Noh Yunho’s absurd yet fierce character was quickly put into action.
Niu Waimai soon announced that it would stop its food delivery service, and its website was offline within a day. The fierce competition between eggs and stones came to an end.
Later, Lu Yunhao decided to use the remaining money to invest in online English training education.
Since innovation is not possible, just stick to your old profession!
As for IDG, liquidation is impossible. Lu Yunho is like a homeless person who borrowed someone else's car and doesn't return it. He plans to drive the car for scrap and then return it to the other party.
IDG was furious, but now it was Noh Yunho who was in charge of the steering wheel, so they could only condemn Noh Yunho for his shameless behavior, and at the same time warned him that they must ensure the transparency of the company's finances, otherwise they would immediately hand him over once the audit found that he had embezzled his position. The public security organs will handle it.
Lu Yunhao ignored them. He first registered a training company called Niu English under the parent company of Niu Waimai, and then doubled his salary on the grounds that he wanted to open up new business.
Although IDG was angry, they could only endure it.
After Li Mu learned that Niu Takeaway had stopped serving, there were not many disturbances.
Niu Waimai never had the foundation to shake up Ele.me from the beginning. In front of him, let alone Lu Yunhao, even if he brought in marketing masters and operations masters, it would not help.
This is not because he is confident in his own abilities, but because the ecosystem of Ele.me is too complete, and at the same time, he has raised the threshold of the industry extremely high. Anyone who wants to enter must first bleed a lot, and at the same time be prepared to keep bleeding. preparation.
Moreover, during this period of competition with Niu Waimai, Ele.me’s overall strength has grown by leaps and bounds.
Now, the production speed of electric vehicles is very fast. After the Shanghai stock market was freed up, Li Mu immediately asked Ele.me to enter the remaining two first-tier cities, Yangcheng and Shencheng.
Shenzhou is also very powerful. An all-in-one commercial machine specially designed for Ele.me was quickly developed and a production line was dedicated for production.
The production of customized mobile phones by Ele.me has also been accelerated. From a hardware perspective, Ele.me already has the foundation for rapid expansion.
Therefore, in addition to entering the remaining two first-tier cities, all provincial capital cities in the eastern region are also included in the list of cities that Ele.me will launch in the near future.
Li Mu’s current plan is to cover all urban areas of third-tier cities across the country in the next stage.
Ele.me’s model is very easy to expand when funds are sufficient.
Every time we arrive in a city, we immediately set up a branch and send a few managers there to recruit riders and employees. The employees will sweep the streets to attract shops to settle in. After the shops go online on Ele.me, the riders can start the food delivery business. .
A development method like this does not require the development of one city or another, but can directly develop in batches after consolidating the foundation of first-tier cities.
Moreover, this business model is very good. There is almost no need for long-distance transportation of materials. Even if you go to the most remote cities in the southwest to do takeout business, the core of the business transaction is local production and sales.
Unlike other businesses, the more remote the place, the higher the transportation costs.
The only things that Ele.me needs to transport over long distances are hardware equipment such as electric vehicles and computers. Once the equipment is transported in in the early stage, local businesses can be completely transported within a few kilometers.
In this way, within this year, covering the urban areas of all prefecture-level cities across the country will not be a big problem.
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When Ele.me began to expand its national territory, Yanjing had already entered early summer.
Spielberg's "Flying Tigers" has basically completed the post-production process and is undergoing final verification in preparation for its official global release this summer.
According to Li Mu's request, the entire China, including the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, must be released as soon as possible, preferably at the same time as North America.
As for the remaining countries and regions, it can be later.
Spielberg naturally has no objection to this. It is a film co-produced by China and the United States, and it tells the historical story of the two countries joining hands to resist imperialism. It is released in both places at the same time, which is also a sign of respect for the two countries. .
In addition to requesting the first domestic release, Li Mu also wanted to see the sample film first. Spielberg decided to personally bring a copy to Li Mu after all the work was completed in a few days.
For a movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, the value of the pre-release copy is even greater than the investment in the film. It may be a hit with a global box office of more than one billion US dollars. However, if the copy is leaked in advance, it will be cut in half at least.
Of course, Li Mu had no objection to Spielberg wanting to come over in person. He immediately requested that a room be set aside for audio-visual renovation in the executive office area of Makino Technology. When the time came, he would invite senior executives from Makino Technology and Taobao to come and take a look in advance.
At the same time, good news came from Yanjing and the United States at the same time.
In order to prepare for the future of Makino Automobile Group, Yanjing has planned a concave-shaped area for Makino Automobile Group in the northeast, Capital Airport and further northeast, with a total area of 3 million square meters.
This is only the first phase of land use. The Yanjing Municipal Party Committee has also promised to acquire at least 1.5 million square meters of industrial land nearby for Makino Automobile Group after all three major brands, Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover, have moved in.
At this time, Yanjing already has Yanjing Automobile, Yanjing Hyundai, and Yanjing Benz, a comprehensive automobile industry matrix in a narrow strip of water. If Li Mu brings these three brands to Yanjing, Yanjing will become the national automobile manufacturer. The city with the most developed industries and the highest output.
Therefore, the Yanjing Municipal Party Committee also attaches great importance to this and has created almost all convenient conditions for Makino Automobile Group.
After the planning was finalized, Li Mu went to the site for an on-site inspection. Although the location was a little further than the industrial bases of Yanjing Automobile Group, fortunately, it was next to two highways and a railway, so the transportation was relatively convenient.
Li Mu consulted Chen Ze, who was familiar with the automobile industry. Now, the most developed import trade of automobiles and automobile parts in the north is Tianjin Port. By then, all equipment transported from the United States, Britain and Sweden can be disembarked at Tianjin Port. , and then directly take railway and road transportation to Beijing.
Overall it's quite convenient.
If domestically produced cars are transported domestically, most of them rely on highways, so they are almost the same wherever they are. As long as they don’t go to too remote southwest or northwest areas, there is basically not much difference in where they are.
So Li Mu felt relieved.
The planned three million square meters will not be delivered in one go, but will need to be delivered successively in the next year and a half, which will also require land acquisition, demolition and compensation procedures.
However, at present, more than one million square meters of cultivated land can be requisitioned first, and then factory construction can be started.
Therefore, Li Mu decided to establish the Makino Automobile Group Preparatory Project Department and begin the overall planning and batch construction of the park.
At the same time, Li Mu also began to think about Elon Musk.
He thought he might as well ask Musk to move Tesla here.
It just so happens that Tesla still has little production capacity and relocation costs are low.
Moreover, if Musk comes to China, there will be many benefits, not only the low cost, but also the possibility of bundling development with his Makino Enterprise Group in the future, and even directly sharing the production platform. For Tesla, it can get twice the result with half the effort.
Musk agreed without much thought.
For him, getting closer to Li Mu is definitely a good thing. After all, Li Mu has strong resources and financial strength. It will be much better to develop with him in the future than to work alone in the United States.
So Musk quickly came to China and went to the northeastern suburbs of Yanjing with Li Mu to inspect the scene.
After seeing the scene, Musk was very excited and he was quite satisfied with this place.
In his words: "This is the capital of China. It is adjacent to the Capital Airport. The railway and highway transportation are very convenient. It is also very close to the Tianjin Port. It is indeed a good and unique place."
Li Mu said to him: "In this case, let's start moving the team, laboratory, and factory here now."
Musk nodded and said: "By the way, Mr. Li, your financial audit work on the acquisition of the three major brands Volvo, Jaguar, and Land Rover has already made progress in stages. Volvo's audit work should be completed within this month. If there are no problems, , you can prepare for relocation.”
Li Mu said: "Yanjing will start building factories soon. Once the preliminary factories are built, Volvo and Tesla can be moved in bit by bit. I think Volvo's technology is more suitable for cooperation with Tesla. After Volvo moves to Yanjing as a whole, you can develop Volvo's first mass-produced model based on Volvo's S-class sedan platform."
Musk nodded and said: "In addition to the S-class platform, I am also more interested in Volvo's active safety technology. Combined with some of the technology developments Tesla is doing, I think basic automatic assisted driving can be achieved in the future. .”
Li Mu asked curiously: "Automatic assisted driving with technology? What functions can it achieve?"
Musk said: "Adaptive cruise technology already exists. Different from fixed-speed cruise, it can automatically identify the distance and speed of the car in front, automatically control the speed of the car, and maintain a constant distance from the car in front. In this way, driving It will be much easier for you.”
Saying that, Musk added: "In fact, now combined with camera probes and computer processing, the lane recognition function can also be realized. It can determine whether the vehicle is driving in the lane. If it is connected to a speaker, it can detect when the lane deviates. Issue a warning to the driver; if the steering gear is equipped with the function of automatically adjusting the direction and the lane recognition and the steering gear are linked together, the lane can be automatically maintained. For example, when the front is about to turn, the driver does not need to turn the steering wheel himself. The recognition system can transmit the signal to the steering gear, allowing the steering gear to correct its direction."
After a pause, Musk continued: "Adaptive cruise can allow vehicles to safely follow other vehicles. If the lane recognition function is supplemented by lane correction, it can control the steering of the vehicle according to changes in the lane, so that the vehicle never deviates from the predetermined lane. In this way, the driver is already very worry-free on the expressway. He does not need to step on the accelerator or brake. He only needs to keep an eye on the road ahead and intervene in time in case of emergencies, or when he needs to take a different road, he will manually intervene in time. Just intervene.”
Li Mu nodded. This function has indeed become more common in later generations. Even later Teslas have been able to achieve very powerful automatic driving functions. However, according to Musk's analysis, in fact, the powerful automatic driving functions of later generations of Teslas, It is also an overall solution formed through the realization of functions one by one and the integration of functions one by one.
(End of chapter)