High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 663: Chapter 282: Another Sucker

Li Yang used to start off with some boasting, then talk about last year’s situation with Extreme Shadow Cars, and then continue boasting.

This year, he started off very humbly.

Li Yang then said: "For today’s press conference, I originally wanted to continue with the previous style, and I had been rehearsing the speech for half a month. However... as everyone knows, I have a wife, and she is now the wealthiest person in the world...

The year before last, when she wasn’t the wealthiest person yet, I bragged to her once, saying that Extreme Shadow Cars would definitely sell 500,000 units this year. But as everyone knows, we only delivered 220,000 vehicles last year, and over 10,000 orders were delayed until this month and were only completed yesterday.

But no worries, the deliveries in January this year were delayed due to the insufficient production capacity of the company, which caused some inconvenience for the car owners. So this month’s deliveries are all of the soon-to-be-released new generation. We’ll talk more about the new cars later...

Mainly, let’s discuss how my wife suddenly placed an order for 270,000 vehicles from Extreme Shadow Group at the end of December. Even if it’s the cheapest Extreme Shadow Megrez, the 270,000 vehicles would cost a total of 94.5 billion. Since Extreme Shadow Cars started its issue, we’ve only just sold 300,000 vehicles.

I’m not boasting about how wealthy my wife is, but rather that I suddenly realized that many people care about me. This is just a small matter between my wife and me, never mentioned to anyone, but she has always kept it in mind.

Just like everyone sitting here today. It’s winter, almost the New Year, and amidst the peak travel period, you’ve come from across the country to attend a press conference that offers no benefits, for what? Extreme Shadow Cars’ press conference didn’t invite much media, aside from a few live-streaming devices, the present media are mostly self-sponsored, because Extreme Shadow Group won’t reimburse travel expenses, at most they’ll offer some snacks.

I’m very grateful that everyone could come. Otherwise, considering my personality, without you here to support the event, having even a tenth of the venue filled would be considered good.

By then, I’d be introducing the new car to a sparse crowd, and the scattered applause would probably be unable to cover up the sound of my shivering from the cold.

Actually, I’m quite a lucky person. In the college entrance exam, it happened to test what I knew, leaving out mostly what I didn’t know. Later, I wanted to find a girlfriend in college, but accidentally discovered she was a billionaire. As for starting a business, it feels like I did nothing, my friends just lifted me up. Easily, I turned a car company that was only two years old into a company ranked in the top fifty worldwide by revenue. Although there’s still a significant goal to reach the top ten, Extreme Shadow Cars has only been around for four years, and truly selling cars for just two years.

Long ago, my wife told me that new energy vehicles would become a significant part of the industry. At the time, she said the domestic related industrial chains were quite chaotic and incomplete, and she asked me to take a hundred billion and enter the field, hoping I could integrate the industrial chain and quickly integrate the domestic new energy vehicle industry chain. Otherwise, we might face sanctions again.

At the time, I didn’t understand, so I asked her, even if the integration of the industrial chain is delayed, what effect could it have domestically?

She simply said: If it were in other countries, no impact. But in our country, there is an impact. Because we have 1.4 billion people...

The global resources are limited, and so are the available jobs. If we want to have better lives, we can only strive to take from others.

If we don’t, do you expect others to give it to us? Others only want us to continue doing low-cost work, wanting us to trade four hundred million shirts for one of their airplanes, and it’s still the model they’re about to phase out.

If any segment is strangled, others can use that segment to extract most of the profit from the entire industrial chain.

Even if it’s just a particular screw we can’t manufacture, or a small technology restricted by a patent.

Because... we have no friends, no one will help us.

No one wants us to succeed!

I used to not understand what she meant until last year when a foreign car company was introduced to Modu. I won’t mention the company’s name because they didn’t pay me an advertising fee.

At that moment, I vaguely understood.

After watching the news that day, I told her: See, what you thought of, others have already thought of, so why are you still worrying about this?

She just smiled and didn’t say anything, then secretly told me at night: Let’s have another child."

...

Many people didn’t quite understand what they heard.

But sitting down there, Ye Bingcheng understood better than anyone.

Li Yang was complaining.

Complaining about how he painstakingly spent hundreds of billions to perfect the industrial chain, only for outsiders to come and freely pick the fruits.

Even though Tesla’s super factory isn’t fully built yet, and it’s still far from production.

They’re already reaching out to the related industrial chain, and even some local leaders are helping as intermediaries.

Li Yang has said before that he doesn’t mind others using his supply chain, as long as they accept his pricing.

But clearly, they don’t accept his guidance at all.

They are trying everything from various angles to lower the price of the industrial chain, and they also want the best technology handed over to them.

Yet everyone thinks it’s fine.

With foreign companies coming in, earning less profit, as long as they provide orders, isn’t that okay?

As for the hundreds of billions Li Yang spent, who saw it?

Maybe Ye Bingcheng saw it, but he can only barely influence some companies in Jiangbei, he’s powerless elsewhere.