Cao Mo and his father have been eating all over the streets of Xinhai since he was a child. When he got a little older, he took Cheng Xi and Xiao Jun to eat everywhere. Because he made up his mind to drink with Xiao Jun, Cao Mo asked Shen Ji to throw the car directly under the mall. In the garage, he did not call the bodyguard to bring the car over. The six of them took two taxis and rushed to Yaojia Lane.
The dilapidated alleys many years ago have been renovated.
Not only was the road paved with new asphalt, the old houses on both sides had to be newly painted with exterior paint, and the yellowish street lights shone down from the sparse branches and leaves of the sycamore trees.
The old shop has a new sign, "Xu Ji Mutton Shop". The shop is small and clean and tidy, but the proprietress still retains her charm.
"Don't look at Xiao Jun who is deeply shocked and infatuated now. You know that in high school he liked to drag me all the way here to have a bowl of haggis soup. Why? Look at the boss lady now in her forties. , there are wrinkles on his face, a bit ravaged by time, but ten years ago, he was really slim and slim, and Xiao Jun liked to stare at other people's butts at that time!" After ordering, Cao Mo said lowly He claimed to betray Xiao Jun's past to everyone, "I've never met Zhao Qianyun, but I guess she looks a lot like this boss lady!"
"Hey, I asked you to put it like that, it looks really similar..." Lu Junbo slapped the table and shouted.
"Do you have any photos of this girl? Let's see if she looks like her?" Cheng Xi and Wu Yunling joined in the fun and said.
"Don't listen to Cao Mo who framed me. He was the one who dug up this store first, and he even said that Cheng Xi wouldn't know about it at first..." When Cao Mo stirred things up like this, Xiao Jun's emotions were no longer so strong, and he retorted with a smile. "Framing" Cao Mo.
Next, no one mentioned the sensitive topic of Zhao Qianyun. Xiao Jun and Lu Junbo had a good relationship when they were in college. They were excited to meet unexpectedly in Xinhai.
Lu Junbo is also a very frank and direct person. After two glasses of wine, he told all about his current situation.
After graduating from university, Lu Junbo returned to work in his hometown of Zhijiang, where Changchuang's headquarters is located. He applied to work at Changchuang's headquarters in Zhijiang for two years. He felt tired of staying in his hometown, so he applied to work in the East China Sales Company as a technical support company.
Although he is currently based in Xinhai, strictly speaking, he does not come to Xinhai to make a living.
Changchuang Electronics mainly produces and sells household air conditioners, but it also operates central air conditioners, vehicle air conditioners and other products.
Xinhai's domestic car-making power is very lonely and weak. In the past, Huachen was the only one. Now with the addition of Tianyue Industrial, its strength has not increased much. However, the joint-venture car-making power is extremely strong. In 2007, the joint-venture car production and sales were nearly Four million vehicles.
Car air conditioners are only a small part of cars, but four million units per year is a pretty scary market.
Therefore, every time a joint venture car manufacturer plans to launch a new model, major parts and electronic control system suppliers will fight for it.
Changchuang only officially became involved in the production and sales of vehicle air conditioners three years ago, and has not yet been able to open up the market in Xinhai.
Gu Qidong, the newly appointed general manager of Changchuang East China Sales Company this year, hopes to open up the vehicle air-conditioning market in East China. However, joint ventures such as Volkswagen and General Motors have established a stable supply chain system in Xinhai for more than ten or twenty years. You can imagine how difficult it would be to break into Changchuang, which has little advantage in product quality and technical strength.
Lu Junbo was not Gu Qidong's direct descendant in the first place, and he still belonged to the category of people who should be beaten. Now that the new job is not going smoothly, life under Gu Qidong has become even more difficult; the scene that happened at Qianyun Tea House today, It's not even the most extreme.
"Oh, Gu Qidong trains people as if they are all his grandchildren. If it weren't for the good treatment at Changchuang, I would have thought about quitting my job several times..." Talking about the hardships and grievances at work , Lu Junbo was also full of resentment.
"Whoever lives in society should not be a grandson first?" Xiao Jun took Lu Junbo to drink, but couldn't say much to comfort him.
Shen Ji's status and environment were relatively good, but Xiao Jun was in charge of sales in Kanem and Akwa. He had a good relationship with the employees below and called them brothers. Sometimes he had a bad temper and turned against them. Swearing and scolding are trivial matters.
The sales manager with a weak personality couldn't control the slick sales staff below him. If he couldn't achieve results, he wouldn't have the shame to take advantage of his relationship with Cao Mo and not free up his position for someone else.
The West African market environment is complex, and the company culture and employee motivation and discipline are different from those in China.
They are far from comparable. Especially when he just took over the marketing and sales job, Xiao Jun did not want to be looked down upon by his subordinates and customers, so he behaved extremely strongly and his temper was inevitably irritable and fiery.
It was also after he got through the most difficult transitional period that he became able to do many jobs with ease, and Xiao Jun became relatively gentle in his dealings with others.
"You are currently stationed in Xinhai. Has Wang Hongmei followed you to Xinhai?" Even if Xiao Jun wanted to find a chance to help Lu Junbo, he couldn't praise Haikou in front of Cao Mo and Shen Ji. After all, Lu Junbo was just his classmate. At this moment, Then he changed the topic and asked him about his relationship.
"We broke up a long time ago. I went to Xinhai to have a new relationship with a girl from China Normal University. They haven't graduated yet and there are many girls in their class. If you haven't dated her yet, I'll ask my girlfriend to introduce you to girls in their class." Lu Junbo said.
"Beast! But I like..." Xiao Jun laughed.
"By the way, you said you have been abroad in the past two years. By the way, what exactly does your company do abroad?" Lu Junbo asked curiously.
Cao Mo simply said his name to Huang Tianyu. Gu Qidong might be able to recognize his identity, but Lu Junbo had no idea what the name "Cao Mo" meant.
At the same time, he did not speculate in stocks and did not even know that Taihua Group was a listed company. He thought it was a small company with no reputation.
"Our company does almost everything in Africa except buying and selling people." Xiao Jun said with a smile. There was really no way to brag to Lu Junbo.
"It's impossible to even buy and sell arms, right?" Lu Junbo asked jokingly. At this time, he saw his mobile phone vibrating on the corner of the table. He glanced at it, slapped his forehead and shouted, "I wonder what the surnamed Gu has to do to trouble me and annoy him to death. Yes! Let me take a call first..."
Seeing Lu Junbo go out to answer the phone, Cao Mo and Cheng Xi, Wu Yunling said: "I'm not bragging, we have actually made weapons together now."
"Bragging, Tianyue bought a few guns from a security company in Africa. It can't be said to be an arms business, right?" Although Wu Yunling has never been to Africa, she is still familiar with Tianyue's business. She shook her head in disbelief and asked Cheng Xi, "Do you think your man is bragging?"
"Then you just wait and see the international news. We just keep a low profile and won't publicize it in a big way." Cao Mo said in a mysterious way.
"Before Xiao Jun returned to China, Tianyue Industry received a batch of orders for pickup trucks, and the other party put forward relatively special modification requirements. Tianyue products may be seen in military conflicts in Africa in the future," Shen Ji explained to his fiancée, "It's just that this matter shouldn't be publicized..."
Lu Junbo answered the phone, walked in with a look of embarrassment and said: "Gu Qidong promised to come over to see you. If you don't want to see him, I will send him back. At worst, I will resign from Changchuang this time. .”
"We're not afraid of one more person drinking. Let's ask Gu Qidong to come over. I just have time today so I can chat with him."
Seeing that Lu Junbo's eyes were a little confused, Cao Mo smiled and explained,
"We used to sell pickup trucks in Africa, but the volume was not large. Last year, we only sold more than 6,000 units. Next, we will get involved in the manufacturing of pickup trucks, and the market scope will also expand. The initial plan is to have 30,000 pickup trucks a year. We will also simultaneously develop mid- to low-end off-road vehicle products, with an annual output of about 20,000 to 30,000 vehicles. Gu Qidong probably got some news from Huang Tianyu when he sent Huang Tianyu back just now. Of course, our pickup products, The level is still relatively low-end. If the price of Changchuang's car air conditioners can be discounted enough, we can definitely supply it to us. It's cheaper for others than it is for my brother. Gu Qidong will come over in a while. It's impossible to talk about too specific things. You can send Changchuang's air conditioners tomorrow. Give the information directly to Xiao Jun..."
"No way? What kind of company is yours? How come I can't guess at all? The supply of 20,000 to 30,000 sets of car air conditioners a year is already a huge business. This time we are looking for cooperation with Botian, which is a joint venture of Volkswagen. For a new model, the parts and components must be made locally, but the annual production and sales may only be about 100,000 units." Lu Junbo asked in surprise.
For a joint venture car manufacturer, one model may have an annual sales volume of more than 100,000 units. The first core goal Tianyue Industry must achieve in the next three to five years is to exceed the total annual production and sales of passenger cars of 100,000 units and develop Goal is not a concept at all.
"Xiao Jun is now the deputy marketing director and vice president of the overseas department of our Tianyue Industrial. He is very impressive, and our Tianyue Industrial has just taken over the pickup production line of Huachen Automobile." Cao Mo said.
Lu Junbo opened his mouth slightly, unable to fully digest the news for a long time, and was stunned.
After a while, he asked: "Tianyue has just acquired Huachen Automobile's pickup production line a few days ago. Is it going to develop a new model?"
Old models, components and various control system software have formed a fixed and mature supply chain. If Changchuang wants to open up the vehicle air-conditioning market, it will start with new models that are planned or under development.
Huachen has no plans to develop new models in the past two years, so it has not been included in Changchuang's new market targets. However, Lu Junbo still knew a little bit about Tianyue Industrial's acquisition of Huachen Pickup, but he did not expect Cao Mo , Xiao Jun is related to Tianyue Industry, and his status is even quite high.
Gu Qidong arrived faster than expected. He had obviously obtained some key information from Huang Tianyu. After arriving, he first reflected on his unfriendly attitude towards Lu Junbo in the teahouse. However, Cao Mo did not want to listen to too much of what was said in the scene. He made his intention clear and said: "I asked Dabo to contact Xiao Jun with the information tomorrow. The quotation is sufficiently favorable. At the same time, the performance and product quality stability have passed the evaluation. We should be able to finalize the cooperation soon..."
Gu Qidong couldn't adapt to Cao Mo's straightforward approach and asked, "Tianyue just acquired Huachen Pickup, so he decided to develop a new model so quickly?"
Gu Qidong also thought that Tianyue Industry was going to try Changchuang's products in new models, but Cao Mo had no intention of talking too much to Gu Qidong and Lu Junbo at this time. After all, it involved his core business ideas for Tianyue Industry.
Generally speaking, the supply chain for components and control systems of older models is mature and fixed, but nothing is absolute.
Ibogu Mining, Cornero Cement, Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Cornero Industrial Park, Cao Mo now rarely bypasses Yang Deshan, Kabuga, Windiskaff, Garon and others to directly intervene in specific operational matters.
Cornero Foods is even more hands-off.
However, in addition to directly serving as the chairman of Tianyue Industry this time, Tianyue Industry's large and small affairs and work reports must now be reported to him.
Now that the acquisition of the Huachen pickup truck production line has been completed, the most important thing in Cao Mo's next plan is to personally break up the original supply chain of parts and components and reorganize it.
The potential of the African market is not small, but no one can deny that the level of the African market is still relatively low.
Whether it is passenger vehicles or transportation vehicles, price can be said to be the most sensitive factor in the African market. If it were not for second-hand cars, they would not be so popular in Africa.
If Tianyue's products want to gain a foothold in the African market, the price must not be higher than those of its peers.
However, Tianyue cannot give up its pursuit of quality and performance, and even needs to continue to increase investment in technical research. The only thing it can do is to squeeze out all costs in every link.
In addition to the need for Xu Bin and Huang Yijiang to carry out refined management in production, technology research and development, etc., there is also a lot of room for cost reduction in the marketing and sales links and parts supply chain.
In other aspects, Cao Mo could adopt the attitude of "when the water is clear, there will be no fish" and turn a blind eye. However, Tianyue Industry started too late and its foundation was too poor, so he could only fight it as a tough battle.
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Mid- to high-end cars are very complex and have extremely high requirements for precision and stability. To completely disrupt the old supply chain is not much more difficult than developing new vehicle technology. However, Huachen pickup truck can only be said to be
Low-end products also mean that the internal control system is simple, the proportion of electronic control components is low, and the compatibility with hardware is much higher than that of mid-to-high-end products.
This brings the possibility of reorganizing the parts supply chain.
This idea was initially discussed by Cao Mocai with Xu Bin and Huang Yijiang. Xu Bin and Huang Yijiang suggested that they wait until Gu Fan returns from Kanem before further discussing the feasibility and specific details of this plan.
None of them suggested implementing this plan soon. In addition to technical concerns, the main reason was that they had just received Huachen's pickup line a few days ago, and it was not easy to make a good transition in all aspects.
Cao Mo originally agreed to the suggestions of Xu Bin, Huang Yijiang, and others, thinking that he would mention this matter after Gu Fan and the others had initially mastered the improvement of Huachen Pickup in Kanem and reformed their thinking, but it was better to hurry up.
The control system of the Huachen pickup truck's air conditioner is very simple. There is no technical difficulty in hardware replacement. It is not even necessary to use the technical strength that the carmaker's laboratory has just organized and is undergoing integration. Ordinary modification shops or auto repair shops can do it.
Do it well.
Given this opportunity, Cao Mo decided to use the car air conditioner to explore the road, and had no intention of asking Xu Bin and Huang Yijiang for their opinions.