Chapter 792: Gathering the Game (Part 2)
"Manage the money? That's amazing."
Lu Yiming said it casually, but he didn't take it seriously. After all, he had made up his mind from the moment he was reborn that he would never borrow money from the government.
However, Xu Tengyu had no idea that Lu Yiming had such an idea in his mind, and he immediately took Lu Yiming to find someone.
"The two people I'm talking about are Zhou Xinjun and Chai Zhengtao. They have jointly established an investment company called Juntao Investment. Although they are not as big as Sequoia Capital and Shenhua Investment, they have very powerful backgrounds. Even if Shen Nanpeng comes in person, he won't dare to show any disapproval to them."
As they were talking, Xu Tengyu had already brought Lu Yiming to find Zhou Xinjun and Chai Zhengtao. However, the two were now talking to other people.
The people who were talking to the two men were none other than Zhao Bin and Luo Yongjie.
The two of them had their backs to the outside at the moment, so they didn't see Lu Yiming coming at all.
Luo Yongjie said humbly: "Mr. Zhou, I really want to cooperate with your company, you see..."
Zhou Xinjun had a helpless expression on his face and evaded the question, "Boss Luo, it's not that I don't want to help, but it's really unfortunate. We just invested in a few projects and don't have much money on hand. I'm really sorry."
Chai Zhengtao also said: "Mr. Luo, why didn't you contact us earlier? We have watched the Delong Group grow and we are very optimistic about its potential. But I am really sorry, we have invested all the money, and the liquidity in our hands really cannot meet your requirements."
Now that things have come to this, Luo Yongjie knew that there was no point in continuing the conversation, so he had to say with a bitter face: "Okay, I won't bother you anymore."
"I'm so sorry, Mr. Luo."
Seeing Luo Yongjie and Zhao Bin leave, Chai Zhengtao and Zhou Xinjun both showed disdainful expressions on their faces.
"With a hole of more than 800 million, the Delong Group is about to be finished. Only a fool would lend them money."
"That's right. We are not related to each other, so why should we take the blame? The Zhao family has a background, don't we have one?"
After Luo Yongjie and the others finished their conversation, Xu Tengyu smiled and greeted Zhou Xinjun and Chai Zhengtao: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Chai, long time no see."
Zhou Xinjun smiled and said to Xu Tengyu, "Boss Xu is here."
Xu Tengyu said, "Come, let me introduce you. This is Asia's richest man, Lu Yiming. Didn't you always ask me to introduce him to you? Now I have brought him here."
"Mr. Lu, nice to meet you."
Zhou Xinjun quickly shook hands with Lu Yiming.
Lu Yiming shook hands with him and said, "Nice to meet you."
Chai Zhengtao said enthusiastically: "Mr. Lu, when will Junzi Interactive Entertainment go public? We at Juntao Investment are very optimistic about this project. As long as Mr. Lu says a word, money will definitely not be a problem."
There is no doubt that given the current popularity of Junzi Interactive Entertainment, as long as Junzi Interactive Entertainment goes public, it will not be a question of whether it can raise money, but a question of whether these capitals can seize the opportunity to give money to Junzi Interactive Entertainment.
Meeting today on such an occasion, they certainly want to win directly off the field.
Lu Yiming said without hesitation: "Sorry, Junzi Interactive Entertainment has no plans to go public for the time being."
Junzi Interactive Entertainment is a cash cow. Isn't it happy to earn the money by itself? Why does it want to go public and let others share the profits? That's crazy.
Capital is like this, they will never do anything to help others in times of need, they just want to add icing on the cake and reap the benefits.
After hearing what Lu Yiming said, both Chai Zhengtao and Zhou Xinjun felt very disappointed.
This is such a great opportunity to make money, why don’t you go public?
This conversation happened to be heard by Luo Yongjie who had not walked far. He was so jealous that his eyes turned red. Just now he said he had no money to lend him, and now he said money was not a problem?
Isn’t this bullying honest people?
Zhao Bin stared at Lu Yiming's back with murderous eyes.
As if sensing murderous intent from behind, Lu Yiming turned around and met Zhao Bin's eyes. He was suspicious for a long time before he recognized the other person.
However, he had no intention of greeting these two people.
Obviously, those two people had no intention of greeting Lu Yiming.
They just wanted to eat Lu Yiming alive.
They thought that Juntao Investment had rejected them just now because they wanted to keep the money to invest in Lu Yiming.
This is all Lu Yiming's fault!
Xu Tengyu turned around and saw Zhao Bin. He immediately smiled and said to Lu Yiming, " This guy has been badly screwed by you. I heard that the Zhao family has given up on him. He might end up going to jail."
When Lu Yiming heard this, he immediately became unhappy and shouted, "What do you mean by that? His investment failed because he had poor vision. What does it have to do with me? You make it sound like I cheated him. Don't talk nonsense without evidence. I am a legitimate businessman."
Xu Tengyu laughed and said, "Do you dare to say that it wasn't you and Tang Wanxin who set up this scheme together?"
Lu Yiming never took the blame for such a huge crime. He immediately retorted, "I am not familiar with Tang Wanxin. When he came to Future Capital to solicit investment on behalf of the Delong Group, I did not agree. As for your claim of setting up a conspiracy, that is completely false. I just did not have time to respond at the time. You can't blame me for this, right?"
Anyway, Lu Yiming refused to admit that this happened.
In fact, outsiders had no evidence either. Moreover, it was Zhao Bin and Luo Yongjie who sought cooperation with Delong Group on their own initiative, so they could not blame Lu Yiming.
Xu Tengyu changed the subject and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about Zhao Bin. It's unlucky. I'd better introduce you to a few more friends. Let's go."
Three hours later, Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue got into their Rolls-Royce and set off for home.
Seeing that Lu Yiming looked a little listless, Shi Qingxue asked with concern: "What's wrong? Are you tired?"
Lu Yiming complained: "It's really hard to communicate with these people."
Shi Qingxue asked curiously: "What did you talk about?"
Lu Yiming looked disdainful and said, "What else can we talk about in this kind of upper-class social circle? The more upscale the cocktail party, the more vulgar the topics are. It's nothing more than how to make money."
In fact, as a reborn person, Lu Yiming, who is familiar with future trends, doesn't mind helping others. After all, there is some money that he can't earn anyway, so it's nice to use it to do favors.
Lu Yiming just thought it was funny, and said to Shi Qingxue: "Industrial workers who earn less than a thousand a month drink and chat, and they discuss big issues like the international situation and world peace. On the contrary, these rich people in suits and leather shoes, who are full of money, talk about industry, investment, and making money all night long. No wonder they say meat-eaters are despicable."
Shi Qingxue was amused by Lu Yiming's words and said, "Speaking of rich people, aren't you the richest man in Asia now? When you said that meat eaters are vulgar, didn't you also implicate yourself ?"
Just as Lu Yiming was about to open his mouth to refute, his cell phone rang. Lu Yiming took out his phone and pressed the answer button.
The call was from his father, Lu Ding, who sounded very excited: "Son, come over and take a look. There has been new progress on the electric car."
Is there any new progress in electric vehicles?
When Lu Yiming heard this, he was immediately delighted and said quickly, "Okay, I'll go back tomorrow."
At this time, battery giant BYD has been conducting research on electric vehicles for more than a year.
However, Dianguang Automobile has been researching electric vehicles for four or five years, and with Lu Yiming's golden idea, it directly skipped many things in the research and development route that were proven to be wrong. Therefore, although it does not have as deep power battery technology reserves as BYD, Dianguang Automobile still came up with electric vehicles before BYD.
Lu Yiming is well aware of how electric vehicles will shake up the world market in the next decade. Just as Qian Lao said, fuel vehicles in the West have been developed for more than a hundred years, and many technical barriers cannot be broken, so we should skip fuel vehicles and develop electric vehicle technology.
Now that the electric car has finally come out with a finished product, Lu Yiming is of course excited. This is not just about making money, but also about the automobile industry in Xia Country and the changes that the automobile industry will bring to the world. In the future, electric cars will be exported crazily on the faces of white men.
Early the next morning, Lu Yiming returned to Baiyun City on his own Airbus private jet.
Today, Dianguang Automobile is a large factory covering an area of more than 100,000 square meters, consisting of a research and development center and a manufacturing center.
Lu Yiming arrived at the headquarters of Dianguang Automobile, and Lu Ding came to the door to greet him with a middle-aged man.
"dad."
Lu Ding has been working very hard in recent years to catch up on relevant knowledge, and now he looks more than ten years older than he did a few years ago. But he is full of energy and spirit, and it is obvious that he has already walked out of the shadow of the mold factory and found a new direction for his struggle.
"Son, let me introduce you. This is Dr. Ai Chunhua, a doctoral supervisor at Northwestern Polytechnical University and an expert in the field of electrical engineering."
Lu Yiming has always attached great importance to talents. When he heard that this big shot was so important, he immediately shook hands with a smile on his face: "Hello, Dr. Ai."
Ai Chunhua had heard a lot about the deeds of this youngest richest man in Asia, so he didn't dare to neglect him and quickly bent down to shake his hand: "Hello, Mr. Lu."
Afterwards, Lu Yiming said to Lu Ding approvingly: "Dad, you are awesome. You have recruited such a talented person."
Lu Ding said with some pride: "Of course, your father has invested a lot of money in this."
Lu Yiming had heard of this matter before.
In order to recruit Ai Chunhua to Dianguang Automobile, Lu Ding directly gave him a villa worth two million yuan, an annual salary of five hundred thousand yuan, and stock dividends.
Even the technical team led by Ai Chunhua has a house for each member, with an annual salary starting at 100,000 yuan. It can be said that they spared no expense.
Ai Chunhua seemed to be as unsociable as most tech geeks, and stopped talking after saying hello. Lu Yiming didn't care and directly asked about the progress of the car.
When it comes to his professional field, Ai Chunhua suddenly becomes confident and calm, and talks to Lu Yiming: "Two years ago, our team began to look for materials needed for efficient electric sports cars. After cooperating with CATL and replacing lithium iron phosphate batteries, our new energy vehicles have finally broken through the 400-kilometer mileage mark."
At this point, Ai Chunhua showed a curious expression on his face and asked, "Mr. Lu, how do you know that lithium iron phosphate is the most suitable battery material?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "I'm not sure, but my intuition tells me that this is a better solution than iron batteries at the moment. I don't know what other power batteries will be produced in the future."
Lithium iron phosphate battery is a new technology that only appeared in 1996. Although it caused a huge sensation in the academic world, the industry has obviously not yet fully popularized this technology. The first commercial lithium iron phosphate battery company was just established in 2001. It can be said that this thing is the cutting-edge technology among the current technologies.
Lu Yiming said, "I have some knowledge of lithium iron phosphate batteries. When fully charged, the thermal decomposition temperature of lithium iron phosphate batteries is about 700 degrees Celsius, which is considered a relatively safe battery material. That's why I bet on it. After all, we are selling new energy vehicles, not new energy bombs. How is your research on battery modules going?"
Ai Chunhua said excitedly: "There has been a key progress! Mr. Lu, the battery module solution you proposed is really amazing. It is not only far ahead in terms of safety, but also in terms of battery life and cost!"
What Lu Yiming is working on is not BYD's blade battery solution, but Tesla's "AA battery" solution, where thousands of rechargeable batteries are connected together to form a battery box. This thing does not have high requirements for batteries, but has very high requirements for the management system.
In the past, the technology that Tesla spent five years to develop was now directly accepted by Lu Yiming.
The battery pack consists of more than 7,000 batteries. It is not easy to catch fire even if there is a short circuit, and damage to individual batteries will not affect other batteries.
This battery control system was jointly developed by Dianguang Automobile and CATL. It has been in operation for two years without any battery failure, which has surprised many people.
This battery module technology has been jointly patented by Dian Guang Automobile and CATL.
Lu Ding said: "Now the battery module technology is basically mature, and it can use the most advanced batteries at any time to equip our electric and new energy vehicles. Do you think we should strive for orders for large vehicles?"
Lu Ding has his eyes on the fat piece of meat of the huge public transportation system, and government procurement is always the most tempting.
Lu Yiming rejected the proposal: " We are a private company. The current electric car industry is not strong enough. It is unrealistic to try to grab meat from other people's bowls. Moreover, dealing with the government is very troublesome. At present, I do not plan to take the initiative to get involved. But we still have to grab what we need."
Lu Ding was puzzled: "If you want to rob this, then who are you robbing?"
Lu Yiming joked, "Of course we will rob whoever has money. If we want to make money, of course we should rob foreigners. Let's not make buses and passenger cars first, but directly make new energy sports cars. Pure electric supercars, doesn't it sound exciting?"
"What the hell is this? It's just outrageous, okay?"
Lu Ding obviously couldn't accept Lu Yiming's idea: "Can anyone make the money from supercars? We haven't even made our first prototype yet. If we go straight into supercars, we will definitely die miserably!"
It has to be said that Lu Ding has experience in business management, and it is obvious that it is unrealistic to want to run before even learning to walk.
Even Ai Chunhua couldn't help but say, "Building sports cars directly? Isn't this a bit too advanced? Sports cars need brand effect and bargaining power, and everything else is built on this foundation. We only have power batteries now, and I'm afraid we won't be able to achieve any gains in car sales."
There is no doubt that research is very expensive. Even if Lu Yiming is the richest man in Asia, he may not be able to continue spending money to maintain a sports car without making any money.
Even BYD in later generations only had the confidence to launch its own new energy sports car when it became bigger and stronger in the field of new energy vehicles and sold millions of new energy vehicles a year.
However, Lu Yiming understood it in his heart and said seriously: "New energy vehicles are a new thing, so it is best to promote them among young people first. Even if it does not make money, we must first occupy the high-tech position, otherwise our brand image will be affected in the future."
Lu Ding obviously didn't think that far ahead and asked, "What impact?"
Lu Yiming said: "Let me give you an analogy. Now there are two automobile companies in front of you, one producing buses and the other producing sports cars. Which one do you think is more impressive?"
Lu Ding was suddenly speechless.
No matter how advanced the production technology of buses is, the price is even more expensive than many sports cars, but buses serve ordinary people, which means that their status will never be as high as sports cars.
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Our new energy vehicles are all about high technology and high class. If you explain to ordinary people what technology is, they may not understand. But if you tell them that we produce sports cars, they will definitely give a thumbs up. This is the brand image positioning. You have to talk to them in a language they can understand."
When Lu Ding heard this, he immediately said in his heart, "Wow!" His mind became clear: "Young man, your idea is quite interesting."
Build the sports car first, no matter if anyone buys it or not. At least everyone knows that Guangdian Automobile builds sports cars. This image is established, and when the company releases products in the future, everyone will assume that the company's products will not be cheap.
This is the PUA of potential users, a common tactic used by luxury goods.
Since we are going to build a sports car, it will definitely cost a lot of money. Lu Yiming said, "I will take out another billion and build a prototype car for you. Gull-wing doors, a popular body, a closed grille, everything that can be added, even if it is just a concept car."
Lu Ding joked, "Another billion? Isn't that too much? We haven't even started making money yet, and you're pouring billions into it. I can't take it anymore."
Lu Yiming said indifferently: "It's only 1 billion."
Lu Ding said, "I just see that it's not easy for you to make money, and I don't want to waste your money."
Just as Lu Yiming was about to speak, his cell phone rang. He looked at the number and immediately smiled and said, “Since you don’t want to burn my money, then burn someone else’s money.”
