In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 253 It turns out that I am the great power

Changjiang Automobile must have started planning overseas sales a long time ago.

However, this overseas sales channel is still in its early stages.

Zi Xiaowei not only had access to a lot of data online, but as Ella's marketing director, he also had access to a lot of internal data:

"Last year, China sold about three million cars worldwide. Changjiang accounted for 5 to 6 percent, or over a hundred thousand vehicles. China also sold about 70,000 vehicles in the United States and Malaysia. This shows that if we can achieve some sales, we still have great potential."

Pointing casually at the Japanese cars on the roadside, he said: "Toyota's global sales are about 10 million vehicles a year. This is why Jiaoben can live so comfortably in China."

Aunt Yang was already very focused: "Why is the gap so big? What is the standard for whether the car sales performance is good or not?"

Zi Xiaowei offered a simple metric: "In China, if a brand can achieve monthly sales of 10,000 units, it's doing quite well. Maintaining production capacity on the assembly line is key to continued market share. Cars aren't like underwear, where you can just stop and start producing. This is the world's most important industrial manufacturing indicator, and it requires a whole host of supporting industries."

Aunt Yang looked at the cars flashing on the street and said: "I don't know much about cars, is it profitable?"

Zi Xiaowei nodded. "Under the internet model, the cost of selling cars and underwear is the same, but a small profit from each car can be several thousand or even tens of thousands. We actually stumbled a bit during this live broadcast before the Spring Festival, but we still made over 300 million yuan."

The second generation was shocked: "So profitable?"

Zi Xiaowei explained: "We have a golden triangle. Tingbaobao attracts popularity, I sell the goods, and Annie is in charge of the operation. Now, with the support of Miss Chang's car brand, even our peers in the live-streaming e-commerce industry find it difficult to make as much money as we do."

Aunt Yang confirmed: "Annie said that you can make 10 to 20 billion every month from underwear?"

Zi Xiaowei whispered with a bit of fear: "When you made hundreds of millions in the 1990s, were you panicking?"

The stepmother nodded slowly. "I was in a panic. People were plotting against me from all sides. It's a little better now, but the essence is the same. Annie doesn't like to make connections. I thought you would strengthen this area."

Zi Xiaowei was having a hard time: "I resisted it even more than she did, because there's always a gap between reality and ideals. I don't want to let the harsh reality challenge my ideals. So, I wanted to try to stay on the cutting edge of policy. For example, when the domestic auto industry is battered, if we can sell well overseas, that's the most impressive thing, and everyone must support us."

The second generation would definitely understand, as the era she experienced was the same as Lao Chang's.

By the time the banquet began, the mother and son had already become a family.

She introduced her son with that enthusiastic, domestic auntie-like warmth: "The best car marketing director in the country! He can sell 200 billion baht in one sales meeting!"

It must have amazed several of the more prominent Chinese figures in the town and the island.

Zi Xiaowei didn't introduce the princesses there. He just took out his phone and flipped through photos of cute cats. "How about this? If you like, I can give you 50 cars with the same paint job for free and turn them into an online ride-hailing company on the island. I don't want this company either, just consider it an advertisement. Mr. Luo just mentioned that you have an auto repair shop. Can you send someone to Jiangzhou to learn how to repair these electric cars? Or I can send someone over to teach you the techniques. There are no additional requirements, just that no cars are allowed to leave the island. If they run well, I can provide more at half price later."

Appearance is justice.

The cute cat's blue and white, white and brown beetle-like design actually has the chassis space of an SUV, which will definitely catch the attention of consumers at first sight, and can also run smoothly on Southeast Asian roads where traffic conditions are not very good.

The key point is the "promotion" plan of giving away fifty cars for free, which shocked several council members and the mayor, and they began to nod their heads hurriedly.

Aunt Yang's smile deepened, and she looked more like a kind mother who knew nothing.

In fact, the total amount is not that much. If you spend more than 6 million on advertising, it is highly likely that the product will not get any results. They will be picky about finding a top celebrity to be the spokesperson.

But it is precisely on this island, which is seventy or eighty kilometers in circumference, that the unique shape is achieved and will not be leaked.

It's like it's on a display stand.

In fact, Zi Xiaowei was planning to smash one hundred or even two hundred cars, directly saturating the area with operating vehicles and forcibly squeezing out all the taxis.

Would ordinary people not like the free exchange?

As for using this type of vehicle for commercial operations, no matter how high the oil price is, can it be lower than solar energy?
Zi Xiaowei continued, "I'll also give you a photovoltaic power plant. Solar power generation and charging can basically solve most of the charging electricity needs. You can make money from this."

There are still smart people: "So what do you want to gain?"

Zi Xiaowei spread his hands. "I want the entire Lu Country, and even Southeast Asia, to see this car's superior performance, low power consumption, and groundbreaking smart applications. I'll strive to build a factory in Lu Country to produce this car. Of course, this requires even more powerful individuals or families to negotiate with me."

If it’s given away for free, only a fool would not want it.

The deal was quickly finalized at the dinner, with the four masters, plus the overseas master Xiaowei, jointly owning the new energy vehicle online ride-hailing company. In reality, Zi Xiaowei only held a symbolic 1% stake and didn't care about any profit at all.

He took out the APP car key and showed everyone that the coordinate position of each car can be monitored by the manufacturer.

They cannot be damaged, cannot be smuggled off the island, cannot be stored and resold. In short, they must operate continuously on Koh Samui. They are sent here in batches of ten and will be sent further as long as they operate well.

If it goes well, he can increase the number to 100 cars by the end of the year for free.

By the end of the dinner, people were already treating him with great respect.

For an island with a local population of 50,000, these 100 cars will definitely become a beautiful landscape.

In order to make these cars profitable for the owners, it is indeed necessary to maintain and expand a new energy vehicle repair shop.

The locations of the maintenance plant and photovoltaic field were roughly determined overnight.

Lazy Southeast Asia is also very efficient when faced with such good things.

After seeing them off, Aunt Yang looked at the curious girls who had gone to watch the Muay Thai match and the prostitute show. She then looked at Zi Xiaowei as if he were her own son. "Are you sure you can market this car? I don't think Miss Chang cares."

Zi Xiaowei laughed, "If I can't do something, how can she hold onto the CEO position? Believe me, once you've driven an electric car, it's hard to go back to a gasoline car. Whether it's driving experience, fuel consumption, intelligent voice control, or especially the cooling effect of air conditioning in Southeast Asia, it's far superior to gasoline cars. The only thing that still needs some research is battery pack safety."

At this point, he also complained a bit: "You may not know that the current strategy for domestic car exports is to steadily expand the market in developing countries such as Asia, Africa and Latin America with fuel vehicles, and to use new energy vehicles to leverage market share in developed countries such as Europe and the United States. I personally think this is exactly the opposite."

That’s why among all car companies, some can make a lot of money while others get nothing.

It really has a lot to do with the leader's mentality, vision and thinking ability.

Sitting in front of the sacred mountain in Tahiti, Zi Xiaowei racked his brains, trying to resist the temptation of the tiger and leopard, and he was able to come up with something:

"All day long on TV, people are shouting that Europe and the United States are going to impose tariffs on our new energy vehicles and are actively attacking the European and American markets. Isn't this just like the insistence on urban uprisings during the Great Revolution? Now there are countless rumors about new energy vehicles. Because they are shaking up the huge market share of traditional fuel vehicles, people will definitely try their best to protect their basic market. Now is the time to surround the cities with the countryside and vigorously promote it in Asia, Africa and Latin America first."

Aunt Yang has been out for two months and still feels the difference: "As for electricity, there's a shortage of electricity on this island. Tourism is prioritized, but many poor people still don't have electricity."

Zi Xiaowei is confident: "The cost of photovoltaic solar energy has been driven down to rock-bottom prices in China. The new energy power generation industry is in dire straits right now. European and American countries are all resisting the new energy we are vigorously developing. Many manufacturers are struggling. I think this is precisely the time to cooperate with new energy vehicles to conquer the world."

Here's a technical point: "The problem with photovoltaic power generation is energy storage. After the sun goes down during the day, the electricity needs to be stored in batteries. However, the cost of batteries to power an entire town is very high, so it is difficult to promote overseas. It is precisely for the scenario of charging new energy vehicles that a group of electric vehicles can be used as energy storage devices. This is a perfect match."

Previously, on Marlon Brando Island in Tahiti, where they took off for the last time, they installed photovoltaic panels along the runway, which basically ensured half of the island's electricity use and achieved the pure and environmentally friendly concept they promoted.

But it is an ultra-luxury villa hotel that costs over 100,000 yuan a night, and all the facilities are actually extremely expensive.

But it gave Zi Xiaowei an inspiration that using it in the lives of the poor might be the breakthrough.

Exporting funds for overseas investment is quite strict these days and the inspections are very strict.

However, exporting vehicles overseas for physical establishment is a project that is strongly supported by many parties.

The stepmother finally understood: "When we first traveled abroad, you said we could introduce new technologies overseas. Now it seems that we are actually exporting new technologies overseas?"

Zi Xiaowei expressed satisfaction: "The domestic economy has reached a bottleneck, so we must desperately expand overseas. This is the major policy we've been advocating for every day. The essence of expansion is that we've already exhausted the technological potential we currently possess. We're leading the world, so now we need to expand globally."

He smiled slyly at this point: "Actually, what we're going to do is, in my mind, follow the path of those Japanese and German car companies entering China through joint ventures in the 1990s. Following the fine traditions of our predecessors, it's time for us to open factories and manufacture cars for joint venture brands around the world."

The second generation can still see the reality clearly: "Why don't Asia, Africa and Latin America buy these?"

Zi Xiaowei chuckled: "Then why build so many aircraft carriers and warships? Everything that happens in history is a cycle."

Learning Chinese inevitably requires reading history, and Zi Xiaowei's previous learning habits gave him a broader perspective.

I also truly understood the phrase: "It turns out that I am the great power..."

Just don't say it.

(End of this chapter)