After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future
Chapter 513 - 508: The Most Annoying People Who Show Off

"What? Can't let go?"

Seeing the other person suddenly become rigid, Lu Liang smiled and said, "Doesn't this prove that Mr. Zhang's strategy is correct? I don't understand why you suddenly jumped out?"

He suddenly squinted his eyes and said word by word, "Could it be that Mr. Zhao argued just to contradict me?"

Seeing this, Yang Zhenyuan hastily laughed and tried to mediate the situation, "Mr. Lu, calm down. Everyone is just expressing their opinions."

He couldn't help but blame Zhang Yiming, choosing anyone but Lu Liang, not knowing he's a powder keg waiting to explode.

Zhang Yiming gave a bitter smile and looked at Zhao Wenqi, "Mr. Zhao, since Mr. Lu said so, if your company is facing difficulties, just say it. We are all friends, maybe we can help solve it."

Lu Liang supported his decision, so naturally, he couldn't lose face to Lu Liang by turning to support Zhao Wenqi.

With a sullen face, Zhao Wenqi stubbornly said, "It's nothing like that. It just feels wrong to not have plans for an IPO or preparing for one in the next five years."

Zhang Yiming repeated once again, not only to Zhao Wenqi but also to other investors, "For the time being, there's no consideration in that regard, after all, e-commerce has just begun to develop, and there's a lot of untapped potential."

"If there isn't, forget it. I was just bringing it up casually."

Zhao Wenqi suddenly retreated, knowing he was in the wrong, and made a quick exit, "If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first."

Lu Liang asked, "Mr. Zhao, why not continue the meeting?"

Zhang Yiming had no choice but to change the subject, "Mr. Zhao, let me see you out."

"No need, stay where you are."

With a gloomy expression, Zhao Wenqi left without turning his head.

Lu Liang watched him scurry off, smiling mischievously, and after the meeting, he specifically sought out Zhang Yiming to inquire about his background.

"I guess it's a matter between a man and a woman. Mr. Zhao and Mr. Liu were university classmates. He probably wanted to stand up for her."

Zhang Yiming's attitude towards Lu Liang changed from before. Boss Lu still had his merits and wasn't just good at poaching talent.

"Even Liu Qing has admirers?" Lu Liang was amazed.

Liu Qing, with her eight hundred cunning schemes, was never someone Lu Liang considered as feminine.

"Mr. Liu was famously the talented woman of Beijing back in the day. How could she not have admirers?"

Zhang Yiming was puzzled by Lu Liang's surprise. Liu Qing had been kicked out of DiDi by Lu Liang, and yet he didn't know about this.

Thinking about it again, it seemed normal. Boss Lu surrounds himself with young girls aged eighteen or nineteen, probably only attracted to youthful beauty.

He added, "Mr. Lu, thanks for helping out this time."

Lu Liang, unconcerned, waved it off, "It's nothing, everyone knows I'm kind-hearted and always ready to help."

"I've heard that," Zhang Yiming sighed but could only agree with a wry smile.

In the afternoon, Lu Liang visited Ideal Company, met with Li Xiang, and learned that a new car would be launched in March next year.

He had already tasted the sweetness of family-use cars; the next one is also an SUV named L9, which is larger and more luxurious.

"Mr. Lu, when will your company's first car be unveiled?" Li Xiang asked curiously.

"Next year as well," Lu Liang replied with a smile, "Don't worry, it won't compete with Ideal."

"A sedan model?"

"Sort of."

Li Xiang was stunned and couldn't help but ask, "Could it be a coupe?"

Without competition with them, SUV can be excluded, classified as a sedan model, leaving only the coupe.

Lu Liang nodded, leaving Li Xiang speechless for a moment, searching for words, "Mr. Lu, the market isn't big enough."

As a co-investor in Ideal, Lu Liang couldn't bear to watch Lu Liang knowingly jump into a pit of fire.

This year only has two days left; total sales of new energy vehicles, including plug-in hybrids and range extenders, reached just 1.2125 million units.

Although it grew by 101.55% compared to last year, the base is still small, only one-twentieth of fuel vehicles.

In the traditional fuel car domain, coupes are niche segments, let alone in new energy vehicles.

Take the pinnacle of the coupe world, Porsche Panamera, Mercedes CLE, Audi A7, and BMW M8, for example.

Together, these four models only achieved annual sales of about 500,000 units, accounting for 2.1% of total fuel vehicle sales.

Reasonable projections can be made: annual total sales of coupe-type new energy vehicles won't exceed 25,000 units.

Even if Lu Liang takes it all, the average monthly sales would only be slightly over 2000 units.

For a normal new energy vehicle company, more than 2000 monthly sales might be impressive, but it doesn't justify Lu Liang's massive investment of time, effort, and funds.

Li Xiang knew that Lu Liang ordered ten production lines from Germany in one go; once fully digested, if only one car model is produced, the monthly peak capacity could reach 100,000.

A monthly production capacity of 100,000, with sales only a bit over 2000, isn't a failure but an utter disaster.

"The market isn't big enough yet, but it'll grow over time; for the first few years, we'll definitely incur some losses." Lu Liang smiled calmly.

He had calculated this account, and for the first three years, aside from the initial investment of over 20 billion RMB, he was also prepared for annual losses exceeding 5 billion RMB.

Three years would only incur a loss of 15 billion RMB.

"Really?"

Li Xiang suddenly fell silent.

Goddammit, it's infuriating.

If he dared to plan for a loss of 15 billion over three years, investors would definitely have a knife to his throat.

He's just worrying pointlessly.

A few days ago, Little Wang filed a lawsuit against Binance, publicly revealing that an account earned 300 million US Dollars.

This wouldn't be Lu Liang's only account; there are rumors that he made a killing in Bitcoin's recent surge and crash.

150 billion RMB is only 22 billion US Dollars.

Sorry, he doesn't qualify to say "really".

"Mr. Lu, if there's nothing else, I'll leave it at this. Stayed up half the night last night and suddenly feel a bit tired."

Li Xiang felt blank, recalling the turn of the millennium when Legend first entered the market, he was just an average player, facing the powerlessness against pay-to-win warriors.

He sees Ideal as a lifelong venture, but perhaps Lu Liang just considers Tianxing a toy for burning money.

The more Li Xiang thought about it, the more it seemed that way,

after all, which company,

launches its first production vehicle as a coupe?

They don't have any common ground; one must exert full effort to survive, while the other seems like he's just playing around.

"Come on, Mr. Li, if there's nothing else, let's chat some more. Talking with you is really beneficial." Lu Liang couldn't help but laugh.

He's not just aimlessly burning money; he's leveraging NIO's concept, but unlike Li Bing, he's wealthier.

He doesn't have to promote on the internet every day like Li Bing, claiming: currently, those who still like fuel vehicles probably enjoy smelling exhaust.

In some way, he became the vision Li Bing had for NIO.

"Haha~"

Li Xiang forced a fake smile, feeling more and more like Lu Liang was just showing off.

It's distressing to converse between those lacking money and those who aren't. He couldn't help but say, "Mr. Lu, I really have something to do. Mr. Lei will be over shortly, maybe you can chat with him, you might have more common topics."

They are both two rich bastards.

"Lei Jun?" Lu Liang wondered, "Isn't he busy with launching, what's he snooping around for now?"

"Recently, Xiaomi passed the Stock Exchange review and started the process, so he's had a lot of free time," Li Xiang said.

"Well, I don't have time to chat with him," Lu Liang said.

Lei Jun? Isn't he busy with his IPO, what's he snooping around for now?

"Whatever, I don't have time to chat with him."

Lu Liang returned to the hotel after leaving the Ideal Company. A phone call from Lin Yan informed him that there were a pile of files and contracts waiting for his signature authorization, stacked like a small mountain.

From midday to evening, he was busy non-stop.

In the evening, Little Wang heard of Lu Liang's return and came to Tianxing to discuss developments.

Little Wang paused and added, "Looks like Zhao Changpeng has been taken down, some foreigner named Charlie took over as Binance's COO."

Lu Liang asked, "Mr. Zhao, are you going to continue the meeting?"

Since smoothly weathering the withdrawal storm, his plan was basically declared dead. There was no point in continuing the lawsuit.

After considering it, Lu Liang said, "Alright then, let's leave it at that, I can't be bothered fighting this anymore."

After the second round of the price increase,

it's estimated that another surge won't happen anytime soon.