I was reborn and stayed in school to lie down. I really don’t want to roll anymore!

Duanzhou City, Guangnan Province.

A young man in a white short-sleeved shirt and cropped jeans got out of the back seat of a brand new Mercedes-Benz S in a rather awkward manner.

Duanzhou City is located much further south than Songjiang City, so the weather is naturally a bit hotter.

The young man was naturally Jiang Hao. He looked up at the place in front of him and couldn't help but nodded.

There was a coffee shop right across the street from where the car was parked. From the familiar "JY" label logo, you could tell that this was Jiang Hao's business, "Jiang Yu" Coffee.

Since Mr. Zhang of Gaoling invested in it, Jiangyu Coffee has been opening branches at a very fast pace.

In less than a year, the goal of opening one thousand stores had already been achieved.

The target was even exceeded. As of now, there are 1447 stores nationwide.

Even in Duanzhou City, an ordinary prefecture-level city in Guangnan Province, Jiangyu Coffee has already been found in the urban area.

The store in front of Jiang Hao is like the base camp of Duanzhou City. The store is much larger than the average branch.

It has two floors and is quite grand.

"Xiao Chen, why don't you come in and have a cup of coffee? I'll call you when I'm done talking."

Through the rolled-down passenger window, Jiang Hao also persuaded Chen Hua to come in and sit down.

"Mr. Jiang, please go in first. I'll park nearby and wait for you on the first floor of the coffee shop."

The Mercedes-Benz S is certainly not his car. He drove here from Songjiang City by himself, unless he has a problem with his brain.

This is a car rented from a car rental company. I went on a business trip to Duanzhou City and took the opportunity to experience the new Mercedes-Benz S.

"Mr. Jiang, congratulations!"

"Boss Wang told me these past two days that you are far ahead of him in the Forbes rankings!"

Once I went up to the second floor, there were no customers drinking coffee, probably because it was a weekday afternoon.

The only one was Mr. Lei who was waiting for him here.

At this moment, he stood up, held his hand, and joked with Jiang Hao.

But what he said is true. Mr. Wang from Meituan has chatted with him on WeChat since the Forbes list was released.

Jiang Hao chats a lot with Mr. Wang, Mr. Lei and others on WeChat, and they are really familiar with each other.

Although the Forbes rankings are just a joke, Mr. Wang was at least one place behind him last year.

This year, however, Mr. Wang remains in the same position, while Jiang Hao has risen all the way to the top 20.

This made Mr. Wang very jealous. At least he sent several sarcastic comments to him on WeChat, and asked him to treat him to a meal.

"Boss Lei, my little money is nothing in front of you."

Jiang Hao's wealth is now growing, but the main part of it is the valuation of Haijing included in his wealth.

It can't be compared with Mr. Lei's real wealth.

According to the Forbes ranking alone, Lei Jun’s net worth is as high as 140 billion US dollars, and this does not include some unrecorded industries.

In addition to Xiaomi Group, Mr. Lei has many venture capital investments in private, many of which are actually not public.

If you really count it, Jiang Hao is at most a ten-digit fraction of Mr. Lei's number.

"Haha! Mr. Jiang, I know you have a lot of cash! This is the real deal!"

The Capital Cash King was jealous of the cash in Jiang Hao's hands, and he would be laughed at if he told others about it.

The two joked for a while and finally got down to business.

"Boss Lei, you specially asked me to have coffee this time. Is there anything else you want to discuss?"

Jiang Hao and Mr. Lei came to Duanzhou City for the same purpose.

It’s all because of Xpeng Motors’ Series A financing.

After the Pre-A round of financing, Xiaopeng Motors has actually had two more rounds of financing, but both were small-scale investment rounds.

Making cars costs money!

Recently, we have really introduced investors for the A round, and it is a large amount of capital.

Although Xiaopeng Motors is headquartered in Yangcheng City, the location for signing the financing agreement seems to be set in Duanzhou City.

I don’t know whether the investor is in Duanzhou City or has other ideas.

Anyway, all shareholders who are free in the next two days are invited to Duanzhou City.

Mr. Lei specifically asked him to meet alone at this time, I'm afraid he has something else to discuss!

"I can't hide it from you! I want to discuss some cooperation with you, Mr. Jiang."

Since they were all old acquaintances, Jiang Hao didn't hesitate.

He picked up the croissant on the table and started eating.

Ever since his senior sister let him try croissants in the United States, he has liked them very much.

Nowadays, Jiangyu Coffee has gradually enriched its bread and pastry categories.

Breads like croissants can be heated up before eating in the store and they taste great.

The profit margin of bread and pastries is not low, and may even be much higher than that of coffee. However, the loss is relatively large, and it is difficult to control sales volume.

"I plan to enrich Mijia's products and fully invest in the ecological chain next year."

The concept of Mi Home was mentioned by Mr. Lei almost two years ago.

However, investing in the Deebao sweeping robot is also to give Xiaomi a flagship product.

The Deebot sweeper also takes on this task very well.

At least in terms of market share of sweeping robots on the market, Deebao ranks first and Xiaomi ranks second.

The combined market share of the two companies' sweeping robots accounts for more than 6%.

The remaining 4% are still in a period of chaos, with various brands everywhere.

Today, Xiaomi has opened up a certain situation, but the overall ecological chain environment has not been formed.

Currently, Mijia’s products include TVs, sweepers, power banks, cameras, and balance bikes.

Nothing extra!

It looks like Mr. Lei is now preparing to make a big move!

"I remember that Deebao Technology's development goal is smart home, right?"

"Boss Jiang, can you talk to Boss Pang and cooperate with our Mi family's next work to a certain extent?"

Dibao Technology has always claimed to develop smart homes since the very beginning.

Of course, in reality, only the sweeping machine was developed.

After all, Professor Duan has limited energy, and Pang Yi has only been thinking about the sweeping robot from the beginning.

The concept of smart home was proposed by Jiang Hao at that time.

It's just to give the sweeper a nicer name.

Now Mr. Lei is interested in expanding the product categories, probably because he is impressed by the strength of the Dibao team.

After all, it is an enterprise with its own processing plant.

It is impossible for Xiaomi to make everything by itself, so it is more likely to choose OEM like later generations.

In this case, Mr. Lei also hopes that Deebao Technology will make some efforts to expand its smart home business.

He led Mijia to expand another part of its business and eventually created an ecological chain for Mijia home furnishings.

"I can talk to Junior Brother Pang about Dibao, but what specific industries should we enter? President Lei, have you considered this?"

Deebot is now unique in the robot vacuum cleaner industry, and the factory plans to continue expanding this year and move towards a smart factory.

It's time to turn our attention to the entire home furnishing industry.

Of course, in order to cooperate with Mr. Lei, we have to choose a few directions to enter together, which will also make it convenient for Mr. Lei to place orders for OEM.