On January 11th, the sun shone brightly over Guangdong Province. Chen Ze brought his little cutie to Guangxing Labor Service Company.
The receptionist greeted him with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Chen. It's been a while since you've been to our company. Are you here to see our General Manager Zhang again?"
"Yes, is he here?"
"Yes, he said that you can come directly to his office next time you come."
“Okay,” Chen Ze said, pulling Wang Siyu to the door of the general manager’s office. He grabbed the doorknob and turned it, only to find that the door was locked from the inside.
Chen Ze looked at Wang Siyu: "Siyu, why is Fatty locking the door in broad daylight?"
"They wouldn't know, so we'll just knock on the door."
Chen Ze raised his hand and knocked on the door, calling out, "Fatty, open the door, your godfather is here."
A flurry of sounds came from inside the house. After a while, footsteps slowly approached. The door opened a crack, revealing a chubby, round face with an unnatural flush.
"Aze, what brings you here today?" The fat man's eyes darted around.
"Come see how you've managed your company. What are you doing closing up in broad daylight?"
"Um... I have something important to discuss with Meixuan, and I don't want to be disturbed, so I closed the door."
Chen Ze looked at Wu Meixuan sitting on the sofa, whose face was also flushed.
He sniffed: "Fatty, why does it smell fishy?... You guys... Holy crap! You two doing that in broad daylight?"
"Chen Ze, what are they doing? There's a fishy smell to it too," Wang Siyu asked.
Upon hearing Wang Siyu's words, the two fat men blushed, their necks turning red.
"Godfather, please don't talk about this anymore. Tell me why you came to see me."
Chen Ze sat down at the coffee table, and Wu Meixuan quickly made him some tea.
Fatty and Wu Meixuan sat opposite him, took out a cigarette and handed one to Chen Ze: "Is it because our investments in US stocks and gold have gone up?"
"Gold rose three points. I came to see how things are going with the company."
"Aze, everything is working fine on my platform. I haven't found any problems."
“You have no problem, but I have a problem. I'm subsidizing 30 million users every month, and the wages of delivery riders are 120 million RMB per month. I'm under more and more pressure. Tomorrow I plan to lower the riders' rate by 0.05%, to 4.5 RMB per order.”
"Didn't it just drop last month? Why is it dropping again?"
Chen Ze rubbed his temples: "There's nothing I can do. We're in a price war with Ele.me lately, and it's really burning money. We're not making any money, but we still have to pay our riders hundreds of millions in wages every month."
“Aze, we now have 400,000 Panda Delivery riders nationwide, one-third of whom are part-time riders. If we replaced them all with full-time riders, I estimate that even 200 million yuan wouldn’t be enough to pay them all.”
"Sigh... Expanding too fast isn't a good thing either. We have too many Panda Delivery riders, while Ele.me has relatively few, so we're at a disadvantage in this respect."
"The price has dropped again this month. What if the riders come to the company and cause trouble? There are now 56,000 food delivery riders in Shenzhen. If so many people cause trouble, we'll probably be in big trouble."
"We can't worry about that now. Let's lower the price first. What if no one complains? Last time we lowered the price, they just swore on the app. Let them swear. Our expenses are just too high."
Fatty didn't know how to comment on Chen Ze's decision to lower the unit price again. Besides, he didn't think he was as quick-witted as Chen Ze, so he figured it would be pointless to say anything.
After chatting with the fat man for an hour, Chen Ze pulled Wang Siyu away from Guangxing Labor Service Company.
In the office, Wu Meixuan smiled and said, "Jason, your childhood friend is really good to you. Their main company loses more than 100 million every month, but your subsidiary company is always making money."
Jason Zhang said proudly, "How can my brother be the same? We were classmates and deskmates from elementary school to high school. We practically grew up together. So he and I are true love. The other two were just an accident."
"Pfft!" Wu Meixuan laughed.
“Two grown men really love each other. By the way, Brother Sen, she’s got her eye on a red Maserati sports car that’s only 2.3 million. Can you buy it for her?” Wu Meixuan said coquettishly, shaking his arm.
"Okay, okay, stop shaking it. I'll go buy it for you this afternoon."
"Poof!" Wu Meixuan cupped his head and kissed him. "Thank you, Brother Sen. You're so good to me. I knew you loved Xuanxuan the most."
"Then let's continue what we didn't finish earlier."
Wu Meixuan: ...
Meanwhile, Chen Ze brought Wang Siyu to Guanlan Town in Longhua New District.
A pink Rolls-Royce arrived at the entrance of the White Rabbit Electric Vehicle Factory.
Wang Siyu muttered, "How come the security guards here have no sense of propriety? The car was right next to the electric gate, and they didn't even open it for me."
She pouted, preparing to honk her horn to alert the security guards.
Chen Ze quickly grabbed her hand and reminded her, "Siyu, don't honk the horn. The security guard here is almost eighty years old. If you honk it, you might just drive him away."
"This Mao Hanxiong, such an old security guard, his eyesight and hearing are not good, why don't you replace him with a new security guard? Really."
Chen Ze got out of the car and walked into the security room, where he found the old man sitting inside talking to himself. He couldn't understand what the old man was saying, as he couldn't understand the Hunan dialect.
He took a cigarette out of his pocket and offered it to the old man, saying, "Grandpa, have a smoke."
The old man turned to look at him, took the cigarette, and smiled broadly, revealing the few teeth he had left. He then spoke a few words to Chen Ze, but unfortunately, he spoke only in his hometown dialect.
Chen Ze didn't understand a word, so he could only use sign language. He pointed to the gate and then to his car. The old man finally understood and picked up the remote to open the gate for him.
The car drove smoothly into the factory and parked in the parking space in front of the office. Wang Siyu got out of the car, took Chen Ze's arm, and walked into the production workshop.
Upon reaching the final finished product area, Chen Ze discovered that the three finished products produced were all imitations of Tailing electric vehicles.
A short while later, Mao Hanxiong came over.
"Mr. Chen, you came over without even saying hello."
"Mr. Mao, I just came to take a look around, but I've noticed something. Our products can't always be imitations of others; we need to learn to innovate and design our own style."
Mao Hanxiong said with a forced smile, "I'll talk to those three designers this afternoon and ask them to correct their thinking."
"There's something else I want to tell you, Mr. Mao. I've noticed that there are very few three-wheeled electric vehicles for hauling goods on the market, especially among the many small businesses in Guangdong Province."
I think these little tricycles are a great help to them, since not every business can afford a truck, right?
"Mr. Chen, what you said makes sense. I'll look into it tonight."
"As soon as possible, have the designer design the frame according to the shape of a gas-powered three-wheeled motorcycle. A size of 1.2 meters wide and 1.5 meters long would be suitable."
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