The island nation of Tokyo.
FSA Financial Services Agency Headquarters Building.
When there was a collective earthquake in the car company circle, Saitoi also learned about the upcoming press conference of the Linghang 001 car.
At this time, his face looked ugly, as if he had eaten a pound of dead flies, and his eyes were fixed on the preview blog video in front of him.
This moment.
He thought of a possibility.
That is, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi and other Japanese car companies have announced that they will withdraw from the Dragon Country market, and the threat of transferring their factories to Southeast Asian countries has no effect on Dragon Country.
"Could it be self-defeating?" Saitoi didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to believe it.
Originally, he wanted to use the withdrawal of Japanese cars from the Longguo market to put pressure on the Longxing Group, let Chen Xing sit down and negotiate with them, and give up intervening and sniping in the island country's economy.
The front is indeed working, the unemployment rate in Dragon Kingdom is soaring.
But now?
Longxing Group has really developed electric vehicles.
If the island country of fuel vehicles is the top player, then it is the last student of electric vehicles.
In the scientific and technological research and development directions announced by the island country, lithium batteries have never been explored as car power batteries. The "new energy vehicles" they are studying are hydrogen energy.
What is hydrogen?
Everyone who has attended nine years of compulsory education knows that water is a compound composed of hydrogen and oxygen, and its chemical formula is HO. Each water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom connected by covalent bonds.
The hydrogen fuel required by hydrogen energy cells can decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis.
The decomposed hydrogen is a colorless, odorless and poorly soluble gas under normal temperature and pressure. It is very easy to burn and its combustion value is about three times that of gasoline.
Can hydrogen energy cars run?
Can run!
Is it green?
Very green and environmentally friendly!
But it has a fatal flaw, that is, the hydrogen energy battery's extrusion deformation does not spontaneously ignite, but directly explodes.
Yes, it exploded directly!
To put it more simply, a hydrogen energy battery is equivalent to a "hydrogen bomb". If you dare to hit it, it will explode in front of you.
This is why neither the West nor Longguo choose hydrogen energy for new energy vehicles, but choose electric energy to drive them.
When a lithium battery is hit, if it is squeezed and deformed, it will at best spontaneously ignite and give you time to escape.
But hydrogen energy batteries are different. This is equivalent to detonating a bomb. Not to mention ordinary people, even Bolt will suffer from the northwest when he comes.
“If new energy is a major trend, we must keep up with the progress.”
Saitoi thought over and over again and decided to go to Toyota Group to find out the specific research and development progress of hydrogen energy batteries.
And at the same time.
After staying in a star-rated hotel in Shenzhen for nearly ten days, Sumie Miyazaki, the eldest daughter of Yu Miyazaki, the boss of Neon Telegraph Communications Company, also received a call from her father.
"Okay."
"I understand."
"I will continue to pay attention to the launch of Linghang 001 Car. If the sales are in line with expectations, I will immediately find Chen Xing Discuss cooperation. "
Miyazaki Sumie answered simply without any hesitation. She knew very well what it meant for Longguo Domestic Car to stand up.
As an island country, Neon Island Country has extremely scarce real estate resources.
Then why can it become a developed country?
You must know that the Dragon Kingdom, which is vast and rich in resources, is still only a developing country.
The reason is actually very simple, that is, the island country industrialized early and is a world leader in technology reserves and talent training.
After the end of S2, even if it was defeated, it did not become decadent. Instead, it quickly recovered and realized the heavy chemical industry and economic development by introducing foreign patented technologies and equipment.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the neon island country's average annual economic growth exceeded 10%, becoming the world's third largest economy.
If I want to be more straightforward, it is that the island country industrialized relatively early, has technological advantages, and has achieved economic growth by exporting products.
Among the products exported by the island country, cars account for a very large share.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the island country’s automobile industry is abolished, its foreign trade economy will collapse instantly.
Seeing that Miyazaki Sumie answered so simply, Miyazaki Yu reminded him seriously: "Remember, this is related to whether our family can continue to prosper."
"I understand. "
Miyazaki Sumie nodded in response.
As the phone hung up, she came to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel and looked at the busy night scene below, feeling increasingly melancholy.
How to choose between country and family?
...
When the undercurrent of island power was surging, consortiums from various Western countries held seminars to assess the impact of Longxing Group, Kunpeng Company, and Rice Company building cars.
In the eyes of laymen, a car is just a car, but in the eyes of insiders, a car is more than just a car. It represents the industrial level of a country.
If a country can build cars independently, then it has the ability to build aircraft, tanks, and warships.
Of the 197 sovereign countries in the world, less than 7 can independently build cars. They are America, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, South Korea, and finally the Dragon Kingdom.
Needless to say, the six countries of America, Germany, Italy, France, Japan and South Korea have almost monopolized the global automobile market.
As for the last Dragon Kingdom, it has only had an independent car manufacturing system in recent years, but it does not have a good brand. In China, joint venture cars are basically the dominant car.
If Pilot Auto breaks out of the joint venture situation, no one can imagine that Dragon Kingdom will not rise up and become a real super industrial power.
New York, USA.
666 Wall Street Building.
After Davitch put his plan to falsify economic data on hold, he was not idle. As soon as he learned that Chen Xing was going to hold a car press conference, he made a video call with the two CEOs of General Motors Group and Ford Motor Group.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Davitch." General Motors CEO Noemi Paz was the first to say hello.
He is a middle-aged man with no eyebrows and a bald head. His head is a bit pointed and he looks very fierce at first glance.
"Did Mr. Darvitch come to see us for something?" Robyn Gifford, CEO of Ford Motor Company, did not mince words and chose to go straight to the point.
As Longxing Group was about to hold a press conference for electric vehicles, car companies around the world were in chaos, and he was in no mood to chat with Davich.
"Good afternoon, both of you. Do you know about the Longxing Group?" Davich did not leave any ink, and directly talked about business.
“You are looking for us to talk about the Longxing Group?”
Robin Gifford asked.
"Yes." Davich did not deny it, but asked directly: "I hope you can make a trip in person, go to Longguo to attend the Longxing Group's electric vehicle launch conference, and then quickly Take countermeasures.”
He suffered losses in 2014, and he doesn’t want to do it again in 2016.
If they could have reacted and united with Gaotong Company to kill Longxing Technology Company, there would be no Longxing Group today.
Every time you suffer, you gain wisdom. He wanted Pilot Car to die in his infancy.
“…”
After a few seconds of silence, General Motors CEO Noemi Paz took the lead in expressing his position: “Since Mr. Davich has said so, then I will do it myself. Let’s take a trip.”
To be honest, he is not optimistic about pilot cars or electric cars.
In his view, building a car requires the accumulation of technology. Can the cars built by three outside companies, namely Longxing Group, Kunpeng Company, and Rice Company, threaten the status of established car companies?
Four words.
A fantasy!
Robin Gifford does not look down on new car companies like Noemi Paz, but he also does not think that so-called electric vehicles can replace fuel vehicles, but he still has to give them the respect they deserve. of.
“I will go there myself.”
After getting answers from the two people, Davich asked the most concerning question: "Do you think this new energy vehicle driven by electric energy can threaten the status of fuel vehicles?"
"No."
"Absolutely impossible."
The two rejected it in unison, and then Robin Gifford answered: "The internal combustion engine is the soul of the car."
"That's right." Noemi Paz quickly agreed and expressed his thoughts: "If a car loses its internal combustion engine, it is equivalent to losing its soul."
In their view Come on, as long as you are a man, you cannot refuse the roar of the engine. This is a romance that only belongs to men.
Electric cars?
It’s just a wicked way!
"That's good." With the two well-informed CEOs expressing their opinions, Davich breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Chen Xing would overturn the automotive industry again. This was the last thing he wanted to see. .
……
Time flies, and with the arrival of the Longxing Shopping Festival on January 25, the connections Chen Xing accumulated began to come into play.
Taowu.com and Wangdong platform have successively launched special promotions to give Longxing Group’s products extra traffic support.
In less than 5 minutes, four mainstream mobile phones, Longxing X3, Geek X2, Tianyu X1 and Cuican X2, have sold 2 billion in sales. Other accessories, such as headphones, Air purifiers, air conditioners, and water purifiers also enjoy discounts from the platform.
In addition to Taowu and Wangdong platforms, ByteDance’s Douyin platform has thoughtfully created a promotional pop-up window for the Longxing Shopping Festival. All users who click on Douyin must watch at least 1 Seconds of advertising to enter the software.
In addition, Penguin also created a pop-up advertisement on mobile QQ. You must watch the advertisement for 1 second before you can enter the list.
With the overwhelming publicity on the entire Internet, the concept of Longxing Shopping Festival has gradually been "implanted" into the brains of users.
Don’t think it’s an exaggeration. You must know that Double 11, Double 12, and the March 8th Goddess Festival are all concepts deliberately created by the online shopping platform itself.
Take Double 11 Singles’ Day as an example. Before the shopping platform had a hundred flowers blooming, who knew that Singles’ Day was originally on November 11?
For another example, take Women’s Day on March 8th. In order to make girls happy, they even changed the name of the holiday and turned it directly into Women’s Day, just to make girls buy and buy. On this day, Facial masks, cosmetics, and bags are the best sellers.
While users are buying and buying, there are also countless netizens waiting for news.
You must know that some time ago, Longxing Group issued a document saying that it would hold a press conference for Linghang Auto on January 25.
Almost half a month has passed and the venue of the press conference has not been announced. Everyone is speculating whether it is a pigeon.
At this time, millions of people gathered in the square on the Weibo platform for discussion.
[Invincible Kitten]: "It's January 25th. When will Mr. Chen hold a press conference? I want to buy a pink car!"
[Society Brother Mao ]: "It's been ten days, and the official blog hasn't updated the progress. Could it be that it's difficult to give birth, and we don't plan to hold a press conference?"
[I am God]: "Mr. Chen, please don't pigeonhole me. , I specially spent 1 million gold coins on my dad to buy your car!”
[Second Brother of the Fighting Group]: “Damn it, 1 million gold coins, rich brother, look at me, I’m willing to be it!” Your little car~"
In the discussion of netizens, "Is the pilot car pigeon? "The entry appeared in the top thirty of the hot search list, which also prompted Yao Nana to urgently inform Chen Xing of the situation.
Longxing Group Headquarters Base.
Office building.
In the marketing department's office area, Chen Xing and marketing department members were waiting for the one-hour sales data and net profit of the Longxing Shopping Festival.
Now Longxing Group is no different than before. It can be said to be a big business. There are four series of mobile phones: Longxing, Geek, Tianyu, and Cuichan.
Home appliances include air conditioners, water purifiers, dishwashers, water heaters, TVs, humidifiers, air purifiers, sweeping robots, etc.
Digital accessories also include sports bracelets, Bluetooth headsets, noise-canceling headphones, wireless chargers, mobile phone cases, mobile phone films, etc.
In addition to physical products, Longxing Group also sells insurance products.
For example, mobile phone insurance, home appliance insurance, personal safety accident insurance, serious illness medical insurance, critical illness insurance, travel insurance, etc.
It is no exaggeration to say that the current products of Longxing Group can be said to cover all aspects of life.
“Dingle bell——”
The alarm clock rings.
"The 1-hour data is out." The employee in charge of the data raised the volume to remind.
“How much?”
Chen Xing asked quickly.
“On the two mainstream shopping platforms, the official store’s total sales in one hour is 20.3 billion, and the net profit is approximately 6.9 billion.”
“Not bad.”
Chen Xing Xing felt confident.
In the absence of launching new products, subsidies alone can create tens of billions of revenue. Apart from Longxing Group, which other company can do this?
If there is popularity, it is natural to take advantage of it. Chen Xing looked at Yao Nana and said: "Announce the time of the press conference to build up the popularity."
"Understood."
Yao Nana nodded.
After receiving specific instructions, she personally sat in the operation position, sent the prepared manuscript to the outside world, and immediately contacted the official operations of multiple platforms to ask them to manually provide traffic support.
“Ding dong!”
This moment.
Countless fans who follow Longxing Group’s official blog have new blog post prompts popping up on the notification bar above their mobile phones.
Not only Weibo, but also Toutiao, Penguin Kandian, and Douyin, the most trafficked short video, all have update prompts popping up.
Click for the update prompt. The copy content is very short, only 6 words.
[Today, ready to go! ]
The short copy also comes with a video, which is only 4 minutes long.
Clicking into the video, a pair of car lights suddenly lit up in the originally dark scene, and then the surrounding lights lit up one by one.
“Boom——”
Just hearing the roar of the engine, the Pilot 001 car drove out of the garage. The video camera immediately gave a bird's-eye view. From a bird's-eye view, it was in a closed racing venue.
The moment we entered the race road, the speed of the car began to soar.
30 kilometers.
70 kilometers.
100 kilometers.
Gradually, vehicles from friendly merchants appeared in front. The first one was BYD, the second one was Honda, the third one was Toyota, the fourth one was Mercedes-Benz, and the fifth one was BMW...< br>
As soon as the camera turned, the friend's car was in a fierce chase with Linghang 001. One after another, Linghang 001 overtook the cars and left them far behind.
The moment you cross the finish line, you can clearly see that the speed of Pilot 001 is as high as 310 kilometers per hour, far exceeding the top speed of ordinary cars.
"Squeak——"
The tire rubbed against the ground, drawing a long tire mark.
After a handsome drift stop, the driver's door slowly opened, and a man wearing a racing suit stepped out of the car. The video camera immediately gave a close-up.
I saw him taking off his helmet, revealing his handsome face, facing the camera and saying: "Hello everyone, I am Chen Xing. At 2 pm on January 25th, I will be attending the Shenzhen International Speedway. We will hold a press conference for the Linghang 001 car here and evaluate the performance and features of this car through a live broadcast. Let’s stay together.”
Continuous warm-up, and the final press conference. The location is set at the Shenzhen International Racing Circuit, and any fool knows what Chen Xing wants to do.
Shenzhen Huaqiangbei.
Lin Xiaolong watched the video and said without tears: "Mr. Chen, you want to cross the line and kill me. You have to do the evaluation yourself!"
But he also had to admire Chen. Xing's trick is absolutely amazing.
The most difficult thing for new car companies to guarantee is product quality. Domestic car owners are indeed frightened by the uneven quality of domestically produced cars.
But what about Chen Xing?
Don’t play false, self-evaluate on the spot!
This is equivalent to being a review anchor, showing the advantages and disadvantages of the vehicle to the audience without any fuss.
What is this called?
Absolute confidence!
“Beep!”
When Lin Xiaolong was about to cry but had no tears left, a text message reminder popped up on his phone.
[Hello Mr. Lin, we Longxing Group, Kunpeng Company, and Rice Company sincerely invite you to attend the "2016 Pilot 001 Automobile Conference" and witness with you the launch of the first domestic new energy vehicle. You can send "1" to confirm within 8 hours of receiving the SMS. ]
“Holy shit!”
“Invite me!”
Lin Xiaolong was so pleasantly surprised that he immediately replied “1”, and then quickly found out what he should do tomorrow What to wear to attend.
Because it is a racing venue and the stands are also dangerous, Chen Xing did not sell tickets to the outside world, but adopted an internal invitation method to invite celebrities from all walks of life.
……
12 hours passed by in the blink of an eye.
At noon.
The sun is not as hot as summer, because its existence dispels the coldness of winter and warms the earth.
Shenzhen International Speedway, the outside of the venue is now full of people.
In order to avoid congestion and stampede incidents, police officers came to the scene one after another to maintain order.
The traffic police also implemented regional traffic control when arriving at the Shenzhen International Speedway, guiding social vehicles to avoid relevant road sections.
To find out what happened, a large number of car company CEOs showed up one after another.
BYD CEO, Wang Fu.
SAIC Group CEO, Chen Hong.
CEO of Guangzhou Automobile Group, Zeng Hong.
In addition to domestic car company CEOs, foreign car company bosses also arrived.
For example, BMW Group CEO Nagel, Mercedes-Benz Group CEO Olaf Wright, Audi Group CEO Dusmai, Honda Group CEO Ohtaki Kazuki, Toyota Group CEO Nishikawa Takahiro all arrived at the scene.
Even the competitor of new energy vehicles, Tesla Group CEO Masik, also came to the Shenzhen International Speedway.
It is no exaggeration to say that this new car launch conference brought together decision-making figures from the entire automobile manufacturing circle.
“It’s Chen Hong, the boss of SAIC!”
“I read that right, Masik is here too, as well as Wang Fu from BYD, and that one seems to be Xiaoba from the island country. Ga, it can’t be Kazuki Otaki, the boss of Honda Group, right?”
“That’s him, he spoke at the last car exchange forum!”
“Nagel, Olaf ·Zate, Robin Gifford and Noemi Paz are all here. My dear, all the bigwigs in the entire car company circle are here to watch the Pilot 001 car conference offline. It’s so impressive. ! ”
When the surrounding audience saw so many big names in the car industry gathered, they all exclaimed and took photos to post on WeChat.
At the same time.
The horror of "huge purchases" is allowing Linghang 001 Automobile to dominate the entire Longguo Internet. Countless incidents pile up on the front page of the headlines, mercilessly washing away the attention of netizens.
"There are only 40 minutes left before the launch of the Linghang 001 car. More than 20 car company CEOs have gathered at the Shenzhen International Speedway. Can the Linghang 001 hold the crowd? 》
《Linghang 001 press conference is about to be held. Electric energy-driven vehicles VS fuel-driven vehicles, who can win? 》
《Has the solid-state battery been successfully developed? Is there a latest breakthrough in the safety of lithium batteries? Can electric vehicles replace fuel vehicles? Who can have the last laugh in this press conference? 》
With the crazy posts from marketing accounts and trolls, the topic of "Electric Vehicles VS Fuel Vehicles" also appeared on Weibo's hot search list along with "Leader 001 Press Conference", with the popularity exceeding 1.7 billion, equivalent to tens of millions of people paying attention.
The live broadcast room of Longxing Group’s official blog is also opened when the popularity is highest.
In a flash.
A large influx of spectators.
“Has the press conference begun?”
“Damn it, you don’t know how scary it was offline just now. Big bosses from the entire automotive industry are here, and you don’t know what Mr. Chen can do. Can’t resist the pressure and reshuffle the automotive field! ”
"If you don't understand, just ask, where is Mr. Chen? Where is my male idol, Mr. Chen?"
"I like the appearance of Pilot 001 very much. As long as the configuration is not too bad and the price is not too expensive, I can still support it. Taiwan."
"Let me tell you the number, 99,000, here's the link!"
"99,000, you think it's a fake, 99,000 can only buy a low-end scooter. , it is basically impossible to buy a coupe.”
The barrage kept popping up, and the number of people in the live broadcast room continued to increase. In less than 10 minutes, it had reached 970,000 people, just shy of 1 million people watching online. 30,000 people.
In the Shenzhen International Speedway, in the underground garage, Chen Xing was wearing a red racing suit and holding a racing helmet in his right hand.
Although Linghang 001 is not a professionally designed sports car, at the beginning of the design, he mentioned that it should have certain sports car performance.
In other words, Linghang 001 is a vehicle between a family sedan and a sports coupe.
"Mr. Chen, are you ready?" asked the staff of the Shenzhen International Speedway. Then he reminded: "After leaving the garage, turn right and enter the track. The end of the lap. , is the speech venue you arranged.”
“That’s right.”
He thought of something else, looked at the short boy on one side and said, "His name is Ajie. He is your guide. If you accidentally drive into another track, he can help guide you out."
"Hello, Mr. Chen."
"Hello."
The two shook hands. After a brief familiarity, Ajie looked at the time and said, "There are still 25 minutes left." It’s 2 o’clock, Mr. Chen, isn’t it 2 o’clock for your press conference? It’s time for us to set off.”
“Okay.” wearing a safety helmet, and then quickly got into the driver's seat.
Ajie trotted to the passenger seat, quickly opened the door and got in.
"Bang bang——"
The car door is closed.
The moment Chen Xing started the vehicle, the staff of the Shenzhen International Speedway made a ready-to-go gesture.
Ajie was afraid that Chen Xing wouldn't understand. While holding the armrest above the car door with his right hand, he quickly reminded: "It's time to go, Mr. Chen."
(End of Chapter)