In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love

Chapter 426: Just Ask if It’s Direct

Zi Xiaowei still looks dusty these days despite the huge carnival scene at the Changjiang Automobile Group headquarters, test track, and factory area.

It's definitely like an invisible man.

All foreign tourists would never guess that this is the second in command.

Dai Anni and her friends spent over seven figures on the high-end fashion brand that came to their door. The brand even brought a tailor to make fine adjustments on the spot to ensure that the clothes the ladies wore were tailor-made to best reflect the famous designer's intentions. They didn't even buy two pieces for Zi Xiaowei just to show off.

Why does a man dress so handsomely? Doesn’t his family think he doesn’t look good enough?

So when Zi Xiaowei appeared at the international auto show with Lao Chang, his hair was still messy.

An extremely ordinary black round-neck T-shirt with the word "Carnival" on it. Over the past few days, smart merchants and publicity and promotion management have made many promotional T-shirts and sold them everywhere on site.

There are the logos of Changjiang Automobile and Ella Automobile on the back, and the silk-screen printing shops in the auto city are extremely busy.

Wrinkled jeans and canvas sneakers.

It doesn't even seem like he's Lao Chang's follower, at most he's a parking attendant.

It is said that the entire Changjiang Automobile senior management is consciously or unconsciously imitating this dressing style, for fear that their high-end style will be disliked by their successor and kicked out.

Old Chang's clothes are not much better, but they are limited. His new Windsor collar casual shirt looks expensive and is tied tightly to show his figure. At his age, he can still have a slim and graceful figure, which is quite elegant.

But underneath he was wearing a messy pair of jeans tucked into his shirt, and the loafers he was wearing were not high-end at all, but very casual.

However, as soon as he appeared at the crowded booth, he was able to automatically split the crowd. Countless mobile phone lenses and SLR cameras were clicking at him. It was all thanks to a group of Changjiang Automobile staff who squeezed out space in front, behind, left and right to ensure that the recorders and interview cameras extended to him did not touch the chairman.

Even though he basically kept a low profile in Changjiang Automobile, he had to step to the front after leaving his marketing partner.

The faces of the bosses of these major domestic automakers are definitely familiar to everyone in the automotive industry. They are constantly asking why Changjiang Automobile was so perfunctory at the exhibition this year, why it didn't launch any new models, and why...

There are no need to ask so many whys. As a media person, if you still can't see that the entire era is changing, and the media industry is the first to be affected, then you deserve to lament the difficulty of achieving results.

The booth was originally crowded with media and car enthusiasts who were taking pictures of several charming car models.

He was actually knocked away by Lao Chang's "aura", and was forced to climb in amidst a crowd of people, and reached out to touch the pure electric coupe with a mecha style without hesitation.

The pretty car model quickly stood in the hope of impressing the boss, even though she had no idea who she was.

The veteran was still quite skilled. He simply ran his hand over the paint surface and whispered to Zi Xiaowei, "It's hand-sprayed, and it hasn't even hit the mass production line yet..."

Zi Xiaowei has been hanging around in the workshop quite a lot these days, and Lao Chang is forcing him to familiarize himself with all the processes.

Building a car is nothing more than stamping sheet metal into shape, welding the parts together, applying several layers of paint, and finally assembling and splicing the parts to form the final vehicle.

Stamping relies on changing molds to switch between multiple car models, and the initial cost of opening a new car production line lies here.

Welding can be done on rigid dedicated lines for specific vehicles with absolutely no errors, or on flexible lines for the production of multiple models.

Painted buses are mostly produced on the same line.

For the Gaohe painting line, which only has two or three models, Lao Chang can tell the quality of the paint just by touching it, and thus know the approximate progress of the other party's car.

Zi Xiaowei only had a partial prototype in March, yet he dared to brag about it on a live broadcast, even though it couldn't be started.

It was only at the end of April that two hand-made prototypes made by the R&D center were available for display, and they actually sold for 80 billion!
Now Lao Chang is frantically pushing the production line to trial-produce models. Several prototype cars have been produced in half a month, but there are problems everywhere and various adjustments need to be made. Usually, regular car companies can complete this step in two to three hundred days, and it is not uncommon to spend more than five hundred days on this meticulous work.

But Zi Xiaowei demanded that mass production must be completed within sixty to seventy days!
At this juncture, the other party also had a prototype car that could be shown to the public and tested, but the mass production line had not yet been completed 100%.

In a sense, the three different cars on this booth all have a low-lying mecha-style design. The R&D team was forced to do this in order to ensure common production. Of course, to put it nicely, it is a unified brand style.

There is simply no money to open a new production line for each car.

Zi Xiaowei also understood: "No wonder they have to go for the mecha style. This is a joke. The people who like the mecha style must be young people. How many young people are willing to spend 500,000 or 600,000 yuan on a brand they've never heard of? No matter how good the performance is, without the brand's support, then only the wealthy second generation with plenty of money can buy it for fun. How many of them are there in the country?"

This is called user portrait. Almost all new forces emerging from the Internet have an instinctive ability to create portraits.

During the planning stage of every game, every software, and every APP, you must first ask who the user is. The more precise the picture, the greater the chance of success in the end.

Many traditional car companies don’t actually do this.

Their idea is to first decide how much the car will be sold for, then find a designer to design an appearance that they think is beautiful, or just make do with an appearance, and then run advertisements to educate consumers that they should like this car.

Lao Chang sneered: "No wonder the car you pressed on the mecha wind didn't move?" He is a rich second-generation, he is the Jibei car god who has never been short of money since the 1980s, so of course he would like to buy this kind of performance car to try it out.

The feelings of the second-generation soft class, who came from the lower classes, were completely different from his: "Of course they do. With over 3,000 administrative counties, it's good to have one or two on average. Big cities have more. Statistics on families with assets exceeding 20 million are readily available, and those of the right age are basically men. So how many are left? It's definitely not as many as the fishermen."

After the Spring Festival, Zi Xiaowei showed in the live broadcast room a Totoro, a mecha-style coupe, and a transforming car that looked like a fastback SUV but actually opened up to reveal a pickup truck bed. They were jokingly called the standard configuration for anglers across the country, and it was time for He Qiang to be the spokesperson.

Old Chang laughed heartily. He could not blame him for doting on his son-in-law, who not only had sales performance but also had his own opinions and could chat and laugh with him.

So what if you have more sisters? This way, they won’t go out and have fun, and it’s more hygienic.

Then I had another idea: "It seems that they are really short of funds. We can take advantage of the opportunity to acquire them."

It's as simple as buying a pack of cigarettes.

Zi Xiaowei quickly took a breath and said, "Slow down, slow down. I'm not familiar with this job."

Lao Chang laughed again: "I'm not familiar with it either..."

No senior executives from Changjiang Automobile came with them. They were all busy at the headquarters with restructuring, business changes, and carnival activities.

Therefore, all the people from the branch here are subordinate to the marketing center and dare not get close at all.

Just block out other outsiders.

The ignored car model also looked at the young man wearing a mask respectfully, with tenderness and virtuousness in her eyes.

She could tell that this young man was of extraordinary status, but Gao He and the car owner who came in a hurry couldn't tell.

The first person to come was the exhibition manager, who almost grovelled to introduce the prototype car. It still had the Rolls-Royce-style front and rear doors. Zi Xiaowei had also considered this job on the Totoro, but later he solved it by sliding the rear doors open.

The key is that it has an electric door. Just put the car key in your pocket, walk towards the driver's seat, and it will automatically pop open and slowly open. When you sit in, the door will automatically close slowly again.

Zi Xiaowei laughed. This was the new energy vehicle he had promoted in the live broadcast room. It was going to include all the details of electrical appliances, probes, and sensors.

The car's design team is truly exceptional, creating a very satisfying emotional experience for the owner: "Fuck! We have an off-road version of the X, and the electric door sensors aren't this advanced. Does this require a software upgrade?"

The sales manager turned around and looked at Zi Xiaowei very obviously, and said with undisguised contempt: "Go to the nearest 4S store to upgrade."

Perhaps Zi Xiaowei's age and appearance make him look too much like a younger brother in the R&D department. People's respect for the boss of Changjiang Automobile is based on their respect for his status in the entire industry.

But in fact, we also understand that we are competitors. We can take photos to say that the CEO of Changjiang Automobile is obsessed with our new car to enhance our own image.

And technical personnel will definitely feel subconscious dislike and disgust.

Old Chang also pretended not to hear, and Zi Xiaowei deliberately countered: "4S store? Our car is in Jiangzhou, there is no local store, right? We have to go to Chengdu?"

As the largest automobile city in the country and one of the three municipalities, it actually has no 4S stores. This shows how stretched the entire marketing system is. Moreover, software upgrades have to be implemented in stores, which shows that the car that Dai Anni bought two years ago due to customer relations still has many imperfections.

Problems of this level are not allowed to occur in Changjiang Automobile.

The other party was indeed embarrassed and lacked confidence in front of the expert.

Fortunately, another boss of a higher rank showed up, and he also greeted Lao Chang in an almost flattering manner, and began to enthusiastically demonstrate the many special effects functions of this coupe.

But it was very clear that Lao Chang and Zi Xiaowei both discovered that the general manager who was said to be in charge of the Internet of Things was not very familiar with the business!

Well, maybe it just so happened that I met Zi Xiaowei, who is an intensive user of Gaohe Automobile. In the past few months, the new energy vehicle he played with the most was the flagship version of the Gaohe SUV. He wanted to drive a large SUV, and even parked it in the workshop to disassemble it, and repeatedly reverse-analyzed with engineers and technicians why others did this.

Old Chang was very familiar with the entire automotive manufacturing industry. When they cross-examined each other, they could clearly see that the other was sweating profusely.

Not daring to confront Mr. Chang, why do you dare to ask these questions? Instead, he took the inconspicuous mask-wearing younger brother as an example: "Mr. Chang is visiting our booth. It is our honor to accompany you on a tour and research. As a rookie in the industry, please don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

Old Chang still had no expression on his face and did not speak up for his servant.

Of course, this also meant that the other party politely refused to respond to his technical questions.

Unexpectedly, Zi Xiaowei shook his head and said, "You are completely magnanimous. If Changjiang Automobile acquires Gaohe, you will be fired immediately."

Is Lao Chang scared?

Isn't it always better to go in a roundabout way when buying things? Why are you so direct?

(End of this chapter)