Chen Yiyang and Gena returned to Moscow the next day, and then after spending a few more days in Moscow, the Yiyang Automobile's technical team arrived in Moscow.

"Mr. Chen, let me introduce you to Feng Hong, we usually call him Engineer Feng."

"Hello Engineer Feng." Chen Yiyang shook hands with the teacher who looked like he was almost fifty.

"The reason we came late was mainly because we were waiting for Engineer Feng." The current deputy general manager of Yiyang Automobile is Liu Xiaoyue, who is an old subordinate of Chen Yiyang.

As someone who has been with Chen Yiyang for a long time, Chen Yiyang naturally arranged for Liu Xiaoyue to join Yiyang Automobile to help him supervise the company and prevent internal cliques from sidelining him.

Liu Xiaoyue introduced Feng Hong's background to Chen Yiyang.

Feng Hong used to work at Bao Wo Auto, mainly responsible for technical tasks. Later, when the Da Vinci automotive team was formed, Feng Hong joined Da Vinci to start researching new technologies.

The focus on introducing Feng Hong's experience at Bao Wo Auto is because Bao Wo Auto happens to have a significant relationship with Mercedes-Benz.

Bao Wo Auto was originally a German brand and was the third largest automaker in Germany during its peak.

However, due to various reasons, Bao Wo declared bankruptcy in 1961 due to poor management, and its fixed assets were acquired by BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Its original automobile factory naturally became part of these two automobile companies.

By 2014, a domestic automobile company acquired the Bao Wo brand and re-established Bao Wo Auto.

Although Bao Wo launched several good SUV products initially, poor after-sales service and quality control ultimately led to its gradual bankruptcy.

After Bao Wo's automobile manufacturing license was revoked, the company that gained the new license was Rice Auto under Lei Jun.

"After the company acquired Bao Wo, we bought a lot of related technologies and data, but we never managed to obtain the core technical data."

Feng Hong said to Chen Yiyang, "Bao Wo Auto actually learned a lot of excellent experiences from German companies in terms of operation and manufacturing. I can assure you, if we can get Mercedes-Benz's core data, we can design an SUV model better than Mercedes-Benz."

Faced with Feng Hong's assurance, Chen Yiyang wasn't too excited.

Everything needs to be investigated and verified, and words alone can't be trusted right now.

Previously, Chen Yiyang had exchanged contact information with the official from Tula City.

This time, he didn't need to bother Gena; he directly took the technical team to Tula City to inspect the factory left by Mercedes-Benz again.

Perhaps, sensing Chen Yiyang's potential interest in acquiring the factory, the Tula City official directly gave Chen Yiyang all the keys to the factory, welcoming him to see any place he wished.

It is commonly said that Russians are always rough in their work.

Chen Yiyang experienced it firsthand this time.

The last time they let him steal two hard drives, this time they directly gave him all the keys, letting him look around at will.

If he were willing, Chen Yiyang could probably take all the valuables from this factory.

However, this move by the Tula City official was purely out of helplessness.

A factory with proper production capability actually fears idling over losing money or accidents.

Once the production line in a factory stops running, the longer the stoppage, the harder it is to restart production.

Generally speaking, if a factory is idle for three or four years, it may never be able to restart production.

Building a new factory would be more cost-effective than restarting an idle old factory after two or three years.

Therefore, the urgency for the Tula City official to find an investor to help restart the factory was evident.

As for Chen Yiyang and the team stealing anything, the officials in Tula City thought it unlikely.

Stealing equipment or steel bars would be inconvenient to take away.

Besides, Chen Yiyang couldn't possibly fly back to Huaxia with stolen steel rods, right?

As for anything else.

It couldn't be that the people from Mercedes-Benz left too hastily and left behind the company's core technology, right?

Considering these reasons, this is why the Tula City official extended such trust to Chen Yiyang and handed him all the keys.

Thanks to the trust from the Tula City official, Chen Yiyang and the technical team copied most of the technology from the backup room.

Then Feng Hong quickly reviewed these technologies.

"Combining German technology, Bao Wo's management, and Huaxia's new energy, we have the hope of creating one of the world's best SUV cars." Feng Hong assured Chen Yiyang with great confidence.

"How do we solve the patent issue?" Chen Yiyang asked with a frown, "Although we've cracked all of Mercedes-Benz's technologies, these technologies have been patented.

If we use these technologies on a new car, would Mercedes-Benz sue us globally?"

"Boss." Liu Xiaoyue said directly, "Russia currently doesn't recognize these Western technology patents."

"But we can't just manufacture the new SUVs solely in Russia."

"For the parts involving patents, we can manufacture them in Russia and then export them to our country, where remaining parts that don't involve patents can be manufactured.

Finally, the cars can be assembled domestically. Although this approach doesn't completely avoid legal disputes, it can drag the opponent into legal quagmire.

By the time everything is adjudicated, it would take at least four to five years. By then, we would have fully understood these technologies; we can develop new technologies based on these and won't have to worry about patent issues."

That's quite reasonable.

Chen Yiyang realized he was still too kind-hearted.

This approach is quite adept in the business field.

Especially in the automotive industry.

The entire automotive industry almost faced the risk of bankruptcy due to patent issues at its onset.

The original automobile invention patent was applied for and registered by Americans, Karl Benz and Daimler, in 1886, but neither of them began producing cars.

An official from the Selden patent office informed them that he had already registered the related patent before them.

Therefore, all automobile manufacturers needed to pay patent fees to Selden.

Due to the high patent fees, major automobile manufacturers almost collectively faced bankruptcy.

Finally, the Ford Company directly organized large-scale protests and made a big scene, leading to the invalidation of Selden's patent.

But this was sixteen years later; in those sixteen years, Selden not only restricted the development of the automotive industry for sixteen years but also collected patent fees for sixteen years, turning himself into a wealthy elite.

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