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Chapter 194: Can a carmaker's actions be called plagiarism?

The reason Wang Zhijian was so shocked wasn't because Chen Jue seemed so rich or had such strong backing.

As a post-90s generation entrepreneur in Wen City, Chen Jue's face had already been plastered all over the local people's social circles several times.

Chen Ji Catering's chain stores have spread throughout the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, with orders worth tens of billions making the news.

In addition, the people of Wen City are inherently petty citizens, very keen on gossip. Their estimates of Chen Jue's disclosed assets and net worth are at least over 10 billion.

As a genuine Wen City civil servant, Wang Zhijian had long known that President Chen of Magic Cube Group was very wealthy.

But no matter how rich he is, he shouldn't be so careless when buying a bankrupt Weimar Motors production base!

He only went in for a tour and made the decision to buy it in less than half an hour.

Such momentum and courage made Wang Zhijian sigh in his heart: "No wonder he's a reckless man worth tens of billions!"

After all, during his time in charge of asset disposal at the Weimar special task force office, Wang Zhijian had received teams from several car companies for inspection.

Including the rising star BYD, which had also sent a vice president-level figure to lead a team over.

Each time, a large group of people would come and go, with the media taking various photos.

They said they planned to take over the Weimar Motors production base and asked the Weimar special task force office to cooperate in releasing some inside information to appease the public.

In the end, after eating and drinking for free, they left without saying goodbye, and not a single car company was willing to bail out Weimar Motors' Wen City production base.

Looking back at Chen Jue, he single-handedly brought a technician and finalized the 1.247 billion bundled contract.

This 'reckless' attitude alone is enough to beat those established car companies by eighteen streets!

Therefore, on the night when the contract with Magic Cube Group was signed and the asset package was completed, the veteran employees' group of Weimar Motors' Wen City branch collectively exploded!

In the large group that had been silent for more than a year, emoticons such as (happy news) (celebrating with flowers) (staring eyes) were flooding the screen.

This is because part of the 1.247 billion in cash needs to be distributed to Weimar's old employees as salary compensation.

They originally thought that since President Shen had run away, the wages and severance pay owed by Weimar for more than half a year would probably never be recovered in this lifetime.

Who would have thought that after so long, a 'genius' would suddenly emerge and completely take over the Weimar car-making base.

This made the old employees of Weimar overjoyed, and they praised the great kindness and virtue of the Magic Cube Group in the group.

Some car-making practitioners who had left their hometowns to work in car companies in other places even smelled a 'wolf is coming' atmosphere and began to privately ask acquaintances to inquire about the business trends of the Magic Cube Group.

If the Magic Cube Group came forward to lead the car manufacturing, based on the company's salary, which is several times higher than the industry average, they would sharpen their heads and try to squeeze their resumes in.

At the same time, several car companies that were in contact with the Oujiangkou New Area of Wen City also regretted stomping their feet when they learned that the production base of Weimar Motors with an annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles had been taken first.

After all, these two years are the first year of the real explosion of domestic new energy vehicles. Domestic leading manufacturers such as BYD, Chery, and Geely are seizing mergers and acquisitions and building their own car factories in order to increase production capacity.

Although Weimar's Wen City car-making base has been abandoned for nearly 2 years, all the equipment inside is 99% new. Once it is acquired, it can be put into operation immediately with a little production line improvement.

The reason why such a big fat piece of meat has not been gnawed down before.

In addition to the fact that Weimar's multi-party debts are inextricably intertwined, there are great hidden risks after the takeover.

Part of the reason is that these domestic car companies hold the idea of waiting for a price and plan to leave Wen City for a period of time before taking this high-quality asset at a lower price.

As a result, they encountered Chen Jue, a young man who didn't talk about martial arts and 'killed the master with random punches', which naturally made the decision-makers of these established car companies stomp their thighs.

It also made many car company executives notice the rise of this Magic Cube Group.

"The industries involved cover catering, infrastructure, shipbuilding, and their own mechanical manufacturing industrial system, and they have the ability to produce automated industrial robots?"

"Could it be that this Magic Cube Group is going to enter the car manufacturing industry!"

"President Chen is estimated to be the leading figure of the younger generation of Wenzhou merchants launched by Wenzhou. Taking over Weimar's car-making base with such a large sum of money is probably to build his own car."

"Interesting! It seems that before long, a local car company will emerge in the new car-making forces." There was a lot of discussion in the car-making circle.

After all, in recent years, there have been as many large capitals, big brands, and family businesses that have rashly entered the new energy vehicle field as there are hairs on a cow.

There are shell companies that swindle new energy vehicle subsidies.

There are also new brands that seriously enter the car-making industry, but end up leaving sadly like Weimar because their sales performance does not meet the standards.

Having one more Magic Cube Group is nothing to the leading car companies such as BYD, Chery, and Geely, which have already gathered into a general trend.

On the contrary, the new car-making forces such as Weilai, Xiaopeng, and Ideal, which are still in the loss stage, maintain a certain degree of vigilance and attention to the sudden intrusion of the Magic Cube Group.

They are afraid that a powerful competitor will suddenly emerge, and while seizing their sales share, they will also wave huge sums of money to poach their engineers and front-line technicians.

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Chen Jue didn't care about the disturbances in the car circle.

After completing the acquisition of the Weimar base, on the way to Shanghai for a business trip, Chen Jue also reported the situation to the angel investors of Magic Cube Automobile.

As a result, as soon as the news was sent, it immediately attracted a heated discussion from Wang Han and other wealthy second generations in Wenzhou.

"Ah, this, this, this, this? ? ?"

"As expected of my brother Jue! Strong execution!"

"We were only asked to raise the angel round of funding last night, and today Magic Cube Automobile already has a production base with an annual output of 100,000 vehicles? (Tactical leaning back)"

"By the way, isn't the money all paid by us? (Laughing and crying)"

Chen Jue couldn't help but smile knowingly at the complaints of these wealthy second generations.

He finally realized the tricks that Old Jia used to play with an FF91 car model and PPT to play the empty glove white wolf.

After all, this time he didn't contribute anything, just his face and the credibility of Magic Cube Group as endorsements, and he easily completed the 2 billion angel round of financing.

Fortunately, Chen Jue is doing practical things with the investment, otherwise, if the money hadn't been kept warm overnight, he would have spent 1.247 billion in a muddle-headed way, which would definitely make Wang Han and his group of wealthy second generations collectively explode.

Of course, after acquiring the Weimar Wenzhou car-making base, Chen Jue commanded the staff of Magic Cube Group to follow up in the group.

In addition to sending people from various departments to station in this new factory, it is also necessary to start recruiting car practitioners and make some improvements to the old production line of Weimar Motors.

Including the design drafts and metal car models of 'Cube 01' that Chen Jue had sketched out before, he also took them out and threw them to the group's design department to conduct a prize-winning solicitation activity.

Let the newly recruited thousands of engineers under his command redesign in detail according to the 'Cube' style.

He asked them to complete the design plans for SUVs, sedans, and supercars of similar styles for him to choose from before he came back from his business trip.

Although Chen Jue did not publicly announce how much the bonus for this solicitation was internally.

But according to Magic Cube Group's consistent generous spending habits, these engineers all started to rush to design plans like they were injected with chicken blood.

Including the fact that in the end, some cross-departmental employees who knew a little design software also joined the solicitation activity initiated by the boss.

Whether it can be evaluated or not, design it first!

It's just that when everyone saw the 'Cube 01' car model that was pulled to the operations headquarters, everyone was dumbfounded!

"This... isn't this just the electric pickup style of Tesla?"

"The boss's plagiarism style is too blatant!"

"Ahem... you can't say that, aren't those urban SUVs produced by new energy vehicles now all look the same? Can you tell the difference if you change the brand label and put them on the road?"

"The model designed by our boss is at least a square box SUV, and the model recognition is very high! If it can be mass-produced, I would like to buy one to support our group's business."

The employees of Magic Cube Group began to comment on the car model.

Chen Jue himself was a little dumbfounded after learning about the internal comments on 'Cube 01' in the group.

After all, this model did borrow from Tesla's Cybertruck at the beginning of the design.

Among the current domestic car companies, he is not the only one who plays with borrowing.

The early BYD version of Toyota Corolla, the Geely version of Xiali, and the Xiaomi SU7, which now looks like a Porsche Taycan, which one is not frantically borrowing from mature foreign car designs in appearance.

The more plagiarism, the more it is sprayed by various people on the Internet, and the more ferocious the sales become!

Because the more mature the model, the higher the acceptance of consumers in the market, which has the visual sense that the same person forces the original to death.

Even to put it exaggeratedly, can the things that carmakers do be called plagiarism?

So after arranging the internal work matters of Magic Cube Group, Chen Jue took a car to the Shanghai Stock Exchange and reunited with the MC profiteer who had been holding a closed-door internal meeting here for a few days.

"Boss! The meeting is over, and the village chief has also been negotiated."

"After the end of September, A-shares will enter the asset repricing stage, and our Red Star Trading's funds can legally and reasonably enter the market and raise the stock of Rizhao Port in response to the general trend."

"We can officially begin the first step of the plan to pump and dump US soybeans!" Old Shang said, his eyes gleaming with green light, as he led Chen Jue into a large client trading office that had been prepared in advance.

The office was simply furnished, with only a tea table and sofa for guests, and several computers for trading stocks and futures.

In addition, there were two Iron Golems with the [Financial Trader] profession activated, ready and waiting for Chen Jue to give the order to start sweeping up goods and announcing the shareholding information to the public.

With the Iron Golem's super-fast attack speed in the MC game, if it weren't such an iron-headed fool, its hand speed would definitely break 300 APM if it were used to type on a keyboard or play professionally.

Having them in charge of trading is definitely more efficient than professional traders.

However, after seeing Old Shang's arrangement, Chen Jue couldn't help but order with a mischievous smile: "The plan has changed! In addition to Rizhao Port, we need to additionally accumulate shares in another individual stock!"

The big-nosed profiteer asked curiously, "Boss, which individual stock is it?"

Chen Jue walked to the computer and typed in the stock code 000980: "The group has just launched a car manufacturing business, and now it still lacks a complete vehicle manufacturing qualification. Have you heard of Zotye's reverse engineering department?"