that these equipment did not need to be pulled back to Hua Xia. They were directly sent to Europe. After all, with the increasing popularity of electric vehicles, there were still a large number of power stations under construction in Europe. These battery pack equipment was just enough to meet the needs of the Europeans.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end of the 4 billion US dollars worth of power exchange equipment, only less than 500 million US dollars were actually installed and dismantled. The rest was sold to the European side at the original price.
So, the actual material cost was only about 17.5 billion USD.
Of course, some labor costs, transportation costs, and various gray costs added up to more than 19 billion USD. It was indeed less than 20 billion USD.
If the Europeans and the United States knew about this, they would cry.
But no matter how low the cost was, 20 billion USD was still a loss. So, the question was, how did the Daqian make 300 billion USD?
The answer was very simple. Our Boss Jia was speculating in the stock market again.
Do you still remember that when the Daqian established Lace Electric, they made an agreement with all the investors. The Daqian promised to complete the task, and if the work was not completed, they would compensate everyone for the investment losses.
As a condition, no investors were allowed to inquire about Da Qian's financial affairs. They were also not allowed to interfere with Da Qian's operations. No matter how Da Qian used the funds, they were not allowed to say anything. They were not even allowed to send anyone to work in Lace. Da Qian held all the power in his hands and did not give a single cent.
The Daqian's actions seemed very domineering, but in fact, they had no choice. After all, the Daqian's accounts could not be investigated. If they did, the Daqian would explode. Boss Jia could even be sent to prison for 180 years.
Because the Daqian used all the 200 billion USD funds.
As someone who had been reborn, Boss Jia was naturally drooling over the world-class financial crisis in 2008.
In 1997, in order to speculate in Hong Kong's stock market, Boss Jia first borrowed 80 billion USD from Xiamu's network. Then, he used the 80 billion USD to speculate in Hong Kong's stock market.
This time, Boss Jia naturally would not let it go. After all, the United States' stock market was much bigger than Hong Kong's. If he shorted the US stock market in 2008, then even an idiot would be able to make several times more money.
But this required a large amount of funds, otherwise it would be impossible to do it.
But at that time, Boss Jia invested almost 100 billion USD in Europe to set up the power station network in Europe. Because of that, the Daqian's funds were less than 20 billion USD.
Although the America First Foundation still had a large amount of funds, Boss Jia no longer dared to have too much financial contact with the America First Foundation.
After all, the Daqian and the Daqian's funds were being closely monitored by many people. Although Boss Jia could control the flow of funds very well, his opponent was the world's biggest financial mogul. If she found out about the relationship between the Daqian and the America First Foundation, then the United States would immediately attack the foundation.
Therefore, Boss Jia did not plan to borrow funds from the America First Foundation. After all, the foundation would make money by shorting the stock market with its own money. It would not lose anything.
But the problem was how the Daqian could get more funds. Originally, Boss Jia planned to shamelessly borrow money from some banks in China.
For example, G&S Bank, the bank that was ecstatic when it obtained 10 billion USD of foreign exchange reserves, was now in a big mess.
At this time, Hua Xia's foreign exchange reserves had reached as high as two hundred billion USD. At the same time, it had also become the country with the highest foreign exchange reserves in the world. It was a proper creditor of the United States.
Although most of the two hundred billion USD was stored in RM Bank, G&S Bank had the highest assets in Hua Xia at this time. It had also squeezed into the top 50 of the world's top 500 companies. G&S Bank's foreign exchange reserves were about three hundred billion USD. Boss Jia used this relationship and shamelessly borrowed a hundred billion USD from G&S Bank.
In addition, although Boss Jia did not have as much influence in RM Bank as G&S Bank, G&S Bank had more than one hundred and fifty billion USD of foreign exchange reserves. It was not a big problem to borrow a hundred billion USD and repay it.
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