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Chapter 195 I am the most handsome in the village when driving a Zotye

“Zotye Auto?”

There was a hint of doubt in Lao Shang's green eyes.

Although he is the villager with the highest IQ among MC, the [Swindler], he can use the power of the [Bookshelf] to quickly absorb the existing knowledge of mankind.

However, the endless stream of hot memes on the Internet exceeded the imagination of Lao Shang, an MC villager.

Chen Jue still remembers the jokes about the car industry vividly, such as: "I am the coolest driver of a Zotye car in the village", "I heard you wanted to drive a Porsche, so I came", "Zotye's tape measure department helps everyone realize their dream of driving a luxury car", etc.

Because Zotye Auto’s design department once had a legend of traveling the world with just one tape measure.

For example, Xiaomi Auto's SU7 borrows from Porsche Taycan, but those are just leftovers from Zotye's tape measure department!
During its heyday, Zotye created a miracle of copycat sales of 9 units in three days with the SR2, a car that looked very similar to the Porsche MACAN.

I guess in the eyes of Zotye Auto’s marketing department at the time, black and red are both red, as long as its products can be sold and make money for shareholders.

Like those people who sell goods on the Internet, they are scolded all the time, but they still make a lot of money by selling goods every day, right?
Which ordinary person doesn't want to become an internet celebrity and make money to achieve class leap? Or like PDD users, pay the least money to get the wool from the sellers.

Zotye Auto was the first to embark on this path of copycat marketing.

Let customers have the 'luxury car' experience of Porsche Cayenne with the least amount of money.

So after creating the 'Porsche' miracle of SR9, Zotye launched several copycat models in succession.

As a result, due to poor quality control of the vehicles produced, engine shaking, abnormal noise, high fuel consumption, etc., Zotye Auto accurately captured the market for copycat luxury cars, but also lost its direction due to a large number of orders, and completely lost the most core and fundamental "product quality" of a manufacturing company.

As a result, the emerging Zotye failed on the eve of the rise of domestic new energy vehicles.

To date, the total market value of Zotye Auto’s stock price is less than 100 billion yuan. It even completed bankruptcy reorganization a few years ago due to poor management and took off the ST hat on the A-share market.

The reason why Chen Jue wanted to take over Zotye Auto was that his own "Magic Cube Auto" brand had just been established and lacked the qualifications to manufacture complete vehicles.

They also want to use Zotye Auto's original "magical" reputation to ignite their own car brand.

You know, it was originally very difficult to apply for car manufacturing qualifications in the country.

Just like the financial electronic payment licenses in the past, each position was occupied by large companies very early on.

The current new forces in the automobile industry, such as NIO, Xiaopeng, Li Auto, and the current Huawei Wenjie series, all adopted the OEM strategy in the early days of their establishment.

The brand is responsible for design and product marketing, while the actual task of manufacturing cars is given to old manufacturers such as JAC and Celes who have the qualifications to manufacture cars.

Even a wealthy man like Lei Jun, who owns Xiaomi and has hundreds of billions of cash flow to invest in the car manufacturing industry, was only able to obtain the independent car manufacturing ticket issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology by reaching a tail-end cooperation with the off-road vehicle company under BAIC.

Chen Jue now has a PPT of the Rubik's Cube Car in his hand, and has just acquired WM Motor's Vancouver car manufacturing base. If he wants to successfully bring the "Cube" series of models to the market, he has to take an unconventional approach and show off some cool moves.

However, after listening to Chen Jue's series of car-making actions in the past few days, the big-nosed old businessman showed a bit of ridicule: "First it was Weimar, then Zotye, and the previous Minghua Shipyard. Boss! Your company is almost becoming a scrap recycling station, and you specifically target these waste companies that have been eliminated by the market."

Chen Jue laughed when he heard this: "This is called recycling!"

He himself was bankrupt, but relied on the MC system to make a fortune again from his small piece of land in Chencun.

I have a special feeling of empathy for these 'losers'.

Of course, the most taboo thing in doing business is to be emotional.

Whether he can use the MC system to turn stones into gold and revive these waste enterprises that have been eliminated to the margins of society depends on the abilities of him and these MC creatures.

……

After fully understanding the car manufacturing business of Magic Cube Group, Lao Shang also strongly agreed to take control of Zotye Auto in the secondary market of A-shares.

The original purpose of the master and servant's trip to Shanghai was to make first-hand plans for the future explosion of U.S. soybean futures.

Now that there is a second company's stock to be acquired, plus the large amount of land previously acquired in Vancouver, the originally prepared acquisition funds are a bit insufficient.

Even if the remaining 7 million from the angel round investment of the rich second generation in Wenzhou is included, Chen Jue only has about 30 billion in his account. So, to be on the safe side, Lao Shang came forward as the chairman of Red Star Trading, reported to the village chief first, and then sold a total of 2000 tons of spot silver to the precious metals exchange in Shanghai.

This batch of silver was silver ore dug out from a deep pit when passing through the "Silver Mountain" production area in Xijiang Province during the excavation of the tunnel in northern Myanmar. After being refined in a [furnace], it was melted into a unified standard 1000g investment silver bar.

When Chen Jue first founded Cube Technology, he took out the first batch of 50 tons and asked ICBC for a mortgage loan to solve the problem of insufficient cash.

Later, in order to conceal his tracks and avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Jue dug out tens of thousands of tons of silver below 10,000 meters in the "Silver Mountain" production area in Xijiang Province, which could not be mined with existing human mining technology, and sealed them into the MC [box].

The reason why we dare to openly take out a part of it to cash in now is that we have made preparations in advance.

First of all, the old businessman used the connections of Alexei's father-in-law and the flag of Andrei, the oligarch of Hassan district, to successfully enter the village chief's sight as a patriotic businessman.

Whether it was the non-GMO soybeans from the Far East that Red Star Trading had previously shipped in, or the massive amounts of high-end logs, all went through normal trade clearance procedures.

No less taxes were paid and everything was done legally and in compliance with regulations.

In this way, Lao Shang had a BUFF that looked like the white glove of a Far Eastern oligarch, giving the village chief the illusion that "this old guy was a rough and tumble person in the Far East."

In addition, the resources sold by Red Star Trade are all essential commodities for the country.

Even if it is not sold domestically, people will still rush to buy it if it is transported to Southeast Asia!
But Red Star Trading only does domestic business. If this kind of business behavior of giving benefits to China is not patriotic, what is it?
The most crucial point is that the huge cash flow generated by Red Star Trading from the sale of commodities did not flow abroad, but continued to be invested in the domestic A-share market to support the market.

Although there was some suspicion of violating regulations by investing in Rizhao Port with multiple accounts before, based on this value investment strategy and the long-term optimism about the A-share market, there is no reason for the village chief not to give this old guy a green light.

However, when he learned that Red Star Trading was able to bring in 2000 tons of silver bars from Yangshan Port for cash, Director Zhao Qifeng of the Precious Metals Exchange who was in charge of the handover was stunned!
Mountains of silver bars filled the containers, and more than 100 containers were needed just to transport these silver bars.

In order to unload this batch of goods, the escort officers sent hundreds of people over.

It took nearly a day to seal and store the silver bars.

As for the price of silver per ton, it was discounted based on the 7.8 yuan per gram of Shanghai silver in the futures market on that day.

Due to the uncertainty of the international capital market, the prices of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper have soared since 2024.

Chen Jue vaguely remembered that when he first mortgaged silver to ICBC, the price was only 6.4 yuan per gram. In just a few months, the price of silver actually rose by 21%.

It is no wonder that the precious metals exchanges are so open and open, as if they can take in as much spot goods as possible.

This is because silver is considered real hard currency all over the world!

Whether it is invested in the jewelry market or flows into the industrial field, even if it increases tenfold, it can be absorbed in minutes.

In addition, there is a 17% tax to be paid on imported silver, which means the national treasury earned 26.5 billion in taxes out of thin air. Everyone would agree to this deal.

Therefore, after the silver bars were put into storage, the Precious Metals Exchange, together with several state-owned banks such as Bank of China and Minmetals, transferred 156 billion yuan to the account of Red Star Trading.

After deducting taxes and taking into account the existing funds Chen Jue has on hand, the total amount of funds entering the A-share market this time has reached a huge amount of 160 billion!
"Stop it!"

"With such a large amount of funds, it feels like it's more than enough to acquire a smaller securities company."

Chen Jue looked at the available balance of 320 billion magnified by margin trading leverage on the computer screen, and couldn't help but take out his mobile phone to take a photo with moiré patterns.

He plans to post pictures on his social media accounts to show off his wealth once he becomes truly successful.

Because at this moment, facing the 9 zeros behind his securities account, he almost had the illusion that what he was facing was not money, but the happy beans in the damn Landlord game!

"Boss, the A-share market will start the call auction at 9:15."

"Zotye Auto's current price is 1.46 yuan per share. Do you want to buy it?" the old businessman reminded.

Chen Jue took a look at the market value of less than 10 billion, and pulled himself back to reality from his illusion: "Buy! Buy as much as there is on the market!"

(End of this chapter)