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At that time, Yang was full of vigor and vitality, but Musk was not yet the richest man.

Ten years later, watching that interview again, Lao Yang was probably so embarrassed that he wanted to crawl into the ground.

He even taught Musk how to manage a company and how to do marketing.

At this time, Musk is nominally the world's richest man, and Yang's company had a revenue of 400 billion RMB and a net profit of 10 billion RMB last year.

Its size is only one-tenth of Musk's, and its net profit is only one-thirtieth of Musk's.

Their indirect actions have slowed down the development of domestic chips and systems by thirty years.

Today, Gao Yuan’s own company is capable of producing high-end chips.

Moreover, as for the computer system, there is no big problem. You can just modify the system of the original mobile phone and use it on the computer.

Neither the chip nor the system is the problem.

It is almost a natural thing to make distant tablets and distant computers.

……

In the morning, Gao Yuan held a brief regular meeting.

After discussing with Li Wei of Yuanfang Mobile Phone, we have decided to produce Yuanfang Tablet and Yuanfang Computer by the end of this year and launch them into the market in March next year.

Both of these are markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars in China.

After entering this industry, Yuanfang Group will also make considerable profits.

The most important thing is that Gaoyuan has been building a far-reaching ecosystem, including Xiaomi mobile phones, Xiaomi cars, and YouNi app. In the future, it will create more smart ecosystems, such as smart homes, smart headphones...

One of the biggest benefits of building a smart ecosystem is that it can also increase the sales of many products.

For example, if you buy a Yuanfang car and want a better experience, you can buy a Yuanfang mobile phone, which is linked to the car and the computer. If the user experience is good, if you want to buy a computer or a tablet, you can also buy ones from Yuanfang Group.

Data can be shared with one account.

There are also wireless headphones, smart bracelets, smart speakers...

If they buy a house, they will also use Yuanfang Group's various smart home products, smart curtains, smart air conditioners, smart refrigerators... Almost every aspect of their lives will be affected by Yuanfang Group.

It seems that the consumption of a single product will not be too high, but when you calculate it as a whole, every family that uses the full set of Yuanfang Group's products will contribute a revenue of at least hundreds of thousands and at most millions to Yuanfang Group.

For ten families, the amount would range from several million to tens of millions.

One hundred families, one thousand families, ten thousand families...

The number of these families added together is a terrifying number.

Many domestic companies are starting to build ecological chains, and Lei Jun is one of the best.

Gaoyuan entered the market late, but Yuanfang Group’s products are excellent, so it can force its way into this market and squeeze out the living space of other products.

"Next, Yuanfang Group will go all out to enter the ecological chain. I will be the team leader, and Li Wei and Wang Sichao will be deputy team leaders. You must make every effort to coordinate the relationships between the various departments."

"I plan to spend 50 billion to develop various ecological chain products. Ladies and gentlemen, our Yuanfang Group already has a huge amount of technology and patents. This level of technology and patents ranks very high among all private enterprises."

With so many technologies and patents, it would be a loss not to expand into other industries.

"Mr. Gao, I will arrange to set up an ecological chain R&D department within the company." Li Wei said, "Not only in Yuanfang City, but also in the headquarters to coordinate some R&D engineers, algorithm engineers and the like."

"Okay, go ahead and get started. The headquarters group will fully cooperate with you." Gao Yuan nodded. "As for the situation in the ecological chain, I will delegate all the approval authority. You can spend the 50 billion as much as you want, as long as you get the product out."

For Li Wei, the approval authority for 50 billion yuan of funds represents absolute trust.

According to the plan, all products will be developed by the end of the year, launched into the market and promoted at the beginning of next year.

There is still a lot to do.

After the video conference ended, Li Wei quickly made arrangements.

On the other hand, at the company, Gao Yuan was still presiding over the meeting.

The company's senior management gathered here. Gao Yuan continued, "It's almost the end of the year. Let's try our best to increase sales. Yuanfang Auto is going to launch some activities to promote car sales."

"With your APP, you need to connect with more advertisers."

“The cosmetics industry needs to formulate marketing and discount plans as soon as possible to achieve a surge in sales by the end of the year.”

Every year at the end of the year, there is a wave of car sales boom.

Many people want to drive home at the end of the year and then go to a 4S store to buy a new car.

This window of opportunity must be seized.

After the New Year, especially in February and March, the automobile sales industry will enter the off-season, and fewer and fewer people will buy cars.

Therefore, this battle at the end of the year is the most critical.

Various activities should be gradually launched, and the free cars should also be generous to attract users to buy.

The same is true for the cosmetics industry.

If this wave of consumption is used properly, the revenue in one month can be equal to the revenue in a normal month.

"Mr. Gao, I need to apply to you."

"The current gifts from Yuanfang Auto are pretty good, but the amount is still a bit low. I wonder if we can make greater efforts to give customers discounts."

Wang Sichao said, "The biggest cost of a car is the initial factory construction cost and R&D cost. We have sold two to three million Yuanfang cars now, and the factory construction cost has been reduced to a very small amount."

"On the basis of the original price, we will sell it at a reduced price."

Yuanfang Automobile invested over 100 billion yuan at that time.

If one million cars are sold, the average cost per car will be around 100,000 yuan.

So when I first bought Yuanfang Car, I was completely losing money.

However, Gao Yuan also used this opportunity to open up sales channels and occupy a large market share.

Today, Yuanfang Automobile has sold more than three million vehicles, and the average cost per vehicle has dropped to about 30,000 yuan per vehicle.

In this way, the cost was instantly reduced by 70,000 yuan.

If Yuanfang Automobile sells 5 million vehicles, the cost per vehicle will be reduced to 20,000 yuan.

If 10 million vehicles are sold, the price will be reduced to around 10,000 yuan.

The more cars you sell, the lower the cost and the higher the net profit.

Now that the cost is so much less, a price reduction is reasonable.

This is what BYD Automobile Company has been doing. After recovering the costs of factory construction and research and development, it quickly lowers prices to seize the market again.

Once the price war started, other car companies had to follow suit and cut prices.

Without price cuts, there will be no sales. However, after the price cuts, their factory construction costs have not been recovered and they will only face losses.

As losses mount, there will be less and less money to invest in research and development.

In the end, these car companies will not be able to hold on and will face bankruptcy. BYD's move is really a murderous move.

You know that you won’t be able to bear the price cuts in the end, but there is no choice but to follow others’ pace and continue to lower prices.

Although you won't lose money if you don't lower the price, your cars won't be sold and will be piled up in the warehouse, which will actually result in a greater loss.

But if you lower the price, you will lose a few thousand or ten thousand yuan for each car, and if you sell 100 cars, you will lose hundreds of millions to tens of billions of yuan.

Few car companies can withstand this wave of price cuts.

"Give a bigger discount, don't be stingy." Gao Yuan said, "The price of each car will be reduced by about 10,000 yuan from the original price, only at the end of this year, and then the price will be raised at the beginning of next year."

Anyway, the beginning of the year is the off-season and not many cars can be sold.

There can be an explanation if the price goes back up.

"Okay, Mr. Gao!"

Wang Sichao nodded. "As for the free gifts, the previous rule was that each car would receive five free maintenance services. I plan to increase it to eight."

A maintenance cost at least six or seven hundred dollars.

Three more free maintenance services are equivalent to giving customers about another two thousand yuan.

If we could sell 500,000 more cars in the last few days of the year, we would lose about 2.5 billion yuan in profit.

Adding in the discount from the price cut, the profit was about 5 billion less.

This means that at least 8 billion yuan will have to be spent to subsidize users by the end of the year.

In Gao Yuan's opinion, the money was well spent. As long as he could sell more cars, everything would be worth it.

The more cars you sell, the more money you can make in other ways.

Short-term losses don’t matter; the key is to capture more market share.

"Okay, Mr. Gao." Wang Sichao nodded.

"In addition, you should also pay attention to the cooperation with Yuanfang Mobile. Since you are planning to enter the ecological chain technology, the linkage of multiple aspects and multiple products is also crucial. Through the sales of a single product, the sales of other products can be driven."

Gao Yuan instructed, "Next, Yuanfang Group's products must be unified and linked to stabilize users, so that users can become Yuanfang Group's die-hard fans and become Yuanfang Group's biggest moat."

A broad user base is the hallmark of a successful business.

Before, when Gao Yuan was in the United States, the reason why he wanted to kill Philip was because Philip's actions were touching Gao Yuan's sore spot, and he wanted to influence Gao Yuan's fans by framing Gao Yuan.

How could Gao Yuan tolerate such behavior?

All operations of Yuanfang Group are aimed at attracting fans' loyalty.

Today, Yuanfang Group has approximately 5 to 10 million most loyal users.

These people use almost all of Yuanfang Group's products.

Yuanfang cars, Yuanfang mobile phones, YouNi APP and cosmetics produced by Yuanfang Group have almost become their standard equipment.

As long as this part of users is well maintained and does not leave, Yuanfang Group can sit back and enjoy the fishing boat regardless of the wind and waves.

……

The morning meeting lasted a long time.

The New Year is coming to an end soon, so let’s take advantage of this wave and sell more products.

So now is the time to develop a strategy.

After the meeting, it was already noon.

After lunch, Gao Yuan returned to his office.

I opened my mailbox and read the emails inside.

Musk sent an email saying that a rocket was launched from a space rocket launch base in Australia last night.

The rocket was attached to a distant car.

It also carries Tesla cars.

Tesla cars are Yuanfang Motors in a different shell, so in the final analysis, they are still Yuanfang Motors.

The rocket is currently above the Earth.

After the rocket lands on the moon, a large amount of publicity and diversion will begin, further expanding the influence of Yuanfang Motors and Tesla Motors.

Since the last rocket launch, the Australian space rocket launch base has sent more than a dozen rockets, carrying a total of more than a thousand robots.

In the video, the lunar base has basically taken shape.

The area is over one thousand square meters, and the working and living areas are also complete.

It can be said that the lunar base is now suitable for long-term habitation.

The items transported to the lunar base this time included two cars and several staff members.

The main purpose of these staff members going to the lunar base is to test whether the lunar base is habitable.

Once the test is successful, the lunar base will send more than one hundred staff members to the moon for the next rocket launch. Among these one hundred staff members, seventy are scientific research experts who are needed to analyze various aspects of the moon's environment, soil, substances, and materials.

The remaining thirty are the elites of the military training base. They are responsible for the safety of these scientific research experts and some basic work at the lunar base.

Although these robots are smart, there are still many tasks that need to be done manually.

After these people land on the moon, the moon's infrastructure will be further improved.

Especially the construction of comfortable living areas and scientific research areas.

It won’t be long before Gao Yuan can land on the moon by himself.

Today's lunar base undergoes major changes almost every day.

After not looking at it for a while, Gao Yuan felt that the world had changed a lot. With the rapid development of the construction, the current lunar base is so fascinating that people can't help but linger and leave reluctantly.

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan immediately called the general manager of the Australian rocket launch base to discuss the next steps.

"Mr. Gao, according to our previous schedule, we will carry out a manned lunar landing at the end of this year, complete the first phase of the lunar base construction, and recommend the second phase of construction."

"It seems that the plan has been successfully completed. The next step is to launch the second phase of the plan, to build a building of more than 10,000 square meters on the moon. At the same time, we will realize commercial operation, so that those big bosses can come to the moon base to play and contribute funds to the construction of the moon base."

"That is to say, we already have the technology. In half a month, you can land on the moon."

"Within the next half month, the elites and scientific research experts who landed on the moon first will build the lunar base into a place suitable for human habitation. At the same time, various infrastructures are also being continuously improved."

"By then, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities and everything else will be available."

"If you want to log in right away, we'll schedule a time for you right away."

The general manager said.

"Don't worry, let's wait until after the Chinese New Year." Although Gao Yuan was excited, he was not that anxious. (End of this chapter)