I stole someone else's ticket to rebirth

In March 2024, Jiying Automobile’s first quarter sales volume came out.

A total of 220,000 vehicles.

Li Yang didn’t know when this data started to increase, and the fastest growing model was Tianquan.

It is also the first model of Jiying Automobile.

It is clear that since February, domestic new energy vehicles have started a price war, with prices lowered every half a month, and each reduction starts at RMB 10,000. Cars that originally cost more than RMB 200,000 have been reduced to RMB 170,000 or 180,000, which has stabbed old car owners in the back.

The sales volume of new energy vehicles has increased from more than 3 million units per year to more than 300,000 units per month for a single company.

Theoretically, if Jiying Automobile did not follow the price cut, its sales should have dropped slightly.

But sales not only did not decline, but increased by nearly 30%.

The company thinks that Li Yang has been too popular recently and has been stirring up trouble, which has boosted car sales.

But Li Yang felt something was wrong.

But he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Until one day, Song Xiaoli sent him a message.

"Li Yang, can you give me a few Jiying phones? I... know that I still need to wait in line for several months to buy a car, and I can't afford it."

"What do you need that phone for? It doesn't support a lot of software right now. It only supports more than 600 apps in total."

The Tamron system used in the Jiying mobile phone has been speeding up its progress and investing a lot of money in it, but the overall number of supported apps is still not enough.

The main problem is that this system is not open source and its compatibility is not that good.

The Hongmeng system next door is much smarter. It is compatible with Android's stable users and continues to expand its scale. In the end, those manufacturers dare not ignore this market of hundreds of millions of users and must develop corresponding versions of the app.

The Tamron system is not very good because there are not many users.

Li Yang originally made it as a phone for the elderly, to prevent them from being unable to distinguish between false and fraudulent advertisements.

So far, the total number of users is less than three million. With such a small scale, those software companies don’t want to adapt at all. Jiying Group can only spend money to customize it, and has to spend money on updates and maintenance every year. Some companies are not even happy about it.

If it weren't for Li Yang and Jiang Banxia's face, I really wouldn't be willing to develop a separate version just for the tens of millions of profits.

This is what the mobile phone market calls "it's easy to build a system, but difficult to build an ecosystem."

Android and Apple occupied the market from the very beginning, and their ecosystem is indestructible. It is difficult for other systems to snatch the cake from them.

However, the performance configuration of the Jiying mobile phone is indeed very good. It has the configuration of a standard flagship phone, and all of it uses products from the most cutting-edge fields in China.

In addition, Li Yang invested money in HiSilicon when it was in the most difficult time, and the two parties cooperated to design a special chip.

Currently, this chip is manufactured by SMIC, but for various reasons, it has not been announced.

The thread is 7nm, but the performance is comparable to 5nm

Song Xiaoli said: "Because this phone has no ads, young people are annoyed by ads nowadays. I want to give a few phones as rewards to company employees. This is also the gift they voted for most."

Li Yang: "..."

Ask yourself, is he annoyed by spam ads?

It must be annoying!

Especially those ads that make you download a bunch of apps without knowing why.

There are even background ads that are forced to stay on and can never be turned off.

The degree of their insanity can be said to be extremely shameless.

But Li Yang has been using the Jiying mobile phone for five years, and has not been bothered by advertisements in these five years, so... he ignored this point.

Many people's good mood can be ruined by those rogue advertisements.

This is especially true for the mobile phones of middle-aged and elderly people, who do not spend much time online and are often trapped by various advertising traps, turning their mobile phones into walking advertising players.

It’s already annoying enough that there are advertisements interspersed in short videos every day, but after spending thousands of dollars to buy a mobile phone, you still have to watch advertisements every day.

Another thing is that various software have very strict permission requirements. If you don’t give permissions, you will not be allowed to log in.

The country is frantically promoting anti-fraud apps, which is essentially to prevent more people from falling into advertising traps.

As a result, there are more and more fraudulent advertisements, from mini-programs to quick applications, making it difficult to guard against them.

If you click on it accidentally, you will be entangled.

Apple is a little better in this regard. Even if you touch it by mistake, you can still click to confirm.

In this regard, Android is basically equivalent to rape.

Hongmeng is not much better in this regard, and overall it is still no different from a rogue.

Only the Jiying mobile phone is like a breath of fresh air.

The Jiying mobile phone was popular once before, but not many people bought it because the price was too high.

But now, with more and more people using it, and recommending it to their friends crazily, many people have made up their minds to order a car just for the sake of a mobile phone.

They were really tortured by the rogue advertisements and suffered from nervous breakdown.

Even though the Jiying phone has fewer software, it has most of the mainstream software, which is more than enough as long as you don’t have any unpopular hobbies.

Li Yang searched for second-hand prices for the Jiying mobile phone.

He remembered that someone had offered more than 20,000 yuan in the second-hand market before.

As a result, when I searched this time, 90% of the new ones were priced at 30,000 yuan, and brand new ones were even priced close to 50,000 yuan.

In this case, who would buy someone else’s mobile phone? Wouldn’t it be better to buy a car for yourself?

This mobile phone is essentially worth four to six thousand yuan, so buying a car is equivalent to saving more than 40,000 yuan, which is equivalent to owning a Jiying car for more than 200,000 yuan.

The price-performance ratio comes out immediately!

The service of Jiying Automobile is unmatched by any other car, because in terms of service, Jiying Group has been losing money to support its employees.

Currently, there are nearly 80,000 service personnel nationwide, and the annual salary expenditure is about 10 billion.

This is also the reason why Jiying Automobile will have sales of more than 300 billion next year, but its net profit will only be a few billion.

Huge investment!

The automobile business made almost no profit, and the main net profit came from the interest earned from retained payments from suppliers and financial management income.

As time goes by, suppliers still have more than 300 billion yuan in payments in the hands of Jiying Group, and the annual interest is more than 6 billion yuan.

Those suppliers did not think it was inappropriate. After all, the price they offered was high, and if they took back the second year's portion, they would have made their investment back, and the subsequent profits would be equivalent to free profit.

If a company that sells 600,000 or 700,000 cars a year does not make money, that in itself speaks volumes.

However, this year, car sales are clearly targeting 800,000, and perhaps we can make a small profit by then.

"I'll have someone get it for you. How much do you want?"

"Six?"

"I'll give you ten. No more. After all, the phone is tied to the car, and there aren't many unbound versions."

"Well, okay, thank you!"

Song Xiaoli is very polite to Li Yang now, but from the fact that she found Li Yang alone and did not tell Song Yu about this, it can be seen that she is still unwilling to be lonely.

But now she knows where to stop.

Li Yang thought about it and felt that the time was ripe to launch the Jiying mobile phone.

However, high-end flagship phones still have to be sold together with cars, so producing some low-end phones seems to be a good choice.

It just so happened that the park in Zhongzhou had already been built, covering an area of ​​1,300 acres. Ye Bingcheng helped him get an interest-free loan of 66.2 billion yuan.

So far, he has not spent any money and the park has been built.

It was a pleasure to work with Ye Bingcheng, he didn't even have to say anything.

"Low-end phones must be made uglier! Otherwise they will affect car sales."

"It doesn't matter if it's a little ugly. The price is not expensive and the configuration is not low. What else do you want from a bicycle?"

"Just two thousand dollars?"

"You won't be accused of selling this junk for 2,000, right?"

"Never mind, never mind. Let the people in the company think about it and come up with a direction first."

……

Because the various production lines, processes and standards of Jiying mobile phones are ready-made, a new mobile phone can be launched very quickly.

In April, the new Jiying mobile phone was quietly launched in the mall.

Without any advertisements, it became popular on the Internet half a month later.

It started with some mobile phone review influencers and then spread out little by little.

A mobile phone priced at 2699 yuan has the performance of a flagship phone from two years ago, and the most important thing is that there are no ads, no ads, no ads!

Many of the software inside are customized versions. Jiying Group has already paid the fees, so there are not so many fancy membership functions. You just need to open a regular membership.

Unlike other versions, if you get a gold membership you can only watch ordinary VIP content. If you want to watch the latest videos, you have to get a platinum membership. If you want to catch up with the latest episodes, you have to get a diamond membership. It's one thing after another.

There is only one kind of membership for the Jiying mobile version, which allows you to watch all the content and has very high version permissions.

After all, Jiying Group only gave such a small amount of money, and it is impossible for those software companies to set up so many structures. It is a pure waste of manpower and resources.

As a result, the software companies soon discovered that something was wrong.

The proportion of member users of the Tamron version is far beyond imagination.

Normally, the proportion of paying users on a video website is less than four percent.

For example, this website has more than 200 million users, but only 8 million of them are willing to pay.

The vast majority of paying users pay less than 100 yuan per year, so the main source of income for those video sites still comes from advertising.

Whether you have a membership or not, you have to watch ads.

If you don’t have a membership, you can just watch for a few minutes. If you have a membership, you can only watch for a dozen seconds occasionally.

Or you can hang a long-term advertising banner in a corner without affecting the viewing of the video.

For the Tamron version, 90% of users will activate their membership immediately after registration, and they all pay annual fees.

It is hard to imagine the quality of the users that Jiying Group has attracted.

In April, the new Geely smartphone sold 1.6 million units.

In May, the phone sold 3.6 million units.

On the eve of Jiang Banxia's resignation, he asked Li Yang for a batch of new Jiying mobile phones and gave them to some people in the company as gifts.

……

Gao Yuanshan was in a low mood.

Because in another week, Jiang Banxia will be gone.

At present, Jiang Banxia is doing the final finishing work.

"Laolan! Laolan!"

he shouted.

After a while, Lao Lan came in and said, "Old leader, what's wrong with you?"

"Come and see how those American daily chemical brands are doing recently?"

"It's OK. It has stabilized a little bit recently. After all, no matter how much money Li Yang spends, many concepts cannot be changed in a short time. Many people will still buy some familiar products even if they use brands invested by Li Yang. However, the sales of daily chemical products in the United States have dropped by about 20% in the past six months. Now the West is directly questioning us whether we want to decouple from them. We can only say that it is a personal behavior of the company and does not represent our position."

Gao Yuanshan snorted coldly: "Decoupling? Do they have the guts to do that? If they decouple from us, we still have the Green Water Group. What do they have? They will explode on the spot! Inflation will soar to the sky!"

"But the scale of Green Water Group is not very large now, compared with the overall domestic environment."

“Just expand it.”

"Li Yang doesn't have this idea, and... no one wants to..."

Gao Yuanshan was speechless for a moment.

Indeed, Green Water Group can double, triple, or even triple or quintuple its size.

But it must not be expanded to occupy all domestic markets.

That's too horrible. At that point, Green Water Group has the final say in everything.

After thinking for a while, Gao Yuanshan continued to ask: "What else will Li Yang do next?"

"Yes, Jiying Group, Kuaipai, and Aurora Studios have all applied for IPOs. They got a lot of money from the market."

"How many?"

"Aurora Studio is on the main board, with 60 billion, Kuaipai applied for the Science and Technology Innovation Board, with 120 billion, and Jiying Group is on the main board, with a full 300 billion."

"Aurora Studios wants a valuation of 300 billion, which is reasonable. Quick Shot wants a valuation of 600 billion, which is also reasonable. But why does Jiying Group want a valuation of 1.5 trillion? This Li Yang is taking advantage of us."

"..."

Lao Lan felt helpless. Do you dare to say this in front of Li Yang?

Besides, Jiying Group has an annual sales of 300-400 billion yuan, and this year's sales are expected to soar, and it may not be far from 500 billion yuan. The valuation of 1.5 trillion yuan is indeed high, but many institutions do not think the number is outrageous.

Gao Yuanshan was simply in a bad mood and always felt that Li Yang had tricked Jiang Banxia away.

"Is there any way to keep Jiang Banxia here?"

Lao Lan shook his head: "There's nothing I can do. She's pregnant."

"?????"

Gao Yuanshan sighed, looked at Lao Lan, and said, "You actually want her to leave, right? Because if she leaves, you will feel like a normal person. With her around, you will feel that your hard work is meaningless. The profit she earns every year is equivalent to the total profit earned by more than 100,000 domestic export companies."

Lao Lan did not answer.

Gao Yuanshan is right. After all, China's annual trade surplus with the United States is only over 300 billion US dollars, and its annual trade surplus with the world is less than 400 billion US dollars. Many small countries import a lot, and those places have little consumption capacity, so they always maintain a trade deficit.

As for Jiang Banxia, ​​according to the data currently compiled, he definitely made over one trillion US dollars in three years. He earned more than 700 billion US dollars just by trading in US bonds.

During this period, Jiang Banxia frantically sold US and Japanese stocks.

"I won't be here in a few days!"

Gao Yuanshan patted the table.