Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 409: The Real Giant Liuhe Investment

After returning to Shenzhen, Xu Shenxue did not have any free time. Instead, he became busier than before, so much so that he had little time to spend with his family.

On the one hand, there are many matters concerning room-temperature superconducting materials that need to be arranged. The confidentiality level of this matter is very high, and many things cannot be left to subordinate senior executives to make decisions. Instead, Xu Shenxue needs to coordinate and handle them personally to ensure that the information of MMK34 materials is controlled within a certain range...but at the same time, he began to intensively promote various tasks.

On the other hand, the launch conference of the S17 mobile phone will officially start in three days. There is no need to say more about the importance of the S17 series of mobile phones. As the core product of Zhiyun Group and even the entire Zhiyun system, it is a super single product with an annual revenue of more than billion US dollars. It cannot be overemphasized.

Xu Shenxue had to devote a lot of energy to this and personally oversee and arrange various matters, including the production supply chain, sales system, and marketing in various countries.

In addition to the above two major matters, there are other important matters that also need Xu Shenxue to handle personally.

For example, the continued development of the artificial intelligence robot business will be the core growth-driven business of Zhiyun Group in the next few years. In the next three to five years, whether Zhiyun Group's revenue can take another big step forward and continue to break through from the current more than 400 billion US dollars to 500 billion or 600 billion US dollars will largely depend on whether this artificial intelligence business can be carried out smoothly.

Hailan Automobile's new Hailan MEV has received a great response after its launch. Now Hailan Automobile is doing its utmost to expand its production capacity, including increasing the capacity of the domestic supply chain, investing in the fourth domestic assembly plant, and building overseas factories in Thailand, Brazil, Indonesia and Spain. These investments also have a significant impact and are directly related to when Hailan Automobile can achieve a production and sales volume of 2 million vehicles.

Nanmen Aerospace is cooperating with domestic aerospace agencies to establish a national space laboratory, that is, the national space station. The project is about to launch its second core experimental module, which is also a 60-ton giant. In addition, it is about to enter the critical stage of astronauts' accommodation in the space station. The Sky Space Station is very important and is directly related to Xu Shenxue's subsequent commercial space station and even future space plans. Xu Shenxue is also closely following the progress of this matter.

Then, Yihai Technology, which was originally a relatively marginal company in Xu Shenxue's industrial empire and whose core function was to collect data to train artificial intelligence and earn some pocket money for himself, has also been in a lot of trouble recently.

Mainly, Doudong Video, a subsidiary of Yihai Technology, continues to sweep the Internet markets of countries around the world, and has long been ranked first in Zhiyun APP Mall, Fruit APP Mall and Gugou APP Mall, the three major mainstream APP distribution channels in the world... It is not the first in one or two countries, but has long been ranked first in terms of downloads in dozens of countries.

But it also faces many problems. For example, many of the above contents do not comply with the legal requirements of some countries, and there are many messy contents such as data security and personal privacy. For this reason, Jump Video has been banned in many countries and faces the risk of being banned and removed in some countries.

In this regard, Xu Shenxue's attitude and handling approach is to comply with the laws of various countries as much as possible, but never compromise on issues of principle.

So now Yihai Technology is facing a lot of troubles, and many matters involving overseas markets require Xu Shenxue to make decisions personally.

There are too many things going on in the many companies under its umbrella, and they are all happening at the same time. Xu Shenxue has been very busy recently, dealing with various things all day long.

And these things that need to be handled by him personally, even if many of them are just small matters in Xu Shenxue's eyes, are actually big matters if they are placed outside.

For example, many investment projects, some projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars, are just small projects in Xu Shenxue's eyes. He will not even pay too much attention to them. He will often just glance at the report and directly approve it if there are no principled issues.

However, these projects, which seem to be worth only a few hundred million US dollars, are the core projects of some subsidiaries. And for many places, whether in China or overseas countries, investment projects worth hundreds of millions of US dollars are no longer small projects.

Xu Shenxue was also aware of this situation, so he tried to be as cautious as possible and think more clearly... He couldn't just approve it without looking at anything else just because he didn't value the hundreds of millions of dollars and let people mess around with it, or he couldn't just reject it without looking at it and cut off the future of a group of people.

Every matter that Xu Shenxue needs to deal with often concerns the livelihoods of a large number of people.

In this situation, Xu Shenxue himself was actually under a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, Liuhe Investment has enough elite talents to assist him in handling the affairs of its many subsidiaries.

Liuhe Investment, this company is actually not conspicuous in the eyes of ordinary people in China, because it is not a listed company, nor is it an operating entity, and it does not have any products, so ordinary people rarely hear the name of this company.

But those who truly understand Zhiyun Group and the many other companies owned by Xu Shenxue will know the importance of Liuhe Investment.

Because Liuhe Investment is actually a real giant.

How to describe it?

Zhiyun Group, the world's largest company by market value, is actually just one of its subsidiaries...

Weiku Electronics, the world's third largest smart terminal company in terms of sales and fourth largest in terms of revenue, is just one of its subsidiaries.

Weiku Industrial, the world's largest electronics OEM company, is one of its subsidiaries.

Yihai Technology, the world's largest unlisted Internet company and the No. 1 domestic Internet company in terms of revenue, which owns global flagship product such as Dot Video, is one of its subsidiaries.

HaiLian Automobile, the world's leading smart electric vehicle company, is also its subsidiary.

There are many other messy companies, such as "Kuaipao Technology", which is considered to be the first public welfare non-profit Internet company in China, and its Kuaipao travel online car-hailing segment and Kuaipao takeaway business segment.

Kuaipao Travel has almost monopolized 90% of the domestic online car-hailing business, but the domestic business has been in a state of slight profit for many years... The profitability of the entire online car-hailing business depends entirely on overseas business... Kuaipao Technology's online car-hailing business is also doing well in overseas markets, and has developed very well in the ASEAN and South American markets.

Kuaipao Waimai was formed by the integration of several food delivery companies. Its domestic business is also slightly profitable, and its overseas business has just started to expand.

Xu Shenxue had clearly required at the time that these two major business segments could only maintain a slightly profitable state in the domestic part. If they wanted to make money, they could rely on other businesses or overseas businesses... and give as much benefit as possible to groups such as online car-hailing drivers, small businesses, and food delivery workers.

As long as the business can be established and traffic is generated, it is entirely possible to make money from other business parts, such as advertising business, and there is no need to do such unethical things as robbing the deliverymen of their money.

Xu Shenxue never intended to make Kuaipao Technology profitable from the beginning. He set up this company purely out of social responsibility, in order to provide tens of millions of jobs... and give the unemployed people a way out.

People who originally had good jobs can drive an online ride-hailing car after losing their jobs, which can barely keep up with the mortgage payments and the living expenses of their family, and help them get through the difficult times... Therefore, Kuaipao Travel does not actually encourage professional online ride-hailing drivers, but rather encourages temporary and transitional online ride-hailing drivers... That is, novices will drive, and there will be more orders and better prices.

If you are a professional online ride-hailing driver, the algorithm will be adjusted to limit the number of orders you can receive and your monthly income... You can be a professional online ride-hailing driver, but it's just an ordinary job, and your income is not as high as that of a novice driver...

The food delivery business allows young people who have just entered the society, who have no academic qualifications or special skills, to get a temporary job with a low threshold. It also prefers novices rather than professional deliverymen.

In the early years, many other investors also wanted to enter these two industries to compete with Xu Shenxue. Xu Shenxue directly burned tens of billions of dollars a year, and burned the bones and dregs of those capitalists who wanted to exploit the hard-earned money of the grassroots to ashes...

I am the richest man in the world and have plenty of money. I can continue to suffer huge losses for ten or eight years. Can you do it?
After several years of money-burning wars, the capitalists who tried to enter these two markets were basically burned to ashes... and after Xu Shenxue won the game by spending money, he would not even acquire the other party's failed investment companies, leaving the other party with no chance to recover their losses and directly going bankrupt on the spot. It's disgusting.

When Kuaipao Technology unified and even monopolized the domestic online car-hailing and food delivery market, people were initially worried that Xu Shenxue would simply raise prices to make money. Many online car-hailing drivers, food deliverymen, and small businesses were very worried at one point.

But unexpectedly, Kuaipao Technology has not been making money... Kuaipao Technology even announced at the beginning of this year that it would officially transform into a non-profit enterprise, and would never distribute dividends or go public.

Xu Shenxue turned these two major business segments into public welfare projects... and they are the kind of public welfare projects where I don't make money and I don't allow others to make money.

In short, Xu Shenxue's attitude towards these two business sectors is: If you come in and do charity together and make a small profit, we welcome you... Let's give back to society together, the more the better.
But if you dare to come in and try to grab the market by spending money first and then raising prices to make money, I will cooperate with you and keep spending money. Even if I win, I will not acquire you. I will make your investment go to waste and you won’t get a penny back... I will burn you to ashes!

However, Kuaipao Technology, which has such a deep impact on people's lives and even become a part of people's lives, is just a less prominent company under Liuhe Investment.

Liuhe Investment also holds a large number of shares in various high-tech companies, Internet companies, consumer electronics industry, smart electric vehicle supply chain industry, etc.

This is a core parent company that Xu Shenxue uses to control its many business segments.

This is why the three core departments under Xu Shenxue, namely the economic research department, investment department, and personnel department, are all invested in Liuhe.

Liuhe Investment is actually the most core enterprise in Xu Shenxue's hands.

The employees there are all top elite talents.

Especially in core departments like Dong Jingban, the consultants and assistants inside are truly top talents, working with Xu Shenxue to handle various affairs... and to some extent, directly participating in the strategic planning of the affiliated companies.

The Dong Jingban platform of Liuhe Investment has even touched upon the macroeconomic aspect.

For those top elites who have worked in the fields of economics, history, industry and commerce for many years, they have no shortage of money, they just want to be successful.

Just imagine that a report you submit can directly affect the rise and fall of an industry, or even the economic direction of a small or medium-sized overseas country... Even top scholars can't help but swallow their saliva when doing this kind of work!
It is precisely because of the assistance of these people that Xu Shenxue is able to handle the affairs of many of his companies... otherwise he would be exhausted to death and still not be able to finish them.

After another busy day at work, Xu Shenxue looked at the time and it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, so he set off for home. After returning home and having dinner with Lin Yaxian, he did not rest, but continued to read the report on the tablet.

I watched it until about eleven o'clock at night before going to bed.

The next day, at around eight o'clock, I showed up in the office to work again.

After dealing with a lot of daily affairs, Xu Shenxue saw a report from Xiannvshan Holdings.

It is said that a domestic aerospace engine company came to us and wanted to cooperate in some material fields.

The other party was attracted by the R&D capabilities of the Materials Research Institute under Xiannvshan Holdings in some areas of metal materials and wanted to commission the development of several new aviation materials for use in commercial aviation engines and to be used in supporting domestically produced large aircraft in the future.

After reading the report, Xu Shenxue thought of the domestic large commercial aircraft project, although the aircraft manufacturing industry was not part of his business segment.

But materials are useful in all walks of life. In order to develop semiconductor equipment and consumables, Xiannvshan Holdings has very strong R&D capabilities in some material fields, especially the Materials Research Institute led by Professor Wang Binyao, which is very powerful.

It is understandable that the other party came to us.

He immediately approved and agreed to cooperate.

It is not very successful in the aviation engine industry because the industry is too interdisciplinary. However, if we simply engage in material matching, there will not be any major problems.

I hope that the cooperation between the two sides will bear fruit soon, and produce commercial aviation engines with excellent performance.

After processing the report, Xu Shenxue held a small supply chain meeting with Gu Zhiming and other supply chain executives to focus on discussing the supply chain issues of S17.

The current S17 mobile phone is in full-scale production, and the supply chain has accelerated to its peak state. The three foundries that produce the S17 mobile phone have a combined monthly output of more than million units.

Only with such a huge production capacity can the initial rush to buy the S17 mobile phone after it is launched on the market be maintained.

Every year when the S series mobile phones are released, there will be a buying frenzy... It’s not because of the pursuit of trends, but many people are waiting for this time point to change their mobile phones.

It seems that these potential customers account for a very low proportion in the population, but the base is large... There are more than seven billion people in the world, and if one out of a hundred people thinks this way, that means 70 million people.

Mobile phones are consumables, and their lifespan is only about three to four years. Some people with good economic conditions even replace their phones with new ones every year. In addition, the Zhiyun S series mobile phones have strong brand appeal, making it the world's top high-end mobile phone brand and the preferred mobile phone brand for many middle- and upper-income groups to replace their phones.

Under such circumstances, in recent years, after each generation of Zhiyun S series mobile phones was released and launched on the market, although there will be various criticisms, such as the high price, lack of innovation, and various problems... but people will still buy it!

No matter what you say, Zhiyun S series mobile phones are still the world's largest high-end mobile phone brand and the first choice for countless people when buying mobile phones.

As a result, every year after the S series phones are released, there will be a concentrated buying spree, with hundreds of millions of units sold in just a few months.

This is also what Zhiyun Group intended to do... It just wants to consume the users' purchasing power as soon as possible to prevent users from switching to other brands, especially Fruit and Four-Star Galaxy series.

As Zhiyun Group is about to release the S17 mobile phone, there are frequent news about various Zhiyun mobile phones in the technology circle, and many company bosses and executives in the high-tech industry have appeared in Shenzhen one after another.

When these people began to appear in Shenzhen in large numbers, it meant that the annual informal global high-tech summit had begun.

While the Zhiyun Group was busy with the final release of the S17 mobile phone, not everyone was busy with the S17 phone.

Yu Taihe has not paid attention to the affairs of the S17 mobile phone. He is still immersed in the joy of getting rich.

After returning to Guangcheng, Yu Taihe did not start working immediately. Anyway, the MMK34 material had been developed, and the follow-up work was to carry out various tests step by step, and then start to think about how to carry out industrial mass production.

To be honest, these works are not closely related to Yu Taihe himself... These works are not his core research part. Yu Taihe himself is engaged in material research and development, using artificial intelligence to explore various material combinations and then see if he can come up with something new.

As for the MMK34 material that has already been produced, it will naturally be handled by materials experts in other fields.

So these two days, Yu Taihe didn't work much, but went to look at houses...

Dong Jing's office at Liuhe Investment had a special assistant to connect with him, who took him to see seven or eight villas.

Yu Taihe was a little embarrassed at first, but soon he got rid of any psychological barriers.

For Yu Taihe, this villa is an extremely expensive luxury item, but for Xu Shenxue, a big boss, it is a lot of prizes to reward employees at any time...

That’s right, the villas that Dong’s assistants took him to see were actually purchased in advance by Xu Shenxue using some of the companies under his name, and then used to accommodate company executives and core scientists... They were not properties that Xu Shenxue himself planned to live in.

Of course, most of them only give the right to use, and there are relatively few that are given away directly.

Yu Taihe's house is given to him directly, and he doesn't even have to bear the taxes and fees. As long as he likes the house, Manager Dong will help him with all the procedures and cover all the expenses. He can just move in with the house title.

No matter whether Yu Taihe was lucky or worked hard to come up with the MMK34 material, he did make the MMK34 material anyway.

As long as he succeeds, Xu Shenxue will recognize his achievement and make him rich overnight!
When looking at the house, Yu Taihe looked at the large villa in front of him, but he was not very satisfied. The yard was not big enough...

If he had seen such a villa mansion worth hundreds of millions before, he would be very excited, even collapsed, but in the past two days he has seen seven or eight similar villas. The cheap ones cost 70 or 80 million, and the expensive ones cost 100 or 200 million. After seeing so many, he has become numb.

But what he wanted most was a villa with a big yard where he could grow vegetables!

Seeing that Yu Taihe was still dissatisfied, Dong Jingban's assistant said, "Dr. Yu, the company doesn't have many properties nearby. Why don't you go and take a look at the newly developed commercial projects? Anything is fine!"

Although the companies under Xu Shenxue would hoard some villas, large apartments and other luxurious properties to house company executives and core scientists, they would not hoard too many in one place.

Yu Taihe's requirements are rather special. He must have a large yard to grow vegetables. The existing properties cannot meet his requirements, so he can only look at other commercial projects.

Yu Taihe said: "Okay, let's go and see!"

Soon, after making a few phone calls, Dong's assistant took Yu Taihe into a large sea-blue SLC luxury car and then headed to a villa complex.

After arriving at the project site, this sea-blue SLC with a landing price of about two million entered the project's sales center. Before the car even stopped, a group of people walked out in small steps to greet it.

Dong's assistant got out of the car first, then helped Dr. Yu open the door.

At this time, a middle-aged man in a suit and tie came forward and said, "I am Wang Tao, welcome Assistant Kang and this distinguished guest. I wonder if the distinguished guest...!"

Assistant Kang from Manager Dong's office interrupted him and said, "Boss Wang, are you ready? We are short on time, so just take me to see it. You're welcome!"

Wang Tao immediately said, "Everything is ready. We still have three top-grade apartments that meet all the requirements. We can take you to see them now. Please follow me, my dear guests!"

Afterwards, Assistant Kang gave in slightly and let Yu Taihe go first.

Yu Taihe felt a little strange when watching the communication between Assistant Kang and President Wang.

Assistant Kang has been accompanying him to look at buildings every day these past few days, and he speaks very politely, so he doesn't feel that Assistant Kang is that domineering.

But today, facing Mr. Wang, a senior executive of a real estate company, it turned out to be so strong.

Immediately, a group of people got in the car and went directly to see the building.

The employees of the real estate company nearby were shocked by this scene, but they dared not say anything...

You have to know that Mr. Wang mentioned above is not a professional manager, but the major shareholder and actual boss of their entire real estate company, with a net worth of tens of billions.

Just twenty minutes ago, the big boss hurriedly went to the sales office of the company's project in person, and then personally led people to make various preparations.

Twenty minutes later, this scene appeared... The big boss of a real estate company that developed villa complexes actually served as a salesperson himself, driving a sightseeing car to take guests to see the properties.

Who are the people who came to see the building today?

Ordinary employees like them naturally don’t know, only President Wang himself knows how powerful this person is!
In other words, the people who came were just average, the key point was that the place they represented was not simple... When he received the call, he was told that someone from Mr. Xu's office was coming to see the building.

Who is Mr. Xu?

If there is no special description, everyone in the country knows that it basically refers to Xu Shenxue.

Ordinary people may not be familiar with Dong Jingban, who is under Xu Shenxue, but among the wealthy class and the management of large enterprises, basically everyone knows that he is Dong Jingban of Liuhe Investment, the core institution under Xu Shenxue.

Manager Dong from Liuhe Investment came to the door and said he wanted to buy a house... In this case, let alone buying a house, Mr. Wang would be willing to give it to him for free.

If I could get in touch with Manager Dong, and if I could have a chance to become familiar to Xu Shenxue, there would be no problem in giving him a villa.

Unfortunately, he couldn't give it away even if he wanted to...no one would want it.

Don't expect to receive gifts, but if you build a good relationship, it is still possible to get some business done later.

He also knew that Manager Dong would purchase high-end properties from time to time. At the same time, the ultra-high-end real estate market was actually very small. Such things could not be hidden from him as an insider, but he was only a small player in the entire real estate industry and was not qualified to find connections with Manager Dong.

Therefore, apart from anything else, this time he just managed to retain the important client Dong Jingban. It would be good to sell more houses in the future. After all, Wang also develops ultra-high-end residential properties.

If he could break into the market run by Manager Dong and sell a few villas to Manager Xu, Wang would be able to boldly say at dinner parties in the future that Manager Xu and I had business dealings. Then his peers and suppliers would have to look up to him... Nowadays, there are so many companies that can do business with Xu Shenxue's companies... After all, it involves a lot of supply chains.

However, there are very few people who have direct and private business dealings with Xu Shenxue.

Assistant Kang and Yu Taihe naturally had no idea what Wang Tao was thinking, and they just sat in the sightseeing bus and continued on their way.

The boss Wang Tao was introducing the products while driving.

Yu Taihe was also listening and watching. The overall environment was very good and he liked it very much.

When we arrived at the first villa, Boss Wang started to introduce the situation directly and even specifically introduced the large garden area that came with the villa!

When Yu Taihe took one look at the huge garden...he simply ignored the flowers and ornamental plants on it, and instead wondered what kind of vegetables his parents could grow in such a large space.

This place is big enough!

Then I looked at two other houses. They were similar in other aspects, except that the garden was smaller.

So Yu Taihe finally returned to the first villa and said, "Assistant Kang, this is it!"
Assistant Kang smiled and said, "Okay, if Dr. Yu likes it, then that's it!"

At this time, Boss Wang came out and said, "Thank you both for choosing us. We will definitely offer you a discount on the price. I will give you a 20% discount!"

Assistant Kang waved his hand slightly and said, "No need for a discount. Just refer to the price of the last villa sold. It should be whatever it is!"

Dong's office doesn't need this little bit of funding, so there's no need for him to owe anyone a favor for no reason... Once he owes someone a favor, it's not owed by him alone, but on behalf of the entire Dong's office, and even on behalf of Xu Shenxue.

There is absolutely no need to owe favors to others for a price difference of tens of millions.

So, it’s as much as it should be!

Although Wang Tao was a little disappointed, it didn't matter. After the first time, there would be a second time. He had a lot of villas on hand.

He is also developing a community of large flat-type apartments in the core area of ​​the city center, so we can continue to cooperate in the future!

By cooperating a few more times, you will be able to slowly build up good relationships and establish connections.

(End of this chapter)