Chapter 1181: Continue to Apply Pressure
After returning to China, Yang Dongxu first went to the BMW Huaxia Automobile Factory and talked with Han Jun about the development plan of BMW Huaxia in the future.
Although it has signed a contract with Dale, the first thing BMW Huaxia has to do is not to expand the European and American markets. That market has been deeply cultivated countless times by Japanese and Korean car companies, as well as German Volkswagen and BMW. It is impossible to open up the situation in a short period of time.
Unless it is as suggested to Matthew, there is a breakthrough in pure electric vehicles, even hybrid models. Otherwise, if you want to open up the situation in the European and American markets, you can only do it step by step. It is impossible to launch a satellite right away.
So compared with expanding the European and American markets, the first thing BMW Huaxia has to do now is to properly handle the pure import of all models.
Although BMW Huaxia already has its own car factory in the United States, it produces cars according to European and American standards and then sells them as imported cars to China.
But for one reason or another, the domestic market is still okay, but the surrounding markets have been slow to open up. Now with the endorsement of the Spencer family, BMW Huaxia Automobile can definitely be said to be famous in imported cars, and every procedure has security inspections and quality certificates.
In this way, when entering other countries, we will not be strangled like before. There will be no jealous car companies in China who will say that Huaxia BMW's cars are fake imported cars, and they will say a lot of things. Now these people can shut up.
"When all domestic commercial vehicle models start to establish production lines in the United States, improve our imported cars, and export to neighboring countries, don't give up on sports cars.
I will notify Italy to cooperate with you, because this time the contract with Dale is mainly implemented by Huaxia BMW, so you may go to the UK more often.
At that time, you can have a targeted understanding of Aston Martin and Jaguar sports cars. The next model after Maserati sports car is too monotonous." Yang Dongxu said to Han Jun.
Don't worry about the commercial vehicle. Huaxia BMW has developed several models, such as the government-owned Audi A9 and the Mercedes-Benz series that wealthy businessmen like. There are also SUVs that are about to be launched, and the stylish and awesome President series that was originally Maserati's flagship product.
In short, Huaxia BMW has a variety of business cars. Whether you like heavy, fashionable, or stylish, you can always find a car that suits you in Huaxia BMW.
On the other hand, Maserati sports cars are a bit stretched, except for the Son of Wind series, which Yang Dongxu bought his first sports car a long time ago. Although Maserati's sports car models have been well developed in recent years, it always feels that it is still a little short of the top. Compared with Ferrari, it is always suppressed.
"I know, I will pay attention. If we get in touch, will it be suitable for us to cooperate with each other to develop new models or something?" Han Jun asked.
Compared with the thriving Huaxia BMW, Maserati's sports car business is indeed a bit too bleak. But with the continuous development of the domestic economy, the demand for sports cars by the younger generation is increasing. As the CEO of Huaxia BMW, Han Jun is also anxious about this. Now that there is an opportunity to change this situation, we must work hard.
"If possible, just buy it directly. The British automobile industry is very strange anyway. They always like to sell the car brands that they have developed with great difficulty and have been recognized by the market, and then redevelop other ones.
But when acquiring them, don't just look at the brand that has been recognized by the market. The main thing is to get some technical patents and retain talents. It doesn't matter if you spend more money on this." Yang Dongxu said.
Britain has very good soil for nurturing new automobile brands, but it is always impossible to let them thrive and mature the final fruits. They always like to cultivate the fruits and then sell them to others. I don't know what the logic of these British people is.
"What about the Spencer family?" Han Jun asked.
"The bargaining chips for the transaction are the shares of Motorola's mobile phone business and the sale of a portion of Nokia's mobile phone business. Dale didn't want the shares of Huaxia BMW, so there is no need to inform her of what our company is going to do.
This time, in addition to straightening out the business of commercial vehicle imports, you also have an important task, which is to go to the UK. Get all the automotive resources that belong to us in the contract from the Spencer family.
Matthew will help you with this. He was a senior executive of Land Rover before. So he knows very well which resources in the European and American markets are old and which resources are useless. In short, these things should be in our hands even if they are not used now. Don't let the Spencer family be jealous and do something when we start to gain momentum."
Although Yang Dongxu held the contract in black and white in his hand, he was on someone else's territory. Even if the contract was signed, it would not be foolproof, not to mention that the Spencer family was still so chaotic, and they didn't know when they would involve him in the fight for the family property.
So they took advantage of the fact that they had just signed the contract and were so satisfied with the bargaining chips they had exchanged. Then cash in all the chips as soon as possible. If there are any disputes later, it will be time for another negotiation. Whether to continue cooperation depends on whether Dai'er can satisfy him with the chips she brings out.
After dealing with the Huaxia BMW matter, Yang Dongxu flew to Hangzhou.
Although the news of the shooting incident triggered public opinion in China, it has been more than a month since the heat has passed. Now the hot spots in China are dominated by YY and Shengda.
The launch of YY made CC and MM realize that the wolf is coming. So the previous two-strong competition instantly became a three-kingdom melee. At the beginning, everyone thought that YY, the newcomer, was Shu.
Not only was it the weakest, but it also had no territory of its own. It needed to snatch some from CC and MM and gather some from there to barely survive.
But no one expected that YY, which was originally the weakest, would recruit troops and horses in just a few months. It instantly turned from the weakest Shu to the strongest Wei, and it seemed that it was not going to fight with CC and MM. It began to gather troops and horses to unify the world.
Such an arrogant and domineering move made CC and MM executives constantly curse. They also accused YY of being immoral and blocking them on the two chat software diversion arteries of games and Tieba.
Yang Dongxu just smiled faintly at such accusations, and then regarded them as farts, and naturally kept coming forward to smell the polluted air.
So the two companies can say whatever they want to say and accuse whatever they want. Even if they clamor to sue YY for unfair competition, Yang Dongxu will accompany them.
Anyway, no matter how the two companies make a fuss, YY users are increasing rapidly, and the pace of conquering cities and territories has never stopped.
What makes CC and MM especially mad is that the popularity of the two softwares has been rising since their launch. But in recent times, the popularity has declined, and the user activity has also begun to decline.
Although this decline has a sense of normal decline after reaching the peak. But YY's user activity has repeatedly set new highs. In this comparison, the seemingly normal data is undoubtedly very abnormal. This makes the two companies even more anxious.
In the communication chat market, YY has grown rapidly and started to fight two at once, which surprised its peers and some bigwigs who are paying attention to this matter.
The position of the leader of the game market, which has always been the king of the Xuri Technology, has finally been severely challenged. Shengda's agent for World of Warcraft is even more arrogant than YY in the chat software market.
If CC and MM complained bitterly because YY had sufficient ammunition reserves. Whether it was Space Show, chat group, or the updated game voice chat, every shell could seriously injure CC and MM.
Then the rise of World of Warcraft was a bit unreasonable, after all, whether it was Fantasy Westward Journey, Swordsman, or other domestic games.
If you want to compare the content, graphics, and playability of World of Warcraft, which is an extremely rich game, you will be beaten in all kinds of ways.
This game came out of nowhere like a future warrior, sweeping all the way from launch to popularity, and no one could stop its pace to the top.
At the same time, the super-explosive popularity of World of Warcraft made Chen Daqiao more active. The pace of building his own online Disneyland began to accelerate.
Let's not talk about him embarking on the road of development beyond the times and moving forward. According to Chen Daqiao's frequent moves, if Shengda can go public next year, then Lao Huang, who became the richest man in China this year, will be in the limelight for both real estate and finance.
Once Shengda is successfully listed next year, Lao Huang will have to give up his position as the richest man. Let Chen Daqiao, who failed because he was too far ahead of this era, sit on the throne of the richest man and feel the taste of being the richest man.
"Currently, YY is doing well. Now, Changhao, Mr. Chen and I have some disagreements on some implementation policies. I think that the development of voice functions has a certain technical threshold.
CC and MM cannot catch up as quickly as they did when they imitated our space and chat group before. So the launch of YY's new functions can wait a little longer.
After CC and MM invest a lot of money to conquer the technology of voice chat functions. We will launch a new version, so that the few money in the hands of the two companies can be pulled into the quagmire of keeping up with our pace again.
According to the information I have at present, although the financial income of the two companies is much better than before because of imitating us, the investment in research and development in order to keep up with our pace has made the funds of the two companies stretched.
As long as there are two more times, or even just one major update. The capital chain of the two companies may be broken. At that time, any external stimulus can make them collapse directly." In the office, Qiu Bosong reported the company's recent situation and took out the topic that Yang Dongxu needed to make a decision.
"What do you two think?" Yang Dongxu looked at Changhao and Chen Xin.
Chen Xin and Changhao looked at each other.
Finally, Chang Hao spoke on behalf of the company: "Manager Chen and I believe that the mini-game platform binding can be carried out now. This will allow YY's revenue sources to begin to diversify.
This will also increase YY's ability to bind users, so we can launch the YY membership system. Although after some investigation and promotion, users are still accepting the membership system.
But Manager Chen and I feel that there is still greater potential to be tapped in the membership system. And now even launching the YY game platform is a way to tap this potential.
The YY membership system has the function of quickly improving the YY level. This is only of interest to some YY users, and because YY members can purchase backgrounds and music in the space show to get a certain discount.
It can increase the number of YY members. Now if we launch the game platform, especially the Happy Landlord you proposed before.
Every day, members can get 1,000 more Happy Beans than non-members. In addition, members can enjoy certain discounts when purchasing Happy Beans. Then the number of YY members will definitely increase rapidly again.
And this increase is a virtuous cycle, especially for the members attracted by the small game platform. Since they are members, it is impossible for them to just get 1,000 more Happy Beans every day. Every such member actually has the potential to be Xiao Fei. It depends on how we guide them. "
Both parties can be said to have their own reasons. Qiu Bosong considers it from the perspective of defeating CC and MM and wants to use the cards in his hand to drag down the other party.
Chang Hao and Chen Xin consider it from the perspective of company revenue. Since it can expand the company's money-making channels. Then this project must be launched quickly, and the money is in the pocket. It is important.
And playing the cards early can also cause a blow to CC and MM. In this case, there is no need to hide it.