Chapter 873
Tom finished his lecture and immediately turned his head to Li Linfei and said respectfully, "Mr. Li, I had Lyle informed yesterday afternoon, I don't know why he didn't take this to heart, maybe he was drunk last night and forgot about it?"
Li Linfei laughed lightly, "Drunk and forgot about it, good reason."
The receptionist girl, at this moment, looked at Li Linfei dumbfounded, her legs and stomach were trembling, and her mouth, which was sharp just now, was also trembling, she said in a broken voice: "Li, hello Mr. Li, I didn't know it was you just now."
"Alright, hurry up and call." Li Linfei waved his hand, not bothering to argue with this little receptionist.
"Yes, yes." Hearing this, the receptionist girl didn't dare to be careless and hastily picked up the phone and dialed.
A minute later, she cried and said, "Mr. Li, Lyle, the phone number of President Lyle's office, no one is answering ......"
"You call his mobile directly." Li Linfei frowned.
"We, here at the front desk, don't know President Lyle's private mobile phone number ......"
"FUCK!" cursed Tom from the sidelines, pointing indignantly at the receptionist girl and admonishing her.
Li Er walked next to Su Cheng and suggested, "Boss, guys like this who dare to blatantly go against you should just be fired and then secretly clean up after him."
Li Linfei stroked the light beard on his chin and stared, "I didn't expect this Ferrari's Lyle to be so bold as to not even put me in his sights, is he just being clever or is he emboldened?"
Just as Li Linfei's thoughts were going on, from the place inside the ground floor lobby, three people quickly walked out.
All three were wearing black suits and leather shoes, and after seeing Li Linfei and his group from afar, they immediately trotted to Li Linfei's front.
After the man at the head of the group approached, he hurriedly said with a joyful smile, "Mr. Li, are you Mr. Li?" As he spoke, he also respectfully and enthusiastically extended his two hands in front of Li Linfei.
"You are?" Li Linfei looked at this man in confusion, could this be Lyle? No, Li Linfei had previously seen a picture of Lyle, not him.
"Oh, I'm Cassidy, the vice president of Ferrari, I was just about to go to the car show hall downtown to do some business, I didn't expect to meet you, Mr. Li, before I even left the entrance of the company, my luck is really great!"
"Cassidy? Vice President." Although Li Linfei had never seen his picture, he had heard of his name.
"Well, hello Cassidy." Glancing at his hands that were in mid-air, Lilinfei shook his hand and then said, "Where's Lyle, tell him to come out and meet me."
"This ......" Cancidi hesitated for a moment, wanting to say something.
"What, it's not easy to say?" Li Linfei gazed at him.
"No, no President Li, it's President Lyle he's in the hospital right now receiving treatment because he had a car accident last night, so he can't come to see you." Cassidy hurriedly replied.
"Had a car accident? How serious is it?" Li Linfei snorted, not a car accident early, not a car accident late, but just when he arrived in Modena, this guy really knows how to find the time to have a car accident.
"Mr Li, you've been standing here for so long, how about we go upstairs and sit down first?" Cancidi's eyes flashed and he proposed to Li Linfei.
Li Linfei gave him a deep look and knew that he meant that it was not convenient to talk here, so he nodded and followed him upstairs.
In a luxurious and clean conference room, there were only the two of them, Li Linfei and Cancidi, the others, were in another hospitality room.
"Mr. Cancidi, it's just the two of us now, so if there's anything you want to say, just say it." There was a cup of hot coffee on the coffee table in front of him, but Li Linfei didn't even look at it and stared straight at Cancidi inquiringly.
You don't know, if you don't come, Ferrari will be ruined by that bastard Lyle sooner or later."
At this moment, there were no outsiders, and Cassidy's originally calm expression suddenly turned sad, and his grievances poured out without reservation.
"What's going on?" Li Linfei's gaze froze.
"Just a few months ago, ever since the majority of Ferrari's shares, fell into Mr. Hades' hands, Lyle conspired with outsiders to tamper with Ferrari's various sales figures as well as its reporting, and also made meaningless changes in the established research and development."
"Most distressingly, Lyle actually joined with several of the remaining shareholders to sell Ferrari's two top laboratories in Modena and Milan, to Lamborghini, without my consent."
With a sad and indignant look on his face, Cancidi gritted his teeth and said, "Damn Frey, you know Lamborghini is our historical rival of Ferrari, how could he sell two of our top laboratories to them?"
"We were already being overwhelmed by Lamborghini at the new car launch a while ago, now this is not helping to fuel Lamborghini's anger and cutting off our own back?"
"Hateful, so hateful!" As we all know, Lamborghini and Ferrari, are the two top manufacturers in the sports car world today, although luxury car makers like Pagani, Koenigsegg and Bugatti would be a bit more B-grade than them.
But in the field of sports cars, Ferrari and Lamborghini, must be the two companies with the best sales results. Ferrari and Lamborghini, in the sports car segment, have the most high-end sports cars, such as the Rafa and the Poison.
At the level of basic sports cars, there are also cheaper vehicles, and there are numerous vehicles on sale today, not unlike, for example, Pagani and Bugatti, where there are only a few models on sale and a very small number of them.
Ferrari and Lamborghini, on the whole, are synonymous with high end and B style, and are the biggest sales winners in the sports car world.
Not only in terms of quality, but in terms of quantity, they are more than twice as good as other sports car manufacturers.
Otherwise, how could Li Linfei have spent US$290 to take down Ferrari, like Pagani and Bugatti, which would have cost US$20 billion and would have been too much to ask for?
Chapter 874
At Cancidi's impassioned emotions and words, Li Linfei did not lose his most basic judgment.
I didn't expect this Lyle to be so hateful, a small president, he dared to do so, he really should be dragged to be tied to a cross."
Speaking here, Li Linfei paused and added: "But Mr. Cancidi, I am puzzled as to why you are not in cahoots with Lyle's gang, but instead you hate him and have to tell me these things? Don't tell me that you are so attached to Ferrari that you couldn't bear to see Lyle do that and that's why you stood up to him."
Cancidi smiled bitterly, "Mr Li, I don't have anything else in mind, indeed, I am deeply attached to the Ferrari company, I have been here for almost thirty years, most of my life has been given to the manufacture and sales of Ferrari, I really can't bear to see him being ruined like that."
Li Linfei looked at Cancidi with unblinking eyes and smiled without saying a word.
Cancidi continued, "Of course, apart from my deep feelings, my own interests are also involved in this."
Hearing this, Li Linfei Fang secretly said in his heart that indeed, we are all businessmen, what deep feelings and what surrender? In the face of profit, there is no deep affection between people, let alone any company, the latter is just a tool for people to collect money and gain profit.
"I have a 2% share in Ferrari, although it is not worth mentioning compared to you, Mr. Li, but this 2% share is my heart and soul for most of my life."
It turned out that Cancidi was a shareholder of Ferrari, something Li Linfei had not noticed before, but since that was the case, there was nothing wrong with what he had just said.
Li Linfei said, "Mr. Cassidy, since you are also a shareholder of Ferrari, you should have the right to stop Lyle's decision at the shareholders' meeting, he is not a shareholder, right?"
Cancidi laughed bitterly and sighed, "Mr Li, it's useless, Steve is a lackey of the Liurick family, although he is not a shareholder of Ferrari, several other shareholders, however, are on his side, I myself am too light and weak to stop it."
"Before, I did ask Mr Hades to let him use his holding to strip Lyle of his executive powers in the company, but Mr Hades didn't agree to my proposal, alas ......"
Hades didn't agree? The company's shareholding in Ferrari was already on the market, so he had no desire to take care of Ferrari's internal struggles.
"Tell me honestly, is Lyle in hospital now?" Li Linfei asked.
Yes, he is in the private hospital of the Reulik family, but I reckon it's not to recuperate from his injuries, it's mostly to avoid you." Cancidi said.
"Hiding from me?"
"Yes, all he has to do is delay for a few days and he can sell one of Ferrari's factories to Lamborghini at a low price."
Cancidi said, "Now the Liuric family also knows that the Ferrari company is in your hands and I am afraid that they will never get it back, so at the end of the day, they are going to destroy the Ferrari!"
Li Linfei narrowed his eyes and said, "Cancidi, Lamborghini seems to be a property of the Volkswagen Group, right, the Liuric family and the Volkswagen Group have crossed paths?"
According to Li Linfei's deduction, the Liulik family should have sold everything from Ferrari to their own Fiat company, how could they sell to Lamborghini?
"Mr. Li, from the news, about a week ago, the Liurik family shifted their target and spent nearly US$30 billion in cash to buy a total of 7% of shares from three shareholders of the Volkswagen Group, becoming the second largest shareholder of the Volkswagen Group!"
The Volkswagen Group is a German car manufacturer with numerous car brands such as Lamborghini, Porsche, Audi and Bentley, all of which are owned by VW, and the company's major factories are located all over the world.
On the stock market, the market capitalisation of the Volkswagen Group is only $70 to $80 billion, but the company's real assets are sky-high at nearly $500 billion.
It is a giant in the automotive industry, and indeed in the entire world business community, and the only other car company that can rival it is RB's Toyota.
......
After talking to Cancidi for half an hour, Li Linfei did feel that this guy could be of great use, and if there was no dissent, it would be a good choice to make him the CEO of Ferrari.
While Li Er was mapping out Cassidy's roots, Li Linfei also ordered Cassidy: "Now go and gather all the top people in the company, I want a meeting.
"Yes, but he doesn't always answer my calls." Cassidy said.
"That's okay, just send him a message and tell him that if he doesn't come to the meeting within an hour, then he shouldn't even come in the future." The corners of Li Linfei's lips curled up slightly.
"Alright then, I'll go down and prepare right now." Cancidi left, and Lilinfei was also out of the hospitality room.
At this moment, in a private hospital in Modena, Lyle, who was currently lying on a hospital bed talking to a member of the Liurik family, received a message that made him frown.
"Mr Ilmand, there's a message from the company." Lyle spoke to a man who was the heir apparent to the Reulik family, Ilmand.
"Lirin is flying in?" Ilmand asked.
"Yes, he has arrived and is angry at me for why I did not greet him on his arrival."
"And what else?"
Lyle said, "And ...... if I don't go to the office next, don't even go there afterwards."
"Damn Lirinfy, how can this guy come so fast, only a few days short of a deal, FUCK!" said Ilmand with a twisted look on his face and his fists clenched and clicked.
"Mr. Ilmand, Li Linfei has absolute control of Ferrari and has the right to remove me at will, if I don't go, I'm afraid ......" Lyle said worriedly.