Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 581: Recent Developments at Changcheng

"At your net worth, even if others beg me to introduce you to them, I wouldn't dare to easily agree."

Lei Jun joked, "After all, who doesn't know about your reputation as an investment genius, Mr. Chen? I'm even hoping you meet fewer people and develop a bit slower, so that in a few years you won't completely outperform us old folks."

"Haha, you're joking." Chen Yiyang said, sitting down in a good mood.

The meal Lei Jun hosted was, of course, very upscale, with light and appetizing flavors.

"I heard you're in Beijing City for the humanoid robot competition?" Lei Jun asked.

"Yes," Chen Yiyang nodded, "The Yushu Company I invested in even won first place in the 1500-meter race."

"Impressive," Lei Jun first praised, then remembered something and asked, "I recall a few months ago, wasn't there a humanoid robot marathon in the Imperial Capital as well, and Yushu's results seemed average?

Has Yushu's technology improved in such a short time?"

"Ugh, just talking about that competition gets me angry."

Previously, there indeed was a humanoid robot marathon held in the Imperial Capital.

At that time, Chen Yiyang even asked Wang Xingxing if they wanted to participate.

But Wang Xingxing said the competition was organized by a bunch of northern robot companies, obviously intending to promote their own robots, so Yushu wouldn't participate.

Later on, Yushu indeed didn't participate.

Yet the competition directly approached a university team, had them buy a commercial robot from Yushu, and without any adjustment, took it straight to the competition.

With such circumstances, it's no wonder the results weren't good.

Then the results came out, and the media didn't mention the backstory, only saying Yushu's robot didn't perform well.

"So last time it was just a trick from the media?" Lei Jun, being experienced, immediately understood the situation after a few words from Chen Yiyang.

"Nowadays even Rice Auto frequently encounters such things," Lei Jun empathetically said, "Often we're inexplicably attacked by peers, and the negative traffic just never stops."

To this, Chen Yiyang didn't respond.

Primarily because Rice Auto has been receiving so much bad press recently, partly due to malicious attacks from competitors, and partly due to real issues of their own.

So Chen Yiyang could only nod and pretend to agree.

"By the way."

Lei Jun changed the topic himself, saying to Chen Yiyang, "I heard you and Wei Yujun have settled your feud?"

"Couldn't have been Mr. Wei sending you to inquire, could it?" Upon hearing this, Chen Yiyang immediately realized that Wei Yujun wanted to confirm that their feud had finally ended.

After all, the side of Chen Yiyang's background shown last time was just too intimidating.

For Wei Yujun, if Longcheng could settle the feud with a bit of a loss, it would indeed be a fortunate thing.

"Pretty much." Lei Jun didn't deny it.

"Understood." Chen Yiyang nodded in confirmation.

Their conflict actually stemmed from Wei Yujun's daughter. They had crossed paths several times, and in the end, Chen Yiyang set a big trap for Longcheng in Russia.

Since Longcheng was willing to make peace, Chen Yiyang naturally obliged.

"That's good then." Lei Jun also breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't want to see Longcheng and Chen Yiyang continue fighting.

"Longcheng hasn't been having a good time recently, not even being able to outsell Jili now. Wei Yujun has been under a lot of pressure every day."

Longcheng selling less than Jili didn't have much to do with Chen Yiyang.

A large company can't be brought down by small tricks; it's their own mistakes that cause downfall.

Longcheng, without stabilizing in the market first, drove away venerable veterans like Wang Fengyi, then lost its leading position in its strongest SUV field.

Finally, in the new energy era, they developed a bunch of cars with bizarre names that couldn't be sold.

Discussing this made Chen Yiyang want to laugh.

No sensible car company would ever name their car 'First Love'.

But that's exactly what Longcheng did.

Chen Yiyang strongly suspected it was some day when Wei Hanyu got drunk and thought of her first love, thus naming it.

But while her mind wandered, customers were sane.

Who would want to answer, "I'm driving a First Love," when asked what car they're driving?

People would probably think they're telling a dirty joke in broad daylight.

It's neither appealing to men nor women.

Even adolescent kids would probably laugh until their stomachs hurt hearing such a name.

Isn't it quite normal for Longcheng to sell less than Jili?

Chen Yiyang even suspected it might one day sell less than Yue's FF.

Speaking of FF...

Chen Yiyang suddenly realized something.

Though he didn't plan to collaborate with Yue, why not suggest Longcheng try it out?

Longcheng nowadays is besieged from all sides, with poor sales and heaps of stock.

Their stock can't be sold domestically, so they must attempt to sell overseas.

Perhaps they could simply take them apart and ship them to North America for FF, and let Yue reassemble them and sell them as local North American cars.

If Yue could truly establish a China-US automotive strategic bridge.

It wouldn't be bad to sip the soup along the way.

If it didn't work out, he wouldn't suffer any loss.

As for Longcheng, Chen Yiyang felt there was an eighty to ninety percent chance Wei Yujun would agree.

Because Longcheng's current situation is just what it is.

So Chen Yiyang told Lei Jun about Yue's China-US strategic bridge plan.

"Some of Longcheng's models do fit North American aesthetics. If Wei Yujun really can't think of any other way, why not collaborate with Yue and give it a shot?"

"Feels like this channel, if successful, would indeed be great." Lei Jun also felt there was potential.

If not for the fact that the one handling channel development in North America was the infamous Yue Ting, he would even want to try with Rice Auto.

But Longcheng certainly wouldn't mind.

So Lei Jun called Wei Yujun and explained the matter.

If Wei Yujun was interested, he could directly contact Yue Ting.

After learning that it was information from Chen Yiyang, Wei Yujun said on the phone, "Then, Mr. Lei, please thank Mr. Chen for me."

After this call, the conflict between Chen Yiyang and Longcheng was entirely resolved.

This time, Chen Yiyang came to the Imperial Capital bringing along the little accountant.

It wouldn't be appropriate to stay at Zhang Yuling's house with the little accountant.

Mainly because, for some reason, recently the little accountant had shown animosity towards local beauties close to Chen Yiyang, while quite tolerant of foreign ones.

Not wanting to invite trouble for himself, Chen Yiyang found a hotel to stay in with the little accountant.

But soon, Chen Yiyang felt he needed to find a new place to stay.

Because shortly after he checked in, the hotel was filled by various celebrities.

Many male and female stars with houses in the Imperial Capital also came to the hotel to book rooms.

The reason, of course, was simple.

It was because the TV drama "Blazing" invested by Liubai Film and Television had premiered.