Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 278 How about building a car?
Facing Su Yunwei's warning, Lu Yiming didn't care, he directly refused: "That's not good, I won't marry unless she is."

When Su Yun heard this, she was a little annoyed and warned severely: "Although Shi Qingxue's surname is not Su, she is extremely favored in the family, and we will never allow anyone to hurt her. Our Su family covets the wealth of our Su family, I advise you to give up as soon as possible, you will not succeed."

Because of Shi Caijiang and Su Yunjin's affairs, Su Yunwei is extremely wary of anyone who approaches Shi Qingxue.

And Lu Yiming's behavior, in her opinion, was also malicious.

Originally, Su Yunwei thought that she had spoken so bluntly that the young man in front of her would retreat in spite of the difficulties, but she never thought that the smile on Lu Yiming's face did not change at all: "Okay, what about the Su family? Not from the Su family, it seems so rare to me. To tell you the truth, I don’t care whether the Su family has money at all, anyway, I will not have money in the future. "

"All in all, I only have a pure love for Shi Qingxue, and I like it to the extreme. Believe it or not, I am sincere to Xiaoxue, and time will prove everything."

After Lu Yiming finished speaking, he didn't care that Su Yunwei's face became extremely ugly, he got up and sat down opposite Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue asked nervously, "What did you say?"

Lu Yiming joked: "My aunt said she would marry you to me, so let's talk about the bride price."

Shi Qingxue curled her lips and said with a look of disgust: "Liar."

Lu Yiming continued to fool around and said without changing his face: "Why are you lying to me? We are really discussing the bride price."

Shi Qingxue tilted her head and thought for a while, then pouted and asked, "Then tell me, what is your betrothal gift?"

Lu Yiming laughed and joked: "My betrothal gift, that is a wealth empire, a wealth empire that would shake the whole world's economy if I said a word."

Shi Qingxue: "..."

Su Yunwei walked over and said, "Let's go home for dinner."

When he got home, the food was already on the table, and Lu Ding sat in his seat without saying a word and drank.Lu Yiming asked in surprise, "Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you in a bad mood?"

Facing Lu Yiming, the current Lu Ding can say that he has nothing to say. He sighed and said in a low tone: "Didn't you lend me some time ago to let the factory import a set of high-precision production equipment? The competition is here. For a production order of auto parts, I also spent money to poach a few technical backbones from foreign companies. As a result, my old classmate who was an executive in a car company was directly transferred from his post, and my original guaranteed order has not yet arrived. When I started to do it, it was taken away, and all the preparations were in vain.”

As the saying goes, there are people in the DPRK who are good at handling things. Lu Ding had the idea of ​​competing for orders before, and it was because of this old classmate. With the support of Lu Yiming's funds, everything went very smoothly.

Originally, he thought that Dingyuan Mold Factory could take this opportunity to successfully transform itself into a joint venture brand auto parts supplier.As a result, when the matter came to an end, the internal response in the key position was gone.

This kind of order was originally a sweet potato. I don’t know how fierce the competition is. Everyone is fighting for connections, resources, and technology to involve crazily. But now that Lu Ding’s connections are gone, it’s no surprise that the order was snatched away. among things.

Listening to his father's narration, Lu Yiming could empathize with him very much.

Although Dingyuan Mold Factory now has orders for the production of Jianlai Technology's computer cases, this thing can't make much money at all-just a fancy tin box, how much money can it make?
Not to mention that the current domestic market atmosphere is barbaric and disorderly, and pirated copies outside have begun to fly all over the sky, and even Dingyuan Mold Factory released the chassis models within three weeks, and the pirated copies outside were directly listed in the computer market for sale. up.

Although there is an appearance patent in hand, it is useless at all.

As long as the above can receive taxes, who the hell cares if you pirate or not?
Although the products produced by pirates are fake, the tax money is real.

As for harming the legitimate interests?Infringement of intellectual property rights?
Whocare?

Lu Yiming comforted his father with a relaxed face and said: "Dad, all roads lead to Rome. If this order is gone, it will be gone. The good thing is that the high-precision equipment and experienced technical backbones are already in the factory. Find some new business. Guangqi Honda is nothing special, if it doesn’t give us an order, wouldn’t it be over if we just build the car ourselves?”

Although Lu Yiming spoke impassionedly, Lu Ding was really hit hard this time, and he couldn't arouse any interest in what Lu Yiming said.After all, a good mold factory is now turned into this by him, and the frustration is not as strong as usual.

Lu Ding took a sip of mulled wine, and said in a low voice: "Don't do it, it's boring. Besides, can you make a car if you say it? Look at the foreign car companies, which one is not rich and powerful? What about us? It takes a lot of effort to build a wheel!"

Lu Yiming looked disdainful when he heard the words: "Why can't we do it? Isn't a car just a chassis with four wheels? If foreigners can make it, we can't make it? Besides, Dad, you can't be discouraged. I’ve invested so much money in it, you can’t let my money go to waste, can you? Since ancient times, I’ve heard of sons cheating on their fathers, but I’ve never seen fathers cheating on their sons.”

Seeing his son's fighting spirit so passionate, Lu Ding sighed, with a dejected look on his face: "The automobile industry was laid out earlier in foreign countries, and the technology accumulation is also deeper. Just one engine is enough to make us sigh. This matter is not what you think. So easy."

Although he knows that his son is rich, Lu Ding knows that the automobile industry is a typical capital-intensive industry. Whether it is research and development, manufacturing, procurement or sales, it is necessary to invest real money in it to be able to see it. to return.

"Your ideas are too wild and unconstrained. This level of investment can cost billions or tens of billions. Where do you get so much money to build a car?"

Lu Yiming didn't answer, but asked with a smile, "Dad, don't worry about the rest, just tell me the truth, do you want to build a car?"

Lu Ding drank his glass and said impassionedly: "Of course I want to. Cars are a man's romance. I dream about building cars. But you still have to be down-to-earth. I'm the only one who runs a mold factory. You Let me process auto parts, I can barely afford it, but is it possible for a person like me to build a car?"

Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows, and poured a glass of wine for his father: "Dad, you still have to have dreams, otherwise what is the difference from salted fish?"

Lu Ding glared at Lu Yiming, and gritted his teeth angrily: "Why, your wings are hard, and you dare to look down on me, your father? You actually call me a salted fish?"

Lu Yiming quickly waved his hand: "How can I? I want to sponsor your dream. I think there is a lot to be done in building cars. Now that our country's economy is booming and our comprehensive national strength is increasing day by day, the common people will have money in their hands in the future. The pockets are bulging, you can eat enough and wear warm clothes, don’t you just think about the house and the car? You don’t want to see foreign cars running on the roads of our country in the future? How embarrassing it looks.”

Although Lu Ding was very moved, he still shook his head and refused: "Forget it, forget it, it can't be done."

In order to win the order from Guangzhou Automobile Honda, he had turned his old face to ask his son to borrow a sum of foreign exchange to purchase equipment, but now that the order was yellow, he didn't have the heart to toss about it, and immediately retreated.

However, Lu Yiming refused to give up. He still sat next to Lu Ding and tried to persuade him: "Why can't we do it? Although foreign countries have been tossing and tossing diesel locomotives for more than 100 years, we can't catch up with the horses now, so why don't we just change the track?" Is it over? Let’s go straight to electric cars and give those foreigners who look down on us a corner to overtake.”

Lu Ding thought he heard it wrong: "What are you talking about? Electric cars?"

Lu Yiming waved his hands enthusiastically: "Yes, we are now in the era of electrification. Dad, look, electricity can cook, heat water, and serve TV functions...Electricity is a kind of energy, and burning gasoline is also converted into energy. To drive a car, turn the engine into a motor and plug in some batteries. Isn’t that an electric car? It’s such a simple thing. In fact, electric cars are nothing new at all. The world’s first electric car was made by The French inventor Gustave Truvet invented the three-wheeled automobile in 1881. You see, more than 100 years have passed, we can’t even compare to the dead now, can we?”

Lu Ding was very moved by what he said.

He was not a quiet master. When he was young, he got good grades in reading, and he was known far and wide as the "King of Invention", and he was a technical strongman who could rub table lamps with his hands.

At that time, Lu Ding often disassembled and reassembled the electrical appliances at home, so he was often beaten by his mother for this.Originally, he had hoped to go to university, but his family was poor, so in order to survive, he had to come to Baiyun alone to work hard.

As a result, Leng relied on his cleverness and ability, all the way from a worker to a boss, and founded Dingyuan Mold Factory.

Over the years, the operation of Dingyuan Mold Factory has consumed so much energy that he has put aside the "little hobby" of his youth.Now, when Lu Yiming brought it up again, his mind suddenly became active.

Being a boss or something is just a side job after all, and a technical nerd is the main body.

"According to what you say, electric cars can be made?"

Lu Yiming was very happy to see that Lu Ding's heart was moved.

As a classic consumable in the 21st century, Lu Yiming still has such an inner national pride. Although he does not have any fanatical patriotic feelings, he uses domestic products as much as possible in his daily expenses, especially when he sees that foreign car brands are inappropriate. People, when selling obsolete junk to China and being kneeled and licked crazily, I feel very uncomfortable in my heart.

Now that there is such an opportunity to compete with foreign auto brands on the same stage, Lu Yiming is of course willing to give it a try.

On the other hand, he didn't want Lu Ding to be hit by this incident and sink down.He knows that building a car is not easy, and things like supply chain management and technical barriers are enough to make people bald.

But many things cannot be stopped because it is difficult to do, because it will become more and more difficult to do in the future.Now grit your teeth and persevere, maybe there is still a slight possibility to embrace a bright future.

What's more, Lu Yiming felt that it was the most important thing for his father to find the joy and purpose of life again.

As for spending money?

As a human being, the most important thing is to be happy. To make money, don’t you just need to have hands?

Lu Yiming believes that relying on his 20-year leading knowledge of the world, it is not difficult to make money to support Lu Ding's car manufacturing.

"Do it, of course it can be done. Dad, didn't someone say that? If there is a will, there will be a way. The Baier Qinguan will eventually belong to Chu. Don't be afraid to take the first step because you are afraid of failure. The initial stage You can make full use of your specialties, first buy some old cars, dismantle them, do some modifications, and verify the technical route, it doesn’t cost a lot of money.”

Now the main business of Dingyuan Mold Factory is to manufacture computer cases for Jianlai Technology. This thing has no technical content at all, and it relies entirely on novel industrial designs to open up the market, so the price is not very high. It can only be said that it is barely enough to eat, and it will face a large group of imitators and copycats in the future, so it is impossible to do it as the main business.

Therefore, building cars is the new business direction that Lu Yiming has found for Dingyuan Mold Factory.

The development route proposed by Lu Yiming has also been fully verified in history.

When the founders of Tesla, Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning, started tinkering with new energy vehicles, they only had $15 in their hands.Lu Yiming felt that if he spends 150 million US dollars to do it now, no matter what, he can't be worse than them, right?

"Dad, like this, don't I have a future capital in my hand? I invest in your new company in the name of future capital, and I want to take shares. So you can rest assured? I am at most a venture capital investment, not Lao Tzu The concept of spending your son’s money is gone.”

Now that Lu Yiming's words have come to this point, Lu Ding can't find a reason to refuse.

In the end, he could only scratch his head and muttered, "It's a deal? Then I'll start preparations in the afternoon. What do you think is a better name for this new company?"

Lu Yiming thought for a while, and immediately suggested: "How about the electric car? You are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth..."

Lu Ding said, "Then why isn't it called a Shinhwa car?"

Lu Yiming shook his head: "That's too fantasy, and it's not enough technology or fashion. My goal is to build a fast-moving high-tech pure electric supercar, and it's not an antique. Besides, the car we built is powered by electricity. It’s just right to call it a light car.”

"Okay, you have the final say on the money you pay."

In the end, Lu Ding still accepted Dianguang Technology as the name of the new company. As Lu Yiming said, this is an innovative company that pursues the ultimate in technology, and the company's purpose is to change the world.

(End of this chapter)