Huang Xuan was not waiting in the hotel


    He had a lot of things to do, such as drawing pictures, robbing a few well-dressed gentlemen to pay for their rooms, such as wandering around the market in search of business opportunities


    The most important thing was to find a few more suitable buyers


    Huang Xuan didn''t have much experience in this area, but with ford''s smooth schedule, it was easier to convince more manufacturers


    Using a simple but effective method - advertising, the advertising tools used in this era are very advanced: the telegraph


    The telegram of the 1930s was expensive, but the effect was obvious


    Because of its expensive and commercial nature, the companies receiving the telegram would not throw it into the trash as easily as the newspapers do today


    On the other hand, the telegram also met Huang Xuan''s requirements, simple but interesting


    He only wrote three simple words in the telegram: tomorrow at 9: 00 pm, the design of the new car will be sold at the elise hotel


    There is already a company bidding for it


    Huang Xuan believed that his performance at the rouge plant should attract the attention of many people, and if anyone was interested in buying the design, they should be able to get the information that ford was very interested in the design


    Is there anything more gimmicky than using ford to drum up business


    As for whether anyone else was willing to buy it, that was not the point


    As long as there was enough pressure on ford, Huang Xuan believed that the v8, which was completely designed by ford itself, would definitely make it unbearable for ford to give up


    Henry


    Ford was a man who thought highly of himself


    In fact, he did stand higher than most americans, but he wasn''t always right about Ford Motor Co''s operations


    He liked to make judgments that were unaffected by others


    Most of the time, these judgments were based on intuition, not intelligence


    Sometimes the result is right, sometimes it is wrong


    Blindly expanding the production base, reducing research and development costs, and buying stocks were all his wrong decisions


    Of course, this was a hindsight, but the wrong, it was wrong


    Ford was a talented designer who built a gasoline engine on his own and designed a t-car from scratch


    At the same time, ford was also a genius manager


    He created the concept of cheap cars, he created assembly lines, and he created the five-day working week


    But his conceit was also a headache


    Most of the time, ford believed in its ability more than the team, so Ford Motor Co was always lagging behind its competitors in the development of new technology


    It was no exaggeration to say that ford was a factory with high productivity but ordinary technology


    It was just a big factory


    From the beginning to the end, ford was an efficiency advocate


    He hadn''t produced new models for more than 20 years in a row


    All he did every day was to increase production


    It wasn''t until the t model was invaded by the chevrolet that he woke up and closed the factory for research and development, but it didn''t give ford any warning


    When General purpose took the throne of the first car company, ford still focused on improving production efficiency


    Under the guidance of this thought, Henry


    When ford saw the drawing his son had brought, he nodded imperceptibly and asked, "How''s the v8 design going


    " "Not very well


    " The ford v8, also known as the flattop v8, soon became the darling of all the entry level racers in the united states


    In the thirties and forties, the flat-headed v8 was highly regarded by modified racers


    At the same time, ford, which was powered by the flat-headed v8, also won the 1936 and 1938 monte carlo rally championships


    As long as you look at this information, you can understand that such a classic car, in the development aspect, there must be a lot of innovation and difficulties


    Old ford flicked the drawing on the table with his finger and said with a deep face, "Will it be better than this design


    " "Well


    We can''t be sure


    " Edsel hesitated and said, "The main problem is that this is just a blueprint, not even a prototype car


    No one knows if it can meet the requirements described above


    " "He didn''t make the prototype


    " "I don''t think so


    " Edsel recalled Huang Xuan''s appearance and said, "He seems to only have blueprints and is in a hurry to ask for money


    " With a frown, ford sat back in his chair and said, "He wants $ 100,000


    " "Yes


    " After waiting for a long time, ford said, "If there is no problem with the drawing, give it to him


    " Henry


    Ford still had something to say


    Such a complicated drawing could not be drawn without the original car


    That is to say, if the drawing is fine, then there must be a prototype car, and the other party does not have it, then the source of the drawing is very problematic


    However, for ford, this was not a problem


    If it could save millions of dollars, or even one-tenth of it, it would be able to get rid of the problems caused by the source of the drawings, let alone the government at the moment being overwhelmed by the economic crisis


    Besides, ford never paid attention to the government, and Roosevelt had angrily changed his car because of ford


    On the other side of the city, Alfred


    Sloan, the new president of General purpose, also got a small ad from Huang Xuan, but he didn''t pay much attention to it


    He just told a supervisor to go and see what Henry was thinking when he just took over the position of ford


    The elise hotel


    About five years ago, a suite like this cost $ 30 a day, and the great depression had forced the hotel to lower its fees several times


    Now, four yuan a day was enough


    Of course, Huang Xuan was still waiting for ford to send the money


    He had decided


    As long as Mr


    Ford gave him $ 100,000, he would not let him take the money back


    If ford didn''t bring the money, he would have committed more violent crimes


    This was the situation


    He had already used millions of dollars of energy and brought millions of dollars worth of supplies


    If there were no profits, everything would be wasted


    Now, unlike the first few trips, Lorraine had very little energy at that time, and he had no protective measures, so using violence was likely to be more rewarding


    Besides, having no target was also a big reason


    It was different now


    He was in a budding financial kingdom, with a headband of alloy, a plane base on his back, and no other travelers harassing him


    The designer, edsel, did not know that the $ 100,000 in the suitcase had been "Reserved" by Huang Xuan


    He also specifically asked Brown to bring 20 strong security guards with guns to meet at the elise hotel


    As the waiter came to the door, edsel smiled and shook hands with Huang Xuan, "The weather in Detroit is getting better


    It''s been a little cold in the past few days


    " "All right


    " Huang Xuan didn''t say much


    He let Edsel in and introduced him, "This is Mr


    Edward


    He also wants to see my drawings


    " "Of course


    " Edsel did not know this Edward, but the other party obviously knew him


    The two sides greeted him amicably, hiding their doubts in their cheeks


    Without too much formality, Huang Xuan asked, "Do you mind if I look at the cash you brought


    " Edsel''s face was a little stiff


    He didn''t expect Huang Xuan to be so direct, but he nodded and motioned for Brown to show it to huang xuan


    Although Lorraine could easily check the suitcases of the people present, Huang Xuan was willing to make a gesture that would make the conversation easier


    The suitcase contained a neat and tidy federal reserve roll, the dollar of this era, with a face value of $ 100 and $ 1000


    The latter had not been issued since 1969 and should have 20 bills


    The rest were neat hundred dollar bills, a bit like withdrawing money from the bank of china


    "Ok


    We can start the conversation


    " Huang Xuan happily pushed the suitcase to Brown and got up to open the bedroom door, which contained a mountain of blueprints


    "Take your time


    " Huang xuan sat down and drank tea from sri lanka


    The representative of the General purpose had an unpleasant feeling of being forgotten, but huang xuan didn''t even look at him


    Gm was just a backup option


    He told ford that I had other companies to sell


    But as long as Edsel didn''t say no, he wouldn''t spend his time on the General purpose


    To be more precise, Huang Xuan thought time was more important than money


    Two more days later, no more money would be useful


    In the bedroom were the drawings drawn last night


    Huang xuan slept on the bed, and Lorraine easily used his energy to complete the work


    Ford Motor Co people quickly buried themselves in the hundreds of drawings, and their work was much easier than drawing them


    Not in a hurry, he dragged the teacup to edsel and said, "Mr


    Ford, what''s your relationship in New York


    " "There are some


    " "I want to buy a printing plant in New York


    The equipment should be as advanced as possible


    What can you do


    " This was the method huang xuan had thought of all night


    It was a little despicable, but it worked


    Edsel looked at Huang Xuan strangely and said, "There are many closed factories now


    If you want to buy them, it''s very simple


    " "That''s good


    " Huang Xuan smiled and said, "But I hope I can save some time


    Maybe you know where such a factory is


    " Of course it was a matter of money, but Edsel still gave Huang Xuan two names, "As a friend, I think I should tell you that the investment environment in the united states is already a little, uh, the rate of return has become low


    " "I understand


    " Huang Xuan smiled and closed his eyes to recove