1870 This chapter is very cool 3
Just imagine, if Boss Jia had never thought of setting up a factory in the United States from the beginning, it was just a trick to fool people, then would it be necessary to actually produce the battery and then ship it to the United States?
Of course, it does not exist, so although those battery swap stations are under vigorous construction, there is actually not even a set of batteries inside, all of which are empty, the cost of the $100 billion battery does not exist at all.
However, Daqian's purchase orders for various bulk chemical raw materials internationally have indeed increased several times in recent years, which has made many media believe that this is Daqian's purchase to produce American batteries.
But in fact, this is just because the demand for batteries in Europe and domestic batteries is increasing. In order to supply the increased production of these two markets, Daqian has no relationship with the United States at all.
Of course, the profit of these battery packs is also US$48 billion...before tax.
As for the construction cost, it is actually the same. Although Daqian did hire many construction companies, he actually only built some ground buildings at a few locations in the downtown area, and the rest were all surrounded by high walls. At most, a steel frame was simply built with a steel structure, making outsiders look like they are under construction, but in fact they didn't do anything.
And those battery swap stations in wilderness areas were too lazy to even use steel frames, so they just fenced the walls. Anyway, no one or two people passed by here a day.
So the actual construction expenses in the end are only about 1 billion US dollars.
A smart friend calculated this and found that although the total cost is only 21 billion US dollars, it has exceeded 20 billion, so why is it less than 20 billion?
Because half of the battery swap equipment worth 4 billion was like a battery and was not sent to the United States at all.
In order to cover up, Daqian did use container freighters to transport a large amount of battery swap equipment to the United States, and also left it in the warehouse at the American port for display, and then transported it to various sites, making everyone believe that Daqian had indeed started construction.
But in fact, these battery swap equipment are just placed on site. Except for a few model projects, the equipment is placed directly under the canopy after it arrives. When the negotiations collapse, the transportation company comes back and pulls these equipment that has not been unpacked at all and returns to the port, and then takes it away. The whole process is not even packed, which is very convenient.
It is precisely because the packaging has not been removed that these equipment does not need to be brought back to China, but goes directly to Europe. After all, with the continuous increase in the electric vehicle boom, there are still a large number of battery swap stations in Europe under construction, and these battery swap equipment can just meet the pursuit of Europeans.
So from beginning to end, the battery swap equipment worth 4 billion US dollars was actually installed and then disassembled, causing losses, less than 500 million US dollars, and the remaining ones were sold to Europe for the original price.
So the actual material cost is only about US$17.5 billion.
Of course, some labor costs, transportation costs, and various gray costs are also quite a lot, which is almost over US$19 billion, and indeed less than US$20 billion.
Europeans and Americans knew about it and were about to cry.
But no matter how low the cost is, the 20 billion US dollars is finally a loss. So the question is, how did Daqian make $300 billion?
The answer is very simple, our boss Jia has gone to stock trading again.
Do you still remember that when Daqian established Lace Electric, he agreed with all investors that Daqian ensured to complete the task and if the work was not completed, he would compensate everyone for the investment losses.
As a condition, no investor is allowed to inquire about finances, nor is he allowed to make trouble for Daqian's business. No matter how Daqian uses these funds, he doesn't say much, and he is not even allowed to send anyone to Lace to work. Daqian completely held power tightly in his hands, without any penny.
Daqian's behavior seems very domineering, but in fact it is a helpless move. After all, Lace's account must not be investigated. Once it is investigated, Daqian will be blown up. Boss Jia is dragged into prison for 180 years without any problem.
Because Daqian misappropriated all of the 200 billion US dollars of funds.
As a rebirth, Boss Jia was naturally drooling about the world-class financial crisis in 2008.
In 1997, in order to speculate on the stock market in Hong Kong and Hong Kong, Boss Jia first borrowed $80 billion in loans using Natsume Network, and then directly misappropriated the 80 billion yuan and went to Hong Kong and Hong Kong to speculate on stocks.
This time, our boss Jia will naturally not let it go. After all, the size of the US stock market is far from comparable to that of Hong Kong and Hong Kong. If the US stock market shorted a lot in 2008, then the fool would be able to make several times the wealth.
It just requires a lot of money, otherwise it will not be able to do it at all.
But at that time, Daqian's funds, because Boss Jia was crazy investing in the electric vehicle industry, spent nearly $100 billion in cash in Europe one after another, and then they built up the entire European battery swap station network. Boss Jia's funds were added up to less than $20 billion.
Although there is still a lot of funds in the US First Foundation, Boss Jia no longer dares to have too much financial transactions with the US First Foundation.
After all, Daqian and Daqian's funds have been firmly monitored by many people. Although Boss Jia can control the flow of funds in a very secretive way, his opponent is the world's largest financial tycoon. If she notices clues and discovers the relationship between Daqian and the US Priority Foundation, the foundation will probably be immediately encircled by the US.
So Boss Jia does not intend to borrow funds from the US Priority Foundation. Anyway, the foundation uses money to short the stock market itself and will make money, so it will not lose anything.
But how Daqian gets more funds is a problem. Boss Jia originally planned to go to some domestic banks to borrow money with shame.
For example, GS Bank, the bank that got $10 billion in foreign exchange reserves back then was ecstatic, now it is amazing.
At this time, China's foreign exchange reserves had reached US$2.3 trillion, and it also became the country with the highest foreign exchange reserves in the world and was the United States' creditor.
Although most of the US$2.300 billion is stored in RM Bank, GS Bank, as the company with the highest assets at this time, has squeezed into the top 50 companies in the Fortune 500. GS Bank's foreign exchange reserves are about US$300 billion. It is not a big problem for Boss Jia to use this relationship and borrow US$100 billion with shamelessness.
Chapter completed!