A century-old wealthy family that rose from Shanghai

Chapter 73 Fighting
Li Chao came to the head office of Changjiang Car Dealership (Yuyuan Road). He often came to the dealership to work part-time and was very responsible.

Even if Changjiang Motors did not need Li Chao as a 'middleman' with the Traffic Department, Li Chao would probably prefer to be the second-in-command at Changjiang Motors. He is much more suitable than He Xiangdong.

At most, He Xiangdong can develop into a "professional manager", but Li Chao has the control and overall strategic direction of a "boss".

Li Chao's stake in Changjiang Motors was less than 380%, and he received a dividend of yuan last month. Furthermore, Li Chao received a small amount of extra income from the Transportation Department, though it was only a few dozen yuan.

"Drink tea"

Chen Guangliang personally made tea for Li Chao and then sat down with him.

"Thank you. Smith has decided to issue fifty license plates at the beginning of next year, but he seems to be wavering about cooperating with our Changjiang Car Dealership now." Li Chao said with a serious expression.

Chen Guangliang's career focus at this time was about to shift to real estate, so he was not very anxious about this matter.

Of course, he must fight for what he can, and the car dealership business is now his stable source of cash flow.

"What's the reason?"

Li Chao replied, "I tested him a bit, and he meant that a license plate is worth 250 yuan now, and it's very popular. Meanwhile, a top-quality rickshaw is only yuan, and you can even buy one for or yuan. So, he thinks a - split is a bit unfair!"

Chen Guangliang laughed and said, "Other car dealerships wouldn't cooperate with him. They would only agree to a one-time deal. Therefore, our cooperation is the fairest for the Traffic Department!"

Suppose the Transportation Department sells a license plate for 250 yuan at one time, which is a one-time deal; but if it cooperates with the Changjiang Car Dealership, then a license plate can bring back 150 to 160 yuan a year, and half of the equity will still be there, so it can exit at any time.

'Exit at any time', Chen Guangliang will buy shares of the Transportation Science Department at a price not lower than the market price when he invested.

Chen Guangliang is very confident about this. Even if the Transportation Department withdraws from half of the shares of the 70 rickshaws now, Chen Guangliang will be very welcome.

The reason is simple. The drivers under the Changjiang Coach Company must be willing to raise money to buy shares because many people have tasted the sweetness.

Even if it takes two years to recoup the investment, the drivers will still be happy to do it.

After all, he had 20 oceans in his hand, and the bank interest rate was only 8% a year!

Li Chao nodded and said, "That's true, but Smith may have his own personal reasons. He's worried that he might leave the Traffic Department at any time, so he's more keen on a 'one-time deal'. After all, he feels that if he leaves, the benefits will benefit the rest of the Traffic Department."

Chen Guangliang finally felt relieved. So this was the reason. It would be easy to convince Smith!

"I understand his concerns, and I already have reasons to convince him."

Li Chao smiled and said, "I knew you had an idea. If you want to make a concession, I'll use my half as a bargaining chip."

He is not a person who does not know how to be humble. Many times, the equity was forced upon him by this friend.

So, he spoke out first.

Chen Guangliang said affirmatively: "The equity is not negotiable. At least for the price of the Dazhaohui license within 400 yuan, the profit will be divided into this proportion."

After the price has exceeded 400 yuan, Changjiang Car Dealership will definitely not add a large number of new vehicles.

Li Chao nodded and said, "Yeah."

After he left, Chen Guangliang began to think.

These fifty license plates are very important to Changjiang Car Dealership.

He'd recently discovered that running a "wild bike" was incredibly difficult, requiring him to redeem his bike every now and then. He had a few connections, but they were useless because there were so many patrol officers that even the little money he earned wasn't enough to cover the costs.

So of the 40 vehicles recently invested, the first 20 are fine because they have a "fake license plate" to fool people; the last 20 are not doing very well because the traffic department has used up all the discarded license plates and it is impossible to make fake license plates specifically, so the business is not very ideal, but of course it is still profitable.

Therefore, it is impossible for Changjiang Car Dealership to add any more illegal cars.

Who are the people who drive illegal vehicles?

Generally, they are very familiar with the routes in Shanghai, especially those who like to go through small alleys; more importantly, a rickshaw may be worth fifty or sixty dollars, or even assembled from abandoned rickshaws.

This way, it is truly cost-effective. Without paying rent, you may be able to make your money back in just one month.

Therefore, the fifty licenses issued by the Traffic Department this time are still very important. After all, there may not be many licenses released throughout the whole year next year; and the licenses issued by the Big Note Association may rise to 300 to 500 yuan next year, which will make it even more unaffordable.

Sun Yingjie informed his boss Gu Zhuxuan that 50 license plates would be released from the Traffic Department.

After hearing this, Gu Zhuxuan sat up without smoking and asked, "How many vehicles does the Changjiang Car Dealership have?"

The boss cares so much about Changjiang Car Dealership, it seems that he doesn't want them to develop, but because Chen Guangliang is now working for the boss, he will not directly participate in the suppression.

Sun Yingjie said, "In the past two months, they have quietly added vehicles. I'm afraid there are some illegal rickshaws. If that's the case, they might have 200 rickshaws now."

We should exaggerate the opponent's strength.

Of course, this is not an exaggeration. Changjiang Rickshaw Company actually has 215 rickshaws now, 47 of which are illegal rickshaws.

Gu Zhuxuan immediately said, "Go to the Traffic Department and tell Section Chief Smith that we can offer 300 yuan per license plate. We want all !"

Sun Yingjie said in surprise: "300 dollars? The price of this license has just risen to 250 dollars!"

Gu Zhuxuan laughed and said, "Why don't you understand this? We have over a thousand licenses (both large and small, but at different prices), so it's in our best interest to speculate on the prices of licenses. Besides, Guangliang is developing too fast, so we have to put some pressure on him."

He'd been feeling pretty good lately. His plan to spend just over 10 yuan to purchase 80 mu of land in Zhabei was nearly complete. He was also wasting no time finding a new location for the Tianchan Stage (the original had been occupied by the Wing On Company in collusion with the Municipal Council), to avoid the situation where land prices would have skyrocketed by the time he could secure a new location after winning the lawsuit.

Sun Yingjie suddenly realized something and said, "Boss, you're smart. The higher the price of this license plate, the bigger the profit for our Gu's Car Dealership. At the same time, it will also make it difficult for those small car dealerships to develop."

Gu Zhuxuan said with satisfaction, "There are more benefits than just this. Think about it, a rickshaw with a large scale can earn around 250 to 300 yuan in net rent per year. So even if its price is doubled, it's worth it. In this process, many people only focus on the immediate profits and will sell their rickshaws. We can also absorb them and continue to increase our holdings."

This statement is true. The more the license appreciates in value, the more it moves towards monopoly.

This year, although the market price of a Dazhaohui license plate has been at 200 yuan and rose to 250 yuan by the end of the year, there are actually only a handful of license plates for sale in the market.

Among the license plates obtained by Changjiang Car Dealership, a large part was obtained from the Traffic Department, and another part was obtained from "Wang's Car Dealership".

In other words, if nothing happened to Wang's Car Dealership, there would be no chance!
However, as the price of rickshaw license plates soared, transactions in this market became more active, and the end result was "more monopolistic."

In fact, the "unspoken rule" of major rickshaw dealerships is that they do not sell to individuals, which means that they implicitly do not give rickshaw pullers any opportunities, just like the clan system during the Sui and Tang dynasties.

"Okay, I understand what the boss means!"

Gu Zhuxuan did not want to get rid of the rickshaw just because he made money. Instead, he still wanted to develop this business.

(End of this chapter)