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Chapter 193: Live in Evergrande and drive Weimar
The original purpose of bringing a group of rich second-generation people from Vancouver to visit the Rubik's Cube factory was to appease these customers who came from far away to place orders for Rubik's Cube yachts.

Who would have thought that after seeing the amazing automated mechanical manufacturing technology inside the Rubik's Cube factory, this group of second-generation Vancouverites with strong family backgrounds would willingly pay more than $20 billion to invest in the angel round of "Rubik's Cube Automobile".

You know, the "Magic Cube Car" project is just an empty shell with a 1:1 metal car model so far, and even the project PPT prospectus has not been produced.

However, seeing that everyone was so enthusiastic about "giving money", Chen Jue reluctantly led this group of rich second-generations to his CEO's office to sit for a while.

Then the group's legal department and finance department jointly drafted a project equity investment contract for "Magic Cube Automobile Co., Ltd." and subscribed to the investment based on the valuation of 1 yuan per share.

The contract agreement can be signed first, and it will not be too late to make the payment slowly after the project is officially established.

For this purpose, Chen Jue even specially stepped forward to be the WeChat group owner himself, and created a gimmicky group called "Magic Cube Auto Angel Investors", and pulled all these rich second-generations in Vancouver into the group.

Of course, Chen Jue also made it clear in advance when he brought out MC roast chicken to treat everyone to a feast at noon.

That is, any brother who comes to subscribe for shares will automatically become invalid after one week if the funds are not deposited in time.

When everyone saw that there was this time constraint, they immediately started smashing their piggy banks and rummaging through drawers and boxes to search for their pocket money and the large red envelopes given by their elders in previous years to pay the fees and subscribe.

After all, these rich second generations attach great importance to their appearance.

We agreed to invest in a business together, but the shares subscribed on site cannot be taken out.

By then, don't even think about getting rich with the brothers in the group. You probably won't be able to survive in this circle and will quit the group on your own.

So that night, as much as 21 billion yuan of funds were transferred to the Magic Cube Group's public account in succession, and the speed was beyond Chen Jue's imagination.

"It's still these second-generation rich people who are rich!" Chen Jue couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

Once upon a time, he didn't even have a few thousand dollars in his pocket when he was lying dead in Chen Village.

Looking at the sons of Wenzhou businessmen, they often invest and squander tens of millions of dollars. The huge gap is really mixed.

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Fortunately, Chen Jue’s launch of the ‘Magic Cube Car’ project this time was not for fun, but an attempt to create a brand new business.

After receiving the investment funds from the second generation, Chen Jue came to the Oujiangkou New District in Wenzhou early the next morning with the project prospectus prepared by the group staff overnight.

Oujiangkou New District is located at the intersection of the East China Sea and Oujiang River. It is the main expansion area of ​​Vancouver’s central city and the core area of ​​the coastal industrial belt. It is also the first industrial cluster area approved by Jiangxi Province.

After circling the new district, the Hongqi commercial vehicle finally and slowly stopped outside the door of a large manufacturing enterprise with glass curtain walls.

At the entrance sign of the park, there is a large white Chinese and English logo of "WEM Motor Wenzhou Base".

However, compared with this impressive signboard, the seals on the entrance guard room and various bank and court enforcement notices reveal the inside story of a rotten interior.

"After going around in circles, I'm back to the starting point." Chen Jue looked at the seal at the guard post, a hint of regret on his face.

Before the epidemic, he bought pre-sale houses from Evergrande and cars from WM Motor. In the end, the houses and cars collapsed just like his own auto parts factory.

If it weren't for the MC system, he would probably not be able to escape the black-and-white collection notices at the door of his home in Chencun.

While I was thinking about it, an electric shuttle bus specially designed for traveling within the park came quickly from not far away.

Several business people in suits and ties got out of the car and came up to me excitedly. "Hello! Is this Mr. Chen from the Magic Cube Group? I just received a notice from my superiors. Mr. Chen, are you planning to inspect our Weimar's production base?"

The leader is called Wang Zhijian, who is in his forties and is the office director of the Weimar Special Task Force Office in Oujiangkou New District.

Since WM Motor collapsed and became "WeM Motor" in early 2023, this production base in Vancouver has been in a state of shutdown.

In addition, Mr. Shen, the founder of WM Motor, used various outrageous tactics. Before running away, he used the Vancouver base as collateral to find several financial institutions to obtain high-value financing loans of several billion yuan. While burning through 410 billion yuan from investors, he also paid himself a high annual salary of 12 billion yuan.

The new car-making forces that once could keep pace with "NIO, Xiaopeng and Li Auto" have now ended up in a state of disarray.

11 WM Motor users were stabbed in the back. The discontinuation of the model made subsequent repairs and maintenance difficult. The car system was once frozen, and the mobile phone app showed that it could not be loaded and was in a suspended service state. At the same time, the mobile phone Bluetooth key could not be used normally.

As for the Weimar base in Wenzhou, it was revealed that it owed wages to a large number of employees, and the entire factory was sealed off due to debt.

It is such a hot potato that even the Vancouver Municipal Investment Corporation dare not touch it, let alone private investors, and can only leave it alone and delay it as much as possible.

It is a rare opportunity to have a big boss with a strong background come to inspect, so the staff in the WM Motor special office were naturally very excited.

"Go in and take a look first, and buy it if it's suitable."

Chen Jue smiled slightly, with his hands in his pockets, an inexplicable confidence on his face.

In fact, before coming here, he had already discussed with Secretary Lin in advance, planning to use the newly hatched car manufacturing project "Magic Cube Automobile" to completely revitalize WM Motor's Vancouver base.

But Secretary Lin is the leader after all, so he arranges the daily schedule very carefully.

There is no need for him to personally handle such a "small business", as it can be handled by the special team below.

So the group opened the gate of the WM Motor production base while they were talking, allowing Chen Jue and Tie Shiqi, who had joined them and had started the career of [Mechanical Engineer], to go in and take a tour.

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Otherwise, why do they say a lean camel is bigger than a horse?

Although WM Motor's reputation has been declining since its financial crisis, the production equipment lines in its Vancouver base are very fully equipped.

Mr. Shen of WM Motor was also ambitious in the early days of his business. He used investors' money to poach people everywhere and recruited a large number of production managers from SAIC-GM.

Even the production equipment equipped in the base is very high-end.

From the all-aluminum integrated die-casting machine to the welding, painting and assembly of several complete vehicle assembly production lines, they are all equipped with FANUC's industrial robots.

The park, which covers an area of ​​nearly 100 acres, also has battery pack and plastic parts production workshops, with an automation rate of %.

Chen Jue asked Tie Shiqi to go to the production line for a walk and saw that all the equipment was running normally. Looking at the maintenance manual and the clock-in slip, it was shown that the staff from the special office would come to do maintenance regularly, and the smile on his face became even brighter.

"For a car manufacturing base with an annual production capacity of 10 units, there should have been quite a few employees working here, right?" Chen Jue asked.

Wang Zhijian nodded and said, "To be honest with you, Mr. Chen, at the peak of its glory days, the Wenzhou base of Weimar had more than 10 employees. In the past two years, most of them have jumped to other car companies due to unpaid salaries. There are still more than management staff who are on unpaid leave to handle the final work of Weimar's bankruptcy."

Chen Jue sighed when he heard this: "Two thousand people is not a small number!"

Just like the auto parts factory he ran before, it is not easy for employees to get together again after they have dispersed.

For the breadwinner of a family, a cut in salary means a cut in food for the family. No one would choose to stay in a company like WM Motor, and job hopping is a certainty.

Fortunately, domestic automobile manufacturers have been developing rapidly in recent years. Auto giants like BYD have recruited more than 90 employees in China alone.

In order to cooperate with the development of domestic new energy vehicles, some vocational colleges have specially added automobile-related majors and classes.

Every year, more than one million new blue-collar workers join the car manufacturing industry. As long as the salary is high enough, it is very easy to recruit people for "Magic Cube Auto".

So after checking the production line, Chen Jue asked Wang Zhijian and found out that WM Motor, which was in the bankruptcy stage, was divesting and selling its assets at a discounted price.

Now it only costs 12.47 billion in cash to acquire this automobile manufacturing base which originally cost over 30 billion.

Seeing this, Chen Jue immediately made a decision and said, "So cheap? Then Lao Wang, you should contact the leader to get a contract and give me an account to transfer the money! I have to go on a business trip to Shanghai later, and I will send the legal and financial departments to coordinate with you on the follow-up situation."

When Wang Zhijian heard the cry of “Ah???”, he was completely stunned!

It is a perfect closure with the first chapter, and it is a foreshadowing.

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(End of this chapter)