After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 447 The matter in the capital is over
Lu Liang smiled and took a sip of coffee: "Boss Liu, if you lose confidence now, how can you win later?"

Liu Qing was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled and said, "Maybe it's just a blank check I wrote to you, Mr. Lu, no confidence?"

"Provoke me?" Lu Liang smiled.

Liu Qing nodded: "Then can you accept it?"

Lu Liang suddenly smiled, stood up and stretched out his right hand: “I hope you can be decent, don’t let me help you be decent.”

Liu Qing smiled brightly and stood up to shake hands with him: "It's still uncertain who will win!"

The two looked at each other and let go of their grudges.

Liu Qing left. Lu Liang looked at her from behind and exclaimed from the bottom of his heart: "Who says women are inferior to men?"

He really likes Liu Qing and admires her. If she can help him, it will definitely make his daily life a lot easier.

Unfortunately, it's not possible.

Before he finished his cup of coffee, Lu Liang received two calls, one from Fang Shiyu and the other from Cheng Wei.

He told the address, and a few minutes later, his cousin, who was about 1.9 meters tall, hurried over with a thermos cup in his hand.

Fang Shiyu smiled innocently: "Brother, I got the medicine back. Drink it twice a day for three days in a row."

Lu Liang bowed his head slightly, opened the thermos cup, and drank from it in small sips: "It's not as bitter as I imagined."

Fang Shiyu said: "Because it contains honeysuckle and dandelions, my grandfather often cooked it for us to drink when we were young."

Lu Liang was slightly absent-minded, his eyes full of memories: "At that time, Lu Ya and I often followed grandpa into the mountains. You were still young, and you would always cry if I didn't take you with me."

"Is there?" Fang Shiyu asked in confusion.

"Yes." Lu Liang said with a smile and confidence as he talked about going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival some time ago and having a meal at his uncle's house.

He said: "The new house is very impressive and we can move in by the end of the year. Then I will buy a mobility scooter for my uncle."

Fang Shiyu nodded seriously, feeling warm in his heart. There were some things he wanted to say but he didn't know how to express them.

His salary is very high, almost 30,000 yuan per month, and he also receives a generous year-end bonus at the end of the year.

Throughout the year, Lu Liang arranged all his food, clothing, housing and transportation for him, so he basically didn't have to spend a penny.

He just graduated from high school and served in the army for a few years, and he always felt unworthy of such a high income.

Seeing his cousin's tangled expression, Lu Liang knew that he was going to be hypocritical again, so he smiled and said, "Wait for me in the parking lot. I'll call you later when I go out."

Fang Shiyu nodded. Not long after he left, Cheng Wei came over quickly and asked curiously, "Boss Lu, where is Boss Liu?"

"Just left." Lu Liang finished the Chinese medicine in one breath, opened a candy and threw it into his mouth. He smiled and said, "It has nothing to do with Didi. It's just the fund company and the matter over there."

Cheng Wei smiled awkwardly and said quickly: "Mr. Lu, I absolutely do not doubt your intentions."

Lu Liang smiled and skipped the topic directly: "I have nothing to do here for the time being, I will keep Secretary Xu here. Mr. Cheng, I'll trouble you during my absence."

"no problem."

Cheng Wei asked when the next listing review would be held, and Lu Liang said, "If it's fast, it will be on the 20th."

He just took a look and found that the materials that Liu Qing was responsible for submitting for review last time were almost two meters high when piled up on the ground.

All that information needs to be reintegrated and then updated with the latest information for this quarter, so the workload is bound to be considerable.

"Then, what about the Ministry of Commerce?" Cheng Wei asked again.

"Do your best and obey destiny."

After leaving Didi’s New Orange Sea Building, Lu Liang came to Ideal Auto’s headquarters to attend the shareholders’ meeting.

Ideal One has been on the market for half a year and its sales have exceeded 20,000 units, making a small breakthrough in the high-end automobile field.

Now no one makes fun of refrigerators, color TVs, and big sofas, or the extended-range electric vehicles that were described as "taking off pants to fart" when they were first launched on the market.

So Li Xiang struck while the iron was hot and convened a shareholders' meeting. Lu Liang was also in Beijing, so he came over to attend.

Li Xiang was beaming with joy and high spirits: "At a time when charging piles are not widely popularized and battery capacity is limited, consumers have voted and made their choice, and the extended-range model is the best choice at the moment."

At the beginning, he overcame all objections and faced pressure from public opinion and investors, and finally the first extended-range electric vehicle he promoted was recognized by the market.

Fuel vehicles do not have refrigerators, color TVs, or large sofas, nor do they have smart driving or assisted driving.

Pure electric vehicles have range anxiety. During the National Day holiday, I don’t know how many pure electric vehicles are stuck on the road or queuing up to charge.

It is said that a good wind can carry you to the sky.

During this National Day holiday, the pure electric vehicles that broke down on the road directly brought the name of extended-range electric vehicles into thousands of households.

Other people’s green-plate cars are still waiting in line to charge, or are stuck on the highway, and they don’t even dare to turn on the air conditioner.

Ideal extended-range vehicles are also green-licensed vehicles, and they can run as soon as they are filled with gas. This is the difference.

"Now is the golden time for development, so our decision-makers discussed and decided to implement the plan of opening 100 stores."

Of course, Li Xiang is not so idle that he calls investors from all over the world just to watch him show off.

The main reason is that the company has no money in its account again. The last round of financing of US$700 million was all used to increase production capacity.

There are currently only eight stores, all located in the southern coastal areas or in economically developed key cities.

So this time, he plans to add 92 offline experience stores and plant the ideal red flag all over the country.

Unlike pure electric vehicles, whose range is halved in cold weather, their extended-range vehicles can even open the door to the north.

This is Ideal's Series C financing, with a valuation of US$50 billion, and it plans to provide 10% equity financing.

"Everyone, this is the last round of financing before the IPO round."

Li Xiang's eyes were full of anticipation, but suddenly he lost his previous high spirits.

If Ideal can make a profit, then he would dare to slam the table in front of investors and tell them to invest if they want, and get out if they don't.

But even though the sales volume exceeded 14.5 units, Ideal is still in the loss stage, with a net loss of 80 billion yuan in the last quarter. In two and a half years, the loss exceeded billion yuan, and all of this money came from the sponsors present here.

So you have to admit defeat when you should.

Wang Xin from Meituan asked, “Mr. Lu, what do you think?”

"Just follow it. What else can we do? Let's support it until it goes public and get our capital back first." Lu Liang said with a smile.

Tianxing Investment has invested US$3.9 million in Ideal Auto on several occasions and currently holds 18.5% of the shares.

The better their ideals develop, the more they earn.

It’s just that Li Xiang’s business is a second venture, and just like some good film and television projects, it will not flow into the market to be invested in by outsiders.

Ideal was born with a silver spoon in its mouth and received an investment of US$100 million in the early stage. Therefore, unlike other start-ups, it did not bring dozens or hundreds of times of returns to venture capital companies.

With a valuation of $50 billion, they hold 18.5%, which is worth $9.25 million, and the return rate is just over double.

Wang Xin thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Since Mr. Lu has said so, Meituan and I will continue to follow."

He and Li Xiang are friends, so he invested in two shares, one of which was in his personal name when Ideal was first established.

The other one is Longzhu Capital under Meituan. We saw that it had ideals and development potential, so we joined it later.

The heads of institutions such as Matrix Partners and Mingshi Capital also nodded upon hearing this, and the four institutions once again invested in this round.

The $500 million financing plan was concluded in laughter.

Li Xiang looked at Lu Liang, his eyes full of gratitude.

Lu Liang's influence in the investment community has reached the point where a wave of influence can be created without any wind.

What he believes in is the truth.

At least before he encounters a major failure, no matter what he invests in, he will have a leading sheep effect.

After the meeting, Li Xiang found Lu Liang and had an idea. He was still hesitating whether to focus on One or release a new car.

"What type?" Lu Liang asked.

"A large SUV with seven seats."

"No need, wait two years."

Lu Liang thought of the ideal slogan "a mobile home", and probably planned to rush in the direction of luxury family cars.

He said: "Among the luxury SUVs released by major brands in the past two years, which one has sales volume comparable to Ideal One?"

Although One has been sold for half a year and its sales volume is barely equal to that of BMW X3 in one month, it is not a problem with the car but a problem with the market.

Spending more than 300,000 yuan on an electric car, especially one made in China and produced by the Lifan factory, is somewhat off-putting.

This kind of concept cannot be changed in a short period of time. It takes time for people to gradually accept it.

Li Xiang chuckled: "Boss Lu, I actually thought so too."

Lu Liang laughed: "Are you okay?"

"Mr. Lu, how is your new car going?"

"The new car is not on the same track as Ideal, so there is no need to worry about competition."

"That puts my mind at ease."

Li Xiang let out a long sigh. The success of One made him look down on even Tesla.

Only Tianxing always made him feel like a serious threat. After all, Lu Liang was so mysterious that he even dared to target Didi. It was hard to think of anything that he couldn't do.

In the early stage, it was engaged in the research and development of intelligent driving and the construction of factories. In order to complete the industrial chain, a 3000 billion fund was established to support a total of 18 related companies including BYD.

All these big moves have made Tianxing Automobile a major concern for major new energy vehicle companies before it even hits the market, and no one wants to compete with it in the same field.

Lu Liang stayed in Beijing until the end of the National Day. He first went to Ideal and then to Douyin.

Finally, I returned to Didi, took a look at the progress of the project, and returned to Shanghai in the early morning of the 7th.

He called Xiao Wang and Long Fei to meet him at the airport, and found a restaurant for supper: "Doudian will be online tomorrow."

At the beginning of last month, TikTok spent 1 billion US dollars to acquire Musical.ly in North America, successfully transforming from pirated to legitimate.

The recommendation algorithm, which has been cultivated by more than 800 million people over more than a year, is a complete dimensionality reduction attack when it comes to the European and American markets.

TK, which was not involved in any lawsuits, quickly topped the Apple download list and has remained at the top ever since.

In just one month, the number of international daily active users has grown from 8900 million to 3.6 million, and is still increasing rapidly.

China is almost dominating the short video market, so Yang Zhenyuan proposed at the meeting that Doudian will be launched tomorrow, officially entering the field of live streaming and e-commerce.

Xiao Wang and Long Fei looked at each other and could see the helplessness in each other's eyes. This day had finally come.

Panda, Douyu and Huya can still put up a fight, but facing TikTok, they have no power to fight back at all.

Long Fei couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Lu, do you have any better suggestions?"

Lu Liang laughed dumbly and shook his head: "I don't know, I don't understand, and I have no suggestions."

TikTok is valued at US$350 billion, and he holds a 7.07% stake worth US$24.73 billion.

TikTok is not like Ideal, where only a few domestic institutions are playing for their own amusement. It has long accepted investments from international capital such as Temasek, Saudi Arabian sovereign, SoftBank Group, and even BlackRock, which shows that they recognize its value.

On the other hand, Panda TV, which is now hyped up by Wall Street institutions, has a market value of only US$150 billion. How can it compete with TikTok?
He really couldn't figure it out.

The upper limits of the two are not in the same dimension at all.

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