After Wan Feng handed over the task of distributing supplies to Harbin to Zhou Liming, he called the phone number of Jili Company left on the invitation.
The person who answered the phone was a young woman who spoke in a soft Wu dialect. Her tone was very gentle, but she was determined not to relax. She would not tell their boss unless Wan Feng told her his name and where he came from.
"Tell your boss that I want to buy one hundred Geely Haoqings and ask him to answer the phone immediately."
The girl opposite was wondering why a buyer came when Jili Haoqing hadn’t been sold yet?
About a minute later, a man's voice rang on the phone: "Hello! Hello! Who are you?"
You see, one hundred cars still counts.
"Boss Li! Your subordinate is quite arrogant. If I don't tell her my name, she won't tell you. My last name is Wan!"
"Wan? General Wan from Northern Liao?"
"So be it."
"Hey! Mr. Wan! I'm sorry, I asked them to do this. You don't know how many calls I receive all day long. Many of them are trivial matters. If I answered all of them all day, I wouldn't have anything else to do. Being a receptionist is perfect for me."
Wan Feng actually believed what Li Fu said. He felt the same way. At the beginning, he received a lot of calls, some asking for help, some making nonsense confessions, and some asking for money.
Later, he was forced to change his phone number, and he gave special care to most people who knew his new phone number, telling them not to call him unless it was something important.
The people who would call him for trivial matters were usually his trusted friends and confidants! Of course, there were usually no more than 20 or 30 such people.
"Did you send me this invitation?"
"Of course, Jili's ability to produce cars today is inseparable from Nanwan's support. Of course you have to come. You must come. I am counting on you to support the company."
"I don't even know where Linhai is, how can I get there?"
"Linhai is in Taizhou. Does Taizhou know about it?"
"The Taizhou below Nanjing?"
"Right, right! Linhai is only about a hundred miles away from Taizhou. When you get to Taizhou... well, I'll send a car to pick you up."
"Is there a direct flight from Bohai to Taizhou?"
"No, you have to fly to Shanghai first, and then take a regional plane to Taizhou."
"Okay, got it. I'll leave now and call you when I get to Taizhou."
After hanging up the phone, Wan Feng assembled his troops and set off.
This time they were mainly going to Linhai to attend a ceremony, so there was no need to mobilize a large force. Wan Feng took Han Guangjia and Han Meng with him and set off.
On the morning of the 25th, Han Guangjia drove to Bohai and took a flight to Shanghai in the afternoon.
When I arrived in Shanghai and asked, I found out that the only regional flight to Taizhou would be at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
I had no choice but to find a hotel near the airport and stay there for one night.
I originally wanted to go to Huaguang Electronics in Pudong, but I didn’t because I was worried about the traffic jam tomorrow morning and I wouldn’t be able to make it.
After staying in Shanghai for one night, I took a small plane similar to the one from Harbin to Heihe the next morning and arrived in Taizhou in an hour.
What Wan Feng didn't expect was that Li Fu actually came to the airport to pick him up in person.
What surprised Wan Feng even more was that he actually came in a Xiongfeng car.
"I didn't expect you to have a Xiongfeng."
Li Fu patted the carport of the Xiongfeng car and said, "This is my car, really! I bought it to motivate myself and to tell my employees that this is the first car made by a private enterprise in China. It is in no way inferior to similar foreign cars. We want to be the second private enterprise like this and make a car like this."
In fact, if Nanwan had not appeared, Geely would have been the first private company in China to truly manufacture small cars.
Before it, there were no private companies making cars. Even Chery was a state-owned enterprise.
Li Fu’s decision to build cars was not a whim; he did so after thorough market research.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, cars in China were very expensive. Even a Xiali Alto cost over 100,000 yuan, while cars like Santana and Jetta Fukang cost 170,000 to 180,000 yuan. There were no cars on the market that cost less than 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
In other words, the low-end market is blank.
FAW, DFAC, SAIC and GAC all disdain to do it.
Li Fu saw this blank market and came up with the slogan of making cars that ordinary people can afford.
But in this life, this market has been blocked by Nanwan Group. The microvan pickup trucks and even sedans now produced by Nanwan Group have almost occupied the entire market from 40,000 to 90,000.
Li Fu certainly knows that by making cars now he is competing with Nanwan for the market.
He went to South Bay for help with great courage.
However, Nanwan not only did not set up obstacles, but instead sold him engine technology and production lines as well as gearbox technology.
No matter what, Li Fu admires Wan Feng's broad-mindedness very much.
This is a broad-minded man.
"Mr. Li! I look forward to the emergence and rise of Geely Auto, and I also look forward to the day when China's auto market will be controlled by purely domestic manufacturers."
"I know that Mr. Wan's heart is as broad as the sky. If you have anything to say, please come to my company. Mr. Wan! Please!"
Li Fu brought three cars in total, two sedans were all Xiongfeng, and one was a business car.
The exact distance from Taizhou to Linhai is 48 kilometers, which is just over three miles short of 100 miles.
The highway is painted. There are many cars on the road, but most of them are trucks, including trucks from FAW, Second FAW and Nanwan.
After driving for more than 40 minutes, the car arrived at Haoqing Industrial Park in the suburbs of Linhai City.
This is the industrial park that Li Fu built last year in the name of making motorcycles, but it is actually prepared for making cars.
His first hatchback was born here.
In the previous life, this car looked like a replica of the Xiali hatchback at first glance, but the front face still had some resemblance to the Mercedes-Benz.
The car uses the 8A engine configured for the Toyota Vision and a Fiat gearbox. Due to poor quality, production was discontinued after more than 100 vehicles were produced.
However, this situation may not occur in this life, because the engine and gearbox are matched. As long as the chassis of Haoqing is not too bad, its fate will always be better than that of Haoqing in the previous life.
When we arrived at Haoqing Industrial Park, it was already noon.
Li Fu hosted a banquet for Wan Feng, at which Wan Feng also got to know some senior executives of Jili Company.
After a few drinks, Li Fu started talking.
"I'm a child from a poor and backward mountain village in Taizhou. I never went to college and entered the business world after graduating from high school. I'm not afraid of hardship or poverty. I'm not just talking nonsense today because I'm drunk. Looking at all the people who have made a name for themselves in China, there are honestly not many I admire, but you, Mr. Wan, have to be the one I admire the most."
This is blatant flattery.
"Thank you, Mr. Li, for your appreciation." Wan Feng laughed casually.
Don't take it seriously, or you will lose.
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