my return 2002

Chapter 349 Killing Ma Su with Tears

After the Spring Festival, due to the continuation of the subprime mortgage crisis, the global economy continued to decline, a large number of companies in Europe and the United States went bankrupt, and the unemployment rate remained high.

The situation in the mainland is not much better. A large number of large factories that rely on orders from Europe and the United States cannot get orders and have closed down one after another. Among them, Dongguan, Pengcheng, Yiwu and other places are the most severely affected. Affected by this, a large number of migrant workers are coming Afterwards, the city found that it was impossible to find a job, and the difficulty of finding a job became a hot topic in society for a while.

Prior to this, Huaxia, as the factory of the world, achieved economic take-off in a very short period of time, and there was a peaceful atmosphere in the media. Until the financial tsunami triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis hit, people discovered that relying on labor-intensive industries to drive The future economic development is not guaranteed, and the profit of a commodity in the production process is only a pitiful 5%.

In order to cope with the raging financial tsunami, the higher authorities formulated a series of measures to stimulate domestic demand, support high-tech enterprises, and start infrastructure construction.

And this plan, which costs a total of [-] trillion yuan, is also known as the [-] trillion yuan plan. Inspur Group and SMIC have also been included in the list of high-tech support.

Shen Lang has been busy negotiating commercial loans with the four major banks recently. Although Inspur Group is in good condition so far and does not need to rely on loans to live on, the low-interest commercial loans with an annualized rate of 5.8% are really delicious. Shen Lang really couldn't find a reason to refuse.

In the end, SMIC obtained a low-interest commercial loan of 20 billion yuan, which is more or less related to Hu Weiwu's relationship with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Otherwise, SMIC has not been established for less than three years, and its own assets do not exceed 30 billion. It is impossible. borrowed so much money.

The Inspur Group obtained a loan amount of 50 billion RMB, but the money was not credited to the account all at once. Shen Lang made a development plan. According to the four stages in the plan, each time a stage goal is completed, the next stage can be obtained. A stage loan.

The first loan is 15 billion RMB. Shen Lang's plan is to build a large data center in Central China. With the development of Inspur Group's business, data centers in East China and North China will definitely not be able to satisfy users' needs for fast Internet needs.

Moreover, with the gradual rise of the mobile Internet, the construction of data centers in Central China and South China is also the general trend. Just taking advantage of this wave of government financial support, these two data centers were quickly built.

During this time, Shen Lang was inspecting various cities in central China. According to Shen Lang's plan, the data center in Central China will cost as much as 30 billion yuan. It will be the largest data center of Inspur Group, and it will also be the largest data center in Asia so far. Data center, this project naturally became a favorite.

During the two weeks of investigation, Shen Lang received invitations to banquets almost every day. There was no way. The government was doing things like this these days. Many times, what could not be negotiated at the negotiating table could be negotiated at the wine table.

To build such a large data center, the most important thing is to control the cost. In addition to equipment, the biggest expenses are land cost and electricity cost.

In the end, the data center in Central China settled in Wushi, which offered a pretty good land price, and at the same time, they could get a certain amount of electricity subsidies for the first three years.

What's more interesting is that during this period, the local officials in his hometown of Huangshi also approached Shen Lang and wanted him to set up the data center in Huangshi, but Shen Lang refused without thinking.

"Well, I will set up a customer service center in the future, and I will settle down in Huangshi."

Yellow City has no high-quality university resources, and the cost of talent acquisition is high. It is not suitable for large-scale projects that are too high-end. The customer service center is a good choice. It can not only provide certain jobs, but also improve the image of the city. After all, it is a place where he grew up. Lang naturally hoped that the yellow market would develop.

"That's great, Mr. Shen, I'll be waiting for your good news."

Originally, local officials didn't have much hope for such a large-scale project, but now it is a surprise to get a promise from a customer service center.

After finishing all this work, Shen Lang returned to the magic capital again, and it was already March.

On this day, Shen Lang suddenly received a call from BYD Wang Chuanfu.

"Mr. Shen, are you free recently? Can you come to Pengcheng?"

Wang Chuanfu's voice on the other end of the phone seemed urgent.

Shen Lang couldn't help asking in doubt: "Mr. Wang, what happened?"

Wang Chuanfu sighed: "BYD is in trouble. I have called all BYD's shareholders and held a general meeting of shareholders the day after tomorrow."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Lang asked his assistant Yang Mei to check the recent news about BYD.

It turns out that BYD is having a lot of trouble with dealers recently. The reason is that in order to increase sales, BYD requires dealers to increase their purchases in order to obtain various subsidies. The rules are very complicated. They sold a lot more, but their own profits dropped instead, so they joined forces to ask BYD for an explanation.

This matter was nothing at all, but the key point was that after being exposed by the media, it immediately attracted widespread attention, which made Wang Chuanfu very anxious. Moreover, Wang Chuanfu also found that some people in the company's sales department took the opportunity to make small moves, which touched Wang Chuanfu's bottom line.

Two days later, Shen Lang arrived in Pengcheng. This time, Wang Chuanfu did not come to pick him up in person. He was busy communicating with major shareholders.

What's more interesting is that Shen Lang actually met Buffett in BYD's welcome car. Only then did he remember that last year Buffett also bought part of BYD's stock through the secondary market, but because of Shen Lang's early entry , Raising BYD's stock price, Buffett only got 5% of the shares this time.

"Hello, Mr. Buffett." Shen Lang took the initiative to greet him.

Buffett stared at Shen Lang for a while, and then responded enthusiastically: "Oh, Shen, I didn't expect to meet you here, please forgive me, I have prosopagnosia, so I didn't recognize you all at once."

Buffett has never met Shen Lang, but only saw his photo in the newspaper. It is not easy to recognize him. After all, Westerners basically look at Easterners in the same way.

Shen Lang shrugged and made a joke: "It doesn't matter, it means that my popularity is not high enough."

Buffett smiled and shook his head: "Shen, you are too humble, you are a man who makes Wall Street tremble."

This is also a meme. It comes from a report by the New York Post. The title on it is: The man who made Wall Street tremble. The party, the skill is comparable to the shock department of UC.

Chatted with Buffett along the way and soon arrived at BYD headquarters, and the two sides also exchanged business cards, which can be regarded as a chance encounter.

Afterwards, Shen Lang and Buffett were taken to the meeting room by BYD staff. Wang Chuanfu hadn't come yet, and there were more than a dozen shareholders chatting in the meeting room.

"Oh, Mr. Shen, hello, hello"

With the arrival of Shen Lang and Buffett, the conference room became more lively. Shen Lang also greeted these shareholders one by one. Most of BYD's shares are in the hands of Wang Chuanfu. Even after the listing, shareholders The shares held in his hands did not exceed 30%. As for the shares circulating in the secondary market, except for shareholders with more than 5% like Buffett, other small shareholders were not invited.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Chuanfu appeared in the conference room with a solemn expression, and the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly cooled down.

"Everyone should have heard about the situation. Now BYD is at a critical moment. I hope everyone can help BYD together."

Before Wang Chuanfu finished speaking, a shareholder interrupted.

"Mr. Wang, what is the current situation of BYD? I heard that many dealers are going to withdraw from the network. Is it true?"

"That's right, it's not a joke for dealers to withdraw from the Internet!"

It is no wonder that shareholders are so nervous. Car sales are different from ordinary commodity sales. It is easy to find dealers for ordinary commodities, and you can even set up sales channels yourself.

But in the automobile industry, this is not true. The reason is very simple. The value of the car is too high. Even in the low-end market that BYD focuses on, the price of a car is 7 yuan. Dozens of cars, this involves millions of funds, and this is just one dealership. Once ten dealers withdraw from the Internet, it means that tens of millions of sales in a month will disappear.

Moreover, car sales not only require funds, but also certain qualifications. Many dealers have a strong background in the local area, which is why it is difficult for many consumers to protect their rights. If they offend these dealers, it is very likely that BYD will face direct The plight of being driven out of the local market.

Wang Chuanfu's face darkened: "We are actively negotiating with dealers to ensure that there will be no large-scale withdrawal from the Internet. The key now is to change the previous car sales model. I propose to remove the senior vice president Yang Longzhong. Sales President position."

Shen Lang followed the eyes of the shareholders present and looked at the middle-aged man with a livid face. This person should be Yang Longzhong. Speaking of which, he is also one of the veterans of BYD, and he is a classmate of Wang Chuanfu.

It's just that Shen Lang didn't know whether Wang Chuanfu was eliminating dissidents or killing Ma Su with tears, so he decided to wait and see what happened.

But those shareholders quit, and some people began to complain for Yang Longzhong.

"Mr. Wang, isn't this appropriate? Mr. Yang has contributed to BYD Auto's sales volume today."

"That's right, if Mr. Yang is fired, who will take care of the sales business? Who can take care of it?"

It is no wonder that the shareholders defend Yang Longzhong. The reason why BYD F3 has been so successful these years, and even became the number one sales volume of its own car brand, Yang Longzhong is indispensable. Since 06, BYD Auto's sales have almost doubled every year, and The number of dealers has also skyrocketed from the previous [-] to [-].

It is precisely because of such outstanding performance that BYD's stock price has been able to rise all the way. Even under the subprime mortgage crisis, there has not been a sharp decline, which is not easy.

Wang Chuanfu snorted coldly, took out a stack of documents and threw them on the conference table: "Yes, the sales of BYD Automobile have indeed increased in the past two years, but you have also seen the crisis behind it. It will have an unpredictable impact on BYD as a whole, these are complaints from car owners against BYD, if this continues, it will be a three-lose situation for car owners, dealers and our manufacturer."

Seeing what Wang Chuanfu said was so serious, the shareholders picked up the documents one by one and looked at them. Shen Lang also took one of them. Buffett naturally couldn't understand Chinese, so Shen Lang translated for him, and Buffett kept nodding.

This document should be obtained by Wang Chuanfu through interviews with BYD car owners. The dealers have carried out a lot of promotional activities in order to sell more cars, but they don’t care about them after the cars are sold. If something happens, it will kill people.

So over time, the reputation of BYD Auto has declined rapidly among car owners. Wang Chuanfu probably decided to be ruthless after seeing the results of this investigation and rectify BYD's sales process.

This is also the main reason for the dispute between BYD and the dealer. To put it bluntly, the dealer thinks that BYD is a domestic car brand, and it is not a BMW Audi. I act as a father and take care of me?No way!
Wang Chuanfu's attitude was very tough. Although the other minority shareholders opposed it, after Shen Lang and Buffett expressed their support for Wang Chuanfu one after another, they stopped saying anything. It was obvious that Wang Chuanfu had enough votes, and they had no chance of winning by a show of hands.

After the meeting, Wang Chuanfu invited Shen Lang to his office for a detailed discussion.

"Mr. Shen, thank you for your support just now."

Shen Lang smiled: "It should, I also hope that BYD will get better and better."

A look of desolation flashed across Wang Chuanfu's face: "Well, Lao Yang has made contributions to BYD, but there is no way to do it now. If this continues, no matter how good BYD's cars are made, they won't be enough for those dealers to spoil."

Shen Lang nodded approvingly: "If you don't have the skills, you can still catch up. If you have a bad reputation, you can't save anything. Mr. Wang did the right thing."

When Wang Chuanfu heard the words, he suddenly smiled playfully: "Speaking of which, the reason why I can make such a determination is thanks to Mr. Shen."

"What does this have to do with me?" Shen Lang was a little strange.

Wang Chuanfu said in a low voice: "The BYD F6 prototype car equipped with the Xingchen vehicle-machine system has completed the test. I tried it and it is very good. Otherwise, I would not have the confidence to showdown with those dealers."

Shen Lang suddenly became interested: "Where is the car?"

"Haha, Mr. Shen, don't worry, it's at our test site, and I'll take you for a test drive later." Wang Chuanfu smiled.

After arriving at the test site, Shen Lang saw a car that looked like a Honda Accord parked there. To be honest, this car was really a bit ugly and didn't feel high-end at all.

But considering it's only half the price of the Accord, it's not hard to understand why the car sold so well.

(End of this chapter)