What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 174 Boatman
Bai Xiaosheng's business is developing rapidly.

Yu Xing suddenly felt like he was back in last summer. The hot weather made his back soaked with sweat from time to time.

He somewhat regretted following Zhong Zhiling on this trip to the southern cities, but with Lu Haiying in charge in Shanghai and Liu Hao present at the program recording, he still wanted to see the market situation with his own eyes.

"Today is really like a dream returning to campus." Zhong Zhiling also had a similar feeling under the scorching sun.

Yu Xing wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "The campus was last year. Doesn't it seem like a lifetime ago now?"

"Yes, Brother Xing, sometimes I really feel dazed at night." Zhong Zhiling kicked the stones at his feet, "You know, I just want to be an ordinary doctor."

Ge Xingwen, a colleague who came to Zhanjiang to develop business with him, said at the right time: "Mr. Zhong is a waste of talent to be a doctor. In a few years, we will be able to stand on the stock exchange and ring the bell."

Yu Xing glanced at Ge Xingwen, who had been working for less than half a year, and said with a smile: "I think you have more confidence than I do."

"Our website is about to have one million users. When I joined the company, it only had 100. Mr. Liu and his team have also developed the recruitment business, and now we have advertising fees. I am confident," Ge Xingwen said with confidence.

He didn't know whether his boss was being modest, but having witnessed the rapid development of Bai Xiaosheng and seen the building of its revenue-generating business, he was undoubtedly full of confidence in the future.

"You are so confident! When you see us sweating, you even go buy two ice creams." Zhong Zhiling joked.

Ge Xingwen laughed and ran towards the small supermarket.

Zhong Zhiling wiped his sweat again: "It's hotter here than I thought. It seems to be a high temperature this year."

"Yeah." Yu Xing nodded. "Maybe I spent too much time in the air-conditioned room last month. I wanted to fly back home right after I came out of the factory just now."

Zhong Zhiling laughed: "Brother Xing, I told you not to come, but you insisted on coming. There will be basically no problem in our cooperation with the advertising company. The demand from lower-level cities definitely exists. Not only that, in my opinion, our segmented functions can actually be used in first-tier cities as well."

"There's no rush for first-tier cities. They need to spend more money. We'll expand further once we get financing." Yu Xing pondered for a few seconds and said, "I'll give you a car then."

Zhong Zhiling joked, "Brother Xing, you're not going to Pengcheng just to buy me an F3, are you?"

He knew that his senior brother had come with him on this trip to contact the interview target of the "Dialogue" column - Wang Chuanfu of BYD, and that the best-selling model of this car company is its compact sedan F3.

"I just stopped by to see what Mr. Wang thinks about the current stage of industrial development." Yu Xing said casually, "You are the vice president. How about I give you an S or equivalent car like mine?"

Zhong Zhiling was a little surprised: "Brother Xing, did you do something behind my back? If you tell me directly, I can accept it! Are you going to demote me?"

"If you don't want to, forget it." Yu Xing knew what kind of person his junior brother was.

As expected, Zhong Zhiling put aside his surprise and said excitedly, "Oh, there are so many cars of the same level. You are the boss, so an Audi A6 is good enough. Well, how about a business car? When we are on a business trip, sometimes there are many people, so we can just drive to nearby cities."

He was a little confused again: "Is it okay to allocate cars like this? The company has just started to generate revenue. Will investors think we are extravagant? Will it affect the next round of financing?"

"Liu Jiankai asked me to buy a car last month." Yu Xing shook his head and said, "Sometimes it's more convenient to have a car. It doesn't matter to us, but you still have to look good when you go out."

Seeing that his senior brother had an idea, Zhong Zhiling remained calm and secretly delighted. He had ridden in his senior brother's Mercedes-Benz in Shanghai last week. Tsk tsk...

At that time I thought it was bought by the company, but later I found out it was a gift from Liu Wanying.

Zhong Zhiling was quite surprised by this. How could his senior brother, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, be hanging out with... no, how could he even have the nerve to persuade Liu Wanying to help him buy a car.

"Mr. Yu, Mr. Zhong." Ge Xingwen ran back happily with the ice cream in his hand, and even took two more packs of cigarettes with him.

The three of them finished their ice cream and then took a car back to the hotel.

On the way back, Ge Xingwen mentioned his first impression of Zhanjiang: "Mr. Zhong, we basically visited factories today, but it seems that most of them are related to agriculture."

Zhong Zhiling replied: "Yes, aquatic product processing, feed processing, and today there is a rice cooker company. There are many agricultural companies here, and it is difficult for local college graduates to stay."

Ge Xingwen wondered, "Although this place is not within the Pearl River Delta, it is also a city in Guangdong Province. Why is the industry structure like this?"

Yu Xing, who was in the passenger seat, turned around and answered the question: "It's not that Zhanjiang doesn't want to develop, it's that it has been classified as an agricultural development zone. Many coastal areas here are used as military areas, and the finances are also allocated to the Pearl River Delta, so it is difficult to build more."

The two people behind were suddenly enlightened.

"Unfortunately, it's not easy for companies here to recruit people. Everyone is definitely used to going to the Pearl River Delta. After all, even if the starting salary is the same, the future development space is different." Yu Xing said this and fell on his own side. "Our website should be divided into more targeted secondary pages, and open the pages of their city and nearby areas according to the user's location."

Zhong Zhiling immediately said: "Yes, this needs to be carried out simultaneously."

The taxi driver listened to the conversation between the three young people in the car and asked curiously: "What do you do?"

"We are here to do market research." Yu Xing said with a smile.

Ge Xingwen in the back seat asked at this time: "Uncle, we are Bai Xiaosheng Company. Have you heard of Bai Xiaosheng?"

He was just joining in the fun. Logically, there shouldn't be much overlap between the two sides.

Unexpectedly, the master asked in surprise: "Is it the company that caught the fugitive by watching TV? That know-it-all?"

The three of them were all stunned. This was indeed the most outrageous thing...

Yu Xing replied: "Yes, it is this company."

"Wow, it's really this company. Your company's name is very unique!" The taxi driver praised, "The boss of your company was born in the year of the dog! Or maybe he has a photographic memory. How can he spot a fugitive on TV?"

The two people in the back seat wanted to laugh.

Yu Xing replied seriously: "Maybe it's because he is extremely talented and has a keen eye."

The master gave a thumbs up and thought it was very interesting to come across the company in the news, so he decided to take a shorter detour from them.

Even though Yu Xing had learned about this city before coming here, he really didn't expect to be ripped off like this. He just felt that the local consumption level was a bit high.

As a city in Guangdong Province, Zhanjiang is actually quite representative, representing a certain structural contradiction of "some people have no jobs, and some jobs have no one to do them", and Bai Xiaosheng's small shovel recruitment business may play a certain positive role. Structural issues cannot be solved by a small website. It can only be said that such a small website can play a certain role, and that is the value of its existence.

When Yu Xing arrived in Pengcheng, the situation there was completely different from that in Zhanjiang.

As a first-tier city, Pengcheng has more room to undertake policies and make adjustments. The graduation season activities regularly operated by Bai Xiaosheng this year can clearly feel the warmth and coldness of different regions.

Relatively speaking, the warm tones of Shenzhen are obviously stronger than those of other cities in China.

Yu Xing has deep feelings for Pengcheng.

This is the city he measured with his own footsteps. He counted the screens of Fenzhong Media one by one. Coupled with his short but unforgettable working experience at Zhenai.com, he was deeply touched this time.

When I met Wang Chuanfu in person, the nature of my emotion changed, but I was still very emotional.

Who would have thought that BYD, which is currently selling the F3, could become such a car company in a few years?

I'm afraid even the boatman himself couldn't have thought of it.

Such a thought flashed through Yu Xing's mind, but he suddenly remembered what this person said during an interview two years ago: to be number one in China in 2015 and number one in the world in 2025.

The founder of Bai Xiaosheng and the founder of BYD greeted each other, and after sitting down, they looked at each other at the same time.

Unlike Yu Xing's feelings, Wang Chuanfu felt a little confused.

In fact, it was the first time he heard of the name of the website Bai Xiaosheng in the past few days, and he was willing to accept the conversation because the brand department felt that it had certain publicity significance and said that the website had recently attracted much attention from employees of Internet companies.

But...if we don't know each other, what is there to talk about?

Wang Chuanfu heard the first question from the young man.

"Mr. Wang, do you know Tesla, the American electric car company? What do you think of it?" Yu Xing put the recorder on the table and asked about the latest cutting-edge developments.

Wang Chuanfu knew Tesla. After a brief thought, he was interrupted when he was about to answer.

Yu Xing added: "When I meet Tesla's Musk in the future, I will also ask him what he thinks of BYD."

"Hmm..." Wang Chuanfu hesitated for two seconds before expressing his true opinion. "Tesla is a toy for the rich. I know it makes electric sports cars, but now it is hit by the financial crisis and its survival environment is relatively difficult."

Yu Xing helped the boatman update the information: "It is said that Tesla has obtained a low-interest loan of hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Energy last month, and the financial difficulties have been temporarily resolved. I have read Musk's description of the company's future. He claimed that he would use the money from high-end products to produce affordable electric cars. Do you think this route has the hope of success?"

This is indeed Musk's own plan.

Before coming here, Yu Xing took a quick look at the relevant information of Tesla and BYD. Regarding the former's strategy, Musk wrote an article "Tesla's Secret Master Plan" on his blog in 06, mentioning the company's route.

Produce sports cars → use the money earned to produce affordable cars → use the money earned to continue producing more affordable cars → While achieving the above goals, provide zero-emission power generation options.

Yu Xing naturally knew that this top-down approach was successful.

What he is more interested in is that BYD's route seems to be from bottom to top. The current F3 is a compact car, but later it will also launch the highly recognized Yangwang series.

Wang Chuanfu thought that this young man would discuss workplace topics with him, but he didn't expect that he would actually talk to him about cars, or about other people's cars. He thought about it carefully and replied, "Maybe it can be successful. After all, Musk is in Silicon Valley, and his company has a different development environment from ours. There is not only one kind of success in the world. If we can transfer cutting-edge technology to more popular models, why can't it be successful?"

"We are also conducting research and development in electric vehicles. Last year, we launched the F3 DM, the world's first dual-mode electric vehicle. We have accumulated technology in the field of new energy, and we will definitely make greater progress in this area in the future."

Yu Xing nodded slightly and asked about expectations: "BYD's sales last year were very good, and this year's growth is also said to be encouraging. Do you have a sales target for the end of this year and next year?"

Wang Chuanfu was reminded by someone in the brand department that this young man liked to use controversy to guide traffic. He had already thought about how to respond to the other party's doubts about the new energy field, but he did not expect that the other party seemed quite approving when he nodded.

He looked at Yu Xing twice more and replied, "Our sales this year are expected to exceed 40. Do you want to hear the truth about your question about next year's goal?"

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Of course, I came here to listen to the truth from the head of a domestic brand. I think the new energy field is a very good opportunity for development and transcendence, and BYD also has such an opportunity to achieve greater development."

Wang Chuanfu was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "Do you think so because Buffett invested in us?"

"I know the news, but I am more amazed at Buffett's vision. After all, BYD still has a lot of room for development," Yu Xing replied.

Wang Chuanfu nodded and answered the previous question: "Our external target for next year is to double, that is, 80 units, but I hope to break through 100 million units."

Yu Xing said "hmm".

Wang Chuanfu waited for a few seconds, but when he didn't get any more comments, he asked, "Don't you believe we can do it?"

Yu Xing nodded. He had been very curious about how BYD could suddenly soar in just a few years, and he had done some research on it. But at this stage now…BYD is going to have a well-known dealer withdrawal incident next year, which has caused quite a stir. Naturally, it will not achieve its goal, and will enter a long period of silence from then on.

Wang Chuanfu's expression became more serious: "What's the reason?"

"This year's sales have skyrocketed compared to last year. Since it is a surge, it may not be such a normal state." Yu Xing said succinctly, "If this unconventional situation is used as a basis, next year's target may put a lot of pressure on dealers."

BYD's current cars are not expensive, so the profit margin is naturally not too much. Once it is trying to boost sales, it will easily come up with unreasonable policies. As dealers that connect to consumers, they will face great pressure in terms of inventory and funds.

Wang Chuanfu shook his head. “You may not be very clear about the automobile market. Our distribution strategies are all calculated. Our growth rate has been above 100% in the past five years, and it will be the same next year. If you have time next year, you can come and see me again.”

Yu Xing couldn't help but smile.

Wang Chuanfu asked directly: "What are you laughing at?"

"I think Mr. Wang is very frank. I have only been in business for a short time, so I like to talk to people. But the people I met before didn't want to talk to me anymore. Some even said I was destroying the business environment," said Yu Xing. "Mr. Wang asked me to come again next year. I am a little flattered."

Wang Chuanfu glanced at the young man in front of him suspiciously, but didn't think there was anything wrong with him. He seemed cheerful and sunny, and didn't look like a jinx.

As for the business environment, it can't be a good environment if a young man like this destroys it at will.

(End of this chapter)