Due to the additional research on seawater desalination projects, Duke's work pace has become faster and faster. In his schedule, except for having to accompany his wife and children on weekends, his working days are all arranged in full swing. Fortunately, Duke is still a young man. Faced with such high-intensity work arrangements, with Kerry, the super assistant, the problem in research and development is enough to deal with.

The more fields you come into contact with, the larger the Kerry's knowledge base becomes. Just based on the knowledge capacity, it is a lot of information about modern technology. Now Duke has collected a lot of them into the Kerry storage space. It is no exaggeration to say that Kerry's knowledge base is the largest science and technology library on the earth.

Of course, Duke can do all this, thanks to the digitalization project of the book, which allows Duke to collect electronic versions of various technology books with just spending money.

If it weren't for such a huge accumulation of knowledge, Duke would have been unable to cope with the increasingly diffuse research content, such as drones, new communication systems, seawater desalination projects... Duke is involved in more and more fields. Although Duke often no longer needs to propose detailed solutions to the problems, when the R&D project team submits difficult problems, Duke always needs to study and analyze these problems and propose solutions.

Of course, since 99% of the ideas were proven to be effective methods, Duke's expert support team finally recognized that scientific and technological geniuses are always omniscient and omnipotent. For the R&D team below, they only know that the problem was solved. As for whether it was the expert support team or Duke's solution, they no longer care.

Anyway, everyone knows that Duke, the chief scientist, is not a flaw, and his expert support team has gradually become famous, because these experts are the first line of defense to analyze and deeply decompose Duke's ideas, and their abilities have also been greatly improved in this process. For top scientists, in fact, the most important thing in scientific and technological breakthroughs is their ideas!

Duke now serves as a source of ideas, thus inspiring the support team of experts to further develop, constantly learn from each other, and trigger new inspirations, as if nuclear reaction fission.

For such a national treasure figure, Cai Siqiang certainly does not disturb Duke's work at will. You should know that Duke can solve a big problem that affects the progress of a project of hundreds of people in a minute. If you count the annual R&D costs of adults, it will be millions or tens of millions.

This is the real big shot that can be in and out of millions every minute! So even if Cai Siqiang, a big shot who actually masters the sal, tries to leave enough personal space for Duke. Even if he is idle, it is equivalent to charging Duke, the national treasure.

But as the Spring Festival approached, Cai Siqiang couldn't help but come to the door.

"Duke, what are you busy with today?" Cai Siqiang pushed away Duke's office and looked at Duke as if he was sitting there in a daze. In fact, Duke was waiting for Kerry to answer a complicated question. When he saw Cai Siqiang coming in, he withdrew from his mind and let Kerry run it himself.

"Caicai, what wind blows today, and it's a busy man?" He looked at Cai Siqiang and joked, but it was also true, because compared to Duke's often staying in the office, Cai Siqiang, the actual operator of the sal, often travels around. He spends much more days on the plane in a year than on land, thanks to his own official plane.

"I will not go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble," Cai Siqiang said with a smile, "Or what if we delay your work as a Buddha, how much money we have to make. That's all the gossip. Today I'm here, there is really something big to discuss with you."

Cai Siqiang turned to the topic, "Duke, have you heard of the Opel car brand?"

"Of course, this should be a brand under GM. What's wrong? Does GM have plans to sell it now?" Duke's reaction is not too slow now.

"Smart! It's worthy of being a genius," Cai Siqiang praising him a little, "Since Opel was acquired by General Motors, the Opel brand has caused General Motors to lose about $20 billion in the past 20 years, and there is still no sign of profit.

Although General General's senior executives have been looking for antidotes for Opel in order to reverse the defeat, including forming an alliance with PSA to try to reduce costs, establishing an Opel committee, assemble talents from the US headquarters to Europe to put out fires, searching for design elites around the world, and changing the helmsman, all of which have little effect and remain in a loss state as always.

In order to get rid of this burden, General Motors' senior executives have repeatedly suggested selling the Opel brand, but given many objective factors and huge pressure from European trade unions and German governments, this has not been achieved. So today, this has become a cancer that swallows up General Motors' profits."

When Duke heard this, he was a little confused. Since that's the case, what can Cai Siqiang and others have to get this Opel brand from General Motors?

"Duke, are you more confused now? Even if you can't sell GM, how can we get this brand?" Cai Siqiang seemed to see through the problem in Duke's eyes.

"The answer lies in the fact that the current General Motors CEO Ax and the eldest son of the Li family were classmates and friends at the time. That's not all. The current German Prime Minister Stein had a close personal relationship with Li, and even provided very critical financial support for the Social Democratic Party campaign where Stein was located through tortuous channels.

Now General Motors' President Ax is really overwhelmed. He has heard that the Li family has entered the automotive industry and there is no well-known brand yet. Therefore, he suggested that Li Dashao take over Opel. As a classmate, he knew that Li Dashao had interacted with the senior leaders of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, and if he could operate well, it would be very likely to reach this deal."

Cai Siqiang briefly explained the key points of this matter to Duke. Of course, it is not as simple as acquaintances. There are more critical interest arrangements in this transaction. "When Mr. Li heard this suggestion, he was very moved and coordinated with us and Qiyang. Everyone was more interested, because for Dongfang Qiyang, it is not easy to open the domestic mid-to-high-end automobile market. Brand establishment alone is not a matter of overnight success. It turns out that everyone plans to gradually build their own brand by a protracted war. But if there is a suitable world-class brand, everyone will not reject the acquisition and take shortcuts."

"Although there are not many precedents for this road, there are several advantages for Dongfang Qiyang that other companies do not have. First, they are sufficient funds, second, they are established with complete domestic channels, third, they have their own complete production lines and supply chains, and fourth, we have unique intelligent technology to develop high-end smart cars. In this way, after obtaining the brand, on the one hand, they can form the production capacity of mid- and low-end products in China in a very short time, which is convenient for occupying the huge domestic automobile market. On the other hand, they can also quickly launch unique smart cars to impact the international high-end market."

"Based on these reasons, everyone agreed that Mr. Li will have contacts with all parties, especially the European trade unions and German political parties. Judging from the current contact situation, there is a great hope of reaching an agreement. Now we want to hear your opinions."


Chapter completed!