King of Capital

Liu Qing stared blankly at the river. The scorching sun of midsummer reflected on the quiet flow of the river, burying all the unspoken words in her heart.

Job hopping was just a joke, but at this moment Didi really lost the people who had walked with it to the foot of Mount Everest. Everyone went their separate ways regarding the future of smart cars, and there is no room for recovery.

"Have you found a partner?"

She wanted to know which company was better than Didi, then she came to her senses and added, “It’s inconvenient to disclose, so forget it.”

"It's better for me to do it myself than to cooperate with others. I should be able to announce the situation to the public in a few days." Xie Jingxing explained casually while sipping his coffee.

Liu Qing pursed his lips in confusion and asked word by word: "You want to start your own business and build smart cars?"

"Not so fast. The initial plan is to build new energy vehicles in ten years and accumulate experience, and then build smart cars in another ten years."

Xie Jingxing will be 35 years old in ten years, and he will be the same age as Xiao Ma Ge this year in twenty years.

At the age of 25, he invested in Didi and swept the market, including NIO, Li Auto, CATL, etc., investing in star projects across the entire upstream and downstream of the industrial chain from car manufacturing to batteries.

When deciding to realize the smart car concept himself, this answer was both bizarre and reasonable, and Liu Qing was unable to refute and claimed that he was a better option than this.

So even though Xie Jingxing didn't say it directly, it is basically certain that he will use Meizu as a vehicle for making cars.

Before the emergence of revolutionary smart mobile terminal devices that completely liberate hands and eyes, we bet on the areas of basic needs of the mainstream population in society.

For example, eating, sleeping, and commuting, in 24 hours a day, whoever can occupy the most user time will be invincible. Based on this, mobile phones and cars are both important branches of future smart mobile terminals.

Liu Qing had a deep memory of the theory proposed by Xie Jingxing. With Huang Zhang's exit half a month ago and him taking over the management of Meizu, the entire layout came into view - integrating the two to achieve a cumulative effect over time.

Moreover, in practical terms, mobile phones and cars can both be classified as industrial manufacturing. Of course, adding the word "smart" adds the commonality of "technological innovation", and the various businesses in the company's operations are relatively easy to control.

"Mobile phones, car manufacturing... From this perspective, why didn't you take over LeTV last year?" Liu Qing pondered and sought an answer.

Xie Jingxing tacitly agreed with her guess about Meizu making cars, and said thoughtfully: "Plans cannot keep pace with changes."

"I think you've always had a plan."

"Believe it or not."

"I believe it. I believe everything you say now." Liu Qing smiled slightly.

Xie Jingxing raised his eyebrows, and then they both shook their heads at the same time, looking at each other with relief.

He decided to acquire LeTV on a whim and took over Meizu as a response.

Didi's derailment is just the transitional part in the process. Liu Qing does not need to be obsessed with saying sorry, as she is not the only one who has changed.

Xie Jingxing didn't want to review the business decision. If Boss Jia had said sorry at that time, would he have generously taken over the whole mess, or would he have ignored the core contradiction in March and continued to firmly support Cheng Wei?
Since there is no suitable candidate at this point, I decide to go ahead myself and just arrange and combine the existing cards.

Meizu mobile phones, new energy vehicles, smart wearable devices + LeTV super TVs and professional entertainment smart homes, this is much more comprehensive than the smart car plan he had imagined back then.

"You are like an enlarged version of Jia Yueting now." Liu Qing digested the complicated emotions and made jokes as usual.

Xie Jingxing disagreed: "The things they do are similar, but the essence is quite different."

"That's right. Jingxing Group is a martial arts school at the level of Nine Yang Manual. Young Marshal Xie's internal strength is unrivaled in the world. With this endless internal strength, it is easy for him to imitate the martial arts styles of other martial arts masters."

Liu Qing paused for a moment and reminded pessimistically: "But the hard technology manufacturing industry cannot rely on force alone. Didi and Geely's car manufacturing cooperation has burned through hundreds of millions of yuan since last year, and the design drawings have not yet been finalized."

"Sometimes I wonder how long it takes you to consider each major decision." Xie Jingxing said seriously.

Liu Qing didn't understand: "We?"

"For most people I've come into contact with, the cost of making decisions on major matters is usually very high." Xie Jingxing laughed.

Liu Qing rolled his eyes at him and said, "What about you?"

"Three days, no more!" Xie Jingxing was extremely arrogant.

Liu Qing really wanted to reach out and pull his cheek hard to see if there was a monster hiding in this skin.

A large number of people are running on a winding mountain road. If they don't want to fall to their death, they have to be slow and pay attention to the potholes under their feet and the turns in front of them at all times. They can only run at a speed of 70% of their strength.

Xie Jingxing violently promoted the money-burning process of the food delivery industry, supporting Didi's crazy fight to give full play to its strength throughout the whole process, and even dared to overdraw and use 120% of its strength to rush forward.

At first, Cheng Wei's hands were shaking when he signed under the pressure of burning 5000 million in a single day, thinking what would happen if online ride-hailing services were banned one day. However, he clamored for a 2 billion subsidy plan. You have to know that at that time, Xiyou's first fund only had a scale of million US dollars.

The key is not to miss it, at least until today, all the judgments are correct...

This is the essential difference between him and Jia Yueting, and also his absolute advantage over all other players on the winding mountain road. In comparison, the thickness of his capital strength is not so noticeable, or it can be said that it is precisely because of this that he has developed the so-called magical internal strength.

"I am very sure about the correctness of new energy vehicles. You bet 5 million and then 10 billion, so I will just bet 50 billion directly."

The sun was setting in the west, reflecting the red river. The ice cubes in the coffee cup melted into water. Xie Jingxing and the other person turned back along the road. He sincerely suggested, "The market ceiling is higher than you think. Didi can move faster."

"Or I'll switch jobs and work for you." Liu Qing's helplessness was evident in his words.

Before the prophecy was confirmed, she herself was opposed to going public as soon as possible. Cheng Weining was suspicious and Xie Jingxing had secured his own president, and he could not accept a major decision that went against the trend and involved $300 billion in profits.

If not for this, why would I have rushed to Zhuhai alone today with empty hands and no persuasiveness at all?

"Jingxing, where do you think the opportunity for Didi to go public lies?" Liu Qing restrained his attitude and asked seriously.

Xie Jingxing sighed: "The Elephant Party will win this election."

"The political novice?"

"Amateurs are good at breaking the rules and refusing to negotiate. You either list on the Hong Kong stock market or go public in the United States within 2018, and you also have to consider the possibility of delisting later." Xie Jingxing said firmly.

Didi first spent $2 million on Uber China in a single week before acquiring it. Its financial statements this year were so bad that they were unbearable to read. They were so busy trying to go public as soon as possible that their stock price fell below the IPO price, which was really funny.

So we have to produce a good financial report next year and go public the year after. The time required is basically fixed, and we can't consider delisting after that. We can't just skip meals for fear of choking to death. Liu Qing frowned and deduced the details and asked, "What would you choose if it were you in my shoes?"

"It doesn't matter if the stock price is low. We will go to the U.S. stock market next year, raise funds as soon as possible to solve the problem of operating regulatory licenses, and then list on the Hong Kong stock market for the second time. This is how we live and die on two legs."

Xie Jing Xing had nothing to say, so he spread his hands and grinned, "Don't look at me like that. I really can only hold on. The deep-seated macroeconomic problems are turning on their heads all over the world, and there is no solution."

"Please treat me to dinner." Liu Qing suggested with a blink of his eyes. He still had many questions to ask.

Xie Jing Xing declined without hesitation: "I'm too busy recently, I'll treat you next time."

"You're not a good friend."

Liu Qing started to act like a rogue, but Xie Jingxing was so tired that he didn't want to fall for it. For now, everyone should just take care of their friends and talk about it later. If they really couldn't live any longer, they could just die. Later, he would definitely go to the grave and wipe a few tears.

"Xie Jingxing you are such a bastard, once Didi's new energy vehicle is built, we will be our enemy, our number one enemy!"

"Would I be afraid of you jumping up and hitting me on the knee?"

"You said it, don't get angry with me next time we meet!"

"If you have the means, go ahead and do it. If I say a word, I'm not a man. I'm waiting for you, Liu Qing."

Xie Jingxing drove away, the exhaust of the car disappeared into the twilight. Liu Qing stood on the street with the sunset glowing on her shoulders. The breeze blew away her hair and a hint of melancholy. Friends were getting farther and farther away, and enemies were coming towards them.

The war between them started with shared bicycles.

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[Give Meizu ten years, give us ten days. ]

A whiteboard was hung on the wall on the second floor of Meizu headquarters, facing the elevator. The first half of the sentence was left unchanged, and the second half was erased and rewritten every day, counting down to the date of the MX6 model launch.

On the day when Xie Jingxing personally changed the number to seven, a mobile phone digital blogger revealed that Meizu's industrial and commercial information had changed, and Huang Zhang had withdrawn from the list of major shareholders.

Rumors were flying everywhere. The crowd was delighted by the gossip about Young Marshal Xie beating up the villain Huang in the office. At the same time, they were also moved by the rumor that the shameless thief Xiao Xie took the opportunity to rob shares, and they had passionate debates and arguments.

On the fifth day before the end, Tang Man solved the mystery and officially announced that Grapefruit Capital acquired Huang Zhang's 280% stake at a valuation of 50 billion. Meizu severed ties with the tainted founder and started again to write a new chapter.

From then on, the popularity kept rising. Xie Jingxing's selfie at the whole machine assembly factory became a hot search. Millions of female fans praised my husband for being so handsome as usual. Millions of little black guys parroted and copied and pasted from all over the world, and went into the factory without wearing dust-free clothes to show off. They followed the example of unscrupulous merchants and never dared to buy mobile phones with confidence!
At the same time, there was another rumor that Meizu and ZH City reached a century-long gamble and invested tens of billions to build new energy vehicles.

This king of bullshit who has been silent for more than half a year did not change his character, but instead gave the audience a big surprise. He was clearly following Lei Jun 800 meters away, but he had the nerve to lick Musk who was 10,000 meters away in the air and shamelessly tried to touch upon him.

As the press conference reached the penultimate day amid heated discussions, Xie Jingxing and Musk followed each other on Twitter, and the terms of the bet circulated within the government pushed the heat to a climax.

3000 acres of land, put into production within five years, and generate 1500 billion in revenue in seven years.

If there is a default, the land will be reclaimed and the loan interest will be paid according to the market price.

The general public is watching the fun while industry insiders are shocked. Since Tesla opened its source code, both the venture capital circle and the manufacturing industry have shown great interest in new energy vehicles in the past two years, but it is ultimately an asset-intensive, high-tech manufacturing industry.

Most people are cautiously waiting and watching. Currently, start-up brands are struggling. Li Bin and Li Xiang, the rivals, are among the few big players who have entered the market with huge sums of money.

There is no need to say much about what kind of person Xie Jingxing is. No matter how terrible Meizu is, it is still a domestic mobile phone manufacturer second only to Huawei, Xiaomi, and VO.

The effect of one plus one is greater than two. When a giant rushes into a new industry, it means that its rivals will immediately hear about it and rush in to spend money like crazy.

"Repurchase of Alibaba shares for 14 billion, acquisition of Huang Zhang's shares for 140 billion, 30 billion industrial guidance fund, 50 billion for car manufacturing... How much money does he have?" Liu Qing made a rough estimate while sitting at his desk.

Cheng Wei leaned back on the sofa, supporting his chin with one hand: "Wanda's privatization is almost over, and he seems to want to intervene in Vanke. This means he is like a money printing machine with no upper limit."

"Anyway, from our perspective, there's no difference between a grapefruit worth 70 or 80 billion and 18 billion." Yan Wenhua peeled a mango slowly.

Cheng Wei was speechless for a moment. Didi had tens of billions of funds but it was impossible for it to invest heavily in its car manufacturing business all at once. Mobike could invest a lot of money if it gritted its teeth, but it couldn't use it.

If you think about it carefully, the LPs of Grapefruit Capital are like toys, sitting back and watching Xie Jingxing do whatever he wants and committing suicide, and even eating quick-acting heart pills as if they were candy beans, and no one stands up to say a word.

It was really strange that Cheng Wei was complaining in his heart, but he was also one of the LPs and had invested over 100 million yuan in previous and subsequent funds.

"I don't know what Hu Weiwei and he think. Let's watch the press conference first." Liu Qing tried to smooth things over while clicking the mouse to refresh the LeTV player.

Yan Wenhua said lightly: "Personal opinions are not important. You know what kind of character Jingxing is."

"Yes, let's see how the situation develops. If we really need to compete for funding, we have allies." Cheng Wei quickly tried to smooth things over.

In April, there were market rumors that Xie Jingxing met with the Crown Prince of the Middle East and agreed on a fund raising amount of US$20 billion in 20 minutes. By June, the protagonist became Didi's current largest shareholder SoftBank, and Masayoshi Son met with the Crown Prince of the Middle East and got US$20 billion in 450 minutes.

Hu Weiwei must not think that she can keep Mobike by just eating young grass.

Liu Qingquan pretended not to hear anything and secretly looked down on him. As he spoke, the dark computer screen lit up and Xie Jingxing appeared on the stage.

"Hello friends who are watching the live broadcast online. Before going on stage, Li Nan told me that the number of online viewers has exceeded one million. I know many people want to hear about Meizu's car-making plan."

He held up his phone and waved it towards the camera: "Meizu will not follow the marketing methods of its competitors that use users as monkeys, so I will make a formal response before the opening: Yes, we are going to build cars."

"As we all know, making a car is very difficult. I will quietly make it according to my ideas. When it succeeds, I will share it with everyone. If it fails, I will just treat it as nothing happened."

Xie Jingxing changed the subject: "Li Nan persuaded my company to spend so much money on technological innovation. Meizu users have the right to know. Lao Bai told me that our R&D team salary budget is 5 million. If you don't recruit talents publicly, how can you spend this budget?"

"I can't help it. I want to keep a low profile but my strength doesn't allow it. I have no choice but to follow suit."

He warmed up the atmosphere with a few words and admitted the gamble of the century with ZH City, and said calmly: "Let's talk about the car manufacturing business first, we have a long way to go.

"How long? I will give Meizu ten years, and I also ask all friends who care about Meizu to give me ten years."

"Meizu's mainstream user group is young people. We are very honored to be the first mobile phone in many users' lives. We will work hard to accompany you through every stage of college graduation, entering society, and starting a family, and then become the first car in your life." Xie Jingxing sincerely promised for ten years. (End of this chapter)