People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

The little guy unbuckled his seat belt and came to the driver's seat.

Hey! You mainly want to drive yourself, right?

Just as Sandang got around to the back of the Mingguan, she suddenly received a voice call from Shen Qin on her smart bracelet. She quickly answered the call: "Shen Qin, what's wrong?"

"Sugar, didn't the Mingguan receive my instructions? We can set off now."

"Eh? Okay, okay! I'll be there right away..." She looked up suddenly and saw the Mingguan ship flying away from her like an arrow, with the raised dust covering her.

At this time, Shen Qin's voice came from the bracelet: "Eh? I saw you left. I'll hang up first. You can't make phone calls while driving..."

"Wait!" Sugar immediately spoke up to stop him from hanging up, "I wasn't driving, it was Klee! I wasn't in the car!"

Shen Qin: “…”

He stared blankly at the huge Mingguan on the other side of the display area as it continued to accelerate towards him. He seemed to hear a huge alarm and at the same time, a few white letters on a red background appeared in front of him.

FBI WARNING!!!

Albedo, Diluk, and Jean beside him also heard his conversation with Sucrose. They looked at each other, then looked at you who was coming towards them... and the oncoming Mingguan, and immediately arranged for all shareholders and customers to retreat to a safe area.

"Klee! Klee! Stop the car immediately! Let Sister Sugar drive!" He whispered to the Mingguan.

But at this time, Ke Li was so excited by the increasing speed that she could no longer listen. She shouted loudly: "Wind force three knots, wind direction 274, distance one kilometer, believe me, Brother Shen Qin!"

"Eh? If you want to show the performance of a vehicle, wouldn't it be clearer the closer you get?"

The customer who was asked to move back asked in confusion.

Shen Qin gritted his teeth and decided to trust Keli for once, then he explained to them with a smile: "Because we decided to temporarily change the driver, let Academy City's 'number one driver' show the full performance of the Mingguan. But her driving style is rather rough, which may cause a lot of dust to fly, so it's better to stay away from her."

He was sure that the intelligent system could ensure Kelly's safety, and she obviously had no intention of stopping the car. Forcibly stopping her would be dangerous, so he just had to trust her!

"Mr. Shen Qin, you don't have to worry about us. Since you are showing us the full performance of the vehicle, dust and other things are secondary."

A customer approached the display area on his own. As soon as he finished speaking, a huge machine drove past him at a high speed less than three meters away. The strong wind blew off his wig, and his legs shook and he almost fell to the ground.

Then the flying dust engulfed him completely.

Shen Qin: Brother, I'm considering your safety.

Chapter 130: The Escaped Sun

Klee drove through the speed measuring area and the measured speed was 301 kilometers per hour!

Shen Qin stared at Mingguanhao closely to see what she would do next.

"Next are four consecutive right-angle turns..." Klee muttered to herself, her eyes fixed on the front. When she reached the right position, she released half of the accelerator, moved half of her foot to the brake and stepped on it with all her strength, while turning the steering wheel to the lower left. After the front of the car turned sixty degrees, she immediately turned the steering wheel to the upper right.

The huge Mingguan was seen drifting into the first turn with a flexibility beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. The key point was that the speed did not decrease much!

Then, almost like copying and pasting, it passed the remaining three right-angle turns in the same standard drifting posture.

Shen Qin, who witnessed all this, widened his eyes. He had never taught Sucrose how to drift, and she had been driving in a very standard way during practice yesterday. So, Klee... learned it on her own?

"Amazing! Such a heavy vehicle, but it moves so nimbly!"

"God of Wind, what did I see? How did it overcome the speed limitation on turning?"

Although the people of Tewat did not know the difficulty of drifting, they also knew that it was difficult for any object to turn when moving at high speed - animal-drawn vehicles traveling at high speeds would often overturn due to sharp turns.

Next, Klee did not disappoint Shen Qin. She completed all the events perfectly in order, including mountain trekking, wading, single-sided bridge, extreme braking distance... her performance was even more perfect than Sucrose.

Shareholders and customers kept their eyes on the Ming Guan. Every time it showed strong performance, they cheered and applauded excitedly. When the Ming Guan returned to the finish line - not far in front of them, they all applauded and walked quickly towards it.

Sucrose and Jean, who had already run back here, stared at the Mingguan in amazement. They couldn't believe that the perfect display just now was done by Klee.

Albedo and Diluk both breathed a sigh of relief, and the expressions on Sucrose and Jean's faces also eased.

Shen Qin glanced at Qin's face and felt relieved for Keli. Although she would still be punished, it would at least not be too severe.

He smiled and spoke well of Keli: "Keli's performance this time was really good..."

The next moment his expression froze, because the Mingguan started again and ran straight out of the exhibition area. It soon climbed over a small hill and disappeared on the other side of the hill.

Shen Qin: Huh??? No, Keli, where are you going?

Qin's face turned from gloomy to stormy in an instant. She immediately called Klee using her smart bracelet, but Klee didn't answer.

Sucrose also sent a message to the Mingguan: "Keli! Where are you going? Come back soon!"

Shen Qin realized that this girl was probably having too much fun, so he immediately stepped on the flying skateboard and said, "Diluke, I leave this to you. I'll go get her back!"

But Sandang stopped him and said expressionlessly: "I didn't take good care of her. I'll go."

She was even angrier than Jean now. After all, it was because of her negligence and failure to keep an eye on Klee that Klee drove the Mingguan car and caused trouble. Fortunately, the demonstration of the vehicle's performance was successfully completed in the end.

The farce should have ended here, but perhaps Keli felt that she had not been beaten enough, so she drove away without permission... Looking at Sutang's expression, Shen Qin just wanted to mourn for her in silence.

Sucrose rode Shen Qin's skateboard to chase Klee. Jean wanted to follow, but Albedo held her back: "You represent the Knights, so it's better for you to stay here. I'll take care of Klee."

Qin nodded grimly.

Shen Qin explained to the puzzled customers: "Our drivers are quite strong-willed. As a young man, it's understandable that they enjoy driving. Don't worry about her. Next, I'll take you to see the performance of the Dawn and Fruit Wine Lake..."

Compared with the Mingguan, the performance of the Chenxi and Guojiuhu ships is more mediocre, but most people are still more interested in these two models - the Mingguan is too expensive and not suitable for small-scale cargo transportation, and there are not many forces that can use it.

After watching the display of three transport vehicles, everyone came indoors.

The staff distributed relevant information to everyone, so that they could have a deeper understanding of the transport vehicles. The information also included detailed information such as quotation, delivery time, and cooperation method.

Before the press conference, Shen Qin held several meetings with all shareholders to discuss the commercial operation model of these large-scale construction machinery.

Some people suggested not to sell any construction machinery to the outside world. Academy City would set up its own engineering team and contract out construction projects. It would also only supply its own transport fleet with transport vehicles and provide transportation services to customers.

But to be honest, doing so would be a bit ugly, as it would basically completely monopolize the entire market. Other transport teams and construction teams could be disbanded on the spot, or become outsourced personnel for Academy City-related businesses.

Is it really a good thing for Academy City to be the only dominant city?

Forces such as the Dawn Winery, the Three Kingdoms, and the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce are indeed very powerful, but there are forces in the entire Teyvat that can contend with them. Academy City is still too weak now. If it arouses public anger and is boycotted by a coalition, then the situation will be extremely difficult.

Therefore, the business operation model finally decided by Shen Qin and Diluk is to open up most of the construction machinery for sale to the public without affecting the construction of the Academy City, and provide paid worker training services. Only those who pass the assessment and obtain the corresponding construction machinery operation license can officially take up their posts.

Academy City will also have its own engineering and transportation teams, but in the early stages they will definitely all be devoted to the construction of Academy City, and in the later stages they may go out to contract business.

Another benefit of opening up the sale of construction machinery is that it can help to recover funds as quickly as possible.

Anyway, Academy City has been burning money so far, and no benefits have been seen from Ichimora. The construction of the city in the future will also be a money-burning project.

Only by continuously launching new products to recover profits and maintain a balance between income and expenditure can the scale of Academy City continue to expand.

However, because of its exclusive technology, Academy City's price for construction machinery is still slightly high.

The market price of the Fruit Wine Lake small transport truck is 700,000 Mora, the Dawn medium transport truck is 2 million Mora, and if the cargo compartment is replaced with a passenger compartment, it will cost 2.2 million Mora. The Bright Crown large transport truck is 20 million Mora, and the selling prices of other construction machinery range from 300,000 to 5 million Mora.

If you place an order for more than ten machines at the same time, you can enjoy a 50% discount.

The prices of all the construction machinery seem very high, but Academy City is the only city in Teyvat that can provide them, so customers who intend to buy have no other choice.

They also understand that construction machinery is a dimensionality reduction attack on traditional manual working methods. Whether it is work efficiency or work accuracy, machinery has the upper hand.

Unless the Rock King personally takes charge of the infrastructure.

Chapter 131: One Hundred Small Goals

Johnston was very excited when he looked at the information of the three transport vehicles, but he was still a little hesitant when he saw their expensive prices.

He is from Mond, but he only stays in Mond for about ten days a year because he has a long-distance caravan and travels between different regions all year round to do reselling.

This time, he had just spent several months transporting a batch of goods from Fontaine to Mond. Through a friend's introduction, he learned that Academy City was about to release some new products for public sale, including transportation machinery, so he submitted a letter of intent to purchase with some doubts.

After accepting the invitation and coming to Academy City early this morning, he discovered that his rival Goss was also here.

"Oh - look who this is! It turns out to be our dear Johnston. How come you, such a delicate and cowardly boy, were not captured by the treasure-stealing group to be their concubine!" Goss looked Johnston up and down, and finally stopped his gaze on his handsome face, uttering a sarcastic remark.

Johnston ignored him. There was no point in arguing with him.

"What? Pretending not to see me? Your father didn't teach you any manners. When he was still alive, he had to call me brother. You have to call me uncle, understand? You uneducated boy!"

Goss, shaking his gray beard, chased Johnston and cursed him, and even ran up to him and pointed at him and cursed him.

Johnston was very angry, but he held it back because he was afraid that the old man would become angry if he punched him.

The feud between the two families can be traced back to his father's generation. His father Roy and Goss were good friends who grew up together. Later, they formed a caravan together, mainly doing business between Mondstadt and Liyue.

At that time, there were more and more caravans doing business with Mondstadt in Liyue, and their caravan's profits were decreasing. In order to solve this problem, a disagreement arose between Roy and Goss.

Roy wants to expand the market and no longer be limited to Liyue and Mondstadt, but Goss thinks this is risky and it would be better to hire corporate spies to disrupt competitors' businesses and drive them out of the market.

Neither of them could convince the other, so they parted ways. Goss took his men to compete maliciously with other caravans, while Roy went to other areas to open up new markets.

In the first three years, Goss used off-field means to suppress more than a dozen competitors and became one of the best caravans between Mondstadt and Liyue, but Roy's caravan did not improve at all, so the successful Goss often ran to Roy and mocked him.

Another five years later, Goss's caravan began to decline due to its poor reputation, while Roy's caravan began to improve. The customers and reputation he had accumulated in the previous years finally played a role and greatly increased the caravan's income.

The exasperated Goss continued to frequently jump up and down in front of Roy, and his curses became increasingly harsher, and the two sides even fought several times.

Later, Roy died in an accident. At his funeral, Goss cursed him for having a good death, and then had a conflict with Johnston, the heir to the caravan.

After that, every time Johnston returned to Mond, Goss would come up to him and speak in a sarcastic manner, and this continued for more than ten years.

Johnston's seldom return to Mond may also be an attempt to avoid old Bidden.

Goss had been nagging in his ear all day long. Normally, he would have left immediately to avoid him, but the three transport vehicles on display in Academy City made it impossible for him to move.

Long-distance caravans are very profitable, but the price is that each trip takes a lot of time on the road. If we use transport vehicles that do not need to rest to replace traditional human-drawn carts and animal-drawn carts, the time spent on the road can be shortened by at least ten times! In other words, we can earn ten times more moula in a year!

Even if the profit is reduced due to the reduction in transportation costs, at least five times more Mora can be earned.

"Oh my! Such a pile of broken iron lumps costs 700,000 Moras. Shen Qin is too ruthless! 700,000 Moras is enough for me to hire as many drivers as I want and buy as many carts as I want! Is there really a fool who would buy this thing? What if I can't make back my money? Wouldn't that be a loss?"

When Johnston heard Goss's dissatisfied murmur, his eyes rolled, and he immediately decided to sell all the old cars in the caravan when he returned, and then use 90% of the caravan's funds to buy transport vehicles!

Like Johnston, there are many people who decide to buy transport vehicles, including several shareholders of Academy City, who also have the need to transport goods.

Customers who only wanted to buy transport trucks signed the purchase contract directly, while customers who had needs for other construction machinery planned to visit other exhibition areas before placing an order together. After all, there were significant discounts for purchasing more than ten vehicles at a time.

Diluk took the customers to the next exhibition area, so there was no need for Shen Qin to follow them since he was not responsible for any commercial work.

He returned to the room, sat on a chair and let out a long breath. The volume of orders for the transport vehicles alone had dispelled all his worries. The huge investment some time ago had finally paid off.

Eighty-seven Fruit Wine Lake, twenty-two Dawn, and three Bright Crown vehicles were just sold, with the total order amount reaching 166.3 million Mora. Including those customers who have decided to buy but have not yet signed a contract, the sales of transport vehicles alone have reached 400 million!

These are only the orders generated by these invited customers. If we add in the retail investors who have not visited here yet, Shen Qin estimates that during the three-day public display period, he can sell more than 10 billion Mora for the transport vehicles alone!

Adding other construction machinery to the mix, selling it for 10 billion wouldn't be excessive, right?

Ten billion in three days, by then those shareholders will probably be so happy that they will be at a loss as to what to do. With such great results at the beginning, the development prospects are extremely good!

But the atmosphere in the room was not very good at this moment. Because of Keli's mischief, Shen Qin with a sad face and Qin who was brewing a storm sat on the chairs, and no one spoke.

Shen Qin thought about it and still felt that he should bear part of the fault, so he took the initiative to speak: "Qin, I am also responsible for Keli's mischief..."

He confessed that he had indulged Kelly in driving, and stood in front of Qin with his head down, nervously grasping the corner of his clothes, waiting for Qin's scolding.

Qin couldn't help laughing when she saw him and Ke Li admitting their mistakes in the same way. She sighed, "Shen Qin, only at this moment do you remind me that you are just a teenager... Stop standing there. I don't blame you."

"You're still too doting on Keli. It's a child's nature to be playful. We can't suppress her nature, but we have to guide her..."

While Qin was teaching Shen Qin parenting knowledge, Sucrose and Albedo finally caught the escaped Sun.

The speed of the Mingguan was faster than the flying skateboard, but Klee, who was immersed in racing, did not notice the two people far behind. She rushed around in the Wind Dragon ruins, making many turns, and was soon caught up by the two people.

Albedo used the elemental power of rock to manipulate the rocks to lift up the Mingguan. Its fourteen wheels were suspended in the air and could not move at all.

Only then did Kelly see the two people and felt that a disaster was about to happen.

Chapter 132: Klee! You are fooling around without considering the situation! The situation!

When Sucrose and Albedo entered the cockpit, Klee was sitting on the ground leaning against the back of the driver's seat. When she saw them come in, her body trembled and tears immediately came out, as if she had already foreseen her own ending.

She buried her head in her knees and secretly looked at Albedo with a helpless look on his face and Sister Sucrose with an expressionless face.

Seeing her actions, Sandang was both angry and amused. Finally, he sighed and rubbed her head helplessly: "Okay, sit in the passenger seat, I'll take you back."