All round car designer

Chapter 483 The curtain call

After hearing Mueller's words, Zhou Fei couldn't help being surprised, and quickly explained, "Professor, don't get me wrong. Although finance and personnel are brought back to the headquarters, I don't mean to let you withdraw from Mercedes-Benz, I mean yes……"

"Of course I understand what Mr. Zhou means. If I didn't know you well, I wouldn't have helped you take care of the Mercedes-Benz for so many years. Didn't I agree at the beginning that when the identity of the Mercedes-Benz is exposed, I will quit here. Concentrate on my academics."

Before Zhou Fei finished speaking, Muller smiled and waved his hands. Although Muller didn't know much about Zhou Fei's personality, he still recognized it, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed in Mercedes-Benz until now.

Muller is very proud of being able to bring Mercedes-Benz from a start-up brand all the way to a world-famous "ten-billion brand", occupying the top spot in luxury car sales, and owning such a supercar brand as Lamborghini.

I thought that my life would pass like this, but Muller is really content to be able to control such a brand for five years in his later years.

"professor……"

Zhou Fei wanted to say something more, but Muller still shook his head, "You don't have to keep me anymore, I have worked hard enough for so many years, according to your Chinese labor law, at my age, isn't it early? You should retire, you have determined the management personnel of Mercedes-Benz during this time, I will cooperate with you to complete the transition of management rights, and I will officially fade out after everything is over."

There is no way, since Mueller has said so, Zhou Fei is embarrassed to continue persuading him. After all, Mueller's age is at a certain level, and he is really embarrassed to bother Mueller any more.

After the two chatted for a while, Mu Le left Zhou Fei's room.

After Muller left, Zhou Fei looked at the follow-up developments of the demonstrations on the Internet. The number of petitioners on the official website of the German Federal Government has reached more than 30, and it is still growing. Even if the local government in Munich does not Intervening in this matter, the federal government also had to respond to this matter to the public.

Although there is no official response yet, the matter of Mercedes-Benz has basically been resolved. In a few days, Mercedes-Benz will be able to resume production.

In this way, even if all the bad things in the past month or so have been resolved, as for the sanctions against Dafeng and Futong Motors, Zhou Fei intends to continue to delay. Before, no matter what, the two companies had to suffer a little more.

After looking around, Zhou Fei called Jiang Yang who was far away in the United States to confirm whether there was any problem with the production of BMW and Audi.

After the sanctions imposed by Mercedes-Benz, almost all companies in the automotive industry have realized how powerful Mercedes-Benz is now. It is naturally the dream of every supplier to cooperate with such a company.

Not to mention that these current suppliers have no connection with Dafeng and Futong. Even if they do, they dare not unilaterally cut off the supply to Feichi Company on trumped-up "crime" like the previous three suppliers.

Moreover, these three suppliers have been boycotted by almost the entire industry except Dafeng and Futong Motors. Even if Mercedes-Benz does not sanction them, these three suppliers will not be able to survive in the automotive industry.

Therefore, the production of BMW and Audi in Europe and the United States is very stable now, and there is no problem in the supply of parts.

"Brother Fei, what do you plan to do with Dafeng and Fortuna Motors? Do you want to continue to impose sanctions?" Jiang Yang asked suddenly after talking about the matter of BMW and Audi.

"What's the matter, is Johnson pleading with you?" Zhou Fei asked with a smile.

"Johnson did call me many times, but I didn't mean to plead for him. Since he made the decision to join forces with Dafeng to deal with us, he should pay for such a decision."

Jiang Yang paused, and then continued, "I heard that Foton Motor is already holding a board meeting, and Johnson should be fired. This is Foton Motor's attitude towards this matter."

Although the two parties have had many contacts before, Zhou Fei doesn't feel any pity for Johnson's result. The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and every decision you make has a corresponding price. The so-called Sow melons to reap melons, sow beans to reap beans, this is the truth.

Especially for listed companies like Foton and Dafeng Motor, any decision made by the management will affect the market value of the company. Like this incident, the sanctions imposed by Mercedes-Benz have caused the market value of Foton Motor to evaporate at least 20 billion US dollars. Shareholders will naturally not be satisfied with such a result.

In anger, it is very common to dismiss the current management through the board of directors. Jobs was also kicked out of the Apple company he founded by the board of directors because of poor management, let alone Johnson now?
The total market value of Ford Motor has evaporated by at least 5%, and the board of directors did not sue Johnson, which is already very good.

"Futong has already held a board meeting. I guess Dafeng Automobile will soon have a similar move." Zhou Fei said softly.

Although Dafeng Motor may not necessarily fire Fred, after all, Fred has a special status for Dafeng Motor, but he must do something, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to Dafeng's shareholders. In this incident, Dafeng suffered even greater losses than Futong Motors.

If Dafeng Automobile did nothing, it would probably be difficult to appease the public outrage.

"Our Mercedes-Benz company has really made a name for itself in the world this time." Jiang Yang replied with emotion.

With his own strength, he fought against the two traditional automobile giants, and finally won. After this incident, which company dares to look down on Mercedes-Benz?

"Yes, who would have thought that a small company that was just established ten years ago would one day be able to stand at the top of the pyramid in the auto industry?" Zhou Fei also replied with emotion.

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The next morning, a new news about the Mercedes-Benz incident came again. The Munich government formally protested to the court, requesting to revoke the previous production ban and restore the production qualification of Mercedes-Benz. It seriously affected the economic development of Munich, caused a large number of workers to be unemployed and waited for work, and caused huge turmoil in the local society.

At the same time, the government spokesperson also claimed that the court’s decision this time was procedurally unfair. The city council will re-investigate this matter and re-evaluate whether there is really a problem with Mercedes-Benz’s production qualifications. I will give an explanation to all citizens!
In this way, the end of this series of events is finally one step closer.

(End of this chapter)