The WCG competition is in full swing all over the world.

Little did they know that a sensational takeover was brewing in East Germany.

With Zhao Ye's support, Rex Eden launched the East Zeiss acquisition plan with all his might, bribing those who needed to be bribed and buying those who needed to be bought off, without being afraid to spend money.

At that time, East Germany was an important country within the Soviet sphere of influence.

Therefore, the United States is probably more than happy for Wujiang Group to acquire the East German company.

As for the Soviet Union, at this moment, it was preoccupied with its own problems, its economy was collapsing, and it lacked light industrial products. Wujiang Group had always been an important trading partner of the Soviet Union, so it was unlikely that the Soviet Union would step in to stop Wujiang Group.

As for East Germany, Rex Eden had already been working on it for quite some time.

With the right timing, location, and people, Wujiang Group has officially launched an acquisition offer for East Zeiss!

East Zeiss is a large company with multiple factories around the world.

However, East Zeiss's revenue was not high and it suffered losses year after year, so its market value was estimated to be less than 500 million East German marks.

Wujiang Group is willing to acquire East Zeiss for 500 million East German marks.

The exchange rate between the East German mark and the Chinese yuan was 1:5.

In other words, Wujiang Group acquired Zeiss for 2.5 billion RMB.

The final amount will depend on the outcome of the negotiations.

In fact, this is only the publicly disclosed acquisition fund; the operating expenses behind the scenes are also substantial.

Rex Eden has already acquired many of East Zeiss's senior executives, and when Wujiang Group launched the acquisition, a large number of Zeiss executives expressed their support.

"This morning, Wujiang Group officially launched an acquisition offer for East Zeiss. What do you think of this?" An East D official arrived at East Zeiss and announced.

Vernon Bernal, Vice President of East Zeiss, immediately stood up at the workers' meeting and said loudly, "I believe we should accept the acquisition by Wujiang Group. East Zeiss has been losing money year after year, and the living standards of the workers are declining year by year. The government will not continue to bail East Zeiss out. In addition, with the rapid rise of Japanese manufacturers, they are already encroaching on Zeiss's lens and camera market. At present, East Zeiss cannot save itself by relying on itself alone."

"Some of you probably already know the name of Wujiang Group. If we can accept the acquisition by Wujiang Group, then East Zeiss will immediately receive investment from Wujiang Group, and then use these funds to develop and expand the company, update technology, and improve the competitiveness of its products."

"Only when products become more competitive can they be sold, factories can make money, and the welfare and benefits of our workers can improve..."

Vernon Bernal spoke eloquently and passionately, as if he were putting himself in the shoes of the workers at East Zeiss, but in reality, he had secretly received $500,000 from the Wujiang Group. That's why he was so eager to speak well of the Wujiang Group and persuade everyone to accept their acquisition.

As soon as he finished speaking, another executive from East Zeiss added, "Vice President Vernon Bernal is right. East Zeiss is already mired in trouble. Only Wujiang Group can save us! Wujiang Group is one of the world's top 500 companies. It is very powerful, and its game industry has dominated the game industry and has a huge cash flow."

"Moreover, Wujiang Microelectronics, a subsidiary of Wujiang Group, has a lithography machine business. If East Zeiss becomes a subsidiary of Wujiang Group, then the benefits will stay within the family. For lithography machine lenses, East Zeiss lenses will naturally be the first choice. Relying solely on this business, East Zeiss might be able to turn around its losses!"

Without a doubt, this person also received money from Wujiang Group.

Corruption is commonplace here.

It would be strange if it weren't corrupt.

Making money for yourself is the "right path"!

East Zeiss was in dire straits at this time and didn't have many options left. If East and West Germany hadn't merged later, and East and West Zeiss hadn't followed suit, East Zeiss might have actually gone bankrupt.

Almost all the workers in the factory were persuaded.

The factory is always behind on wages, and they're almost starving. They don't care about anything else; they'll support anything that improves their welfare.

...

A hotel in Dongd.

“Mr. Tim Dickens, this is a specialty from China, please accept it!” Rex Aiden smiled and handed a black leather bag to the other party.

Tim Dickens wielded immense influence in the Eastern D government, enough to determine the ownership of East Zeiss.

East Germany was a junior partner of the Soviet Union, so it's conceivable that East Zeiss is now a state-owned enterprise. If Tim Dickens were to express his opposition to the Wujiang Group's acquisition of East Zeiss, then the acquisition could be called off.

Tim Dickens took the black leather bag; it was quite heavy. He opened it and found that there were many gold bars inside.

"Thank you, Mr. Rex Eden. I am very satisfied with this specialty from China. I have no objection to your company's plan to acquire East Zeiss."

That's direct enough!

Rex Aiden smiled; that's just the kind of person he is.

"Thank you, Mr. Tim Dickens. After it's all done, I promise you'll receive some local specialties as a gift!"

Upon hearing this, Tim Dickens' face lit up with delight. "Haha, your company is too kind! I'll go and persuade the others right away, and I guarantee you'll successfully acquire East Zeiss!!!"

They didn't object before, but now they're giving their assurances.

Indeed, no one can resist the allure of money!

...

Because of the close relationship between East and West Zeiss, news of Wujiang Group's acquisition of East Zeiss also reached West Zeiss immediately.

However, West Zeiss and East Zeiss were in the same boat in the 1980s, both being overtaken by Japanese companies.

West Zeiss is struggling to survive; how could it possibly have the energy to care about East Zeiss? Besides, even if it wanted to, it couldn't.

At present, West Zeiss is still hoping to recover some losses by relying on ASML.

However, since Wujiang Group took over ASML, it has made a mess of ASML, and even seriously undermined its own operations.

Many of ASML's brilliant mathematicians, physicists, and electrical engineers have actually switched jobs to Wujiang Microelectronics.

It feels like Wujiang Microelectronics is the favored child, while ASML is just an adopted child.

ASML has actually become a cradle for sending talent to Wujiang Microelectronics?

Philips, ASML's other major shareholder, naturally had some objections, but employee turnover is normal practice; you can't simply forbid people from leaving. In response, Philips proactively contacted Wujiang Group, asking if they wanted to simply acquire all of Philips' shares in ASML…

Wujiang Group had no right to refuse such a request.

However, considering that Philips is a major shareholder of TSMC, in order for ASML to be able to take away TSMC's lithography machine orders in the future, it is still necessary to leave a portion of the shares to Philips.

Wujiang Group then acquired only 25% of ASML's shares from Philips.

ASML will eventually go public. Wujiang Group can then establish more offshore companies, using multiple layers of ownership to distribute the shares and thus benefit from the full support of Europe and the United States for ASML's development.