Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 113 Shocking Competitors! (Second Update!)

The thought of the future scene made Yu Jixuan and the others tremble involuntarily—a trembling of excitement and exhilaration.

After the group had calmed down for a while, Lin Yi clapped his hands to draw their attention to him: "It's getting late, everyone should get some rest."

"There will be tough battles in the next few days, and everyone must be on high alert."

"I'm heading out now!"

"Bye-Bye!"

After saying goodbye to the group, Lin Yi quickly left with the people from Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

As soon as he stepped out of the sports center, Liu Daneng handed over a new statistics sheet:

"Factory manager, this is our factory's sales list statistics."

"Today we sold a total of 4600 rice cookers, with an average price of 186."

"We sold more than 3200 electric pressure cookers, but there was only one model, priced at 210."

After handing over the list, Liu Daneng stood beside him with a worried expression. However, Lin Yi took the list, glanced at it briefly, folded it neatly, and casually stuffed it into his pocket.

"Don't put pressure on yourself. You have work to do tomorrow, so get some rest."

After giving instructions to Liu Daneng, Lin Yi turned to look at Cao Bin:

"Some people from our competitors might come and cause trouble tomorrow, so please keep an eye on things."

"Hmm!" Cao Bin's expression froze slightly, then a smile bloomed on his face. He clasped his hands together, cracking his knuckles.
"I want to see what kind of trouble these people are planning to cause."

"An unexpected way," Lin Yi replied casually, then quickened his pace and rushed towards the parking lot.

Cao Bin and the others followed closely behind and entered the parking lot.

Shortly after they left, a Mercedes slowly drove into the parking lot, found a spot to stop, and a man with slicked-back hair, wearing black sunglasses, black leather shoes, and a gray suit, got out of the car at 12:00 p.m. on January 12.

After closing the car door, the man looked up and around. Suddenly, his eyes lit up as if he had seen something that interested him.

Then, the man strode towards the simple gate in the sports center square, then walked into the passage and, by the light of the streetlights, checked the signs on both sides of the passage.

As he watched, the man clicked his tongue in disapproval.
"Interesting, very, very interesting."

"Unlike those idiots, he knows how to elevate others, and in doing so, he elevates himself as well."

"This doesn't seem like a novice."

The man continued along the passageway, but before he had taken more than a few steps, he was stopped by a security guard who came out from inside.
"Comrade, we don't accept tourists here at night. Please cooperate and go outside first."

Although the security guards spoke as if they were asking for opinions, their actions were anything but. The two men stood on either side of the man, using their shoulders to block him, while their free hands grabbed his shoulders at just the right moment and forcibly pushed him to the door.

The two security guards smiled at the man, then released his grip and stood side by side, giving him a meaningful smile.

The man quickly raised his hands and nodded repeatedly, begging for mercy: "Okay, okay! I'll leave right away."

After exiting through the makeshift gate, the man returned to the parking lot, sat in his car for a while, then started the car and drove along the road.

Finally, the vehicle drove into the Gusu Industrial Park and into a factory that bore the name of Gree Electric Appliances.

The man got out of the car, phone in hand. He glanced up at the office building in front of him and noticed that only a few offices had lights on. He frowned almost imperceptibly, dialed a number on his phone, and started talking as he walked.

“I remember telling you that I wanted to see all of you when I came back.”

"What's going on with you guys? Don't you want to go to work?"

"The company gives you jobs and trains you; that's because the company thinks highly of you."

"Stop complaining to me all the time. The closer it gets to the New Year, the more you should be working overtime and being grateful to the company, understand?"

"Don't be a useless person in that society."

The man started cursing as soon as he got out of the car, and continued cursing all the way into the elevator until the signal was lost inside. Only then did he shove the phone into his pocket while still cursing.

A dozen seconds later, the elevator ascended to the 8th floor. With a ding, the elevator doors opened, and the man stepped out, immediately spotting a large group of people in the corridor.
"Why are you looking at me? Go into the meeting room and start the meeting."

Hearing the man's shout, the large group of people in the corridor pushed and shoved their way into the conference room, quickly found a suitable place to sit down, and then stared blankly ahead with their big eyes.

The man sat down in the front seat, clenched his right fist, and pounded it twice on the table.

"Where's the information I asked you to collect? Show it to me."

As soon as he finished speaking, a slightly plump woman on his right stood up and presented the documents she was holding to the man.
"Mr. Wang, this is the information we found after receiving the news this afternoon. Please take a look."

Wang Tian reached out and took the documents, casually flipping through them while nodding to the slightly plump woman:

"Explain it to my colleagues."

"Okay." The slightly plump woman nodded to Wang Tian, ​​turned to face her colleague, and explained in a slow, deliberate manner:

"After careful investigation, we found that this Mijia is an alliance of 11 factories."

"At the core of this alliance is a company called Xiaomi Heavy Industry Group."

"Two months ago, this company was called Lin Laosan Electrical Appliance Factory and was on the verge of bankruptcy."

"The company's boss was in a car accident on his way to a business trip. He and his wife both died, and then their son, a young man named Lin Yi, took over the business."

"We know nothing about Lin Yi's background."

"There is no way to investigate."

"As for how he joined forces with the remaining 10 companies, we don't know much about it either."

"All I know is that starting from the 20th, all the mobile, telecom and Unicom companies in Suzhou started sending out SMS advertisements without prior arrangement."

"Advertisements are also being aired during prime time on Suzhou TV."

"Also starting from the 20th, billboards and corresponding decorations appeared at the entrance of Suzhou Sports Center."

"Some people tried to sneak in, but they were all stopped by security. So, until today, when it officially opened, no one knew what it was like inside."

"That's all I have to say."

After the slightly plump woman finished speaking, she bowed to her colleague and then calmly sat back down in her chair.

As soon as she sat down, Wang Tian smashed the documents in his hand and then pointed at the woman, cursing loudly:

"You need to spend hours looking at this worthless information? What kind of useless person are you?"

"The company pays you a salary, trains your skills, and this is what you give me?"

Is this what I want?

"Are these things useful?"

"What useless thing are you talking about?"

After berating the slightly overweight woman for a long time, this Mr. Wang still couldn't clearly explain what he wanted. Perhaps, he didn't even know what he should want.

With his elbows resting on the table and his hands rubbing his head for a while, he looked at a middle-aged man on his right:
"Old Peng, tell me the results of your tests this afternoon."

When his name was called, Lao Peng, a somewhat thin middle-aged man, stood up and opened the notebook that had been in front of him:

"In the morning, our purchasing department colleagues received the Mijia appliances, and at noon we began disassembling and testing them."

"Now I will report on the disassembly results." "In terms of parts quality, the overall quality of the parts used by this company is comparable to the parts we have carefully cultivated in the supply chain over the years."

"Then there's the assembly process, and unfortunately, this company's assembly process is better than ours."

"Then let's talk about the overall hardware configuration."

"Their 1.5 horsepower inverter air conditioners are more flexible and cool faster."

"Besides that, there's the most fatal point."

"That's because their appliances are energy-efficient, extremely energy-efficient."

"According to preliminary calculations, the energy saving is approximately between 40% and 50%."

"The main reason for these errors is that the testing conditions we used were not consistent."

"After evaluation, it was unanimously agreed that if the same conditions were used for testing, their energy saving rate could even reach 50%."

"In other words, we're doomed."

Every time Lao Peng spoke, a gasp would be heard in the conference room.

When he got to the final energy-saving rate, this group of men and women, who had seen a lot and were always respectfully addressed as "General Manager XX" when they went out, widened their eyes, opened their mouths, and were speechless.

Because everyone knows that the end of the world is coming.

Just a couple of days ago everyone was excitedly looking forward to the New Year, but now, what a joke it is.

The most profitable company in the Gree Group is its subsidiary, Gree Electric Appliances, and the most profitable and core business of Gree Electric Appliances is air conditioning.

Various types of household air conditioners and industrial air conditioners.

In short, air conditioning has brought Gree everything, and the Gree Group, relying on the reputation and profits brought by air conditioning, has also begun to get involved in some manufacturing and real estate.

But now, a small factory that suddenly appeared uses parts of comparable quality, has better assembly processes, and produces air conditioners of better quality than theirs.

The most frightening thing is that the air conditioners produced by this little-known factory are 50% more energy-efficient than their products.

When ordinary people buy electrical appliances, they pay close attention to the power consumption of the appliances. When comparing similar appliances, they will almost always choose the one with lower power consumption without hesitation.

Only the super-rich look at luxury goods.

They couldn't imagine the devastating impact the factory would have on the general air conditioning market once its reputation spread.

Of course, this wasn't what made them even more desperate.

Even more disheartening is the situation with commercial and industrial air conditioning systems.

Commercial air conditioning is typically custom-made for high-rise buildings and large villas.

Industrial air conditioners are mainly used in production workshops, laboratories, data centers, and specialized warehouses.

Air conditioners in these two sectors are more expensive and have higher profit margins compared to ordinary residential air conditioners.

Of course, these two types of air conditioners consume more electricity, and the resulting electricity bills are astronomical.

If this little-known company establishes itself in the general air conditioning market, they will definitely extend their reach to these two sectors. Even if they don't directly enter these sectors, others will actively invite them in.

A 50% reduction in electricity consumption translates into real money savings.

Nobody hates money.

Despair was written all over the faces of the group of people in the meeting room, just from the thought of this possibility.

Although many of them are administrative staff, they still understand their own company's products to some extent.

Saves 50% on electricity.

hehe--

At the far end of the meeting room, a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her fifties raised her hand and asked Lao Peng:

"Is it possible that you made a mistake in your own calculations?"

The middle-aged woman's words pulled the group of people out of despair. Their eyes were filled with hope, and they looked at Lao Peng with eagerness, hoping to get an answer from him that the calculation was wrong.

However, under the expectant gazes of this group, Lao Peng shrugged:
"Everyone, I also hope this data is wrong."

"But the purchasing team managed to get a total of 10 air conditioners, 10 freezers, 10 water heaters, 10 electric pressure cookers, and 10 induction cookers..."

"If only one unit is detected, or only one type of appliance is detected."

"I won't be that desperate."

"But all their appliances are energy-efficient, at least 40% so."

At this point, Lao Peng chuckled to himself.

Upon receiving this answer, the people in the meeting room were no longer so desperate.

If it's just the air conditioner, they'll be desperate, but if other appliances also save electricity, then it won't just be them who are desperate, but others as well.

With fellow sufferers around, life doesn't seem so boring anymore.

Moreover, once other appliance manufacturers learn that Mijia products can save 50% of the cost, they will definitely not sit idly by and will try every means to find out the secret.

When the time comes, everyone can even take advantage of the chaos.

If you're lucky, you might even win a prize.

Once these things were cleared up, the group of people in the conference room all looked up and turned their gazes toward President Wang.

After a moment of eye contact with these people, Wang Tian understood the thoughts in their eyes. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment before immediately beginning to assign new tasks:

"Old Peng, your first task is to disassemble all the electrical appliances you have and find out the manufacturers of all the electrical parts, as many as possible."

"The second task is to work with the purchasing team to continue buying these so-called Mijia products and bring our inventory up to 50 units."

"I want all the electrical appliances, big and small, get me a copy of everything."

"Take it apart as soon as you get your hands on it."

"Their secret to saving electricity must lie in these components."

"Our local technical capabilities are insufficient, so we apply to headquarters for technical support and ask them to send people over."

After his gaze lingered on Lao Peng for a moment, and Lao Peng nodded in response, General Manager Wang turned to look at the slightly plump woman who had just given the report:
"Xie Lin, you also have two tasks."

"First, contact all competitors of Mijia products and invite their representatives to have a meal in Suzhou so we can meet up."

"Secondly, take the list of suppliers compiled by Lao Peng and go to them one by one."

“If there are any companies willing to cooperate with us, I will give you the authority to sign them directly.”

"If they are unwilling to cooperate..."

"Knock it down!"

"There is no such thing as a completely clean factory in this world."

(End of this chapter)