My Daily Basic Stipend Is 10 Million

Chapter 211: Chapter 172: Humiliated (Part 2)

Jindi Mansion was only a kilometer from the county’s First People’s Hospital. Xu Wu would definitely be happy with that.

"As for the price, let’s set it at one million! You figure out a way to convince her."

Gao Yue was dumbfounded. ’How am I supposed to convince her? Selling a four-million-yuan house for one million is no different from just giving it to her.’

’What a headache. Knowing Xu Wu’s personality, she’ll never accept it!’

She explained the situation to Li Xiao and asked him to make the final call. Li Xiao chuckled. "Sigh, look at us, struggling with this. If it were anyone else, they’d be over the moon to be gifted a house!"

"But for us, it’s a huge headache!"

Neither of them could come up with a good idea right away. Xu Wu was planning to come to Qingyun tomorrow, so they still had one more night to think it over. There was no point in worrying about it now.

Xu Gang of Junxing Auto made a post on Weibo and was instantly dogpiled.

"The Junxing M7 features our own full-stack, self-developed motor and electronic control technology. Industry-leading and unrivaled!"

Although the car’s overall design was already finalized, Junxiao Investment Group planned to make some major changes after the acquisition. Using the new motor and electronic control technology was a huge selling point.

Naturally, Xu Gang wanted to start promoting it online to build some early hype.

The post was instantly flooded with hundreds of replies. The netizens’ comments were... varied and colorful.

The vast majority claimed to be commenting "for his own good," but their words were anything but polite.

"President Xu, Junxing Auto isn’t leading in tech, it’s leading in sales. Your sales figure of zero is so far ahead, it’s a whole generation ahead of everyone else!"

"President Xu, a man seeks a worthy opponent because he’s never been defeated. You’ve never even won. How can you claim to be looking for a challenge?"

"President Xu, you get hot-headed so easily. Is that how you improved your motor’s thermal efficiency...?"

Those were just the replies from bloggers with a decent number of followers. The comments from random users were even more brutal.

"Junxing Auto. The fastest car company in the world... to go bankrupt. Verdict’s in!"

"Moron, just pack it in and go to sleep. You think changing the name is going to change your fate?"

"HAHA, you think you’re the master of your own fate, but you were born for a life of hardship!"

"This is what they call ’ambitions as high as the sky, but a fate as thin as paper’!"

"Sigh... even getting acquired can’t save it. It’s doomed from the start!"

Xu Gang didn’t dare to look at the replies anymore. He knew these internet trolls weren’t sent by any competitors. At this point, no car company would even consider Junxing Auto competition.

’We don’t even qualify to be targeted by other car companies.’ The thought alone was crushing.

Junxing Auto had been popping up in the news lately. Some media outlets just loved to chase sensational, conflict-ridden topics.

Sure enough, on a show interviewing Duan Jie, the CEO of the domestic new-energy vehicle startup Flying, the host brought up the recent acquisition and renaming of Tianqi Auto to Junxing Auto and asked for his opinion.

Duan Jie smiled, a strange look on his face. "There are hundreds of new energy vehicle brands in the country. I rarely pay attention to that one."

"But they do excel at one thing. You can’t find them by looking down the sales charts from the top, but you can find them by looking up from the bottom. They’re consistently in dead last! Very eye-catching."

He burst out laughing after saying that. The host didn’t dare to laugh with him. He had just wanted to ride the coattails of a hot topic, but he never expected that Duan Jie, the Sect Leader of a brand, would so openly mock another car company.

Xu Gang’s expression turned grim. He had just been scrolling through the replies online and couldn’t take it anymore, so he turned on the TV, only to be confronted with this interview.

’Duan Jie, what do you have to be so smug about? You have five models, and you only sell a few thousand units a month. And they’re all cheap little cars that cost less than 100,000 yuan!’

’I used to sell several hundred units a month too, and my cars were priced at 300,000 yuan!’

He didn’t argue or try to defend himself. Anything he said now would be pointless.

In this market, the only way to earn the right to speak was to deliver a product that satisfied customers and achieve sales numbers that stunned the industry. Otherwise, it was best to just keep your mouth shut.

’Laugh. Laugh all you want. When the Junxing M7 hits the market, we’ll see who the real clown is!’

The motor and electronic control technology provided by the group were genuinely incredible; otherwise, he wouldn’t have started building hype this early.

The Junxing M7 would use batteries from Prince Ning and the same chassis as the Mercedes-Benz GLE. On top of that, the group had promised that by the car’s launch next year, its smart cockpit and autonomous driving systems would be competitive enough to vie for a top-tier spot, with a second-tier ranking as the absolute minimum. With all that, he had some confidence in next year’s sales.

However, the Super Intelligent Factory wouldn’t be operational in the initial phase. Even though construction was being rushed, it would be impossible to have it ready for use in less than ten to twelve months.

He wasn’t too concerned about technological R&D at the moment. What he needed to focus on was building out the sales channels.

’Once the car is ready, how are we supposed to sell it without any sales outlets?’

To that end, Junxing Auto had allocated 500 million yuan to focus on opening sales channels in major shopping centers first.

Given the current circumstances, he could only adopt a fully direct-to-consumer sales model. But a direct-sales model had its advantages, like standardized training and centralized management.

It was actually a better fit for a high-end car brand. The only drawback of a direct-sales model was that it was difficult to break through a certain sales ceiling. Further growth would still depend on a dealership network.

’Then again, it’s a bit premature to be worrying about that now.’ The so-called ceiling was at least 60,000 units a month. For a brand that currently sold zero cars a week, it was far too early to be thinking about such things.

Back on the show, the host also felt that Duan Jie’s words had been too harsh. Trying to steer the conversation, he asked him which car models had left a deep impression on him this year.

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