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Chapter 194: Can the work of a car maker be called plagiarism?
The reason why Wang Zhijian was so shocked was not because of how rich or powerful Chen Jue appeared to be.

As a local Vancouver entrepreneur born in the 90s, Chen Jue's face has been bombarded in the local people's circle of friends for many times.

Chenji restaurant chain is spread all over Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and each order is worth billions and is often in the news.

In addition, the common people in Wen City are all ordinary people at heart, and are very keen on gossip. They estimate that Chen Jue’s disclosed assets and net worth are at least over 10 billion.

As a genuine Vancouver civil servant, Wang Zhijian knew very early that Mr. Chen of the Magic Cube Group was very rich.

But no matter how rich you are, you can't be so careless when buying a bankrupt WM Motor production base!
I went in and took a look around, and in less than half an hour I made up my mind to buy it.

Such great drive and courage made Wang Zhijian sigh in his heart: "As expected of a billionaire born in the 90s! Really reckless!"

After all, during the time when Wang Zhijian was in charge of asset handling in the WM Motor special office, he received inspection teams from several car companies.

Even the popular BYD sent a vice president-level figure to lead the team.

Every time a large group of people come in and out, they are accompanied by the media to take pictures.

They said they were planning to take over the production base of WM Motor, and asked the WM Motor special task force office to release some rumors to appease people.

In the end, not only did they eat and drink for free and then just walk away, but no car company was willing to back WM Motor's Vancouver production base.

On the other hand, Chen Jue single-handedly brought a technician to finalize the package contract of 12.47 billion.

This extremely reckless pattern alone is enough to beat those old-fashioned car companies by a huge margin!
So, on the night when the contract was signed with Magic Cube Group and the asset divestiture was completed, the old employees of WM Motor’s Vancouver branch were all in an uproar!
I had been immersed in the big group for more than a year, and I was flooded with emoticons such as (great joy), (throwing flowers to celebrate), and (staring) everywhere.

Because part of the 12.47 billion yuan in cash needs to be distributed to WM Motor’s old employees as salary compensation.

I thought Mr. Shen had run away, and I would probably never get the half year's salary and severance pay that WM Motor owed me in this lifetime.

Who would have thought that after such a long time, a "smart guy" would suddenly appear out of nowhere and completely take over WM Motor's car manufacturing base.

This made WM Motor’s old employees overjoyed, and they all sang praises of Magic Cube Group’s great kindness in the group.

Some car manufacturing workers who left their hometowns to work for car companies in other places smelled the scent of "the wolf is coming" and began to privately ask their acquaintances to inquire about the business trends of the Magic Cube Group.

If Magic Cube Group takes the lead in manufacturing cars, people would try their best to get their resume in because the company offers salaries that are several times higher than those in the same industry.

At the same time, several car companies that are connecting with Wenzhou's Oujiangkou New District also slapped their thighs in regret after learning that WM Motor's production base with an annual production capacity of 10 units had been taken over by someone else.

After all, the past two years have been the first year for the real explosion of domestic new energy. Domestic leading manufacturers such as BYD, Chery, and Geely are rushing to acquire and build their own car factories in order to increase production capacity.

Although WM Motor's Vancouver car manufacturing base has been abandoned for nearly two years, all the equipment inside is 2% new and can start production immediately after making some minor improvements to the production line.

The reason why such a big piece of fat has not been bitten off by anyone before.

In addition to the fact that WM Motor is entangled in multiple debts, there are huge hidden risks after taking over.

Another part of the reason is that these domestic car companies are waiting for the right price to sell their high-quality assets. They plan to let the market cool down for a while and then acquire them at a lower price later.

As a result, they encountered Chen Jue, a young man with no martial ethics who "killed the master with random punches". Naturally, the decision-makers of these old car companies were very angry.

This also made many senior executives of automobile companies take notice of the emerging Magic Cube Group.

"The industries involved include catering, infrastructure, shipbuilding, and our own machinery manufacturing industrial system. Do we have the ability to produce automated industrial robots?"

"Could it be that this Magic Cube Group is going to enter the car manufacturing industry?"

"This Mr. Chen is probably a leader of the younger generation of Wenzhou businessmen promoted by the City of Vancouver. He spent so much money to acquire the car manufacturing base of Weimar. It is very likely that he wants to manufacture cars on his own."

"Interesting! It seems that before long, a new local car company will emerge as a new force in the car manufacturing industry." There was a lot of discussion in the car manufacturing circle.

After all, in recent years, there have been countless big capitals, big brands, and family businesses that have rashly entered the field of new energy vehicles.

There are shell companies that are set up to defraud subsidies for new energy vehicles.

There were also many new brands that entered the car manufacturing market seriously, but ended up leaving the market in disgrace due to poor sales performance, like WM Motor.

The addition of a Magic Cube Group is nothing compared to the leading automakers such as BYD, Chery and Geely, which have already become a big force.

On the contrary, new car-making forces like NIO, Xiaopeng and Li Auto, which are still in the loss-making stage, have maintained a certain degree of vigilance and concern about the sudden entry of Magic Cube Group.

They are afraid that a strong competitor will suddenly emerge and not only snatch their sales share, but also spend huge sums of money to poach their engineers and front-line technicians.

……

Chen Jue doesn't care about the turmoil in the car circle.

After completing the acquisition of the WM Motor base, Chen Jue reported the situation to the angel investors of Magic Cube Auto on his way to the Magic City on a business trip.

As soon as the news was released, it immediately attracted heated discussions among Wang Han and other rich second-generation people in Vancouver.

“Ah, this, this, this???” “As expected of my brother Jue! His mobility is amazing!”

"We just raised the angel round of funding last night, and today Magic Cube Auto already has a production base with an annual output of 10 units? (Tactical retreat)"

"By the way, did we pay for all this money? (laughing and crying)"

Chen Jue couldn't help but smile knowingly at the complaints from these rich second-generations.

He finally understood what Jia had done back then, when he took a FF91 car model and a PPT and performed a trick of getting something for nothing.

After all, he didn't contribute anything this time. He just used his face and the reputation of Magic Cube Group as endorsement and easily completed an angel round of financing of 20 billion yuan.

Fortunately, Chen Jue used the investment money to do practical things, otherwise he would have spent 12.47 billion yuan without even having the money warm up overnight, which would definitely have made Wang Han and his group of rich second-generations collectively furious.

Of course, after acquiring the Weimar Mawen City car manufacturing base, Chen Jue directed the staff of the Magic Cube Group to follow up in the group.

In addition to sending personnel from various departments to move into this new factory, it is also necessary to recruit external automotive professionals and make some improvements to WM Motor's old production lines.

Including the design draft and metal car model code-named "Block 01" that Chen Jue had hastily sketched out before, he also took them out and threw them to the group's design department for a prize-winning collection activity.

He asked the thousands of newly recruited engineers under him to re-design it in a "block" style.

He asked that before he returned from his business trip, design plans for SUVs, sedans and supercars of the same style be prepared for him to choose from.

Although Chen Jue did not announce internally the amount of the prize money for this solicitation.

However, in keeping with the Magic Cube Group's usual generosity, this group of engineers all started working frantically on the design plan as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

In the end, some cross-departmental employees who knew a little about design software also joined the solicitation campaign initiated by the boss.

Regardless of whether it gets a review or not, just design it first!

However, when everyone saw the 'Block 01' car model being pulled to the operations headquarters, everyone was dumbfounded!

"Isn't this Tesla's electric pickup truck?"

"Boss, this style of plagiarism is too blatant!"

"Ahem... that's not true. Don't all the city SUVs produced by new energy vehicles look the same? If they were put on the road with a different brand label, could you tell them apart?"

"The one designed by our boss is at least a boxy SUV, and it's very recognizable! If it can be mass-produced, I'd like to buy one to support our group's business."

The employees of Magic Cube Group began to comment on the car model.

When Chen Jue learned about the reputation of "Block 01" within the group, he felt a little amused.

After all, this model was indeed inspired by Tesla's Cybertruck when it was first designed.

Among the current domestic car companies, he is not the only one to borrow from others.

The BYD version of Toyota Corolla, the Geely version of Xiali in the early years, and the current Xiaomi blockbuster SU7 that looks like the Porsche Taycan, all of them have borrowed a lot from mature foreign car designs in terms of appearance.

The more they plagiarize, the more they get criticized on the Internet, but the damn thing goes wrong with their sales!

Because the more mature a car model is, the more consumers will accept it when it is put on the market, which gives people a sense of fan fiction killing the original work.

To put it a little more exaggeratedly, can what car manufacturers do be called plagiarism?
So after arranging the internal work of the Magic Cube Group, Chen Jue took a car to the Stock Exchange in Magic City and met again with the MC profiteers who had been holding closed-door internal meetings there for several days.

"Boss! The meeting is over and the village chief has reached an agreement."

"After the end of September, the A-share market will enter a stage of asset repricing. Our Red Star Trading funds can enter the market reasonably and legally to follow the general trend and bid for Rizhao Port stock."

"We can now officially start the first step of our plan to boost U.S. soybean prices!" The old businessman said as his eyes glowed green, and he led Chen Jue into a VIP trading office that had been arranged in advance.

The office is simply decorated. Apart from the coffee table and sofa for entertaining guests, there are a few computers for operating stocks and futures.

In addition, there are two iron golems who have activated the [Financial Trader] profession and are ready to go, just waiting for Chen Jue to give the order to start buying things and announcing the information of raising the placard.

Just look at the iron golem's super fast attack speed in the MC game. If you are not a fool, your hand speed will definitely exceed 300APM when using it to type on the keyboard or play professionally.

Letting them be in charge of the trading is definitely more efficient than professional traders.

However, after seeing the old merchant's arrangement, Chen Jue couldn't help but smile wickedly and ordered: "The plan has changed! In addition to Rizhao Port, we have to absorb another stock!"

The big-nosed profiteer asked curiously, "Boss, which stock is it?"

Chen Jue walked to the computer and typed in the stock code 000980: "The group has just launched the car manufacturing business, and now it lacks the qualification to manufacture complete vehicles. Has Zotye's tape measure department heard of it?"

(End of this chapter)