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“Zotye Auto?”

Old Shang's greenish eyes showed a hint of doubt.

Although as the smartest [Merchant] villager among the MCs, he could quickly absorb existing human knowledge with the power of the [Bookshelf].

However, the endless stream of popular internet memes exceeded the imagination of Old Shang, this MC villager.

Things like: 'Driving a Zotye, I'm the coolest in the village' 'I heard you wanted a Porsche, so I came' 'Zotye's reverse engineering department fulfills everyone's dream of owning a luxury car,' etc., were jokes that Chen Jue still remembered vividly.

Because Zotye Auto's design department once had a legend of conquering the world with a tape measure.

Even Xiaomi Auto's SU7 referencing the Porsche Taycan was something Zotye's reverse engineering department had already mastered!

At its peak, Zotye created the miracle of selling 20,000 SR9s, which closely resembled the Porsche MACAN, in just three days.

It was estimated that the marketing department of Zotye Auto at that time believed that being blacklisted was also being famous, as long as their products could be sold and make money for the shareholders.

Just like those online influencers who are scolded every day but still make big money by selling goods, right?

Which ordinary person doesn't want to become an internet celebrity to make money and achieve a class leap? Or be like a PDD user, spending the least amount of money to fleece the seller.

And Zotye Auto was the first to embark on such a path of reverse engineering marketing.

Allowing customers to have the 'luxury car' experience of a Porsche Cayenne for the least amount of money.

Therefore, after creating the 'Porsche-Zotye' miracle of the SR9, Zotye successively launched several more reverse engineered models.

As a result, due to the poor quality control of the vehicles produced, engine shaking, abnormal noises, high fuel consumption, etc., while Zotye Auto accurately captured the market for reverse engineered luxury cars, it also lost its way due to a large number of orders, completely losing the most core foundation of a manufacturing enterprise: 'product quality'.

As a result, the suddenly emerging Zotye fell flat on its face on the eve of the rise of domestic new energy vehicles.

To this day, Zotye Auto's total market value is less than 10 billion, and it even just completed bankruptcy reorganization a few years ago due to poor management, removing the ST label on the A-share market.

The reason why Chen Jue wanted to acquire Zotye Auto was not only because his own 'Cube Auto' brand was just starting out and lacked the qualification to manufacture complete vehicles.

But also to use Zotye Auto's original 'magical' reputation to ignite his own auto brand.

You need to know that the vehicle manufacturing qualification is originally very difficult to apply for in China.

Just like the financial electronic payment license in the beginning, each position was a fixed spot and was occupied by large enterprises very early on.

At present, the new car-making forces, such as NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, including the current Huawei AITO series, all adopted the OEM strategy in the early stage of their establishment.

The brand is responsible for design and product marketing, while the task of actually building the car is handed over to old manufacturers such as JAC and Seres, which have vehicle manufacturing qualifications.

Even Lei Jun of Xiaomi, as wealthy as he is, after investing hundreds of billions of cash into the car-making industry, barely obtained the independent car-making entry ticket issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology by reaching a tail label cooperation with BAIC's off-road vehicle company.

Chen Jue now has a PPT of Cube Auto in his hand, and has just acquired Weimar Auto's Wenshi car-making base. If he wants to successfully launch the 'Cube' series of models to the market, he has to take a risky move and show off some fancy operations.

However, after listening to Chen Jue's series of car-making actions in the past few days, the big-nosed Old Shang showed a bit of teasing expression: "First Weimar, then Zotye, and the previous Minghua Shipyard. Boss! You're almost becoming a scrap recycling station, specializing in targeting these waste enterprises eliminated by the market."

Chen Jue laughed when he heard this: "This is called waste utilization!"

He himself started from scratch in Chen Village with the MC system during bankruptcy.

He has a special feeling of empathy for these 'losers'.

Of course, the most taboo thing in doing business is to be emotional.

Whether he can use the MC system to turn stone into gold in the future and re-promote these waste enterprises that have been eliminated to the edge of society depends on his and these MC creatures' abilities.

… …

After fully understanding the car-making business of Cube Group, Old Shang also very much agreed to take control of Zotye Auto in the secondary market of A-shares.

The original purpose of the two masters and servants coming to the magic capital was to make a first-hand plan for pulling up the US soybean futures in the future.

Now there is a second company whose stock is to be acquired, plus the large-scale land acquisition in Wenshi before, the original acquisition funds are a bit insufficient.

Even if you count the more than 700 million yuan left over from the angel round investment of the rich second generations in Wenshi, Chen Jue can only put together about 3 billion yuan in his account now.

So, for the sake of insurance, Old Shang came forward in the capacity of the chairman of Hongxing Trade, and after reporting to the village chief, he sold a total of 2,000 tons of spot silver to the precious metal exchange in the magic capital.

This batch of silver was originally dug out of the deep pit silver ore in the 'Yinshan' production area of Xijiang Province when digging the tunnels in northern Myanmar, and after being refined by the [Furnace], it was re-melted into investment silver bars of a unified standard of 1000g.

At the beginning of starting Cube Technology, Chen Jue also took out the first batch of 50 tons to find the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for collateral loans to solve the problem of insufficient cash.

In order to cover up and avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Jue dug out all the tens of thousands of tons of silver below 10,000 meters in the 'Yinshan' production area of Xijiang Province, which could not be mined with the existing human mining technology, and sealed it into the MC [Box].

The reason why he dares to take out a part of it to cash out openly at this time is also because he has made preparations in advance.

First of all, Old Shang used Alexei's father-in-law's network to pull the banner of Andrei, the oligarch in the Hassan district, and successfully entered the village chief's sight as a patriotic businessman.

Whether it is the Far East non-GMO soybeans previously transported by Hongxing Trade, or those massive high-grade raw logs, they all go through normal trade customs clearance procedures.

The taxes that should be paid are not less paid, and they are all carried out legally and compliantly.

In this way, Old Shang has a layer of BUFF on his head that is suspected of being a white glove of the Far East oligarch, giving the village chief the illusion that 'this old boy's connections are extremely rough in the Far East'.

In addition, the resources sold by Hongxing Trade are all necessary commodities in China.

Even if they are not sold in China, there are still people rushing to buy them in Southeast Asia!

However, Hongxing Trade only does business in China. What is this kind of commercial behavior that benefits China if it is not patriotism?

The most important point is that the large amount of cash flow generated by Hongxing Trade's sale of commodities has not flowed abroad as a result, but has continued to be invested in the domestic A-share market to support the market.

Although the previous multi-account fierce operation of Rizhao Port was a bit suspected of being illegal, based on this value investment operation strategy and the long-term optimistic view of the A-share market, the village chief has no reason not to give this old boy a little green light.

However, when he learned that Hongxing Trade could actually pull in 2,000 tons of silver bars from Yangshan Port to cash out, Zhao Qifeng, the director of the precious metal exchange in charge of this handover, was stunned!

The silver bars piled up like a mountain filled the containers, and it took more than 100 cargo containers just to transport these silver bars.

In order to unload this batch of goods, the escorting escorts sent hundreds of people over.

It took nearly 1 day to toss around before sealing this batch of silver bars into the warehouse.

As for the price of each ton of silver, it was discounted at the spot price of 7.8 yuan/gram of Shanghai silver on the futures market that day.

Due to the uncertainty of the international capital market, the prices of precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper have been soaring since entering 2024.

Chen Jue vaguely remembered that when he first mortgaged silver to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, it was only 6.4 yuan/gram. In just a few months, the price of silver actually rose by another 21%.

It's no wonder that the precious metal exchange is so open, with a posture of 'bring as much spot as you want' that they can eat.

It's really because silver is a real hard currency in the whole world!

Whether it is put into the jewelry market or flows into the industrial field, even 10 times more can be digested in minutes.

In addition, imported silver also has to pay 17% tax, which makes the national treasury earn 2.65 billion out of thin air. Anyone would nod and agree to this deal.

So, after completing the silver bar warehousing, the precious metal exchange jointly with several state-owned banks such as China Bank and Minmetals, transferred a sum of 15.6 billion yuan to Hongxing Trade's account.

After deducting taxes, and counting the existing funds in Chen Jue's hands, the funds entering the A-share market this time reached a total of 16 billion yuan!

“Damn it!”

“With such a large amount of funds, it feels more than enough to acquire a smaller securities company.”

Chen Jue looked at the available balance of 32 billion yuan magnified by the two-finance leverage on the computer screen, and couldn't help but take out his mobile phone to take a moiré photo.

He plans to go to social accounts to frantically post pictures to show off his wealth and pretend to be successful after he has achieved real success in the future.

Because at this moment, facing the whole 9 zeros behind the securities account, he almost gave birth to the illusion that what he was facing was not money, but TMD Happy Beans in Fighting Landlords!

“Boss, the A-share market will start the call auction at 9:15.”

“Zotye Auto is currently priced at 1.46 yuan per share, do you want to buy it?” Old Shang reminded from the side.

Chen Jue glanced at the market value of less than 10 billion, and pulled himself back to reality from the illusion: "Buy! Sweep as much goods as there are in the market!"