Wealthy after rebirth

Chapter 230 Giants
At nine o'clock in the morning, German time, Shi Yining woke up slowly, the room was dimly lit, he smacked his lips, turned on the soft light by the bed, and saw the beautiful woman beside him sleeping soundly.

The distinctive wooden window panels not far away made Shi Yining slightly stunned, and it took him several seconds to realize that he was actually living in an old German castle.

In the past day, I have experienced several spatial changes, which are particularly easy to cause illusions.

Due to jet lag, it is extremely rare for Huang Jiayan to wake up later than Shi Yining. [-]:[-] am German time is equivalent to [-]:[-] am in China, and she has no special circumstances. It will take at least several days to adjust the jet lag.

Shi Yining got out of bed, came to the window, opened the window latch and pushed it gently.

In order to reflect the characteristics of the castle, the designer of the hotel specially arranged two windows in the bedroom, one is a modern laminated glass window, and the other is an ancient wooden window panel.

Naturally, what Shi Yining pushed open was an antique wooden window panel. With a slight creaking sound, the window panel opened a crack, and a ray of sunlight instantly slipped into the castle, shining on the floor, and then a stream of cold air blew on his face. face.

"hiss……"

Shi Yining shuddered unconsciously.

There is a constant temperature system in the hotel. Even if he wears thin pajamas, he will not feel cold. It is as if he is in a comfortable spring and autumn. He can open the thick window panels and the cold air immediately wraps him up. Only then does he remember that this moment It is already winter.

Finding a piece of clothing to put on, Shi Yining pushed open the window panel, and what came into view was the peaceful beauty of the Rhine Valley. The broad river surface was slow-moving, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, as if even time stood still.

Even in winter, there is still a large green area on both sides of the river, and the Bentera Castle is surrounded by trees.

It can be seen that the designer has a unique idea, especially leaving the beautiful side to the wooden window panels.

"Comfortable!"

Shi Yining took a deep breath, the fresh air made people feel refreshed.

If you only look at the furnishings in the hotel room, it is really not worth the price of more than 1 euros a night, but if you count a series of external environmental experiences and visual enjoyment, it will definitely be worth the fare!

Watching the beautiful scenery of the Rhine, Boss Shi sent a condolence message to the girls far away in the sky, and at the same time it was a sign of safety.

"Bah..."

At this moment, a small voice came from behind Shi Yining.

He was so ungentlemanly that when he woke up, he didn't care about other people's feelings and directly opened the window to let the sunshine and cold air into the house. This forced Huang Jiayan, who was sleeping sweetly, to turn on her phone.

"Did you oversleep... what time is it?"

Huang Jiayan rubbed her eyes, seeing the sunlight on the ground, she knew it was daylight.

Shi Yining said with a smile: "If you follow the time of the Chinese dynasty, you are getting up in the early morning, but if you use German time, you will be sunbathing your ass. It's already past nine o'clock!"

"That... before going to bed last night, I saw a message on the Internet related to what you are going to do..."

When Huang Jiayan heard that it was past nine o'clock, she was a little embarrassed, and quickly talked about other things to ease the awkward atmosphere.

"It's related to what I'm going to do? Let's hear it..."

Shi Yining immediately became interested. Although the scenery behind him was beautiful, there were still some things in his heart that he couldn't calm down to appreciate. He hoped that they could be resolved as soon as possible.

Huang Jiayan got out of bed, put on her clothes and said, "You came to Germany to find materials for making engines. Have you ever heard of ThyssenKrupp?"

"ThyssenKrupp?"

Shi Yining closed the wooden window, picked up a bottle of mineral water and drank a few sips, and then continued: "I've heard of this group, it's from the world's top [-] companies, and the material business is one of the main businesses of this group."

ThyssenKrupp is actually a merged company. It was born in 1999. Thyssen, which was founded in the [-]th century and made a fortune in steel, merged with Krupp, a famous military industrial group founded in the early [-]th century, to form Thyssen. Krupp.

The name is simple and rude, and it is a direct combination of the names of the two groups...

Both Thyssen and Krupp are extremely prominent companies in German history with a glorious history.

The Thyssen Consortium is one of the largest consortiums in West Germany in the [-]th century. Its head office, Thyssen AG, has many joint-stock companies and limited companies, among which the steel industry is one of the most important industries.

The history of Thyssen Group engaged in steel production can be traced back to the nineteenth century. The founder of Thyssen, August Thyssen, established Thyssen United in 1871 and established the first in Duisburg, Germany in 1890. Own coal mining and steelmaking and steel rolling complex.

By the early days of World War I, Thyssen had developed into one of the largest mining and metallurgical complexes in Europe. It owned coal mines, iron ore, steel plants, machine manufacturing plants, transportation companies, arms companies and commercial companies, etc. The veritable "Steel King" at that time.

The name of the Krupp company, like Thyssen, is derived from a family's surname, and the history of the Krupp family is so thick that it can be compiled into a book.

As early as the sixteenth century AD, Aldent Krupp began to engage in trade and business. After his death in 1624, his son Anton Krupp took over the family business, and in the 30-year war involving the whole of Europe (1618-1648), the Krupp family also participated in the firearms manufacturing business for the first time.

The country and the emperor are the biggest customers... This is the business philosophy of the Krupp family.

The former Krupp cannon was famous for a while, and then there was the appalling Gustav heavy artillery, with a 32-meter-long barrel and a caliber of 53 mm. With a weight of 12 tons, it can project shells weighing up to seven tons to targets 37 kilometers away.

In the era when Gustav heavy artillery was born, it can be said to be a murder weapon in the world.

Although the war is cruel, it is undeniable that the war has greatly promoted the progress of science and technology. The technological level accumulated by Krupp in the production of weapons has laid a solid foundation for its future glory in the civilian field.

The world's largest bucket wheel excavator was born in Krupp.

In 1978, Krupp manufactured the largest excavator in the world, nearly 240 meters high, [-] meters long, and a total weight of nearly [-] tons.

Among them, there are eighteen buckets on the bucket wheel, each with a volume of about eight cubic meters, and the motors driving the bucket wheels are arranged vertically from top to bottom. If coal mine excavation is carried out, the theoretical production capacity is [-] cubic meters per hour. !
Combined with the Gustav heavy artillery built by Krupp before, it can be seen that this company is very good at manufacturing huge machinery.

In addition, Krupp has also manufactured submarines that can dive into the Mariana Trench, radio telescopes with a diameter of 100 meters, and so on.

The merger of Thyssen and Krupp is naturally a strong alliance. In 2015, ThyssenKrupp ranked 500th on the Fortune Global 179.

"What you want to say has something to do with this company?"

Shi Yining asked.

"Yes... just wait for me to wash up."

After saying that, Huang Jiayan tiptoed to the bathroom to wash up. After returning, she said: "I don't know what happened specifically. ThyssenKrupp is in the process of spinning off part of its metal material-related business from the group."

"In other words, ThyssenKrupp is selling its metal smelting subsidiary."

Shi Yining was slightly taken aback when he heard Huang Jiayan's words, the news caught him off guard.

The huge Thyssenkrupp Group is involved in a wide range of industrial projects, with the five largest categories being metal materials, automotive technology, machine manufacturing, engineering design and elevators.

Among them, metal materials are ThyssenKrupp's traditional advantage, but now the projects that account for the largest proportion of the group's revenue are elevators and escalators. The once glorious steel industry has now become a sunset.

"Financial crisis? Group transformation? There are probably these two possibilities..." Shi Yining speculated a bit, and then said: "No matter what ThyssenKrupp's intentions are, I only care about the situation of the materials business related companies sold by their group !”

Huang Jiayan went to the desk and turned on the computer. Since the hotel was not equipped with a printer, she had no way to print out the relevant information, so she had to keep the relevant information on the web page.

Shi Yining roughly read the relevant content, and suddenly his eyes locked on a name.

"Innohume Metal Smelting Company? This...isn't this one of the companies we want to contact?"

Shi Yining tapped his knuckles on the name of Inohum on the computer screen, making a thumping sound.

Before coming to Europe, Shi Yining did a lot of homework, uh...he asked his secretary to do a lot of homework, selected several companies with advanced smelting technology, and discussed them in detail after arriving in Europe.

Among them is the Inohum Metal Smelting Company that ThyssenKrupp is about to sell...

According to the official news released by ThyssenKrupp, the company intends to sell Inohum Metal Smelting Company, which includes the operating steel mill and metal smelting research institute, which is expected to affect about [-] jobs.

Huang Jia nodded with a strange face, indicating that Shi Yining was not mistaken. She added: "The Innohum company is not far from here, just over 30 kilometers north of Dusseldorf in the suburbs of Duisburg. Duisburg is the headquarters of ThyssenKrupp!"

Shi Yining spoke. He searched the Internet for news about ThyssenKrupp's sale of the company, trying to find the reason.

dong dong dong...

When Boss Shi was working day and night, there was a light knock on the door of the guest room.

Huang Jiayan opened the door and saw that the butler Femis stood straight outside the door and asked her if she needed breakfast. He was accompanied by Jack Li and Evans. Perhaps these two had come outside the door early in the morning.

Huang Jiayan turned her head and glanced at Shi Yining, who was sitting in front of the computer, and then nodded to Femis.

About a quarter of an hour later, Femis walked into the guest room of the castle with the chefs cart...

Bread, butter jam, honey cheese, sausage, yogurt, eggs, fruit, cereal and cornflakes, a cup of hot drink and juice...

No matter in terms of quantity or type, the breakfast arranged by the hotel is really rich!
There is a saying in Germany: Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a noble, and eat dinner like a beggar. Germans attach great importance to breakfast and are never ambiguous. Even if it is close to ten o'clock, it is still the first meal of the tenants. A meal is breakfast, and breakfast must be sumptuous!
Shi Yining was really hungry. Although the breakfast provided by the hotel was quite different from the breakfast he had in the past, it did not affect his appetite.

Sitting at the dining table, Shi Yining asked Fermis to stay, and asked, "Fimis, are you German?"

Femis stood aside, nodded and said: "From my grandfather's generation, I have seven-eighths of German blood, and I was born in Germany, then went to Sweden to study for three years, and then returned to Germany , so I thought, I should be German."

Shi Yining took a bite of the crispy croissant and asked, "You should know about ThyssenKrupp. I heard that this company is divesting its business related to metal smelting recently. Do you know the general situation?"

This kind of information does not belong to the scope of the housekeeper's understanding, but as a native of Mrs. Dusseldorf, Fermis knows a lot about ThyssenKrupp, and what the other party asked is not a secret, so he said.

"Thyssenkrupp was once the well-known steel king in Germany. The metal smelting business once reached 60.00% of the group's revenue. However, with the development of other projects, the proportion of metal smelting began to decrease year by year..."

"Mr. Shi, I have also heard about the divestiture of the business you mentioned. The decline in profitability of traditional industries may have begun to drag down the group, so..."

Speaking of this, Fermis spread his hands with a lively expression, which seems to mean that the big consortiums are all people who are emotional, even the old guys who have made great achievements in the war, if they can't continue to make profits, they will immediately give up.

Shi Yining tasted the authentic German breakfast, thought about what Fermis said, and then asked Huang Jiayan: "You hire a team of lawyers for business negotiations from the local area today, remember to hire a professional translator, and send it to ThyssenKrupp Just one phone call, and we will discuss the acquisition of Inohum Metal Smelting Company tomorrow!"

Femis is proficient in Chinese, and when he heard Shi Yining's words, his heart skipped a beat, and he said earnestly: "Mr. Shi, Ms. Huang, I can provide you with the phone numbers of law firms in related fields. law firm."

Shi Yining readily accepted Fermis's "technical assistance". He himself had some doubts about Fermis' enthusiasm, but when Fermis listed the names and phone numbers of more than a dozen law firms, his doubts were dispelled.

I'm afraid they didn't list all the well-known law firms in the whole city. It seems that they can't collude with him to trick him...

Before breakfast was finished, Shi Yining and Huang Jiayan were in working mode. To be precise, the little secretary Huang Jiayan was in working mode. Boss Shi was just giving orders.

(End of this chapter)