In the room, there were piles of local specialties from her hometown. Zhang Zhen happily touched this and looked at that, and smiled and said to Li Yuan: "Look at your eldest sister, you still know how to be filial to me. As for you, my son is the least.

used."

Li Yuan glanced sideways and saw that these were all brought home by Li Lanlan and Li Yunyun. How much could these two girls take? They were not like themselves at all. They just brought a truckload of whatever they wanted to eat.

Looking at Li Yuan's expression, Li Lanlan immediately complained: "Mom, sister-in-law, brother is not convinced? Do you understand? This is what we sisters want, that is called... yes, it is the sense of ceremony you said. Hehe.

"

Li Yuan was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Mom, how are you doing there? Is everything going well?"

"What's wrong with that? It's easy to work and take care of the kids. It's not like you at all, who often travels abroad."

"Oh! Lan Lan, how was the inspection at Goldman Sachs?"

"The inspection was very good and they were very satisfied with our reception. They not only visited the car factory, but also visited several of our other companies. They recognized our strength very much. There shouldn't be any mistakes, right?"

"No. You didn't ask if they were willing to invest? And how much?"

"Then how do I know? Didn't you say that I would go back to the capital to negotiate with you? They are going to have a day off tomorrow and we will go to the company together the day after tomorrow."

"Huh? After a long time of fussing, it turns out you are working as a tour guide?"

"Hehe. I want you to take care of it. To be honest, I haven't been to the city yet. This time it just so happens that my brother-in-law and eldest sister will accompany us. Mom, you don't know that the car they are recruiting for has arrived.

No tickets required anywhere…”

"..."

After the Goldman Sachs inspection team came to China, Li Lanlan, as the representative of Qinglong Automobile, took them to Neizhou City for more than half a month.

After all, Li Lanlan is still a novice and is still a little confused about financing from investment banks like Goldman Sachs. But Li Yuan knows that the amount of financing may not be large, because at most it is an angel round.

The concept of angel round is that it is very early stage, it may be just an idea, there is nothing, and the company has not even been registered yet. The investors who invest at this time are called angel investors.

If you don’t get angel investment money, the company has been operating for a period of time and the product has been released, but the company is still relatively weak, the investment you get at this time is still called an angel round.

In other words, it is basically like opening a blind box, like giving love to an angel, a real help in times of need.

However, among various rounds of investment, the amount of angel round financing is relatively small. The reason is also very simple. If you open a blind box, the probability of failure is too high. At most, you can invest a few million US dollars.

But for Qinglong Automobile, a few million dollars is a bit too little. In the field of automobile research and development, if you throw this little money away, it may not even make a splash. At least tens of millions, right?

For example: I will return to China next week. The electric car he developed has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars, but in the end, it still has not been launched.

Therefore, the speed of money burning in the automobile industry will definitely far exceed that of other industries.

Since a large amount of money needs to be invested, it is not that easy to open a blind box like that.

Therefore, regarding this inspection by Goldman Sachs, Li Yuan had the mentality of trying to make a three-pronged approach. If he could get financing, that would be the best. Even if he couldn't, he could think of other ways.

Of course, we still can't relax when it comes to Li Lanlan's training. Isn't the younger sister just working hard for her older brother?

Finding a cage of hairy crabs they brought home, Zhang Zhen and Gu Yuqin were busy cleaning and steaming them.

Li Yuan was a little surprised: "Why are there hairy crabs in my hometown?"

"Now we are promoting farmers. Isn't it considered a local specialty of our hometown?"

"That's good. It can increase income."

"Where can I find it? All the people who raised it have run away and died. Many people have lost money, so the price is very expensive. But if the price is expensive, who can afford it?"

"Oh!" Li Yuan thought it right. He probably has no breeding experience, right? He might as well raise crayfish. But in this era, crayfish are not popular at all, and they are everywhere in rivers and ponds.

"Brother, I'm asking you, is there any way you can promote hairy crabs?"

"I'm not selling aquatic products. If you really want to eat it, why not eat the authentic Yangcheng Lake. Well, why does the eldest sister ask me? Does her friend raise hairy crabs?"

"Hee hee! Those are my brother-in-law's relatives. I think you should ask them for help! I think the food is good. I'm sorry that when foreigners go to the restaurant, many people are eating it?"

"Huh? Then why are you asking me to sell it? Can't you sell it to restaurants?"

"Brother, you don't understand this. You can't get the money. Now when you go to a restaurant to eat, who will pay you back? It's all the bookkeeping. But by then, many of the debts you owe will not be repaid, and you will have to use things as collateral.

The restaurant owner had no choice but to default on the money owed to the hairy crabs. When they saw us taking money to eat, the restaurant was so excited that they almost cried."

Li Yuan laughed. He finally recalled this memory.

In this era, relatively conservative areas like my hometown still continue some of the past business habits - everything can be paid on credit and the accounts can be settled after a period of time.

Due to the originally closed human society, this approach didn't matter, since we were all fellow villagers anyway.

But now it has become a commodity economy? Immediately something went wrong. Not only did some people default on their debts, but there were also situations where they had no money to pay off their debts with things.

It's not like a few decades later. If you don't pay for meals and just keep accounts, isn't that just eating a king's meal?

"Lan Lan, can you handle such a small matter yourself? Wait until the next holiday and distribute it to employees as a unit benefit."

"Ah? Where does our Qinglong get the money? Just your shabby car costs millions every month. It makes me feel bad to throw it away."

"What does this have to do with it? It depends on your ability whether you can get money from Goldman Sachs."

"Hey, I don't have the ability, it's you who cheated me out of money!"

"Hey!" Zhang Zhen finally couldn't stand listening anymore and gave each of those naughty children a hairy crab. "You guys lie all day long. How can you set an example in front of your children?"

"Mom! That's brother. You should pay more attention to him from now on."

"I can't control him. He's covered in flesh now. I can't touch him anymore."

"Huh?" Qiqi and Yuyu immediately became excited, "Grandma, have you ever beaten daddy?"

"Haha, your father was disobedient when he was a child. I took such a thick stick and spanked him. Did you see? If you are disobedient, you will also be..."

Listening to Dad's "glorious deeds", Qiqi and Yuyu covered their buttocks, widened their eyes, and nodded heavily...

…

"Hello Kevin, nice to see you again."

"Hello, Li. This is Mr. Bob, our investment manager."

"Hello!"

"It's an honor to meet you, Li."

"..."

The meeting with the Goldman Sachs delegation started with a flurry of pleasantries.

Unexpectedly, the Mediterranean bald manager Bob's first words were very touching: "Li, we have visited and inspected your Qinglong Group. We found that your electric vehicle project is just a... concept

Right! It’s not that you haven’t built a prototype, but it’s far from a real product. It’s basically similar to a concept. Don’t worry, we at Goldman Sachs are happy to cooperate with successful people. In fact, there is no need for a project plan at all.

, we only need your name, and we will be happy to participate in your project. No matter what kind of project it is, we are very happy. So today we are not here to discuss investment, but to discuss some details of cooperation."

In fact, Bob’s statement is not very strange. As mentioned before, since the success rate of investment banks is very low, the most important thing is to look at people!

As long as they have identified this person, investment banks sometimes dare to invest. There are even cases where, after identifying you, they don't care whether you have projects or not, and sometimes they will take the initiative to recommend projects to you.

There is a saying, sometimes people are really different. Because their personal abilities, energy and backgrounds are almost completely different.

"Haha." Li Yuan was amused, "I am also happy to cooperate with you Goldman Sachs. Especially this Qinglong electric vehicle project will be in the future..."

Li Yuan once again gave a commonplace talk and introduced the overall advantages of electric vehicles.

"I understand, Li. I have a question here. Regarding Qinglong Automobile's supporting industry, how are you going to solve it?" The negotiation officially began, and Bob slowly entered the topic.

It was obvious that Bob looked very professional and asked the core questions from the beginning.

There should be many introductory articles about the importance of the automobile industry, so I won’t go into too much detail here.

In fact, cars are still the most complex mass-produced civilian products. Cars have tens of thousands of parts, and their design life is often more than ten years. During this period, they have to experience wind, frost, rain, snow, scorching heat in summer and severe cold in winter. It requires as much maintenance as possible.

As simple as possible and as reliable as possible.

The characteristics of civilian products require that the cost should be as low as possible. One of the miracles of modern industry is that such a complex thing can be made with such high reliability, such good maintainability, and such low cost.

However, miracles do not exist. To create such a thing, the challenge is quite huge.

These characteristics of automobiles have brought about two important consequences: first, the automobile industry has very high requirements for production management, which can radiate to other manufacturing industries; second, the automobile industry is a highly comprehensive industry, which will bring

Almost the entire industrial chain. Its upstream industries include almost all manufacturing sectors - metallurgy, electronics, chemical industry, etc.

Therefore, if Li Yuan is playing tricks and wants to build a concept sports car factory, then it doesn't matter. Many rich people play this way.

But if this is industrialized large-scale production, then they are two completely different concepts. A very complete industrial system is needed, and an advanced management system is also needed.

However, Europeans and Americans like Bob are quite skeptical about China. How can there be an industrial system? How can there be a management system?

Li Yuan understood Bob's thoughts almost instantly.

Li Yuan smiled: "Bob, precisely because of this, China is the best place to invest."

"Oh? Can you tell me the reason?" Bob and the others were doubtful, "Li, I don't mean anything else. As I said just now, your project will definitely be invested. But I initially suggested that you put it in the United States.

.You should know that only the United States has a complete automobile industry and has the technology of major automobile manufacturers. From our selfish point of view at Goldman Sachs, if it is placed in the United States, successful IPOs in the future will also have a good impact on the market.

Performance."

Sure enough.

Li Yuan smiled and nodded: "Bob, the first thing is the market. I personally think that in the future, China's auto market will surpass your United States and become the world's largest auto market..."
To be continued...